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THE CHINA MAIL
PECULIARITIES OF
THE WAR.
POWER AND RESPONSIBILITIES
OF THE PRESS.
SPEECH BY GENERAL. SIN WILLIAM ROBERTSON,
RESPONATULLITT AP TUR PRESS,
Innbrud of all exclusive any, separate an apart from the nation, tha army, has drawn to it all clausen and intensis. The obylons result is that the Pres has not only great power, but has an equally grent imprimibility” for In order to win the war all the reacuryos off the nation must be thrown in, and the is no more powerful agency for ensuring thin thun the Prow, I want the Rows to get, benidem that 25 per cent.. the 23 par
VISITORS AT THE. HOTELE.
HONGKONG HOTEL. Mr. G. E. Anderson Mrs A. E. Hodgins Mr W. L L Barker Mr A Shelton Hooper Mr J. H. Baring, Mrs Van Hoogentruten Me R. M. Bartlett Me I Hope Mrs H. Barton Capt. R. Innes Mr. and Mrs EL. A. Mr E. M. Jreeph
Baxter and child Me N. de Journal Mrs E R. Balilios, Mis E. W. Kane Mr P. W. W. Bell Dr F. T. Keyt Me and Mes F. K. Mr C. King
Bennett
Mr Bad Men FT.
Kirkland
Dr A. T. Knoderer Bar and Mrs W. H. ・Lambert 4.
Mr. and Mrs C.
Mr
Me 8. J. Birbeck There was great, and unique guttering and exagations, but
vent. I do not want flaming headlines Mr S. T. Bitting
sistent. Mr and Mrs nt the Sew-qaper Press. Fund-at-honourageous, direction of public epision in Brant revently.
the right channelis, to face the facts, and Capt. R. Bradley to avoid discouraging Britons, Capt & Mrs Hanch Lauritsen
Mr W. d. Browell nuraging the enemy, and I may truly MIG. Butler any that in this connection the editors have co-operates cordially, and
iciently."
Lord Northelife, who presided, said the masiversary donatio of 15,300 was
Peru.
General Sie-William Robertson (Chief of the General Stad was the principal speaker. He emphasised how mnek the officers in high conanands needed the con
Guidon-
Lavallee Mr L. A Calderon Mr & Mrs H. Lee Mr O. E Cameron ward 9 children. M: D. E. CapplemanMr and Mrs J.-J. Mr P. Carlton... Tetris Mr C. Caro
Mr R. & Es
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Me A. Linbird
Mr G. W. Chaneller Mr Colbourne Little Miss M. Chisholm
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acknowledged the Army's gresit debt to the Navy, which was playing an essential and vital part in the war. Ha paid a tribute to those Bre seaten who were
SHORTEST, IN 13 YEARS.
silently and herniently engaged in mine cast, issued last month by the Depart sweeping, and other hazardous enterprises.ment of Agriculare, estimates the winter Beferring to our soldiers who first went to wheat yield at 366,001,000 bushels, the France, he said they had been battered, amallest in thirteen years. With the braised, and sometimes beaten to their world facing a bread facaine, the United knees, but they never have been beaten in States probably will have only suficient whest for its own people, unless, the spirit, and under Field-Marshal French's Epidaure had rendered 'possible the curtailed, says a New York paper.
consumption of wheat bread is materially
Access since achieved by the troops under
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig,
THE WAR'S PENTLLARITIES.
