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64254-A Farewell (Kingsley-Liddle} 74417-One Sweetly Solemn Thought

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDA1, AUGUST 7TMa, 1815.

General Ivanoff,

LEMBERG AND AFTER. one of these lines, and daily for 17 to 18 days. In all, 25,000 trains were used, and ENGLAND'S UNPREPAREDNESS Germany has obviously ample power to transfer at any time, and to transfer [BY THE TIMES" MILITARY CORRESPONDENT] rapidly, forces from one front to another.

The best that we can do all we Allies- Affairs in Galicia are pursuing theis to attract as many German spears as course which was inevitable when the possible into our own breasts, and this we Austro-Germans succeeded in deploying in the West and Russia in the East have six Armies vastly superior in numbers, been doing, acending to our lights, and guns, and in supplies of awaănition to

on the whole with success. We have to the Russian Southern Armies under watch for new developments, such as a fresh transfer of forces if Russia is badly winged, and it is for this rennon that is immeasurably important for us all not to worry about loss of territory in retreat, but to devote our main attention, until all our forces are armed and in line, to the maintenance of solid fronts, and to the increase of pressure whenever a transfer of German forces from one front to another takes place. If Germany tries to transfer half a million or more of men from the Euss before, very long, then Russia's opportunity will come. -Nothing matters except the preservation of solid fronta, and the maintenance in all the armies and people of the Allies of a firm resolution to conquer at all costs.

Five of these Austro-German Armies are tantching eastward on a broad front or are endeavouring to force the passages of the middle Dniester, The sixth Army, McCormack

under the Archduke Joseph Ferdinand, Gluck has the separate mision of protecting the Whitehill

left flank of the main armies, and in put suance of this mission has taken post on Williams the Tancw, where it is well placed to meet Destinn any attempt by the Grand Duke to descend with troops drawn from the Russian Cen- Gluck-Homer tral aranes upon the communications of Williams the Austro-German Armies in Galicia. There are also Gorman troops in the angle Bedloe of the San and the Vistula, while between MeCormack the Vistula and the Filica the Army of General Woyrach links up the maid operát Witherspooning Armies with the German forces in

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If the Grand Duke can strike Poland. Joseph Ferdinand on the Tanow, and strike him hard, the face of affairs may change, but we have no news that the Rumans are in Rufficient strength near the Tanew to embark upon such an opera- tion, failing which the security of the Austro-Germani main Armies is reason- ably assured.

ENEMY LOSSES.

ITALY'S DISCOVERY. PEACEFUL PENETRATION"

GERMANY,

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Mr. Winthrop L Marvin, author of A History of the Americas Merchant Marine." writes in the San Francino Chronicle:-

The United States might as well be with- out gan factors or cartridge factories or powder works as without ocen shipyards in this fateful year of the Lord, 1915.

Fifty steamships, ranging in capacity from 4,000 to 12,000 tons, have been contracted for by Aubrican shipyards for salt water service since December 1, 1916 paralleled record of notity in the merchant shipping business. Several American coast yards have all the work which they can hand for two years to come. Others can undertake more construction and are busily negotiating for it, and every week brings the announcement of important now orders for large vessels for the coastwise, West India of

trades. othracean raw Your a sutidon change has cone over this particular American industry which, up to the end of 1914, was sharing to all of the great productive industries of the the fill the suvers depession that lay-upon- United States. It can be said of American shipphauts as a whole that they are busior and more prosperous than any other industrial concerns in this Nation, except those devoted to the day-and-night prxiuction of guns and

kolligerents of explosives for the

Europe. The American people are in a position to realin ns never before that in their ocean BY shipyards they possess a national asset of the very first magnitude. It is a strange fact but a true one, that only threo nations in the world possess the skill and eapacity to construct at home all the ship required for their own merchant navis. One of these nations is Great Britain and the other is Germany--both absorbed in

