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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14tr, 1916
On the 13th at 1125,-No earns from Japanese stations - Pressum has intressa considerably over NE, China, whers a strong anti-cyclone is now "central, it has ace ossed. sightly in other districts,
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From 14th to 20th November, 1916.
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BLIND SHORTHAND WRITERS. TEN MONTHS IN GERMANY on the pretext that I had no birth
TRAINING OF SOLDIERS BROKE IN. THE WAR
The success of the tuition for blinded soldiers and sailors at St. Dunstan's Hostel, Regent's-park, is one of the most astonishing pieces of war work, and prob ably one of the most remarkable facts about it is that with only a few months training the hostel should have been able.
to turn out as expert shorthand writers and typists, fit to take their place in the open market, men who have been entirely deprived of their sight.
A short time ago, Sir Arthur Peat son, the chairman, told a Daily Chronicle "I received a letter from representative,
wealthy individual who stated that he should have been glad to vend a hand- some donation to St. Dunstan's but for the fact that he understood that we went for such theatrical nonsense as pretend- ing to teach blinded men to be sharthand writers and typisks,
"I confess that to me, accustomed as I am to the uncanny expertness of the blind, this ability of theirs to write shorthand is still amazing. Typewriting I know from my own experience to be quite simple, but the acquisition of the Braille system of shorthand does really make unusual demand, upon the intelli- gence, and one would imagine that years would be required for its mastery,"
NOT A WAR GURIOSITY.
MAN EYE-WITNESS REPORT,
ACROSS THE FRONTIER
fer D, THOMAS CURTIN.}
Mr. D. Thomas Curtin has spent 10 months in a patient examination of the conditions, military, political, social, and economic, which obtain in the great cities, the manufacturing centres, and The articles are the work of a care the rural districts of Germany. fal and trustworthy observer of proved capacity, and furnish the first inde- pendent, comprehensive record which has been given of German life and thought as they are to-day.
They will be found to contain infor mantion which is not seldom entirely at variance with the heavily censored messages of neutral correspondenta working in Germany, and by the dis- similarity of the picture they present they show the minute and laborious system by which the German Govern ment is endeaouring to hide from the eyes of the world the real state of the country.
oertificate with me, declined to allow mo tu enter, I at once cabled to the United States for further backing, and it came eventually in the form of help which it is not fair to disclose, but which enabled me to cross the frontier. This time, though, I avoided Bentheimi, where I had been turned., back, and entered. Germany via Emmerich and thence went on_to Cologne,
HOW DO YOU RUN YOUR
TELEPHONE?
An exasperated editor recently took his Ho pen in hand to good purpose. writes:
We have been young, and now we aro old, yet never have we been called to the telephone except to sit and wait for some gentleman or lady to come and notice us.
When we use the telephone we call a
for the indivi silent as a stone, waiting-haired Saturn,
Germany was in great spirits at that time. The Government controlled news-number, and sit like papers-the modern German's Bible, as dual to come to the wire. directing public opinion towards the an American friend calls them were Balkan success, the smashing of Serbia, the coming attack un Egypt.
The invasion of England, which had been the principal theme at the begin- ning of the war, the capture of Calais, and all the rest of it had passed from the public mind, John Bull must be cat in half in his middle--the middle being the Suez Canal.
CXY to
tho
work in that way. The individual who But when we are called, it does not calls us is always in the next room, or on the next block-apparently.
This is how it works with us: The telephone bell rings, and, like a startled fawn, we dash to it and hear this:
*** Is this Mr. So and So! Well, hold the 'phone?
We hold the 'phone, sometimes only two or three minutes, sometimes longer. Then the voice says again : Is this Mr. Bo and Bot. Well, hold the "phone, Mr. will be here right away."
Gradually Mr. what he has to say. plained why, in the name of common sense and impertinence, he makes us wait while his bulky form moves through
space.
cornes, and says Never has he ex-
Sometimes there is an improvement on the above programme.
haps that of a female stenographer, way.
We hear one voice, rather feeble, per-
ing: Is this Mr. So and So? Wo say, "Yes," and lean on our elbow.
Then she
"I will call the pri saya: vate secretary,
The private secretary is called and after a reasonable time ho asks if we are Mr. 8o and So. We say, "Yes," lean on our "Hold the other elbow, and he says:
phone."
Then he calls the real effulgent being
This is our humble suggestion, and per- body calls you on the telephone and begins by saying: "Is this Mr. So and So, hold the phone," just hang up your telephone. When you are called again" and the same voice says, "Is this Mr. So. and So say Yes," and hang up your telephone.
need has proved quite sufficient, andsible; to ascertain social and economic human ants think of nothing but Hia that has deigned to call us up.
park. Indeed, I have on two occasionsfacturing centres and in the great cities: slow length like a wounded snake is the haps wo are going to try it. When any.
been described as the best typist in this office. My wage has been xed at 30s, a week, with an extra bonus at the and of each month to cover the extra cost of food, For the benefit of future short band-typists from St. Dunstans. I feel quite justified in saying that I have proved of some worth to the firm and not a war curiosity.".
