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INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR OF BALT GABELLE.
If is a matter of common knowledge that the Salt Gabelle is one of the most promising departments of Chinees unane, It will be remembered that last year there was an excellent showing by the Salt Revenue, and rosy prospects are held out up to the current year's working. With view to ascertaining particulars of reform and progress being made by this branch of Government activity, a repre sentative of the Peking Gazette called on Mr. Chang Hu, Director of the Salt, Gabello.
AN ANTICIPATED INCREASE,
Mr. Chang Hu was asked at the outset as to whether he thought that the receipts of the Salt Gabelle in the course of this year would exceed last year's figures. Our representative was informed that the total amount of Salt Taxes actually collected last year and deposited in foreign banks amounted to 200,000,000, although it was erroneously supposed to have reached the $70,000,000 mark. By reason of the depreciation in the value of paper money, and other indirect losses, a loss of some $10,000,000 was sustained It was confidently hoped that in the course of the next three or four years, the Bait Tax would show annually an upward tendency until it would reach the $100,000,000 mark, when further norenas would act be probable. Both the Mongo lian and Tibetan product had surreptiti ously found its way into China, but none of it was taxed. Steps, therefore, had to be taken to tax all salt importations into China by the imposition of a tax on the imported product.
THE FROGRESS OF REFORM
Proceeding, Mr. Chang Hu stated that
WAR NEWS.
GERMAN STEAMERS FOR CHARTER
The following appears in a home paper to hand by the mail: The Oversea Prize Disposal Committee are prepared to con- sider offers to charter the detained German ships Rajaburs at Hongkong; Quarta, at Singapore, and Diana, at Lagos. The ships would be chartered for a period not exceeding six months or until the signature of the Treaty of Peace, the charterers providing crews, coal, provi sions,, insurances, and all expenses of running the steamers, which would have to be delivered at the conclusion of the charter at the ports at which they are now lying in good condition, fair wear and tear excepted. Offers should be sent to the secretary, Oversea Prize Disposal Committee, Colonial Oo, 8.W., by noon on February 18th.
JAPAN AND THE HOSIERY TRADE OF INDIA
The Director of Statistics of the India Government states that India's import trade in hosiery has been practically monopolised by Japan and Germany, and row it would appear that Germany's share of the trade would go to Japan. In 1913-14 Japan supplied hosiery to India to the value of 39,739,000, while hosiery to the value of $1,419,000, which was prob ably of Japanese origin, came from Hongkong and the Straits Settlements, and hosiery to the value of $750,000 came from Germany. The Director of Statis from Japan's share of the hosiery rude of India is about twelve times that
HATE POEM FOR GERMAN CHILDREN,
* Some days ago (says the Chronicle) Forwarts drew attention to the practice of certain Berlin schoolmastera in com- polling their children to learn by heart Lissauer's disgusting Hymn of Hate," and condemned it as a degrading courso and contrary to all accepted canons of pedagogy.
The Socialist journal now pillories list Journal now pillories another large communal school in Berlin whore & scurrilous pices of doggerel was recited at a social gathering when the parents were present. The chorus of this gutter lyric was sung with great gusto by the children
There was a verte about the Russians, another about the French; but the lines which brought down the house were tho following :--
Betrayer with the lying tongue, Faithless and abandoned England, How mar sailor fads will thrash thee;- Ero thou reach the German strand !
CALAIS BY EASTER!
A PROUD PROQRAMME...
Under the heading Twenty five Days in Germany," the Petit Parisien publishes the impressions of a Swiss who recently made a stay on the other side of the Rhine,
The writer says that completo confidence
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reigns in Prussin, where there is still a firm belief in victory. No doubt is enter- taimed. They say We are going to finish off the Russians this month (February). The French have men who MACGREGOR&C.
want peace. We want Warsaw. We shall have it this month.
TWO DISAPPOINTED · HOFT3 "Calais is necessary to us; we shall
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widespread reforma were being intro- of the United Kingdom. In fact, Japan's daced this year in the Salt Administra best customer in the hosiery trade is tion. Sir Richard Dane's proposal to British Indin, 70 per cent, of the Indien tolloot the salt tax at the place of produs imports being from Japan, whereas 10 Government and the proposal was now cent of the Indian requirements. tion had received the endorsement of the years ago Japan supplied only 10 per have it before Easter. We must prevent KOMOR & KOMOR
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the landing of Indian troops and French colonial troops (sic). If we have to
Province, in which it was not easy to £80,000 WORTH OF COPPER SEIZED, Sacrifice a million men we shall succeed.
