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JAPANESE STEAMER SUNK, BRITISH TRADE AFTER THE
IN COLLISION WITH THE "LINAN.”
∙160: LIVES · LOST,
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WAR,
INTERESTING DEBATE IN
PARLIAMENT.
THE EMPLOYMENT OF EXPERT
ASSISTANCE.
As a result of a collision between the British steamer Zinau (Captain E, J. Fou- tinger) and the Japanese steamer Datin
The need for exploring in advance the Maru, of the Oaka Shosen Keisha, of Wai Ki, fit miles north of Hongkong, 100 that will arise at the end of the war nomie, social and financial problems were lost and the Daijin Ward was sund.
was urged by several members in the The disaster occurred at about 12.15 s,mdebate on tho motion for the adjournment on the 2nd inst. The Linan, proceeding of the House of Commons, and it was norih in ballast, struck the Daijin Maru suggested that a special Committee should amidships, and the latter sank in vebe Appointed for undertaking this task minutes. The Captain of the Ziman as the greater the work becomes the promptly lowered two boats, but of the 181 greater the danger of its getting into the pa s ngers and crew on board only 21 were hands of public officials and the bureau. anved Of these the Linan's boats picked cray up only two, the Capt, and the third officer. One Japanese waiter, 11 Chinese crew, and
"FREEDOM OF THE SEA."
A PERTINENT AMERICAN
QUESTION.
ANOTHER “ HYMN OF HATE,”
THE PRISONER IN ENGLAND.
The Germans have, a new "Hymn of The Scientific American, examining the Hate." This one is supposed to express meaning of the German contention for the felings of The Prisoner in England"; freedom of the soas," satisfies itself from it was written by Georg von Kries, and is the statistics of the unhindered growth of published in the Deutsche Tages Zoiting, German deep-sea trade carried on by the the organ of the Agrarian Party, The fol Lloyd Companies, that neither of these Hymn ":— Hamburg-American and the North-Gorman towing the
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translation
great steamship companies has had cause
tho
One day be the other, and every to complain of interference in their free-day is grey; each day is full of fog, and dom on the sea. After quoting statisties every draught is cutting. bearing on the general maritime trade of no glow in say stove,
"There is no fire on the hearth, there ja Germany, the article proceeds:
The Editor of the Scientific American, in view of the above facts, would like to inquire of the German Ambassador, or any German representative who can speak with authority, what is claimed by the German Government in ite demand for a allude to the practice of blockade, which greater freedom of the seas? It cannot
We worm ourselves with internal anger, we warm ourselves with rage, for outside. our walls there is loud rejoicing, and many torics, a golden palge is being built on falsa vio
They revile us with words, they spit in our faces; we suspect the truth, however, and do not believe what they say.
We suspect that the German battle-cny
MB, KUNCIMAN'S PROMISES. Mr. Runciman, President of the Board of sev Chinese paas ngers were rescued from Trade, said with reference to the inquiries is recognized as a legitimate weapon of has long been resounding through Russia, one of the Daijin Maru's boats, These were which were being made in preparation for warfare. Does it refer to the interruption that our comrades are gaining victories,
brought back to Hongkong by the Linen, whole bows wero smashed in t
The lost steamer was coming to Hongking from Swatow, carrying 150 tons of gen eral cargo. Of the 104 passengers who were drowned, six were Japanese, and the rest Chinese, The Chief Officer, Second Officer, Chief, Fira, and Second Engineers, 47 Chinese crew and four Indan watchmen were lost.
Tho Daijin laju was but by the Kawn saki Deckyard Company, Limited, at Kobe, in 1809, and her tonnage was 1,578 gros, and 900 net,
CONGESTION AT LONDON DOCKS,
HEAVY SHIPMENTS FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
Aftention was drawn by Mr. S. Samuel, M.P., in a letter to The Tints on Decem ber 3rd, to the congestion prevailing in British ports.
of
commerce as between neutral nations Government, be assumed a new role If so, it would appear that the Imperial action in defending the rights of neutrals, oud, in view of the gigantic struggle in that it should have either the time or in- which it is engaged it is rather surprising
position, especially in view of its activities clination to discuss auch an abstract pro
and we are not with them.
