THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY. MAY 5TH, 1917.
DARDANELLES REPORT.
MR. ASQUITH'S DEFENCE OF LORD
KITCHENER-
MR CHURCHILL AND THE NAVY.
TRADE. PROSPECTS,
THE BELIEF IN CHARMS. GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS.
AN EXHIBITION IN LONDON. Speaking at the fifty-seventh sanual
Superstitions die hard, but the German meeting of the Association of Chambers of
submarine campaign is prolonging the Commerce of the United Kingdom, Sir
life of at least one of them. In Nelson's A Stanley, President of the Board of It was not so much the House of Com time there was a limited trade in cauls, Trade, said his department would have mons as the High Court of Parliament then popularly believed to be sure charm to deat further with the climination of which listened to the discussion on the against death at sen by drowning, and in enemy control in arms and businesses. report of the Dardanelles Commission those days a single specimen would fotob There had been passed the Registration of For in its principal aspects it was more as much as £20 Since Nelson's time there Business Names Act, but that Act had cons than a debate. dr Asquith has been less demand for these objects, not been in force for very long before made a considered statement dealing with and five years ago they sold at . apice they found that the wily foreigner was a fow important paints, but even be Now thanks to the activities of the passed swiftly from the role of accused to German underwater craft, they are being discovering ways of avoiding its provi-
that of acouser. Mr. Churchill's
speech sions. the Board to prevent them from doing that. (Choers) The records showed that over 650 undertakings, representing over £12,500,000, had been dealt with under the Trading with the Enemy Ack, and steps had been taken completely to wind-up such undertakings if it could be shown in the national interest that those under takings were to the benefit of the enemy
I
FLYING MEN.
THE CHIVALRY OF THE AIR
[ho A CORRESPONDENT TO THE TIMES.
Flying has become as much a matter of routine in war as marching on land or steaming on the tea, and men are ordered to fly at fixed hours and for etated periods, as though flying were a natural net and not the organized miracle that it really is
Out in France the last chivalries, the last beauties of battle have taken refuge in the air. From the labours, butcheries, misèries, horrors and ash-pit desolation
Some means must be taken by was of a far more rhetorical kinds sold at the London Docks for 22:10 of the earth, the fighting romance of waI
When the war was ended, we should need without theblication of the Report Library, Walworth Road It has no sies of warfare still possible it WAS 2
as is his wont, he carried the war boldly into the enemy's camp. Indeed, the gen
impression left on the minds listeners may well have been that the two statesmen arraigned by the Commissioners had rather turned the tables upon then critics. It was at least perfectly clear that the general sense of the House con- demned the
drew
the con a great deal of foreign mowy in Great fusion that as the evidence could not be Britain, and it would not be wise to con-lished, this interim Report ought also template excluding entirely foreign money to have been held back. That view as becoming interested in our business in strongly expressed not only by Lortakings. was his intention to Asquith but by Sir George Reid
IL
and Sir afford the greatest possible assistance to Mark Sykes, businesses in this country.
Moreover, the fairness of the Report was challenged, and the scandalous use that has been made of it in certain quar tere was reprobated in the warmest terms, abominable attacks on Lord The
BIGHER WAGES COME TO STAY.
Business men had got to face the fact that higher wages had come to stay. Bo fault was found by employers who would have to pay these higher wages. So long wan honest day's work was given, it seemed to him that it was an advantage
Love charme, of course, are prominent, One that is shown, is dragon's blood" gum, red in colour, and it is claimed that if this is burnt at midnight, prefer
ping of a funeral wreath over the German
to the country that those higher wages Lord Kitchener, he said, had been retas to be burnt, but its efficacy lies in the last cart verbal exchange. "Contact,
should be continued after the war.
a
sented as
THE FATAL DELAY..
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but it is the supreme summation of fair- weather flying, apart from flying sad fighting Once you have got your height,
at rest in sunshine and a strong gale. whether it be a thousand or ten thousand feet, you seem to be absolutely at rest-- The dim carpet or map beneath you hardly moves; and although the trembling fingers of the little clocks and dials before
seem to move are the wings and stays of you witness to the fluidity of your ele went thd the tenderness of your hold ton it, yet the only things that do not
rigid cage from which you look forth your machine, which surround you, a upon the slow turning earth or the rush- ing clouds. It is not until the engine has been shut off, and you begin to platte in mighty circles towards the earth again, that you get, in that delicious ruak down the bill of the air any sensation of speed, and not until, a moment before landing, you skim over the earth at 80 miles an hour, that you realize with what pace you have been rushing through the airy vacancy
This is one of many interesting facts brought out by an exhibition of charms is taken wings and climbed sunwards illustrating a faith in the supernatural There alone combat is individual, visual, that apparently still obtains in London decisive. There alone has the combatant The collection, which has been got to rely solely on himself. There alone gether by Mr. Edward Lovett, a member is the battle decided not through veils if the council of the Folk Lore Sociew known hosts but, wing to wing and face
of distance between impersonal and un is to be seen at the Southwark Central to face. There alone are the rare courts relation to what may be called religious British squadron that suggested, and a superstitions, but it shows how wide- spread is the belief, especially in East British nirman who executed, the drop- and South London, that the fortune of lines as tribute to the air warrior individuals can be affected by sums in Immelmann. And there alone can in- animate object deemed to be lucky or dividual skill and courage have their Potent against disende.
