THE
IMPORTANCE OF
VERDUN
THE CROWN PRINCE'S NEW EFFORT.
(DY MA, JOSEPH BEINACH-}
Calais, is the objective of the German Emperor, Verdun that of the Crown Prince,
If Toulon was still the town "où du forçat pensif le fer tend les thereur" the poet would say that father and son would end there, riveted night and day to the same log in a partnership that would be a worse punishment to then than the galleys, so that, with their hards chained and powerless to injure themselves, they would implore death as a favour, and the favour would be implacably refused tliek
The Crown Prince has been placed since the mobilization at the head of the Fifth German Army along the general line of Los Trèves-Luxemburg-Longwy Verdun. than a year before the war I went over the district under a cloudy aution, sky, and read on the spot, as I had already seen it on the mag, one of the demonstrably plain secrets of the German offensive.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PREES. THURSDAY, APRIL 13mm 1916.
OBJECTIONS TO MILITARY
SERVICES
SERBIA'S EXPECTATIONS.
SOME OF THE EXCUSES OFFERED ALLIES PROMISES, NOT. “SCRAPS:
TO THE TRIBUNALS.
A Southport electrical fitter, twenty-six granted exemption from combatant servis, nid he would rather kill himself than somo One cle
An East Hata kinema operator applied for the exemption of an effects-operator-a man who makes a noise like a hore trotting or water falling. Refused
The Guildford Tribunal granted ovenp tions to several young conscientious objec tors, One said he would not kill a man to save his other's life. His mother wou Dot wish him to do so.
At Islington an assistant librarian stated. that when he was rejected he decided to get married. He appled to be placed in the Alderman Lorden said worried groups. that the man was married too late, The daim was disallowed.
The application for exemption of a misn who until three months ago was a hair- dresser and is now a driller in a munition works, was refused at Wolverhampton, Th court held that this work could be done by
WOMEN
"Serving his country is more inportant than cutting corsets
I am sure women.
OF PAPER
His Excellency Cheddo Miyatovich, formerly Serbia's Minister to England. a seasoned diplomat, and perhaps the fore most political thinker in Serbia, in an interview published in the New York World, says :---
....
ADMIRE OUR MEN.
WHAT 45 MONTHS MEANS TO A
TRENCH.
Away from the front (writes Mr. W. Beach Thomas) the importance of the 10e of a trench or the guin of a trench i measured by yards. Those who have surveyed various parts of the font from north to south over that crowded fifty miles
or more which represents the British line valute losses or gains in terms of foot above
sea-level.
`SHIPPING IN PORT
STEAMERS.
AWA MARU, Japanese atr.. 3, 698, K. Inadzu, April 9th-Shanghai April 8th, General.-N.Y.K. CARDIUM, British str,, 3.904, B. P. Head,
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 19th at 11,46 am,--An anti-cyclone is central, hetween the Bonins and S. Japan, and a depression to the north-east of Hokkaido Pressure has decreased moderately along the 3rd April-Shanghai 30th March, Balast coast of Chins. It is nearly stationary in
Fouthern distriais, last Asiatic Petroleum Co. ·
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at CHUNSANG. British str. 1.418, Mattook.
10m to-day, 0.00 inches D
22nd March-Singapore 15th March. General-Jardine. Mathieson & Co.
DENDICH HALL. British str., 3,211, John
Hay, April 8th, Shanghai April 6th, General Bank Line,
The forecast for the 24 hours upding ai moun
to-day Lun Zołowa
DIETLIOS.
Norwegian str., 833. J. Jorgensen, 31st March-Bangkok 24th March. Hongkong & Netghbourhood Rice.Order.
