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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1918.
SHIPPING
P. & O. S. N. CO.
“ROYAL MAIL SERVICE
UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
TO
THE CHINA MAIL.
AN INTERESTING COMPARISON.
SUGGESTIVE LIKENESSES AND. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN,
TWO GREAT WARS,
THE MIDDLE CLASSES,
THE BURDEN OF THE WAR.
LBY SIDNEY R. MERIAL] The time has come for many thing particularly for the payment of the in- Come tax. All about us. we witness the struggles of the professional man to keep
On Thursday, July 25th, the war off 19148 ja Europe had lasted exactly as long as the war of 1 in the United
The two periods are cach bead above water.
State
MARSEILLES AND LONDON,rears in duration,
TAKING FASSENGERS AND CARGO TO
ETRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT, &c.
Leare 1: Connecting Mail Hongkong Steamer from
Colombo..
*
Staneta
Colombo
Noon
+
*LK
Due Marseilles
Ice London
When Passengers change Steamere at COLOMBO
For him there have been no eressa Hetween the two are exte likes profits. People did not ask him to and differences that should prove wq-
Fuadresa juries more frequently because! we are as war; publishers did not hasten gestive and bstructive to Ameri
to purchase bis pictures. It he wore a Jeans the present generation.
The doctor perchance the Araig wanted him American cir:l; war found the rom-and His pretice went immediately to butante in much the
siton the dogs... ជា Leon of perparedness on crie side and
This man had sons at a public school when Armageddon came and had saved rehitive, unpreparedness on the other a little money for his old age. He lived Europe's war found the opposing belli-in a decent suburb and rode first class rents. McCann, a historian of the wit to his office or studio. Els amuvements
Locommodation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reserved in for it, records the preparation of the were fox and his extravagance golf.
Hongkong at the time of Booking:
On the Australian Roats Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line.
SAILINGS DIRECT TO
SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
8. &
Leave. Hongkong About
Passengers may travel by Railway in Japan between Ports of Call Esa of charge.
INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS
(Noo Transhipment). IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE MAIL STEAMERS,
WILL LEAVE DIRECT FOR
MARSEILLES AND LONDON, Calling at SINGAPORE, FORT SWETTENHAM, PENANG, COLOMLO AND PORT SAID,
JARRYING let and 2ND BALOON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RATES. Prorosz SAILINGS :
STEAMERS.
Leave
Leave
H'rond
*bou
S'PORI abch
Uue ad BI'SKILLKE. -if calling
Dout
Duo LONDON about
THE INTERMEDIATE SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
All Cabins are Btted with Electric Fans free of charge and each Berth Furnished with an Electric Reading Lampi.
Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing dates are liable to be cancelled or altered without notice
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
or advice.
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AGENTS FOR SAKTTO: COAL
Head Office:-TOKYO,
Northern sommonwoudths the war in terme
As he lived so lived in the main alt our middle classe-the backbone of the tint closely apply to those of England in country, the broad bass for every Chau-Branches and 19145 and of Amerien in 1017.8, Bna | cellor's whip. when he speaks of the girautie propor~] tions of the Federal Army in 1981 and we find that the number given is 250,000 men, then we see that the phrase has acpirol ansther manning, for 250,000 soldiers now are put much wer than corporal's guard in modern armies.
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AS,
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HONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCOPOS
via SHANGHAL KOBE, TOKUHAMA and HONOLULU,
The Sunshine Belt. venko Ameries and Enripe
•The most common BORITO.
Sallings from Hongkong atɔNoon.
VENEZUELA' B.B. "ECUADOR". 88. "COLOMBIA".
mirasneurinomaisons WEDNESDAY, Oat. wth, 191#. merovocódiové voznesmeninio WEDNESDAY. Now, th, 1915 1. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 4th, Isis,
The Steamers have the most motura edaipment, inchading overbend electric fans and electric lighting ALL, LOWER BERTAS and large confortable Staterooms. (All single and kwa berths only) The Safety and Comfort of Passengers is our first considerations Special care is given to the elaine, and the attendance on passengers cannot be surpassed
the
Tickets are interchangeable with the Toyo Kisen Kaisha
Canadian Pacific Ocean Berrioece, La For further information rates, literature, sobadulós utc, apply tomm
COMPANY'S OFFICE în Alexandra Enfidings TELOTIII.
