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THE WAR BUDGET STATEMENT.

(Continued from Page 3.)

If we saicin our exports at our pro sent figure a gigantic problems that ur have got to raise in this country 1,100 mitions of money for financing the opera tions of the war here and abroad. The priblets are full of dificulty and per plexity, but they are not jeuperable tå a nation' which has the temper and tho necessary unity to face them,

What are the possible means of meeting this great deückney? There is first of All the paper bridge. There is what is known as the dilution of currency. Dis- guise it as they will, there are many. girders in the German financial bridge which are made of paper, and no amount of paint and varnish will disguise the fact. It is ansasy method. It is a tempt ing method. You appear to get over your difficulties in the simplest way, and it is very difficult to point out where you are going wrong for the moment. It is really, looking at it most enrefully, simply an indirect method of levying a tax upon the income of the people You alter the currency and prices go up. A country. which has no foreign trade-which is the case of Germany now--can do it. A coun Lry which has still got a great interna. tional trade cannot do it. The gold would vanish from the country. Therefore it a a course which would be a fatal one for a Chancellor to pursue in order to get over B great his difficulties in meeting Jficiency.

What is the second method? It is by resorting to the expedient of selling our existing curities abroad. Such a policy would be fatal to this country, because the effect would be to place upon the foreign markets more than they could -revlily digest

THE COUNTRY'S INCOME. The only straightforward, reliable Course that will not damage us after the war is to depend more largely upon the income of this country. (Cheers.) What

is the income of this country? The income

THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.

CORPA DÈDENS NE LIBUT,-COL. CHAPMAN, V.D.

JOINED

1. The pudermentionesi, baring joined the Corps, are alloted Corps number and pested as follows:

No. 1866 Private J. C. Castillo to

Right. Section M. G. Co. No. 18.30 Private 1. S. McKenzie to

Right Section M. G. Co.

BELCHER'S SECTION.

2.--The attention of members of Belcher's Section is specially directed to the printed spesial instructions posted in the Drill Hall relating to war material in const defences.

-PARADES.

3.Parades for Thursday, 10 ins, it

take place or Friday this week.

4.

W.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 10m, 1916.

BOMBAY STREET SCENES.

which they possess is alleged to be capable of imparting prodigious virility to the imod el- LOW LIFE DOCTORS.

derlysiner. Buta gonoral practice—in which Tegs sometimes gu is bight as one rupee-is Autarcail puerimento My soul cleafy what they rely upon. To wear a nõcklace the dust." The cry of the Psalmist might the much of the dried vertelage of-p-serpent is the motto of any men and women in Bou sley way, a capital thing for various internal bay who speral most of their lives sitting, or ille. One of those meful articles, might p lying, on the pavement by the road side. It had cheng it looks as if it had been in stock is a curious aral, in all probability, anacquired for sane tire. Again for complaints of the taste, likely to prove repellent to those who ore, they recommend minste of the eyeball write to the Press comphining of the dust with certain snooth pebbles which should be ruisance, at one that is readily explained. dippalin Pumice stone-for-enfarnet is To the denizen of the pavement, a fer squaro į indeed a levote measury. - Homburg (intetis. feet of stones, contriving many Prposes, serve as bad and table, as shop, as pace for culi culinary operations, and as club. pays no rent and fears no foe--so long as he keeps to a pitch recognised by the police and does not encroach too far upon the thoroughfare where his presence would be an obstraction. Some may entertain the notion that the habitual occupants of the pevement ar

but there could be no

THE ARMAMENT OF WARSHIPS.

INCREASE OF HEAVY GUNS.

The gradual increase in the calibr

The parades usually bol on Thursday will beneath their notice any of these fowl of the main armament of battleships and

DETAIL.

On duly at Headquarters. From 7.15 a.m. 10th inst. to 7.15. 11th 12th

inst-Centre Section M: G. Co.. From 7.15 a.m. 11th to 7.15 a.. inst.-No. 2 Section Art. Batly.

At Gun-Chi Hill, Koffoon :

On duty until 12th inst.-W.KVA,

Orderly Officer: Lieut. Danby. Orderly Sergeant: Sergt. Sorby. Next for duty at Kowloon (Detention

Camp):

Capt.

June 12th Civil Service Co.:

Churchill.

June 13th Scouts Co.: Capt. Stewart, June 14th Scents Co.: Liont. Weall June 15th Scouts Co. Ligat. Murphy. June 16th Centre Section M. G. Co.

Capt. Wood.

June 17th No. 2 Section Art. Batty.

