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CABLES.
LATEST CABLES THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM.
THE BATTLE OF LAKE VIGOZERO.
LONDON, April 92nd.
A British North Russia official come muniqué states
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 26TH, 1919.
WOMEN- AND THE LAND.
DESIRE TO CONTINUE THE WORK.
There has been a test as regards the question recently raised in The Daily Telegraph as to whether many of the women was workers on the Jind would
employment. The Food Production Department has "put" the question to members of the Women's Land Army, and of 6,500 answers received 1,000 women
WAR LOSSES OF THE WORLD'S SHIPPING.
',
On
1
to Sell a
COST OF THE WAR. MATERIAL DAMAGE AND HUMAN
· LOSS...
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT TO"" THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. "J
יין.
"ROTTEN AT THE CORE. STRONG INDICTMENT OF GER-
MANY'S DEGENERACY.
H. J. Greenwall, Daily Hepresa special correspondent at Berlin, wiring on February 15th, says com
WORLD ADVERTISING, BRITAIN LAX IN PSYCHOLOGY. BRITISH PROPORTION.
"At a woating of the Sales Managers' Association at Holborn Restaurant re [BY ARCHIBALD HURD.)
cently Mr. C. Higham, M.P., who Particular, have been published of the W. H. People) as the free advertising was introduced by the chairman (Mr. casualties suffered by sea, by land, and in man who had been elected to Parliament, of the sums involved in making good Nation's Goods." eems depredations in Belgium North-sence of several representatives of the ern France, and elsewhere; but little United States Department of Public has been said of the injury inflicted upon Information, he deplored the fact that this country, and there is an impression in this country there was no such ur in Allied and neutral countries that we ganisation. We had no department to
faform the Press
of what the Government It true we were not invaded, but that
own goods. True, we had in the Prime to become small-holders, and others is the carliest and quickest medium for understood publicity, but he
not desire to remain in that class of the air, and estimates, have been prepared gave an address, Alluding to the pre- lealt with the whole of the bill for she completed a preliminary analysis of the
have atated that they wish to remain per paid a relatively small price for victory meant to do in regard to the sale of our sible to obtain a fairly approximate idler Cabinetto, save Germany from the General Maynard, detailing the opera manently a land workers. Many desire was due not to good fortune-Ion the sea Minister a great publicly had manyThere is disagreement even about the Aversation with him this morning, when.
tions at Lake Vigozero, way the enemy lost 99 killed. Eighty-twą prisoners were captured, of whom 20 were wounded Many sledge-lands of wounded being removed were observed whilst a train
wish to proceed to the Colonies for out- door work. The canvas is not yet com plate. As to the efficiency of the women there can be no doubs that they have
Various estimates have been made of Dr. Magnus Hirschfield, a leading Ger. the cost of the war, but, so far, nung has an psychopathic authority, has recently whole of the period. Any estimate ont side the official Agures of the direct cost-many. He has just drafted a report to
moral and domestic situation in Ger that is, the cost as disclosed in. votes of beraubmitted to the new Government. credit, subscriptions to loans, and new taxation must, of course, largelykes an urgent call for the appointment I understand that Dr. Hirschfeld conjectural; but it is. nevertheless, pos
Minister of Health and a Medical with regard to the vaguer itens of matr
mennce of surplus women, illegitimate mac, who
rial dainage and economic disturbance, children, and degeneracy,"
I had a con There was no one time. that, again, was the result of judgment of the State to tell the people of gutes from some of the belligerent
he said :- plo direct costs, due partly to the absenc and organisation, in which the instinct with their work. Britain was lax in the States, and partly to variations of esti. but a broad survey of conditions shows
country why they had to keep on
It is too soon to state definite Agures. of a small section of the British people psychology of
ship-owners and offers and men of the goods. The sooner this eithery ideas or mates for the armistice period. There the aha aation is in a dangerous state. Morchant Navy-found expression. It is its mind
Official statistics show that there are three to sell
sation. I general indgment, and a few millions the death ned incapacitation of men in merely
of difference in the reckoning of expendi ture, or a difference in the standards of the economic value of men's lives, will judgment. not vitiate the essential quality of that
un invader-but to good policy; and it is also true that we were not starved, but
to do n
carrying off the retreating Bolsheviks was.] generally_given". great satisfaction. A very-recessary that at the Peace Confer palty, and Pontede up is, however, enough record to justify million surplus women in consequence of
badly damaged by shell fre.
