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THE HONGKONG DAITI PORSE, WHENESDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD, 1916,
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
Hongkong Observatory, February, 22nd.
Previous On Date On Date
Day at 3 pal. * AME 2 pm.
Barometer
29.94
29.94
99.90
Tamparature in
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THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN 1745.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
HOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG:
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,
and from ALL WINE MEBOHANTS.
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 23rd to 29th February, 1918,
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DUTCH PRESS EPISODE.
EDITOR OF ** TELEGRAAF" ON HIS
ARREST.
The liberation of M., J. C. Schroder, Editor of the Telegraaf, was due to the fact that the judicial inquiry showed he must be regarded as not responsible for the con- tents of the Telegraaf.
Writing on the subject himself in the Telegraaf, Mr. Schroder says:-
HUNTING THE PERSIAN REBELS.
TASK OF THE RUSSIANK
The tenor of the news from Persia showa that the Russian punitive force has to deal with an enemy who, thanks to the Germans and the officers of Swedish nationality and his up-to-date military equipment, cannot safely be despised The soul of the entire rebel movement, of course, is Princo Reuss, who, the moment he learnt that we were approaching Teheran, promptly removed to Kum with his staff, whither have also bean transported big supplies of rifles, bombs. Maxims
and cartridges,
Princo Reuss divided the rebels into two
WAR ORDERS PLACED IN AMERICA.
ESTIMATED AT £400,000,000,
A BOTTLE FAMINE,
SHORTAGE OF GLABS IN FRANCE.
67%
Bottle makers and the trades dependent upon glassware for putting up and deliver. ing. their products are almost a daggers' drown owing to the bottle feming that is raging in France
How the war orders placed in the United States by the Allies have not merely enriched individuals to an enor
Mineral wator manufacturers, brewers mous extent, but have actually called into being now and prosperous towns, is who bottle their beer, and hindred indus- revealed in an interesting article by Mr.tries dealing in liquids of any sort are more 1. George Frederick, in the Americam or less at a standstill for want of battles. Review of Reviews,
Fecond-hand battles fotch as much as £2 a traffic in hundred, but they fall far short of making
good the deficiency.
The extent of the munition America is fabulous. As Mr. Frederick say! *---
War for Europe is meaning devastation and death for America a, bumper crop of new millionaires and a hectic hasten parts, one of which was dispatched to
of prosperity revival. The coming of war orders has created more value, by Hamadon, the other to Kum, On Novem five times, than the war orders themselves ter 27th, one of our detachments was in the Mr. Frederick says the "was orders" region of Karaj and Enghi Imam, 40 miles are estimated at about two hillion dollars north-west of Teheran. The whereabouts (about £400,000,000). of the others in not reported. On Decem-
The Du Pont powder firm and the Rem- her 3rd, it was learnt that communicationington Arms concern naturally accured between Kasvin and Hamadar had been cat and the rebels were fortifying strong positions on the mouston range in the re- pion of Sutton Bulk under the direction of German officers...............
great slice of war orders. The Du Pont (about £64.000.000), and the firm paid share is estimated at 320,000,000 dollars 200 per cent, dividend on October 1 last sending up to 750 stock which before the
war sold at 128.
the invaded area; the others have gone but Most of the French glass works were in- old men left to carry on with. They have tried foreign labour, but declare that it is of little account Arabs and other natives from French Africa have been used as as experiment; they are, however, a pour sort of makeshift
Well over three hundred millions of bottles are wanted in France every year for trade purposes. The demand has fallen off with the war, but even then it exceeds the Makers aver that besides the want of labour prosent supply by far over a million bottles. they are deprived of many essential ro quisitos in raw material, and they cite the cam of potash, which is only to be get and costs exactly five times the price pre Point,abrand, cannot be counted upon for delivery,
great stumbling block, vailing before the war. Coal is another
in five newly-made cities-City
The Du Pont plant is really five plants Hopewell, and Du Past City, all three burg, Virginia; and Penn's Grove and situated on the James River, near Peters Carney's Point, both on the New Jersey side of the Dalaware River, opposite Wilmington,
Customers who are clamouring for bottles report that the makers are not only not try ing to overcome the difficulty of the moment, but that, they have adopted a dog-in-the- made glassware to enter the country... wanger polley, and will not allow foreign.
