"MAINTAIN
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OUMBER.
HAS BERN OUR GREAT AIM SINOE WAR BEGAN, AND WHILE
WE HAVE BEEN COMPELLED IN SOME INSTANCES TO ADVANCE
ONE PRICES, MANY EVERYDAY WANTS HAVE BEEN MAINTAINED AT PRE WAR PRICES.
THESE ITEMS REPRESENT
OUR LONDON LETTER.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
Losnos, September 18th.
The National Mission of Repentance and Hope has been formally inaugurated by the Bishop of London, who intends
to spend a month traversing the Metro- polis on foot, carrying a shepherd's crook, and preaching by the way. His pilgrimage is likely to provide readable
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his reception in the East End. He was asked pointed questions about his stipend of £10,000 a year; and there were soum among his audience curious to know why 20,000 young clergymen of the Charch of England are leading sheltered lives at home while the Inity are facing the enemy over-seas. This same question bas been asked a good many times during the war.
Å LØST OPPORTUNITY.
As a matter of fact, hundreds of the clergy are with the Forees in one capacity or another-chiefly as chaplains or with the R.A.M.C.--and, if the Archbishops and Bishops had not expressly forbidden 'it, thousand of others would now be in. the firing-line. There is no doubt that the Church has lost a great opportunity by putting & ban on fighting persons. Å gulf has been ixed between her and the people which cannot be bridged by a hundred National Missions. To estimate what a glorious chance has been missed one has only to look to France, where there has been a wonderful revival of religion, traceable no doubt to some extent to the emotional experience of the war, but also and mainly to the active parti- cipation of the priesthood in the struggle for national existence and the sacred cause of justice and human liberty, COMMANDEERING POLITICAL CLUBS.
The Radical daily Press raised a wail of anguish the other morning when it became known that the National Liberal Club was to be requisitioned by the War Office under the Defence of the Realm Act. Political pundits thought they saw in the move a strategic attack on the Liberal Party Anyone who dared to raise sacrilegious hands against the Temple of Liberalism must needs be an unspeakable Philistine. But at a meeting of the Club called in hot haste to consider the situn- 4ion a letter was read from the Prime Minister appealing to the members on patriotic grounds to give up the premises which are required as additional clerical. quarters for the War Office. In the end possession was yielded with a good grace, and everybody present sang # God save the King
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Now, to balance the account, as it were, attention to a grave andal. Bome of the Ministry of Munitions has comman the speakers alleged that in Chinese lodg deered the Constitutional Club, and herding houses in London, Liverpool, and again a meeting of members was held, there was a graceful concession, and the proceedings ended with the National Anthem. And so *All's well that ends well." I have heard it suggested, rather cynically some may think, that the com- fortable arm chairs in the respective cluba will prove useful for civil servants in need of a rest 1-
other ports immorality, opium smoking and gambling are the order of the day and night. The truth of the last-named charges requires proof, which at present is not forthcoming; and in this connec tion it has to be borne in mind that Chinese boarding house masters, whether they are crimps or otherwise, are under the surveillance of the Board of Trade
No and the municipal · authorities. THE GROWING ARMY OF CIVIL SERVANTS..
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The other charge is on a different foot Hotel at Blackfriars is the headquarters of ing. It is not an agreeable reflection the Royal Flying Corps and the official that, as is undoubtedly the case head of the Ministry of Munitions found a home in the Hotel Metropole at Charing Cross. But Mr. Lloyd George's staff with their advisers and assistants, and the general body of subordinates, numbers something like 5,000-and the number is rising at the rate of 300 a month! Altogether the work connected with muni tious is carried on in 20 different huildings scattered over the West End. And still the demand for more office room continues !
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FIGHTING SHY OF FOOD.
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The urgent need of all dyspeplies, of everybody, in fact, whose organs of digestion are unable. › perform their im portant duties, is to gain strength so that the stomach can extract good from the food taken. Pain after eating is the way the stomach signifies its protest that it is too weak to work; to take purgatives is only to aggravate the mischief,
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE
From 23r1 to 29th October, 1916 HIGH WATER.
LOW WATER
Hour
he comes under the Workmen's Compensa tion Act, as recently amended, he prob ably does not know it; and if he is maimed or killed who carest On the ather hand, the British sailors have a vigilant Trades Union. The Congress demands the repatriation of all Chinese One of the most picturesque personal who are not able to produce unmistakable incidents of the whole war comes to light evidence of British nationality, but whe in the coldly official pages of the London ther the Government will respond we Gazette announcing that John Ford must, in Mr. Asquith's phrase, "Wait: Elkington has been reinstated by the King and see.” as Lient-Colonel of the Royal Warwick- shire Regiment, Two years ago the gallant officer, who has had a distin- While many people are piling up huge guished career, was cashiered, and he fortunes out of the war others have to immediately joined the French Foreign make the utmost exertions in order to Legion as a private. He fought in several carry on. Probably no class of the com big engagera is, and was badly wounded, manity has been more heavily hit than but his bravery won him the Croix de newspaper proprietors and journalists. Guerre. The fierce ordeal of battle In the Provinces some old establisk d enabled him to purge the error of the dailies and weeklies have already goe past, and the King has set the seal upon under, while others are only kept going his atonement by re-appointing him to by the exercise of the most rigid the command of his old battalion. One economies. Unlike the butcher, the baker, can imagine what a moving story of the candlestick maker" of the nursery tragedy and suffering and romance might rhyme, and indeed all other trades, the 25 m 756 6 3 m 27-31 be waren out of Col. Elkington's two newspaper owner is unable or unwilling Thum. years with the Legion if the whole record to pass on to those who sample his wares were unfolded. Perhaps it will be known even a proportion of the extra cost of Pri some day,
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By the way, the popular idea that the French Foreign Legion is a corps of social outcasts is quite wrong. It con-
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