Lieut. Danir.

cansus

other methods by which the offensive value of the warship has been modified are dis cussed in an interesting article in the Journal of Cummerne.

more mistaken notion. people are, one suspects, inclved in the

returns under

of the heading "professions and liberal arts." It is a comprehensivo classification embriog

Our oldat, in fact the majority, of our among others, perhaps the reader of this column; and unidwives and lawyers; cireum-battleships (the writer says), carry a elsers and pligrim conductors, astrologerland primary armuracht of four 12-4 guns- medical practitioners of all kinds. The group placed in two twin-gua barbettes, one is not only large and comprehensive but forward and one aft. These vessels are growing. Much of the grows, says the also fitted with a secondary armament of Borbay Census report, is "due to the transfer from ten to twelve Giu, quick-firing guns, to this group of many who in 1901 were and an anti-terpede armament of 12- classed as beggars and vagrants. Where

ere pounder, d-pounder and 5-pounder guns. legging is an honourable profession, often In these ships the secondary armament conducted under the guise of religion, it is diicult to know where to draw the line. It was intended to tako its full share in à is a thin partition, said Juvenal, that divides flect action. us all from death-four fingers breadth, or seven if the plank be very wide. So too is it narrow line that divides the professions, even those of journalism or of medicine, from beggary.

FEMALE PRACTITIONERS.

The six-inch gun of the British Navy is an extremely useful weapon. The shell weighs 100lb., and this represents approxi mately the maximum weight which can be man-handled. Any bigger gan would June 18th No. 1 See. Art. Batty, and

require hydraulic or some other mechani Left Section M. G. Co. Capt. Preachers of feminism seem to have enl shell transporter and loader, and this Armstrong.

neglected the examples of women in the pro-greatly decreases the rate of fire. For --Until further orders, tho guard at fessions that are to be found in India. In that reason, and because of the devastat

Headquarters will be changed at 7.15 Europe the female docter is still compara- a.m. and 7.15 p.m., instead of attively rare, but in India she is often to being effect of a hail of shell from ten of

Mote

7 1.1. and 7 pim.

E. STEWART, Capt.,

Adjutant, H.K.V.C.

of this country in times of peace. HONGKONG VOLUNTEER RESERVES.

is probably $3,100,000,000. Now it higher.

We are spending hundreds of millions of money, borrowed money, and most of it is spent in this country. Men are earn- ing high wages and profits are consider- ably higher. The result is that the ineome of this country at the present moment is probably higher than it is in timey of jense.

Some people are probably making larger profits than others. That is B& matter which may have to be considered- when we an: raising contributions to carry on the war for a year-the resouces of those who have made creeptinual pro- fite out of the war. (Cheers). To carry on a gical war like this we must depend primarily upon the savings of the com- munity. What are the ordinary savings in this country? In time of peace the ordinary savings are about thres or four hundred millions per annum, and in times of war with an undoubtedly in- ereased national income the savings ought to be considerably increased.

Our ancestors at the beginning of the last great war were faced with a taxation equivalent to one-tenth of their actual income; they proceeded to one-sixth, and as the war went on they taxed themselves to the extent of one-fourth, and ended by taxing themselves to the extent of two sevenths of their income. That was what our ancestors did to meet the expenses of a great continental war.

The savings of the nation must be made Available as security for any new national Joan. As the present moment I will con- fine myself to the problem of to-day, and

will invite the House of Commons to renew the income-tax duly upon its pre- sent scale with the modifications which I have explained. I have already indicated certain other alterations in the taxes and duties which I propose to ask the House to assent to,

For the moment I simply ask the Com- mittee to pass a resolution to renew the income tax at its old scale, simply giving. this warning to the House that if the war is prolonged it will be the duty, in my judgment, of the House of Commons to consider what further contributions in. any other form the community can make to enable us to carry on the war, success in which is vital to the very existence of this Empire. (Cheers).

WAR BREVITIES.

ORDERS AT MAJOR WAKEMAN, 0.C.H.K.V.A.

L'ABADES,

Sections Laml 2 of " A'' Co, and 3 and 4 of

The

"B" Co. and the whole of "C" Co.

