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Shipping has sufired-and, of conse gladly and patriotically, too—while the Germans. Ee dopgo and wait for "peace. Peace will come, and they will dusb. all their ships on the seas, while we and the neutrals rebuild and rest. They recognise the facts--that's why they
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Now you will see why I am keen on
The Shipping Man had rather a deb lim"] "ten-for-ton" outlook. He expressed himself powerfully. He said everything derogatory which can be said against submarine frightfulness. And in the end he expressed his complete the ton-for-ten ides. To use it will show, HOTG, NAMAZUTA, SAYO.KANADA, mystification at
altitude of the British people.
"For the life of me that we are up to their little game. SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA ZYBAI sag't understandes." he cried. Chat To use it will show them that the least & OTUBARI COLLIERIES we see that the only way to pus/the fear of the empty perse Into Germany is a take a German ship for every British "All inquirier appertaining to Accounts Funk? Yes, and for every neutral ship, etc. should be addressed to Messrs.ton.” - LowE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, Hongkong, Feb. 10, 1917.
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we intend to do is to stand on level terms And I'm with them when peace comes. keen on it from its check-action Sect,
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that sort of habit."
This made the Shipping Man angry.
Yes, that's all very sound when you are fighting a straight enemy. But when, you are fighting the Germans. Don't you see what this U-boat strategy is it mots that the Germans have realised they have lost the war, and are determined to win in peace.**
You'll have to explain that," I said. It sounds a little complex to me."
It isn't complex, at all. Shipping men understand what is happening. Tau people think that this wholesale sinking DAIRY FARM NEWS. commercial bottomes is the sort of
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recklessnese" of the mad dog. It isn't. There was never anything more cold blocded, deliberate and long-headed.. You think the daking of the Britannic was piece of "uplovely frightfulness. I don't think it was. I think the German ides į in the sinking of the Britannic was to cut another crack boat out of the Trang- Atlantic passenger route. Another luxuri-
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rival was removed to leave the field tree for the Imperator, and the Yate and and ibeir Bice in the enormously rich commerce of the Americap transport. You can work out the same idea as all other trade routes.
It may sound wild to honourable Britia ideals, but you're dealing with Germans, and if you know Germans, yos will know the thing Gite in Woll" tika
MR. LI HON FAN, Chine gradante versed in Uteratura, han born a tančher to Kuropska Officials and Marchnate in this Colony for ten years
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the American de-luxe nute, we might call it. What were their habits, then? Their habits were of a I'll tell you. cut-throat kind, in which tricks, he British would call dishonourable were employed to get the better of our plasenger trade.
of Britannic means the gain of a Vater.
land, the Germans will soon stop their torpedoing. Ths. German istr't a fool. He knows what he is doing. He is out to ruin our after-war carrying trade, not his own."
TREATING.
[At a recent meeting of the Ipoh Golf Club, called to discuss the question of treating, one of the speakers is reported by the Times of Minlays to have said that a large proportion of members play a game of golf and refresh themselves afterwards with a cup of tea.]
The Ipoh Golfers have proclaimed
In no uncertain voite Their cherished Club should not be
blamed
"
As no one drinks from choice The question whether harm is done
By alcohol must be A purely academic one.
Where men drink only tea And while you struggle with the ups And downs that gold links hatch The boy sets out the matchless cups
And saucers that don't match ; The milk ing fresh from Whites way,
The Pritchard spoons (E.P.) And biscuits relics of the days .. Befora men took to tes. Although your foozled Silver King
Is bunkered at the first;
Though to the rough you coldly cling Avoiding Garland Woodward,"
You still can raise a third.
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Clarke," You do the last in three, And turn triumphant in the dark
Back to the Club and em Treating as such becomes a treat
In this enlightened place, The worst defeat is no defeat
When you can save your face.
having lost, you've got to sign, The "What's it going to be 1 sure to draw the answer" Mine, "Oh, mine'a a atengah tea,” You golfing men of divera Club,
From prejudices freed, Follow with gratitude the Hub's
Most admirably lead. And whether treating is decried
Or not by others, se
Is
You know: the German" isn't an! originator, but it you show him an idenIf, he can elaborate it beautifully, perhaps better it. The American passenger route proved that. The idea of the giant lary ship was British. The White Star showed the initiative with the Titanic and the Olympic, (The Cunard people did the some thing, too, but we'll stick to the "is" hosts as examples), Well having seen that we had got ahead of them, the Germans went in for the big-Imperator
That you at any rate decide
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They waited until the Titanic and Olympia specifications were complete and the vera building, and, naturally, unalterable, and then they put down the Imperator, an improvement, an amplitka-
esch class of goods. Besides being a tion, a step further in lazury to the complete commercial guide to Zundo and British plane They made me of British ita suburbe, the Directory contains lists of ideas, you see, and weet ons better to SEXPORT MERCHANTS
eat up British trade. And I underund it was the same with the Britannic and with the goods they ship, and the Colonial the Vaterisad, although I haven't wraz and Foreign Markets they supply;
either of these boats, The Vaterland STEAMSHIP LINES nipped in ahead of the Isitannic but only arranged under the Ports bo which they mail, | after the final design of the British bost
dicating the approximate Sailings had been made
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What I'm trying to drive home in this specific instance is that the Gerumas
in the principal provincial towns and are all out for the American passenger industral centre of the United Kingdom trade. And they mean to go all out alter A copy of the current edition will be the car, After the war they I have the forwarded, freight paid, on receipt. of Postal Order for 200,-
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