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OPIUM.
THE CEYLON RIOTS," COLONIAL SECRETARY'S REPLY TO
CRITICISM.
In the House of Commons on August 3rd, on the vote for £28,850 for the salarics and expenses of the Colonial Office,
THE BABY FAMINE, IMPORTANCE OF THE SMALL FAMILY
TEUTONIC “KULTUB." THE RECENT AUSTRIAN ATTACK
ON ITALY.
Some characteristic detaila, writes an Italian, have come to light in regard to the intentions of the Austrians on the occasion of their recent offensive against the Italian front,
stocks on September 7th, was 107 chests spread rapidly; and continued for five a few safe conclusions. There is nothing for the success of which they had been
EXPORTS.
terins
ル
of
Their preparation for a rapid advance in Venetia had been made with great thoroughness and there were not wanto indications to prove what fate store for the towns they would Have on- countered on their way bad their plans sucoceded.
was in
TOY EDWARD CECIL] Having at last had official or, at least, suni-ufficial-recognition of a long well Mr. Leil Jones moved to reduce the Stocks on September 7th totalled 385 vote by £100 in order to call attention for established fact, we may all talk about it. A Commission-a blessed" word that, chests of Patna, 181 chests of Benares the riots in Ceylon in May and June of
It has now been proved that, whilst de. 2433 of Malina; and 85 of Persian and last year, the method in which those riots he that other conforting "blessed " Turkish. During the interval, seven were dealt with, and the resulting divi word Mesopotamia-gravely recognises chests of Benares opium, and 74 of Persion of the island. The rioting began today the declining birth-rate and makeswering their great forward push in the sian and Turkish were, exparted. Ju with a collision between some Mahome various comments on the ugly state of Trentino, they had intended a serious at ancersified Bengal opium, the balance of dans and a procession of Buddhists, lairs. Also, very warily, it comes to tick in the region of the lower Isuzu, of Patna, and $4 elusts of Benares. Fire days, when martial law was proclaimed, very new in them. Broadly speaking, chests of Patna and 10 of Benares were and the disorder was put down with n preachers tell us our morality is at fault, counting on the withdrawal of the Italian | boiled by. Government monopoly,
stern hand. The Governor stated that the economists tell us our economic cundi- minber of persons killed daring the riot, lions are to blanc, and doctors, who are reserve and of part of the front line No transactions in Feathers were ing was 100, and in addition 31 were exe supposed to know so much, but not sup-forces from the Isonzo. ported during the last fortnight, and cuted under sentences passed by Courts posed to talk about what they know, there was very little business in ginger martial. Many persons were sentenced to aguely hint at vaguely understood in their penal no business A There was non ti Galankal beniment. The Goverment of evidence before the commission have a Oil was reported, but there has been no Ceylon rightly said that compensation need the theory that the decline is due
variations cyclical demand. A small business has been done should be paid to the victims of the o
natural in Star Aniseed Oil, but there is nothing rioters; but he complained of the method causes. But this impressive phrase did doing in Star Aniseed. Ground Nats in which the Special Commissioners at even impress the Commission. have found a fuw buyers The Tin placed the facial burden upon the Well, at any rate we are now beyond Thus we find that officers had been de- (Yunnan) market has been again dull, Cingalese population, a large proportion and there was in change in the junnimate of whom had taken ne part in the dis the stage of observing to that of carefully tailed to follow the troops invading the probing for causes, The wiseacres, acFonetian plains, with instructions to col- condition of the Saigon Cassia" market.
The requirement that turbances, IMPORTS.
village should any a certain amount, and Fording to the outlooks of their various lect all the most valuable objects and The demand for Cotton Yarn has bren that the villagers should be trusted to proicssona, are doing their solemn best works of art from the Italian churches Let us take advantage of and museams and to send them to Aus small, at an advance of $3 to 64 per mus see that those individuals who had been help us.
Those ficers had been duly pro- Owing to the high prices and the political guilty of rinting should pog, was a direct their help, but let us think for ourselves conditions, the dealers are extremely can- incitement to blackmailing. He could find the same time. It is imperative that tions. Quotations are:--No. 105 at nothing in the evidence to suggest that we should think clearly and be perfectly ded with Baedeckers and works of re- * kultur" pushed to its farthest limits 800/119. No. 12 at $107/118. No 16s at the riots had been organized, or that they rank with ourselves in facing this vitalference on the history of art! Truly
Neither our preachers, our $118/140. No. 2 at $120/162. Arrivals were distoval or even racial in character problem.
