1918-12-18 — Page 8

NEWS FROM HOME."

From Dur- Chem. Commuspendent)

Lowboy, Oct. 11.

relativer to the museums and their battles o'er ngdin," introduction I was at that point of the Fae."

THE RETURN OF THE

REFUGEES

·BY RIFLEMAN PATEICH)

M-LOGILIA

barn

back

which

THE CHINA M

MAI

AMIRAC

JAP

and Gen the

when the

thai Chinatopi ember cultivation of a better

withing between the peoples of Japan and antared Le Catear again, they

China, the trade has made a tery Foncler de ahoe He had been conos favourable pregress the exports tood from the Germans all this time. Re China in 1916 were Isa 3201,000,000,

lous account and balan company for the rear ended 31st, 1917, I propose to deal the figures upon the debit side.

The Items of Interest on loans, £06870 3. Id aroge almost entirely from the debit by the Anglo-Saxos Petroleum Ltd., for interest due to them, on the loan they had made as in connection with the purchase of the shares in the Shell Company of Cabfornia, am sure you beded to know that the realisation

but incrassed to Yen 384,000,000 in the owes his deliverance to the wonde next year. The imports from Chips | courage and herolam of also increased from Yen 142,000,000 to villager and his wife who unfaly pro- Yen 186,000,000

In four months, from Japusty to tected him all these four years. April, 1918, the sports to Chine, ware This is the story sa relate ren 119,000,000 and the impacts yen British offset $7,000,000, showing tur“ inermate bowler weason shit na cans in export and by one

of certain of our assets by sale to the Bataafsche Fetroleum Mastechinppi basandred and tan en dat e impone Squadron, that was cut off after the ans bled us in discharge the debt, eml over the figures of the corresponding battle of Le Cateau. On Jannary,, conquently this debit will not appont period of Isak yeste

19 he was discovered ill and in future balance, shoëta, a

But the Chinesa teade will foreign,

The depreciation on lavestimenta again countries as decreased since the out-of starvation in a wood called the Bois quired £19,297, 10. boss it has been break of the war, at shown by the deCatigny, close to the village of Bartry mas practice, to cite off as depreciation the Custome revene In 1913 the total The name of the man who found him was

Customs Revenue was 43,969,952 tade, Louis Bargain. He brought him back by fall in the market valds of securities but in 1917 it fall to 38,189,428 al shown at December Sish, whilst we naver. Thus the affect of the war on the night, to the village undetected by the write up any rovared depreciation. Ia Chinese foreign trade has redounded Germans Ele saked his mother-in-law consequence of this sound policy, revaluavery favourably to Japan. Silk and Bame. Belmont Gobert, to look after tion of our investments at the pressasins cotton yarns, which are the staple him. Notwithstanding the terrible risk would show & large margin on the right exports from Japan, to China, take up she agreed to do this si what balf the total export amount, and in side. (Bear, hear.)

1916 the amount was 105,000,000 ya

THE EXILES. TOWARDS PEACE.

Among the refuges peoples theter- Perhaps the best feature of theed in these islem, there is greas excites present situation is the remarkable ment oren the prospect of returning calmness with which the public have to their homes, ruined though they to the hom received the daily victories and ad- be in the backward wall of the Hims,

Soba villagen in whic vances It must be unconditional F met one of these interesting people warm resrept. The refugeee surrender before we celebrate last night Before the war he was Marc the old man white-hai seems to be the immiversal row, and one of the richest men in Serbis,grey hearded, the women and chil so the machine of war goed grinding owner of hotels and cafés in the chief who find from the menace of the in on agained the daillusioned Hoben centres, a friend and neighbour of Gorilla no coming back to the placen zollerne, unimpeded by any false the Premies and the King. The war they knew and flated. Erary cond dependence on sham democratic came and he shouldered a rifle and shell tired and batered by the structures erected by the Prussian was wounded twice. While wound- military dique.KERAN

ed he was swept with his son cut of hurricans of war, knows their steps, the In France I understand, it is the the country and in time reached Enginid staps of youth and the faltering same way. And now comes the reland as a penniless refugea. Today, steps of old age. newal of U-boat brutality of the without loss of personal charm or They are coming back the pioneer Irish cost, with the worst erime dignity, this formerly wealthy man who are willing to set the foundations of against civilinna since the sinking of a serving marvellous coffee nightly a happier France. Already many are at the Lusitania, to stiffen the spirit of in one of our fashionable restaumats, work, meading the roofs of alistered the Allies, and especially the Ameri- the most ardent Anglophile I have homesteads and repairing the damage for cams, to a determination that the debt lever met, praying for the succes of which the Gorills, was responsible, turns of Germany to humanity must be our arms and looking forward with paid even to the uttermost farthing inspiring faith to his return to a liber-ing waste into a garden and the But we are looking towards peace ated Serbia Meanwhile, this is a village strest into some semblance of it withitz a few months, none the less.secret mown only to a few, ha som snciest order. For many of their houses Demobilisation machinery is already is being educated by our own Prime 20 more, but the and which the in being, to the end that the millions Minister at Birmingham University dilled short time ago is waiting for of mer and women now in the sera good deed done by stealth,

chef, and the corn which was planted vices may be drafted back to civiliau

As to the Belgians, inany of them set Spring has grown up into gald and hier with as little ciaruption to the have done so well here, and have is now ready for the day the of the social well-being as may be. Among became so assimilated to our com- harrester, these schemes are the educational unity that they will not return. Lacilities that have been established They will stay, like many another

Grandpere, who lived all bis life in the at the front to equip soldiers with a refugee section in times past, and village, but who had to leave it for a better training than they had before like them will probably contribute to poll when the Boche was in occupation, they left the desic or the factory for the development of industry. Their is back again and out in the field with the camp and the treaches. Then enterprise, at any rite, cannot be his curred scythe and his wheatstone, there the problem of the officer denied, for while many of them landmowing. A woman fellows him, lifting the

The house these brave French people who has been brought out by the stared with nothing more than they car-tallen torn from the stubble, binding it Una imel dividends as at December, but in the next year it was increased Hved in consisted of only 2 rooms and whose opportunities Lave produced red on their backs, they now run in sheaves, and pissing these in a row Stat amounted to 2271,666 10%, but we to 195,000,000 ea. Among the left. This loft during the greater part- proofs of exceptional abilities. Are flourishing shops and factories." behind her on the fald. And she works sincerely hope that the deliveries of import articles from China beat of the time was occupied by 15 Germans these offices, to go back to their ill-

hard, for bread is needed for herself and France and Belgium from the German cakes coreased from 30,000,000 paid clerkships, or whatever it might

her children, for the boys and girls who yoke will enable the unfortunate stars ren to 4,000,000 yes, faw cotton from For two months Foxier, was conseale be, to be bossed by men very likely of proved inferior worth and of in-victory, has taken the edge of the indiferent to everything in the world ex-s. Nothing will give us greater yen, and beans from 7,000,000 you to out during the short period elapsing

The fact that we are on the way to are paying at the corner of the fald holders in those countries to obtain these 20,000,000 yen to 30,000,000 yen, iron in a small cupboard where he could. ore from 8,000,000 yen to 17,060,000 sit hunched up, and he could only ferior rank in war time. The Govern-restrictions with which we are afflict-

