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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1915.

S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.

PIANOS

ON

HIRE

FROM

$10 Per MONTH.

SILK TRADE OF CANTON."

RESEARCH IN DYES.

The Acting British Consul at Canton EMINENT CHEMISTS MOBILIZED, (Mr. J. W.:0. Davidson), reporting on the silk trade of that city in 1911, remarks that the year opened with a good and con. tinued demand from Europe and the United States, and very high prices were paid for the best grades of silk.

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and a moderate daily business was thus carried on at considerably reduced prices. Comparative values (in dollars) of vari- qua grades of silk were as follows:

January, May,

1014.

MAN WHO SANK THE **LUSITANIA.”

STORY OF GERMAN COMMANDER'S

REMORSE.

(Limited) are establishing a Research The board of directors of British Dyes Department, and have invited Dr. G. T. Morgan, F.R.S., of the Royal College of

M. Gustavo Herve's paper, La Guerra Scienen for Ireland, Dublin, to become the head of the Department.

Sociale (Paris) publishes the following re- They have resolved to appoint a Teca-markable story of the sinking of the nical Committee, which will consist of the Lusitania in the form of a telegram from following gentlemen:-

They have also resolved to appoint au Advisory Council under the chuirmanship. of Professor Meldola, FR,S., and the fol- gentlemen havo been invited to he come mevibers ; —

Professor J. N. Collie, F.R.S., Univer xity College, Londen,

Professor A. W. Crossley, F.R.S. King's College London.

Professor Percy F. Franklandi, F.R.S, The University, Birmingham.

Professor A. G. Green, F.R.S., The Cai- versity, Leeds.

THE END OF PARTY POLITICS?

"The party system is breaking down. way in which the party game is played. The People are ceasing to be interested in the

thing is becoming antiquated. Yet we do not face the facts"--Bishop Craighton.

In the Nineteenth Century W. S. Lilly sub- mits the arguments which tend to show that In February the prices cased off, and

the steaia of national peril.

The Party System Breaks Down" under the supply of old silk, estimated at 5,000

and nature of parties the writer says:

Of the origina to 6.000 bales, was completely sold out by the end of April. Owing to the seri

Prescription has been called by Burke ously reduced yield of silk caused by the Dr. J.-C. Cain, Dr. G. T. Morgan, F.R.Sman socialist, and the liter from which principles for their original foundation. Dr. M. O. Forster, FR.S. (Chairman), Milan. The writer is said to be a Ger

a blind form of reason. Precedents havo floods in June, dealers became wiwill Mr. J. Turner.

it was taken would appear to have been Even shibboleths may be the offspring, ing to sell, busing during July was

communicated by an American propagan legitimate or illegitimate, of syllogisms. greatly restricted, and higher prices were

dist to a jourcali t representing American. And on prescription, precedents and shib established. With the outbreak of the

and Italian newspapers. war the market became totally demoralis-lowing

boleths political partics largely depend. "The order to sink the Zuritanie They represent, morcover, a tendency of ed, the chief feature being the cancella

arrived on May 2nd at Heligoland, and tion of many contracts for Europe on the

human nutture which always has been putent plea force mejcure, which was recognised

aroused the indignation of all the officers, and always will be. Sir Henry Maine speake by Chinese dealers. The removal of some

More than one was beside himself. The of them as being "probably far more a of the restrictions on finance and e

order was nevertheless carried out by the survival of the primitive combativeness of U 21. which left under the command of differences between n and man." Da-

nankind than of conscious keeping of the trade routes open gradual

intellectual ly restored confidenze, and enabled a fair

Lieutenant Hersing. The writer of the business with the United States to be

letter was on board his ship when Hersing The disposition to take a side may be sean questionably, man is a combative animal. carried on, and a small one with the

returned from his expedition, and was able United Kingdom, though at much rediced

to take ncio of the contempt which all the It is the same diaposition which in motone in every schoolboy, nay, in every nursery. prices. During September silk-reeling Professer G. G. Henderson, D.Sc. officers manifested towards him. Without life displays itself in the form of establishments began to close down, and Royal Technical College, Glasgow,

daring to lift his head, he muttered, I The evil lies in the attempt to utilise tho

party, some 70 per cent, have now ecased work. Professor J. Hewitt, E.B.S., East Lon-went against me to act as I did net, but forces of prejudice and passion as an in. During the last months of the year busi- don College, London.

