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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY APRIL 261a, 1918.
DIRECTORY AND CHRONICLE
FOR
1918.
CHINA, JAPAN COREA INDO - CHINA, SIAH, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP PINES, BORNEO, ET.
FIFTY-SIXTH ANNUAL ISSUE.
THE DIRECTORY covers the whole the ports and cities of the Far Easty from Netherlands India to Siberis, in which European realde,
Not only is the Directory as full and complete in each case it can be made, but ach Colony, Port or Settlement is prefaced by DESCRIPTION, carefully teribed each year, most of which will serve as scearate GUIDES FOR THE TOURIer, giving every detail la monnection with the places, their story Topography, eto, eto,
a large volumG. vages, $11.00, Directory only, pp. 1,400 $7.00.
THE WAR.
(Continued from Page 6.)
Genaral.
HOLLAND AND GERMANY. NEGOTIATIONS PROCEEDING
FAVOURABLY:
AMSTERDAM, April 23rd. The Handelsblate mentions a number
of outstanding questions between Holland and Germany, which are now the subject of negotiation, including the German method of examining ships for contra- band, also the export from Holland of second hand goods to Germany
The paper saya that the sand and Bravel, question is not settled, but the negotiations are proceeding favourably, THE ALLEGED ULTIMATUM.
LATEST CABLEN.
THROUGH ACUTER'S AGENCY.}. SUPERHUMAN ENDURANCE AND COURAGE. HOW ONE OF THE WILTSHIRES:
WON THE V.C.
LONDON, April 24th. The names were published on Thurs day of three new recepients of the Vic toria Crom, including Lieutenant B. F.
THE HAGUE, April 23rd. Hayward, of the Wiltshires, who, while commanding his company, displayed al Nothing is known in competent quar most superhuman endurance and theters of the alleged German ultimatum rarest courage. He was buried wound threatening to occupy Dutch ports unless
LAZER ed in the lead, and deafened during the certain demanda are conceded." first day operations, had his arm shatter-
GERMANY'S POST WAR SCHEMES. ed two days later, and, subsequently, was again seriously injured in the head, but he refused to leave his men until his collapse, although the enemy were inces santly attacking He continued to mover in the open from trench to trench, abso Julely regardless of his own safety, con
example, and ceaseless energy.
LONDON, April 24th. The Tunes Hague Correspondent states--Reports, emanting from German sources in Holland suggest that Ger many may demand that raw material, for example rubber, from the Dutch colonies, shall be guaranteed to Germany
FACTORY EXPLOSIONS IN AUSTRIA
Zunter, April 24th. The newspaper Graterpost states that two large powder factories at Glasen bach, near Balzburg, were mysteriously blown up. There were many casualties Sabotage is suspected,
LATER.
THE CASUALTY LIST.
PARIS, April 24th.. Thirty-five persons were killed and nineteen were injured in the explosion At Blumenau powder factory, Lower Austria, which is a great centre for the production of pierič neid. CLERGY AND WAR SERVICE
LONDON, April 23rd. The Archbishop of Canterbury and eighteen. Bishops met at Lambeth Palace and urinaimously resolved to adopt the Bishop of London's calling-up plan, mentioned on April 21st.
GERMANY'S WAR MINISTER'S
·CLAIMS.
i
A MACEDONIAN MORNING. THE SENTRY AND HIS PARENTS [KROM A CORRESPONDENT TO THE TIMES ””] At half past 5 the Sentry was on duty, The mist, wet white, and woolly, hung drops of moisture upon the tangled- strands of wire in front of him, clung to his cap and clothes, and there turned to water,
dripped from his bayonet on to his rifle, and soaked his bands and chilied them with a cold more numbing than frost. The grass, long and tangled, at his feet was soaked and dripping. A lonely, frog splashed in a puddle a yard away. Else was there neither sound nor move ment. The white world had forgotten in a night its sorrows, its wars, its moun. tains, and its heaven. It might have been the moment before creation, but for the solid ground underfoot.
