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SOOIAL.IND POLITICAL HOVE OË By CHAR. J. HALOOMBE Formerly of the Impial Chinese Custozas Service, Author of "The Mystis Flowery Land," eta.
THE VOLUME, which sonsists of di T
Pages, and includes a Skötab Plas
of historical interest showing the dispos tion of the Forces at the battle of Kwellin,
is dedicated to Bir BOBERT
G.C.M.G., and Dr. A. RENATA.
Its description of Chinese
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Customs and Superstitions, combined
THE DAI NIPPON BREWERY
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COTTON IN WAR, WHY IT SHOULD BE KEPT OUT OF GERMANY.
Sir William Ramsay, the distinguished chemist, wrote to the fines a month ago as follows:-
The Marquess of Crowe, in replying to Lord Charnwood's question regarding supplying cotton to the enemy, said:-
Knowing what we do of the extraordinary kill and pertinacity of the German chemists, it would naturally not do to assume abat no substitute, even if less on venient, can be found in all cases. I do not say that to minimize the importance, of keeping raw' cotton' unil cotton waste out of Germany, but I do not go so far as my nablo friend in speaking of necosity.
it
NOBLE TRIBUTE TO THE
EMPIRE BUILDER. BUST OF MR, JOSEPH CHAMBER-
LAIN UNVEILED.
hity, he would have seen, "as we see, that there are moments when criticism was not only useless but absolutely mischievous, and one might be sure he would have thrown himself whole-heartedly, without ro serve, doubt, or questioning, into the national effort in which men of all parties. and of all shades of opinion, were working together with unfailing unity in order to bring about the result which unity wo was paid lasicould give. (Hçar, hear))-
MR. BALFOUR'S FINE SPEECH.
EMPIRE BUILDING.: --
A doble tribute to Mr. Joseph Chamber month by Mr. Balfour in unveiling at the lains Empire builder Guildeall a bust of the givt statesman.
All the members of the Corporatism; inberlain contributed more than all his con There was one work to which Mr. Cham- their righ robes, either of scarlet or of temporaries, and that was the building up blus, were assembled in their Council of the cation feeling of Empire along Chamber for the ceremony. The shining all the free self-governing Dominions. head of a precession into the chamber, mace and the sword, were carried at the They hardly realised how great and new and with the Lord Mayor walked Mrs
was this particular work of Empire build- Chamberinju, the widow, and with Me
ing of which he was the greatest of archi Eects. Balfour the Lady Mayoress.
is quite the appropriate hour for erre- monios such as this by showing that never was there a time when the memory of great
It was absolutely new and history
had no parallel.
Traus-Pacific shipping from the parts / Ferted into a nitro-cellulose by appro- patriotie statesmen should be nearer mods not forget, that they owed the spirid which
Haldane. As the beginning of the war The origin of this belief is Lord
useless to make coltou contraband, personal and political friends, including an Empire in which the most important ele be gave as his opinion that it would be
Mr. Austen Chamberlain and other mem- bers of the family were present, with many
The history of colonisation was a very which the Germans could use. there were so many substitutes for it
uld one, but the idea that there should be Lord Selborne. Mr. Bouar Law, Mr. Hencyments should be free, self-governing com- This is absolutely incorrect; and it is Chaplin, the Speaker. Mr. Jesse Collings,munities, in whose domestic affairs the well that the nation should understand Mr. Walter Long, Mr. E. Goulding, Mr. Mother Country should not interfore, the master, which is not difficult to state. Pike Pease, and Lord Charles Leres bound together by one broad system of law, simply. She will sail from Yokolianią direct
There are two classes of explosives—ber a beautiful display of orchids was absolutely navel, and a eration scarcely ford. On the table of the Council Cham-sentiment, and constitutional policy, was for Seattli on or about September 22nd. propulsive explosives, which expel a arranged.
The delay in the departure of the vessel for charging shots fired from a gun. The gree, Mr. Bulfour spoke of personal and Lonofore our eyes.
bullet from a gun; and explosives used Eloquent and felicitons is a high t
dream of by our grandfathers. (Hear, from Seattle was due to the congestion propulsive explosive consists mainly of public ties with his late colleague, and dis-
hear) Yet it was now in actual oper of cargo at the Pacific port. The follow-nitro-erlluke; cordite is the British-used-at-one of the question whether this Empire than this,
All history showed ng from the Seattle Sunday Times of the propulsive ammunition, and that used by
no greater dealore.juspired commption of--- 19th-ulio shows the congestion on the other nations does not essentially differ Pacific Shop, and the large amount of from cordite; all contain nitro-elulose.
lant men from Canada, Australia. New When they welcomed contingeefs of gal- ourgo awiting shipment to Vladivo Estock:-
Zealand, and from the Cape, they could Now any form of wondy fibre can be con-
ads say, from bale-cotton develops t priate chemical treatment. But powder!
