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BRITISH TRADE WITH RUSSIA.

HUGE POSSIBILITIES A CON

SUD'S SUGGESTION..

ON "FORMING FOURS,”

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20TH, 1915.

"Forming Fours" is the most diffi cult thing I've come across, and I've been up against some posers in my time. Yes, you may laugh, but that only shows your ignoranes.

DAILY POSTBAG.

AEROPLANE DELIVERY TO THE TRENCHES.

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RAILWAYS IN KOREA.

COMPLETION OF 1,000 MILES.

A good many complaints have been In Seoul on Sunday, the 3rd Octobor, recently made of the heaviness of parcel post rates for packages sent to the Bri-a completion of one thousand miles of tish soldier at the front, the minimum railway track in Korea was celebrated Mr. G. Dobson, British Pro-Consul at I are ten years old, and my uncle's rate being 1s. for every three pounds.

A Daily Ners representative who made a ceremony held in Kyongpok Pataca Petrograd, has issued a circular in which great grandfather once cleaned Walling- he points out the opening there is for fon's boote, so I ought to know something inquiries in official quarters learnt that grounds, where the Exhibition is now on, Tom-1 the presence of H.1.H. Prince Kan-in. increasing British ride with Russia.about military matters. But I'll ex-in spite of the alleged inrdship

from Japan and Man- Without counting the participation of plain, and then you will understand the my has very little to grumble at in the It was attended by some 2,000 guests, in- churia. According to the Seoul I'ress Austria, Germany has exported to Bus righteousness of my cause (think Bill matter of receiving supplies of comforts cluding many Bit goods to the value of between of Germany must have used those words and luxuries from home. Agitation has 500,0000000 to 900,000,000 roubles annu- sometimes). First of all you fall in, at been set on foot to further the granting Br. Ohya, Director of the Railway ally, and he suggests that if British least before that you fall out with an- of free postal facilities in this direction, Bureau, made an interesting speech ou firms will adapt themselves properly they her man, who thinks the earth is made but that, we are assured, would be in the work of which he is in charge. He possible Already, on the Western front said the Seoul-Chemulpo line was the san capture the greater part of this for him to fall in on, and walks all over

Ther someone shouts out, our soldiers' daily postbag of letters and very beginning of the railway system in Korea. That railway was first under- Many firms the writes) are hesitating your fest

taken by Americans but was later pur- until after the conclusion of peace, when Shun," you "ahun," and number from newspapers alone weighs an average they think they will be better able to take the right. So far it's easy going, but 50 tons.

Post time at the front, no matter what chased by Japanese. In September, 1899, remembering your

the section between Chemulpo and advantage of this splendid opportunity when it comes to This is a mistake, for, meanwhile, other number as well as remembering whether is happening, comes round as regularly Noyangjin was completed and opened to;

I there is a letter or & nations are alert and active. Competi- it's odd or even I strike. A lot of her as unse tion is being vigorously organised by idiots, I should say & lot of idiots, are stamped parcel for the soldier it reaches traffic. It was an event of historical im

Canadians. Swedes Americana.

and

yelling out numbers, odd and even, all him, whereever he may be. It is the portance, for the line was the firet rail- Danes, and Germans are pouring into round, and you are wondering what the same, too, with free parcels despatched way ever built and managed by Japanese Scandinavia to resure their old game next order will be, and what you shall through the Army Transport Office, brood. During July, 1000, the remain, In the meantime the honest broker"

between Eng- spend your pocket money on, and how though delivery in this case is necessarily ing section from Noyangjin to West Gate

Those parcels are equipped Station was finished,

Broul.- Fusain Rail way Com- and Russia. Thousands of Germans far-well, you are thinking generally, slower.

and into existence, pamy e now interned will return to their because you are overlastingly being told aerusu to the French coast tugether with the

business as soon as pence is pro- not to be "thoughtless" and then they the other transport supplies, carried by

train from the base and taken thence by August, 1901, the Company started the construction of a railway between Seoul at if nothing had happened, expect you to remember a silly number f

Perhaps motor-van and lorry to the "rendezvo But the worst is to cuant.

and Fusaji frum both iermini. de, therefore, should be Jagt he

The

Barf property

interests of exporters in getting into touch you don't know that awful sense of per where the horse transports from the re

the

Company wére purchased by Russian buyers, whose usual supplexed misery brought about by anodd gimental units meet them. They are then ies from Germany are now cub off. Infile on the left" or the unmitigated bar piled and stacked in readiness for deli- England there seems to be a belief that barity (that's a good phrase) of the very, by which time a good many of the the Government two years later, but "thing" in charge, who calls you horrid parcels, roless very securely wrapped, the Company continued carrying on the Germany's suspended trade in Russia will be secured by inducing growds of names, and likens your massive brains are in a considerably damaged slate

When the conglomeration finally reaches from the Government until it was com young men to learn the Russian lan-

to those of a fourpenny rabbit?

Brigade Headquarters it more often plead in November, 1904. guage. Accordingly, the London County

tham no resembles a sort of hot put, mileage of the line amounted to 267 and Council is imparting instruction in this difficul tongue in its evening institutes

difficult to discriminate cake from boots was opened to business in January or jam from pyjamas. This, of course, following. for a merely nominal fee, which makes the lessons, practically free. But Rus

is entirely due to careless packing on the eian inquiries after British goods cannot

part of those at home. afford to wait until Englishmen. become linguists.

reverse.

Now supposing sixteen men fall in, that means that the man-on-the-left's number is eight, and eight goes behind seven and there you art-in fours: but if the last man is seven naturally the one before him is six; but that's where Six is seven and seven bad.

you're

Very

If an odd number of men fall in you've got to be jolly careful where you put the man who isn't there; you must not pus his absence nearer than three files in front of where he isa't doesn't budge; || from the left; if he's "odd" the man but the empty spaces behind him form fours; three spaces and a man equalling a file of four men. What they want to drill men at all for I can't understand. Why not drill spaces t

your rear, and your sear

is six, though six is still six and seven It is a mixlake to suppose that Ger-

is seven; they both do what the other one many's commercial success in Russia has ought to do; if they would do what they been due in any great measure to the should they should be doing just the op- study of the Russian language. German trade in Russia has been built up through posite of what they are not doing. This the aid and co-operation of hundreds the origin of the proverb, or is it "All sixes and of thousands of German settlers there, the parable (it's certainly got a

earthly meaning), who are born Russian subjects and whose sevens. forebears have belonged to Russia for ages. They are obliged to learn Rus Han at school, but keep up their German at home. Gernian schools also flourish in their midst. These Russian Germans prefer, of course, to deal with their kith and kin across the border. To such an extent has this factor operated in Javour of Geraman commerce that before the war the German language had almost become the business medium in all the great

Then the thing," if he's a bad ventres of Russian trade. This was wisely encouraged by the German Government, temper, which is usual, bawls out "About Every facility was given for German turn, hoping to catch you on the hip

resume residents abroad to retain or

Merchant of Venice"), (Shakespeare, their German nationality, and thus

is your Germanise the world. It is much to be because the line which is now your front regretted that the British Government front, but he way yell Change ranks, has been doing just the very There are at least three million British as well, and then the number dodge is tried on you again. The right No. 1 most 1.1 subjects in foreign countries,

who has been gloating all the time be them as loyal and patriotic as anybody in the British Isles, and amongst the cause you can't very well forget you're the first-though I've known it done-is voluntary exiles, whose sons are joining changed to the perplexed misery as afore-, Kitchener's army and fighting the ma-

ssid (legal phrase) of an odd left file.

"Haland of This is all at the tion's batles, our authorities are carry- ing on a veritable persecution.

On January 1 of this year a most in-curse when put in print in the above inimitable manner (Construct a sentence Comprehensible Act of Parliament came into force whereby the second generation to illustrate meaning; Senior, Camb.) is of foreign-born Britishers are indiscrimi- perfectly clear. But wait till you do it Tately deprived of their national birth-on the march with dozens of other things an right. Such an extraordinary measure to think about, and then-well, laugh

The Woodfordian. must have been completely overlooked by if you can. Perplexed Patriot, the British public. The wording of the Act is most obseure, but this interpre tation is adopted by the British anthe- rities. It was bad enough before, when clafdren of the third generation born were made abroad of British parentes nisteasts by the action of the British Government This curtailment of British nationality turns the children of faithful British subjects into aliens befors they are old enough to choose for themselves, and, as regards Russia in particular, it takes outlaws of infant Britone, whom the Russian Government vary properly refuses to accept as Russian subjects.

AND THE PRO-GERMANS

ALLIES LOAN..

REPRISALS!

A RIVAL LOAN.

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There is also the Flying Fos, served gallantly and speedily the Flying Postman.

