THE FLANDER'S BATTLEFIELDS."
CHANGES IN TEN YEARS.
SCAVENGERS STILL BUSY.
(From a Times Special Cor
respondent.)
CHASTENED MINERS?
FEDERATION'S LOST MEMBERS.
MR. HERBERT SMITH'S NEW
THREATS.
was
SOUTHPORT.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, ~TUESDAY, AUGUST 23rd, 1927.
CHINESE PASSENGERS'
TRAFFIC.
THE WEEK'S" IN AND OUT."
ARRIVALS EXCEED
DEPARTURES.
Chinese passengers catering into the Colony during the week ended) on August 14th, numbered 30,88-4! during the same period totalled while those leaving Hong Kong | Chinese have been added to the Colony's population.
The following are the official figures supplied by the Harbour Authorities:---
By Ocean Steamers.
Arr.
510
A chastened body of about 150 delegates listened in one of the most elegant rooms of the That a visit to the old battle-elegant hotel here to Mr. Herbert fields is likely to breed chicly dis-Smith, the president of the Miners' illusionment has become a common-Federation of Great Britain, de29,400, which means another 1,394
What have thèse wide,ivering bis presidential address to place. smiling lands, with their mellow-the first annual conference of the ing crops and clean, new home federation held since the general steads to do with the regions of strike and the coal stoppage.
Mr. Smith was not more buoyant horror which once we knew so well?
He admitted It is impossible even to go and than the delegates. look for traces of our old front his disappointment with last year's line, for one cannot trample the results, and his survey of future also noticeably hip-high corn. And where the Ger- prospects mam line ran lie cows, tethered at restrained. The delegates listened of punctual intervals, chewing medi- without the slightest show
Or emotion, cheering neither his oc- tatively in the thick lucerne. have we got it all wrong? Ought casional nesinaghts on capitalism we to be farther to the right With nor his exhortations to working. the disappearance of the old land-class unity. marks, the whole commry, 65 Mr. Smith anid nothing about stand up full-height, and without the depleted finances of the ledera- fear in the sunlight, has changed tion, and all he said about men- It has grown bership-which is half what it was in all dimensions,"
ago-was out of drawing. It was never as eighteen months level as this, and the Ridge there whereas they had 801.000 members
But
early last year, "that number has was ever so much higher.
since been reduced." without the hummock that we knew as the brick-heap, how anyone to get his bearings!
"Their Original Condition."
We
is
True, there are areas which still,
ths
10
2
Another Revolution.!!
that
CHILD TROUBLED WITH ECZEMA
On Scalp. In Misery All the Time. Cuticura Heals.
**My Utils boy was troubled with ecreme of the scalp. It started with an hiching and water blisters, mod when the bileteta broka they formed sare eruptions so that I had to bandage his head. He could not sleep at night because of the irrita~ tian and was in misery all the time.
"My later advised me to try Cuticus Boap and Ointment: Ro sent for a free sample. I purchased incre, and after using thron cakes of Soap and two boxes of Ointment he was healed.” (Signed) Mrs. Louisa E. Bons, 11, Clarence Pl.. Newtown, Bristol, Eng.
..
Delly one of Cutkur Soap, sa alated by. Cuticurs Ointment, will keep the skin and scalp hemithy,
sold throughout the Song and Ointment
CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
AND
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD, CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA.
TION CO., LTD..
"
Fox UNITED KINGDOM VIA SINGAPORE
CON
YONSIGNEES ber Co's Steamer. ~MENELAUS”
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Halt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will He at Consigates risk and subject to Terms and Condi tions of Storage at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo
will be
be ready for Delivery from Godown on and after 2nd August.
Optional Cargo will not be landed bare, union Notice has been given prior to Steamer's a
arrival, but carried on from of cali part to port to the final to which the option extends.
Al
port
1 broken, chafed and damaged Goods ars to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 LX and Noor within the Free Storage period
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining, undelivered
CONSIGNEE NOTICES.after the sath August, will be subject
August 8th
む
2,153
Dep. 1,230
Dth
10th
3,024
Iith
12th
957
13th
1,278
1,303 · 2,680 1.913 €15 1,132 57
Albe the well orders with pri 288 Try the Caticure Shaving Stick.
14th
1,026
101
"1
Total...10,043
8.537
By River Boats, Junks and Launches.
August 8th
"
2,854 ath... 3,789 10th ...... 2,080
3,830
9,848
2,605
11th
3,602
* 8,561
19th
2,115
3,385
13th 14th
3,850
1,876
****** 2,733
3.153
Total.....20,841
20,053
VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDS- CHE SCHEEPVAART- MAATSCHAPPIJ. (UNITED NETÉERLANDS NAVIGATION Co.) HOLLAND-OOST' AZIE LIN (HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE). NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. From AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, BREMEN & GENOA THE Steamship
to Bent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 12th September or they will not be
recognised. No Fire Insurance will be affected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agenta.
