BRITAIN'S EFFORT.
A REPLY TO THE "NEW YORK TRIBUNE."
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TAB HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY JULY 18TH 1916.
THE BRITISH LION'S SHARE SHOCKS AFTER THE WAR.
ARMIES, A FLEET, AND MANY
OTHER THINGS.
A timely protest on the freight ques- tion, from an English correspondent, sp pears in M. Clemenceau's 'Homa Enchaine. The proper remedy, says the
PROBABLE EFFECTS OF DECLARA
TION OF PEACE
The late Mr. James J. Hill recently warned the American people that the tremendous shoek to business, credit and international exchange after war was
WAR TRAWLING.
GREAT WORK OF NAVAL AUXILIARIES.
FIVE U-BOATS FOUGHT IN A DAY, How the British Isles are protected Canal Fleet is a story which will sumb from the untoward attentions of the Kiel day be fully told, but during the con- nuance of the war screey is the casenen
|___WEATHER_REPORT.
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HONGKONG HOTEL
On the 17th at 10.65.-Pressure is don arewed slightly over Hokkai and the Philippines. It has íno cast slighty over the DET. C. Andrew Loochoos and Formor
Tao northere dopression appears to be moving eastward.
A depression which may become a typhoon
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The forecast for the 24 hours ending à Noou. to-day is as follows
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The Evening Standard réplies this to charges made by the New York Tri- bane:-
beconie a by-word in the market-pinces writer, is to build ships, and more I declared were not more to be feared than of that naval strategy which, with the; January, 62.41 Inches against an average of Mr R. E. Be ilica
England luas failed. Her prestige has of the work. She has disappointed her ships, and still more ships. Meanwhile Allies in the beginning of the war. as ships are hard and very costly to On land, wherever her armies have gone 10 batthey have gone to defeat-build, he suggests ocean-going barges ignominious defeat, regard being had formers "sted boxes" for towing, such as the generalship, splendid defent, regard being had for the soldiers. French failed the Germans use so largely in their Bal- Mons, he failed at the Marne, spoiltic trade and the Americans on the Joffre's seagnificient combination and Great Lakes. These barges would be very nearly losing the battle; he would have cheap and very easy to build. The writer ruined all at Ypres if his decision retreat had not been overruled by Gen-protests against the French attitude in eral Foch: he failed at Loos,. In the wider field of war are the failures of this matter, which, he says, is entirely Gallipoli ace Mesopotamia. In the field inert and exacting. In England there of politics is the failure of British rule is some, restment. in Ireland standing out ín
After all, it is silhouette from a host of ainor failures. being asked, "why did not the French Such are the main conclusions of shippers or the French Government build remarkable article in the New York! Trine of May 1st. We notice them for or charter neutral ships at the begin two rense In the first place the apning of the war, when prices were reason. pearance of such an article in a parable? Why don't they take radical mes with a gtest and respectable present, a paper friendly to the Allies, ably con- aures to improve the situation instead dacted, far from yellow," and with no of constantly finding fault with our obvious use to grind, affords a measure of the sareess of German suggestion and country With the ever-increasing assist of the lamentable neglect of our Governance that we are obliged to furnish to ment to present its cast ably and clearly Russia, Italy, Belgium, Serbia, etc., the to the population of the United States.
Our other object is to answer the critic-time is not far off when we will no longer isms of the Yew York Tribune.
e able to keep it up unless our Alies
WHAT ENGLAND HAS DONE.
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The truth about the British contribu tion to the deigner af. France cannot be. fully known yet but we know that Galli- Juli was not all dend less, and that the nen who laid down their swords at Kut had done their part in the great work. It is waste of time, however, to argue, without evidence, and we shall ae the reputation of Lord French and other- British generals to a more competent and leisurely tribunal.
Un other charges it is possible to say more. The Tribune, considers the record of the British land forces, one of unre lieved failure. But it also consider the general effort of Great Britain. little more than contemptible.
