DEARTH OF FOOD,
NEW BAFETY FIRST
CAMPAIGN
Харр
Sir Arthur Yapp, who has undertaken
the direction of the new food coonomy
THR
NEUTRAL IRELAND
MISSING MUNITION FACTORIES
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19TH, 1917.
THE RECENT BATTLES.
→→ WHINES, ABOUT BRITISH
STRENGTH
The German corrosiondents in the West are_now_beginning to review the recent
The
nguer. than
battles
avoid geogra
[BY GEORGE A. B. DEWAP}
The main reasons why Ireland is trot in the war with England, Scotland 2nd campaign, is rapidly developing Wales are, of course, political and hiver, and carel by which he hopes to secure a reductio in the consumption not ably of brenda torical. But, besides, there are subsidiary detail, but some of the generalities Bre ment, but of all articles of which the reasons for this detachment of Freland zot uninteresting supplies are limited by war conditione
At the present moment & CORI
The members of the committee, taking into consideration the available supplies of food and the needs of our Allice, are seeking to find out exactly what each men, woman, and child ought to have according to age and occupation and other relevant circumstances As soon as they have reached decisions the scale of consumption which they recommend will be made known.
The rationing will be for all essen- tial foods, and it will be our task
Sir Arthur to a representative of The
to day, one or two of which might oven
kal
bombed and there had been a casually If half a dozen Irish cities had been total like an English one, and if this crowley total had concerned the poor and parts of Irish cities, then there would have been a bond of sympathy be tween As it is, the Irish attitude over the bombing of English cities
has been one rather of curiosity than wrath There has been a tetidency to exaggerate grossly the confusion of London during these raids, almost to guy us certain hostile writers ha
have
succeeded too well in They concealed, the truth London's attitude all rough rhes, that through the the
Professor Wegener, in the Cologne Gazette, publishes a long introduction to his account of the battle of Reptember
attack and of the area, in which it would
enemy
RUSSIA TO DAY.
THE REVOLUTION FROM WITHIN
SECRET POLICE.
AMERICANS IN FRANCE TO CUTLER
THEIR COUNTRYMEN:
A MESSAGE OF GOOD CHEER
"The following is an article frond the Thirty two citizens of the United States Petrograd Correspondent of the Lime, asumbled in Tarif-newspaper, corres who ntly reached England from pondents, trained observers at the front, Russia
and other visitors having made careful Till the outbreak of the Revolution, note of the situation on and behind the
of thinking must not prevent not escape the polition
finite sacrifice and for a time to coaliens who ought to be washed and outd
that the
a
message of good cheer to their fellow
Our soldiers now in comp on this Reriving sre of a
(2)We feel that it should be under
Russia was governed by an autocracy battle lines, have sent the following have been removed Among them con
through a highly complex bureaucratic mittes of experts in the Food Consider the absence of air raids, the absence
organization, nominally in touch with a countrymen troller's Department is working out (except in the north) of munition Inc 20th. He says that the Germans were Dama representing the nation, but in scientifically graded scheme of rationing Stories, the absence of effective propagandu. fully informed of the imminence of a reality dominated by an irresponsible and side and constanger
It was plain, above all, that the en be made, and he proceeds: Arbitrary police system known as the quality which has won the admiration of
Okhran
our Allieg. Good judges my that it is The interests of the State and the people unexcelled on either side of the long would continue to put his hope not in the moral superiority on his troops, but
are glad to make good in material superiority. The incompar were subordinated by this police institu battle linee Wo uble fighting strength of the German tion to the perpetuation of its own report of the excellent - spirit of the men soldier was to be broken, and must be privileges and power. Like the ivy that and of the progress of their training. Broken, by a tremendous development mechanical weapon, and the unheard of clings to the oak it sapped the vital force accumulation
guna, ammunition, mines of the autocracy, stunted its growth, and stood at home that, while the losses of gases armoured cars, and the like The Baally destroyed the mighty tres beneath gaged are beyond all precedent, and that the way are very great, the numbers en- accordance with the English way all in of thinking
their mentally in batir ein battle is fundi whose shadow Russia had risen to be relatively the proportion of ices is prob the natural dislike mingled with coy great. Empire. The strangling proces as a bore that diet side to conghase
ally not of other wars In addition to this it will be necessary whole has been one of contempt and anger tempt, which we Germans have for us half century. It was a period of univer. aravity, and effectiveness of our sea fores to ask people occasionally to make a de- rather than one of fear. The rush of
da from sal expansion and progics economic have been most impressive.
