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BACK TO BRITAIN.
A LEAF FROM THE DIARY OF A VAGRANT BRITON
Last night I heard the soldiers singing Back to Righty, and the refrain of the song was running through my mind when I bothought mis of a caption for this leaf from the diary of travels of vagrant Briton.
MAY 31ST,
1917
THE GERMANS IN CHINA.›
ANTI-ALLY ACTIVITIES.
countless heroes from the rank and file of Britain's one time bitter enemics In Cape Town and Durban criticism is frank and free, and, did one listen to every R thing one might be induced to believe that there is serious
ins cause for anxiety,
MAJOR DINKELMAN'S ADVENTURE,
In the following article The Times Peking · Correspondent discusses the propaganda of the Germans in China. It was written before the Chiness Gove ernment severed diplomatic relations with Germany and decided not to make her any further payment on uc Count of the Boxer indemnity.
but the great facts and patent conse- quences of the sublime rectitude of Britain's policy toward the Boers, und of its wisdom and its courage, stand out
It is a matter of course that the Ger too boldly to permit pessimism to hold
mans are doing their best to damage the way over one's Imperialistic thoughts Allies and to forward their own interests Some damage they are doing, Coming on to Singapore the traveller and they are certainly preparing for
China
SHIPPING NEWS.
SINO JAPANESE STEAMSHIP CO.
The Sino-Japanese Steamship Com- pany, which carries on services on the river Yangtze and along the coasts of China, declared dividends of 12 per cent. per annum on May 17th. The profit for the half year was 1.001,200, which, with Yp58,398 bruught forward from the pre- vious half year, made a total of Y.1,250,818 available for distribution.
Available for distributi
CHANNEL NORTH OF MA WAN I have come back to Britain. Once
· ISLAND" CLOSED. # more I am
I am under the folds of the Union
The following addition has been made Jack, flouting above an outpost of the
Port mighty Empire, to whose domain there
future. It is difficult to say whether all Regulations, 1017, published in Gazette scems to be no limitation. The experi-scs once more the soundness of the struc-force commercial competition in the by H.E. the Governor to the
ture which we call Britain. What may their scheming has serious results. The Notification 159 of the 10th April, 1917
beneath the surface, or what may exist people who count in China where foreign Until further notice the channel north nearby India, the masual observer may relations are concerned are extremely of Ma Wan Island is to be closed to all They comprise the traffic except native craft going into the limited in number. know. There, before his oyes, ho officials who control and execute Govern villages situated on the mainland north the benficence, the wisdom and thement policy the merchant classes at the of Ma Wan. Such craft are to keep in Treaty Ports, through whom passes the shore of the five-fathom line. All traffic might of Britain exemplified in her works, foreign commerce of the country: Young bound to or from Chin Wan westward teeming coloured population of many China representatives, who sit in Pur- are to use the channel west of Chung
liament in Peking, or in the Provincial Hue Island and breeds and creeds, all alien to the Anglo- Assemblies, and who are demanding, de Saxon race, lives subject and happy to volopment on Western lines. Outside
ence of coming back to Britain is pleasant and an inspiring one, and for its educative value I commend it to those who, like myself, have been so long exiledstes in foreign lands as to forget what Britain really means, and at times have allowed unrestricted criticism of British faults to seep into their soula and en-
gender a poisonous pessimiara; regarding the future of the British Nation, a
Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina,
would
past
of
Power represented only by a handful these elements Garman intrigues AN UP-TO-DATE LIG
men. The Premior is a
Allies.
atrate that someone was lying bravely, as one may see at Singapore, I believe tocently appeared in the Chinese news-
Wan
Island,
The light is a revolving one, giving two flashes of 18,000 candle power sich every
The fog signal consists of an automatic
fog-gun which fires a shop every 10 seconds. This is, it is believed, the first hightship to be permanetly fitted with this type of fog signal
The existing Newchwang Lightship is
fitted with the old type of lightship lan- tern having a number of separate oil lamps each with a parabolic silvered re- flector revolving round a central mast when this is superseded by the new ship the last catoptric light disappears from the count of his
SHIPBUILDING ENTERPRISES IN
YOKOHAMA.
