TRADE AFTER THE WAB. INTERESTING SPEECH BY MR.
CHAMBERLAIN.
WASTAGE OF WAR REPLACING SHIPS LOST BY TORPEDO.
TAY, HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY JUNE 24.H, 1918.
Replying to criticisms of the Fir We must have in the months ahead more ance Bill by Mr. Hewins in the Housemen for the Royal Navy, more men for of Commons last month, Mr. Chamber the merchant navy, and more men for lain agrd that it would be very unwise all the industries associated with ship to count on the rapid economic failure building and ship repair, says Mr. Hord. of Germany or to form an exact pictureIn the discussions on recruiting for the of her economic position at the present
new armies is there not. time. We should be quite wrong if in
possibility of this or any other matter relating to the these considerations being overlooked? war we were to build our hopes of success
What is our present position? We have on the weakness of the enemy instead of
a great fighting fleet which is wearing out. That statement applies in particu upon our own strength. (Hear, hear.) The present condition of our fances nation has no conception of the cost in lar to patrol vessels and inalleraft. The showed the capacity of the emuntry to bear the present raordinary burden ships and lives involved in our maritime and gave good hope and assurance that operations The blockade means. loss to we should be able to continue the struggle the enemy, but it is eating up our ships, for as long as might be necessary. (Hear. and our men. bear.) In the year before the war we raised a revenue of $200,000,000, and we had increased that in the years of war to £500,000,000, an subject always to the ordinary ñeces- airy civil expenditure we were meet- ing the expenses of this great war as we went along. There was no otlite Country which
Attempi
to that extent
ing to do the same or could do the same. The burden had been cheerfully borne by all classes of society. Compare that with the position of our German opp nensis. Only a few months ago the Ger- mau Minister of Finnure, was brasting that i had not added to the burdens of his countrymen during the war. That Was hear heard hat he had now was no perhaps, achievement to
forul
to add to their burdens, and what was the sun which he antibinated he might, get from the additional axea? A sum of £35,000,000, a compared with the £300,000,000 we were able to raise.
berry
THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR:
DOING USEFUL WORK IN FRANCE.
The Non-Combatant Battalion out here (says the Times special correspondcut writing from British Headquarters in France) is doing honest work of a useful character quite contentedly. A party of newspaper correspondents went to see them yesterday. The men, though, soft from lack of training, are doing their best to acquit themselves with credit. Their conduct is exemplary, an unusually large percentage of them being total abstainers as well as nonsmokers. The particular party which was visited, some 200 strong, is at the moment engaged on railway work, amid very pleasant sur- The merchant navy is also wearing out,
roundings, some distance front the front. They receive the additional allowance of but the most serious less is due to enemy. meat, shove the ordinary ration, which action. The movement is proceeding now.
is given also the Navries Battalion, at an accelerated pace owing to the cum which is employed or similarly strenuous ||paign inaugurated by the Germans with work. In other respects they are treated submarines of greater power and larger just like the men of any infantry regi radius of action, and with mines. Thment, except that with their uniforms enemy has gained an ascendancy over the they do not wear belts or carry arms. defensive dasures of the Admiralty They use no military titles among They were good for a time, but that time themselves, but address each other as is past. Since the war began the enemy has inflicted on us a loss in ships and
Mr., or by nicknames. There appears to be no shadow of complaint of any cargoes, which does not fall far short of harsh treatment, and if £10,000,000
An irreducible proportion of our mor. chant ships is required for naval and the Admiralty has reminded us, the military purposes. As the First Lord of is in the air." It has to live from hand to month from supply ships, and must always have intense quantities of stores-coal, oil, ammunition, etc.-red-ly at hand so that after an action it may fe
the victims of any anus have been
amount of
"jeering from their comrades," as, was stuted the House of Commons they
perfect indifference and the same good themselves do not seem to be aware of it
the soldiers, generally treat them with
Pature as they use among themselves.
Drawn as they are from a wide range of classes in the population, they on hardly be expected yet to do as good a day's work as a like number of men whe all their lives. But they are hardening have been accustomed to manual labour and improving. Meanwhile, they are lending a life which will be of immense physical benefit to every man of then, and are doing work of which hereafter they will be justifiably proud. One man, conscience less obdurate than he sup: since they came out here, has found his posed, and has asked to be transferred means unlikely that more will follow.
