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OVERSEAS TRADE.

FUTILITY OF THE SUBMARINE BLOCKADE.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH, 1915.

Thus during the 11 months the trading ships have carried on the average 27 tons of cargo more per 100 tons of shipping than they carried in the corresponding 11 months and the increase in the carry- ing during March, April, May, and Juno From 2 has varied from 3 to 45 tons. consideration of these figures it would up- pear clear that the decrease in the numbor of vessels available has, in great measure, if not entirely, been made good by using their usually unused carrying power, but it is manifest that the extent of such a reserve is strictly limited.

FOODSTUFFS,

VON MACKENSEN.

GENERAL WHO ROSE FROM THE RANKS.

SUBMARINE WARFARE.

CONFESSION OF FAILURE.

GERMAN ADMISSIONS. A remarkably candid article on eix In the trams and trains one is continual-

months of German submatine warfare Who is th

since February appears in the Berliner Well, for one thing, bo 18 Mackensen!"

pon of Captain Tageblatt from the ly hearing the question:

"It will be remembered that at the one of the few German generals who have Persins, who writes:- risen from the ranks. To-day his likeness is in every home in the Fatherland, and beginning of February in Germany high he shares with Von Hindenburg the idola hope was placed on submarine warfare, the British ty of the populace. His military reputa and many believe that as

off from overseas Fleet had eut US tion is brilliant.

The son of a country squiro, August va imports it would not be difficult now for Part of our Press must unfor- Mackenson was born on December 6th, 1843. our submarines to do the same to Great Saxony. When the Franco-German wartunately be held responsible for the at Haas Leipnitz, near Schmiedeberg, Britain. began bo went to the front with the extravagant expectation which many of Husar Bodyguards in the humble capa the public connosted with submarine war In this paper it has city of Vico Wachtmeister." He soon gave against commerce, proof of remarkable military capacity and often been emphasized that from an submarine, and in view of the number of was entrusted with important and highly expert estimate of the efficacy of the perilous missions,

Ordered to take a detachment of hussars our submarines, the success, and the effect of the new naval warfare could appear. Again and again we have counselled and reconnoitro in the direction of Worth,

patience." How necessary this was is Mackensen reached the outskirts, au only after a considerable dine. found that a bridge across a river giving access to the village had been destroyed evident from a simple fact, the conceal only the posts were left standing.ment of which to-day would managed to crawl from one post to another, honest, that the results of the activity and eventually gained the village, which of our submarines in their war on

The say 1-vory modest Wi ourve of our submarines successes has as crowded with Zouaves. They opened merce are viewed in enamy circles as fire on the intruder, and he had a hard shall

been greatly varied." There have been wecks when hardly one hostile ship bas time in again reaching his own line

been torpedoed, while in other wecks more than a dozen ships have been destroyed. was announced that six English merchant, Thus, for the week ending August 4th, it ships and nine fishing steamers fel!! victims to the boas. It was added that departures and arrivals of ships This figure may be considered from and at United Kingdom ports were 1,430, too high, but there can be no doubt that

FRENCH LINES PENETRATED.

Some interesting facts have been collect ed, from othicial sources, by Sir Norman Hill, Secretary of the Liverpool Steam ship Owners Association, regarding the effect of the war on our merchant ship Shortly, Sir Norman Hill proves ping. that the submarine "blockade" has proved importe of volume the faroci has been maintained, and, if Govern

We have more than fully maintained our ment imports are added, much in croased, although the greater part of the imports of foodstuffs, notwithstanding the supplies we have been in the habit of get-German policy of raiding the trade routes ing from the Continent of Europe has and the submarine campaign, as the folk been cut off, and we have had to replace lowing table showe them by supplies from far-distant coun-11 months ending June

Weight of food Imports brics, and the burden of these imports, as

...14,087,753 well as the demands of the Admiralty, has

1914

.....10,194,341 1015 fallen on British ocean-going steamshipe because the foreign shipping available has

Sir Nor Since February, 1015, when the blockade been reduced by 35 per cent.

