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OVERCROWDING OUR CRADLES THE CAUSE OF WAR FAMINE
AND PESTILENCER
GEN SMUTS ON THE COMING ORDEAL BRITISH EMPIRE MUST REMAIN THE PRINCIPAL PROTAGONIST. Licut.-General” J. C. Sinuts received the freedom of the Clothworkers' Com. pony on the 3rd inst.
General Smuts, in reply to the toast of his health, said:
CHINA'S FOREIGN TRADE. ANALYSIS OF 1917 EXPORTS. The Statistical Departinent of the Customs. has issued an analysis of the [DY J. O. P. BLAND]
export trade of China for 1917 from which it appears that the value of the exports Mr. J. O. P. Bland, in the Edinburgh
of Chinese products to foreign countries Revice, suggests that it is the surplus
in 1917 was Hk. Tls. 18,000,000 lear than armies of babies which, treading on their
in the preceding twelve months forerunners' heels, make war inevitable,
Cefany means to win this war and
The progress of China's export, trade in for food rations will not go round. And to follow up her victory with what Hinton years is shown by the following he warns us that war, pestilenco, and denburg has just called a forcible Gar figures:- famine will continue unless we stop the man platelet that be fully realized by overcrowding of our cradles. For cen-overy responsible person in this and al turies" he says the world has been led to believe, and has believed despite the evidence of its senses, that the Lord will provide-and yet the history of all life on this planet stands to confirm the truth that uncounted millions of human beings are brought into the world in obedience
Allied countries.
That issue is now perfectly clear. And so is our duty. We are at one of the great momente of history when, in a day or in a night, the seed of the future.cen turica germinates. Our men at the front bave proved worthy, What about us!
Hk. T. £70,600,403
1508 .... 1909
336,902,814
-1910
390,833,328
1011
377,338,106
1912
370,520,403
1913
403,305,546
1914
356,226,629
1918
418,861,164
481,707,366
462,931,630
1910 1917
The values of experts to some of the leading trading countries in Haikwan
ARMY CORPS OF DYES.
WHERE GERMANY MUST FACE DEFEAT.
The great German dye monopoly which... for many years before the war ruled the world of colour and levied tributs in the shape of large profits on every nation on earth has been broken. This was the one great fact realised by a large party of visitors
the guests of British Dr, Limited, were on Saturday admit pany's operations during the past two ted to the innermost secrets of that. Com- and a half years in English chemist
Once upon a time an
discovered that artificial dyes could be made by submitting coal tar the oily. substance extracted from cool--to various chemical processes. That was many years ago, and on that discovery, made by the chemist in his laboratory, a great indus- try responsible to-day for almost every atom of colour in our clothes, our books, our pictures, and our household goods has been built.
that industry was a German monopoly. Unfortunately, until a year or two ago, Although the discovery was English, although there were enough brains.
uns and
toond law of nature who, by another What about the home front? Believe me, Thela are set forth below, the 1916 Agures | enough business enterprise to have estab-
equally inexorable law, cannot possibly lo supported thereon.
"The seer of Chelsea's vision of vast unpeopled spaces awaiting the toil-worn Craftsman that with
earth-minde imple- ment laboriously conquers the earth to cover it thereafter with his struggling progeny, has persisted even until now. In practice, the industrial nations at the centres of civilization have steadily
become
and more
Franco
ask this question in no critical or fault fuding spirit, but only from a sense of Pearing in brackets for purposes of
the industry here had it been comparison;----
thought worth while no one bothered. the overwhelming gravity of the crisis
Hongkong
Cotton, wool, silk, and other textiles from 115,842,046 which looms over the world. The great Great Britain 26,089,780 (34,916,046) were made by British milliowners and (119,485,050); which millions and millions of sovereigns struggle has now lasted a long time, and the decision is about to fall, perhaps the 3,906,824 (6,305,978); Russia and Siberia
25,536,079 (27,201,959); Italy Geca and every other dye-using coun
British operatives, were all coloured by dres Not only England but the end of this war seo a new, free world, by land frontiers 19,438,274 (20,444,813); try in the world succumbed to the German most inteful decision in all history. Will
Russian Preife por
spell, Seventy-five per cent. of the dyes 25,748,557 used the world over were manufactured (37,050,545); Japan 105,773,810 (112,922,259), United States
Formosa from start to finish in Germany, and the makors of the bulk of the remaining 85 the only increase worth mentioning-mediate"
relied for some esential inter- per cent.