A new stuct lightship for Newchwang stem to be wasted..
So far is the Government of the day is has been built to the designs of the En of its people, in whose charge are placed
concerned, the Germans have had consid ginor-in-Chief the Chinese Customs,
This ship embodies the most recent the government and well-being of a thou-erable success. The controlling power in whence I have come by tardy means aid and times their own number. Hardly Peking is military and German military developments both in optical apparatus devious routes, is a wonderfully cosmosible is the fores at their disposal, prestige stands as high here as elsewhere and for signalling as applied to light "There are several Chinese officers who ships, and will bear comparison with the politan city, and the outlook of its people should force be required to hold that have been educated in Germany, and Ger most up-to-date ships supplied by other upon world-affairs 18 n many-sided one which has been gained and made. The man methods are constantly before the Lighthouse authoritica.
Army, The German diplomatic mission Thore, news is received of the great war word does not rattle in the scabbard at the capital has little to do excent to from many sources, and the political or The voice of the Junker is unheard. work on the imagination of the military 10 seconds.
ปี soldier with national bias of many censors in different Military might and brute force do not limited knowledge of world affairs, and belligerent countric fails to keep the offend, because they are kept where they there is no gainsaying the effect upon hin of the occupation of Belgium, of parts truth be it the best, or the worst, froin should be well in the background--when of France and Russia, of the conquest of one's own point of view away from the the genius of the sovereign-race employs Serbia and of Roumania. All those points are pressed upon his attention, keen critics of the trend of Armageddes, for its government the beneficent allies, and nothing te said of the occupation of German colonics, of the destruction of If the British censor gave one version Justice and Right, displayed on all sides,
German trade, of the exhausting efforts of a battle or apotearrence, the French with precept and example furnished by made by Germany to maintain a front or the Italian would give others, and the the rulers in their dealings with one in face of the ever-growing power of the news of any particular event might easily another and with the alien peoples.
PROPAGANDA NAPS present such contradictions as to demun. What is true of the Federated Straits Two maps relating to the war have re- papers. They were given by the Clerman he true of Hongkong and of the dorasin Legation to the Premier and have since
In addition to the Shipbuilding Yard. over which the local Government holds been reproduced in the subsidized organs
of the Cabinet. One represented the at Tsurumi, laid out by Mr. Amano, two Western front, -400 miles long, with more yards will be established in Yoko, way. Good order and progress aro Been on all sides. The fundamentals of truth, tiny dent to illustrate the Allied pro hama in the near future
gress on the Somme. The map is correct justice and decency are deep-rooted in the in detail. The information by which it was accompanied gave no indication of soil, and twine around and bind in one
the gigantic nature of the confict, of compact body rulers and ruled. All of the damage done in this small area to the German Army as a whole. The other this is history, but the critics and pessimap depicted the North Sea as a naval Yokohama Warehousing Company build. sphere continually swept by the Germanings now stand. As a first step, four Heets, all but a strip at the Straits of docks, each expable of laying down k steamer of one or two thousand tons, will Dover being under German domination.
Germans in China have a useful weapon be built. The new yard will chiefly at their
their part of the in- Another shipbuilding yard is to be es vealed unmistakeable portents of the final terest in the two big Anglo German loans tablished by the Yokohama Dock Com collapse of the wonderful structure. For (£16,000,000 cach), and various other re-pany, the work to be started very short-
capts
are estimated to equal overly. According to the Company's plan, give them, for they knew not what they 3.000.000 a year, all of which is paid by four berths will be established and vessels
Deutsch of from one to three thousand tons will the the Rank in China. With this he built to said. They either did not know Britain, the Chinese Government to or had forgotten what once they might money Germans who are stranded in It is stated that Mr. Asano, President own. In any case they spoke in China in consequence of the war are sup of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, has already ported, propaganda is maintained, veri went in an application to the local ons methods of damaging the Allies are
The foreshore at Honmoku for the purpose of financed, and the ground is prepared for authorities for permission to reclaim the
constructing a Dockyard.
