EFFICIENT SUPPLY OF
· MUNITIONS.
(Continued from Saturday.)
Question, of Machinery,
THE HONG KONG
got lying idle in their storehouse, but they could not find seventy- five millwrights to put up the machinery. I can give other cases. Therefore, the first step in order
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1915,
FROM THE PULPIT.
Notes of a Sermon preached by
to increase our output in to secure the Rev. J. Kirk Maconsobie at the necessary skilled labour to fill the Union Church yesterday up the workshops. We have got evening.
KWANGTUNG RELIEF
FUND.
HONGKONG" TRADE.
Exports Inactive. The floods in Kwangtung and Kwangei havo had a disastrons effect on the Hongkong market. Cotton, sugar, flour, eto,, are all equally affected, and the situation as regards both imports and ex
HOW SIR JOHN FRENCH FIRES HIS MEN.
Cavalry's Services.
THEATRE ROYAL
Another Performance of
"Milestones
British Headquarters, France,
"Milestones," deservedly the June 18.Sir John French to-day moet popular play in the Howitt visited the 3rd Cavalry Division, Phillipa repertoire, called together.
of war. The Home Office have possible. There is a good deal of healing all that were oppressed of $10,000.00, T.T. from Samarang, ports may be generally described and personally thanked the men's good house on Saturday night
Now I come to machinery: There is a good deal of machinery in this country which is useful for the purpose of turning out shell and other material and equipment Becured returns from most of the engineering firms in this country aa to the machinery which they have at the present moment in their workshops and yards, and as soon as I came to this office the
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thrast it on their attention, but to follow "Ohrist's way must keep an open eye. Jonrself for needs be on the outlook for opportunities. Though our Lord's. example is but imperfectly follow ed it is not to be thought that it was given in vain. The men who crucified Him did, bat rivet the
plenty of machinery at the present Text: Acts 10-38. "How that God time. The next step is to eke suointed Jesus of Nazareth with out saoh skilled labour as we have the Holy Ghost and with power: got by unskilled labour wherever Who went about doing good, and work can be done by unskilled the devil: for God was with Him." labour if you have got skilled" Who went about doing good" a perfect summary of the earth. men there to look after them,
ly ministry of our Lord. No bet- for kind of life can be conceived Trade Union Restrictions. The third problem is that of than one of beneficent activity. Home Secretary placed the whole the labour in the yard putting for- Many seem to think they have of those returns at my disposal, ward its best. That sometimes fulfilled their whole duty if they and very valuable they are. Na we do not get, through the slack cannot be charged with a life of turally they were not prepared by news of the minority or through positive harm, but compared with experts in shell-making, and I am regalations useful, perbape essen- the Master's example the negative not sure they were made with that tial, in times of peace for the pro- claim comes far short. Many object in view. Therefore, there tection of the men against andue think well themselves if they do was more information required to pressure or strain, but which is not refuse to do some good enable us to discover what the time of war have the effect of reaction when someone else has existing resources of the country strioting output. In time of war found out the need for it and are for the purpose of expanding everybody is working at full our sources of supply, We have strength, and it is important that sent out for further information, restrictions which depress and and I am very glad to say diminish the output of war ma
tarial should temporarily be that the returns are coming in in a way I have never seen suspended. I am assured that in returna come in before. They some workshops the output could are coming in promptly. From be doubled if these restrictions these returns we are getting in- were withdrawn. Some of these formation which will enable us to restrictions are written, but I am eye of the future upon Him and mobiliae more systematically the sorry to say that the most difficult enchain its heart in fruitfal efforte output of war material in this are unwritten. For instance, the to carry forward good works country. Some of the machinery unwritten regulation which limits which Ele began. Despite all is useful for shells of a certain the ontpat by making it impos- failures and lapees a spirit of size, some for shells of a larger sible for a man to put forward the active beneficence has always size, some for guns, some for rifles, whole of his strength without characterised His Church. some for machine gans. But we bringing upon himself the dis- Christian must forget Christ al- Want to know where these ma- pleaanre of his fellows (hear, together before he can be utterly chines are before we can possibly hear).
without willingness to abare An Unhappy Experience. other men's burdens, alleviate come to a conclusion as to the
I have a very able letter from their sorrows. cover their trans beat use we can make of them. I hope in the course of a few days, an unskilled educated man who gressions. when all these returns have been felt it his daty to do something agency for doing good. It is so re- carefully analysed and classified, for the State in this great crisis, garded by those who are outside. I shall be in a position to know and who applied for a job in it. That honour is laid upon it better than I do now what is the workshop making shells. His even by those who find fault with letter is rather distressing. He it. The stock charge against possible output of this country. tells me that there is nothing in Christiane is that they do not do It is, of course, upon now shell-making that a fairly intel the things they exist to do, right sources of supply that we must ligent man cannot learn in a very the wrong, help the needy, suc- depend for that overwhelming short time. He asked & workman cour the oppressed. It may be production of war material which to teach him a particular branch replied to the fault-finder that is essential in order to sseure of the work, and the workman more is being done than he knows victory; but that takes time. We very readily placed his services at of, but on the main point there is are using firms who are quite his disposal. Instantly he was no dispute. Critic and criticised inexpert in this particular kind ordered off, and he was not allow are agreed that good works are of work. It will certainly be ed to learn that trade. At laetbe Christian business, that the months before we attain anything found some sort of corner in the Christian exists to perpetuate the like the maximum output of works where he didn't contravene Muster's beneficent coures and extend its blessings. Further it which this country is capable. the regulations. What happens in the meantime is entirely a question of labour. The existing firms are not deliver-
"The Lack of · Labour,
ing their goods up to promise,
Had they done so, the position
The Limitation of Output.
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The Church is an
Subscription List No. 15, The Tang Wa Hospital begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the Kwang tung Flood Relief Fund.
The following aubscribed T.T. from Penang,
T.T. from Namdib, Haiphong. $1,784.00
I.T. from Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Hanoi, $1,540.00.
TT. from Kwongabin Society of Bangkok, $1,500.00.
New Territory, $798.45." 78 Chinese subscribers of $10 each, $760.00.
Per Mr. Tong Chung Ting through San Fat Coy. 8352.00.
Per Mr. Tong Shek Kwan of Sau Fat Company $146.00.
Per Kwong Wa Hospital colleo tion No. 12. $130.00.
aa stagnant.
The following notes appear in the fortnightly prices current and market report of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce issued on Saturday:--
for their gallant conduct in the at the Theatre Royal. recent fighting. The men were The part of Jobs Rhead is one drawn up in hollow square, and of whose possibilities Mr. Howitt were evidently deeply impressed bas a very just comprehension by the words of the Field Marshal, and, if anything, we liked who spoke with great feeling, bim better in this than
Cotton and Fancy Goode:-
Sir John said that he wanted on the previous .occasion. During the interval the waters in the flooded district have rapidly heartily on their splendid con- young man of the first set and the to congratulate them all most As Sam Sibley, the conservativa receded. Olearances have been 26 Chinese subscribers of $15-resumed on a small scale but show duct and personal gallantry. It much-married man in the forties, each $300.00
some improvement the last few was, he said, always a great plea who is content to let things slide eure for him to come to the Mr. Jack Vallance was very days. No new business is rodavalry, specially when he was successful. So, too, was Mr. Jack ported from first hands as yet.
able to come and talk to regiments Elagert as the engineer who res Cotton Yarn:The effect of with whom he had formerly been lises his ambitions, opposition the floods is still being felt as so closely desociated. They re- notwithstanding a part calling regards fresh businsas and de-minded bim, moreover, of some of for a lot of painstaking. livaries, both of which are on a the happiest days he had spent Miss Stanbridge was moat ex 3 Chinese subscribers of $20-limited scale. Prices are on the in his life when he was himself in collent, particularly in the second each: 60.00,
Kwan Hing Hong To Society $69 30.
The following subscribed $50.00 Mr. Wong Man Tio, Cheong Lee Company, Mesare. Kan Bing.
Per Mr. Tang In of Shuen Ngai School $42.35.
The following subscribed $30.00 Mera Yiu Hing, Messra Kwong Saog Tai.
wask sile as some of the import ers are prassing sales. Quota tions are:-No. 10a at $79/103, No. 12 at $85/100. No. 16a at $97/115. No. 20a at $94/129. Arrivals 3,000 bales. Sales 1,000 bales. Shipments 1,000. Untold alook 35,000 bales. Bargains 15,000 bales.
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their ranks. He was glad to have and third act, as the woman who the opportunity that day of con- hae married above her class bat sioned officers, and men apon common sense more than atone gratulating officers, non-commiswhose real goodness and sterling their wonderful performance in for her salgarity, while Miss Ada the trenches at Ypres, when they Edney could hardly have improv showed that cavalry could fighted on her rendering of the old- as well in the trenches as on fashioned wife to whom home and horseback. No gallant deeds of husband mean everything. theirs would ever earprise him, The first class honours fell to for he knew what they were cap Miss Beryl Barraclough who able of. It required far more reached something like perfection, steadfast pluck, real grit, and particularly in the second act; dogged bravery to sit still in and to Miss Gertrude Godart trenches exposed to incessant and whose splendid elocation heavy shell-fire than to jump upon and natural charm are alone horse and charge an enemy, sufficient to carry her through Yet this was what the cavalry had most paris and who, perhaps more taun any of Saturday night'eoest, made clear the effect of circum- "A Very Hot Corner."
| stances and years-exemplified in her case by the converting of a "You were," continued the simple and somewhat wearisomely Field Marabat," placed in a very gushing young girl into a woman hot corner where, owing to the of the world. continuous shelling by the enemy,
Woollens :-As the market re- maine in the same stagnant con- Mr. Oban Taung Po $25.00. dition as before there is still no Ko Shing Theatre $22.65. business offering.. Shaukiwan $18.36.
Metals: No new business has Per Mr. Sin Chi of the Tung been reported. Dealers have been We Coy's. Wo Cheong Junk awaiting news from the country $17.52.
regarding the loss due to the 8 school $15.34.44
Sai Ying Pan Government floode, before shipping farther
Prices from America done. cargoes... The following subscribed $14.are very firm, Locally the prices Mr. Lo Saw Yuk of the Union are easier, but this is probably burch 1 month's salary, Oi only temporary, and when chip- ping facilities to the country be- Kwan School.
Mr. Oban Ohia Hing $13:60. comis normal an advance will take Pork Stalla of Sokonpon Market placement
The following subscribed $11.-Annonymous, Yuk.Kwan Bohool
$12.00.
375.74.
There lies the
Daly
market quiet.
F
it was impossible to secure ade-
Anniversary of the War.
Yellow Metal: No sales; ao business."
Petroleum, No change.
quate cover. By your steadfast The date that henceforth will Coal: No sales of importance bearing in that terrible position live through the ages; every town, Staff of the Kowloon Canton | reported,
you have all, every regimens, village and hamlet will celebrate Sugar: Market quiet at de-added lastre and still greater this date as the anniversary of Railway $10.05.
Mr. Noohcott $5,00.
olined rates, chiefly owing to the honour to the magnificent records the day when Great Britain Already acknowledged $326, flood inland. Sales 16,600 picule you already possess. This is determined to champion liberty what I want you to remember and annihilate oppression and Total $354,319,81.
Salipoire Nos. 1 and 2 nomi- when you think of the losses you barbarous militarism. The Buwist- nal, No. 3 no sales, no stocke, suffered. You had some terrible Phillips Company will play the experiences up there, but every Boreaming farcical comedy "What is only from Christians that so our Lord's cass is in the Inst
Flour Market Report: Ameri-regiment has covered its banner the Butler Saw and give 40 per But the worst thing of all is much is expected. that undoubtedly among a section some who remain outside the was with Him."
There are words of the text; "For God can Market: Nothing further to with distinction and glory."
Sir John then referred to what cent of the gross nights' receipts report since last advices, Local
to the "Red Cross Fand," The of the men there is deliberate dis- church largely for that very ressacret, simple when one know Market: Stocks are about 450,000 ₤ he could only describe as the support of patrons will be greatly couragement of what they regard son. In that position they feel it, like other secrets. Doing good tions: Patents, M $3.90 per asck, Germans at Ypres. The gas sum can be raised for this most daatardly" gas attacks by the appreciated, so that a substantial Sacks and quotations. Quota as turning out too much work in free to go through life without is God's, work, and must would have been a fairly Batispiece-work establishments which putting themselves about to con- ba began, continued and ended Straight, M $2.74 par sack, Unt came as a bolt from the blue to deserving cause. factory one. Why are they not might have the effect of calling tend with the evils and assuage its in Him, if its ending is not to off M $2.74 per Baok, Seconds Mthe troops in this region, and doing so? That bringe me
many dropped dead on the spot, straight to the Bill I am introduc- for a revision of prices. There is sorrows, yet nobody will charge follow very close on its beginning
$2,70 per sack ing. They have got machines no doubt at all as to the meaning them with inconsistency. Aloof "I do nothing of Myself," said
Opium-Bengal and Malwa It was impossible to see anything which they can man. We are
of it, and I think the employers from the church they can take our Lord and He told His followers Markete. The market continues owing to the darkness, which was guna are not delivered up accord- works his utmost in turning out as they hvse a mind to, but nothing. The history of many unchanged Fatna, New $9.325.00 circumstancos a certain amount short of machine-guas. Those are largely to blame. If a man up good works or drop then that apart from Him they could do without business and there have rendered still more opaque by been no deliveries. Quotations the asphyxisting fumea, in these ing to contract, and yet if I could piece-work the employers may say it a
man pats his band to short-lived philanthropies is that Old $9,200.00, very old, $9,100. of confusion was unavoidable, at the end of the week: "You Christ's plough he cannot let God was left out of them, and 00. Benares, New, $9,050.00, but the manner in which the men place my band upon an adequate supply of skilled workmen that have earned £10 that is mon go with credit or with an easy without His sustaining grace the supply could be doubled in a few strous." And if all the men did conscience. Only Christ's Church best intended of them are out Old $8,995.00. v. Old $8,825.00, behaved and the quickness with which they recovered were Malwa Morket." New to 3 years the same they would revise the is irrevocably committed to the sooner or later. That is the reason drug; 59,300.00,Older, $9,400.00. Supik too high of mond scale of wages and cut down task of making life good. lt why "doing good" is often found peice-work, so the men for their suffices the state to make life so hard, so almost distastoful.
24 Exports.
apeak highly of their conduos, own protection say We cannot tolerable and reasonably secure, That is why our perseverance market, higher on account of and she work they did in filling Feathers, market quiet; ginger, The magnificent stand they made have that, because the more our but the church comes short if she gets so quickly exhausted, our foods; galingal, no "business; the gap, also accomplished in the work the less our wages are.”
is not concerned to make it Godly: patience outworn. Our Saviour
days.
The Importance of Machine- Quos.
That is a question of the most eerious importance to our Army, because most of the slaughter is done by these terrible little ma- chines. What the next move of
the Germans may be it is not for the to foxcoast, but, if it is to take the form of a swinging round from the East to a concentrated attack upon the forces in the Weat, it is vital to the life of our troops, in order to enable them to maintain their positions, that every machine-gun that can be produced should be turned out apeedily(hear, hear). It is upon the adequate supply of skilled labour in the country that the supply of machine-guns depende
in the next few weeks.
Skilled and Unskilled Labour. the First Need..
A great firma in the Midlands. which is manufacturing machine guns have stated to me that shoy
Two Sides to the Question.
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ground nuts, small business re-.
A Striking Scene, Before leaving
KAISER'S OPTIMISM.
Peace Signed To-morrow if I
Wished."
Paris Joné 19. The Matin gives some extracts of a letter
The will be done on earth, even { puraned His course right to the cassia oil, nothing doing; star face of a wall of gas miles loug from the Kaiser to a personage There are two sides to this as it is in heaven, is the Church's end because at every point Hi aniseed oil, small business pas. and yards high, could not be too of the Bavarian Court; which it question. We must have a guar- prayer and her day's work is to lite was a life, in the Spirit of sing; rter aniseed, no demand, highly praisin antee from the employers that no realise it. If we look for the God, and that is what ours must ported ; wood oil, no business; advantage will be taken of Trade dynamic of this transcendent be in that degree if real virtue is to Yunnan tin, market inactive, Union practices in this request, enterprise the text will furnish the go out from them. The doctrine local, market above London and that if the men, by putting antrer.
"H... went about of the Holy Spirit is not equivalent; Saigon anasis and the whole of their strength into doing good." Why it may a fathomless mystery of the their work, earn larger wages, be asked should anyone do oreeds; it is the account which gall nats, nothing doing. there should be no revision of the this? Why should not everyone be Ohristian men have tried to for rate of piecework--(hear, hear) content just to absorb or amare all malate of an actual, available Secondly, we must appeal to the the good he can lay hold of? power and presence of God,
Mary-"It ses 'ere, that there
men for the sake of their country What is that that moves any man gift for Christian life and service are many cases o' typhoid report in a time of dire necessity and to live for other, to go against to them that ask Him. Our Sayed in the enemy orepatula." dire peril, to put the whole of what seems a law of Nature and our went about doing good be- Dook Oh! deatie, dearie! their strength to help their fellow forget his own interests to take oause He was anointed with the And 'ow many is there in a caab? in the field, to give them a good the line of loses traction and Holy Ghost and with power." obance, without any regard to greatest resistacco, ao far as many Let us not make the mistake
Brown Have you seen Ro
the practices of the past, relying of his own primary instincts are of trying to follow Him just by binson recently, Dumley? I hear on the honour of a great nation concerned? Or how, in a thank imitating His life as a deinched he has been ill. Damley that they will see fair play for lese, illjudging world shall a word human example. His human life "Yea; I saw him this morning, them at the end of the ware of active beneficence be sustained was a Divine thing; we may to Goodness, I forgot to ask Brown How is he? Fun- in spite of all the rebuffs and produce it in our dogrel through defects and disillusionments it is the Divine indwelling; we cannot him. I just said, "How are you sure to meet with? The answer in just by an outward Imitation, gid follow ?* and passed on."
is very
important. It is diminish-
(To ba Continued.)
could have increased their supply enormously if they could only sating output. up the machinery which they had
is stated to have been published in Spain. The Kaiser insists on' ground the Field Marshal was German arme, and the attainment toe parade the absolute certainty for the grested with three enthusiastic of the sole object for which cheers, the men breaking their Germany is fighting: "A pesce ranke and waving their caps in fruitful for the German States. the air. Amid the enthusiasm Sir The Imperial letter continues: John stood in the middle of his "Sach s peace may be concluded men, bis hand rained stiffly to the sooner than is expected. If it only the treble line of decorations upon the time being, it will at least saluts and the sun glinting upon gives an incomplete result for his tunic. It was an impressive serve as a preparation for the picture and an apt demonstration future. It could be signed to of the perfect amity and loyalty morrow if I wished.
to command that pervades the When my augurt grandfather whole British army, and which is put the Empire on its present Pope more than anything else bags be did not pretend to have responsible for the innumerable achieved or completed his work. deeds of heroism by which our The Empire is always susceptible men have distinguished them of growth. What cannot: (bo Belyes during this, the gresteet of schiared to-day will be achieved all ware, Manchester Guardian, tomato