94,786,220 (72,080,705); Australia, New War brought the supply of German dyes
on German supplies This was the position of affairs in 1914. Zealand, etc., 1,027,370 (1,014,891).
The 10 chief export centres are as fol- low-
world in which freedom, honour, and co-operation among the nations will llower on the immeasurable sacrifices of this war? Or will it sco a fresh instal more dependentment of militarism, fresh scheming and on the food resources of the Pampas and for the greater struggle which must en preparing, and arming of this generation Savannahs,' and at the same time the tide gulf, the next generation of human life has been steadily rising in The world is at last thoroughly awaken- those partially developed regions, rising Our European Allies are straining America is speeding up at slowly but surely towards the point where very nervo
rate which will bring a huge American their food resources must of necessity be Army to Europe long before this
year
18 required for local consumption, *
ver. But I do not wish you to lose the position of honour which you have occu
d pied
Fo. the rapidly reached in the United States of very end 28 the last 12 months..
the British Empire must remain America. And all the time statesmen and the principal protagonist for liberty in churchmen and politicians have continued this war for the world's freedom. May to impress upon these masses that it is that end mean peace with honour, a last- their duty to increase and multiply, regardless of consequences, and that ang fruitful peace for the corely tried high birth rate is the outward and visible nations of the world. (Chcers) sign
n of a Virile and progressivo
ENGLAND'S FUCE.
Under our undiscerning eyes, within the last few years, this point has been
Let us glance briefly at the record of the past century. In England and Wales the population at the opening of the nineteenth century was 8,000,000. In 1001 it was 32,500,000. It had been multiplied three and a half times in a hundred years The increase was nearly 24,000,000. Dur ing the eighteenth century the increase was less than three millions. In the first
WOMEN'S RETORT TO STRIKE THREATS.
patriotic declaration of their resolve to The women munition workers, whose remain at work should the engineers decide to strike on the man-power ques
action in April. In reply to the threat issued by the unofficial conference of engineers held in Manchester, the follow
and
Hk. Tls.
Shanghai Dairen Canton
197,354,059
51,575,511
40,994,068
Suifenho Tientsin
17,082,530
17,375,935
Chunghing Kowloon Mengtsz Hankow Manchouli
16,899,901
14,172,600
12,505,608 12;767,776 11,160,011
SAIGON RICE MARKET.
The Compagnia de Commerce & de in their report dated June 18th, state: Navigation d'Extreme Orient, of Saigon,
Our market has become rather Armer
to
sudden stoppage, and fabulous price were soon being charged for the small stocks in hand. Yorkshire and Lanca shire makers of woollen and cotton goods wore at their wits end for dyes, and the one or two small firms which had for Years fought the German monopolists in the face of the greatest odds suddenly found themselves riding on the top of a ware of exhilarating prosperity.,
FACING THE FACTS.
There was much weeping and. wailing and gnashing of teeth. Our northern Dianafacturers are never eager to admit that they have been had, and it was nearly a year before they faced the facts and set themselves to find the remedy.
Then they vehemently declared— Never again will we be at the mercy of the German monopoly. A company was formed with a share capital of £3,000,000; the Government gave it support and
the ing lying were taken over, and its ture: the works of a firm which had kept advanced £1,500,000 on a mortgage deben-
tenter partner, a hard-headed Yorkshire- man, ondo a bottle-washer in the works be
the new undertaking.
decade of the twentieth century the ion was published recently, again took during the last few days on account of then controlled, was placed in charge of
population of England and Wales isicreased by 2,500,000; that is to say, the volume of increase per annum in the twentieth eentury was more than ten times the corresponding factor in the eighteenth. The circumstances, which have enabled the English race to increase at this rate were,
and are, still Peculiar briefly stated, vast numbers, that could by no means have been supported by the food production of the country, have survived because the nation accumulated wealth and industrial capacity enabled it to acquire food (at the cost he, it observed, of other human lives) from India, Ruusia, and other countries less fortunately situated., Yet it must be evident, even to the militarists who ery for babies to maintain the balance of power, or to capitalist enthusiasts for cheap labour and cut-throat competition, that theso privileged conditions are of their nature transient.
OUR MAN-MAKING RECORD.
the purchases made by Japan.
