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BLUFFING THE WHOLE THE FUTURE OF RUSSIAN
WORLD. DESPERATE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN GERMANY.
[DY ERNEST LIONEL PYKE]
A PAMINE IN ALL EXCEPT AID AND WATER: The urgent need for a quick finish to the war is now well understood by every class in suffering Germany.
The next few weeks will show an ini-
ROUBLES
A PROBLEM IN FINANCE TO BE SOLVED AFTER THE WAR
HONGKONG
MAGISTRACY.
THEFT OF IRON BARS.
A Chinese pleaded guilty to stealing
A HISTORICAL SKETCH.
[DY DR. CLAY MACCAULEY-3 Wonderful crown of human civiliss. two iron bars, valued at 810, from
Defendant said he was sick and requir
The question will arise when the war tion How was it thought of and its Jard at Hunghom
over as to the value of different issues of Russian roubles (writes & correspondent in value of the rublo is about 19, cents, the New York Sun). The present quoted
whereas the par value is about 511 cents, wounded of the battlefields vore almost to 21 days hard labour.
supremo excellence wrought?
was vaged, the sick soldiers and tho
Only sixty-five years ago, when wared money to buy medicine.
Mr. J. R Wood sentenced defendant
mense endeavour on the part of the Gerbe general view of the subject is that without any care beyond that of whatever AN UNFORTUNATE DEFENDANT,
a rouble is a rouble, no matter when, how merely official surgery or perfunctory mana to frighten the world into an im
or by whom issued, and that they should medical treatment there was then at com. mediate peace, I have no doubt of that,
all be treated by the Russian Government mand. Such service to the maimed and Germany has no alternatives but peace when the war is over ss of equal value, diseased soldiers as kindly nursing or within a reasonable time, or Bolshevism It would seem, however, that this view personal sympathy was practically un- inside her own borders. I can point to of the case is open to objection, and that known. Even the civil hospitals of the convincing prosfa for my statements. there is a very wide difference in value. time were often for more breeders of The Germans are anxious to get out of The roubles issued under the Tsar were disease than sanitary helpers to the un. the war is best they can. As one wis put out by a de facto Government fortunates consigned to them. Berliner put it to me: "We are like a recognized by every Power in the world man at the top of u steeple who has kicks to its sovereign right on all financial cd the Indder away and cannot get down questions. While the Kerensky roubles despite all his efforts.
may be open to question, it would seem
Darin, the last twelve months interval depression has gone to the extreme limit.
The gaols can hold no more. From one
end of Germany to the other they are filled with soldier deserters and free speakers.
Restrictions in food and other commo difies have got to the end of their tether, I hear that there was some grumbling a few weeks ago about queues in London.
Well, here is a list of the regular daily queues of every Gorman town. There are queues for
plan that the paper rouble issued be the Bolshevik Insurgents should stand on entirely different basis.
This so-called Government
#n
not
recognized by Russia nor by any nation, and not even by Germany, which is now fighting it. It would follow, therefore, that if the Bolshevik reg me collapses its edicte, laws, paper issues would all assumed and not accepted, we take a st collapse with it, its authority being If this resulte the money issued by it would seem to be a personal issue only
somewhat in the category of the counterfeit.
The stand may therefore be taken, when normal times resume, that the paper
It was in those days that a tender
palled at the neglect and at the uneani hearted young woman in London, ap
inmates of the public hospitals, deter tary and dangerous surroundings of the
mined to devote her life to making such places worthy of humane civilisation.
After some years of study at home and
on the continent, this young woman, Florence Nightingale founded a model hospital in England,
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE IN THE CRIMBA.
An old Chinese pleaded guilty to being in unlawful possession of a quantity of morphine and several syringes,
ant was a mass of sores, and the mor Inspector Macdonald said the defend
phing was used by him to relieve his pain.
Mr. J. R. Wood sentenced defendant to three months hard labour.
ILLICIT OPIUM,
unlawful possession of 23 trels of raw opium,
A Chinese was charged with boing in
Sergt. Falloon said he arrested defend.
ant as he was about to leave on the
Honam for Canton. The opium was
found in his possession.