The question is-What has England done and what is England doing?" The answer is plain. She has done something which the world two years ago would have deemed impossible. She has dous most imperfectly, no doubt, with much creaking of the political and social machine but the thing is done which could be done by no other country, even the United States.
it
make a little effort themselves.
MANY DEMANDS ON ENGLAND.
England England
"This reasoning," adds the writer, is not without justice. In short, are Ships wasted Coal 1 Explosives? Stool t
England England Trucks and locomotives . England Meat, bread, money?
England
And so on with everything. It is always England that is looked to.
And at the same time England is called upon-
To maintain her vast fleet-a crushing charge already-
and yet the thought never occurs to any one that it is asking a good deal too much. Instead, one hears only reflec tiens that are not exactly amiable. The war is good business for those English
ness
must not be more preciso a vast orga
Somewhere on the East Coast-one pigation of inall craft has been built up sufficient for almost any emergency, marvellous tribute to the skill of those upon whom the arduous duty devolved of sible, of the deadly floating weapons of ridding the seas, as far as humanly pos destruction which the enemy had strewn brosdeast regardless of who were the victims,
the shock of rearrangement to fit the exception of a couple of futile onery conditions that will follow its cessation," raids, has kept Britain's shores inviolate He cited the physical and financial ex-from the depredations of the enemy baustion of the warring nations and the fascinating in these days of trial and Of all the doings at sea surely the most consequent decrease in their purchasing stress are those of the hardy fishermen power, notwithstanding the great and who have left their peaceful pursuits to insistent demand for all kinds of co-which the Grand Fleet itself could scarce, audities necessary to repair the destruc-ly hope to live when it stretched forth its de that terrible war trawling without
tion of the war and provide the new might at sca shows how the things we sell, in order to means of livelihood for the people. He pay our debts and supply our needs, innst be sold at prices which will mean semi-starvation wages and the narrowest margin of profit that will keep a busi absolute necessity of finding or forcing alive, simply because the sale, the a market, will be a question of economic be unaided and individual, not neclaimed life and death.
All these strenuous efforts to live will and national, such as war work, on which the waters of the surrounding seas, brav millions which somehow or other, sooner for the deadly submarine and the equally In the night, as at noonday, they awrep the Government pours out uninnginable ing the dirtiest weather, on the look-out or later, must be repaid by the many deadly nine. The nation's debt of grati that the Government may pledge the na as a frst charge on their work toetude to these humble scavengers of the few who provide them.) It is admitted, tional credit for the nation, but not for
ocean cah never be sufficiently paid.
A HAZARDOUS TASK. the individual. But our national credit. has never yet really been pledged for the nation. It has been borrowed from bank- ing and other financial institutions as if they were the owners of it, and the whole nation has been set to work thereafter both to create the value and to pay the value to them represented by the books principal and the book-interest of the obligation. And this has been done merely because the national credit can not be used in Retual practice except in the form of banking credit.
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
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Tours.
A little port on the East Coast forms the main base for the craft engaged in Wed this all-important enterprise.
Here are congregated hundreds of trawlers, ordi- nary fishing boats, tiny snacks, which weck in, work out, start off on their Fri. hazardous task with a regularity which is only broken when disaster occasionally befails one or more of their fleet. From the Straits of Dover to the North of
Sob, Scotland they are ever alert. Sometimes Mon. for two and three weeks at a stretch they never touch land.
