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APPEAL TO HONGKONG.

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The Colonial Secretary forwards for publication an appeal on behalf of the Imperial War Famine Fund, signed by Lord Richard Cavendish, CB, G., as follows:-

London, 12th Jane, 1920." Your Excellency--I write on be half of the Executive Council of the British National Appeal Committee of the above Fund to ask you to give the enclosed appeal your very

carefci consideration.

the Fand, and I feel sure you would obtain valuable assistance in any appeal you may make from the Red Cross workers in your ares.

I have the honour to remain,

Yours faithfully.

RICHARD CAVENDISH,” Chairman of Executive Council.

The following is the National Ap- peal issued

TER WAR-MONGERS.

"BACK THESLATIN

[LY LOVAT FRASER,]

The position In this country to-day is absolutely within precedent. We have on the one hand a Government who still live in a war atmosphere and spänd vast sums on wir-like purposes while simultaneously imposing heavy fresh taxation for what they are pleas ed to call "reconstruction On the other band we have a nation groan ing under the weight of the burdens Imposed upon it, but apparently un- able to check the Government's mad prodigality with the national finances. I suggest that to some extent the business community have themselves to thank for the plight in which they are placed. I am aware that various important business associations have made representations to the Govern ment, most of which have been flouted. But taken in balk the business men lack cohesion.”

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salaries are paid by the Arabi DOWN THE DRAIN PIPE,

STOUNG CHINRA'S RESORT.

we promised to emancipatEW MIN Jes are asked to beliers that they chémour for more ~ besefts " at their own expense. If they do they” are utterly unlike any Arabe I have aver† - LITTLE SWINDLES UPON THE met or heard of for the troe-Arab tu

PUBLICE Simpatient "of any form of mettled

government. I am inclined to spect The reader may have seen him a that these wonderful Arab requeats work, may even have parted with a for more administration emanate compassionate 10 cents. He is a from people who are growing rich tonny little Chinese lad of tender out of the tens of millions spent upon years, and his modus operandi in ex- the troops

foreigner is as follows: tracting small coin from the guilolesa

The Budget of Mesopotamia for 1919-20 showed a revenue of £5,500,000, equivalent to nearly £2

Selecting ---usually at evening time — quiet street in the Settlement per head of the population. In sa Oriental country auch taxation is where foreigners are sure to pass, he almost unheard of. In Great Britain, swings a drain grading up on its which was once so rich, our whole hinges, removes his shoes, placing pre-war taxation was only £3 10s them neatly together on the paversent 10d. per bead. The Turks nominally generally by the side of an empty collected from all sources of revenue basket-slides down on the drain, in Mesopotamia in 1905 a sum of and begins to bowl.✅ Tetrs, sods, and close upon £3,000,000, out of which waitings are artistically mingled, and they paid for their garrison. Some lustily maintained until a foreigner pew taxes were then imposed, which happens along, at which cRESOL brought the nominal revenue in 1907 moment in the scheme distress bes £3,732,000. These figures do not comes even more painfully vocal. vilayet of Mosul, which amounted in the dimimitive piece of abject misery, include the gross ravence for the The sympathetic foreigner, seeing 1907 to £200,000; but in all cases so small that only is head shown above only a portion of these sums was the street level of the drain, inquired collected.

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HE MISSED...

H.E. the Governor, Sir-Laurence

WHERE DO FLIES GO!

TANTALISING PROBLEM.

MYSTERIOUS DESAPPEARANCE FROM LONDON,

They aresangered and alarmed, They see the dangers which lie ahead. "But they are either dazed

inte causes, and is informed, in the STRAITS GOVERNOR'S "LONGINGS. I am enclosing specimen copies of by the bamboozling speeches of

The Turks chastised the people intervals of much sobbing and smudg the first pamphlets which we have Ministers or they cannot organise with whips; it has been reserved for ing of eyes with a dirty Est, that the issued. We are expecting shortly to the collective energy required to uso provide the scorpions. The boy has had the misfortune to drop SOME OF THE LITTLE THINGS get out further literature, including make their influence felt. When 1 Mesopotamian Budget for the 10 or 20 cent piece down the cam a regular bulletin of information, inquired the other day about opinion Present year shows an estimated in ane case out of ten, this financial copies of which will be forwarded to in the City, the answer I received surplus of £1,000,000. Why are we disaster is retrieved. A uite of silver you in due course. We are hoping to was: Anxious but apathetic. Men extorting a million more than is.re- reply for our information mainly, if are immersed in their own affairs quired?

