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Hongkong.
Lending Articles:-
An Important Concession to Japan,
The War and Alcohol.
Chineze Officials:
Random Reflections. Hongkong Weddings. Company Meetings:-
Soy Chce Cotton Spinning Co., Ltd. The Anglo-German Brewery, Ltd. Yangtsze Wharf and Godown Co.
Company Report:--
The Hongkong Ice Co., Ltd.
The Law Courts
At the Magistracy.
Notes from Peking
Brator Notes."
Presentation to the Rev. C. Bone.
Prince of Wales' Fund.
"The Last Judgment."
Allied Forces Tobacco Fund.
Correspondence:---
The Way Not to Do It.
Shanglin Goneral Chamber of Commerce,
Dr. Morrison.
Urban Progress in Peking.
Now Kwangtung Railway
British Volunteers from Japan.
The Revolution Indemnities.
Chinees and the Gospel.
Sampanchow Lighthouse.
The Kidnapping Case at Kobe,
War and Drink
The Sacrifice of War.
The Hanametal."
Shipping Notes
Hongkong Shipbuilding.
Local Sport.
Sanitary Board.
Alleged Attempt to Corrupt a Clerk.
German Funds at Tsingtau.
The Japanese Demands of China.
Clan Education in China.
Telegrams.
The Date of Peace.
Young Women's Christian Association,
Canadian Pacife Steamers.
American Consular Report.
A Repentent Rebel Tutuh.
Cost of British War Pensions,
The Special Police Reserve.
Deportations from Japan.
Corman Expulsion from the Preife.
The Langkut Bribery Case,
Shipping and the Rice Trade.
A Clandestine Marriage
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If we except the several led Cress and charity series, the use of which is, after all, parels optional, none of the combatant na tions has up to now resorted to the issue of special stamps for the collection of war
ro venue.
This week, however, it is ported from Paris that in view of the possible entry of Roumania into hostilities the Chamber at Bukharest has recently authorised the pre- paration of four particular postage and re- venue, stamps, the proceeds of the sale of which will be devoted to the relief of the fenilies of soldiers on activo service...
A GERMAN'S SMOKED GLASSES.
PROFESSOR'S OUTBURST OF HATE FOR ENGLAND.
EVEN MR. SHAW BLAMED.
A neutral professor lately arrived in Eng and says that nowhere in Germany (excent rom two wounded officers) did he hear a decent wond spoken about England. His report is borne out by an extraordinary address delivered by Professor Wilhelm Wundt at Leipzig, and now reproduced as one of the Oxford Pamphlets The following are some extrnets:--
"Germany and Austria-Hungary, which is so closely bound to her by so many ties of culture and history, stand against the rest of the Great Powers of Europe-led, to our The face values of the stans are 6, 10, 20, bittor sorrow, by the English, who are so. and 50 bani, the first to be alked to all in near akin to us, but whose statesmen will be land letters in addition to the ordinary post-branded by history as the chief instigators age stamp, the second on inknd telegrams of this unparalleled world war. the 20 bani for foreign calles and also on botel and restaurant bills above one frane in value, theatre ticketi, ete.
Sleeping-car tickets on the State railways will be subjected to the highest tax-viz., O bani. No details as to the designs or colours of the stamps are as fet available.
That the German Emperor, the Germa Government the German nation desired pence has been shown by such obvious proof. that even our enemies cannot deny it," s
But that this war had long been planned, that the objective of the three Powers who so significantly called their robber alliance War tax stamps of a postal character were an entente cordiale was to folate Germany first introduced by the Spanish Government to weaken her power, to cut her off frem at the time of the Carlist war of 1874, and commerce of the world-and this was the were revised during the Spanish-American chief point for England, the predominant war twenty-four years later. They appeared partner of this company of common interests under the terms of a royal decree of Octocannot possibly be doubted." ber 2, 1873, imposing a tax of ve centimes on all letters, postcards, etc, circulating in Spain and her dependencies, excluding Ict ters for the town of posting:
Stamps of the values 5e. and 10%. hearing the arms of Leon and Castillo within an oval frame, inscribed Impusto de Guerra, caro into use on January 1, 1874, the ten centimes being, however, primarily a ̈revenue stamp.
