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KAISERISM DEAD AND DAMNED.

́DEATH-BLOW BY EME-

PEROR'S DESERTION.

A. G. Gardiner writes from -Stettin to the Daily News-***

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NEW

forecasted in regard to Germany ed, oven where he was not loved,

it is that monarchiam is dead and and his portrait still hangs in a that Hohenzollernism is not only thousand hotels. But it is the dead but damned.

portrait of a man whọ stw dead, This is the more remarkabla and of whose moral catastropha because the German spirit is fat i decant noi to`speak, bocaces naturally monarchical. It is he once was honoured. But there in the docile and sentimental, loves is no such reticence traditional ways and antique case of the ex-Crown Prinos, WAS never hanoured. A week ago I set out on customs, dwells much in the past Hu pilgrimage lo search of Kaiserism, and has little of the violance and and his name is universally ex- I had coma to the coneluzion volcanic egotism of the Latin ecrated. I do not know what! substance there is that it was rot to be found in the peoples. It moves in the mass, character

obedient to the

the stories that great industrial centres. What is

symbol is

attach authority, and is to be found there is something) of

about his name--but - awaits to quite different. The old regime leadership from above. If it does his levity and irresponsibility bas gone so utterly there before not got that leadership is is there are no two opinioas, and the whirlwind of events and the rather like a flock of sheep that the fact that while he is in exile farce struggle of bare existence, has lost its bell wether. Aron his island of Wieringen, his that it seems hardly of more present it is in this scattered and wife and children remain in Ger- practical concern than an antique indetermieste position. It has many, is accepted as conclusiva fable. Potsdam is

so long evidence of the character of his with accepted governance one Nineveh and Trie, and the from without that now that it is private and family life. His na‹Ð Hohenzollerns are hardly more thrown on its own resources it is is a byword of deep contempti real or important in the affairs a chans of disordered motive. And active dislike and the idea of men than Wotan and Fricka.(Not familiar with responsible that any royalist reaction could around his discredited This insy asem an extravagan:] Parliamentary government in the centre

with statement, but I think it would English aonse and delivered from personality is dismissed be endorsed by anyone who has its autocratic masters, it is halt derision.

Nor is the general disrepute of had much experience of Germanying and swaying between con- in these days. The system hasdicting ideals.

the family qualified by attach disappeared so simply and appar-

other of its members. The whole House is involved in that mordant and

SCRAMBLE TO LIVE.

mant

to

any

ently finally that it is hard to: Its uncertainty is aggravated: believe that it was ever there, by the mental and physical enduring sarcasm which focussed that it was ever more than a collapse that has befallen the the popular feeling at the end of shadowy legend of the Wagnerian nation and by the crushing an- the war "I know a family of world.

sevən grown-up sons, not one of

without

xieties of mere existence, Ger-

way.

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revival

You know it was there of course many is to-day engaged in a by abundant reminders. Those scramble to live, not as a nation whom lost limb or life in the reminders are plentiful all over not in the ter a of ideals, bot in-

It is sometimes suggested Germany, for the Hobenzollerus, dividually, crudely, in the terms around the person of the ex-

that there may be especially the last of the house of the stomach. In no quarter of Crown Prince's eldest son, but knew the aris of advertisement industrial Germany, not even in as well as any publicity geat, Conservativa quarters, have the known slaments of the family the general odiom that envelops and used them with an unabashed found any enthusiasm for the does not make the chances of an egotism that few publicity agents monarchist ideals, and I bave yet untried member very real. In a could equal. It is not easy to to bear the first friendly word word, so far as anything human cross the frontier of Germany about the Hobenzollerns Time can be said to be cartain, the any well-known point of entry mas envelop kingship with Hohenzollern line has ended.

encountering some halo of romance, but there is no Hohenzollern in stone in the first balo at present-nothing but a UNROMANTIC ROYALTIES balf-mile. While the passport very acuta sense that kingship Hobenzollerns, there is no con- formalities were going on has led Germany to destruction.esivable future for monarchism Bentheim when I entered Get The utmost that one hears in Germany. If Frumis itself many from Holland a few weeks | Conservativo circles in ago, I walked out into the country hope that monarchism may be called "the King business," po has done with what Mr. Gerard to enjoy the beauty of the spring revived, not "on the Prussian other German state can revive it. day, and within ten minutes of model, but on the English model. The possibility of revival is the the station I saw a status of the 1 is a pale hope, and in the ex-Kaiser embowered among the midst of the pressing miseries of more remota owing to the absence chestnut blossoms by the way-the time seems to be only a mat-

ot any conspicuous personality side.