It is the curse of weak Governments that, by abuse of power, they commit their most tupid blunders at the psychological man- ment, and this psychological moment had come. Juse when the flood of our agitation had been chocked by the ebb of the "digui- fied neutrality," a journalist, unconscious of guilt, was arrested, And lo 1, a poor worm in the journalistic vale of tears sud denly became a martyr for which I have not the slightest fitness, for I have put on exactly, 17 lbs. in 17 days in my cell-and my arrest was the sign for the Dutch no. tion, shocked in its feelings of justice, to The object of Prince Reusi in splitting up express itself in such a clear manner that his forces into two parts was to guard the the gentlemen at The Hague grew pate.rom roads and secure Freedom of movement Tad,
23 11 47
And what two hundred articles from my westward towards: Kermanshah and south pen could not have achieved, the Govern-ward on to Ispahan, also between Kum and Chuen 24m 0-19 5 4m 6.2) 20
ment attained by one blow the minds of Hamadan, Our purpose was to lucnto the 7.92 3 Fri, £5m 1 20 4 7m 644 30 the people were startled, the nation stood rebels wherever they were established and 8 42 2 4 suddenly face to face with the danger which to annihilate them. To this end everything 1 166 1
we had been for months pointing out and depended on rapidity of action, which was.
ONE FIRM'S £9,000,000 PROFIT... Batur, 26 3 124 0 7 7 3
10 4821 shall not now fall asleep over. Our aim has designed to impress the popular imagina- 2 118 6 3
There are in the Virginia manufactur BUIL
7 27 27 been reached. Is there a happier mortalition of the Persions. Seemingly, our main in centre alone about 210 factory build-
than I?
at Kazvin, whence doings. The semi-monthly pay roll about If I balance up the events of the last 17 position scoreded in (are directions, but 12160.000 80. this TOUR of Iactories poet, 80 years, and gone producers are days, then I find-That this Government whereas we were apprised of the movements alone, and some skilled workmen make
from £9 to £4 per day. Ten thousand making 100 per cent proft,
Crude rubber has taken a sharp jump has dealt in a somewhat careless manner of Colonel Baratoff's detachments, the
mon worked to produce the additions to upward until it is now 68 cents a pound, with the fincat tradition of the Dutch operations of the Kum dotachment have
the mills, erected, within several
months people, viz., freedom of speech; that it has hitherto been shrouded in mystery,
and now accommodating 20,000
and tyre manufacturers are announcing ext substitutes. Even with a record crop hopelessly compromised itself towards other
workmen. A group of cornfields worth throughout the world, corn and wheat countries; that I have been made a martyr,
at most £3,000, were transformed in eight have jumped up until Cauads has had to uf which fact I shall make no misuse; and
months into a full-fledged city with every commandeer the price. that this Minister for Justice and this I
convenience. populated by 20,000, and shall never forgive him-made my children
having an
assessed valuation of about cry bitterly when on St. Nicholas Eve, a Few moments after they had joyously wel. comed their father home, he was led away as a criminal. But all this is outbalanced by the immeasurable advantage that the 11.30.to. China Provident Loau & Mortgage true spirit of the Dutch people has been the region of Sultan Bulak and hurled them Krupp and Creusoh plante in many par- for labour at the manufacturing centres
able to utter itsuf in a balance is entirely able to utter itself in a manner which leave in our favour, Why then should there be bitterness in my heart?
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Thursday, 2nd March -
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Annusl Flower and Vegetable Show in the
Botanic Gardens.
Saturday, 4th March ---
8.30 pm. The Angel in the House" by the Hongkong Amateur Dramatic Club, in aid. of Blue Cross Fund,
Monday, 6th March ----
9.30 pm. The Angel in the House," by the Hongkong Ansteur Deumatic Club, in aid of Blas Crois Fund.
THINGS ·THAT · SURVIVE ::
BODILY DEATH,
SIR O, LODGE'S EXPERIENCE OF
RELIGION AND SCIENCE,
Bir Oliver Lodge contributes to the 70th birthday number of the Guardian his recollections, extending over 50 years, THERE IS NOTHING TO JOKE of the religion and science controversy.
