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To turn such labour into other channels
by artificial means is like the hoarding of money, which leaves the richer neither the possessor nor the world. The practice: of national economy, however, is quite another question. A private individual who inde his income will not allow his tó drink champagne can hardly be accused of import checking if he substitutes beer, and what applies to individuals applies to nations. A nation has no more justi- Ofication for running into debt by extravagant living than the privato citizen, and inasmuch as the individual citizens as units form the nation as a whole, economy as practised by them is practised by the whole people. The much misunderstood edict isued by the late Barron of JAPAN in regard to national economy seems to have been directed towards this end, and in ne country perhaps is national economy more neces- sary. Then again there is undoubtedly in Japan an extraordinary preference for foreign goods, founded primarily no doubt on the inferiority of the native production, but tending to become a craze. When shopkeepers find it to their interest to recommend an article as foreign-made, and manufacturers to their advantage to decorate their goode with imitations of foreign labels, it may be guessed that the craze for foreign goods has passed beyond the bounds of quality. It is no doubt tras that Japanese goods in many cases leave something to be required in this respect, which would suggest that the proper way to increase the sale of home made goods would be to improve the quality. If the foreign and home-made article are of the same quality and even of the same price, the person who profers the article made in his own country is perfectly justified in his choice, while in the case where the home made. article is inferior but cheaper, the iramediate state of his purse may lead him not unwisely to choose the latter. It would certainly, however, not la true economy for him to purchase an inferior and higher-priced article solely on the ground that it was home made. It will thus be seen that both in regard to the improvement of foreign trade and the growth of the national economy a middle course must be steered to avoid danger. To improve the foreign trade returns by checking imports, which the extremists in Germany and Japan advocate, is to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, since it tonds to deprive international commerce of its raison d'être. - In the same way the entire substitution of home made articles. for foreign oves would not only tend to injure that interchange of articles which casily accounted for intervals, the is the basis of foreign commerce, but imports of Japan have exceeded the would prove of no benefit to the national exports, and this in spite of the substantial economy, even if it enriched a few
individuals, cariched a
THE campaign now proceeding in Japan in favour of the use of home-made goods is being rigorously supported by the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, who sees in the economic policy of Germany, and the alleged success that has attended it, confirmation of his views. The so-called German ́ ́ decalogue," which advocates the use of home-manufactures and home-foods to the exclusion of foreign products, is being much quoted, and the Minister has declared that its observance in Japan would result in the encourage ment of trade and industry. The campaign is not a new one. For some years there have been complaints of the preference given to foreign goods and some attempts have been made in higher circles to give a practical example of how Japanese products can fitly take the place of foreign ones. Thus, some time ago one of the Ministers decided against the use of champagne at hanquets, and lately reports have appeared that the EUFEROR. has given instructions that all the articles in use in the Palace are to be as far as possible of home-manufacture. Unfortunately, however, the economic principles involved have become confused in the minds of Japanese economists, and from being a correct movement in favour of national economy,
the campaign. threatens to become one in favour of checking imports. For a long series of years, broken only at occasional and
One fatal Chinese ease of diphtheria and one fatal case of scarlet fever were the only cases of courounicable disease reported in the Colong last week. **
increase in the value of the latter, This phenomenon has led those who regard This lack of balance as injurious to the fuanes of the country to advocate
hecking of the imports, which can only I done by substituting for them home Jaunufactures. As a matter of fact, with the local me who have recently the growth of Japan's industries several left to join the front ere the two sons of articles which formerly appeared on the the Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G, M
Powell and list of imports have now disappeared, A. A. B. Ellis, A TELINE
MISSIONARY WORK IN SOUTH CHINA
of being mad upon idols" At Liem chow between 2,000 and 3,000 patients wore treated, some paying several visits; instructions
The following interesting account is and veral put themselves under culled from the 1913-1914 Report of the Church Missionary Society
Tho country around Canton was in a very disturbed condition during a great part of the year 1913. A steamer on which Miss Dunk, a CM.8. missionary,
Evangelistic work in the Canton district was handicapped by the lack of Chinese agents, who were too few in number to cope with the many opportuni- tics, especially in the neighbourhood of Tsangshing.
