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THE HONGKONG DAILY PENSA, MONDAY, MAY 10TH, 1915.

OUR LONDON LETTER.

[FROM OUR OWN-COLLESPONDENT]

London; March 16th.

for horseflesh that wicked old Texan mules have been imported for London use, and draymen are finding thero inter- estingly perverse quadrupeds powerful aids for the development of vocabulary already famous for the richness of it invective.

ENGLAND TRE GREAT PROVIDER.

THE FUTURE OF CHINA.

THE EMPIRE'S INHERENT STRENGTH.

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Lof newspapers and books, by the Iceture-- which was becoming a prominent feature of Chinese life-and by a broad and deop education China might conceivably be over-run by great military forces had THE JAPANESE DEMANDS,

MASTERLY ADDRESS BY DR. ARTHUR H. SMITH been done in the past, and it could be doza

'again.. Bat China could

never be The replies of Mr. Neil Primrosea to Mr..

The critical state of Chinese affairs was Any country or group of countries administered by another country. Gershom Stewart, Mr. Walter Long, Bir

With the chance of having their factories the principal subject discussed by the taking possession William-Bull, Mr. Needham and others sa

commandeered by the Government for the Saturday Club, at Shanghai, on the 1st managing it as an outlying depen- China and to the Japanese demands on China, have purpose of turning out war stores, inst, and an address of special interest dency would find it absolutely necessary now more and value was given by Dr. Arthur in time to relinquish that task or else sub- been given in such genoral terms that it British manufacturers aro

Dr. Smith's review of recent mit to financial and economic ruin. cannot be said that they have satisfied chary than over about tackling foreign Smith.

markets till the horizon is clearer. Bo events, and his estimation of present needs the inquirers, or those outside political great in the pressure likely to become and prospects were vigorous and frank,

Dr. Smith quoted an article which he circles who are interested in China. that expert workmen are in some cases and, summed up in a sentene, his conclu contributed to the North-China Daily

News thirty-seven years There is, in fad, very widespread inter- being sent back from the "front to resume sion was that. in spite of all vicissitudes, | article was entitled "Solidarity" and the $20. The their work at home, that being considered nothing can prevent the Chinese as est in this matter, and considerable ap to be the way in which they can best serve nation from becoming one of the great main question discussed was: Will China break up like an iceborg and disappear, or prehension, but the papers and the public the cause of the allies at the moment forces of the world. are so engrossed in the war that Japan People in the last day or two have been Dr. Smith prefaced his address with a will she remain a coherent whole? The certainly has an opportunity to steal a asking how it is there are so many Boldelightful story illustrating the dangers Writer's conclusion was: march on her competitors without excit gian soldiers here just now. The answer of prognosticating. The tale was of the fullest belief that China will tako her is that the men are not only on leave for origin of the Chine" back to back" place among the great nations of this ing more than a transitory public com- a little while, visiting their families to books the making of which might have world." This belief he still firmly held,

fuged here, but many of them have been gons on for ever but for the, intervention the speaker concluded.

Mr. G. Douglas, M.A., who has worked deputed to superintend or actively assist of a gage. Two scholang sa back to back, There has been a disposition on the part in the turning out of supplies for the one writing characters and the other during the past twenty-five years as a INSPECTION OF OUR NEW MODELS of officials to minimise the reports as to Belgian army. England becomes the making pictures, and it so happened that missionary in Manchuria, presented his the demands that have been cabled from great provider and arsenal for all the although neither of them could see what view of the present situation there in a

allics, and it is worth thinking of on the other way doing the pictures of the delightful little allegory on the Doors Peking, but the MPs, concerned in rain the authority of Lord Kitchener--that artist were perfectly suited to the text of of Manchuria, and Professor H. H. Kung ing the whole question declare that the sinto the war began we have increased the writer, and their combined work con- MA., spoke on the ned for co-operation

materials three stituted forecast of coming evente. in China, pointing cables have been substantially correct, at outpat of war any que he Lancashire roma hundred times, and still the cry is for There came on the scene an old man, with he had oberved to out, by the way, what

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tend to raise the matter again at the first opportunity, for they are by no means solaced by the general statement of the Government that England does not object to the expansion of Japanese interests in China provided that it does not injure the interests of Great Britain. It ap pears to many who know the situation bet fer than the papers reflect that England stands to pay more for this war than the amount actually expended in the fighting

What are you doing he inquired "We are drawing a map of the future," the busy artists replied.