wift reward. For one flash, between a dip and a climb of his swallow light, the fighting airman may catch the glint of burst of fire he truly directed, see him his opponent's eye and, if the momentary far as his information weht, very little Kitchener, for which this Report has ably on a Friday, it will not fail to win crumple up in his sent and the use of tributes to his memory and elicited tice still survives, and many young girls ning dive, while the victor soars up again As an excuse, drew many noble & lover Mr. Lovett states that this prac: his machine dip and begin its fatal spin- from Mr. Asquith something in the nature London carry out these mystio rites to safety and solitude. of a vivid character sketch, to which the religiously. Another charm of the same And what solitude is his! From the House listened with the utmost sympathy sort is the mot of a little yellow wild moment in the aerodrome, when the flower (potentilla tormentilla). It also mechanie has given his last heave, and a solitary, taciturn autocrat, Hear, hear) Undoubtedly there was a took no counsel with anyone, and insisted the fact that it renews a dead or waning Sir Contact has been given, and suspicion on the part of some working on having everything his own way. That affection rather than influences an exist the engine sets up its mighty droning people that the war was being used in he absolutely denied. He was, indeed. 8 ing onc. Borno quarters for the purposes of pro- mosterful man and a formidable person Steering. In many cases that was not ality, but the fact was that at the out the collection. There are necklaces made For perhaps a minute he sits there testing Medical charms form a large part of the airman is alone, submerged in that roaring music, deaf and dumb The situation would be improved break of wor all the General Staff went of the stems of the nightshade which, if his engine, fragoring his levers, assuring it workmen and employers were brought to France, and no soldiers of experience into closer association. A scheme had were left in the country. The Govern put around the neck of an infant, will himself that all is well; and then, as tho been completed, which the Governmentment, therefore in all military matters help it to cut its teeth. A necklace of would support and encourage, to estab were bound to defer to Lord Kitchener's acorus is a specific against other infant drone sinks to a hum. he makes his last communication-the characteristic quick pport arch Corporation to unrivalled authority, and no man ever had ills. A knucklebone carried in the outward wave of the hands and armas. Tish
n heavier burden to carry. Mr. Asquith pocket will ward off rheumatism, the The chocks are pulled away, the bum fécilitate and establish large credit banks
also revealed the interesting fact that, at theory being that an the dead bone does rises to a drone, breaks into a roar, and for the purpose of developing British
the outbreak of war, Lord Kitchener was not suffer from the complaint the disease he is off, humping over the uneven earth trade. The corporation would receive n
the only man he ever thought of asking will go into it Another cure for rheu- until the speed gives his wings their life, charter. There was ample room for
to become Secretary of State for War
matism is a potato. A specimen shown the tough ground is shed away from such an institution in this country. It.
was carried by a rheumatic subject for beneath his feet, and he rises into the would not unduly interfere with the ope
many years. A third charm against rations of joint stock banks, or any British and Colonial banks, but would do which Lord Kitchner's name was greeted ing mercury, hermetically scaled and contradiction in terms in war time;
It was good to hear the cheers with same complaint, is a small bottle contain-sudden, peace of the air tied
The peace of the air may seem like work which could not very well be done and Mr. Asquith could not have served covered with leather. Mr. Lovett states by them. This corporation would have is own reputation better than by appear that it is sold in London by one of the on its board representatives of industry and commerce, and have associated with 16, as he did, as the champion of the largest chemists in the world.