Mr. E. D. C Wolfe fined defendant 2250, with the altorantito of one month's hard labour.
A COSTLY JOKE. A Chinese was charged with the theft of a bullock
It was stated that a bullock belonging
The war in the Crimes then came; and hearing of the terrible auffering of the sick and wounded there, Florence Night. singale, with a group of her model kon- pital helpers, was commissioned as the noney issued by the Tsar's Government first woman nurse for a British military to a man in Shatin strayed from the and possibly by that of Kerensky, is good, hospital In the Crimes those women gents is worthless, All these articles are rationed. When but the matter will become of great This would seem to be the logion view, it becomes known that any extra food-importance. That there should be a large stuffs have arrived in any district queues difference oven in the present value of are st once formed.
the e different issues of roubles would seen evident.
Bread
Sugar Tobacco,
Potatoes Meat Margarine, Cigars and 14
That may not sound so bad or may not seem to offer a patent opportunity for arousing unrest, but remember that there
are no illuminating oils, no lubricating oils, no butter, tea, or coffee. There are very few medicines. No rubber, soap, or rice is to be had. There is very little paper, practically no cotton, leather, soda, medical bandages, or photographic material. No bicycles are allowed, and taxicabs have been stopped
while that issued by the Bolshevik ingur became angels of mercy to the sick, to herd and was found by the defendant, revolution in the horrors of war was offered for sale to a butcher, but the the maimed, and to the dying. A blessed who took it to Yaumati. The animal wag then wrought, and the fame of Florence latter, being suspicious, postponed the Nightingale spread far
purchase until the next day with a view to making inquiries. The real owner, however, appoured later in the day and the defendant was arrested.
WIRELESS EXPERIMENTS
JAPAN
Defendant said he meant it for a joke. He intended to return the animal the
In 1859, a young Swiss philanthropist, IN condition of the uncared for wounded on Henri Dunant, aroused by the terrible
the battlebeld of Solferino, was inspired DECORATIONS FOR INVENTORS.
to seek the organisation of an interna tional society, which should do away, as next day. Lieut-Commander Hattori and Mr. pain as he witnessed. The work of far as possible, with such misery and Matsuda Tatsuse and Mr. Hayashi Fusn Florence Nightingale was, in a large de.ant to a month's hard labour,
Mr. E. D. C. Wolle sentenced defend- Looking at this vast list, and steing kichi, the latter two being paval exports, gree, his mode; but, be extended that so how it would apply to daily Londan life, have been specially decorated in apprecis to gather to his side men and women you enn get some idea what accumulativ tion of cortain important inventions diseomfort means in the richest city of made by them with regard to wireless of many of the world's nations. In 1884, Germany, The state of affairs in some of telephony. Lieut. Commander Hation tives of fourteen nations came together consequently, under his call representa- the smaller towns 18, from report an interview saya study of rein council ni Gensya, Switzerland; their
I
have made a a
special
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF LOTTERY TICKETS,
A Chinese youth was charged with
Sers in co-operation with Mr. Matsuda deliberations resulted in an international being in possession of 970 lottery tickets. and others. It is now possible to com- treaty which gave to mankind the Rei Mr. Bulmer Johnson appeared for the distance of five or six thousand miles work with other nations in caring for
unicate by wireless telephones over a Cross each nation pledging itself to defendant.
At present the apparatus is being tested the sick and wounded of all countries It was stated that the defendant was on board a warship, and I believed the alike. Humanity" and " Neutrality" arrested at the Macao steamer's Wharf, invention will prove of some service in were chosen as the watchwords of the and the tickets were found in his posses- wer-Japan Chronicle.