Capt
Clarke
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Mr S. Longfield
J. M.
M. Lopes
Mrs Geo.. Capt. and s MacGoldrick
J. Cogan Mrs
Mrs J. T. MacLeod 49 B. Cooke Mrs Cornelisen and Dr&Mrs. Marriott
child
Mr H. E. Mali The American official whent crop fore-Comdr. L. M. Cortes Mr C. McCanu
Me Gec. E. Costello Mrs T. R. E. Meinnes Mr F. M Crawford Me G. Murphy Mr.J.D. Courtney Mr J. Merecki MrW. B. Davenport Mr J. S
J. S Nicolson, MraW. B. Davenportbes L. C. O'Donnell Mrs F. E Davis and 2 children MrA. W. Vag Dolden Capt. J. R. O'Sullivan Mir D. E. Donnelly Me E. H. Mr P. E. Douglas ar 6. 7. Read Mr W. A. Dowler Dr JC. Shively Mra B. Duffy Mrs M. Slade Mr H O. Dukes Air & Mrs V, Mr J. E. Eitwarda Mr A. S. Sorensen Capt. W. E. Ehrhardt Miss A. Square Misa Ehrhardt and Mr F. H. Staber
ainah
ME. Strassman Mrs & Miss Ellenserkir W. Straw 3r P.. Elliott Mr C. Templeton Mr J. Fasse Mrs 31. Tengbergen Mr K. M. Fetterly Mrs D. P. The bant Mr EL Fischer Me F G Thompson ML. Flinter Me A Todt
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One solution is offered by the Govern- ment and that is the more liberal use of corn meal in the making of bread: Corn America's big crop, but at present most of it is used to fatten animals.
Every war has its peculiarities, and ucis war so differed from its predecessors an the present one. Aeroplanes had entirely changed the character of the operations.
The enormibus mass of artillery render
The oficial estimate of spring wheat will not be issued until Jply, acreage but with a crop of £30,000,000 bushels,
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COURT OF DIRECTORS. Hon. Mr. S. E. Dodwell ChairmaD, JA. Plummer, Esq.,-Deputy Chairman. Hon. Mr:
{(1, 8. Gubbay, ESC QE. Anton E. V. D. Farr, Esq.
which is higher than the average, the Mr Harry Friedman Mr. M. B. Var ed the preparation for battle a loos pro- United States would grow, a total this Mrs N. H. Geinsen Mr R. d. Vester
Mrs H.. Walker cess, requiring an elaborate system of year, including winter and spring wheat Mr. B. Glast
Mr and Mrs J. G. transport. We had expended in the past of only 610200,000 bushels; while the ML. D. Glover Ward
American consumption, with 4. Gordon
· five or six weeks 200,000 tons of'ammini-normal tion in France alone, and conveyed thither seed requirements, is put at slightly Capt. E. B. Green. Mr S. T. Williamson & Corepton, Esq. W. I 50000 tons of stone per week to mend the more than 600,000,000 bushels. ........
rondy. To this was 'due the tremendous atrons of railway work, and he wished to acknowledge the services of the railway managers and employees who had gone to France to do the work.
The greatest peculiarity of the war was (the volosști numbers engaged, amounting to samething like 24,000,000. In the war of 1870 the armies numbered 100,000 to} 200,000. sach. As Gravelötte, where tha casualties were the highest, they reacted 100,000 on both sides. For the whole war the total of killed and wounded was below 50. In the present ws the killed It was alorie are eated by the million.
RESERVE STOCKS LOWRIL, /
than at any previous time at this season, Reserve stocks this year are lower the visible supply being placed at 20,000,000 bushels, with a slightly larger invisible supply. When harvesting the new crop begins in July it is esti nisted there will be less than 6,000,000 bushels is reserve, the lowest on record.
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Mr V. Goulbourny
Mr A. R. Hager Capt. T. F. Ha Mr and Mrs W.
Hannibal
Mr G. Harper Mr W. J. Hodge
Mr E N. Wells
Mr S. Wiggin
Mise H. Wializeans Mrs A Wislizenzs
Fattendes, Esq.
Hon. Mr. P. Holyoak.
G.T.M. Fairing, Esq.
& Me C. F. Wolsiffer
Mr and Mrs J.