was advertised to start, we have actually man Hill points out that the war has in- creased the nation's dependency on its imported more food than in the cor oversee trade, which, in normal times, is responding months of the previous year. necessary to our national existener. The The policy of leaving trade in the hands of the traders has therefore been fully justi. war has imposed on us the necessity of

No Government control could have providing from overseas for the feeding,fied. clothing, and arming, not only of our own shown better results, and prices have not fighting forces but also, in no small muraheen driven up by any deficiency in sup What has affected prices has been sure, those of our Allies. Nothing in the plice. mature of either a general stoppage of the demands that have had to be made on new markets, which have been called the oversea trade routes, which many people foretold as the inevitable result of upon to take the pince of the accustomed markets, which have been closed to us by & European war, has resulted.

the war, and the additional cost of carri

At Toury, in France, on October 5th, e-from-these are distant markets. The Admiralty figures of the losses and 1870, ecrtain information was wanted The of the voyages made are correct in them which practically meant certain death to selves, but they are misleading. They in the scout attemptng the task. clude vessels down to those of 300 tons Prussian commander, Prince Albrecht, In the ocean overseas called for volunteers, and Mackensen, with gross tonnage. trade only vessels of 1.000 tons net woonage other daring spirits, steppeil forward. On and upwards are of any count, and of that occasion he penetrated the French these vessels only 124 had been destroyed lines, and was successful in gaining the by the enemy up to the end of June-out desired information. He and four-com of a total of 3,000. realise that their citizens are being mur panions then began their perilous return

of these thousand ships were else disarm the suspicion of peasants. dered and their property destroyed for noourney. Over and over again Mackenson conceivable military purpose. The proof had to hide from squads of the enemy, or

persons will declare themselves not satis is that we are bringing in from overs Once he did this by covering his helmot al as muck as in times of peace. ance scheme has worked smoothly, because uttering a few words in French to a

who. without technical knowledge,

not ing that they had conversed with an of the way in which it utilised the ship group, who went their way, never suspect-fied, these being, of course, the persons owners existing arrangements.

invader. After a while the young soldier cherished expectations which were became less prudent, and, meeting severs! shared by those who in some degree con-

conditions. sidered she of the enemy, shouted "Vive la Prusse!" The soldiers fired, but, by furiously riding, attack the 1,000 ships more or less which GERMANY'S SECRET PLANS.nt the top of his voice, and dashed past number of submarines is required to

he gained the Prussian lines with his pre- within the week enter British ports. up by his comrades as lost. The daring cious information after he had been givon Prince's table, and shortly afterwards scout was commanded to dine at the received the Iron Cross which deservedly esteemed more highly then than now.

The

~WAN-CONDITIONS.

total

ot the value Money

the last eleven month, imports in

below 1-8

cent. per Was only the money value of the total imports of the corresponding eleven months, but the imports of which the weights were record- ed were in the best cleven months 12.3 per cent, below the weights in the corre sponding eleven tonths. During the last four months, that is March. April, May and June, of 1915, the cargers of which the weights are recorded were practically equal in volume to the cargoes imported arch, April, May, and June of 1914. The entrances into ports of the United Kingdom of British tonnage have fallen by 26.2 per cent, and foreign tonnage by 35.9 per cent.; the decrease, taking British and foreign tonnage together, being 29.5 per pent. The imports from Russia, Gor nany, and Belgium have ceased, and the in pocta from France have been reduced On the other hand, by nearly one-half.. the imports from Java, China and Japan, the United States of America, and the Ar- genting Republic, and from all British possessions. have vary greatly increased. Speaking generally, it is the short se trade voyages which have decreased, and the long ra rezyages which have in

creased.

LONGER VOYAGES.

