INTIMATIONN
The Instrument Itrated a tho
A Victrola—the finishing touch to your recreation
After a hard session at tennis or golf it is good to hear the music of the Victrola. It touches the spot" to sink in a comfortable chair after strenuous exercise, while the world's foremost artists play and sing the music that you love best,
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS:
'MOUTRIE'S.
DON'T FORGET
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1916, 1916,
(29-2
HEATHER-DAY"
30TH NOVEMBER,
WHY SHOULD ONE DRINK
No. 10
WHISKY?
BECAUSE
ONE OUGHT.”
DISTILLED BY JAS. WATSON & Co., Lrn.,
DUNDEE.
BOLE «AGENTS IN SOUTH CHINA":"
Telephone 636.
[1401
DONNELLY & WHYTE.
HONGKONG AND CANTON,
SPORTS
(1:206
COATS
Made of a wool web material,
light in weight,
smart in
appearance, wacm and extremely comfortable.
GOLF STOCKINGS
in all weights and various colours,
MACKINTOSH
& CO., LTD.,
Men's Wear Specialists,
16. DES VEUX BOAD. TELEPHONE 29,
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE
From 28th November to ŝtis December, 1918.
HIGH WATER,
8. 18
Mouth
H'Long
Менд
Thme
Height
LOW WATER.'
H'kong.
daight,
[1327
HONGKONG KETEOROLOGICAL
VOLUNTEERS FROM CHINE
QUESTION OF HELPING MEN FROM THE EAST
· Rapid progres, is being unde în or- ganizing the Assistant to be given to volunteers who have come over from the Far Eust to fight, writes the London. correspondent of the NC. Daily News, The full aurabur of these of course will never be known, but abour, 400 have cuine home directly through the China. Assiera- tion and it is only to thes that any
ng * *.
attention can be paid, because neither the uaines nor the whereabouts of the others are known. The China, Associa tion has therefore fust issued the follow- ing
NOTICE.
China Association,
99, Cannon Street.
London, E.C.
The following matters are notified for the general information, of the Far Eastern Contingents who have joined the army;
Return passages to Chink after the
war
The following is extracted from a letter from the War Ofoe.
13 China 35 (Q.M.G. 2)
June, 24th, 1815.
“I am commanded by the Army Coun: cil to inform you (in reply to your in quiry) that return passages will be provided for all discharged Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Rank and File of the British Army, who proceeded, from abroad, and enlisted on arrival in the United Kingdom during the present war. The right to such pass age must be exercised within six months of discharge."
A Shanghai Wounded Soldiers Fund for the purpose of assisting men from Shanghai who joined the army and have since been wounded, during the fighting, has been catablished in Shanghai, and a substantial sum of money remitted to the Secretary of the China Association in London to help those in need of it. Any man, therefore, who has been wounded and is in want of such assistance should communicate with the Secretary of the China Association at the above address, stating particulars of his case, when he will receive immediate attention.
FREIGHT MARKET.
their
Messrs. Snowman & Co, Freight Circular, dated Hongkong, 25th November, state:---
Business in the south has, since we last reported on 11th instant, bien comf paratively quiet, little time chartering having been arranged, mainly in conse quence of Owners' ideas of rates being So very high. A fair number of trip charters have, however, been fixed and the market generally has, if anything, increased in tone.
SAIGON HONGKONG.-Not much business has been done in this direction, since Jast we went to press, when the rate closed at 70 cents per picul. Two fixtures. of regular steamers have, however, been made at latter rate, and a small outsider has also been fixed, for four consecutive
SPORT.
CRICKET
CIVIL SERVICE & UNIVERSITY.
These tennis met on the Civil Service ground on Saturday. The result was a draw, Scores:--
• CIVIK BEIZVI UMA Witchell, e Wright, b Dixon 33 E. W. Hamilton, 1.b,v, b Marley 21: C. Sare, b Dizon
:0 H.E. Mr C. Sovern, b. Marley P. T. Lamble, b Marley
. 11
8. Alderman, c and b De Souza ... 13 EW Dawson, e Dizon, b Marley. 14 CJ. Tacchi. c De Bouan, b Dixon 4 J. Dease, e Ismail, b Dixon 10. R. Bearne, & Ponsonby-Fang, b
Dixo R. R. Wood, not out ....
