PARIŞ MODES.
THE PASSING OF GERMAN
INFLUENCE,
[ "THE TIMES PARIS FASHION CORRESPONDENT]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11TH, 1916,
KWANGTUNG FLOOD RELIEF THE WAR AND CHINA COAST
FUND.
The Tung Wal Hospital begs to neknowledge with thanks the following donations to the Kwangtung Flood Relief Fund-
During the last year the French desk-T. T. from the Chung Wah. makers have had many hard problems to Wooly Kwan of Melboran
£350 at 119 5/16 solve, "and there will be almost harder obes when things have to be straightened out T. T. from the Chinese merchants
of Chemor after the war. With admirablo pick they have kept things going, and soine efSt. Paul's Girls' School them have not done badly, supported as they were by foreign trade.
Anerien made a trial of making her own nadels, bat found it unsatisfactory- Russia came to Paris by devious ways to buy generously, England sent her mer chaud's so that the rich foreigners who had taken reinge with her might have the new tat models; Canadiens bought largely, and South America spent as much money i the Rue de la Paix as wer. The Balka States which were not fighting spent money with pleasure, and Italy in those days had ant put away her pretty friveli
Added ties for the Red Cross coiffe. The Parisiennes after a few months of complete retirement, began t dress again, je moderation; and although they did not buy a nsual they helped Krep things going.
so are expenATA,
Kai Ming School Chik Kwan School
Per Mr. Su Yan of the Chudor and Mario Sicurahoat Wharf. Chinese subscriber Chinese stilwerihers of 82.50 each Chinese subscribers of 22 each. 1 Chinese subscribe
Alrently acknowledged
Toent
FREIGHTS.
We take the following from the Man- churin Daily Nevit-
Since the outbreak of the Europea War, the China toast steamer freights. have normally risen, showing a strik- ing contrast with those of several years
agu.
"In 1911, the rate on coal between Mosi 3,94155 and Shanghai was quoted at 15 Mes 1,000.00 per ton, although it fell to 81.05 Mex. in Juary 1912, and revived by about 100.73 60 cents to $1.66-91.70 Mes, in the follow
60.00 ing Summer, 28.00 In Jastary, 1913, it relapsed to $1.40 Mex. and again me to $1.60 Mes. In 20.00 March.
12.80 7.50 124.00 2,20
The current quotation is $230 Mex per ton, and threatens to rise further with the increase of deannd for coal.
The rise of freights, especially on staple produce, is particularly marked at Sunth 8122671.39 Chiun nifreting to the directions a large number of vessels hitherto work 8425,974,17 | ing the North China service.
OVER-SPECULATION IN TRADE
AT MUKDEN--
Reresting to the rates on rice, the Bangkok Hongkong rate, which was at 25 cents per
1914, two months ahead of the outbreak of the War In April 1915, however the rate suddenly jumped up to The following is taken from the Jun-1 cents, and is quoted at about 45 cents churian Duity News:-
at present.
ber 1st, 1914.
INDIAN HIDE INDUSTRY.
EXTENSION TO THE FAR EAST-
CAUTTA. July 12th.
Owing to the enterprise of Mr. S. L. Ho, the hide industry in India is to be extended to the Far East. Mr. Ho is t prominent member of the mercantile community in Hongkong, and was large tanneries in Penang. On the outbreak if the war, realising that the closing of th German markets would have a marked effect on the hide maket of this country, Mr. Ho set to work to find out how best to take advantage of this, and he is now visiting Calcutta in order to complets his Arrangements. There are large quantities of hides in godowns and decks, and thes have been examined. The Indian hides are 40 cent lighter than hides of other parts of the world, but this disagrnetage
the
for transportation which exists. To coa- vy hides from Calentia so Penang takes only fire te seven days, whereas it takes. as Intry werks to reach Penang from cents in cul in October, 1913, fell to 92 China, which has hitherto beon Mr. Ho' chief source of supply. Tho sald in Calenta come 'mainly from Dsce. Patija and the Calcutta Crporating soughter house at Tangra, but the best come from the military stations, The rensor for this that in the larger towns branding and therwise marking the skins is extensively practised, with the result that the hides Sor of the lose to per cat, in value. hides shown Mr. Lower branded fro neck to tail and when thes are tanned thy it pisees. Although the quantity hids Mr. Ho expects a first to receive
The ne may be said of the Sap
The charter rate has also risrá In May, 1913, the Germani str.-Leary- moun, 1,238 tons, was chartored at $8,000 Mex. per month, that is, 86.85 Mex per ton, but in June last a 1.362 ton British steiner was takes up on time charter at $20,000 per month (815,30-per not tan)
RUSSIAN SHIPBUILDING
The Mukden branches of the Mitsui The result of these combined efforts Bussun Kaishi and Mesirs, Kids & Co. Hongkong rate. In Jan, 1813, it was at a inca one, and if, foreign trads goes signed with Chinese produce dealers there the normal planiol 19 cents per picul on next season without sericas interrup- contracts for the purchts of Bear Cake but depressed to 14 cents just one year tion many business disasters will be avoid to the respective amounts of 100,000 pieces after, and rose by cent to 15 cents ed. Necesarily, profits are smaller, but and 150,000 pizers for delivery on. Decem the following Angst when the War broke
Obviously materials are
The prices moged from out. 8. Y.1.39 to 30 seu in-sma31 silver coins. The rate steadily went up to 20 cents Jess abundant, but half the battle of a dressinaker's success lies in her power the marke bad gone up high about the by last December, and suddenly tenped adapt, and it is quite soft say that the livery date and stood at about S-V.1,4p-to-40 cents in April Inst, in which French dressinakers will find a way out of It is said that, these two large contracts month the traffic is usually the thickest all minor difficulties if only they have to being included, the total amunt of for in the whole year, but slightly fell to 36
ward contacts, by which the Chinese mor- cents in June last people to buy their models.
