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WOMEN TEACHERS,
To the Editor of the "Hongkong
■ Telegraph."}
oobined, with the products of another country of much more completa and efficient industris! development,
Great Britain's industries, after the war, will have additional bordens so bear, vis. :-
(1)-Taxation much heavier pro rata to population than in sems competing countries.
If British products found it
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1918,
AVIATION IN JAPAN.
Premier Bacouraging Public Interest.
In order to exchange views on the ways and means of encourag- (2).-Hoob higher wages than ing aristion in this country in pre-war times.
Count Tersuchi, the Premier Sir, It would be interesting to
of Japan. invited know what the remaining fit teachers are going to do now that more add more difficult to compete ber of officials and basiness. men to dinner at his official; Before the H: E. the Governor has publicly before the war what will the
pisition be after ?
residence the other day. Those stated how wall women teachers
present included General Orhima, are filling the places of those who, decline of British industries have gone, It s women can do sad trade wae getting in, relatively Minister for War, Admiral Kato, to other more progressive conn-Minister of the Navy, Admiral anything a man can do, shere maytries. With the added burdens Shimamura, Chief of Naval be some patriotic schoolmasters
jest mentioned, the handicap ie Staff, General Uyshara, Ohief who will throw up their posts invier and the decline will be of Sts. General Nagaoks and order to give some of the more found to be pras ressively rapid if Baron Sakatent, both of the
promotion.
British 10
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
JUNKET
Cannot be excelled with tinned
or fresh stewed fruit.
COULOMMIER CHEESE. COTTAGE CHEESE
NOURISHING & IDEAL FOOD.
DEVONSHIRE CREAM
CAN ALWAYS BE HAD.
WE SUPPLY JUNKET TABLET ON APPLICATION.
exceptional women à chance of dioul reform of British methods Imperial Aviation Society, Baran I think it would interest is of industrial production is not Okurs, of the Okura Company, applied in good time. representatives of the Mitsui and Excellency if he could hear some war burdens demand Mitsubishi firme, and a dezen of the remarks that are made by
volume much greater
other prominent business men, FROM TRENCH TO BILLET. some of these exceptional women who have been brought out from rode than that of pre war days including some Kobe faninarikin.' That is the first essential, How Count Teranchi emphasised home with excellent University and Normal College training and it to be eroared? The answer the necessity of encouraging aviation in this country, He now find themselves in receipt of by combined cheapness and
valds and amount.
I ecolose my card.
Yours éto., STONE BREAKER.
Bangkong, Jaly 26, 1918.
SAFEGUARDING BRITISH
TRADE. Sir,-Your recently published the objects of) etalement of
military
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Impressions by the Way. Lieutenant J. B. Morton writea
You come down Windy Way,
staff.car Asshes by, aggressively important. Two girls stand at the door of so Estaminet, and s little boy shcats for souvenire.
At the outskirts of the town a Deat clean military policeman with a flaming brassard directs
The pavemente
are
When the Heat gets too much for you a dip in the cool water feels good.
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practically the same pay as all toality. How are these, in tarasaid the air verrice has DOW & as followe be antrained, unqualified, though to be scared? For one thing, close bearing upon the issue no doubt excellent, ladies who Trade Union leaders and Trade of operations on, land and in knee-deep in mud and water; the traffic with all the gestures of B narrower main street there are shops with have offered their services in the Union members mas; be taught order to complete the naval round corner you find firmer the London police men. In the pisces of the men who have been and must learn, so that they and military defencse it is duck-boards, and
will never forget it, that limitation allowed to proceed home.
arm. The authorities concerned walle, brown and aliny. You uniforms and boots. and cape, Another point of interest is the of output and resistance to the argely necessary to extend this trench with neatly banked up crowded windows; there stem.
introduction of more and better have been doing their best in this bear your pack ecraping the collare and ties; sickly-coloured fact that the whole of the to machinery is a suicidal policy, direction, but, 18 will have been mud, and your sleeve becomes postcarde sad one or two views ing profession in the United
only assisting competitors, and
be rifle sling loosens, and the butt dresser's shop; paetry cook"; Kingdom have had their salaries that the utmost possible product seen from the war in Europe, no demp road the elbow. Tour of the neighbourhood; a hair- raised in most cases 50 per cent. whilst salaries in Hongkong bare ion and the the fullest possible successful unless backed by the knocks against your lege. You even a book-shop, with French decreased both in purchasing are of machinery are essential to whole cation. Not only is the air are too tired to curee with any paper editions and the Tsachnitz
industrial progress and efficiency, service necessary in war, but it is real enthusiasm, besides it's a seriale. vis a vis other countries, and are of much importance in pesos ass kind of tranou sadition to thronged with people; women, and in the best interests of the workers means of communication. Outside cap the joke of the man in officers and men from all over the That takes all Empire, and a sprinkling of themselves. Where machinery is
the Army and Navy there were front of you." most need, the workers have the the Imperial Aviation Society the breath you've got to spare. French uniforms.
