Page
TEN
INTIMATIONS
VICTOR RECORDS
which should be in every home.
84415-As a Beam O'er the Face of the Waters
64103-At the Brook...
64001-Ave Maria.
64480-Because (d'Hardelot).
87186-Parted (Tosti)
87169-Serenade Espagnole (Ronald).
81888-Gems from Robin Hood, No. 2....
.(Violin)
('Cello)...
TEM HONG KONG DAILY PHINS CATURDAY, NOVEMBEE OTH, 1010.
Caruso Light Opera Co. 85434-a Sicilian Vespers-Ballet Selection... Band of H.M. Coldstream
Guards b Sicilian Vespers-Selection...
17759-a The Four Flags Morch
do.
THE NEW BUDGET,
INCOME-TAX 40 PER CENT. HIGHER,
Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards Navy
o Wake Up, England! ---March 17775-a Highlanders! Fix Bayonets ! 7 Soldiers of the King.
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS:
do.
Army
IMPORT DUTIES.
по
EXPENDITURE,
| External Advances. Hamilton
Pre and Pool Moratorium Stuart Bills.
Ordinary National Services... |Food Supplies, Minor Items,
and Contingencies.
MOUTRIE'S.
ASAHI BEER.
THE DAI NIPPON BREWERY*
ASANT
BEE
& CO. TOKIO
JAPAN.
OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERF.
SOLE AGENTS:
MITSU BUSSAN KAISHA.
HONGKONG.
NOTICE.
979
WE have REMOTED our Store to No.
4, WYNDHAM STREET (Flower Street).
GRACA & CO.
Dealers in
POSTAGE STAMPS, CARDS,
[31-6
"FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."
:
Sure Signs of Blood Impurity.
Total
REVENUE.
On Existing Basis of Taxa-
tion New Taxation whi Revenue from Postal Changes
war
£272,110,000!
30,024,000
GERMAN ENGINEERS IN
CHINA.
A GLANCE AT THEIR METHODS.
From 1912 to 1914 the German Govern ment spent large sums of money in China. mostly on behalf of work which would In benefit their engineering interests. the light of recent events we might hastily It conclude that it has been all wasted. is true that the millions spent at Tsingtao [BY PROFESSOR C. A. MIDDLETON
are a dead loss from Germany's point of SMITH, K.S03
view, although they will assist the other Eighteen months before the war com Powers to develop the Province of Shan- menced the writer was taken to task fortung. It seems impossible that this nation which has alternately insulted and de- stating that the Germans were doing every-ceived the Chinese can ever obtain respect from the Celestial. The German people thing possible to undermine British en-
have lost face." They have lost vast gineering interests in China. The care.
sums of money. But, despite these things, fully-considered words were subjected to
they continue, and after the war is over they will continue, to plot and schemc against the influence of Great Britain i China.
severe criticism at that time,
If any Englishnian now unde a reverse state ment, he would, justly enough, be writton down as either extremely ignorant or hopelessly insane.
PLACES
GERMANS IN HIGH
WHO ROB THE POOR.
FEDERAL COUNCIL AND FOOD FRAUDS.
Though the German Government is not unnaturaly doing its best to hush up the graver features of the great foodstuff scandal, there are still a few newspapers in Germany, it seems, which decline to be bribed into silence.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.
CORFS ORDERS BY LIBUT, COL. CHAPMAN, V.D.
PARADES.
1.Parades for to-day.
7 a.m.-Signalling, Section: Signalling
practice- al Headquarters. mainder, nil.
DETAIL.
2.-Gun Club Hili, Kowloon:-
On duty until 11th inst.: Sents Co. Officer on duty: Lieut. Won.. P. of W. Camp, Kowloon:-
On duty to-night: Centre Section
M.G. Co.
Officer on duty eut Wright. On day 7th inst. No. 1 See: Art. Batty. and Right. Sec. M.G, Co. Officer on duty: Lieut. Kennett. Orderly Sergeant until 11th inst.:
Sergt. D. S. Cooper. Norz.Greatconts will be carried lunrða
until further orders.
G. E. STEWART, pt, Adjutant, H. c.
NOTICE.
