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Bangkok Railway Station. The Bangkok terminal station of the Northern Railway has been 64470 under ocnatrmation for several
years, and a $44,400 contract has 64300 now been awarded for the fibal frontage buildings, which will 74408 face the Bas Lampong-road. With the completion of these 74406 structures Siam will hare one of 87198 the most up-to-date railway -utations in the Far East. The 35322
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a line of communication has now been established from the mouth of the Congo to Dar-es- Salaam on the east const.
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$250,000, provided Sir sak whether the Government that Act would not bring to the Richard's scheme ja udhered to, would grant a return stating the Army a single additional man on the Quintuple _Banke have com- number of married men enrolled conditions different from those municated to the Chinese Govern in the Army sinos the cutbreak now prevailing." It was said, no ment that £760,000, the remainder of war, and the amount of the doubt, that it would supply & of the original reform fund, will separation allowances paid to the useful indication of whether a be transferred to the_laiter's wives and other dependents of maa was married or single hands, when required. However, these men, said that this was an but from the beginning of the Chinese Government has not urgent matter, having regard to the war every man enrolled giten a guarantee to the Banks of the enormous cost to the country ought to have been asked whether
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is essential to the the entirements and induce lean some different system of rental. Apply Bank's concession, as that the ments to join the Culoare recruiting were established the DOMINICAN PROCURATION. decision of the Quintuple group had been specially devised present Rake's Progress and waste is not yet carried out.
to lead married men to enlist, would continue. A million of the men who had
Our Financial Staying Power. The Suppression of Brigandage, joined were married, and it was By the end of the year we The President has been inform estimated that the country was should be nearer an expenditure ed that in some provinces saab as paying a million a week for of four millions a day thân three. Kwangtong and Baghwan, the separation allowances alone, tak-Could we afford it? Germany vations localities are still rife ing the average allowance at £1. had been getting far more valueTOL
O LET -From 1st September, that part of the building with robbers and brigande. On the Continentan Army of three for her money than we had, and known as Stonehenge No. 5, With a view to clearing such millions ought not to contain be believed that for every pound Robinson Road, now in the oo- localities of lawless elements, the more than 400,000 married men, which Germany spent we had to cupation of the Nippon Yusen Ministry of the Interior has been and taking that as a busie we spend £3 to secare an equivalent Kaleha particularly suitable for instructed to issue orders to the were paying £800,000 mora a amount of value. For every three a Boarding House. Apply to Chiangohuns and Governors of week than we should be paying millions we spent Germany DAVID BASSOON & Co., Ltd. the above mentioned provinces, if a different system had been was not called upon to pay more only smoun ad to 50 per cent, of drawing their attention to the adopted here. The wires, in the than a million. In Germany there what Loid Devonport believed it presence of these dangerous maj rity of cases, were very much was no equandering. An import- elements in their province and better off whilst their husbands snt Committee bad recently been to be. He was not going to quarrel with "tbe admirable Benti- enjoining them to devise proper were serving than they had been appointed, and, it was hoped to meatutes for the suppression of when the men were following effrot an economy of five to tan in ments expressed by the noble lord, and he was quite sure the outlaws. The magistrates of the their civilian occupations, our civil expenditure, which was
War Office would welcome any duzios will also be ordered to
He recommended to their lord- an insignificant sum as compared. organize volunteer oorps without ships' attention a very striking with what might be saved in war suggestion coming from him by delay.
Waste, and expenditure. It would be im which, to use his own expression, signed by a liverpool clergyman possible to set up an independent married men might be enticed Seychelles Customs Report. in The Times of that morning. Committee to say to the War into the Army. As to the obvious The report of the Collector of The contents illustrated what was Office and the Admiralty, "You inconvenience of the present Customs at Seychelles on the going on in the country broad must not spend this or that system, he confeased it appeared trade of the Oulony in 1914 states east. He was sorry to think that amount," but there was no reason to him that the Buswer was per- that although the year opened married men who were nofit or why these Departments should fectly simple and short, Under well and during the first seven who were over age e had been en- not have the knowledge forced the voluntary system in times of months the outlook was excellent listed. As an example he might upon them that our resources emergency they had to recruit men how, when, and where they and gave every promise of a cite the case of a man of 46 who were not inexhaustible,
could, As regarde cost, in the Ecord frade, the ontbreak of the joined the Army Service Corps The Reply for the Government. Ecropean war upees all calcula in May, and who afterwards Lord Newton said that the war House of Commons and through- tions and conditions were chang- committed suicide. At the in- Office was not prepared to give out the country there was a deter- ed. Great anxiety resulted, and quest it came out that, he ran the return asked for, but that he mination expressed that the de- trade was much disorganised, consumptive, and that he had a could give approximate figures. pendents of soldiers should be chiefly
by the curtailment of wife and several childen. If The number of married men at treated with generosity and in commercial relations with France, that sort of thing could occur present drawing separation allowview of this, it appeared to him the dislocation of the steamer under the present system he did shoes was approximately in the that the figures were less alarm- Bervice and the scarcity of money, not know what results to expect Regular Army 608,000, and in ing and less unsatisfactory than During the months of August and lavitation to the Rejected, the Territorial Forces 237,000 the noble lord would lead the September the expart of copra
Then they had seen in the total approximately of 843,000, House to believe. was as a stand-still, and planters newspapers that men who had. These igures included men in the ASIDELIGHT ON HISTORY. reduced their labourete, with the been rejected at first as unit bad Regular Army and the Territorial result that many labourers were been invited to present themselves Freesat the time of mobil Exton. Why Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. thrown out of employment. Durgain in order. that they might be The coat of the t
On Gladstone Disagreed, re separation allow- ing the last three months of the re-examined. He regrettel that ances paid to wives and children of Speaking at Birmingham on Mr. Gladstone was not the ques the real year, however, the acute condi- he saw no hope of the adoption of married men since mobilization July 20, Sir R. Perks gave an action of Irish Home Rale; tione felt at the beginning of the any other system than that which was approximately £25,000,000, count of his last interview with issue between us was that of ré- War: Bedame easier, and trade the Government had set ap. He but that did not include para- the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, ligious equality. gradually moved in the direction pointed out that the non-effective tionallowances paid to dependents in his little room at the House of of normal conditions.
votes of the future would bear other than wives and children; Commons, when he was Colonial the burden of the expenses, and that amount was naturally Secretary. After Sir Robert had allowances, and grants for the bound to inorssss. The figures finished his businem Mr. Chamber widows of these married men, he had given showed that they lain said to him: IF you have lost your appetite There would be an enormous noble lord who had spoken was "You Nonconformists mades big ore of the big variety of number of widows and father indulging in a certain amount of blunder when in 1888 you farned dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- les children remaining asa exaggeration. There were not as cold shoulder to me and Mr. DRA CAFE is sure to tempt record of them
million married men in the Army. Bright and followed Mr. Glad folly. In Lord Kitchener's The cost of separation allowancea stone. My real difference with
you
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B. BLACK, Superintendent. Hongkong, 20th August, 1915–
Mr. Gladstone know perfectly well that if he did not lead the country on some issue I should load the country, or try to do eo, in favour of disestablishment and religious equality in England, Bresland, and Wales. Now you Nonconformists will get nothing, and you deserve to get nothing
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