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BATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1918..

SHIPPING

P. & O. S. N. CO

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UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT

· TO

MARSEILLES AND LONDON,

TAKING Passenger and Cargo to

STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT,” *.

Stesters

to.

Leave Hongkong.

Connecting Mail

Colombo

Noon

Steamer from Colombo.

Dae

Due Marseilles London

When Passengers change Steamers at COLOMBO commodation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reserve

Hongkong at the time of Booking.

On the Australian Route Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line-

SAILINGS DIRECT TO

SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND

S. A

YOKOHAMA,

Leave Hongkong About

Pasquques may travel by Bailway in Japan between Ports of Call free of charge.

INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS

WILL LEAVE DIRECT FOR

(Non- Transhipment). "

IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE MAIL STEAMERS,

Calling

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A WAR OF ALL WARS.

SOLDIEN ONUSADERS.

PRESIDENT'S LABOUR DAY.

MESSAGE.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1. The following is President Wilson's Labour Day (2nd September) radssage

"My Fellow Citizens : ""Labour Day 1918 is not like any

we arn about and of renewed and clear- | aya resolution but a day of consecration. fabo in which we davote ourselves with- aut pause of limit to the great taak of

setting cur own country and the whole

i world fres to render justice to all and

of making is impossible for mall groupe of polition rulers anywhere to disturb our peace or the peace of the world or in any way to making tools and puppets of those upon whose consent and upon whose power their own authority and their own very existence depends.

We may scant upon, each other.

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BRITISH GOVERNMENT

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WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES

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Labour Day that we have known. The nation is of a single mind. It is Labor Day was always deeply significant taking counsel with no special class: it with. us

HONGXONO Now it is supremely signit is serving no, private or single interest cant.

its own mind has been cleaned und Keenly as we were aware a year fortified by these days which buru the ago of the enterprise of life, and death cross away. The light of a now con- upon which the nation had embarked, viction a pinetrated to every chisa. we did not perceive its meaning among us: we realize as we haver clearly as we do now. We knew that we realized before, that we are comrades, were all partners, nust stand and strive (dependent on one another, irresistible together, but we did not realise, as we when united, powerless whep divided. do now, that we are all culisted man: members of a single obligation, our faces world to new and better days.

And so we join hands to leact tho set towards a single objective. We

Woodrow Wilson, in now know that every took in every essential industry is a weapon, and a weapon wielded for the same purpose

that an army rifle is wielded, NEWSPAPERS HIT BY THE WAR weapon which, if we were to lay it down, no rifle would be of any uso.

And a weapon for what! What is the War for Why are we enlisted Why should we be ashamed if we were

pot enliste

At first is seemed hardly more than awar of defense against the military aggression. of Germany. Belgium had been violated; Franes invaded and Germany was afichi again, as in E870 and Iiin, to work out her antitions in Entope, and it was necessary to meet

her force with force.

SOME INTERESTING FÁCH.

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EL

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Sterling

#

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- $34,500,000 $15,000,000

Newspapers everywhere are having the worst time of their histories, says - a eximage. Paper costs from two to five times as much as it did before the war, and even then it is hard to get. But it is clear now that it was One shipuient cumes to hand and the much more than a war to alter the next is left to the glorious uncertainty balance of power in Europe. Germany, of the future. There is always the it is now plain, was striking at what chance that when the paper does come

COURT OF DERECTORS ieee men everywhere desire and must it will have jumped another £20 or 30

Hon. Mr. P. B. Holyoak.-Chairman, have-the right to determine their own top above the previons shipment. fortunes, to insist upon justice and to tremendously. Papers that before the except by permission of the Postmaster H. Dodwell, Esq. E. V. D. Farr, Esq.

England i feeling the paper famine

G. T. M. Edkins, Esq.,-Deputy (2) A Certificate is not transferable and not for the private und selfish as a regular daily thing for a penny, respect of each transferee. In the event Hon. Me interests of the governing class. It now creep out with four, six, or eight of death, the same rules will be applied D. Landale Hon. Mr. E. Shellim,

twopence. war to make the nations and pages, and charging which gue in the case of Savings Bank Dersits,

The halfpenny

W. L Fattenden, Esq. eight to 12 pages daily for the small coin every such power as German autocracyDAD for a penny. The most marral- I made to the Controller, Money Order

now issue but four pages--six on

Chrys MayadTR. Hongkong-NJ. STÅER, E7,

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Chairman.

at SINGAPORE, FORT SWETEENHAM, PENANG, COLOMES oblige governmenta to set for them war printed 12, 14, 16, and even 24 pages General: a fee of Is. will be charged in. S. Gabbay, EgJ. A. Plummer, Esq.