The war has so far favoured the Teutone, but the last word is not spoken. driven Our army is benten, our people aro out of the country, and the invaders at feeding fat on our riches. Four hundred thousand hogs, one of our principal sources of revenue, are said to have been Our shipped to Austria and Germany. great copper mines in the north are un doubtely yielding many tons of the pre- cious ore for more cannon and shells to We were told omuially the other day beule at Esen. It was said the re- about the International Trench. Any treating Serbians had fooded the mines real picture of what such a french is lik. and readored them useless to the Tentons, could not be drawn or regarded by a genti. but that is not correct. You cannot fool tive people. It is, of course, a graveyard a mountain, and our copper ore is piled of Germans and British and French, up in natural mountain formation. It lies Minets and other workers in the soil drive there practically open for the toking. Ono their tunnel or trench into inconceivable of those copper mountain, is estimated at straia. They come upon populous German 50,000,000 tons. Ours are the richest and dug-outs corked by some explosion a year most ensily exploited copper mines inago. They are stopped far below ground Europe-richer than those of Spain. It by layer of barbed wire, proved by its is hardly to be expected that the invades superior thickness to be German, Every
yard they penetrate is what gardene: pass them by untouched."
called moved soil. It is of the nature ants Best O of a fresh mole-heap m cruobied and worked that all its original consistency has been undone. A good deal
If you are in trenches on tus plain,DINA. where the water is a few fret below the surface and all the area has been ined as cockpit, you wonder how any trendi ea be beli. If on the other hand, you are snug in a deep trench on a chalk slope, you wonder how any trench can be lost.
CONCERTED DRIVE,
What preparations are the exiled Sorbians asking to regain possession of their land, and toward the fallluent of the Yoogo-Slay ambition of uniting under on flag all those of Serbian race who are under foreign rule?
Our Government has found a Exemption was granted Mr. Reginald.
Our King Graves, the clerk and solicitor of the Tolpurary shelton at Brindisi, tenham Council, In January, 1915, the book refuge on an island in the Aeges. Council refused to allow Mr, Graves to join Our people are dispersed in exile. But.. unsuccessful as our army was to prevent up, and now stated that he was in overy. way indispensable, Mr. Graves is clerk to the tribuned, the Prince of Wales' focal fund, and other statutory committees,
When the loss of Alsace-Lorraino. laid Francs open on the east, Verdun became necessarily, with Toul, Epinal, and Bel- fort, ung of the chief points of support for the defensive system of General Séré de Riviere, that is, of our new Vauban's iron gille. Though the respect of Belgian neu- rality and that of Swiss neutrality were would wooner go without corsets than keer man back from the ranks," said the Bath still then articles of faith, General Séré also foresaw the creation of great wing for.wilary representative to a coiset cutter, trenses; on the Belgian side. Maubenge, whose application was refused. Rheims, Lille; on the Swiss side Bezangon, Dijou, Langres. It is common knowledge how this part of his plan was not develop. od as it should have been. Bat our cast- er frontier was coming almost as strong nel would even say stronger than the strongest of natural fortresses, ibe Alps or the Pyrenees. With its vast enenched campe, its barrier forts, the works on the side of the ease of the great Lorraine plains, of the Vosges, and of the Upper Moselle, the eastern frontier could stop in vasion. Our armies, provided their mo bilization and concentration were rapid, would be able to resist double the forces sent against them, France would be as well protected se before against Certoony on the line, the natural frontier between Gaul and Germany, but a ditch which since barbarian times has never been pu obstacle to the passage of armies,
A wat of 36, ht Camberwell employed as a bitter, asked to be exempted, saying: follow in the footsteps of Christ, and would not kill or wound anything.
Do you object to helping the suffering or wounded No
Ther you will be passed for non-comba tant service.
AH. Pengelly, of Twickenham a boot repairer, claimed exemption on the ground The work of Sére de Rivière had hardly that he had conscientious objection to-tak- been sketched out before Germany appreing up arts as it was contrary to the "I ciated its importance. The Berlin Stuff Word. He was a Plymouth Brother,
will not go to the war as a non-combatant." quickly realized that at the outset of a fresh whe it would neither be able to pass His application was refused
Franche-Comté from Hauto-saço to through the gap that was blocked at Bel- fort nor to slip between Epinal and the
__
G. Whichels, an assistant master a
nihilated. In conjunction with the Italian those calamities, it is by no mean an force at Avlone it is now building itself
up again for the battle of the future. We still have more than 100,000 men trained. experienced, and, despite reports to the contrary, well organised Fighting has already been resumed with success on our side.