9,000,000 ya ment say this need not be, for the fed. The coal situation is really opt their games. Even though their lot pleasure than to make the payment to

between one party of Germans marching man of proved ability will be pro- acrious, and we are all saving coal has been hard one they are scarcely

out and another party marchin vided with opportunities for better and other fuel with the care we used short memory, and the sorrows of yester- additional 914,050 Ordinary shares

then exercised himself by shipping and And then there the civilian at covery of the French coalfields will day are drowned in the happiness of to home, who has been rationed and be a benefit after a few months, but day. When their mother put them to compared with the previous year) absorbed

jumping in, the latte registered and harassed all through it will not ease the necessity for our bed at night. they look wonderingly at £1,840,410 17 against £1,529,016 248 What of him and her? shipping to France the supplies need her worn hantis and the tears in her 1918, which wo osny forward, subject The civilian and his wife have haded for the war in the hardest months eyes. Why does she weep so often while to provision for forcers profits tax. little credit, but they have suffered of winter, because the Germans, with they are so happy, they ask themselves: £1,235.032 : Ed (Choers) much. Their incomes in thousands their customary and systematic May be one day they will know óf their of cases have gone down, while the policy of destruction, have ruined the father, dead, up by Verdun, and the cost of living has bounded up to Lens district pits so that it will take fight be fought for the honour and glory double what it was. But its curia long time to put them into working of bi cative laad. But now this is ous to hear on all sides, in these days order. of liquer shortage when hundreds We are also wamed that after the hardly known to them, for the tidest are on the waiting list at the big war there will be such a need for child, whose age is but six, has almost stores for a bottle. of wiriskey-the shipping for raw materials for indus-forgotten her father. number of them who will confess to tries that food stuffs will be short as They play on Grandpere, the sweat you in a burst of confidence that they now for a year or two. Some lines streaming from his face, his hat pulled have kept an odd bottle of the old- of produce at this monent are downover his brow to shade his eyes from fashioned stuff. stared away for the unheard of prices. I have bought the aut. He suddmly stops with a jerk day when peace is declared,

ment.

the war.

INFLUENZA.

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to bestow on rare metals. The re-

them. (Hear, hear.) aware of its hardships. Youth has a Dividends during the year (involving an

out of the way and silently resomes

THE YEARS REVENUE. Turning to the credit side, we derived £119, 93 158. 10d. from interest during the year, whilst dividends from sundry companies and other credits, less debits, gave us £5,655,838 is 7d, as sgainst £1,613,794 95 c. in the previous year. These were not all trading profits, à from of £994, 701 158 3d was derived from proft on the sale of certain assets namely, our holdings in Russian com-

From the above it may be seen that the import from China of variqua raw materials for industrial uses has shown manufactured goods are exported to steady increase, and on the otherhand Chins in a far larges ampuitk

The trade between Manchuria and Japan proper through Dairan has also made a remarkable increase. Last year the total was 170,000,000 yen, but this year it is expected to be over 300,000,000 yea

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Fraid that Fatere had become, à

For, daya together he lay under a mattress the centre part of which bad animal signing death warr been hallowed out. At other times be fan without looking to ang mist stood in a small deep hole under the signing, stairs, with a basket of potatoes over In 1919 Pater most bis head. During the night, the German Sinon blau depazines mans met to come down and steal the she has received wracak letborn from

Meet the last being at the end of that potatoes,

• All thatime his protastore never de sorted him. They are practically had also beard indirectly about him starring but never failed to ahare with returning friends from Rus him what little food they had. Litvinom left England on Sept corporal of the same regiment, had sent his secretary to whose name has not yet been traced an offer at the mig and bo, bad also cecaped detection, he was discovered. Hesse, lakom eith, made a dig kla onore grate, and slo

The woman who had looked after him

into Germany. She has over been heard of since, and her three amal! children were literally left to farve. They were looked after by the people

It is certain that the war wil radical change in the

property of the business. (Hear, hear) Iam prmitted to tell you that the profite for 1918 promise largely to exceed these which I have arpounded to you (heat, beary-but I must repast what bave already stated, the the burdens of splendid apples in pre-war days for as the blade catcher in something whichpanies which were sold to the Batarlach taxation are new so great and so con-had her hair cut on and was taken away NO. MORE BATTLESHIPS: twopence apiece. To-day they are hidden under the corn. He places the Petroleum Mantenhappi Such an item stantly increasing in all countries as to What is bothering us more than one and six upices, and only the strial scythe on the ground and poor at the is not likely to recur during the current render it improbable that any much greater sum than that distributed daring the Germans just now is the Spanish and poor varieties can be obtained at object which impeded its movements year Necessarily, no dividends were