YOR THE CUBAN WAE.
Between Juuunty 1, 1875, and May 31, 1876, new type of war stamp, but still showing the national arms, was in use, followed on June 1, 1876, by a series containing three additional values with the profile of King Alfonso XII On May 1, 1879, these war tax stamps were ordered to be suppressed, but the war in Cuba and the Philippines neces- sitated their revival iri July, 1896,
KING EDWARD VIL'S MACHINATIONS. "How France's desire for revenge, Eng land's envy and jealousy and Russia's dream of power worked together in an unhealthy mixture of national instincts need not be discussed. These instincts might not, per haps, have kindled the world conflagration had it not been for one men. This man is not Sir Edwaid Grey. He is only the oxe- autor, and perhaps we might add, the ab- great political craft, and, as his life and ordinate tookof this other man, who, with actions showed, with entire lack of scruples of any kind, prepared the way for this war King Edward VII of England."
King Edward VII.'s saying was woll known. Germany must boringed round.
That was the plan hatdied by Edward VII which Edward Grey sought to carry through by all means, great and little-hut 1908, he took over the direction of the foreign chiedly little-from the monent when, in affairs of the island Empire."
A severe numeral design warntilised, dated at firat 1807-8, and afterwards1888 9, the five centimes only out of eleven values compris ing the sories, representing the letter tex. Towards the end of the year 1808 the familiar.The chief guilt of kindling the world con- "baby head" tyre of the Spanish colonies flagration lies with England. Without the was adapted as a war tax sump, inscribed instigation of England. without English *Recargo 5c"!! «k?
money and the English feet, the war would at least have been confined within limits in which an honourable trial of strength lod always seemed possible. England first made in into a world war, and herclearly recogis- able desire to destroy the power of Germany, or to remove the German nation from the Council of the People can no longer be co- cealed by pretexts and phrases."
Two surcharged provisionals just received from a correspondent in Switzerland are per- hapa, deserving of mention under the bond ing of war stamps, since they owe their origin to a readjustment of the internal postal tariff necessitated by the heavy ex- penses of mabilisation.
As from February 1 the Swiss inland rates of 2 centimes for printed matter and 12 cen- times registration fee have been cancelled, the current postage stamps of these dene minations being converted by means of a surcharge to the values of 1 centime and 13 centimes respectively
he surcharge in black consists merely of a small numeral above, thres short parallel bars obliterating the original figures of value, the numbers of the initial printing being 2,000,000 of the 1c on 2c. and 1,300,000 of the 13c. on 126. Although placed on sale on January 25, these stamps were not intended
to be used until the 1st of February.
CHINESE ISSUE.
Several more values of the contemporary postal issue of the Chinese Republic are now to hand with the imprint of the Chinese Bureau of Engraving and Printing in place of that of Messrs. Waterloy & Bona. A correspondent informs me that in future the entire serica is to be printed in Chipo, but as dies in each instance appear to have been erigraved, the change is likely to occupy some little time.
The Peking prints are distinguished by their coarser appearance; by the paper, which is thinner than that used by Messrs Waterlow, and by the thick glossy ink re sembling that of the two commemorative series produced by the Chinese Bureau in 1911. The 3 cents blue-green, 5 cents lilac, and 30 cents red-brown, as well as the 1 cent, all exist in the local priating.
"Yet heavy as is the responsibility which Sir Edward Grey and his colleagues in the Ministry have taken upon themselves, this war would not have been possible if the Eng lish people had not desired it. England is à fund in which freedom af erpengcing in word and in writing knows no bounds. But where are the men in England who rated their voices against this wat!"
certain distinguished scholars and "the Professor Wundt can find no one except labour leader, John Burns, who utoly mude a speech in which he accused Edward Grey of being the instigator of the war" but who ought to have made this speech earlier t
But Professor Wundt is disappointed with everyone. Even Mr. Bernard Shaw does not give satisfaction. Beside the vulgar insults of Bernard Shaw, the tem "barbarians” used by M. Henti Bergson seelas almost like a harmless want of breeding."