All we lacked was artillery, the neccesary ammunition and a well-supplied Commissariat Those our great Western Allies promised us, and it seems they have found means of fulfilling their promise sooner than was expected. In another month wo shall be quite realy again. Meanwhile much may happen to further the success of our next campaign. Our great Slay brother, Russia, is moving in the North. Rumania may join the Allies at any moment, as soon as Russian sur- cosses in Galicia make it imperative for her to shandon her precarious neutrality. And, above all, the Franco-British forces nt Salonika are getting stronger every day day of a flank movement keeps the Teutons and Bulgars in check now. At the oppor- tune moment there will without doubt be a concerted drive from south, west and north late Berbia, and I feel certain that our land will then be cleared of the in- vader, whether with or without the aid of Roumania, whose attitude can mean no are to us than the shortening or length
Foocnow, British str. 1,928, Davica, April 5th-Wuku March 31st, Rico. Butterfield & Swire.
FUKUI MARU, Japanese str., 3.059, H. Chesaki. April 6th-Swatow April 4th, General.O.S.K. April 11th-Swatow April 10th. Gene- HARONG, British str., 1,925, J. W. Evans,
ral-Douglas Lapraik & Co. HALDIS, Norwegian str., 1.085, Sveen, April 11th Baigon 5th, Rice-Java- China Japan Lijn. HANAMET, American str., 2,073, J. M. Anderson, April 19th-Saigon April 5th, Rice and flour.-Order. April 10th-Saigon. April 6th, Rice.-- HAIMUN, British str., 760, H. M. Russell,
Douglas Lapraik & Co. HONGBEE, British str.. 2.066, Willsher. 2nd April-Saigon 29th March, Rice Order.
querite, April 8th-Hojbow. April 7th, General A. R. Marty & Co.
HONGKONG, French str., 739, A, Mar
of it doubtless has been tossed 50ft in the air on the geyser of nine or shell explo sion. Itt full of little bits of burat sack-SINELE, Chinese str., 720, T. Mori, 4th ing the debris of sandbags Weapons and bits of weapons are scattered through like plums.
Pormons Uhannel
FORECAST
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(N.E. cr variable win is, fcoat.
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Hongkong and Hafnan 2
CHINA
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12TH APEI, AM,
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Barometer
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April-Dairen 20th March, Beana.—. Order. itKWANGLEE, Chinese str., 1468. J. Mac Vladivostock. 6-
Arthur, April 8th-Shanghai, St. General.-C. M. S. N. Co. LIENSEIKO, British str., 1047, Carle, 3rd April-Tientsin 27th March, General, Jardine, Matheson & Co. 7th April Saigon 1st April, Rico and MANAFOURI, British str., 1,288, J. Jamieson
Meal-Order".
TRENCH ONLY OF HOLES, The trench so called may be no more than a yoked line of stel holes converted with daily toil and low to a more perpendicular angle. And the tangled pattern of craters is itself pocked with the smaller dents of bombs. Indeed, you have three grades of holes: great mine craters that look like
an earth convulsion themselves, pitted with shell holes, which in turn are dimpled by bombs. Imagine a place like this, a grave yard waze under the visitation of 8.000 shells falling from three widely separated angles; and when you have imagined, it give all the admiration that is in you and n the help within your resources to men who have held it for fifteen months.
TH
It is a change of air, as grateful as the move to a hill station in India, to pass from such a low-lying and stormy salient as Ypres, where & canal bank is a moun tain, to many parts of the front south of Arras and towards the Somme. strata is often chalk; and if they so desire it a battalion headquarters can be most comfortably built in the security of Trenches of any depth with the first wal's provide pleasant security on the way to the front line. You may comfortably survey the German lince from wooded hills; and though some of those wooded hills uske much too perfect targets, it is a very different thing being shelled where dug-outs are deep and dry and wel roofed than in an earthwork on. plain a yard or two above sea level.
ballon d'Alsace by means of the Haute Preparatory school, said he was a ChrisThe threat of what they might do in the its white walls.
He
Lian in the primitive and international Moselle, nor to force the grand road fran Strasbourg to Toul, nor that from Pont-se, preferring love, joy, peace, gentle
-Mouran to Chalous, to couts out through Beas, and long-suffering to tetonism, the middle way of the Woerre on to Yer totally objected to war as diametrically op- dun. In any case, it was recognized that posed to Christianity. Exempted. From com the process would only be possible at the batant service. cast of an enormous number of men (ef. Tevet.Les nouvelles Défense de la Nog Frontières de France" Maftret, ('est.")
