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FORTHCOMING EVENTS.
THE WAR AND ITS OPPORTUNITIES. ADDRESS BY THE MASTER OF
nist of
BALLIOL, OXFORD.
THE CONSOLIDATED ALLIES.
JAPAN AND UNITY
FREIGHT MARKET. FREIGHT MARKET.
The total amount of lumber cut under
FORESTRY OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Some interesting information concern- Mesers Snowman & Co., in theirg Forestry in the Philippine Telands. At a dinner given in his honour on the eve of his departure by the Russo freight circular, dated Hongkong. s given in the annual report of the Bazenu at Manila for the fiscal year 1915. The report is signed by the Actingg Since last reporting on the 25th ult. At all the meetings in connection with Japanese Society, Viscout Motono, the December, state-
Director of Forestry. Mr. W. Klemme, in the National Mission of Repentance and former Japanese Ambassadar, and now
our market than during the previous the absence of Mr. William Forsythe Hope considerable attention his naturally Minister of Foreign Affairs in Japan, there has been a little more activity in been directed to the attitude of the delivered a speech expressing his pro-
Manila
on January 12th, 1916, on a leave Churchs towards the war. The aspect in found satisfaction at having achieved fortnight and its firm tone has, if any Sherfeese, Director of Forestry, who left. SATOON HONGKONG:-A number of trip of absence, which he will spend as a ten- which Bistop Norris presented this during his sojourn in Petrograd the thing, strengthened somewhat. question in Hongkong aroused sine con-consolidation of the friendship between troversy, and it is interesting to compare Japan and Russia. He pointed out that fixtures have been made in this direcber of the Chinese Government, assisting his views with those expressed by the in view of the Angh-Japanese Alliance, and rates have been gradually creeping in drawing up a national forest policy
both the Russo-Japanese and the Angh up. Our last report of market closing and putting it into execution, Master of Balliol College, who, at recent meeting in Oxford, delivered an Japanese agreements naturally supple was at 70 cents, and since then three address on "Religion and the National inented and strengthened eneh other He regular coasters have been fixed, one at licence in the public forests during 1915 laid stress on his conviction that the this rate and the other two at 72 and 76 was 270,207 cubic meters, as compared with cents per picul. Also, a regular coaster 204,068 enbie meters for 1914. In addi Life":-
This war had, the Master of Balliol Anglo-Japanese Alliance was inviolable
day, downward cargo to be for charterers mined amount cut without licence for per said, forced all of them to think over In expressing his certitude of the victory has been fixed on the basis of 81,100 pertion, there was a very large but under good many things, and it had brought of the Allies over Germany. Viscount accoast, and for a further trip. on like sonal or domestic use. As anticipated in
them into
communication Motora, explained the signifiention of the conditions, at $1,400 per day. All the annual report for 1914, the year just with many persons of different classes unity of the Allied nations who in com outsider hus also beer fixed, for six con- passed ans experienced a serious depres and many different points of view.mon were fighting for right and justice. secutive trips, for loading carly in the sion in the lumber market, due primarily coming year, at 80 cents per picul. Furto condition, brought about by the Euro Two things that had been brought Viscount Motuno said
I am particularly happy, gentlewa.ther tonnage could undoubtedly be placed pean war, the principal cause affecting hone to him were first, the splendid.
g fying in material that
this to is able to state that mur recent hat Owners ideas, for the time being. the trade, as in most other industries, are rather in advance of those of char being the very great shortage of trans- portation facilities to carry exports. The land of oers unused and almost unre political accord was reached at the pre-
lumber industry has suffered specially engnised; second, the wonderful opcise moment when the relatious of your terers. The local rice market has re portunity that had been created for them country with England are most intimale mined fairly steady.
Exports of rice from Saigon from 1st from this cause, leaving as the result of by the war-the greatest thing, not and most cordial. As one of your diplo- merely the biggest, but the greatest thing matists has just said to me, at the time January to 14th November 1916, amount the inability of the lumbering companies that had happened in history since the of the conclusion of our last politicul to 869,467 tous, as compared with 782,322 to export. their stock, a market flooded Ention for No. 2 white round fifted rice of the situation (facing but a pour out- rise of Christianity. They heard it often agreement, that of 1907, Russons for the same period last year. Quo with fumber and (the most serious feature said that. Christianity had been a fallure Japanese understanding,
While freight rates are still going higher, hecause it had not stopped war. They Russo-British understanding, and rice stands at- 63.50 per picul Lok for Dee look for the remedying the condition. UANGKON/HONGXoxa Against offers transportation facilities are becoming might as justly say say Christianity had rera, would have been an incomplete ember/January shipment, been a failure because it had not stopped understanding. That is self-evident.
in the market of 75/65 cents per picul scareer. Orders for export are on hand, for inside/outside the bar londing, last but it is impossible to all them. None of social evils. But the fact was that You do not forget, gentlemen, that Christianity had not been a failure; it Japan has been the Ally of Great Britain reperied, the rate has improved to 90/80 the mills are working with the activity
or optimism of a year or more ago. had simply not been tried as a social for many years. Her constant policy cents per picul same loading. Previons force a force moved and acted on by a has been to maintain the closest union indications as to the coming Bangkok the contrary, with no appreciable local. demands for lumber the companies have whole nation.
with her Ally. This policy has found a crop being a bumper ene now turns to
been forced to various, expedients, such brilliant consecration in the present war. practical certainty.
