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THURSDAY, JANUARY 6. 1921.

| LUDENDORFF'S DEFENCE. some argument, the Chancellar stated that if military opinion. insisted, he was not in a position Evidence of Official Documents. to oppose a course which had the

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MINISTRY OF SHIPPING. It is stated that the main work of the British Ministry of Shipping has now been concluded, the staff being or the most part SOUTH CHANNEL ENTRANCE TO YANGTZE

{approval of the Kaiser. In supplement to Ludendorff's |

The Chancellor--It is to be "War M-mories" Messrs Hut-remembered that the U-boat war chiason, London, have published may mean postponing the end of his latar work, The General Stag the war, and Ds Problēma (2 vols., 34s.

"General Ludendorff-The Ua net), which is a collection of bost

WAT will improve the Notice is given that the Ponchi documents bearing on the relay situation even of our armies. The Wreck Light baor, moored in tions between the German Highmmunition supply will suffer the South Channel Entrance to Command and the Imperial Gov-from the shortage of timber and the Yangtze River, has been dis-| ernment, and intended also to coal. That means a relief for our continued. A recent examina Substantiate the claims made in troops on the Western Front We tion shows a least depth of 97 the earlier work. Mr. F. A. Holt's must spare the troops a second feet, low water of spring tides, translation is plain and readable.Somme battle:

hat the lack of an index is a serious [drawback, particularly as the

"The Chancellor-Yes, we must

work is designed rather for can act if victory beckons.

"The Field-Marshal--We shall sultation than for continuous be reproached later on if we let reading. The documents are

better than

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marine disasters and consequent In view of the frequancy of grouped under various headings the moment slip.

tosses to underwrites, Lloyd's has and loosely strung together withi "Chancellor-The position is undertaken a reform of insurance the minimum of explanatory Certainty

last regulations, According to these matter. For the serious student September.

regulations, wooden ships of "General Ludendorf The British registry pay twice as of the war, however, their im portance is great, even if they measures wo shall take against much as the previous premium,| are too tendencious to be accepted | neutrals are in no WAF pro while contracts will not be con- without collation. It is sate to vocative. They Aru purely eluded for the insurance of ang say that many of them would defensive.

föreign wooden vessels. not have seen the light bat for "Chancellor - And suppose engazed un, accounting work. the abolition of the German Switzerland came into the war T.K.K'S PORTS OF CALL. General Staff under the terms of or the French marched through

The latest report concering the the Peace Treaty.

that country?

the T.K.K.'s ports of call is that Ludendorf begins by citing a The Field Marshal That thes. Peris Maru and Siberia number of letters and reports dat would not be unfavourable, from Maru, the unsubsidized steamers,, |ing from 1909 onwards to demon- the military point of view.” will in future call at Dairen and

strate the pains taken by the Hindenburg and Ludendort mit Manila and Nagasaki onj General Stad‍ to build up the army protested. vehemently to the both the outward and return voy- and to prepare it for war. It is Kaiser regarding the Reichstag ages. From Yokohama to Hong- interesting to note that a mem-peace resolution (July 1917 at kong and vice versa the vessels orandum drawn up bevon Moltke| Ludendorff even threatened to will call at Shanghai and Dairen. in December 1912 proceeds on the resign. Bethmann-Hollweg said! The subsidized vessels of the assumption that an offensive that everything should be avoided Company will continue to call at against France would be carried which would impede Britain from Yazaski through Belgium, and other entering into peace negotiations. documents comment on the need)" I regard such hopes as illusory," for a larger accumulation of the remarked, "so long as Lloyd

A recent San Francisco mess- munitions, the development ofjiieorze remains at the helm."i aircraft and also of wireless. The But he added that his position Ailed for Japan with a recard

age Atatus:- The Tenga Maruf | nex: section opens with the adventno longer seems to be perfectly

of Ludendorf and his alter essence, and he advised that aerial treasure, and 2,500 bales of co: Passenger bat $1.600,000 10 Hindeburg, at headquarters, and attacks on England should be! Ion. A large number ofl gives the argumentà in favour of stopped because they roused the Auxiliary Service Law and popular resentment against Gerline to Japan, but it is no believ

California Japanese are proceed-| other measures for coping with many. Hindenburg replied ed that their movements have the need for reinforcements at the i "I do not think that Englen !! front and the labour supply at will be ready for a

ang connection with the in- peace of bomt. It shows that Ludendorf understanding as long as she Dai, of the Tayo Kisen Kaisha. migration question Manager and Bethmann-Hollweg were at still hopes that Germany will

entertained the collapse before herself. Leas:aves of the press to dinner on

thirty logger-heads regarding

represent ! feasibility of con-cripting the en of all will she be inclined for such

the Tenyo Maru before she tire 'population for war work of a peace if Austria-Hungarg i-

Bilet. one kind or another, and, of thinking of falling out course, Ludendor wishes the in- We must, therefore, prosecutel SHANGHAI FREIGHTS. ference to be drawn that the the war, with all our resources! Messrs. Wheelock And Co.'s) failure to apply the measure as and the greatest intensity. Your Report, dated Shanghai, lü:h. he wished was largely responsible Excellency deprecates the aerial December, states:-To United! for the defeat which he prophesied attacks on London. I da on: Kingdom and Continent:-The in that event. Unfortunately think the English nature is such position remains out the same everything possibla was not that anything can be done with when we last wrote. Shipper's↓* done," he says And this in them by consiliation or roreal-fold contracts for cargo ar about spite of warning after warning & desire to share them