IN FRANCEwas travelling, was boarded by some 60 students at Canton, where the lev: W
AND BELGIUM.
COMPARATIVE CALM STILL MAINTAINED.
LONDON, November 22nd. 5.15 p.m.
To-day's Paris communiqué Bays- Yesterday passed calmly along the entire front. There were only intermittent bombardments from the North Sea to the Oise. Our artillery was generally more active than the Germans, and our batteries succeeded in demolishing several lines of German trenches. The enemy are now constructing fresh trenches at their rear..
The day was equally calm along the rest of the front.
YPRES VIOLENTLY BOMBARDED.
LONDON, November 23rd.
2.15 am...
The Paris evening communiqué says:- The Germans violently bombarded Ypres on Sunday, and the markets and Town Hall were destroyed.
There was a rather heavy canonade in the region of Boissons and Vailly. Elsewhere there was nothing noteworthy,
[TELEGRAMS FROM THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT, VIA PEKING.}
On the 19th, there was no cinnonading by the Germans in the vicinity of the sea in the northern region. On the contrary, the Allies' artillery caught the German batteries cast of Nieuport All the Ysør canal ares east of Dixmude is flooded. In front of Rampscalle the Allies took from the water two German mortars of 185 mm, which had been: abandoned. The weather is very bad and snow is falling fast.
No important action has taken place from Arras to Noyon. From Noyon to Rheims intermittent annonading has taken place. The French artillery destroyed two German positions which were constructed with earthwork, and also bombarded German ammunition trains.
Three vigorous attacks by German infantry were repulsed in Argonne, The Germans have re-occupied Chauvoncourt and part of the On the east the French barracks, which they had previously blown up. troops have progressed slightly.
On the 20th, there were no German infantry attacks from Nieuport to the south of Dixmude, and the Allies artillery gained a real advantage over the enemy's batteries. The Germans at Holbeke attempted two attacks with their infantry, but they were immediately repulsed by the French batteries.
The advantage gained by the French batteries over the enemy in the Aisne and Rheine districts is more accentuated than before
The French blew up in Argonne numerous platoons of German soldiers and also exploded mineg, killing many Germans.
The French also took up an important strategic position on the hills near Verdun,, causing two German batteries to be damaged and to cease their fire. May
In the Vosges region they also carried a blockhouse and built new trenches This line of trenches ia only from 10 to 30 metres distant from the German trenches at several points.
THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE.
STEADY PROGRESS MAINTAINED.
LONDON, November 23rd. 3.35 a.m
An official Petrograd message states that fighting on the Vistula and the Warts.continues with suprem determination.
There has been no essential change along the Czenstochowa-Cracow
front
Tho Austrians in Galicis bave evacuated
Russian pressure.
Now Sander, under
[New Sandes for Nowy Sacz) is a town on the Dunajee and has an important trade with Hungary. There are iron mines in the vicinity]
OUTPOST AFFAIR IN EGYPT.
BIKANIR CAMEL CORPS RENDERS GOOD SERVICE
LONDON, November Zird. 110 am
The Official Press Bureau states that in a small affair between outposts in Egypt, the Bikanir Camel Corps fought well, and killed a number of the enemy. Thirteen of the Camelry are missing.
DE WET'S COMMANDO REDUCED TO TWENTY-FIVE MEN,
LONDON, November 23rd.
An official message from Pretoria states that the Loyalist troops are holty pursuing De Wet and 25 ma who are all that remains of his
Commando.
pirates under the guise of passengers while proceeding up the West River, and the ship's officers owed their lives to Miss Dunk's knowledge of Chires, and to her courage and tact, which enabled her to dissuade the pirates from the violence which they meditated. Miss Dunk was afterwards presented with a Bible and n clock by the Colonial Government in recognition of her services.
Again, the new Training College for the diocese of Victoria was attacked by robbers, who decamped with bags full of stolen goods, including Mrs. G. A Banbury's wedding ring which was drawn from har finger. A second attack three days later by a larger force of robbers was foiled.
