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1919 THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURƐDAY, OCTOBER 16ca
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RUSSIA'S SECRET
MOBILISATION.
LIGHT ON A MYSTERY OF THE"
GOVERNMENT TRADING
FOOD.
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IN
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Ever fresher, weer stronger, grows tho
wonder of the Penky
Of fourteen different food classes in which business was carried on, only that of vegetable supplies and preservation shows a loss. The amouns on the wrong individual inside was £13.530.
ADVERSE EXCHANGES.
THE VALUE OF CURRENCIES.
FIRST COMPLETE YEAR. The City Editor of The Daily Tele WAR.
graph writes: It has been the fashion to
£13,448.420 GROSS PROFIT. Whether the Czar of Russiä was conseiregard the exchanges as a mystery; but,
During the year. which ended with ously pro German in his syrapathies is a stripped of technicalities and the intries March last the Ministry of Food, accord- question' time probes to the very roots thecies of procedure, the subject may Being to its provisional trading, account. issued on August 6th.. made a gross profit The first poing to vacillating character of the late autocrat Fmad-, fairly eleme
of 4469 of the Winter Palace. It is well known appriate is that commercial, transnes than the 'zar's heart was never really intions in the, ordinary course do not in- the war, but whether his supreme weak.vely debts between nations, but create ness in the moment of decision was the indebtedness berweh
The greatest profit, £4.002,069, came result of his Slav passivity or due to the different countries. A in London from file and fats, and this was the net wiflucace at a corrupt Court permeated wheat in Chicago or ention in Texas, result of transactions by the United
Kingdom Oils and Oilada Brekers with Teutonic ideas is a question for the wine up fruit in France, coffee in Brazil,
Association acting na agenta for the Food ten in India, or wood in Australia. then-
Controller, the final procreds only appear- ; paychologist ärä historian of the future.
as the date draws near when he has pro ing in the books of the Ministry. From certain private documents con- mised to meet his obligation to B. the preted with the Soukhomtinoff Brial, which seller, A. must make arrangements for the The next place was taken by bacon,
hams His invoice shows that he is have come into my possession I am able settlement.
wich and lard
a profit of day to pay in 178.4, at songs bank se £2,502,361, and then ene imported batter at least to throw seine valuable light on the problem of Russia mobilisation, wany thousands of dollars, and as a Briand cheese, on which the Ministry cleared showing incidental y that the fate of tinars bus Treasury notes or their equi-
merchant he
be naturally s not carry
£1,836,806.
The profts shown under the remaining "Russia was in the lanes from the begin valentin his banking account
ning of hostilities,
cords with his problem, to his banker, who, to his relief, agrees to give him credit at a lank in the desired foreign country a price, and the price is the race as matic story of the tug-of-war, between
The Soukhomlinof, Gomma Ber-in-Chief of if his creditor is in the CS.3.
banker has funds in .S.A.. but mani- the mobilisation, and the Czar, who, in a
if festly, sudden panic, tried verything in his of dollars the Banker will give for the the only, buser, the number power to enncel the order.
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These documents taken back to the tragic days of July. 1911, on the eve of
Ele pro
Bussin'a inoisilisation, an unfold a draw Treasury nets exchange for dollars
FACED WITH DISASTER
Sorkhoutinoff was in despair Faerd "with disaster, he writes: +1
BACON BUTTER, CHELSE
sup-
services are as follows: Milk products, £1.274,008: meat supplies. £14,597; oils and oilseeds supply, 125:121: cattle. Peding staffs, £14.47 margarine clear ing house £579,668; tea, £1,000,000 dried
init fruits and sundries, £6,539
fish, plies and preservation. 33.100; game. poultry, andi miscellaneous 1279,03 Central Live Stock Fund £10,446 The last-named item, it is ex tion expenses of honte supplies of meat, the revenue being provided by per head charges contributed by the trade, and as there are neither"purchases not
sales there is consequently no stock on band at any period:"
I note will be more than it A and I duined, is a pool to meet the distribu
others were competing far the of the supply of dollars available in the facilities. Hence it becomes a question S.A for exchange and the demand for then.