Two lines of invasion clone semained possible, which had been left open of alice aforethought, like terrible mouse- traps, the gap through the lower Mouse, between Dun and Stenay, and the hole through the Moselle, between Bayor and The Germans could choose une, Charms or the other, but in either case the result would be disastrous.
The deputy town clerk at Blackpool asked for absolute exemption on the ground of indispensability and family reasons. Teening of the struggle, was granted three months' exemption.
MISTAKE AND A CRIME,
Councillor Callia opposed the application, If they granted exemption, they would have the whole town against them. They could easily arrange matters in the office,
At Twickenham George Gray, a military accoutrement maker's clerk, clained ex- aption as he objected to taking any cath o allegiance to any King or to fighting or murdering or butchering anyone.
The Chairman-Would you fight to pro-
mans came-Not by violence.. How then-By persuasion Application refused.
Hence came the iden of the violation of the neutrality of Luxemburg and Belgium. The great crime against justice arose outlet your women and property if the Ger- of a strategic conception. The argument senied a good one, like those of Julien Sore or the Russian Sorel, Raskolnikoff, before their crinies: But the crime was a mistake, for it was that which brought in England, and that at another time would have brought in America, which created a coalition of peoples against Germany, which aroused the conscience of the world, and will rouse that of history throughout the centuries.
Applying for exemption, a sulie.tor at Wandsworth said he was responsible for the affairs of his firm's branch. His partner had atte bed, and he was now do ng ul out door work with a finale staff of clerk. Two brothers were serving. One was a Cana- dao. His parents went to Canada to look after this son's fruit farm, to release him; and the applicant was looking after his father's affairs here. Three months' exten sion.
Probably the longest postponement yet. granted in London was given to the sang ing director of a printing business, who applied on domestic grounds for absolute exemption. He stated that he was the sale support of a widowed mother with no other means One brother had enlisted and th other was nos blind, and was supported by the applicant. He received six months grace, which means eight months in all.
A temporary Post Office sorter clainion sxemption at the ground that he was blind in one eye and had only half the sight of the other, and that he had a widowed. mother who, as well as her three children at school, was totally dependent on him. He had two brothers serving.
A military representative said the Post Office stated that the applicant could be ex-
used from duty at once.
Two months postponement.
SURE OF GREECE'S DENEVOLENCE.
130FT, SHAFT IN CHALK.
Of Greece's benevolence, if of no more, We can rest assured; for Turkey is her hereditary enemy as much as it is ours, and she cannot for reasong of self-preservation allow Turkey's power to he increased bying underground headquarters on her alliance with a victorious Germany "
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On a chalk hill it is almost a pleasure to be a cave-dweller. You may choose cave, even for rest billets; and perhaps the cave habit might be profitably extended. In my mind is the contrast of one charm- slope between the Soune and Arras and a What does Serbia expect in the event certain subaltern's dug-out in which be of the Allies finding themselves after the was forced aluost daily one rainy spell to war in a position to dictate terns to the raise his bed higher and higher all he was Central Powers!”
afraid of "scraping his nose on the evi- "Serbia has put up an heroic fighting" as he used to say.
She will be
Those who west appreciate the differenes entitled to compensations and ben great are perhaps the miners. In the southern
8inst overwheusing odds, Allies will not stint the measure. Once bills it is not difficult to rua shaft 100 Serbia regained, we shall claim, as be feet down. The Geruans have gone down Up in the north langing to us by race and human right. 150 foot in one place. those parts of Austria which were once nothing is to be done without pumps; and port of the Serbian empire and are still the trenches on both sides are interrupted inhabited in the majority by Yonga-Savs rabbit scrapings," little water-fi led Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia, which hollows that never developed into the bur borders thereon and commands a wide ses row proper. Sometimes, of course, on the front on the Adriatic, and Dalmatia, wish gain mining is peculiarly successfur and Cattaro, protected by Mount Lovtsen, the actual digging easy. At the bluff ** restored to our Montenegrin blood-brothers on the Ypres salient, where fighting ha Ethnologically we also have a claim on the heen hot during recent dave, the subsoil is Istrian Peninsula But here I hapo we clay which eats ay dean as butter and can shall not stand in the way of Italy's and the trench pump are accessities of life be noiselessly worked. But the wine pump natural ambition. The details matter so, much less than the principles, and those-Baily Mail. are Serbian people under the Serb an Ang, and an outlet for us on the Adriatic to further Serbian development,
"ALLIES HAVE PROMISED LE These our aspirations will be grati fed, God aiding us in our righteous ight. Our allies have promised it, and we know. it is not they who look upon a promise as
a scrap of paper.