MOUNT AUSTIN MEN'S SOCIETY.-There will
be an entertainment in the Recreation Hall, 31. Austin Barracks, this evening, at 8 o'clock. An attractive programmie has been entirely arranged by Chinese ladies and gentlemen. The entertain- ment will be open n alt.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER RESERVES.
ORDERS BY MAJOR WAXEMAN, O.C.R.K.V.. With reference to Corps Order No. 80- Capt C Champkin is temporarily attached to Co. "A"
PARADES CANCELLED,
The Recruits drill ordored by Corps, Order No. 81 for Monday, the 8th inst, is cancelled.
The praction for Signallers ordered by Carps Order No. 81 for Monday, the 8th inst, is cancelled.
The principal items in the new Budget proposals introduced by Mr. McKenna areas follows:- Income-tax raised by 40 per cent. Supertax increased incomes ovor
£6,000. A special tax of 50 per cent. on
profits. Gluck Duties on
tda, bobacco, eocon, coffee, chicory, and dried fruits raised by Powell 50 per cent, and on motor-spirit and
patent medicines by 100 per cent. Hollman
A new ad valorem duty of 33 1-3 per cent, McCormack
on imported motor-cars, motor-cycles,
large engineering schemes out here are in It is true that at present many of the cinema filias, elocks, watches, musical Caruso
instruments, plate glass, and hats..
The Hunkow concession was abeyance. Abolition of half-penny postage and facts, which two and a-half years ago were £10,000,000 sterling had been promised
We are all of us, today, in possession of arranged soon after the war commenced six-penny telegrams; an increase in
Fortu- letter, parcel, telegraphic, and tele-known only to a few. Indeed, no one from a wealthy London firm,
then quite understood the problem which nately, the chief engineer of the scheme phonic charges. The national balance shoot for the year time has shown up so clearly. There were
is a Britisner. As the scheme progresses wig struck as follows:-
so many different factors, The diploma-ahont 15 British assistants and a great tists knew a great deal then-engineers deal of British machinery will be required. £190,000,000 have discovered these facts ry, a laborious The London firm cannot. at present, ex- 715,000,000 perusal of officiel papers and published port the gold, but it is certain that the 423,000,000 | speeches. Business people have been able fankow development scheme will progress
to explain things which, without a war,
when the war is over. It seems also ex- 36,000,000 would have been of little interest to tremely probable that the prodigious wast 170,000,000 people not in their own line of business, age of metals in Eumpe will lead to the and the publication of which, indeed, very desirable development of Chinn's 56,000,000 || might have injured their own careers. mineral wealth.-The Electrical Revita
In Hongkong there are practically only £1,500,000,000 three clubs. The largest is the Hongkong. Club, which was, until recently, frequent- ed by Europeans of all nationalities. There is the Institution of Engineers and 1,980,000 Shipbuilders, which is much more of a club than the engineering institutions in London. There were many Germann men Total (in round figures)... 305,000,000 Estimated deficit.....
1,285,000,000 bers of the institution before the war, At Estimated dead-weight dicht 2,200,000,000 a meeting held in this club the writer pointed out the truth, somewhat unpaint- NEW TAXES. IN DETAIL. - able to some of the members, that the un- The following is an account in greater scrupulous commercial methods of the Ger- detail of the new scheme of taxation :- ans in the Far East were not regarded
INCOME-TAX,
with complacency by all Britishers, either in the Colony or at home." Several British members frankly disliked any
One of these, the Berlin Forwarts, the allusion to such topics, and said so. They argan of the Socialist party, published have since generously congratulated the tables recently showing that a power writer that there are no German members ful group of contractors, by laying their during his year in office as president of plans astutely very early in the war, the institution. It is, of course, almost managed to corner such vast quantities of certain that there never will be any such food that by the end of last July they had members in this generation,
realised in exten profits £180,000,000- Unearned
Eligibility to these two clubs was not sufevery penny of which, as the Forwarts income... 2s. 6d. in £ 39 .8d. 89.
ficient. These insane German fire-eaters pointed out, was drawn from the blood Earned
must have their own Club Germania. The and sweat of the people."
