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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14mm, 1916.

The Danger Zone

Those whose diet is deficient in body-building powers are living in the danger zone.

Unless you nourish the body, the body will fail as surely as an army cut off from its base of supply,

Bovril

just makes all the difference between your being nourished and your not being nourished by your food.

Bovril is the one unique food the body-building powers of which have been proved by independent scientific investigation to be from 10 to 20 times the amount taken.

This explains why both at home and in the fighting line

It must be Bovril

BOVRIL IS BRITISH TO THE BACKBONE.

Mental and Physical Fatigue.

When brain or body is weary the digestive powers are weakened and distaste for ordinary food is often experienced. Under such circumstances the "Allenburys" Diet is especially valuable. It is pleasant to take, easily digested and assimilated und speedily restorative. Thus it helps the system to recover tone and vigour, The 'Allenburys" DIET is prepared from pure rich milk and whole wheat-the two vital food elements-combined in partially pre-digested form.

Made in a minute-Add boiling water only,

ALLEN & HANBURYS Ltd.,

Ba, Peking Ed., Shanghai,

B.P.O.

Box 158.

-and- LONDON, ENGLAND.

Jaimer &

"The Wine Merchany of the last

NAPIER JOHNSTONE'S

"SQUARE BOTTLE”

WHISKY. UNVARIED FOR OVE 150 YEARS.

THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN

1745. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS

-SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG LANE CRAWFORD & CO. and from ALL Winn UzdyHANTS,

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Wenburgs DIET

A food for Adults and quite distinct from the well-known *Allenbury Foods for Infants.

VEATINGO

POWDER

IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS

Mother Mother! Mother! Sprinkle Keatioy's over m For I've been on a strECÍ CRF And caught bucgry Hea

KILLS BUGS

★ ALL INSECTS.

APIOLINE

(CHAPOTEAUT)

WEATHER REPORT.

IN THE BRITISH LINES.

L-AN IMPRESSION OF HEADQUARTERS..

FORGING THE FORCES OR VICTORY.

On the 13th as 11,40 am-Pressure remains highest in the neighbourhood of the Bonius it has decreased sharply over north and conizal Japan owing to the advaces of the norther dopression to the east of Hokkaido, A consider ably incresse has occurred over N, Chine, which In the following interesting dispatchi The I now covered by a fresh anti-sycone. Blight Times Paris Correspondent begine the to modem's increases are general over the description of a visit to the British Head remainder of the eres except in the vicinity of quarters in France which he was permitted Shonghal, where presuro has given way slightly to make in company with cortain other owing to the existence of a shallow depression. newspaper representatives. The Correspon

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at dent's description of his experiences and of his welcome by Sir John French is the more 10a.m. to-day, 0.00 Inche

valuable in that he has already visited many portions of the French lines and is thus able to make interesting comparisons.

The forecast for the 24 hours anding at noon to-day is as follows

DIETRICE.

• Hongkong & Neighbourhood

Formosa Channel

FORECASE

WITH THE BRITISH.

military, which stretch out from the apex of the General Headquarters to the base of a triangle which stretches across the world, se does the pointed practice of the Army com manders in the fold depend upon the wide base of the activities of a score of different departments.

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We have been enabled to-day to watch the gradual concentration of our Army's efforts from General Headquarters through the Army commanders, Corps commanders, Brigade commanders, until it found its sim- plest oxpression in the dispatch of a shell from one of our leavy guns towards, the

That shell representext enemy's lines. portion of our national efficiency. In its dispatch co-operated the whole of our social, economic, and political organization at home. It was brought to its gua by the ammunition transport; the men who fired it have to be fed and clothed by the Army the maps which March 1st. guided its aiming were made by the Arty ;- The black and white of French commerce f winds, light,coal and sugar-Are the two interes it may have been fired as the result of an air reconnaissance, or in response to a telephone ...probably fresh which in times of peace support the town in message from the trenches which reached the Loning from N.E. which I write. Here and there a remnant the battery through "signala," which are

of rampart recalls the old warlike times of voice of the Army; the men who fired it have nursed the place in the days when Marlborough, to be kept fit, they have to be No. 1. Turenne, or Condé fought over every inch when they are ill or wounded by the R.A.M.C., of French Flanders. War is again the in-pun-het when they commit a breach of dir dustry of the place. It is no more the war cipline by the Military Police, spiritually of prancing steeds, of leisurely sieges with tended by the Army chaplains, and unless a suspension of operations during the hitter all this and a hundred other things ara dong months of winter; it is that dull and yet for them their efficiency will suffer. And more glorious war in the mud of the trenches each thing done by the various departmenta where a man has not only other men as his of the Army in order to provide the first- foes, but Nature herself with her cold blasts class fighting man" at the front is the boiled METEOROLOGICAL from the north, driving snow furries before down essence of a huge effort further to the

them, with her rain-fadea clouds from the rear. west which turn the trenches into canals and the whole countryside into bog

South cost of Ohias between ( Th same as

Hongkong and Lameeks 1

South coast of China between 'The side No. L Hongkong and Hainan... *E, and SE winds, moderate; fair cloudy.

