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KEIE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18TH, 1918.

CHANGES AT THE BANK.

THE OLD LADY" NO MORE.

A notice has just been issued by the Accountant of the Bank of England re garding the enormous amount of work involved in the payment of the first di vidend on the War Loan

NO NEUTRALS:

THE TEUTON TRADESMAN'S

DISCOVERY

(BY. PREVOST BATTERSNY.)

Der is no neutrals. His English Such an intimation serves is a reminder laft something to be desired, but the

DEFENCE OF EGYPT.

GERMAN DESIGNS ON THE

CANAL

According to trustworthy information which by certain private channels trickios through into this country -- saye The Times apoial correspondent af Lausanne. the man who rule Germany and her

จ.

of the fact that the Bank of England was whole-hearted conviction in what hemies are getting more and more alarin has now to deal will many varied in terests. In fact, it undertakes duties on such a scale that the clerical staff can never work in the oisurely way which Was in vogue during a former generation, Nowadays the clerks have to put in many hours of overtime each week, and Sunday work is quite common. Assistants from other banks and eflicars are calledders to the Rhine, which bars our way to in, night after night, and earn good pay Gormany. All his intorusts were commer- by helping in the clerical duties

There was a time, before the days of adding machines and other labour-saving devices, when the lodger-keepers at the Bank of England wrote up customers' accounts in copperplate style. Clerks were then known to bemoan the exacti- tude of the office time, and the duties were often as normal as the hours occu- pied in the City.

Uf ed about her prospects in the war. tried to express. He was not an offer; the actual state of affairs on the verin. fields of battle they naturally made the indeed, nothing so remote og soldiering most, both to themselves and others. But So far brave they have managed to keep up: had, probably, over heen in his thought, that is their one consolation.

outwardly. Inside their OWL show till the war caught him and tied him up in the great, human fascine, laid from Flan-boundaries the effects of the war of atti

tion are beginning to tell so goverely that they are now desperately anxious to bring the war to an end, either by a patched-up peace while they still hold the advantage in the field, or failing that, by solve dooperate coup de main.

TRYRAKKEF ON BANKING."

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The fearm Morchang of the Cant

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cial, all his habits those of tralo: he had never learned from the drill ser geant to toss his toes into the air, and his

At the moment it is the coup de r girth bad grown with his prosperity. For

his er of sunning and competence, his which they are probably contemplating rotund little figure looked comical enoug. rather than their efforts to induce neviÍ. in uniform, like a puppy caught up to the countries to intervene with proposals for nursery and buttoned into dell's clothes. pouce that calls for the most serious con- But he did not, in the least, feel it that sideration. The ponce proposals can be dealt with whom they are made, or rather way himself. Ho had only shouldered

of perce no question Allies there can be Some years ago an enterprising journa rifle for a few months, and he was not the they are already dealt with, since for the till Germany is completely humblet Tis list sought an interview at the Bank of shape of aan to feel at horau England to obtain information on the trenches; the fussing of a Hausfrau coup de main must be countered before

Op inga was written all over him, and civil life made, or it may be dangerous. Of the current financial question.. ing as one of the lounters the Fress had no taught him to do anything for various cours de main which are possible was referred to another department, and himself. Such a man, forced to conform the one which is most specially the con-

ritual of discipline, from which, phyort of England is an attack upon Egyp advised at the same time to read Hauta

sically and spiritually, he must have re That, nocording to reports received in key on Banking.

noxi While the visitor made for the offics through devidas passages, the clerkled, seemed to furnish the very soil in Switzerland from Germany by a specially which German sentiment and homeliness well-informed resident in the country, is who hunt moved him on took a short cat and humanity would flourish, to shan the object on which at the present monent to the other counter, and warned the official of the coming inquiry. To the the cold brutality of Prussian kultur. Out the German high command are concentrar- journalist's surprise he was again ad of him, as a fitting representative, should ing most of their energy,

have issued that sympathy and under- on Baukog, vised to read and was handed on once more to yet an standing by which, when its militarisms had been dethroned, the real Germania olher department.

