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IRTIMATIONE
Ten Victor Records
which should be in every home
Another of ten records which are
group among the favorites in the Victor Record catalog
18833 Meet Me To-Night in Dreamland
To the Strains of that Wedding March
16958-a. Apache Dance....
b Second Chasseurs March
17214- Waiting for Me
Fables (Branen Helf)..
$5426-a Funeral March
1 Moonlight Sonata
84158-A May Morning
THE
(Song)
84310-My Dreams (Tosti)
(Song)
84300Marionettes-Scherze
(Violin)
6439--Hungarian Dance No. 7
Viplin)
74347-Simon the Collarer
(Song)
88064-Traviata-Ah, fors' e lui
(Song)
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS:
THR HONGKONG DAILY PRYSS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15TH, 1918.
RUBBER AND THE WAR A DUTCHMAN IN GERMANY
ITS VALUE FOR MILITARY
PURPOSES.
"AND AUSTRIA.
|TWO THINGS WHICH THE ENEMY
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The Amsterdam Telegraaf publishes an article giving a writer's impressions of the situation. He says:-
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THE "BARALONG”. CASE.
DEBATE IN THE REICHSTAG.
MINERS AT THE FRONT- EXPERIENCES OF SHELL FIRE
An interesting story of the visit of a The Reichstag debate on the Buralong contingent of South Wales miners' leaders, all members of the South Wales Miners as onded with oao inore violent spceclFederation, to the first line tranches on the in which the Agrarian newspaper proprie. Western front is given by the Central tor, Dr. Ortel, declared that the judigna.
News.
"We followed the enstodian of the tion in Germany is enormous short party said one of the mon Gradually Government statement, and a speech by the shells were heard screeching overhead Socialist, Herr Ledebour, rather more Peremptory orders were given us not to expess our heads We did not like the moderate than that of his colleague, Horr kook of things, but the major went on tell Nosko.
ing Out, these Welsh miners want to The Government statement, delivered by
seo the war, and so, we were continually the Under-Secretary is the Foreign Office beffe told to hurry along and see things, Herr Zimmermana, was as follows:
so that we could inform the boys at home.
warse, until we thought we were enoir d The dia eventually becamo ferriño, The With tho most sincere satisfaction. I am
hum and roar and hissing of the shells, grew
the unanimity with which you, in common
by express trains. Not a thing could we Government, condeiun
sce but the major's heels, and occasionally this disgraceful
wa heard a shout of Koop your heads Baralong caso, You have appropriately branded the horrible incident and the in- down. Let the Welsh miners she what we pertinence of the English awer, and it have to face. needs no further words from me to lay additional stress upon this horrible dead of thy English. We have also been able to note the unanimity about the fact that sharp punishment is necessary.
In this point also the Government entirely agrees with you, and I thank you in the name of the Government for the edifying way in which you have once more given expression to your horror. I can assure you I beg you to take this assurance home with you that the Government will find the right ways and means to punish sharply and emphatically this, horrible deed,
with the German people, and the German
AN INCREASED PRODUCTION, Up to November it could be said that not for many years had rubber prices Auctuated so little as in 1915, anys The Tamer, It is true that first latex planta tion crepe began the year about 2. per Ib. and finished at 49, per lb., showing an advance of 100. per cont, but between tho Between Cleve and Cologne a wounded middle of February and the middle of German officer got into our compartment. November the extrane variation of planta Wo got into conversation, and he informed tion rubber did not exceed the pogibus that he had taken part in the Marna The uniformity between plantation rubber batt's but had only learned much later and fine hard Pura was a less remarkable from the newspapers that the Germans had At the beginning of the year the latter best repused thore. The two things for commanded a premium of 100, por lb. over which we have the greatest respect," ho crepe, but after the middle of said, are, first, the French artillery, and plantatio de maximum did not exceed secondly, the Englishmon' a fighting cable in the name of the Government to roin 3d. and from the beginning of July the fight splendidly they are all sportemen. prices were well night par, until Of the French artillery he could not say plantation, steuring the lead, shot ahead, enough. He stated that once he had had establishing a premium of 40. or more command of 80 men at some post or other per lb. The average price secured for the on the gond; he had not seen a single 1916 erop of plantation rubber will be Frenchman and he could offer mo round 23. Gd. per lb., with possibly a some-tanor, but in the evening he had only two what higher figure for companies unha nen left. pered by forward contracts entered into.