enforce the incasure. In Fukien Pro- vince, the Government now enjoyed s monopoly, pr dealere minUT TO SIN RICHARD DANE
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Continuing, Mr. Chang Hu touched on the work of Sir Richard Dane, the Inspector-General of the Salt Cabello, f his foreign staff employed in the Accounting Department, who had ren- dered considerable assistance to him. At this point, Mr. Chang Hu paid na Richard Dune, who, the speaker said, was eloquent tribute to the work of Sir not only thoroughly conversant with affairs relating to salt, but was a hard and honest worker, with deep sincerity. and at heart a well-wisher of China He had never before in his life seen such type of man. If Sir Richard Dane con- tinued to reside in China for a few years pegards salt affairs would be unequalled longer, his knowledge and ability as
services would be enhanced in correspond by anybody. His already valuable ing proportion to a fuller and wider knowledge of conditions in this
his country and the character of the people
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A large steamer the Karmen, which had according to the captain's statement, taken on board a consignment of sugar and grain, has bean detained at Copenhagen on the discovery by labourer that the cases with which she Was den were extraordinarily hesivy
The labourer communicated his suspi tion, the Karmen was found to have in clons to the authorities, and, ou investigo board copper valued at £80,000 destined for Germany
"We shall conclude peace with France. on favourable terms; we shall occupy French ports until the conclusion of the struggle with Great Britain, for our real enemies are the English. This country, instead of exterminating us, shall become a Lerman colony. We shall sign the peaco in London in July or Angush
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Such, continues the traveller, are, the now, as at the outbreak of the war, the ideas which, if one believes it or no, are ALL basis of all conversations both in Prussia and in Silesia. But in the other The polico confiscated the cargo and federated States it in quite another thing. arrested the captain of the Karmen, as In the Grand Duchy of Baden the gradual well as the merchant who chartered the advance of the French troops through vessel. Both are liable to imprisonment Alsace is causing alarm and making the and heavy fines, states that the Karmen was to have met If Von Hindenburg does not take War-
A special edition of the Eketra Bladet Population think
to a well-known arm. The cargo of from Austro-Hungarian territory within in the open sca a German boat belongings or succeed in driving the Russians
copper would then have been transferred, a month, and if we do not hold Calais by after which the Karmen was to have been Easter, we may make our wills, they say. eat to the bottom of the sea. In this way
In Saxony no doubt fe as to the it was hoped to prevent any news of the final result, and the Prussian declara smuggling ever leaking ont..
tions are published daily in the Press.
CHEAP RICE AND HIGH FREIGHTS.
Some of Sir Richard Daa's proposals, remarked Mr Chang Ha, although standpoint of the Government's interests, undoubtedly to be welcomed from the
were not immediately practicable, for the reason that, fenforced, they would vita
Low prices for the paddy and high rates the antagonism of the half million people of freight are the features of the rice who were dependent on salt and who trade at the opening of the new season would be adversely affected by the proseya The Times. The price of the 50lb posed changes Before all of Sir Richard basicos is now about 100 rupees, 19 com Dame's proposals were put into effect pared with 160 rupees two years ago, and suflicient funds would have to be raised the current freight is 708., as compared to provide compensation to those who with 255, in normal times. There is would necessarily suffer as a result of large exportable surplus about 2,600,000 the changes. He was glad to say that the tins--but the difficulty is to secure the foreign staff had given him loyal assist hips to take it from Burmah to Europe. ance, to whom was due in no small Germany and Austrin usually import a measure the excellent showing of the year very large quantity of rice, re-exporting just past. He regarded to future with again some of it to all parts of the the atmost confidence. There was every world, and in the absence of shipments ground for hope,
this season to the Continent Great feeling among merchants is that before Britain has an opportunity. But the increased supplies can be handled here
NO OCCASION FOR ALARM.
Mr. Chang Hu at this point recalled led that at the time the Reorganisation Loan was roccluded, everyone though that China's integrity was jeopardised It there were anyone who had occasion for alarm, it was himself, being entrusted as he was, with the administration of the country's salt affaira Fortunately, he had not yet lost his optimism, and all his fellow-workers were courageonely co operating with him in the face of no small difficulties. If he lost heart, he could never hope for suces
CHINA'S PUTERE POLENNITUS
will be essential for the congestion at the ports to be relieved. Even with the high freights riso chould be sold in this country very cheaply, and the time may como when its merits as a food will be appreciated in the West far more than hitherto,
OUR BRUTE-LIKE STUPIDITY.