"The thunder of our capnon-which is the German tempest-penetrates thick walls and reachce us in our dungeon. we see it as clear as daylight Germany's We hear, for we believe that it is 20,
enemy masses! sun of triumph breaking though the
"We clench our fist savagely, and wish we were thore
the reorganization of our industrion when the war was over and for preventing the pentration of British industries by Ger man enterprise one of the factors which had been before their minds during the last few years and had become particularly view that in dealing with special topics patent during the war-bg shared the the advice of experts was necessary, and hauds of either politicians or permanent th & it was absurd to leave them in the neutral Belgium.
This Government is for freedom of the officials. He thought the Board of Trade seus rst. Last, and all the time, and it In vain. They tore as from our ship was as free from the charge of leaving such will be pleased to know whether there has to bring us here, every beat of our hearts matters to bureaucracy as any other De been any period in which the freedom of cried vainly for home, and now hunger and partment. From the first the Board had the seas nas not existed within recent thirst are reducing us day by day. taken the best advice they could go in times. In case this principle of the free- "We lie here like beggars, in the frost regard to every trade or industry. Of dem of the seas were exercised in the with open doors. We may not fight for Ger- course they had not called in every busi-direction of compelling Great Britain to many, we only starve for her! no man, and no doubt some of those who limit or reduce its naval armament to the had not been selected thought that the point at which Germany, with its contpellers travelling land along the course of "But hark! That is the sound of pro Beard were doing
the work very paratively limited littoral, would obtain the Thames badly. From the Baltic the Board had the naval · · prédominance over Great "May every homh hit you, accursed taken the best advice they could obtain, Britain, what guarantee would the world and he took this opportunity to thank Sir have that the freedom of the seas which England, till London's factories are in George Saltmarsh, who actually went out had been extended by Great Britain would ashes, and her palatial banka are mere of his business in order to give the Debe continued by the Imperial Government? heaps of ruiza partment the benefit of his advice. (Hear, Furthermore,
question naturally hear.) In regard to cotton, they had had arises, would it be desirable for the peaco the assistance of the best men they could of the world to have one Empire exercise And in that trade in Liverpool and that complete apotheosis of militarism Manchester, and bad sitting at the Board which would include at once an omui- of Trade and acting as assesor a man potent military system on land and a com= who had made a considerable fortune in piete naval. predominance? cotton and way in close touch it what
the
Each bomb will have said to you o we hated you!
"And if the bomba fell on us, we should not complain, for that would mean an end to our torments, and would be preferable tɔ an English court of law,
"We should then die bike other war- riors, simultaneously with our enemies,
like the dogs, we feel only our ad- versaries' blows.
"The others are dying in battle and their blood flows gloriously, while we are dying without honour, of misory, and hate. rage."
What "the people" in Prussia think of remarks made by the Forwarts, the central the poem may be judged from the following organ of the Socialist Party: of Hate had passed, but this wretched We imagined that the time for ? Hymna
composition shows us that we were wrong, If Herr von Kries and the Deutsche Tagés Zeitung are absolutely intent on hating wo have no objection; they should restriob themselves, however, to nourishing their
misery, hate, and rage' on facts that are
We, as Americans, believe in this froNow, trade from which he had retired. What Inquiries show that several causes have he had stated was equally true of thedom of the seas, but let us insist upon its contributed to such congestion as exists way in which the Board had deals with being the same freedom of the seas which in the Port of London. Among them ato
other special subjects, such, for example past half century.
we and Germany have enjoyed during the bad weather and dislocation of the sailag pickel, than which no metal, except ing arrangements of several large steam perhaps copper; had given them more ship lines; but the worst congestion arises anxiety. When the board asked for advice from the recent heavy shipments of cata suoy took great care to follow it, and thn for the Government. There are at present a thought, was as much as a Department 13 grain ships, the bulk of whose cargoes could do. Not only in those special in aro for the Government, waiting at Graves dividual difficulties had they followed the end for borthing accommodation, Two advice of business men, but when they had months ago there was so little grain work such complex questions as trade relations in the Fort that the machines were idle between England and Sweden to deal with and the corn-porters were complaining it was not a Foreign Office deputation, not that they could not find enough to do.
