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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 30TH, 1915.
SOURCES OF ENEMY-TRADING the enemy they are in a position to send
IN JAPAN,
The Japan Gazette in a los ding article
says:-
COURAGE IN DRESS.
CHOICE BETWEEN OLD AND NEW.
BARGAIN-HUNTING. IN PARIS
[FROM OUR PASHION CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, June 28th..
the enemy any kind of valuable informa- tion. For instance, suppoed that, through their wide and commanding secret influ ence in Japan, these leading Gonna Few to ascertain that certain war-sup- The Allies will appreciate the act of fils necessary for Allied defence, which had been going forward regularly from Japan in issuing instructions so the Bhip-Japan, had been suddenly stopped for a ping Companies not to ship Cerman and considerable period for domestic reasons;
Especially will Great and supposing those Germans in Japan. The emptiness of the streets and avenues Austrian goods.
transmitted the intelligence promptly increases overy week, and only the very Britain appreciate this fresh proof of Berlin, enabling the German forces to middle of the city shows any real life or loyalty to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance-press a successful offensive against the movement. Every one is leaving Paris for demonstrasion that Japan will find, Allies, just when the latter were handi- the neighbouring suburbs or for the far-away long after the present war, has not been capped by the temporary stoppage of country where the war feeling is less intense, less concentrated and tormented by constant forgotten. It may urged that Japan, Japanese supplies-what would be the re being at war, is as much interested in co-sponsibility of the Germans in Japan who code for several weeks now the shops What, and the dressmakers have been selling off," operating with the Allies as they are, but had sent the vital intelligence? the fact remained that there were special again, would be the responsibility of the sad it is to be remarked that bargains are difficulties in the way of the Japanese Japan Government, which by excessive the saine precious things to the feminine Government-acting in this matter, and toleration hach facilitated such communind as they were before the war.
I heard a little group of women discussing Observe that has met them to the extent of issuing this cation with the enemy.
& grey linon hat signed by a maker as well order. It is now lef to the loyalty of while many Germans and others could known for her high prices us for her cachet. the Japanese shipping companies to com- obtain certain intelligenes, it is only The hat is now a bargain, or it was then, and ply with their Government's instructions, great Gerinan firms or individuals under the price 10f. All four woman wanted it, or and the result will steadily become known, commanding German influence in Japa thought they did, and the one who got it The that no penalty is attached to who could safely transmit such intelligence would certainly be a case for "all uncharit- MODELS-compliance will not weigh with loyal
MOUTRIE'S.
PRINTING & BINDING
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION EXECUTED AT THE OFFICES OF THE
Japanese, who will understand that their Government has not issued this order without due deliberation and fer un auffi- cient notional motive,
But the Japanese shippers may claim that there is an obvious obstacle in
the
to timenemy. It would mean a system of
espionage, of agents here and in Shang- hni or Peking, any; to secret tal com codes or ecdes that bore merely a com-
face. All
vercial, the Gorsuch denlings argue fierman funds, and point simply and
abloness, momentary hut acute. All sarta of
so-called cheap things are to be found in the them-feminine self-louis to day, and before
is breaking
ideal.
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of bidden, sorbed faces hang over piles with those on le coins little tickets on which MACGREGOR&C.
directly to the local individual Germans high price is crosscl out and a low one added. Does anyone really believe the coming under that category.
Legends on these little tickets! Presumably sorbed interest! they do, otherwise why the attitude of ab
way of their complying with this Govern ment instruction not to ship German and Austrian goods: how are they to konw the This enemy-trading question in Japan ownership or destination of cargo, except is a much more pressing and important as stated in their manifests't Let us look bearing than Japan has until recently ap
It may be hope that at the natural way in which, for instanes, peared to think. German firms or individuals would pro this new Government instruction to ceed to export contraband to Germany. Japanese slippers and the new official in They might openly ship copper, say, to quiry into suspicious German shipments Amerion under the name of a neutral. { of contraband metals may mark the open Once at an American port the destination [ing of a new Japanese realisation of the of, say, New York might be changed by danger involved. And as the most com- 4 forwarding agent's order to Chicago.prehensive and most simple method of re There it could be repacked as say, nails moving the danger. we commend the or spikes and forwarded by a tramp method of ascertaining the real source of steamer to say, Hammerfest, thes toost German influence in Japan and closing northern. Norwegian town in Europe, the these gources definitely. The only effective tramp going & round-about way outside way of destroying the deadly som sa the danger-zone. Even if overhauled by by sipping it in the bud,
British patrolling-vessel, searchers
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ment as nails. They would hardly brea's cargo at sen on such a long chance, or even take the vessel into a part for closer wanch.. Once at Bammerfest, Here is an extract from a letter written coasting vessels would take the precious by a bluejacket in the Dardanelles, veuch copper down to Bergen, or Christiania, ored for by the Censor, who opened it: Wo some other neutral Scandinavian pors, have been having a busy time, what with whence there would be no difficulty in the forts firing and the submarines trying transporting it Germany. Besides cup- to torpedo us. However, I remembered per, of course, there are many minerals, what the chaplain said about when you auch as tungsten, nickel, etc., which are are in trouble, look above. I look up almost of priceless value to formany just and there's an enemy acroplane going to now for munition-manufacturing, and drop bombe on us." which can be obtained in Japan.
