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INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8TH, 1915,
S.Moutrie & Co., Ltd.
PIANOS
$10
ON
HIRE
FROM
Per MONTH.
THE GREAT WHITE YEAR.
PATRIOTIC WORK OF DYERS OF ENGLAND.
FASHION AND ECONOMY, The announcement that Professor W. H. Perkin, Professor of Chemistry of the University of Oxford, has accepted the post of head of the Research Department of British Dyes (Limited) in the place of the late Professor R. Meldola is a matter of special gratification.
SHIPPING - NOTES.
CHINA MERCHANTS S. N CO, AND THE BONUS TO THEIR OFFICERS.
TO JAPAN,
RUSSIA'S WARLIKE RACES.
I had an
This
A NEW PACIFIC MAIL STEAM- SHIP LINE.
CONSIDERATION OF AN EXPERT'S
REPORT..
Charles A. Stone, President of the American International Corporation, has answered a large number of inquiries which have been pouring in on this company by announcing that the first steps Lave been taken in a comprehensive programme for pushing American capital into all parts of the world, reported the New York corres poudent of the Boston Evening Transcript on January 25th.
TUNING AND REGULAR ATTENTION known as "the great white year.""
VISIT TO SOUTHERN ARMY,
I have boon for nine days among the troops under the command of a general The current issue of Shipping and En- who is one of the foremost and most active gineering says:The firm action of the Chiun Coast Officers' Guild in requesting loaders of the Russian Armies, and who, the directors of the China Merchanta S.N in appearance and manner, reminds me Co, to reconsider their decision to grant a very much of Lord Roberts. prosperity bonus on the working of the Hect of only ten per cent, has resulted in opportunity to visit the scenes of recent the declaration of a honus of fifteen per encounters and went into some of the cont on salaries earned from August 1st, newly-won trenches, where I conversed 1914 to December 31st, 1915, amounting with a number of our brave Allies. They Never in the history of dyes and the in the case of a senter master on a salary dyeing business has the trade situation of 340 per month, to the handsome sum of are in the best of spirits. I found the
At the suggestion of George J. Bald been so critical now, says the Erasing £102, and a proportionate proant to other army well provided in essentials.
'win, a Vice-President of the American- Standard. To have the son of the late grades, payable on April 3rd,
The mean much in a country where the mud Sir Willina Perkin, the founder of the principal grievance of the masters, officers is the most terrible I have ever seen. A International Corporation, the question of coal-tar colour industry, in a position of and engineers of the China Merchantss a beautiful land, fuit of interest to the establishing a Trans-Pacific steamship line Suct importance is very valuable, be fleet was that the payment of a smaller arcaeologist and the fover of nature, but by the Pacific Mail, which the Interna cause it brings strong scientific represen-bonus placed that company on a different dreadful beyond imagination to the trans:tional has taken over, has been referred port service. Is the course of my trips I to a committee.composed of James J. Hill, tation on the board of the National Com footing from the employes of other com-
have repeatedly crossed and recrossed the Captain Robert Dollar, W. L. Saunders, pany, which hopes to re-establish and main ponies on the const who held the same qua Daester, the Strypa, and the numerous J. P. Grace and John D. Ryan. Mr. Baldi tain the dye industry in England. It is fifications and performed exactly the same other streams which furrow this country. win has just submitted a report favouring also a guarantee that research work will | work as themselves.
Here on many a lofty crag still perch the the, re-establishment of the Pacific Mail. be adequately developed to meet the Gor-
ruined towers of Turkish fortresses. His mang on the ground which, has been theirk
torical reminiscences of the many and for some years. But the question of the
oment is more scate than the matter of SALE OF DANISH STEAMER varied fortunes of Galicia are visible on every side. Dress, language, guners, and research. The problem of dyestuffs is touch-
native population alone afford unchanging ng England, the United States, and
evidence that Galicia was once the cradle France very hardly indeed. So much is
of the Russian race. The Little Russians this the case that the year threatens to
IR Our Any converse in their own dialect with the Ruthenes, and even the Great Inquire where one will among the big wholesale bouses in London or the pre. The fiji Skimpy states that the Kobe Russians are able to do so after a little
practice. vinces which deal in coloured goods-cur- ofice of the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha recont tains, dress materials, cloths, and even ly concluded a contrast with a Danish ship- and the honour of Inspecting the GRAse, va a Tes notepaper and the report is the same.