Russia could in assisting the work of the British Navy without some particular thing altogether into khaki or left unwashed and bundici tedy serious. Anybody who formerly influences that were permeating the world.
(4)We find that the magnitude and English Colonial wars, English
produced
thoroughness of our preparation for Khortage of ham. and b
confused with the conduct of Londoners, knows how much of the successes of the rural Muscovy. The great reforms of to be one of the must decisive factors in bacon. People like
toyages
particularly marked change in miners, who have special work to do, find Ireland has not had even a little taste English in these spheres was always due to Alexander 11, the growth of industries, the war. We are all possible haste in
of their of the European ar, no bombs on her brillant preparation and equipment. Of the international diet, and in order that those
with which these preparations get their supplice I am hoping that we sailors on her undefended senside pleasure are behind the material and the machines factors were so many incentives to deal-all these Can persuade other people to do without and bathing places filled with women and real men to use them. But we all know development; but in all foring o
- (5.)—We Bud a high, inflexible moral in bacon whilst the scaresty continues
of pro- the troops and people of our great Allies: am · ` endeavouring -- added Sir
neutely in food and finance wo are far from wanting to deny it on its existence, and its tentacles maintained nowhere in the French Republic may one Arthur-to establish a league or
me Ireland is doing uncomm the contrary, we should be diminishing their constricting grip with all the greater discover a sign of weakness or faltering well to me that we want to bring home to the better than it is to-day! As for food, ald
When was Irish agriculture the achievements of our own men if we tenacity Essentially parasitic, the Britain, conscious of her strength PTICA
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Ohrana was hateful to the people people that our national safety and the fear the poor in Dublin have been short Even carlier the ighting was
within it, End well de Allied cause generally depend upon the of milk and are likely to be short of coal ribed a extent to which we economite in food The Controller ought promptly to look since the enth of August had become the autocracy, both involved in hopeless, and women, are cheerfully at work for as a super material battle but to the Bureaucracy. The Revolution Eny sacrifice that victory may demonnt,
swept it away, but with the Okhrana went It both
countries rich and poor, men and very shortly I am into the matter of milk; there is a susp quite plain that the English intended to irreparable ruin congue
to oron profteringent, effeces ochishet in The Times if poly high uid determined, of Italy consumption
moro gigantic gune and still more goine weeks before the Revolution, entitled condemn the spirit with league. If the response to the call is the poor. what I expect it will be followed by
MUNITIONS AND LOYALTY Cugines of war. On our maps of the that the old régime was living its last deplorable violence to those who have no
enormous masses of sunitions and all the The New Hussia, it was pointed our
bie trade war upon her Western second call for 100,000 members and
We recognize that eventually I hope the league will be n But I have not seen much sign of ground behind the ener
Enemy front upon. million strong. The only was in which famine among the well-to-do. It is hard which we mark from time to time his new supporters to te realities of war share in the fighting may be the campaign can be made effective is to get through half the potatoes they heap camps, batteries, strategic railways, and of attrition. The enlightened minority eliberate re
ata supporters had undergone a process
regarded o business of my judgment, it by making it a national on one's plate twice a day, which is boi o 9, see how all of Belgium that of the nation had been doing their utmost i
War. But the wrecking bý dynamite of thing and getting everybody in the counsurprising, perhaps seeing that the remains unoccupied, and especially the
cities try who has any sense of responsibility potato harvest amounted to something area of Ypres and Poperingle, has become Faardom a chance of adapting itself to he
to lop away its parasitic arms and give public edifices, and the humblest houses of without strategic importance, where roble actually to bemme workers in the can like foug and three-quarter million tons. really one enormous
poor are, one by one, shaken Of fish I have seen, more, timna we dream in every direction by close network of He conditions. But warnings, and per: the carrying into captivity of the daugh about in England: sole, plaice, freeh herring--which will you have of the groundway, that have sprung out autocrat had got sufficient avength to theters of while communities-these ne
Whiting, strategic
There was a further con
erumoa of which our own eyes
eves and ears breakfast or
Product Evet the scale of ratione laid down and to there gong enough hour and evil peroes the Ypres Canal, new roads crossed influence upon the people
activity, could be seen among the leaders of the nation, accepted the inevit End it diffiend to
But even; in its overthrow the w English Bridge after bridge appeared Okhrana system left its scarcity evening on that lofting the rins heart na goil the wantry, branch lines, advanced furs in one patriotis at betalen near Governments capable ved at it, and that avoid waste, and by example and effort of that to they will, 1. nope, enlist others to do the many, there is just enough to swesten the ther, the enemy artillery was brought creed, and rate same thing. We shall try to evolve scheme by which we can keep in touch up at breakinst and at tea and after closer to the front, and new battery posi police system.