would be reconciled to an offended worlc One recalls his fat little body, with its proud little strut, and his round little head with the downity pale hair sticking A well-known journal the next morn- up, half an inch high, all over it-so like ing contained a facetious account of the bartan chick with a bulge of shell stil munitions, water, and provisions which visit of its representative to the Bank of glued to its body and realises that ex England. Then followed a minute des pectation to have been delusive. Here in cription of a humorous drawing which the typical Teuton of comedy and the had been ston on the botting pad of one comie papers, complete even to his moon of the olerks who had been interviewed.

like spectacles and smoke-stained mous There was a reference, too, to the strenuous labours of the officials of the table, was embedded, not the civic senti- ofments of Christian policy, but a Prus great institution, which permitted such blotting-pad sketches. The journasionism ruthless enough to satisfy the least list bad his revenge, and the clerk was educated of the Hohenzollerns. ohaffed unmercifully about his drawing abilites.

Hankey

After being told for the third time to study the great banking authority, the newspaper wan loft in disgust and re- tarned to his editor. De

THE CITY DABÍS.

often re-

They intend, by means of a light rail. way across the desert, to make a dash un the Suez Canal They are counting, a our traditional English slowness. To me, They know that if the Canal was property protected by modern trenches it would bo impossible for them to bring off their the huge supplies of mon, guns, coup de mam. No light railway coali that case would be necessary for a successful attack on the Canal. But they believe that we are not yet mads those entrenchments, and they calculate on our they consider that their rush tactics could not making them in time. In that case and will be successfully carried out with a comparatively small body of troups, which would not tax too severely the capacities of the desert railway.

There were soldiers with him, glad enough to have the strain of months end-

Assuming that the Canal is not already ed in this safe capture by a kindly fee.

properly fortified, my informant is of us, for all their official humbug, they well the opinion that we have time to make it know us to be. But this little tradesman impregnable and so make the coup de But he only gives in the soldier's clothes, whose truculence main a disastrous failure, if-but only if had so wonderfully survived a bombard--we begin at once,

Such times are now over, and if any of the Governor of long ago could return to the Bank Parlour to-day, they would be profoundly astonished at the changement which might have deprived the bray us a month before the German ́ allempt in the conditions. In former years to eat of their wits, would have nothing to will be made. rhododendron garden inside the Bank, say to such consolations. He, though, ob-1 with its ferns and fountain, was typical of the quietude and serenity of the whole institution. The garden

oasis, and such an ferred to as â appellation was distinctly appropriate.

When girls were admitted into the Bank of England, some twenty years ago, to take part in postal order work, we believe that many members of the staff objected to the innovation. It was a long time before the Bank became accustomed to fancy hats in the office, and certain of the seniors in the Bank were never really reconoiled to changed conditions.

Nowadays there are many women clerks in the Bank of England, and they do much of the work that was previously undertaken by the men. Under there gime of the present secretary many altera tions and innovations have been intro duced, and it is often said that the "Old Lady has now become the "New 77-12 Lady of Threadneedle-street.

If his information Such is hig story. viously, his belt had of Inte been taken is as corrocs as he believes it to be, the which he gives is infinitely more up a hole or two, could only regard hist the present moment than capture as an undeserved misfortune. The prospect of unstinted British hospitality such questions as, for instance, the pos and renewed noquaintance with a cuisine sible object of the mysterious machina- could not console him for the triumphal tions of von Bülow in Lucerne. entries he knew himself to be missing.

the

The whole institution has been more: or less revised, and present-day methods are adopted in the various departments. -Pall Mall Gazette,

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THE TRIUSHPAL ENTRY.

THE PRIVILEGE OF INDECISION.

