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WEATHER REPORT.
· September 18th, at 11:55 –—–—No returns from Jayauers stations. Prosuro has decronzed slightly over N. Cains and Ircressed alightly to moderntaly elsewhere; it is highest over: Bes Manchuria Band relatively low over the Yangtze V Valley and the S. China Sea
Hongkong rainfall for 24 bears anding 4 10 today, 0.00 Inch. Total slon is January, 73.10 inches, against na sverige
70.08 inches,
The forecast for the 34 hours inding at moon to-day in su follows pam
District
Hongkong to Gap Book
Formcas Chsatel (se
FORECAST
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EMPIRE SETTLEMENT.
PROSPECTS OF EX-SERVICE MEN.
TENNYSON | COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
EEN
THE SINKING OF THE
BLUCHER." ADMIRAL HALSEY'S ACCOUNT OF THE DOGGER BANK
The Commitico appointed on February 18th 1917, by the Secretary of State for
Rear Admiral Lionel Halsey, speaking the Colonics to inquire into the measures recently at a meeting of the Hertfordshire. to be taken for settling within the Empire Navy League, held at Arlington-street, ex-soldiers who may desire to caigrate referred to the submarine menace, and after the war have now issued their reenid that it was impossible to down **. port Cd. 8679]. Lord Tennyson WAS
chairman of the Committee, which cam very saumarine, but even now the enemy a prised also representatives of the submarines could not show their peri- Dominions, of the Board of Agriculture, scopes for so many hours as formerly, of the Ministry of Labour, of the Colonial Ho was certain that with the exercise of E. and 8. Office of the War Office, and of the faith, patience, and dogged perseverance,
British South Africa Company, we should neutralize the action which no.. winds, moder- atei.
The report is unanimous, and there is body dreamed three years ago any civilized generally. attached to it a memorandum by Mr. State could stoop to. Southwinds,
Lyttelton Gell, of the British South
Admiral Halsey described how the Africe Company, on the Finance of British battle cruisers dashed through the. Empire Land Settlement." Another ap- fog to take part in the Dogger Bank fight. pendix contains the replies of various I had gone ashore for a little game of members of the Committee to certain golf, he said, and in the afternoon a questions drawn up by the chairman, midshipman cante rushing to me with These questions were designed to elicit inorders to get up steam, We went back formation about the facilities available to the slip, and in a short time we were in various parts of the Dominions for under way? There was a thick fog and wo land settlement, not only for ordinary went at full at full speed through it for
- moderate.
Bonth Court of China between (The same as the Hongkong and Lamooks 1 No. 1.
Berath Counch of China between ; The mme as
Hongkong and Hainan... No. 1.
HONGKONG'S STORM SIGNALS settlers, but especially for ex-service men.
NEW CODE.
Naw --loos! ⠀and non-local storm signali codes will be
introduosd at Hongkong on July 1st, in place of the old Local Code and the China Coast Coda.
The principal change in the Loos) Cody is that the new signals will show the direction from which the gals in expsoted, whereas the old signals showed the post tion of the typhoon. The latter will be indicated, as heretofore, by the non-local signala. The new Local Code" is givan below:
DAY" BIGNALO..
| Signal, Symbol Meaning.
1. Red cone-A typhoon exists which may possibly canna a gale at Hongkong with. In 24 hours.
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North (N.W to N.E.).
inverted.--Gale expected from the
South (8.E to 8,W.).
East (N.E. to 8.E.).. 6.—Black ball-Gale expected from the
West (N.W. to B.W.).
■Double cont.--Gale expected to do -Black cross-Wind of typhoon force
expected (any-, direo- tion). Bigast No. 7 will be accompanied by three explosive bombs, fired at intervals of 10 seconds at the Water Police Station and repeated at the Harbour Office.
The signals will be lowered when it is considered that all danger is over.
The Day Bigania will be displayed at
The Committes have gone thoroughlye hours. I need hardly say how glad. into the whole question of land settlement we were to run out of it,
At 7 o'clock the next morning we sighted within the Empire for ex-soldiers. They
do not consider that it is correct to the British flotilla of destroyers, which regard opportunities offering to ex-service had left its base to the south of us and men for settlement on the land at home was making full speed towards the spot and in the Oversea Dominions as in any where we expected to meet the enemy. way antagonistic. They are really parts Suddenly the flotillas opened are. The of the one great policy for settlement signal went up for "full speed," and within the Empire, not two different and away we went. The down below opposing sehenies,
stoked away like the heroes they are.