With the milder weather has come slight drop in coal prices, but we are not likely to have quotations below 30/- Lonell me then joined the old many for a long time to come. The chicl reason for this after the desire of owners for profits-is to be found in the needs of the Navy. In order that the Flee may be kept constantly supplied, huge number of trackwell over six figures are kept perpetually loaded on sidings, ready to be rushed to any particular port for the ships of war.

will this bird live or diet. But I must warn you, that if you say it will live, I may destroy it. And if you say it will die, why than I will allow it to fly

way "Overcome by the force of the argument. the artists sinpped their work, and the old man pointed the moral of the story:

A RACE BOLIDIFIED,

"We have the

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TRADE OF HONGKONG.

GENELAL FIRMER TONE The following statistics have been taken from the fortnightly price current and Chamber of Commerex market report of the Hongkong General

OPIUM,

Benares. 5444 Malwa, and 130 Persian and Stocks on May 6th were 534 Patua, 247 Turkish. Exports during the interval to Shanghai, etc., were 63 Patna, 10 Benares, 161 Malwa and 32 Persian and Turkish. Tu uncertified Bengal opium the balance of stocks on May 6th was 181 Patan and 81 Benares. There were no exportations, monopoly was 8 Patna and 28 Benares. The Bengal market is unchanged with quotations 48 follows:Patna, new

likely to pay for itself in a very few bird, how do you expect to be able to Bat the Fleet If you cannot force the life of a little. '' RACING" "AB "UFUAL"" |-

weeks by clearing the Dardanelles and forecast the future of your country?"-It There has been tremendous to do about letting out the enormions surplus of thus cories about that the "back to back whether Ascot and other race-meetings wheat now shut up in Russia. Experts may remains unfinished to this day.

say this amours to no ices them three. should be held this year. The devotees hundred million bushels. With this lot Assuming, accordingly, the role of the of sport are more numerous in the Army transferred to the allied markets, we mentor rather than that of the prophet, than elsewhere, and it has been curious should get along all right till after the Dr. Smith opened his address on The and the amount boiled by Government

Then, there will come Future of China with the observation that no protest whatever has come from along a beavier crop from the North that the Chinese were the most homogene that quarter. Indeed I am sure the do- American continent and elsewhere, and if ous, as well as the most numerous, people cision of the Jockey Club to continue rac- the war should end before the following on the face of the earth. Solidity was the

cheap wheat by this time next year,('

next harvest.

ing-with social functions and Royal En-harvest there will almost certainly be word: they were a race solidified internal Benaras, new, $9,030, old 88,925,... very

closure cut out-will be welcomed by the men on service, for there is no newa so interesting to them, after the welfare of the folks at home, as the results of events in their favourite sports.

The crities have run their cavilling on unconvincing lines. They mentioned that

the French did not like to hear of our running races for the extravagantly minded while Europe is in torment, They added little pinches of ethics and more alising that somehow or other did not seer quite sincere, and one was tempted to sus pect that there was some ancient humbag behind it all. Owners of racehorse; have shown no desire to press matters either

way, and one Colonel with a tendency to

the epigrammatic manner pointedly ésked in the papers, one morning whether we were to suppose that after one year's

* ́ ́AMERICA AND THE INDIA MARKET,

While Japan seems to be making the most of the chance in China, America appears to sim at attacking the India markets. A direct camship service has been arranged from Rangoon to New York for the transport of rice, while the interests concerned has secured a

lease of some rice mills which are in "elemy" ownership. They are, there fore, tolerably sure of a rice supply for their vessels Hamburg bouses used to on South American ports, and the aim control the greater part of the rice demand of the Americans is to divert this trade in themselves. Apart from this, it is being recognised in India that the suspension the demand, not only from enemy cous- tries: but by neutral States in Europe, involves the necessity for discovering new markets if India is to continue a solvent buyer of British manufactures to the

normal exter

ADMIRAL JELLICOS.

LADIES FASHIONS.

THE FIRST NEE OF TO-DAY.

$9,325, old 89,200, very old $0,100. old $9,825. Malwa market. A few lots to 3 years drug. 89,300. Older $9,100... _EXPORTS,*

There are noquotations for Feathers as the market is closed on account of new taxes which are resented by dealers. The prices of Ginger are unchanged out small business is passing. Galangal and Cassia Oil are firm with small business. doing. A fair business has been done in

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Jy, externally and eternally. (Lond laughter.) The world could not get on without the Chinese The Chinese quali have been sold at fellowing rates:--News ties of patience and pars veranes had carried the race on for thousands of years, and, he believed, would carry it on for thousands more. He believed that as long as the world stands,, China will be here a part of the great furniture of the world China and the Chinese" wers con vertible terms, “Ching! was the Chinesa" the Chinese were China.

