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AN ECONOMIC EFFECT OF
GERMAN FOOD OFFICE REGULATES SUBSISTENCE OF 40,000,000 URBAN DWELLERS. YIELDS RICH CONTRACTS,
Commission and the Ment Office But most of the other agencien of the Food Office which deal with the control of food distribution are provincial or local, with liinited functions and capacity. The Bread Commission issues a travelling or imperial brend card which functions throughout the empire, and the Meat Offee issues an imperial meat card good. in any corner of the realm; · But for every other article of food one must have the card of the local authorities or zo without the food,__*__
EMPIRE DAY IN AMOY Despite the efforts of the Clerk of the Weather to dampen the ardour of those
SUBMARINISM. who had been invited to take part in the programme arranged in honour of Numerous organizations exist here to....
BY OSCAR RANG DAVIS. Į Empire Day by the joint local committees supply the demands caused by the with
Since the outbreak of war the German of the Overseas Club and the Patriotic drawal from civil life of five million men. League of Britons Overseas for the benefit write, the London correspondent of the Government has not done much in the of the Sailors' Orphan Fund, there can | New York Tribune. London has women way of publishing statistical information
The War Fond Office works, through a bo no denying that the day was a lamp lighters, letter carriers, bus, kram about Germany. The statistical yendook
good muny enparate agencies. In thu success; indeed, for Amoy it was re-way and subney conductors and guards, for 1915 gives data for the preceding year guage of a statement about its duties cord, inasmuch as the proceeds of the elevator attendants and taxi drivers. All
at uniforms generally Nortolk coats, but ends or becomes yague with the out prepared for me in. Dr, Batocki's office, 1016 around the War Food Office us a central; break of the war. The yearbook for 1016-
court are established three dozen war entertainments provided amounted to knee-length skirts and leather leggings.
and Though naturally conservative close upon 86,000.
opposed to innovations, the British occupies itself chiefly with repeating offices, from each of which there operates Imperial Grain Office, Imperial Fodder people have accepted the changes caused some of the figures given in the yearbook a group handling a specific line of food- by the war with hardly cop for 1915 and with a long line of price Office, Imperial Meat Office, etc. Opt- wany women workers now have stay, because they are doing men's work figures that are of small interest, com-rating with them in the separate Federal as well as, if not better than, the men Ditesupervision of the Government been given, but were omitted.
For many days before, contribations in money atid gifts had been pouring in from all sources, Chinese a well na
come to
foreign until they became almost em These women are directly under the pared with the figures that might have States and provinces are, subordinate or
rent
ganizations, &nown as Provincial Grain Olies, Provincial Fadder Office, Provin cial Meat Office, etc. The communal associations are charged with the execu÷ tion in the separate communal districka of the functions of these organizations."** The titles of some of those suboidiary organisations of the Food Office will give an idex of the complicated system which Dr. Batecki is operating, and which he defends with enthusiasm against all de tractors. The first on the list is, natural the Army. Then come along the Imparial Grain Office, Imperial Office for the Pro- Potato Ofice, Imperial Evaporated vision of Cattle and Meat, Imperial Potato Company, War Potato Company, War Committee for Substitute Todder, War Brand Company, War Fodder Com pany, and Union for German Agriculture with Special Reference to Sugar, Bran, fodder, and Fodder Substitutes.
barrassing in quantity and variety.
The last Sigares of population avail- provision, however, was made for
A year ago more than 100,000 women began working on farms; this year the disposal, and on the day itself the number will exceed 600,000. The Germanable are those for 1910. These given in British Consulate, gaily bedecked with submarine menace has forced them into the yearbook for both 2015 and 1915
the fields or four weeks these women as
have been clothed, fed, lodged report the urban portion of the German flage, looked like an universal, empeoram vo
volunteers
of gonal things to
to suit all tastes and and trained at the country's expense, population as 38,371,400, living in cities
high boots, Beir uniform consists nurses: Fair dames presided over stalk breeches, two pairs of overalls and soft and vilinges of 2,000 or more population, als and a 2016 In addition there were 8,799,904 who lived and ten tables and enticed the all too Fant, all free
When their training has been completed in villages of from 1,000 to 2,000 in willing spectators into buying everything
they are sent to carefully selected farms habitants. As the total population of which was purchasable. Owing to the in under the cata and protection of women's Germany for that year was 64,023,003,1 the Central Office for the Supply of clemency of the weather much that had war and agricultural committees. Their there were 18,168,683 who must be clasicd wages consist of a a minimum of 18 shillingsas rural. Germans now place the popu work Intion of their empire at a little more heer arranged in the way of side-shows week, with bonuses for special work into 08,000,000 and divide it into 22,000,000
during the harvesting, had to be abandoned and the auction Every woman who joins the women's rural and 40,000,000, urban
The War Food Office is not much on is dragatthfied with wages, food, clothingcerned with the food supply of the run! or conditicas of employment. Enlist population, or of such portion of it ment can be made through any post-offices the demands of the military service
• GIRL, WORKERS ENJOY A BMONE permit still to live in the country. From In a feld last summer I saw girls toss
became the event of the day. A great sensation was caused when the auctioneer succeeded in realising no less a sun than $1,500 for a small piece of one of the
land army as the right of appeal if she
OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISES.
