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APE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1916.
DAY BY DAY
NOTES ON THE CRISIS. THE GERMAN IN CHINA.
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The Cycle Nuisanc
The Weather. At the Peak 8 a.m. Tamp. 59;
(1915, 55 clear.)
THE TURKS.
The Russians Busy.
BRITAIN'S TRADE OUTLOOK
AFTER THE WAR,
(SPECIAL ARTTULEJ
which would give and attention to trad protection “and expansion.
summly maus be patent that, it în necessary to have a Ministry to protect our Navy (which is de-
The pable generally will an-
THERE'S NOTA JOY THE WORLD dorse the view of the Magistrato | expressed in the Police Cours CAN GIVESTER THAT IT TAKES
AWAK yesterday, that one half of the people in the Colony who own ] ·. bicycles ought never to be entrust- ed with them. The defendant in dall. the case was stidently one of
Whilst much attention is being signed to praises our trade) it is these, and one could only wish dull.
no longer pretend that they and paid at Home to the so-ordination mack more necessary for us to that the law, permitted the en
their German friends can make of industrial output to win the have a Ministry of Commascus to forcement of the Magistrate's order that he should be prohibited Siberian Mail--Due per sa the Bassing sttack. While every and others of our Ministers frank-
say headway against the force of war, and whilst Mr. Lloyd George Protect our Trade itself!
Taking China M S CERS from "whealing" in the future. Kwanglee to-day.
fresh month sees an improvement by admit that this is an engineers'
child and cause such injuries
44
Lower level 5 am. Tamp. 65;
(1915, 63 cinax.)
The Malls
Sinking to-morrow.
Chenan at 5 p.m. to-day.
The Dollar.
Even the Austrians themselves
Harbin
Not only did he knock down & giberisa Mail- Due per 8.5. in Russia's army, az 1 in heraupp-j war, to be vem as much in the point, an effective trade servio
ly system, every month sess. Ger- workshops at Home as in the sting of Directors of Trade that admittance to hospital be- Siberia Mail-Closes par as many and Anaxis maker and lees trenches in Flanders, certain other with base offices at Hongkon came necessary, but, having done
able to hold their own against a of the Government departments Shanghai, Henlow, so much, he attempted to make
still seem to be under the impres Chungking and Peking would steadily hardening opponent. himself scarce. Luckily, how-
Clearly there are but few moression that the conservation of cast perhaps fifty thousand pounds ever, he was brought to book. It needa no proving by this time to demand today is 111 5/16
The rate of the dollar on left to the enemy, ane of which is Britain's trade in the faw open per annum; and, if these were the gradual evacuation of Serbia markets that are left to us is still men who had had at least tam show that the cisas of young
by Austro-German and Balgarian to be left severely to the indivireaza commercial or technical ex- Chinese which goes madly career-
dual who comes out here to strive Ferience in Britain before they troops. These are handiest to ing about our thoroughfares at
the Bokhovina front and their against the manifeli national come East and were allowed a free ļa farious pace, the while endesof the death of Charles Kingsley removal there might help to competitors in the market; and it hand in travelling and collecting
voaring to perform a little trick- cycling, is a distinct danger to pedestrians. That paint bas long since been established. The wonder is that more serious
mishaps do not coom. Unfor- tunately, the evil cannot be met by imposing a requirement thai, as in the case of chauffeurs at Home, competence to take charge
To-morrow'a AnniversarÝ,
Tc-morrow is the anniversary (1875).
Prize Day.
On Monday afternoon the Hon. . P. E. Holyoak is distributing the prises si Kowloon British
School.
Appointment.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. Nicholas George Nolan to be Member of the Board of Examin
of would be cyclists. All that 息 done is to keep
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve to of a machine shall be demanded
the truth and print the ners without fear or favour. *****NASREE**£*IYAR*
can be
information necessary to
prolong the resistance to Basian is difficult for anyone travelling
in China to see any awakening on manufacturers and produosta, they inroads. No final good purpose,he part of the official service to could do more for our commerce however, could be served thereby, and only the Gremmans would see the necessity which exists for a than a hundred consuls who look any use in lengthening out the radical change in nor trade me-down on trade and regard tradees agony. Every imaginable shift-thods in order to meet the changed as occupying a statum some
Belves." ing of troops has been tried economic conditions which must thousands of feet below them before, with an almost pitiful obtain after peace is declared.