chants woys then hound, reached 27,000,000 pices which end we by for kun large
·lush Tumps Ant werk_Mine: Camill for the Makden marked to supply. Duguet, who is the editress of several such cire ustanees the Chinese sellers French fashion papers and a well-known facel a fious crisis and a good number authority on dress, complains of the sum-
were the teard with a collapse if the ber of papers which pose as being French delivery stocks had been insisted upon. publications when in reality they are They a pleu the titties of dodging that Hongking--
She also Mitsui And Koderas, Chairman Sau of published in Vienm cr Berlin.
Guild. etc., interceded says that the leading Paris, dressmakers, the finese
U general cancella with a few exerptions, have hitherto and reposed
tion the contracts; The Japanese shown more inclination to favour Vienna,
in
·uf the appreciation Berlin, and New York with news of their buy latest models than to give them to French dit position of the Chinese sellers, papers. Personally, Me... Duguet. has we willing to accept the cancellation Both sides failed to agree found much inconvenieur in her work pr position. Frot this custom among the dressmakers,aut the cancellation price and the mat has been left standing since. The and she condemns it politely buy firmly." estment of capital by some Chinese
I add my protest to hers in the name f
overnment officials is said to have been London. Not once, but many times, hae of the causes which have left the issue London been forced to give way to Berlin, pes so long. On the 8th July. the Vienna, and New York in houses, where Chinese Guild took up the matter and half the society women in England coul
passed a resolution declaring the con be counted among the regular kobitudes
tracts invalid since speculative deals are As Mine, Daguet says, it would be e-prohibited by the Chinese Law. In truth couraging to think that such things there is an essential difference between be changed after the war, and a forward contract dents and mere specula
Especially the Chineso gnes en lo remark, we must hope that ithtive deals. them ther changes will also core a oft authorities have been conniving at even German taste was answerable to no mill speculative deals for several years past. extent for the extravagest fashions ich The Mitsui and the Kaderas resented the hara bendenou need so vigorously h pen; adoption of the unreasonable resolution and although the German laye wa of the Chinese Guild and asked Gov. somewhat softened by Parisian co, Chang to solve the issue inside three The Governor replied that be| was not tone away with Crude Folours, days. coarse entreideries, and clumsyes were had instructed Prefect Chao to attend to chiefly due to the craze there we for Gar- the ease. man art and the madness du fuck stop at dress. It began to eat int the heart of French homes. The furnit is wan le- coming Germanized, the architture shows hideous examples of Germante, and as hall the country was overran th German servants even the cooking began to suffer,
PEPYS DAIRY. KITCHENER AND THE MASKS.
