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Volunteering.
The following is a lofter ad- dressed to the editor which sp- peared in the Straits Times of May 12.
To The Editor of the Straits Times
Sir, I am enclosing my esrd so that my name may be addert to your list for the propo:ed "Town Guard.".
Inny say that my employers did not agree with me when I told them I wished to in the Rifle Corps at the t'mo of its for- mation. Your appeal in the paper, saking employers to induce their men to join one of the various corps, will I fear fall on deaf ears. There is no doubt a tendency Amongst certain frms to retard rather than to encourage volun- teering amongst their employees.
Yours, etc.,
One who Wished to Join. Singapore, May 11, 1915.
President Yuan's Policy. Seilou; May 9. One of the Chinese dignitaries resident at Seitou says that Japan's ultima- tum was what President Yuan had been looking forward to with great cagerness. It was his plan
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ed the war by seventeen days, it would thus have paid for itself."
There arises the question of compensation, on which undoubt- edly the State would bave to act
while. Germany is taking away all dustry, are forced op, and Ger-
trade" in all its branches are not the copper that can be found in many knows that she has some-
very easy to calculate exactly, es pecially in these times, but, reckon German Specie at Tsingtao. the French factories, and also thing in reserve, as the sales in large quantities of machinery of the home market, and to rentrale,
ing provision for displaced labour, ATeingtao despatch says that all kinds.
could be restricted if military The appeal for a total prohibi-in so far as it is not employed else- w days ago German gold pecie The writer explains how thank requirementa made it necessary.
tion of or abstention from alco where, we cannot saaume a less lued at over a million yen was ful Germosy ooght to be for this The writer proudly insists on holio liquor comes from Mr. payment than one millions menth GREAT WAR DEEDS: Ills. London ecovered concealed beneath the state of things, and observes that, the continued ability of Germany Lloyd George himself. We may for compensation, and probably SUBMARINES, TORPEDOES bor of a house near the former if Germany's industrial districts to export coal and iron, and upon assume, then, that the strictly the figure would be higher than ermin Administrative Office, in the north had been invaded by the inability of England, owing financial aspects of the drastic this. On the other hand, the ex- OUR REDIMENTS THEIR GLO vestigations made by the the Allier, and if Russia had to the rise in freights, wages, policy have been carefully can-perience of Russia has shown that THE SEDORD PHASE OF THE panese military authorities penetrated Upper Silesin, the Garand initial cost, "which is dae sidered at the Tressary, which is total prohibition adds an enorm ow that the specie belonged to mans "would have been annihil to the German sabmarines, to the department most directly in-ous percentage to national efficien- THE UNMAKING OF EUROPE by e German garrison, and that it stod because they would have bad drive Germany out of the Italian, terested in the revenus returns, oy-quite one-third-and that as baried in the house during ro more respons."
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He makes Swiss, Dutch, Scandinavian, and
revenue responds to an amazing LIFE OF HIS MAJESTY ALBERT
KING OF THE BELGIANG recent siege of the stronghold ro reference to lature possibilitiee Balkan market. He says that At first sight figures are some degree. In particular Bavinge THE MINOR HORRORS OF THE
the Japanese and British of this kind.
WAR by A. E. Shipley ..........
AE the German industrialista con- what alarming. The beer duty banke deposits in Russia have 1968. The money has been sent
"One Great Workshop." sider that the German mining has been raised from 7s. 3d. to risen by 51 millions, an important KRUPP'S ATHEINTERNATIONAL
ARMAMENTS RING Rhorish Westphalia is decorih industry is safe against all 25., and its price therefore factor in these days of large loans. CAPTAIN LOXLEY'S LITTLE DOG ed as being now one great war attacks. England is regarded as from 23. to 2140. a glass, Against the losses of revenus LEBT WE FORGET: AN ANTHO- workshop." The mining industry" crippled" for all such purposes, which increase means an added above indicated, there would be THE CORRESPONDENCE has been completely adapted to while the United States is too income for the Stats of 17 set, undoubtedly, a substantial WILLIAM & DISMAROK. the needs of war. The iron works busy in supplying munitions of millions-this on the calcalation gain of revenue in other directions. THE SOLDIER'S POCKET.COM- In gathering opinions of the CFE OF GENERAL JOFFRE by A.