ping concern for the purchase of a steamer For coloured goods the qutlook is dark. of 6.200 Long, now at Norfolk, and re-named rastura populova is undrary" eurodej- Textiles are plentiful enough-the colours her the ikkovanaru. The Japanese Liguar Cavarry regimen,
make the che, derives in inventing the spread of typhus in Serbia, are fading strength. In fact, 1916 company was going through the necessary
has come with the corporation. His duties will be to assist in building up the new AIRMEN IN THE SEA. wa) doubtless she grey and white prevail. formalities for the registration of the one partici.dr. rază all variou
Fashions are netually becoming subservient changa of the ship's nationality when they AN ADVENTURE NEAR SUVLA BAY. to economic conditions instead of as was British Goverment raised objections to the fusse tag-tard of its cers, and who are crganization with the right kind of young men and also to take up any questions that It is said that the British second at Lavauma, simivrepól, Already the transaction. the rule, creating them,
may arise with foreign countries in regard to sanitary and health conditions, The following interesting account of an public is getting accustomed to the view Government clains that most of the share ara, vote of the lovenest, spots qu
Philip Henry an engineer, who has adventure of two airmen at Gallipoli is that colours will be dearer, had that proh-holders of the Danish concern in questionince the war broke out they have
given much time to construction enter- taken from a letter written by an officer aby, where obtainable, they will not are Germans, and its anagenent is entire been continuously employed under the most
the crying contations, in the Indian Medieap Service:
wash. But oven."white" is in danger ty under German influence, and se
a Vice-President, As we lay at anchor opposite the hospi- There are considerable difficulties in the transaction should be regarded as unjusti-eye or the civilian, it was quite evidens prises in South America, has been elected tal tents on the beach below Suvla taking way of bleaching. As the year goes on fiable and that she may be captured as soon that the squadron drill executed in my ay she leaves American territorial waters. presenes was a fist-class performance, yer in the wounded, we had a very exciting if peace does not come, we may develop
In some Lancashire The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, on the other 1 am told that the regiment has had no experience. One of the British biplanes" a great grey year. had been flying over us and round over markets the wearing of cloths in grey in hand, holds that, apart from the question time or opportunity for such training the Turkish positions, while shells were stead of dye has been accepted. In theof the way in which the Danish company siure the war began. The men are nard as United State bleaching and caustic ma- is financed and managed: the ship must be naiis, and the nurses look an extremely
considered Danish so long ng she is register.serviceable, lot, thoroughly scusoned. bursting high up in the sky, aimed at it, and Cooking just like innocent pufts terials have risen in price 31 per cent of fleecy cotton-wool.
and both in England and the Uniteded as such, and if she sails from Norfolk States "white" goods may still appre-after the transaction has been concluded: she should be secure from capture by the British Government. ciate greatly as the year develops.
POSSIBLE COMPETITORS.
INCLUSIVE.
BLUE CROSS)
FUND.
HORSES IN WARTIME THE HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB
PRESENTS
ANGEL IN THE
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AND
EDEN PHILLPOTTS, Last Year's Great London Success. THIRD AND FINAL PERFORMANCE,
ON SATURDAY, 11TH MARCH, AT 0.15 P.M..
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform admitted 21 Half-Price.
BOOKING at MOUTRIE'S.
PRICES: $4, $3 AND $2. BLUE CROSS FUND. [289 Hongkong, th March, 1916.
ASAHI
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REPORTED PROTEST BY BRITISH
GOVERNMENT.