GREATEST OF ARCHITECTS.
had produced this marvellous resute to much higher pressure, and causes a much. higher muzzle velocity in a bullet than
No part of the noble tribute that be paid grent polities! imagination, which had that political moderation, combined with was listened to with more profound attenmade the British race the greatest consti- powder made: say, from straw. Ponders tion than that which recalled Mr. Chamtation builders in the world.
ads from wood pulp have an inter-berlain's work of Empire building that remember that when they saw this novelty, Les then mediate position.
Powd is made from work of which, he declared, he was the this experim, meeting with such a mea artificial silk, de, cellulose squirted greatest of architects." - And none was re-sure of success, it was due mot merely, ta into fibre, would also differ from cotton seived with more condial agreement than the spirit of the people at home and over- powder. On the other hand, the filing his statement of what would have been seas, bus to one man mor, than to any other of shells consists either of piere arid or Mr. Chamberlain's attitude at this crisis individual to the great statesman whos of trinitrotoluene substances not easily detonated, which can, therefore, courage and ardent determination that hear.)
-how he would have shown that serene memory They were celebrating, Clear, stand the cussion of being bred in a shell without exploding, but
ever distinguished him, and how he would. explode either in the air, when set off by which
have seen, as we all so that there are a fulminate detonator (a time-fuse), or
moments when criticism is not only useless on ingact will the grand or other solid but absolutely mischievous, and would object.
have thrown himself whole-heartedly into the national effort for unity in which men
of this North Cost, and particularly from Seattheto Vladivostock, is pyramid. ing at a rate as to tonnage which is staggering to the statisticism and the less than 39.000 tons of bailroad equipment must be moved from Seattle to the big Siberian ports during September and October. Frank Waterhouse Inc. is to handle this huge undertaking, and the carriers have been contructed "for.
But this hardly begins to tell the story of the remeadonis movement of Pacific commerce directly traceable to the European war. Through the Panama Carl from the Atlantic there is moving to the Pacific a tonungs in st. èl rails and other supplies purchased on account of the Russian Government that is estimated to be at least 30,000 tons
Through the Catal, and over rail lines to Seattle, and thence to Vladivostock, hirge consignments of railroad cars, lucomotives and steel rails are BOW moving. Bussia, with the White Sea
soon to be closed to trade by ice, turned to the contineut of America for succour
Every imaginable commodity the shape of railroad equipment, barbed wire, vehicular supplies, ster! rails and the like, which
be transported to
the Pacific Coast.
can
Pieric acid and
SA
T.N.T. are impor-i
sible propulsive namasition, for the that if used as a substitute for gun-cotton explosion is so violent and ineoutrollable the gun would-hurst,
hearts
of all parties and of all shades of opinion
are engaged.
-THE COMMON CAUSE.
would never have said, that he, and he He did not say, and Mr. Chümberlain nine, achieved this great feat. If the were so, tha grang British Empire could not saand: the Empire had got to all parts of only stood because
DON CANSON.
defensive war, hut_war_ also night stand for war-thear, hear)--
ME. A CHAMBERLAINS THANKK,
Nevertheless, if it was not When the white cover of the Inis was
the ervation of one man, yet if they looked Now, having fixed its propulsive removed at the close of Mr. Balfour's hand to this great work, they were bound round at the statesmen wh had lent their minition, each nation has designed its speech, thus striking, dearent, well-r-to say that in that noble rank Mr. Cham gun accordingly. The curtridge must be membered features of the state man wers berlain was first. appropriate charge of explosive; and the of a definite size, in order to hold the revealed again in white marble.
(Applause) sights mast correspond. If nitrocellulofirst with tears in his voice, becauss
Mr. Austen Chambertin, who spoke at acter of its constitution, stood for peace, The British Empire, from the very char- made from material other than cotton is "very moving eremony, praised the admiration, sometimes with a sneer.
this
as had been admitted by all, sometimes in Vladivostock, is to be sent in transit from substituted for gun-cotton a weaker ex-artist, Mr. Derwent Wood. for the worthy the British Empire when it was attacked But plosion will result; the bullet will not presentment, and in thanking the Co. If we lud the ships-Thus began charges being equal. This involves alter-reminded them that, though his father » be propelled with the same velocity, the oration for the honour they had done, on important figure in world steamshiping he sights of every gun which uses the home was in Birmingham, he was born in transportation in analysing the present weaker explosive. If, on the other band, the City of London, and began his busi- unparalleled situation on-the Pacific.