La Leipzig my attention was attracted at the lower prices of 1914 or the begin for the first line to something which I ning of 1915. With the all-in costs of cortainly noticed later in Berlin, Hau- all well-situated, abiy-managed plantation burg and Hanover. The quality of the companies, having a substantial proper petrol appears to be so thoroughly bad tion of their planted are in bearing, that the autor-cnrs and taxicabs cannot round 1s per Ib.. it will be seen that the
be got to move except with the assistance margin of profit is highly satisfactory:
of a better kind of benzine, which the In 1914 the plantation rubber outpu driver carries with him in a small bottle. was, approximately, 05:000 tons, and in Once the car is in motion it goes all tight, 1915 it may be taken at 80,000 tons. Here also were various motor cars without tained from the 600,000 acres planted is the Middle East up to 1000, with a modest Pumatic tyres, but with wanden, go- allowance for the early 100 plantings Taaled Vollgummi," tyres.
At Hamburg the results of the war are this falls to be added about 15,000 tons of wild rubber obtained mainly from Brazil extremely noticeable. The whole harbour, and Africa. The output of this former well as everything connected with it, is The heavy goods traffic during the crop season ended June 30thing inactive. BEER as 55,305 tons, a decline of 9.7 per in the strects is a thing of the past. Very cent, as compared with the preceding year, few motor cars are obtainable, Speaking generaly, little and dear " was the This gives a total production from a dominant aute in the city Dutch acquain- remarks against the right of capture at miss anything while they were at the
tances confined the fact that the Germans were very depressed,
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NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, T. KUSUMOTO, Manager.
Hongkong, 11th March, 1915,
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NOTICE.
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hereby informed that their Goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables see being landed and stored at their risks into the Hasardons and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., at Komioon, where delivery may be abtained immediately after landing.
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All damaged packages will be examined
Tuesday, 14th March, st 10 á.m.
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Hongkong, 8th March, 1910.
2. THOMAS,
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
129
From 15th be 21st March, 1916.
HION WALKE
Low Wazur.
Hung
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Time
ft. in.
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Honth
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Kean
Tie
Height
b. m 189 1 4 3 3 22
628a 6 3
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17
848
441 55
7 14 6 6
8:40 4.-6.
7.56 s
Hubur. | 18 în 8 59
Feight.
ft. in 1.7
44 3 2 541 31
5 3 m 5 20
18 6 3 12 8
8.36
19 m 9 10
Mon.
Tun
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9m 10 0
5 7 m 347" 16
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SUPPLY AND DEMAND..
The impressions made by Bremen and Hanover were in no respect different. No hurrah" feeling a desire for the end, complaints about the many dead and suffer "g, and the cost of living. At a kinema in Bremen portraits of the Crown Prince, the Kaiser, and the Emperor Frane's Joseph were thrown upon the screen with out evoking the slightest applause.
REPRISALS A DOUBLE-EDGED WEAPON,
Herr Ledebour's speech was a repetition of previous argaments, combined with an expression of the opinion that it is not the English people, but the English Clover ment, that has been degraded" by Sir Edward Grey's Note. After some academic
sc. Herr Ledebour, applauded by "n part" of the Socialists, added the follow- ing remarks about reprisals:
If reprisals are demanded, they must in any opinion rot be allowed in any cir crustrates to lead to the death of persons who are not concerned in such deeds as that of the Baraling. In my opinion the submarine, war must not go beyond tho limits axed after the Lusitania case. The Government itself then declared that ships would not be torpedoed without warning. If warning were no longer given, that would be warfare which conflicts with the principles previously recognized by the Government itself. But, as our Govern ment has not made any such statement. I hope that there will be a change. In view of the various phrases employed by several speakers bere, and in view of utterances
Д in What
part of the Prose, the i pression might arise that it is per
to tarpedo ships without missible warning. It is therefore imperative to. declare in this place that wide circles of the people are not in agreement with sach a view. Measures of reprisal are always a If excesses of any
sotarees of 125,000 tons. Is the past fears have been indulged in as to the world's ability to absorb the rapidly growing output, but even with Germany and Austria-Hungary cut off and the inter-i ruption of shipments to other European countries it has bacbine apparent that the available supply will hardy suffice to go round. The surprising feature has been the enormous increase in the exports to the United States. Month after month
My final conclusiong with regard to this cent, per cont, incenses were shown over the shipments of the corresponding period journey are that a great part of the work of last year, the total imports of rubber, ing people are suffering from hunger, and gutta, and balata into the United States that the economic situation is unfavour for the first nine months of the year being able and is becoming worse every day, 82.300 tons, as compared with 56,000 tons Although it is believed that resistance can in the corresponding periods of both 1914 be offered to it by the German spirits of and 1913 As evidencing the growing in organisation, the prosecution of the plaas portance of Far Eastern markets it is of the Allies will produce a critical situa- The feeling becomes daily more worthy of nots that a very large proportion.
"down," and people are asking. tion of this increase in the shipments to America has gone direct from the countries are all these victorias giving us! We are of origin, the aggregate exports from this gaining a victory every day, but obtain no to advantage from it on the contrary." I country for the year amounting 1,429,433 contale, as compared with 1,099,233 au fully convinced that Germany and Aus. contels in 1914. Although a considerable trin must lose both from a military and an of raw economic of view provided that the proportion of this increased import sanay facture of goods to be re-expotted, the internal demands of the United States, thanks to the phenomenal prosperity of the agricultural interests, have been rapidly THE TRUTH ABout the increasing. In addition, the shipment of rubber has been stimulated by the favour able exchange. For 1816 an even greater internal demand is predicted, the probable Foutput of automobres being put at one million: Of the total exports of raw rubber from this country, the United
The special correspondent of The Daily States took 831801 centals in 1916, and increase of 290,186 centals over the pre-fail, who was present at the Royal ban quet at Nish when the Kaiser was the coding year.
guest of the King of Bulgarin says had never seen Ferdinand before and it was eight years since I had last seen the German Emperor
RUBBER IN WAR TIME,
ausintuin
war is prosecuted thoroughly by the Allies,
KAI-ER.
BROKEN. AGED AND PER- PETUALLY COUGHING.
double-edged weapon, 1 excepti
with the laws of humanity, we must decid. | edly protest against the Even in war To must brivo to make the laws of humanity respected as far as possible, That is also a dictate of patriotism. We can render our country no greater service than by seeing to it that. in regard to human behaviour as well as everything else, she shall search at the head of the civilized nations.
THE REICHSTAG'S. GREAT HOU." Needless to say, the Press is delighted The Frankfurter Zei. with the debate. tang, in an absurd eulogy of the demonstra tion, writes thus:
fuore.
"On we went, walking ten miles or
The roar of artillery bé- came more intense; our heads buzzed and grew sore We dared not look or speak All that avo did was mentally to reservo for selves a fervent hope that we should not be compelled to walk the entire length, of trench running right into the Belgian dunes. At last we were permitted to walk a mile or two to the rear. It was not for. some little time afterwards we learnt that we had passed under more shot and shelf that day than it was expected we should do. Any one of the shells which went nyer our head would have been enough to blow our little party to pieces; but the experi ence we had been so unexpectedly giver, was to some extent dye to our deire to sco the war as it was not to menting a cerrain major's opinion that the South Wales miners' contingens should on no recount
front."
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS,
CONFS ORDERS BY LT-OOL, A. CHAPMAN, V.D.
ATTACHMENT,
1.-H.E the Governor has been pleased to approve of Second Lieut. W, E.. Osborn Bombay Volunteer Artillery (late Lieutenant, New Zealand Cor. rison Artillery), being attacked to the H.K.V. Corps (Artillery Batty), dated March 11, 1916,
TRANBERR
2-No. 1497 Private A. G. W, Tickle from Civil Service Company to En gineer Co., dated March 14th, 1916.
3.Parades for to-dey,
PARADES
.
7. o.m.-Members of Signalling Bro-- tion and other Signallers, se detailed) in Signalling Section order dated". December 8th, 1915. Semaphors. practice at Headquarters, 320 p.m-Musketry, Part II (Stand:
ard Test), at King's Park Range. 5.16 p.m.-Civil Service Company-
Drill at Headquarters, Signalling: Section-Squad drili at Hendquar ter. Engineer Co. (Taikoo Section)
Musketry and Rife exercises at: Taikoo Dockyard, under Sergt. Everest.