£
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TROOPS FROM FAR MANCHURIA, When the exigencies of the called for the employment of all the avail- able forces of the Empire, the War Once bethought itself of the spendid waterial. remaining in Manchuria guarding the railway and the frontier. From this furce, resamling somewhat our Canadian Frou tier Poltes, were raised a number of 1090 and nurse regiments and maturies bearing the appellation Zamursky-1,,Trans the Loquaintance of their infantry. Aurian, 1 devoted two days 15 lunking machine-gun section still contained Bardy Mongolian ponies, which have come with the trom the Far East. One regi SHIPPING LOSSES IN 1915.ent and doubled its quota of laxis
ment.
BRITISH SHARE NEARLY
A MILLION TONS, According to the annual report of the Liverpool Underwriters' Asociation, mar. time losers of £10,000 and upwards during 1915 amounted to £29,744,051, representing €28 vessels, as against £13,688,964, ropre- time, large stocks of dyes must have ac- cumulated, and possibly the Germans are renting 272 vessels in 1914, and 26,736,000, only waiting for the right time to use representing 176 vessels in 1913, their for their commercial advantage. The
Out of a tonnage of 1,825,86 totally lost facts are that at the twent the dyestuff last year, 997,872 tons represented British industry in England is in a difficult positonnaga. The number of vessels of 500 tons tion. Wholesale dealers in coloured stuffs gross register and upwards totally lost was
де BDAE
Shortly before 1 o'clock wu noticed that the airplane was descending with great rapidity, and, after executing a sharp
The Japanese journal further states that vol-plans, it came down with a rush into
1 is possible that Germany, for her own the Directors of the Mitsui Bussan, who the sey between wy and the shore, the two occupants being thrown out into the water. ends, may yet take pity on us. Dyestuffs are desirous of bringing about an omicable Lieutenant Roberts, R.N.R., in maday enter England now from Germany settlement of the matter, haze asked the of the launch which had been conveying There is no serious obstacle in the way; Japanese Government to open negotiations with the British authorities. Marquis the wounded to us, immediately sprang but German wachinery is otherwise e- down into the little vessel and shouted ployed than in making dyes just now. It Inouye, the Japanese Ambasador at Lon- to his engineer to give her hell." With ay be that should some of the grant firms don, is said to be carrying on negotiations a few turns of the propeller the launch at home, and others, like the Standard with the Board of Trade direct on the mat was soon hurling itself through the water Oil and Du Ponts, announce their intenter at the request of the British Govern towards the wrecked airplane Meantime, tion of combining the making of high ex- another launch was also racing, towards plosives with dyestuffs on a large scale, the spot, but unfortunately it ran into Germany will be forced to keep her market here by accepting the facilities for ship- shoal water and stranded, its crew being meat of dyes which now exister for over obliged to abandon it.
Lieutenant Roberts now jumped into the bid goodbye to a big slice of her former business, Sho is now inclined to domand water to help one of the airmen who was in dificulties and could not be caught with an equivalent in cotton or similar com- modities returned for all dyes sent. bere. the boat-hook. By this time the enemy
The only great obstacle is that German on the heights to the south had trained: his guns on the spot, and amidat a solve dyestuff plants are and may still be for some time almost wholly occupied with the of bursting shells the rescuing launch re-making of high explosives. At the same BEER turned to us without any ansunities. The airmen were given a hot bath (a luxury unknown for many weeks), a change of clothing, and a good lunch, and were none the worse for their adventure. They had had trouble with their maching before, but did not know the reason for the stopping of their engine, No doubt the Germans will publish a report that the machine was changed. Prices are up.
are perplexed. The face of fashion is 126, of which 817 were British. During the traditions of their forefathers.
year 231 British vessels and 212 foreign ves brought down by one of the shells that had
Commenting on the above, an expert sels were sunk by the enemy craisers, sub-asons. Their appearance is extremely been bursting round it within a radius eyer writes: We who are in the business.marines, or mines, of a quarter of a mile!
