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THE WAR.
(Continued from Page 5.)
Italian Front
frikouge RectER'S AGENCT.)
ITALIAN FRONT. BRILLIANT FRENCH RAID,
Roxt, September 7th.
ATTEMPTS TO SCUTTLE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., LD GERMAN FINANCE DISHONEST
GERMAN SHIPS IN CHILE. |
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Sept. 7th. There is much indignation owing to a concerted attempt by the crews of the German ships in Chile, comprising steamers and 57 sailing ships, aggregat ing 200,000 tons, in dynamite the ships
and machinery...
The quick action of the Naval Authori.
·
The French carried out a brilliant raidies prevented the complete destruction east of the Asiago, after a short but very violent artillery preparation. The nemy resisted desperately and suffered
heavily..
The French losses were slight.
General.
(THROUGH, RELTER'S AGENCY.}| RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. DISQUIETING REPORTS.
A GOOD REPORT.
ENEMY MARCHING TO BANKRUPTCY.
At a time when so many large engineer ing interests in Great Britain are con
In the House of Lords, Lord Emmott sidering the advantages of reorganization delivered in important speech on the and combining interests, the Chairman's motion for the second reading, of the speech at the eighteenth annual general Finance Bill in which he showed that meeting of the General Electric Co., Ltd.. German finance was dishonest, in the held at Cannon Street Hotel on July 8th, is of considerable interest.
The Board of Directors of the General Electric Co., Ltd.-whose interests in China are in the hands of the subsidiary the General Electric Co., of China, Ltd., with its head office in
Lord Emmett said that considering the' Shanghai-has been strengthened by the enormous liabilities to which Great Bris addition of Major-General the Hon. Sirtain was committed, he did not think the Newton J. Moore, K.C.M.G., late Prime Minister of Western Australia and demands made upon the taxpayer werd Arthur Chamberlain, the Chairman of at all too large. He often. wished that Messrs. Kynoch's, Ltd.
the Government would keep us better
содости of the vessels. but the engines of seven of the steamers were destroyed.
Troops are now guarding the ships. SENSATIONAL GERMAN NAVY STORY.
Loynoy, September 7th.
The Scandinavian newspapers contain a sensational explanation of the mystery of numerous corpses of German sailors being washed up on the coasts.
It is stated that the crews refused to LONDON, September 7th. go aboard the submarines, seized four There are disquieting reports altering torpedo-boats, and steamed at full speed out from, Russia. It is stated that the
to Norway. whole of the British colony in Petrograd bas been arrested.
There have been numerous arrests, at Moscow.
The Beadquarters of the French Mili tary Mission Has been sucked and a num- ber of Frenchmen bave been arrested.
LENIN'S CONDITION.
Lenin is weaker frem effusion of blood and pleura.
sense that the figures were unreliable, and that Germany's methods were in marked centrast with our own.
In his speech to the shareholders, Mr. H. Hirst, chairman and managing direc-informed about German finance. The tor, said:
that we had made for this way, had been comparative superiority of the provision
the subject of praise even in Pun-German Our finance was honest.
newspapers.
If the electrical industry is to rise to the level expected of it, and not to drift back again into a state of industrial dependence, it must make itself independ eat of foreign importation and develop all is requirements from raw materials (Hear, hear.) German finance was dis and resources which the Empire places honest in the sense that their figures at its disposal. in that direction great opportunities will be afforded for scies- were unreliable. (Hear, pear.) For in- tific research and invention. Further stance, they still took credit for their pre- will lift us into a higher In that pre-war revenue there was an sphere of usefulness in the social and
more,
Other warships chased and overtook dens fination with labour and pru-war revenue. about £100,000,000 in all.
them and a regular fight ensued.
Two of the torpedo-boats were sunk! and the crews were killed or drowned. . ALLIES' UNDENIABLE
SUCCESS.
AMSTERDAM, September 7th. The German expert, General Ardenne, in a laborious explanation of the German
His assailant is dying, as the result of defeat, adinits that the Allies, particular. ill-treatment
ly the British, have scored an undeniable success in pushing the German front on the Arrus-Cambrai rond..