Such a service should be operat- barrenness of results. Bas"what-
It should not be necessary to ed by a Joint Board of the Char ever is, is beat," had the enemy months ago chosen the wiser plan point out to the departments con-bers of Commerce, leading banks of leaving a strong Austro-Ger- corned that, if it is necessary to and manufacturers of all kinds, man guard on the Danube to repel bring about a conscription of la-the only qualifications required possible Serbian attacks, and bouras has already been dons being that members of the Board foregone the delights of invading sad to bring in a military con should be hota British subjects, comtry incapable of proper self-cription is being done in intimately connected with trade, A remand for a week was defence, the Bulgarian army, in order to face the national effort of who were not acting în conjune- ordered in the case of a Chinese almost its full strength (a formid-ourenemies in military operations, tion with foreigners in any WAY, charged before Mr. Hazeland stable feature to be reckoned with) it is only a logical sequence to either in Britain or out of it; for the Police Court this morning might to-day be free to attack discard the individual ides when the co-relationship of British fin- anca and trada with German în with being in possession of the Russians in Bakhovina: A entering upon an economic cam dagger.
depraved instinct bade Germany sign. If the Government re- China has, to say the least of it, The local War Charities Como-
use Bulgaria's troops for a bully-fases to prepare for the economic been most unfortunate, and it is RENNIE-On 14th December at "Malaka," 5, Queen Annes
The total output of the Ksilan ing roheme that, even at its most campaign as it refused to prepare sincerely to be trusted that war Gardens, Bedford Park W, the wife of JSM Rennie, of twins-mittee, concerning whose creation
we had something to say in this Mining Administration's minee successful, could never have been for the military, then the couse has taught the exponents of that boy and girl. All progressing well.
column recently, is now evidently for the week ending January 8. other than unprofitable; con- quences will be that, whilst we form of commercialism the un- established on a firm working 1916 amounted to 61,687 tons and sequently, now that the Baigerian shall have wow, we shall in all reasonableness of it.
The smaller manufacturers in
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephone: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition- Western Union
Office addrees: 11, Ice House St.
BIRTH
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22. 1916.
TRADE AND THE FOREIGN OFFICE.
sharp eye on these harumscarums. And in this respect the public basers. quite as much power to set the law in motion as have the police.
War Charities.
Possession of a Dagger.
⠀⠀ Kallan Output.
&
baars, and we hope that the appeal the sales during the period, to army is really needed for hard probability have lost our markets Brinin deserve just as much cons
work it is nothing but a shabby and half-disheartened rennzut.
The Turks.
and trade in doing so.
Despite the expremacy of our sideration sa the larger, for it Navy, the Germans în China are maat be remembered that it was by no means idle, but are straining the failure of the greater pro- every nerve and expanding every docers to deliver their contracts mark of the monies coming to last year which led to the With Turkey things are not them from the Boxer indemnity, necessity of the Munitions Minis- only no better but infinitely worse,the Anglo-German Icans, the Car-try, and, as these smaller firma and she has not even the strength owitz and Arnhold Karberg have given all they possesed, in
made by its Hon. Secretary (the 60,144 tonn, Hon. Mr. E. B. Hallifax), in the Marine Surveyor's Office. letter which we published last From Monday, the 24th. inst, night, will meet with a whole-and until further notice, the hearted response on the part of Offices of the Government Marine the public. It is well that the Surveyor will be at rooms Nos point is made that, although, the 10 and 11 on top floor of the Post Prince of Wales' fund has been Office Building. closed, there are still plenty of Medical Practitioner.
The name of Dr. Agnes Brymmer left to profit by the withdrawal of short term loans, and munition time, men and money, they re- channels open to receive charit- able donations. The new organisa McGregor (Bachelor of Medicina par own troops from Gallipoli. repayments, in building up all quire as much or more protection tion, it must be thoroughly un- and Bachelor of Surgery, Glasgow Like Germany, she is seriously over Chins a more afficiant sales than those larger houses that, by affected by the blockade, and organization, so that as soon as reason of their importance, cam derstood, is not intended to sap-University), of "The Retreat," plant or to supersede the existing Peak, has been added to the list will be more so as time goes on; pesce is declared German pro protect their own interests.
like Germany she is faced with ducts will be dumped into China The Ministry of Commerce The keynote of an article on British trade in China which we funds; it is merely a central body of medical practitioners.