No sooner had the intrepid Lieutenant can say that we are patriotically doing our Roberts brought the rescued officers to best, and if our best falla short it is cer- tow the stranded launch out of reach of land. Our business divides itself into a minute in its vicinity. The task was, howbusy telling clients the autumn Prospect the shells that were being dropped every spring and an autumn season. We ar and frankly we can only tell them from ever, impossible, and he and his jovinj men returned to us through the bursting shells day to day. It must be remembered that
nearly every dye depends on acids. unscathed. We should have liked to give should not be forgotten that acids essen them a rousing cheer, but the Navy is tial to the production of dyes have very rather touchy in some ways, and we were afraid of giving offence, so we tried to look properly been largely commandeered by the Government for the making of high as unconcerned as the heroes themselves.
That might under cover of darkness the explosives, and that dyers are on acid rations. Research may overcome this salvage of the stranded launch and the
difficulty eventually. biplane was safely offerted, and the cont of the adventure may be calculated as fairly divided between the Turks and our solves the waste of some 50 heavy shells balancing the bill of repairs to the air plane,
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MITSU BUSSAN KAISHA HONGKONG.
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Austrian prisoners in tals sector reшt? that the enemy particularly dreads LA
*Plastoon ** the uban proximity ot 03. It was my good fortune 10 See nose units at work, and at their best. Their origin is not unlike thas of our The descendants of the hardy Anzacs, Cossack pioneers of the Buban colony, they have come to fight the Empire's Plastoone, or stalkers, battles at home, so caled from their ability to crawl up, surprise, and overwhem superior forces of the enemy, existed venturies ago in the Cossack armies of the Dnieper, The Kuban Plastoons have upheld and oven surpassed
I have seen several thousands of these
picturesque, thanks to their Caucasian The report states that casualties from urees. All of them wear shaggy bouners of sheepskin, dyed a reddish Que, which fires and explosions have been increasingly gives to the casual observer ausleading
toe bravest and widest of men. No singlo thos hound from North and South Americs to Europe, and from the information belastoon has ever been taken prisoner fore the committee there is good reason for whilst they themselves have captured teus and explosions, like the large number that suspecting that in many cases these fires of thousands have occurred at factories in the United States, and at quays, were of incendiary crigin,
Mr. Baldwin has been, a Vice-President. of the company for a month, necording to the announcement made. He was elected on December 23rd und left immediately for the Pacific Coast. The Pacific Mail will be the department directly under his control. He is director of the National Bank of Savannah and the Chatham Bank Trust Co., of Savaarah, and is president of varicus publio service companies in. Tampa, Jacksonville, Savannah and several other cities,
It is also announced that Dr. Richard P. Strong, who last year succeeded in pre-
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS
CORPS ORDERS BY LT--COL, A. CHAPMAN, V.D.
PARADES, 1.-Parndes for to-day.
7. a.m.-Members of Signalling Section und other Signallers, as detailed in Signalling Section Order dated December 8th, 1915 Semaphore practice n Hedquarters, .5.15 p.m.-Civil Service Co.-Drill at
Headquarters. Signalling Section- Squad drill at Headquarters, 5.30 p.m.No.) Section Scouts Co. (all membera)--Machine Gun instruc tion on Kennedy Road Ronge.
DETAIL.
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Orderly Officer-Lient. Danby,
G. E. STEWART. Capt.,
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HONGKONG PULICE RESERVE.
MUSKETRY RESULTS, The Chief Inspector (Musketry) reports the following results for Ranges A to D in Part 2: ----
INTER-PLATOON TOTALS.
1. No. 2. Platoon, No, 1 Cuinpany, 2-No. 4 Platoon, No. 1. Company. 3. No. 1 Platoon, No, 1 Company, 4-No. 2 Platoon. No. 2 Company; 5. No. 4 Platoon, No, 2 Company. 6.-No 3 Platoon, No. 2 Coripany. 7. No. 4 Platoon, No. 3 Company. 9. No. 1 Platoon, No. 2 Company. 8 No. 3 Platoon, No, 3 Company.
11-No. 3. Platoon, No. 3 Company, 12-No a Platoon No. 1 Company.
