THE HONGKONG DAILY FEESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31st, 1916,
The Danger Zone
Those whose diet is deficient in body-building powers are living in the danger zone.
Unless you nourish the body, the body will fail as surely as an army cut off from its base of supply.
Bovril
just makes all the difference between your being nourished and your not being nourished by your food.
Bovril is the one unique food the body-building powers of which have been proved by independent scientific investigation to be from 10 to 20 times the amount taken.
This explains why both at
home and in the fighting line
It must be Bovril
A.IO.
BOVRIL IS BRITISH TO THE BACKBONE.
Valuable alike for the Invalid and Robust
The "Allenburys' Diet is recommended for general -use in place of ordinary milk foods, gruel, etc, and is particularly adapted to the needs of Dyspeptics, Invalids, and the Aged. Being largely predigested it. is easy of assimilation. A cup of the Allenburys" Diet in useful in the forenoon. between meala. The "Alleaburys" Diet my be taken with advantage, on going to bed in the place of stimulants. Being easily digested l promotis tranquil and refreshing sleep, free from the depressing reaction in the morning, which often follows the teking of spirita For those who cannot readily digest milk the Allen- burys' Diet is a welcome substitute, as it does not couse indigestion and fatulcace
A Complete Milk and Farinaceous Food, Bary of Digestion, Most Agreeable to Take, Simply mid Quickly made by adding boilingwater only
The "Allenburya' Diet is s Food for Adults and is quito dine tinct from the well-known 'Alicatuurys Foods for kalasta. ALLEN & BANDURYS Lid, de Peking Road, Skanghat
and London, England.
7. B.P.0. Box 180.
OREGON PINE
BORNEO HARDWOOD
IN SAWN PLANKS. LOGS AND FLOORINGS.
THE CHINA
CHINA IMPORT AND EXPORT LUMBER CO., LTD.
Hongkong, ih Jnoo, 1914
Cadler Folmer &
The Wine Merchany of the last
INAPIER
JOHNSTONE'S
“SQUARE BOTTLE"
WHISKY.
ONVARIED FOR OVER 150 YEARS.
THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN
1745. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS!
SOLE AGENTS IN TIONGRONG
LANE CRAWFORD & CO.
and from ALL WINE MBROHANTE,
KEATING
POWDER
IT SOMETIN25 HAPPENS
Mather!:-Mothie) Mother Sprinkle Keating's over the
· For I've basa ön ́s virİNİ CUR" “And caught a hanger Flam
134
KILLS BUGS
• ALL INSECTS:
Over 30 years ago the late Lord Beaconsfeld tesellied to the beacäls ža, received from HIMROD'S.
CURE, and every past brings similar letters to-day.
HIMROD
CURE for
ASTHM
FKKEREN PUR AS YEARŞİ
So'd In tas bý air Chemists and Stores throughout the Country, Hearste of Inikahison, 12
451-2
Henburys DIET
They tell me there's VAN HOUTENS COCOA
for Breakfast
THE BEST DRINK
IN HOT WEATHER.
·246-4-9
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 30th at 11.35 am,-Priamo ban given way quickly over eastern Japan, and slightly over 8, Manchuria and N. Chinn; It has risen elsewhere, arpsotally over 8. Japan and the Loochoos. The anti-oyalone has moved oastwarde and is now contral in the neighbour- hood of Shanghai. A depression is situated to the east of Hatodate,
Moderate mobson will continue over the northern part of the China Sea...
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending 10 am today, 0.04 inches.
m
at
-Tay forecast for the 24 hours cuding at noon
to-day is as follows:-
FORECAST
DIETRICH,
Hongkong & Neighbourhood
(N.E winds, Formosa Channel
strong; moders ting South coast of China betweca | The mae as
Hongkong and Lamenta 1. No, 15
H
VIENNA AN EMPTY SHELL.
DOMINATION OF THE MAGYAR.