Very often there are perties of bigbeat wages and attain the
and the National Aviation Society
working bere, scraping highest standard of ocmfort end, well-being. But the fall use of which endeavoured to promote men machinery calls for larger indas- the cause of aviation, and a cum boards or repairing damage, old trial concerns under highly skill-ber of civilian aviatore were work- men in khaki, with a type of face ed managements; there must, being to that end. Their efforts, that is strangely familiar. It is however, were not united, and the kind of feca that brings back amalgamations of small ander-
this left much to be desired, and, London streste and men with bandkerchiefe knotted elimination takings and
accordingly a proposal was made gaudy to amalgamate the two societies, round their throats and baggy concentration upon the manufac-
which has now been done. The corduroy trousers. They still spit tare, in large quantitiee, and, the Asscoiation take too narrow therefore, cheaply, of only the Imperial Aviation Society, as the on their hands before raising the
has drawn up a plan to co-still got those clay pipes.
After an interminable zig- hour or two in the Divisional This HIGH-CLASS make of SHIRTS and PYJAMAS not only fature of British trade. A study most approved and successful amalgamated bodies are called, pick or the spade, sad they've
operate with the military and
with the Canteen, finding old acquaintancea combines the BEST MATERIALS, GOOD-CUT and WORK. MANSHIP (thus ensuring perfect comfort), they are of these objects leaves the imtypes in short, scientific stand-
erdisation.
naval authorities to extend the sir zagging journey,
ALL BRITISH. pression that the members have
As a youth, I was engaged in service. The Premier seked the traverses becoming fewer and and exchanging experiences over thought only of trading and have left out of consideration Scotland, for some years, in an businessmen present to assist the fewer, you come suddenly up cups of ocffes and thick slices of the basic thing upon which engineering undertaking which Society in securing the funde three steps to a muddy track, and trading reats, viz. prodection. I executed almost any kind of necessary to carry out its plane. in front of you are irees and a Baron Okurs, on behalf of the house or two and bare fields. A British industries continue in engineering work, and concentrat
reminds you that your troubles efficient in comparison with those ed on nothing. Waste and over-businessmen invited, replied in cobbled road in the distance
appropriate terms.
are not at an end. Now and then of some competing countries (lapping were general; difasion they were before the war), the spelt ineficiency and high pro
Mr. Chibs stegbei, a Tokyo a shell whines high over head; wizzbunga apring members of the Imperial Associaduction costs. Such variety of tion of Commerce, and British work and so many special jobs businessmen, has already offered sometimes tradere generally, will find many going through the chops, prevent to donate 10,000. It is onder enddenly and savagely among of their own country's produced the concere doing well with stood the Imperial Aviation you, like a giant spitting vindic unable to compete with those of a few excellent specialities it had, Scciety will need at least Y2,000,ively. come other countries; and the which, if concentrated upon, 000 to carry out ita plans for the Aaacciation's carefully devised would doubtless have revolu next five years. "objects" will resemble the tionised the "financial results of
of
the Imperial ASECciation uncecessary types of products and
di Commerce orestea.. tbe impression that the members of a view of the question of the
punctiliona locking of a safe after the business and greatly expanded
the cash has been abstracted.
H
ite trade at H me and abroad.
That is many years ago; bat, to-
ments.
coste,
"
needs.
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On the road there is a freeb breens to meet you, a breeze with something olesner-and purer in it than the air you have been accustomed to lately. It speaks of open spaces and unspoiled An exhaustive study and com parison of conditions in Great day, in the United Kingdom, the
propagande among employers and firet tumble down cottages, there Britain and other industrial comme lesson has to be learned by eate are identical. The right country. Forther on, among the ditions, pablished in London two thousands of industrial manage employed is urgent to show the are little girls in check pinaforer,
holding up baskets.
*Boaches. Deux sona le piece. years ago, states" Forty yea
I noticed recently that certain only way to national salvage,
Scientific education must be ago, Grest Britain was still the
You follow the road, passing" workshop of the world. Today amalgamations had taken place
but apparently not yet adequately she is not. Why? Here are in England and Scotland of promoted (this is most obvious Appelle. Very good." ecme striking facts based on different kinds of business under Government Censuses of prados the one control. That is the recognised) in no niggardly way, the large elag-heape and a tion of Great Britain and another wong principle-it is business but on a scale commensurate with Brigade" Headquarters, much tentious iron.gates. In a maddy large industrial country. The of the same kind which should be the extent and urgency of the damaged, with ridiculously pre- A concluding word about State field there are one or two women other country showed, for 20 merged, with the most complete concentration on as few articles industries, that :-
and types as possible, in order to control, as to which the Imperial working, quite close to a British (1)-It had a production per
8 apprehensive. The fatore of there is a canteen, where you need worker from two to three times get the fullest benefit from repeat Asecciation of Commerce ecome battery; and at theedge of the field than the Waited work to bring down production the Empire demande sweeping to tay cheroote and sardines and greater
efficient shaving soar: Outsides barnɛome amalgamations and Kingdom.