ABOUT
"I venture to think," he writes, that in a backache. It may be serious, parti-a few excellent and enlightened men cularly with women. In all events it is sure to handicap your activities, at among the theologians are going a little work or at play. There is no need to unnecessarily far in their most praise
Buffer,
Speedy relief is found in
LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM,
and pains.
..
FIRST SUCCESSES.
Reviewing the course of our advance, il is known that on December 7th, wo joined the advanced bodies of the rebels in the region north of Ava (between Kazvin and Hadasan), which we occupied, whereupon the rebels, having suffered heavily, fell back on their main positions. Two days later we dislodged the rebels from their positions in
disorder. Thus the road to Hamadan was ink on Hamadan whither they fled in open. Our success made a powerful im pression in Persia.
The population of Hamadan, hitherto -on the side of the rebels, on the 11th nont a deputation to Celonét Baratoff, with the assurance of their complete submission. We followed our victory at Sultan Bulak with the same
mwiftness of action, not allowing the enemy any breathing space in which to tako un pew fortified positions.
The promptitude resulted in our capture of Hamadan without a blow on December 15th. Thus the initial plan of German trategy was circunvented To strengthen the shattered force at Sultan Bulak Prince Reuss is dispuching reinforcements from Kim, Malair, Tuzingan, and Kermanshah, which united 12 miles west of Hamadan, where he is preparing new positions. Evi lently Prince Beuss is straining every nerve hold the routes to herma han in the hope of retiring to the latter point.
RUSSIAN FLAG HOISTED.
On December 16th, the Russian dog was raised on the Russian Consulate of Hamad an with elaborate ceremonial, and on the following day our troops set off in a south easterly direction, continuing the pursuit. of the enemy who is at present fleeing to the south and south-west
£600,000,
The Hothlehem Steel Company is the must gigantic smithy for the forging of engines of destruction which the western hemisphere possesses, and it surpasses tho
The company is doing at least £40,900,000 ticulars. Its profits are authoritatively expected to leap to £9,000,000 next year.
more business than ja normal times, and the rise of the stock from around 46 to abous 600 attacted like a high-tension electrio current to Wall Stroct specula tion, and galvanised into life a whole string of dormant stocks. Even railway begging, are now going actively forward." Barbed wire is being exported at the rate of a million tons a year, and the prices received for it are some 129, & ton higher than before the war.
س
making of shells is a particularly important feature of war erders: " Quo Brooklyn firm is making 15.000 per day at 19.60 dola, or about £38.000 worth per day. Scienline management experts have demonstrated that average skeile can þo made at a complete cost of 7.10dols, each, which leaves a profit of 6.40dols, to any factory achieving maximum efficiency if the price obtained in 12.60dols. Under
war conditions, however, the shells are costing the makers from @dols, to 10dols. each Commissions and unavoidable waste are eating into the profits.
(A FEW NEW ORDERS. FOR SHELLS. :
There is a very significant admission in
Cotton is selling at 13 cents instead of 6 cents a year ago, while cotton-seed, which sells normally no higher than 24 js, a bon, now sells as high , £10.
FACTORY BUILT IN THRES DAYS. Owing to the increase in the demand
ang added nearly 50,000 population within like Bridgeport or Detroit, the housing. problem has become serious, Bridgeport
A short time, and Detroit 80,000.
The Rearington Arms Company put up a new factory, 1000ft, by 300ft, in 30 days, and another similar oue in three eight hours-sach- those working at night days. Three, shifts of workmen, working using the glare of high-power electric lamps were necessary to miracle,
The following table shows how cities have grown, while quite respectable towns have sprung into existence through tko
war boom:
City..
Before war. Now.
ort Conn. 90,000
Va.
N.J
Grove
City Point Va. Du Pont City, Va. ...... Carney's Point," N.J...
