NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD.,
AND
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. TONSIGNEES per Company's Stemmer
"PYRRHUS "
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kow- kon, where it will be at Consignees The Carge will be ready for de Fisk fivery from Godown on and after 10th
February
arrival.
Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's "All broken, chafod, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 A.M. Bad Noon within the free storage period.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
BRITISH WELCOMED
GERMAN TOWNS
SUMMONS TO COLOGNE.
[FROM PHILIP Q1178,]
IN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1879, 1919.
NEW BRITISH INDUSTRIES-
GERMANY'S LOST TRADE.
&t
GENIUS OF MARSHAL FOCH HUMANITY IN HOUR OF VICTORY.
An address on som developments in A most interesting light on Marshal
industry during the war was given re- Foch's restraint and strong humanity in
antly by Mr. Kollaway, Parliamentary the hour of overwhelming triumph was
For some days now our troops have and Financial Secretary to the Ministry afforded by Professor Maurice Gerolb-
boen in Germany, and this morning of Munitions, before members of the wohl, in the course of a lecture on "The
(December 7th) were
autoide Ladustrial Reconstruction Council in just Genius of Maréchal Foch," given for the
Cologne. Their
han led thom the canference-room Way
the Hôtel Anglo- French Society at Essex Hall, The
utterly different from had beou very numerous, and were likely ropole. Those developmente, he said, chair was taken by General Baron Corvi-through sooner eart, who commanded a famous division anything they have met on their marches profoundly fo
British industry. The war had revealed. at Verdun. Referring to the famous through France and Belgium, and per
industrial development. Maranal'e recent visit to London, Pro. fectly German in its character, po that at with pitiless accuraer the defects in our onor, after crossing the frontier, they were defects had been overcome, and, su Many of those fesser Gerothwohl said:--
startled by the change. From Maimerly to Montjoie and from Montjoie to Düren while maintaining its position in depart reable of the war, the United Kingdom, on their way to Cologne, they have been ment climbing up stop hills covered with fires of industry where it had already foreste, going along the edge of deep ret place, was now first in the ravines round which the narrow tracks tid in almost every sphere of indus wind is sharp curves, perilous for trane main points in the following order:
Mr. Kellaway dealt with the port and dipping dows into villages as
1 Developments in regard to old-fashioned as those in the pictures of my Grimm's fairy tales, snuggling in the
Did you witness the other night the unforgettable epectacle, did you hear the unforgettable speech of Marshal Foch, relating and re-enacting the campaign of victory, and living it all over again, in the pride and fover of a memory and realities of yesterday Every word was a deed, an net of will, punctuated by a masterful and fiting gestare.
No Claims will be admitted after the vision all aglow with the best and the below high sandstone cliffs.
Goods bave left the steamer's Godew and all Goods remaining undelivored after the 17th February will be subject to
rent
All Claims against the Steamer tous be presented to the undersigned on or before the 3rd March, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be affected
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agenta
1317 Hongkong, February 9th, 1918.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD. AND CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO, LTD. YONSIGNEES per Company's steamer ATREUS "
Now it
was Marshal Foch at bay, preparing to receive the enemy's supreme onslaught; bow it was Marshal Foch, starting, re-
starting down that sleging plane which led to the grave of Hindenburg's prestige and of unland's might. It was the
I passed coluzane of our English and Scottish troops on the march through the forest of Euren and on the high winding roade of the platena around Düren. All was wilent in these words. No living thing stirred as our men went by.
above.
greatest soldier of the greatest war in action, not a man, but a veritable and volcanic foro of Nature, in swift, re
It was lentless, and sweeping motion. the silly of Foch, grinding, fast, yet sure, the biggest and most arrogant hosts the world has yet beheld. And how be re velled in the thrust and parry and the the are hereby notified that the Cargo will or rush and the thunderbolt, did be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Row. loon, where it will be at Consignee's glorious conquerar! Then, suddenly, he was Jzsk
trial effort.
affect the future of
ETV
9. Changes in position in machine
3; Improvements in shop meÇİLMİR. 4. Enomy key industries in which Britain big made herself independent.
