THE WAR BY LAND AND AIR AND SEA.
BY THE RIGHT HON. WINSTON SPENCER
CHURCHILL.
[The following article from the pen of Mr. Winston Churchill #ppeared in a recent issue of the New York Cutlook :]
Daring the whole year that is past Grest Britain has continued
countries, and even through this channel, which is closed not by naval power but by diplomatic action, the volume has been sub stantially reduced.
The battle of Jutland has shown that the enemy cannot face &
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1917.
Rattan FURNITURE.
of cora
scope which they require. This incrassed before the spring. They which was presented to the Ad- eet product are at present largely there, the greater part of this Billibid prison
nowmiralty in ibe years before the going to waste, led to the assign work being done at a villags A number of different grades
#trength.
The menace
German attacks.
Grand Fleet has been growing done by submarino attack 00|ing war direation will not become ( ready. Before an ultimatum was material provided it is prepared tioned or after some similar | break of the European war, the
actually sad relatively in all es sentials,
ordered in the early months of the great power of the defensive once
The following facts and con- ing it between two knives placed war when the Admiralty first the armies have taken up the long
clusions may, it is thought, be clown together is a vertical post- became responsible have all now line of intranched positions. If Some Particulars of a Hongkong accepted in consequence of the tion. For
the first process come to hand, and many others the great war ends in an incon-
Industry.
deta and information obtained on (thickness), the entting koife is have been added to them, But claire peace with consequent
this trip:
| the one coming against the inside it in the "hornet" and not the danger of the renewal of the war,
Numerous officiale of the Philip The rattan imported from of the peal, which is drawn by gun which must ever be regarded the frontiers will certainly be in pine government, as well British North Borneo (Sarawak-band between the knives. A ea the fatal destroyer of Zeppeline trenched under the most perfect private individuals resident in is-and Kadat) brings the best uniform width is secured by and the final deterrent upon their systems that can be devised and these islands have realized for prices on the Hongkong market. drawing the peel is e fit position activities. Every month since defended by every resoures of some time that the amount of Java rattan and that from Pensug between another pair of knives, the beginning of the war the wire, machine gune, and artillery, retian siken from Philippine for- and Annam (Saigon) are handled which trim of either edgo. The qualities of seroplanes and the Therefore it seems that Contio-ests and the amount and valus of by importers. Practoally all the core (or portion of the piece of ekill and experience of their pilots ental nations, volserable only both the raw and the prepared raw material received at Hong-rattan left after the reel has been have been progressively improv across land frontiers, will ba cura material exported are much lower kong comes direct from Singapore, removed) is again split by a kuise clear that the proportion of
ing. Even in the early days the of having, first, fall werning of an than they should be. The opthe dealers there making consign- into as many strips an may be national energy devoted to it, presenes in this country of the attack, and, secondly, a very struction of ratten furniture in ments to their Hongkong agents. necessary, depending on the after safely has once been achieved, would have to be re-ceroplanes of the naval wing effective means of defenca. Sabis country is also comparatively When shipments arrive at the diameter
desired. gulated in relation to other needs, as alone sufficient to deter Zepe prise will bars no terrors for restricted, for outside of Manila latter port, the agent dietributes" To "round" these pieces of pelins from coming except in the them. Their anxieties will be the types of ratten forniture samples of the raw rattan to pro- core, they are drawn by hand both military and industrial,
darkness of long and moonless profound and continued, but into which are made are such as will,spective buyers, the supply being through a sheet of tin or iron Is there, then, no meɛne by to enjoy all the fruits of Dava! / which the navy, without endan-{"ights. But now the " hornets."those anxieties there will not in the main, satisfy locsi demande Į suctioned off to the highest bid- pierced with different sized holes, ever stronger on the wing, have enter that horrible feeling that at Caly. The San Miguel chair is ders. A very small amount of the same an in the Filipino gering the supreme advantages it supremsor. We have fed and has already srcured for us and earned to Sy by night, to find any moment, without warning or an example of the type here Philippine rattan reaches the "batsosn."
alluded to. their prey and sting it to death, cause or even pretest, they may
Hongkong market, though all the
So far as I could ascertain, no supplied ourselves in this island cur allies, can aid more sctively
The German armies tc-day are be suddenly struck down.
The Chinese residents in Manila Chinese dealers and importere machinery whatsoever it employed With all that was needed to main-in the general cause?
