THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH 1910,
PAYING FOR THE WAR AT GERMAN MACHINES SOLD AS GETTING READY TO DUMP. CUTLER PAIMER & CO'S.
A STROKE
THE FUTURE OF COAL.
[ex 8th CEO CHIOZZA MONEY, MY]
The rise or fall of nations depends für anore upen conomic causes than upon that crafty animal the politician, or even upon the statesman, as long as he refuses to direct economic powers. The men who, nde modern England were not those who sat in the seats of the mighty, but the handful of inventors who, by tench
ing us how to work out coal, and then how to apply coal-power through ma- chinery, changed the backward and aw England of the middle of the eight teenth century into the industrial and commercial England of to-day.
Coal is still the mainspring of our wealth and industrial greatness. With it we are fighting this war. Upon it we have to depend for our recovery from this war. Upon the wise use of it de prods our future. Upon the conSOFYR- Lion of it depends the length of the period during which we can maintain greatness as a nation. Without it we should lose command of the seas, and therefore the ability to maintain those sea connections which are the sole material connecting links of the widely scattered factors of the British Empire.
BRITISH.
HOW 00 PER CENT OF OUR TRADE WAS CAPTURED.
Many questions have been asked in the House of Commens recently regarding the controlled munition frn of Haigh, Gruban & Co, and the reason why the inte managing director, Mr. Graban, was not interned
GERMANY'S NEW MOVE
[FROM CHAILLES TOWER }-
Amsterdam, Aug. 5th. | The Hamburg senator Sthamer bas been appointed by the Federal Council Economy which simply means that he Imperial Commissioner for Interim is a special Secretary of State for the management of Germany'a industrial and mercantile business in the period commeres run smoothy again. following the war and until trade and
Addison, answering Mr. Rupert Gwynne, said that at the time when the Herr Sthamer has been vasted with ox- investigations which revealed false state-traordinary powers to inspect books and ments and incuracies, were made, Mr. business letters and to demand the fullest Handel Booth, M... was chairman of information regarding the quantities of the firm and Mr. Graban was managing raw material in the possession of private director Mr. Gruban was no longer aims and also regarding the purchases member of the board
of raw material made abroad and await Mr. Handel Booth obtained leave latering delivery on the conclusion of peace. to make a personal explanation. While Heavy fines and even imprisonment are to be inflicted on any persons refusing managing director, ho said, "I found to give the required information or that he had made wrong returns to the The most significant part of the official
giving false information. Ministry of Munitions, whereupon I asked. bim for his resignation, which he communique announcing Senator Stha gave. At the prosent time he is suinger's appointment in the admission that me on the ground that from the time I considerable advance purchases of raw jo'ned the firm until ho left I was enden terial have already been made by prỀ vouring during the whole of the time toate German firms. There has not, how- get rid of him. In these circumstances I can say no more
I was chairman and while Gruban was
Oblivious to the real foundation of our
been much secrecy about it, for. modern wealth, our politicians run their
these purchases have notoriously been little course and give place to others no
mado, and, doubtless, are still being more alive than they to the foundations been engaged latelyn conjunction with or German-American firms established in Generally I wish to say that I have made by and on the credit of German of prosperity. In the middle of the the late Bir Arthur Markham in un-neutral countries both in Europe and Eighteenth-century Englishnien lived in, a country which possessed an undiscovered earthing a scheme whereby German firms America and doubtless also in Asia, a Free compared with which the tabled before the war were setting machines to It would be remembered that maBY wonders of Eldorado were as nothing, the Colonies as British and capturing 90 large German firms even when they have Out of the discovery of the use of cost per cent of our trade. For my part in no actual branches of their own in acu- ins proceeded our rise in wealth and that I have been denounced and assailed tral countries have ifiliated firms whose status. We are a coal civilisation, and with anonymous and scurrilous letters credit is to a large extent at their die our fortunes are bound up with the future my wife, myself my friends, my rela-posal for purchases deliverable after the of coal..
are still allowed to use our Post Ollo and telegraph offices for this purpose, I do ask the House whether, seeing I have to come before a British jury at the in- stigation of a man who was at one time
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actually the original although the German offshoot has long parent firm, sincs outgrown the parent
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sands his first experiments with the steam engine, and less than ninety years since George Stephenson, the colliery engine man, ran his famous "Rocket, we are Hil: found using coal for the greater part clumsily and wastefully. The waste in the
nines themselves is great the waste usela prodigious. Towns couted: with the grims of unburned wasted coal for which a high price in life and money has -beve paid. (Every your, in what we anay call the Battle of Coal, at least 1,000 miners are killed and 100,000 more or less seriously wounded.). Wo know how to do ...all our industrial work with about one- third the amount of cont we actually em plov, but we leave industrial captains and householders alike to do what they please with the real capital of the country
a capital which cannot be replaced, the sentence of ninety days feld punish when and to what extent German firma
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capital without which the United King, dori could not sustain a population of more than from 15 to 20 millions of doing It concerns us whether we ate The epal question is relevant to all our wuwufacturers or middlemen, workers or idlery. It is important at all timce, and the areater the strain upon us the greater its importance.