The Cargo will be ready for de stopped, and his right armi, as if uplift. Bood appetite before one eate and stands was essential to the manufac
to
The electrical industry had been a
grehter in peace-times. Germany bad great war industry, and would become established a predominant position, but I saw them billeted in some of the this would not have been possible without German villages, where the cottages and supplies of mica from India and other inns and furm-houses are built of black parts of the British Empire. When war beams and plaster like those in Tudor broke out, we stepped Germany's supplies England, with old ruins on the hills from India and Geenran, East Africa. Everywhere I found that the An attempt by Germany Jo form
friendly a combine in a neutral country villagers had received them in way, and yellow-baired German children impede production had been frustrated. stood in groups round them as they Germany could get no more mica from picketed their horses and unloaded their thone places. The British electrical in- transport. War is war, but children are diatry had taken the position previously children, and it is difficult to nourish held by Germany and Austria, and was hatred in one's heart when small boys now the first in the world. Expected and girls come to shake one's hand or developments of commercial aircraft, kiss it, and when little maids with pig and wireless, and motor-traction, made tails curtsey as one passes, and in a it essential that the Empire supplice of wayside ian a serving-maid wishes one a this vital raw material should be safe around with anxious eyes to observe the
Every ture of high-speed steel, a vital war livers from Godown on and after 101bed to deliver the coup-de-grace to the effect of the food she has cooked.
fallen fos, felt back, iaert, with a gesture man of high or low estate doffs his hat material, which to some extent had taken February
when a British officer passes, and, if one the place of platinum. Before the War Optional cargo will be landed, unless which, in its eloquent simplicity, ro
stope to make an inquiry, German civil- the British Empire produced 40 per cent. notice has been given prior to steamer's vealed a world of stole and heroic re-
signation, of martyred, yet legitimate, uns, many of whom were German officers of wolfram ore, from which tungsten was arrival.
There was a _Pa1Hk). Well,
until a week ago, answer with the utmost made, but so successfully had Germany ambitions.
Defeat and the revolution, espturrii the trade that no British manu- you see, just at the moment when my politeness 260-mile offensive was to be still further with which they are threatened, and a facturer was able to establish the indus extended on the right flank, they asked fear of worse things that may happen try in this country. Germany benefited for an armistice; I sent the terms; they have mode the German people painfully to the full by the monopoly Bu
But all seemed to appreciate them, for they anxious to abide by the rules of oor this had been changed. British manufac accopted. After that, what could we do occupation, and to get on the right side tuners were now in a position to deal but sign! I knew France and the world of those who now have the power of life with all as Empire production of ore, had been made anfe, although the crown- and death over them. This fear and the and could, if necessary, convert the whole ing of my work was still to come.""
tremendous relief that the bloodabod has world's output into tungsten
metal or anished, and, perhaps also, the hope of a ferro-tungsten. Ferrochrome WBg new era of liberty released from Prussian contial material in the production of militarism, have changed amazingly the certain classes of steel, and before the war attitudo of these peuple of the Rhine our home production was practically land towards the English. There is no negligible. In future, our industry more "Gott strafe England."
would be in the unique position of com peting successfully with the cheap water Power of Scandinavia,
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 a.. and noon within the free storage period.
No claims will be admitted after the Gende das left the stoner's Godown, Goode remaining undelivered after the 17th February, will be subject
and
to rent.
All Claims against the steamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before 3rd March or they will not be recognised. No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
[318 Hongkong, February 9th, 1919.