Drill Order.

more 6-in. guns, a large number of experts were of the opinion that this weapon should be retained in the ship's arrnament,

Other authorities, however, held the view that the primary armament was likely to prove so dominant at ranges at which the secondary armament would be comparatively ineffective, that the latter was not likely to come into play until the issue had been decided by the dominant Bre of the primary armenient. Curiously enough both sides appealed confidently to the result of the Tsushimin battle to up- hold their pet theory.

seen. A fine selection of them sits on the pavement in Bombay within a few minutes' walk of Victoria Terminus. They are as rule so deeply occupied in professional at ters, or in engaging passersby in conversation, that they cannot spare much time for the toilette. It is, therefore, a tribute to their skill that they owe nothing of their success to feminine charms and allurements, in which indeed they appear to be sadly deficient, Nor does their stock in trade spread before them in confused heaps- appear par- will parade outside the Law Courts atticularly attractive to those whose conception 5.15 m. on Friday, June 11th. Dress, of medicine in general is invariably affected

by Visions of the gaily coloured fagons in chemist's window. But, drugs in the mw

In the King Edward VII type au stato are seldom picturesque. The little heaps of bark and jungle-wood-chiefly used intermediate course was adopted. These as palliatives in the universal and distress vessels are like their predecessors armed ing complaint of teething-do not look with our 12-in, guns, but they also carry their best on a dirty rag by the wayside, four 9.9-in, guns in single hatbetter, two But they are the commoner articles which on each beam, while their secondary these women keep in their dispensaries: armament consists of ten 6-in, guns. The were still 12- for their more subtle experiments upon the anti-torpedo weapons human body they rely upon animal con-pounders, pounders, and small quick- stituents rather than upon any vegetable or rers. In the next class, which included mineral.

the Lord Nelson and Agamemnon, the THE PHARMACOPOEIA OF THE PAVEMENT.

main armament was further strengthened The basis of using of the prescriptions by Increasing the number of 0.9-in. guns avoured by these women is some part of to ten. The 6-in, gun was dispensed with, the owl, though that bird is used more tor external than for internal use. Its clawa and the anti-torpedo armament was

Recruits will parade under 8.M. Bond on the Cricket Ground at 5.16 p.m. on Monday, June 14th, Wednesday, June- 16th, and Thursday, June 17th." Bress, Drill Order.

" Co. will parade on the Parade Ground at Volunteer's Headquarters at 3.15 p.m., Wednesday, June 10th, under 8.M. Cooke, for aiming and position drill and-musketry exercises.

DETENTION CAMP GEARR.

H.K.V.R. will relieve the H.K.V.C. on the Detention Camp Guard on Saturday,

June 12th.

QUN CLUE HILL AND VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTEns

GUARD.

INTIMATIONS

LANE

CRAWFORD&Co.

T

B

C

D

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P

T.

(ESTABLISHED 1850).

(Thermosn 1741).

HIGH-CLASS BRIAR

FROM

PIPES

LOEWE, $6 'MASTA'

B. B. B.

PRESENTATION

CASES.

CIGAR AND CIGARETTE HOLDERS

TOBACCO POUCHES.

DUTCH AND MANILA CIGARS.

SMOKING MIXTURES AND

PLUG TOBACCOS.

EGYPTIAN AND VIRGINIAN CIGARETTES.

ALL WELL.ENOWN AND FOPULAR BRANDS KEPT IN STOOK.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

PRINTING & BINDING

[OF EVERY DESCRIPTION EXECUTED AT THE OFFICES

OF THE

are made into charms against the evil eye12-pounders.

composed of no less than twenty-four HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,”

WHICH ARE REPLETE WITH ALL THE LATEST AND MOST UP-TO-DATE

APPLIANCES FOR THE PROMPT PRODUCTICH OF

HIGH-CLASS WORK.

The H.K.R. will re'ievo the H.K.V.C. on

and its bones, chopped into little cylindrical

After the Lord Nelson class were design- Saturday, June 12th, at Gun Club Hill sections, into necklats and bracelets endowed and Volunteer Headquarters,

with mysterious prophylactic powers against ed and previous to their completion a The tiger also momentous change took place. The mixed Gun Club Hill Guard will consist of the unknown evil. 3 N.C.O. and 24 men of Sections 2, 3 an animal in great demand. As every calibre primary armament was generally und to “C” Co., under Lieut. Blason, shikari knows, the claws, whiskers and considered a mixed blessing. The valu

armarnent in constant demand of any

depends on the and will mount nightly throughout other parts are the work at Gun Club Hill from and in-and the secker after health and hap-accuracy of fire, this is itself deperdent on the fire control system, and gunnery cluding Saturday, June 12th, to Fri-piness will not hesitate to despoil even a

stuffed tiger, as has occurred before now in experts are agreed that the direct fire of ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES. day, June 17th, at 10 p.m.

the museum in the Victoria Gardens, But Dress, full marching order, with 10ried tiger's flesh-a kind of half-baker homogeneous armament is much easier rounds of atomunition. Topce to be

worn.

possibly more anconimon. Its use is in cases of fever. For headache avoid voal-tar drugs

The Volunteer Hoadquarters Gunrel will consist of 1 N.C.Q. and 3 men, who will form the guard from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.Pass the dried bend of and one N.C.D. and 6 men from 7p.m.

to 7 a.m.