"I think that letter speaks for itself." was Sir Arthur's comment, Flett was one of three. and the other two have just gone into similar positions.".
Dunstan's.
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Little by little it might be possible to teach the other man to use his telephono the way you use yours, and avoid the modern, up-to-date impertinence which takes it for granted that your time is worth nothing, that all you have to do is wait while his office boy, his secretury and assistants more him gradually to the telephone.
We shall be glad to hear complaints and suggestions from the slaves of the phone. For we believe that the tele- phone has come to stay, and it needs a cude..
For instance, when you call on a man, he lets you sit while he answers fully every donkey that calls him up. Why is that??!
I propose tu deal with some experiences in connection with the battle of the Summe as seen from the German side.
The hypnotic effect of the German newspapers of the German is not appre- honded either in Great Britain or in the Those newspapers, all United States. directed from the Foreign Office, in the the Wilhelmatrasse, can manipulate thoughts of these docile people, and turn In my four previous visits to Germany their attention to any particular part during the war I had each time selected of the war with the same celerity as the a.different route. My entrance was vid operator of a searchlight can direct his Trieste; my second vid Hallend and beam at any part of the sky he chooses Sir Arthur produced a letter he had Bentheim; my third vid Switzerland; my nation looks at that beam and at nothing For the moment the whole Gorman just received from Harold Flett, late pri- fourth v4 Switzerland and the Prin vate in the let-7th Manchesters, who was eipality of Liechtenstein; this present adelsc. When people here in England or totally blinded at the Dardanelles en venture i New York and Rotterdam. at home in the United States ask me, June 8th of last year, and who was at left. London a year ago and spent some Aren't they beginning to learn St. Dunstan's for eight months. He is time at my home in Boston preparing truth?” I reply that some of them are, now employed by the United Yeast Com-all sorts of credentials for the long re- but the great majority think exactly pang, of Clerkenwell, at whose Manches-sidence in Germany I was to undertake what they are told. ter brunch he held a position before join at the request of Lord Northelifte.
The great newspaper searchlight is ing the Army,
Hindenburg, My instructions were to obtain as much to-day switched « I have done for better than I ex military and unval information as pos Almost the whole of these industrious pected," he states. My shorthand
now dragging its my typewriting has been well up to the conditions in rural districts and manu deoburg--the loan
Silesia has named to learn all that could be gleaned about Hindenburg loan. submarines and Zeppelins; to get into one of its towns Hindenburg; newly arrived infants of the Empire ere being contact with as many public men as possible and gather their views as to loaded down with the name daily; to the war, and the great Baghdad railway bacco stores display Hindenburg cigars; question especially; to find out as much the bust of this fierce-looking, warrior is as I could about the spirit of the German every middle-class house. The deifi- people as a whole; and, above all, to eation of Hindenburg and the downfal be minutely accurate and strictly fair to of England are the uppermost thoughts Germany, stating everything plainly and in the whole Gorman mind, though without either pro or anti German hias, there are a few thoughtful cynics in high My previous contributions to the Press places who regard him as a well-adver have been almost entirely aroaymous. tised dummy, and a drunkard to boot. Massage, telephone operating, poultry Talks with Germans and other farming and market gardening, cobbling,eries may he remembered. I signed only ft. fo. basket and mat making, and joinery aré
But I will continue my narrative with a three articles-two in The Daily Mail 1.7
among the occupations taught at St. and ong in The Evening News. None of little incident that may reveal one small these articles was likely to prejudice me aspect of German character to English in Germany, as they dealt with my ex-people, who are as a rule completely INDUSTRY,perience with the retreating army in the unable to understand German psychology. Bukovina and kindred subjects. They · Among my minor armoury of intro- were ignoruous as regards my status ductions was the execution of a small before the German authorities, it the commission on behalf of s German latter should have happened to see the American in New York, who wished me articles in question. The minuteness of to take £100 to his relatives in a small When the war began, scientista in Grethe German system of watching incoming Rhenigh town. I went there direct from Britain found a great difficulty in travellers and outgoing strangers may be Emmerich. I thought it would be con- taining supplies of laboratory porcelain gathered from the fact that two of these venient, and wise, to get away from the At that time Germany held a complete articles were eventually brought up be main track of travel, and I took train. world monopoly of this article, and as fore me in Germany.
to this small town, where I arrived in
Early in August last I was in Berlin, there was an urgent necessity for impor
the early evening of a November day. The British and French offensive had tant chemical researches in the manufae-
The following incident was exactly commenced on July 1st. Outwardly it ture of explosives, mintters began to look.
typical of what would happen in ninety-appeared to attract very little notice on very serious.