The third is¦ Of the five Armies engaged upon the

Before this war most of us had an idea great and desperate war.

the United States reconquest of Galicia, those on the Dries that Peaceful Penetration," that ter

The shipyards of Germany are now unavail- ter have been unsuccessful and have rible euphemism for clandestine appro-able and so, in another way, are the ship suffered great cas. Oi one front of 40 priation, was u-process-applied only tovarus of England, Kotland and Franc miles alone the Russians estimate the countries more or less uncivilised. Tho

They are either occupiel in construction au Austro-German loses at 120,000 to 150,000 English public, caring nothing for foreign repair work on warships and transports, OF mon. The Army under von Lansingen has politics, never imagined for one moment are building merchant craft on home account, suffered most, but the Armies under that it was going on all the time in Europe and cannot andertake any foreign onlers. Generals Panzer and von Bothner bave But this war has taught us many things, Moreover, the war and its listnations have net escaped punishment. Despite the not the least important of which, perhaps, so alocally formed ap the rates of wages reccut Bussian vietory near Niziow,is the extent to which Germany had de- and the costs of materials, time for the first time in sixty years the price of ships from things have not been going well in Calcia.veloped the technique of "peacefully pene- It was on the Lemberg front, where the trating the territories of her neighbours. Fritish shipyards is virtually equal to the Armies of von Mackensen and Böhm The commercial treaty with Russia, ex- parica in the United States. Ermali were principally engaged, that torted as the price of neutrality during the the main blow was delivered by the enemy. Russo-Japanese War, is an extreme in- Fe claims to have forced the Grodek lines stance. It is said to have bound the great by a frontal attack and to have captured empire hand and foot, and many trace Lensberg. We have no certain news from this terrible war to its Shylockian opera Russia on this point, but it is possible that tions. Her in Italy we see the more the success of von Mackensen's attack normal manifestations of the same process, farther north in the ragion of Rawaruska Italians say that in a few years the north may have been the chief reasan for the of Italy would have become in fact, if no Russian retirement, which seems to be in name, a German province. The great general. This success was gained on industrial centres, especially Milan, wore Saturday, June 18th, and as the Grodek penetrated with German influence and position was simultaneously forced a re-German capital. For this reason the treat home imperative. There was lamentable orgy of destruction in Milan rearguard stand before Lemberg to delay as werk (which incidentally has cost the the enemy's advance and give time for the head of the police and the Prefect their withdrawal of Russian troops from the places) may not be altogether useless in Dniester, but, on the whole, if the situation the long run. It marked the end of en even faintly resembles that which the era, the beginning of a determination to Austro-German reports depict, we must keep "Italy for the Italians" so far as expect that General Ivanoff will fall back reasonably possible. upon the lines of the Bereth and the Bug. and it will cause no surprise that Lemberg I doubt if mest English people realise should have fallen into the enemy's hands, wwen now how inexorably the Teuton pote

It may require hard marching and hardpas had fixed his tentacles un Italy to mick fighting for Ivaneff's columns to get back away her lifeblood. without serious interference by the Austro-German troops, but in all fighting where coolness and steadiness are essential requisites the Russian soldiers are unsur passed, and if no needless delay has any where occurred, or no orders have gone astray, there is every hope that the Armies will hold together and reach the Bug in condition to continue the contest.

EAST AND WEST.

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OHINA OVERLAND TRADE BEFOR is now ready and containis:—

Far Eastern News. Hongkong.

Decorations and Promotions. Telegrams.

Count Okuma on the Yellow Peril. Leading Articles:

German Methods of. Trado in China, Trading with the Enemy, Why does Hongkong Horitate? China and Opium. Random Reflections.

Experimental Farming in Szechuan, The West River Disaster. Kwangtung Flood Relief Fund. Garments from Hongkong, Tobacco for the Troops.

