SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1916
SHIPPING
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WAR.
THE CHINA MAIL
TALLEST STORY OF THE having unfortunately forgotten the com
blastion. A resourceful eleck, who has since received the called Order of the Bodt, suggested, however, that the LONDON BRIDGES CLOSED AN
Ministar should be blasted and with RESULT OF LEPPELIN ATTACK..though somewhat shaken, was able to a trinitrotoluene," and Mr. Lloyd George,
tew hours to resama'bla ushal ocupabim
From time to time the German paperr have bold their readers some very tall
MARSEILLES AND LONDON, of Zeppelia raids on London, bus offensiva in Flanders ought to be more
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The real explanation of the great the limit has now been reached by the generally known than it The facts are Hamburger Fremdenblatt Augue that the weather-le too hot to allow the 8th. this paper, the leading Libera! Dorman soldiers to chase the British any journal of Hamburg, printed was therefore determined to lure them longer with comfort to themselves. I which, for tallness, has tho Nelson on to their destruction by pretending that column, to which refers, beaten to the Germans were unable to contine
trazzle." Here it is
their victoriana advance. That there has been some occasions difficulty in haring them off again in no way militates agains the soundness of this ingenious plan, which is said to have originated in the braid of the All-Highest Kiriselt.
(BY INDIRECT WOLLEGE.). The alarm and consternation in London was indescribable. The entire fire brigade was stationed with its engines and Jan. 98 rescuing apparatus in the various streets Feb. 11 and squares. The Nelson memorial in Feb. 19 Trafalgarsquare was hastily surrounded Jan. 16 Through Steamer
-Fat. 38 Mar. 1 with mountainous stacks of sandbegy, and
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the valuable exhibits in the British and Passengers change Steamers as COLOMBO, commedation in the coppeling Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reserved in Kensington museuns were conveyed into
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the vaults beneath those buildings.
Red Cross banners were hoisted on the roofs of Buckingham Palace, and St James Palace, while gigantic flags of the respective nationalities wared from the foreign Embassies and Consulates.
“High prices, largely companasted front the workman's point of vie wages, and resultant large pri
Commercial mortal and tending stil
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Rural common thes prices for dig eropa, 1410, Colton holde away, and pro established even there.
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in
*The extension of American banking to foreign delds in which we were bot represented before the war:
the prospect of a real American marahant A revival of American shipping, with
marine once more H
In other words, this period has ushered the United States across the threshold of
When the British Flest was firing in a new era era of world-wide error from its conquerors during the opportunity and Commercial power. of the German super-Zeppelins skilfully conditious resulting from the war which Battle of Jutland the commander of one, oreover, he points out,van, thoạn
manœuvred his ramel over the Queen are generally considered unfavourable Elizabeth.*** So great in the lifting power have a brighter mids. Thus — of these wonderful machines than he was
Just at present the shortage of labour able, after fixing's hook in the embrasure is embarrassing industry; but that is an of the Queen Elizabeth's fate furret, embarrassment much easier to endura to raise the warship in the air and carry than the one which attends the Ending har bodily. Aw She has now been of jobs for a hords of idle labour., de, it placed, together with Notre Dame, Gaisin the check which has been administered to Pies, and other trophies of the war. In immigration has aggravated the labour The population was for the most part front of the Imperial Palace at Potsdam. shortage, it has also been a prime factor hiding in cellars and underground railway In confirmation of this it is only necessary in solving the serious anemployment tunnels. Numerous bodies of troops to point to the fact to the British problem which confronted us brlorn to hurried through the streets to their Admiralty has never yet rentwed to deny war broke out and which became acute. respective stations. Every railway stating it
shortly thereafter, and might still be with in London, as well as the City generally,
if the Hos of immigration had not been was steeped to pa inky darkness, which
arrested. And if the war has been accom. was only lit up now and again by the
panied by an unprecedented rise in prices, searchlight projections and the fire of the
with consequent sufaring for scmo, to anti-aircraft guns.
others it has spelled big profita, and ea the whole- the country is undoubtedly the wealthier för it.