General Ardenne finds the excuse tant the Germans had been fighting for
BOLSHEVIK TERRORS.
LONDON, September 7th Apparently a Bolshevik reign of terror has been inatiated in Moscow.
A telegram received in Amsterdam from Moscow states that as a result of the decree issued on September 5th ordering the arrest of the Social Revolutionaries, representatives of the bourgeoise, and ex. officers, who hre to be shot in the event of fresh anti.Bolshevik conspiracies. many Social Revolutionaries were arrest ed in Moscow; also several high ecclesias ties who are alleged to be implicated in the British conspiracy." Numeroas executions are occurring.
BRITISH SUCCESS IN NORTH RUSSIA. LONDON, September 68.
9.10 p.m.
A British official message from Northern Russia says:-After severe hand-to-hand 6ghting, on the Archangel front, "with" the enemy led by Germans, the Allies bccupied Obozerkaya, taking, 150 prison. ers and inflicting heavy, losses. Our casualties were light. GENERAL VON HINDENBURG'S PROCLAMATION,
'COPENHAGEN, September 6th.
economic development of the country. iten of about £36,000,000 from Custom
The electrical industry in the future but owing to the blockade the commodi- will not be content to be a mere adjunct
to other industries-it will have to be a ties that were going into Germany att
kes industry by itself. Industrial penetration, of which we have heard mach of late, has been carried out by Germany, who has used the electrical in- dustry as a key,
If electrical concerns are to open the door for British enterprise abroad they must in future be enabled to carry out complete contracts.
In
present time were so small that no large revenue such as that could possibly be raised from Customs at present. £3,000,000, the chief items were brandy, regard to Excise which malt, and sugar.
produced
these commodities was being consumed in Far less of all the it is little realized that average Germany at the present time than was the electrical contracts bring as a rule only taking credit for receiving the sume case before the war. and yet they were 10 per cent, or 1 per cent, of work into amount that they received in peace time. purely electrical shops: The work con. In addition to Germany crediting herself nected with is automatically brings with the old penertime revenue, whea per cent, or 60 per cent of work into she did not receive it, on the other side engineering and other industries.
Firms that have carried out the light- £70,000,000 that was paid in peace-time
she did not debit herself with twelve days and were suffering from over.ing and power installations of Berlin and for the upkeep of the army and navy. fatigue and loss of supplies, "and he chirago, have better opportunity, of The acknowledged deficit, far this year af securing foreign contracts than British E144,000,000 was arrived at by over expects that Marshal Foch will continge firms, which, although their complete estimating her receipts and underesti his harassing tactics and will attempt to age of products may be equally good, ing her expenditure. It who a Betition.
or better, can only show that they have 5gure, und did not represent the facts, envelope the German wings..
carried out a section of an installation, which apparently the German Govern- say. at Manchester, another at Glasgowment dare not disclose to their people. and another at Birmingham.
AMERICA'S HUGE WAR REVENUE BILL
WASHINGTON, September 7th. The Eight Billion Dollar War Revenue Bill was introduced to the House of Representatives amidst enthusiastic
sume attention, to this necessity had been visible in the recent report on the organ- ization of super-stations contemplated in this country. Those demands, of the manufacturers have so far been overlook ed.
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UHANGE OF POLICY.
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CERMANY'S DENT.
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the
tary knowledge of German finance. The " Only very few people had na elemen- Chancellor of the Exchequer had esti- mated that the German debt from March 31st, 1919. would amount to £5,000,000,000. He calculated that the pensions after
the Firmly convinced that these changes war would cost Germany
least will take place, we have had to change
£150,000,000-perhaps a great deal more our policy amewhat. All the works we It was calculated that £790,000,000 was the own or coatrol have been built, started
amount
that Germany would have. suze declared that the Americans wede and developed by our own initiative, and, meet if the war ended about March 31st.. ready to surrender all their profits and therefore, we take that much pride is next The corresponding agures for
them
Great Britain, stated by the Chancellor income over living expenses to win theThe war having of necessity prevent of the Exchequer, were £650.000,000, made war.
acces:
The member who introduced the men-
OBITUARY.