Has the Ministry of Health in- not entirely, on British official and seem unable to conceive an

The total export trade of Mesopo-bing cases eyes are dried, and the Guillemard, K.C.B., who is at present expectedly won its war on fles They are con- sources, as it is believed that this effective remedy.

tamia before the war averaged, clever little swindler crawls from thep the hill," was once in edir.seks the Daily News. A rare but earries greatest weight with our own stantly hoping that conditions will about. £1,500,000, and the im drain axi scorers o another That will come as slight surprise to not unprecedented sequel this sum people."

Improve. If the City of London is port trade stood at about the same drain and for a second performance many, but it is even more surprising mer followed the csual resily apathetic, the Heaven help the figure. The exports of Mosul which of the 10 cent tragedy. Imfee Road find His Excellency glorying in the mysterious hibernation of flies. country; because unless something is are separately returned, amounted was for some time a profitable pinch. fact remarks the Pinang Gazette. Midsummer Day has passed, there done to bridle the Government we to £230,000, and Mosul's imports of Now we hear of his appearance in the It was a school magazine, and prob- have been spells of hot weather, but European products to £160,000. neighbourhood of Quinsan Gardens, ably there was no telephone attached the common housefly, officially det shall be carried over the precipice.

There are two directions in which These statistics relate to a few years and the lost coin-thanks to the suc- the dingy den," for whose simmeribed by the South Kensington public expenditure can and must be before the war, but if you double cess of the scheme-has increased in plicity be would put back the clock, scientists a one of man's greatest curtailed. One is the immense ex them, where is the profit when the value to a dollar.

if he could," and "exchange the gran- enemies" in our midst, not in pansion of our bureaucratic system British taxpayer is spending anything Another amusing instance of the dear of Government House." When awarma, but in enormously reduced We feel that the time has come of administration. The other is the up to £50,000,000 a year in providing mendicant's art is that of the elderly in those early days our present Gover numbers. This sudden decrease in The appeal is made with the full when the whole question of Valun- enormous liabilities we are incurring troops for the country? We are keep person shaming illness. You may not settled down to his editorial duties, the population amounts almost to a concurrence of the British Red Cross tary Relief in the war-stricken areas through the Government's insane ing 80,000 troops in Mesopotamia, come upon him huddled up and he was probably able to concentrate

phenomenon. and Order of St. John, and repre of Europe and Asia needs to be dealt polley in the Middle East. I furs and have just sent more to Persia. doubled up against a fence or wall, his mind upon the weekly "icature." The absence of flius ex masse makes sents, in fact, the British effort in with in a more comprehensive, and once more to the question of Me Our active Air Force in Mesopotamia in any quiet foreign quarter, groaming without being asked if he was the the warning picture about ** The Fly, pursuance of the resolutions as to at the same time more concentrated, sopotamia because I am firmly con- consists of 90 officers and 620 other as though in prins beyond the scope Post Office, or the Harbour Board, it Danger" which adorns the Comwell International distress, which were manner than has yet been found vinced that if we stop pouring money ranks, ue officer to each seven men of the entire British Pharmacopeia. he could say how far it was from Road entrance to the Natural History passed by the Conference of the possible. Devoted effort has been into that fatal land we shall have

Lord Milner quotes the case of Too ill to speak, and on the point of Penang to Singapore, where " Goides, Daily News representative who Museum look rather ridiculous. A League of Red Cross Societies held poured into the work during the last plugged up the hole which causes Egypt, and says that thirty years collapse, his agonies are expressed in to the F.M.S." could be obtained, why scoured London for flies and met with recently at Genera. Relief will be year by the forty er more Relief the biggest single drain upon our ago everybody thought the country fearful groups. Presently, any in-soce particular item had not been in astonishing failure, could find no one administered in the different coun- Agencies, which have their head-attenuated resources.