Neutrale should

The Insur

:

INTERESTING SEQUEL..

was

Acother exciting adventure occurred at Dannemois, when a sergeant of the 2nd Hussars saw his lieutenant, von Horn by name, killed in a fight with an ambushed detachment of the enemy. He rallied sen, and charged right into the villag, few hassers, among them young Macke There was a hand-to-hari fight with the French, who defended themselves with the utmost bravery. But the hussars, calling drove the foe through streets and fiels out that their officer must be avenged, and vineyards, until finally, so the story runs, not a single one was loft alive. That fight had on interesting sequel. Some years later, young Mackensam fell in love with and married the sister of the ill-fated von Horn.

in any case at least 1,000 ships within

When we consider the result of our subinarine activity hitherto to be that

one week have traded with English ports.

destroyed, it can be understood that ny

PROTECTIVE MEASURES.

No

куда!1

"According to Nauticus in May, submarines. There is no reason not to 1914, we possessed twenty-eight completed Now many derived from official sources. assume that submarines being so small coept the figures of this book, which are can be produced in a very short time. The modern bigli scas boat, however, It displaces up is by no means small. to a thousand and more tuna, and therefore, considerably larger than a torpedo-boat. I presents a combination of the niet minute and complicated be set up with the utmost precision It is, therefore, has paraphernalia, and everything on board in the singllezz space. clear that the period for the construction of a U boat cannot be quite so short as one would wish.

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niton

Thew is trustworthy authority for war German stating, says a contemporary, that two or three years before the preparations went even to the length of secretly building private motor cars to that they could be speedily converted into vehicles munting guns and searchlights. This fact is vouched for by Mr. Charles Pray, an American motor mechanic, who has just arrived in England after eight months imprisonment in German intern ment camp. He was under contract as an orgineer at a well-known motor car works in Marienfeld Zossen, just outside Berlin. On October 7th under suspicion of being a British subject he was interned. From Zoen he was transferred to a camp in Wurtemberg, from which he co- trived to escape. His work, lus states.

"There is no more complicated fighting brought him into daily contact with the German Mercedes car. The chassis of every ear of the 1912, 1913, or 1914 models was perforated at the side with two sets

that considerable time must elapse before of four holes each, at equal distances

instrument than the boat, which means

the commander and crew are familiar from the front and rear, for the purpose

that the ack of commanding and manag

At the beginning of the with the bout of riveting over the chassis frame a plate

10g it is not simple or easily learnt, and

a series of war our submarines' sunk heavy enough to bear a weight of 2,000

warships, and now one hears of almost This is the way At the end of the 1370 campaign he was lbs. Rapid-fire guns or machine guns and

He had not yet nothing of the sort.

There is searchlights have been placed on hundreds

some archair sailors' talk. upon hundreds of German Mercedes cars since the war began. In May and Jane second lieutenant. 1914, ears were called in for inspection, achieved the badge of robility. Only

in it. Only a child would accuse the (private motor cars in Germany were al-after years, when his superiors had recog- no better school than war. It is a pity, ways subject to commandeering by the set his merit and steadily promoted him, however, that it is not only we who learn

did he become "von Mackenson." army) and returned with the plates men.

Though nothing he did in the early days British of being bad mariners.

of protective kinds tioned duly affixed without the owner's

of the present titanic struggle is compar-know how to defend themselves, so they knowledge of what had been done. When

It becomes more and more difficult

Mr C. L. Goodrich the care were requisitioned for the war

who have known since last Angust that he guns and searchlights mounted in their there are those in Germany and elsewha measures.

Hannibal only the tops had to be ripped off and able with his later achievements in Galicia, devised

Almost fabulous skill Mr & Mrs W. was a man worth watching. One of these for U boats to get near hostile ships and

Launch a torpedo. is required to avoid all the pitfalls, etc.,

Capt T. P. Hall was von Hindenburg.

and get away from torpedo destroyers Mr C. A, Henderson

successful and, nevertheless, make a

Service aboard submarines Dr Hillyer attack.

Hob, BrE, A. Bewett

Q.M.G. demands the greatest tension of all. the Apart from mental and physical forces. the quantity and quality of our first-class material, there is the question of quality of personnel. That should be remembered

successes in when calculations are made of anticipated

commerce.

This marked change in the sources from which the imports have been obtained has necessitated not only longer voyages, and therefore the greater use of ocean-going vessels, but it has also disorganised the Ports which work of the receiving ports. were able to accommodate the type of yes- wel by which the greater part of the for- eign trade within bone trade limits (which includes Western Europe) was carried on are unable to deal with the larger type of The imports xn-going steamships have therefore been concentrated at the larger ports, and thereby both the faci litics at those porta and also the means of distribution from those ports have been On the facts known it overburdened. would appear reasonable to assume that the imports can only have been maintain- ed by the withdrawal of ships usually en- ployed in inter-foreign trade-British ships trading between two foreign ports. By reason of the greater distances to be covered, the average time occupied in the increased been have wurst voyage

of the the

congestion Further,

substantially increased ports bas

the voyage, the time occupied on Taking these factors into consider tion it would appear reasonable to assume that the number of vessels employed in the trade of the United Kingdom cannot have been substantially diminished. The official figures, so far as they are available. do not confirm this view. The ne aber of A BISHOP ON THE VALUE occain oversea voyages into the porta of the United Kingdom has fallen by 40 per cent. and the tonnage entrances by 28.5 These figures indicate a sub- per cent. stantial reduction in the number of ve Bels employed, although there has been an inorease in the average size of such vessels..

OF COMIC SONGS,

The Bishop of Birmingham, presiding at the annual mooting of the Actors Church Union at the Savoy Theatre, said he had been told anonymously that he had done a pernicious and iniquitous thing when some months ago he said theatres should continue in these critical times, but he still maintained his position. Re lief was wanted in these days of stress, something to brighten life.

LABOUR AND FOOD. EFFECT OF A YEAR OF WAR.

The Board of Trade Labour:Gazette re views the conditions of the labour market and the increase in food prices auring twelve months of war.

many

They

Mr W. A. Dowley Miss M. E. Dutty. Mr H. E. Earle Dr Fitzwilliams Mr C. D. Fos er

French and child Lapt & Mre . M.

Mr H. J. Grass01 Lieat, Cosdr. &

V N. Grecoine

Miss M Gearing Mr J. Gould

r V. Gouldbourn

Capt norisna M R. & A. Rusa M.d. Sale Mr G. J. R bieron

Mr Wm. So t Mr J.&. da Silva Mr W. H. Smith

PRAK HOTEL,

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Mr F. A. Haseland Mr & Mrs B. A. Hale Capt & Mis Hammond

and obila

Mr & Mis W. T.

Hansen

Mr 3, W, Hind Mrs T. J. B. Johns

Mr Lee Jones

Ar E. Kadooria

Mr Lembalot

1595

Mre Marriott Mr & Mrs E. Y. Mitobelmore · BAR child

Maj. & Mrs Nicholson

and child...

Mrs Olivesrana MT, L. Forkins Major Fyse, R.E. Mr&Mre E. Rapha Mr G. P. Ross Miss Skinner Mr V. ckott Mr &

Mrs Grant Smith Mr & Mrs A Findlay

Smith

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Mr G. Tisdall

Mr J. A. Traba

Mr & Mrs Moss and Maj.-Ges. Ventris

child

HONGKONG

METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER

Boogkong Oburvatory, September 24th:

Barometer

Previons On Date(Oz Dats

Day

Et

at 2 pm. 6 6. 2 p.m.

99.9

29.02

2992

Temperature Haitte

84

75

71.

50

16

F}

wing Direction

North

NNE

North

Force....

2

3

2

Mr & Mrs Bote bo da

Weather

isain

O

0

01

A.

Mr & Air E., Tait

Air V. Sorby

Bouza and children

Mr W. B. Wal eru

Mr G. E. Wa kias

Mr & Mrs Williamson Mr J. Wilkie Mz u. G. Wod

KING EDWARD Horn

submarine war against Mr E Almond

By war of consolation, Captain Persius Mr U, Ankerstjerne

Mrs E. Batehold The effect of war on labour has been that

Mr W. Budre there is very little unemployment to-day concludes by dwelling on the increasing Mr. Bente & child except in a few luxury trades, while in number of submarines and trained crews. engineering, shipbuilding, agriculture, by inexpers optimism thinks with satis. greatly exceeds the supply. Since the war boats." and transport the demand for labour faction of the achievements of German broke out nearly 2,500,000 workpeople have had increases in wages amounting to over £400,000 a week, or over 3s. a head of those benefiting.

Mr J. Joseph

Mr F. H. Kals, bliss E. Laci Saith Mr D. Lambden Mies Lansbden

Capt. & Mrs Lennox Mrs r. L. Cooks

Mi Leunos Miss J. F. Cocke Masters G. M. & J: P. Mr L. Lobo Mr F. Lobo Cooko

Mr E, G. Norris Mr A. Course

Mr 1. A, Macl.of Mrs R. G. Deze MF. P. Duckworth Mr & Mr.

Dutton

INOLEASED CANGO ACCOMMODATION. That the ships retaining available have been able to carry the trade is accurated Firat, a number of

He spent much time in a military hos for in several ways.

pital and he frankly confessed that unless vessels taken us by the Government have been passenger ships, which were not, in times di peace, jarge cargo carriers, and now and again there was something to mumber of industries, notably coal mining." Everyone," he says, "who is not guided Mr & Mrs T. S. Cheng Mt W. u. Lee

take one out of oneself, it would not be The their places in the regular lines have been

ness and attention it demanded. filled by general traders, which are hig possible to do his work with that carnest cargo carriers chartered by the regular soldier when he came back from the front lines. Secondly, the steerage accomme-

went to the theatre to see a good play, or even to a music hall to hear a rollick dation on a number of the emigrant ships

ing song. The soldier enjoyed singing has been taken out, and the space used for carrying cargo. Thirdly, the ships carry- ing the cargoes have been more fully load hymns, but that did not prevent enjoy- that way; we wanted every kind of ex- This arises in part from the factment of a comic song. We were built ed.

on the long ocean- that the vessel

wholesome comic song might be as help- voyage is, as a rule, more fully laden pression of our feelings; and a good than the vessel employed in the cross towards the cure of a wounded soldier a hymn. They might economice by not Channel service, upon which the ships are scheduled to sail at fed hours, and part- ly from the fact that owing to the want going to theatre, but let it be with a

of tonnage, greater efforts have been made sense of proportion. They must be na to find space for the cargoes offering. The tural na well as national.

following statement shows the number of

tons of imports carried per 100 net tons

of entrances of vessels in each of the first POSTWOMEN IN THE LONDON

11 months of war, with the corresponding

figures for the preceding year

Tous of impor's carried per 100 net tons of shipping:

Last Current

Year. Year.

Tons. Tons, Inc. Dec.

August September

124 115

114 145

October

199

152

November

118

140

Decruber

109

129

January

113

145

February

109 128

March

90

138

April

101 146

103

135

May June

Average

for

11 months

102 144

111

138

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DISTRICT.

From figures based upon 1,050 returns is estimated that since 1914 the highest relating to food prices in various towns it Granulated sugar shows a rise of 70 per increase is 77 per cent. in the price of fish. cent., the cheaper parts of beef a rise 70 per cent, and mutton 50 per cent.

The British retail food prices on July 31st, 1915, were 34 per cent. above Julz

PRINCE OSCAR'S BOOK.

TRIBUTE TO FRENCH ARTILLERY.

and child

Mr. W. T. Elson Mm C. Fo Mr U. Fritz Prince Oscar, the Emperor's fifth son, who is attached to the Staff of the Third Mr & Mrs Gee German Army, has published a volume Mr T. M. Gregory

Mr T. Gunn dealing with the fighting in Champagne Mr E Griave

Mr & Mrs Hemmes and from February 16th to March 18th,

Lokalanzeiger Tho

quotes, among

children Mr & Mr. Har, is 1914, the Berlin food prices were 63 per others, the following sentences from the The Champagne battle is the

Mrs Wr. cent, over prices in 1914-double the risebook: which has taken place in this country. In greatest and longest defensive battle bir A. Hoshing

