THE GERMAN OCTOPUS.
A SIMPLE LESSON IN FINANCE
[BY T. SWINBONNE SHELDRAKE, THE WELL-KNOWN ECONOM187]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18:1, 1915.
THE DEFENCE OF SALONIKA.
A
INTERESTING DETAILS OF COM- ING BATTLEGROUND,
[BY BILAIRE BELLOO.]
ENOCH ARDENS OF THE
WAR
MISSING MEN WHOSE WIVES REMARKI.
CHURCH SERVICES.
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Joan's CareAUEAL, Hongkong, 6h Sunday after Epiphany, 13tu Feruary, Holy Communion (8,678,m) "I¤troit, · Ešalu 122; Hymns 25, 559 512. and· 551; Service, Marbook, Matine (32 3.) Rospores Famili Out of the lists of the "missing" have Venite, Ture; Paims. Uratak...nd U okej T. arisen a fow tragedies that recall Tenny Deum, Rusell, Smart and Gosienough (22nd. son's haunting poem of Enoch Arden, the evening Jubilato Oakley lu the village where I was brought up,
From the elements of defence analysed shipwrecked nad marooned sailor, given 191. God Save the King » Eventoug_(R+D+ wo got along nicely in the dear old days.
from the Vardar eastwards, is fairly clear up as dead, who returned to find his wife Turle; af-gaillons, Goes: 37th evening) : None Reponses, Forial; Pasime, Barnby and There were two or three small grocers that the attack upon the entrenched camp remarried. shops with one assistant and a boy-two
of Saloniks, should it come in force, and The other day I met one of the soldier Dimissir l'urcell (27th eron ng), Authen, The or three drapers, with two or three young should the defence of the place be left quite Enock Ardens.
radiant moru,” Woodwad; Hy" n 338: spd 82 lady assistants each, and so ĐÙI,
It was in a train, I noticed him because,-Paulus 67, versen 1, 2, 7, 8, 13, 19, 24 96, The best people did not give all their unencumbered with Greek hostility from custom to ono ghop. They divided their within, is likely to develop upon the open all through the long journey, he sat silent 335 and 16 la utuon : Psalm 7), vaquos
ten miles front between the Daub Beba and statuesque, staring with ansering and 5 in unison. trade. Thoy had joints from one butcher
St. Paine's Orvich, West Poin!. San one month and from the other the next, Hills and the Vardar, which I call the eyes out of the window. The car attend day, 18th To rusry:-3 km, hảy Communion" vulnerable sector. There would, prekun anty came and summoned as to Innch, but. and so on. Theoretically there was goth-
&to. Morning Prayer and 3 mon petition, but in reality there. was not ably, be a double pressure, one norass the the lonely, crippled soldier sat on. Other Preacher. Rey, B., H. Giri h much ninong-the-ok-establirbod shops, Vardar front, the other coming in flask Pengers brought out bags of sand-
UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Kong. Sardar, and newcomers usually found the sitmo upon the vulnerable sector from the north wiches or fruit, but the lonely soldier sphere too chilly,
But the latter will offer the best opporate nothing. One jovial fellow passed bim 13th February Sview: Moring Service at 11 am. Hymns 469, 131, 438- suð True, the service was not very good,tunity for the enemy's success, and that for food with rough hospitality You must
be
445. Evening Service at 6 p.m. Hymns 4 0," he urged. hangry, but the competition that was supposed to the following reasons;
For not hungry, thanks," said the soldier 432,441, 444 and 447. Collesion for i padua exist never fed any tradesman to introduce
Missio ury Society. Progher: Ray, J. Kirk 1-First and most important, the lines leadenly. The other passengers alighted, Masounds. expensive innovations that would give him an advantage over his rival. It was by which heavy munition can be brought and I was left along with him. recognised that it was to the general in up lie on either side of this ten-miles sector I refilled my pipe and passed the pouch terest not to increase the expenses inThe two railways, the one the coastal line silently to the lonely soldier. His stony
coming from the Struma Valley road, the eyes came from their seeing vil upXOTICE TO CONSIGNEES OF CARGO cidental to shopkeeping.
Aye, and the Austro-German depots by the Var-baccy is the only mea! a man like mo is other the main line coming from Serbin the grey landscape and met mine,
thanks. ho said heavily,
A pipe o
EX BS, "YASAKA MARU”- dar Valley, will, when they are repaired, Do
good for," the main avenues of supply possessed by We sat without words again, and
tured most of the trade in the neighbour By and by, a bi- concern that had cap ing market town began to send carts to deliver
customers' purchases in Our
village.
