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ENGLAND IN TIM EOF WAR. count for much. Their callousness is

L-AN IMPRESSION OF LONDON.

CHANGES ABOVE AND BELOW THE SURFACE.

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trades that exist in East London have boen hard hit, but the necessity trados, are so flourishing that they can swallow up large reserves of labour.

PLENTY OF WORK

WEATHER REFORT.

On the 20th at 11.00am-With Low orceptions pressure has given way over the whole ares, especially over central Japan. It is highest to the east of the Bonin Islands and a depremlen covers the Sea of Japan, pa

The continental "high" indicated yesterday has nat davaloped, but an ares of relatively high pressure extends from Haiphong to the Looshoon.

obliterated by the new spirit which London, in her English way, does her best to conceal. To look below the surface is to find that, while the large shops are crowded, it is the wool-counter that is busiest, and next to it the places whore they sell comforts and clothes for the troops. The theatre, paying half salaries and charging a little more than half At all times it is difficult to form a prices, just manages to keep its doors definite impression of London. She is so open-and that chiefly thanks to our vast and so various in activity that she soldiers. It is for his soldier guests' sake refuses to give out a single note." Wh that a men orders a good dinor at home Commercial-road, one can see, through 10 am, to-day, 0.00 inskes.

or at a restaurant. To her soldiers on leave London oves the greater part of ouch pleasures, as are left her. The picture-galleries are open mainly because they give their receipts to the Red Cross or the Belgians. Music is kopt going mainly for the sake of the musicians. To an interesting case at the Law Courts women take their knitting. There is no escaping the spirit of eager work and concentration and self-denial.

is true of one stroot may be false of the next; and two adjacent houses, exactly alike on the outside, may shelter ways of living as different from each other as Cap Martia from Cape Horn. This infinite varioty, with the consequent vagueness resembling London's own at mosphere, persists through the most radical changes; and the question "What is London like in war-time? is a THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN difficult to answer as the question what London is like in time of peace. She has changed profoundly, but she remain much the same.

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THE EXAMPLE OF THE GREAT HOUSES. Upon many people self-denial is in posed, whether they will it or no, because Bday in the West-end--tho town, runny people cannot afford to live as they as our ancestors called it there are only could live six months ago. But that is two superficial signs that anything out of scarcely true of the big London house the common is going on. The streets are. In times of peace the West end in aututan full of traffic. There seem to be (though is all shuttered windows and chained we know that there are not), as many front doors. This year its ocupants have motor-cars and motor-omnibuses as usual; stayed in London throughout August and of commercial curts there are the usual all the happy country months of shooting thousands. The pavements are thronged and cubbing and the opening of the hunt with people, looking into the shop ing season, in order that they may be on windows, apparently intent on buying the spot, to know the news and to help things in the shops. At luncheon-time those who need help. This has been good, the restaurants are full; at tea-time the in a way, for London trade; but it is well- theatres and music halls disgorge undi-known that, of all the tradesmen that minished matinée crowds. True, a great have suffered, the Bond-street retailers of deal of French is heard in the streets; but inxury have been the hardest hit. There that is no exceptional thing in cosmopoli has been no demand for expensive hats tan London. The sight of a Belgian or and gowns, for jewels and curios and Fronch soldier is a more striking event; porcelain. Even the trade in table but the Horse Show and other occasions delicacies has shrunk. In some grout have more or less accustomed Londoners houses economy has been carried to to foreign uniforms in their streets. ostentatious, extremes; in most there has Hives of activity, like the Red Cross house been just that reduction in expenses which in Pall Mall, the War Refugees Com will enable the owner to send another mittee's premises at the bottom of cheque to a fund, or another motor-car Aldwych, the Voluntary Social Service to France or Belgium, There are 20 Bureau's offices in Belgravia, are few and dances or large parties; there are no far apart. Before he begins to look below dinners on the aid scale. There are ouly the surface, the observer might be little gatherings of friends summoned by pardoned for thinking that all was as telephone at short notice. Even from usual but for the khaki and the recruit these now one and now another must drop ing bills.

out, as the Roll of Honour brings its daily burden of pride and sorrow. And nowhere is there any topic but one--the War, this was that is knocking the world we know about our cars.

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Trades and occupations are changing, Fronch polishers have turned their hands to the making of tents and haversacks. Other dispossessed workers are readily absorbed by the tailoring trade, which is largely a homeworkers' occupation in the Jewish quarter. In side streets off the

sealed windows, steaming work-rooms in which a dozen men and women without pause stitch khaki into soldiers uniforms Over them stands their sweating employer himself the victim of some invisible super-sweater. There is little romance in khaki when you reduce it to its lowest Hongkong & Neighbourhood freshening from common denominator

Another strange phenomenon, casual labour is at a premium. For once there aro hardly enough men to feed the great, maw of the docks. The revival of the Port of London has been one of the greatest of the indirect effects of the war. A week in mid-November was the busiest over recorded in the history of the Port. Ships are held up in the river at Tilbury because there are no vacant berths in the docks. Sen power means regular employ ment for the East end; fitful activity at the dooks would react on trade in all its branches,

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as followe

DISTRICT

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Hongkong and Hainan...