The captures included to hold guas, 7,000 shells, and much railway material.
FIELD GUNS AND STORES CAPTURED.
an example, an efficiency test has just been rande in Bedford, where the result was that three out of every four ob tained 100 per cent. of marks for horse The work, and the rest 60 per cent. LONDON. April 23rd."
a farmer who declared the judge was The War Office publishes the following work to be as good as he had seen for a message received from Archangel:-We long time. The girl, who left shop soun secured two field gans and large quantiters in response to the appeal of Mr. ties of stores at the re-capture of Bol-Lloyd Georgo have been highly praised
#beozerki.
The spirit of the troops was excellent.
by farmers.
Recently Good Service ribbona" and
ERCE,
-not
should be attached to the injury inflicted and pay off the enormous cost of the war.
and elsewhere due importance firms, the quicker we would grow rich, upon as as a aca-keeping people, because Mr. Byer. Director of the United States there is a temptation to exaggerate the Department of Public Information, said and to ignore the results of the enemy's damage sustained by the Allies on land that the results of American propaganda in foreign countries, referred to by Mr. actions by sea.
Higham, had been unforeseen during the Britain in the great war. year and a hall in which war there was really only one nation in
they had
Joined Before the the world which understood fully world- advertising-that was Germany. America and England bad such a tremendous market that the only competition they might indulge in was such as business then might indulge in ift a single country. The competition between America and Britain would be of the kind that they would be quite willing to engage in with the people who had preserved the peace of the world. (Cheeri:)
A good many false deductions have ben diawn from an incomplete presents tion of statistics which, if fully revealed, would have astonished the world. How to our losses of shipping compare in bulk, with those sustained by other nations From: Lloyd's invaluable Registe: of Shipping a complete statement has now been prepared for me, and its publication. may serve a useful purpose of reminding not only the inhabitants of this country, of the price we paid in keeping the seas on their behalf as well as our own.
Bolshevik desertars joined our Russian Distinguished Service bars have been but the inhabitants of other countries too,
· troops, and openly showed their hatred of the Bolsheviks...
PECHORE REGION CLEAR OF BOLSHEVIKS.
LONDON, April 23rd.
The British Mission from Archangel mrt the commander of the Siberian troops operating in the regions mentioned.
OUR ESSENTIAL AID.
awarded to members of the Land Army. The Good Service ribbon is given after six months continuous satisfactory scr
it is certain that it it had not been for the British Merchant Navy, France vice; the Distinguished Service bars and Italy would have been driven out of given only for special acts of bravery' or
the war, and America would never have The Press Bureau states:-
devotion to duty. One of the winners
been able to intervene. That declara Russian forces in the Pechore district of the bar is Mis Ethel Nicholas, an 18,
tion is made deliberately, and it deserves year-old girl, for meritorious conduct in tull recogition in these island, as well report that, in conjunction with Siberian rather unnerving emergency.
Mises, claewpure.
Our Mercantile Marine troops at Usfishma, two hundred miles Nicholas was in charge of a cutting was not a cvernment institution, but machine drawn by two horses, when the was provided by individual effort; it re- from, the
outh of the chore River, they leg of her employer was caught by the turned to investors, on an average over. cleared the district of Bolsheviks. The knife, Stopping the horses immediately the last quarter of a century, a rate of the girl put the machine ous of gear, and interest which did not exceed the return latter rapidly retreated to the upper with her handkerchief and belt skilfully to-day on War Bonds, backed by the renches of the River Ishman. The local the help of a neighbouring farmer, and tied up the wound. Nexs she secured
enormous resources.of the British. Em inhabitants were eagerly joining the subsequently assisted the doctor to ope Siberians everywhere.
tute. The doctor reports that but for the presence of mind of Miss Nicholas ber employer would have run serious risk of losing his life from bleeding, and would almost certainly have lost his leg. This is & fair sample of the type of girl thai Eng taken to the land. All branches of agricultural work have been entered by them with success, and the out-door life has been found so beneficial that, so far as the canvass has been taken, a. large majority desire to remain at this class of employment, one of the most import ant aspects being a strong desire to be come small-bolders on their own account Losnos, April 23rd. They have seen the market scheme of the The Bourd of Trade announce that and see in it a means to band of Food Production Department at work, subject to existing regulations for overcoming the hitherto insurmountable guarantees against" re-export, the inter-stacle of transport. Under this scheme fruit, vegetables, poultry, honey, Allied agreement allows all commodities, butter, etc., are collected and taken te except war material, to enter northern and the land workers have seen the vil town, without calling upon the railways, and neutral copfitrics and Switzerland lagers and others disposing of produce at from April 26th, without quantitative a good profit. Small-holders in Ireland United Kingdom
contributed the bulk of the poultry avail Dole able on the London market at Christmas, and the value of the small-holding was never more apparent than now.