The old tradesmen were annoyed 'but. contemptuous. It could not possibly pav to deliver small quantities at so great a distance, they said, and proved their case. Meanwhile the big store was content to lose money on the trade dene with our village (1) because it had a big business in the town, and (3) because it saw that the day was coming when it would have wcured enough of the village custom to make that profitable too. It could afford to await the result that is inevitable when organised enterprise backed by capital attack, stagnation based on old-fashioned My readers sympathies are with the village tradesmen. So are mine. I know them all personally. But vou cannot alter the law of progress in business affairs.
Bentiment,
And this little story is not quite futile as it may seem, because it gives an exact illustration on a small seals of what has been happening in the sphere of inter national trade. True, the British Empire is not a village but the analogy holds gund. We have been taught that under unrestricted competitive free trade we were always sure of getting the lowest prices and t best service from manufac. turers. We have been taught to believe that any foreign country that supplied ur requirements at a price that was un- profitable was heading straight for disse ter, and some of us believed that because we lived under the same flage our over soas kinsmen would always divide their orders between the old firms in the old
country.
And it was
not true,
The Germans, having accured their own market, laid schemes to capture a good. share of ours. They ran ships to our Dominions, and the ship at first carried so few German goods that the business would have been unprofitable if British merchants and German agents established in Britain had not helped them by letting them oarry British goods as well. They did not do that out of
nature. sheer good but because the Germans were civil and
the enemy.
mate.
No,
opened a magazine. Suddenly, above the 2—A successful atteck upon this vulner-rouring of the train, I heard the silent able northern sector destroys at a blow the soldier speaking to me, I've got to whole value of the strong Vardar line talk to someone and tell someone, he Whenever you have a right angle like this said, slowly and heavily or else. I in a defensive system the thrusting back shall just break. 1ooked up to him. of one limb of the angle destroys the value leaning towards me in the dim light of the Waning afternoon, and the stony eyes of the other. It turns it,
were on me with a look of appeal.
I asked: As lightly as I could "What's the trouble, old man "
And then he told me.
Sundor and man, a riveter in the shipbuilding yards and an Army Reservist. When the war broke out be was called up on the first mobilisation, He had been married only four years, had
THE NORTHERN SECTOR.
3. The approach to this northern sector is much easier than that to any other part of the perimeter. The northern slopes of the Daub Baba Hills and the northern and rastern slopes of the mountain ridge con tinuing onwards south and east from thence
He was a
to the Hortak group that is, the slopes two children, and lived only for them and facing the enemy-are very steep and in his wife. He was sent to France with the many places precipitous. On the Vardar Fire Expeditionary Force, with the sector the Vardar is, of course, a formid-Gordons, and fought in the battle of Mons able obstacle. But here, between the Var. He was severely wounded and captured dar and the Daub Baba Hills, it is clear, just outside Bertry on August 20th, 1914. open country all the way up north for 13 After lying on the field all night he was brought into captured British "hospital mites,
in school building at Bertry by a British RA.M.C. prisoner, whose party were told off by the Germans to collect British wounded. He remained there for a week, treated by captive British medical officers under German supervision. soon as he was recovered enough to travel. according to the German idea of a wounded prisoner's endurance he was sent in a batch of thirty other British prisoners on a four days' journey to He nearly died Duisburg on the Rhine. on the journey, was again placed in hospital, and wae sent home by the "nafit for further German authorities as military service" last October.
4.--A successful blow delivered on the lower Vardar would bring the enemy's troops der the fire, though at long rango, of ships gun. But the vulnerable sector hetween the Vardar and the Daub Baba hills is something like 17,000 yards from the sea at its nearest point. It would be perilous to draw the line closer to the sea between the Daub Baba Hills and the river because that would involve the loss of the road and railway crossing over the Vardar The defence would, of course, in that case destroy as completely as possible not only the bridge themselves, but the approaches thereto,
For all these reasons it seems that the attack on the entrenched camp of Salonike, should it take place, will succeed or fail in the open sector between the Vardar and the Daub Baba Hills, accompanied by simul taneous demonstration apon the Vardar
front
IMPORTANCE OF THE RAILWAY.