Zeppelins, recently brought to the grounding hay into a high wagon with all the vile end of Germany to the other the the statement prepared in Dr.
in England
The day was brought to a fitting con clusion with an exhibition of war photo graphs, followed by a danco and supper
strength and dexterity of ou. The wagon loaded they rested a moment on Dikr-by, Tence: Then one of them extraot ed, silver, cigaretta case from her hip pocket, nonchalantly passed it around, struck & match on the handiest place and ly enjoying a smoke, which lasted the next wagon
gun atrived,
s supervising Now the Government is
As
in the Amoy Club theatre On such in another minute they were all thor persuading the farming people to give obtain a clear differentiation between the
"
testimony is the same thint the people in the country not only are quite capable of Batorki's office says, there are thirty six taking care of themselves but that they of these separate offices and companies, are doing it considerably better than the The titka of those given here are enough regulations permit, despite every effort of so show the difficulties certain to result the Food Office. The main work of the from the overlapping of different enter- Food Office in the country districts is in prises I made good deal of effort to up some of their food supplies for the two kinds of establishments named one. this benefit of the people who live in the called an office and the other
cities It is in the collection of food, not company. I got the impression that in its distribution, that the Food Office the office was the officially organized through which the Central Office gave zis: organization cordes most in contact with subsidiary of the War Food Office. orders and instructions, while the com the rural population dat
PROVIDE FOOD FOR 40,000,000.
pany" was private concern, a joint Chiefly, therefore, the work of the Foodstock enterprise, organized to execute the Ohice is getting lood from the rural orders and instructions of the office" urban consumers. It is a fair estimate, many, if not all of whom are men high will be noticed that Britam simply producers and distributing it to the and to make money for its stockholders, I believe, that 95 per cent. of the German in official place or connected with the appeals to the women and does not
Lempt to introduce any measures of Conscription. Thousand of women are population is either actually in the army army or some other branch of the fo
on so closely associated with it as to be erament. anxious to help the country, but are withdrawn from any other form of It is a good scheme for having the
For thes unable to leave their homes. hestown Councils have set aside plots of activity. The composition of that 20 per work done by your friends, upon m ground, where engaged in
on Sunday the cent will draw a little more from the you can rely, and at the same time igtag and urban population than from the rural enabling them to make the profits from foil Germany's effor: to starve because it will include more city men than
an occasion it would be invidious to select any names for special mention, and it is therefore sufficient to say that army of women farmers through its able deep debt of gratitude is due to all who women assistants, Miss Violette Markham took part in the celebration of Empire nou Mrs. H. J. Tennant. The success of Day in whatever capacity great or the national service movement-Britain's small. All who contributed in service reply to Germany's leves en or otherwise to the highly successful depends largely on the part the women result, which was unexpected in so small Duy Thus far there has been only a community, cannot but feel proud of praise for the patriotism they have been thy share they took in raising so handsodied are showing a sum for the bonent of the orphans of the sailors who have lost their lives in the great war,
À SONG ABOUT “BLIGHTY,” [101 cannot suppress a liking for soldier Bongs however nonsensical the words, Writes GCC in a hope
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LENNIAS in farmera in the work immediately behind
the good Government contracts.us is
place in the Department of Agriculine, stance, one gentleman who is in high
bear soldiers singing or Paptor housesping and work in émforted, that the 25 per cent, thus withdrawn told me of being connected with the
rolling out a chorus, deep-throated at a
sing-song stringi.
always pulls at the heart
of these women do all their own the 5ghting lines. It is to be remouiber stations making ospital garments for is composed wholly of men, so that the the soldiers besides Ending to their percentage of withdrawal of the male po egetable gardens. And the marvel at fpulation is very much greater than the is that these are the very vullen who percentage of the whole population
country than in the eities hive years a sought est cures after This makes much more difference in the their languing social activities.