LINE OF STEAMERS. "BEN"
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
VICTOR OF GERMANY
1
THANK GOD THEY HAVE COME;"
Professor Gerathwohl added that he had no doubt what would have been Napoléon Bonaparte's answer if he had been placed in a similar position, and had asked himself whether, morelp for the sake of his glory, he was to add to the world's already intolerable burdon'
Again and again during the past few of sorrowa. It would not have been days, I have beard German people say, Fuch's answor, that of an immortal who Thank God, the English bave come," would renounce
unce his immortality rather and I believe they say that with since Cheese is served for breakfast instead than that the bumblest mortal should rity. The German middle classes are of eggs or bacon. The coffee is "Erneatz," suffer an hour's unmerited and unneces more afraid, it seems, of Holshevism than substitute made from corn, and not bad. There is no dearth of sugar ia sary pain. The heart of Ferdinand Foch they are of British soldiers, und during hotels. Potatoes and cabbages come up CONSIGNEES of Cargosrehereby informed was greater, far greater, than the heart this time of political crisis and pecial
that all Coeds are buing landed at their of Napoléon Bonaparte.
revolution the people with property and with the meat. But the prices are high, risk into the hazardions and or extra huzar
The lecturer contended that there could those who desire law and order rather and hotel life is not a safe way of judg dous Cudowns of the Hongkong und Kowloon be only one explanation of the astonish than the anarchy of the mob are anxiousing the conditions of a people'e food. A tobacco shop yesterday told Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and or
ing transformation of the whole Western for our presence as being the lesser of Wotus in from the wharres delivery may be obtained.
*** | mal-nutrition, and in the poorer quarters No claims will be admitted after the Goods campaign to our advantage on July 18th two evils, though tragedy enough. Thus he that many children had died from have left the (jodowns, and (loods remaining last-the personal equation embodied in the Burgomaster of Cologne sent yeater of the German towns one eces childron Marshal Foch-Foch's mind, Foch's day a special message asking for our with pinched faces. It is difficult to got undelivered after the 10th February will be
S.S. RENDORAN.
bject to ruins the Steamer innst be
presented to the Undersigned on or before 23rd or they will not be recognised.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are in be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on February 18th at 1 am.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, February 10th, 1919.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
HEP.&O. S. N. Co.'s Steamer
"NOVAHA"
THE
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Arrived Hongkong on February 11th, 1818. FROM LONDON, COLOMBO & STRAITS
Coxelguses of Cargo by the above-named vanel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THE RISK in the Honghong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godewar st Kowloon where sich Consignment will be sorted ont Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained a the Goods are landed.
Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before Goods not cleared within 8 dogs including
8 hours.
date of arrival will be subject to rekt
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever.
method. When he counter-attacked on
CORONET.
A NEW
FILM STAR
IN A FINE PHOTOPLAY.
A short while ago we introduced to you a new Fox Star George Wash and everything that we said about him fourteen crowded Ecuss rorroborated. To-night we shall show upon the screen at the Catonel another actor of eminence, but of us entirely different style William S. Hart in a wonderful
Triangle
play, Hell's Hinges
Hart is the kind of man who can hold up a whole town at the point of a couple of revolvers without there being anything unseal about it He is tho Cowboy of the screen, and when you see bio bengs from a nick sotte len feet or so into the saddle or drive his horse dawn an alpiest perpendicular billside, you know instinctively that there is no fake about 18- So ouch for the principal actor; now for the play!
In a rough and lawless community there stood a place of vil repute, a placu that it was good to pass by. Its original name and finally lost. To those who knew, it suggested the titl
was shunded by is evil deeds, Bell's Hinges,"
a rough, but not inapt, cognonien, a ten of undiluted e, crying scaudal to civilisation
Blaze Tracey is the bad man," the leader of the evil spirit that pervades, and though we are not shown mach of W. & Hary on the
side in Bell's Hinges," it is but an easy step to imagine what part this silent, powerful actor has taken,
Away in the city a young scakling b
Ezes 1f The Rinistry by an ambitious mother The character of His Robert Henley (Jack Standing) is a bitter satire he is the son that is unfit to imitle through this life, and so is driven to attempt the leadership of those seeking a futurs one.
