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The following communication appear the Times on January 18th, and હવે is one of the first direct uncensored com- mmnications that have reached the outer world for some monthie. It was con- tributed by the Neutral" whose ob- servations have proved so accurate in
the past
THE HONGKONG DAILY PHASE, MONDAY, TÚBRUARY, Vörn, ~1017.
PRUSSIAN WAR FINANCE.
THE BLOCKADE TELLING.
The 1917 Budget for Prussia was sub- mitted to the Prussian Diet on January 18th. Receipts and expenditure balance nt 5,160,765,791 marks (£258,038,208). An thority for the issue of Exchequer Bonds is extended from 3,000 million marks £180,000,000) last year to 5,000 millions ($250,000,000),
This year's Budget in contradistinc tion, it is stated, to those of the last two 2 years, is based on actual receipts and ex COLOGNE, January 19th.
penditure. The
railways show a small
In letters which ought to have, reached
FIGHTS AT SEA AND THEIR WHY WE LEAD IN THE AIR.
REWARDS.
GREATER INITIATIVE OF ALLIES TRYING MEN
RECORD OF A BUSY YEAR IN THE
PRIZE COURT
The British Prize Court--the Court
under the Presidency of Sir Samuel Evans, which dietributes among the officers and crews of such of H.M. ships of war as are actually present at the destruction of enemy armed ships, bounty calculated at the rate of £6 for each
[BY 0, H. TEERIJ. ]
The development of our machines ans) "said the Corn- methode during the war, mandant, as I entered one of the largest
you one at the end of November which 1,200,000 marka person on board the enemy ships at the now engaged must be or become a Epc
another about, Christmas I explained that since the period of Mr. Curtin's in- yestigation of the economic situation in Germany matters have been getting steadi ly worse.
Bre made over to the compensa fund. State assistance. For war relief communities again amounts to 200,000,000 marks (£10,000,000). The sur
which is plus of direct taxation in 1916, 80,000,000 (£3,000,000) over the estimate De will serve to cover the deficiency of 1914 It would be no exaggeration to say that Good results. From direct taxation are also one can now see fresh deterioration every expected in the present year. War relief week, and the pace downhill is getting to officials with incomes not more than Fors Army on the Western Front have oreased from February 151 faster. Both the German people and the 4,800 marks (£240) per annum will be in
in the last few months experienced vorv considerable changes for the worse, I have always, as you know, warned the Allies Agninst over optimism regarding the economic situation in Germany, bat there really does not seem to be much need of warning now
This is the first time I have been in Cologne since September, 1014. What a change I have come here from a leisure
The text of the Budget contains no un necessary foreign words, Dr. Letitze, the Minister of Finance, in introducing the Budget, said:
Last year and the year before we en- tertained the hope that we were dealing with the last war Budget This year we should not like to abandon this hope.com-
peace offer pletely, although the German few days ago was moet sharply refused by with a declaration of war to
our enemies
of the French aviation campe, has been marvellous, and it never ceases." What saw during the day was a notable, yet only
a perfect; illustration of his Imperfect, just because specialisation has gone so far Practically every man ioning of the engagement, has just cialist in some sort; the machines Bre highly specialised; the quadrillas are concluded a very busy year.
Between March 27th and December 31st organised for particular duties. And c the camps themselves, even the largess, chains were heard for the destruction of begin to lose their omnibus character, and 23 enemy ships, and awards totalling
to concentrate u upon," "certain kinds.
Saf £10,035, were made. In this period 6,187 operation officers and men were aboard the enemy This particular camp is largely cou ships sent to the bottom.cerned with the aerial defence of the While it does not by any means exhaust capital. It has nothing to do with the instance of the Naey, the following list engines, or armament; and does not the casualties suffered by the enemy at the training of pilots or the testing of planes, shows some of the more important losses show some of the activities most charac which have been dealt with by the teristic of the extreme front. Court
GERMAN SHIPS SUNK.