ROMANCE OF HEROISM, BATTLEFIELD BRAVERY OF WELSH BARONET'S SON,
(BY A NEUTRAL OBSERVER IN "THE TIMES."). A romantic story of heroism and devos tion to duty was only partially revealed If the Austrians have a very poor opinion in a recont issue of the London Gazette, of their officers, it must be admitted that which recorded the granting of a D.8.0. the rank and file are their pride. In walking to Second Lieutenant Osmond Willisins, down a side street, near the Ringstrasse, 2nd Dragoons, Royal Scots Groys, for came upon a battalion tons botla sidesagertaining under fire the progress of leaving for general gallant sorvico near Messines in the front, Brory, window along
The full story is that of a young fellow of wealth, a splendid horseman, a keen soldier who did excellent service in South Africa, who was on the staff of the cavalry brigadier when he met with a fearful smash while hunting and had to leave the army, who enlisted as a private when the war broke out, and who was promoted on the field and received the Distinguished Service Order for bravery.
of the strent was lined with smiling women's right operations, and especially on the faces, whilst a Butter of whito handkerchiefs they post se grooted the lid and Inacers to a position for leading the 12th passed. marched by, led by a band a for counter-attack, playing inspiriting martial tunes, followed in which he took part, accounting for by a company of ski runners, with their long eleven of the enemy himself!! ski over one shoulder, a rifle slung over the other, knapsacks laden to bursting so poorly balanced that the men seemed scarcely able to bear the loal they were carrying The remainder of the battalion presented a better appearance, though their light grey great coats were wrinkled badly at the belt, and were chopped off unevenly at the bottom without being hemmed, which made the men appear elevenly, though their whole equip mont was new. In physique they were up to the average, yet their faces were sallow and thin. They passed by, uninterested in the ovation they were receiving any wore on their caps a small band of white cloth CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL which indicates that they had already served in the campaign and had been invalided honte, wounded or otherwise disabled.
This in one of the anoinelies of the Austrian system, for a common soldier is obliged to return to the front in the briefest possible time, sufficient periods of convalescence, in many cases, not being allowed, whereas an officer, with the flimsiest oxcuso, can secure
Bonth coast of China between ƒThe same a
Hongkong and Hainan,.. No. 1.
E, winds, fresh to moderate; fair to cloudy,
Station.
REGISTER
30TH MARCH, 1915, A.M.
MBADT.
Bay. TWind
Hour.
Barometer
Temperatura,
Humidity.
Direction
Weather.
Force,
Vladrosteck ...). 7 a.30.02:20; Nemuro
Tokio
Keobi
NB KNW
Hakodate L 99.73
6 x 29.69)
29.79
ww
30.14
WBT
H
30.21
30.91
NW
N
NB
A
Nagasaki
Kegushima ***
Oshima
Naha
BLASSERTA
Ishijmans Botin 18. V Chefoo Weihatwell Hankow Ichang Kiukiang
Changsha
Shanghai
Gutzlaff
Sharp Peak
Amog
30.34
956 A 39,16 55
Swatow OPE
Taihoku...PRI
Taicht
Tainan
KOBAR Pescadores Canton Hongkong Gap Rook ...... Macao Wuchow Hoikow
Pokhri Phalien
Tourant
a
Cape St. Jamen Aporsi Dagupan
Manila........ Legaspin Tacloban Hollo
30.14 66 74
5 30.17 57 69
Eurigao s Labuan
WBW":
ANE N
ENK
2008 57 '89
ས་
38528258
N
ENT
NW
INK
ENE
93 75 8882 0.53 81 98 NNA
77-92 WNW 77 £6
89 84
eight weeks' nick leave.
FEW CASUALTIES AMONG NOBILITY. The Austrian casualty lists are justructive reading as showing the attitude of the ruling
classes toward the war. A woll-known KMnO is scarcely ever to be found there. Among the nobility there have been practically no casualties. It is true that the bulk of active and reserve officers in Austria-Hungary are drawn from the middle and lower-middle
classes. A
With regard to the troops, in so far as I was able to discover, most of them seemed en- thusiastic about the wur, especially the Tyrolese, who have fought with excoptional bravery. As someone facetiously remarked to me: If we had de wral Joffro as our commander, we should now be in the heart of Little Russia."
College Chronicle by the head master, The full story is related in the Eton. who, in turn, received it from an "eld Harrovian. The name is not given there, but the facts are as follow:
Second-Lieutenant Omond Williams is the son and heir of Sir Arthur Osmond Williams, Bart, J.P., D., Lord Lieut. of Merionethshire, and Constablo of Harlech Castle in 1900.
broke out, but later, being a splendidi He was at Elon when the Book War horeeman, having followed the hounds from his youth up, he obtained a com mission in the 10th Hussars and did ex- cellent service with his regiment in South
Africa.