great- Field-Marshal's honour. He told Those who suffer from nightmare may posscared of a very wide knowledge of the Si F. E. Smith to attend the Commis horsestides covered in blue and red cloth, it mon expert in various industries, and the House that he had expressly asked welcome this prescription. A pair of world and its affairs. It was proposed to sion and watch the dead man's interests or a string of stones, naturally per attach to it an Information Bureau and and that Sir Frederick had been assured forated, should be hung up at the head Intelligence Department. At the concluhy Lord Cromer that there was no need of the bed. A necklet of the blue beads sion of the war, there must be consider for him to do so, Nos, of course, did
will protect a child against, bronchitis, able extension of the spirit of industry the Commissioners attack Lord Kitchener in this could be found to be of in animadversions, however, on his delay of should be placed round the heck of an this country, and he was sure this new as he has been attacked elsewhere. Their while red beads or coral will avert sore throats, small bag containing a tooth estimable value in helping to foance these three extensions of the future. Great Mr. Asquith's reply was that convulsions. Since the beginning of the
20th 16th in eend ang thaiter
did not fail in infant as an antidote against teething Sir Albert vent on to say that Grent Britain must get hold of the key indus the delay had been due not to any vacilla war another charm against disease has tries, must improve the generation of tion or hesitation, but to two main con- been introduced by Belgian refugees the electricity, and reform its transport siderations-Brst, that the Russian posi: stearing of cat's skin for rheumatism Facilities. The Board had already ar Kitchener feared the Germans might with
tion. was so at the time that
and chest troubles attain ranged with the Treasury for a Depart draw divisions
One of the most curious of the exhibits from the Eastern and send is a sheep's heart, pierced with pins and ment of Commercial Intelligence and them to the Western front, and, second, nails to break the spell of a black witch there would be an increase of Trade that both the British and French Head It was prepared by an old woman who Commissioners of from four to sixteen. quarters were putting the strongest pres practised witchcraft in London as late as the whole of our Empire being covered sure on him to despatch the 29th Division 1908. She learned the secret of the charm by our representatives i
to France. Those Asquith, and where it was popular with farmers The were grave and from her grandmother in South Devon, weighty reason. Sir A. Firth, in his presidential ad added,,, It is so easy to be wise after black witches were supposed to brins dress, romarked that there were two Commissioners bald, therefore, that the about the death of sheep and cows by matters which were causing anxiety to weight to these considerations when they tiously introducing the poisonous leaves easting a spell over them, or by surrepti- traders. One was the duplication of the passed their censure, when the yew tre to their food. By taking work of Government departments and the
Mr. Asquith dealt at some
some length with the heart of a sheep which had fallen Mormons increase of officials and official the criticisms of the Report on his own victim to these machinations, piercing it dou (Chern) When we saw an ever-in-neglect to simmon a War Council between with pins and nails, and hanging it up creasing growth of staffs going on day March 18th and May 14th. His answer in the chimney, the spell was supposed to by day for new parimente of State, to this was that he had been in daily and
is not, down there, although to ascend We could not be without misgivings as hourly consultation with Lord Kitchner
into his remote sphere he has to pass to how it was all going to end. When and Mr. Churchill, and that the opera
through the zone of anti-aircraft fare; his peace came it would need strong action on the spot. But there had been no fewer the French Naval Staff, and that Lord fighting machine, which may come down tions were in the hands of the naval men Sir Henry Jackson, Admiral Oliver, and own particular enemy is the German and cooperation amongst all to limit the than thirteen meetings of the Cabinet in Fisher himself had agreed to carry it out to harry or destroy the observer, and interference and reduce all these officials in that period and at several the He made out, therefore, a very strong case which he must himself attack the moment to their proper activities. The other Dardanelles operations had been discassed point was the financial position of the at length. As for the role of the experts for his contention that this naval attempt it makes, its appearance Between these country after the war. We should he left at the Wat Council, Mr. Asquith emerterprise foisted on to an unwilling Ad time, although a battle may he raging to force the Dardanelles was not a rash two he watchfully, patrols, and all this with enormous charges to pay for interest, peastons, the Services, and for adminiatically declared that he had never miralty but was the plan of the naval ex beneath him, he hears nothing but the i Pration Taxation would no doubt be give their opinion, whether invited or no means yo successfully that it did not flies and fights alone.
kucwn them show the least reluctance to perts themselves. He also claimed though strong, rasping hum of his engine. He upon a scale very few of us had realised, uninvited, and though Lord Fisher was and the hardship to our industries would known to be adverse to the Dardanes prejudice the prospects of the subsequent The things that happen almost daily to be serious, Business mon must organise operations, it was not on the ground that it expedition, and he argued that the the men who fight in the air can be com in time so as to make their influensy felt they were impracticable, but that his pre-
whole enterprise was fatally prejudiced pared with nothing in our own experi in matters affecting trade. It was upon ference was for a different operation in the powerful agencies and influences ence. The curt reports of the Flying our industries that the future welfare of tutally different sphere. Lord Fisher long, agonising, wearying struggle to get bats in the air which are more sonder
ranged against it
it, which made it one Corps dismiss in two or three lines com- the country would primarily dépend said Mr. Asquith was in a minority of very gun and every inon
by (Cheerst one, but he explicitly agreed to undertake forcement Mr. Churchill spoke with ful than any combats in which men have
If they were to have a true national the naval operations.....