but ineffectively. The German view point was strenuously imparted to the neutral Argentines, and frequently wo saw it supported by what appeared to be the unbiassed outlook of Spain. And when we found the British ever reluctant to dissipate myths that had their origin in the Wolff Bureau, and tardy to give as the real facts on a question that harassed our British mind, while at the same tum unrestrained criticism of our Hom
mists would have had as believe it was past history, antedating the great war, which had seen the undermining of the
The management of the Yokohama Iron Works, formerly known as the Yokohama Engine and Iron Works, contemplates
Chiwakacho, near Kanagawa, where the stablishing a shipbuilding yard at
Government, and ourselves, waskicard fabric of British Empire, and which reloxer in dasal Their share of the engage in the construction of cargo-bonts
on all sides, small wonder it was that a times we seriously asked, ourselv he ther all was well with our Nation
What an answer to that pessimism it to come back to Britain, after the years of
have
absence and the months of doleful pon dering. By the grace of the British Neveras ignorance, perhaps blinded by I have journeyed for sixty days across gazing too long on the faults of our race, oceans from which the enemy flag has which no reasonable man will deny we do been ignominiouly driven. By the possess in fair proportion to our virtues colonizing, gonius of Imperial Britain 1 And if one wishes to decide for himself have punctuated my long pilgrimage how it is with Britain, and how will ter with welcomes halts on British soil.
minate this colossal war, he must come back to Britain, or be well posted regard with ing her state, as I hope to keep posted my
Where I have stopped to hold pleasant
converse
my own tongue
ed
F.M.S. TIN EXPORTS IN 1910.
tuture commercial enitivation... bases of these operations are the German Legation in Peking the German Con- cessions in Tien sin and Hankow, and Hankow, and every German Consulate in the country Press propaganda is limit
to the publication of a few newspapers The total export of tán from F.M/S. in English, which have a very small tir in 1916, reduced to a metallic basis, calation, and to small subsidies to many amounted to picule 737,014, as compared Chinese sheets, the whole limited in with picule 785,070 in 1916, showing a effect
decrease of pícula 48,656, sa compared with the previous year. In 1913 the last more dangerous form. At the beginning normal year the export was picals of the war it will bo
bo remembered that 442,190, Major Pappenheim, the German Military
DANGEROUS AĢENTS,
people of my own race and breed friends in a far-distant country. Then enterprise sometimes takes a
the far-flung Jag
of: ouf. Nation
haa floated over them und me, evar re-
ing and eternal.
M
he will ace, if he have cyes to see, that Britain stands where she stood, four minding me that in the midst of the square to all the winds that blow andy greatest world struggle that history cal record Britain is still Britam, mighty and almost unscathed after nearly three' years of terrific onslaught against her greatness.
At Cape Town and Durban all is weil
There the traveller comes closely in touch
at
Hongkong, May 30th, 1917,
GERMANY'S NITRATES,
Attaché in Peking, left here to shoot in Mongolia, and was discovered by the Bus- sians to be marching north with a cara van of explosives designed to wreck tun nels on the Siberian Railway. Abans of Mongols, apprised of his characte destroyed the whole party. There is doubt that much trouble of a minor kind on the Russian railways in the Far East of The glycerine industry in Japan has been caused by the expend were exclusively engaged on military
German money resting case
case is that of and munitions work If Germany had
THE GLYCERINE INDUSTRY IN
ZAPAN
по
for
At the annual meeting of the National Society of Dyers and Colourists, held at Manchester, the president said the fact that chemists were going to play an increasingly important part in modern development was hardly recognised yet, as expert chemists, both men and women,
not completed her nitrate manufacturing preparation before war broke out she would have had to sue for peace. With a war without nitrates she could not have continued to fight.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
BAND AND ORCHESTRA PRACTICES, 6 P.1.