BIOXALLERS. "THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH," inconte. 1. Od. in £ 2s. Id. 1s. old. thing itself was a thinly-veiled insult to
Practices will be held at Volunteer Head- (roughly) (roughly) that spirit of generosity which afforded The Frankfurter Zeitung, also, takes. Incomes of £180 and under were all Europeans membership of the other up the tale and makes the interest quarters on Tuesday, the Oth inst., Thure
a The clubs in formerly exempt from the tax
British colony. No othering revelation that it is the Federaly, the 11th inst., and Kniday, the 12th limit is now reduced to £130. All per- nationality was guilty of such an action. Council which is upholding this iniqui-inst., at 5.15 p.m. Uniform must be worn.
LIHUNG CHANG'S IMPRESSIONS.
tous system of robbery, thus crossing Those members in possession of Morse and Most of the renders of this journal wil! heavily the "t's and dotting firmly the Semaphore dags will bring same. still remember Li Hung. Chang's famous" of the Socialist journal's suggestion
Private W. F. Fincher having joined is Bismarck unburdened that mon in high places" were fingering allotted Corps No. 552 and posted to Co. tour to Europe.
"D. his soul to the astute Celestial. Ho apoke these illicit profits:-
"Bluster a great deal about England, and bluff were his expressions, He told the experienced Li that China was making a great mistake by supposing that Eng Income-tax is to be paid in half-yearly land would remain in her then proud posi
By word, deed and suggestion the instalmente on January
and July 1 by tion.
"To all appearances, it is the Federal 2
ÉESIGNATIONS, persons liable to direct assessment, and German in the Far East has continued the in quarterly instalments by employes of unserupulous policy of Bismarck Un-Council that is responsible for the delay
Pte. J. M. Henderson, Co. C Section all descriptiona, the full charge in the fortunately, some of the Orientals have in solving the fond question. The fact is, latter case to take placo next year, been more gullible than the wily Li
however, that we are blessed-or cursed--1, is permitted to resignton medical corti The whole of the additional income-tax
with two Governments in Germany, which ficato.
One is the will be repayable if any individual proves
are not at all in harmony. that his actual income from all sources
Federal Council, and the other is the for the year is less by one-fifth than the
Kaiser, with the responsible Imperial income on which he has paid the tax, in celebration of the fall of Antwerp: Chancellor and the authorities subordinate
The following table gives a few exam- forced the hands of the authorities. Those to him. ples of the old and new rates on wholly Germans who did not, while yet there was "Of the two, the Federal Council is the earned incomes, the new rates being taken time, leave for Shanghai, Tientsin, or more arbitrary. It exercises the powers to be 1s. 94d, for the present year and other places in China. are now of a despot and really admits no respon 28. 1d. for the first full year of the tax-internod."
The continual appearing through the skin of ECZEMA, BLOTCHES, SPOTS, BLACKHEADS, PIMPLES, BOILS, SORES AND ERUPTIONS OF ANY KIND.
The throbbing aching pains of BAD LEGS, ULCERS ABSCESSES, SORO- FURA, GLANDULAR SWELLINGS, BLOOD POISON, PILES.
The Dread Grip of RHEUMATISM, SCIATICA, LUMBAGO, GOUT.
All these aro sure signs of clogging blood impurity, calling for immediate treatment through the blood, so don't waste your time and money on useless lotions and messy ointments, which cannot got below the surface of the skin. What you want and what yon must have is a medicine that will get right to the root of your trouble, a medicine that will thoroughly frea the blood of the poisonous matter which alone is the trus cause of all your suffering. Clarke's Blood Mixture is just such a medicine. It is composed of ingredients which quickly attack, over- come, and expel from the blood all impurities (from whatever causs arising), and by rendering it clean and pure can be relied on to effect a lasting oure.
For selection of testimonials see pam.. phlet round bottle. OVER 10 YEARS' SUCCESS.
PLEASANT TO THE TASTE,
Clarke's Blood Mixture
By reasons of its Remarkable
Bload Purifying Properties
is universally recognised as THE WORLD'S BEST REMEDY FOR
FLOWER SEEDS, TOYS, ETC. SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES ]
Hongkong, 24th October, 1915.
(1043
FRENCH LESSONS
Y
G. MOUSSION,
15 MORRISON HILL ROAD.
Sold by all Chemists and Stores. REFUSE
ALL SUBSTITUTES.