The Evening Pos: is toulay one of the common objects of the Flanders countryside, no mere to be marvelled at than shells or shrapnel The British sol a long job and a weary one; but he is dier may have a hard task before bim happy enough if he can get as he does -to-day's London morning papers served up with his afternoon tea in the trenches,

SUNNY SIDE OF TEARS. ARCHDEACON OF LONDON AT ST,

PAUL'S CATHEDRAL

In simple but appropriate and pointed language the Archdeacon of London at St. Paul's Cathedral in his sermon, on September 5th, deal with a subject which, judging from the numbers ut men in khaki and women in mourning present, taken from the fifty-sixth Psaini: "Pub must have been timely. His tex was my tears into thy bottle, are not these he said, in olden days a Church festival things noted in thy book?" There was known by the name of the Feast of the Tears of Jesus. Faith might be said to have been more simple then, and days were picked out to celebrate different The day features of the Redemption. on which the Tears of Jesus were com- memorated was kept as a festival and not as a fast, and it was well to remem. her that there was a festival side to we and a sunny side to tears. Even in a storm such as the present year was wit year had proved that the story of human nessing the rainbow might be scen. The tears was not a hysterical song nor even purely sentimental. In the East it was the custom to keep in a lachrymatory or glass vessel or beiteous jewelled case the tears consecrated to the blessed dead, because they were regarded as being worth keeping.

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On the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in February, 1904, Japan, under pressure of military necessity, at once started the building of a line between Seoul and Now. Wiju and he now line together with another military line frem 1900 all the railways were transferred to Samurangin to Masan was completed.. I the management of the Railway Bureau of the Residency-General.

Since then railway building has been continually pushed on with unabated energy and the Tyongyang-Chinuampo Line and iron bridge over the Yalu were completed not long afterwards. On the completion of the Antung-Mukden Rail- way connection was effected between the railway system in Korea and Man- churia and the trunk railway in Korean became the shortest route from Europe and East Asia, the journey being auch facilitated by the new harbour works at Fuxaa.

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Among railway works undertaken since That annexation was the Hanam Line. line was begun in October, 1910, and its trunk and branch lines totalling 175 miles were finished in January, 1914. No es important a work was the Seoul-Wonsan Line connecting the trunk railway with the eastern coast of the peninsula, measured 138 miles in length and was finished in August, 1914. With a view to having a railway through South and North Hamkyong Previnos, a plan had been laid down for two. local lines, one from Wonga to Yanheung and the other from Chongjin to Hoiryong, and werk was commenced last October, with the result that the section from Wonsan to Munthon (a distance of twelve miles) was mileage of Korean railways has thus completed on August 1st last. The total reached 1,000.

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COUNT TERALčki's address. Count Terauchi, Governor-Genera), delivered an address. After a brief his

Do Gmster Edition 5.00 torical summary of railway building Directory and Chronicle of the Far East $10.00 work in Korea, up to the advent of the

Children of Far Cathay, a Social and If one wanted to see tears of value, néw régime, the Count stated that when

Politiani Norel, by C. J. H. Halcombe 3.50 all that was

was to go to he was appointed Governor-General he Charing Cross or Victoria Staion to found the aggregate mileage of the

Historical Skotch, to which is added watch the men going out to the front, different lines then existent less than 700. The Jubiles of Hongkong, being an an Account of the Celebrations in 1801 and there were many brave tears being Since then the building of new lines and shed there, sometimes silently, sometimes repairs to old ones had been executed

with assiduous labour and the total The Hongkong Typhoon, Sopt. 18th, 1906, more openly. The times in which men

Illustrated Account... Although Wall Street gossip asserts that

The railway system in pro-German bankers in Chicago, Cincin lived now might be said to be the most miloage had attained one thousand by

unselfish, and the tears shed were those August last. nat! St. Louis, Milwaukee, and other which strengthened and did not weaken. Korea was still in an infautile atage as Temporary Mining Regulations in China Middle Western cities and some of the Tears bad sens army after army across compared with that of Japan, but he did Regulations for Railway Construction in

the Channel, tears had floated feets, and not think that the building work was very THE DEFENCE OF LONDON. Eastern eities bitterly oppose any action

whatever in financing the Anglo-French the story of those tears should be trea-alow in view of the fact that it

He loan, not a single banking house with evensured up and told and retold to future executed in the space of nineteen years

at a cost of over 130 million yen. the remotest connection with German generations. FRENCH TRIBUTE TO SIR

financial interests has been invited to send

In an interesting manner Archdeacon had been regrotting for a long time that,

natural PERCY SCOTT.

representatives to the gatherings at which Holmes recapitulated briefly the numerowing to lack of traffic facilities, the Commenting on the appointment of Sir scores of New York financiers and those of ous instances of weeping recorded in the bountiful

Bible, and showed how in every instance northern provinces remained practically Perey Scott to take command of the gun- other centres have discussed the loan.