I could not do otherwise.". He was crying. strument was very restricted, America being

and Bishop. of government, He, then told how none of his men know Creighton would have been justified if ho Professor FS. Kipping, F.R.S., Uni- by far the largest buyer, though hand-te-versity College, Nottingham,

the object of the voyage, and how several had said that sensible men are disgusted Professor A Lapworth, F.R.S., The times he was on the point of letting them with the antics of party government. The University, Manchester..

fnts the secret in the hope of seeing the writer gastes the arguments used-inextener Professor A. G. Perkin, F.R.S., The crew nutiny. Arrived at the spot where tion of the old system, and comments on University, Leeds.

it was to surprise the Lusitania, the sub- the present situation - Professor W. H. Porkin, F.R.S., The marine had a long wait. At one moment national Government for a party Goveia- We are endeavouring to substitute a the idea of making off entered the comman-ment, to fill up the great oflices of the State University, Oxford.

Professor W. J. Pope, F.R.S., The Under's head, but he foun that another sub with men possessing, special qualifications marine had stopped a short distance away for them to apply business principles to versity, Cambridge.

The Lusitania meanwhile was approach the great larsiness of the war. This is ing; she could not escape her doom. Livell unquestionably well There am be o Hersing. The ship was cammed with anent has over had an eye upon the ballst saw people gathered on deck,' continued doubt that until now Mr. Asquith's Govern- home beings. I caused the submarino ta boxes of a General Election. It is as dificult plunge and the torpedo was discharged. I for veteran party politicians to put aside don't know whether it was this torpedo ar that habit as it is for the Ethiopian to change Dr. G. T. Morgan, the head of the de-

the one discharged by the other submarine his skin or the leopard his spots. But a Ca partment, is a distinguished chemist who

that struck the biner, but the latter's hull binet where the chief occupants of both the has contributed numerous papers to sing the ghastly scene which followed, and the choice of men and the allotment of was ripped open. I tried to avoid witness. front benchts as side by side will speak with Transactions of the Chectical Society, the-made away from the torpedoed liner at offices, I have but one word to say.

uational authority for national enda. Jurnal of the Society of Chemical Indus full speed. Then I came to the surface late Queen, at a critical period of the Boer Amerry, and other scientific periodicals. 1,913, the nuthor of the articles on Ans- Thethus, when at that distano, I could and again he a histy, il must have

was crowded with struggling Wac, is reported to have 9,820psis, sulphide dyes, cerium and thorium hear the shouts of the shipwrecked. I had Kitchener Such, unquestionably, is now 12,040

in Thorpe's "Dictionary of Appli! become a man of stone, incapable the well-nigh universal feeling of the Chemistry,"

moving or giving an order.

nation, which rightly regards him as 'our chief of men," and is as unmoved, as he himself doubtless is, by "the explosion of the doggeries" against him. With our armies under such direction we may await the issue in quietness and confidence; strong in the justice of our cause we may humbly hope that the Supremo Moral Governor of the Universe will

Είνα Us victory in the words whichi Carlyle has used as the epigraph battle," but on one condition only. What that condition is I find well indicated in

his Lordship, Well, God mend all! Nay by God, Donald, we must help Him to mend to his Latter-Day Pamphlets: Then, said

Dec.

1914.

1914.

780+

770

750

540

540

750

Extra 11-13 ... 1,190. Best 2, 18-29... Best 3, 11-18 760 Bx_Ex-_-1,-1440040————850——————-020- *Not quoted † Nominal. Dollar-c.72 of Haikwan tael; the aver

age value of Haikwan tael in 1914 -29, Rid,

The following table shows the quantity of silk and silk waste (in bales) exported from Canton to Europe and to America in the years 1912, 1913, and 1914: -

Waste Silk. То

Silk.