The best service that can be rendered
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
The following is a list of unclaimed telegrani lying in the Eastern Extension, Austriasis an China Telegraph Company's office at ".. kong
ADDRESS
FROM Raak Bembar. Hoogkene
...Babat Baucheong, Sionian, Swatow Bs uris
ordon. Fughs, (or (auli). ... bioguon our Daily News Bhat glini *..... Shaughni Kaogobeongfat, Lorn.ngh
catl
Singapons Haiphong Les boo
Salgo. Lengkon
MAGSU Mauila
kow, 25, Caloo Road
pes, Hongkong Ho et... Shungtaok Yneclat, 490, Des Voeux Ri... Macao
The following is a list of uncisímed testerem- ying the Great Northern Telegraph Company a ofice at Hongkong -
ADDR YAY
FROM Lohovke, 19. Caine Rond Shanghas Sag Was Hias, let Fio, Ben DO SHOT
Amoy
Yokoliams
86,
Winging, Queen's Road, C. Shisu, un K eu Hing, Shanwen
nahing, boo Heng Street... Shunghat Staugai Nesrangling Room No. 22.
Kwangtailsi
Shanghai Rajkor, e o Si-h Gurdawara Sanghai Tongtock
Amoy
CHURCH SERVICES,
ST JOHN'S CATHEDEAL. Hoi gitoor.
Respontes, Ferial; Venita. Gors: Fraices, of too 1st Sanday for Trinity, 25th, Jun 1916, Holy Communion (7.59 s.m.) Matin (11a.m.)
2016 working: Lo Deam, Croton, Cotab and Croton (4th morning); Jubilat, Stains: (2nd morning); Hymns 66 and 186 Eventong (5, 6 pm Responses, Ferial; Feslais, of the 25th evening: Magnifcat, Tere (2nd evening); Ged who made t earth end her n." Lohr; Nune Dimitta, Tallia (2nd morning); Anthou,
Hymns, 30 and 27. NB-Psalm 119, vurune 23, 76, 0, 81, 46 SP, 89 an 91 in unisom Psalm 119, verses 57 Bad 103, G. I. in unisco.
able to pile up Fractically everything If we were over-straining our resources for the million and a half soldiers at the he thought it would be found that the front-the Prime Minister's latest nguro estimates of the Chancellor of the Ex- has to be conveyed by sea. chequer would be falsified, and that the However great the number of ships faxes did not produce the sums anticipatsunk these needs must be met. Therefore el. Was this true! The revenue for 1913-14 exceeded the estimate by £3,500, 000; in the next year by £17,500,000 and For 1915-18 the revere exceeded the estimais by no less than £32,000,000. As the struggle had procreded, and taxes tonnage includes coasting ships (which to the combatant ranks. It is by no teck; Hynins, 7, 564.1st 2 and last verson, |
to calculate our merchant ship losses on the aggregate tonninge under the Red Ensige is misleading and mischierius There is yet another point. The aggregate
trade), in which our losses have been re- are unavailable for the essential foreign Jar relatively.latively small. The ships which are dis appearing are mainly of the most marfu!
bears heavier, the yield hid increased,
only positively
rob (Here, hear:)
SOME WIDER CONSIDERATIONS.
He agreed that there was much food For thought in the consideration of the effect of this heavy taxation) after peace was restored, upon the manufacturing and productive capacity of the country, Manufacturers, under the pressure of
ST. ANDREW's CHURCH, Kowloon. 25th June, 1st Sunday after Trinity. Morning (25th Morning); Pralms, A Set; Te Deum, Prayer, at 11 a.m. Responses, Festal; Venite, Lawes, Cooks and Hopkins, benedictos, rout 315. (est verse in unison). National Anthem. Evening Prayer; at spise haut, p.. Heepoures, Figital; Fraim A No. 388; Nane Dimitti, W. A thant, No service they conscientiously can to their Kion at 8am. a6 p..