Bmong tha Score or more |ter of remote and scademic con.

royal or semi-royal houses cern.

of Germany. Most of them are

AS ANTHEM IN STONE

timid

And with the end of the

inoffensive people who are living

But it is in Berlin, of course, In conveying this impression 1 that the memorials of The Family think I shall bave the endorse quietly on their estates in Ger- cluster round one most thickly.ment of every competent Eng many, but none of them is of the Unter den Lindes is an architec-lish and American observer of staff of great adventurers. In teral anthem to the Hohenzol- the armptoms of Germany to-day-normal course of things, the ex- lezas from the Brandenburg Gate Acd I think there would be agree- to the Palace, and the Siages men: also as to the causes of this King of Bavaria would be the Allel hard by takes up the wond-quite unprecedented catastrophe, Hohenzollern; but be is person- most probable substitute for a rons tale in an avenue of statuary for the fall of Napoleon was the ally out of the list of the chal- unlike anything else on earth in natural conclusion of a purely sngers. His trocalens attitude its grotesque exaltation of a clan. personal achievement, while the during the war is remembered

It may be suggested that the fall of Hohenzollernism. is the fact that these memorials are left fall of the most powertot and ina him, and still more the practically untouched Indicates a firmly buttressed system in his squalid suspicion that he was a a profiteera suspicion embodied lingering respect for and attach-tory. In the first place, it is ment to the Hobenzollerns. A pointed out that there could be ao in the nickname of the Milk more impulsive people would car balf measures with so challenging "by which be was and still

is scomfully known. tainly have revenged themselves ing a power. The Kaiser's grol- on the Sieges, Allee. Apart fromiesque pretensions made com- the damage done to the front of promise impossible. If he fell, be the Palace in the first rush of fell like Lucifer" never to rise the Revolution there is little again." He was either all or material evidence of the repudia-nothing- When he ceased to be tion of the Hanse. The Palace the All Mighties: he ceased to be itself is empty. It has as little Baything.

And even if the old tradition of monarchism had not been so

are

of

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fatally discredited there

Todos os cidadãos Portugueses rehabilitation. Under the old na tenham feito inscrever Lo practical reasons against ita

residents nesta cidade que ainda regime there were serious work-Consalade de Portugal, daverso ic difcalties owing to the faze-lo ate 15 de Agosto de 1920. division of the Empire into Os cidades Portugueses inseriton claim to beauty as Buckingham DEFECTION OF THE HIGH PRIEST.multitude of separate kingsbips, deverso-renovar, ste egual data. - Palace, and in its recent neglect- And the second explanation is While Prussia was all powerful ed state and with its broken front in the circumstances accompany-it could override these separat it is a singularly depressing spec-ing the fall. I bave taken gratisme.

a ja este praso But the prestige tacle. It has been proposed that pains to inquire and I am astiafi Prossis is gone with the collapse solar serdispensato sem

nenho acto de proteccas Cɔs. it abould be used to relieve the led that nothing, not even d fat of its iron fist. In Hamburg they appalling housing conditions of itself, has deal! Germany such & say that Hamburg should be idas pelo N. 94 do Regulamento

pagamento das multas estabele Berlin, and though the proposal deadly blow to its pride as the the new capital, and there are Consalar em Vigor. has not been adopted it has been fight of the Kaiser. To under-those who insist that it should seriously considered, and will stand fully what it meant one be Leitziz There is no election probably come up azalo. The has to turn for a parallel to the anywhere for Berlin, whether as ex-Crown Prince's palace, a few close of that moving description seat of the old reactionary spirit hundred yards away in Uster of the Battle of the North Inn in or of the new revolutionary spirit den Linden, has already been put)" The Fair Maid of Perib." It The new constitution of the Re to useful service. Over the door-cut the nation to the quick. You public, way, is inscribed "Nationalga-will never bear it spoken of in though it is, bas consolidated the lerie," and inside is a collection other terms than those of deser-working arrangements of the Em of modern representative art, iction. and

We have this day removed our the mest faithful pire as in the case of the railways, office to the top floor of Nes, 250 cluding examples of "expression-adherents of the House are thest and on practical grounds the & 252 Des Voeux Road Central ism" that leave ourown X Group who cannot epeak of it a reversion to a multi-monarchical (Messrs. Kwong, Sang Hoog's a mere reminiscence of conven-Lall. It was not a man who fled.system is widely dismissed as main premises). tionality. And on Sunday morn-It was the High Priest of a system. unthinkable. Germany has come ings you will find the Gallery And in fleeing he defiled the Ark together on a new plan, and mon thronged with crowds of visitors, of the Covenant. for the first archism does not fit in with that remarkable feature being the article of the Covenant was vai-plan. Monarchism, in a 'word,.

hasty and defective

be

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the number of children who are our and this was cowardice. Had died with the military autocracy,] brought by their parents to see the Kaiser returned to Berlin and and unless militarism can BURNING THE CHION JACK, the pictures. For the Revolution faced the music, he would not revived it has no conceivable has only emphasised, the Ger-bave kept his Crown for himself future.

