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WEATHER REPORT.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1916,

On the 7th at∙104) am—The suitî-cyclon is now central over the Gulf of Peonili, Tise northern depression has passed into the Pacifle,

he Indo-Chiis depression has deep red lightly. It is Log central to the hora of Turano,

Pros-ure has decreased slightly ia all intelota to the south of changbai. -

Fash monsoon may be expected along the nast ceast of China, and froch easterly to south-

China Sem, bet

DISTRICT.

The forecast for the 24 kosin ending at noon to-day lasi foliowa im.

FORMULAT (E. winds, mofar- Hougzong & Neuchnasehood, ste to frosk Igausrally cloudy

NE wind

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WOMEN AS WAR WORKERS. WHERE ENGLAND FAILED. SIR OLIVER LODGE ON NEGLECT. DIFFICULTIES THAT HAVE TO BE

OF EXPERT KNOWLEDGE.

Sir Oliver Lodge delivered the inaugural addreas before too annual contornes ni

educational associations at the University of London, choosing as his subject cation after the war."

Two danger gigang had bean set up, one by British and one by oa, tões, ne ver -ared. The bid sentimental, delightzul Germany, with

message to the end of thọ human race, had boon stain, nad

could have peace, the proceeded :—-**- Bus our country has unconsciously hoisted its Danger signals, too Nothing so bad as the other, thank goodness; not sou destroying, but bad enough and des- poratoly unwise. The aeg.cct of intellec. tual things, the satisfaction with book knowledge, the inattention to facts, the concentration on physical prowes, and on a passive hind of aerial prosperity-he widespread ignorance of natural facts, even among our leaders, and consequent contempt for investigation and expert knowledge-that is another danger.

FACED.

OUR LONDON LETTER-

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

LONDON, February 2nd It was four o'clock in the morning. My

ENEMY SHIPPING. The great demand for our own shipping neighbour in the deck chale yawned.

makes the question of our enemies posses stretched herself, threw yesterday's papersions in that respect interesting. A reliable on the floor, and remarked. “They'll be shipping man says: "It as obvious that here in half an hour. One after another the German merchant fleet lying in hone and neutral ports is not only earning no- the joints of the five dock chairs creaked, raing, but, in the stable phrase is eating

the goods on. hand, of course and it is esti-' mated that we have tobacco io lust us for two years, but, on the other hand, there are some distinguished people who predict that the war is going to last a very long time yet, even if the present scope and in- tensity on the part of all the belligerents should have to be reduced,

The scarcity of ships is such that some.. thing had to be done to avoid a further heavy advance in Freights. We have just arrived to an agreement with the Govern moat of Italy whereby 150 steamers are to be provided by us to carry coal and pro duce to Italy. The French authorities ar

· easterly winds over the western por ion of the ruthless monster bad taken. i's place. write; a correspondent in a home paper home parts no doubt at this lower grades in neutral countries. Their task is dif its head off." In the case of the ships in seeking to obtain a largo number of vessels Until the dragon has been exterminated, and the bise bird that hung by a string of employes and most of the higher officials ficult, as Norway, Denmark, Grecce, Ger. Hongkong minfall for the 24 hours ending at either Germany nor the rest of the world from the roof of the but began to gyrate have been discharged, and a few shipmony and Austria have prohibited tho ́10 m.ma to-day, 0 00 iuitatem,

with an absurd and working gravity. keepers are all that are needed. Then, transfer of ships on the national register to Rest time was over. We had to get busy too, charges for duck dues ar moorings have foreign flags and other maritime Powers assuredly been reduced to a minimum, as contemplate taking similar steps The White Star and the Cunard have secured, in prearation for the next invasion, the policy of the German Government is The radiator-dried atmosphere was heavy always to treat the shipping interest very

so I hear, the two mammoth vessels, the and warn, so, having flung open the door,

gently.