Great Britsiz, on the other who are familiar with this line of met dieplayed a great deal of in connection with soy of the We should not too readily take larger and more powerful than tain the life of the people and the
they have evin been. The num- hand, will depend for her security work form a amsil, closed cor- intereat in the subject and were varions phases of the preparation "No" for an Boswer, war-making energies of the state.gressive epirit is the soul of sac-maintains in contact with her fied armies, but, as heretofore, made little or no effort to dinee
Ang ber of divisions which Germany not upon land froutiers and forti-poration, as it were, and have anxious to obtain samples,
of the material, nor any each de- Relatively, only a small amount vices known to the Chinese there. We have transported our armies cessful war. The feeling is by water wherever we chose. We widespread that the enterprise enemies has risen by nearly upon ees power and the courtant a widespread knowledge of the of the raw rattan imported through Interest was manifested in 12816 The fact that the Hongkong is actually sorted, German-made machine for pre- have maintaised and supplied and sudacity of our seamen have thirty is the last few months, and readiness of her fleet. No pro industry. them continuously overseas in the not been accorded the cutlet and will probably be still farther blem is more harassing then that economic possibilities of this for cleaned, graded and prepared pating peel and scre in upri highest state of efficiency. We
feeling would be mischievona if certainly cannot number have carried on an sctiva export it led to vague demande that the much less than two bandred sai war, of always, while living at meat of two employees of the some miles beyond Canton, where particularly of the peel, are re- trade. We have guarded our Grand Fleet should abandon the twenty-five. The reserves of men peace in a peaceful world, being Philippine government for the this phase of the industry has becognized by the dealers. For selves, our dominions, and our
eure and sound strategic policy it power which she has available ready at a moment's notice for purpose of making a brief study come thoroughly established and
practical purposes, these grades allies from all forms of oversea has hitherto followed. It would will undoubtedly permit her to supreme attack. Modern feete of this industry as carried on at where labour is cheaper than at may be limited to five or six. attack. We have prevented the Le wholly beneficial if it led to maintain these immense forces in require so mobilization. Every Hongkong, with a view to the Hongkong.
Grade cue (peel) is of an even So far as is knows, the two straw colour and thoroughly enemy from carrying on any the encouragement of a naval continuous motivity throughout vestel is a half contained unit. gathering of facts and information overses trade, either export, of offensive which did not compro- und 1919 classes of recruite, each fally manned. Nasal war begine bearing on the situation here. not practiced in the Pailippine less perfect as
le coming year, even if the 1918 All the effective vessels are always which might be of value in their processes noted hereinafter are flexible; grades two and thres are import, except through this mire the vital elements of our as hundred thousand strong, are simply by an order to attack. No The writer was one of those se- lelands; or, if so, to a very limit- colour, and perhaps less flexible. to this standard not thrown in, as thrown in they protecting cartsin of two weeks' signed. The actual time apeated extent: The washing of the The remaining grades lack an of submarins will undoubtedly be before the delay, no national convulsion each on the investigation amounted to entire stems with sand and water even colour and are little need for attack on merchant ships, whicb eiroggle ends. The mortal peril as in involved in the general mo- lers than 12 daye.
and a piece of loose coir (sufficient forniture purposes, bat serve for in its first form had been effec-of Turkey, Bulgaria, and Austria, bilisation of an army, stande be
It is generally admitted that a to fill the hand), to remove the binding packager, bundles and toally crashed by the measures and their extreme need, force tween us and the supreme chall condition of apathy and indiffer dirt sad the many adhering parti balee. While the classification 1sten by the Admiralty in the these countries to yield themselves enge of war.