SAIGON/JAVA:We have nothing to add as shutting down temporarily, eartailing their output to the minimum to keep em- Japan, at the first appeal of her Ally, took arne without the least hesitation. to our last advices under these headings.
SAIGON/PHILIPPINES: We have nothployed at least the most desirable portion and has taken part in the great world
almost prohibitive rates. war with all her ardour for the defence ing to add to our last advices ander these of their force, or chartering vessels at
I scarcely need headings. of the cominon canse. tell you that Japan will always maintain this straightforward and loyal policy towards her friends and Allies.
A REVELATION,
without iL
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might offer.
Or
A very important step which will even- tually react to the mutual advantage of the fumbermen was the formation during the latter part of the year of the Philip pine Lumber Manufacturtis Association Up to very recent times there existed no co-operation among the individual com panies in this industry, but the formation plare the industry on a more solid basis of this association wilt, it is to be hoped, and will tend not only to secure for the members the recognition of which the in- portance of the industry is so deserving, but will be a means of combining the in- terests of the industry as a whole.
A great deal of propaganda has been carried on during the past year with a view, to encouraging the exportation of Numerous inquiries FIXTURES REPORTED:- Karatza/Hong- lumber to China. keng, Yen 7.50; Haiphong to Hongkong, from interested parties in China hava option Canton, $7.40: Hongay/Hongkong. been answered by supplying data regard- $5.50; and Hongay/Pulo Brani, 814 per ing the character and available supply of Philippine woods, in some cases consider- tell
SALL TONNAGE LOADING ON TO Loanable numbers of copies of extracts being.
for immediate local business and alto from Japan, in consequence of the con- tinued scarcity of tonnage, have there- fore strengthened.
THE WAR AND SHIPPING.
furnished to applicants; articles have | been published in journal having a wide. circulation, aur sets of specimen panels. furnished to Government officials and to lumber dealers.
The army had been a revelation to then all of the heroic qualities that all the while underlay the character of the ordinary man. For the men of Ypres and Gallipoli were, after all, the men
DALSY now being first-northern bean they knew in ordinary life as miners and porters, clerks and farm labourers;
leading port for our market, fixtures are reported, since Newchwang cloned, of but the difference lay in the training they had been through, and the cnil now The events which we are witnessing three regular medium-sized coasters, with made on their better self. Discipline and are of extione gravity. The present usual quantities, at 73 80 and 80 cents an ideal those were the only things crisis is me of those that are so gigantic per pioul respectively. Charterers are, wanted to raise them to the herois level. as to involve the fate of the nations. however, inclined to consider such rates But in their ordinary social and indus As I have had the honour of declaring rather high and would doubtless, take trial life neither of these two great os former occasion, I have not the advantage of any outside. tonnage that COAL: The remarks in our last fort forea was utilised. As to their religion, slightest doubt as to the final issue of a recent observer had said: Here are this war. I am most profoundly connight's report still hold good, Lacat men who believe absolutely in the vinced that the Allied nations, who are stacks are at a very low ebb indeed, and Christian virtues of unselfishness, genero-fighting for the defence of right and demand remains, as brisk as ever. Rates sity, charity, humility, without even con- justice, will be victorious; but this vie meeting them in their minds with Christ. tory ought to be carly and decisive. In A colleague of his, a chaplain, who had order to achieve this end, the sacred Been a soldier first, said in battle, in unity of all the Powers in coalition is privations in-facing death for a conan absolute necessity. I do not doubt rade, in bearing wounds, they are be for a moment that this sacred unity yond words, but they are aimply and exists among the Allied Governments. absolutely pagan. The mass of men had Gentlemen, you will allow me to take been alienated from what they supposed advantage of this occasion in order to to be Christianity religion which was address to all the nations in coalition, egotistic, not altruistic, religion of the especially to Great Britain and to Ni Pharisee, not of the Good Samaritan France, the expression of my most sincere and such a religion naturally bad failed grutitude. We all know the part taken to bring out the goodness latent in the by these two powerful nations in the pre- ordinary man. He supposed that Chris-sent war. The almost superhuman efforts tianity meant an acceptance of certain which these two great nations bave made elaborate creeds, an acceptance of certain since the beginning of the war in order ecclesiastical organisation, and a certain to cope with the new needs and demands: scheme of ceremonies and rites. That of a war without precedent command was not what he read in the Cospels, and universal admiration. I need not insist it was not what lay at the root of his upon what would be the issue of this war own soul.
