HUNS ALL WANTED WAR."
A belief appears to exist in certain quarters that Prince Lichnowsky, like Rob Roy, is a sort of honest rogue." whose word may be accept. ed when he says that the "over whelming majority of his people were against the war. No state ment, however, could be more false, as was proved from German official documents. The truth of these papers issued at the opening of "the campaign was shown by the boister- aus popular, demonstrations for war in 1914.
The news of the great victory of our High Seas Fleet will evoke the liveliest enthusiasm wherever Ger man hearts beat. At the" first en-
THE CHINA MAIL.
WEATHER REPORT.
February & 12. ibm-No returns
SANITARY BOARD.
from Japan and Windivestnek, Fres THE CITY SCAVENGING QUESTION. the scavenging of the city. As
counter, until now avoided with such painful cure by the English, betweenre has inc cased slightly at the the main forces of the English Battle jority of re, orting stations, owing to Fleet and our naval forces, the latter retained the upper hand in the face further increase in the intensity of the of formidable odds. With deepest anticyclone. Fresh to streng monston gratitude the German people regards will contine alone the China const its heroic sons, who have added aand over the China Sen. page of glorious fame to the history, of our youthful battle feet.
Tagkeng Rainfall for the 94 homes anding at 10 sm, toulay, 000 ingles Total sinon Jan 1, 114 inches,
INFLUENZA.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8- 1919-1
JAPAN AND A LEAGUE
OF NATIONS.
The Chairman thought they were rice more Burma rice will be con all very much in sympathy with the sumed and every effort is therefore object of the motion. He certainly being made to secure further con would like to see an improvement cessions and increased supplies.
With daily fuctuating prices in Mr. Bowley had stated, it was larg-Burma is has not hitherto been ly a question of dollars.
possible to fix or enforce a maximum of the British-Italian League on Dec. Dean Inge, speaking at a meeting The motion was then put to the local price. Moreover, there has been said that the League of Nations Aineeting of the Sanitary Board meeting and curriest unanimously. very little profiteering among the was a remarkable instance of a was held in the hoard room last even"; A sub-committee was then ag importers, the offender in this re Utopian dream which was apparently ing Dr. A. Gibson presided and pointed consisting of the Chairman spect (if may) being the retailer, but about to materialise. The subject thers were present the Hon. Mr. Dr. Ozorio and Mr. S. W. Two a notification is now being prepared was full of difficulties, but any al W. Chubham, C.M.G., the Hon. Mr.
fixing maximum prices for alternative was so impossible that we E. R. Halifax, O.B.E., Seciepry for Chinese Affairs, Livut.-Col. Crisp,
shipments of the 1919 Burma crop, A memorandum from the Lexal the maximum prices for which have might hope those difficulties would inst an svomen of 177 Inches.
Dr. F. M. Graca Ozorio, Messrs Government Board in Great Britain already been fixed by the Govern That the the of hours diag F, B. L. Bowley, Chan Nai Ming. epilens catarrh art influenza of India.
be surmounted. pan on February 8, 2013,
"The other day," he continued. "I -Hongkong to Usp Fork: 3.E,1,S. W. Teo, Mrs. Hickling (M.Q.H., was placed on the table: winds, fresh; fair.
Every possible effort has been had a call from a very interesting Mr. Bowley suggested that thà 2.- "nemang Chenant: N. winds, s. D. Danby (Secretary),
The Chairman read a lotter from memorandum should be sent to this made to secure Malaya an adequate by asking me what I thought about and intelligent Japanese. He began strong
North east of China between the Government rehtivo to the tem-} nowspapers for favour of publicution. supply of Siam rice at a reasonable the League of: Nations, and I said. I': Vo. 1, Tongkong and Lamocks: The same as ponry appointment of Mr. J. Roy-while Mr. Clun Kai-mning proposed race and ample freight is available. felt we ought all to support sind. mokks no Sanitary Inspector; and that is should be translated into question of buying on Government anticipate very much from it? Do Government has considered the well as we could. He said. 'Do you 1-Routh coast of Chins between fongking and Haina The sams as
account, but to reduce even the you think it will succeed?' I said, This was agreed to, and Me Too wholesale price of Siam rice for aI don't know, but I think we should a. 1
was asked to make a precis of the single month to 60 cents per gantangy pssuges most interesting to Chinese,
An application for an offusive rate licence for a woop-boiling fac- tory at Tai Hang was then conside ed. The meeting objecting to this on the ground that the district could | be used as a residential quarter.