It is a rough calculation, at best, but A SERVANT PROBLEM SOLA'BU,
servant, problem has been
Imperial Oes for the Provision of Cattle and Meat and also of being in the company ganized under that o which company had a contract for the supply of 30,000 hogs to the army in
* cone year.
These subsidiary offices and companies have their own subordinate offices and establishments in the different provinces and municipalitics, and so the Way Food
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ng sticks when everything else is forgotten, and itself is the best anodyne for wariness. A chorus whatever the werds, binds men together in comradeship and forgetfulness of troubk, geloofs
When the Middlesex stood to their Birkenhead drill and gallant Colonel practically solved by the war. Cooks, on the basis of these figures it is evident Ba British, hous maids, chambermaids and nurses that the War Food Office is concerned John Ward bade-them
Tipperary
The long, long have deserted in great number and with the task of providing food for como they sang trail,"
and every song they knew.unlisted in munitions fretories. There is where in the neighbourhood of 40,000,000 long uuds that Take me back to R they sang also hardly a single British household which of German who live in cities and in the Office ramifies clear to the ends of the
rollicking employs as many servants now as it did larger towns. Of these some eighteen of years ago and yet then is appar-nineteen millions live in towns of 20,000 knockabout disty, which has had a remark ently in trouble now than ever with the or less, and in such places the problem is by no means so scute as it is in the able vogue for months past among the
servan problem troops up and down the lines in France Straitened financial circumstances are great cities like Berlin, Leipsic, Hamburg,
Extra and so on. and along the Tigris to Baghdad.
Listen to the refrain:
16 is
three
munal district, or village, which is the empire. In every gemeinde or com- smallest unit in the German organiza tion, each of the subsidiary lines of the food organization has its representative. go in the "kreise, or circle, the next unit, there is similar representation, and sn on up through the entire system, in the “regierungsbezirk," or Government
in all these separate divisions the Food Office has its own men, or the men con nected with its subsidiary organization, who make it their business among other things, to know what amonnte of food are produced and available there. The
not the only reason for this. vagances are now considered mmpatriotic. iddle-dy
The German Empire is a federation of Iddle-dy
i-til
some twenty-eight separate provinces, Take me back to Blighty! The Englishman and woman who are not
something for country Blighty the for Beste, and is who composed and ouramde The hardest sophers are principalities, and cities. Under the district, and in the province.
found among the wealthiest social terms of the federation certain rights are wrote Blighty are very hot leaders of Britain. No woman is more reserved speelbeally to some of those con the origin
They wanted
write a beenly int rested in the welfare of the stituent units. For instance, Bavaria success, something with would be soldier and his dependents than Queen retains the right to act for herself in the
another Tipperary.”
Mary
matter of declaring war, and cons hope and ambition of hundreds of song-Fconomy in fonds is almost as necessary quently the imperial declaration of war writers since the war began. If they have now as the manufacture of munitions in 1914 omits Bavaria, which issued a are not able entirely to prevent hiding not succeeded they have come very near Naturally the Govorriment appeals to the special declaration for herself So in "Milla said to me," said Scott the oth. women, who control the larder to effect the matter of food control, regulations this economy. One of the latest furned differ in different provinces, because pro organizations has for its object teaching Vincial rights must be recognized.
qualities feeding families, the nutritive c
day, Let's write a song about
of food or perhaps unfair division be tween the producer and those who have just as great need for it, but they do undoubtedly obtain a great deal of in
Blight That was a year ago women the cheapest and best methods ofthe legislative power of the empire formation and help to keep the flow of
seid, Not yet Mills; the public doen't know the word. But the word stuck in my head, and last November I said, I about time we wrote that Blighty Mondo we sat down at the plan decided on a six-eight measure a good mittees with the purpose lovernment Bundesrat that 1 they act all together Government authority everywhere. Any- marching swing, and the words and music
came
of foods and what substitutes to use when is vested in the Reichstag and the shortage, exists. To the slams it is Bundesrat. The Bundesras is the Federal gaming communal kitchens and even Council, boraposait, of representatives of forming co-operative purchasing com the different members of the federation. of eliminating Prussia line ad many members in the the midienan's profit. The Gover
food to the cities as large as it is. Every where they have the assistance of the local police organization, whenever they desire to call it into service. In fact, the police are the effective agents of is heartily supporting this movement, and have the support of the delegation body who has thority to issue re WOMEN BUTCHERS AND BARBERS. from one other State, like Bavaria, they gulation can also go to the police and Women by the hundreds are in un can dominate the proceedings of the have it enforcad, NY Times.