Extrax
R
0
THE
GOVERNMENT AND ITS PLEDGES.
MR. WILSON'S POLICY ÇA-HESITATION VALSE “
President Wilson's policy was loudly. denounced at a mass inccting held in New York last month to advocate the election of Judge Hughes. Mr. George Putnam, onoc a lending Democrat, and now a strong supporter of Mr. Hughes, said :
POSITION OF MEN OF AN
In the House of Commons last month on the motion for the adjournment,
Mr G. Terrell (whs had given notice to Tried the question of the position of men of the age of 41) said he did not i propose to move his motion. He under 1 had great hopes of President stood that the Government would give Wilson, but I have been disappointed, day for the discussion of the whole and so have thousands of Democrats. Mr. question of an-power and were also going to inquire into, and if possible extend, the time of appealing to mon of 41 and grant then further time before requiring them to join up..
Wilson failed because be failed to unders stand the moral purpose of Americs, and in a great crisis, when he had great opportunities and large duties, he has Mr. Snowden said there were thee not been equal to his task. When wat members interested who could not agree broke out, when Belgium was invaded, to this summary dismissal of the question. he should have formed a lengue of He also asked the Secretary for War to wutral nations, which would have pro 33explain the reason why the notice was tested against warfare on non-combatants issued calling up attested men who had and the use of submarines as agents for passed the age of 41. because it was n killing women and children. This is fireer violation of pledges given in shut the first war in modern times when the House. When the Military Service Bill lives of women and children have not was before the House Mr. Tennant, in beon safeguarded, gar reply a question, said:--" A man who |⠀⠀⠀ Mr. Oscar Straus, a former member of treaches the age of 41 before he is actually Mr. Roosevelt's Government and Am- called up for service, whether he is a bassador to Turkey, described President voluntarily attested man or man Wilson's policy in Mexico deemed to be attested under the Military hesitation valsc-one step forward, two Service Act, is not called up, but is steps backward, one to the side, and theu passed to reserve and would not be subject turn round. to be called up for military service unless the age of military service is in future extended," There was nothing equivocal that reply, which was clear and definite
Totul
Bowling Analysis.
0.
Dixoni.
19.
Marley
Ng Sze. Kwong, 3
-19
De Bonza
UNIVERSITY.
J. D. Wright, not ont Ng Sze Kwong, c Deane, b. Hnni)-
.G. E. Marley, Ibw., b.Witchell... A. H. Rumjan, b Hamilton ....... A. De Bouza, b Witchell
40
10
0
Total
1. A. B. Ponsonby-Eane, not out 25
76
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S STATEMENT. Mr. Lloyd George I think there is n good deal to be said for the course Chow Yat Cheong, W. D. Dixon, Wuggested by the hon. member who gave notice to move the adjournment of the Gittens, A. Ismail, and F. J. Ede did House. It is almost impossible to deal not bat.
with one part of the problem of man- power without bringing the whole case before the House. The difficulty now under consideration is by no means the only difficulty. There is the difficulty
CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO FUND
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
MAXIM GUNNERS,
The parade of this unit, ordered for Nov. 29th, is altered to Tuesday, Nov. 28th,.
PARADES.
Tuesday, Nov. 8th-All Recruity of
Nos 1 and 2 Platoon, No. 2 Com pany and No. 4 Company, Crown Sergeant Wilks and the Co.-Sorgt- Major, respectively, will warn their men. Also Maxim Gunners,
The following is the subscription het which the whole country experiences in Thursday, Nov. 30th.Ambulance
to dato:---
mobilizing its resources for the purposes of a conflict with involves life and death Acknowledged to Nov., 1916 816,776,02 to so many principles which are dear to Since received :----
Messrs. Wilson and MacNider.. Landslido Greenfield Mr. E. M. Joseph Collected by Mrs. Pentreath and Mrs. Arthur (List No (14/1): ---
"Roulette" G. A P
us. The hon. member for Blackburn has very properly asked me whether I ara 30.00 going to repudiate the pledge given by 30.00 my predecessor. I repudiato no pledge. 50.00 Whatever was given was given under the
EA.M.W
"Spero."