IN PER ALL ED TRADE AGREEMENT.
FURTHER CONCESSIONS...
restrictions.
MEDICAL RESEARCH IN THE WAR.
та
CALL OF THE COLONIES.
fi,
LEGAL FUSION,
ADVERSE MAJORITY OF 170. By a majority of 711 the members of the Law Society have decided against fusion between the two branches of the legal profession. The figures announced yesterday were:
For fusion
Against · fusion
Majority against",
1,890 3,531
-1,711
the war. In addition the nervous reac sien of four years of war has rendered millions of people, incapable of mother- hood or fatherhood, A BOON.
& great
What is it we mean by the cost of the war Obvioudy, we theau much children born in Germany today have a In one way this fact is a great aid. more than the amount represented -by- taxes and loans. What may properly be
poor chance of normal development owing included are the direct cost to belligor crease in the birth rate for the moment to food conditions and diseases. The de tente and neutrals, the value of the pro is Party destroyed, the loss in production making Germany a breeding reservoir for The Kaiser's idea of by the diversion of men from industry la gent army must be knocked out of warfare, and the economic value of the people's heads, lives that have been lost or rendered in again normal Germunn women must bring Until conditions are capable of any useful work. Some a few children as possible into the world. writers appear tu think that the ques tion of ecet is capiplicated by the pos sibilities of indemnity and reparation. but these have really little to do with it. Nu act of compensation can lessen the bill; it simply shifts, or partly shifte. the burden from the wronged to those who have done the wrong. Any indemnity paid by Germany to France, for instance, would lessen France's own liability, hut would not decrease the cost of the
war...
£40,000,000,000,
the middle-class boms and stamp out the Germany's great task to-day is to re create the sanctity and wholesomeness of
youd control in Germany at present. Sex diseases and tuberculosis are be Unless immediate steps are taken by the State to deal with this phase of recon- struction. German manhood is doured, and the draining of the Teutonia physiqua is curtain. The new Govern- ment must appoint a medical cabinet.
It must also deal with the problem of illegitimate children. A conservative estimate shows that there are one million such children in the nation today. Mariages have fallen off by, approxi For arriving at the direct cost of the great causes. Lack of men is one cause. mately, 30 per cent This is due to twa war there are a number of data, more The growing immorality and disregard of or less useful, but they do not all re-the martial ideal among young pisa and lata to the same period, nor do they cover women is the other and more dangerous. the whole of the field. M. Augustin couse. The frantic efforts of the Kaiser Hamon, in his Lessons of the World régime to repopulate Germany during the War," said a couple of years ago that war are chiefly, responsible. if the war did not cease before the close
calculation was published before the generacy owing to the segregation of men to as much of 1818 the total expenditure might grow growing immorality is that of degeneracy, Hand in hand with the problem of 28 £29,000,000,000. That so great has been the increase in de- United States came in, and, moreover, it and women during the was that official did not make sufficient allowance for steps to prevent its further spread are there should be a complete fushion be expansion in the subsequent rate of ex imperative for the safety of the nation. tween the two branches of the legal pro-penditure. Mr. Joseph Kitchin has pre- King, and carried by 95 votes to 29 what they would have been if actual fession." This was seconded by Mr. R.pared an estimate of the costs based on poll was demanded, and was taken under hostilities had lasted until the end of nation's war laxity toward the marriage the by-laws of the society, the voting July next." For eight months of that ideal. Otherwise disease, illegitimacy... papers being returnable by February period, the expenditure in armistice and degeneracy will reduce Germany.to a 23rd. An analysis of the voting figure conditions will be considerably less than decadent and pestilential State. show that out of a total membership of it would have been if fighting had con- 8011, 5,528 (roughly, 64 per cent.) mem-tinued, and for this reason Mr. Kitchin's
