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WEATHER REPORT.
On the lot at 11.35 am-Pressure has in- aressed moderately prer N. Chins and decreased The elsewhere, especially over S. Japan, anti-cyclone has moved into the Pasific to the N.E. of Hokkaido; the northera depression now covers 8. Japan and an ill-defined area of low pressure occupies the China Sea..
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FORECAST
(E. & 8.E. winds, Hougkong & Neighbourhood light to moder
Late; fair.
(Light variable winde, protably Formosa Ukannel
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CHIPSRING,
British BLT., Walker, 19th September-Weihaiwei 15th September, General--Jardine, Matheson & Co.
CHOFU MARU, Japanese ste.. 1,053, 0. Orii, 8th September Hongay 6th September, Coal-Jardine, Matheson Co.
CuDYSANO, British str", 1,421, Holmswood, 1th September-Shanghai 11th Sep- tember, General-Jardine, Matheson & Co.
DrSWENT, British str., 1,060, Midgely,
16th September-Saigon 11th Septom bor, Rico and General-Order." FASANG, British str.; 1,410, Perkins, 19th September-Ilnilo 15th September, Sugar-Jardino, Matheson & Co. HONGWAN I, British str., 2,060, G. King
horn, 13th September-Straits 7th September, General. Order. ITOLA, British str., 3,402, R. S. B. Butter, 17th September-Colombo 4th Sept. General David Sassoon & Co. KALEONG, British ar.. 987, J. B. Evans, 20th September-Haiphong 19th Sep
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Canton 9th September, General-Chinese.
str.. 1,522, Q. KWANGTAH, Chinese
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Cape St. James MANAPOURI, British str., 1,288, Maxwell, Aparri .........
10th September-Moji 4th September, Dagupan Coal-Order.
Manila! NIPPON MARU Japanese str., 2,959, A. Legaspi........................ Toika, 19th September-San Fran Taleban ...... cisco 21st August, General-ToyoПolle Kiser Kaisha. PAOTING, British str., 1,072, F. M. Dillon, 20th September Tsingtau 14th Sep- tember, Salt-Butterfield & Swire. PINGSLEY, British str., 4,922, Brown, 18th
Shanghai 15th September, General -- Butterfield & Swire. PROMETHEDA, Norwegian str., 1,027, 0.
Yaien. 19th September-Bangkok 12th September, Rice.--Thoresen & Co. SAINT EGBERT, British str., Aitkin, 18th September-Manila 15th September, General-Order. BINKIANO, British str., 1,816, C. & Wil- liams, 20th September-Shanghai 18th September, General.-Butterfield Swire.
SIR RICHARD AwDay, British str., 1,235, H. Tindle, 20th September Ching wantao 13th September, Coal-Dod well & Co.
TAINEL MARU, Japanese str., 2,102, T. Horiuchi, 16th September Cheloo
8th September, General-Mitsui Bus san Kaisha
TAISHUN, Chinese str., 1,216. Westerlund,
20th September-Shanghai 16th Bop- ember, General -Chinese. TANSAN MARU, Japanese str., 1,930, 19th September-Port Courbet 18th Sep tember, Coal-Misai Busson Kaisha TELENA, British str., 3,142, J. A. Thack- ray, 14th September-Shanghai 10th September, Ballast.-Asiatic Petro- leum Co. TEIRESTAS, British str., 4,822, D. Robinson. September 15th, Singapore Eeptem ber 9th, General.--Butterfield & Świre. UNHAI MARU No. 4, Jap. str., 1,910, K. Koroshima, 14th September-Karateu 7th September, Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha.
WADA MARU, Japanese str., 2.923. Asai, 10th September-Moji 13th Septern- ber, Coal-Order.
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LORD HALDANE AND NATIONAL SERVICE,
[DY ARNOLD WHITE IN THE
DAILY MAI
*** Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens.Genesis xlix,, 1
Lord Haldane, O.M., as his Maker ara His lor - him, is a multiple personality.