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In the more exclusivo, calmer precincts of the big dressmakers a faint perfume comes from closely sorried ranks of limp garments hung on wooden shoulders along a bar. Every garment ia en solde, and some are very tempting; imt the qualification for buying Iargains successfully is discrimination, and it is not so common as it might be. Indeed, the result of bargain-hunting, even among chefs d'eurre, is often grotesque. A low price seems to obscure the inappropriateness of the garment in question. Richness of material will sometimes persuade a woman -to-wear a colour entirely-unbecoming to her complexion, and this season is no less fertile in such traps for the unwary than any other. DANGERS OF THE FANTASTIC,
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One of the most common of all pitfalls is the wide skirt. It seems almost impossible that it should continue to live in its present
West River Polservanty state of width and shortness, and yet every
Japanese Shiphg. day it becontes more general. If you sit a
Kowloon Cricket Club. while to watch the "passing show" you will Random Reflectids see that three women aut of four are wearing Another Railway masla near Harhin. it, irrespective of their age, figure, or feet. Å slim young woman with an elastic gait can
Tho West River Jood. The Recent Looty at Canton. carry it charmingly, and slim young women are quite general. But even then the short Kwangtung Floo Relief Fund. skirt costane has to be extremely well done Flood Relief Ful Efforts. to be pleasing. It must be scrupulously Chinese Churib Institutions.
River Conservandin Kwangiang Province, simple and that means either money
China's Constituti. neither of which is very costs llepatriation of hinese from Bones.
common in Kunius, Some of our men at the front are said to these days. The slightest lapso find that chewing a quid of tobacco serves fantastic at once introduces the fatal chorus. Prince of Wales'und. to counteract the effects of poison gasnote, and anything touching on modification Cigarette and Tacco Fund.
of line runs the risk of boceming dowdy.Belgian Relief Eds. This bears out one of the claims advanced safety lies in aniformity of colour and the Territorials Entainment Fund. on behalf of the herba panacea, most expensive make and material, not only The Day of 70 John Archer, Physician-in-Ordinary to
might read as that of a hat of copper Charles II, who kept apothecaries' shop the costume itself, but also in the details Trading with thênomy in China.
which go to complete it.
BEER. ara Japanese shippers to know who are shipping them? The real German ship pern would not, of course, ship under their own name. They would get some neutral, dr perhaps some Japanese firm or indivi- dual to act for them. The consignment
Conscription Exfiment in China. At no time has the line of demarcation Swatow Notes. shipped by a Mr. Yamaguchi of Tokyo to various parts of London and sold a Mr. Ito of New York. There could to tobacco at all of them. Archer recom-between expensive dressing and cheap imita Peking Notes. no ground for suspecting such an appar mended his patients to smoke, holding on len more marked than it is now, and Zeppelin over Thames. antly innocent transaction-and the cop that tobacco purifies the air from infecatotine has the woman who dresses accordi Hongkong-OwnSteamer in Collision per would safely reach the enemy. In-
tious malignancy by its fragrancy, ing to her own taste and mens heen looked Chinese Steamcapsized of Woosung. deed, there is reason to believe that this kind of thing has been going on steadily sweatens the breath, strengthens the braiant with an org so lenient. The only woman Mishap to the Hong Bee
and memory, and revives the sight to ad- who is not kindly criticized is she who line Shipping in thast.
obviously failed to achieve her end. No one With the Lone Scottish at Messines. since the outbreak of the war, and that it
miration."
is kind to failure in these days, feast of all in Motor-Car Agent at Shanghai. is only recently that the Japanese author- ities have decided to investigate some of
M. Herbert Samuel, the new Post-France. French people like a frank alle Thieves Busy these innocent" shipments.
Probably, if the probe goes deep enough master-General, has been at the front in gian, even though it ise to the wrong thing, The Co
specting the postal arrangements in the and be paradoxical, the wrong thing is Passenger Lis Company Meg the real culprits in this matter will Le field, and has visited Ypres. To visit hot seldom the right.