140.000
18,000
2,000
-6,000
200
5,000
3,000
500
39,000
Petersburg, Va... 23.000
Wilmington, Del..... 87.411 110,000 Detroit, Mich
Bethlehem, Pa Flint, Mich
.600.000 882,000
12,837 19,200 25.850
47,500
BOOM IN STOCKS. That general business all over the coun
worthy effort to lag behind no longer as a drag on progress. I feel sure that the ultimate position will not coincide with The sovereign cure for all external aches complete rejection of all that has boon
the article, however, Says Mr. Frederick try, in spite of the flood of war orders, Productive capacity was necessary to is not store satisfactory is explained, I Why endure pain when you can stop called miraculous the intervention in
mobilis at once and at all coste in those Mr. Frederick, view, by the fact that the dark days for the Allies when the Eng. sudden wealth has not yet been really dis- human affairs of intelligences and powers Litt
lab were putting moro flesh and blood tributed. The staples are doubling them- A large Persian volunteer force has hur That's what LITTLE'S ORIENTAL but merely, and in the ordinary sense, BALM does.
human. I admit that this step is a great riedly gone to Bushire, and there are against plentiful German explosives, But selves up with activity; but the average And it does it quickly.
Backache, one for once a step beyond humanity is many indications of returning senity among today the situation is changed. There middle-class luxuries and comforts have neuralgia, rheumatism,
are few, if any, orders for shells now still to feel the impalting force of pro- sore taken there is no stopping short of the the Persian masses, sciation,
Nevertheless, at throat, and headaches speedily and posi, Divine,
Teheran proclamations are freely displayer coming to this country. Quite naturally sperity. It has thrilled only the larger arteries of the nation business, and han tively relieved. You will be sorry you
trade balance here than had not heard about it sooner.
memory, affection, and character survive against Russia and her Allies, and the gen necessary, and have done marvels in their capillaries. Bold at 18. 4d. por battle.
bodily death-as I had many others know. armerie continue to fulfil Germain forest.awn countries in the way of shall produ that they do and if telepathy, or pay, whole still ostensibly in the service of the tion. They have oven bought out chis communications, by other than bodily Government. A portion of the police, with machine shop in America and transporte organs. is a fact, then the gate is opened: 11 Persian officers educated in Constanti them bodily across the ocean in order to to a region not exactly beyond the watenople, has joined Prince Rouse at Kongayarineronse home shell production. rial, but co-existent and continually in the Trans-Caucasian theatre, not far "The buying of war munitions has also teracting with it.
Agents for Hongkong:- Mossra. A. §. Wamon & Co., Ltd. ·
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Fortify yourself
with Bovril
IT MUST BE BOVRIL
BRITISH TO THE BACKBONE
no
"If men are more than bodies, and if summoning the people to war and rapine the Allies prefer to roll up absolutely still to reach the complicated network.at
from the northern shore of Lake Van, on December 15th we inflicted a crushing de feat un the Kurds, who retreated to the mountains, with loss of 200 killed and
wounded.
BEINFORCEMENTS FOR MESOPOTAMIA,
Materialists will say that this opons the door to superstition. Very likely that is one of the dangers to be reckoned with and guarded against, but it also opens the dour to a religion acceptable to the intellect as well as to the emotions, a religion not purely subjective and not
Turkish prisoners captured in the direc solely spiritual, but intercalated with lifetion of Erzerum on December 15th, reported more closely, more widely, more compre that sinus early in November many Tur hensively than any except the very grekish units have been removed from the Cou- est teachers of old time have surmised.'
The weekly rations of two ounces of tobacco or cigarette, which, as announced in the House, are served out to Tommy on recalls the struggle which
active service enter the army. In very
tabseco early days
James
I. declared that smok ing was alien to all military notions. "No man," he said, can be thought able for any service in the wars that cannot endure the want of tobacco.".
Rest and Comfort for the mother and health for the baby
follow the use of the Allenburys. Foods. They resemble healthy-human milk in composition, nutritive value and digestibility. Babies fed on the "Allenburys" Foods invariably thrive well.
Allenburgs Foods
MILK FOOD NË 1 From birth to 3 months.
MILE FOOD 16. 2. MALTED FOOD No. 3. ⠀ ⠀⠀ The “Allenhuys' RUSKS (Malted)
From 3 to 6 months, Prom & mouths upwards.
Pamphlet “Infant Feeding and Management" Allen & Hanburys Ltd., 8a, Peking Road., iSha
Fear to mentia spwards.
and Ewindon, England.
casian front to other regions of the theatre, of war. It is believed thet a whole division left this front for Baghdad, and theso were among those which confronted the British troops on the occasion of our recent reverse.