What he menent was that with every is employed, the chambers of the rifles, a larger quantity of the weaker explosive
nos life within a hundred yards of e Eastern Canada and in the Eastern ularged, the sight, hing left unaltered.
field pieces, and other gains must be
Guildhall, States of this country working night and day making cars for Russia, steel rails can be made; but it is obvious that it is It is not denied tha: such alteratious for her single track Siberian line-the impossible to make such alterations on main artery through which must move the field of battle; it would mean practic hereafter, during a great part of the ally earning he whole armies of the year, the supplies-which she so badly needs in her present emergency-and with the forers of the Kaiser Now knocking at the gates of Warsaw, there is a chance for American mercantile marine such as has never been presented in history.
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THE RECENT MISHAP TO THE "MINNESOTA.”
U.S. INSPECTORS EXONERATE CAPTIAN FROM ALL BLAME. The Seattle Sunday Times of the 18th ultimo says
In a decision handed dowa i United States Inspectors Bion D. Whitney and K. A. Turner yesterday afternoon, Capt. Thomas W. Garlick, master of the big Great Northern steamship inuente 18 exonerated from my blame in the ground- ing of the liner in the Inland Sea. last April.
As a real of an investigation, they find that the accident was canised by w very unusual set of the current," which could not be foreseen. The inspectors hold that every precaution; hød been taken in navigating the ship, her courses being checked frequently.
Captain Garlick, was navigating the vessel at the time in order to give his | Japanese pilot a much-needed rest.
JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA. CORDIAL THANKS FOR RECEPTION
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enewy,
Aliering-the-raw-material for propal: sive ammunition would also involve after- ug all the plant in the factories which which produce gun-cotton.
British men of science, too, while not
He, too, sounded the deeper note of Em- well rendered in the past that is now the tile and of the memory of great services basis of our strength for the titanie task of the present.
TWO QUALITIES VARIOUSLY STATED.
Long revealed two of Mr. Chamberlain's Both Mr. Bonar Law and Mr. Walter
ent terms. great qualities. fut stated them in differ
To Mr. Bonar Law it seemed that he
denying skill and pertinacity" to Gerrard, and ten qualities, which are very the word "extraordinary" Their skill sides width of view and power of intellect, man chemists, would object to the use of far, and which is combination have never been found in any other statesman:-Be the French, Italian, and British chemists; is less rather than greater than that of
to which we are necustained, he had also doubted; but their pertinacity often leads combination with the others which gave that they are pertinacious cannot bo power of organization, rarely found in
them to an appalling waste of effort, so him the power of inducing other people in that their lack of original thought to do things and to do them himself, and often causes tiens to be pertinacious in that is the quality which wou'd have been wrong directions. However, this is F
so valuable to us all. should have made a bugbear of what our trifle. But it is a pity that Lord Crewn Allies and ourselves assess at its proper value.
war.
Mr. Walter Long were his magnificent The two qualities which most-impressed- courage and his ever-failing loyalty to bis friends.
THE CHANGED HUN,
WHAT THE KAISER SAID TO HIS TROOPS.
Some interesting notes taken from Ger- man officers who have been made prisoners
Fourth and Twenty-first German Army are sent by the Morning Post Petrograd correspondent, is stated that thes Corps have been practically annihilated in the Galician fighting. Army iow almost wholly consists of the The German Landsturm, all the active army having
been killed.
The Emperor William, when visiting Frankfort-on-the-Main to give a send-off to a butch of Landsturm troops, is adid to have spoken to the following effecti:-
We have staked everything on a card, and if our enemies win Germany will cease to exic. It may be that this war was in error on our part, but it is too late do speak of that. It is our duty now to save the Fatherland,-and-you- must do it,
The Russians, adds the correspondent are naturally extremely suspicious of anything said by German prisoners, but there is no mistaking the significance of
Instead
I have confined myself intentionally to And as to the effect of his Empire-build only one aspect of the cotton questioning, Mr. Long brought it completely home the tremendous change in their bearing but undoubtedly we have been supplying to the corporation by relating his experi-since the early days of the war. our enemies with the means of destroying ences in Canada, where he heard on every of hearing themselves our troops ever since the beginning of the hand that "Mr. Chamberlain has made demigods
45 intractable the British Empire for us Canadian prisoners nowadays appear to regard among blackbeetles, German reality, binding us to the Mother Country themselves as almost normal specimens of with bonds that cannot be broken. ever, these Canadians then added, time comes to give evidence of our feeling, you will find we shall be there.' Lang reminded us, stands fulfilled. time has come, and their promise, Mr.