No, let us join in agreement that there He was hazy as to where the entries would be--Loudon, Paris, Petrograd, are a neutrals. The issue is too vital to Constantinople, Calais? There were dif-humanity for any to claim the privilege of The un-combatants are de. ficulties, he could see, in the way to all indecision,

Turk and Bulgar, was convinced, righ claring themselves of them; but he through him, that peace would be sigued, they have come in where they wowo due, and signed soon, in some alien metropol, worthy allies of foren and treachery and that by capture he had lost his chanou Heaven be thanked that we have the of seeing that inauguration of a new era against us, so that, when the end comes, there need be no making terms, ug there has been in the pust, with an adborred of manhood in which his sturdy little soul so ardently believed.

thing. Let us be glad to have arrayed against us, in Europa and elsewhere, ali the prophets of inhumanity that the world hokis. Les them balt no longer between two opinions, "If the Lord be God, for low Him: but if Baal, then follow him. No neutrals. Let that be the challonge.

Choose you

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It is too early to debate on ternis of settlement, but it is never 100 soon to realise the impediments thereto, und lass- ing settlement will be impossible unless we understand that the principles of the Junker permeate the whole Gorman mass, though they may ho static, in one class to those Laodicenas. and dysame in another. But for the war, day whom you will serve" this plucky little piece of German protu- That fat, proud little man had claim berance might possibly never have known to one's admiration. He corned the Bal the Imperial turbidity of his own mind:kan peoples, who did not dare declare The following is list of unclaimed telege me. lying in the Great Northern Telegraj certainly the horrid ideas it harboured themselves, one way or the other. Either would have remained unsuspected by the might be right; it admitted of argament. Company's office at Hongkong-

world about him; for he had been fatten Neutrality alone could not be defended. ed, like to many of his kind, outside thee scorned the States, not because they Fatherland, to whose success thousands of his compatriots drink, openly and unebid den, it London to-day.

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were supplying munitions to his enemies; but because, thinking right to make munitions, they could risk the damnation of not doing more, "I know thy works that thou art neither cold not hot I would thou wert cold or hot." That ex pressed him. He had so pathetic a faith in the justice and reason of his country a cause that he would have stoner seen the New World at the bottom of the sea than hare accepted help from it as-a neutral, and it plainly gave him a measure of our shame that in such a matter we could be loss particular,

But there is something more, of impor tance also, which we may learn from him. Though he would not utter a word on ay military detail or about his life in the trenches, he was ready to discuss, and most intelligently, the political issues by which the war was surrounded. And the signi fenn conviction, which had such hold upon hi wind, was expressed in the ofc repeated apothegm: "Der iss gombatanti und angombatants, der is no neutrals,"

"Der iss no neatrals.”. Spain, Switzerland, the States, Greece, Roumania he would have none of them, It was his last word. disengaged from a Combatants or non-combatanta; ar nenahaker head as he marched away into cap- trals! Combatants were the peoples fight tivity, rotund and ridiculous without, but ing; the un combatants those about to with something fine at the core of him, come in. Neutrality, with such an issue despite the accursed cause for which he at stake, seemed to him a badge almost stood. He succeeded, anyway, in stamp- of ineiny; the nation that dared-laying upon us his profound conviction that. claim to it were either liars or of account in this great confict, though the comba "Ven der iss murter done befront you,tants may be mistaken, neutrality is the said in his quaint speech, you may pe badge of shame. In

In those dreadful years, my son," one avraid, or unavraid. But neatrali nein

The murder being done was to the great can imagine the greyheard saying, German people; they seem to have got that makes life worth living was won for you in the most stupendous struggle which that idea quite incorruptibly into their heads, Great are the uses of repetition? the world had seen. The civilised States And any nation who could stand by while of Europe rose up against a tyranny such a murder was being done, might clain which would have made mankind the glav exemption as a coward, but not as a neu-of its basest passions, Hundreds of thou tra? One rather liked the idea, because sands laid down their lives, millions were it true that the people who look un-crippled, whole nations were reduced to moved at murders are not called neutrals; poverty; but the cause of humanity was they are regarded either as cowards or a won," ENTE complices. Now the nations who think that the welfare of humanity is dependent on the supremacy of the great German wople. should not stand by unmoved if bhey think that great people is being murdered. Likewise the nations who be lieve that German supremacy would be fatel to the freedom of the human spie't must not ask our indulgence if they look on until its doom is sealed.

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Arst with which of those. States did you fight, father?"

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