To

To

Year. Europe. Amer.

Europe.

17,457

1912 29,314 13,529 1910 38,247 18,786 28,800 1911 22,028 16,907 14,908

PROBLEMS OF EMPIRE DEFENCE.

A SUGGESTED IMPERIAL CONVENTION.

To

Sir John McCall, Agent-General for Tasmania, read a paper on "The Outlook for National Unity at a meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute at the Whitehall Rooms. Lurd Sydenham was in the chair.

In the course of his address Sir J. MeCally critising the remark of au Australian of unquestionable loyalty that Australia was a natione Idea of sepa

ASAHI BEER ng laroan within

THE DAI NIPPON BREWERY

ASAN

BEER

LAGER

SPECIALLY SOMER

COMPANY

& CO. TOKIO JAPAN.

the end lead to dreams of real separation, and at the moment he felt sure that no important section in any of the dominions had any such desire. Never had the idea of union been more strongly implanted or beca more pregnant with possibilities for Imperial good that at the present time.

|

Professor J. F.. Thorp, Regal College of Science South Kensington.

Professor W. P. Wynne, F.RS., The University, Sheffield.

The members of the Technical Com mittee will afficio be menibers of the Advisory Council,

He

Dr. M. Q. Forster, chairman of the Technical Committee, who is a-graduate of the Universities of London and W12wz- burg, has also distinguished himself in chemical research.

Professor Meldola, chairman of the Au- visory Council, is professor of Organic Chemistry in the University of London. He has devoted particular attention L coat-tar dyes and has discovered many new products and processes,

It is interesting to note that Professor A. G. and Professor W. H. Perkin, who are nominated as members of the Advisory Council, are anns of the late Sir William Perkin, the original discoverer of anilina dyer.

A PAGE OF HISTORY. GERMANY'S SEARCH FOR A COAL ING STATION NEAR PENANG,

A THOUGHTFUL ACT.

KING OF SIAM AND DURHAM

LIGHT INFANTRY.

The following appears in the Siam Observer recently reported by Reuter as having been made by the King of Siam to the regarding the gift of £1,000

Durham Light Infantry

of H.M. the King which we feel surc We are able to record a thoughtful act all our readers would be pleased to know. His Majesty has sent a donation from the Royal Privy Purse to the British authorities to be devoted to the relief of

Regiment, who have fallen during the the widows and children of the officers and men of the Durham Light Infantry present war, in memory of the time during which His Majesty was attached to that regiment.

London, August 12, 1915. His Majesty the King of Siam, deep appreciation of your generous and I wish to convey to Your Majesty my Bonghful gift to the wives and children of the fallen officers and men of the Darham Light Infantry. The regiment whe deeply touched by Your Majesty's kind re- membrance of the day when it had the honour of hring associated with Your Majesty.

GEORCE

VAJRAVUDH R.

PSYCHOLOGY AND RECRUITING.

it said the other."

As to

The

HOYOKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.

ORDERS BY LIEUT,-COL. A. CHAPMAN, V.D.

INSPECTION OF ARMS,

return their rifles and bayoneta to Headquar

Members of Right Section M. G. Co. will ters before 10 am, on Monday, 6th instant, for on Tuesday, 7th instant. inspection. They will be ready for re-issue

PARADES Parades for Thursday, 2nd instant:--

5.30 p.m.-Recruits of all units (Right See- tion M. G. Co. and Signalling Section) who have not been passed out Squad drill and Rifle exercises at Headquarters,

Gun Club Hill, Kowloon:-

under 5. 3. Higby. Remaindor-Nil.

DETAIL.

On duty until morning of 7th Sept.Ne. 1. Sec. Art. Butty, and Left Soc. 3. G. Co Officer on duty-Capt. Armstrong. Detention Camp, Kowloon

On duty to-night-Scouts Company, Officer on duty-Capt. Stewart

On duty 3rd Sept-No. 1 See. Art. Batty, and Left Sec. M. G. Co., and 7 membert of Right Section M. G. Co Officer on duty-Capt. Wolfe.