579: Hymns, 29, 419 a d 33 18 in aprendiz); country in her need, just like any other
Maunder. National Anthem. Hly patriotic Britons.
them is to forget them, or think of them
typo-medium-size cargo-carrying bontly as men who are rendering what The actual percentages which are quoted must be doubled, if not trebled, if we would obtain a corrcot estimate of the rate at which our commerce-carrying power is declining. Then and only then cas any comprehension be formed of the
crisis in our sea affars.
I have studied two sets of figures which are illuminating. During one week the British merchant navy was weakened by the enemy to the extent of 64,000. That on the one hand. On the other, there is Lloyd's latest return of abipbuilding. It contains these figures:-
and in compliance with the desire which was common to all--to direct their adlivities into channels which would bost help our country-had given up their Atrades of peace. They had parted with the goodwill of their busi- ness. They had let their business fly while they endeavoured to meet the de mand of the war. They had in many enses to incur special expenditure in' new machinery, plant, and buildings.ber 424, gross tonnage 1,423,435 (including No one could fail to recognize that in so doing they had created a claim upon their countrymon for later consideration for a consideration which was not wo in the interests of these manufacturers than it was in the interests of the com- munity as a whole and of the working class section of the unity in parti cular. (Hear, hear.) We were using up
We need men to make good the wastage capital for the purposes of the war at a time when neutral countries, happily in the personnel of the fighting navy and for themselves inved from the struggle, in its essential supply services ashore, "were making enormoas profits at the exmon to make good the losses in the person
prise of the belligerents, and were able | net of the merchant navy, and men to ont of their profits to reorganize, extend, make good in our shipyards and engine and develop their business.
THE DOCTRINE OF LAISSEZ FAIRE.
Ships building March 31st, 1916: num.
"vessois commenced December-March, quarter"; number 65, gross tonnage 102,983). Net old tonnage in hand number 09, gross tonnage 1,320,552 Ships building December 31st, 1912: number 420, tonnage 1,983,500. Vessels completed since December 31st, 1015- number 31, gross tonnage 43,038.
shops the wastage of ships-ships of war and ships of commerce. Our sen-power. is shrinking and only by the exhibition
NON-COMBATANT ** CASUALTIES.”.
Mr.. King, M.P., having asked how many men have been sent agroad belong ing to the Non Combatant Corps, and what casualties have been sustained by this corps to the latest date for which figures are available, Mr. Tenuant has replied:-
have been sent abroad; As this corps has Three officers and 341 men of this corps not been and will not be employed in the not be surprised 10 learn that no men face of the enemy, my hon. friend will
of this corps have been killed, wounded, or taken prisoner by the enemy, Six however, have been admitted to hospital suffering from German measles, one from venereal disease, one from scabies, auct one from sobie malady the nature of which has not yet been diagnosed..
SERBS AT SALONIKA.
A CONSIDERABLE ADDITION TO GENERAL SARBAIL'S FORCES
Out of 80,000 prisoners in the hands of
He would not undertake to say what was the exact measure of agreement which of foresight by retaining a large reser Serbs (says a correspondent) no fewer might be evolved among the various voir of man-power, can we preserve our parties as we set ourselves to the work marine, which is the real force of than 20,000 were Serbs from Dalmatia, of reconstruction after the war. He would be a rash man who would under
our country. · On it everything depends--Bosnia or Herzgovina and these at one take to say what
our military power, our air power, our volunteered to be enrolled in the Serbian were the limits of industrial power, and our economic army. This was done, and now amongst possible agreement. But one thing was clear we could not leave the work of power.
the Berbs who are arriving daily at reconstruction to chance.