estimate of £33,915,000,000 for all thes belligerents may be a little too high. On lione in all. Then there is the capital the other hand, it has to be remembered value of the killed and permanently by which food can be imported and trade that neutrals have been obliged, in view disabled. Without counting Belgium, upon shipping for almost all we require, money in defensive preparations, and in killed were over 3,500,000, and the conducted. We alone are dependent of possibilities, to spend large sums of Serbis, Japan, and Portugal, the losses and without ships we cannot engage in
we shall probably not exaggerate if we number of wounded incapable of return foreign trade, or even trade between the put down the total direct cost up to the ing to any occupation from 2.000.000 to various parts of the Empire. Prac signing of peace at not tically all our remaining ships, for want £40,000,000,000. This total is also arrived to reckon that not fewer than 2,000.000 less than 3.000,000 more. Altogether it" scems fair of ship-repairing facilities (due to war at by the Federal Reserve Board at
ruen between the ages of 18 and 48 beva conditions), are in need of overhaul. Washington. It cannot, of course, he been sacrificed. If we put their average That means that they are, for the time, vouched for, but it is believed to be sub- sarnings down at no more than 20s. a Gross tape Gram Lage, Grom core, bandicapped in trading, and it is doubt stantially correct-
We have at least week and their average, probability of ful if some of them are worth the ex. this indisputable fact to go upon, that life at only ten years, we Ret an economic penses of restoration. In effect, we have the public debts of the Entente and loan of 4,630 millions. to rebuild the whole of our mercantile Allied countries have grown aince ach man, taking one with another at This is to value. marine as soon as we can. That is one August, 1914, from 24,585,000,000 to £320, whereas some economists put it item in the war bill to ag as a maritime £25,350,000,000;
those of the as high as £1.000. There is the further people. These are considerations which Central Powers from £1,210,000,000 le consideration that the great majority of make our case separate and distinct, and £14,650,000,000; the increase for all the these victims, it not all of them, were vitiate any attempt to draw comparisons belligerents, but not including neutrals potential tax-payers, and that their re between our losses during the war and being-£34,225,000,000 From this summoval puts a heavier burden on those those which fell upon the mercantile however, should be deducted the British who are left. We may now sum up these marines of other countries, which are loans to Allies and Dominions, and to classifications of cost. points of maritime Empires. not islands, and are not the pivotal it there ought to be added the war debts millions for direct cost, 3,000 millions of the German States; but these adjust for material damage 1,250 millions for The tabular statement given above re-ments do not by a jet affect the relaces of production, and 4,660 millions an
tion of national debts to the question. of the economic value of the lost and dis veals the actual gross leg of each coun. war costs. It may be fairly assumed that abled lives, making altogether early...
pire. Shipping has always been, and meeting, Mr. E. P. Gisborne, London. On January 31st, at a special general must always be, a highly speculative moved That it is in the public interest, industry, for it as to meet world come in measure of reconstruction that Fetition, European rivala, not to mention lapar having the advantage of far lower wages for officers and men.
When the war came this vast volume of private property was placed at the service of the State, and was eventually controlled by the State. Shipowner had no choice; they could not, even if they had wished to do so, preserve their ships by keeping them in port, they were forced to send them to se Government bera voted. action reaffirmed patriotic instinct, and, not the Royal Navy, but the Merchant Navy, which was not constructed for the violence of war, became the principal result was that approximately half the target of the enemy's naval forces. The tonnage under the British flag was des troyed. The following table reveals the losses sustained by this and other coun- tries, between the opening of the war and its close
Wax and MaÀ LO OF MERCHANT STEAMURU.