[5299 19nd August, 1927..
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
Mr. Smith attacked in strong BIRTH-RATES IN EUROPE. having arrived from the above Ports, OITY OF NORWICE"
language" the reactionary pro
ment Act were to be destroyed, then his fellow countrymen, might adopt "ever unconstitutional methods of preserving our liberties"
5.
RUSSIA,
Sir Kingsley Wood, Parliament ary Secretary to the Ministry of: Health, replying to Sir William Davison, in the House of Commons, gave the following figures of birth rates per 1,000 in Great Britain and other countries in Europe:--
Great Britain ......... England and Wales 1996
Scotland
"OUDERKERK " (12) Consignees of Cargo by her are notified that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or ext rident Loan & Mortgage Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the wharves, De Every may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by the 30th August, All broken, chafed and damaged Pack- 1997, will be subject to Rent ages are to be left in the Godowns, where August, 1927, at 10 m. by Mess they will be examined on the 19th Goddar and Donglas, Rong Kong.
Claims against the Steamer must be presented in writing, within Ten days fier arrival of Steamer, otherwise they will not be recognized.
posals for the perpetual taryiss REMARKABLE FIGURES FROM ardous Godowns of the China Pro we are told, remain "in their ortion of the House of Lords"
Viny
If monopoly and privilege, ho iginal condition," Ridge, in the Railway Triangle said, declared that the essential behind Arras, and the dredful public safeguards of the Parlia stretch by Thiepval to Beaumont Hamel, past Newfoundland Park to Auchenvillers, and other places. On the Ridge the ground is pur posely left untouched "to the glory. of the Canadians and the Highlan ders who went with them up the slope from Roclinenurt ten years ago. In the Triangle, where, per
Germans met their haps, death in 1617 than at almost any other place within an equally aar row area there is no purpose to which the land can profitably be put.
a
more
"
Above-the Ancre.
On the high ground above the Ancre the soil was so thin over the
useless for
די
remain
MOTI
Sweden
1920 18.1 1925 18.6 17.8
1905
18:3
1928
20.9
1925
21.3
1926
26.0*
1926
18.8*
1925 24.3
1925 21.3
Belgium
21.0 1824
18.4 1925 1926
23.8 1925 19.6
the
Spala
1925
Im-
Hungary
1928
29.4* 20.7*
Czecho-Slovakia
1995 25,1
Austria
1924
21.7
Italy
Tom Mann to Put Els Our In."
Mr. Tom Mann, president of the home Minority Movement, from China, promises to cope to the conference bringing with him a flaming, banner from the All China Labour Federation, which claims to have helped the British miners through the Hong Kong-
"shake strike to Canton foundations of British perialism."
3
- France
Finland Germany Denmark Switzerland Netherlands
Bulgaria..
Norway
Republique Social-
1895 27.5* 1934 30.7* 1925 50.0
iste Federative Sovietique de la Russie
****** 1924 Republique SocialTM
iste de l'Ukraine... 1923 . Provisional.
43.6*
35.4
The Russian figures, Sir Kingsley said, covered the only parts of Russia in Europe for which Egures were available.
"OVER HALF A: CENTURY REPUTATION
OK LECLERC SINFUL
LIVIER ; LUVALUAN for Dianists of them Likevening Maj The HAVEL, BALAGEN, GUT, RHEUMATMIRA 2
P: Landing Öxnans, tre Fan Jua,~·
fan Man, Co, Barnock Ed W
chalk that when it was ploughed enough to justify the risks. The derp-by the shells it was rendered driving bands and cases of shella, Here, parts of the mechanism. the bullets agriculture. from south of the Anere, looking in shrapnel duds, even the shells northwards towards Grandecourt themselves-all have some value: and Beaucourt, you can still follow and the man who comes upon one clearly the white wavy lines which of the innumerable minor dumps mark both our old front and the which, in the ebb and flow of war, O.G." All the formidableness were left all over this country, has of the Y-Ravine is made plain to earned good pay for a month. If you, and you can marvel again at human bones are found a fred fee the performance of the Ulstermen is paid, whether the remains are
British soldier, on that First of July, and under- those of a stand anew the tragedy of the New Frenchman, or a German. foundlanders and men of the Mid-ground must be left religiously a
alone and the Imperial War Graves dlesex.
One Vest Nettlepatch. Commission notified, so that every There
indeed, Breas
care may be taken to identify, if waste; hat in their original con- possible, the dead. At central dition" they are not. Nature sees points you may see the heaped bar- to that.