The ship is the product of a long peace, attempted re-entry of Lord Baldune inco public 'ife in war time justifies melari choly apprehensions and calls for the exer tion of whether wisdom or vigour in left to independent men. I object to Lord the Haldane's recent contribution Nation. Either he was paid for writ- If he ing the article or he was not paid. was paid it is hard on working journalists to be called on to pay their share of £5,000 a year which is paid to Lord Haldane to punish him for his advice to the nation and for his administration of the War Office Gehazi did not exeel Lord Haldane.
to
If Lord Haldane was not paid for the Nation article the case is no better. The man chiefly responsible for plunging our. country unprepared into war with Get- many satirises the British public for not i insisting that the unrest of Europe should be the foremost subject of political consideration." In the face of Lord Haldane's advice, how could the nation e- visage the unrest of Europe Fli lordship denounces democracy for being un- ready to devote the nation's energies to secure its future in peace any mare than He tells democrary that it was in war suffering from an indisposition to re- reffect," and in consequence was not di posed to listen to the few who preached." As a preacher, Lord Haldane commanded The effects of his sermons a high entary. are recorded on totabstones and crosses in Flanders.
THE ASS AND THE RIDER.
From trusting in our strength and fer getting Thoo.
From all thoughts and acts which hinder Thy gracious purposes for mankind,
WHAT HE HAS SAID.
The British War Minister, accopied as tho first authority in the Kingdom on war and the first authority in the kingdom on Germany's intentions, advised. Great Bri
tain as follows:-
..
The first stop to doing anything effec tire for developing the national basis of the Army was to cut something off the Regular Forces. And
Compulsory service is an idle dream of those who are amateurs at political things.
fit sone unless trained in body and mina for the burden that Britain will have fa bear until the dual trin.aph of liberty ovog despotism is established many, many year ahead.
England bas no use for the three Lord Haldanes.
The adoption of compulsory national service involves the punishment of Lord Haddane, the deprivation of his pension, and the association of his memory for sit time with the Order of Merit.”
GREAT BRITAIN'S PART IN THE STRUGGLE,
sneer at Lord Roberts, of whom Lord PARIS PROFESSOR'S CONSIDERED Haldane said:-
Lord Roberts has commanded troops with unbroken miccess, but the loading of troops is one thing, and the business f organising for war in time of peace is Another.
And again:-
JUDGMENT.
CONDITIONS. OF VICTORY,
Professor F. Guillotet, the
French
a letter And if my name should ever he mention scholar, haar stummy, in
printed in the Darly Chronicle, to the ed in the future, I should like people to any that I helped to bury conscription-great part which England is playing" in and in a deep gravel And again:
the War -→→→
The effort England is displaying," bo says, to so on foot a grout army com. mensurate with the task that lies before us
He (ford Haldane) could assure thes necting that the Continental chiefs of staff were mostly rational persons who were much less keen over the invasion fall, is, indeed, very groat. Le cannot b
other countries than some people among 11s supposed. And again:--
The thing I most devisa in to sea tier- many expand herself overseas and maki her beneficent influence that of a great and civilised natt in the distant parts of the worki. And again:
Few props here have learned more from German thought my Gorman history than 1 have, and I feel that I owe your country e.deep personal deh!.
measured from outside, and no doubt is very difficult to gauge for anyone but a few privileged beings who, by virtue of Lollies, hand access to special information,”
Speaking of the under-stimation of the efforts of Germany, the Professor says:
To ay mind the error was not mude by Elg'ishmen alone, but by too large, a section of Frenchmen and by official.
The huge contracts pending in America for uaitions, to speak of that only, might and ought to have been placed at the end of the summer of 1914, instead of the spring of 1935,
Russia
Lord Haldane has amply repaid to. Ger- It now many his "deep personal debt." remains for England to require from Lord Haldane the liquidation of his." deep portends for sonal debt to the country in which was born, which he has been paid to see and from which he still draws o pension 25,000 a year.
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Be that as it may, we have all to make
rentissness a19 quickly possible. The mistake is lengthening of the war, but I am not down- | hoaried myself, and have a stronger faith than ever in tho ultato success of our cause.
When Lord Haldane, O., was riding the strong ass of British democracy he clear thinking." plumed himself upon his Issachar John Bull, the patient ass, is as much surprised to hour Lord Haldane belabete him for not having told his portly
Nine out of ten people capable of in. rider in what direction he should go as the prophet Ealaam was to hear his private telligent thought are now convinced that Lord Haldane is no fool, compulsory national service is neccessary to I reveal no secrets that are donkey talk. He is a genius. His mind may be fully as win this war. capacious as Mr. Asquith says it is, and rightly preserved by the Consor's depart Lord Haldane's sagacity cannot mistakement, but being more or less independented the mood and intention of British derio of newspaper news by constantly traveling We have discovered that Lord up and down England, I say, with a sense Haldane regards us as his own private of responsibility, from knowledge, not from donkey. When we kick our asinine pro-hearsay, that compulsory national service
matrons; pensity will explain to our late ruler our is absolutely neccesary for the salvation c
this country's maids, true feelings.
children.
cracy.