As
His fellow-British prisoners were allow. ed to write home a month after their op ture. For some reason he could not elicit this man was forbidden to write, and his fellows were forbidden to mention his name in their letters. If ever they tried to do so the letter was torn up by the Germans, and they were threatened with punish- ment.
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consideration of the Cargoes which were shipped by the ss."YASAKA MARU having become a total loss together with the said Steamer, when she was attacked and sunk by an enemy Submit the Mediterranean Sen on the @fet December, 1915, inclemnification under the Japanese Government War Risk scheine wat he received from the TOKYO MARINE INSURANCE Co., or the IMPERIAL MARINE TRANSPORT & Fiat LsBUTANG. Cơ, by the hand tháng selves at Tokyo.
We shall, however, be pleased to out an intermediary for our supporters in connection with receiving indemnification from the above Japanese underwriters, if desired, in which case we must be furuished with the necessary documents as mentioned below.
The TORY MARing Insurance Co., and the IMPERIAL MARINE TRANSPORT & FIRE INSUR ANCE Co require production of the following documents:
Full sets of Bills/Lading (duly endorsed
by the cargo owners),
2. Original Invoice.
3. Power of Attorney of the legitimate cargo owners authorizing the N.Y.K. or other representative of the claimants to receive the indemnity from the underwriters and to sign all documents which may be required by the under- writers.
For those enrgo owners who entered into insurance contract direct with their under writers, and wish to secure necessary certifi cate on the relative Billa/Lading, we stull be pleased to endorse on such Bills/Lading (full set recommended) that the above Steamer wor attacked and sunk by an enemy Submarine.
Further particulars can be obtained on application to this Office.
T. KUSUMOTO, Manager, NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, Hongkong Branch.
1201
Hongkong, 10th February, 1916.
FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE.”
Sure Signs of
missing. I take Blood Impurity.
His name was never furnished to the It must not be forgotten in these calcula British authorities by the Germans, and hoped to met, were willing by the aid of all is postponed to the dato upon which up the tale of the war Enoen Arden in his obliging, and, becausy of the trade they tions that the enemy's power to attack at he was gazetted as the subsidy they got from the German Government to carry a little more cheaply than British lines.
he can begin to use the railway as a co- tinuous communication.
own words
The continual appearing through the skin of ECZEMA, BLOTCHES, SPOTE, BLACKHEADS, PIMPLES, BOILS SORES AND ERUPTIONS OF ANY KIND.
The throbbing aching pains of BAD LEGS, ULCERS ABSCESSES, SORO- FULA, I
GLANDULAR SWELLINGS, BLOOD FOISON;"PILES,
Ah left Duisburg on October the first. Ah couldaa': believe it was true when the And so Germans gradually get quite a How far the Serbians destroyed the rail German commandant chap coom an' told large shame of the profitable carrying way in its northern sections between theme I was to go Why, gang away, man, zrade between different parts of the Bri Danube and Veles we do not know. The says, whose leg are you pulling? The tish Empire, and were able to make their steamers pay. As then got on they found French in their retreat from the entrenched commandant ho saya fiercely. in a sort camp at Kavadar blew up the short rock of arf English Ged your glose on in
den minudes! You go England, An out quite a lot about British trade. They tunnel at the north of the Demir Kapu did dress in ten minutes an all. Twenty found out where goods went and who bought them. They knew the prices and gorge, and both the bridges north of Gra-other poor broken chaps went with me, an' detzand south of B:rumaitza station They some of em' didn't 'arf laugh and ery in qualities and gradually they substituted also thoroughly destroyed sections of the turns. At & place called Auchen (Aix-la- German goods for British monds.
Chapelle) we were joined up by a lot "Stop" you say. You have not exline between a three points. plained how the Germans could sup But though it takes some time to repair more: British; then we went to Leegeo goods more cheaply than the British when any damaged railway track, the opportuni-Rosendaal) or summat like that, in Hol- Liége), Antwerp, and then Rosytarl our free competition ensured the greatest ties for preventing restoration altogether and as it didn't arf churn us up possible efficiency here."