Slowly, year by year, vestings of recent work-thells and trenches fall in, parapet and bits of shells of every sort and size, parados are washed away, dugouts bases of trench mortars, fragments collapse or are choked and disap of gun carriages, all rust-covered, pear, the shell-holes slowly fill, and rifles from which the wood has over all the dense growth of grass mostly rotted away, and, saddest and flowers, bushes and young of all, trench helmets, British or trees, masks all the inequalities of!
Germa; and not seldom they are You push found side by side. the tore earth below.
Everywhere throughout the bat your way stumblingly among the young poplars, sallows, and buck- tle areas the fences of farm and garden are of barbed wire, some- horn, through the tangle of lesser times of the old wire, rusted, growth-ragwort.and ox-eye daises, twisted, only half straightened out, wormwood, vetches, and, above all, sometimes of new wire strung on nettles (and such stout fighters are the old uprights, whether of the. these last that in the vegetable war- British or of the enemy type. Rag- fare that now rages hers it looks ged sheets of corrugated iron are as if in a few years the whole put to a thousand uses, and among Thiepval region would be one, vast the apick-and-span new buildings- so vastly more commodious than nettlepatch) and your feet trip on hidden strands of barbed wire, rag- the old cottages that they replace -are Nissen huts, still seemingly
or
ged sheets of corrugated iron, sound and weathertight. They are. heavier fragments of timbers tanks. And everywhere the seaven- used as estamineta and chicken- gers of the battlefields, in gangs of houses, as homes where children play about the doors, as stables and two or three, are still at work...
garages. To some, porches of the corrugated iron have been added. Some are wreathed in rambler roses.
Unexploded Shela.
They have a long iron rod shar- pened at the end and with a T- thaped handle, like the handle of These things still remain; but a garden roiler, with which, lean they will soon pass-except, pro- ing on it with all their weight, bably, the uprights of the barbed. they probe into the loose earth wite-and the only vestiges of the Experience has taught them to war will be the wastes which are know when the probe comes in con- still in their original condition tact with metal, and then they at the monuments and the cemeteries, tack the spot with great hoelike se admirable in their peacefulness spades of the French worker Butand-beauty-Already the Great it is dangerous digging: Con- War is fading into ancient history tinually there are accidents--still the battlefelds of the Arras and from unexploded shells or hand of the Bomme becoming oue with grenader but the rewards are Malpinquet and with Bh
(Continued on nest Column:)---
The Times
$ Landes
VEG. APERIENT
D. LE CLERG'S VILS, 2500
1. LE CLERC'S ANAMIA. 17176 39
a seed jos karen au DRALE CUERO'S SOAM 18, or # 2331 £ bo (UQY
Na Fire Insurance will be affected by the Undersigned in say case whatever.
"Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
JAVA CHINA JAPAN LIJN, General Agents. Hong Kong, ad Aug., 1927. [5243-
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
From LETTE, MIDDLESBRO',
ANTWERP. LONDON
STRAITS.
The Stemihip "BENALDER," NONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby
* ELLERMAN" LINE
FROM EUROPE.
THE Steamship having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardens and/or extra-hazardous Godowns of Holt's Waarl, whence Delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after 29th August, 1927, will be subject to Rant.
All Claims against the Steamer must before 5th September, 1927,
they will be presented to the Undersigned on or
not be recognized.
All
broken chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays or the bours of 10.45 mm. Fridays, between the and Noon, within the Free Storage period of One Wock.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
THE BANK LINE, IND.
General Agenta Hong Kong, 22nd Aug., 1997." [5241 NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.
Facx U.S.AS
Stenmahi
THEY OF BATH"
are having tired, Consignees of Ourgo
Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remsizing undelivered after 29th Angust, 1997, will be subject to Rent.
landed at their rist into the hazardous being landed at their risk into the and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the hazardous and/or extra-hazardons Go- HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WHART AND GOwns of Holt's Wharf, whence Delivery GROWN COMPART, LAD, whence, and/or Claims mill be admitted after the
be obtained. Nu from
the wharves Delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods bave left the Godewas, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the
3rd instant, will be subject to Bent.
211 Omegamet the Steamer must presented to the Undervignad in or before the 6th September, 1927, at they will not be
be 7000gnised,
All Broken, whafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Grodowa, where they will be examined on instant. at 10 25
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned they on or before 5th September, 1927, or will not be
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods, are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays or Fridays, between the hours of 10.45 m. the Free Storage within the 23rd And Noon,
Week period of Ons
No Fire Insurance has been effected Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
THE BANK LINE, LTD., General Agenta, Hong Kong, 22nd Aug, 1927. [6243
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co., LTD.,
Agents,
Hong Kong, 18th Aug., 1927. (5226
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