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ing from the Supreme Command."! Hindenburg also protested that after end on Dember are almoke Though he disclaims any desire the Brest-Lit vsk Treaty was not (nil) To United States via Pacific! to intervene in domestic politics, so resolute as they had urges that and via Panama and Su-24- it is evident that Ludendorff acted it should be, but in this instance The situation bere remains practically a dictator. He the Kaiserstepped in and support auchanged and the market, as made ex cathedra proneance-ed his Chancellor, politely hinting | far as exports arp *........................¶¶¶+++++++*............*#*******ante, wages, franchise, agricul should confine their atencions o although

ture, and foreign policy, and often the conduct of operations. Ijon the downward trend fer some forced his paint with the Kaiser view of their grand offensive on three or four weeks now, met- Jagainst the Chancellor and the the Western Fron: (March 1918) chants the impossible to do

orber Ministers.

un they were anxious that a political business owing to its instability sympathetic attitude to Labour efensive should accompany and this combined with the stag- produced repercussions at home. Memoranda. marked

mation in the horde markets is in and be had difficulty in cutting it secret," sent to the Chancellor irge measure responsible for believed that he had not said that (January 1918), represented that present conditions. Freight categ

the German workman was too "The domestic situation

to New York vin Panama and cowardly for a cenetal strike." England has been fundamentally Suez have recently been lowered Coastwise: Among the most important of changed by Lansdowne's letter, by twenty per cont the rerelations is the correspond. The peace movement is now no-There is nothing to pe a added unce which passed between longer unpatriotic. Lloyd Georg to what we wrote fortnight age, Headquarters and the Gotern-is doing everything he can to and the market remains very ment with reference to the li-boat suppress the new movement. All quiet for the time being. trumpaiza. In December 1915 the terrors of the coming German NOTICE TO MARÍŠERS,

when Germany was in desperale offensive are luridiy described to Norice is given that a new straits on the Somme) Ludendorff the nation. [His speeches) are channel, which will be after b wrote to Zimmermann:-

essentially propaganda speeches known as the Domodocus Coan- "After Lloyd Grosze has for the purpose of soothing thenel, has been provisionally opened refused our peace offer by his Trade Unions and the workers for deep draught navigation by declaration in the House of in English war industries. Thisday, during such time as the Commons, I am convinced, is intention. which 19 SCATCely opper Bank Crossing Yangtze view of the impressions I have veiled, can only strengthen us in River, remains in a condition of gained on the Western Front, our conviction that it is and will rapid change. This new chan that the 1. boat campaign remain impossible to treat witnel Bows along the right bank of must now be inagurated in | Lloyd George.”

'he river from Changshan into the full force.

Over and over again it is em Pitman Channel. Buoys have been The statesmen found diplomatic phasised that Mr. Lloyd Georg-established to mark the entrances difficulties in embarking on this is the real stumbling block to the to the new channel. Caution is dangerous course, and the point snccess of German efforts necessary in Davigating the east- that Ludendorff is anxious to secure a ratched-up peace. Inern entrance, as ita northern side ske is that if the ruthless sub his collection fdocuments deal is dangerously steep-to and the marine warfare had been adopted ing with the closing phase of the fairway only about 134 cables earlier and persevered with it struggle, Ludendorff endeavours, wide. Cuation is necessary also in would have had a better chance without much success, to prove navigating the western entrance, comfortable. All wool garments, of bringing Britain to her knees.that it was the Revolution that as a steep-to shoal runs along the Hindenburg re lied to the Im-let down the Army, and he quotes south side of the entrance. When perial Chancellor :-

opinions to show that the latter it is sean that vessels are liable to "In my telegram I had insist-could have continued to resist mept in the eastern entrance to -d on the necessity of immediate but for the collapse of the home the Demodocus Chanuel, the and energetic action at sea, a front. Under the caption. "An vessel bound with the tide shop'd I regarded it as the only means Historid Conversation" be quotes be given priority of pas8 LEO, of bringing the war to a speedy the following:

| River steamers and other light- Your Excellency "Laraner to Loocheur-Oo draught vessels must contiane to thinks that this method, cannot July 15, 1918, he had been at use the Cooper Bank Crossing, as yet be adopted. Unfortunately, German Headquarters. There the Demodocus Channel is for the our military situation makes it Ludendorff had said to him if use of heavy-draught ocean-going impossible that negotiations of my blow at Rheina cceede now, steamers, any kind should be allowed to we have won the war. postpone military measures which. "Loucheur.-It was a peculiar have once been recognised as coincidence but on July 13, 1918. essential, and thus paralyse the he was at Foch's head-quarters. because the Entente were beat on energy of our operations."

Foch had then told him If the the destruction of Germany,.com- A verbatim note is given of German altack at Rheims plains that much war kept secret the conference (January 1, 1917) succeeds we have lost the war." from the High Command by the between Hindenburg, Ludendorf, In conclusion, Ludendorff ex-Government, and hölds that the and Bethmann-Hollweg at which presses the opinion that the confidence reposed in Hindenburg. unretricted submarine warfare documents show that a peace of and himself by the majority of the was finally decided upon. After understanding-was unattainable, German people was justified.

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