Since the war began, our patrol ships Saloniks are 28 battalions composed ea- (Cheers.)
have been active by day and by night in trely of Austrian subjects fighting with There was no section which would main tain that we could pursue after our all weathers. A good many base been de the one idea of raising aloft he starr experience of this war the policy of stroyed, and the remainder will not last of a Serbian Empire composed of not laisser faire, Taisser after. (Cheers.) It for ever. During those twenty months was common ground among people who about 2,000,000 tons of British merchant only the 5,000,000 Serbs who acclaim King were widely divided in the old days that shipping have been sunk; those ships of the 8,000.000 Serts now subjects of the Peter as their lawful sovereign but also the Government must come in to help, must be made good. Yet our warship-
industries of the country were to miralty has admitted, is in arrears and There are upwards of 80.000: Serbian continue to exist, and that industries there are thousands of tons of merchant prisoners in Russiz, subjects of the Aus which were vital," as we had found out
ut tonnage in hand at the beginning of hos-trian Emperor who from time to time
volat and support, to see that the building, as the First Lord of the A-Emperor Francis Joseph.
to the country should not again be allow-tilities lying rusting and neglected.
ed to be crashed out, but should be main- tained at least in so far as any one of them could be shown to be necessary to
uztion (Cheers.)
THE PARIS CONFERENCE.
have thrown down their arms and sub- mitted quietly to the enemy. These ment are from Bosnia, Herzgovina and Dalma- tia and were sent against Russia instead
ST. PETER'S CHURCH, West Point. San- day, 21th June: a.m. Holy Cowшnaive. Praper and Sermon; Francher, Bav. W T 10:20 a.m Sunday School 11 am.. Morning Featherstons.
་་་
25th June
UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Road. Sunday, Prenaher: Rev. J. Kirk Macounch Evening
Morning Service, Service at 6. Preacher: Ker. F. E. oryant. Lordon 31ission.
..
The PEAK CHURCH Service will be held. in the above Church on the Sunday even: ings in June, at 6.30. All seats free. The services will be taken by the follow Ing:***
June 25th Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie,
WEATHER BEPORT
On the tart at 11.15. No ret rus fro Javanese stations or N. Chios
Pressure bas Iessed slightls from Sh ng. bai to Luzon. It is nearly stationary u tre neighbourhood ef·Hongrong.
The depressions over. Tongking and enir China appes s 10 be filing up.
Hongkong reinfall for 24 hours ending
i
SWAN
FOUNTPEN.
NEEDS NO "COAXING”! It's made right To write right.
That's why it's the most popular
Fountpen.
Does not Leak, Scristal or Dry Up.. Fitted with Gold Iridium Tipped Nib. WHERE IS YOURS?
TRY ONE NOW! Bold by
JEWELLERS, STATIONERS AND
IMPORTERS.
MABIE, TODD & Co., Manufacturers, LONDON.
USE
"SWAN'
INK.
SWAN INK
"For Pouzatain Pro
CATALOGUE FREE!
20,000 DOCTORS
jare recommending
PLASMON
ALL NOURISHMENT ARROWROOT Because
It is "of INESTIMABLE VALUE as a food for all."-Dr. Virchow, Berlin.
14.2
CHINA MAIL S.S. CO., LTD.
VIA
FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS
*
S.S. CHINA
WILL BAIL FROM. HONGKONG FOR
SAN
FRANCISCO
NAGASAKI AND HONOLULU,
20-SEPT, 5 - NOV. 11.
AN UNSURPASSED High-CLASS PASSENGER SERVICE AT INTERMEDIATE RATES.
Hongkong, 27th May, 1916.
0. H. RITTER, Freight and Passenger Agent,
Prince's Buildings, Ice House Street,
MONEY WASTED ON FOOD.
Every penny counts in the kitchen nowa lays. Food prices have mounted rapidly They are likely to keep high. You can ↑ and to waste; that is very certai
To go hungry because food is not obtain. abie is had enough! But to starve in th
det of plenty with good money in your paket and no hindrance to buyrog-19 initely worse. Yet, this is what a host of pople are doing today. Starving, mind 10 am, to-day, 0.72 inch, Total wires Int, not for the lack of food, but becaus January, 2.09 inoues, against an arenage of their digestive organs have lost tone aq 36.24 inches,
cannot properly digest the food they eat The forest for the 24 hours eating at Noou Remember, it is not what you eat, but wha
you digest, that nourishes your body and day is as follows:--
sustaing your life..
DISTRICT
Hongkong & Neighbourhood
Formon Channel
FOBECANT. East or variable and Fat kodigot; far.
No 1
T
SothCoast of Chins between The reas
ky gani Lamooks.
South coast of China between. Thi
unghong and Hsiaan
HONGKONG
Na 1.