INTER-COMPANY TOTALS.
our care than he was off again to try and tainly not the fault of the dyers of Eng¡ frequent of late on board resets, especially impression of savagery. The Plastoons are 10.-No, 2 Platcon, No. 3 Company.
In justice to the Turks it must be added that not once did they aim at our ship, though some of their shots fell within 300 yards, and one or two burst among the hospital tents just beyond the scene,
GEL MAN WARSHIPS A DANGER TO THE U.S.A.
It
DE BHORTAGE OF LABOUR. Next there is an enormous shortage of tabour. Large numbers of workers have enlisted, All that makes for delay. Again, we are now called upon to supply
WAR-STAMP COLLECTORS.
From the lips of their veteran brigadier, whom the Fastcous affectionately style Batko" (Grandad), and at whore bidding they cheerfully march to death or victory, I learnt that there are less than 1 per cent, of iliterates among his men. Kuban Cossacks, coupled with their mili. tary training from infancy, yields splendid Mr. G. W. Gegg, for the present attached
1.--No. 1 Company. 2-No. 2 Company, 3-No. 2 Company, The best shooting at these Ranges was done
by the Staff N.C.Os Tho.
MOUNTED POLICE.
MEMENTOS OF THE CAPTURE OF results. Their trenches are excellent,
GERMAN COLONIES. Industry is not alone in its enjoyment of a war boom, Stamp collecting is par
although they are little inclined towards trench warfare. Entirely disregarding. danger, the men lined the rifle platforms o as to enable the British visitors to pass comfortably. Their shaggy bonnets being dearly visible from the Austrian trenches a few hundred yards distant, we were
to the Mounted Patrols by courtesy of the O.C.. H.K.V.R., is placed in charge of this detachment, All mem- bors of whatever rank will be subject to his orders and will not be passed out for Patrol duty except on his recom mendation.
Until further orders, the Mounted Police- will attend at the Jockey Club Stables at 5.30 p.m. each night and report themselves to Mr. Gegg, or, in his ab- Aence, to Trooper Scull
MOTOR PATHOLS. More men are required for Motor Police Patrols. Applications should be sent to Staft Inspector Clarke or to this Office.
3p.
· BAND PRACTIÒRS')
D.S.P. (R.)
a wider area. Northern France and Ger- ticularly active just now.
"Our cales during the war, and particu many are out of action Contracts have swollen. Orders are booming Put those larly during the last few weeks," said a treated to a display of rift, and shell fire. facts with shortage of material and short-well-known London stamp dealer have Later, among the men in reserve, the age of Jahour, and you got delay. When exceeded all our expectations. Our Conti-brigadier delivered an address in honour the war had just begun, we certainly had rental trade has, of course, suffered very of the British Army and the British nation, trouble with dyed wools. We still are considerably, but this loss is more than to which the Plastocus gave the heartiest having trouble with cottons. Now Eng-made up by the increase in Colonial trade. response. At hig Headquarters the same lands wool clad.
On the other hand, Much business is now being done by Bri-evening General Guluga entertained me China is cotton-clad. China we have edu- tish firms with Canada, Australia, and with a display of Cossack dances and
THE CACOASIAN NATIVE HORŠE, cated to half a dozen colours or so. We South Africa, and even the United States, songs. The Adirondack Enterprise, of Baraba shall become educated to fewer shades, if which before the war went into German
We have the vaguest idea of the com- Lake, NY publishes a diagram of the not fewer colours-un economy which will pockets. Norfolk Navy Yard with this pertingets of advantage to the trade and to the The war-stampa are of historical as well position of the Tsar's Armies, wrongly Thursday, 9th March, at ✪ p.m. sharp.