a selection of gentlemen from the Liril Now the Port has three times more grain Service, they sent out, but team of work than its limited machinery and labour business men. These men spent some five AND KEEPS can cope with, and the inevitable result is months in Sweden working on these congestion and delays. The remedy, az special topics; and if harmony now Mr. Samuel indicated in his letter, ju existed between Sweden and ourselves in the hands of the Government. By regu industrial and commercial matters it was lating the rate of shipments so as to largely due to their assistance. The Board spread arrivals over a reasonable period, of Trade had certainly not ignored the instead of chartering and loading vessels immense advantage which came from busi- indiscriminately at the various ports, theness advice and sxperience, e Government could, it is contended, do much to prevent the evil,
Similar trouble, it may be mentioned, was caused at various times during the past year by wholesale arrivals of Gov- ernment cargoes of sugar, wool, and
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of business men outside. These investi gations covered a great variety of subjects. Among thom were the usa, made by Ger mans of the English financial system, the uso made of British ports by German tonnage, and the position of German owner of British companies who claimed the advantage of our ports and flag and the ownership of real property by aliens He knew one coalfield in the Midlands which had actually been held up by German who was trading under an Eng-known to be true, lish title a registered company which Up to the present we have been inform- itself was doing nothing and was pre-ed by official statements that the prisoners venting other people exploiting coal.in England are treated comparatively well, That could not go on after the war, and have to suffer neither from frost nor Mr. Butcher York U.)-I hope the from hunger. We may assume, therefore, right hon. gentleman will prevent it going that the post, Herr von Kries, is not, and on during the war.
has never been, in a prisoners camp in England.
It had been suggested that such inquiries Mr. Runciman said the hon. and learned os were conducted by the Government gentjeman need not be at all afraid of should be made by Select Committees of that. The Government were taking good the House From what he had seen of care to allow no German to stand in their the conduct of Government Departments way in England. As to German companies on both sides of the Channel since the war or firms, so far as they were allowed to he was not prepared to have the French exist in this country, the only considera- model held up to us as being so excellent tion which affected the Board of Trade in that we should abandon our methods. In these matters was British national in SHIPPING VALUES TREBLED. so far as the House could be taken into terist. Everything else was sacrificed.
confidence by the Government, the more It must not be supposed, however, that HIGHEST PRICES OF THE YEAR..
that was done the batter. The Government they had a simple formula that would golve might have occasionally erred on the side every problem. Referring to the
position At the close of the year shipping values, like freights, are at the highest point ever reached-says The Times-and brokers who usually try in their annual circulars to forecast the future course of prices are now silent. No shipping man could have thought before the war that prices would ever reach their present level and none is now prepared to say that they will not go higher. Yet whether shipping bought at the present level will prove profitable to British owners depends on many factors over which they can have no control,
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in France, absolute secrecy was required for he knew two or three enormous conceUniform with Helmets or Caps, of caution. Secret & were the Committees of British concerns in Germany, he said No. such inquirica as ware being conducted now, owned by British capital which were go
for instance, into trade relations between ing on just as before the war. When we that German syndicates and the German ensure, he would not say that the whole ourselves and our Allies, and connections came to terms of peace he hoped we should Government itself had formed. As to of that property remained under British whether that would best be obtained by a control, but that the capital was secured Selecs Committee or a joint Committee of to the British owners. the two House, any pronouncement had better come from the Prime Minster. Secrecy was the very essence of these Inquiries,
COMPREHENSIVE PREPARATIONS,
NO TENDERIM FOR GERMAN CONCERNS. Replying to an inquiry by Mr. Butcher, he said he did not think the formula that only German concerne should be allowed to continue which it was in the interest Within 12 months second-hand tonnage The assumption had been made in many of this country to go on could be applied has been trebled or quadrupled in value. quarters that the Government had not been to every case. The Government Bill was Little more than a year ago shipping was looking ahead and making preparations being drafted and he could not state its. a drug in the market. Cargo steamers 12 for the resumption of normal trade after terms, but they would Lot be specially or 15 years old, which a year ago could the war. That was entirely a mistake tender to the Germans as Germans. Their have been bought for a or 24 a ton have There was risk in discussing these subjects business was to protect British interests. advanced in value to £10 or £12 a ton. in public. Already he had seen indica- The Germans had shown remarkable skill There was little buying at last year's tons on the Continent that in looking in gathering together in Berlin financial prices, for few, apparently, saw what was ahead as a great commercial nation we control over undertakings in Europe and coming..