of indar trial men are improving a very muddy Then, sa to research. We know
reorganisation (2)-It employed, machinery
That or acmething entrance by laying down a 30- in these industries to an extent what vast advantages Germany methods. sbout three times greater pr has bad in thie direction and approaching national rain. Bating of chipped brinks. Others are worker than in the United King-not alone Germany. Most indus- the public fears amalgamations emptying rabbish into a big pit. trial concerns in the United King-will mean monopoly and high A party comes singing along & It is also an important fict dom have been too smell to sup- prices. A mesaurs of State con- bypath towards the main road, that the country in question port soientific Research Depart-trol could prevent that; if export They look very clean and hevo the . further enormoss ments, and these concerns could prices are no lower than prices to towele over their arms. Bathe bave advantage of large-scale innot but lay behind and have high Home consumers the latter are pat them in a good humour. You dustries under a comparatively coats, partly because of their very protected. And, in commodities begin to think of soap and water, you are, dampably tired, your email number of the most highly-smallnere and partly because they not exported, the Siate could also and suddenly realise how tired skilled and scientific maneger were behind the times.as regards Protect the consumer,
Io the interests of fatura eyes feel sore. You can feel the ments, instead of, as in the United the best and cheapest proceeses Kingdom, a comparatively large and products. These have to be British trade overeas, those can-mud in the pores of your skin. number of small industries under constantly and systematically neoted with it might well, if Leaving the village behind you (in many cases) Bomewhat is sought after. If we fail to adopt they believe the foregoing, (and turn to the right at the cross- different managements. In fos the progressive industrial meth ample proof is available) make rcade and go down a hill. Bere of these facts, bow could the cds of other countrier, we mast their views known to the Home you get your first view of the British trader be expected to keep inevitably decline rapidly,, be authorities and producers through town, a huddled mass of houses pace with the development of cause our position has been editable organisations, so that, dominated by the tall spires of that of competing countries, largely built up through our off-setting short-sighted and petty Cathedral. Some motor bases go highly organised for big-selo, industries, but, being first in the activities such as those of the Imby, stripped of their advertise efficient and cheap industrial industrial field, wo were too perial Association of Commerce menta, crowded with men production ? I bave myelf cocksure and conservative, have (and there are apt to be too many their way up to the line who found, from tenders received rested too long on
about a girl who was some our or anch). the fundamental necessities are singing e music ball song aver a range of years before and have fallen behind in will be kept in the fore-front."
body's or everybody'-"Erar- zace, A grest, upiled,
loving honey baby." You pass a the war, that certain British pro the
column of lorries halted at the duota were increasingly unable, national spart in needed to get before the war, to compete in the level; all classes ́must whole-
side of the road, and a big gray Far Enel, in price and quality beartedly combine their inter
dom.
hed
Yours etc., FIRST THINGS FIRST Hongkiav, Jaly 25, 1918.-
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You turn off from the msiu street and come to some old school buildings, eand bagged in places, with an open playground behind that spella Physical Drill. This is your billet; you go up stone stepe, waking schoss all over the building, and shed your pack with a grant of antisfaction. Then you wash at a pump outside and shave slowly and luxuriously. the streets, and perhaps spend an After that you wander out into
Then it is time for sleep, and you roll yourself up in your visit to the Bath". blankets to dream of to-morrow's
bread and butter.
BABY'S GREAT DANGER
DURING HOT WEATHER More little ones die daring the bot westher than si any other time of the year. Diarrhoea, dysentery, cholers infantum and stomach trop bles come without warning, and when a medicine is not at bend to give help promptly the short delay too frequently beyond aid. Baby's Own Tablets, meana that the child has passed
should always be kept in homes the Canadian children's remedy, where there are young children. An occasional dose of the Tablets will prevent stomach and bowel troubles, or if the trouble comes saddenly the prompt use of the They are sold by medicine dealers, or by mail at 60 cents vial from: Tablets may save the baby's life.
The De Williams Medicine Co. 96 Ezechara Road, Shanghai.
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instructions to sell by Public THE Undersigned bas received Auction on
commencing at II a.m.`
MONDAY, the 29th, July 1918,
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4 Length Stud and Open Lirk Chains 4" and 11"
75 fathoms Stud and Open Link Chains 1, 13% and 14
etc., etc. On view now.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
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