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COAST METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

20TH JANUARY, 1915, AM,

Viadrostock Nemiro

The poorer classes among the English population cannot adapt themselves to new circumstances so readily as the Jews, who have been trained in a harder school. Thus in a very poor slum district like Hoxton there have been few changes, while some old habits and customs have been merely accentuated. In such a quarter life is bounded by the street, the public- house, the fried fish shop, and the pawir broker's Ruin stared the pawnbrokers in the face at the beginning of the war- not because people had nothing to put in Hakodate paws, but because they had no money with H which to redeem the articles already Kochi there. This queer phase has passed, and Nagasaki (... the old order of life has been resumed. Englis Every Monday morning crowds of women Osam pledge the Sunday, clothes of the whole Naha iluwoman. family. Every Saturday morning, with Ishi'jma their wages and allowances in their Bonin In purses, they take them out again,

Chalooms. Wallsiwad DEINE AND SLMENTE

Or The week end is the danger time. The Iohang drinking evil is then at its worst. Kluang Unhappily, there is no reason to doubt Changana that drinking among the poorest classes Bhangh of women has increased considerably since fatal the outbreak of war. Still no one could Bharp be prepared for the Bacchic welcome Amry which Hoxton gave to the regulation Bwatow which secures that women shall not be Taihoka served with drink before 11.30 am. The 11.30 queue of women is now a daily scene. One totally unexpected result of the order is that children coming home to from morning school often had no dinner Bangkong roady for them. A further restriction Gap Hood until 2 p.m. is accordingly being demanded in the interests of the little nakaw the ones who alone impart brightness and Halle kes gaiety to these sordid, almost inhurqan Pakhol courts and alleys. The slum children have Phulien Sained at the other end of the scale. The TourZO....... 10 p.m. closing order for public-houses has Capa St. James had an almost magical effect in clearing Art the streets two hours earlier than before Ma

Manila the war. The child's bedtime otter Legal men synchronizes with the public-house closing hour. At last his poor, stunted body has the chance of getting an hour or two's **beauty sloop."*ty by

On every taxi-cab and omnibus and van, in every shop window, and on every hearding the recruiting bills call for men. Vast appeals for men shout from the walls of great shops and hotels; and the base of the Nelson column is built in widi Probably no great community in this them. Yet there is khaki everywhere,country has experienced fewer of the Long lines of whistling, singing khaki direct and more of the indirect effects of tramp down Oxford-street or Piccadilly, the war than East London. The social The parks are full of drilling khaki, and industrial changes that the last few though as yet there are no trenches dug months have made in this immense, there, nor have the green expanses been neglected, forgotten, great city of East ploughed (as some recommended) for London, as Sir Walter Besant called it crops. But trench-making is practised are not of an obvious kind. They cannot behind Westminster Cathedral; there are be discerned in a ensual stroll down the horses tethered in the Green Park, guas Whitechapel-road or on motor-omnibus may be seen trundling down the quiet ride to the vast dormitories of the town roads of St. John's Wood; and in the Inne that lie beyond Bow Bridge. The White of Court, in the big squares of Blooms chapel Rialto is much as it has always bury, in every large open space the shout been, the one main road in London in of the Sergeant Instructor may be heard.which there is no call for the display of The underground stations are guarded by the familiar New York sign, No loiter soldiers Between 1 o'clock and 2 o'clock ing allowed. There is no lounging on much khaki, with gold lace on the cap its broad pavements, no looking to right peak and red tabs and every conceivable or left; necessity hastens the steps of mon combination of medal ribbons, may be and women alike.. seen round Whitehall and Pall Mall; and This and other attributes of the East general. In the better-class districts, the This tendency to keep better hours is khaki without these adornments is on all End proper are unchanging. You can hands, on the pavement, in the omnibus, still buy anything within reason (and darkening of the streets is the most power in the restaurant, and the church much without) in the great open-air fair ful influence in this direction. An East which stretches from the neighbourhood these days, with shaded street lamps and End main road is terribly depressing in of the London Hospital towards Mile half-lighted tram-cars and motor-omni End. Ratcliff Highway and West India

buses The glamour of the lights of Dock-road continue to swarm with the London and their enticing glitter have samen of all friendly nations, Petticoat-

gone. The faded shop windows and lane has not abated its claim to be confrowsy house-fronts look hopelessly sidered the busiest, noisiest, most strongly uninviting. The darkening of this great flavoured and highly-coloured of Sunday wilderness of shabby streets has not led morning resorts. The Sunday evening tramp of Jewry's legion through the any increase of violent crime, but it is deserted city to the wonderful West End is kept up with unfailing regularity And the daily ebb and flow of the tide of suburban existence through the barriers of Liverpool street Station remains perhaps the most arresting of all East London spectacles

LONDON BY NIGHT.