Within the past few weeks whole feste were running the danger of not throwing to a large extens in the East.
The Board were sending an excellent have been sold, and in one such case cife ourselves heart and soul into the main
object all the Allie had in view, · He representative to gather information, ou ques for the proceeds are now being sent believed thas to be totally untrue. He which they would be prepared to act, to the old shareholders. The deemed. It prudent to take advantage of always deprecated the idea that we had with the idea of capturing, some of the enormous prices, while oven since the not our hearts as fully in the successful trade previously, done by Germans. The contract was completed the values have conduct of this war is our Alliey had.hon, member for Inverness Burghs had appreciated.
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WAR INVENTIONS OF 1915.0
BULLET-PROOF SHIELD AND A PROJECTILE THAT SCATTERS MOLTEN-METAL,
the
As was only to be expootodays a London contemporary the ingenuity of inventors in this country during yen now closing has been devoted largely to the production of armament devices, and among these may be mentioned contriv ance for arresting torpedoes, submarine locators, and means for enabling one sub- marine to communicate with another under water. A number of patents for inven- tions designed to afford protection against Zeppelin raids have also been applied for
The war inventions, according to a re- port made by Messrs. Hughes & Young, the Chancery Lane patent agents, include a projectile for which it is claimed that. every direction molten metal at a tempe rature high enough to burn a hole through steel, or melt down solid conereta
suggested that 20 millions were being ex pended by Germans in America who were British owners buying at the present
ying at the (Cheers.) level have to face the certainty of heavy Such investigations as we had conducted collecting raw material to be used when taxation and the possibility of requie had been conducted behind closed doors, the war was over. That amount was 30- Has this terrible, nerve-racking, pain. tioning by the Admiralty in the latter It should not be imagined that they only thing like the amount this country would ful silment fastened itself upon you!
case the rates earned, would yield no ade had to deal with one or two topics. Some spend when the war was over, With the Don't lose hope. Here's succour for you,
quate return on the high values. Neutrals thing had been said about the advantage German foreign exchange at 20 per cent. have neither the heavy taxation nor the taken by aliens of our.
member had in his being paid by Germans in America. cured thousands of inveterate chronic cases so naturally can afford to pay higher mind very largely foreign contro over
(Hear hear.) SITE VA of Rheumatism among them hundreds of cases that were pronounced hopeless he prices both for second-hand tonnage, and the metal-industry. These matters did not Runciman,The hon. member will walle. effective invention 16 4
Mr. Bryce-I know my facts, for new vessels which are now being freely exhaust the list. Recently he made a list doctors Through this wonderful remedyule in the United States and other coun- of the subjects now under discussion or allow me to be suspicious about German A simple but sufferers have abandoned their crutches. and are to-day cured after years of tries.
being considered behind closed doors. In activities. Bo far as commerce is con- muzzle support for a gun intended for use
a beaten nation print it covered two foolscap pages. Not cerned Germany is one or two items, but practically every (cheers), and it is our bustastatic by soldiers when firing lying down; and a the protection of infantrymen during item of our commercial life must come good care that she does not get her head body shield on wheels has been devised for under review. When the war was over not up to the same extent after the war is offensive operations. This shield is sue of them would stand in the same position over (Cheers.) The advantage of the in-constructed that bullets strike the surface ag before the war. In every case the re-vestigations already made here was that at an angle and glance off without lationship of Germany and Austria, to they had been raade without arousing, sus causing injury. The rear is open, while what might be called the Central Power picions outside. It must be the business the interior is large enough to accomme
commercial men of this country were given and knees. When within a few yards, of diately and has done for me That all again initiate submarine reprisals, the eus interest, S
pension of which was promised, it is said, other remedies failed to do"
There were
of every advantage that the Government the enemy's position, the soldier leave the some special subjects only on the condition that the British highly technical character which the could place at their disposal in order to armoured shelt and charges Orders in Council were modified. If cer- Board of Trade were not prepared fully secure for us our share of the commercial He had and industrial advantages Germany en fain demands are not granted the attacks to investigate themselves,
ill be renewed.
referred such matters to a very small team joyed before the war. (Cheers.)
LITTLE'S" ORIENTAL BALM has possibility of requisitioning to face, and had no doubt the honpany law. He he had some suspicion about the 20 millions when it explodes, there is scattered is
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