[65]
Existing rates are raised by 40 per cent, As there are only six months of the pre- sent financial year to go, the next demand will be for only a 20 per cont, advance. The following table shows old and now
rates:-
Revised Tax for Old Tax. New Tax. Present
Year.
sons who earn £ 10s. a week-or over will have to pay the tax.
The scale of abatements allowed on in- omes from £100 to £700 is also reduced. The highest abatement that can now be claimed is £190, so that the person who earns £131 a year will have to pay tax on £11. The old abatement of £160 becomes £120; those of £150 and £120 become £100.
Rate
Fall Income. Old Bate. This Year. New Rate.
£131
£160
Nothing Nothing
0 10 8 311 8
2101
0 16
3 13 5
£200
3 00
7 3 4
£300
10 10 0
16 2 6
£401
19 13 6 26.19 3)
£501
26 50 35 18
£601
89 18 0 47 L1 45
52,11 6 62 15 113
75 0 0.89 If 8
SUPERTAX.
307
After the war broke out, the German engineering firms continued to use Hong kong as a base for their operations. A disreputable orgie at the Club Germania,
THE GERMAN METROD,
"If the gross scandal of the speculation in foodstuffs is to be dealt with in the drastic fashion that alone will ensure the stoppage of this crying evil, the State machine in its present form must be remodelled out of existence.
sibility towards the Kaiser or any one clue. The consequence is that a continuous state I of friction has been set up which does not In the West there are commissions. 1 2 11
There such angur too favourably for a prompt relief 434 the East there is "squeeze." 4 commissions are moral or immoral, accord-from the present, intolerable economic con 868ing as to whether they are open or secret.ditions.
"There is only one remédy available, 18 15 The Celestial minds differs very much in
Ideed from that of the Britisher in many and that is that the Imperial Chancellor 41 15 5 ways. It is probable that there have been shall exercise all the powers of the Federal certain commercial transactions between Council. The council must be given a own nationality and the purely parliamentary sphere of activity, Chinese which do not altogether redound and become, as it were, an Imperial to our credit. But, on the whole, the Higher House by the side of the Reichstag. children of Far Cathay trust us more than All of the native offi- any other nation. ciels are not corrupt. It is a significant Fact that the public men in China, with the best reputation for honesty, are not pro- German.
65 0 3 7370 5 104 3
£701 £1,000
Incomes over £8,000, at present charge able at the rate of s. 8d. in the pound, will now be taxed as follows:- Between £8,000 and £9,000. .......... 29. 100. Between £9,000 and £10,000 32, 21. Surplus of all incomes above £10,000 34, 01,
WAR PROFITS - TAX.
A special tax of 50 per cent, is to be levied on all trades and manufactures the LONDON HELLING AGENTS whose profits exceed the profits on
income-tax assessment for 1914-15 more than £100.
TEA, INDIGO
FIBRES
(1107
BRISTLES
NEW CARTRIDGES.
popular
English Manufacturers,
B In all Bores and Sizes
SMOKELESS POTDEE and CHILLED SHOT. From No. 10 to SSSG. at $6, $7 and $7.00 per 100. SPORTING REQUISITES and AIR GUNS in Variety
OILSEED
1 Sold
on
-100
mission in British And Continental
HIDES & SKINS Markets. RUBBER, DRUGS
COTTON, WOOL
ORES, MICA ·
GUMS, AND
GENERAL
PRODUCE
Samples rained, Best ports for consignments in- dicated.
KEYMER, SÓN & CO... Import Dept.) Whitefriars, London. Telegrams, "Keymer, London." Est. 1844,
To
A STUBBORN FOE.
conquer
SUGAR.
The duty is raised from is. 10d. to 9s, 4d. a cwt. With the present reduction in the sale price, the net increase of price will be 5. a cwt., er d. a lb. Granu- lated sugar will be sold at 4d: a lb. instead of 3id. Lump sugar will rise a great deal in price.
DITIES ON IMPORTED FOOD. The duties on tea, tobacco. cocon, coffee, chicory, and dried fruits are raised by 50 per cent. The old rates and the new are as follows
Old rates. New rates.
121
Tea
Tobacco (raw) Cocoa Coffee Chicory Dried fruits
15.
sd, a lb. 4s. Id. alb. Gs. 13d.
1d. lb.
14.