Jackson known." some cases risen as high as 300 per cent, Vienna the increase in the year has in which the history of the world has yet Mr &

According to official returns, published The Royal author pays a tribute to his Mr & Mrs Johnstone in the Statistische Korrespondent, while troops for performing the superhuman" A beginning has been made in the out the prices of several articles of food and enduring the impossible. He also further considerable praises the performances of the French lying district of London with the experi- Berlin showed inent of employing postwomen instead of advance in Juse, noteworthy reductious troops and speaks of the terrific artillery postmen. Between 40 and 50 women are took place in the prices of others, so that fire which the Germans had to face. He employed at Eltham Hendon (including on balance, when allowance is made for writes: "Within a comparatively small

Mr J. C. Anker Golder's Green), and East Ham.

the fire resembled that of a machine-gun,

Mr C. H. Booth Eltham they are in a large majority. the relative importance of the various kinas space the French fired a hundred thous

ahells of all calibres were fired. The results have bom so satisfactory that of food in working-class consumption, the end shells on one day. The rapidity of Mr G. Angelo the extension of the system to other dis general level of food prices showed scarcely except that instead of infantry hullets, Mr C. R. Arnott

any change as compared with May. tricts is under consideration.

In June increases took place, as com

The wire entanglements were completely rA B. Crow It is found desirable to keep a certain number of men to do the heavier work. pared with the previous month, in the effect of this artillery fire was terrible. M-6 8. Bacharan Considerations of a similar kind have prices of eleven articles, the greatest destroyed and swept away. The trenches Mr. C. Cruden determined the choice of the districts in relative rises occurring in the case of eggs, were transformed into shallow cavities. Mr A. Daarich

out against such fire even for a short Mr C. J. de Grann which the employment of women has been lard, bacon, mutton, and pork. On the No method of field fortification could hold Mr P. 8. van Dyk Me F. G. Hunt tried. These are outlying places of anther hand, potatoes fell by per cont semi-rural character, where the loads to whoat bread by 12 per cent, and rye bread time, Only one thing held out-German Mr Heig

heroism.' be carried are not generally so heavy as by 7 per cent; while veal and lentils also discipline, German loyalty, and German Mr K. & Hal

declined slightly in price. they are in central districta.

At

Th

Highest open air Temperature on 25th - 84 >Lowest ppen eix Temperature on 251h

Woek

HONGKONU TILE TABLE.

From 27th September to 3rd Octol er,

HIGH WATEE

Days o

Height

1 Da 6 8

76

LOW WATER.

H kong,

Mesa

Tima

Height,

K'kong.

Mean

Time

b. m.

ft. in.

h.

3.

Mon.

27

0.25 2

5 22

10 26s 6 8

Fues.

28

0 43 4 6 m

Mr H. Murphy

Mr & Mie Newman Mrs W. C. Patemori

Wed.

2 3 4 2

11 31 6 7

Mr Pramick

l'hare. 30

m 8 29 % 8

Mrs Rois n

Mr J. E. Ruscio

Fri.

1

D

Batter

+2

1 $2

6 4 11 12

2 6

No infer, high-

ror low water

Jan.

3

2 4

Mr E. m. S'oign Mr C. H. Soper Mr. B. A. Hamany Ma tisymond Mr H.F. Stoneham Mrs B. Sylven ar Mr II...heraton Mrs E. L. Tourtellst Mr & Mr J, H Underwood Mrs Warzock

GRAND HOTEL

Mr B. JamesS Mr J. de Klark Mr J. Manteiro Mia G. May Mr F. Philipp Mr G. W. Reynolds

Mr E. Byau

Mr J. Smith

Mr J. K. 8. Stanton

Mr H. F. Thorig

Mr Vien W. B. Van

2

Mr & ̈£. Wright

4 46 a

6 10 2 4 653

7 10

4 42 4 1

Oct. No infer high-ror low-water

0 20 6.60 10 2 27

No infe: high- nor low water

2 50 6300

No inter. high.i for low water

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