SOLDIER'S VARIED CAREER.
ACTOR, TRICK NIDER, VALET AND EXPLORER.
The Verdun region has been violently attacked for the last eighteen months by the Fifth German Army and the reinforce ments that have come up to it from the Moale distries of Lorraine, particularly the four Metz army corps which form The Gene:al vow Strantz's detachabeat. story will be told one day of the splendid tenacity with which our Thhd Army Faced the Crown Prince's Army be fore, during, and after the battle of the Marns, harding in Trant of it bearen the Aisne and Meuse and in the Argonne
The men now fighting for the British. forces that outnum the Crown Prince's
And so the control of the Adriatio will Army Are of every class and from many bered it by half,
be shared by Italy and Serbia. 1 The German Emperor repeatedly came.
Italy will play the predominant role, lands, but few can have had is more varied: there. Ho was there on September 2,
yet not an entirely dominant one. Eng experience than a soldier met at a tea 1914, the day after the battle of the
land and France, the two great Mediter-gathering the other day. frontiers." as it has been exactly named
Born in Manchester, he later attended ranean Powers, cannot permit Italy to by Hanotaur, which had thrown open te blu all the classic routes of invasion.
make of an important a sea as the Ad King Edward's Grammar School leaving. riatio an Italian Inko. The balance of to complete his violin coarse at Stuttgart. while You Kluck a few leagues off Paris,
power there will be established by Borbia Hero the German professor as well as the. where has only delaying his entry,
holding part of the castern waterfront. students hated him and, this leading to was beginning to incline south-east to com.
Stricken Serbia, an utter newcomer on the quarrels, he was eventually expelled for plete at one blow the defeat of Joffre's
scas, cannot be regarded by Italy smashing a violin over his teacher's head. annies. He passed the night in a call
rival of her old and solid position. Thus, On his return home his father gave him village on the Meuse. The Crown Prince,.
with the arrangement I have tried to out £20, and a ticket for Canada. Hive he was who caine there to great him, telegraphed
line, France and England aro safeguard- An ironmonger's assi tant claimed exe up- next day to his wife; Father last night at Marville; very sad," As sight was tion at Alton (Hants) on conscientious ed; Italy should be content with the usats in fura zetor trick rider, on tamer's cast- she fought for, namely, Itila Irredentant, cowboy, chauffeur, valt and big. falling on the ravaged country was it only grounds and physical incapacity. He be the thought of so many thousand men, longed to "The Brethren," he said, and including Trieste and Fiume: and Serbia game hunter, whils at other periods he would obtain a chance to recuperate from served with the mounted pol co and acted who his caprice had already sent to their could not take life. The Lord said “love
the blight of the dreadful years and be as guide to a party of English noblemen death, and whom millions of men were to your eremy."
through Alberta, UA come again the great and united nition follow, that do him sad? In the note-
she once was and potentially still in."'"