Without sufficient pluck and nerve to withstand the trials of a strenuous city mission, he is sent, upon ordination, to Hell's Hingea.” He is, however, accompanied by his sister Faith (Clara Williams), and if that were not so, the atory would end abruptly enough.
To Silk Miller (Alfred Hollingsworth) the advent of the new minister in but the cause of uproarious mirth, and to Blaze Trnový is given the task of blocking the missionary work and clearing out the sky pilot.
To Bluse she is something beyond
Faith, however, is the intervening factor his comprehension, a glimpse of heaven's sweetness that he can but dimly grasp. The "bad" man changes instantly. He determines that the brother of such ̈n girl sbali have at least a fuir hearing, and no one dare say may to the will of the resolute Blaze-
It is not religion that effects the wondwous change. 1 is the woman. There is no hypocrisy of this sort in the entrancing story.
Silk Miller seen ruin to his saloon, and arrays all Ina forces of desperadoes and ayren decoya in opposition. By the aid of Dolly Lauing Glaum, he enticon the minister to the saloon, gets him drunk and disgraced. Silk now looks upon Blaze as hig enemy, and one to be feared. But he sçizen the chance of Blaze's absence, and the half-drunken mob burn down the newly erreted church and fight the lawful inhabitante.
ít.
But Blaze returns, and his reply is owiit. It is Hart.
He corners the crowd in the saleón,' burns it down, and the whole town with And from the midst of the lurid Bames of the doomed town emerges a new man, to be the loving protector of Faith.
The ending is delightfully artistic. In the muring, amidst the ruins cashrouded by the still lingering smoke, traces of the overnight seetie of horror, are seen three figures silhouetted against the sky of the early dawn Blaze his faithful borse, and Faith..
"Beyond those hills lies the future life; come and share it with me," is afl that Blaze says. And the now loving Faith passes with him.
THEATRE.
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that date, his armies at the front were viously arranged, and some of our at the truth; but, as far as I can and NACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI, still numerically inferior to the enemy's;
machine-gunners There sent forward.
it, I have the impression that there have:
after
in fact, all the more remarkable when This is to restrain the low clement of the been periods of scarcity which reached a the enveloping character of his grand civil population from pillaging and riot. Crisis last spring, and that now, manœuvre was borne in mind, by which ing, as they have been doing, am told, god harvest, the food situation is better, Hindenburg was threatened with an in- in Cologne, and as certainly they have especially on this edge of the Rhineland In the minent and unavoidable Sodan, the
there the country is very rich. like done in Düren and other places. A1
interior, they
am told, criti- of which in magnitude had never been Düren, now occupied by our troops, the cal, owing to transport difficulties, but
situation is, scen. Due soldiers of to-day seemed to first act of the mob, partly made up of the truth as to that can only be had by: him greater in beroism than the soldiers
youths, was Lo break into thu
in The German my chee, I do not find any general and koot them.
dearth among the middle classes, and in
of Napoléon, greater by the excess of
their physical sufferings, but even momenry
soldiers and partly of dia-rsonal observation. As far as that goes:
so by the unparalleled moral trials which officers were disarmed and degraded, but towns like Aix and Düren German girls their steadfastness had overcome. In the not otherwise hurt, and there was a good besiege the pastry shops in the afternoo whole range of military history, there deal of window smashing and pillage, bed we no example of collective stoicism or
of despairing hope-unless were that
in Engload, to whom such things are denied. And yet still believe that the Gerinan soldier was hungry at the end, for if one does not believe that, then ull human cridonce goes for nothing
until the burgemaster enrolled a town and regale themselves on hot chocolate: of the Berbian Army, or what remained guard, mostly made up of ex-soldiers in tad pastries, ne in the old days of peace, of it after 1815-such as could be said to plain clothes, with armbands and with a way that would be the envy of girls
toloaded rifles. compare even remotely with those ex hibited by the British. French, and Belgian armies in the lengthy interval which separated the two battle of the Marno. Marshal Fock had left far behind all previous feats of strategic generalship, both in this war and in earlier wars.