Statendam and Belgenland, of about 33,000 stood there for some minutes enjoying

tons each, that are being constructed in "But when we come to examine the posi Belfest to the original orders of Dutch and the cool and drinking in the night sounds

The Cunard are invit- They never ceased for an instant. The tion of the liners that took refugo in neu-

Belgian interests. air was as full of anal; noises from a distral ports, there is not likely to be any spe.

ng tenders for eight intermediate steamers. cial treatment accorded. Neutrals are mak. cance as the sky above was full of the

MR. J. Ế, CHAPMAN ABOUT AGAIN,' ing the most they can from the necessities light of the stars. It reminded one of waiting in a darkened theatre for the of the belligerents, A statement has re The Hongkong friends of Mr. Joseph cently been published as to the position of R. Chapman, about whose illness and in- curtain to go up and show the gnomes

be vessels which are sheltering in Boston, carceration in a mental hospital I wrote in toiling at their anvils.

They include the passenger steamships my last communication, will be pleased to WOMEN WAR WORKERS,

Amerika and Cincinnati. It is said that hear that he has recovered, and is about The hut was in the heart of one of the on these two ships alone a spm equal to £15 again, I met him in New Oxford Street the great workshops of the war. Through a day has been paid to the State of Massa-day before yesterday, and he seemed as well every hour of the day and night thousands chusetts for the privilege of letting them and hearty as ever. He told me he had And le at the South Boston pier. This works many schemes in hand for China trade and laboured here making munitions. among the many thousands were thou out at £5,500 for the year. In addition,

planned a visit to Liverpool very shortly sands of women. It was with some of the crew or such of them as remain-have in connection with them. those that I was specially concerned, for to be paid and fed. The complement of the hut had been built by the munitions these two ships aggregate 920 men but firm, and was being ran by the Y.W.C.A.now only twenty-ivo per cent of the ori- in order to provide the girls with foodginal sumber are al their employers' and a good place to eat jo.

"The position is similar in nearly every neutral port in the world,

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HONGKONG METEOBOLOGICAL

REGISTER.

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Hongkong Obervatory, March 7th.

Previous On DatejƐn Date

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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

From 7th to 13th Maro, 1918,

HIGH WAVEL

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What has become apparently the iguersace of our governing classes--the ignorance of all classes. The fact that eduention has not led to widely diffused knowledge, was not designed to lead there. and that it failed to stimulate any healthy intellectual interest in the majority, bus now at length glared at us too prominently to be overlooked. We have been learning from our enemies; one thing after another wo have picked up from the. In initin tive we have been behind. The courage and the persona character of our men- eur, men of ali elosses, and our women, tuo -have saved us; but we have been saved as by fire.

Stacks of food are being arranged on the counters, and hundreds of cups prepared with milk and sugar for the pouring out of the tea. It is essential that everything should be in apple-pie order, for this is to be the "short meal, lasting officially for exactly seven minutes-from 4.30 to 4.37 am though in practice the time allowed is more like twelve.

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THE BANKS AND THEIR RIGID CONSERVATISM.

Our great banks have been holding, their annual meetings of shareholders, and the chairmen's speeches have been of a very buoyant character in regard to Germany's financial and economic exhaustion, ut. there is some disappointment because these bankers make little or no practical sugges tion with reference to the need for

In this commercial community surely clone were experts: trade and manufac ture, men of experience and ability, eager

"The fleet in hiding at New York is far to help and advise and serve in their

larger than that, at Boston; the tonnage severn] capacities at the outbreak of the

of one vessel there, the Faterland, is about strengthening and expanding British trade war. They were not called in, they were

equal to that of the whole quintette in the after the war, Thero has been a singular ab- not trusted. I put it down not to vicious-

Massachusetts port. The Faterlandsence from the speeches of all the chairmon ness, but to ignorance. Only gradually did

about two millions sterling. Interest and of the joint stock banks of any desire to co- the need for their services loom on those