The stilines, and the mist had imbued the Sentry with their own spirit. - He stood
LIB.
in
motionless. But the strange, mystifying influence of mountain clouds impairs not the imagination, but rathon. sharpens it. From half past 5 until the lodged for hour of stand down the mind entertains bright visiong of gunfita AMSTERDAM, April 23rd.
tea and a rum ration. Between the In the Reichstag the Minister for thought of those delectable things and the realization of wet clothes and a wet world War, speaking on the Army Estimates, there is a whole field of philosophy. Long
lotters
home are composed in that hour. The Information in these Descriptioncentrating entirely on the reorganising consisting of a hundred interesting articles of the defences and encouraging his men immediately after the war. It is further said some detachments on the Western The first stanzs of new poems and the Front had lost two-thirds of their com still unpublished book Bush into being. packed with facta coniasly set out, and containing statistics of the TRADE of each The complete failure of many of the most suggested that Germany expect to be able many leaders. The losses were quite We know What is wrong with the Country and Port, wo d'alone suffice to indetermined attricks on his trenches was to force Holland to accept such condi normal, and in some cases remarkably world were there an audience betwe
Itoyal Octavo Containing nearly 9,000 aliost entirely due to his magnificent tions as would compel Germany's enemies small, which was mainly attributed to Ciceronian, phrases upon the cause, and«
formally to occupy Dutch Colonies, which the infantry and machine-gun fire, remedy of War--not only this War, but all wars. And from that the mind flies throw Holland completely into German Therefore, wounds were light. A great back to one's own part in a war that has hands,
number of wounded had already returned certainly not yet stopped. Wo wonder why we didn't join the Flying Corps: DUTCH COLONIAL SHARES to the front,
precisely what we should say if ever vo LATER DECLINING.
had to face the president of a Court The Minister for War claimed that martial,
and & & Score e of other important Dutch Colonial sharra have recently the Germans break through in the West things shown a rapid decline.
was 60 kilometres deep and that 100,000 THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN British troops were captured, and 1,500 vanished at once, swallowed by the mist. guns:“Moreover, we have thrown back Bomething thing could not
mysterious something that "ADMIRALTY STATISTICS
the French across the Oise Aisne canal understand, gathered and absorbed the and defeated the British at Armentieres, very breath of his lungs. That was
symbol surely In the white mist he read The Admiralty announces the disconcapturing 20,000 prisoners and 250 guns.
the Bcal of his double destiny, Things of tinuance of the weekly shipping returns. He dwelt upon the difficulties of bring the immediate moment strove with things immemorial for the possession of hìm, lo For these will be substituted informationing up German reinforcement. The the silent whiteness Nature and giviliza. as to the gross tonnage lost, also the enemy has again found points of tion were divorced and were now quarrel tonnage of sailing, to and from the vantage, of which he is taking use, child. It is unpleasant to be the chaild of United Kingdom monthly, which will be thereby necessitating a continuation parents at variance.
At last, a score of miles
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The CHRONICLE covers the notable grants together with the Texts of all the most important Treaties concluded with the countries of Eastern Brie, the various Customs Tariffs, Trade Regulations, Cham bera of Commerce, Scales of Commissions.
EGYPTIAN COTTON CROP ESTIMATES.
LONDON, April 23rd,
19.
Sir William E. Brunyate, K.C.M.G., Acting Financial Adviser to the Egptinn Government, in a note on cotton, says: The phenomenal increase in the price of Ho 'cetton has been maintained, estimates that the 1917 cotton crop, will yield E.£50,000,000,--
against E.£39,000,000, in 1918-
The Empire Cotton Growing Com mittee in London are strongly pressing for the resumption of reclamation schemes in the Nile delta, which were suspended at the outbreak of war, but labour resources are at present being employed for military purposes.
NATIONAL REGISTRATION IN CANADIA DHASTIC PENALTIES FOR NON
COMPLIANCE.
OTTAWA, April 24th.
In connection with the National
LONDON, April 24th,
published on the 21st of each month upproximately.
The tables of merchant tonnage lost from all causes last month show that the British total was 210,000 tons and the combined Allied and Neutral total 168,000
toos.
The first quarter of 1918 aggregated 1,194,000 tons, of which the British share
of the battle.
LABOUR'S ADMIRATION FOR THE ARMY.