··2d. alb.· 3d.
ed, alb
-
men of our
Only thus will the Kaiser become actually the head of the empire, and only in this form can an agreement by render- ed possible in Germany between monarchy and democracy
"Unless such an agreement be con- eluded the ship of State must founder.. This is the plain and unvarnished truth."
COTTON AND YARN MARKET.
Mesars. 8. D. Scina & Co.'s report for the fortnight ending 4th November
says:-
PAKADER.
"A", "B" and "C" Companies will on Tuesday, the 9th inst. Dress: Drill. parade on the Cricket Ground at 6,15 p.m.
order.
Recruits will parade on the Cricket Ground at 6.15 p.m. on Tuesday, the 9th. inst., Thursday, the 11th inst., and Friday, the 12th inst., under Sorgt -Major Bond. Dress: Drill order.
"D" Company will parade at Volunteer Headquarters on Thursday, the 11th inst., at 5. p.m., under Sorgt.-Major Cooks..
Dress: Drill order.
POSTINGS.
Private JW.. White having joined is. allotted Corps No, 553 and posted to Co.
Section 3.
Co.
TRANSFERS. Pte. G. A. Pentroath is transferred from C-Section 4 to Co. "B" Section
Greatcoats are
DRESS,
HOW
ready and will be- issued to members on and after Tuesday, the 9th inst., between the hours of 4.30 and 5.30 pm. All members must obtain same before their next turn for guard daty. Any membera not in possession of a cap must obtain same forthwith at Volunteer Headquarters.
INBUE OF STOLES,
The store at Volunteer Headquarters is open for the issue of stores on week days between the hours of a.m. and. 1 p.m., and 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.; on Saturdays between the hours of 9 a.m. and I p.m.
MUBEETLY, As ordered by Corps Order No. 81.
G. K. H. BUTTON, Caph.,
Adjutant, H.K.V.R.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE,
5.0, OPPICERS.
Senior N.C. Officers are reminded that their rank does not relieve them from
The the necessity of obeying orders. parade of All N.C. OfBeers" ordered for November 4th was not attended by certain Inspectors and Senior Sergeants who had not obtained leave to absent. themselves. They will go on report accordingly.
The attention of 0.0 Companies and Platoon Commanders is also drawn to Discipline Notifications of November 1st, 1915, and to the following order of October 15th to 16th:-" It is the duty of O.C. Companies to obtain from their Platoon Commanders the names of all
men
absent without leave from any Parade, Duty, etc., and to report same Men at once to the. D.S.Ps. office... medically exempt (M.E.), exempt (E), on duty (D) or on leave from the Colony (L) should not be reported,
TATROLS.
INDIAN YAUN-Discouraging advices from the interior and consuming districts Central, Eastern, and Water Police Patrols caused the Chinese dealers to quit their small sacrifice, previous holdings at
are as warned.
Leave
Tho methods of our late trade rivals were quito simple. Suppose the Chinese customer wished to purchase a dynamo. He would make inquiries and obtain prices, He would then inform the various com- petitors that the lowest price was, let us The German firm would say, $1,500. promptly revise their estimate to $1,300. and would supply him with a machine that would de the output required on the over Inad only If the customer were
COTTON--Market ruled quist, and no Goverturent officis! he would have much "squeeze" from the job; the article sold sales were reported during the past fort- Unsold stock is would be, in some way or other, adulter-night under review.
estimated at about 1,000 bales. Closing squeeze, ated to pay for the
It is to be hoped that details of the quotations are $23 to 31 per picul. methods of German firms in the Far East will be made public at some suitable time. Many British firms are now the official liquidators of there businesses in Hong kong. They have access to the books. It is and, though the market in India is firm, Sunday, November 7th.All N.C. Oficers rumoured that they can learn very little importers here are free sellers, and prices which will assist them to increase their show a decline of 81 to $3 per bale. Sales during the past fortnight are computed own business by clean dealings,
The war cannot last for ever, and the at about 2,500 bales, comprising about Germans free to move about the For East 1,600 bales of No. 10, 650 bales of No. 500 bales Assur Virjee, Nu. 103, $104 are working as industriously and no infam-128, and 50 bales of No, 20s, as under: Quely against Great Britain as those in
to 8105 per bale; 200 hales Colaba, No. their Fatherland. They are spending 10, $100 to $111 per bale; 200 bales The present duty of 1d. in the Is. is large sums of money in subsidising the Currimbhoy, No. 10s, 3105- to $100 per
Chinese newspapers.