The following are extracts from the diary of the modern Pepys in the latest number of Truth:-
VANISHED COSMOPOLITAJIS31,
Meeting Mr. Eves, he hears from one in To remarking on Mme. Huguer's letter. the Trups says that, ensidering the the Army Office, that the rasch of my trouble the Germans took to get the best Lord Kitchener retracting his appeal to models from Paris, it is astonishing that the publique for vapour masks so sudden- The German Werner werk always wally as he did was through a great parcel of Amputés. It is also exurdinary that shove 200 thousand of these masks being. some of the drosemakers to had the name found to be steeped in cyanide of potas for being most Parisis in their taste sium, or, as the vigar call it, prussic acid were, even in those days of before the war, (and in these presents a fitting name), frankly German. On boking back, that whereby every soldier who had put on one old life of Paris seem impossible. All of those maskes had been a dead man in 5 its inconsequence, all its extravagances, seconds. So hence toward, all maskes ita immense cosmopolitanism have vanish- ahall be provided by the Army Office. ed, and Paris in more French to-day than Lunching with us Admiral Topper, an.l. it has been for many years. No one can says he, this is not the first time of enemy imagine what it will belike when the war aliens essaying to poison our soldiers; but so long since as just, Christmas a ship a is over, but there is sure to be an interval before it again becomes the pleasure load of plum pudding despatched to France, whereof the Navy Beard informed ground of the rich foreigner,
The war has proved how great was the that all the puddings be staffed with pov German infinenes in this vast cosmopili-soned plams, but this not known till 10: tanism, and we cannot but ask ourselves minutes after the ship had sailed; so orders what will happen when the time for poace sent by wireless telegraph to or under- comes again. Will Munich again rais water-boats, and 1 of them catebes ani the art and crafts! Will the magasins sinks the ship with all the puddings. But de Nørreautés once more fill their coun- was given out (for avoidance of panick) ters with German-made Bowers and teret that she had been sunk by the German Will the German servart again find a place U29. in the home of the bourgeois, and the Ger- man shopman again appear in every irade? But to question in detail all the German. inventions and German customs which inundated Paris before the war in impossible. Some we shall miss, we may oven regret one or twe, but most of them we shall speed away with joy and breathe the better for their going.
In to trade was German jafnence. greater than in dress, and to look round the Bus de la Paix at present gives every nno interested in clothes something to think *I. We remember the beginning of each new slason, and its crowd of buyers. so many of them with unmistakable accents: we notice the emptines of some of the big signboards, and we emëtiber that once they tere names that were unquestionably German. In the houses where French taste and management have always govern- el there is pardonable triumph, and all these houses hope to reap the reward of their patriotism when peace comes again. What they mean to ask us to wear text autumn no one knows yet, but special em phasis is certain to be put on French styles. The rage for military things wil haya gene by, and there is every reason to hope that fashions will be graceful and feminin without being insipid and unpractical.
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In an essay on the effects of the war a student in a Yorkshire college the other day wrote:
"Before the war England was a land of pleasers, now it is a land of prayer. Surely the Kaiser is to blame for all this."
I heard this day from Mr. Parkin out of Huntingdonshire how certain rustic fellows of a village in those parts dit spread it about that the innkeeper was a German, having in mind under that cover to invade his beer cellars. Whereof he being warred did put jalap into his beer, and so these reysterers come and swill to their very grievous undoing,
ORDER FOE JAPAN. A Petrograd despatch to the Ox Asahi saya it is minted there, on what appears to be good authority, that a steam- chip company in Odessa has decided to place an order with certain Japanese slipbuilding companies for the construc lien of some passengers boats of large type. This order will include eight. A 1 steamers for service between the Crimea and the Caucusus, and another onder which is under consideration includes several steamers that are intended for a foreign run. Japanese shipbuilders agents sor in Odessa are working up plans in co- operation with Russian engineers,
HONGKONG YOLUNTEER CORPS.
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JOINED,
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Pte. K. Brayshing from 8.8.13 to 15.9,18, 14.8.15 to 14.8.15. Gr. C. A. Stanford.. Pte. J. C. Owen 22.8.15 to 22.9.15. Gunner, W. G. Sewell from No. 1 Section: Artillery Battery to Lett Section M. d. Co.,
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TRANSFER.
PARADES.
Parades for Wednesday, 11th instant:-
6. a.m.-The following members of Bight Section M. G. Co. Ptes. Bel- tran, Cnstiko, Hart, Julyan, Johnson, Place, Remedios, Silva and Tangap Musketry Instruction on Kennedy Road Range. Service Hifles to he carried. Corp). Grimes, R.E., will attend.
is only some 7,000 per month, he hopes on to be able to dal with larger quan of the lather proded will probably be litres. It is satisfactory to note that so n used in the roanufacture of lots, anddlery an assoute, ments for the British an Aftici feres.
THE SHELL ARMY.
COOPERATION OF BIG FIRMS.
The big London stores are proposing a committer among themselves for the pur pose of releasing for war munition work all the mechanics they can possibly spara from their staffs.