disaffection and discontent among fast as shipe can be loaded to should not only give information. publish on another page is that, unless Britain wakes up, she will
to which contributions may be
Damping Ashes. have the felicity of seeing her commerce in the East smatched from
At the Police Court this morn her own people; and, once more take, the freights, and every effort to our manufacturers as to where her, not only by friendly trade rivals bat by Germana. The article sent, and, those contributions in question shows how hopelessly we Britishers have failed in the may if so desired, be set aside for ing, before Mr. Hazeland, four like Gretuszy, she has signed so will be made to force as to pay and how they can dispose of their trade war hitherto, and unlike the generality of criticisme -it pecific objecta There is one Chinese were charged with dump deeply against society that she dearly for our lack of economic wares profitably, bat should go points to a reasonably easy way out of the difficulty, provided the suggestion in the appeal which ing ashes on private ground can hope for no consideration or preparation--just as we have had further should endeavour is worth emphasising, and that is held by Mr. L. D'Almada as leniency when settling day comes.
military preparation.
mesus in their power and should proper steps are taken without delay. The writer of the article the hope that Hongkong may, trustee for friends. A fine of $5. Her effort in Persis are rapid to pay for our lack of co-ordinated foster our producers by every In addition whilst our own set in all things as a leader of our further shows that the blame for the unsatisfactory condition of our through the medium of the or fourteen days imprisonment, verging towards the farcical, and,
whether she is opposed by manufacturers owed nothing to commerce, a shaper of our com- trade out here lies, in great measure, with the Foreign Ofe. This new Committee, be able to was imposed.
Bassis or by British, the result the Government in the building mercial destinies and an educator is a point on which the Telegraph has repeatedly laid strees, and
support some we find not only our contributor bat a goodly number of Hongkong similar organisation at Home It is notified that at the expira- to her always seems to up of their foreign markets (which of our technical and commercial and Canton readers ready to confirm all that we have said in the which kagy be connected tion of three months the following the same. With her as with efforts were usually made rather sons, so that we could put our past as to the marked inadequacy of our consular system. Moreover, with the name of the Colony. We Companies will, unlea canse is Bulgaris and Greece, ample in spite of our consular offices trade on the same standing as our if we choose to go farther afield, we find our countrymen in the sincerely hope that will be pos- shown to the contrary, be struck time was allowed her for the than by any aid they granted) they navy, and win back for ourselves Americas and on the Continent also complaining of the same thing. sible. To make it 30, a considers off the Register and the Com-making up of her mind as to the have had to turn their whole that trade sapesmary of which A recent article in the British Review, by Mr. P.F. Martin, com- ble rasssure of public generosity panies will be dissolved-The king under whom she would serves collective output to the service of years of official neglect have plains bitterly of the commercial attache as a useless functionary will be required. But there is no Tang Ti and Co., Ltd., the honesty would have been the the country. Hence most of them robbed us, here and elsewhere. and points out that British trade abroad is either left to that gentle reason whatever why the requi-Hankow Land Development Co., better policy for her, but since she cannot, st this time, offer say Sacks Ministry should not be Ind man or else is not officially represented at all For the entire site fands should not be forthcom- Ltd., the Yne Loong Flour Mill chose to cleave to her old task-effective competition against the or controlled in any gomible continent of North America, with its gigantic import and exporting.
Co., Ltd, the Ya Tuen Cotton maater whom her better sense American and other neutral efforts manner, either by the Foreign or Mill Co., Ltd. ***
taught her years ago to hate and which are being made to take by the Colonial office, but should trade exceeding £800,000,000 annually, no commercial attache has
New Harbour Regulation. despise, how can she look for advantage of the vacuum caused be as absolutely free and in- A notification by the Harbour sympathy among the Allies or the by the withdrawal of the German dependent sa the Post Office, anal Master, dated January 20, states: Neutrals? -On and after this date between the hours of official night no junk Hongkong has already done or native craft will be allowed to
ever been appointed."
Let us admit what most of the men in our Foreign Office service Future Calls. themselves are quite ready to own: that the British consular official
se a role is quite ignorant of business matters. And yet we leave
the war
hospital ΟΙ
Companies Warned.