German households out of 1 nine,
the part of Germany, and I do not her. lieve that it attracted sumcient attention. Although I was bringing what was
even in the highest military quarters. It for them a considerable sum of money, as
was considered to be Great Britain's well as some portraits of their long Enal full. The great maps in the shop absent relatives in the United States, and windows in every street and on tas walls interesting family new, I was refused in every German house showed on. I was fortunate in having come to the admittance, point blank. end of my old passport, and the new. The lady of the house at once time change, and still show no change worth noticing. Mapa speak,” say the passport I got in return gave no indica to the door, and though I said in my Germans, tion of my previous travels in the Ger- German, which is quite excellent, that I One but evening in Berlin 1 met man Empire and Austria during the war, had come front her family in America, young oficer whom I had known on and also my several visite to England. and brought money, her reply was so
previous visit to Germany, and who was After a good deal of consideration Iangry?—
home on 10 days' furlongh. 1 noticed came to the opinion that I might as a
that he was ill or out of sorts, and he told me that he had been unexpectedly called back to his regiment on the Western front, How is that?" I said. He made that curious, and indescribable German gesture which shows discontent and dissatisfaction. These Englisli It was a long walk for a tired man
are putting every man they have got I told him, and quite truly, that I to the Polizeiamt. When I got there I into a fiual and ridiculous attempt to had been asked to go to Germany and to was fortunate in lighting upon a stout, make a listen to peace terms. My leave My dear reader," he said, "when
make a thorough study of the situation; easy-going old fellow who had been comis cut short, and I am of this evening.” that I desired facilities for obtaining the mandeered for the job cwing to the We had a glass of beer at the Bavaria you write that you are thin and do not
For ordinary table ware, English porce-truth,
departure of all the local police for the Restaurant in the Friedrichstrasse, weigh what you should, you have given lain bas no superior in the world. Eng Thinking that be was doing a good war. He knew little of his business,
You have been in England, haven't me the real cause of your unhappy feel-lish potters have found out how to make ings. If you only had a reserve of fat the finest porcelain, with the highest posmo a
urn to the pro-German cause, he gave and I was the first foreigner who had you!" he inquired. I told him that I message of introduction to his ever come there. He was more interested had been there last year They seem to this would give a quieting and reassuring sible translucency, at a low temperature.friend Dr. Drechsler, the head of the in trying to find out something of his have more soldiers than we thought." influence to the vital forces, and you This has been done by mixing bone-ash Amerika Institute in Berlin, who is relations in America, and in smoking he said. They seem to be learning the would then be happy, contented and with the clay. But this kind of ware is Professor Münsterberg's partner in the my cigare, than in my business. He did business; my battalion has suffered
quite useless for laboratory purposesą, Then, too, you realize that the pro- The new ware fulfils all the conditions German propaganda in the United not even take the trouble to look at my
passport, and bade per distribution of fat on the body and required. Patterns have been seat to
鼈 cheery Within the next day or two there were, limbs makes all the difference between 3ressrs. Doulton, and in their showrooms
Good-night." Münsterberg, who, now that things are beauty and ugliness, and you envy your may be seen specimens of the arcles, going unfavourably for Germany, is returned to pay the £106, and de- cther rumours in Berlin--rumours quite plump friends,
As a liberal allowance which, even to the untrained eye, are actually writing in favour of an alliance liver the photographs, and now that I unknown to the mass. How and where I of fat is one of nature's wise precautions superior to the patterns. There are ves between the United States Germany, and had heap cially "policed" was re- to certain Germans, who were extremely to enable us to bear some of the trials ofsels of all shapes and sizes, from tiny the British Empire, was then in a very ceived with great cordiality and pressed kind to me, to say, but it was suggested life. you should do all in your power to Buchner and Hirsch funnels, with perfor sanguine frame of mind in regard to to spend the evening get fat
I know nothing so valuable to ated bases to great retorts.
the success of his countrymen. Bulgaria The lady of the house had put on her to me by a friend a member of the Ex- frome Left of the Social Democratio make people fat as a preparation of Another development of the same in came into the war in October, and I best part of which was a huge zilver Party-that if I wanted to learn tho Sargol, prepared by The Sargol Co. of dustry is the manufacture of sparking recall how the profesor, sitting at his medallion of Hindenburg. There were truth I should go out to Potsdam and England,
From the standpoint of health, fat plugs for motors. There is a great de desk in the Philosophy Building in our two pictures of Hindenburg and one of see the arrival of the wounded men of
mand for these, which formerly cause delightful old Harvard, expounded to the Kaiser, and a bust of the Crown re essential, as it has great value as a from Germany. All this has, of course, me how the war would be over by May Prince in the dining-room. The best the famous sided, who had, he said, had a terrible experience at the reserve force, and saves the other tissues meant the erection of special plant-no 1918, with everything satisfactory for that the war diet permitted was pro- hands of the English at Contalmaison from destruction. So, by all means try casy matter in these times when labour Germany. to get fat.".
