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STATE'S MERVING WOMEN. BISMARCK'S “MODERATION.”

Y.W.CA. APPEAL

Strange and unforeseen have been many of the changes that the war has wrought, Hardly low wonderful than the swift trams formation of Great Braain into a powerful military nation has boon that silent up heaval that has placed the civil work and

RULES FOR PEACEMAKENS

For some time past it has been a favourite occupation of German writers to discusa the question" what Bismarck would do? Germany's present situation, and es pucinly how Bismarck would approach the question of peace. The well-known his torian and official biographer of Bismarck, Professor Erich Marcks, has now publish.

OUR LONDON LETTER-

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]]

LONDON, February 29th. REALIBING THE GRIM NATURE OF THE STRUGGLE.

Whatever we in our island may have lacked in understanding of the grim mature of the struggle we are shedding our ignor ance thoroughly, for the single men are

the first line of the advance. Great t was! And since then I've been stuck the trenches Armenteeres way—in angl you might say, shooting and being to bomb throwin' and lots o little things that Plenty of excitement and weath But stuck there. Well, I'm glad to get s of it in June, and I think I can fix a little business that'll make out all ri For living,"

"But what about the bonus they giving to time-expired men who re-enlis asked a bystander.

The soldier spoke with decision,

the industries of tho workshops in the ed an essay intemledio fit the founder lost all under compulsion, and few inreckou I've done my share," ho repoat

bands a women,

It has been estimated from official figures that there were fully 2,000,070 more women in active employment on January 1st,

and genius of the German Empire into the actual present. Unfortunately Professor Macks cannot arrive at any more definite emclusions than that Bismarck would practise moderation, as he

deed are those who have escaped with com. pleto exemption. By the end of April the younger married groups are expected to

There's only one thing," he added, a they start novin' again--by gum, I wo ruminative look came into his eye. ut chuck it for a thousand bonuses.

1918 than on the corresponding day twelve in his thought and in his action did both be dealt with, and what will happen to the not for ten thousand bonuses I would

months earlier. Moreover, the number is increasing week by week. Every cas, is cluding those previously regarded as lei sured and well-o-do, are adding to the total. The call is reaching the remotest hamlets as well as the quiet market towns, and the women and girls are responding. There has box no need for any group systems," no talk of any form of cunscrip tion. The women are mobilising in a great army, ready to serve wherever they are mout neded-oven to tlio hard labour of the tiling of the soil.

A BOCIAL READJUSTMENT,

and that

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he would bebaye as a real states would ook in every direction, extract everything from the military and diploma tie possibilities, await his time, and then act with lightning speed, un ripe considera. tion, and entirely without vanity,”

Much as the Germans enjoy the idea of dictating peace to the world with abux dans sent-congratulation about their deration. these views do not quite satisfy the Cologne Gazete. In a long review of Professor Maracks! essay, the journal argues in effect that Germany's business is to act se fishly and to avoid all sentiment alliy Germany must sun the dream of Oby ously such changes in the antional, everlasting peace, all idea of falling back commercial, and industrial sphere cannot brou conscription to aa militio urary," effected without considerable adjustment and all faith in either Free Trade or ex- of social conditions. Nose has realised hitreme Protection as a panacea; and, in more clearly than the very able and practeul politik.

fact must make, a thorough business of In the same article the tical group of ladies who control the de Cotone Guserte says:-- stinies of the Young Women's Christian Association. Most people have some idea.

PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT People sometimes ask-What has bec of Prince Arthur of Connaught? Bef the Prince of Wales cavie of age ho the King's special representative in m quarters of the globe, including the Cord tion celebrations in Tokio A homo opened exhibitions and performed a 1 of public duties with ties and bonhoo But since the war began ho has har boen heard of. The fact is he is" do his bit," and, like many another cus busier ho is the less the public knows w he is doing.

miss my chance of bein in as the fojat

He is now A.D.C. at the British He quarters on the personal staff of Sir Də

later groups-up to the age of forty and possibly, forty-fivo-is the subject of much speculation. Some declare that all the single men up to forty should be made to go before any married men are taken, while there is another camp contending that no difference should be made at all, for single men have often as much to lose and as many depending on them a married mon,