without the masters of the seas, what By terrible dereliction of national would be the result of the battles without duty Christianity, had lost huld of the the immense quantities of rifles and guns merebunt feets of Germany and Austrin tion, which made it possible to carry out labour world, and it was this world of and of ammunition of all sorts, the con- Hungary, and the continued losses of the plans of the Director. The force and sumption of which is already limitless. allied and neutral shipping, combined funds of the Bureau are, however, by no with the enormous demands which the war
means sufficient to carry out all work as.. it should be done. In connection with labour which they had to recapture, as You are well aware, gentlemen, what all
has made upon the available tonnage, well as the student world. Could they Allies owe to those two great nations,
In this world war we are defending Produced a shortage which has stimulated this it may be mentioned that the Philip- the building of ships in every country pine Government employs for the admini- also reeniture the business and comiser- cial world? Could business itself be
free to engage in ship construction. Instration of 16,000,000 hectares of forest.. not only our own particular interests,
the United Kingdom merchant ship land 228 poople and during the last year humanised and Christianised 1 If, they
building is stili seriously restricted by the cold act, then it was a bad outlook for but also the general interests of all
Government spent during 1914 P.3,894,300 civilisation. In the struggle between man humanity. Are Right and Justice to und machinery, if they did not humanisetriaimph or to fall We must not lose necessity for the production of war vessels spent P.874,175.98, while the Japanese the working of the machine it would crush/sight for a single instant of the fact that of various kinds; and although there has and employed in the Government Forest recently heen some acceleration in the Service 2,573 men, the forested area of rate of progress of the construction of Japan being 23,000,000 hectares. humanity. Tremendous as was the bur.all the Allied nations fight for those two ideals. It is for this reason that wo den of the war, it could be met, and met should maintain the sacred unity, not vessels, the output remains far below that almost easily, if the whole nation would aet together. In that case the war would only. of all the Governments, but of all of normal times. In neutral countries, the world's market, the scarcity of trans-
and particularly in the United States of America, every effort has been, and is being, uude, by means of the extension of existing plants and the creation of new establishments, to cope with the increasing demand for tonnage. That a large measure of success has attended there is now being built under the these efforts is evident from the fact that inspection of Lloyd's Register of Ship
RELIGION'S LÜST HÜLD.
tarn out to have actually be worth while on mere economic grounds. If the nation had not the conscience to act thus, then they would not have won the war, however great the victory over their enemies. Like other wars, the real win-
ners would prove the vanquished. When German militarism was shattered and the world took breath again, it was not another great war that he feared for their children, but the arrogance of vie tory, when the British Empire, covering a quarter of the area of the globe, con- trolling all the breins, containing a quarter of the whole man race, began aruuse world-wide criticism and jealousy. He feared that the säng spirit of complacency at victory night blind them to the problems and dangers at homs. There was one thing worse even than a European war, and that, was civil war.
to
the Allied peoples. That is the essential condition of victory quick and decisive. Now that the foundations of a solid and var two lasting friendship between antions have been laid, we must hence forth endeavour to render more effective and more fruitful the relations of all
kind existing between Japan and
Russia.
LLOYD'S ANNUAL REPORT. The annual report of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1015-10 states that in few industries has the effect of the war been mors widespread and far-reaching than in the domain of shipping. appearance from the high seas of the
The dis-
Owing to the heavy booking and con-ping, with a view to classification, a larger amount of shipping than has ever been recorded in the history of the tinued demand for seats, an extra per formance of Kismet" will be given on Society, namely-620 vessels of 2,283,709 Saturday, 23rd December. The booking tons. fer, this performance opens at Montrie's at 9am. on Tuesday, 12th December.
All evening performances will com mence promptly at s p... a special trams will be run from the Peak at 8.30 pm and 8.40 pm. The public are re quested to be in their seats in good time.
Special trams for the Peak and special ferries for Kowloon will ran 75 minutes after each evening performance.
The matinee on Wednesday, 20th Dec- ember, will commence at 4.30 p.m.;
The Committee assigned classes to 362 new vessels, of 700.209 tons, of which 336 were steamers, or motor vessels, of a tonnage of 759,683, and 6 were sailing vessels, of 321 tons. Of the total 414,463 tons, or about 32 per cent., was built for the British Empire (United Kingdom 307,852 tons, Dominions 16,605 tons), and 375,747 tons, or about 471 per cent, for other countries.