LEAVE.

and uasty tabloids that tickle the heart.

up snake across the

THE DREADNOUGHT AND SUPER-DREADNOUGHT. From the Lord Nelson design, with s four 12-18, and ten 9.2-in. guns the British Admiralty jumped at enes to the Dread. nought, carrying ten 18-in guną, no secondary armament, and 24 19-pounders. The success of the new design, once the secret hecame known, was demonstrated by the alacrity with which the idea was copied by the leading naval Powers.

PRICE LISTS.

CIRCULARS.

BALL AND CONCERT PROGRAMMES.

INVITATION CARDS.

VISITING CARDS.

AND

From the Dreadnought down to the COMMERCIAL STATIONERY

EXECUTED

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION -

ACCURACT WITH NEATNESS,

AND

DESPATCH

forehead, and if you haven't got one it can be bought from one of these dealers in pills and The guard will be arranged by the Sec. spells. As for earache there is but one re- tion Commanders from the Sections de-medy-gentle friction of the ear with the tailed below:-Saturday, June 12th, Sec. claw of a peacock dippest in oil; presumably it retains, even in tummified form, something tion 1 of "A" Coy.; Sunday, June 13th. Section 2 of "A" Coy.; Monday, June of the ear-affecting qualities of the peacock's

volc

Queen Elizabeth the changes in armament 14th. Section 3 of "A" Co.; Tuesday,

This brief catalogue shows how conserva have been twofold. The primary arma- June 15th, Section 4 of "&" Coy: Wedursday, June 16th, Section I of Ctive are these wayside witches. They claim meat has been increased in power by

that their lore is inherited, that they owe Coy: Thursday, June 17th, Section 1 of nothing to books or to modern teaching, and employing guns of larger calibre, and the anti-torpedo arwament has greatly "Coy: Friday, June 18th, Section that none but the initiated can pretend to a 2 of "B".

knowledge of the mysteries of their horrid altered. At about the same time as the trade. But, frue though that may be in Drendraught was completed an immense ENDER EXPERIENCED EUROPEAN SUPERVISION, AT BEASONABLE

its part, there is no casto secret about the phar development took placs in the range and macopoeia of the

display may accuracy of the locomotive torpedo. PRICES, pavement; ho peculiar, but the root principle of it was While the torpedo-craft had-to-come- at one time almost universal. Search a within 2.000 yards of her prey before dis- sufficient number of their outfits and there charging her weapon, the 19-pounder gun is little doubt that there will be found nearly cyd be relied upon to stop her in tizie. all the ingredients of the noisome brew on But when the range of the torpedo was pounded by the witches in Macbeth. The doubled, trebled and eventually increased above includes at any rate to soar thing like 10,000 yards a more something approaching to the "fillet of a fenny snake," the tiger's chaudron and the powerful weapon, was considered neces- "howlet's wing" of Shakespeare's witches sary to ensure the effective stopping of One misses the "liver of blaspheming Jew the orpedo craft. Hence all subsequent bat then the spread of education, the alliance Dreadnoughts, until the Iron Duke type, Judenhetze unpopulur; moreover, Jew's liver would be not casily pricumble. HARLEY STREET.

Applicatious for leave of absence for more than one month must be sent by O.Ca Cotspantes to the Adjutant at feast 14 days before the intended date of depar- tare, stating mank, Company and Section, length of leave desired and destination Applications for shorter leave may be granted as heretofore.

ORDERLY OFFICER.

ORDERLY SERGEANT.

Some of the German mines in the North Ses were recently washed ashore on the They proved to be const of Holland. dummies, constructed of wood and canvas, thus suggesting that the Germans are short of explosives.and that they are USING NOTE, Commencing to-day, the 9th inst., tho with Russia, and other causes have made carried an anti-torpedo armament of 16 |

bogies to frighten Dutch shipping,

The President of the Board of Trade announced on the 13th April that up th the end of last March 33,000 women had heen registered for special service in the United Kingdom in order to release The number mare men for enlistment.

The includes 3,000 for armament works. Governrennt has agreed to pay women the piece work rates paid to men, but it has made no rule with regard to time rates.