engaged since the world began. Im the the greatest animation, and welcomed the and Imperial policy the principal of the.
report ze enabling him to defend himself course of them the highest courage, the minimum wage in all trades must be
against his detractors, though he attacked volest nerve the nicest judgment, the agreed to. He looked for a year or two, The part that Lord Fisher played as a patchwork of clippings and min most rapid decision, and a whole set of
roughout the early months of 1016 was, pinga
sub-conscious controls of engine, aerelons, however, much more fully dealt with by RESULTS OF THE EXPEDITION, rudder, and machine gun have all to he Mr. Churchill. According to him, every body on the War Council knew of Lord than the absolute confidence with which that the man, bis gun, and his machine No. feature of the day was more striking exercised together, and co-ordinated so Fisher's objections, but knew also that Mr. Asquith, Mr. Churchill, and per are thereby forged into one weapon. What they were not objections practicability of
based on the in- Laps more convincing than other in this breed of supermen, one might well sak, Dardanelles-a very different thing from normous advantages to the Allied cause of physical and mental training en pro-
forcing the respect--Sir Mark Sykes, claimed
that
what system of eugenics, of nutrition, rushing the Dardanelles, which no one had accrued from this expedition, which vide the buman prodigy able to perform ever contemplated. Lord Fisher, insisted is usually refered to in terms of failure feats like these fe Mr. Churchill, never ohjected to carrying and catas put the operations until the Admiral ng and catastrophe. Mr. Asquith said it was The answer is simply this:You take the snot changed his mind and advised caved the position of Russia in the Cau or from a cadet corps, or from an office, complete travesty so to describe it. It the ordinary English youth from school, at the naval attack should not be pro- casus. It delayed for months the entry or from a regiment, and give him three ceeded with Mr. Churchill did not con of Bulgaria into the war on the side of or four months training, and throw him
INCREASE OF STATE OFFICIALS.
possibly more, of good trade after the wer. Later, probably a reaction would come, and the seriousness of that reae tion and its effect upon us would depend upon the use we were making of the Vintervening period. Sooner or later the present inflated values, not only of materials, but also of labour, would need readjusting
DIRECTOR SEVERAL B BOKEKES,
LORD FISHER'S OBJECTIONS.
he broken
of
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On the proposition of Mr. W forts and how many floating mines they tragedy of the Dardanelles Expedition, low clouds. I have spent dud days crash, would be luck 500 'would be prac wasis of age you will see that
There lies, indeed, the real find their way through the curtain of of casualties. Fifty hours without a nearing 20 Beardshaw (Sheffeld), a resolution was had when the naval attack was abandoned for tragedy, it is felt to be by the instinct of rain and mist with the pilots in the cically impossible. Within such spans is Three bottles of your remedy made me a
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un of the British people. The feeling, more be made by the various chambers of munition was almost exhausted, and that over of many of those who hatered to intimacy of the crowded ass, and have the fighting pilot's life compassed now woman, when I had got into a very if a few more old battleships, recalled the skilful presentation of their cUSEE learned, I think, something of their For beyond a certain number of hours low state through not only being unable oneration between labour and capital. hed
by Mr. Asquith and Mr. Churchill must quality. I know nothing comparable with be knows that his fatal moment is over to take food, but also through four of with a view to assuring industrie peace after the war, and towards that end Mr. Churchill took great rains to prove terranean early in 1915 should have been age of ore squadron I know is sa; but twenty, on the threshold of file; but every netite are both excellent.
Lassic requested us to make in the Medi- are almost children in years, the average of life. He may be two or three and follow it I did. To-day my health and Conferences between employers and em step by step that the detailed plans for made anywhere than at the Dardanelles, there is a maturity entirely their own, day that he goes on flying he knows that Stroud. Gloe, July 18th, 2018
red should be arranged by the cham- a purely naval attack had received the until we had adequate means to force a born of experiences unknown to us, in the chances, the low of averages, are
Cripps, Well Cottage, Longridge, hers for the purpose of discussing the crauidered uproval of all naval authoriy through, without breaking off for their grave faces and laughing ever increasingly against him. He knows it, best means of increasing the productive tics including the Admirals on the spot, ant of troops or
103] capacity of the country."
(Continued at foot of nes: column.)
shelia Daily Their flying life is reckoned not in years but it never changes his putward de-
(Continued at faal of next column)
commerce to assist in bringing about co from the scrap head to petish gloriouslyve been that the demonstration which it or them. They are a race apart. They due that he has exceeded the allotted span the consequence of pains that would
sacrificed, would have been
elegraph,
Mary A.