1. In meditations such as these, the Sentry noticed that he could see his breath. It
ling over the possession of him, their
away,
beyond.
the plain, and high among the channel the mist rolled back leaving s of light
between a distant peak and the Sentry. It was remarkable that the sun hed flashed up
upon that peak; had painted LONDON, April 23rd. it in Fold
and pink, and built around The National Executive of the Labourite bas in
snowy clouds a city of fairy- whence minarets and mosques and Party have resolved and expressed their palacos pointed
ated their feathery tops deep gratitude to and admiration for the towards the one piece of hive sky yet Visible. For the peak was far away in Army's heroic resistance to the terrible the west But that is the sort of paradox onslaughts. Bach magnificent courage think him a god whose influence begin to that delights the sun. No wonder some
British traditions and imposes. R11 İms
Consular and Court Fees, Hongkong Stamp Registration in June the Government was 688,000 and thas of the others 436,000, and resolution is consistent with the best work so far from the doors of his palac
Duties, Fostal Guide, Signal Codes, Chinese Festivala, Tables of Money, Weights and. Measures and other Commercial Information The CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY thougs condensed in every possible manner
has ordered that all residents in Canada over sixteen years of age must register. The penalties for non-compliance will be a fine, or imprisonment, or both;
Last quarter's total was the lowest re- corded.
The highest aggregate was in the second quarter of last year, when the British
others 876,000.
perative obligation upon all sections of And soon not these only, but south and north, the great red and grey, bastions. the community to assist by skill, energy began to show through the thinning mist, or substance to carry on the great work crowded here and there with broad of liberation in which the Army is patchs of green and russet, gold, brown. engaged in order that our joint efforts and crimson, It was as if some band of militarism and secure a lasting demo-way of a giant's house. cratic peace for the world:
[contain" every year more pages and now. disfranchisement, deprivation of the losses were 1,362,000 and those of the will result in the final overthrow of angels swept back the snow from the doors
numbers nearly 3,000,
It is published at the Office of the right to hold any position or employ ment or to earn wages in the employ-
or to earn "HONGSONG DAILY Pams.":
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| Antung.
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Triganfo.
Mukden.
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Harbin.
Winchow, Bantu. Foochow AMOF Kirin
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Persons employing a defaulter, or selling him a railway or steamboat ticket or supplying him with board and lodging, will be liable to the same penalties,
The scheme is intended to provide in- formation respecting labour resources of "Although conscription of Canada. labour is not contemplated, the Regia tration Board will be cunpowered to name industries in which men of certain ages must not be employed.
MA BANKRUPTCY OF COMMU
NICATIONS.
THE CONDITION OF GERMAN RAILWAYS.
AMSTERDAM, April 24th-
In the Reichstag in the course of discussion on the railways, a Progressive Deputy remarked-Judging from the state of things on our railways and the condition of the material, we are ap proaching a bankruptcy of communi- cations.
The highest month's losses were in April of last year when the British wero 555,000 and the others 339,000.
The Ministery of Shipping announces that the tonnage of steamships exoceding 500 gross tons to and from the United Kingdom, bat excluding coast-wise and cross-channel traffic, 7,296,000 tons, which was the highest since October of last year, when it was 0,903,000 tons.
was in March
THE MAN-POWER APPEAL
NEWFOUNDLAND'S SELECTIVE CONSCRIPTION BILL.
Sr. Jogs's, April 24th.
The Newfoundland Legislature · was opened by the Governor, whose speech announced a selective Conscription, Bill rendering all unmarried men and child less widowers, between the ages of 19-35, liable to military service in four classes, each covering a period of five years. The Bupreme Court is to be constituted an Exemption Tribunal.
REPATRIATION OF WAR
PRISONERS.
LONDON, April 23rd.
OVERSTAFFED GOVERNMENT
OFFICES.
AN UNCOMPROMISING ATTITUDE.