abe formed the legacy of the nothing less than its overthrow is com with every member, o
assert its evil away onsistent with the safety of our institutions tions were prepared New munition the minds and consciences of ment once dinner.
ase I am told the scarcity or absence of
ity or absence of ditips were lait down, new setpdrome tirane had perverte a mouth we can send them perhaps
the ora em points for use
decent in the campaign and
for posterity lens the that wo munition works is unfortunate, and can though the encampments already were capped all enlightening, public-spirited it cannot be doubted, enges for ponov I suggestio
new encampments, thickly want them to pass on to other people. Is easily believe it. Manufacturing war As regards troops as well as materiel, the effort, and in dealing with the working as yet unable to realize the nature of (8)At the rent there are many signs ekly so the Church, it had systematically handiet the weakening of the enemy, who is, that there shall be a lot of material is no negligible part of manu- Englishman hopes to get his effects by the men it had favoured the extremist politi the only terms upon which is can be but fronse-to-house visiting, but for this nur-facturing war spirit and the During Por vew class of do not want a grand places in Scotland and England where bombardment of our fidat, was incessant brought on premature decay and dis- loyalty of our people to the form of gov pose want to get to work
rk among After going through Clydeside
employment of masses.
the
period of
preparation the cal tenet, the Bolshevill or Maximalist the section of Social Democracy. Thus
Secured war material is being worked up T
(9)-We have unbounded faith
in the per From the Riethods of the new artillery taster. From the debrty of the old reginte ernment under which they
have enjoyed
At present, for instance, there is a great out of the country has probably been reading of mossi and English sport spread of industrialism aerud warinae is regarded here as likely
baeon to be an essentinworkers may cities, no shells from cowardly German course it all depends upon whether thero Russia was compelled to
committee of national safety. 10 steen
Nor does she appear to he that that is the case with the English, end greas the Vararen saw only & MIMSZ totence has got his CO NMD 2121
paign.
When We our members the league ce shall ask them to do every thing they phaibly can to educate others,
still
unavailing.
the common
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They will pledge themselves to live within not an dinner or both t Sugar pansion of all this recently self of his bonda Losing hope the have had abundant proof and of which
28 intended
that
Working
possible shall recruit helpersers
ers do not for the war, and are
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out a new technical scheme to meet yos
blighting
express
ing restraint,
with our President that misuse
As far do Tampere gh to economizo. small attention to people who say the Works realized that the enemy had thought arose ill that was inimical to the degree of happiness and prosperity and Place Ser they strike for det. This is not the place to go into details. But how, it may be asked, could a of which is not elsewhere to be found.
believe
the
workers in Hindenburg-Ludendorff defensive tactics evolution of Russia on healthy lines an encouragement of aspiration the like
"Indy" to go down among the
people teaching them
from every
so that be a full knowledge, and undereloading of these the difficulties to be faced and practical experience which can lead to practical and in it than are the idle pessimist ter wages or not-are far more of the war advice and assistance.
and reactionists moaning always about bour's disloyalty. Munitions make loyalty, make war spirit. It is born in the glowing forges and rooften steel. It to be the rivers of
behin the
behind the blow of hammers Why have not our Government Iit Ireland with the glow of
well; but young
ZA BATZONING BY AREAS."
ecotiomy, In the
serious nature of the situation,
He
State
ginat
in making
that the
new attack was near
in a position to icnreased so much in strength that
of
country numbering over
Für
was that the enemy tried constantly to unlimited funds and a host of spies in word spoken in our land which can be about that. But a feature of the scheme single organization, even with the aid of But we desire to warn them that overy broaden the zone of his artillery destrue formers, and agents provocateurs access or into willingness for an indecisive peace sion behind our front. The increasing in restricting so long the normal develop will quickly find its way to Berlin, there distorted into a semblance of disloyalty frequency of the bombardment, which Sir said aware that
ment of their Arthur and that he was sure that
often, developed lato tram-fire, and was 170,000,000, foule The answer to this to bo alisunderstood and scattered abroad directed against our lines of approach question facilitates an estimate of the as evidence of dissension among us. We effective influence could be brought to
and command positions, gradually show meaning and probable scope of the Rus belive that such words have the effect of tear on people who up to the present hal hundreds of mighty forges? Sinn Fein Especially after September 15th the drum, WB THE AULING PARSION.-.