On duty until
DETAIL,
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PARADES FOR WEDNESDAY, 15TH · INSTANT}~
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DREBA.
The experience of the past year has served to place rabber once and for all
The Gorman Reichstag experienced an alongside petrol and copper as one of the commodities essential to the maintenance What a change! The Kaiser is not hour of greatness, which will have its of an adequate supply of munitions of the tall man be is represented to be in effect far beyond the Gerusan Frontiers; and war. This being so, the anxiety of the photographs, and beside the great, massive will find enthusiastic echo whorever on sea German soldiers face the belligerents to secure adequate supplies of figure of the hawk-nosed King Ferdinand, land or the raw material can be understood. who has a curious, duck-like waddle, the enemy. What are the differences of opinion Thanks to the efforts of the British navy great War Lord neemed almost diminutive. between parties about questions of domes- these have been assured for the Allies The Kaiser wore a long grey cost, a brown tic policy such as the Prussian franchise. practically from the outset. With the fur neckiet, and a spiked helmet covered and what are political complaints about Central Powers it is quite otherwise with some sort of khaki-like cloth food questions in comparison with the solid Germany has resorted to many cunning "How did the Kaiser look? Well, I unanimity with which the Reichstag sup devices ia her efforts to
the will tell. Whether it be due to the fatigues ports the Government at a moment when supply since rubber was declared contra of the war, the effects of a two-day jour- to brand before the world English perfily it sots out appropriately to rebuke and band of war by Britain in September ney, or ill-health I cannot my So much 1914. Very little, it is safe to say, has is certain, the face is that of a tired and
and norogancé? And yet there was one reached bor from overseas sources, hat, no broken man. The hair is white, though who had the unkeppy courago to disturb doubt, more or less important quantities the muustache is still suspiciously dark by hisses and interruptions the unanimity RICHMOND HOUSE No. 146, Barker have crossed the frontier from neighbouring There was an absence of the old activity of course, when one could call a political Stocking putties may not be worn at any
about the Baralong case-Herr Liebknecht. Road. Also,
countries. Holand is believed to have of gesture, the quick, nervous wheeling "DUNOTTAR," No. 81, Aberdeen Road. HASTINGS & HASTINGS,
been the chief supplier, although this about and unstable manner of the man, all rullion if he had not, like all diseased per
G. K. H. BRUTION, Capt. leakage should now be checked by the re- Bolieitore.
of which I remembered distinctly from my sons, a claim to our sympathy.
ant, H.K.V.C. Hongkong, 3rd March, 1916.
gulation which places all newly-imported rubber under the contre of the Nether previous counter with him in 1908,
“The Kaiser was obviously out to make
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE. lands Overseas Trust, which guarantees that it will be used only for internal consumption.
With the demand for rubber apparently assured so long as the war lasts, attention
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AFTER THE WAR,
200,000 VOLUMES SENT PRISONERS
himself agreeable. He examined the medals ELEVEN TONS OF SCRIPTURES. of Bulgarian soldiers with apparent inter- est, chatted with royal affability, and smiled right and loft. None the less, he is a great 15 aged man He held in his hand a hand- kerchief which he was perpetually using, the commodity after the conclusion of and I noticed later at the banquet that he
15 inches, 24 inches and 40 inches diameter, is now being turned to the prospects for
with Condenser complete. Also
tarse bilge directing boses, one reducing is pet-tinust coughing
peace. Naturally here all is more specu- seemed to require it to assuage his con..
valve, two discharge valves, one set double
arfaty valves, oue steam distributing valve chest with valves, one bulkhead flange for shaft, one main injection valve, and one spare condenser door, all having been formerly used in connection with the afore mid engines. Built in 1904 and been in uza only 15 months,
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tion of the hostilities and the credit of the
I also noticed at the banquet that the
handkerchief was a huge Turkish affair of red, embroidered with the white Turkish. Star and Crescent in the corner.
IN RUSSIA..