Lastly, and while yet the rolled-up mist clung in great folds about the bases of the mountains, the plain shone back a thousand feet below the Sentry, yet in the freshness of the mowing seeming within reach of an extended hand. The treg and shruba, the fittle folds and hedges, and wide ravines, green the dark patches of bleached Brass Iny visible with A urrespondent writes to the Times-clarity unknown in colder latitude, We have almost unconsciously drifted The world it seemed, was seen through into an attitude of mind which regards microscope, and might be noted to the the appalling waste of money and labour last leaf and the last finde of grass. And in Government Departments as a laud there be not too sharp a hint of levity in there above, springing, if for majesty. able subject for humour, whether in our that word, from a bed of saffron edged comis papers or in ordinary conversa with sarber and hung about with crimson, bave
tion; and I believe that it is only by an was the Bun Civilization y
grasped the child then, or the knelt in worship,
had
uncompromising attitude on the part of the Press that anything will be done to remedy the present state of affairs,
A thousand birds-dawa, fuches, crows, * Allow me to give you three haphazard and magpies-rose in tumultuous fight instances which happen to have come from the soaking thorn bushes and under my notice to-day. Wa Bashed their wet wings in the golden
1-1 entered a Government office, and light. No wonder in the days found three young women having tea. Adam tumed the first clod. God They cheerfully announced that they had from his blue curtain and found his But the turning of nothing to do and had had no work for handiwork several weeks a
cloda goes forward for over, and grimly lady who entered a Government now where torn ground makes way for.
tranchers an
and gun omplacements. office simply to do her bit" tells me
bards lowed in, a fine stream that a few days ago she went to the head
her department and complained that life round the hill out across the plain her work did not occupy more than thorn bushes to chatter, caw, and chirp and back again... back to the trees and fraction of her time, and asked for some their complete agreement with the Divine thing more to do She was immediately pronouncement. A single eagle floated given a rise of 10s, a week and set to like a lifeless thing from a crag, like supervise a number of other girls equal-hape thrown out into space by an unseen -ly at their wits' end to employ their time, hand, and hung, motionless as a black Her work now cenaista of seeing that star of day halfway between earth and
2
The
they are sufficiently supplied with needle heaven AL
Civilization had
work to prevent them from getting out Suddenly in the blue
that of hand.
elung about the ravines among the Foots In the House of Commons, replying to. A business friend, à manufacturer bills there was a flicker of sinister light, Mr. P. Soowder, Mr. J. Hope said of goods most important to the efficiency followed by a rash. Something scream that prisoners of war were eligible for re of the nation, tell me that to-day one ed through the crystal sir and burst into
fect. inefficiency, to whom he was paying begun another day s the really ludicrous sum of 258 a week, nothing like a clear morning for register has left to fill a post in a Government ng barrage. The Sentry remembered. whoes child he was, and crept back to his office at ass a week
Apart from the awful waste of public trench The gunfire tes was cold, and the
ram was not there. money in all this, what of the effect upon industry where employers cannot replace members of their guffs who have been called up by efficient substitutes at prices While Ford Motor Company officials which they can afford to pay, and simply refuse to discuss the subject, it is under dare not exact efficient work from their stood from good authority that the remaining personnel well knowing that company will make light tanks for the at the blightest criticum an employé United States and the Allies on a wholesale will flounce off to the golden paradise scala The Ford tankis to be much of a gentæl Ministry? kad smaller than the British and French The fact that one is almost ashamed to machines. It will carry a driver and a write such a letter, for the mere reason machine gun operator and be draven by that its newa is so stafe, surely points to two gasoline engines of standard type. the overwhelming necessity for action by It will have the usual caterpillar trac the Cabinet
patriation (as distinct from internment of his staff, a school girl of most per divers a mL AWAY There is
EARLIER CABLES. GROWING FEELING OF PESSIMISM IN GERMANY.
AMSTERDAM, April 24th.
in a neutral country) on health grounds The existence of a growing feeling of only, according to the Anglo-German pessimism in Germany owing to the schedule of disabilities. The dates of suspersion of the offensive and the recapture have not affected the question of cognition
that the effects of sub repatriation, and the Allies considered marinism have not borne out their that a general exchange of prisoners was hopes, is disclosed in significant articles impracticable. in the Weser Zeitung and Kolnische Folks Zeitung. The papers, after reveal ing that the Higher Command's failure is being discussed in "quarters where more sense might be expected, ad- minister palliatives which are obviously, officially inspired.
THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, April 24th. Silver is quoted 4d per ounce," Sellers are holding back, and the market is steady
Larze Silver is quoted 481 There are small offerings, and the market is firm
tion: