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The Wine Merchants of the last

INAPIER

JOHNSTONE'S

“SQUARE_BOTTLE”

WHISKY.

UNVARIED FOR OVER

150 YEARS.

THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN 1745.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.

SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG

LANE CRAWFORD & CO.

and-from ALL WINE MERCHANTE.

No Household

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can be really happy if any of its members are king. Sousel hoolth family in a boon pricelesbeyond words, wed without it, sucques and felicity are practically impor sible. Much illness is positively unneceum ary and is occasioned chiefly by neglect.. Much anxiety given on this account to neur and dear ones is, therefore, avoidable. Je la of the utmost importance that a clinkle remedy should always be njhand to relieve the earliest symptoma & indtiposition.. Brecham's Pals are an excellent household medicine-sale to take and iure is their

curative results. No home

Should Be Without

them. They exercise a boxoficial effect upon the liver, stomach, kidneys and bowels. They give speedy ralief, and, in sime, they remove, most of iiso bilmenta connected with these important organa, Attacks of billousness, comilpation, flatte lence, headache, dyspepta and other dis orders of the digestive system are speedily dispelled by

BEECHAM'S PILLS

There is yet another prifat that you should mark vu thelabiti of your memory. Beernam's Pille, in maldition ka theke asi kuowledged value in kidney, liver, and oracle disorders, has a specinity bise- ficial effect in satch ailmenta seuro peculiar to women, many of when endure needlans paio and ill-health through Ignorance of this Important lect.

Sold everywhere in bower,

prize 9d (36 pinx) 3;1} (567311s) ☎ 2/9 (TG@ p!fts),

CHAPOTEAUT'S

MORRHUOL

Superior to Emulsions or Cod Liver oil.

Each tiny Morhuol capsule re-. presents the medicinal value of a teaspoonful of ai.

Recommanded at the Paris Aca- demy of Medicine, for loss of appetite and flesh, to patients with consumptive tendencies.

Bold in bottles of 100 Capsuler. Beld by all Chemiste.

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY,

THERAPION NO. 1

CORES DISCHARGES, EITHER SEX WITHOFTINJECTION

THERAPION No. 2 CHRES BLOOD POISCH, BAD LEGS SKIN CHUPZIONE THERAPION No. 3

CURES CHRONIC WEAKNYSSES, DRAINS LOST VIGOR

SOLU BY LEADING CHESTS. PERCY IN ENGLAND, 28, REND STAMP ADDRESS ENVELOTY FOR A CURE FREKBOOK TO DR. LACLERC NED.co HAVERSTOCK RD. HAMISTEAD, LONDON. FOR YOU TRY NEW DRAGKE (TASIILESS)/HHOF EASY TO TAKE

THERAPION

SAFE AND

SEE THAT TRADE MARKED WORD "ASAN ERE

BEIT GONT STAMPANHED TO ALL GENUINE PACKETS INDIST ON HAVING THERAPION

ON SALE.

A TABLE OF' THE

123-3

RATES OF EXCHANGE AT BOMBAY

For Demand Drafts on Londen on the day of or preceding the departure of the English Mail; also Table of the Yearly Approximate Average for 30 years, FROM 1874 to 1909.

PRICE

$2 CASH.

On Sale at the DAILY PRESS Office or Local Bookseller.

THE TO-MORROW OF EUROPE.

SOME RESULTS OF WAR TO BE DREADED.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9rs, 1914.

Mucli gravity was observed in the French capital at the moment war was duelared; in London there was some jubilation. Not from the reflective ones, Perhaps, but from the crowd "that always Bings up its hut. On August 3th, a few hours after England declared war, Mr. Harpid Begbie wrote for the Daily Chronicle this reflexion on the To-morrow of Europe." In particular he exhorted the crowd in the street not march to put on paper eps and through the streets waving ponny flags. Britons breathing beer and singing never shall be slaves. let us not

boastful *ing

be writes. songs!" Honour may call us to Eght, kell the preservation may force us into slaughter-house; but let us wear on our sleeves the crape of mourning for a civilization that bad the promise of joy, and strike our enemy without a hiccup or a curse. Never shall we know again! And we shall what is now perishing. want all our strength for T-morrow.'

The inconvenience caused by the upset of our daily habits is already acutely felt. How many have releeled on the change in the deeper streams of life that Mr. Begbie here calls attention to:

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THE STOPPING OF THE CLUICK,

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WM. POWELL, LTD.

TELEPHONE 346.

CHINA EARTHENWARE AND

GLASSWARE

IN A LARGE SELECTION OF ARTISTIC AND PLEASING DESIGNS.

ELECTRO-PLATE.

CUT AND MOULDED GLASS DISHES IN A VARIETY.

OF SHAPES.

CUTLERY.

USEFUL NOVELTIES IN BRASSWARE.

JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.

THE SURPLUS IN THE TREASURY.

AMERICAN AND

New Victor Records

LATEST

CONTINENTAL

SUCCESSES.

INSPECTION INVITED.

EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTORS:

MOUTRIE'S.

THE

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from the following figures:- each inx against estimates may ix scen

Tax

Land income

Transit

Figures have been published in the Business.

Death Official Gazelle relating to the revenue and expenditure for the last fison! yearning (1913-19:4), as appearing on the national Bank of Japan accounts on August 31st.

Actual Revenu

(increase or

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TAIKOO DOCKYARD

AND ENGINEERING CO. OF HONGKONG, LTD.. TAIKOO DOCKYARD. HONGKONG. SHIPBUILDERS SALVORS AND REPAIRERS, BOILERMAKERS. BRASS AND IRON FOUNDERS. CONSTRUCTIONAL, ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, 250.000 WELDING AND CUTTING OF METALS BY OXY-ACETYLENE 700,000

AND ELECTRIC SYSTEMS.

$10,000

Estimated

Rovenue.

Y.77.390,000

Deerraae.) -Y. 660,000 110,000 38,470.000 + 25,050.000 + 2,330,000 320,000 3,020,000 4110,000 + -2,180,000 +

Notes

810,000

|Saké Soy Sugar Textile

Kerosene Patent medicine. Pschunge

80.010.000

170,000 4,780,000 $5,120,000 + 5,920,000 19,180,000

780,000 2,010,00)

f

+

fr

340,00

230,000 4.020.003

+

20,000 550,000 +17.810,000 180,000

This war means the sudden stopping clock by which we moderns have regulated not only our meals, not only our journeys, but the habits of our minds. The big stick of brutal force has ment suddenly thrust into the exquisite and delicate mechanism of civilization. The wirls cense turning, the hands are arrested, and the peaceful, friendly, and most familiar tick-tack of our human existence dies into a silence not yet broken of by the clinger of guns, the Bryans the dying and the noise of falling thrones FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE Already, now at this moment, civilization stops-stops dead. We in England, who have done nothing, and even now may du nothing in the war, are hurled suddenly back into barbarism. We arm; but it is against hunger. We mobilize; but it is Religion, philosophy, against murder. Herature, painting, and, chief of all, perhaps, science with its torch at the head of our human hosts, are suddenly fung backward; they herome of no moment, Who wants to know about immanence

According to these figures, remarks the Who cares to bear what Bergson and

revenue Eucken think Who bothers about hooks ¦ Osaka Mainichi. the actual

to Y.721,874,000- and pictures? Who is ready to endow a

being Iaboratory or listen to the chemist and received amounted

ordinary and the biologist We are back in the age of 1.575,127,000

extraordinary revenue. sticks and stones, but perishing science. 146,547,000

so the struck eagle, has armed Expenditure amounted to Y.373,333,000 Customs duties... 55,000,000 600,000 us with other weapons; the slaughter will Y115,635,000 ordinary and V.157,998,000 Shipping duties. be more hideous, the ruin will be more extraordinary, expenditure, leaving "daž

amounting to calamitous, and for nobody will there be excess

Y.149,341,000. This represents the surplus a crown of glory.

All that has made this strange left in the Treasury for the fiscal year human Jife and carried forward to the current year. experience of conscious. interesting conobling, and hopeful has of this sum about 1.18,000,000 rested upon commerce; and commerce bascar-marked for State works undertaken heen what it has been because of two but not completed, the actual net surplus things, credit and good manners. Where is Y10,341,000...... is credit now? What banker in London, what British merchant, ever dreamed a werk ago to hear of such a thing as a

are And where

good inoratorium. manners gone? Look for them in Asia, but not in Europe. At every Christian Frontier you can pick up a broken treaty and a dishonoured bond.

War.

of

revenue

INCREASED REVENUE.

was

The neturt

Revenug amounted.

to the Y.721,974,000, about Y. 127,000,000 over the increase in extraordinary revenue. estimate, a result mainly due amounting to 1.85,000,000, so that the The estimate was about Y.42,000,000 position may be seen from the following figures:—

TWO TRANSCENDENT CHANGES. Mr. Norman Angell told me this

this that morning

out of fighting and nobody everybody wanting to fight two changes.

We' Taxes transcendent importance will emerge. shall have a Cossack Europe, and New Stamp duty... York will henceforth be the centre of Recune from State

She calls a

enterprises credit. Russia must win,

property million sixteenth-century peasants froin the fields, and Germany wows them down. Another million take their place. Death

Apri

Estimated

Revenue

REVENUE. received.. Yen

Yen 369,470,000 330,536,000 30,830,000 29,073,000

149,011,099 780,011,000

UNUSED EXPENDITURE

++

4,170,000 Estimates given for quick constraction and repair of Ships, Engines,

Boilers, Railway Rolling Stock, Bridges, and all Classes

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Total ...Y":300,479,000 + Y.32,530,0 In the year under review, continues the third-class Osaka journal, the tax on incomes was reduced by Y.6,900,000, and the Customs daty on rice imported from

was abolished, which it Koron estimated would mean a loss of Y.600,000 in Customs revenue, and yet these reduc- tions were not allowed for in th estimales. Had these taxes not bean reduced, the actual receipts from (axes Y.40,000,000 over the estimate. last year would have been at least

of Engineering, Iron and Wood Work. GRAVING DOCK-787' by 85' by 34 6" Pumps Empty Dock in 2-3/4 hours.

THREE PATENT SLIPWAYS taking cassels up to 3,000 tons displacement, providing

conditions for painting ships with most efficient results, 100-Tea ELECTRIC CRANE ON QUAY-ELECTRIC OVERHEAD CRANES

throughout the Shops ranging to 100 Tous.

50-Ton Hydraulic TESTING MACHINE for Chains, Wire Ropes, Rivets, ate.

THORNYCROFT & CO., LTD.

AGENTS FOR

JOHN I.

PETROL and KEROSENE MARINE MOTORS 7-1/2 to 150 B.I.P.

As supplied to the British Admiralty and War Offes. MOTOR VESSELS, LIGHT DRAFT CARRIERS, GUNBOATS, LAUNCHES

HOUSEBOATS and PLEASURE CRAFT OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, MOTOR PUMPING and LIGHTING SETS, MOTOR VEHICLES, ETC.

A.. and 12. NOON Dockyard Managers, can be soon between the houra of 11

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.

HONGKONG, CHINA, AND JAPAN, AGENTS. Telegraphic Address:-"TAIKOO DOCK."

at the Town Office..

SHORT TIME AGREED TO.

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the top, together with the measures taken. The unanimity of Lancashire is sur-by the Government, averted disaster, and prising even to those who know and love people of every dass are adjusting them-- Prices are not a county which is accustomed to put its selves to the new conditions. A period of rust in mills rather than in barracks, to rigid economy has set in

have fee is being kept on every branch of Class distinctions never trade with the foreigner and not to fight much higher than they were, but a class counted for much in an area in which the expenditure.

The cotton operatives argue that, if mill-band of yesterday becomes to clogs in three generations" remains an have come at & more favourable time...

But the They are better prepared to face it than mill-owner of to-day, and in which clogs great war was to cone at all, it could the axiom of deep significance.

the

As will be seen from the above table, receipts from land, kerosene and exchange tases show a decrease on the estimates, frour thirteen other while the revenue taxes realised more than estimated. Thus decrease of Y,000,000 in the land-tax is accounted for by exemptions and post- poned payments on land damaged by TELEPRONE NO. 212. Rouds. The decrease of Y.310,000 in the kerosene tax is due to the smaller demand for illuminating oil on account of the increased use of gas and electric. The falling-off of Y.550,000 in light. exchange-tax is ascribed to reduced transactions in stocks owing to trade depression. The increase of Y. 17,810,000 in Customs recenne, despite the abolition him. 10

of the duty on Korean viey was due to the continued heavy imports of goods and an increase of Y.110,000 (in spite of reduction by Y.6,980,060) in income-tax is explained by the high price of rice. which increased the income of agricul turalists, and the increased profits of perpetual conflict between employers and at any time since the las, trade depression. banks and other business companies. A employed, as those who went through the The cotton boom began to wane. similar cause is responsible for the weavers' lock out of two years ago can months ago. Arrangements for working mercased revenue from business-tax by testify, is as stoutly fought here as short time, in the mills had been agreed X.2,330,000, and the increase of Y.5,920 000 anywhere, today it is dead. The spinners upon before the war broke out and this Further, the holiday in the receipt from the sugar tas is have agreed to go on short time; the natural tendency to save for the raing accounted for by the large quantity of weavers have consented to the cancelling day had set in. bonded sugar brought over from the of their employment contracts. The two period finds Lancashire at the zenith of Half the holiday previous year, and the steps taken for industrial parties are working hand in its floating wealth. payment of the tax last year. Increased hand to lessen the severity of the blow clubs in the country have by now disbursed receipts from transit duty, textile and which the war is aiming at the staple the operatives' savings, but half, including Oldham's £100,000, have yet to count out. patent medicine taxes, and tonnage dues trade of Lancashire. may be taken as making the natural development of business during the year inder review rather than to any special conomic change.--Japan Chronicle,

Revenue is

And l Another million."

The estimated expenditure voted for again. another million of these sixteenth-century the year under review amounted

the amount actually peasants. And when it is all over, those 1.595,000,000 and

Y.57;1,000,000, leaving a who are left will go back to their fields.

balance of surplus" of Y.25,000,000, But Germany, France, England, expended was

Germany This includes a sum of Y.20,000,000, saved particularly England and

the when will they turn where

by administrative reforms, so that the shovelled under Jillion den d -are blood; soil! The bricks and mortar oft amount of unexpended money is only Y. 5,000,000. In the Budget for the industry may be still standing; but where

present year (1914-1913) will credit be found? And what will the estimated to exceed expenditure by about

Y. 14.609,000. thus: millions of starving factory-hands be doing? How shall we get upon pur fost Where is the clockmaker who wilk mend the smashed wheels and set the pendulum swinging once again? Happy the Russian peasant who will go back tu his sixteenth century and his field, tolling. the time by the sun's shadow. Industry in Europe, with other things of older date, will lie in ruins.

the

Ordinary

REVENUE.

Extraordinary

Total Ordinary Extraordinary

Total. Special War Expenditure

sli] jenna1)

Y.534,035,212 49,308,437

Y577,308,059 Y.414,6582,071 145,077,527

Y.569,759,504

3,000,000

Y.562,759.598 Y. 14,009,061

DEMOCRACY CRYING FOR RELIEF. In three months from now democracies of Europe will be crying out for a return to normal conditions. The war fever will have spent itself. The war lords will be confronted by their outraged and maddeaed. vietime. What will they Auswer? Men will want work, they will. When this amount is added to the want wages, they will want food, Europe surplus left from the last fiscal year- sum at the will ask for these things, and the wary 136 042,000, * £l lords will be driven to answer.

Tutal Revenue Balance

total

Which disposal of the Government will be

conditions and you destroy

the

BRITAIN IN WAR TIME. HOW LANCASHIRE FACES HARD TIMES AHEAD.

Armaments have broken the back of the recent storms, Y.,000,000 is to La influences our political destinies so largely against the Germans now that we are cities; the civil idea is supreme.

in riparian in these latter days? used for improvements

Some

The

On the the hand, there is no war fever. Here is money in hand for thousands of Manchester, fur instance, goes about its operatives, and most of it will not be spent business, as far as possible, in exactly the on holiday-making. There is accordingly same way as it would in any other August, no pluch yet, although the stoppages of The only change perceptible to the machinery in thriving towns like Oldham, occasional visitor is the unusual and, for Burnley, and Nelson are very extensive.

With so much trouble ahead, and tho Manchester, rather uncanny quietness of the streets. One is accustomed to the noise incalculable dangers to the import of raw of heavy trollies rattling on its cobbles, cotton from America and the export of This noisy warehouse and goods yard inanufactured goods to the Far East, the traffic has been reduced to the proportions coramunity remains calm and es fident, COTTON WORKERS' UNANIMITY.