OHINA. COAST

Station.

REGISTER

13TH AFRIL, 1915, AM

"Wind

7 Vladvostock ...) Nemuro 6 29.39 Hakodate

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THE FLYING CORTS..

The Royal Flying Corps, whose headqua ters we visited to-day, affords a simple example of what that effort means. As we arrived at the base two seroplanes plancd down to the ground on their return from duty. There was never anything a little

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A WAR OF BRAINS. The town itself is materially for from the war; mentally it is besieged by the enemy. Within its narrow confines the whole think. ing of the armies in the field is done. Here is waged that war of brains which will decide suggestive of effort as the landing of the fortune of the operations. The town seroplane by a good pilot. It is the organi shows less evidence of the war then any Ization, of specialization which makes the have yet visited within the zone of operations miracle possible. The fleet of aeroplanes Civilians, it is true, are rare, but soldiers are derives its strength from the storehouses and - by no means plentiful. Here and there workshops which have sprung up around it. In the storehouses you will find every stards a sentry with fixed bayonet before the doors of some prosperous citizen's house. imaginable spare part from engines to There are an unusual number of officers in the struts; in the workshops there are Arny. street, whose red-banded caps proclaim them carpenters hard at work repairing the wood- members of the Staff. The traffic is almost on laceoidamaged frames, tailors sitting cross entirely military, but there is not much of itloggod stitching away at wing repairs which Sir John French in his last long dispatch cannot be tackled by the sewing machine expressed bis regret that owing to military electricians fitting wireless apparatus into requirements much of the achievement of our the machines, operators taking wireless mess. Army in France has passed unrecorded. To-ages from distant aeroplanes, mechanics S00. day at his Headquarters he received the ing to the guns carried by the craft, and testing its reports party of six correspondents which has been engines; the record office keeping 92 KNB 3 be authorized to visit the British lines, and told of each flight, its success or non-success them how pleased he was to do so, how glad others seeing to stores. The activities of the he was that circumstances now made it Royal Flying Corps are most apparent on possible for journalists to see something of land, though it is through the air that thor obtain their results and upon the general our Armies in the field.

scheme of the operations, the movement of troops, or the fire of our artillery that they' are finally given active expression.

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VAN HOUTEN'S

COCOA

has an enormous

sale for it is

BEST and GOES FARTHEST

Van Houten's make the best flavouring for

Confectionery & Pastry

We start upon this pleasant mission to marrow; to-day we have been given one or two indications of the magnitude of the work done by the Staff. The Staff is nothing more or less than & Government, The number of the people that it at present rules cannot be disclosed, but I found a sign of the growth of our Armies in France since August in fact that when I first blundered into Head quarters in the early days of the war th whole of the Staff was accommodated in four rous, whereas now it occupies over a dozen buildings. Now the Staff registers, enters offer, aud satisfies any reasonable requirement of the Army in this worldor, for the matter of that, in the next world as well.

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MEN ON THE STAFF. There is the War Office represented directly by the O.A., or Operations Department; there is Justice represented by the military police, Finance by the Chief Cashier, Public Works by the Quartermaster-General, Education by the transformation of a Territorial battalion into a school for officers-the list could be extended so as to include nearly every Government Department. The men on the staff represent every imaginable roanifesta tion of human activity and intelligence. There are financiers-for the cashier of our Army abroad has to be no mean financier- engineers, cartographers, photographers, fight experts, transport managers, Oxford

AIEMEN'S TASKS.

The task of the military sirmen is three- fold and mlates to strategy, tactics, and artillery. For routine work at all events it is under these three headings that the air is divided. In the first class come the flights covering some 30 inlies of country behind the

any trench line. The photographs and area enable the General Staff to have ently ports furnished by the airmen over this information of big movements of troops and to gain some knowledge of the main lines of theenemy's intentions. The second zone, which stretches for about 10 miles behind the trench line, is that in which more immediate tactical movements are prepared. The third aren is along the front. Here the airman notifies changes in the enemy trench line,. the position of enemy batteries, giving his oun artillery the range.

All this work, this organization of detail, has but one aim to give the Army ores where formerly it had rione, and its effect.all concentrates down to the front.

BRITISH TRADE IN CHINA.

C. W. JEFFRIES, Diretor, BAROMATED, reduced to 82 degree Folzenkelt on the level of the sex in inches, textins Dons, men from the Diplomatic Service, an informed Mr. Stewart (Wirral,

bezdrodis.

3 TEMPERATORE, in the shade, in digress

Fahrenhalt

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1 DIENOTION O. Wxin, to two points. :

5 FORCE OF WInn, socording to Beaufort Seale.

8 STATE OF WHATDs, b blue sky, a detached cloud, & drisling rain, t fog, a gloomy, kas, lightning, o overesat, Prassing Rhower, 5 qual rtain, alow, thander, ♥ vimbility, w dew vet

? Ra in inches, & fantis and hundredth.