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It is not surprising that the Leipzig Neueste Nachrichten objected to England's interpretation of the Freedom of the Seas, if it believed The following account in the what it said in June, 1916: "Morning Post" from a correspon- The legend of British naval dent who was in Cologne at the out-supremacy was destroyed to the roots break of hostilities furnishes an ex-off the Danish coast on May 31. cellent idea of what then took place: Captain, Persius, the well-known The Kaiser desired war not a whit German writer on naval affaire has more than the meanest of his subjects. just been making in the "Berliner They all clamoured for it, rejoiced in Tageblatt" some disclosures which it, and gloried in the prospect of vicare letting out a little of the truth tory. The fairy tales told by Pacifists about the great sea fight. From his of a good, innocent people deceived by revelations it is not difficult to see a wicked Ruler and Government have that the Battle of Jutland, which often irritated me by their absolute "evoked the joy of every true son of distortion of truth. I was in Cologne. the Fatherland." really made anendof;
the night of July 30, 1914, and the German High Seas Fleet for any" I can testify to the unanimous delight further important action against the with which the prospect of war was British Navy. The situation appears hailed. All night long processions to have become so hopeless that the of cheering, yelling students passed pre Dreadnought battleships and under the windows of the Hotel du cruisers were "after the encounter Nord. Men, women, and children broken up in order to furnish material sang "Heil Dir im Sieger Kranz" for the building of submarines by and "Deutschland, Deutschland uber which the policy of piracy and mur; Alies." They danced with ecstasy der might be extended. and screamed with joy. At Nauheim But great as the satisfaction in iustockus 8 n. there was scarcely less enthusiasm, every quarter of the Empire over all classes rejoiced. The very chil such events as the "victory" affo dren elected their captains and Jutland, and the outrages of "U Recht colonels, and marched in paper boats, these occurrences really did Nagasaki.. cocked hats and armed with toynet afford more popular gratification swords and guns through the streets, than was regularly excited by the singing patriotic songs. Every house reports of the bombing of open Eng: hung out its flag. Not a soullish towns, particularly London. The anticipated anything but speedy work of Zeppelins and aeroplanes victory.
over the Metropolis seemed to realize in the most complete way Bernhardi's idea of frightfulness, inasmuch as it entailed among the civil population the death of perfectly innocent men, women, and children. Having regard to the frequency of air raids Gernian rewspaper Herature on the subject is extremely voluminous. It will therefore not be possible to give here more than a couple of extracts. byt those who regret this brevity may take comfort from the fact that the literature in question consists largely of pure fiction. In 1915, for in- stance, the Cologne, Volkszeiting was responsible for the following:
But what was occurring at Cologne was almost exactly what was happening in every corner of the Fatherland. While this universal rejoicing was in progress the "Col ogne Gazette, in order to satisfy or quicken war enthusiasm'said :-
Much harm has resulted from the fact that in recent times we as well as others have forgotten that for now just ove: 200 years Europe has had only only one steadfast enemy -England.
For John Bull, France and Russia are to-day pre- cisely the auxiliary troops that in the Eighteenth Century the mercenaries of Hesse and Brunswick were. They de his business and take care of it, while he remains unmolested in his island and increases his profits,
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Everywhere noisy crowds were shouting "Long live the Kaiser! "Down with Perfidious England!" "To Paris!" and Victory Certain !" Metropolis, suffered most severely. It was, in fact, through a well found. The imposing railway bridge that ed confidence in his being backed stretched over Liverpool Street was. by the whole nation that the entirely destroyed, with the result Emperor was led. to promulgate that all access to the locality was several of his most ridiculous Army forbidden by the police for several Orders and to deliver some of his days.
most preposterous speeches. It Where this "imposing railway was practically amid the plaudits bridge stood no one has been able of Berlin crowds, declared rightly to to discover. What, again, is describ. be indicating public feeling, in alled as the terrible raid on London quarters of the Fatherland, that the on August 18" (1915), which caused great War Lord on August 19th, the "Royal Family to seek refuge in 1914. issued the following famous the North," is given in the "Ham- instruction:
burger Fremdenblatt." Though this "terrible raid" was pure newspaper invention, full details of it appeared in September.