Since the beginning-of-the war German. raiding cruisers eank 67 vessels carrying cargoes valued at £6,691,000. The damage caused by the various raiders was a follows: Emden £2,211.000. Karlsruhe Bitel Friedrich. Prinz $1,691,000. £88,000. During the same period the total value of the cargo carried by ships to and from the United Kingdom amounted to $736,000,000.

Július Andrassy, Austro- Count Hungarian Envoy, has admitica to an Hungarian newspaper interviewer at Budapesth that the recent conference which he attended in Berlin related to peace conditions. He regretted that the Germans were hated everywhere, and especially the Prussian people of North They were not refined, and Gerwony, they were even brates. They would never Ther had too obtain a world dominion. many frontiers and their colonies only cost them money.

Orderly Olio for the week: Lient. Bonnar Orderly Sergeant for the week: Sergt. Hur.

ley.

BOOK-BINDING

IN ÁLL ITS BRANCHES.-

MACHINE-BÜLING, GOLD-LETTERING, MARBLING, Ero. EXECUTED ON THE PREMISES AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE. ILAW WORK A SPECIALITY.

#LEDGERS AND ACCOUNT BOOKS.

or more 4-in. weapons. In the Iron Duke and her successors the tin. gun has again returned, this time by common consent.

AT PRICES WHICH COMPARE FAVOURABLY WITH THOSE OF ANY It was omitted from the ships' armament because it could not be effectively employ- OTHER ESTABLISHMENT IN THE FAR EAST. ed in conjunction with the primary armament at battle ranges, and it has returned because under altered circum

guard for the Detention Camp will par ad at the Ferry Wharf at 6.10 p.m. and cress to Kowloon by the 6.25 p.m. terry:

A little farther up the road from the lady The Detention Camp Guard and the Gun Club-Hill Guard wil travel-fedin-Kowloon doctors, are two male practitioners of the to Hongkong by the first available, ferry healing art. They are to the ladies just coch morning, The Star Ferry Co. have described what Harley Street is to the six-penny practitioner of the East End kindly enassented to convey these guards Not only are their fees higher, but their free, but only on condition that they stock in trade includes powders and aims of the torpedo craft. We thus sea travel all together, under comraand of liquids

in bottles-and the bottle is that so far as the guns carried by a war- such cases n. sure sign of respectability;

an Officer.

G. K. H. BRvTrox. Capt.,

-Adjutant II.K.V.R...

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE

AATES (CENTRAL POLICE STATION, 5.30 rx.): Thursday, June 10th, S. Ps. Parade of

all N.C. Officers with Martinis. Friday, June 11th-No. 1 British Platoon

STORER

with Service Rifles; also Chinese Re- truits Platoon under Sergeant-Major. Platoon Commanders will send at their earli. est convenience to Store-Sergeant Tape, China Mutual Life Insurance Co., Alex- andra Blugs, the following lists: -- (a) Napes of men with armlets and

numbers. (by Names of men requiring armlets. (e) Names of men with trunclenas.

F. C. JENKINS,

A. S. P. (Reserve).

in

ESTIMATES FURNISHED,

returns it is not necesary to defeat the 10A, DES VŒUX ROAD, HONGKONG.

it is equivalent to the brougham or motor ship are concerned the number of primary

guns has been increased from four to

ten, while the 12-pounder gun has dis- appeared. In place of the latter weapon

car to the frock coat and silk hat of the West End. They are not unlike in appearance these eminent old gentlemen, and occasionally, though rivals, they act together in consultuour latest ships carry guns of approxi- tion.

mately the same site for anti-aircraft. purposes, so that the net result is an increase in the number of big guns.

A single doctor like a sealler plies: The patient lingers, and then slowly dis. But two physicians, like a pair of 021, Waft you more swiftly to the Stygian shores.

After a long interval news is again One trembles to think of the rapidity with which they might waft their patient from this coming through from those portions of life. Their medicines look as if they were

Western Poland which are in the enemy's hands. At Lodz the town gaard has been endowed with great potency, but their assar- ance that, if they do you no good, they will at least do no harm, shows that the art of disbanded and replaced by a German police making bread pills is known to lesser then fores. In some districts it has been im possible to sow the crops owing to the In others. than fashionable West-End physicians. Wer entire absence of seed. they to guarantee a cure from every draught German officials have appeared and placed of their medicine, they might wax fat like the character in Shaw's" Doctor's Dilemma." They both reed and implements at the disposal are specialists, it seems, in the treatment of of the farmers, after exacting from them diseases that must not be mentioned in polite an understanding to sell their harvest to! society, and a little phial of greenish liquid the Government.

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