hardly every exist, and those for procuring when we crossed that frontier and saw a very long delay rare. Even a great girder the Dutchies smiling at us. across a broad and deep river is a thing the over in Germany. reconstruction of which is allowed for and
I was coming to that. You see the day of the one man and a boy shop is protty well over, and so is the day of the little Factory in what are known as the big with staple trades. The litole factory, limited capital, cannot buy material or power so cheaply as the big concern. Then there is always the great waste re sulting from working overtime when orders are plentiful and idle machinery when things are slack. The little factory cannot make big contracts for transport and it cannot afford a proper solling organisation. In cannot give credit and
To sum up, then, Salonika is defensible along a horse-shee of positions reaching round the upper gulf from shore to shore, first following a mountain ridge and then the Vardar line. Its most vulnerable sactor is the open ten miles or so indicated, Be sides this "horseshoe," the works position may be further protected by land tatteries strung out along the "Line of the Lakes, Nowadays the huge concern with its
supplies of raw material; its organis-Land and Water, ed selling force, and its ability to keep up a steady output can beat the little factory almost every time.
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We crossed in a rough sea, but 'ad it prepared long before the date of its destruc-been ever so rough I was too sick with tion by a retiring foe..
home-sickness to fave any other sort. thowt an' thowto my wife and buiras, an' the moment when I would walk cop Coronation-street in Sun'neyland and turn on that other little street where yarm (home) lies. Ar after we landed at Tilbury they told me to go to a hospital in London for one night, an' then they said, Ye can gang yarn now Au the time, I thinks I won't telegraph the wife I'm coming. I wanted to just walk in t house like and say, “Ah've coom,'-
“Ab 'ardly knew how to sit still in you train that day to Sun'land, master. Al've sat still enough today, though Was it a good idea to hold exhibitions The German people study economics and show the world how we made things he used t make me coop of tea-I steps Just as t'were gettin' dark-just at time and trade. Business with them does ript and then supply foreign competitors with mean four shack days and, three days the same machinery and foremen to teach handle.
door-all shekin-and turns t golf in a week. Moreover, they are a
Ah walks in, tremblin' so Ah 'ardly breathe straight Logical people. So in almost every trade by was it clever to get low freichts aud
chiping by German steamers? Was kitchen," they lumped the little factories together. and organised powerful sundicates, backed it wise to let Germany become the only
The lonely soldier here stopped and bent country that could supply us with the by the great German banks, to do away best dyes, the only country where certain his head. He did not speak for a few with the suicidal and out-of-date fres competition and substitute for it collective utilised, the only country to make optical looked up, and his eyes
ores found in our Dominions could be minutes, and we both sat stilly in the roaring train. When he spoke again he in foreign mar
he cried, sights for our naval guns, and so on." The Government of Germany wag wise
She Mary had married again, enough to help the German traders to do
Or was it madness to let our great in-thout I was dead, Sho had no man to these things. The German Government dustrial and commercial position become
keep
the
years-ad coom along, krew that the buge British trade with undermined because we were too busy playas I'd know goin'; an' a mana nal
ing golf to care, and too jealous of each courted her-an' married her. other to let the Government interfere blame her," he said hoarsely, a varm Were we thinking too much about wealth an' a woman wa put a man is a poor t SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES.
don't
the world had been built up with the active assistance of the Kings and Parlia ments of England from very early days:
and that it was only in recent years that the British people had become so supreme- ly self-confident that they thought they could do without the help of the Govern- ment,
The German Government helped ex- porters by paving, part of the cost of carriage on goods intended for export, and that was a great assistance. You know what British railways were like before the war!
The German Government helped the hanks, and thev in turn helped the traders. Did you ever ask the manner of a British joint stock bank for at help to tide you over a tempora husi hoss trouble?
People are beginning to wonder whether we are all quite as clever as we thought.
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The Chambers of Commerce are going to certain barns him master Both were
was dead." He was silent, again. hold a special conference to consider these
"What did you do?" I asked gently. matters in the New Year. In particular. A've done nowt," he cried brokeniv. they are going to iamrire into the old
"What mould I do-Ab've just coomed Navigation Acts which Cromwell in away. I shall never sa Mary and t stituted to restrict British over a true hairns again. An' my heart's broken-an to British vessels.
I know Mary's is too." "T.B. in the Dail Mirth
But it required a European war of un exampled horror to wake them from their self-satisfied sumber,
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And the Government is still drearing. The Giornale d'Italia states that one of though imports of unessential articles and the Arona's boats has been found and luxuries are riline up higher and higher towed into Imic. It is completely ridd'ed and everybody knows how urgent is the with fragments of shell, dearly fired when need to restrict imports and increase exit was occupied as the occupants had ports if we are to win the war-Daily plugged the holes with parts of their fail.
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