The total amount of rice exported from
ing resolutions were carried on the i the 1st of January up to the 28th of May,
Clyde
That this meeting of women munition workers at Edith Cavell projectile factory protesta against the A.S.E. threat to strike at a time when all man power is required, and pledges itself to carry on the production of war material in order to back up the soldiers at all costs and to win the war."
against the Manchester resolution to stop
Jarrow engineers protested strongly work on the Man-Power question, and pledged themselves to support any mea sures which the Government might take to defeat the enemy, and also to assist their brothers so nobly offering their lives in defence of the country on land and ma
1018, is 019,000 tons against 522,470 tons in 1917.
No 3 sifted, Japan quality, Hongkong. We quote to-day :-Whit, Saigon Rice, $3.06 per pical fo.b. Saigon for July! August shipment.
WAR PENSIONS.
NEW AND BETTER RATES,
The new Royal Warrant dealing with the pensions of soldiers and their families came into operation on May 1st main departures from the existing war-
The
It must also be evident, even to the religious people who denounes Grant Britain's lately declining birth rate as a supplied by Dr. Stevenson to the Birth rant of March 29th, 1917, relate to child disgrace and a calamity, that it is not Rate Commission, speak for themselves:ren's allowances and the alternative pen- possible for England in the twentieth century to repeat her man-making record
Way
2.
some
Speial Class
and squig
1,000 married i
minles aged
ander 35 years:
Death under..
1,000 children.
g one year per
Unskilled Workmen. 213 tipper and Middle... 119 Skilled Workmen... 163
152.5
76.4
112.7
.born.
sions of widows.
Under the new warrant, children's allowances are increased to 6s. 6d. per week for the first child, 5s. for the second, and 45, 2d for each of the others.
The present rates are ts., 4s. £d., and 39, 4d. for the first three children respectively, and 29. Gd. for each of the others. Pen sions to motherless children have hitherto been awarded at the rate of 7s a week, where two or more children have
For two years the work has been
carried
on nimost in secret. Gigantic problems had to be solved. Hidden secrets had to be learned by research work in the labora tory, the manufacturing cheiat had to show how those secrets could be applied to plan and erect the machinery; supplies commercially; the chemical engineer bad of raw material had to be organised labour and building materiala had to be provided in a time when both were scarce.
Step by step the processes previously the monopoly of the German manufac turers have been duplicated and improved on. Along a little Yorkshire valley, on tract of land over 500 acres in extent, huge works have been erected and vast plants have been installed. No loophole has been left for the German monopolist every stage in every process has been. undertaken.
for
army of between 4,000 and 5,000 work-people is now employed, including the first time in the history of the figures in brown and blue Jerking and industry some 800 women, whore lithe trousers add picturesqueness to the works Room has been left everywhere for future the large party of visitors who were let ure development, and it was easy for into the secret of the success already achieved to picture still further amazing progress in the future So has the work been done in its
thoroughly mental stages that Mr. James Falconer, experi M.P., the chairman of the company, wan able to declare that, despite the intricate and complicated nature of the plants it has been necessary to instal,
in the ease of
of the nineteenth. The rate of increase which obtained in England and Wales from 1801 to 1901 would, if maintained, produce a population of 1,400,000,000 three hundred years hence.
OF
(to the matter with equal force in another
had
our forefathers, since the days of William the Conqueror, been in a position to achieve birth rate and death rate similar to those of England and Wales in the nineteenth
Apart from this striking evidence, the been maintained by one person, at the century, the present population of this little island-foot is ebatistically established beyond all rate of 60. for each of the children after the fime it was started it has done good without allowing for any contribution question that infant mortality increases the first. Under the new warrant the wo have the raw materials," na.. from Scotland would be somewhere in regularly in proportion to the size of the pensions will be at rates not exceeding the neighbourhood of 100,000,000,000.
family. In other words, the procreative 10s and Os. Ed. The pension to an ille added, we have the original ability of Even a bishop must admit that the recklessness of the lower social group gitimate child will be ús, Bd. ner week, our scientife men, and the great practical problem, thus simply stated, is of a results
lis merely in filling our graveyards the present rate is 5% Alternative pen-ability and acumen of our business men. naturo to gire pause to those who would. Whereas forty years ago the fertility basis of two-thirds (instead of one-half)ing a national dyo industry which will sions to widows will be calculated on the There is nothing to prevent us establish go on blindly replenishing the earth' on of the clergy of the Church of England of the alternative pension that might compete with Germany in every part of the Lord
provide principle.
was above the average, it now comes very have been payable to the husband had he the world."H.8.0.
*
will
A BISHOP'g
IFS.