ence with respect to the economic clea of vegetable matter from the of the cora, or heart, seems to be spring of 1915, has lately been anresistingly to the martial decisive battle at sea, even when resuscitated upon a more formid-domination of Prussia. Poland peril once. After a hundred yeare ten cxists among tropical peoples; ing of the stems, or of the peel, upon its relative flexibility, the We have cecaped this great advancement of their country of exterior of the stema, the bleach less general, the price depends he is challenged la closeable scale. Here, too, we must may supply additional resources. of oval peace, in spite of men's it is sleo true that in the past with salphar fames. Both of evennees of the colour, and the protected nature. The super recognise the impossibility of Everything will be controlled by minde being largely concentrated Filipinos bava not been aseared there processes are regarded by extent to which it has been clean- power of the British line of battle resting even for a day upon our Main Headquarters." German on party solitics at home, in spite of the rewards of their labour, as the Chinese se very important. ed. A difference of as much as nare. There must be a continual authority and German thorough. of the widespread sentiment they are now. If Philippine | After obeerving the effect on 20 pesos or 30 pesos Mexican per bailable. Our confidence in this food of new idese, new experi- nes will regulate minutely the against war preparatior, in spite rastlans are not of the very best, as equent upon such treatment of pical exists between peel of the respect rests no longer on con ence, new energy to cope with war energies of her struggling of the unsuspecting, easy-going is intimated later on in this ar- the material, it is clear that no beat and that of inferior grade. vincing arguments and calcula-
the ever-varying forma and ever-allies. German commanders will charecter of our rational life, icle, there is, nevertheless, abund- satisfactory clasification based
Some four species grow in tions, but on ascertained faciu.
increasing magnitude of the lead their armies, German plans when the hour came although snt evidence to show that there is upon the colour (and this is the Southern Chins, but not in Meanwhile the superiority of the
will govern their actions. This "Wolf!" had been called Ecgcod and steady market outside most important) can te made officient abundance to be exploit- Our security against being un centralised, uniform, all-embrace often for no reason the fleet was of these islande for the raw except after the processes mened commercially. Sinos the out
Cameros requires a twofold less competent as the conflict launched, before a shot was fired, and classified, and to show that means, have been employed. price of rattan, in both the sam process-first, the harrying and swelle towards its fateful calmina- every ship was at its station, the making of rattan forniture for All ration ased It cannot be too strongly realis destruction of Germansabmarines tion,
must be and the prepared state, ha in ed nor too frequently repented by all the methode which naval
every stamen at his post. Can export can be profitsbly conduct thoroughly seasoned (dried) be- creased from 50 to 75 per cent. in that the foregoing facte constitute ingenuity and creft can devies; will be supported by the greatest, the renewal of that merciful de mutter of freight rates to the are carried o
This prodigious militery effort we ever count with curtainty upon ed on a large scale when the fore any of the following operations Hongkong, so dealers and impor- the foundation of our whole and, secondly, and scarcely less manifestatione
Paring of the tere there informed me. This is existence and power to wage the important,
of submarine liverance ? Britain's bour of United States and other countries noduler, or bases of leaf spather, das mainly, I understand, to war to a victorions conolasion. moltiplication of our own mer-attempts to regain serial sa pre- claration of war.
systematised activity at sea and by strenuous greatest peril is before the de- is stiefectorily arranged. This work is done by girla and reduced tonnage. available and Those who suppose that it is open chant shipping..
Styles and fashions are com- women with knives fashioned like
consequent increased transports- to the Grand Fleet to better this!
macy. Side by side with it will Twó circumstances should mon to all articles intended for old files ebazpened on one long tion charges. The best grads of Whereas at the cutest of the be launched an insidious propa- make us pause. First, in August, personal use and for use in the edge. With one hand the edge the peel now brings as high as aitustion by taking more aggrewar it was right to concentrate gande of peace. A cloud of fair- 1914, Germany desperately desir home; and from year to year, of the knife is placed longitudin- $60 Mexican per pical. sive action at the present stage our shipbuilding activities upon esering words and sentiments ed to keep England neutral. Her buyers who visited Hongkong ally against the nodale, the knife are ignorant of the physical con- the accelerated completion of will be spread between
The biggest demand seems to the declarations of war were timed have made new patterns in rattan is twisted in one direction and be for furniture wrapped ditions of modern naval war dreadnoughts required for the Germany, which
standa with regard to military, not Daval, farniture. A considerable number the piece of rattan in the opposite covered with rattan core; next for They 16 het cingulatly uni line of battle at the expense of desperately at bay, and the dark considerations, and the surprise of samples of chairs and tables direction. Dismeter and external the sea-grass, or linen-fiber type mindful of the teachings of naval history. Even in Neleon's time mercantile construction, a con- and bloody rode of Belgian and attack on England played no part of very attractive design and colour form the basis for sorting while no dealer sovised me that trary tendency has been operating Barbian strosities, and the long in her far-reaching plans. Can workmanship, enches are cat ata the ratian into grades. Stems 1.5 over 5 per cent. of his sales were the most he could do until the for a long time. It ought to be years of arrogant and malignans we be sure last next time the elly observed in the Philippines, em, or less in diameter are used in furniture wrapped with the -enemy put to ses voluntarily was possible, in a very short time, to preparation for aggressive war, fatel mcment will not be fixed was seen in shop and storehouse. for the making of "peal' to. blockede him in his porta. multiply merchant ships of & Every agency, whether of fear or exclusively for us and that a sar. The sitempt to
prel. More rattsa forniture in BOOD"
for exported to the United States and simple standardited pattern and lassitude or humanitarianism, prise attack out of profound peace these pieces of furniture, as well as framework and of a diameter of to South Africa than elsewhere. effectively from a distant strategic Properly armed against the gun will be invoked to and between by treachery will not be our sole to take pictures of men, women and 1.6 cm. or more reaches Hongkong Many sales are also made to cities. base, and, in addition, we exert a
the Bun and retribution. High warning that the great struggle children preparing the material, in long bundles, undoubled, for along the China cost and to the control over the oceana
What of the air? The founda- prices, cruel losses, oninspiring has recommended? Secondly, met with fair success; and a few this specific purpose.