In the course of its efforts to penetrate
Mr. Chang Hu concluded by saying the chinks in the enemy's armour, that that if the Land Tax and the other sourcedate journal, the Tagliene Rundschau of the country's revenus were properly makes a terrific onslaught on Tipper- reform: China would have no diffenlts try, and arrives at the conclusion that at all. The Land Tax alone, if eficiently the adoption of this battle song is a reorganised, would yield 300,000,000 sur certain
of British
revence to the national exchequer, and would prevent the country once and for all time from going about hat in hand in foreign bouresca.
Just think of it," was Mr. Chang Hu's parting shot, in a tono which clearly showed that fic refused to be dismayed by pasting douds, which will surely roll by aving verdare in the land, refreshed and revivified by the bursting of the storm-swept clouds.
decadence.
When the hero of the Iltis went to the bottom with their ship, they intoned the bymn of the flag, "Proudly waves the black-white-red. When the Ariadne, the Mains and the Köln were sunk off Heligoland, the doomed Germans sang.
Deutschland über Alles
0,
When the Crew was suak by the and when an English regiment, work ta its death at Dismuds, the Britons intoned their favourite bartie-song. It's a long, without meaning or expression, utterly devoid of patriotic sentiment or warlike fervour.
**HEARING" THROUGH THE long way to Tipperary," a taproom ditty
EYE.
Professor E. E. Fournier d'Albe, of. This melody has Lahore, has invented a phonescope enable the rank and file of the British Army; now spread throughout ing the totally deaf to distinguish sounds, it resounds even from the lips of the speech, and music by means of the eye. swarthy Indians. Can cae imagine any- This is not the first of Professor thing more calculated than this to denote Fournier d'Albe's efforts to make science the wide gulf that separates the English minister to the needs of the afflicted. It from the German spirow them will be remembered that for some years By their songs ye shall know- past he has been engaged in developing an: So devoid are the English of even the apparatus known as the optophone, formerest elements of true patriotism that ** making light audible and enabling to inspire themselves with a little artifi- the hind to read. This depends on the to fall back on a man, so poor a thing cial courage in a hopeless cause they have
In Wurtemberg the pinch is beginning to be felt, and there is a general air of uneasiness which no one endeavours to conceal
The most severely tried and afflicted and most depressed kingdom is Bavaria The Bavarians complain with reason that Prussia is keeping for herself goods intended for the army, and consequently mancy is more rare in Bavaria than in any of the other States.
PRISONERS OF WAR.
GERMAN THREAT OF STAEVATION.
The following remarkable statement is taken from a private letter which a gentleman in a neutral country has just
oficial. The authenticity of the docu- rived from a highly placed German ment, says the London Morning Post, can you ask me about the conditions of be accepted as beyond challenge!
prisoners of war with us. You must remember that with nearly three-quart ers of a million of uninvited and un-
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welcome guests our country is being put ASAHI BEER.
to a great stram, I believe the English Press says:We will starve the Ger mans out Very good-but the prison- urs of war will certainly starve to death firstand that no one can blame us for
We are even now ourselves feeling the pinch of scarcity, and there is no doubt,
feel is still more acutely. and it is only natural, the prisoners of war are feeling it acutely, and will
Among a great many of us there is a wish that if it could be managed
i would be a great thing if the Neutrals could take over the care and the feeding of the
prisoners in Germany One does not like to feel that the miserable creatures
bound to do, and in fact I know they are suffering, as at present they are
do. You say in England our prisoners of war are being well looked alter. We read, or have heard, that England spent £20,000 on a palos for German officer prisoners don't want to live in palaces, prisoners. Well, I can tell you cur
surrounded by comforts, when their
comrades fall by thousands and the Fatherland is in such anxiety,
Why does not England spend it on her own miserable prisoners instead of making up to ours like this, We think England is mad. We know the con-
ditions under which the new soldiers in England have been living, and then we hear they are building palaces for ours, who don't want it. Certainly food fa scarce for officer prisoners and all in Germany, and we don't want their deaths at our door, which is what it
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fact that light causes the electrical realitas Tipperary.sey with which will mean unless means of assistance on OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE. ance of selaium to change, and in it light The thoughtless fipparcy with is reflected from the printed symbols upon the sounds in which can with practice be distinguished as characteristic of each lotter Professor Fournier l'Albo was formerly of Birmingham University, hut was last year appointed lecturer in phy sics at the University of the Punjab.
England engineered this war is admirably expressed in this music hall ture, is 18 also the crude, bruks like stupidity and dumb callousness with which they go into battle, without a thought as to the utter hopelessness of their asure and the certain victory of Germany,
& proper neutral footing, with our sanction, is brought to them urgently. Certainly wo in Germany know the "Prisoner Problem" is a serious one, and requiring a satisfactory solution Immediately, in a manner we can agree
to
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