Oil King
$80.75
190.00
30.00
25.00
20.00
30.00
.140.00
Anon, M.C.BS, at 815
such G.T.E., J.MGH, C.B.B., E.G., W.G.W., I.B.C., H.C.S., G.P.L.B.G.N., H.F.C., P.D.S., Mino: John, G.B.Pat $10 each J.R.G., T.J.F., W&H, CME CH. P. R., B.S., J.A.Y, A.G., H.W.K., G.S.A., P.P., H.H., R.H. S.H.D., J.V.R.... C.C., E.L.B., N. 8. M., LN. M., TA.L., J,G. AÆG, A.E.G., J.S.D., C.E., H.B.L.D., "Well wish-
at $5 each JA, She Tat Tsoi. Lam Shaw Shan at $4 rach moment. 12.00
NAD.C. E
Wallaby
P.HH., W.S., J.H.B.,
F. B E. J. RM.. Q.M.B., H.A., JAR at $3 each ARA, WB JRK
J.D. F.W... G.A.R., R. M. W.. W. C. B. E. M. F.. R. G.H.. CH.B.R.J.R...R.C., RA. W. W. R. M., R.A.B. F.R.S., A.K., 4.0.1 H.J J.P
trips, at 65 cents per picul. For the last D. E..C.. Go
week or so, no further business has been put through, although offers have con made of 67 and 70 cents. Just befor going to press there is an indication in the market of the possibility of being able to obtain a regular couster at To cents 1- per picul, but business at this rate has f so for not eventuated. The local rico market has been somewhat dull bun, dar ing the last day or so, has revived. slightly.
135.00
30.00
E. Q. S... WJ.H. R.K., F.A.G., J. AR. H. E. M. R.TB., A.S.L., G.A.T. at 82 each
1 60.00 H.F.C, G., G.B.I. A.A., F.S., a $1 each
5,00
602.75
$17.488.77
816,537.85
Nov. 17th, 10,000 Cigarettes sent to the C/O, K.SLI. (Hongkong)
Exports of race from Saigon from 1st Expended to 18th November January to 17th October amount to 902.395 tons, as compared with 782,850 Since expended :--- tons for the same period last year. Quotation for No. 2 white round sifted rice stand at $8 per pical fol for November-December shipment, be
-BANGKOK HONGKONG. Against 60-30 cents per picul for inside-outside the bir loading, respectively, last quoted this rate bas since risen to 75-65 cents and offers are now in the market at this figure
SAIGON-PHILIPPINES.There is nothing to report in this direction. A rather weak demand seemingly met with no encouragement from Owners, ratos asked being too far ahead of charterers' ideas.
Nov. 27th. 200,000 Cigarettes 3 to the troops at the Front
pany under the Sorgt.-Major.
WINTER UNIFORMS.
Members of Units whose numbers have
been taken by the Hon. CS.P 80 requiring alterations made in their uniform may have same done, st Noordin's.
DUTIES OF INSPECTORS AND SERGEANTS.
The following Standing Order to be
inserted.AZ
It is the duty of overy Inspector and Bergeant whether on or off duty, uniform or in mufti, to tako official notion of any irregulärity coming to his notice.
in
RECORD OF CASES, OCCURRENCES, ETC. The attention of all ranks is drawn to
8.0 10. The reporting of cases is: necessary in order that every men- ber's Record of Service may be kept completo.
JOINED,
1 Company, No. 4 Section Pc. el Arculli,
(Bgd.) F. C. JENKIN,
D.S.P..(R.).
27th November. 1916.