of the Companies the current year will be available for flu. is raging in many parts of the lowest price of eightpenoo. 4. It is a man, clad in a field-grey susiform, received from any "the world, and as most of the world round. The barvest was wonderful and the two empty sockats out of which situated in Russia and Roumanis from dividend purposes. Ravertheless, the of the village

represented in the European battle-but the wet weather of the last wir

the same life and with no wist for or Allies have dictat fielde and camps it is not surprising or eight weeks has played havoc with pair of eyes looked at cou time, are which we derived income in 1916 am real growth in the use of all petroleum In all these four years Fowler lived change of the Beliefs

turned to this 813. Graadpers bauls it sanguine enough to anticipats that products leads us to hope that after the broepect of reward except that of instant Many of the that the disease has found a fine field the later part of it. Potatoes, are for expansion. Both sides have suf- abore thesaverage and their use in his work. The woman gazes at the dead Riven a return to normal conditions when we recover our full liberty of Heath of impresonment or deportation, pe

producing, shippin fered from it; it has ravaged America making bread, to the percentage of

(which is trammelled in a thousand ways and South Afrien, as well as Europe:

during the war) our shareholders will reap in full measure the raward of their our mining, shipbuilding "and muni tion-making, have been held up by it

enterprise and industry. I formally and row it is sweeping through the

move the adoption of the report de American rest and training camps

counts. (Obeers) and transports like a scourge. On one big transport that came over packed The luxury tax is not worried. with men the disease got such about, however, by those in politics! bold that several scores, including secrets. They say it will never be some nurses, died on the voyage or put in force, with all rts complien- immediately after, and every day in tions and variations and complexi the past fortnight has seen its batch ties. The Government boggle at the of interments of men who have gone prospect of enforcing it, and so it will to their rest before they could strike probably be abandoned.

a blow against the Germans. To-day

It is in our own hospitals and train-

ing camps, claiming victims right

and left. The civilian population is

tank again v

body for a moment, then turns to the about 7 per cent, of the total flour, aware and bends to bur is now to be compulsory. It's even threatened that if the consumption of bread is Lut reduced we shall have bread rations, which hitherto have been avoided.

!|

FIGURE.

And thus amidst the ruin of war, on the ripe cornfield where the maccent children frung, the returned refugees ace buy laying the foundation of the France of the future.

THE EMPIRE'S TRIBUTE TO

HUMANITY.

made possible the landing of our own

Russia and Romanis, we may anticipate some returns from those countries. (Ifear, boar.)

For will observe that no less than 22,831,000 of our investments consist of National War Scanrities, your directors deeming it their duty to assist the finance of the war to the tubet of their power. (Bear, hear

and marketing these devoted French people, never ships,

related their care for the soldier they render hors had promised to protect,

Me EL W. & Deterching. I beg to second the resolution.

The motion was at acu unanimously Agreed to, SL

APPRECIATION OF DIRECTORS.

Sir Fortescue Flannery, B. MP-

A TUNIN The death of Lord Falmouth de "Bow suffering also, especially in Glas. prives the Turf of one of its noblest two million Americans in France, amounts to £2,200,650, and the war risk Government anditors sad people of that

members. He raced hard and he

When scen by the narrator, Louis battleships Barquin was lying in bed dying of cosumption. His answer showed in

faab the beautiful patriotism of the tendency Franch people:

battleship Monsieur, you have nothing to weigh thank me for. I was too ill to age for largely in my country and h bed to do my Land duty I could do no less