With the exception of those who profit by the war, we middle-class asses are taxed. dispense with holidays, are racked with care, are bullied into economies, and then find that we are the butt and scorn of a pensioner.
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THE COMING OFFENSIVE. Such optimism has grown month by month, in proportion as I saw the over- sanguine views of some friends bere damp- As for us. Frenchmen, Englishmon, by the trend of events Italians, our day for a general offensive movement ought to be, it simple, gout seuse, the mument when the Russians cease Lo give up ground and make a notermined stand on a prepared ground. The same general offensive seems quite as imperative in the improbable case of the Russian fin being broken and their armies compelled to hasten back, instead of gradually reti:- ing as they do.
It has been our weakness, I imagine, a inter not to measure widely
What are the objections to it? told by detractors of Lord Kitchener that his lordship's desire is to win the war by the Kilchener Army, and that, therefore, he is opposed to compulsory national ser více. There is not a word of truth in this in the
It is certain that Lord Kenyugh the field of adverse possibilities. Lord Haldane says that "this war may statement,
The worst of undue optimism is that it in certain events help us to better habits. chener or any other War Minister who
unwittingly takes off the edge of the fierce If so, there will be some consolation for occupied his private room at Whitehall is the frightful suffering which it is inflict and would be thinking more of his country endeavour, which ought never to know nu
instant of remission." We are a prac.than of himself. I do not believe in th ing. That is well said, tical people. When an emergency comes necessary solfishness or pettiness of our pub- Anlie men, with one or two marked excep we act with shrewdness and decision.
That emergency tions, but I can well understand any War emergency has arrived. is the nature of the punishment to be in Minister at the present moment saying to himself, "What is the cost of a soldier in flicted on Lord Haldane, O.M.
Democracy does not understand the dis England, and what will the effect be in the taxpayers of adding millions to cur tinction between ideals and illusions.
It is improbable that present Army?"
In England impeachments became ob- Bolete when the principle of Parliamentary responsibility of Ministers became part of
Since there the British Constitution.
CLOSED DOORS.
English fighters will be content with the French wage of id. a day and a chunk of State tobacco once a week, with certain, other minor advantages thrown in.
Sources
CONDITION OF SUCCESS.
It is not false to say that endurance, money, and a greater supply of general re aro the tokens of ultimate But it is success for the Allied causė. true only if you qualify the statement thus
1.The Allies will gather military might on a scale and of the nature that is bound to ensure success on the field.
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2.-As a mere military decision, to be thorough and final, wouki Ekely entail un- told millions of human lives lost, tho economic factors will come into play as soon as the military superority of the Alliance on the main theatres is demon- etrated unmistakably to all eyes.
no Constitution and no Parliament, in the
If the War Minister is opposed to com- gense of the word used before the Constitu- tion was abolished by the Parliament Act, pulsion, it is probable that he shrinks from it is necessary to restore the principio of cutting down the pay of the Regular Army, impeachment of public officers for miscona course that might be thought necessary duct while in office. Perhaps the Daily in order to equalise matters between sol- Chronicle will issue another penny pamph-diers who joined the voluntary Army sad
Such evidence of superiority, Professor With deference to those who hold this Guillctel thinks, is far from being let to extol the character, the honesty, and those who are compelled to carve the wisdom of Lord Haldane...:
No more men attained now, though potential superiorl view, it is not convincing. than are necessary need be called up, anity exists, on condition that delay doon DAĞ confer upon the foe the possibility of un In England attainder was completely those who are called up should be un
We could replace every doing in detail the several organizations abolished in 1870, the year of the Franco- married men, German WAY. Attainder and impeach married man by two single men without of their antagonists." ment have been abolished solely because much increasing the cost of pay. But two the rifles and equipments would be required British democracy, like Issachar,
Therefore we can add strong ass, couches between two burdegs instead of one. One burden is the lawyer politician, who nearly a million single men to the Army without decreasing the present rate of by making the worse appear the better rea son, captured, saddled, bitied, and rode pay, and we should save much of the enor The other burden is the ignormous burden that we are laying up for our ance of the public as to what goes on be- selves in the shape of widows and orphans' I know of an old, undersized, and rup hind closed doors, and their ignoraneo as allowances. to their own true interests.