with the results of one of the most the outbreak of the war. The Govern Major Dinkelman, once of the Legation remarkable events in the history of Imment 2 granting pecuniary aid to those Guard, and a military adviser to the engaged in this particular industry, and Chinese Government until his dismissal perial expansion. Scarce fifteen years the result was the establishment of the was Becured on the ground that his anti bave passed sing we stopped fighting Japan Glycerine Manufacturing Com Ally activities constituted a breach of the Boers, In that brief time we have pany and several other concerns. Before neutrality. The enterprising Major dia de the war none of these companies existed, appeared from Peking last May, and his made peace with them, we have given and consumers in Japen relied entirely whereabouts was a subject of curiosity them a liberty and at independence that upon imports from the United States and some time. In December he was discover- grave other countrnes. The output of the Japaned in Kashgar preparing to cross the even the most irreconcilable of them will Glycerine Manufacturing Company alone frontier into Afghanistan where, dankt admit are greater in many respects an amounts to 300 tons per month, and in less he intended to add his blandishments those they enjoyed as citizens of their the course of the next few years the im to those of Von Hentig From Kashgar Fort of the article wil, it is believed, he under the interested observation of the own republics. We have won from them nearly checked. The following table Indian Government, he proceeded along a loyalty and a pride in being British shows the imports during the past four the well-known Pamir route, vi Tashkur Orchestra--Monday, June 11th, Monday,
den gün, into Taghdumbash, where three Here, instead of swing- Empires meet, ing west into Wakhan, Afghan territory,
POLICE BOBOOL he continued south, and put, his foot into Thursday, May 31st Class 15 (Chief - the lion's mouth at Hunza-Nagar. When Inspector Kerr), 1,710,912 902,058 arrested 8,000
00 golden sovereigns were Friday, June 1st Class 14 (Inspector
subjects which am not merely lip loyalty and pride, but, as history already re lates, are literal and real, We have im planted amongst them our civil and poli. tical systems, under which they have become rulere not alone of themselves but of many thousands of Britons born. We left it to them to suppress the rebel Jious amongst themselves, and to conduct our wars for us in German West and East Africa, and to-day their Republican (General Botha) and one of their most brilliant leaders (General Smuts) are serving Britain, of their own free-will, and serving ber ng devotedly and as successfully as might any great soldier with ten centuries of British lineage and tradition to inepire
Commander-in-Chief
him. The battlefields of France and Africa hold in sacred clasp the bones of
years:
1913 1914 1915
1918
Valne. Quantity
Kin. Yen.
1,430,992 652,383
509,915 276.558 800,830 €65,665
found on him,
CHINESE STUDENTS AND CANADA.
An Ottawa dispatch says that the
Band-Thursday, May 31st, Wednesday, June 6th; Tuesday, June 19th: Thurs day, Juan Blat, Wednesday, June- 27 Friday, June 29th,
June 18th
Gerrard), 15- Monday, June 4th-Class 12 (Inspector
Grant),
Gerrard)
FUJENEIN,
D.ST (R.).
When Von Hentig, after a fruitless effort to get the Ameer to declare himself against the Allies, was politely put over the Afghan border into Chinese Turkes Tuesday, June 5th Class 13 (Inspector tan, he proceeded to Yarkand, and there Gordon). began an anti-Russian propaganda in Wednesday, June 6th-Class 15 (Chief aid of a Mahomedan rebellion de course Thursday, June 7th-Class 14 (Inspector
Inspector Kerr), Canadian Government has introduced a
motion by German agents. In due bill proposing to permit the entry into an outbreak took place in Ili, the local Canada of Chinese students without poll-mises, infinite lying, and much money, Sarts and Kirghiz, deluded by vast pro tax rat
suddenly rising and murdering miny Russian settlers men, women, and children. A handful of troops easily suppressed the movement, Thousands of the rebels were killed, including some matched across China, nominally escorted hundreds of Chinese subjects. Von by Chinese soldiers, and is now believed Hentig, accompanied by an Indian sol to be safe in the German Consulate at dier captured on the Western front, and Hakow. British and Russian repres by Harosa Effendi, a relative of the Emir sentations to the Chinese Government as of Bokhara, afterwards comfortably to the desirability of interning this fire- brand have hitherio met with no response. (Continued at foot of next column.)
JAPANESE BANKS TO INCREASE CAPITAL
It is reported that the Dai San Ginko Third Brak) of Tokio will shortly in crease its capital from Y,5,000,000 to Y10,000,000 NAVE
The Sumitomo Bank has decided to donble its capital of Y.15,000,000.
30th May, 1917.