ETEOROLOGICAL
Unless food is converted by the digestive processes into a condition in which it gan, be absorbed jato the system, muscles, bon-. verves and brain are slowly but surely starved. In other words, they fail to get of the nourishment they need to keep thein strong and healthy.
Food in such a case is indeed sometimes positively harmful. It hinders instead of helps, weakens instead of strengthens, How? Because it férments in the stomach or intestines. Impuritice are given off which find their way into the blood and affect disastrously the whole body.
If you would get fall value from the food you eat, you must see to it that your diges tive organs are always equal to the worg you give them to do. Now and then, from one cause or another, they may lose tone Date: At such times you will find it better to Bay?. 2 pm.
REGISTER,
Hongkong Observatory. June 23rd,
Previons Un DeeOn
Day
at 2 pm. 6.
arometer
29 61 1963
29.64
84
80
7+
80
26
93
Fast East
Eart
P
6% ор
09
Fores
+
the full life and vital strength of the ing with the situation. But how would of being utilised on the southern front as his hou-friend deal with it? He said by duties. If the duties were to be effect was feared they might turn their arms. tive they must be prohibitive, and if against the Austrians. It has been de they were prohibitive duties, what in the cided to organise them into regiments world was the difference economically largely officered by Serbian officers whose or administratively between duties which regiments have been destroyed, and at the Temperatus prevented importation and an order present moment there are a large num-Humidity which had the same result?
ber of Serbian officers and non-commis-Wind Direction A little later his hon. friend was assursionad officers in London waiting trans- ing those who might be suspicious of any port to the White Sea whence the will be Weather duties that were imposed at present, that sent down by rail to Petrograd in order whatever duties were established now to organise this new force. As these men, could not remain when peace was de-if taken by the Austrians, would be shot clared. He did not follow the line of out of hand, it has been decided to send argument. If the object was the ex- them as reinforcements to the Army of clusion of imports, in so far as that the Caucasus, to act against the Turks in object could be attained, he greatly pre- Armenia. ferred to proceed by direct probibition
**
Highest open-air Temperature on 22d 84 Lowest open-air Temperature ou said
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 24th to 30th June, 1936
HIGH WATER
LOW WATER.
He could safely assure his hon. friend that the representatives of the Govern mont at the Paris Conference would go there unbound by any rigid school of economic thought of the one kind or the other unbound by any specific fiscal policy which they had, adopted in this country in the past or which some of them had advocated, in order to see in what way their common interests might be best pursued and strengthened.
His hon. friend, turning to the details of the Budget. criticized tlu excess profits tax. In his (Mr. Chamberlain') opinion the tax had gone as high as it ought to go. If they made it any higher they must cripple industry and discourage instead of by something which was called So far as I have been able to ascertain, enterprise. (Hear, hear.) But as it a duty but which was, in fact, a prohibi-shont 150,000 Serbian troops have been stood the tax was justified. The greater tion. He did not think it was in there-armed in Corfu and Bre being the war the greater was the demand that interests of sound tariff aystem that we despatched to Salonika. They have been they must make on the present, because should create preposterous duties, which served out with French rifles and the great in any case would be the legacy of were duties in disguise, but which were famous 75 beld gun. With this they are obligation which they would have to intended to be in effect absolute pro-well acquainted, for prior to the Balkan leave to posterity. For all the purposes hibition (Hear, bear)
war the Serbs had adopted the Cressot of competition and of industrial life, After all the most striking thing about field and mountain gun and were also in surely it was important that they should the reception of his right hon. friend's possession of a few batteries of 5-inch limit as far as they could the great debt Budget was the acceptance which it had Creusots. It was these guns which turned which they would have to hear in after met with in all quarters of the House, the scale at the battles of Kumanova and Batur. 244 48 52 11:31 years, whilst they took no more than was and he thought in all parts of the coun Monastir, and as soon as the Turkish needed from the community at the pre try. (Cheers.) It was satisfactory that resistance was at an end on the western Bun. sent moment,
after nearly two years of war we should front the heavy guns were transported to 1 find
ourselves bearing Then his hon. friend challenged again willingly a burden of taxation which Adrianople and were the main factor in
comparatively the policy of the Government with res would have seemed incredible to any determining the issue of that long drawn Tues. 37 gard to the prohibition of imports. He Chancellor of the Exchequer but com- pat siege. In addition to the 180,000-Ber- agreed with his hon. friend absolutely paratively few years ago, and that our bian soldiers already equipped by the Wel. 28 m that a policy of prohibition was not a financial position, instead of growing French there are some 80,000 men waiting permanent policy for could it be per- weaker as the war went on, grew stronger arms and squipment from America, and Thure. 297 67 manently the basis of their policy. He with the experience we obtained, the con- it was hoped that by the end of May #greed that at best it was a rough-and-fidence which we acquired and the respect General Sarrail would have a quarter of I FYL ready and rather a harsh method of deal that we won by the efforts we were mak a million veteran Serbian soldiers under
(Continued on next Column.) ing. (Cheera.)