was going to be a burden and Business men are being" misled | failure." Is not Egypt a burden to Qüiring foreigner-will learn that he is served, etc., 'ct. He never was called at South Kensington who regarded tries by Red Cross workers in con- quarters in London zloze. The "Save

They hear day? The British tax-payer is called on his way to hospital-(the chosen on in a busy hour to answer these the fy problem seriously." junction with the workers of approved the Children Fund" centralises the about Mesopotamia.

gencies and effective distribution appeal for children, but, apart from stories of the fallow cornlands, of upon to find this year £7,543,000 for Shantung Road). Money is tendered whose paper was not delivered, though with regard to the hibernation of pitch is always some distance from pressing questions, mollity someone popularity of a certain music-hall song will be ensured.

the question of child relief, there is the potential supplies of cotton, of troops in Egypt, in addition to The latest information in our in existence to body capable of the oilfields which are reputed to £5,430,000 for Palestine, and these for risha fare, and accepted with the numby swears he placed is care the common insect was perhaps

gratitude. bands goes to show the extreme taking such a place for the work as be inexhaustible

fuky upon the doorstep, break off to responsible for this levity among They do not figures are based on the vague as

Immediately the charitable person detect a full-size” libel in a heading scientists. urgency of the need in the distressed a whole as that held in the Hospital realise that the labour problem in sumption that the garrison will be countries, and that the situation world by the King Edward's Hospital Mesopotamia is incapable of solution reduced by one-half. Yet Lords turned his back, the sufferer's or a sentence perpetrated by an artist The place of honour in the Central instead of improving is likely to

Fund.

on the scale required for large Milner declares that "to-day Egypt pains magically vanish. He becomes at the case, or stop the linotype from Hall of the Museum is occupied by become worse during next winter It is the object of the Imperial results. They do not perceive that is one of the most prosperous coun a sprightly, upright citizen of the Re-slinging those stray lines of Greek" the housefly in a glass case and it i than it was in the last. The con War Famine Fund to supply this marry years must pass before any tries in the world." If that be true, public, and at once sets out on into an otherwise chases account of one of a few places in London where dition of affairs has been well sum. need. Started with the approval substantial yield can be expected, why is this impoverished land called forced march probably to enjoy a some special function. And he had a swarm of files into be seg. "And med up by Mr. H. P. Davison, Chair of the existing Relief Societies, it is and that meanwhile Mesopotamia upon to pay over £7,000,000 for so well-deserved cup of tea and game of price crisis then, o diferences, these fles being for exhibition man of the Board of Governors of hoped to extend the appeal rapidly must be ringed round with defences Prosperous a country?

dominoes at his favourite house of between members of an association, purposes, are all deképand are pro the American Red Cross, who is throughout the Empire.

at an incalculable price. They do

call-N.C.D.N.

convinced that a newspaper is a bably last year's" dien. There is s reported on May 17th as follows Z

not know that every bale of cotton

medium for some choice attacks upon realistic representation of s lunch One of the most tenible tragedies

wil have cost this country its weight

an opponent's antecedents, his habits, of cold ham, milk, roll of bread, and in history is being enacted in Eastern

in gold and that the oil will be as

and his failings. And no one dropped a basket of plums, and the Museum's Europe between the Baltic, the Black

expensive as champagne of the and Adriatic seas. Authentic reports

Chamberlain brand.

press or tried to insert it upside downt. all the food with, flies as a public show that civilization has broken

In short, His Excellency missed some warning. down there.

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The League of Red Cross Societies and the British Red Cross are in close sympathy and co-operation with the Fund.

"

The

And is not our administration of Egypt a confessed failure? Lord Milner spent half the winter there trying to put things right. And what was one of the main causes of TELEPHONE OPERAT-JRS, colum ten minutes before going to fly expert has deliberately sprinkled

SHOULD THEY TELL?...

all the trouble? Precisely the same ] as in Mesopotamia-the taultipli cation of British officials at high salaries, instead of allowing the THE NECESSITY FOR SECRECY, of rule. people to develop indigenous forms

Should the League of Nations shortly commence relief action on

Nobody seems to have noticed Sir International lines, as is anticipated, Donald Maclean's point that in the the Fund would be in a position to two years from April 1, 1919, Mess. constitute the necessary National potamia will have cost this country Unit on behalf of the Fetish peoples. Iftie short of £60,000,000. He was There is no intention of diminish quoting the Government figures, being launched on the widest possible ing in any way the individuality and which are misleading. If he bad scale, commencing with a private energy of the various existing said £100,000,000 he would have by our warmongering Ministers, and meeting of many of the big city men Agencies, or their freedom is making been nearer the mark.