HONGKONG. METEOROLOGINAL

REGISTER.

In the House of Commons Mr. Runci linguists, detectives the Intelligence Depart-Opp.) that the emergency legislation and ment has to display as rauch deductive

relating to trading with the enemy did not prohibit power as was ever found in Baker-street proclamations scientists, historians, journalists-the list trading with German firms or branches raight fill a page.

Mr. Stewart. Is the Foreign Secretary- aware that the Germans are boasting that we cannot carry on our own trade without their assistance, and that our prestige with the Chinese is very much impaired ?

It was once the fashion to declare that in situated in China. It was, however, the the Army the man who talked shop was a opinion of the Government that it was bore. Times must have changed very radi undesirable for British firms to engage cally. It was my good fortune to lunch in transactions with Germans commercial- recently with General Manoury and his Staff ly domiciled in China, and there were I noted then in The Times that conversation reasons for thinking it to be usually die- at table turned almost entirely upon the ideals advantageous from the point of view of which He behind the Allies' cause. To-night the British themselves. I was a guest at one of the many Staff messes which keep thriving the Saturday market of the town. My host, who knows his France extremely well, went over mutually familiar ground with me. Opposite a mejor was talking of the preparation of the operation Hongkong Observatory, April 13th.

maps, the photography of the enemy's trench Previons On Date Oa Dateline His neighbour-an ongineer was de scribing some trouble he had experienced at 8 pm,

2 pm. with some machinery. The conversation was strictly practical and enthrallingly interest £9.92

ing- "It tarned later to the comparative merits of waders and gumboots in the mud of the trenches, and one at table declared that he had always found that the best thing to do if you were only on a brief visit to the trenches was to take off your boots and negotiate the mad in your socks.

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THE BEST DRINK

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Large supplies have lately arrived from London:

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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE,

From 11th to 50th April, 1915.

HIGH WATEṛ

Week

Days o

Month

H'kong.

Mesu

Height

LOW WATIR.

Hoight

H'kong

*Mean

Tixe

Time

ft, in.

b. m.

it. ic.

Wed.

6 vm 2 49 14 m 8 54

9.55 a 5 5 Thurs. 15 9 12

2

3 25

1

10 35 a 5 2 Fri. 16 920

.11 Batur. -17 m 9

5

6 3 3 162 4.581

2.8 3 39 4:45-14

6 m 40

5 27 1.5

Bun. 12 m

4:34 3 3

10

612 16

Mon

19 m

m 41535

Im 10:30.

Pase

[356-1

Bir E. Grey. I have not seen that particular statement, but I dare say it is only in character with other statements. made from the same quarter, to which very little importance need be attached. (Cheers.)

SHANGHAI TRADE.

Messrs. Ilbert & Co.'s Pisce Goods Market Report says

The week has been characterised by Excellence, like perfection, is an absolute quality. But there are nevertheless varieties. somewhat sharp movements in the cotton. I have had many opportunities of judging of and silver markets in England and Ameri. the excellence of the French Staff officer, of ca which have attracted less attention his keenness, his hospitality, and his intellect. from native dealore than would have bee Comparisons, it is said, are odious. Yet the the case had the Japanese negotiations in comparison I would draw on brief acquaint Peking not claimed prior interest. These ance between the British nad the French appear to be progressing amicably if Staff officer is honourable to both. Compari- slowly, but they are likely to prove au entails a difference, and it is difficult to obstacle to any radical improvement in make the differencs clear. You will find

com

That

very patently shown if you read the French trade as long as they continue. Yellow-book and the British Blue-books of the Japanese demands are not regarded the diplomatic aspect of the war. In the with apprehension in Shantang is proved former you get impressions, in the latter you by a steady increase in demand from that province, which has led to a hardening get reports of conversations with a few com ments. There appens to be exactly the of prices for certain classes of bleached same difference between the French and the goods. On the whole, the state of the British Staff officer. The one expresses his market, though at the moment dull, is facts in philosophy (for to the Frenchman not unsatisfactory, prices are steady all even the 75 gun is a philosophical creed) and round and dearances fai'y good, especial- ly for Ezcchuen, whore trade appears to the other expresses his philosophy in facts.

be in a healthy condition notwithstanding. THE BASIS OF ORGANIZATION.

the feet that robber bande are more than usually active there at present

Pivato wires give the final estimate of

March 2

War appears to be in every way a pointed instrument. In the General Headquarters. the broad lines of the operations and the best season's American crop, which we gaye indefinitely in our last issue, as Questions of ministration are laid down. policy as it were are settled there and the 15,870,000 bales, not including linters, putting into effect of policy is left very which provide an additional 850,000 bales, This seems to have been regarded as a largely to the Army Commanders. Just as 25 No infer high- nor low water the judgment of General Headquarters is bullish report, as New York has advanced based upon a variety of factors, diplomatic, 34 points in the week and India has fol- industrial, political, social, economic, and lowed suit.

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