JARRYING 1 AND 2ND JALOON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RATES.

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canceled or altered without notice.

Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing dates are liable to be

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or advice.

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SAILINGS" FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERÁTION.

DESTINATION

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SAILING DATES

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(3) On written application (on a form obtainablo at any Post Office) being Department, London, the purchase price, or part thereof in multiples of 16a 6d. will be repaid at any time, with an addition of 3d. for each 158. 6d. on the and with a farther addition of 1d. per first anniversary of the date of purchase

500 51 Certificates or their equivalent. 15s. 6d. for each month thereafter.

(4) No person may hold more than

peoples of the world secure againat represents. It is a war of emancipation: not until it is won can men anywhere fous production of the whole lot is the live free from constant fear or breathe Daily Veres. Before and during the freely while they go about their daily earlier stages of the war it published sir tasks and know that governments are to eight pages, size 17in, by in, for one their servants not their masters.

halfpenny. Today its size is eight pages This is therefore a war of all wars

1sia. by 17in, for one penny, and on which Labour should support, and sup-four-page shest the size of a good big more that one occasion it brought but a port with all its concentrated power. pocket-handkerchief, and the price was The world cannot be safe, men's lives still one peasy cannot be secure, no mag's rights an

"The Daily Mail, Erpress, and Chronis to confidently and successfully asserted all famous halfpenny lailies, hase against the rule and mastery of arbitrary cut down their pages from 19 to', and

occasionally 4, and doubled their price. groups and special interests so long as governments, like that which, after long and 24 pages dails-with special editions The Times, which used to bring out 20 premeditation, draw Austris and Ger up to 48 pege-for one penny how many into this War, are permitted to gives 14 pages for threepence, and limits control the destinies and daily fortunes its output to 150,000. The Morning Post often plotting, while honest men and Daily Telegraph have also curtailed to the Comptroller und Accountant work, and laging fres of which innocent wir ges daily sure used to be supplication forms are areibbles atʼali

their increased their mer, women and children are to be the thing from 14 to 24 pages for one penny, fuel

now give only eight pages, with occasional jumps to 10 and 18 pages for twopence.

You know, the nature of this War. It is a war which industry must sustain The army of Labourers at Home is as important, as essential, as the uciny, of ghting men in the far fields of actual battle.

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The weekly papers have all cut down their sizes and put up their prices. One or two are three-halfpence, but the majority are twopence, and they only give 12

18 pages. All mugaziour deve sprang their prices from 60 to 10 per cent, and in most cases the number of pages have been rigorously curtailed the quality of the paper has eat tainly been reduced.

number, of cases, and

"And the labourer is not only needed as soldiers in this War. The soldier is his champion and representative. To fail to win would be to imperil every. thing that the labourer has striven for

Even in American, the home of paper, and hold dear since freedom. first bad ita dawn and his struggle for justice from 43, to 81 pages were of frequent and the land of big editions, where began. The soldiers at the Front occurrence, prices have gone up and know this. It steels their mascles sizes come down. In France the news to think of it. They are Crusaders. papers are mere sheets. in some cases They are fighting for no selfish edn, and at the post four page. The vantage for their own nation. They prices have been increased in a good would despise any one who fought papers, unable to beat the added rost, and quite a lot of for selfish advantage and his nation. have quietly dropped out-waiting for They are giving their lives that homes pesce and cheaper paper. love in America, may be kept caered everywhere. as well as the homes they Nowhere, except in Australia where and safe and men everywhere be frec, 2,500 tons SAT., 14th Sept., 11 am, as they insist upon being free. They 12,300 tons SAT, 19th Oct. 11 8.mare lighting for the ideals of their own

Wherefore, to those who so glibly talk land, great ideals immortal iricals, of the papers making tons of meses, ideals which shall light the way for all this little problem is difficiently put: If 9,000 tons TUE., 17th Sept.

men to places where justice is done and paper costs five times what it did, and men live with lifted heads and emancips ink, metal, and all other material has ted spirits. That is the reason they gone up by about 100 per cent, and the fight with solemn joy and are invincible newspapers are still sold at one penny, "Let us make this, therefore, a day of work out to five decimal places the profits fresh comprehension, not only of what The writer has been unable to do so.

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