prolonging the war and increasing its Paid little or no heed to the appeals for parading and specchifying are all very fire assaults on the whole, battle frout The great mass of the people, newly rcople had not realy understood the turn four, five, six, ten ponds a week were obviously preparing for the new freed from seldom, were ignorant pentele disposed to sustained organization
he thought that
they ments had been made which on the sur- would a shells, and the rest of infantry storm the drum-fire was diffes sants inhabiting a vast plain, remote
have other things to do with ant fro
from former they would try to avoid this error in the at militarism. No doubt there have of its peculiar employment in the face appeared to be contradictory, and antisfactory results to itself besides play are ten, 101mer druth fire, not only in its from dangers of invasion-pacifist im or resistance, that even the misrule st but also because uued with simple beliete, submissive to intolerable. The revolutionary Irapurise the fikkna did not appear altogether future believed, if it could once be been difficulties and objections to turning It was not as formerly, an
in the near authority, waved only by programme had to come from other sources. brought home to the people that the need Ireland into Vulenn's forge, but the war unbroken thunder, but series of land. No political party or programme is nothing if not full of difficulties to be storms of tremendous violence but o to save food
urgent, that the great
could appeal to their untutored minds _________JEWISH PROBLEMS- majority would respond to the appeal
faced and defeated.VI
limited duration, alternating with periods Constructive statesmanship was handi
without playing upon this appetite. Within the Empire were many millions Statistical Department would be able to inept in England that one need not be are storms and the
of, alien race and creed. On her western confusion resulting calculate how much wheat, meat, or other surprised if it has not been done at all one could realize the intention of destroy Bocialists and non Socialists vied
pauses varied, so that rivalry between
horders Russia had to deal with people foods particular areas counties, county in Ireland.
of a higher cvilization, with races, more Our propaganda has not ing the nerves of the defence by the each other boroughs, or
or big towns-would be fairly propagated. Written without genius and element of uncertainty. Thus it went on schemes of agrarian legislation. Before then her own. By her conquest of
in propounding entitled to have under a scientific aratem distributed without ability, it never had from September 10th to the 19th, and the Revolution, and even before the war, Poland she had acquired a huge of rationing based on the available & chaos All we have succeeded in doing description fronted
Jewish what our men endured national supplies. If they could have by propaganda seems to have been to
is beyond all
all much had been done by the bureaucracy, population, which she tried vainly to cou- information, then they would be able pond money and to find jobs for those Of Birmth also the English had pre despite opposition from the Okhrase, to top within a fixed zone. The repressive
pared masses in excess of everything
improve the peasant's lot, to stimulate Police mensues applied to the Jews known before This development Exactọ thế brand fertile lands under the bureaucrate police systém sudden, and it took some time before we
and to create small farm hold
ld tailed two evils: they involved abject the weaker, more ignorant and ings. But
poverty for millions, without preventing had done even by able propagands applied to superiority. The enemy airmen tried to a prey to the blandishments of the deprising Jews from invading the profes caught up with the numerical laziest portion of the villagere remained minority of the most capable and enter- tryland." fill i would have been worth perfect, bravery of our one loss, bile su por cent, of the European population, monopolling - Brew, and beter rene Biops apturing finance and trade, and was to 50 animated every with them back, and in the main to keep was like a
like a house divided against itself of In these unfitted as yet to offer, solid
of wrong st the Englishman
Support to a directed
reform movement. The scale
against parta. strong concrete defences in our lines, inilbons of her men to serve with the
out Jewish
Base their hoping that sheds for propaganda, this has been riparatively email activity both the capped en parties on the enlightened, mora developed politically
this
to find out roughly if the quantities were who know how to secure them. being exceeded in any particular place. Where the excess consumption was serious
a special effort could be made to bring
of publicity and in other weary to pay
NO APISALS TO BENTIMENT. Perhaps not a vast ccal could have been
about an improvement by a concentration
probably be necessary I walk about the Irish streets special attention to industrial centres and do not see a single effective poster or where high wages were being carned and picture to illustrate the infames of Ger
peat, and also to rural districts, where many. If we could illustrate the fried their own liners
the consumption of bread was very heavy at work shooting and beating down
Не
stance, we might bring the war home to
20fantry vented this division:- Kusain, called
Ascendi
en
desire for make use of for its own dark
grupling to
anti-revolu
was looking to the activities of the women and children, burning and wreck which were known to him, his fees being colours. The small farms suffered most. Purposes, the Okhrana saw in the Jewish of National Safety faming churches and beautiful cities, for 10 that, when the main attack took PC the villages the women shared the work race its most inveterate fou, a permanent munition workers and their and he also hoped to obtain the help of a few more Irish people.