This policy excluded some of the largest the fact was recorded of characters who untouched and that was why he set to He was determined to nery defences of London against enemy

financial institutions in the United States, afterwards became prominent in sacred work building railways in that direction aircraft, the Journal says:--

"Admiral Sir Percy Scott is the man including Messrs. Kuhn, Loeb & Com history. They would not have been hu-last autumn, who has contributed most to the present pany which is second only to the J. P. man had they not wept, for, after wil, carry on the work just started as quickly He had Morgan Company. It is stated that over tears were a gift to the human race along finances of the Administration would naval power of Great Britain,

Engineering work in already distinguished himself in the tures with the object of the possible par- not to the angels; not, as Juvenal told allow, and effect a junction between it South African war by organizing batteries ticipation of Kuhz, Loeb & Co. are în pro-us, to the animal creation; not even to and the Kirin-Changchun Railway to be region was hilly and several years would of naval guns, but his great achievement gress, and it is reported that the company the insane, because no madman ever built in future..

turning sanity.

be required before the completion of the was the invention of the new methods of would not look urkindly on an invitation cried; when he did it was a sign of re those provinces was very difficult, for the planned railway. Still, he thought it firing a long range which have been to participate in the loan,

imporative to complete it as speedily as ailopted by all the Powers.

possible in order to insure development in North Koreni The construction of with the economical progress of the several localities concerned," and the day. of completion of all of them would be very remote.

"It was this revolution in naval artillery which made possible the advent of Dread noughts. Sir Percy Scott left the service of the Fleet prematurely three years ago. The sensation has not been forgotten which was created at the beginning of 1914 by the ety of alarm which rose when he pointed out the danger of submarines. There again this far-seeing man was a pro. phet...

"The organization of the defence of London could not be entrusted to a moro ingenious and more perspicacious spirit." -Bouter.

SIR AUREL STEIN.

BENDS INDIA SEVENTY, CAMEL-LOADS OF ANTIQUITT.

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Some pro-German bankers, high in the money councils of Wall Street, fool keenly the failure of their firms to receive invita- tions to meet the members of the Anglo- French Commission. Pro-German bankers here and elsewhere in the country, it is re. GERMAN BRUTALITY TO BRITISH various branch lines had to go on parallel

ported, will not only not participato, but will take active steps to combat the ten- devey of other banks to lend money.

It is asserted that they contemplate as a counter-move the flotation of a half-billion dollar (£100,000,000) German loen for the sole purpose of withdrawing money from the market, thus making it unavailable to the Allies. The argument of the origina tors of this plan is that it will be better to tie up this great sum and to keep it idle and pay $25,000,000 interest on it than to permit it to fall into the hands of Ger- many's enemies.

It is asserted by the most partisan of these propagandists, who are prepared to Sir Anrol Stein has completed his work advocate their programme, that depositors of exploration in Central Asia and will show their displeasure at the banks

PRISONERS OF WAR. Private P. Crowley, of the Royal Irish Regiment, who has returned to his home near Cardiff, after being a prisacer of wer in Germany since last October, states that his treatment while lying on the battlefield at La Bassee was most inhuman.

When the fint German approached be asked for a drop of water, but received a kick in the ribs instead. He repeated his request to the next German, who gave him a drink of coffee and then struck him with Bride, fracturing his shoulder.

The severity of the blow can be gauged when it is stated that the brutal act was committed eleven months ago, and Crow ley still has his shoulder is bandages and Together with others he was sent to the he has collected in two years are on their their funds way to Kashimer vid the Karakoram

The hopes of the pro-German contingent prisoners camp at Stendal, în Saxony, Pass. They were carefully packed at the

While at Stendal the Bri- British Consulate at Kashgar, Sir Aural are not buoyed, however, by a statement where the medical treatment was of a very was in the Russian Pamir region on 24th made on behalf of the National City Bank bigh standard.

If they refused July and he had been given permission of New York, which is the largest in thetish prisoners were compelled to salute s

they wero imprisoned for three days. - by the Russian Government to move country, having 2,500 correspondent banks statuo of the Kaiser.

The Germans niso tried to force our mea through the country to north of the Oxus,

to walk over a pavement which had been o eventually to reach the Ru-Per- im borders. Thence he will proceed to

refused and had to suffer for it. Eastern Russia and begin archeological

covered with Union Jacks, but the soldiers

inrestigation there.

seventy camel-loads of antique treasure participating in the loans by withdrawing carries his arm in a sling.

scattered throughout the country.

The statement is to the effect that not a single correspondent has registered a pro- test against the institution's participation in the proposed loan..-Beuter.

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Friday, 29th Oct. :-

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General Meeting Saturday, 20th Oct,

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