Precisely on hali-past four an electric depreciation on such a vessel together can operate more closely with commerce direct- in control of national affairs, and now bel, which everyone calls "the whistle" not be less than ten per cent. per analy, but merely to express his opposition to at length, there is something of organiseringa inside the hut. The eleven of us on

so that a trifle of £200,000 a year is lost

the suggestion that the banks should facili tion. But it is a kind of Nemesis. The duty spring to attention. In my capacity by her idleness. Then there are insurancs,

tate the financing of industries somewhat anufacturers have long refrained from

after the manner of the Deutsche-Asiatische calling in the scientific expert-and sos janitor for the night I throw open the wages, and provisioning of the crew, and they themselves, with their accumulation of and have only just time to bolt for the dock charges-New York is not a cheap Bark. Nothing short of stone intoche

the shelter of the trench behind the tea port.

ment presau re or encouragement wil. detailed knowledge of trading and buying runs before the invaders are upon us. And whilst charges run up, it must change this attitude, so rigid is the conser and selling, have not been called in either. They are hungry and thirsty. They storm be barne in mind that everything connect vatism of our banks in their policy and. Had the patriotism of all classes-not the counters, pouring in a heavy are ofed with a ship wastes when she is out of methods. The fact is that when. merely the class of military age-beca ap-

more individually managed. pealed to, what a response there would coppers, and within three minutes the commission. Huge sums will be needed to banks were

whole of the three hundred have retreated make the luxurious accommodation once and the customers were in closer touch. have been," added Bir Oliver. To sum

to the tables, bearing with them spoils more attractive to the critical passengers with the directors than they are to- up the contention of manufacturers all over

who pay, and to put the hulls, engines and day, such advances were far easier rolis, the country: inspection by the inexpesto soup and tea, cakos, tarts, and ham-

hollers into first-class trim again, was an extravagant. farce. He put it all

Alto secure, for individual knowledge of char- down to disbelief in real education,

It is a short and hot engagement, in gether, it is quite clear that several years' neter and credit gave the transaction, ade- which both sides acquit themselves with earnings at high freights will be needed ta quate gmund for trust, To-day, however, honour. For ten minutes the long, tow make good the losses of this year and a half, the bank is impersonal: a company con- | but fairly hums with the sounds of eating, and it is quite possible that if the war jasts cern with the directors more or less at a drinking and feminine chatter Then many months longer the ruin of the Ham- distance from the customer and bent merely the "whistle again, and the hut empties burg-Amerika and

the Norddeutscher on the tochanical securing of a dividend,

This has national drawbacks almost is quickly as it filled, the last girl Lloyd Companies will be complete." prancing out with a deliciously saucy toss of the head for the benefit of the perenially.. indignant foreman, who thinks that even: seven minutes is, if anything, a bit too long,

[TO ENLIVEN THE MONOTONY AT THE FRONT. HINT TO WAR OFFICE TO SEND BANDS,

up.

Would it not be possible for the War Office to enliven tho monotony of life out hers in these grey days by sending over a suficient number of military bands to en able each Army Corps to have one attached to it? The stimulating effect upon trench tired soldiers of hearing their popular dit ties is so great that it amounts to a distinct asset of efliciency:

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THE CENTRAL POWERS' FUTURE PLANS.

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The hints of the President of the Local Government Board have passed without re- Meanwhile Herr Ballin of the Hamburg-ul, except to draw references of hostility Amerika line and Herr Heineken of the to "venturesome "schemes from Lard North German Lloyd have been in Vienna Inchcape and others. There is, in conse-... and Budapest discussing the situation and quence, a newspaper crusade in progress the future outlook with the Hungarian and for the mobilising of both science and credit Austrian Commerce, Finance and Interior in the interests of industry. Its urged that officials, in order to prepare for such ship. if the banks do not awaken to their di ping warfare, after the conclusion of actual to the nation State commercial banks will hostilities, as their resources will permit be the only alternative, for the end of the Evidently the Central Powers intend to

war will open wide opportunities that will combine their efforts to meet the Allied only need financing to be made of endless combination that will certainly by against benefit to the British Empire.

them in commerce as in war.

the mail contract with the F. and O. for By the way, I hear that the extension of

REFORMS DEMANDED ALL, ROUND.