In Manchester it is which have before only been associated loyal and resolute. Many who rejoiced at the closing of the with strike time. The horses have gone difficult to realize that this country is of them, with all his wisdom and strength,114,65,001. Of this amount Y.1,200,000

How tanks at Westminster must yet have to the Remount Departinent; in any case engaged in a vast European war. will be able to restore three centuries of Las been defrayed for the funeral of the

Normal conditions!

wondered whether the House of Commons the home trade for the moment is dead, different must be the condition of the Empress-Dowager, Y.0,500,000 for human progress?

and scheme These normal conditions are the fruit of

replenishment. Nava!

are ordinarily, to be reckoned on as com- Had the doctrine of the united to load cargoes. 300 years of evolution, 300 years of moral .05,500,000 for War expenses (the King was accurately reflecting the mood of the and there are no vessels in the Ship Canal great French and German towns, which The demeanour of the people is sober petitors! We seem very remote from war and intellectual evolution--a labour not that operations)-a total of Y.73,702,000. nation.

Destro In addition, UILE, 1.23,000,000 is to us fromt been accepted as part of the national

Regular troops of yesterday nor of pigmies.

the Siata Bailways creed In particular, what were the and admirably restrained. They did not here, and only indirectly acquainted with normal

tu transferred to-day; and all the yesterdays of Euro-account, 1.5,000,000 is to be spent on the views of the great working-class populashout for war as, in the days before warlike preparations.

the industrial north, which Kruger's ultimatum. They do not shout are seldom seen in these great industrial pean civilization. Expect, then.

repair of public property damaged by tion of

There are no street embodiment of the Territorials is the only What was the engaged in war.. bewildering To-morrow.

demonstrations. Pumped up patriotism outward manifestation of the national the labourer; and with the fall of the central, Y.400,000 is required for subsidies Manchester School thinking!

I have set out on a tour to discover the of the baser sort is discouraged by the conflict which most Lancashire folk have and waterworks, labourer all things fall, all things come

harbour to to earth. Because of the war lords, and only because of the war lords, the man Y3000,000 is to be refunded to the answers to these questions, says a special instinctive good sense of a working-class actually seen. But, with many tempta- Allowing correspondent of The Times writing which deliberately accepts the way as ations, their unity is unimpaired, their I purposely began my national duty and not as an occasion for nationalism a fine unselfish thing. They of selence is paralyzed, and civilization Formosan Customs revenue. stops, Humanity has been fooled. Too for these various expenditures, the actual August 12th.

amount left will be not more than investigation in a region in which, if hysterical rejoicing. In Market Street--will make short work of grumblers and late it discovers it.

Y35,000,000, and this is the sum expected anywhere, one might have expected to its pavements crowded as usual-I did not crities when in due time they rear their Among the

hear criticism and possibly a note of see waved or worn a single Union Jack or heads. "Remember this, too.

opposition. Lancashire has grim memories other patriotic emblem last night. There ANALYSIS OF THE INCREASE IN REVENUE,

were no crowds hungering for news at young conscript soldiers of Europe who to be available for next fiscal year. die in thousands, and perhaps millions.

In analysing the increase of Y.32,530,000

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENT. are the very flower of civilization: we

American Civil War was accompanied by

special editions of the evening papers.

THE PULSE OF MANCHESTER. shall destroy brains which might has over estimate in the revenue from taxes of war. The privations of the Napoleonic discovered for us is ten or twenty years for last year, as shown in the accounts era were followed by Waterloo the appointed, rendezvous, there were

The P.M. str. China will sail from The pulse of Manchester, in fact, is war Lancashire bas more at stake than easements for the worst of human pains just published by the Government, the incume and solutions for the worst of social suht notes that of the various taxes the horrors of the cotton famine. In this

seven land,

the morale of the men of the North. The kong via Japan ports and Manila. The dangers. We shall blot those souls out of imposed only our common existence. We shall destroy Isiness, sake, and, textile taxes, and any other manufacturing area.

are enumerated, the captains of industry, and trade union normal, and I take it as a good sign of Yokohama on the 9th October for Hong utterly those splendid burning spirits Customs revenue reaching out to enlighten, our darkness, revenue from the other nine taxes being leaders can proudly join in saying that slight panie of last week has disappeared. United States mail has been transferre Our fathers destroyed those strange and lumped together under the general head- not a single voice has been raised in public The first shock of the crisis undoubtedly to the N.Y.K. str. Suwa Maru scheduled so that it is impossible to protest against the war or to murmur created intense financial anxiety in the to arrive at Hongkong on Monday the valuable creatures whom they called ing of other

destroying the to see how the revenue from these bine at the sufferings which it will bring in its great Lancashire towns. Cool heads at 19th October, a.m. We are 'Witches!

taxes stands. The actual revenue from train. brightest of our angels."

and

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