It was the only nation in the world that Star Aniseed Oil, Star Aniseed is ent seats, and he believed it never would be picul with shells, and $7.70 per pioul with had never been turned from its ancestral Ground. Nuts are quoted at $6.60 per China had four or five peculiar marks of out shells. A small business has been tiens isolation. China had been brought up Human Hair is quoted at prices per picul differentiation. The first was comparative in Wood Oil, but nothing is doing in Soy. alone, practically without a neighbour. f.o.b. Hongkong. The fin market is and both the advantages and disadvantages dull, The London market is about £157 of this had been reaped. China had 10s. per ton. Nothing is doing developed framsident forces "the Quicksilver, Bilgui Cassit of all in things that had made Ching came from and no businges is reported in Bristles. within China except Buddhism; and though that had heen - an important factor, it had not been the factor. Then A quiet tone has prevailed in Cotton The men from the North Sea Flect who again, the evolution of China had been Yarn, and only an insignificant abandonment of racing the racing sires are now and again given a few fugitive relatively slow, and now we were in a business transpired at a recession in valuss would be found to have lost their perca-of the sterling qualities of Admiral

hours on leave are loud in their praisse period of acelerated evolution.

of $1 per balc. Quotations are:-No. 10 at $78/105. No. 128 at 985/101, No. 168 at tive efficiency.

Jellicoe. They tell how the first time the The first need of to-day was the need of $98/115, No. 20 at 804/196 Arrivaju Here is a letter from an officer of active Germans though they searched high and ained a was greater cohesion. There wil Bargains 16,000 bales. Unseld stuck Fleet swept the North Sea they found no serious reform, and the first thing to be 9,700 balas. Sales 1,000 bales. Shipments service that gives the miliary view: To low.. Jellico hoisted the brief signal, should less provincial jealousy and 10,000 bales. say that soldiers at home or abroad look on No luck."

Another day three of his more national co-operation. The people The Woollen market shows a slight im the continuance of racing is war time fastest cruisers sighted another vessel and of the north and the west and of Cantonprovement. A small business doing in...

gave chase. Presently they signalled that must learn to tolerate each other even if Unions where shipment is suitable, with anything but approval is simply to she was running away On which the they could not learn to work together. Metals fair enquiry has been reported dur- say that which is

no, as half an hour's Admiral signalled, "You are chasing one. They had perhaps been shown the needing the interval since last report, and sales conversation in any mess would pros. The fad, he had discovered, was that they President that under any preceding Steel Plate Cuttings, and Bara, Tinplates another's snioke. Don't do it too long. And the importance of this more under the have been effected in Nails, Tinplates, Those of us who went racing before thewery chasing one of our own sites Dynasty, but they had still much to were done at considerably below the war go now when we get the chance, and ships,

learn.

equivalent of Home price, buyers making we hoard our very scanty leave so that it

The speaker expressed his optimism in a good bargain: Reports from London Ladies' fashions are, of course, touched this respect by a glance at former anta- and America show firmness, the opinion may coincide with our favourite festival with warliko influences. New colours and gonism between New York and Pennsyl prevailing that freights will maintain WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. | Liverpool, Ascot, or the Waterloo Cup.new designs ars much in evidence Khaki vania. The people of these States, he present rates for some time even if there.

Soldiers at the front like to hear the sartorial tributes to the Navy in the shape a time hated each other for two reasons; all nominal. A small sale of Gal- garb, cat a la militaire, is giving place oberved amids much laughter, once upon is no further advance. Local prices 210- news of their favourite sports-hanting, of bat leship grey, often used in combinaone, because they knew too little of each vanized Wire has been reported. Thero coursing or racing. They know that we tion with carnation pink, while other other, and another, because they knew tow are no stocks of Pepper, Camphor or

shades in favour are Petrograd blae, lead | much. They were unified by 'are coming out when we are sons: in the sand and amber. The military are not pains and perils of revolution, and the borinnes are reported, The Bugar mar- Window Glasse. No sales of con! of ima- [15meantime, they don't grudge us our sport, altogether abandoncil, however, and so wo same might be the case with China. ket is stady, and there is a slight de

and look forward to taking a hand when have Joffre gorgs for tennis and similar

mand for Brown from northern ports. There are no stocks of Saltpetre, and the they get home wounded or on leave. uses, and besides such modernities we have