his command..
POLICY OF PROHIBITION.
Mon.
Month
H'cong
#koog.
Mean
Time
Time
ft.l.
| Bright.
22
6 21 34 4·|· 10·13 m. 2..1
25 m B
30
a shilling or two on food and spend it on Mother Seigel's Syrup than to pile up misery for yourself, by continuing to est more than your weakened organs can properly digest.
This renowned remedy clears the system of the injurious products of indigeation, and by toning up and stimulating the stom-- ach, liver and bowels enables you to digest, and draw nourishment from what you eat You will then no longer have to deplore money wasted on food.
In confirmation of the remarkable efficacy of Mother Beigel's Syrup, read this letter from Mrs. M. Peterson, Oxford Street, Wynberg, Cape Province, on April 18th, 1914: For a number of years I suffered very much from a complication of stomach- disorders, and was reduced to a sad state of weakness and nervous debility. My appe tite disappeared, and the little food I ate
was generally the forerunner of a bilions attack. I also suffered from constipation, flatulence, and dizziness, had many restless
and sleepless nights, and on rising in the morning was usually afflicted with a split-
ft in ting headache, and found food utterly dis.
tasteful
combat my "I tried all possible means to 6045 2-3 6.52 4 1 1 353 Domplaints, but nothing helped or gave me any relief. Two years ago I was recoun- mended to use Mother Beigel's Hyrup, an that seemed to be the remedy I had been in search of A few doses gave me relief, ant I soon recovered my health and strength. I attribute my recovery entirely to Mother Seigel's Syrup, and as I have not superad since from any of the above symptoms it proves the cure a permanent one, ever
10
33009 7 km 121202
-1 42 ■ 3
11 18
1,25 0 5
(828
HIMROD'S
@ivos Instant Relief
No matter wist your respiratory organa may be nulating trem--whethär
INFLUENZA, ASTHMA. NASAL DATARRH, an ORDINARY QQUOH.
-4. you will fảd 'in this famous memody restorative power that - la - simply
Kagaz led.
FAMID TUR Fold in its by
enake of E
40 TA all Chamba shu the IMITATIONS
CURE FOR ASTHMA
SAVARESSES
«SANTAL CAPSULES
Most Certain CurE. Physicians recommend than
Of Chem
RIGAUD'S
KANANG
OF JAPAP
TOILET WATER
of Imitations.
RIGAUD & PERFUMERS
8, rue Vivienne, A.
Prie-Franci
STRE NEW FRENCH RELZ-FA THERAPION N0-1
CHARGEN, ETYMEASHKIMI • KOOT INEKCETONS,
THERAPION NⱭ 2
FOSSEN, KAD EROS, SKIN PAKIPEDI
THERAPION NO. 3
·BOUT LEADING GUL HIS BRONNE
"OUTH CHRIRES WEAKO JE
PESH TRAMP ADDRESS SWAPSOKA BUND" PRE ES ROCK TO DE EXCL. HEG HER CON HAVERSTOCK RE. HAY Merah CONDON.OR YOU. FRY NEW - LAGER (TAS- <LHEIROSHOP RATE TO TALK
BAFK AND LASTENS COBE. “AN SIENT TRADE BANKRU MOVIES & THREATION” IN ON
METHOSIPAVINA: THERAPIONES:
THERAPION