Bepresentatives:-- Nagasaki, Karaten, Wakamaten, Maji, Paying in the bulk the 'best part of Kure, Kobe, Osaka, Tauruga, Nagoya, our taxes, these people supplied as also with the best part of our morala. "For Yakchams, Tokyo, Hakodate, Muresan, them there was & sanctity of home life Otar, Vladivostock, Paking. Tientsin, forget that their neighbours could see indeed; nor were they ever permitted to Dairen, Tsinanda, Hankow, Shanghai, H through their drawn blincs.
The people who talk in this way Bridently take it for granted that the professional or business man will fall cheerfully into the new scheme of things; and kim.
that no word of protest will escape Be will got out of his house life a shot send his daughters to a registry edice or the stage door:
tplace
Taipeh, Hongkong, Canton, Haiphong, Manils, Singapore Calcutta. Landon
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and New York,«
Goble Address
Canton. Haiphong: **IWASAKISAL".
Hongkong: "IWASA£T”. Codes:AI, A. B. O. 5th Ed.,
Now we are told that this great middle class must go. Professional men and In 1981, as in 1917, the pemblem of their neighbours are warned that they must be prepared to alter entirely the ships was the first and most urgent pro-ancient way of their lives." them. The North has proportionately the same te fifty-seven years ago as all Americs and Erope last year; the same fear if not solving the shipping pelem: the same stremnons stangle to bring armies, savies, and uperenatile mariere to strength and maximum activity.
And all the time he is doing this be Karope's war began on an eastern aid will still be working feverishly to pay the Government, the best part of bis So did the Ameri-earnings and to live in a style which in For raus, tierrati Generals aimed to cap-loathsome to him that the professional
a Western front.
Western Union and Bentley's.
his sons in a board school and bay stand Agency for :-THE OBAKA MARINE urd sufts at fifty-seven shilings a time.
& FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.. OSAKA.
My own view is
une Puris, capital of Frazer, as Ameri enu Federal Generals diard at lich- and business man will do nothing of the kind. I think he will arate that we are capital of the Southern Con- fighting as much for posterity sa for federacy. The Federal Generala had to ourselves and that it should bear some wait four years before eating the up of our bardens. He may even ask, with pture, and as this writing it appears as iConnell, What has posterity done for
Gertain Generals would wander in the "*↓ wilderness forty years and then fuil to enter the promised, lanti.
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Tea: he will ask that, and with| justice. The Government, it is true, can drive him trora his home and can reducu his children to beggary; but it cannot make bin work like a slave..
Even the will to work would not en-
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were flagrant. A man may sit down to
garret, with a candle cocking an eye write a book because his country needs the money but if he must write it in a
likely to be? awry at him, what kind of a book is it
The end of Hegope's first year of this
defensive. Similarly, the first years sure output if the injustice of the reward war saw dejection on the part of the
the civil war brought little bit gloom to eld Kitchener said it would last at vast the North. Before this war was a year three years note. At the desir of the first year of the war of 1861-5 Sherman for the North to win. In 1962 the
federacy reached the height of military etticing, and in 1915 Gerthany wept the Siay before it. During the third ywas of the civil war the North began to see
Consignees are reminded of the necessity to apply to the Company's Agents regarding arrival of consignments expected of which they have received documents Any damaged packages unst be left in the Gedowns for examination by the Consignees and the Company's Surveyors. Messrs Godu rd and Dougina, at 10 am declared that it wun take years inora.. on Moniays and Thursdays. All claims must be pruncated within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date. they cannot be recognised. No Claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
For Further Information, Passage Fares, Freights, Handbooks, Dates of Sailings ata, apply to.
P. L. KNIGHT.
Acting Superintendent.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
(JAPAN MAIL 8.3. 00)
SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. DESTINATION
STEAKER & DEPLACEMENT Shanghai, Kobe & f*Shidruska Máru,
Yokohama
· Kaga Maru
Nagasaki, Kobe &f*aki Mara,
Yokohama
1*Nikko Maru,
BALLING DAYEN
light, and in the third year of this wee the Entente began to gaia military strength.
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The fourth year brought unity of chief command to the North in 1864 and to the Entesta armies "in 1918. That was the vital factor then, and probably will be now." Grant had all his Generals and unis perform team work toward a single centre, sed Foch works out the strates ci surrounding, and closing in upon - the -enemy.
BERLIN TO-DAY.
10,000. DIVORCE GASPS PENDING.
the degradation of the change will be All his energies will dag. A sense of ver with him. Fle will see his children which she is wholly unfamiliar. And he humiliated, bis wife forced to tasks with may. well ask: "If I am to have no leisure in take it is my old age, why should I unt
now?
To what end the ancient slavery; long hours of a desire for the sunshine; the confinement of office or study; the spect nele of other mon playing in the felds Rome, he knows, were born to the a laborious day. He has not complained liberty of pleasure and have never known of this hitherto because there have been the compensation but be will complain bisterly now, and his reproaches may take an active shape.
TO WHAT END ? *
If henceforth be must live upon a standard of three hundred pounds & year, why earn more ?" Why waste his physical substance in an effort which is necessary? Why produce books and pictures for which others are to collect the royalties f
of t
You cannot make him produce them He would laugh in your face if you talked 12,610 tons WED., 9th Oct 11a.m. 12,300 tons WED., 30th Oct., 11 am.
tais kind of industrial conscription. The local Synod of the Prussian Pro- and the small tax uron it, and hence- Let him cera his three hundred a year 12,300 tons SAT, 19th Oct., 11am. testant State Church, in the third ecele-forth the best part of his time is his own. 6,800 tons SAT., 14th Dec, 11 am.siastical division of Berlin, has drawn up He becomes an idler at fifty-one, whereas a report to the Central Synod to call is he had not intended to resign unless he atcution of the Church to the great in.was sixty-five. crease in the number of divorce cases life. Our man will move to some coun Here are the prospects of s pleasant Bow before the Berlin courts.
and Lonion will know him try cottage no more. He will fish and play golf and do just thauminimum of work which is great, and few of artistic temperament necessary. The temptation would be could resist it.
Shanghai, Moji &frotomi Maru, .7,000 tons FRI., 18th Oct.
Kobe
London or Liverpool via S'pore,
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For further information apply to
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At the end of June' more than 10,000 divorce cases were pending before the different courts of Greater Berlin, and the judges had found it impossible to keep pace with the number of new peti
is led day after day....
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given in some of the cases led the local A detailed investigation of the evidence
Synod in question to the conclusion that immorality among German womer has attained such a degree that the very foundations of society are thresterol." It is also stated:-
"In ninety-nine cases out of a bun dred, the divorce petitiong are prosented by Husbands at the front whose wives have indulged in wild orgies during their absence."
COUGHING INTO CONSUMPTION "Only a Cough" but you stop It while it is ONLY a cough.
WATERBURY's METABOLIZED # COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND
The Guest preparation made for.combating Beyme couch CURES any conga teat noly a cough. Very palatab
OF ALL CHEMIES,
The basiness mana, upon the other hand, will find other methods of dealing
not consent to work for nothing. sure that if he is a business man be will with the problem. We may be quite
With these facts must the Government reckon before it proceeds to the exter has saved this country before and will mination of the middle class, That clam
save it again.
And our ultimate victory will be no victory if one of its penalties be the degradation of those to whom the nation owes so much.
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CEBRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for 1 year or shorter periods at rates which-will be quoted on application.
T. C. DOWNING,
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DOORS HANDEL МАЛТЕСЕЛЕРИ.
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AUTHORISED),
CAPITAL." £. 75,000,000 (£8,250,00
PAID-UT
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N. J. ETABE,
Chief Manager. | Reamers
Hongkong,' March 23, 1918..
HONGKONG BAVINGS BANK.
THE
FUND
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HEAD OFFICE—AMSTERDUM, Branches at
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HEAD AGENCY-BATAVIA,
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