All
Eleven tons of Testamonts, Closnel por tions and copies of the Psalms have just been dispatched from England by the Bri-11 tish and Foreign Bible Society for the pri-1
soners of war in Russia
There were 54 cases, containing over 280,000 volumes," the secretary of the sapery to'd & Daily Chronicle representa- tive, and the cost of printing them alone was well over £1,000. The volumes aro printed in Polish, German, Hungarian. and Bohemian. We had no stocks of such works in England, so we had to make sing photographs of 16 editions which we had and print them from these reproductions, The cases will travel free over the Swedish State railways."
various belligerents at the end of the day Under normal conditions it has been a com monplace of the industry that the larger the consumption of raw rubber the larger From the fact that the Kaiser ate and the subsequent supply of reanimed and drank prctica ly nothing at the banquet renade rubbera, which have more than once I was led to believe the story that he always thrown out otherwise flawless calculations, eats before proceeding to these state func It is aduitted, however, that the proportions, Certainly he spent more time in tion of old rubber which will be available | coughing than eating at Nhh.” out of the bugo quantity of the raw mate- rial uti ised for warlike purposes will be very much smaller than in ordinary circumstances. Then there is the considera- lien that the consumption for military purposes is unlikely to cease with the end of the war. In addities, there is the serious shortage in the stock of rubber goods in saemy countries. In normal tine, More than double the amount of ship-tributed among the prisoners of the Cene the Central Powers absorbed 15.000 tous
SHIPPING NOTES.
ACTIVITY IN DUTCH YARDS,"
of peace their requirements are estimsted compared with a year ago according to a of rubber per nouum. For the first year ping tonnage is building in Dutch yards at 40.000 tons, Equally inevitab is the survey, just published. The tonnage on reconstruction of Belgium, North France, December 31st, 1915, was 395,105, against and other countries which have been laid 185,170 tons at the end of 1914 172,000 in FRENCH LESSONS aste, and the awakening of Kussin to the 1913, 188,030 in 1919, and 33,702 in 1901 importance of modern methods. Last but Vessels were under construction abroad to by no means lesst le the great prosperity Dutch orders to a total ni 85,700 tons, of the United States and other neutral against 74,500 as the end of 1014, 103,600 countries, particularly among the agricul in 1913, and 37,403 in 1901. These figures tural communities, and the consequent do not include warships dredgers and
river vessels. increased demand for motor traction,
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Already similer Testaments and Gospel portions printed in English, Rassian, French and Armenian have been dis
Iral Powers, to the number of well over
400.000, and fresh supplies are still being
In addition to this
sent
“In addition to this," added the secre
parede,
MUSKETEY PART 2. DANCES E. AND 7,
of Nos. 3 and 4 Platoons of No. 1 Com- pany who have fired Ranges A to D will attend the Range on Sunday, March 19th, leaving Blake Pier as fol
Pcs of Nes. 2 and 3 Compurries and
lows:
.No. 3 Company, a.m.-Nos, 3 and 4 Platoons No. 1 Co, am-No. 2 Compoar
Platoon Commanders will inform the Chief Inspector (Musketry) as soon as pos- aible of any men who are exempt on Medical grounds,
If
on
circumstances permit the Staff, N.C.Os
and men who fired March 19th will be given nother oppor tunity of fring these Ranges, In the meantime the scores will not be off- cally recorded.
SPLATOON PARADES. «
CENTRAL.--5:30PM.
Wednesday, March 15th-No. 3 Co. (2)
and 1o. 2 Co, (4),
Thursday, March 10th-No, 3 Co. (1 and
3).
Friday March 17th-Ko. 1 Co. (1) and-
No. 8. Co. (4).
N.B.Alteration in dates for No. 1 co.
(1), and No 3.Co (3),
DAN PRAK:PATROLĖ. tary, over 2,000,000 volumes have been Peak Patrols will in future report to Staff distributed, the greater part free, among Inspector Wilden, 79, Peak the wounded izi all the hospitals at home. and abroad, and among the troops at all No. 2 Company-L points They have gone to practically every centre to the Western front to Cal Wednesday, March 15th, at 6.20 p.m.
F. 0, JENKIN, tipeli Malia, Egypt, Cyprus and the Per- sian Gulf."
D.B.P. (B.)
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