By night the changes strike harder. In time of peace the fall of winter dark is welcomed, for it brings brilliance in place of gloom. In this war time we exchange gloom for deeper gloom and a hint of danger. In streeta and shop windows the lights are very few and thickly shaded. Lest enemy aircraft should see their way about London, we must grope our own; and we must be saved from ourselves by the closing of public

Since the rule applies also, so far as wine and spirits are concerned, to clubs and restaurants, to anything except private houses, London has ceased to be a city of pleasure. The theatres close as early as they can there APSENCE OF MARTIAL SHOW. are no more supper-parties at the great

houses at 10 o'clock:

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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, January 20th.

more and more driving people to seek the Bromley and the thorough-going English sanctuary of their homes. In Bow and districts, there has been an undoubted strengthening of family ties. Pride in the household recruit, has contributed a great deal to this happy result. Every by street has its links with the New Army, and a new consciousness of national rights The bread outlines of the picture are and duties has come to thousands who have hotels; the night clubs are shut. It is much as they have always been east of spent their lives in the crowded isolation strange to observe, nevertheless, how fail Aldgate Fump. The war has brought ho of East London. A more subdued tone the streets are. The public seems never pageantry into the grey monotone. In the is to be observed in public and private tired of walking to and fro, looking ug midst of a world in arms. East London manners, together with a more serious to where, from the roofs of park gates and has no barracks and no billets. Now and spirit, a desire for reasonable economy, public buildings, the searchlights wheel across the ominous sky. And, stranger again a military band goes past, and and a decided tendency to restraint in Barometer still, perhaps, these dark streets and long the Coronation are eagerly thrown open able in the Whitechapel-road, not long Humidity... windows which have been shut fast since dress. This last trait is especially notice Temperatura nights have offered opportunities for But, boyond a strong recruiting and go the most showlly-dressed promenade Wind Direction... West crime in vain. The people are orderly; the criminals, we are assured by those occasional visits from the newly-enlisted in London. To-day there is a striking

Weather who know them, are too patriotic to take youth of the district, there is little to absence of bright colours in the women's advantage of the nation's need. There is bring home to these teeming millions the apparel less crime now than ever in days of peace.

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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

From 1st to 27th January, 19.5.

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more closely at the picturo, one will find Changed, too, is the newer and greater that its details aro chonging The East London which lies beyond the London is not an emotional city, and substitution of Warsaw salami for historic East End, the huge sleeping quar- her aim, now as always, is to put herself German sausage in the Delicatesson shops ters of countless thousands of City out as little as need be. Our soldiers home is just a sign of the times. The Jews, who workers who spend their nights and from the front are surprised to see us are chiedy recruited from Russian Sundays over the border, In this bound- going on to much as usual, and some of Poland, have no German sympathies. less region of bay windows and Venetian, Those that have seen Paris in war tins They are not indifferent to the claims of blinds, life, social, industrial, oven per are a little patient with war-time their adopted country, and the Anglo-haps political, will never be quite the London: Yet to look below the surface Russian alliance acts as a spur to their same again. There is a greater intensity is to realize that London's easy-going patriotism, and is not the barrier which of national feeling here than is possible business-as-neunl" air conceale pro- it is commonly supposed. The crisis has in the poorer parts. Roads that never found changes in her spirit. A few brought a new figure into the panorama quartered a soldier before have seat their significant details can be detected at once. of the Whitechapel road, the Jow in khaki, companies to the New Army The most The women outside the big drapers and Many a spectacled, round-shouldered practical form of sympathy is quickly general shops any of them are still youth has wrenched himself from the awakened. Scholars give up their term stering at hats and blouses, but many closely knit family life of the streets prizes that Belgian refugees may not can get their eyes no further than the behind the London Hospital to join the starve, housewives invite the passing war photographs against the window New Army,

soldier to the comfort of their bath-rooms, glass. The clubs are fairly full at nieals, These are the minority. The majority The suburban merry-go-round of Thur 21 0 13, and there is chat and laughter to be heard. must labour on in home or shop factory socials," whist drives, and dances 11 But the chaf and laughter break in flashes at monotonous jobs for small wages. reduced to the narrowest limits. The Fri. 22 m from a ground of gravity. There are, of Still the war has not brought want in its ranks of the nightly parades of young Cong many people people without train. A recent all-night sweep by the men and girls have been perceptibly Satar. 23 friends or relatives at the front, people Salvation Army yielded the surprising thinned. Public spirit all round is on a. who lack imagination or perhaps breed discovery that there is more than sufficient higher plane than it has ever been in our Ban ing people unjajured in pocket or accommodation for the dwindling army time. The underground, trains that dis sensibilities by the war who live their of the Eomeless. Few men and women appear east of Mark-lane into London's Mon idle lives as much in their accustomed way who have the quality of adaptability are unknown city carry men and women as the conditions will allow them. The unable to get work. That everlasting whose conception of life is quickly chang war is bore" or a nuisance, and engima to the social worker, the man who ing. They have been sobered by the great charitable efort ja "fuss" or " needle- can do anything," has no longer any cateclysm, and there will be no vulgar Wed work-mania." But such people never excuse for doing nothing. The few luxury mafficking" when the goal is reached.

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