In 1914 Le accompanied Stefnuson on book belonging to the felturbet where I
his expedition. Bent back with despatches, found this telegram (published in the
with sixteen dogs and one Indian, he co- *Revue Politique Littéraire), there is
countered bad weather and wolves, and it the catry at the same date:""
A young export merchant, with a busi- took six months to cover 700 mile. He again there west to an interminable train
ress valued at £10,000 a year, asked for or arrived at Fort Norman with the Indian wounded. It is said that Hassler (the
an and only four dogs, the others having option on the ground that be was the salo old Marshal) wept when he saw the
partner of his aged and infirm father and been saten by himself and the wolves. The mense number of wounded and dead." And then this prayer: "Lord! Put an end
that if he was taken the business you'd Indian went mad after drink ng the ini have to close. He had attested. "We willment used for frostbitten feet of dogs, and to this war! Millions, millions of human
give you three months," ra'd Sir Teze, then attacked him with his knife, cutting beings beseech Thee! Lord. Thy decreer The Chairiau--I suppose you have no
"Doesn't that actually mean more than are infallible! Turn unto us again Thy objection to the R.AM.C. or to go in a
down, and after a plaintiful application six!" asked the appliant the open his leg. The Indian was knocked "Not if you are attested, replied the of iodines, the Englishman sewed up kis, But the terrible massacre was only bominesweeper?-No,
You don't mind going up in an aeroplate military representative. “But if you are
own leg wound with neid, and thread ginning, and mercy cannot cock crime.
Once again we have news of & formid-so long as you don't have to drop bombenattested and your appeal is successful, He heard of the war for the first, sime when he get to Fort Norman, and imme able offensive against Verdun of the Crows You don't mind being shot at, hut you
one month's grace means two-and so on.” Prince's Army, which has been increased object to shooting anyone else. Is that it!.
**"Surely," said Bir Vezey, it seems.diately set cut slony on a two months trek by five divisions and an immenso quantity Yes sir.
Referred to the military authorities with little hard that attested men should suffer to get to the railway station. Here he
spent £38 on a ticket for England. a disadvantage against unattested ment
marey 1'
15.
«Today
of artillers. We are ready-Morning Post, Feb 24th.
213
Do you love the Kaiser -I do not think have any malicious feeling against him If I got the opportunity of doing him a good turn I would do it as a Christian.
The tribunal refused exemption and cer- tified him for noncombatant servies,
The first conscientious objector at East Ham was a man named C. J. Watson, whe asked to be classed as a non-combatant. He objected to warfare,
areommendation.
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NEV18, Norwegian str., 995, Solvesen, April 8th Saigon April 3th, Rice Thoresen & Co. NICHIROW MARU, Japanese str., S. Hibi, 3rd April-Wakamatsu 28th March, Coal Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Zimbo, April 10th-Saigon April 4t. NIFFO MARU, Japanese str. 3.114, S.
Rice-Order.
MACHAON, British str., 4,270,, Bevan, April 6th Shanghai April 2nd, General B. & S.
Arril 9th-Bangkok v Swatow March 30th, General, B, & 8.- QUANIA, British str. 1.125. Trowbridge.
BEANBI, British str., 1,228, E. B. Simon, 4th April-Saigon 30th March, Gen- oral.-Butterfield & Swire. March Singapore 22nd March, Gen. St. Danish str.. 2.954, Hansen, 29th
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April 10th Shanghai April 8th, General.-B. & S. SBANTUNG, British str., 1,560, J. Mesthzel,
April 8th-Saigon, April 2nd, Rice.- TELEMACHEUS, British str. 1,340. Fraser,
Order. TOONAN, Chinese str., 900, MacKie, April 11th-Shanghai April 4th, General Order. TBUBUQISAN MARU. Japanese sbr. 2.001,
3rd April-Miike 28th March, Coal--Mitsui Bassan Kaisha, UBAYASU MARU, Japanese str. 1,983. Kitano, April 9th-Wakamatsu, April 3rd, Coal-0.8.K.
YUENSANG British str., 1,128, J. Simpson, April 11th-Manila Aprij 8th, Geue ral-Jardine, Matheson & Co.
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Extraordinary General Meeting. Thursday, 27th April-
Noon-China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.,
Meeting of Shareholders.
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HONGKONG AND CHINA GAS CO. LIMITED.
NOTICE
THE COMPANY regreta that owing to the INCREASED COST of MATERIALS,
it is compelled to make the following Alters- tions in fte ferins of business.rposes be
The Price of Gas for all purposes will raised to $2.50 per 1,000 cubic feet as fron the 1st April
Hire of Cookers, Geysers and other Cooking and Heating Apparatus will be continued, but the Cost of Labour and Materials used in fixing these goods will be charged to consumers.
The Labour and Materiala used in fixing Lighting Fittings will also be charged to the
customer.
GEORGE CURRY,
Local Becretary.
Hongkong, 31st March, 1916.