The tenacily, however, of the Italian 10,000 bales ales 4,000 bales. Slip He asked the Government to deal with nomists, nor our doctors will solve this
We must solve it for defence in the Trentino, with the serious. ments 1,000 hales. Unsold stock 12,000 the matter anew. Fourteen months had problem for us.
beles, Bargains 5,000 bales.
Ti passed since the ripts took place, and ourselves. The men and women who are losses it involved for the Austrians, as Woollen market continues placid. Busi-there had been no recurrence of disorder as yet young in marriage and the women well as the victorious resistance of the who are going to marry must decide for Italian army against the Austrian at ness in Metals has been extremely dull. The Line had come for a full inquiry by themselves what marrings is to mean to tacks on the 15th and left of June in the There are reported sales of tinplates t
Mr. Bonor Law replis that with re-them and what they are going to make Monfalcone sector, dissuaded the Austrian from $14:00 to 14.50 per box, Other Ties
Command from insisting upon their ozi are neglected, and there is very little gard to the riots in Ceylon, he thought of it.
When I have replied to the question, enquiry, Yellow Metal found very likely that if it had not been for the fair market, There is no change to war the Secretary for the Colonies would Will marriage become unpojinlar1 by sina! plan, for which they substituted report in Petroleum Products. No sales have had a pretty bad time of it in the saying that part of the answer was that the less ambitions project of an attack ou of Coals of any importance have been House, but he did not regard it as an marringe had already become quite suffthe Carso to lie delivered with the help of asphyxiating gases. Great prepara effected. The Bugar market was, quiet evil from the point of view of Ceylon that ciently popular, I have been quite tions were made for this and the utmost
the marriage rate hud generally during the fortnight, but a she-subject had not been thrashed out it aware that for business was done in Briwis the way in which some subjects were not declined as the birth-rate has, but rare was taken got to umit any detail
FLOUR,
thrashed out in the Home. One of the had ever improved. I still think, howwhich might help the success of the enter... things of which as a nation we hind most ever, that there are too few marriages, prise.
It is interesting to note that a lecture- reason to be proud was, that in dealing and the report of the Commission on the with sorralled subject rages we made it birth rate strengthens this belief, because on the use of gases was given to the a rule that those who governed should it slows that whatever the causes, whelbeers of the 20th Houved Division, took first at the interest of the countries ther the thing is right or whether it is which had been told off for the attack, Re had considered ile wrong, the old-fashioned large family is and that at the end of it several officers they governed. circumstances very carefully and the cou a thing of the past, and if our birth-rate expressed their disapproval of the employ clusion he had come to was that on the is to be improved it must rest on keeping ment of such dishonourable means of war- whole Sir Rebert Chalmers, who would up a large number of marriages produe
Whereas who
fare. Amongst them General Sarkany, not be recused of having an arbitrary or ing families of moderate size.
commanded the 18th Honved tyrannical character, dealt with a very the childless marriage is a sad state of Inngerous situation with great fairness affairs, the large family is hopelessly oldBrigade, and rather than act against his und moderation. Everything, he thought, fashioned and out of date. However it convictions, requested to be relicted of peinted to the fact that what occurred may be achieved, the moderate-sized is command. and premeditated. In a report family is the family on which the nation
un the morning of the 29th of June. Be- which had received the commission of must pin its hope. inquiry referred to the systematic spread Let us brush aside causes, conditions, tweei 5 and 6.30a.m. after a violent artil- ing of false reports, the accumulation factors, and considerations which tery preparation against the Italína posi-- xris and bombs and other incidents are really too trivial in importance totions in the zone of 5. Michele md S. which, in their opinion led unmistakably have any real effent on the main issue Martino, and on the Isonzo, the Austrians to the conclusion that the riots were in Dr. Mary Seliarlick speaks qutic rightly sent forth dense cloude of gas which, come measure prearranged. They were in about the very small families now favoured by a light wind, reached the their nature partly religious and partly fashionable among the well-to-do,
- italian, lines." : "Owing to the deadly effects racial, reminding one of the results off
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FUTURE OUTLOOK FOR
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impartial commission.
of
Jew hatred in parts of Europe. One of
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The attack with gas was brought about
their own gases.
It is already well-known how the Aus
fur J
again!
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
PARADES, CENTRAL STATION,
An Eastern statistician, quoted in the Mining and Engineering World, nserts that the fundamental reason why silver is advancing is because Europe is to-day on
paper basis. Germany has comman dered the gold from the people's pockets to the banks vaults; Russia has done practically the same; France has request- ed it and England has relied upon patriot ism to accomplish its purpose, When
But the rich are, comparatively speak of the fumes the Austrians succeeded at the war broke out, this same statistician continues, the great government banks of the special duties of the British Govern, fow in number. The example they first in penetrating into some of the lia- mone had roughly $2.400,000.000 galdinent in places where there, were mixed set, is important, but even if the large on front trenches; but were souu dis in their vaults, Since then despite all races under their rule was to take care family became a fashionable fad instead lodged with much bloodshed and the loss efforts the stock has only been in that those racea were treated fairly as be of the small family, or the child of many prisoners, and it as been ascer erensed another billion, excluding sou Lween themselves, and it was highly in fasily, it would not greatly alter the tained that many of them fell victions to $500.000,008 sent to the United States.portant that no feeling should exist that birth-rate,
Again, there is the very patent fact
The Italian counter-attack was charac The significant monetary fact, however, any particular race was not protected
that the original $2,400,000,000 There had been in the riots much loss of that middle-class people and fairly well- supported only $4.300,000,000 of paper property, and the Government had set to to-do industrial workers have an increas terized by a magnificent élen, which car whereas the present $1,400,000,000 has been work to compensate those who had taste for ansements and comforts ried all before it, and there is, no doubt Anybody that the Italian soldiers, goaded to fury called upon
maintain $9,300.0:20,100. suffered, and commissioners were sent generally. Well, they have, In other words, the gold proportion has out to levy contributions for the purpose can see it. Does it tell against the birth by the barbarous methods of the adver But it is useless to sary, were not to be held back in their The great majority of the rates to be rate? Yes, it does. dropped from 52 to 34 per cent.
The irreducible limit for the Europeagi levied were given voluntarily, In large Bird against it. Unce the standard of counter-attack. metallic base would seen to have been towns there were municipal levies upon comfort has risen it remains, and propile reached. At the same time it is impos one. had special sible to increase the supply of gold. The There was not the least doubt that the up with conditions of life inferior Leads of man armed with spiked clubs governments of Europe are, therefore.. rints were due to the war, and it was not those they now enjoy, however much it tuning to silver toore and more as they true that they were against the Govern play be dinned into their ears that the ith the mission of despatching the Ita lians found gassed on the field. * Kul· inevitably must since gold will be unable, ment. It was the unrest caused by the national welfare requires them to do so.
In the same way the argument, mitch to meet the demand of world business, war that set the thing going. From ind and singe paper urrency rapidly loses formation which he received from Ceylon advanced by the preachers, that the war great dral of moral good A strong metalliche understood that a lawyer had wanted is doing us all a its purchasing power. hase is always necessary, But the pro
to have an interview with him in order and will eventually solve this baby prol
Noboily duction of silver is falling off in the that when he went back to Ceylon hem for us is very dangerous. United States, Mexicn, and in fact might say that, the Colonial Sevretary really knows what after the war Eng- throughout the world. The output of the had thrown over the Colonial Govern land will be. We must wait anil tee. fited States last year was roughly only ment. He thought that the committee straws Honting on the surface of the As for the faddists are they not just 67,500.000 025, as compared with 72.500.00 Iwould agree that in the circumstances it uz the year before. Mexico accounts for would be very unwise to take any such stream and not the stream of life itself. only 18,000,000 as against 20,000,000 in action as might give the impression that They may indicate the flow of the river: 114 In fact the world production.de the Colonial Government had acted in they may merely show eddies and side way which was not approved by the hum currents; they may font down into the efined last year at least 10 per cent, to
sea, or come to rest and decay in this or some 195,000,000 dzs,, as compared with an Government. sual production of 250,000,000 back in They must trust in these cases largely that backwater.
Remembering that it is the people as if not exclusively to the character of the -1011 and 1012
men who represented this country in yel young in marriage and those coming cases of this kind. They sent out Sir to the marriage age who must settle what John Anderson to examine into and dealur birth-rate is to be for themselves, and with the question, and he had before him that, whatever may be said to them, they a telegram which stated that Sir Johs are sure to keep to their present hardly had in some instances released prisoners won standard at comfort, I wish to direc or substantially reduced sentences. attention to two aspects of one great fact. was for Bir John, as the person respon Unless people are absolutely, heedless of sible for law and order, la make all consequences they cannot be blind to the necessary inquiry, and he would not fact that marriage and the rearing of Orchestra Fractice-Monday, September hesitate to ask for assistance if he needed children depend on whether you can afford to marry and live a reasonably comfortable married life. Also, the All numerically most important section 1 of the community is even now, and will be THE BIBLE IN CHINA
even more so in the near future, the vast anny of people who come under the The resent observance of the Centennial description now commonly in use the of the American Bible Society lend lower middle-class. The old uneducated special interest to its report for 1015 masses have gone. Education has spread. this report shows that 2,500,000 copies of The standard of comfort has risen. The dibles or portions of Bibles were distri masses of the future will know what they are doing" in marrying as in other
I am not buted last your in China alone,
a preacher, I am not al economist, 1 am not a doctor, but also, 1,* Concerning these there is an interest things.
So we reach this basic fact-poverty, hope, I am not a fool, and I say this: ing story to tell. A Chinese philanthrop the poverty created by civilisation which that in the present condition of the world A message from Teheran to Petrograd ist, Yung Tao, purchased 5,000 New Ter o August 7th, says: The Ministers of taments to give to friends. These were raising the standard of comfort makes no one, unless he be a fool, will embark Russia and Great Britafi, on the one
distributed last year. Each bok, contain People poor. When will it be understood on the two most serious ventures in life that the tower middle-class man and marrying and having children in the hand and the Persian Government on
a presentation slip bearing the words woman of today is really miserably old fashioned heedless spirit and, with the other, yesterday exchanged Notes "Respetfully presented by Yung Taur? He has to count his pennies before regard to babies, trusting in the old- bringing to a successful conclusion the who is not a church member. Another he marries, and after marriage he has fashioned amfortable reflection, The negotiations which have been going on slip contains some excellent advise to the no sparo penties to count. His wife | Lord will provide." between the three countries and creatingrader, and then several well-chosen que always poor. The class has the standard an Entente which definitely strengthensations fruin the Bible,
of comfort of its superiors and the means It is upon properly understanding the
Not only will there be an unprecedent » demand from Europe, already under way, notably in France but the Far East; which has always been a big consumer of the white metals, will be a bigger factor than even before. China's standardiza tion of coinage, it is estimated, will take, 150,000,000 ozs. of silver or almost twice as much as United States and Mexico can turn out in a year. Bilver is not war arial in the sense of spelter or copper, perhaps. The demand for it after the war is over is likely to be greater even than ai persent, for with the adjustineat to normal conditions the paner currency ill depreciate faster. Weighing the factors of declining production and un- precedented demand, it would seem that silver is likely to sell at better than 80 vents for a long time to come.
ENTENTE WITH PERSIA.
Tuesday, September 12th and Thursday, September 14th.-Whole of : No. 4 Company under · Chief Inspectur Mason; the Sergeant-Major and the C.S. Major, at 5.45 p.01. The following F-cs, of No. 2 Platoon will parade under S. Major Khawas Khan at Central Station, a 5,45 p.m., on Mondays and: Thurs-- days, in each week notil nether orders, in unifórne with rifles :-- Kassim Mohamad, B. A. Ryder, Faiz Molanusd, Noric, Mahmood, and F. Ali.
Band
BAND AND ORCHESTRAJ Practice Tuesday, ·September 12th, and Friday, Septeinber lätt.
11th.
AMBULANCE PLATOON,
ranks will attend in plain clothes for Stretcher - Drill--at Central Station, on Wednesday and Friday, Septem ber 13tkand 15th, at 6,30 p.in.
F. O. JENKIN,
D.B.P. (B).
the friendly relations between England The agent of the Bible Society records to keep it up possessed by its social in people who really will decide the matter Russia, and Persia. A solution mutually his judgment that Mr. Yung is a humble feriors. And in after the war England for themselves and upon encouraging favourable to all parties has been found follower of Christ, fully imbued with h the generation which will have the marriage, making it more aceptable. for questions relating to the financial and military organization of Persis. Aspirit, though not a church member. Mi welfare of the nation in its hands will seeing that people are able to alford it
Yung told the agenti
consist of men and women with the and, wherever there is need, helping them regards military organization it will be I have only just started on my work standard of comfort of what is now our to bring up children, that the future of the birth-rate depends. It is not upon effected in Northern Persia by the de-of Bible distribution. I intend to put lower middle-class. They will not marry velopment of a Persian Brigado and is copies in every sahool in the whole of if they cannot afford it; they will not listening to faddists and discussing their fade or upon considering the position of Southern Persic by the formation of suf- China and into the hands of every rear children if they cannot afford them.
the problem in small and peculiarly ficiently strong contingents.
teacher and official.
placed sections of the people.
(Continued on next Column.)
SAHARAN