Organisation and the Swiss national flagston
CHARTER RATES IN JAPAN.
a red cross on a white Held became the world-inspiring banner. DEVELOPMENT IN AMERICA,
Mr. Wood, after inspecting the
The next step forward in this world. lottery tickets, said they were merely has been steadily rising, and a new record will was made in America, consequent agents. He thought the case should not The charter rate for ocean-going service including movement of mercy and good duplicates and only issued to selling has now been made. Some time ago upon the terrible Civil War that for four he proceeded with Mosers. Suzuki & Co. chartered the years, 1561-05, divided the States of the Nankai-maru, 7,970 tons deadweight, of Union. Becking to alleviate the condi
the Meiji Marine Transport Company, at tion of the sick and wounded, and to give similar cases had occurred recently and Inspector. O'Sullivan said several X10 per ton per month for a term of other needed care to the soldiers, were one year, Messrs. Suzuki have now sub- citurtered the steamer to the Kubara Com Sanitary Commission," and the he desired time to consider his position. pany at Y.47.50 for service east of Pert which accompanied the union armies bail being fixed at $250.
"United States Christian Commission,"!
The case was remanded till 10-morrow, Said for a term of one year. This rate throughout the is the highest figure reached this year.
individually
THE GERMAN DIGESTION.
war.
Some wome devoted and leaders of groups of helpers, women such
Dorothen Dix and Bickerdyko
Mother elsewhere, Red Cross help covers disas were given official posi-ters of all kinds from Betions, involving tha selection
carthquake, of fires, volcanic eruptions, floods, cyclones.
на
wrecks and mining disasters."
brought to me from them, indescribable, ALL THE FOOD FOR THE FIGHTERS, Yes, but how is it that the soldiers at the front have plenty of food!" ain continually asked. The answer is that the whole country is drained for the Army and Navy The state of affairs be hind the lines is very often such that men prefer not to take leave, and marri ed men who do take it endeavour to con vey home with them food from the front Unless you analyse my lists you will not realise how it affects the life of the German people especially after an in creasing severity in the dearth of provis sions that has extended from month to month in face of constant promises of an early peace.
Examine one of two materials as examples. No india-rubber, for instance, is now available in Germany. You may not regard this as an important commo dity, but it is, and it is also a war material. Domestically it is needed by persons requiring dental assistance-now. all the more accessary in view of the appalling bread which they have been eating for years Bhortage of india rubber means going without artificial for the war the Germans were greater nurses for hospitals, guiding their famines, epidemics of sickness, ship-
One famine reacts upon another. teeth. We at Rubleben were able to coffee-drinkers than the English. As soon work and distributing supplies aud car get india-rubber from England through ng their coffee was exhausted there cameing for special needs among the soldiers The Central Prisoners of War Committee. a run on tea. When that had all been generally. But the Germans have none. Nor is used up substitutes for both beverages
With the years the Red Cross in America has become more and more an But chiefly in connection with tho established factor in the National life. there any gold in Germany for dental were devised, and very bad they are. founding and development of what is In purposes. The prohibition of cycling, The tea is made of dried mulberry leaves specially the American Red Cross," Association of the Red Cross was
1881 Tho Already referred to, is due to the absence and tastes something like the sweet, sickly was the work done by Clara Barton, who legally incorporated in Washington American National of indie-rubber necessary for tyres. The aroma of those cigarettes given for at one time, seeing a train full of City, D.C. It was reincorporated in only motor cars use are those strictly asthma. employed for Government purposes.
wounded soldiers at Baltimore, could fill a column with india-rubber substitutes, and even the Germans can doctors to care for them" had them supervision and was given authority as English people could not tolerate such pain, hunger, cold and filth with no brought directly under Government in 1893 but in 1905, the Association was troubles,
hardly got them down. There can scarcely carried to hospital where personally an agent of the people of America, to Shortage of rubber he thrown traffic be any question that the German diges she cared for them. increasingly on to the tramway-cars, but tive system is more ostrich-like than the Clara Barton became that chief agent mercy. It was anthorised by national From that time aid a prescribed work of charity and the tramway service has gone to pievs Englishman's. You remember the pre- and guide for a marvellous relief work legislation to furnish volunteer aid to because of there being no means of ro war Germans and their appetites. They in the armies, nursing and helping, in the sick and wounded of armies in time pairing the lines or the cars themselves, had breakfast, an 11-o'clock meal, a heavy many wave and the shortage of grease prevents the midday dinner, ten with cream cakes of soldiers alike,
Union and Confederate of war, in accordance with the agree labrication of the vehicles
all kinds, and a rich and heavy supper, Let us briefly look at leather. The lock with perpetual leer during the day. The Europe, where, for the Erst time, she authorities of the United States sai
After the war, Clara Barton went to in accord with military und
ment of the Geneva Convcation; to not of leather produces discomfort of many number of their meals was excessive, the hoard of the "Red Cross. During the with similar societies of other nations, kinds among them mability to procure greasy nature of the food eaten was Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, she saw to continue and to carry on a system of ordinary foot wear. Cloth and wood take horribly indigestible, their champagne the medical staffs of the armies of the national and international relief its place. The noise of people walking was sweet and livery, as were there two hostile nations, working alpicably time of peace and to aid in mitigating in the streets of Berlin is beginning to liqueurs. Despite their great capacity together in a work of mercy that knew the sufferings remind one of the sound of clogs in a and strong digestion they cannot stomach no loe as enemy. Lancashire town in the early morning. their food and drink substitutes.