Orderly Officer until 7th Sept.-Lieut

Kennett.

Orderly Sergeant until 7th Sept.-Sergt.

Bullock.

G. E STEWART, Captain,

Adjutant, H.K.V. Corps.

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

PATROLS.

Thursday, September 2nd:-

5.50 m-five men to be detailed by O. Portuguese Company. Also Sergeants Silva and Ribeiro to patrol with Inspec- tor Watt.

the Timer of Mulag, when Germany first Years ago, writes a correspondent of started to build up a real Navy, the exchanged between Their Majestica King The following telegrams have been There was, he thought it would be vided by some cast-of British vessels-

nucleus for which, by the way, was pro-George and King Vajiravadh agrero, a strong and growing feeling that and to go in for a policy of colonial. we should have a closer union than the expansion, she began to look round for existing one to provide for national convenient coaling-stations in the differ. defence, if not also for trade defence. He ent parts of the globe. Our in the Far suggested that there should be a disens East she found most of the eligible sites sion by an Imperial convention of the already occupied, but down here in sentials of Imporial union rather than Malaya, quite near Penang, she happened the sifting of particular possibilities. upon a spot which seemed to her naval There was, for example, the questions as advisers to possess all the makings of a to the authority of the Government of the good harbour and anchorage and to her United Kingdom in such matters as the Foreign Office to be outside the jurisdic conduct of foreign policy, the conclusiontion of any of the Great Powers. This spot of treaties, and the declaration of war, was the Langkawi Islands, then, as now, a

Bangkok, August 13, 1915. Could the responsibility of an Imperial part of the little State of Kedah. But

His Majesty the King of England, Government, subject to an Imperial the difference was that in those days Siam message.

I thank Your Majesty for your kiad Parliament, in these matters be shared by and not. Great Britain was the suzerain served in the Durham Light Infantry, and I can never forget the time 1 the whole Empire while preserving the of Kedah. local autonomy which was

The Siamese overlordship as they have since been in constant touch a ordinal feature in the British Imperial system? fashion. Alor Star periodically sent the thing to help the widows and children of was exercized in a rather perfunctory with me. I feel gled to be able to do some The great war had brought this question Bunga Mas" to Bangkok and received my former comrades, who have fallen whils into prominence. Such

a convention in return orders, decorations and pre- doing their duty. would include practically all the leading sents, but there was no Siamese represen- legislative, constitutional, and administative in Kedah and interference by Siam. trative talent of the Empire. vention should meet in private and con- as to be practically unknown. It is true The con in the affairs of its vassal was so Taro sider all the problems in connection with that there was a British Consulate at a federation for the purpose of defence, Alor Star, but it was never occupied for and at the same time be free to make more than a day or two at a time, for the suggestions for legislative powers in Consul was the Residen-Councillor of other directions. If a satisfactory Penang who had plenty to do without scheme were evolved it should then be paying more attention to Kedah than was Money asked the Prime Minister if his In Parliament recently, Sin L. Chizza submitted for approval to the Imperial possible in a short yearly visit which attention had been directed to the official OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE. and deminions Parliaments and the partook almost as much of the character recruiting advertisement headed To the

various councils represented at the con ference or by referendum to the electors.

of a picnic as an inspection, Moreover, Young Women of London," which begins the terrain was very favourable for with the words, Is your best boy in He believed such a convention as this German intrigues, as the Sultan, never khaki would be able to agree on what was best overburdened with eash,

and to another advertisement for the Empire, and the knowledge that particular time more than usually hard stance of women, some of whom are was at that which, without regard to the circum- those best qualified to settle the matter had so decided would satisfy most of His Highness by a German representative tell their male relations to Go; and if So negotiations were opened with widows with an only son, asks them to them, even if it had to recommend some- thing short of an Imperial Parliament, member of the firm of Behn Meyor & vision of these advertisements by some who happened to be at the same time a he will at once instituto a strict super- always providing it ensured effective defence as well as a complete and unifiedCo. in Penang, and they got so far that person of taste and discretion who will nationality.