There is, too, an upon door among
H. Hewitt, while in the city for langungo study, got into touch with a number of men. He mentions an interesting. Buddhist priest who visited China at the inquirer at Hongkong a Japanes expense of some Buddhist body to propagate his religion, but while in Bhanghai became interested Christianity to such an extent that he resigned his salaried position in his. mission and applied for baptism
The size of the mission makes the task of shepherding the converts very onerous. One illustration will suffice. In 1913 the old Canton-Shiubing Pastorate was divided into four, two of the new pastorates being placed under Chineseo clergymen, and two under Europeans until such time as Chinese pastors shall: be forthcoming rates,
One of these pastorates, a compara- tively small portion of the original district, covers an area of 1,100 square miles, and contains 690 towns and The movement towards ution which has villages, with an aggregate population of ben so conspicuous since the Edinburgh 400,000. In the south-east portion of the pastorate are thirteen churches, most of Conference has led in Kwangtung to the them converted ancestral halls, to whniek. formation of a Protestant Christian between 600 and 700 baptized people are Council for the province, united services attached. Several incidents are recorded which speak well of the converts. Hero or prayer meetings, which have been held is a man discovered to be stricken with for many years by the missionaries in leprosy. The people of his village urge Canton, are now felt to have acquired him to have recoures to a famous idol,
but he refusen indignantly, saying, fresh importance, and numerous con- would not go if you gave me a load of I have God to help me; why arted measures have been planned for money. the systematic evangelisation of the city. should I ask anything of senseless At Pakhoi the three missions working in seized with bubonic plague. Her husband idols! Hero, again, is an inquirer
that⠀⠀⠀ city — American, German and proposes heathen rites, but shé zìmost English-joined in a ten days' evangelis forces him to his laces to pray to God tic campaign in 1913, while arrangements for her recovery-a prayer which was answered. Another cheering sign is the have been made to hold weekly a combined zeal of some of the Christiana in preach- evangelistic meeting in the CM.Sing the Gospel At Hongkong aro sometimes evangelistic meetings conducted on Sunday evenings by Chinese gentlemen, while a Slick Rei, already mentioned, four shop-koopers hold weekly meetings in their places of business after closing hours, as a result of which several assistants of one of them have asked for baptism.
mission hall.
The work of the Divinity College was carried on at Shekpaai, five miles from Canton, during the early part of 1918, but after the attacks by robbers, recorded above, the new premises were left under the protection of some government Boldiers, and a rented house on the out- skirts of Canton was procured for the accommodation of the Divinity students and the boys of the middle school, which also is carried on at Trinity College One of the students, the Rev. Ha Pa Wan was admitted to Priest's orders by Bishop Lander, and another was ordained Deacon in British North Borneo, gt, John's Hall, the C. M. S. Hostel in connection with the Hongkong Univer sity, had 44 students, as many as could be accommodated.
St. Paul's School, at Hongkong, a middle school, which began in 1909 with 18 boys, now has more than 300 names on its roll. Three of the masters and eight of the boys were baptised in May, 1913, and many more are desirous of openly confessing Christ in baptism. In order to encourage a missionary spirit in the school, an address was given on the work and opportunities in the Tsangshing district, east of Canton, where the need for retrenchment, had lately led to the closing of six schools. The boys were not asked to do anything, but a few days after the address they went to the Rev. A. D. Stewart, the principal, and expressed a desire to help. A Committee was formed, and an "Our Own Schools fund opened. Within a few days the lads had collected more than £5, and had recived promises of regular monthly subscriptions amounting to £3.
There are about 60 pupils in the Boys Boarding School at Cinton, a junior school which serves as feeder to the mission middle school in that city. At St. Stephen's House, Hongkong, there were about a doren Biblewomen being trained, one of them sent from Honolulu. Besides the clats composed of accepted candidates for evangelistic work there are two other classes in the institution, one consisting of women, most of the sent by their husbands who desire some Christian training, and the other of those who enter to be prepared for baptism. At St. Stephen's Girls' College the number of pupils rose to more than 100,
and examination resurs who a again good,
THE LATE MR. J. L. CHALMERS.
