THE RONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 12mm, 1917.
RED CROSS SECOND YEAR'S of view of the expenditure incurred, are IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.
WORK.
REVIEW OF ACCOUNTS.
[DY BIN WILLIAM PLENDER.]
se follows:KOM REN
Transport of wounded Egypt, Malta, and Near East France und Belgium vie British Red Cross Hospital, Notley (Maintenance account). Mesopotamiagem kriketevősza Red Cross Auxiliary Hon-
pitals for Officers:
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While the expenditure out of the remaining 20 special funds amounted to
£ 397,711
242,277 191,768
68,919
THE MIRAGE OF THE SKY.
AVIATOR'S WEIRD, ADVENTURE.
An extraordinary story of a mirage in the clouds 18 bold by a young Flying Corps rer in the following letter" to
A WIDER TARIFF
UNANIMOUS REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
The following resolutions passed by the Committee on Commercial and In-as fa 593dustrial Policy on the subject of Imperial
Preferente, together with copy of corer ing lostor to the Prime Minister have Hver been issued as a White Paper
£1,027,007
- 321,350)
When in December, 1545, I reviewed the joint finances of the British Red! Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem for the 12 months ended October 20th, 1915, I concluded by fórő- shadowing the increased demands which would be made on the activities and re-
of the special funds £1,348,887 sources of the Joint Committee, and by
In respect of all the specijul funds detailed statements of account are pub expressing confidence that the generosity lished shoving under numerous clusi of the public would not be lacking tofications the nature of the expenditure
meet such demands,
How fully these predictions have been confirmed will be at once apparent from the perusal of the Second Report of the Join Finance Committee, covering ther 12 months ended October 20th, 1910, which has just been published in the form of a book of over 140 pages,
The upexpended funds in the bands of the Committee at October 20, 1915, amount-- ed to
.........£231,765
The total donations and other recorded receipts of the Committee during the 12 months onded October 20th, 1016 (including at their es timated value
stores colved in kind), amounted to
rė
The total expenditure of the Committee for the same period amounted to
Leaving funds in the hande of the Committee at October 20th, 1916, "of
3,084,232
£3,285,997
1,815,353
have at the termination of the war can
Making the total expenditure
incurred.
As regards the general fund, the ex- home administration expenses, to which penditure made thereout (apart from
1 refer later) may be grouped - 84 follows:-
Stores applied to home.
hospitals and in hand in London, and cost of handling and distributing HEOTOS
Totes of cash and stores to auxiliary and other bodies Expenditure on various Red
Urosa unita
99,307
188,350
100,975
£363,932
ME
ECONOMY IN ADMINISTRATION. The analysis of the management ex- penses as between the various funds in set out in a tabular statement in the report, from which it appears that the
I had often rondered what it would feel like to see echipe coming straight for one and to know that, af perience this afternoon, only the coill collision was inevitable. I had the ox-
sion did not take place. I was on patrols 1. In the light of experience gained with five other machine, over the liner- during the War, we consider that by the way I am writing this like a special steps must be taken to stimu- novel, but I feel like it)—and had “just” late, the production of foodstuffs, raw | E9ng into a cloud bank Just before. within the Empire wherever the expan turning to crois in front of me. All of materiple and manufactured articles going in 1 saw the hus on, my tight. on production is possible and a sudden I saw a machine just the same economically desirable for the safety as my own appear out of the cloud' and welfare of the Empire as a whole about soft, away, making straight for 2. We therefore recommend that H.M. me. Instinctively I jammed my note Government should now declare their hard down and went as hear & hose dive adherence to the principle that pre- se possible; the other, bus did the same. ference should be accorded to the pro- turned the other turned into me. I ducts and manufactures of the British was in a cold perspiratica aly over by Overseas Dominions in respect of any this time, so I thought Here goes; E Customs Duties now or hereafter to be I am going to crash, it might be well be imposed on imports into the United Couples, -80 straight for it I went, Kingdom
But Wa, got closer and closer, and bift! my 3. Further, it wily in our opinion be machine and its mirage in the clouds
necessary, to take into early consider-
mpt. tion, na one of the methods of achiev and I can still see that machine doing It seemed like a hideous nightmare, ing the above objects, the desirability its utmost to crash into me. I think of establishing a wider range of I can say I have had the full horrors Customs Duties which would be of a collision in the air without ita mitted or reduced on the products actually taking place. I fually got out and manufactures of the Empire, and of the cleads, and had not the faintest which would form the basis of com-ideas where I was but about fifteen mercial treaties with Allied
and seconds after Archie reminded me that Neutral Powers.
LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER, To the Right Hon. D. Lloyd George, M.P., Prime Minister,
Bir
total homic administration expenses (ex-STTER TO THE PALM eluding hospitals) amount to £53,064. These expenses include cost of appeals, staff salaries, rent, rates, lighting, heat ing, insurance, and administration of the stores department. They have rola tion partly to the collection of income and partly to the disbursement of the funds so collected; and it is interesting to compare them with the total amount collected during the year, under review, and also with the total expenditure, On the total expenditure they represent no more than 7d in the pound, while in ratio to the total income they amount to less than did. in the pound-a striking testimony to economy exercised and to voluntary help rendered. It may be the financial year under review from the noted that the interest obtained during
temporary investment of surplus income was more than sufficient to cover the whole of these administration charges.
1 We think it expedient to state briefly the reasons which have led us to pass the accompanying Resolutions, had transmit them to you at the present time.
.£1,470,614 As in previous years, the whole of the capital outlay upon motor ambulances, hospital equipment, trains, motorboats, etc, has been written of and is included in the total expenditure shown above. Whatever residual value these assets may not, in comparison with their original cost, be great, and objection cannot well be taken, in the circumstances, to the whole of the cost being treated, for the the total expenditure of the Joint Com The following statement summarizes purposes of the accounts, as a working mittes or the year ended October 20th, or revenus expense. In order, however, i that these assets may not be lost sight, 1916, namely, £1,916,353 of, inventories have been taken, of which Expenditure out of Special: particulars appear in the report.
Funds, as before mentioned£1,348,357 Expenditure out of the General Fund (exclusive of Home Administration, etc.),“ as before mentioned
The nudistributed stores in hand at October 2015, 1916. (including gifts), have not been treated as an asset in the Mounts, but hava boon written off sa auxpense in pursuance of the conser vative policy originated in the previous financial year. Stock has, however, been taken of such stores, and a note of their total value (antely, £250,754) appeara on the face of the accounts: Here again the realisable value of the stores which may be in and at the numerous depots at home and abroad when hostilities Craso is very problematical, and the procedure adopted in the accounts in this connection haa, therefore, much to recommend it
Homo Management Expenses,
including cost of uppesla - and
Administration of Stores, as stated above a Reserve for Contingencies
Total as already referred to
363,038
|
I WAS a little too low over his lines. Having got that off my chest, I think I will go to bed.""
MADAME BRESHKOVSKY.
GRANDMOTHER OF THE
REVOLUTION.".
2 It was our intention to discuss the future trade relations between the United little grandmother, is the half-en
Babushka, the Russian word for Kingdom and the British Possessions dearing, half-respectful wame applied Overseas in detail in connection with and by revolutionaries to Mma. Katherine as part of the recommendations which Breshkovsky, just liberated from Siberia, it will be our duty to make in respect Though born in a well-to-do family, and of the general commercial and industrial married to a Liberal landowner, Mme. policy of this country after the war. Breshkovsky did not hesitate to forsake position of the great staple industries, the ranks of the first propagandiste In particular we desired to consider the her husband and ber children to enter but in regard to these we feel bound to among the peasantry That as the west for the reports from the special early seventies For doing this she was Committees appointed by the Board of arrested, köpt in prison for three years, Trade MUNDO and then arraigned with 193 others be Conference will be held at an carly date the Siberian mines for four years. In 3. The announcement that an Imperial | fore a special tribunal, which sent her to
has in our judgment, made it expedient 1881 she made her escape, but was caught to state our opinions in the form of the and sentenced once more to four years' Resolutions we have now the honour to hard labour with subsequent settle
Skovment in Siberis for lifegu
transmit
old woman, broken in health, she made u