ORDER OF YANGRIIST WOMEN ESTAK; GREATĮ REVIVALSE

In the report which has been circulated to you, you will have noticed that since What has England and the Em- 1907, the Bataafsche Fetroleum Mast piradones for the world in the war for chappy and the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum civilisation? I need not emphasise Co, Lid, have writen off for deprocie This weating is rather later than usul SPIRITUAL SISTERHOOD, the fact that the British Fleet has tion £11,093,583 (bear, hear whilst the generally have our meeting in the freed the seas of German shipping, fire and marine Insurance fund of the summer, but we understand that the reason for the delay was the difficulty in fortes in many battle areas and also Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschapply now getting arrangements Sxed with the

kind. The delay, however, has not beon new religious order for women bottled up the German fleet and es insurance, fund stoods at 2917,000 gou, and the death rate is mounting mead clean. He was afiaristocrat to forced a blockade of the enemy ter- addressed you so recently upon the to the disadvantage of the shareholders Being established in London. fast. It seems that the influenza is

find called "The Order of Evangeli followed ky pneumonis, in many cases his finger tips. As a Guardsman heroes, mude possible the feeding general aspect of your business that for is hat is the confinion which and the patients are the victims of had commanded the Coldstreams, and of the Armies and the home popula- there is very little to add on the pres ourselves 1 We have the number of our + Women, a and is a development of that frightful nightmares that bring about he had seen service in Egypt. He tion, helped to clear the Huns from occasion. Our relations with the Barns was most happily married, an exem the African and other colonies, and oil Company conne: on the most cor- scenes of delirium in the wards.

So far as the soldiers are concern-plary man in every respect, but from the coast of Belgium is dial footing, and by coordinating cur the vase ed, the docitys at once attribute be neither a prig zor a Puritan. He only necessary to point to the actrees, we have been able to assist spread to the presence of congregated believed in clean living, and did his that at this moment we have force national aims. (Hear, best) 19 men, whose contact with each other best to clean up racing One of the fighting on seven from cannot be stopped or it would delay last of the Victorians, bls especial apart and as big as any previous full. their training. And se for the civil niche in sporting und social life wilt sized war that we have aided the ince, the readiness with which they never again be filled. His jockeys Belgmns to recover Belgum, the Buccutab is due to a lowered vitality were devoted to linn, but he never lost Sarbe und Montenegrins to regain. and nerve strain consequent on ware dignity with them, nor hobnobbed their homes, and have smashed the anxieties, restrictions and effort with them as though they were his power of the Turks in Asia Minor

equals. Though he won most of the Europe and Mesopotaman, besides of WAR EXHIBITS.... blue ribands of the Turf, he never, the sweeping of the Boches from ull, maken.

notions of torture, mutilation and

It will be of interest to you to know

of paraliti wax“per, that we produce ho less than 80,000 tons

large proportion is in the sba

world.

ndles, 20

Indeed and

ances the demand exce

me to moti

fsform

One result of the rapid advance of pretended to make racing yay. He the colors, where they had tion of "Shell" candles fine tha Allied troope and the rush with could afford to spend money on his dominated helpless subject races y established which they smashed the Hindenburg amusement, and he spent it with according to their own pecu and Biegirid lines, is that there will generosity, coupled with discretion be plenty of war trophies to go round Cons peur and sans reproobe, he was murder Allenby's magnificent umashing of one of the low men whose life can three Turkish armies has added really be described as gerumely armies have qufered the hea

normously to the spectacular spoils, happy,

and it would not be surprising some came out to the Earb; `to`stimu- Tate interest in what has been accom-

plished

THE CONTRAST

What a worth noting-

casubties of all the

Ocessfully on

Talking of Egypt reminds me that the first two or thine yen many of our men who have been out our zien joined as volun

i course of establish- Egypt and Palestine for years are a conscio

moreover National War now enjoying their first leave.

Jeh

in which the pick of the bave met many of theur and they tic will be housed; he well as omplam bitterly of our cold and affo

in the hot season them

fes and sand me left,

share largely increase mary to say the

the Stack Exchs

individu that ebonid

to the

yet extraordic movement to have women ordained as appreciation of priestswhich failed some two years ago The new Order is for women who will dedicate themedsen, their thoughts, Bidless talents, and, inspirations to fur

thering the cams off

and parity

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members terest them

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