The signatories to the appeal in this country, are, as you will see, fully representative of the public and official life of the country.

It is

There is one answer to all the

while at her work?

of the chief joys of editorial hfe. Still, A scientific correspondent attri he raises our spiries by his terrible butes the remarkable scarcity of fies confession, for who should realise the to the following causes

Increasing use of petrol. value of publicity better than an ex-

Abolition of dangerons, dy-lairs, such as stable yards, now garages.

Should ■ telephone operator re peat any conversations she overhearseditor?

A Globe representative made in quiries and found that the girls should not play the part of cavesdropper.

"They are sworn to secrecy," said an official of the Postmen's Federa bios.

nonsense talked about Mesopotamia

it was given by Lord Crewe, who said bluntly, We simply cannot afford it." Lord Milner said that "our great war in Europe has ended for year and a hait, but war in the East has not ended yet." It will never and while we are governed by a War It is just the same, continued Ministry which thinks in terms of the official," as the telegraph opera- war, spends on the war scale, is tors and the clerks behind the counter utterly heedless of finance, and im- in the post offices. They are all agines shadow-Empires in desolate sworn to secrecy when they first join and empty hands

the staff of the Post Office,

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SHIPPING TRAGEDY.

CHINESE STEAMER- FOUNDERS,

HOW THE STEPHAN" WAS

LOST.

Shortage of Bugar.

Recent heavy rains and thunder

storvas

Universal spring-cleaning; after five years, which has destroyed. egg laying haunts, Success of Swat that Fly" cam-"

paige.

at the Mansion House, which was their own appeals, and the lintirg There is nothing in all our history addressed by Mr. Arthur Balfour and up of such Societies with the National to entopare with our folly in Mesc Sir Arthur Stanley, the latter on be Fund will strengthen their position, potamia. Mr. Lloyd George pat the half of the British Red Cross. The and simplify the work of relief.

population at 2,000,000. Lord Curzon meeting was designed to bring before We cannot attempt in this pre-seid the official' figure was 2,850,000. the City of London the wider Imperial liminary appeal to describe fully the I have learned to mistrust all official and International issues of the appeal, condition of things in Central Europe figures from Mesopotamia, but am and to secure in that way a lead and the Near East Whole Nations willing to put the population, men, the people of this country commen. are suffering from the effects of pro- women, and children, at 3,000,000.

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu attri buted a foizner" mysterious redaction surate with the sericusness of the longed undernourishment and de-

What sort of administration have fective food. Their children are we foisted upon these unfortunate

of the numbers of flies in London problem.

As reported in a special message before the war to the refreshing and The appeal is being communicated dying. Populations are physically and impecunious people? That Lord Curzon says there is little! I messages sent either by wire to the China Mall, disaster has over antiseptic petrol vapour enfcted by - to the Governors-General of the and morally exhausted. Typhus is ingenuous bull of Bashan, Comman- hope of raising a Arab force in orpione were to become public pro- taken the steamer Stephan, which motor-cars, cycles, and buses, Flies Dominions. In expressing to you raging over great areas, and medical der Kenworthy, asked Mr. Montagu Mesopotamia. He regretfully in perry, a nice rit-bit of conversation, for years had plied between Penang, cannot stand petrol or the smell of it. the hope of this Council that you supplies are woefully deficient. Coal, the other day how many members formed their lordships," that they the whole service would at once fall and the East Coast of Sumatra, the West End restaurants and butels may see your way to open at once raw materials, clothing, and boots are of the Indian City Service were em hardly found a single Arab capable into diease

the phenomenon. a Branch of the Fund, I should like all but lacking. Voluntary relief played in Mesopotamia, and was told of holding Government office of any

vessel having sunk on the voyage be- have noticed "A telegram is obviously quicker tween Penang and Langsa. Eight There are no flies in my kitchen," wapcode Flamda the part of can do something to save life and strictly accurate, for the Indian Civil "they" never will find one while versation much better than any mum the Stephan were drowned, and 23 rap, or paper, or a castor-oil surge that any such demonstration cannot reconstruct the world, but it six.