The whole of the conduct of England, down France and Russia is a le
to the false news of French and Rustion victories and of alleged acts of violence laid to the charge of our galant soldiers. But what are all these lies to the cunning wherewith the English lioni (which in this case shows al too clearly that: it belongs to the eat tribe) has whetted the Japanese against us!
"Yes," continues the Professor, even this piece of trickery fades into nothing beside the way in which our memics, England especially, have conducted this war. Let na say nothing of the atrocitis perpetrated by the Belgians, which, at least in part, are due to the bestial fury of individuala
Greek postage stampy of the lithographed war issue of 1912 in the lagle and Fiery Croas designa have been shown to me by Messrs. Bright & Sons, with an overprint in one line of black Greek capitals appro
Doubtless the reader will read that n- priating them to use in Northern Epirus (South Albania), where, I understand, they tence again, under the impression that a were first placed in use about December 8.. mistake has been made in transcribing it. Their denominations are Ilepton brown, 2 But it is correctly copied. The professor did lepta brick-red or carmine, 3lepta orange, 6 say the atrocities perpetrated by the Bel- lepta green, 10 lepta red, and 25 lepta Blue.gians, not "on" that unhappy people. A variety with a double overprint on the 2 Iepta staroj
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IN THE BALANCE,
ROUMANIA'S ATTITUDE IN THE STRUGGLE.
The reasons which sway Houmania in her attitude towards the war have been explained by a high diplomatic authority in Bucharest to a Central News correspondentin Petrograd. One mast not forget in judging Rou mania," said the diplomat,* that she has not been provoked to make war. A Government must think deeply before taking action when it has not been provoked, and we should incur grave responsibility were we to act without incitement. All the same, it is our duty to make the greatest preparations possible. No one can see how long this war will last.
"We are not like France, Great Britain or Russia. We have a very good army of 600,000 men, but they are all we have; there is nothing behind this arm. Should war last two years we are not in a position to make it. The presence of AustroGerman troops on the Roumanian frontier is a sort of EXO- Vocation. There can be no other explanation than that we are suspected:
SWALLOW'S 7,800 MILES FLIGHT.
The Ranee of Sarawak, presiding in London at the manual meeting of the Royal Society for the Profeetion of Birds, expressed disapointment that Plumage "Bill had not been the passed, because it would have spared her some of the dreadful sights, now to ba scen, of crowns of ospreys.of plumage of most precious birds, upon the heads of vain and foolish women.
Mr. J. R. B. Masefield said that the Society bad ringed 13,024 birds st year. A Sandwich tern inged on July ath, 1913, was recovered on the Ivory Coast, West Africa, on February th 1914; a robin ringed on June 14th in Staffordshire was found at Gers, in France, in the following October; while a swallow ringed in Staffordshire in Jane W** found in Natal the following autumn, 7,800 miles away.
It is reported from a certain camp. of Kit- choner's new Army that a sergeant was sent to one of the huts to censure a breach of the
We are in the balance. It is very datter-regulations--the lights werenot out, altiwigh ing for us to know that others think we are the curfew hour was pasted. Being newly strong, but what is our strength in propor promoted and full of zeal, the new sergent tion to the interests involved in this great made his remonstrance rather long, and as war? Men in war and men in love have the he was going away, a plaintive voice sound- sare mentality. So long samen are at wared from a darkened hut, "Oh, sergeant, ser- they understand only one thing their gus geant? What is it?" was the sharp re- tion is. “Are you with us or against us!' mark from the officer. "Oh, sergeant," The whole sympathies of Romania are now wailed the young soldier, "you never kissed with Russia.
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