English possessions in Asia. dreamed of in the old ware, even tions of the Royal Flying Corps leadership, will be counted on to do not the conditions of aerisi of the best photographs taken are After the paring and sorting, The process of collecting and after the most dazzling victories. were well and truly laid before produce their effects upon the war warfare and submarine attack on reproduced in connection with the rattan is immersed in a vat preparing rations is very simple.. containing water and sand; some When a Rotaing plant has been The man who would jeopardise the war. By exertions which making revolution of Great able a treacherous surprins to be this article.
and her allies. The executed with s deadlinees never these primary advantages by claim, through they have not Britain
While much of the information of the latter is taken up in a band- found in the forest, the stem is. which alone we live and have our always received, recognition of German hope is that if the front possible before? Suddenly from here given is of general interest, ful of wat coconut hook, which, cat near the ground and is de being is a maniac.
their countrymen, General Seely, iera can be unshakably maintain the blue water torpedoes leap to two fects stand out very clearly when rubbed vigorously length. tached from the trees, from which Bat it does not follow from this Sir David Henderson, and Colonel ed for another year a peace can be wards our squadrons engaged in in their relation to this industry wise over the surface, removes all it is suspended by its booked Sykes had gathered together, in obtained which will relieve the routine cruises and exercises as carried on in the public schools adhering dirt and foreign sub-thongs, by taking a strong hold that we should rest content with the teeth of dificulty and die. Germany from the conerqueness of peace; or through the dark as well as outside: First, that stances, bringing out the real of its base and then pulling down these supreme services az the
ole outcome of our
an organisation of the hideous catastrophe in ness of the night the bombs of proper methods of washing the colour of the skin. After this the entire plant with its leaves: couragement, vast and
animated by a lofty spirit, a body which she has planged the world, attacking aircraft on a scale never alems and of classifying both process, the rattan which is found In order to clean the plant of its varied naval power. It is clear of knowledge and experience, and and leave her free to scheme and yet practiced crach down upon stems and peel should replace the to be of sufficiently good quality leaves and especially of the that by itself the naval blockede, a band of daring pilots with their prepare a decisiva stroke in the dockyards, the magazines, the bit-and-miss practice of india-is 'subjected' directly to the 'spurioan aheaths that clothe the however stringent; will not effect machines. Out of this every another generation. Unlesa Ger- oil-stores, the arsenale by which criminate amorting in bandles bleaching process, if of the small stem, the top of the plant is ont the rain of Germany within thing has been developed, and many is beaten in a manner our navy lives.
now common in the Philippines; diameter which is used exclusively off and then, handling it from the any period which we can at pre- to-day the Air Service of the which leares no room for doubt sent foreses. It must never
No, we must finish this business and secondly, the vales of proper for weavers in chair covering, or upper end, the stem is forcibly be British army is not regarded as or dispate, unless she is convinced now. Now is the time, and now bleaching canust be ignored. the peel is removed and bleached, drawn in the opposits direction forgotten that the paramount ser- inferior to that of any of our by the terrible logic of events that is the only time, The means can be Teachers who really wish to make the rest of the stem being need between two pieces of wood. In ricer of the pary make an enorme allier, and has established an the glory of her people can never found if the will is not lacking. a success of this branch of in- for core,
this way the stem is easily stripp- ons demand upon our strictly undoubted ascendency over the be achieved by violent means, Whatever the cost, we must drive dustrial work will find the means For bleaching a wooden box of ed of its spiny coverings and is. battle of Jutland hss shown that enemy.