When a community has developed be tured married recruit who was a short He draws yond the pioneer stage, it requires sometime in the Volunteers.
£2 10s. d. a week in pay and family allow thing more than the driving force of energy to conquer the soil and to grapple with the ances. A single man draws 103. 3d. & week Therefore, if we Wisdom, experience, pay and allowances. nature. forces of and honesty are necessary, though these discharge the ruptured old man we could qualities in rulers can only be obtained pay two healthy bachelors with his money.
Our rulers scream from the disinterested,
the ass.
We try to be
A most valuable stratum
to us all to be disinterested. disinterested.
MILITIA.
The professor concludes his letter with an expression of his pleasure at hearing of what is being done in this country, and adds:-
Ger.
It is a comfort for those around me,
about the real work you are doing, whose means of information aro scanty, man agents, sometimes half-consciously, 1 am afraid, and very often like guileles parrots repeating the lesson which has been hissed across the frontier through neu- tral channels in any sharps and trebles, are assailing our ears with doleful wail ings: England is slow, England thinks it is still possible to wage war by proxy," and what not! Useless to add, I take uo ability your grand achievement, whose the cudgels and vindicate to the best of my ripening fruits are soon to be seon...
THE STUBBORN TOMMY
The British War Minister, be he Lord
So also have the taxpay- But conviction is harder as time goes. of ruling capacity is waiting to be tapped. Kitchener cr any other, has to think f
Still, compulsory service is necessary One of these days the thunder of English- This straturo consists of the disinterested these things,
Let
victories is bound to dispel all doubts, people who have no desire to enter publicers. life. Few politicians can be trusted to to national safety, here and now,
Why should not the old militia mirsele will be patent to all. maintain independence unless they have national service come only for the term of That is my rooted belief, and then the "The tribute you pay to our gallant independent means truism which is in the war.
Lord Haldane in system, which stood us in good stead for cessantly ignored.
around thousand of years, be restored neoldiers goes to my heart. Considering the power brought us, saddled and bridled, to
modern lines? King Alfred began it; Visituation, they have done well, but not any the edge of the precipice.
When Parliament paid itself and the count Haldane abolished it one hot August better than your Tommics, whose stub. born stand means so much till their num British people were robbed of the power afternoon. Germany chortled. The essence
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"All thinking Frenchmen realize what splendid awakening of the national spirit is taking place in England, where the magnitude of the struggle cannot but be fully realised by now."
of exercising second thoughts by the aboli-of the militia system was that men wheters enable them to push on. tion of the Second Chamber, the restors-were not wanted were not called. Govern- tion of impeachment and attainder of pailment is the only judge of what men are wanted for fighting on land and on sea, servants of the State became necessary,
On Sunday, January 3rd, the Arch but the people are also interested, if they bishops of Canterbury and York issued a lock ahead, in preventing the perpetuation The survival form of humble prayer to Almighty God.cf our race by males who have lurked, shirk On the day appointed for intercession on od, and worked the oracle.
It is reported in Italy (says Mr. Sinclair behalf of the nation and Empire, under of Britain is now inseparable from the ea-.
actment of compulsory service. the heading "For deliverance from sin,'
We are on the raw edge of eternity. Pooley in a message to the Daily Express the cation was invited to ask Jehovah to
Nothing we can do can prevent the surfrom Rome) that the Kaiser, when he made deliver us
From all those sins whereby as a nation,vival of eighty million Germans. Any id his recent peace proposals to Russia, also that peace this year or next can end the requested Holland to act as mediator, we have grieved Thee.
Therefore English tion of Holland, so close to the chief scous. From pride, boasting, and self-suffi-controversy between the Huns and the pointing out that the geographical post-
English is illusion.
ciency.
From covetousness, worldliness, and iamanhood must be mated with English of the war, precluded any guarantees of womanhood for the purpose of holding its territorial integrity, especially taking difference to the needs of others.
future freedom and the wide command of into consideration the ever-changing neces the sea English manhood cannot breefsities of the military situation.
From drankenness, impurity, and all manner of self-indulgence.