We have arrived at the conclusions Aut, no amount of hardship and vile indiented chiefly on the ground thatreatment would break for indomitable although to some of us guy measures spitit, and in 1807 she simply took the which may act in restraint of trade are train back to Russia, and, ignoring the in the abstract distasteful we think authorities, helped to establish the He 33,081 necessary that for the sake of the unly she undertook a lecture tour to tho folutionary Socialist party. Subsequent 60.000 of the Empire a serious attempt shend United States to obtain funds for the now be made to meet the declared wishes cause. Her arrest in 1907 followed un of the Dominions and Colonies for the the denunciption of the notorious spy £1,815,353 development of their economic relations clearly attributable to a
The increase in the total receipta is with the United Kingdom, and that any and agent provocateur Azeff. Arraigned number of abstract opinions we may hold should once more this time with M. Nicholas causes, among which may be noted (a) not, under the circumstances in which Thaykowsk she was condemned in 1919 Press generally, and The Times in parti- gained during the war, stand in the way daring attempt to escape later. the publicity given to appeals by the we are placed and with the experience to banishment to Biberia. Though an
cular; (3) the confidence on the part of of any measures which are seen to be the public that the funds are ably and important, having regard to the general economically administered; (c) the know-interests of the Empire, m ledge that the societies are working in. It will be recalled that at the closest co-operation with the naval and Colonial Conference of 1502 the Prime military authorities; and (d) the ever- Ministers of the Belf-Governing Colonies increasing number of soldiers who havutasimously urged the expediency of ing had personal experience of the granting in the United Kingdom pre- benefits of Red Cross work, have enlisted ferential treatment to the products and the compassionate and generous sympathy manufactures of the Colonies either by of their frienda
exemption from or reduction of duties then existing or teafter to be imposed, and that & Resolution in the same terms
TAN THE BALANCE 'IN HAND,
proposed policy upon the interests of "obligations and of the bearing of the those countries our trade relations with which are of special, importance
10. We are satisfied, however, that these questions, with which we propose to deal more fully in a subsequent re port do not oppose any insuperable obstacles to the adoption of the policy embodied in our Resolutions. We have, Pete,
As regards donations and other ro reinta, it may be remembered that for the year ended October 20th, 1915, these amounted to a sum approaching £2,000,000, Bearing in mind that theso sams were contributed at a time when war taxation was comparatively light, when the" cost of living was materially lower than was the case in 1910, and when public feeling was stirred to its depths by the first shock of battle and by the dramatic events which In referring to the fact that they have followed, it would not perhaps have been received during the year a sum very
was passed at the Conference of 1907, mafter for surprise had the respinse considerably in excess of that which they to the appeal of the Joint Committee have disbursed, the Finance Committee Whatever controversies may have been less liberal in the second than in state quite frankly that at the date of arisen in the past, we think that, regard the first year of the war. It is, there the issue of the report they had a balanos being had in partibular to the sacrifices fore, all the more tamarkable that in in hand which may well prove sufficient made and the services rendered by our this second year the public at home and to meet their expenses up to the close fellow subjects overseas for a common overseas should have contributed to Red of the currant financial year. At the purpose during the present war, the time. GOSLING. Cross funds i sam in the neighbourhood, of £3,000,000
Approximately two-thirds of the above sum consisted of contributions for the eneral purposes of the Joint Committee, while the balance represented donations and gifts which were earmarked by the dodors to various mecial funds, to which I make reference later,
BALFOUR OF BORERIGE W. S. McCormick, (Chairman). ALEX MCDOWELL: ARTHUR BALFOUR, GERARD AMUNTZ HENRY BIZOHENOUGH. Apie Nixsiq ALFRED BOOTH. YANINOPON
CHARLES A PARSONS. ARTHUR Mrs. G. SCORY SMITT, GEO. J. WARDLE
PERCY ASHLEY. Secretaries, G. C. UPCOTT! February 2nd, 1917.