"Units come and go and trench reliefs tre carried out who almost clockwork ike punctuality. Aud, Focause we cannot tell

The girls work in three eight-hour shifts you more than this, the impression is foster for the 14 hours at shell-inaking and filing, vu that a conspiracy of secrecy 13 4100t and each of the shifts has to be provided all a word, there is nothing more to tell with two meals, one long, the other no fact is, says & writer at British head-short," besides meals which are supplied quarters in France, that the weather has to some of the workers before they come tirely consuminated the stalemate of the op- on duty. Thus nearly 900 girls are catered posing besiegers. It has long bean said that for at this one canteen, and the number brition can bress through the enemy of meals supplied in the course of the ines when they choose, and 1 am convinced

hours approaches 2,000. at this is true. But such strategy needs extreme caution. Rolling-up tactics

THE CLASS OF WORKERS.

From hints that have got abroad, it is At the same time the papers are remind- always involve the pobility of a counter- attack which may end

During the long wual (from 1 0,5, to the opinion of shipping eircies that theying the workers that they, too, wil have to in rolling-up the

intend to do their heavy work, first of all, drop some of their bad habits such as arti- 1:30) I took the opportunity of talking to With the face of the country aggressor.

to Central and South America by way of beinl restriction of output. which is a sort in a porous, mushy condition it is impos soms of the workers in the intervals be

tween selling hacfpenny pranges and serv the Panama Canal. For this purpose it is of fetish in trade unions. Also, the mer sible to effect the essential prompt wove wants of artillery without which any biging out winced beef and mashed potatoes planned to have, in addition to the former chant classes had developed a habit of play.

Our at threepence a plate. offensivo s fore doomed to failure;

ships for this trade of the Hamburg ing too much and working too little; of re- broops would probably have but little They peened to belong to every strata of Amerika line and the Austro-Americans of garding the "long week-end" as a natural trouble in occupying the greater part of society. A few were obviously ladica Trieste, not less than four, and it may be and regular part of their weekly pro the German front line trenches forthwith, well-known golfer, a general's widow, the six, new liners of over 20,000 tons and agramme. because the enemy holds these lightly, prewidow of a famous explorer-who were minimum speed of nineteen knots together Finally, I may quota a section from the forring to concentrate supporting masses in training for supervisorships. Quite a num with a rumber of smaller ships, which will Spectator to show how general is the be On Sale at the DAILY Pass Office or the immediate rear. But then? With her were girs who might have gone into be transferred to the Transatlantic services Local Booksellers.

the ranges registered to a picety from my-shups and offoes, and a much large number from the previous services to the Mediter lief that we have reached the end of our raids of artillery and machine gun emplace-again were of the laundry or factory girl fanean, Indian Ocean and Far East. It Free Trade methods, at least for this gen- ments such a step would be sneer suicide type. They were al gay and talkative is reported, also, that as Herr Ballin beration. We have had strong hints of that until the opportunity is ripe to follow it but tired, though they had only been at the levee Hungary will be allowed an outlet from the President of the Board of Tride,

nebines two and a half hours.

at Fiume even if Italy gets Trieste, the for- and, if report is true, we shall have it Don't you sleep well I asked one mor port will be developed as the Medi-underlined in the nex: proposals of the particularly weary-eyed girl.add terranean base of operations for the Ger- Chancellor of the Exchequer But here is the Spectator, the staunch unholder of "How can you,' she replied, when man Shipping Federation.