COMMANDED THE SCOUTS. Returning home, he commanded the Scouts of his brigade at the Curragh, and served on the staff of the cavalry brigadier, whilst later, to qualify for his work, be spent some months attached to the German Ret Hussars at Potsdam, before joining the British Cavalry College, from which ho was passed out first by that groat scoutmaster, “B.P." himself.
fearful.
Then came the catastrophe smash, concussion of the brain, and dangerous illness.
Of all the Austrina generals, the only one who appears to receive more than passing. praise is General Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Chief of General Stall. In the shop windows 1bm of Vienna General von Hindenburg and othor German commanders figure more prominently than the Austrian military Leaders Whenever I met with German full year, officers and soldiers in Austria I noticed that they were the subject of particular rospect and attention. In a trancar I saw sman get up and give his sent to a German
officer.
When he had barely recovered he went into training for the military boxing competition, with the result that he got a blow on the old wound on the head, and had a relapse, which kept him in bed a When convalescent, he was reported to be quite unfit for further ser rice, and even not sufficiently sound for the reserve,
To his intenso grief he had to leave the The general impression I gathered in army and give up a career which hitherto Vienna was that the people-that is, the tow had been full of interest and promise A who gave the instter particular attention the experts pronounced that the only hope were anxious to have the war over as soon as of recovery might be in a long rest and possible, though none ventured any opinion an open-air life the sufferer went-off-to es to how long it might last, and I found the Andes and, as things improcud, elius, little or no speculation as regards results. I travelled, and explored, covering a great was strongly impressed with the fact that food South America during the the Viennese the war is in a great measure a succeeding years. Thanks to a splendid day to day episode, which unfolls itself constitution, he gradually recovered unti much as a part of their lives, and to which he was completely cured. they have become accustomed and reconciled. All external forins of political life in Vienna seem to have ceased; all parties have become interested spectators, rather thon participators in the straggle, each looking for the opportunity to advance its own interests. The Ministerial and official changes, which are constantly taking place, merely prove that political intrigues continue; the new appointments, as a rule, have no wider
C. W. JEFFRIES, Dirmursignificante.
1. BABO23538, reduced to $2. degree Falzarkets on the level of the asa in incies, feribs and barndredths,
2 TEMPERATURE, Fahrenheit,
ALERTNESS OF THE JEWS.
The one element in Vienna which sees in the phate, in degree thapiro are the Jews. Neither Pole, Cemman, most alive to the real situation in the
8 HOMIDITY, in percentage of zaturaifen, s humidity of air saturated with molaite heite 100,
# DEBBITION OF WIND, to two points,
5 FOBER OF WIND, according to Bẹrsfort Sexis
6 STATE OF WEAZURE, b blas aly, e detached cloud, i ärisiling rain, 1. log. s gloomy, h Est, lightning, o overcast, protezy Blower, 69all Finis, annow, t, thunder, visibility, w¿ew (wat).
7 RA in inches, tenths and hundredths.
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
nor Slav represents the state of mind of the Austrians of to-day half as well as does the Jew. For in this land of many peoples the Jew has retained his racial traditious aren me strongly than his roligious zen. Sup- ple, wide-awake, intelligent, dealing with a race of grande seigneurs," he strives for all parties, but above all for himself, and is ever willing to compromise if he sees a chance of a good bargain. This is the true attitude of the Viennese towards the war.
He returned home, and in 1912 was married to Lady Gladys Finch-Hatton, daughter of the Each of Wischitses and Nottingham. He settled down to plea- sant country life.
ANXIOUS TO GET TO THE FRONT. Tacn came the war. The ex-Lieutenant might have obtained a commission in the Yeomanry of his county, but wild to get to the front he betook himself to his friend and former squadron leader in his old regiment, who was now brigadier. There Boots Greys), rejoining in August last as he enlisted in the 2nd Dragoons (Royal full private the army in which, but for his smash, he might by that time have been major of his old regiment. The Dragoons were in his friend's brigade in France, and the general, knowing his man, made him his orderly, so that he carried his brigadier's Bag all through the retreat from Mons.