At 8-15 we sighted the German ships A CENTRAL AUTHORITY. A CENTRAL
about 34,000 yards away, going for all The most important recommendation of they were worth-unfortunately in the the Committer is for the constitation of a same direction as we were.
We managed Central Authority to supervise and to pick them up bit by bit, and at 9.15 assist the emigration of ex-service men. we had our orders to open fire at a range The same recomendation was made by of something like 21,000 yards. Wo the Dominions Royal Commission, but cocked our gune up and lot fly. The shoot- the Committee go further than the Coming was good, but the trouble was that mission. The Commission recommended when wo bad begun to get the range wo that a Central Authority should be set up niv had between 30 or 40 miles which which would be a department, or sub
we could go The Blicher, fell back and department of the Imperial Government, the guns caught her nicely, and a very
and that a consultative board should he appointed, on which the Oversea Dob short time she was knocked out of the nions and others should be represented,"
fight and sunk. to advise the new authority, and the necessary co-operation between the Home and Oversea Government, with gard to matters of migration." The Com. As to the mittee, while * agreeing entirely necessity for such co-operation, recon- mend that “representatives of the Over- sea Dominions and others should be con nected with this new authority, not in an advisory, but in an executivo capa city,"
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tinued, might not get to know much about the achievements of the Navy, but the Navy and the mercantile marine had performed the finest deeds known to his tory.
Those at home, Admiral. Halsey con-
transport any large number of ex-service men who may desire to emigrate, and they give a warning against the possibility of loreign shipping being available to Lakes such men to other countries, It seems 65 most advisable dis-
The Commitice niggest that the netan executive duties should be entrusted to a Board The Board should be presided courage gueral emigration to foreign over by a chairinan. appointed by the Imperial Government, who should devote countries while facilities are wanting for his whole time to the subject. It should migration within the Empire. They consist of five representatives of the Inson to consider the question of finance. "We should be glad, indeed, to perial Government one each to bo nominated by the Colonial Office, the War see the principle accepted that a soldier Government Board, the Ministry of free transport to any part of the Empire Office, the Board of Trade, the Local or sailor who has served in the present war might, within a reasonable time claim Labour of four representatives nominal where he wishes to settle." They recognite ed respectively by Canada Australis, that this principle involves administrativo New Zealand, and South Africa; of one and economic difficulties. But they sug- of the Agents General for the Australian gest that the Home Government should States; of one of the Agents-General for regard the emigration of ex-service men as the Canadian Provinces; and of five un one of many ways of benefiting them, and official members, of whom two should
Our service across the Pacific is unimpaired, and the freight rate for merchandise purchased from us is only $2.25 per hundred pounds from Chicago clear through to Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, Hongkong and Manila. This is for fast service by Trans-Pacific liners. Compare the masthead of the storm signal mash on women, nould be should not hesitate to meet the oceanary "ASAH] BEER. Pour rate with the rate others quote you! It is much less than the Blackhand Hill, the Harbour Of Authority should be created immediately. men in the Oversea Dominions."
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H.M.8. Tamar, Green Island signs) coast,
the fingulas on the premises of the Hong kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company s Kewloon, the flagstaff on the
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FIGHT SIGNALS.: (Lamps) I-White-white-white. -White-green-green, L-Green-white white. 4.-Green-green-white.
6.White-white-green.
6-Green-green-green.
T-Bed-green-red.
They are convinced that this Central and if openings were available for such
So far as the general control of emigra
FINANCE
tion from the United Kingdom is concern
The Committee discuss, too, though with ed, it is obvious that the present is an eosiderable caution, the question of unequalled opportunity for effecting a expenditure of large sums of money by the change. Emigration is at a standstill. | Home Government, by way of advances of Such vested interests as previously existed capital, or otherwise, for the settlement have practically vanished. Now is the of ex-service men overman." They give a time to take action in the way of carrying rather tentative approval to the proposi out a much needed reform of methods.' tion that any of the Overica Govern- This reform should be effected by ments which is prepared to draw up a Bystematic unification of the existing specific scheme (a) for the development of emigration machinery in the United King its natural resources; and () concurrent dom The Committee endorse without its own ex-service men and those from the ly for the employment and settlement of reserve the recommendation of the Domin United Kingdom and other parts of the fans Royal Commission in this respect. Empire, but is hampered by lack of funds, The new Central Authority should absorb might arrange for such a scheme to be the present Emigrants Information Office, prepared and submitted for the considera- and should control the licensing of tion of the Home Government, and emigration societies, of passage-brokers,
proposal."
and they
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IMMEDIATE PREPARATIONS.