BIG FIGURES.
in the Prussian Army, and who at my remen with whom I have had opportunities It is suggested to me by Dutch business quest left this arm, I ought to be made of discussing this subject that in all the subject of questions in this House. probability the advance purchase of raw material on behalf of German arms have been fairly extensive and will be more so in coming months. The Imperial Commissioner had to be given very extent sive powers just because the German firms have been very carefully concealing the extent of their preparations for get ting raw material when peace comes
The orders are not booked in their names or on their credit, and the, Im- perial Commissioner will consequently have to insist upon the production of letters or other communications showing
SENTENCE ON A DRIVER IN
FRANCE REMITTED.
In the House of Commons last month Mr. Morrell asked the Secretary for War whether lie was aware of the public in dignation caused by the aunouncement of
ment awarded to Driver Gral of the have arranged for supply in the nams 30th Division, by a bold court-martial in France for exceeding the speed limit, and credit of neutral firms.. whether this punishment included
Dr. E. Letrecht, in the Tagliche hours each day; and whether he would of the Interim Ministry of Commezon strapping of this man to a wagon for twoundschau of August 4th, summarises in a convenient form the further functions take steps to see that all degrading punishments of this kind, which were in which has been established. He points troduced into the Army at the time whip European neutral countries by Germany out that the demands already made on flogging was abolished, were now also abolished
will have very largely exhausted their will themselves bo obliged to replenish supplies of raw materials and that they
What I want to represent here is this, Mr. Forater said Lord Derby, on look flare just as in the middle of the eighing into the case, found that the sentence their stocks after the war: su that even teenth century we were on the threshold had been reduced by the General Officer if they can supply Germany at all it of a great advance through the liberation Commanding by one month: Lord Derby will be only at a very high rate. By of coni-power, so now we can, if we was advised, however, that the sentence time perous concluded England choose, make a farther great advance by was still in excess of the requirements of consing to employ cond wastefully and by discipline, and instructions had been the Allies) will have got all the cuploying it scientifically, Jdo not given that it should be wholly remitted sources of raw materials into her bands: think it an exaggeration to say that, if Cheers.) The man's pay and allowances she will dictate the price at which we we care to put our hands to the task, we would be restored. An to the demand may obtain them (either directly r can provide the country with such a spur Lord Derby said he did not see his way towards making up the economic loses for the abolition of held punishuvent, through neutrals) and thus will go far. tu material progress as will in very short space of time wipe out the whole make any alteration of the law on the uncasioned by the war
This is the of the costs of the war nnd yield a streani subject,
and principal dunger which Germany has to of wealth of dimensions enormously It has been publicly stated that Drivere, and it will be part of the duty of greater than existed before the war. Groban exceeded the speed limit of six the new Imperial Commissioner to take miles by driving at the rate of 66-9 miles such steps as may be possible to counter-
act this danger.
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Coal reform on a national scale calls for a rapital expenditure of about 500 an hour. millions. Before the war to name this
GET AHEAD OF THE ENGLISH.. san was sufficient to sure everybody from the field of discussion. It was use
There is, saya Dr. Utrecht, another danger--namely, the emphasis which hus Jess to point out that capital was pour At such a price, or anything near it, gradually come to be laid on the ery ing out of this country to fertilise places electricity could come into universal use, America for the Americans. The As evidence of this you have but to con- abroad to the tune of 200 millions a year, abolishing the filth of our towns, giving American business houses, he declares, It was impossible to get attention to new life to our industries, and creating have utilised the war to create a virtual that have bean effected by the use of
sider any one of the thousands of cures The greatest of our needs. Today, when revolution in the lives of working monopoly of raw material in Central's N
know that every hundred days we are women, whose household duties would be and South America. In the case of wool, raising 500 millions, we may not be quite robbed of the greater part of their to quote one instance, Germany, owing to physicians that there was no hope. They
LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM so easily dismayed. We are beginning to irksomeness, V
Many of those cured were told by their learn the much-necked lesson that the As in the practicability of distribution, ually dependent upon the goodwill of the had resigned themselves to lives of rack-
this American monopoly, will be virt affairs of 50 millions of people are seces it may be pointed out that already in the British Empire for ang supplies at allling torture-painfilled hours of woe and sarily counted in big figures if they are world electric current is successfully The steps Germany must take are quite adequately dealt with.