* BURIAL TO BE IN HONGKONG TO DAY. In the death on Monday last, at Hart Road, Shanghai, of Mr. James Leggo
Chalmors there is lost to the sum of British character and competence in the Far East in general, and to the Maritime Customs service of China in during particular, personality who well nigh forty years of service to foreign country, stood for the things that count as best in our own national life.
His father, the Rev. Dr. John Chalmers, for many years mident in Hongkong,
was in the first rank of scholars as a distinguished mathematician, and there have been few non-Chinese whose attain- ments in the Chinese written language could rank with his in respect of accuracy and a far-reaching research, the results of which, as seen in his published works, are, within their own sphere, monumental. Mrs Chalmers was highly esteemed in this Colony and in the nearer coast port communities in virtue of a grace and charm of personality that gained for her troops of friends
Mr. J. L. Chalmers, the eldest of their three sons, joined, in early life, the Chinese Customs, service, and was for a time a member of the staff at Canton, gain- ing also at other ports experience of hin work.
One of the turning points in his life was an appointment to Ceres, as the assistant of Mr. J. McLeavy Brown, who went to that wantry as Financial Adviser to the State, and who selected Mr. Chalmers to accompany and serve with him in a post of outstanding importance, to which were attached duties of singular complexity and difficulty requiring for their right discharge the highest skill and acumen.
The later years of Mr. Chalmers were spent in Shanghai in the Statistical Department, of which on the retirement of the Commissioner, six years ago, ba became chief
Interment is to take place in the family grave, at the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley, to-day, 24th instant, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Friends desiring to attend the funeral are requested to assemble in the mortuary chapel at thes Cemetery by 4.55 p.m.-Communicated.
THE LATE LORD ROBERTS.
"LOCAL" DEFERENCES,
eight of the nine girls sat for the Oxford Local Examination being success- ful, A daily Bible lesson is given in the At St. Peter's Church, West Point, on school, and in addition chout half the Sunday morning, the Bishop of Victoria girls voluntarily attend Sunday school.
The number of inmates of the Victoria preached a sermon mamly on the life and Home, Kowloon City, rose to 90. Six of character of the late Lord Roberts. them were married during the year, three Having referred to his splendid service. of them taking up work as school to the nation in India- Afghanistan, and teachers⠀⠀⠀ Another married to South Africa, the Bishop spoke of his Catechisty was scized by a band of armad | unflagging zeal during his old age to robbers when on her way to her new arouse the British people to their sense home, and nothing was afterwardi heard of duty to defend their country. He said of her,
that the life of Lord Roberts illustrated Many of the new offcials at Pakhui showed themselves in sympathy with the many of the essential elements of a truly successful life. He referred to hus work in the mission hospital in that industry to his power of concentration Germans advanced right up than before to submit to operation. It was because the troops know him to to the city, and the patients were more ready and particularly to his moral character. muzzles of the Russian guns.
During the fighting a pack of wolves number of the inmates having attended be a good man that they would cheerfully was continually hovering round, poune services and classes regularly for three fallow him anywhere. The Bishop also ing upon the dead and wounded and de months and evinced a definite desire to spoke of his religious faith, and the fact A Russian stretcher bearer who was youring them. The stretcher bearers learn more of the Gospel, were admitted that he had commended the reading of the wounded by shrapnel in the stands A freguestly fired on the wolves and drove to the catechuménate. Sixteen men and Bible, to the solders as well as recom
their ning women were baptized at the lepermended the habits of temperance and self- 2 them off but they returned to th Augustove describes the desperate der hideous work. Shots were heard close at asylum; thirty-one of the inmates were control It was fitting that the people war attempts to drive back the Russians, handud a Uhlan was descried with his confirmed and two lepers were admitted of London should have given him such a each of which attempts cost several hun back to a tree shooting at wolves which is lay readers. A dispensary was opened, funeth as probably bad not be dred lives. The bighting took place iu were: Tearing to pieces a wounded with a student from Pákhoi in charge, acorded to any subject since the death
at Onpo, a town which has the reputation of the Duke of Wallington TV TO donee Log On several oocasiona the comrade.
WOLVES IN A BATTLE.
LNCIDENTS OF THE FIGHTING AT AUGUSTOYC.