SIR RATAN TATA.
LONDON September 8th. The death has pccurred of Sir Ratan Tata, partner of Tata Sons & Co., Bom- bay and Director of Tata, Ltd., London.
MELBOURNE. September 8th.. The death occurred at sea, while pro- ceding to England, of Baron de Forrest,
General von Hindenburg's proclamation (referred to on page 7) is a long and re-
a former Commonwealth Treasurer. " markable document." It attempts to 'dis- THE COTTON MARKET count the reproductions dropped by aero- planes of war prisonera' original letters,
LONDON, September 7th.. Owing to the official estimate of the describing their well-being, by thanking cotton crop being 11,137,000 bales as God for the exceptional cases of decent compared with 13,018,000 bales last year and bumane English prison-camp com-1
and 11,949,000 bales in the previous year, |manders who exist.
the prices in the New York Cotton Exchange yesterday jumped from 150 to 175 points in ten minates. The October selling price is 37.95 cents The final prices are about 100 points lower owing to profit-taking.
THE SILVER MARKET.
Losos, September 7th. Silver is steady..
LONDON, September 7th. Silver is unchanged.
(Continued on Page 7.)
The proclamation asserts that Germany is strong enough to force peace in the West. in spite of the Americans, and engages the efforts to counter-act the effects of the leaders which are stated to have been dropped from an aeroplane in thousands of copies.
The proclamation abounds with refer- ences to the poisonousness" of enemy propaganda and winds up by saying "Whoover is England's ally dies in conse. quence."
ed our realizing the ideal of being efficient up of our pre-war expenditure of, rough- in every branch of electrical engineering 200,000,000, and the extra amount by the means we' bad originally planned to which we were committeed for educa we have decided on another modus tion and other items, and the additional
2.13
sum that would be required for pen- sions after the war and the interest on Sinking Fund. The net debt which it was estimated would stand at the end of
the current
financial year was "
£375,000,000 in
ques
moat
This
operandi, in order to be ready when the great work of reconstruction commences.
"What, therefore, is denied to us both by time and restrictions to build for our selves, we must acquire by purchase. In accordance with this
EG,856,000,000. policy we have acquired the ordinary shares in Messrs. Chamberlain & Hoocham, Ltd., one of of the £650,000,000 was provided in the As regarded Great Britain," the whole the most prominent electricity meter Finance Bill of this yenz, with the taxes also the reason why we have acquired the Germany was providing from permanent manufacturers in the country. This is that had been levied before this year. works of Messrs. Fraser & Chalmers, Ltd., taxation less than half the amount she at Erith. That firm has gained a splen would require to meet her expenditure if did engineering reputation, and without the war were to end on March 31st of Dext a doubt will have
greater chances of development in conjunction with
Fear. We were providing all we should electrical frm such as the General Elec for £36,000,000, while we were raising.. bave to meet. Germany had budgeted tric Company.
£842,000,000. Germany was not doing The acquisition brings to us certain half what we were doing. Germany, since departments which in the light of the the war began, had raised £200,000,000 brings also to us other departments which direct taxation. In addition, there was above programme are a necessity, but it in indirect taxation, open up to us fresh fields of enterprise. £100,000,000 raised by the Federal States. The beauty of this programme is that. Therefore, Germany's extra contribution, cient: it overlaps very little, if at all, while ours was. £1,686,000.000. The from a national point of view it is eff since the war began was £673,000,000, the schemes and projects of other big tion of German saanee was not merely a prised that, to carry out these different tions of the world were for the electrical concerns. You will not be sur matter of intellectual interest. The schemes we require additional capital part, ving on their capital. It was true We shall submit for your approval that as was holding out better than resolution increasing the capital of the had bn expected, but the day of reckon Company to 23,000,000 by the creationing Dist come, and even in Great Bri- of-100,000 additional preference shares tin : the war lasted much longer ho of £10 each, and 60,000 additional Ordin looked forward to the situation with a ar
Shares of £10 each."