F. C. Jasin, remark:-"With America alarmed over the public. It is a fact that some resort was as philatelic interest In most cases they sagining that they form a vast grey mass spread of dynamite and ammunition plots
As a matter of and other activities of German: enemies made to the old vegetable dyes, red, blue commemorate the Allies expture of Gor unrelieved by that diversity which lends
and yellow. Synthetic dyes from which man colonies, and are usually the old Ger-interest and character. NEVER TOO LATE TO CURE of the nation, scores of persons in the im-wo-get-hundreds of shades were supplied man-issues surcharged. Thus the new Togo- fact, the Russian Army is quite as bright
portant seaport and naval base of Norfolk. by Germans to the world to the extent of land stamps much sought after by British as ours in the variety of its parts terrorious formations, including the famous, Vaiste amazed that the Government per over 80 per ctat, of the world's demands. eollectors are surcharged "Anglo-French two days with the Plastonas I spent two inits the German auxiliary warships, Prind
division, consisting of six regiments repro which they have repeatedly nonpulssed and If you are suffering now from the grip.tel Friedrich and the runprinz that supply was cut off in a night." Is Cccupation, and those of the Cameroons days with the Caucasian native korsolevas invented by Jenghiz Khan, with Expeditionary sorting tribes inhabiting the Caucasus, overwhelmed greatly superior forces of the ping, twitching pains of neuralgia-if Wilhelm, with their 600 prisoners, to roit not remarkable that we have done asCE.F." Cameroon
well as we have done! But at first our Force.
They e01 some of the finest corps of the enemy
In the trenches and subsequently in their Indian Army. Many Mahomedans are ser- ving in the runks, and, like our Indian hospitable messe, the Tartar and Chechen: bodas end that colour, were suuproof, merely an assembling station, ache, sprains, strains, or swellings, How are within easy observation of many of the wash proof, selt-proof, and so forth. Again, Englishmen, and women too, can having characteristics of irregular horse of the cordial feelings of the native division. is the time-to-day-to buy a bottle of
secret and vitally important operations of
They should all say men the native division is under excelent towards the Allies. Before concluding this LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM, B- the Navy Department; are but four miles Frankly, they were disappointed with the do a great deal. And insure yourself, your family, and from a gigantic Government storehouse of English first results. Now, aa regarda Never again will we buy German dyed officers, bearing great names in Russian message I should like to state that it has At prescot and previously cloths and most gallant exploits on the battlefield, and cien of the varions corps which I your friends forever against external high explosives and are so situated that woollen textiles, we have got a long way, fabrics." But how are they to know them history, and it has not only accomplished been my privilege to relate to the officers
they could in a twinkling deal damage and we shall get further yet
de fur doing for the common cause, - Every- ches and paing. Rub it on with your which would leave the Atlantic seaboard But we want the Government to see to fabrics were ticketed “Made in Holland ""; but has made great progress in cavalry visited what Great Britain has done and hand. One application relieves imme
dangerously crippled in the event of war, it that come protection is afforded us Mror Made in Cerdany, The tickets were training diately for more and you're credit is further conceded this with die Lloyd George's Patents Amendment Act detached. No ordinary member of the In honour of the representative of The where I met with the heartiest response. You are lucky to learn to-day-though men living practically in the midst of the was good in intention. Its results were dis- public then kuow the place of origin. Let Time, sotniss of the various regiments went From the commanding officers to the pri nation's preparations for defence they can appointing. In the matter of dyes kegs the Government insist that the selvedge through intricate cavalry movements with rates, all wish to assure the Allies in the not help seeing things which the Govern of mixtures were sent from Germany and shall be indelibly inscribed. Na dealer admirable precision, and, although the West that the Russian Army appreciates That will cut the selvedge, cise the fabric looks hard-frozen ground most have sorely tried their gallant work, and is as determined as their steeds, they charged headlong in ever to fight to a victorious finish. Torre, ment should guard as jealously as possible merely put together in England,
met the requirements of the Act. England a mere rag. from alien eyee.'!
you suffered yesterday and export to main in the Norfolk Navy Yard,
affer to-morrow yes, if you've suffered
They are within easy striking distance of all your life from the agonies of the only drydocks on the Atlantic coast
it's ever too late to begin. Sold at Is. 4d. per bottle.
Agents for Hongkong:- Moura, A. S. WATSON & Co.. Le. [66-27
now attempts with wools were ant Batis factory to us or to the public. The public had had it drummed into them that this