termy were actually arranged and a have regard to the kind of language and All I ask," Sir J. McCall said in Provisional draft treaty was signed by appeal which ought to be permitted to conclusion, "is that a properly constituted one, side and a minor Kedah official on

the German merchant diplomatist on the appear in such official announcements. Convention should give the Empire the th other which, had it been ratified, attention has been called by my hou. Mr. Tennant, who replied, said:My benefit of its best judgment at a time would have seen Germany provided with a friend's question to the poster POwhen all citizens are prepared to listes" footing in these seas and a coaling-station tioned. The psychology of the public, almer within gunfire of this Soitlement, particularly in reference to the efficacy At this interesting stage, however, the of advertisements, is a peculiar and The following is an extract from a letter local authorities did got wind of what recondite study (laughter), and those written by an officer in East Africa was going on and fortunately they real-whose experience is widest will agree There's one thing about our opponents is the seriousness of the situation. For that unusual methods sometimes have out here: they do seem to have a rudimenta day or two the cables between Penang, to be adopted, but even those who have at the Central Police Station at 8 pm. on ary idea of playing the game at least Singapore and Bangkok were kept re the whites de, even if their native levies markably busy, with the result that our pals for recruits must necessarily be

no such experience will know that sp-Friday, Sept. 3rd. Parade in mufti, with

riles, Minister to Siam was able to induce addressed to meet the most varied faster. do get a bit out of hand on occasions.

There is, however, a certain "virago

King Chulalongkorn's Minister

Only those warned for Patrol duty on for (Laughter.) in German East Africa, who sports breeches Kedeh and insist on the negotiations gentleman consider that it is consonant Foreign Affairs to communicate with

day will be excased from this Parade. Sir A. Markham: Does the right hon.

"DUTY REMINDERS" BOOK. and boots, and of whom we are a little being quashed. That duly happened and with the dignity of the greatcab Empire sible for obtaining this at the D. S. Pa Men warned for Patrol are made respen- nervous. She was the wife of a German the German scheme for obtaining a place in the world that this kind of advertise Office! officer, who was killed in action in one of in the sun in Malaya was brought to ment for recruits should be posted up the earlier fights She has uttered dire nought; but it is nevertheless a fact that at the War Office and on public buildings threats as to what she will do to the first

we were at the time within an ace of throughout the country? British officer she can catch hold p. Haring the Teutona installed at Langkwai, upbringing has evidently been sadly and very uncomfortable neighbours they have to be made to all kinds of taste,

Mr. Tennant: I have said,

appezia neglected, as her ideas are most "unlady-might have proved at a time like the pre- and that accounts for, the fact that this like," to say the least of it.

particular poster is there. (Laughter.)

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4.50 p.-Sergeants C. C. Moon and Chow U Ting, and three men to be detailed by 0. C. Chinese Company. Also Sergeants

Friday, Sept.,

Botelho and Roza to patrol with Inspec- tor Taylor.

3rd

5,50 p.m.-Chief Inspector Mason, Ser- geants Lammert, Silva Netto, and A. E. Alves, Also Potter and Martin to patrol with Inspector Wilden.

8.50 p.m.--Five men to be detailed by O, CL PARADES (CENTRAL POLICE STATION-8 P.M.)

Portuguese Co.

Wednesday, Sept. 1st-3 and 4 Chinese

All with Rides, except Recruita

Thursday, Sept. 2nd-3 and Portuguese Platoons. All Chinese Recruits under Chief Inspector:

Platoons. Details from Portuguese Co. and Band Recruits under Crown- Sergeant C. M. 8. Alves.

COMBINED PARADES.

All ranks will parade under the D. & P.

that

F. C. JESHIN,

D.S. P. (Reserve).

In the month of July more than 20,000. foined the colours in Victoria,