THE MAJOR WHO KEPT HIS WORD,
then existing circumstances. The pledge that was given was that the whole of the powers of the Military Sarvice Act would not be exercised under the existing con- ditions... Under that Act persons who. were not 41 at a certain date were liable to be called up. But in the conditions existing when that Act came into opera- tion it was not thought necessary to call up men who were 41 at the date when the notice was served. Since then the con- ditions have altered. The conditions in a great war must naturally change. No one could forecast how long the war would last, or the drain upon our resources. A pledge which said that No. under no conditions would the full power of the Military Service Act be exercised was a pledge which no person could give. I do not mind saying that if such á Pledge had bean given, the first con sideration is the exigencies of the war. (Hear, kear.) A pledge which was given in reference to conditions which was given then, but no longer exist, is a pledge which ought not to be adhered to. (Hear,
The death of Colonel Baring has taken hear.) For what does it mean? It means away one of the most popular officers in that we should lose the equivalent of at the Brigade of Guards. He stood 6 ft. least two Army Corps. Would any one 4 ins., and wore the inevitable Guards' take responsibility for that? Including monocle. At the outset he realised that everybody, it would mean losing the the constitution of the new army differed equivalent of nearly four Army Corps. entirely from that of the old, and while We are depending upon those reserves for ho was stationed at Windsor he changed the manning of our new artillery; and the whole régime of his company. The unless they are called up I do not know
men simply worshipped him. A journal- where" we are to find the men,⠀
ist who joined the Coldstreamers at the outbreak of war says that when a draft All we are bound to carry out in this was leaving for the front early in Janu respect is that there shall be no distincary, 1915, although snow was falling tion between attested and unsttested men. heavily, the officers all came down to see We have pledged ourselves not to place the boys off. Just as they were getting the attested men in a worse position than into the train a pitman from Sheffield the unattested. That we propose to carry remarked, I only wish t'owd Major was ont to the very letter. We do not think coming with us" Not so much as I it necessary to raise the nge beyond the do," retorted the Major. limit of the Act, as has been suggested. turned me down, but I'll get there some
They've I cannot believe that Parliament will
how or other. He kept his word, act on a thoroughly irrational inter- pretation of the pledge, which would involve our bringing in another Act of called up for service, whether he is a Parliament to raise the age limit beyond voluntarily attested man or a man deened what we want. Notice will be given, in
ATTEATED AND UNATTESTED MEN.
order issued.
called
the course of a day or two, and if there to be attested, under the Military Service is any confusion in the mind of anyone
Act, is not called up he passed to the on the subject it will be cleared up by there, and would not be subject to to up for military service unless the age of military service is in future LAVA THE PLEDGE. Mr. Sherwell said this was a distinct
extended.' That was a most explicit breach of a pledge by the Government changed let the Government ask Parlia pledge. If the circumstances were
They all remembered the pledge to exempt the only son of a widow, but no straightforward course, and it would, pay ment for authority, That would be a weight had been attached to that or to best in the long run.
45.00 other positive assurances.
581.81
$17,164.66
Mr. Lloyd George-The hon, member Secretary for War should have resorted at the surprised that the for Blackburn, with his habitual
(Radical cheers) -
accuracy, has charged me with breaking to subterfuge. He doubted whether it pledge. What I said was that that was wise to have made the concession, but pledge was given with.
having made it accompanied by reference to existing conditions. If the conditions Their credit in the eyes of the country pledge, it was their duty to adhere to it, Balance in hand“ ...8 324.11 have changed, that is no fault of mine.
W: A. DOWLEY
was worth something Nearly every Mr. Llewelyn Williams said the right pledge given while the Military Service (Hon Sec. & Treas).hon, gentiorau could not und the words Act was under review had been broken. Hongkong. 27th, November, 1016.
"existing conditions in the pledge The Government could not be straight given on March 7th The right hon. Headquarters, China Command, gentleman himself said that if plexige with the country. (Hear, hear.)