Those men were there yesterday when and visited the place. I arrived just a one of our officers was about to examine a delivery of arme called for by a pro
What is the present paychology of the clamation forbidding any civilian to
German people is to me a mystery. They carry weapons under pain of death,
'do not show any of that profound humi- of the arma delivered were officers' swords one boy came through the town iation which one might have expected.
strango Outwardly, they maintain Profesor Corothwohl described how with a wheelbarrow laden with them Marshal Foch managed to deny his and they were the ornamental things car the war and speak of their losses they cheerfulness, though when they talk about opponent an entry into Amiens, Calais, ried by Gorman officers in peace tima or Paris, in March, April, May, and and never taken on to the batticfold reveal the tragedy that has befallen them. June of this your-how he temporised and
had lost six sone, and said: "There ure were eighty-four trench mortars brought Fabianieed until some sort of an equili. But in one great room of this barracks One woman told me of a neighbour who brium had been established in the matter back from the field of war. They were Sadness is in our hearts," and wopt. One woman said: ore any like that." of numbers, waiting for Ludendorff to Damaged packages must be left in the Go commit himself. Never in military his the 3in. minenwerfer which the German A man to whom I spoke this morning "The war was a great swindle. downd for examination by the Consignees, and tory was the open competition between used with deadly effect in their attacks
two individual psycholegiate et forcibly on March 2let.
In the evening, I went to Aix-In Our Government swindled us from first the Company's Surveyors, Messra. GODDARD and Dorales, at 10 AM. on MONDAYS Bud illustrated as during the stirring evente Chapelle again, and after eight o'clock to last. They gambled with the lives of THURSDAYE. All Claims must be presented of mid-July on the fatoful banke of the the crowds, who had been in the streets have modo peros."
our men two years after they ought to From scraps of talk Marne. The decision was won by then though for a public holiday watching astuter paychologist. By a stroko of gonius, l'och, in six hours, wrested the the Belgian and British officers and men, like this, from sudden glimpses of tragic initiative from his opponent, ne rover ronding thermor, disappeared as though which must
and saluting them with dofled hats, and emotion, one many guess at the seething the latest proclamations by the thoughts in the minds of these German eed the whole course and complexion of
and at the passionate despair people
be in their hear the campaign. Ludendorff never
magic. The city was still brilliantly the deep and deadly intent of Foch's Electric standards foodad the streets
streets, where the one e only the curiosity of the aubtle move in suddenly arresting the and the handsome public buildings and limited Franco-American attacks, or its the shop fronts with a white illumina ineb, when foreign soldiers paas, and the sudden and curious aloes Ludendorff
But Aix was utterly deserted, all a joke, and the formal courtesy of Saughing faces of children who find it was encouraged in his delusions. From
except for Belgian sentrice pacing up that moment the initiative was virtually and down and a fewy Bolgian and British men and women who, if they still inte us, bide it, and the good nature of others who, 1 am sure, do not hate us, but, strange as it may soon, like us and ste
Biking.
It in all So far, I cannot find any outward sign
And somewhere at the back Thore in good of it all la thé answer to the riddle of and her Allice of their professional of hunger in Germany. For freight and further particularu apply to bend for the 1919, offensive. Luden food to ho had in all the hotels 1 havo kuman nature, which filled Ave winters | dorff's neglect of the possibility that poen, and even in country inns. The of the world with blood and agony, and Fed might counter-attack from where road is course, but good. Butter core now for 000 years or more will fl the for the asking Meat soona plentiful. book of history with frightful regret that
within ten days of the stoemor's arrival bero, after which date they cannot be recognised, No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown.
P. L KNIGHT, Acting Superintendent. Hongkong, February 11th, 1010
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tion.
in Foch's hands. If the onemy's plan officers strolling about.
but succeeded, it would have compelled
the evacuation of France's most cherished Eastern Departments, if not of Paris!
NEW YORK VIA PANAMA CANAL itself, and would have deprived France
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