a revival of an old-world material

market is weak. Finally, one word to you, O ainiable and resurreccted from the early part of last The Chinese had the highest system of The American flour market rules ex- generally unwarlike faddist: Continue century-Organdie uusliu. As to mere morals in the world outside Christianity, ceedingly steady, but no new sales aro to curse racing, beting, drink, bookies, man, I am assured by a man who knows which was held to be the highest; but the reported for the Orient. In the local that the knowing ones are buying their morality of the State had got to be better marks the same state of stagnation | jockeys, and trainer, if curse you must, next winter's clothes now, for the pressure There must be public boaesty. The official exists, white lack of enquiry and small English · Maanfacturaen Bin all Boron and Siser,

but please don't put the curse into our on the woollen mills is such for army par must be honest; and every inan not an clearances have forced holders of stocks mouths. We do so dislike being exhibited pores that the tendency of ordinary sunofficial should see that he was honest. He further reduce prices, which were SMOKELESS POWDER and CHILLED by people we don't know as hambugs and plies is to deteriorate remarkably, while had been very much disappointed to already far below replacing cost. Stocks

prices are mounting all the time.

abserve that while since the Revolution are about 700,000 sacks. prigs."

Quotations:- SHOT. From No. 10 ta BS80, at $5, $7 and So we are to have our race-medlings,

there had been much talk about the Army Patents. M.44/8470 per bag. Chit Offs, 17.50 per 100 8PORTING REQUISITES ¦ on the same lines as in times of national The engagement of Mr. Neil Primrose and Navy, thing, was said about the $3.25/83.40, Straight, $3,20/$3.35. and AIR GUNS in Variety.

mourning, and we shall have some foot-to Lady Victoria Stanley has created necessity of living up to the Classics. ball matches, but the chief cricket fixture, some stir. He, as the rather Radical son The speaker next touched upon the Inspection Invited,

and other forms of athetics will go hy of Lord Rosebery, and she as the daughter great change which is taking place in the the board.

of Lord Derby, may perhaps manage to position of women, expressing the opinion blend the very oppreite political views of that the changes in the life of women in those parents and produce some sort of the Far Earl was one of the greatest I fear there has been something of the compromise of working quality. As factors in contemporaneous history be their latest Pisce Goods Market Raport faddis in the protests. People with us Lader-Seerary for Foreign Affairs Mr. cause of the number of women and becaus interest in racing, as a general rule, have Primrose has a great chance that his of their quality. Another great factory- been heard defending it continuance friends declare to is capable of using to was the change in sentiment with regard

The market has been featureless during and some with more than a superficial his own credit and the national advanto smoking opium. China was potentially the week owing in part to the recent heavy knowledge of it have been siding the tage, but in this session; ut any rate, it free from opium, and had made more pro- rain and consequent difficulties in moving critics. Thus are some of the changes cannot be said he has shone on subjectsgress in clearing it away than Western cargo throughout the Yangtze valley, and concerned with Chind. Lady Victoria nations had made in clearing themselves partly to the unsettling effect which the war has wrought

One or two other changes are worth a Stanley is a fresh, happy girl, with a of their vices,

controversy between Chine and Japan passing notice. Ons is that in the streets pretty colouring and an agreeable expres-

continues to exercise amongst the natives one may see numbers of ladies driving son, who should make an admirable wife Forming & view of the future on general The undertone appears to be quite healthy. their own cars their men and their to a rising politician. She is just ten principles, the first principle must be however, as clearances are well maintained chauffeurs having joined the colours. years younger than her future bride that, whatever happened, three hundred and the auction sales show an improving Even the commercial demands of the groom. He is, however, a very youthful millions or more of Chinese were a factor tendency on the whole, more especially for situation have brought women into action looking man, who to all appearances takes in the human race that had go to be Fast Blacks, which have ruled

firin on the same line, and at least ore big life pleasantly, in spite of his responsibi- reckoned with: The second principle was throughout. It is satisfactory to note that concern in London is employing a smart lities, as he is certainly entitled to do on that history had shown that the historic Newchwang, which has long been more ar woman to drive one of its delivery vans.the financial side, since he inherited a disunity of China could be changed into less inert as far as this market is concern-

So far, as the horse-drawn vans are very large fortune from his niatornal unity. This was to be accomplished by ed, has resumed clearances upon a moder concerned, so great has been the demand aunt,

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CHANGES THE WAR HAS WROUGHT,

NOTABLE MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCE.

THE MORALITY OF THE STATE,

the

Another necessary reform was in the pliere of morals.

A VIEW OF THE FUTURE.

SHANGHAI TRADE.

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