Borneo and the War Relief Fund. Sources of Euomy-Trading in Japan, Company Meeting:-

The Grand Hotel, Ltd.. Tekohama. Hongkong Exporters and Dealers. Piracy in Doop Day:

European Fireman Jumps Overboard. Liquidating German Firms at Hongkong. Radium Spring in Japan. Japan's Financial Administration: Shanghai Swept by a Typhoon. Local Spert..

The Law Courts, Macan Notes.

China's Constitution. The Governor-General of Kwangtung. Redemption of Paper Notea in Szechuan. Improving Hankow. Flood in Kwangsi.

A Letter of the “ Group.” Press Mosage from China), Five Railway Projects in Manchuri China Missionaries Called, to *Shoulder

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Honghong and the Manufacture of

finitions.

The Floods.

Summer Night in Hongkong,

**What the Butler Saw."

Hongkong Tramway Co. Shipping Notes, Peking Notes,

Japan's Twentieth Year of Rule in Formosa, Foreign Visitors to Japan. Commercial

Passenger List.

making inquiries in America. A few orders or-foreign account have actually been placed here and more are coming. The United State in this emergency is manifesting a power of suit-reliance that is most significant. to It is building all the ships required for its own merchants as well as other ships for foreign lands.

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was the American people are being tought In many artiles, such as elec the impressive lesson that great and prosper each year. tric light fittings and toys, to take but two ons ocean shipyards are indispensable, put instances, Germany had an absolute monnonly to their commercial independence, but In others, such as to iteir national security. It is perfectly safe to assume that, if those Senators of the It will have been observed that the poly of the market.

United States who voted last August to Russian Bourse Gazette declares that Eng-agricultural machinery, she had an over-

whelming predominance. land's unpreparedness for the spring

Then take banking. At the beginningaduit foreign-built ships indiscriminately to the constwise trade of the United States- campaign has allowed Germany to trans

war Italian Auddenly realised fer to the Eastern theatre 30 per cent. of of the

one of the

and thereby to deprive our shipbuilding leading banks D the forces which were in France and

Italy was in effect n German in industry absolutely of national protection Belgium in the middle of April, while the

stitution. Nor were ather banks fr and encouragement-were given another Russian communiqué of June 20th states

Of course,

oportunity, nine out of ton of them, in the light of this Europan war, would reverse that the enemy's offensive in Galicia from a similar suspicion,

their sction, and join the two-thirds of the THAT OF do you get? and what do you June 18th and 19th was conducted with there was a tremendous clearing out of

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great forces, including troops recently suspect elements, but a great deal of harm arrived from Belgium. Our point of viey had already been done. Again, only the Soute who voted against such a suicidal Probably you tell your boy to get just "Oil" is that neither Engand nor Russia has other day it was discovered that a popular our se. from the Compradore. Why not tell him to yet been able to place in the field in the surance ecpany was mainly Austrian principal theatre anything like their fight in constitution, so that, presumably, Ita- ing strength, and for precisely the surelian deposits brad been sent to Austria to reasons, which need not now be discussed. help finance the war against Italy! And Owing to these causes we may have to Be on to the end of the chapter. postpong till-next spring the final settle- ment of our quarrel with the Central Enropean Power, and we may be com- pelled, in the interval, to play out time netil the moment errives when we and Russia can bring up the missing quantities and can supply them with arms and It will ammunition on 4 proper scale. be a hard period, but we must be ready to go through with it; and must not make it worse by lack of patience or the answer must be: Bresuse the Germanssiles

Donths. The excentive cannot be blamed Let us recall that a Russian communíqué have been more enterprising, more far practical purposes and in less than two fo this, as I pointed out what would happen of June 13th very accurately described seeing, and more chliging.