Wolthers
FEAK HOTEL
The country's greatest spring wheat Mr D. K. Blair Mr & Mrs Neil Macs crop was 352,000,000 bushels, produced Mr & Mrs F. W. Cary Intyre and child. in 1913. The five year average from
1910 to 1914 is 231,000,000. The esti- Mr & Mrs Cossart Mr M. McInnes mated production this yearolae6,000,000 Col. Darling, R.E. Hon. C. McL. Messer bushels of winter whest falls 116,000,000 Sir W. Recs Davies Mr T. L Ferkins bushels short of last year's poor crop Mr&MraW Duinker Mr G. Ritchie and 308,000,000 below that of 1915, a
Mr and Mrs W. E. bumper crop. It is 120,000,000 bushels Mr J. Duinker less than the average for the preced Mr F. W. Evans Roberts ing five years.
Mr Derman Fuller Mr& MA Findlay Mr & Mrs J. H. Gray Faith
Mr and Mrs B. A. Mr&Mrs. Findlay.
Hale
Smith
not a war between armies, hut between The Allies wheat requirements for rations, and there was no man or woman the coming year are put at 600.000,000 in the Empire who was not doing some bushels as a minimum... The United thing to win or lose the war. A man of States will be asked to
supply more than distinction had told him the other day parts of the world are poor. The Argen- Mr and Mrs A. Miss Ventris
half
that amount. Wheat crops in other Sir Ellis Kadoorie Major-Gen. Ventris that he estiguised that in the present was fine crop failed and home consumption
Lembelet
Lt. Col. John Ward will require the entire yield. Cansin's
Cameron Macaulay, Mrs Dunford Wood RA.M.C.
| 25 per prtu, of the weight was representeduction is confined chiefly to a spring Lt and Mrs E M-Mr G. E..Wetton
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THE WAR CORRESPONDENT:
That brings mus." General Robertson continued, to my last point-the power and responsibility of the Press. Not long ago the war correspondent was regarded by most soldiers, putting it mildly an a nuisance. That was not the case todas, and no one more than the soldier realises the value of the Press as a factor. This i ale part of the great transformation
character of the war. Formerly the correspondent thought his chief object was
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HONGKONG-INTEREST ALLOWED."', On Current Account at the rate of Two per cept. per annum on the daily balance OS FEED UXPOSITS::— For 3 months 2 per cent. per annum.
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P
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Since the war started America has exported to Europe vast quantities of wheat, reaching, high mark of 12,000,000 bushels in 1915. Last year
KING EDWARD HOTEL. the total fell to 243,000,000 bushels. Before the war it ran slightly less than 100,000,000 bushels.
Mrs R. Almond Mrs McGee
RESERVE LIABILITY OF PRO- accompanying its Mr J.B.F. AndersonMr J. O. Miller reports that, although the winter wheat Mr W. 1. Boggy
tatement suppriment Mr G. Bannerman Mr W. Morley
Mes Nathans and declared crop condition is the poorest on record, Mr W. Budge 8 Mandy
Mrs Parsons conditions otherwise are favourable.. Grop
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to supply thrilling, graphic, and arg00,000,000 husbels, the lowest since 1804," Mr&Mrs Finlayson Mr and Mrs G. For shorter periods at rates which will bu tional stories of the fighting, and in a bat, notwithstanding this low production Mr. F. H. Tisher Richardson
Garson few notable exemptions be devoted him of winter wheat, the spring wheat crops
Mr W.-M. Routh self to keeping the public amused and and total production of all e crop in that C. Hartley Mr and Mrs J. R.
Mrand Birs B Hammes Shaw interested rather than to educating his year were the largest on record.*
and
Mr and Mrs Biefort children The Department is making every effort readers. That is all changed. We to-day to educate the American people Mr L
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and family are fighting a war upon the issue of which greater use of cornmeal for bread. Except MA.S. Hawker Mr. Sim depends our imperial existence, and rein the South it never his supplanted Mr and Mrs Wm. Mr E. M. Sligh
Jackson
MJ. R. Smith garding the necessity and righteousness of wheat for bread. Department officials which nore, except a few cranks, and a believe Americs must tum to corn to Mr. James
release wheat from shipment abroad, if Mr Janssen few other not very significant people, has the Allics are to be fed and Germany is Mr. Josaph
Mra Taylor Mrs Kiddall
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