Jun, 17, If the German people expression equivalent to comforter,"* they are probably a] plying it to the Imperial Chancellor. We await fuller detail of want, that is to say, to run coun-ihis ter to the wishes of the com-diet, munity as a whole. Therefore, from speech in the Prussian but it summary sent us we repeat, Mr. Stepharius must not be elected. that, except for a flamboyant estimate of the achieve-
Of the outgoing Council, as stated in yesterday's issue, seven of the old members have again been nominated, the absentees from the list being Mr. A. Hide and Mr. A. Ishii. Mr. Hide has served on the Council for four years in succession and the community, while regretting that it is not to have the benefit of his) guidance and advice for a fifth term, feels, we are sure, grateful to him for having given up so much of his spare time in its interests. Mr. Ishii, who was coopted when Mr. Gulland went home, is the first Japanese who has ever served on the Council and in that very short time leaves behind him a record which will make Britons very ready to vote for Baron Yoshiaki Fujimura, who comes forward as a candidate in his place. As the census _returns published in our issue of the; Tith showed, the Japanese dent in the International Settlement now number 7,169, more ments of the German armies, there was little of congratulation and much of lament. In the first place we have a very heartfelt complaint of the utter wickedness of the Allies—from the Prussian standpoint, of course. These unconscionable people persistently refuse to acknowledge themselves beaten: they brazenly declare that they will not kotow to the Kaiser nor bow the knee before his ministers: neither will they plead for pardon or throw themselves on the tender mercies of Prussia's kindly heart. Common honesty demands that when a belligerent is worsted he should acknowledge the fact. 'The Allies will acknowledge nothing of the sort, and their recalcitrancy has a double effect, the wickedness of which' becomes apparent when it is seen hat it tends to cast doubt in the minds of neutrals on the all-conquering power of Germany, and jin the minds of Germans on the
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