They are strongly of opinion that, in the selection of ex-servie, men for settle- ment oversea, a preference should be given. The immediate creation of a Centralclusion, on the whole," that,
to married men. They come to the con-
solely on. Authority is equally necessary, in the account of the practical difficulties an SUFFIMMENTARY WARNINGS (U
opinion of the Committer, to prepare for service man should not take his wife the emigration of ex-service men. It is When local signals are displayed in obvious that unless the machinery for dis and family with him when he first emi
grates, unless he has received from the the Harbour a Cone will be exhibited war is over, and made capable of adapta concerned, who has approved him as an tributing information is ready before the
representative of the Oversea Government the following stations:-Gap Book, tion to the pace of demobilisation, the migrant, encouragement before starting Wagian, Stanley, Aberdsen, Bau Ki Wan, Governments concerned will be open to the that arrangements can be niade for their Sal Kung, Bha Tau Kok and Tai Po charge of having neglected an important support until he is settled on his hold to notify the fact to native craft and will be grave danger of men drifting away except in a limited number of cases, for side of reconstruction work, and there
They do not think it expedient, outside the Empire
the Imperial Government to establish in The authority should be ready to deal the United Kingdom special training at once with essential matters. Thus it farms for intending emigrants. They must be in a position to supply trust agree with the opinion of witnesses from The object of the code is to give at least worthy information to ex-service men, to the Dominions who have given évidence | $4 hours warning of a gals (Foren by record the unica and careers of those who before them" that the training for a man Bosafori Scalo, or 40-45 m.p.k., mean desire to emigrato, and to transfer their who wishes to take up lend should, as a velocity by Dinm Anamomster) and also cases, after preliminaries have been com- rule, take place in the country where he warnings of expected changes in the pleted, to the offer of the Dominion or means to live and that it can be best direction and force of the wind. Uwing State of their choice."
obtained either by going to a training. however, to the uncertain movements of The Commitee report that they con- farm or working on another farm, accord observations, it will occasionally happen Labour as to the best time for spreading available at present in the various Over typhoons and to insuficient telegraphie sulted the War Office and the Ministry oing to circumstances. They set out in great detail the opportunities which aro that signals to s may be displayed information among the troops about open-sea Dominions for the settlement of ings offered to ex-service men overseas.
number of cases legislation which is in informa-
for
those travelling rapidly towards Hongkong, or cessation of hostilities and the time When
The Committee express. too, the opinion. of located typhoon incrassing its rate are granted furlough previous to that the question of the emigration of of progression abnormally,
being discharged. They submit a very women is a most important one" and Bignal No. 1 in intended as a warning interesting sketch of the kind of informa- they consider female emigration to be to "Stand By " And watch for the nerition which should be distributed to the the essential foundation of all effective.
without ▲ gale oscurring at Hoago Both expressed the opinion that the ex-Service Ben, and they mention in
or are: Gap Rook, but the reveras la not likely to happen, except in the case of proper period for disseminating
typhoons forming in the vicinity and tion will be that between the date of contemplation
opportunities extending
sign the new non-Local Code sprog In the new non-Local Code the approx mate velocity of the storm centre will be shown, in addition to its direction of motion, and the position of the centre will be given-In digess of lasitude and longituda. "The time as which thu warm- Ing was "Imned will also be shown,
kind of information which should be
*ing
distributed to the troops and of the Empire settlement They add that method that should be adopted in distri- our view, there would be far greater just
fication for the grant of monetary assist. buting it.
They note the difficulty which is likely to be experienced in finding shipping for a considerable time after peace is made to (Continued at foot of next column.)
ance towards the emigration of the wives
than there would be for such assisty. families, and other relatives of ex-service
ance towards the emigration of the wer themselves."-Times.