There are woman Federal Council Immediately upon the barbers, heroics about their life and deeda
druggists, filling the places where men
a law, of course, approved by the Federal want something with touch of the comic
had bean for generations. Though not
Council, confering upon the Bundesrat spirit and a shout. We worked it out on under Government control they are the power to enact necessary economis those Then, and though you may call it highly essential to the welfare of the measures during the way. The effect of machine-idade popularity popular the nation.
It's no
no good," "remarked this sage popular songe, giving
student
modern soldiers sentiment to Bug organized occupars cashiers and outbreak of this war the Reichstag passed.
They
Take
butchers,
song is Hear that Whoa! that's the "The scarcity of men is nowhere more that was to give to the Federal Council shout Hear Fiddle-dy, iddle-dy i ti, apparent that behind the footlights. The the whole power of management of war that's comedy and want to see my best choras consists now entirely of women, affairs, Laws have flowed from it in a girl in all the sentiment we would allow and frequently the stage hands are never ceaing and undiminishing stream,
volume each month, except, of course, the main ides,
women In Hammerstein's big London & me back to Blighty, which they sing opera house a woman conducts the THE ORGANIZATION HAND PICKED
the orchestra of sixty Worland has its I full Whenever any special emergency rest in just words to carry the
When the arises it is easy to enact a special law Whatever the reason may the song of women employés. is here and everywhere. It was sung in weaker sex hegetrated that bulwark of to deal with it. For the members of every pantomime last winter and has conservatism, the last barrier was broken the Federal Council are appointed-all gone the round of every soldier concert and the word "weaker as applied to those from Prussia by the Kaiser in his archaic and absolete, some capacity as King of Prusia and they letters from the front how that it has
meaning it and not mean Even the Bank of England has
be,
and every marching regiment, Scott's comer onlyaktonteiranam are carefully chosen men. When the
been featured"
of at regimental revnes thing to
in France and Salonica "I have my
dim and distant pre-war Federal Council is unanimoue, an it was that establishment of the War Food Office, and two comedy men make an entrance during It is only in the Isst few months that in enacting the law authorizing the the first chorus of the third verse writes women in civil life have been organized as it has been in most other cases, the one soldier producer, "one with his feat for the State, but that is due to the lack authority of such an establishment is covered with bandages and the other with of vision of the Government, the lack of recognized in all the provinces without
objection from the stricklers for provin his arm m a eling. It was an enormous
Huccess Unconqnerable spirit that reciation of the tremendous
which makes a screaming joke of ban
of British womancial privilege.
What the women have done and are doing in munitions manufacturing is one The question the song-writers of the of the wonders of the war Books will be day, are now asking themselves is, Who written on this subject when the conflict will write the song which the men will is over. And they will prove ne enter Bing when they all come home again faining as any novel,
So the War Food Office is a genuinely imperial establishment. Under it there Tange throughout the empire the Bread are two subsidiary concerns which also
HONGKONG RESERVES.
ORDBEN BY MAJOR WAKEMAN, 0.0, Z.V.L.
Tuesday, 5th inst. —-
Reference Corps Order No. 32 Kowloon and Taikoo Sectiong will parado on Polo Ground at 5,30p.m. instead of on Football Ground, Happy Valley
Thursday, 7th inst.
All Officers and N.COs. not already detailed for duty will attend a lecture to be given by Capt. G. E. Stewart on Musketry Instruction at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.15 p.m. Dress Clean fatigue. Note: books and pencils to be brought Saturday, 9th inst.
will attend at the All Officers
miniature range, Kennedy Road, at 3.15 pm. for revolver practice Those possessing service revolvers will bring them. Ammunition will: be provided, ... NA
(8gd.) C. CRAMPRIN, Capt..
Adjutant, HKTI Hongkong 2nd June, 1017.