The answer was no doubt importance; to which I may add that than a letter, and a telephone con- passengers and eleven of the crew of said a chef, and I haven't used a Gel Buiten will be doubly arresting leviate distress while the Govern Service is a corps d'elite, and barely there are 454 gazetted British officers ber of telegrams (said the official), survivors landed at Sabang.

string this season," ami impressive il it is shared to the ments are maʼuring their plans.

numbers 1,000 all told, but the in-in Mesopotamian civil employ, Be yet to letters, at any rate of any) full by all the peoples of the Empire. The needs of our Allies make their pression left was entirely misleading was emphatic in his determination to importance, are sent in unsealed earwin screw steamer, owned by a Chilles it appears to be making up on -But what London is losing on the The "Stephan" was a very small It is suggested that the appeal pre Pwn instant claim upon us.

There are at present employed in keep a substantial British force in velopes so that any person, into whose nese kongsi, of Penang, and was very annoying lately, especially in the mosquitoes, which bari- become sents a cause which would further rest, we appeal to that

Humanity Mesopotamia in civil tasks 454 British North West Fersia. cement the moral anion of the after victory," which Lord Nelson, in officials. "almost all of the military The conclusion is that we have got

hands, they fall can read them. under the command of a Malzy, skip the suburbs and on the commens Empire during those great days his prayer before the battle of and almost all of them British. to keep on pouring vast sums into telegrams be different?

"Why should "phone messages and per. The vessel used wood as fuck.. of the War, and might well kindle Trafalgar, held up for all time as the The figures are Lord Curzon's and these Eastern lands for evermore,

Ship capolios who arrived in Penang- the Empire from and to end. With beacon light for the British people in the comment is Lord Islington's Why do not our business men cun- "People are no going to sacrifice from the Sumatra Coast reported that our traditional kindliness and sports. their hour of victory. The cry of Their salaries range from 540 to centrate upon this issue, instead of secrecy on the altar of speed; there they encountered a squall in the neigh- manship, no true Briton can be hard starving people, especially women £3,360 annually. There are sixty bleating about the Excess Frolitsther than let their private con-bourhood where the Stepinan was on the man who is down, or be deaf and children, has never yet fallen civil officers in Mesopotamia to day Duty and being hectored in reply by versations and messages become pub then likely to hare been and it is to the cry of suffering women and upon deaf ears in the British Empire, receiving salaries of £1,200 and up Mr. Chamberlain ? Lord Milneric property they will carry on bosi-possible that the late Penang vessel children. It goes without saying and we issue this National Appeal wards, presumably exclusive of the says the war is not yet ended. Very neas in the old method, by writing was a victim of this disturbance. that the peoples of the broken with the firm conviction that it will allowances" which bulk so largely well. The only way to end it is to many more letters. nations (many of them our own meet with a truly national response,

in Eastern payrolls. Such a adopt the late Lord Fisher's remedy. Allies would be deeply touched by

record leaves even Sir Eric Geddes Sack the Lot!" We should: end such an unreckoning proof of good.

standing at the starting post, No it then soon enough.-Daily Mail. will, and, given an effort, worthy of

wonder so many officers write letters the greatness of the Empire, its

to the newspapers, trying to prove memory might easily remain an out-MMEDIATE relief is necessary in

attacks of diarrhoe Chamber standing fact in history.

Iain's Colic and Playboos Remedy should The British Red Cross has placed ways be on hand. For malo by All their organisation at the disposal of Chemists and Storekeepers

KEEP IT HANDY.

For the

that Mesopotamia is indeed a blessed word. These statistics, be it noted.. do not include the host of clerks and other native subordinates.

“As to whether in exceptional cir- cumstances the Government... have | power to set aside this both for the

general good of the county, I cannot | srý “' he ewatinted.

Beginning August 15, WALLA People who wish to wond in

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