GENERAL EXPLANATION.
The details Of this statement, the report estimates, and not from the books of explains, have been prepared largely from
account, owing to the fact that the ru turns of sales by trade agents are COD- siderably. in arrear and the stocks
at the loss of the account. it home, afloat, and abroad, cannot be stated with absolute accuracy at such an early date. TES depletion of
of clerical staffs in the com mercial world is mainly responsible for these conditions. While, therefore, the actual Egures must be accepted with some reserve, the general results will consey a very fair impression of the extent and nature of the Food Controller's opera
The Czar telephoned me on July zuth and told me 'alar Wilhelm's telegram
The British merchant. in obtaining and about his word honour." He de credit in the days of peace, was prepared to pay up to a prive in excess of which "clared that there existed a possibility to
avert the war, and that mobilisation thussbug now, with the embargo on the export
it would be possible to send gold cheaper į be stopped.. & was thunderstruck. I am-
swered that such a thing way technically of gold, he must pay a rate fixed esin- petitively at which credit will be givru impossible. He read to me Wilhelm's him. As this country has been pur telegram. After hearing it E replied, chasing goods, heavily, and, as the
But he really promises your Majesty
on the other side are becoming depleted nothing whatever; he merely gives his there have been relativels fower Ameri word of honour. I was not listened to. cans buying from British merchants than Just imagine what might have curred British merchants from Americans-the bad the command been rated to stop words, the Treasury note, instead of buy price is becoming higher, or, in other mobilisation!"
23. ill now only buy 84.12. a depreciation of dier to per cent.. which makes 208, only warth 16. 113d on ex-
tions. is change. If the number of British buyers of American goods inc.cases, and the The next act in the drama" was a "belo
nunder of British sellers remain station phone message from General Janushary or diminishes, the demand for dollars kivitch, who rang up Soukhomline in forming him that the Czar had ordered the suspension of mobilisation,
It was another case of a crap of paper," and Souzbonlinoff's remark about the Kaber's "word of honour cloquent.
What did you answer him? Janu-bkivitch.
General Janushkivitel then naked me what was to be done,
I replied. Nothing at all
11.56 ing
Treasury note will depreciate or fall in
With
mo
of
The period of the account is the first couple year of the trading in food
and reflects the policy dehberately will be still more insistent and fewer adopted of controlling supplies and dis dollars will be obtained, and the rate willtribution from the source, in order, affec- be more advers to this country than it tively, to control prices. This was sup is now. To put it another ways the del-plemented by efforts to the automa askear will appreciate, and sterling ur the 1915 accumulate stocks against the resulting from the enemy sub shortage I said it was a technical imposs-funds on either side is one step further
alte
How the banker replenishes his marine campaign. bility, but the Czar repeated his orden tu
With the object c ol steadying any violent stop mobilisation."
into the problem. complications fuctuations in the world's market, selling which need not be considered at the
prices were fixed not only, to cover ad inent.
Stated shortly, it is the demandministrative expenses, but also to build for dollars in settlement of the purchases Enancial reserves for use in an
пр that accounts for the fluctuation of the emergency, and to meet the rate above or below the gold value of the decline in value during
of liquidation. It is only necessar: ka
The elimination of war currency unit. bear this illustration in mind to under-
risks at sea has freed the balance stand the following table, as the same
26,002,013 to the credit c of the Insur- principle applies to French francs.
account, which has been added to Italian lire, or German marks:--
the gross surplus of £7.315.015 to provide for anticipated abilities arising from various commitments entered into by the Ministry and
losses likely to and against Gecur in the realisation of stocks, and other assets, which would otherwise in- valve a loss to the national Exchequer. principally in connection with meat, potatoes, milk, and the manufacture of cheese
I could hear a sigh of relief caping from his lips.