MEMORANDUM BY BIL FREDERICK SMITH.
same time, they observe that no one can should be granted to the fullest extent, Hr. pro has now arrived at which this request WAS. HEWINE, estimate with confidence the duration of the war, or the ability of the public to which is now or may hereafter become continue in futuro its generous contri- practicable hutions to Red Cross work; and they also
7. The Dominions have not asked, and note the demands that will be made, long wo do not understand them to ask, that after hostilities have ceased for the duties should be imposed by the United While I am in general sympathy with "ftor-care of men who have been dis Kingdom for the sake of granting a pre- the resolutions passed by the Committee, abled, Furthermore, there is evidence ference to their products. But we feel I feel very strongly that, in view parti- that the public is becoming less willing that, in the words of the Resolutions we cu arly of the present international sit- THE SPECIAL FUNDE
to support the smaller war charities are forwarding to you, it will be neces-uation, the moment, is inopportans to Where donors are numbered by the ad is looking more and more to the sary to take into early consideration, as bring forward recommendation on the million, it is not surprising that the gaurizations, and to subsidize them if objects indicated, the desirability of es may involve an alteration in our fiscal Joint Committee to investigate such or one of the methods of achieving the subject of Imperial Preference, which report contains practically no reference their affairs are found to be satisfactory tablishing & wider range of Customs policy towards our Allies. In my opin to individual contributions. Merely to In fact, the Joint Committer are already dubles than exists at present. This sub on it would be desirable that, before publish a list of the largest donations arranging to make grants from their ject we propose to consider later, and arriving at any conclusions on the sub- would create invidious distinctions. funds, where good cause in shown, in to submit a further report thereon at an ject, we should meet the representatives. Furthermore, the true measure of a gift furtherance of the work now being car only opportunity as well as on the of the Dominions for a confidential dia is not its monetary value, hat the sacrified on by the various County Red Cross question how far the interests of the cussion, at which the question of our hoe which it entails on the giver. It is Associations. This procedure appears all Dominions could be met by the granting commercial relations with our Allies and however, interesting to observe the very the more appropriate when it is remem of subsidies in lieu of tariff preferences other practical difficulties could be fully large sums which have resulted from bered that the organized collections of 8. We do not overlook the practical and Treely discussed. special appeals made to those engaged in the Joint Committee have in many cases difficulties involved, but we desire to certain trades and industries. Thus, British Farners' Red Cross Fund, which drained the local resources of the cout- omphasize the fact that for the purpose THE TE
TERMS OF REFERENCE. was organized by Mr. Herbert Brown The public has good reason to rest as of securing new markets, and of con- last to consider the commercial and in- of recovering trade lost during the war The Committee was appointed in July collected ap to October 20th, 1916, a sum sured that the funds which the Joint solidating the resources of the British dustrial policy to be adopted after the totalling over £400,000. There has been Committee retain will in the future Empire the development throughout the war, with special reference to the con raised by Captain Dennis Bayley, prin continue to be expended wisely, econo Hmpire of a system of mutual tariff cusion reached at the Economic Con cipally from coal-owners and coal-miners mically, and appropriately, and a con preferences is subject which cannot, inference of the Allies and to the following an amount of over £300,000 Ap appeal aideration of the report now issued leads our opinion, any longer be neglected. questions to the Meat and Allied Trades, organised one to the conclusion that no higher his connection, it will be neces (8) What industries are essential to the by Gordon Campbell, has already realized over £100,000. A feature standard than that attained in the past sary to examine closely the effect of un- Futurs safety of the nation; and low cost of collection, a tribute to the the generosity of the public, the proper the country especially in connection these special appeals is the extremely Figures have their valus in measuring poning duties upon any articles which that steps should be taken to main- are used for manufacturing purposes in (b) What steps should be taken to re- lf-sacrifice and skill of the organizers or improper application of funds, and with our export trades and the shipping and their assistanta
economy" or extravagance, in administra. Comiderations of peace preclude metion, But behind these figures as the and shipbuilding industries Measures rum referring in any but the briefest story of comfort and succour to the of the consumer and the rightful demands must be devised to safeguard the intorests. erus to the various special funds com- wounded of hunger and thirst relieved, of labour. The special position of Ind- rised in the accounts. At the close of and of stricken men brought back to well as of Berpt and the Sudan, will is period ender review these numbered health. No work was ever more nobly require consideration; and account must sa compared with 15 at the end of the conceived, more generously supported be taken both of our commercial trenty erion financial year. The most im or more carefully any sympathetically
tant of these foods, from the point administered.
can well be 'expected patte
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cover home and foreign trade lost
tein and establish them.
during the war and to secure new markets,
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