A LOW Marlar lowes Tves),
7,743,511 1,034,777 4,700,
109,714
7,2,DJ $43,090
85,142
та
JA
1,13.043 9,05),
USA Belgium Brasillad.. Dizah Dutch French
$10,0
10,061 34,422
Six
* 1,727
2
24002
507 077
reek
349,801
Тарелеве Spann
a
*7#,700
174.41
110,704
1.50,250
976,516
127 427 180,435
BAS
45,014
42.072
195,74 1,171,700
7,03
257,2
344.001
Some of the land workers desire to follow up what they have learnt by taking up similar duties in the Colonies, where they will be capable belpmaten to men Norw from the Services. A good many have a made up their minds to take silotmenta at the first opportunity. hanger is shown by the unabated call for will be seen, was more than ten times as The amount of British tonnage susk, it
130,000 new plots taken for the purpose Italy, and seventeen times as much as in Iand for allotments. There have been much as that lost by either France or during the past twelve months Steps the case of the United States. The
The land
(OUR PECULIAR POBATION,
"
and
We have 40,000
Professor J. G. Adami, in a lecture ca Medical Research in its Relationship to the War," before members of the Royal Institution, said that as he belonged to the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he thought he might venture to say some thing about what had been accomplished for agricultural implements; spades, Norwegian shipowners are assured of an allowance for new construction. In cost, with its consequent and inevitable possibility of some overlapping, we may ars to be taken to meet the great demand Norwegians were badly hit, but at least try, and not the not losses after making the figure of £40,000,000,000 of direct 60,000 millions. As a set-off against the in this war by the Royal Army Medical forks, and other articles required by early restoration to their mercantile studying the maritime situation, the burden on the next two generations, Corps, and by the medical men of Great alkotment holders were very expensive marine less than 2,000,000 tons in 1914 latter. Egures are really unimportant, approximately accurate,
put the indirect cont of. diminished trade... Britain. What they had accomplished last year. There are large quantities of and, in the meantime, have earned
for any calculations with a view to re was marvellous. The idea that the most unfilled shells, trench metal, etc., and it large profits free from the beavy taxa pastion being obtained from the enemy rial damage, any satisfactory asscuement serve," for it is about one half of the notable velvances had been surgical was is hoped to utilise at least some of this tion which has borne upon British ship and not upon the tonnage which was not official surveys, it must be purely con- richest countries-the United States, the When we come to the subject of mate and financial disturbance. £50,000,000,000, as Mercutio said, "is enough," will must be based upon the tonnage sunk, much more difficult. In the absence of aggregate pre-war wealth of the four erroneous. Where the surgeon had trent material to convert the word into owners. ed one man the sanitarian was respon-ploughshares. At present there are more
replaced; if we had not been so heavily jectural. What we do know, however, sibe for the health of a thousand. The women landworkers, than the Food Pro
engaged in defending France and Italy outstanding feature of the war had been duction Department ean place,
The marine losses were, it will be seen, and ourselves on land, we should, which of the havoc, wrought in France and Bel, United Kingdom, Germany, and France the wonderful results of preventive medi-
beary, and in the main they were wax Official statements as to the call, exer
From the point of view of ordinary our vast resources, have replaced every gium warrant, conjecture on the big cio.
cised by the land upon the women
Josses. Before the war, owing to our ton, as we did in the Napoleonic War, wcale. Other countries-Poland, Lith cuntancy, the scale kicks the beam. During the war a terrible epidemic of workers are borne out in other directions ships being better designed, belter con- having a handsome balance in hand when uania, Eastern Prusais, the Bukovina, t is a balance abcet with nothing on the atyphus occurred in Servia and Rumania. Since the Strathcona College of Garden structed, and better managed and hand-the fighting came to an end.
Galicia, Serbia, Rumania, Macedonia, credit side.. The material costi dre A British Commission disinfected Servicing and Agriculture for Ladies was under the British flag had been gradually victory is, moreover, to be measured not put this devastation down at 2,000 pennyworth of bread to an intolerable
led the percentage of marine "losses
the Trentino, and our own East Coast enormous, the material assets are "niz. and practically stopped the epidemic. What were the facts in regard to typhoid started, first at Arlesey, and removed to brought down from 2 per cent. to 1-perin ships alone, but in cargoes and in millions, but that was before the last deal of rack. Yast suma have been used The price we paid by sea for the Allied have also suffered severely. M. Hamon At the very best the result is a poor half- and enteric1
a larger estate at Iver, Backs, some In the present war the Canadian Oversena Force, consisting of bundreds of well-educated girls have eat educed by nearly 500,000 men, had only had 412 of passed through it for training.
period of the war the percentage rose to Admiralty is not only incomplete and Mias
course of which the enemy burnt or blew have been incurred for which there is no cers and men admitted to hospital with Kitson, the joint principal, stated in including Dominion vessels.