Thus it is a general complaint here that te wood pavement in Calcutta to the com- the real situation. It showed that Ger-

wittee which sat some years ago to consider many sent six-sevenths of her originala firm scaling with England can hardly Bu a German bank

the question at the best road surface. The forces to the West, and that even after-ever obtain credit.

would nearly always give credit to a firma piece of wood pavement in Clive Chat Street wards, when sorte Army Corps were

It rins is out of the question now on account of the so transferred were promptly replaced by goods.

very high cost. Test is an oily non-absorbent troops of recent formation. We have had rarely condescend to give a price ci

(that is to say, delivered on the dock) at timber and this and the small area of the the bulk of the German forces on our

an Italian port, while German firms never pivement in Clive Ghat Street is the canse hands in the Wet from first to last, and

wearing qualities of teak. I am personally they still remain on our hands. A few fail to do, being willing, moreover, to its success, apart from the very good DON'T GRIN AND BEAR IT. Army Corps, such as the Guard and the quote a price of delivery at one's own decr-convinced that wood pavement cannot be a

Thea, again, thers are

saccess in any climate which has long alter-ferHOKE 1219, 41st Reserve Corps, as well-as-two of the step, if necessary. Tossing and turning on a bed of woe, newly-formed divisions, were recently sen:

lish trader of trying to force upon his cus-

weather." do you rise with an aching, painful back east to join in the Galician operation, that unfite you for work or pleasuroi bat 12 out of the 14 new German divisions tomers what he thinks they ought to want,

The German Freemasons have agrind OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE. Backache is serious. It should not be have been located in France or Belgium, rather than what they do want; of failing. neglected. You should not "grin and and the statement of the Bourse Gazette to speak the language of the country; of neglecting to study the manners and cus-

upon a special demonstration of hostility bear it." STOP IT by rubbing in stands in need of rectification.

toris of the people. LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM, the

GERMANY'S RAILWAY SYSTEM,

Whether all this be true, one cannot tell, Italy, and have included the French

Freemasons in their condemnation. great cure for all external aches and

It is natural that when a great effort is but the important thing is that Italians solution was passed by the authorities pains. For many years, in every land,

in Berlin recently to the effect that uil this wonderful remedy has been the being made by the Germans in the East believe it to be true. people's roady relief from pain, You they should devote to it more than the chance for England in Italy now! After relations with the Italian and French should keep it in the house, in the shop,peteventh of their forces which were sent the war Italy will need capital more than Freemasons should be broken off, on the ground that the Italian Freemasons, in the field, wherever you spend your gainst Russia last autumu at the out ever, and the determination to boycutt days and nights. It is the quickest, break of war. We cannot prevent Ger German goods as far as possible is growing limulated by their Fronch colleagues, surest relief and care for aches, pains, many from utilizing to some extent the stronger every day. If the British can officially took part in political party FRENCH LESSONS sprains, strains, bruise neuralgia, advantages of her central situation and copy the German virtues and avoid the struggles leading to the war and so

rheumatism.

of her magnificent railway system. The German vices, they will find not only a violated a fundamental rule of Frecina Bold at Is ad per bottle.

writer was informed some months ago by red but a profitable, welcome in Italy onry." It was expressly added that the Agents for Hongkong:-

a good foreign suthority, that, during the Indeed. granted the foundation of an Eng relations of German Freemasons with preliminary act of concentration Germany fish bank and a revision of English pre-emy countries other than Italy and Messrs. A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

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MORTIS.

The wood pavement experiment for Cal- cutla, streets, a Calcutta message says, seems likely to end in failure, not only on account Now, it je no use just sitting down and ofthe high cost but owing to the climate. ascribing this state of things to pure de-This will leave tar mucadain as the only vitry on the part of ineffably wicked Ger-utable material. far macadam is a most Admittedly, of course, many Ger- excellens preventive of the dust nuisance, Regard- man methods have been dubious and maybe its slipperiness is a drawback. German traders have taken unscrupulousing the experimenal laying of wood in advantage of their position. But there as stings Street, the chief engineer in the a failure, possibly this and certainly next another side of the picture. Why have thy course of a report delares: It is going to be the expansion juínt at the An rains, as

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