The damage inflicted, as ascertained up to August Brd, was very serious. g
On the Thames saveral bridges, includ" ing the Towar Bridge, sustained grave injury, They have now been temporarily closed to trafic. Numerous destructive fires were caused in the West India Docks, as well as in Huntington-street and in Woolwich, many persons being
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Of the successful revolution which broke out in London recently it would be unnecessary to speak, were it not for the gross ignorance and indifference of Londoners which may have caused them not to notice it. It is sufficient to say that King George was deposed at fire in But, besides the improvement which S HL. Dodwell, Esq.-Deputy Chairman. the afternoon and executed on Tower Hill can be gaged from the study of rows of G.T.M. Edkins, Esq. Hon. Mr. D. as half-past six. The Government has figures placed side by alde, the two war-C. & Gabbay, Eq been taken over by the members of the years have been marked by progress which on M Fellowship of Reconciliation, and peace can not be treated statistically ab all, negotiations bare already been opened but which, nevertheless, is fully as They are proceeding smoothly, and if is important as those things which ena hoped that everything will be ready for Outstanding among such avente were the On the morning of August 3rd: the the Coronation of the Emperor William achievements A far-seeing American streets leading to the various hospitals in Westminster Abbey by the middle of bankers who have, by the establishment were rendered for a time impsasable to next thoath (September).
of branches in foreign countries, opened ordinary traffic, in order to permit the
the way to new feda for American hundreds of ambulances to make their
businces. Trade with South America, way with their doads of injured people. AMERICAN BUSINESS, AFTER THO
with Russia. and with other countries. As may be imagined, the indignation
which are classed as against the Government has ansuratd
economically undeveloped." And long been hom dangerous dimensions.
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As the Daily Express, which quctea
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SOME MONE
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EISER OND Hongkong, September 11, 1918.
pered, by, the Tack of American bank per cent. per annum on the daily balance rates to be obtained on application. the ineque account of the United States facilities to commerge which such repre- For 3 months 24 per cent per annum for the two-year period following the sentation coeries outbreak of the world's greatest war, facilities, they are steadily expanding. remarks. a writer in The Annalist" With their expansion American internet (New York), he will have to leave much in foreign trade han reawakened. We are side, where the guins are set down, it has become, temporarily, perhaps, the white pion on the right but on ilie left no longer provincial. The United States will be a closely written abset. And world's banker, and at the same time the these, he says, are some of the things world's chief provider and its greatest 4that will make it so
An adverse trade balance turned into becoming more firmly established all the "market-place. And its position as such je
favourable balance, despite the expen- time. That is one of the grass achieves sion of imports to record figures.
ments of the last two years."
The volume of home, trade swelled proportionately as patch set, or more than, our foreign trade
A writer in the Globe" has a colles tion of war facts," of the type supplied by Germany. He says it is time we heard the truth, and certainly the truth revealed by him is with hearing. Among his revelations are the following
Everybody in Germany known that Admiral Jellicoe was hanged last Thura- day (August 3rd)in the name of Roger Casement for endeavouring to administer Frat poison to Mr. Balfour, after the A Bod of gold from abroad, where disclosure of the facts relating to the normally there is an export balance Battle of Jailand made in the first against us, though we have taken back Admiralty communication. Mr. Balloura American securities, formerly placed in extreme frugality in the consumption of Europe and made loans to foreign powers savouries prevented him from abborbing to an aggregate of perhaps $3,000,000,000 safficient of the preparation to cause the beginning of an evolution from death, but it le feared that his digestion debtor to a creditor nation has been permanently ruined by the **Banking resources so vastly increased painial experience through which he has to leave a sale margin against any passed: So greas is the exasperation of emergency which might develop after all the public with Ministers for having of the extraordinary demands attending troduced conscription, that it is unsafe record business volum have been satis for any member of the Cabinet to showfied.net
himself in the stredis, and Mr. Lloyd Industrial depression changed to George, perhaps the most execrated of activity unparalleled, and manufacturor is now regularly carried to and from the still unable to meet the tremendous War Office in a patent fitted with demand.
air-hales. In the Department itself it is The state of employment reversed common knowledge that the war nearly from a serious problem in unemployment came to premature and last Monday to an acute labour abortage, with jobs! owing to the Permanens Under Secretary enough for all and to spart
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