That misleading, but will do this country an typhoid, as compared with 67,684 in the answer to inquiries on the subjcot, that absence of lights, efforts to evade sub- Peace Conference as a fair reflection of perhaps be now added to M. Hamon's useful production has been suspended
rise was due to war conditions the actual injustice, if it is accepted at the be retreated.
up every town and village through which corresponding property, Throughout Bour War. Vascination against typhoid none of the students, show any inelina marine attacks, dificulties of steaming the extent of the harm which the enemy figure without exposing it to the charge during four years, and its place has best Fifty per cent might two-thirds of the world the work of not been made compulsory in Eng- tion after a few years of working ex- land; the United States had adopted com
perience to change her vocation. Some convoy, and other causce with which did as when he embarked upon the intea of exaggeration. Then there is the intaken by production for the slaughter of pulsion, also Canada. In the British have carried their knowledge over is remaricable not that our marine loses delegates in Paris are to present the case prodantive plant, the forced suspension mulated wealth. Millions of men have every merchant" seaman is familiar. It sire submaring campaign. If the pesce calculable loss caused by the removal of human lives and annihilation of accu- Army only 1.5 per thousand were admit and are putting it to practical use in ted to hospital. Practically abour 97 per fruit farming of ar extensive scale in beavier, for under. the pressure of war sign to the waste paper hasket the world's overseas commerce the disor pounds have been wasted in order to kill were so heavy, but that they were not as it should be presented, they will con of industry, the interference with the been killed, thousands of millions of cent. of the British Army had now been the Dominions No qualified, student inoculated.
finds any difficulty in obtaining a Pat routes, and in many cases carried im centrate attention upon the illuminating finance, and the unproductiveness, for homesteads have been swept out of exist employed on unfamiliar Admiralty White Paper, and will com ganisation of the world' industry and them, towns and village, and smiling When our troops retreated from Moue and at the present time there is con- there was great mortality from lockjaw stant request for women to undertake proper cargoes, only too frequently im figures published above, which have the time being, of the 50,000,000 menee, great, vessels laden with precious among the wounded, but the use of some specialised branch of gardening, properly loaded. That so many of these been extracted from Lloyd's Register engaged in military and other duties con.ergoes have been to the bottom of tetanus serum had brought this down to while dairy workers able to rear poul vessels survived the war is a tribute to recognised authority. They indicate,nected with the war or held in readiness theses, and against all this there is no under 1 per 1,000. Another serious try are continually asked for.. The the character of British shipbuilding and though only partially, the real damage for warfare disease, was spotted fever. A serum hed Marchioness of Londonderry, as com to the wisdom of shipowners in providing which we suffered when we placed every
thing to be set that can be reckoned" in now. been prepared after the use of which mander of the Women's Legion, recently large, & margin of safety, British keel under the Britisk fag at the service Take the last of these items, and let hope that we have put in, and for may economic values. But there is a moral in 83 DOGCS it was found that only 12.4 pointed out the opportunities that there ships were the best designed, the best of the Allies The revelation in bo supposed that only half the num to the danger of Prumian militarism,
asset to be taken into account. We per cent. of the patients died.
When the determined to eroption.
Medical would be for women in work of this des baile, and the best manned, otherwise the trial, because these statistics, no nos ber, were ako be fathers debat precious though such a consummation
"That__organisation' 'took War depreciation, instead of amounting exhibit the value of the cargoes sunk the pational tit be inpposed, in part in the movement which 105,000,000 tons,ould have reached number of invaluable liver destroyed, or the intervals of moderation, that their may be, it is an insuficient return for research
in medical matters connected ubsequently developed, into the Women's much higher figure. with the war.
the inestimable injury caused by our
such bugs and almost intolerable exeri Nor should we overlook the relative withdrawal of ships from distent trade alege profiter power over a bore fices. If gut of the ruilly and becatombs Auxiliary Bervices in connection with improved treatment for soldiers' heart at Colchester, Ece the Army, the Navy, and the Air, and importance of shipping to the varions routes, in order that we might succoni not more than £25 a year, also that their of the last four years there arises a new,
the coata of material, labourelo, war pital had saved £80,000 in one year it is significant that it is now directing nations. We are the only island Power on Allies and transport over the Atlantic average period of porely military duties brighter, and happier world, then the saving which alone balanced the whole special attention to the possibilities that in Europe every other country posses the majority of the American troops, was limited to two years, this would give billions that have been spent will not all annual cost of the Medical Research Com-lie before girls in the lighter branches of sing ships has also land communications, which turned the scale on the Western a loss of £50 per man, or 1,250 mil have been spent in vain. Without such
agriculture and fruitgrowing
(Continued at foot of next salumn.) front-Daily Telegraph.
dénouement the world will be bank (Continued at foci of next column.}" rupt of hope as well de of money.
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OLÁHRIFICATIONS OF COST.