Washington, June 8.-It is understood that in addition to the man's traditional eagerness to Defeat meant that be had to go. encourage his children in the Bat he would have put up a fight

verbal apology already made, Mr. pursuit of knowledge.

Colby, the Secretary of State, will for his family. He would bare

make a formal apology forthwith SYMBOLS WITHOUT A MEANING, complicated the revolution and

Sir Auckland Geddes, the But though the Berliners have perhaps imperilled the Republie

At a meeting of the General British Ambassador. for the not imitated the fury with which at its birth. But in fleeing to Medical Council recently, Sir incident which occurred outside the Parisians in 1870 tore down Holland be not only committed Donald MacAlister presiding, the the Treasury on June 2 when every reminder of the Imperialism suicide; he destroyed his family name of Pandit Devi Dayal Bason Irishwomen burned the Union of Napoleon III, it does not mean and the cause of Royalism. It was struck off the reg ster. At Jack. The police have submitted that they have less closed their might have survive the fallare in the Central Criminal Court in a report of the occurrence to the battle: it could not survive the April last Sagun was convicted Commissioners for the District account with the thing. In a sanse, I think, it means that they failure of mere elementary per- of unlawfully killing Elsie Maud of Columbia, who will transmit it bave done with it even more em-sonal honour and courage. It Wright, and sentenced to ten to Mr. Colty immediately. In phatically. They have done with might have survived physical years' penal servitude. Alexander their report police say that they it so 'finally that they can even nicide: it could not survive John Wood and Frederick Arthur have secured a series of disregard its symbols and leave moral suicde.

Pring were summoned to appear|photographs showing the sctivi- tham standing. The crown of NO RALLYING POINT. before the Council for having ties of the Irish sympathizers the Kaiser has gone so utterly This consideration is strength-abused their professional position, outside the Treasury. They that it can be left quite safely uned by the fact that the House the charge being based on Divorce explain their failure to make any over the German eagle that of Hohenzollern has no second Court proceedings in which they strests on the ground that the adorns every post office. The string for the emergency. For were co-respondents. Neither Dr. opinion of the Federal District pation is shattered in mind and the most part the Kaiser is never Wood nor Dr. Pring was present, Attorney

said to be “in body, but - miserable though it mentioned. It is as though there but the latter was represented by a that there was no law in existence is it has no disposition to return is a tacit understanding that he is solicitor. In both cases the names under which the offenders could to its vomit. If anything can be forgotten. He was once respect, were erased from the register.

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THEUndersigned bave received

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----instructions from Miss Georgia Spencer to sell by Puòlic Auction on .

Thursday, the 39th. July 1920. commencing at 230 pm. at her residence, Ko. 39 Wyndham Street

The Whole of the Valuable Household Furniture (therein contained)

during July and August for This Hostel will be closed!

Au Interim Dividend of Four repainting. Applications for resid-dollars per sbare for the six ence for next Session may be months ending 30th June 1920 made through the Registrar of will be payable on Wednesday the University. The Hostel will) 28th July on which date Dividend be open on Sept. 1st.

Warrants may be obtained on application et the Company's comprising:Teak console tablo office.

with bevelled mirror, Chesterfeld The Transfer Books of the couches & armchairs, easy chairs, Company will be closed from teak overmantels, fine Japanese Tuesday the 20th to Wednesday water colours, engravings, brass during which period no transfer the 23th July (both days inclusive) vases, ornaments, white lace & curtains, bra electric of shares can be registered.

standard lamps, electric Ettings (carpeta etc. etc. By order of the Board of

PUBLIC AUCTION,

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Monday the 26th, July 1930. commencing at FIRM.

at No. 3 Godown, Holt's Wharf, Kowloos

(for account of the concerned) 1,000 Boxes Tin Plates

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SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.

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Sermon and Communion

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Le Col. Bowen will deliver an † address on *** A-Female Medicaž Missious for China.”-t

dially invited.

Friends of the Society are cor

J. M. 8. ROSARIO.

Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, fist July, 1920.

1 Cottage Plato'by Allison 1 Victrols with cabinet & 35 - records -

4 Electric pelling fans. 2.1. Singer's treadle machine.

On view from 21st, inst. Cataloguio will be issved. Terms: Cash on delivery.

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