With human waste,
of the human race would appear to have It little
survived and remained incapable of earn- ing.
card-
every one of them from
HONGKONG DEFENCE CORPS.
the losses dus to war the Middle Ages Clergy, in their privato lives, have awarded to a parent, or parents, only if Orets FOR INFANTRY HATTALION BY. MAJOR,
for
low instance.
is
the
QUALITY BEFORE QUANTITY.
Mr. Bland amplifies his argument by interesting figures regarding many lands, and suggests that they show
effected by
V
to me, is the fundamental fast we have the principle that it is not the number of soldier discharged a culled moairs.
As Dr. Inge stated before the Birth close to that of the medical profersion Rate Commission: The productiveness and teachers, at the bottom of the list.
was
more than half that of the
With regard to parents, the warrant been evolved in such a way as to meet coal miners and agricultural labourers, embodies a concession granted some time
famine, pestilence,
who head tho
listy That is to say that the ago, Whereas, formerly a pension was and other causes.
· birth about the was about
realized that it is better for the com- there had been pre-war dependence, or if and the
and for the future generation's the son had been a scholar or apprentice, munity same. Within the last century, the death chutes of happiness that the quiver now the parent, or parent, may receive rate has been reduced from the medieval should not be too full"
a pension if they are incapable of self-sup level to fourteen, and if the birth rate
port from pecu fagy age or infirmity, and are in were maintained at anything like its
Several other alterations are natural level, about forty all over the
the new warrant Medical treatment world, the population of the globe, which
That the doctrine of a high birth rate, during the present war may be granted now 1,700,000,000, would in
in: 120 years as desirable either on moral or economic to non-attributable cases, men whose have reached, 27,000,000,000 or about ten times as great a number as the earth grounds, is untenable.
All human ex disability is not attributable to service. could probably support. That, it seems more and more conclusively to support may be granted to their families. perience and scientific knowledge
tend and during such treatment allowances to recognize, and one that makes a drastic births, but that of healthy and efficient further service,
unfit for. limitation of the birth rate, an absolute survivals which shall make and keep aient, may be granted a temporary allow.
while necessity,**
nation in the forefront of progressive ence of 278. 66. per week during the Economic pressure," says Mr. Bland, civilization. In course of time, as educa-period between the date of his discharge
∙tion' spreads, even our politicians must and the date of the award of a the desire for a higher standard come to admit that votes may be reckoned or gratuity, together with full children's a pension decency and comfort, began to bring this by fundamental fact home to the educated Western Europe, intoxicated by the terms of the existing warrant is 14s with
quality rather than quantity
allowance. The temporary allowance in classes in Western Europe, and most not transient prosperity of modern urban out children's allowances. ably in France, before the close of the dustrialism, has had its
Men who nineteenth century Birth control, at
fling it has undergo training, and who already may first tentative and localized, is now. instinctively practised by thoughtful men
men world for whose
decent, comfortable period of training, may, in and women throughout Europe, North fertility promises no
men maintenance the America, and Australia, in fact in almost every civilized country of the Western capital, heedless of the fact that the next the trade in which he has been trained. tion has devoured a part of its required to be provided by the man in world except Russia and the Balkans. Aa generation of consumers will be more Certain serious injuries are raised in showing the position of affairs in Eng land, the following figures for 1911 body, somewhere, must needs go empty upon which the disablement pensions are Bumerous than the last, and that some degree in the schedule of specific injuries (Continued at foot of next Column)
based
STATE OF CLASS CRADLER.
millions of buman lives into the receive a bonus of 58, a weak
grant, not
diminishing receive of tools, if three
civiliza £10, for the
the
are
H. A. HONGAN,
JUDGING DISTANCE TEST.
Owing to the parade for this ordered for Saturday, 15th instant, having been cancelled on account of rain, it will now take place next Saturday,
22nd instant, at the same time ant place.
Should this parade have to be cancelled for any reason, it will be held on Sunday, 23rd instant, at 8.30 am. Any man wishing to attend the Gymkhana meeting on the 22nd can do so by obtaining leave from his Platoon Commander and on the un- derstanding that be attends the parade for Judging Distance for "R" Company and the remainder of the Machine-gun Company and Signalling Section on the 29th instant,
*B COMPANY: The funeral of the late Sergt. Bryson
-YUNERAL AAST will take place on Wednesday, 19th instant, instead of as previously notified. Parade at the time and place stated in Corps Orders dated 14th June, 1918. ap??
G. E. STEWART, Cant
Adjutant, H.K.DO Hongkong, 18th June, 1918-