"Sho, small as she is," he remarked,
the treacherous, bazy North Sea she en- countered one after the other of the Ger " had 'a' dustup' with five German sub- marines in a single day. Out there in
perty, which must necessarily be the ne
The choicest piece of productive pro Look at that little chap," remarked a navel officer, pointing to a very small tional security of its quota of national fiabing sarack nestling in the harbour eredit, has no individual claim to that amidst trawlers of dimensions which al quota of national credit; and although most hid ber. "We are prouder of that the Government has a contingent claim tiny fellow than of most of the bigger To furnish armies strictly in proporto both the property and productiveness ones you see around here, and so we tion with her population,
with which to make that quota of naught to be Then he related a thrilling: tional credit good, it really pays a banker tale of the cause of his pride. or rather eapitalist that quota. It
necessarily the owner of the property for the use of the Government, and never the owner, who has the right to create the banking the banker, not always
credit against it, and it is the banking credit which must be paid for in in It is right for them to make themselves terest, etc, and redeemed with value in war with four divisions. She is now maintaining seventy-excluding the will be long etc Slowly, vary slowly, in terms of money, all because banking Dominions Fontingents. In all, as the the result of this state of things is makeredit is the necessary medium of ex King in his message points out, Britain ing itself felt in England. To me it change with which to trade and in which has raised by voluntary enlistment since scems that this has an importance that by the eredit of another without Bebe Beginning of the war it was
the debit of one transaction is cancelled time commencement of the war no less than
of legal tender and by means of 5,041,000 men, an effort far surpassing
bankers' clearing house. that of any other nation in similar eit cumstances recorded in history, and one which will be a lasting soure of pride. to future generations?"
Let us consider. England entered the rich? No wonder they think the war respect of both interest and principal and by the judicious use of her thro-
MONEY AND MUNITIONS. But the supply of men is but Trac- tion of the real problem, Officers have had to be found, guns provided, muni- tions of all kinds supplied-in a word, the whole industrial machine has had to f be adapted from the purposes of pedes 10 the purposes of war
cannot be exaggerated. We are a long way from the end of the war and it will not do to allow this spirit of mutual dis- content to exist, much less to grow."-
In a few lines prefatory to this letter L'Homme Enchaine says that it points out a few hard tratha by which we might perhaps profit."
"A
NAVY LEAGUE AND THE RECENT BATTLE, DECIDED AND GLORIOUS VICTORY FOR THE BRITISH.” The Secretary of the local branch of the Navy League sends us the following comments on the recent naval engage ment off Jutland which he had received from the Head Office of the Longue:→
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death dealers, at intervals from four in the morning until six at night, pounder and by clever manœuvring managed to succeed in getting away almost scot free. That isn't the sort of which would help him to draw every The thin Johnnie above needs Bargol thing the Germans like a bit.
atom of strength, blood and nourishment. Mr&Mr Hamad A WELL POLICED CHANNEL
from the food he eats.
Bargol,
to our mind, is the most wonder My Wo
Mr. F. H. Howard found necessary that a safe route, so far ful Flesh-Producing and Weight Increas J. Joseph BANKING CREDIT
as that was possible, should be marked ing treatment in the World a scientific Mr A. Lambden ont and kept clear for merchant traffic remedy based on the theory that excessive Miss E. G. Lambda Herein, comments a writer in the Daily up and down the East Coast. There was thinness comes from imperfect for assi Chronicle, lies the great and simple, but mude what was known as a marked chan lation; that the sugars, fats, albuminoids absolute remedy for the evils to be pro-nel, and ships were ordered to navigate and starches in your food are passing out vided against in the coming crisis of within the limits laid down. Since the of your body today just as live coni shakes peace, a remedy that would have been war started, nearly 21,000 ships have sail out of a wide grate when only partly cos Mr & Mr H. F. little less helpful-in-war Persistence in ed along that well-policed channel, and "umed. It's up to you. Stop this fearful the old policy will invite disaster of of those vessels, whose skippers obeyed waste with Sargol. Let this new found Mr F. W. Cary Carmicheel national proportions. The very date the instructions, only three have come to atment aid your poor disordered out Mr & Mrs. D. war began, August 4th, 1914, seems to grief...⠀ ⠀
Kilter intestinal machinery to turs Camlli Two years ago our capacity for muni
convey an ominous warning August 4th tions was rather inadequate to the sup
Coming down to a recent dato, it is all this flesh-making food you put in your Mr & Mr W. A. was a fatal day in 1781 in the American noted that last March 1,537 ships passed where your blood can carry it to every Cel. R. E. Darling Revolution, and in 1789 in the French along, all British, with the exception of
uth each day into its proper channels. ply of an Expeditionary Force of 160,000
Creper men; to-day we no producing far more
Revolution.
The warning is to 38t, which were neutrals.
the munitions than any other of the Allies,
scrupulously fair to the many,
rather
So you
part of the body and turn it into bealthy Mr. 3. Desto and not for ourselves alone. And over.
than unduly generous to the few The sec, ejaculated the naval rian with a
Mr & Mrs B. J. overwhelming necessity and importance gleeful twinkle in his eye," are not Hundreds of people living in every corner Mr & Mr D. Ferroits Mr&Mrs Fire
It's not an experiment, this Sargol Dingle and above this great burden the neces
of the vast transactions of the war and sily of constant work to feed ourselves
of banking credit in the accomplishment driven off the son yet."" and to
of England testify to its marvellous quali Mr W. H. Fird to provide money for our Allies and
have been brought home to every great in the fashioning of small craft for this sit up three days out of a week, with E. Gardiet
Another figure, which reeds no comntica. One lady writes to say: "I coulddra D.nan Fuller Dominions.
in the course of trade generally must ment, as showing the incessant activits hardly eat anything and was not able to Mr Gandiot The Prime Minister has stated, not
oticia! in this country in innumerable particular kind of service, is that from stomach trouble. Loastfully but in a calmly business tone, that but for our advance combined opera:
ways since the war began. It is the one port on the East Coast, and that of Burgol and can eat anything My Mr. A Hazeland
I took only two boxer Mr & Mrs B. A. Hale "I am directed by the Executive Comend the more anterous, the transactions have been fitted up for mine sweeping and feel better than I have for five years. & Ms A. Lembelet tions would be impossible. Four hun
vital medium of exchange. The vaster not a larga on 200 trawlers and marks weighs was 120 pounds. Now I weigh 140 Mr Tom Jones dred million pounds have gone that mitice of the Navy League to convey to way: millions are still going at the rate you for the information of your mem
the greater the credit involved. As a and patrol work, and about 32,000 men A gentleman writes: of seventy-five for three months of the hers and for the general public in your mate reserves is so disproportionate the "UNDUS SECRECY
consequence, the ratio of eridit at pro formerly in the fishing trade have been pounds with 23 days' treatment.”
"I gained og Mr R. F. Waitingley * war. And this is the effort of a people-
sent outstanding compared with legiti drafted into the Government servien
A. B. WATSON & CO., LTD., out of touch with reality and given ex-part of the world, the matured convic-nothing but Government requirements or
VICTORIA DISPENSAKY, chssively to empty talk abet "crushing
exceptional circumstances can induce its the sun," paval officers do seem some--
香港 Though never wishing to be unduly "in tion of the Navy League that the North extension. Germany!
THE PHARMACY, But at a time when,
QUEEN'S DISPENSAZY, Sea Battle of May 31st was decided interests of sound barking, this ratio of what to resent the tendency in high quar The supreme value to the cause of the and glorious victory for the British credit should be reduced to the normal, ter ut to make known that which might
THE EDWARD DISPENSARY. Allies of the British Navy is conceded Flee Following the statement issued a vast farther extension will be required with perfect safety be disclosed about the by all who have eyes to see and brains by the League on June 5th, copy of which by the interests of the community try doings of the Senior Service. This un
use. So it to this--that in due a and arms and money and ships. Britain. is making a colossal contribution to the Executive Committee is now able it the of peace will produce. This rate a great mistake, both in the interests of light of Admiral Jellicoe's message to apart from that credit which ought to he the Navy and the country. I am under the Fleet, which was published yester forthcoming for the development of the the impression that people are thinking our Americansions regarding the engagement.
day, to emphasise its original conclu country's industries on the new lines of wo are doing little or nothing."
a new economic situation to the utmost Ad- Or, rather, are miral Jellico's message, which,, no they not themselves somewhat prone to doubt, has been published in the Press by similar means ou a basis of Imperial limits of their capacity, and the devolop ment of the Imperial area on like lines of the Dominions, makes the following British credit.
common cause.
... EASY RHETORIC.
Are not. therefore,
eritics a little unjust?
easy rhetoris 1
*
(1)That the action was fought with all the qualities of skill, courage and sacrifice of the glorious traditions of the British Navy.
(2) That if the weather conditions had been favourable the German Flect would have been completely destroyed. (3)-That the losses of the enemy have been greater in spite of the ad vantages in favour of Germany in the beginning of the action than the losses suffered by our ships.
For example, that eulogy of the Tri-points quite cleur bune on Germany, the marvellous an- tion which for many months faced, and, on the whole, bested the world in arms. performing miracles but failing to con quer Europe because the thing could not be done."
It sounds impressive, but what are the facts? Germany" means really the Germany Empire, Austria- Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria. Germany # was at the beginning of the war in absolute command of resources en armed men altogether superior anything the Allies could bring into the field. Until the end of last year there was never a time when Geramny could not be stronger at any chosen point than the Allies, in mere numbers, im mensely stronger in material. Ger many had prepared for war for forty years; she had prepared for this parti culer war for at least ten.
to
All the Allies were unready, England,
course, the unrendiest of all. first wonder is that time was
The won to
(4.) That no mistake in strategy of any kind occurred and that Admiral Beatty's gallant attack was conceived and carried out in a manner which is beyond all praise.
in
the
THE MACHINERY REQUIRED, The fixed productive capital of the country in possession of individuals should be entitled in its own right on use of its quota of national credit in the deposit of its deeds with a bank to the form of banking erdit to the amount of half its value as fixed capital, the deeds being accepted as an actual deposit of credit to that amount, after being au credited by a valuation court; and the owner should be entitled to use that credit himself, to lend it to another, evou- he may think proper, to his banker, or to invest it in any way banking machinery required consists only The additional of bankers' banks, established solely for the conveniences of bankers, chiefly for the rediscounting of billa and the trans legal tender fer, or further economies in the use, of It would provide an
Two aspects of the result of the engage monp will, I am sure, All the breasts of abundance of soundly based, redeemab'e all our Overseas peoples with pleasure, credit for all purposes, without touching redress the balance; the next that in so Fleet to ultimately achieve the destrue terms bills created by banks on such namely, that the determination of the the commercial credits in long and short short a time a peaceful popalation condtion of German naval power is stronger trading transactions as their positions as be transformed into a nation in arms. The astonishing thing about the British than ever before, and that the spirit of banks best qualifies then to deal with effort is not that it is imperfect, but that the people of Great Britain has been and would tend to multiply these enor
was possible.
stirred to higher effort in the prosecumously. We should like to hear the Kaiser's. tion of the War.Yours very truly.
The proposal may be allowed to break itself into ripples against a rock of impenetrable silence, but the nerd gathering betoken the inevitable atorm, will remain and the clouds that are
candid opinion of the British effort," which seems so tragically ludicrous a failure to the New York Tribune
(SI) P. J. HANNON.
(General Secretary)
年
The devices which naval ingenuity has
They an many and ingenions. All the invented to deal with the war perils of the deep must perforce be a closed book ordinary modes of defence have, of course, been brought into active opora- tion, but the inventiveness of the "Handy- man has been equal to any now call.
A naval officer hit the nail on the head when he quoted the lines
If you win through an African jungle, Unnoticed at home by the Press:
Heed it not!
No man seeth the piston, But it driveth the ship none the less
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