Next morning. I lied to the Czug, and ir.formed him that mobilisation would be restricted to the, south-western districts only.
I was almost out of my mind. was quite aware that mobilisation was in full rogness, and that it would be im possible to stop it.'
THE THREE
The culminating act the following day
Soukhomulinoff writes: ---
STIRE FA
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من المارة
40ce
the petable
Nominal Val Yesterday valued current exeran unit in cake of Perling exchange $186) ... $4.12 ... 4/1).....9/164 New Yo.k... Paris......... 26.22 francs... 34fc... Did ... 7d was reached ur Italy
25.2 lire... 30.09........ Dåd ..... 6 Madrid 9.24 peseta 21.30 d. 114 Switz and... 5.22 francs... 23.80 £3d 101 The following day (July 30th), the Berl
Amsterdam, 12.07 Horic... 11.38...
02... 10. 214 If a general fall in prices had occurred three of us-I, the War Minister, and the Foreign Minister had a consultation. It will be thus seen that at the rates immediately following the armistice to lasting five minutes Everything was in London the frane is only worth 7d, the extent that was originally anticipated, perfectly clear. It sufficed for me to show the lire 6d.. the German mark gid., while there would have remained a very small margin as a net surplus, but the demands Sasonoff the map to inke hin under the dollar has risen to 48. 104d. of Central Europe have tended to main- stand what might result from a partial adverse to us so far as..S.A.. Hoi land, Spain, and Switzerland is concern
tain prices nearer the war level, and the of stocks has not been appreciably ed, not to mention less important centres.
diminished The If the meaning of adverse.." or *fav-
margin of £1.850.028, equal to about a half of one per cent. ourable"
on the turnover, therefore remains in out means should have
hand as a reserve for contingencies and costs of final liquidation, which cannot at the present date be estimated with any reliability.
mobilisation.
They decided to telephone the Czar. who was at Czarsko Selo, and "Soukhom
rate
linof. as spokesman, again emphasised living change is now clear, the terin
the impossibility of preventing mobilisa-some significance. To win the war it was tion, comparing the whole thing to a necessary to buy munitions or food at any tram running in a certain direction which cost, and to meet part of our debts we could not be stopped by any outside not only sold goeds and gave services in
the shape. Of
sold, agency without disaster.
freight carrying but The dramatic moment had arrived. as the Prime Minister told us, the other national debts abroad, anouns, however, to some £1,442,000,000, and we individual. Is as purchasers are buying commodities and as producers are producing, stead of more, so that the trade debt, in stead of diminishing, grows, and the value of the £abroad declines. The task of wiping out existing advers: balance may require special
the that
Appended are the rates for 1914, "1917,
June. July.
Aug. 1, 1914, 1917. 19:9,
21 11-162 3}
I way commanded to hand the re-day, £1,000.00) of 'our securities. Our Länd the present month;- ceiver to the Foreign Minister." adis "Sasonoff talked long. Soukhomlinoff. energetically, and persuasively to the The result was that the latter withdrew his order. The catastrophe was Baally averted."
Czar.
Tegs
fapan (per yon 7.T.) 2 ot Changhai) (per
taol T.T.)
20" India (per rupoo TT1 3 31-32 Egypt pisstres per d
ngh
ters, and Russia entered the war against the nation individual. but unless U.S.A. (dolar par
Thus the authority of the Russian autocrat was flouted by his own Minis Germany as our Ally.-R. B. in Dale Express.
PRICELESS GIFT."
A TELEPHONE SYSTEM WHICH BROOKS NO DELAY
One of the best, because undoubtedly one of the most practical and most need ed, legacies bequeathed by the American Expeditionary Forces to France is their amazingly extensive and efficient system of telephones constructed and operated by the United States Army Signal Corps, The total equipment of this system inc'ades 273 exchanges and 25.000 instru- ments with thousands of miles of lines linking up no fewer than 350 French towns from Brest to Bordeaux and Mar- Beilles and from St. Nazaire to Toul, with Paris as the radiating „centre, through which connection can also be made with London, Liverpool, and Wia- chester, and, since the armistice, Ant werp, Rotterdam, Coblenz, Metz, and Treven.
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position demands that we less and produce more. these
the index of relative indebtedness-
per
mighty
5.
1 27-32 1 3.
France (trance por &
nighti Argentina (per peso,
gold)
97 1146
4,97 4-5
978
321
4.75%
4.35
471
SLI
25.15 117.10.
25,20
81.80
2150
34.5J
24.251 34.55."
37.80
12.124"
13.281
11.364
15.60
11:0
17.13
LA
Switzerland france
'per & night) Italy (lire, por e
sight... Holland galden, per
2sight) mehmonda Sweden (kronor, per
Bright)
The following rates were quoted in Germany and Austria in the years 1910- Quotations are not available for German 1914, and in Russia in the years 1010-1017.
and Austrian exchange during the war :—
Germany Austria. flussia. Marks to
to £ Krone,
to £ Roublesto
instead of improving will grow worse And the cost of commodities will rise atili higher. It will be asked, no doubt, why, it
have the money, they should not pedit. The answer is that the money spend
fictitious, due to the fact that 15
areernment the
spending of over £4,000,000 day creates a demand for and for goods and labour which it rency notes, and so much currency has hich it pays incur been created by the prin
has been foute press that iato fictitious prosperity. The need for retrenchment and economy is urgent if the country is ever to be restored to
to commercial bealth, and that applies to other belligerents, who have created vast quantities of paper cur. rency, and, as we see, are paying heavily 19:3 strictions enables anyone to buy exchange, for it. The removal of the Treasury 1914 freely, without declaration as heretofore: 1918 bus the amount of
in ex speculation change is relatively small.
SAE
£10 sight.
1010 1011 1913
sight. 20.44
sight.
24.02
91,42
20441
20.47 20151
2-1071
04.48
047
21.16
94,01
24.104 24.1
35.79
172
120
220
1201
1015
1017
Of its wonder and its beauty can I scare
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find words to sponk:
enchanting is the prospect, and -as
varied as enchanting.
And deep-rooted in my fancy is the joy"
of its implanting,
Like
a living map the prospect live ente spread, and as my pleasure
I may gaze at sea or city-sight repaying
in full measu
.
Every monien spent in gasing, for she
prospect ever changes,
As the eye sweeps o'er the buildings, husy
port and auntainèrengen. Steep the cliffs that, Madi in vettlung, landi
th'admiring glance to places,
Of
That are centre of the Colony's acmrities,
and bases development and progress
kong he faithful ever
Hail Heng
In the service of a Motherland that claimsa
thy best endenemir !
clumps of trees, Cathedral power, lovel
sward of cricket-graund. Dome of Law Courts. Blocks of building,
where the Eces abonad, Where the energies of mercantile and ship-
ping firms are ordered. la wide enterprize which only by this enda
nd earth is bordered.
From the news Botanic Gardens straying.
now my glance is held,
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And my mind to many thoughts of British
Sayal power impelled, By the Savat Yhed its basins, dis cock.......
and its mighty brage. Waiting until they shall end the China
Squinitron here again.
Further West I see the grey massed roots
of China-town, the hint
Of industrians hope of gain, that nothing:
cam avail to dunt: Further East the grassy stretch of "Happy
Valley," haunt of sport. And, across the road, God's acre, witn
ing that life is short,
As the background to the picture, in fami
liar outline rise
Kowloon Peak and Lion Rock and fellow-
peaks-and now mine eyes Rest content upon the sturdy statoliness of
Tai Mo Shan,
Geniality with majesty uniting in hi
spar.
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Calor and beautiful, the view in, as F loosic,
the other wat Softly-multid hills descending green to
many a lovely hay; Emerald isles in sapphire setting of a sunny
and there. Aberdeen's din feet of junks and man-
: pans crowded in its hair!
Diverse are the strange, conevits by morn
ing mist and lend afected; Smoky columns, Jufty, vast, on insib
statant base erected I
Wisps ungleaned awhile, till morning sun in strength has finished reaping "The white harvest of the night mist, und the dew has ceased its weeping.
Early mistike, snowy garments cluselý vo
the hill-tops clinging
While the sun his gleaming shafts across
the glassy sed is finging; Or the hills, their summits only just above
the whitesmist showing, Seem to flent at anchor, pale blur aky liko
water round then flowing.
Praise to God for early morning's gracious
gift of adoration,
By,
To the soul that wakes "beholding" ozve
again in illustration
the richly-dowered harmony of Nature's
variation,
God's own manifold Perfection mapifested
in Creation!
Praise to God for benediction sent through
grateful bumao eyes,
To the reverent heart that views the
pageant in the Western skies, Seeing awestruck through the open gates of
Heaven's great foundry-fires, Glimpses of the glowing furnace, which
the breath of God inspires.
Beautiful the scene by day, funtastically
fair by night.
When
the gathering gloom below is pricked by myriad points of light, And the arch-lights throw out "sudden
dazzling avenues, that make The great harbour take the semblance
a magic-lighted lake,
Over all, the star-bespangled árch of heaven
silent spreading,
While the moon in gentle majesty and
gracefulness is leading
in the radiunt procession of screve illumina
tion:
Mighty forces, God-united in a mystie
comblastion!
•
Wheresoe'er I room hereafter may ay.
memory play me fuir,
And imagination true restore to mo with
cager care,
Every detail, every feature of this view,
whereon I look With a fond appreciation, as
{avourite besk
apon
N. C. POPE.
SUPERSTITION IN BRITTANY.
phang
A startling story of superstitious belief comes from Brittany. It a little village near Ploermel for some months "a tom has frequented the homes of the
A local legend was recalled and the people stood in awe of the
Apparently the ghost behaved Visitor,
villages.
in
Since August 5tb., 1919, quotations of the most monstrous way with im His treat- punity, nobody interfering London exchange in Germany have been RATES OF EXCHANGE.
ment of the young girls of the district available, the rate for the date damned was a scandal, to which nobody seemed belag 74 marks to the pound sterling. COMPARISON WITH PRE-WAR VALGE.
to be able to put an end. One girl of Replying in the official "Parliamentrian Kroner to the pound sterling was August 8th., 1918, a rate of 150 Aus-
14 was particularly under the domination of the sinister spectre. The parents, ex- tary Debates to Colonel Wedgwood reported.
tremely simple folk, were so terrified that The average daily number of call, dur. (Lab., Newcastle-under-Lyme), Mr. Daly occassional quotations are obtain their health has been entirely broken. It ing the war is calculated at 143.000 in Bridgeman (Parliamentary Secretary, able for Polish exchanges, and reliablo the interior and 4,000 long-distance Board of Trade) gives the rates quoted Bassian rates during the last two years proceedings that the police from
was not until after some months of these calls, exclusive of
the 40,000 telegrama various countries for exchange have not been obtainable.
foreign
town On August of Rennes came upon, the spot to make a averaging sixty-words each day. While on London during years prior to and 8th, 1919, a rato of 68-Polish marks to serious inquies.
sizce 1914. In the majority of cases the the pound sterling was reported, and on rested a man whose reputation in the
They immediately rates are those at which telegraphic trans July 21st. a rate of 90 Polish marks to village is very bad, and he is accused of fers (TT) were sold, or the selling rates
the pound. No direct quotations of playing upon the superstitions of the for sight exebadge.
Czecho-Slovak exchange are immediately people and, masquerading as a legendary available.
person, of committing the foulent crimes.
at least a délay of two minutes was re quired on the French lines to establish a connection, not more than thirty seconda was needed for interior calls on the American lines.
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Vontinued at foot of next column,)
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