-Shanghaick and Engineering Co. found, and the discovery may be used Ypres, says the correspondent of the
Company Rejs: enormously to simplify the stoppage of Daily Mill, entails considerable risks enemy-trading in Japan. We have shown
The battered remnants of the unfortunate how difficult it is for Japanese shippers city are shelled almost daily by gans of to ascertain the ownership and destina-all calibres with every kind of projectile, it out well is certain to meet appreciation in ranging from shells filled with poisonous France, but to waver between a dozen styles gases to the 17-inch beary howitzer. Mr. and arrive at none mesues dismal failure. Sannuel. passed about half an hour in You must be definite, and it is better for you pres. He remained in silent contem. if you can be definite in a graceful manner. plation of the majestic ruins of the cathe- tion is progressive day by day. The view dral and the Cloth Hall, whose destrue- at the corner of the Grande Place is ter rifying, unprecedented; it is unforget table. In a little time it will be gone for
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tion of contraband, or is detection en route to Germany- There" - pemain is sourdes in Japan. Copper-mines and other mines have well-known locations, and are all under Japanese jurisdiction according to Japanese law. Now, if the of a mine they would have to secure a lien Germans wished to obtain all the output upon it by means of a mortgage, and such a transaction would be readily discover ablo by the authorities. Similarly if Ger maus, resident in Japan, had been found
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Many women this year are wearing out-of- date clothes, but in their extreme care to be well groomed they pass for being welt
Subsgon: 812 per annum, payable dressed. Others am getting enough clothes to pat everything in their wardrobe into the same note-the latest note, of course; and in advandstage extra. both are counted correct. But the woman--- Hongke 30th July, 1915. purchasing or forwarding large quanti 3rs. Asquith, the wile of the Prime who tries to compromise, whe yields to the Gies of contraband since the outbreak of
Minister, aspires to try her hand at mak-temptation of a new tailor-made and gets war, the fact would be prima facie aviding shells and fuses in one of the large one that is not quite the thing, is wasting ence of enemy trading. Why should Germunition factories in the North. When her time and her money, because the new
tailor-males allow of no half-measures OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE muna in Japan export copper and ather making a tour over one of the large shops, either they are very good or very bad, and materials for munitions at this time? The says the Birmingham Post, Mrs. Asquith question answers itself in order to help was astonished at the skill attained by the good ones need a master-hand. She who tries to strike a bargain with fashion by the enemy. They would not be sending some of the women workers, and she ex-economizing on her slides so that she may have the raw material of munitions to help the pressed her desire to do her bit" in the a new hat also makes a mistake, for nothing Allies or even Neutral State. Unusual transactions in such things, at this time, shops. She would do a week's work in but the best of footgear is permissible.
Ta considering a Frenchwoman's dress we one shop, and then another week in a by a German or Germen agent in Japan second, and thus get some experience of arrive somewhere near her state of mind. We find that she is rather logical than intui should be sufficient praatically to convict
women's work under ordinary conditions. them of helping Japan's enemy.
intention, Mrs. tive indeed, of intuition she is a little Still another important point may be in anasuncing her
ex-afraid, and, far away as such qualities may developed by the present Government in Asquith divulged an interesting quiry, and that is the detection where the perience which hitherto has been an seem from the question of clothes, they really open secret only among her personal have a great deal to do with them. Intui- chief sources of dangerous enemy-trading friends-namely, that she had been in the tion is a liquid sentiment; clothes are hard facts, and it is better to treat them as such. in Japan lie and the advisability of el- trenches.
when intuition and her mirror minating them finally. We know that certain resident Germans have been de- ported, but, with the exception of per- haps one, all were of comparatively small infuences. Now, it will be observed that for transactions in copper and other ex- pensive metals in considerable bulk large
Mr. Tennant, replying to Mr. Houston, capital is necessary, and the feet points said he was not aware that the most des indubitably to big German firms, or indi-tructive and effective shells used by the vidua's commanding large Germen fund, Germans were made of cast iron. He or she may be wrong, but that is what he has being ingaged in this secret my trad would point out that there was no lack of done, and the result is a race of round, short ing. There are several such German firms production of shell bodies, and it was the women dancing along on high heelswithshort probensive and Complete Besord and German individuals still doing busi-production of other component parts that full skirts and tall collars, wide-brimmed, flat TW66 태형 usual in Japan; by the entirely governed the outgut. Whether, hats, end an air of sprightliness rather than grace of the Government, they have a therefore, a shell was made of cast ironès grace or dignity. Taoy look quite pretty and German Bank here to facilitate their torged steel there were technical objec dainty, but they do not chart as they did financial operation; and there can be no tions to the former-the complete round when they were the modern interpretation doubt as to the direction in which their of ammuition would not be produced with of the Greelt draperies. wishes would guide their transactions. greater rapidity. He deprecated the sug A LING & CO..
If. therefore, the Government investiga gestion that our troops were not on level tions lead to any of the great German terms with the Germans in regard to the Sir Henry Mackinnon, who has the 19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
firms and to the German Bank the type of shell used against wife entangle Western Command, has hit upos an ad- mirable solution of the soldiers-for-bar- DURNITURE
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suited her at the very time when the robes dressmakers were beginning to make wide short skirts, she firmly set intuition on one side and consulted logic
Either she turned her back on present fashions altogether or she followed them correctly. In no way did she try to cop- promise between the two. She may be right|
Mr. Houston asked whether the Warvest question. Troops are to be lent only: Office were aware that the Germans wers to those farmers, who have not kept bact This will be making millions of cast iron chells, and their sons from enlistment. only recently placed an order for 26 milan appropriate reward for those who have lions of these shells, and also whether our put patriotism firsty and leave the calen machinery for turning out the present lating with the worse end of the stick shells was restricted, pap
It is not the first time that the British officer has dispensed justico with a neat nees that is Solomonesque,
The speaker asked Mr. Houston to give notice of that question.
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