PANION s simmered down and there is are producing vast quantities of war to the Allies to go out and that consumption falls by 35 per
a feeling of relief that the rifles, shells, armoar plats, horse conquer new markets. After the cent. In one way or another we whole matter, I have permission to Kahin
3hb B. A..... hion boa onded, Bo far no eboes, barbed wire, and material wir, moreover, Germany will may, I think, assume that Mr. mention a plan which is put for
Experiences of a Noutral... toward izoident has been re- for concrete foundations, as well recover anything she has lost. Lloyd George receives from the ward by Mr.Handel Booth. He con- rted, and it is highly creditable as raile for the field railways. The writer adda:
Trade in all its branches a sum aidera that total probibition goes MENT: AN ANALYSIS OF PRUSSIAN CULTURE by E. at the remarkable restraint dis- They are also supplying the
M. Hueffor..... The war will make it impossible of 80 millions & year, or nearly too far and that a beginning should yed by Chinese how been factories with their indispensable for our coming generation of in-one quarter of the entire national be made with spirits only. This SEND FOR LIST OF SOILED & DAMAGED BOOKS ATOREATLY REDUCED PRIDES fintained throughout the crisis, raw materiale. There is now, it dustrialista to rest in luxury and revenue. What he would stand would bring the reform into more dignation continues to be ex- ia said, complete confidence that, cass upon the laurels of their to lose were total prohibition to or less accurate line with Russia'e cased in the Vernacular papere, as far as the mining industry is predecessore. The English, on be adopted would, therefore, be abolition of vodka and France'a t that is culy to be expected in concerned, Germany is ready for theother hand, will not learn even not less than five millionea month. prohibition of absinthe. Mr. pircumstances.-Peking Daily a war of any duration, whatever from the war, to work, and after All kinds of allowances would, Booth further considers that, in
the Tokyo Government.-
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The Situation,
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his view, avoid many difficulties N. LAZARUS & Co.
demands it may make. All the the inancial esorifices of however, have to. be made for stead of prohibition or issuing industrial Baders say "There in this War they will not stocks in hand and other circumet tickets for beer, the State, having no longer any difficulty about have the strength to modernise anges, yet the above figure is near prohibited spirits, should insist raw materials which we could their industry, seeing that they enough for our purpose. If spirits that no beer should be sold of not overcome; we simply make did not do so before the war. alone were prohibited the loss higher strength then-the-mildest The Excelsior commenting on everything ourselves,"
After, as before, the war, the ic-of revenue would be two millions leger. These measures would, in The writer who boasts in the dustrious, the sober, and the month. Falaba prime says: “Let us janise our serial war into a usual way of the "unique economical, who can sell cheaply,
for the party in power, while at blockade of reprisals, and combination of science and enter-will control the market. And it Compensation and Efficiency, the same time recuring a great advance in the directions deaired. us not be stopped by any senti priee" (which characterise the tie we who shall be in that position. ntal illusions. Let as rather Germans) says that the war has The writer says that relations
The cost of the war to Great Houses of refreshment would still taught them for the first time between employers and employed Britain is not less than 55 millions remain open, but it would be fortunate, victims who sink, what they can do with German have very greatly improved, and mouth. From the Treasury almost impossible for men to pedoed by the submarines, and resources alone. It has in many that everything is avoided which standpoint, therefore, one month consume enough of the lighter o call aloud, for vengeance, case revolutionised production, might give rise to differences. of war would equal eleven months beer to make themselves intoxi-
þand although much of the capital He concludes:**
of probibition. Supposing, how-cated.-D. W. and Leader: expended is uncoonomie war ex- Ons people, one feeling of ever, that prohibition were to penditure, the works expect with- strength, one will—that is what come into foros say on May 1, and out much difficulty to revert from rings through Rhonish Westpha the war ended on to give a war to passe conditions, and also is today. And the humming of purely hypothetical date-October
en to despairing cries of the
ater,
Distinguished Service Cross
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At Buckingham Palace the
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in peace time to obtain great the engines, thunders out the $1, the loss of revenue would be you have lost your appetite vios Cross to Acting Boatswain profits both at home and abroad, oxalted song of the nobleness, and sustained for six months, and dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- Arles Powell of B.M.B. by methods which the war has seriousness of work, which is done would only work out at 30 DRA JAFE is sure to tempt orton, for gallantry in sotion, taught them,
AforƐits own kaka.~~The Timer, millions. If the measure shorten you
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