But if he good deal of apprehension. This resolution was subsequently passed. were a Gorman he would regard the situa The directors report for the year end tion there with positive terror ed March 31st, 1918, which was passed, we a Paa-German war. One difficulty showed that the net profits were 2348,661. of ending was that the Pan-German day ! plus £89,788 brought forward. After de-
was over unless they obtained indemni- ducting debenture stock interest, £8,000, ties as well as territory. The Pan-Germans grants. to dependents of men on active ed their
with the crude service, $13,864, managing director's and mai'sm and the cocksureness which was employés bonus £25,914, dividend 6 per sumed, if he might say so without One of the most remarkable machines cent. on preference shares £42,000, reserve olence, by the Morning Post in Great ever built is in operation at the great dead £12.813, transfer to reserve account
for income-tax on ordinary share divi Britain. If Germany, however, could not workshop in France where the Royal Fly ing Corps repairs its damaged seroplanen £100,000, there remained as available Lional E000,000,000 must raise sa addi- for £400,000.000 per This machine, the only one of its kind, balance of $198,540. A dividend of 10 snuum, and, judging by experience. which was both conceived and constructed per cent., free of tax, on the ordinary she must get it by direct taxation, at a shares required £51,53, leaving to be time when war profits would have ceased in that workshop, is described by Gustave Herr Erzberger, interviewed, declared Babin in L'Ulustration, as one that makes duty if any) £145,2001 excess profite and the world was slowly recuperating that Germany did not desire world same way as wounded flesh heals.
The result wounded heal itself in
exactly the
between the Federal States and the Im- dominion. A military victory would only It is almost automatic, is
by operated
perial Government. The Federal States divide the world into two camps. Person-principle. It needs only one or two men
electricity, and nses galvaniam as
NO TIME FOR BILLIARDS...
had always claimed the income-tax, which must be the best and the most fruitful ally be agreed with Earl Grey regarding to watch it, they being guided by a chart The Middlesex Appeal Tribunal disserious trouble between them that must source of direct taxation. If there were the League of Nations, which must form showing in many colours the piece of metal missed the application for exemption of have a faiparous tendency. The Junkers. to be repaired, the exact repairs neces Melbourne Inman, billiards champion and the capitalists who were responsible- part of future practical politics. sary, the composition of the galvanic bath, We are not content to allow him become for this war would themselves have to
the current needed, the diameter of the supervisor of billiard tables for the Navy pay for it. INGLORIOUS PAGE OF wires that conduct it, and the time of and Army Canteen Board, and receive Germany is marching to bankrapte
GERMAN HISTORY:
immersion. Na
It used restoring worn or broken £350 a year for it," said Sir Herbert now continued Lord Emmott, and it parts of delicate moters, most of which Neild, chairman. He is still to cou will take a lot to set her on her legs. are difficult to replace. When M. Babia tinue his professional matches, I sec. after the war. If Germany receives Do saw it there were lying on the table beside It's a super-cushy job. Way be ademnities, clearly the longer the war I parts it had just repaired that would soldier at led a day remarked the last the more the people will bare to bave coat over £1,000 and much time to National Berrios representative "It's par; and, when it becomes apparent to history of the German people. There has replace in the previous week it had a grave scandal? commented the rice fiermany that she will receive no indemni been a display of nervelessness for which turned out 300 pieces, all of great im chairman.) No time was given Lamen in: Lies and that the people who made the one can only find mitigating circam-portance, for nothing load is confided which to join the colours, so he can be war will have to pay for it, perhaps we
to it.
called within seven days, if 'necessary, shadi see a change of spirit.
GERMAN PEACE CHORUS.
STOCKHOLM, September 7th." The latest addition, to the German peace chorus is Herr Erzberger, the leader of the powerful Catholic Centre Party, which hitherto has the most powerful parliamentary supporters and militarists.
AMSTERDAM, Beptember 7th,” The Kreus Zeitung states that this last week will form no glorious page. in the
[stances.
STEEL HEALS -ITSELF.
for
normal and special depreciation £39,718, were cominded people who expres
our.