Four German warships sunk in Falkland Islands battle by British warships
Marmora and Dardanelles by Three Turkish war vessels in Sea
of
ETT
ly tour of more than a dozen Jeading Ger- the death on AES WERE Turkish battleship in Dardanelles
by BII German cruiser Fring Adalbert
sunk in Baltic by Es
man centres. It is not only my impres sion, hit that of German friends who are in a position to know the facts as to the food supply, that Germany is faced by
#12,100
INITIATIVE AND INVENTIVENESS. A smooth
smooth, grassy plateau, tanked by :27 hüge sheds covered with aky blue canvas, hand smaller barracks of brown wood. Ranged in a crescent before these build- ings, some 50 planes of different types are ready, for instant departure, the Far man
fitted for bombarding expeditions 4,030 or attacks upon dirigibles, and "sau-
3,500 stout and rapid
"the terrible "Baby" of the skica Beveral of these 3,000 last rose and gave us a thrilling exhibi
tion of aerial gymnastics, rolling over
sages" the ARE sin, the
the prospect of being unable to continue forces by sea and land, the Minister con- German auxiliary cruiser Kaiser and lolloping like dolphins at play, slip
the struggle, unless people suprest here, she really raids Denmark or Hol Isnd, or both, for meat, corn, butter and oile
It is rather difficult to give a clear pic ture of the German situation in letters
After abusing the Entente, and saying that all the threats of their enemies would fail before the bravery of the German
tinued
The war has had serious influences on our Budget and demand, special efforts. Though receipts and expenditure balance in the estimates, this is so in uppekrance only, because many important questions for lack of means have had to be postponed till later. What is more, after the war to conduct State
Wilhelm der Grosse Bunk by HMS Highflyer in the Atlantic German armed cruiser Cap Tro
falgar Bunk Coff East Const America by British auxiliary ship Carmania German cruiser Emden sunk by H.M. oruiser Sydney on North Keeling Island
that must necessarily he us short as pos we must contingent and narrower Corman Grond verse) Grief sunk
sible owing to the great difficulty of get-economy ou more ting any written matter out of the coun
lines than hitherto. The principal
try, over by the means at my dispusel to-day is to win the war RIANTAS ART
Let me say, first, that throughout my tour I have not heard of any actual starvation. Every baby, at any rate overy baby under two years of age, gets sufficient areas where so much of the milk from nik, except in the principal munitions the surrounding districts is converted into glycerine. Invalids are suffering, but those who have money can, on medica. cortifientes, obtain permission to go to Switzerland, Holland, or Denmark for fixed
to
Feriods. But the rich do not really suffer at all. Moving about, and living in the circles to which you know that belong, I have been subjected only the great annoyances of the ticket system. As much as possible I stay with friends, and with rare exceptious I have always found them well supplied. This, of course, ap
catinot
The blockade is making more and more, and it
be denied that it lies heavily on the country, and The inter- vet it must be put up with.
affairs of civi lions and the difficulties connected with ference with the the supply of foodstuffs and the high cost of living are certainly vory great, Many a man with a smell income who, perhaps, has a large family has certainly great and grievous hardships, but what does the welfare of single individuals mat ter es compared with the future of our whole people? Our enemies make a hig mistake they believe that they could
if the us by the blockade. In spite of conquer us the blockade, nobody is starving in Gor many. This has been well provided against. In the enemy's country in
The position of the general population, especially in the towns large and small, is deal of do not
to deplorable. There is a great bar
is
by H.M.S: Alcantara und Andes, in North Sea German cruiser Undine sunk in
Baltic by E19mins Four German torpedo boats sunk by British torpedo boats Lance. Lion Founted in North Ben Legion, Loyal, Lennor and German crafter Hela sunk in
North Sea by E9 German fleet anxiliary ship in
2,680 | ning and plunging, looping all sorts of loops in a way that would have made the masters of two or three years shiver in their shoes and British supe
inmaging the French
1-4th
piority in serial warfare to be due chifly greater development of individual 1,985 initiative quickness of mind, and re- source But, as in the long history of seamanship, the tendency is for mechani 1,005 cal science to equalise conditions. Tho *** bent of pilots is limited by the quality of 1,410 his motor, and in an aerial duel the best of motors may be outdone by some superi- ority in the enemy's armament back ground therefore, no less important than the body of pilots who are always in 1,050 | view; and behind both, if there be
bodios of inventoes and teachers constant ly advancing in expertise, the whole work must be regarded as stationary, and therefore, doomed Progress, rapid pro gress, in every part of the services of the Fifth Arm, is the condition without which the advantages already won cannot be retained.
FLYING PHOTOGRAPHERS.
The body of mechanics in the back-
North Sea by EWAS
1,000 H.M.S. Yarmouth for rescuing Greek steamer Portoporus from German craiser Emden (salvage awarded), £7,393.
Tuny
STORIES OF THIULLING FIGHTË. ny thrilling fights have been described to the Court, perhaps the most daring of then all being the destruction At a camp on the front far away from Marmora and the that already referred to, I was able to plius especially to people in the country respects prices are higher and distress in the Sea Turkish warships!