"It is my Imperial and Royal com- mand that you concentrate your energies for the present upon the attainment of one particular object. that you employ all your skill and all the bravery of, my soldiers to exterminate the treacherous English, to shatter and annihilate General wrote: French's contemptible little Army.
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To meet the cravings of a posi tively war-mad race who never tired of singing hymns of hate against England, the "Vossische Zeitung"
The terror in London at the menace of German airships is such as cannot be imagined. Nightly are to be seen frightened crowds scurry. ing to their suburban homes like rats, fleeing to their holes from the chase
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Kowloon district.
Mr. F. B. L. Bowing, in Abe absence of Mr. C. Alabaster asked the following question of which due, abtice had been given:-
QUESTION.
"In order to enable the Board to consider the reasonableness or "otherwise of the attitude taken up by the poultry doclors, will the President obtain and lay before the Board any plans which may have been prepared with reference
to the proposed poultry market?" The Chairiin sild that he had a
or 10 cents per ketty would cost at
present rates nearly 2 million you to know how this matter appears. dollars per month and scarcely re to us in the Far East. We Japanese "Then, he said. I should like lieve the situation as regards the consider that we are a highly civilised retail consumer.
nation, and we have a right to be created in the same way as the Eur opean nations treat each other. But
States or Australia or some other to go dut as colonists to the United we are not so treated. If we want
country we are prevented doing so.. by laws. I want to ask you whether. already been bought by the millers if we consent to disarm and join a Mr. Bowley suggested that the and middlemen at high prices, the League of Nations, these disabilities
The Saigon price is equally abnormal and stocks in Saigon are The Chairman remarked shat -s | short. there were other offensive trades heing carried out in the same district rice began to rise as the cost of padi In 1918 the price of local parboiled are more would not do cny hart. went up in sympathy with that of There were no really good buildings white rice and the 1918 crop having
the district..
plan prepared, temporarily, and this matter be hell over for discussion ut attempt to control the price of local / will be removed or not?"
would be placed on the table and would be open for discussion...
THE CITY SCAVENGING.
Dr. Ozorio, in pursuance to notice, moved;-
subsequent meeting, and this was agreed to.
AN IMPORTANT OFFICIAL
STATEMENT. -
That a Sub-Committee be ap- MALAYA'S RICE SUPPLY. pointed to consider the question of scavenging and the disposal of the Refuse of the Colony." He said he wie aura that all the other members would agree with him that the present system for the dis posal of refuse was a most antiquated one. He would ask the Chairtion to journey with him from the beginning |
There is a world shortage of food
not. This is a workingman's ques "I was obliged to say, "I am afraid tion, and as, long as the Japanese workman gives better value for his wages than the Europeans or Ameri will shrink from no violence to keep can or Australian workman they
you out.
"To this he said, 'Well, then, why should we disarm and join League of
parboiled rice failed. The millers have now been required to disclose any stocks of such high priced padi still in their hands and the 1919 crop and any small portion of the 1918 crop still available will be controlled on the lines already notified. Normally this measure would ensure an ample supply of parboiled rice at the con- Nations?" trolled rate from early January but "That," commented Dean Inge, the crop locally is short and very late "is just one of the difficulties which and supplies at the controlled rate beset us. I think we ought to be b of the collection of refuse at various stuffs; which are very scarce and ex-
hoses up to the time it was thrown pensive. Most of the world is on will only be available as the crop very clear in our own minds that in into the sel Whas would they finirations and parts of it are starving comes in. An imported supply has supporting this League of Nations we being done. With the refuse? Either Malaya cannot hope to
entirely been arranged for to carry us over have no sympathy with those who it would be put into most insanitary escape. The sudden cutting off of till our own crop is in. dustbins, or left uncovered in the the Burma supply has dislocated the
only wish to destroy militarism in It is however clear that if there is order to substitute another kind of streets. One of their past Medical markets of the East and the Far East,
East is dependent. Qfficers of Health had stated that as the
on any shortage of white ripe or the violence and tyranny for that which this was one of the causes of the pre- Burma for nearly half the total of its price of Slam rice keeps high, the they have been destroying. There valence of plague in the Colony. imported rice supplies. Malaya does millers will find it difficult to obtain are a good many supporters of the He had previously brought this que not grow enough rice for her own. tion before the Bourd. The answer consumption and normally imports pat at the controlled rates to keep League of Nations who are by no the Chairman invariably gave was menthly some 13.000 tons of Burma their mills going, for the reason that means lovers of peace at heart. They that the Board was not empowers and some 25,000 tons of Siam or tht pad planters prefer to eat their only want another kind of war than to fine householders who threw. re Saigon rice to supplement what she own padi pounded into rice if they that through which the world has
herself produces..
rate rather than. Burma rice which cannot get Siam rice at a reasonable been passing."
they are not accustomed to eat.
Hoogkook Observatory, Feb. 8, 1919. Fabenheit, on the level of the eas in 1. BAROMETER, reduced to 32 degrees inches. tenths and hundredths.
2. TEMPERATURE, in the shade in do crees Fahrenheit.
3, HUMIDITY, in porcentage of sature portare being 100. sion, the bunicity of air saturated with
It is of interest to know that Saturday the first day of the month in the three calendars, of February,
the Chinese Ist Moon..
the influenza epidemic is reported One of the most tragic stories of
from the village of Emhurst, Surrey, seven members of one family, includ- the father, and mother, having died.
fuse into the street. Ons of the things which the proposed sub-com normal supply of Rangoon rice. Malaya is now obtaining her mittee would have to do woukl be to whereas other countries that usually mal femunt legally responsible for throwing rubbish into the street import from Rangoon, are now **After the rubbish has been either entirely cut off from this source of thrown into the streets, or placed in and Saigon rice at any price to carry supply, and have been buying Siam uncovered dust-bis, the servants of their people over at any rate tilf the Sanitary Department, wie, were their own crops (which are very late in the Canton district. Farmers Snow fell yesterday afternoon C. W. JEERRIES, Chief Assistant,expected to take the worse into the this year) come in, and as a result regard this as a promise of good of the Jewish Moon Adar I, and of
dost-carts provided for blut purpose. the price of these rices, has been manner. Anyone who had eyes to almost impossible for the poorer performed their duty in a perfunctory forced up to a level which makes it harvests. ses should go to Lyndhurst Tenuce classes to eat them and though and see how the work was done. Malaya has in hand a full month's traordinary issued to-day proclaims A Government Gazette Ex Themen throw the collected refuse supply of Siam rice at a price that into the cart in a haphazard fashion, covers Bittle more than the freight Saigon an infected port. Cholera is to the detriment of passers-by, who and charges on the original cost the disease. Ships thence will be & FORCE OF WIND, according to received the flying dust in their price-this original cost price puts it medically exantined, and the Health Beadford Scale.
mouths and eyes. he "sub-com- almost out of the reach of the officers may order quarantine. 8. STATE OF WEATHER, b bine sky,
poorer consumers. The poorer fetached cloud, d drizzling rain, f fox, mitted would have a lot of works be-classes in Bangkok and Saigon are
gloomy, h hail, lightning, ao ercast. passing showers, a squal, I rain, 1 so0w.fore them in devising a means of suffering equally with our own thunder, y visibility dew, wet- dealing with the nuisance property. Government has taken and is taking the
population from these inflated prices. 7. Tas ir inchoe tenths and han-One of the members of the nib-com- the following action fredths
mittes should be the Medical Officer of Health, and it was also advisable to hire the medical members of the Board on that Committee. Perhaps, is Director of Public Works, also, would sit on it,
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Hamidity.... accomplished in the closing months monuments. The thorough- of 1914 is now among the proudest fares already present the appearance Force...
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perfidious England, how will it be. one may well ask, before long, when: the Kaiser will place London under strict matial law?