Hongkong,
had been given he would have no hesita ber say that supposing we want 100,009 Mr. Lloyd George-Let the hop, mem- 18th October, 1916. tion in breaking it under existing con- The British American Tobacco, Co., Ltd., ditions. That was a Prussian doctrine, men and that we shall get them by rais
Hongkong.
ing the limit to the limit of the Act We cannot do that unless we bring in an Mr. Lloyd George. What I said was that the pledge was given with reference Act to get 300,000 men when we do not to existing conditions. When conditions Mr. Pringle said that was what the changed there was no applicability,
Government had promised to do, and it Bir E. Carson-Let us Ines the war!
would be no hard thing, if they were. Mr. Pringle. Let us keep our word. (Hour, hear.)
going on with this policy, that they Mr. Lloyd George. That the 300,000 men in case they should be be able to lay their hands on should words:" If a man attain his sist birth wanted. Everybody know that, 100,000 day before he receives the notios calling would not meet the demands of the War him up for service he will not be taken Office, and it was hypocrisy to say that for service under existing conditions. that was the essential thing just now He would be liable to be called up if it The fact was the Government got their should happen that the standard of
SAIGON-JAVA. Nothing is reported as done beyond the fixture of a regular coaster, in titis direction, combined with return loading to Hongkong, at $1.75 per
Gentlemen, I beg to acknowledge the picul for the round trip, and it is not receipt of 50,000 cigarettes for distribu- anticipated that there will be much tion among the European troops of the development until sugar is offering more garrison and to request that you will freely northwards.
kindly convey the thanks of the troops NEWCHWANG-In view
to the Hongkong Cigarette and Tobacco last Fand for the same This gift will be advices, no further fixtures having been much appreciated by the troops Yours arranged, the port's business can be refaithfully, garded as closed for the season.
G. CASSEL (Captain) Hongkong, 17th November, 1918. The Secretary,
BEGISTER.
Moen
Time.
Hongkong Observatory, November 27th
Date
kime| ft, in
Wed.
20
091 47m 5:40 | 0:5· 30.45 m
1314 8 635 0.7 Barometer
4488 41 | Temp satare Thurs, 30 || 1 10a 46 m 7 35 1:0
Wind Darvotion
Previous On Date On
Day 1 jat 2pm. 6 am.
1993 3004
76
70
(8
Fort
3. pm
3004). 73
North
047 3458 4
Jstar. 2 m 24
Baix
"Highest open-air Temperature on 20th 16
Lowned open-air Temperature es-27th–69.
Na.
1
4 m 5 6
of our
ComFurther to the remarks in our last report under this heading prices have hardened still further and to what limit this rise may ascend it is difficult to foresee. Demand is very good but. with redbord output from the mines and very limited tonnage available, rates from Japan soufawards have firmed on. siderably and will in all probability rule strong for some time to come
FIXTURES REPORTED. Miike- Batavia, Y:13; Moji-Hongkong, $6.50; Hongay Hongkong, #per tom
BAIL TORAGE Loading or tO LIND
Hongkong Tobacco and Cigarette
Fundur
want them.
for military service should be raised measures by making promises tart were Sir The British American Tobacco We have raised the age up to the limit not fulfilled. If they were to have con- have to-day- forwarded 10,000 of the Act, and is it to be said that we pulsion let it be honest compulsion, not Cigarettes for distribution amongst the are breaking our pledge because we do compulsion tainted with frand, (Hear, men of this unik. went to not raise it by two years and do not
hear 1-shaf be much obliged if you will want to the whee ing Officer to your Committee for the Secretary for War made the following convey the best thanks of the Command: fr Sherwell said the late Under generous gift I am sir, Yours faith statement on March 7th man who fully,
reaches the age of 41 before he is actually (Continued of foot of next Colum.)
B. J. R. HASLEWOOD (Capt and AƒAdjutant).
Colonal Lockwood confessed that he
wanted he has nothing more 20 say. The believed a pledge had been given, but the moment the Minuter said the men were necessity of the paramount, whe ther & promi
The House adjourned.
given of not: