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THURSDAY, AUGUST 26TH
WHAT WAR HAS DONE FOR Bus there is another reason why it will CAPT, FINCH RETIRES FROM
GERMANY
NO MOTOR CARS NO NEW
CLOTHES WA
"THE WHITE STARF KIPPER WELL-KNOWN IN THE
BAR HAST
SHIPPING OUTLOOK DANK. NYK. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
EMPLOYEES.
The privent shipping situation admide of no uptimism declares Baren Kondo, Prident of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, is mange to important meubers of its atad It will go he long before, we are cos fronted with a great adversity, a great crisis,"
not be possible to be rich in Germany. Whatever criticism may be poured upon the Government cannot be accused of sparing the rich (or the poor) or failing Mr. AG. Gardiner, former editor of to face the territo financial realities which
Captain Walram Finch, senior com the London Daily News writes from Ber the war has left behind. No country bas innader of the White Star Ling, retired lin: In travelling through Germany sen itself wo ruthlessly to the task of from active duty on his arrival at Liver to-day there is us fact which is calciated establishing its financial credit, und is is York June 26th Captain Finch, who has pool aboard the Baltic, which left New to impress an Englishman—and, in an even one of the worst fils of the unlimited in peas forty-six years in service an almost greater degree an American-more than demnity that it makes that task unknown, very sea, commanded the Baltic for some than the entire absence of motor-cars. In The programme of taxation
years past, and during the dark war daya is in three piloted the big ship many times safely This mouage has just been dispatched po America motorcars are as common as parts (1) war fortunes, (9) capital levy,
through the aubmarine zone landing the managers of the NY.A offices in Japan black berries. They are not a luxury of (3) income-tax. The loby on fortams made without loss. This aplandia recdrd brought and in various parts of the world in poa
troops, passengers and valuable cargoe life, but a commonplace necessity.” To was during the war appropriates werything in the captain direct recognition from King nection with a proposal to establish & Pro fold at a Connecticut factory last autumn excess of £8,500. The capital lory on all George, who conferred upon him the Order visional Committee on Investigation of
of the British Empire, that half of the son certi coxseed came fortance is steeply graded up to 60 ver time of the many outstanding incidents Businery Operations. This body will in to work in their own cam, and in the cent, the maximum being reached with of Captain Finch's career was his heroic clude all the branch managers as well as the- State of Kansas, which is reputed to have fortunes of £350,000. The levy is payable conduct when the frabic, then under his directors of the company, and its object is the most widely diffuset prosperity of any in annual instalments of 6 per cent. at submarine off the Irish casat and sunk now shipping situation. Haron. Könda's
command, was torpedoed by a German
to consider ways and means of meeting the State in the Union, the possession of a the Hability is extinguished. The income, within eight minutes. In accord with the
message reads: motor-car is at least as commonplace a tax, also steeply graded, reaches a maxi- best traditions of the sea, Captain Finch Of lats years the company him made
went down with, his ship and swam about fnet as the possession of a niano, We mum of 60 per cent. It follows that with for forty minutes before boarding a life unusually large profits sad its francial have not reached this state of promerits such a terrife screw of taxation, added to raft, where he helped a woman and her position has been strengthened To in England. The motor-car is still some the cost of living, it is not going to be baby, another passenger and wa of the boration of peace, however, has used
Arabic's Bremen, For this
suddon slump in the scomputio situation, a courageous thing of a luxury of the well-to-do.." But possible for many people in Germany to conduct the British Government presented serious setback has neulted to production it is abundant unaugh, Th Gerunsur drink real coffee, much keen indulge Society of Great Britain gave him an Foreign shipping operations are returning him with a piece of plato and the Humane and many enterprises have gone bankrupt. motor cars are neither a newite, nor a private motorlaars for many along year illuminated address.
to the pro-war" "conditions.", and' foreign Luxury, but an impossibility.
[THE UNUSUAL SPECTACLE.
to come.
Indeed, the only people who can afford In the course of a journer : made by to be Inturions in Germany are foreigners. roact from Greifswald to Berlin I did not It is a pleasant enough place if you are are meet or naw n sínyie matar-car. The living on English, American, Dutch, ar journey covered song 150 miles. Nos only Swiss money. The prices are high, but dirt we not meet a kinele car on the war when you can buy a thousand marks but the ghwinn sensation, which any rar instead of a hundred with a £5 note, yon crented showed how rare au evrut it wacan face them without alarm. You can Even dull farm harus seared and founder even take a taxi, or bribe the hotel waiter ed at our unset, and as me looked back to bring you a surreptitious pat of butter to me what had haunened one saw many for four mark without feeling that you a whip waved, not in salutation but with
are putting an undue strain upon your very nious hostility by indignant drivers. Wherever our approach was seen | in time the drivern invariably leapt down and stood by the animal" heads util we and shot past.
And the sensation was not cöplined to
finances.
ŠA, FOR A CUP OF TEA;
Captain Finch had many close and concerns, are puking redoubled efforts to mand of the firistic and the Rutie, but decline in freight rates is more accentuated marvelous escapes during the way in com- | advance their intèrents. As a result, the these are forgotten in this satisfaction of everyday.
and his Ataff to Liverpool aboard the It is not easy to say what steps should be having safely transported General Porsh **All this, however, is what we expected. Baltic in June, 1915, which carried on the taken, but what is essential is the reduction. same voyage the Fifth Pittsburg of working expenses and business adjust- Engineers, the first armed American troops ments, to be landed in England.
1*** For this purpose, however, it is essen- During his service under the White Star tial, as a prerequisite, that there should be fing on the Pacific ocene Captain. Finch established perfect solidarity among the madere) Dency and Captain Gridley, both manity is affected by the world situation, carried as passenger, Admiral (then Com- the members of the stuff. Of late the com- of rhou became his fast friends. He has and the people are apt to be frivolous, I Kast and in the Australian trade, has their good manners, and see to it that they ven many years of service in the Fat is necessary that the staff should preserve rescued several crews at sen for which he are not affected by the currens tendencia received afficial recognition, and possesses of the times. We propose to establish a many medals and decoration, from various Provisional Committer on the Investigation governments. Captain Fincl noted for his seamanship and for his unfailing of Business Operations with a view to im geniality is one of the fast disappearing Proving the business operations of the com sailors of the old school, because in these pany Everything depends upon your days of steam vessels there are but few lidarity and unity, and it is to be earnest vessels to learn the fundamentals of navi-efficiency so that we can the permanent instances, if any, where skippers serve air hoped that you will all assiduously dis ten years apprenticeship aboard sailing charge your duties and ibervase your gation.
through the crisis and ensure prosperity of the company.”-
But the unhappy German housewife sees the reverse of this agrecable state of things. She does not dip into a bag of the horses and their dríseys. The village or Dutch guilders. She dips into a bag, English pound potes or American dollars
children were na Jawi ogrited be the un.
of Gernina paper. Her shilling has be Sometimes they were come a penny in competition with the anal spectacle. friendly and tried their nees with prosperous world outside An English- Rometimes they were unfriendle, in which woman, the wife of a German official --swill be apparent from this that it cime they shouted “Schieber" ats as living in Berlin, who had passed through is a very limited section of the poople who we careered nast, Schieber" heig the the long agony of the war in Germany, of the assistants in the provision store who can indulge in these luxuries, Pasked one verbal coinage of the war that serves the told me that it cost her the equivalens bought these things. Did the poor buy! Germans for our proficer."
of £100 in German money to visit her Nobody bays anything now but the Jews them f Bhe Langhed almost fefely svirrutle acceotel "an a matter of course relatives in London after the price was and the Schiebers, he said. She herself that only a profiteer rode in a moor-car
signed. On the boat, the craving for a cup got 600 marks a
month
which was now the fixed wage. The
the wages had
was
SHIPPING CONTROL. POWERS TERMINATE THIS MONTH.
In the House of Commons Inst month, stated that the powers which were conferred Col. Wilson, in. reply to Maj. Barnes, on the Shipping Controller under the
in Germany to-day. If that is the test of tea was too great to be resisted. It mach now that the girls did not steal sa Defence of the Realm Act terminated at.
URI DE ONE CAPTience or that ride pro fiteers ist be rare birds in the lanet
MOTORING DOES EXIST. -
that sixpence, she had to pay 88. Ger. barosodic stole a great dark to be applied for none were refusedia
— GREERSOAS, marks a
the end of Angush -- Though licences still Cost her an English sixpence; but to buy but the
rent 60 marks, her fram fares 30 matky refusal. All the special rates of freight
mcnth
antess there was special reason for the
But the truth is that aut even money, for the exchange-then-washe And to provide nesting and lighting laid down fee. Government, cargo had also
bera" can ride in Germany. Nobody can ride in them and nobody, does ride in tim
Ita worst,
a benvy charge with coal (briquettes) at) hands with a despairing gesture. A pair tion of the freight market. The other fune 220 marks i ton. Clothing? Shu raised her bin withdrawn in view of the present posi of boots cost 210 marks at least and sertions and dubus of the Shipping Control fer, which were very considerable, still ro- soling 60 marks (3)***)
rained, and he could only sure his hon friend that it was the intention and desire
The rationed foods sold at fixed prices provide only one hall the nutriment neces
ry for bare existence. They are-- of the Shipping Controller to bring the Bread (black)-An allowance of the Ministry to an end at the earliest date
per week, price 45. 6d-real pram possible.
wing to interior food value due to
25 pic of husks, bg, Bd. Ment-lb. a week, pries 10s, a b
For many weeks only American corned beef was available, Fresh "or salted park has been obtainable for the past fortnight, People are afraid to hope It may continue
Fats, 1 ounce of butter, Id., § lb. of
lardor
INTERPORT SHOOTING.
PROSPECTS FOR MATCH NEXT
ANY SPRINGZAK
And though the internal value of the (I may explains that I rode in one mark has declined less than the external by the courtesy of the British Mility value it is not worth more than a sixth of its pre-war level. Our shilling is now Mission in Berlin, which was conductag less than sixpence, but the Germas ahill an inquiry of its own inte food and wacil ing not worth more than twopence even conditions). There are a few taxis in in Germany, In these circumstances, the centre of Berlin, using tyres of mo Problem of living, hard enough in Eng and, is here a nightmare that over inelastic substance, and perhaps a dozeshadows all other topics, It is a night- or so in cities like Leipzig and Hamburi mare amociated not with simple inconveni
jeuce, but with the prolonged experience, but private motorcars there are now passing into the fifth year, of chronic ou the roads. And the shortest taxi rid hunger, supported only by food of desaint costy a sovereign, for the fares have been ing sameness and tastelessness, as the raised by 600 per cent, in Berlin and 1,00 result of innumerable inquiries" which “I per cent in Hamburg.
have made in all the towns I have visited The explanation of the disappearance and among all classes of people, it may simple enough. - There is a famine is be said that the population of Germany everything fere, but oven in the gearr is to-day existing as it has existed, for famine the lack of rubber and petrol 1 four years on potatoes and bread, "eked exceptional, The wife of a diplomatist, ond out with a few, vegetables and an occa well-known in England, told me the other sional egg or strap of meat. This state. day that motoring had ceased to be poment does not rest on Gurman evidence sible because a pair of new tyres "exonly, but will, I think, be endorsed by 24,000 marks (£1,200). It may be offerery external authority in a position to sible to afford that unce" she said, "bspeak, like the British Military Mission no one của go nu affording it." And sat Berlin or the various American and other person in the company added the British Quaker Relief organisations. a litre of benzine now coats as much as There is plenty of good food at the hotels,
did before the war. obtained by surreptitious trading for
Dear Bu-In reply to your inquiry as THE COLLAPSE IN THE MARK, rationing is much more difficult to make watertight in a country which is living
Jam. Given out at long intervals to the revival of this event this Autumn It is not going to be easy to be ri on its internal resources than in n country
rice varying from: 28. to 68 per 1 regret to say that interest in Rifle shpot- in the old rease in Germany for many like our own where the supplies are con
ing in this Colony unspeakable. long year, for apart from the enorme trolled in bulk at the ports but this food on the rationing bass provide half the No Rifle League matches, were held last
Outside this range of commodities, which low ebb. increase in the cost of necessaries the iis only for the rich and especially the necessary food, there is a free market, and scrion and few if any Club Competitions crease in the cost of luxuries is wade de foreigner. berately prohibitive. The collapse in 3
Prices may be anything. Oatmeal at 48 so that I do not see any posibility of hold-
litre of
A STUDY IN PRICEH
Some time ago in an article reviewing in- terport prospects" says the N--C." Daily and, as, per News, the hope was erpressed that the inter- Jib. respective
port rifle contests between Shanghai, Hong- Alilk-Only for infants and invalids, kong and the Federated Malay States,
for the first two years of life a quart discontinued during the war, would be, per day. For the next two, s pint against resumed, Bince then Mr. A. MA Price constantly rising. It was 3. Callsed, secretary of the Shoëgimi Rife pint when I was making in Association, wrote to Hongkong hoping to - quiries, an Potatoes From 2 to 4 lb,
arrange a match. From the letter given per below it appears impossible to arrange week. instead of the promised ration match this year though there are prospecta of 7 lb. Shortage owing to insufficient that these interesting contests will be re- labour in Pomerania willing to open anmed dext spring.
hend
Sugar-1 lbs. a head per month.
clamps and load tracks, 3d per 15. The letter in as follows: ing
Prico is 4d, per l
is at present at very
(signed) MoweRAY 8. NontecoTE
value of the mark was in a large measur And even here the limits are severe. albis the best value, and eggs, hiching the match this year.
have due to the flood of luxuries which call Butter is never seen at the Hotel Adlon, ad fallen from 2s. 6d. to 1, 3d, When the new Hongkong Volunteer in from the outside with the close of which is the Rits of Berlin, og margarinech, are perhaps ext
Defence Corps gets busy: 1 hope to war. They
came in through what either. Indeed, I have not seen.margarina Profiteering in food is carried on on a League Competition will recommend some AN ENGLISH WOMAN'S STATEMENT. Rifle matters improves and I trust that the hole in the West-tany where and I am told that when ob wcale beyond anything experienced in Eng time in October or November next which occupied territory over which the Custotainable it is so evil testing owing not only land. It is easy to profiteer when the should make the revival of this historia could exercise no real control, to the lack of materials, but also to the supplies are practically all internal. I sent a possibility next spring. amounts of foreign cigarettes, perfum high percentage of water used in was-was told march of the occupying troops. And ongoing through an open market and a great which lies in the heart of then, on the subject of holding the meter at that samps, coffee wine, and so on followed facturing it as to be almost areatable. In is, fald by the British Conant . Stettinam writing in Singapore and Penang
the impoverishment of that in Germany they ceased to be subject provision and general store at Charlotten Pomersian granary was largely due to
great time Yours faithfully, control. They flooded the country, a burg I made a note of the following prices, the fact that exploiters came in and clear.
and others who co converting the mark into the stilling: Aed out the supplies for the Berlin hotels, the Schiebers afford them bought them up voracious reel of cotton 98, orange, 2. to 48, each Inked an Englishwoman, who has lived without regard to the need of nation combi 78 to 90s, a pair of stockings 18 in Germany for the past ten years, to give economy, and the fatal conséquences of a pair of laces 28., turkey 908. a Jb., duck me a representative Tek's bill of fare of preciating the arrency still further. 18 lby goat's fat sa iba cauli an average household. She wrote out the exporting German money for luxurite fower bake 4 db., said herring following, which she said applied to cases
PENGRAMME OF TAXATION. 15, (very cheap), sole 76 3 16 (also, in which the breadwinner is earning of a somewhat melodramatto character, of is not possible to blame the peop was told, very cheap), smoked herring an undreamed of before the war the manner in which General Maude met For five years they had been cut off fr
lb cocod 27. 6d, & coffee (iday.
Ibcoffee the luxuries of life. They had forgot quality imagine it) 3a8lb dia of prepotatoes and vegetable
ассоциа na Life!! the fine taste of things, and the opp(American Army ration tin) 9s. Bd., dried served pears Batin of pork, and bern
Let his death. The t MondayA carefully-hoarded scrap of C. E. Caldwell, seems to be that he had Patna, loftthe hero written by Major General Sir tunity of recovering it was too much milk 188, a lb., currants 20e, a lb., sultanes
the said ration
eked out by semolina, i them. No one, for example, who 30s, alb., dried cabbage (which Tooked like
round barley,etc., into flat rissoles, int(well known in Manila and Hong- rez gone with Mrs, Egan, an American journal. tasted what passes for coffee in this wood shavings) 2. 6d. & lb., dried green
ith vegetable and potato, try could wonder that patriotinho pens 5, 44, 15., dried beans, Tu 6d, rico
Tuesday-Fease padding and tauer Jewish school especially in his honour.
kong) to an entertainment got up by quail before it. It is a loathsome con 138, Ed., chocolate 45%, alb,, goat's meat tion of beans and vegetables, that is
the more loathsome because it is made usage 178. a Ib., figs 20%. alb., raisina look like what it in' The #bole-in-Household commodite vers West has boon closed and laxarien han less costly. The oummonest tea-cup and been shut out, but it is still possible for teave 128 6d, and a very common very rich to get coffee at about 400 tea service, which the assistant said would have cost 78. 63, before the war, was mark- bjustasia-possible for the sat people to get butter surreptitously at abf
·Teck meat
Wednesday--Dried haricots, with sugar
or vinegar
Thusday Barley,
semolina;
HOW MAUDE OF HAGHDAD" DIED:
Various accounts have been girên, “wime
In the course of the proceedings "coffee was brought for Mr Egan and her Host. He took milk with it and she did not. The
• macaroni (if. obtainable), with dried sequel was cholera and death, and from a historical and biographical point of view
ridayA
Estcontinued at 126t of-ncetreòlumm obtainable
other. not the cast, part of the misfortune.
that his diary, during the months of his life had to be
Four of infection