INARTICULATE SYMPATHY."
THE BRITISH SOLDIER AND THE FRENCH PEISANT GIRL.
said
on
The most astonishing part of the whole -munitions · business-and the most paradoxical is that the additional values put on stocks and bonds, general values and personal fortunes ainen war orders began to pour in have amounted to about five times the total amount o the war orders.
been well standardised on a business basis, The munitions bonanza has
This gay seem almost impossible, yet the burst. Those ambitions to sell war goods. aling tricks which were common some appreciated generally. cannot longer operate the backing-and-wide effect of war orders on stocks is not The oil stocks, months ago, when mysterious manufac within recent months, have increased in tures were adroitly kept in the back value by some £30,000,000, and other stocks ground, and a circle of smooth agents have similarly increased. price or quite as often stang' them for gouged the anxious Allies for maximum fees to produce a manufacturer who proved to be something quite different.
CONDITIONS NOW IMPOSED, "There are now quito definite formali ties to the selling of war suplies. If you wish to get even a hearing you must name the company which is going to sell the stuff, if you are posing as an agent commission is then sent over to inspect the plant and to see if it can qualify as to manufacture or finances. If overy- thing pass
then the commission On this
As a matter of fact, however, most of the new wealth made is as yet only on paper. Those manufacturers who have received large war orders even with deposits of money, bave had to expend of it and more on enlarged facilities,
ali
new machinery. and readjustment. It is
a curious fact that many of those with the largest war orders have less ready money now than before, for the eimpin reason that with labour making more demands, and endless cal's for readjust- ments and new conditions costing much money, they have actually had to scurry around for capital.
is authorised to enter into contract In general it may be said that & con- with the manufacturers. Prices and considerable part of the country is liberally -tracts are all agreed upon on the other stuffed with new wealth, but as yet it is side, and the agents here are instructed comparable to bank cheques either unde simply to execute them. Contracts are posited or as yet uncollected. Such & con- drawn up, bonds, furnished by the manu-dition explains the spotted, expectant facturon for their faithful performance. charactor of general business, which go Another bond is put up to insure de ghort a time ago was prostrate. liveries. Manufacturers get £5 per cent.. advance upon the amount of the order at the time placed; but a bond is put up by
Mr. Edmund Gosse, Fading & paper foreign languages of London University
Our officers in France report that a frequent sight on the flat roads in the district behind the fighting line is an Eng lish soldier sanntering along with French possant girl on
on his arm.
Neither knows & word of the lens the manufacturer to cover this."
ZIGHT MONTHS' WAB BILLA
As to the total bill for war goods do. livered to the Allies during the first eight estimate dre now months of 1915, Mr. Frederick's
£13,002,600
ds to quality, severe teste of each o
other, and
yet they are keen to imposed,
19 one of the raw materials that be talking all the time, The nature of this droll and mysterious communication has been greatly affected by the war. The is unknown, for a listener steals near demand rose enormously, and now the them the interesting couple invariably United States wants great quantities to withdraw into silence.
This strange interchange of impres build warships and cubmarines of its owa, and nations are buying goods for song is a little like the sympathy with use after the war is over. French idean which is enough to day for
dow
Lopper before the war maggedow
too many of our fellow-subjects. They almost to the point of complete
is as follows: Antomobiles Copper
Horses and Mules Explosives
Leather indikasenda
Shoes
14,000,000
17,200,000
13,000,000
13,000,000
4,800,000
and other wire. ........... 2,800,000 scellaneous (food, etc.)... 20.000,000
Total
892.600
foel the warmest regard for our neighbours it is the main concern of the leading across the Channel, and they are delighted copper people prevent the market from In Mr. Frederick's view, busincas men to feel themselves in the company of acting like s broncho|| Not only are of light and leading, used to autious friends, but their sympathy is inarticu: the Allies buying copper, but it is now weighing of words, do not hesitate to say late. There should be an unrivalled op rumoured that German agente have con- that the country is now nearer to bein portunity after the war is over of expos tracted, for some 28.000.000 werth for bomb-proof from the depressions which ing ourselves to the radiance and warmth delivery after the war Copper is now have affected us then at any time in our of the French genius."
5 cents above the average price foz the listory.”