[unless her war-making capacity remorselessly on until we reach a to make effective the side herein any given osproity is employed. then cut into lengths of about 5 the Germans had no surprises in
Here is one of the great decia after the war is sensibly dimin- victory so decisive that it carries anggested, in order to secure the Thoms seen at Hongkong are taller meters escb. There are bent into store for as; that a great ection ive factors of the war, a definite ished, a renewal of the confict, with it as its first consequent the necessary improvement in theas than a man and some ten feet in two equal parts and fastened into width. Two tiers of doors lan boodles; in this state the osoas fought to ees followed in the step towards real victory. Air efter en ansasy malevolent trace, liberation of the German people details,
from the vile ayatom of which Warehouses and furniture across the front, to fasilitate the are brought to the market. The main a conventional oparse. The superiority has had its actuasema anavoidable. data should now have been tione on the western front. We It in not generally realised that they have made themselves the factories (shope) are to be found inserting and the removing of Rotang which are most vained obtained is enable us to measure, have been up and down, and now an inconclusive peace is more slaves, and thus called into being in various parts of the city, os-bundles of whole rattan or peal, by traders, are not thicker than a with more precision and certain we are ap again. Every exertion dangerous Great Britain new Promis in a new Europe. pecially in the Wanchai district. The bleaching agent is sulphor, man's little finger and have a file, ty thin was possible before, the must be made to maintain this than to any of her great allies, Bat for this purpose we shall The Obinese manager of the soficient quantity of which is polished, straw-yellon, giaaay margins of superiority necessary
invaluable ascendency. It will Rumia, France, Italy, who require to employ to its fall avery Oriental Ratten and Sex Gram ignited in the bottom of the box, surface.
new depend for life
and safely reponroe, not merely of this island, Farniture Company was most so The rattan or peel is subjeoted to to nesure to the Grand Fleet not long pass without
I have bo reliable data an to unquestionable supremacy. After challenge; bat past and present upon the ability of armise bat of the British Empire as a commodating, not only socomp the action of the sulphur fumes quantity of rattan canes imported that point has been reached the experienos justifies ⚫ confident to defend their frontiers. The whole. New demands must be anying me on various occasions for a period of some 24 hours. to Europe from Eastern ports. It mere piling up of additional hope that the position we have their alignment on the frontiers nation; women must coms for- but showing himself very willing core the processes used are similar is produced in each country. It mobilieation of great armies and made upon the manhood of the to different shops and warehouses, For the preparation of peel and is not even known what quantity reperiority in the absence of any Bained to-day in military
moshod by which that seronautics will only be improved require definite and accurately ward in many hundreds of thous is the matter of furnishing data to this employed in the Philippines is, however, certain that Borneo calculabla number of days. Asanda to liberate men from the and other relevant information on in the preparation of Calasiao and must eapply a very large progor. superiority can be turned to effect, by a more intense competition. De sny new advantages which it
Icast a fortnight must elapse be munition factories; unnecessary she rattan industry. The ware banial hat material. The peel is tion of those that are pat on the Bicos Lord French became osa gain for us, becomes an responsible for home defence order "General Mobilization" food prices must be controlled so were visited, for the purpose of heavy clasp knife. A place of
tween the issue of the fateful industries must be suspended; houses of some large importers first removed by hand, with a market,
With the exception of the anthrifty employment of our against Zeppelin raids we have and may decisive shook of battle, sa ta separe to the nation at war inspecting the manner of prapar-rattan 0.76 om in diameter will Malacs one it is not exactly resourcer. If we were to soopt witnessed a very great improve In that fortnight them the tower to parabage the rations Ing and ring, the rattan, forgive from these to four strips of known from what specien the present role of the navy ment in the organisation of all mength of the warring musður **** grant me it is as the fast word protective measures. The large be arrayed for their debonne, lea
for their physical meg Also, the style and make peel, depending on the width ratians of sociales Arzob tans son power has to speak, it is! supplies of guns which were wwwwfiant last of this war i
ut prions within their up of ratina forniture in many desired. The pal is ganged at 12 E. B
shops were airly.
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