MERCHANT VESSELS IN
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The British Commercial Attaché at Yokohama has forwarded a memorandurv showing the number and tonnage of mer chant vessels which have been ordered Japan in the present year. In all forty; from the leading shipbuilding yards in five steamers, having a gross tonnage of 64,000 tons, have been ordered. tion, there are under construction a pap In addi- dredger (capacity 600 tons), a bucket dredger (capacity 500 tons), a steel tag boat, and three concrete block carrying pontoons,
A FRANK CORRESPONDENT.
UNPLEASANT TRUTHS TO HIGH GERMANS.
the
The
MR. BALFOUR'S TRIBUTE.
HOW MR. CHAMBERLAIN WOULD HAVE ACTED
TO-DAY.
their superior airs and brutal manners. humanity; even the officers have dropped Among the Austrian prisoner officers who passed through Kieff recently, was Count Potocki, one of the largest landed pro- prietors in Galicia, with great estates in the neighbourhood of Przemysl.
FOR WOMEN MUST WORK, HUNDREDS GIVING LONG HOURS
Mr. Balfour, who was received with cheers, said he accepted the invitation to
FOR THE NATION. unveil the bust of Mr. Chamberlain glad ly and with pride, both on personal and. public grounds. For years he was bound will be a tremendous march of women "In the streets of London to-day there with him in the closest lies of friendship, anxious and willing to do war work, but and as he looked back to that long connec-
missing from their ranks will be notable tion he was proud to think that he had members of the sex who have been doing been the colleague of a man whose services their bit without a break for publicity to his country had been so great and since the war began, wrote a woman
reader to the London Daily Graphic last There might be some who would think month. that the stress and crisis of an unexampled Some of the women bearing famous conflict was not the moment for retrospec-names in the feminist movement would tive memories, but he did not agree. There have to come from typhusstricken Serbia never was a time when the memory of if they wanted to march in to-day's great departed statesman should be nearer pageant, and others would have to relin. their bearts or when they could more ft-quish their posts Somewhere in France? tingly draw courage and inspiration from his example,
A correspondent of the Handelsblad stars that he dined at the headquarters of Gen-monorable. (Hear, hear.) eral Boehm Ermolli, where he was intro duced to the General and other highly- placed personages, including Prince Ege. Fürstenberg, Count Andrassy, the Presi- dent of the Hungarian Chamber, Herr von Bocthy, Count Esterhazy, General von Lindequist, and Count Lencheronski.
All these spoke in the highest terms of
"Then there are the hundreds of women Holland, which most of them had visited,
in the Civil Service who have no time and they asked the correspondent whether there was a favourable disposition towards had it been thrown upon him to deal with display.
How would Mr. Chamberlain have acted to-day to take part in the spectacular Weeks ago the call came: Who Germany in the Netherlands..
the difficulties which now confronted thy will work from 9am till 10 p.m. ? The correspondent expressed himself country? There could be no doubt or hesi There was a unanimous response at ong Katyk, the use of poisoncua gas, and
There was st
nust-office I know of, and not only are the women working at this high pressure one man who knew him, or knew of him, mans in excuse for these causes of disfavour thar he knew exactly how Mr. Chamber-We look forward to the summer other matters. The Austrians and Ger who would, for an instant, hesitate to say every day, but Sunday is a day of labour
as well. remarked as usual, "It is war," adding lain would behave at the
present always for cut outdoor recreations," said that, as Germany had to win or perish, crisis.
They knew he would have one of these post-office women to me yes they could not be very scrupulous.
shown all that serene and ardent patriotism
courage terday, as we are tennis enthusiasts. The which evar white frocks we made in the spring aro distinguished him They kney that, bors controversialist though he was, practised even time to look at them, she added with packed away in their boxes; we haven't in all the political warfare which charac
2 smile. As long as we can hold out, terised the vigorous life of a free commay do the work it is our bit,"
with the insight it gives into politini ONGKONG WEEKLY the Japanese Vice-Consul at Sydney says frankly, and referred to the Lusitania, the tation as to the answer.
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In a letter of thanks to Me, Holman for the Government's hospitality to the officers and cadets of the Japanese Training Squadron that seldom in his life has he had such & pleasant outing..
"The officers and cadets, he says, "enjoyed themselves immensely. The arrangements made for the comfort of the visitors and their conveyance were admirable. One of the most surprising
and gratifying features was the enthusiastic greeting which the special train. received from practically every house and every individual within sight of the railway. It was an experience which the whole party will never forget."
Holland, they declared, had nothing to fear from Germany, who would always be glad to have a neutral well-disposed Hol land on the coast in the event of the next
war.