Concrete defences might
danger to the old regime, to be exploited the co-operative societies and trade The Irish are refined, they are generous, Berous resistance of a dan either suffered in the war or weze fearfacorruption and fomentina former occasions, be centres
might as on between them The remaining men had for purposes of securing bribes, Fostering unions. the people were approached quick to indignation. An Irishman was by those of their own class, he thought made to loathe the horrible mentality and allowed to appear without some attemption, not for constructive reform, the feverish activity of the Jews operating No German report from the West is the cowards were fit subjects for revolu invitably aggravated and prolonged by
of being conscripted. The wounded and **
Kłobary plans. The Russian prisis was that a great deal could be done. In the the brute force worship of the Germanwrener solemnly declares that the cap cantile case of the rural districts he anticipated to day
dissension, and so Professor Propaganda therefore might have
the social enle, the mer in many conflicting directions and in ell helped us a little bere had it beerture of some Australian prisoners was the Ohrand farmers. One of th
the special dif
in the hands
were strongly opposed to parties. This is a plain statement of fact, of able
mon Even now, it seeded as certain proof that big things degree Lipon Government conceders was the culties were locally plentiful. For this reason or system sad the kind of, writers are ions it is always the oversea English allied
supplies might be worth a trial.
pendent to a large supported by incontrovertible evider if the kind were about to happen, for on such occa offeral
not to be taken as an he strongly believed that, so far za it to be employed on it who have been especially the Canadians and the Austra bureaucr
our The larger la
aspersion upon Jeys, who, in addition to the other could be done without interfering with ployed in the past, then I think we had aus, who must go to the
family ties with
which they have had to umbergo military and naval matters, the people better not attempt
Franjoyed
DOW should be told the plain facts of the land attempt propaganda in reKKANACON
whiny rendered them more or eituction.
being able to
the
in
the country
places
influence of the
In the development of the campaign, Sir Arthur Yap said, in conclusion, he hoped to make use of every available organization in the country. Food: Con trol Committees were being asked to take attitude to day is loyal
to the front.
Naturally, it sounds the Irish trum loudly; and it has & tight to do so v ten like Major Willie Redmond and tial glory of their country,
It is only fair to say, before quitting this question of why Ireland has not been in the war with us, that the Redmonds and the best of their adherents have really striven hard in the British cause. The tain Redmond D.B.Q., uphold the mar the initiative in appointing special com bave carefully read their Press since 11 admit I opened the papers of the lees to deal with food economy He have been here and cannot complain either condites with: snapicion on fist
the help of the trade unions, the of its editorials or of the space it devotes here but
Boeties picture
Theatres and
churches, so
to the
to the war news-to that one thing
that matter to day.
not
alr
for sneer, at the londid work been of the British Army, successfald the skill of the frat soldier
date
| accomplished of today. Bir propriate story and we shall know how
while shorte
in England for that (Continued as food
value of the cinema.
film which had ECOLIDITY shown had proved was now being broug long new film with an vas niso to be preps. things might be topical gazoltes or
is fast vanishi
ondites have lost
of the Irish peopio:
ger recruit for the war,
common, bos
6 result of the lisapu
these factor of
But!
estaan themselves
privileges
from the Country has
ated by the Revoluti and potent inghero
influences were
form of
large and in
the
ste prace.
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Eczema So Bad Never Slept For Six Months
Healed by Cuticura
Eczema of a dry nature began with a pimple on my face and then it was on my arms which felt itchy, I never slept for six months for the fiching and buras Ing. During the day I could bare Ecratched my face off I tried ointient, Salver but with Do effect. Then I sent for a free sample of Cenicera Scap and Ointment. When found it was doing good I bought more and one box of Cuticura Ointment and two cakes of Cuticura Soap healed me. (Signed)10-Miss L. Allen, 42, Hill Sta New Silksworth, - DurhamiZadar). August 12 1916 ar
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