Free Trade, though its policy is otherwise Conservative, saying: Our Free trade there's such a noise in the houses and the THE BEITIRN MALLS TO THE FAST. waggong are bumping past all day? I have a bit of a lie down, and then I go

inte, and made our wealth-getting a com policy in commerce was perfectly legiti to the pictures, and then I have another bit of a lie down. It ain't good for one another gear is to be utilised for the con-paratively easy task; but, alas! the natural indolence of mankind, or, shall wo say, ot but I suppose it all helps to beat them sideration of many matters relating to Germans.

changed conditions, and proposals for in-ny rate, of British mankind--very largely counteracted our sound economie policy. provements By all accounts the pictures? ito

The increasing use of the Trans-Siberian The low rent of our economie field tended playing havoc with many of the gir8. route to the Far East is likely to lead to

to make us lazy and to allow ourselves to there is a deadly monotony about the less rode tations. In the och contract, but the hecome a prey to such parasitic growths as skilled forms of munition work that makes

enormous growth of the weekly mails to those which so often sterilised the activity. the lure of the theatre particularly hard India has proved to the Government that of our workers under trade unions. Our to resist. It calls for self-control to go fuller facilities will have to be provided Free Traders wove a good web in the day- time, but the trade union rules designed to to bed and stay there,

if demand is to he coped with in the future limit production unpicked the web every

One of the suggestions is the institution of sailings twice a week with the establish night. Too often we have been Free ment of a subsidiary line between Karach Traders in the abstract and the worst type and Aden, so as to link up with the China of Protectionists in the concrete. We have and Australian mails at the latter port, preached Free Trade and the doctrine of and also the forwarding of Southern Ladian abundance and practised the artificial pro that the first of these propoenly was ap mails by the new Ceylon route. It is stated duction of scarcity."

BOOTS FOR FIVE ARMIES. proved before the war by the Director of Posts and Telegraphs for India, except that he wanted a second fast service direct

Since the outbreak of war Northampton. from Marseilles to Karschi, and also the shire has supplied five armies with the acceleration of the Bombay-Brindisi pas bulk of their boots,, delivering to the Bri- sage.

tish army alone no less than a total of 2325,000 worth a week in busy times out of a total of £400,000 worth for the whole country, in addition to boots for the French army and nary, the Belgian army, the Serbian army and the Italian army. THE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS."

Now there is likelihood of an order for There is likely to be outcry in the trades three million pairs of high-legged boots for affected by the prohibition or restriction of the Russian army being placed in Eng- bulky " unnecessaries" ench, as wood pulp, land. If this order should be placed it building materials, veneers and other farm would absorb well over 30,000,000 ft of fare woods, raw tobacco and some traits: upper leather in addition to 950.000 bends Hardly any of these trades will admit that for coles, besides 200,000 bends for repair the goods mentioned are unnecessary noting, and leather for other purposes equal even tobacco There are fair stocks of all to 300.000 hides.

At times of crisis it must be Bovril

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The belief is held that the days of gas sing are practically over. With the elves tive antidote that has been developed therd ia no fonger any adequate advantage to be anticipated from this very complicated and precarious method of trying a surprise, Furthermore, the Germans have discovered that whenever they attempt to let loose the poisonous stuff they draw a furious concen trated artillery fire upon the spot, the object of which is to devastate any forma But it calls for a good deal more self- tion for a rush. And one fact is very cer sacrifice on the part of the YWCA tain-the enemy is evincing less and less volunteers to immure themselves at Shell disposition to court the ever-increasing Town for the sake of their sister women violence of the British batteries.

There are seventeen residents in connee tion with this particular canteen, and they live a sort of cloistral life between the hut, where they take twelve-hour shifts and the bungalow, where there are seven- teen sleeping cubicles, like tiny ship's cabins, and a diminutive parlour,

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The twelve-hour duty provides an al most perpetual round of hard work. No sjoner is ona meal cleared up than an- other has to be got ready,

The selection of Salonika instead of Brin- "Clearing up" means that the hat basis as the transhipment port in Europe to be swept out, all the tables swabbed was considered possible before the war and down, and the utensils (numbering over

was favoured by many. 1,500 for every big meal) washed.

Yet I think these women have their re ward-a secret reward that cannot be baken from them Ought they not also to have the reward of their country's thanks One way to thank, and take a small share of the burden, will offer itself when the YWCA launches its national appeal for funds to carry on this, and other branches, of special war-time service,