Enemy Trading.
be
and British exports; and, when only modern up-to-date methods, the war is over, whilst we shall and men should be allowed me find that the Germans trade is in its portals, whilst anything probably eliminated until their savouring of party politics should Whilst this Ministry should not
the
to him the task of pushing British trade in a foreign country! His education and his social environment have been: such that not only is he unlikely to possess the commercial magnificiently in contributions lie at a distance of less than 100 Our Government at Home has workshops are once more running, be made taboo from its inception. instinct, but that business in general must necessarily be more both in money and kind, but is yards from low water mark on the a most ersaperating habit of tak- we shall no doubt discover that
can still do more if it desires. As north side shore of the city offing precautions a year or so late, the Americans and Japanese have be dominated in any way by other or less distasteful to him. How then can we expect him to go Mr. Hallifax points out, the need Victoris between the Standard The new Enemy Trading Bill, says eaten into our markets so that Government services (seeing that out of his way to help the commercial traveller who is in China er for charity in connection with Oil Co.'s Wharf at West Point, Reuter, "is the most drastic yet many years of individual effort it and its protegen alone pays for France or the United States, as the case may be, for the purpose of
increases rather than and Jardine's Wharf at Esas framed" Could not this Bill have will not restore to na our national everything in Britain, it should advertising and selling bis country's commodities? How can we be inishes. Everything points to Point, and the shore at Kowloon been passed a twelvemonth ago? supremacy of trade which is the exercise a controlling Toice over surprised if the German steps is and smilingly sbarbs all the trade the likelihood of big and bitter from Kowloon Pier to the saw The world has learned nothing only factor that makes us a graet every Foreign Office agreement which did not protect our trade to that happens to lie in his way? Our consular men are round pegs bailes in the near future. And mills at Mong Kok Tsui, includ-new on the subject during the nation.
The outstanding feature of the the utmost; and no agreement, in square holes, and, until they are either given a different form of battles are not fought nowadays boundaries, without the written of enemy trading, hers in the whole zuzament is that, whilst either publice or secret, with
ing private wherves within those past year, for the numberless cases education or else are replaced by experienced commercial man, we withcas terrible casualties. A must be contest to see the prizes in the trade content captured by heavy price will have to permission of the Harbour Master. East and elsewhere, might easily trade alone pays our way and en- another power, which zon-Britianera. As an example of the type of man who, in the past,
paid for victory. Oar
have been foreseen by a Governables us to maintain our position construed as cortailing has been appointed to look after trade interests, we will again quote
men are prepared to pay]
ment that had anything like a in the world, and whilst every in any part of the worl Mr. Martin's article. The British Vice-Consul at one of the most fighting important coffee export ports. bad not made a report to the that price. Surely we are prepar- IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. just estimate of human nature, government servant is paid out be allowed to pass witho
"There was never a time since the of the proceeds of that trade, few consent of this Ministry. Foreign Office for over six years, neither had he been solicited to do ed to see that the maimed, the
world began when there were if say of our Government services logical and free Govern so, notwithstanding that the exports of his district amounted annual fatherless and the widow are
not certain black sheep who outside of Britain seem to realize that of Britain shou properly cared for. We in Hong- Long are bat little affected by the An order made by the Governor-would put their own greedy that trade is the one and only Minister in the Oshi waz. We ses called upon to make in-Council under Sections 3 and 4, instincts miles before their coun- thing which they should bring the Navy, Army, Politically the British Foreign Office has a fine record; its few real orifices in consequence of the Importation and Exportatry's welfare. The world has not their minds to foster. The writer the Coloni traditions are noble ones and its men, both at Home and abroad, have of it. That is no reason why we tion Ordinance provides that the altered in this respect in forty is astounded that Consuls whom have no fix often attained worldwide distinction. Yet its commercial story is should remain indifferent towards following rules shall be added to centuries. Then why wait till the he has visited should state that Trade, positively Indiering Then why should it not be asked to relinquish those who are bearing, and will the rules made by the Governoz-) war is well nigh eighteen months the policy of Britam had a responsibility which sita so jauntily on its shoulders? Te special yet, have to bear, the hosty bar-in-Council under the Ordinance old before taking reasonable pre changed in this rog
cautions against the paltry tree should excuse themselves article quoted above points to a simple way out of the difficulty. The dens which it brings. Quite the on January 6 and 13-- writer argues, justly enough, that if Colonial, Irish, Indian, Foreign reverse. And the most beneficial 33. Eule I shall not apply to obery of such men who would sell mothers Bat Naval or Military Affans need a special board to control them, so act we can perform is to rally to sugar imported in accordanos] not only their
Sagar better late than never. also does trade. If we appoints Mmister of Munitions, Fluation, the support of those who have a with the provisions of Home Affairs, etc., why not s Minister of Commerce? When we have claim on our means, "What is why: Convention Ordinanes. severed the trading interests of the Empire from the Foreign Office the appeal now issued should be ofzilzagmis
ly to some millions of pounds." The writer adda sardonically "Th affcial has long since retired upon a liberal pension.*
and have established's Commercial Ministry—TODE
mone but specially qualified manure shall begin Saan enlarged rsrenne Pan înotesand prestige
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