Such writing would seem, almost to be too ridiculous even for the Boche, bet it found ready acceptance among people who were to a man! whole-heartedly in the war.
The way in which popular fervour and interest were not only main tained but intensified as hostilities went on was shown by the rejoicings over the sinking of the Lusitania, But even that terrible occurrence .did not excite more joy than what the enemy were pleased to describe as their victory" at the Battle of In a further article it will be shown Jutland. The victory was of a how the German schools and Univer kind which the Huns never tried to sities had become war nurseries, and repeat What, however, their how the entire nation had been newspapers said respecting the prepared and were necessarily eager
triumph" farnishes not only an for the conflict, index of public enthusiasm at the time but some very amusing. read- ing in view of the recent, surrender of the best German war yessels. According to the "Berliner Tage- blatt Britain's arrogance had been laid low. It said:
These shades of the mighty. Ger- mans of former days will have
SILVER LEAD DISCOVERY.
Highest open siz Temperature on the 4th- Lowest open air Temperstars as the 5th
T: F. CLAXTON, Director.
Mr. Chatham: No, thank you, Continuing, Dr. Ozorio ad it in-
volved a question of increasing the revenue of the department. They would need motor-laries to carry the refuse further afield, and incinerators | to burn it.
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Mr. Bowley, in seconding the Henskocz Ubservatory, Feb. 5, 1919.devised yet that was not capable of fiotion, sai no syster had been
HONGKONG TIDES.
improvement. The present system was the outcome of a great deal of inborious attention and thought by
The tide-ishle xiven below has been this members of the Sanitary Depart- compiled at the National Almanac Office ment. Scavenging in a semi-tropical of observations taken by means of au climate was of the utmost import la Loudou from the result of the analysis antonistic tide-recording machine in the ance in relation to public health Water Police Badia at Taim. 6's Tai
by appointing a sub-committee
zero of the table corresponds with something could be done to improve the zero of the sounding in the Admiralty Chart, which has been found to be 4 foot the sanitary condition of the city it 3 lacbos below thean sea-level.
To obtain the depth of water on the
should be done. The present post
de gange at the Victoria Naval Yard ton of refuse depots in the centre ad 3 tout s'inchre, and on the gange of the Praya we certainly undesir at Lamont Dock, Aberdson add 10 feor 4to show to the height given in the table able. If by using motor traction
they could carry the refuse away
Rumour has been cirrent for some. returned to their Elysium more than days about the discovery of a silver- satisfied with the new glories, that lead lode at Indooroopilly, Queens- were accumulated over the Gerland, which had yielded a remark man name on that fateful June ably rich assay. Inquiry show that morning of 1916 which laid low auch an outcrop was recently dis Britain's pride and removed from the covered at Finney's Hill near Mog German nation the incubus of tungill-roul, on land which was recently justified dread of Albion's boasted subdivided. When digging poet monsters of the sea.
hon person found stone which, m
The "victory," in the estimation of on being assayed, gave a very rich the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, percentage of silver The Jode in added a page of glorious history now being developed, but it is sakā to a battle fleet the principal ships of not to be well defined, and might, which are now in British custody at yet prove, despite the essay, to be Scapa Flow
irregular, and of little value.
February 8 to 12; 1819.
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Home tones washed ashore and did not en in the direction of Gap Rock as was intended.
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A basket ball team from Hong kong was in Canton on February 1 to play a team there, all players being Lieut-Colonel W. A Bishop foreigners. Routh, Fritz, Lloyd, Canadian airman, who has Gunn, Thoys, Marshall, and June already won the VC D.SO., made up the Hongkong team, while The representations made to the Indian and Home Government have Military Cross and Distinguished Wilson, Mayhew, Shera, Thomson. resulted in Malaya being promised Flying Cross has been awarded two Schneider, Wear and Jones played for proviso that none of this must be re Chevalier, Legion of Honour, and The game took place at YM.CA her normal supply, subject to the French decorations, the Croix de Canton. The Canton Team won, exported. Owing moreover, to the
prohibitive price of Siam and Saigon The Croix de Guerre with Palms,
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