Dardanelles of three who, whatever the regulations may be greater than with us
Submarine Ell after that vessel Indexamine the work of one of these sections, of photographic information. The draw upon their own live stock, poultryThere are still difficult months before negotiated the minefields. The enemy lost plates or films of enemy positions now
insmensely and game
heavy fighting has still to 866 igen, and 64,330 was awarded to Com- obtained daily in good weather, show
much sacrifice of blood minder Nasmith (who, it will be recalled, and treasure has still to be made. Wo was also awarded the Victoria Crose) and New trenches, effects of gunfire, the
remarkable advance upon earlier results. but our and his
amallest imme our certitude remniti, firm. From highest Another story of a gallant fight was that ties changes in the field are innie- to lowest we are all convinced that we recording the sinking of the. German scale maps, and so conveyed to the artil tween the various authorities, and between the authorities of the various States, have cannot be deleted and that victory will armed auxiliary Greif by the patrollery and infantry commande iricreased in intensity. There is also be with us. Our true God who has guid Alcantara, which was herself torpedoed The aerial photographer must fly low great bitterness as between the countryed russia and the young Empire with after she had smashed the raider another at the critical point, and run the sati and the towns, and in any particular so sure a hand will also be with us in and more powerfully-armed vessel of the risks as the patrol, the fire-regulator, ur town I have been told that some other the future, if only we do our duty, and focure ciam,
wn is towing with milk and honey. this we shall do with willing heart. The ramming by a British cruiser of a are not yet as formidable to the aviator, although I have been about Germany enough to know better. The complaints the country people are doubtlesa icd by their greater possibilities of hoarding food, the possession of which they do not discloso
Reuter
internal.
tion
leafy the bumbadier. Anti-aircraft batteries
Yet it would be a great mistake to ex. When I last wrote I was able to at a bit her rear, cutting her in halve Beauchamp, Daucourt, and on the other
aggerate the practical effect of the pre Valing distress. It seems to me that motning is more striking than the way in which the docility of all the German arabes, Prussians, Saxons, Bavarians, and gade rest, positively increases with the de crence of strength caused by the lack of tood
Now I know that less than five miles
Germen destroyer was one that earned her perhaps, as are coast-batteries in the crew £465 in bounty. Captain Loder Baya scout. The risks, however, ar the acorn coffee and saccharine, produces the night of March 5th, observed sparks individual skill and daring by which the Symons, leading a colunin of warships on sing and innumerable; and u yet appear to the possibilities of from the bostile ship, put his helm over names of Guynemer, Navarre, Nunge ser irritation and chroni 10.
The two parts were seen one on either chocolate quite easily, most of it Dutch side of the cruise and the Germans side, Boelke and Immelman, have become or Swiss, and also cocon. This morning officially notified the sinking of G104, wie famous Nevertheless, as time goes on, science counts for more, and the spirit I spent half an hour in trying to buy the loss of 93 lives.
of adventure for less, throughout this chocolate in Cologne, but could only find
sphort--Daily Chronicle, a ornamental composition, which was called chocolate, and worked out at 201. (1) per pound. We had fish for dinner last night in the hotel, and oysters from
Ostend are sold pretty freely.
JAPAN IN THE WAR.
A TRUSTWORTHY ALLY."
Mr. Kato said his country had shown
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My journey occupied much longer than where there was a large family gathering. I expected because the whole German rail- ty host, who certainly owned more than way system is disorganised by the short-
million of marks (£50,000) before the age of coal. This is partly due to labour The part which Japan has taken in the way, has multipled his fortune by yo dificulties in spite of ine release of war was the subject of a paper read by during the war Twelve of us sat dowa labour by the military authorities for Mr. N. Kato, the London editor of the to dinner. It consisted of sucked salmon, work in the mines-party to the vast in- sicused cels, a good meat soup, venison, crease in the amount of coal needed by Mainichi, before a meeting of the Central Awo geese, Gruyère chcese, and any amount munitions work, and partly to the increas of sweets. We drank Burgundy that haing quantity sent to Swwzerland in ex-Asian Society on January 17th. been pillaged from Belgium, sparking ondage for Food. Many traits have been Mosele
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they have rather coquettiah divided skirts. alared war no reply having been received signs of weakness. Some slight disturb The public have long, become omed to her ultimatum that the Germans should from where we were sitting people were to carrying their own luggage withdraw all their warships from the ance of health starts the trouble: then the scrambling for something called soup or Nevertheless, at several places on my deliver up the leased territory of Kino. Reavy pains in the abdomen give warning Agents for Hongkong:-
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how Germany is to cathat all the workers were Russian and
signs of indigestion, the is to con- rcucls prisoners guarded by very old 7600 Garman soldiers, the part of the The foolish practice of flying to drustic, timno indefinitely without securing lew andiers and very young ones, the laiter Japanese Army in the war was brought ther. As you will know, boots have now not being allowed to go to the front at to a successful end
should be avoided. weakening purgatives at such times Indigestion arises put on the card aystem. I was in as early all stated in the English last be visited the fighting front in effective method of remedy for this
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To several French inquirers who, when from atomsch weaknesses and the only Berlin on what was apparently the last It is not true, as
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