The past year has shown progress in all the activities of the Bureau, which is principally due to the interest shown by both houses of the Legislature in our work in spite of the general economy which has become necessary because of thes reduced revenue of the Government, the a substantial inercase in the appropria- Bureau of Forestry this year has received
In spite of the general depression of portation, and the high transportation charges which forced a number of the large mille to reduce their output or to venue during the past year amounted to close down altogether, the Bureau's re- P.426,817.22 and the expenses incurred by the Forest School, amounted only to P.274,175.38, laving a surplus in the the Bureau, including the maintenance of Insular Treasury of P.151,641.24.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
PARADES CENTRAL STATION, 5.30 PM Tuesday, December 12th-Nos. 3 and 4
Companies (except Recruits), Wednesday, December 13th-All Keeraits Thursday, December 14th-No. 2. Com- Platoon. Also Ambulance pany. under the Sergeant Major. Friday, December 15th, No. 2 Platoon.
POLICE SCHOOL, 5.30 P.M. Tuesday, December 12th Class 1, (Chief
Inspector Kerr). Wednesday, December 13th-Class III,
(Inspector Gerrard).
14th Class IV, (Inspector P. O'Sullivan),
TRANSPENNED. of these vessels, totalling 2,650,000 tons. Pc, 643 H. F. Bunje has transferred The number of vessels intended to carry oil in bulk which have been classed by theto No. 3 Section. Society daring the year under review is' 14, of 77,167 tons. The total number of
The tonnage classed by the Society dur- ing the year includes 32 vessels, of 155,976. tons, built upon the Isherwood system of longitudinal framing. Up-to- date there have been built, or are in Thursday, December course of construction, upon this system, to the Society's classification, over 470
(8gd) . C. JENKIN,
D. B. P. (R). Hongkong, December 11th, 1916,
WASTE IN PEACE TINK When it came to patriotism they were proud and thankful that no class could claim a monopoly of it, or even a pre- eminence. The college he knew best had
We regret to learn (says the Straits sent 720 men to the fighting lines, of Times) of the death of Mr. John Stiven, whom 101 had fallen more than one who was for a number of years in the eighth. The boys of the reformatory Chartered Bank, becoming Inspector of schools had a year ago sent close on 4,000, Branches, after being agent at Bombay. of whom 500 had fallen more than one Much sympathy will be felt with Mrs. cighth. Did not that last fact justify the Stiven, who within a few days lost her calling attention to their waste of human husband and two sons. One was fighting material, not in war, but in years of in France and was killed; the other
Register Book is 301, uf 1,387,235 tons peace? The great result of the trenchesreturning from India on holiday died such vessels at present classed in Lloyd's was aut, that it made men more religious suddenly Mr. J. Stiven retired nearly grost. Vessels fitted for burting oil fuel the increasing 180 of geared steam in the churchgoing sense, so much as ten years ago and became a partner in holding classes assigned by the Committee turbines in Diarine engineering is worthy that it made them more real, more alive a firm of London stockbrokers. He died number 260, of 1,259,714 tons. to the teal things of life, more religious at Machrihanish, Argyllshire, at the age in the deeper sense. When the war ended 1. there might well be a burst of complacent, even arrogant, exultation. There would at any rate intense relief and reaction.
even victory would be in vain uuless it There would also be such a rush of things led not only to a better Europe for the needing to be done at once that the
pations to live in, but to a better Eug-masted schooners built in the United at present in course of construction, greater, higher, more ultimate things land, too, for their children to live in. States, the largest of which are 320ft, in under the Bociety's survey, over 30 sets would be in danger of being thrust aside. That day would dawn when they resolved length and 50ft. in breadth. In addition of these engines. In addition to the fore- It was naic that the nation should be as a nation to bring their religion into to the sali power, the vessels are fitted going, several vessels have been fitted with among which may be mentioned 17 fitted ON SALE.
making its high resolutions, now when their national life, when they realised with single or twin screw oil engines for vil engines of other than the Diesel type,
auxiliary use when necessary, donkey,
C G Bolinder's they were seeing all these splendid young and acted on the great truth that they boilers being supplied for working wind. with hot-bulb engines made by Messrs. VOLUMES of the ROFGEONO lives offered up for them of a required may as obtained at the G-P., and B WERKLY PRESS, JANUARY to JURS, so ungrudgingly. It was now that they were not individuals, but members et lasses and winebes. Some of the larger Verkstads Aktiebolag, of Stockholat, and
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dead should not have died in vain. For the training of their citizens, and the
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Since the beginning of 1913 the Com-of note. During the year under review mittee have considered proposals for the seven vessels classed by the Bociety have construction of several vessels to be built been fitted with Diesel engines. There are now 48 vessels holding the Society's of wood, ranging from 100ft. to over 300ft. classification which are fitted with engines. in length, the dimensions generally being of this type, and, in addition, there are similar to those of the four, five, and six
power alone.
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this type of engine is to be fitted in more than 30 vessels which are being built under the Society's inspection