Wint does coul reform amount to, from station, and that part of our country with plenipotentiary powers in the coun- application their pain grey less, their transmitted over 150 miles from a powerclear Commissioners must be deputed possible. Then they heard of LITTLE'S They had not thought relief the point of view of the staterna ceco is removed more than 100 miles from the tries in question to secure the necessary swellings went down, their ORIENTAL BALM With mist anxious to exercise for the people sen
overy arilarge the best-known means of exploit-
jointe raw materials in advance, and thus to, real worth of the country inventor has supplied us with the means purchases. ing the
Britain is a small island loaded with of power reform. What stands in the
The engineer has done his work. The get ahead of the English and American traightened out they were free-free se
you can be.. splendid coal situate near the surface and near the sea. Coal at the pit-head way, This, that the matter is too big for As the Rotterdam correspondent of The The next problem is that of freightage. aid at other suitable economic points of Private enterprise, and that our govern: Daily Mail has pointed out, Germany distribution can be transmited by known as men to not yet understand the has recently been getting her merchant inventions into the convenient form of pure, the duties, and the responships home wherever she can and even z energy which we term electricity. The sibilities of government. electric current so manufactured on It would be a moderate estimate to June hardly a weak has passed without risk of capture. Since the beginning of large scale can bé again transmuted by count the value of an all-electric scheme one or more of the German merchant known means into light, heat, and me to the Caited Kingdom, in terms of in-steainers slipping out of Rotterdam and chanical power, and used to perform creased wealth production, at 230 mil-getting home along the coast. Most of every kind of work, from moving trains tions a year within ten years and at two them have reached Bremen. This pro to printing a newspaper, from running or three times that sum per annum with- cedure is significant because it shows a colton-mill to cooking a dinner, from in twenty years. The United Kingdom that the time has come when Germany is 1'ghting the streets to warming a house might soon attain to a national acume seriously tackling the question of freight- hold.
of at least 1,000 millions per annum, and age after the war. All that stands in the way of them with it universal health and cleanliness. veral use of coal as electricity is the cost of current, and current is only dear now because we do not choose to make it on a sufficiently large scide,
HOW IT MIGHT BE DONE.
Our dirty coal civilisation would give
Dr Uetrecht's suggestions may well
Way to a new era in which our towns lead to the inquiry whother Great might easily become sanatoris, in the Britain has made any preparations of Ivory heart of which verdure and flowers the sort.
and birds could flourish as in the country
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A courageous article has been published Sirassburg Freie Preska
the
A few years ago Mr. S. Z. de Ferranti Let me not he told that because of the FROM VICTORY TO VICTORY WITH devoted his presidential address at the war, we cannot afford this great capital Institute of Electrical Engineers to investment. If this war is to be succeed.
THE AID OF PRINTER'S INK examination of this great subject. He ed by national parsimony then the future estimated that all the work then one is black indeed! As a matter of fact, by with 150 million tons of coal could be the cost of the war, like the cost of arma Bociahst, organ, edited by Herz Peirotes, accomplished with only 60 million fans, ments before the war, is being grossly one of the Alsatian Bocialist members of The 80 million tons of coal he pictured exaggerated, and its effects, as I have the Reichsing, against the system of the as developed by a hundred great generat pointed out again and again since the German Press, which consists in going ing stations, costing 175 million pounds, war began, widely misunderstood. We are from victory to victory with the aid of with connected distributing plant and not being ruined. If we were the means printer's ink, The Socialist newspaper local stations costing 325 millions, mak 1 have suggested would quickly retrieve points out that he German Press has an ing a total capital cost of 300 millions. the situation. It is not merely to retrieve nounced Germau victories for the past With such a plant, he estimated, electric losses that 1 put the plan forward now. two years, but makes no reference to sue- power cord be supplied throughout the advocated it before the way, and Iresses gained by the Russians, the Eng country at a low a price as one-eighth shall never cease to advocate it as a plain ish, or the French, and it expresses the of a penny per Board of Tradə unit.
and necessary step in our economic dove-hope that this system of abuse will | lopment,
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