The rest is told in the pages of the Nothing could more clearly substantiate london Gazette. He was made corporal this than the Viennese point of view with and then second-lieutenant for service in regard to Italy. When I was in the city the the field, and then was given the D.8.0. question of surrendering the Trentino to the Italians was being discussed --“We do not Hongkong Chervatory, March 30th, so much mind losing these provinces, but Italy, if she wants thom, must pay, or give Previous On Date On Date by a well-informed person would refrain something in return," was remarked to me
Barometer
Day at
at 2 pm 6 am.
At
2 pm.
30.15
3627 Bast
30.11
30.15
Temperature
£8
-62
65
Humidity........
91
76
Wind Direction ...
Eart
East
72-8-1
Forca
2
5
4.
Weather
0
.0
Rain sensa
0.04
Large supplies have lately arrived from London.
OP ALL STOREKRÉPERS
MONTSERRAT
LIME JUICE
Highest open air Temperature on 29th
72
Lowest open air Temparature on 29th
64
Week
H'kong.
Mean
Height
Height.
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE
From 31st Marob to 6th April, 1915
Hioz WATER
LOW WATER
H'kong.
Moan
Time
Aprít 9 26 6 6
b. m. tin, 60m 36
38a 14
15
10106 2
3 56 & 10 4 7:
11 1645 D 3m 10 23
Time
Wed. 31 m 8 48
COST OF BRITISH WAR PENSIONS.
ACTUARIAL ESTIMATE OF £340,000,000
Mr. G. N. Barnes, P., speaking at the Browning Settlement, Walworth-road, London, last mouth, referred to the cost to the country of the war pensions and allowances as outlined in the report of the Select Committed (of which he was a member) presented to Parliament,
When I suggested that Italy. from attacking Austria, this seemed no satis. factory answer. “We must make a good bargain, and are very willing to compromise; but mere promises are not sufficient. If Italy wishes for the provinces, she must pay for them in something more substantial," he concluded. POLICY OF BAHTEL, AND EXCHANGE That Austria would have to bear the brunt of an Italian invasion, which might mean the disruption of the Empire, seemed of less im- portance than that the bargain, from the
On the previous Monday, he said Austrian standpoint, was undesirable. The actuari estimates were submitted to the whole policy of the Dual Monarchy seems to Committee, and according to these the be based on this principle of barter and ex- cost, extending over the whole period, change, bargaing and compromise, buy
would be 5340,000,000. That sum corres- The feeling of irresponsibility that pervades ponded to a figure in the White Paper of all classes of society in Vienne and impresses last November standing at £202,000,000, the visitor more than any other circumstance
led me to try to ascertain its causes on other so that the recent agitation had been a grounds than of the light mindedness" of very costly one for the country. Compar which the Viennese themselves are so prouding the maximum yearly expenditure My investigation led me to the conclusion the first year after the war the figures that the war was not made in Vienne, for were £8,240,000, in the November White. was the faronus ultimatum to Serbia com Paper, as against 213,310,000 in the posed there. In fact, I found no Austrian scheme just submitted. holding an important post who seemed capable of doing the work which had preci pitated the evisie
In adding the £5,000,000 he believed the Committes were simply expressing the wish of the nation as a whole. Moreover, The figure of the Emperor Francis Josephi he did not think there would be any loss has faded from the stage, though the
Thurs, 2/1 m 9/176 4m 3 37 18 tie principle of his house lives on apparently from the economic point of view, for,
very thin, he was in remarkably good heals top to bottom.
undisturbed. I spoke to several persons who as with the Old Age Pensions, trade was 2 x 9 10 16 6m
had seen his Majesty recently was told increased, and overyone refited from 26 14 48 a U B that, apart from the fact that he had Batar.
4.3527
Jun 04m 0.264 8m 5031
11 11 7E
49.8 10 5°20 35 8:6a 12 6 m 3 35 40 5 36 13 8
Lon.
5 m 1 54
006.9%
Tues
0.59%
and still attended to affairs of State to a Ximited extent
The truth of the matter is that Vision is an empty shell. While military nutters re largely under the control of Berlin, the Haps. burg capital is. dominated-in absentia by an alien people, different in spirit, customs, and traditions--the Magyars
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENT
The E. & A. str. Eastern left Sydney for this port on the 29th March, and may be expected to arrive here ca or about the 18th April