on July 10th. and materials are scarce. But all diffi A. B. WATHON & Oo, L.,
I had secured a commission for articles certain English newspapers and speakers He drew me aside in the Tiergarten eulties have been overcome, and the new for some well-known American magazines seemed to be under the obsession that and told me, for he is, I am sure a real British industry is it a fair way to and newspapers, which was my ostensible Germany was starving. Well, I had an Gerinan patriot, that the state of things reason for entering the Fatherland as a excellent meal of the German kind within the Bomme, if known throughout Ger- writer, and I left Münsterberg with the the best of Rhine wine, and there was
many, would effectively destroy the pre- WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES IN knowledge that so long as I retained no sign of food shortage. There was no tensions of the annexationist party, who strictly and absolutely within my own more sign of starvation than in English believed that Germany has won the war households to-day. The only difference breast the secret that I was collecting the war bread, which varies in and will hold Belgium and the conquered information for the British public, my position in Germany would be at any different localities, and is now much portion of France and Poland,
He told me to go out to Potsdam with better than it used to be, and much caution, and be warned me that should rato safe.
better than English people think it is have the atmost difficulty in getting This I emphasize was in November, anywhere near the military sidings of 1915.
UNHAPPY THIN FOLKS,
One of the readers of a popular health journal wrote to the editor, asking why she was peevish, blue and discontented, and bis answer will interest all thin
optimistic.
VICTORIA DISPENSARY, THE PHARMACY,
QUEEN's DinPENKÄRY,
THE EDWARD DispensaryW,
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The chief firm in Germany making this class of goods was the Royal and Imperial Factory at Charlottenburg, which was ac quired 163 years ago by Frederick II. It has remained the personal property of the Crown of Prússia ever since, and its distinctive mark is a Royal sceptre in blue.
But, as in other matters, British energy and ingenuity were not found wanting. Mesare, Doulton & Co., of Lambeth, ect themselves to make the kind of ware which is required, and they have succeed ed so well that a new industry has been created, and British scientists will no longer be obliged to go to Charlottenburg for their porcelain ware.
There are three indispensable requisites for this particular article:-~
It must be capable of resisting very high temperatures.
It must not be porous,
It must be able to resist the action of powerful acids..
Il must, te far as possible, resist the
action of alkali solutions.
BRITISH SUPERIORITY.
success.
CANADA.
I left London in August, and arriving in Boston, my native city, I cast about for the means of arriving in Germany with such a complete set of varied in- troductions as would enable me to travel about fairly frenly, and to come into contact with all sorts and conditions of people.
Have you been to the police!"
base of operations use my acquaintance "No," I said. "I did not think it with Professor Huge Munsterberg, he was necessary to go to the police, as I well-known German professor at Haram merely passing through here, and am vard, under whom I studied psychology, not going to stay, She replied coldly. and I plead guilty to having enrolled Go to the police," and shut the door that worthy Teuton in the service of The in my face. Times...
States.
ON THE FRONTIER.
my
"terribly
vided. At that time (November last)
heard these rumoura it would be unfair
In recognition of the necessity for greater economy and more generous financial assistance to the Mother Caun try, the Canadian Government has ap- pointed a committee of bankers to co- operate with the Department of France, After a rough passage in the great It is understood that the chartered banks liner Rotterdam I arrived in Holland Things, as I shall show in successive the railway station there. will be the operating medium between in the middle of November, and forth articles, have changed a great deal the Government and the people. The with attempted to get into Germany at now, tentative plan is that the public may Bentheim. deposit any amount from 1 upwards, The effort was frustrated at the first I do not propose to set forth my travels and on this amount the banks will pay moment by the fact that it was obvious the regulation rate of interest until the that the Germans wanted no journalists amount of a winimutin Government certi- to enter Germany at all. The Austrians ficate is reached, which will be placed had just blown up the Ancona in the Townough to attract wage earners. The Mediterranean, Submarine friction be yield of certificates will be over 5 per tween the United States and Germany cant.
was growing, and the German authorities,
· THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME,
and investigations in Germany in chronological order, at the moment the inner world of Germany and part of the world of England (though not all) realize that the real war is the battle of the Somme, o
(Continued at fapt of neat Column.)
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I asked another usually extremely well-informed friend if there was my thing particular happening in the war, and told him that I thought of going to Potsdam, and he said What for? There is nothing is be seen there the same old drilling, drilling, drilling." So well are secrets kept in Germany.
However went. What I saw D Potsdam would, if known to the German people, shake the very foundations of the Empire-Times.