They are organs bale; 500 David, No 108, $110 to $111 per bale: 50 bates Empress, Now, No. ing-and-bribing and lying as actively as Imported motor-cars or motor-eveles ther did before the war. They have lost 10s, $108 per hale; 50 bales Empress, Mr. W. Williams, Totterdown, Bristol, writes: For 3 years I have been und parts thereof, cinema films, clocks, Tsingtas; but they have bases in Shang- Old, No. 10, $108 per bale; 100 bales rendered unfit for work by Rheumatism. watches, musical instruments, plate glass rei, Tientsin, and other parts, where New City of Bombay, No. 103, 8112 per 8114 per bale; 100 bales Greaves mills, NURNITURE AND PHOTO GOOD At night terrible shooting pains kept me of 12 per cent, or its equivalent if the Gospel of Hate against Britain bale: 200 bales Dawn, No. 12s. 8113) to
in agony, I could not sleep or use my of 324 per or
in the flourishes.
They will fail in China, as they will fail No. 128, $111 per bale; 150 bales Indo arms. Two bottles of that wonderful form of a specific rāte.
in Europe. But for many years they will China, Ne-12, 6113 to $1133 per bale; retedy LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM
They will 200 bales Sundries, No. 129, $113 to $115 cured me completely. I can recommend
cause us anxiety out here. make efforts more desperate than ever to per bale; and 50 hales Moon, No. 208, Any tap the enormous mineral wealth of this 8135 per bale.
Unsold stock is estimated st about part of the world: They will attempt to.
Sold but uncleared stock Hongkong as a hate, but it is to be 2,000 bales.
steady. sincerely hoped that legislation will preis said to be 20,000 balcs Market closes vent them doing that..
Inspection Invited,
WM. SCHMIDT & Co.
(1092 Hongkong, 4th February, 1915.
A LING & CO..
F
19, QUELIN'S ROAD CENTRAL,
STORE.
Photographie Goods of Every Description
In Stock.
Doveloping, Printing and Belarging. Canton Marbles in Vazion Shades.
MOTOR SPIRIT.
34.
obstinate enemy requires persistency and perseverance.
75. a cut. 10s. Cd. It is tho same with Rheumatism, the dread foe of mankind, which ranks fore most in stubbornness. To eradicate it The existing rates are raised from 3d. from the system, you must use the right and id, a gallon to Cd. and 4d an all weapon. LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM round increase of 3d.
is the only remedy that can overpower it. It has cured helpless, crippled sufferers who have been discharged from the hos pital as incurable.
it with utmost confidence."
Bold at 1s. 4d. per bottle.
TALIPHONE 1219,
Hongkong, 4th February, 1915.
[515
Agenta for Hongkong, Messrs. A. B. WATSON & Co., LTD.
(1050-3
doubled.
PATENT MEDICINES.
IMPORTED GOODS.
A Civil and Military Gazette cable says: Prince Rupert, of Bavaria, is making frantic appeals for reinforce- ments, but realises that he is fighting lost cause and is subject to fits of extreme violent depression.
PARADES, ETC.
fire Musketry Course Part 1. Blake Pier, 9 a.m. structions for P.-es. firing on November Tuesday, November 9th-Service Rife In- 10th. Alo Parade of all Recruits, including those of No. 3 Company, Wednesday, November 10th-Firing of Port 1. Musketry Course, by 2nd and 3rd Platoons, No. 3 Company, and 4th Platoon, No. 3 Company. Thursday, November 11th. Combined Parade of all Ranks at Central Station. at 6.15 p.m. sharp. Men equipped with Winter Uniform to wear same, remainder in mufti. HANDBOOM 07 MUSKETILY COvess, 1915-1916.
Copies of this book have been sent to 0.C.
Companies for issue to their men. Only limited supply is available, and meu shouldadeavour not to lose same.
enquiries concerning the Musketry mat
Course must be addressed Musketry-Sergeant.
to the
P. C. JENKIN.
D.S.P. (Reserve).