caused by pestilence, As far back as two years ago I paid £4 5s,
Miss Barton came back to America de national calamities. The organisation is famine, fire, floods and other great. for a very ordinary pair of leather boots about their rations and forgetting that banner should be raised over a kindred the collection, management and use of Here in England I find people talking termined that in America the Red Cross fully protected by law in its work, in To-day such boots are unobtainable at our fortunate insplar position enables us Society with "Humanity" and "Neu its money, and it is guarded by atrin any price. Every sarap of leather in at all times to get fish. If the Germans trality" as its inscription. Largely gent provisions from the faults of mis the German Empire has been commau- had the means of securing the many kinds through her efforts which extended over management and wrong expenditure of deered. The window-straps of railway that we have of fish which contain oil-five years, the Geneva treaty was signed its funds. Its proceedings are now in carriages are at present made of a clever such, for instance, as cod, mackerel, sal by the United States, in 1882, and The large measure under the supervision of preparation of paper. Even clothes are mon-pilchard, eels, aprats, and herrings, American Red Cross" was established, the National War Department and are being made of paper.
to mention only a few their economic Clara Barton became its first President reported annually to the National Con- The effect of dearth of many articles of position would give them less anxiety, BELIEF IN ALL DISASTERS. daily necessity would not be serious, if but fish in the Vaterland. is as scarce as lasting but a few weeks, but the result meat. Most of the fresh-water fish n Red Cross service of the past nearly Then began the marvellous American
WORTHY OF DEVOTION. of a famine of everything except air and the country has already been consumed forty years. The Society was made no at
This mere outline sketch of the Red water extending over months and year. As a great delicacy I managed on one to he fully active in times of peace as Enough, however, has been said here to Cross history could be much amplified, is such as prejudicially to affect the cou occasion to get a tench, but it cost me 66 well as of war. The Bed Cross work fort, health, and spirits of the nation pound. An excellent fish in itself as for the sufferers by fire, by flood, by valuable the Red Cross service is; and show how profoundly important, and. especially so in the case of children, old prepared at Prunier's in Paris, but famine, by epidemie disease, by any that it is worthy of the undivided and folk, and sick persons of all ages. The rendered unpalatable as it had to be cook other calamity or serious cmergency in energetic devotion of every one who cares. chief famine of all-that of fate of all ed, like all German food, without fat. the life of the people, became instan for charity and mercy among the suffer. kinds is the one of which German A well-blockaded, fatless, beerless, taneous and most effective. The catato ing and needy ones of mankind. To be scientists are most afraid. Grease and leatherless, rubberless, woolless, sugar tue of benefits is too long to repeat in a member of the Red Cross is to be a oil have been promised from the various less, tobaccolese, drugless, cottonless, this sketch. It is well known, from the part of a big movement with big ideals- occupied territories again and again, but copperless, greaseless Germany cannot relief given in the Michigan forest are the ideals of Florence Nightingale, of these premises have never yet materialis play the long game. Hindenburg has been disaster, to the help that was lavished Henri Dunant, of Dorothea Dix, and of ordered to get a quick finish. Daily in the Chio River floods and bestowed Clara Barton, as well as the ideals for (Contiqued at foot of nezh Column,);
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