Mr. John Lawrie, of William Whiteley, Limited, has pointed out that the firms were hoping to co-operate and interchange mechanics to do the necessary pairs t their works. For instance, if Harrod's one day were doing repairs and vere short of lathes they could come to us and wi would do what we could to help theni. We hope that many other firms will join in the scheme,”
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£57,000,000 WORTH OF ALIEN PRO. PERTY IN ENGLAND.
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The finding of billets or fragments of shell in the body by means of the X-rays has become possible through a new inven tion.
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When a patient is examined by means of the ordinary Xrays a Ingment of metals in the body appears as a black
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GRAVING DOOK-787' by 86' by 84' 6": Pumps Empty Dock in 2-3/4 hours.
conditions for painting ships with most eflent resalts.
throughout the Shops ranging to 100 Tons,
50-Ton Hgomilic TESTING MACHINE for Chain, Wire Ropes, Hivats, vie
ubject on the scre, and no indication of 1FREE PATENT SLIPWAYS taking vessels up to 8,000 tons displacement, providing the depth at which it lies is given. The new devies produes an image in relief 100-Ton ELECTRIC CRANE ON QUAY ELECTRIC OVERHIAD CRANES.
a stereoscopic similar to that men in photograph: the interior of the body is seen in its true perspective
An X-rays tube of special design is en- Officer on duty-Capt. Scott. :. Orderly Officer until 12th inet.-Lt. Danby,ployed which produces two beans the same Orderly Sergt.until 12th inst-8gt. Silas
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G. E. STEWART, Captain,
Adjutant, H.K.V. Corps.
NOTICE T:4 Mt. Austin Men's Society has arranged to hold a short entertainment of Wednesday evening, 11th August, in the Rescation Hall, 316. Austin Barracks, at 746 pm. The entertainment is open to all.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE,
GUARDS
British
Wednesday, August 11th,
Sergt. and 4 men
•Portuguese,k
In Fleet Street I met Mr. Eves' son Jack, and with him to the Cheshire Chease tavern, where we ate a stake pudding, as good a pudding, I think, as I ever ate. unly for it having no oysters in it, not Jack Eves tells me of being the season. my Lord Northcliffe, how when he did Chinese publish last month his great manifestoe Indian against my Lord Kitchener, be would have a like manifestoe in the Times news sheet;` but in this his editor did withstand him stoutly, and they came to high words over it, but it ends in my Lord giving way. So now 'tis agreed that when my Lord would speak his mind very boldly, this he shall do in his Mail but in the Times only to
-printed milder words of the like tenour. Which says Eres, is like my Lord selling to his customers a moggin of neat brandy for penny and a soggin ef brandy and water for id,
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O.C. Ciuard, Sergeant Major Roylance.
Thunday, August 1st
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distance apart, as the eyes, giving two images du the screen, each of slight different perspective. By neems of a special eyepiece, which forms the most important part of the invention, these images are combined and gim the effect described.
THE NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
Syren and Shipping shows how scri- owly the war, has affected the position of the Norddeutscher Lloyd. It is reckoned that a total loss of £4,000,000 in trathe reeipts has beer sustained, of which £2,300,000 is in respect of North American tride. Against in income cf. £3.047400 for 1013, after ducting cost of chal. wages, etc., it is estimated that the total for 1914 did not exceed £1,450,000, No dividend is possible, against & per cent
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The details for Friday's Quad are altered for the previos,phis, and deprecin 66 HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,"
D.C. Guard, Chief Inspector Mason. Friday, August 10tk
and stand as follows:- British Portuguesa. ** Chinese .......
expenses, interest;
.... Sergt. and 7 meh ti probably required 2205.000, there
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would seem to be a deficit of £585.000,
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The company's steamera Inid sp at central
**** 0. C. Guard, Crown Sergeant Watt.
ko Saturday, August Ulb.
Sergt. and British Chinese. Portuguese Indian .....
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porte must be deteriorating it a rate far WHICH ARE REPLETE WITH ALL THE LATEST AND MOST UP-TO-DATE
excess of the normal, and the cost of witaming stand-by crews is heavy Four seaters of the fleet hive been cap tured at se since the outbreak of war,! fire were scited on entering British ports alter the outbreak, four were detained in
The promoters of the National Egg Collection for the Wounded, who have collected up to date nearly five million C Champion resigns on leaving the overs British jorts pu the outbrent d new-laid eggs, and who require no fewer than 70.000 per day to meet the deviauds made u them, appeal for assistance in the work either in money or kind.
Colony.
F. C. JXI,-
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war, one was detained in the United King
Stian ports.
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dom, and thres were detained in Egy 1A, DES VŒEUX,