Most of the mon are taking the situation calmly, though there are some hard case, as, for example, the professional man who is blondly told by a pompous chairman of the tribum] that he must sell up his busi-las Haig. Really he is the leading ag between the British and Franch Sta nese and join the army. He is given the His military kuowledge, his fucucy wooks in which to do that, and thus loses French, and his charm of manner wi closely resembles that of the labo K his all, for the price obtainable is only a Edward-have made him very popu The egoism (of our enemies) canuog boknock-out one. As to other cases, they with our French Allies. He has bee of what the kindred organisation, the soot ultigated by the plusters of would be laughable if not so regrettable the personal friend of General Joffre, lins several times gone to Paris for Young Men's Christian Association, hasentulty and he remedies of

chiation. It can be neid in check only by There was the man who plays the "dude" purpose of meeting the French Minister done and is doing in affording recreation

It would bo in a revue and considered himself rooms, sleeping accommodation near the respect for power.

k_c 11 We were once more, as so often railway termini and junctions, and in

in the past. to yield to the deception that indispensable; the bath attendant who countless other ways for the troops at the

by considerateness and friendliness we could would not fight to protect his own front or under training. The analogous.

188ca poutical goals, or if, in eccsequence mother; the peach tree attendants who work is needed for the girls, who are pro- of the threat; born of hatred and bitter- viding primarily the munitions of war, but ness, that the starvation policy shall be consider they are performing an indispen who also are sustaining the fabric of the connued after the war, we were to bogable task; and the clerk who declares that State no loss in inking upon themselves atraid of asking demand, which are ucces. the work that must be carried on in the eary for the security of our war and peace if the Germans were to invade England and offices of the Government, mumcipalities. Of course, on the other hand, it attack his home he would not lift a rife banks, a d olsewhere.

would be unwise to give rein to our desires, against them but "but would reason with ad to demand all sorts of things that wo cannot digest, thereby perhaps over-reach- them," It may not be palatable to Britons ing ourselves and imperting our purpose overseas to hear that such a man as this to secure a permanent prace.

last exists, but there is some consolation in the reflection that he is a wild and extreme. exception, and the great mass of our cous trymen are going forth to battle willingly, not to say gladly.

The problem of housing and feeding the MY HWRgers, Jr.girl worker had becoins urgent sven before Mr & Mrs.J. B. Shaw the war. Projects for dealing with it upon Mr W. B-Sherman.

a broad and bold seals had come into the Mr C. A.. Seakley

purview of the association. These are tem- Mr à Min T. W.

porarily suspended in the pressing neces- Simmons

sity for meeting the present needs In the autumn of 1915 the great want, was that of clubs or girls, especially in the vicinity of the garrison towns and camps for there was a wave of expitement, and restlessness among the younger and lece controlled worn that called for prudent guidance. That need us somewhat passed, for wouen have found the elve," and have di ect. ed those energies into useful channels lead- ing to the service of the State,

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·ABUSIVE, PAMPHLETS,

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Although there has been a considerable reduction of the "German propaganda for neutrals, there is still a very large out- put of books and pamphots about German

us. Kultur and Gurionny's enemics. There spen, to be still a marker for books avtibuting the way to King Edward V11. Lere comes; for oxample, frous Augsbu a bavaria, an elaborate work called Ed ward's Unhappy Heirs study of vamous persoanges in the Allied countries, beginning of course, with Sir Edward Edward Grey and ending with the TSST and containing all the slanders and fictions accutoulated during many years by the man gutter Pres. A chapter on Mr. Asquith says:

THE MUNITION WORKERS. The initial difficulty to be dealt with has been that of housing the workers in the munition factories, All sorts of factories have been requbitioned in the provincial Perhaps the time will come when there towns up and down the country, calling for will dawn upon the English liberals a largo drafs of workers from palade, Lodg-consciousness of the misery which they ings have been hard t- find and, of course,

achieved by letting loose the world war The time will come when the English people following all laws of supply and demand, have been opstly, even if they would be will recognize that the men to whom it had found at all, Railway communications witz

entrusted the command of the ship of State places at any distance have been unsatis

in its fateful hour were bad and unsern factory, especially for those on the night pulous pilots, who have behaved like the shifts, Only in the larger centres of popo-captains of a pirate ship and not like the officers of an honourable vessel. Then re Jation has the serv ca of trams of ommbus sponsibility will break over the head of Leon of any help to those living at a dis Herbert Henry Asquith

Another reason for special provision arises from the fact that the manufacture

of high explosives is not permitted by law in the vicinity of habitations Unless some eantoon can be established close to such works, the women have long distances to go for meals, adding thereby to the fatigues

and strain of their Inhours. Wherever these: canteens, with their rest-rooms attached,. Lave been opened there has been a market

Moreover, it does one good to meet in the train, the strost, or the restaurang fine strapping men from oversese, keen to get to grips with the fo, I met one yesterday a splendid specimen of a British Colum bian and he told me in the township where he came from there were, when the war broke out, seventy men all told. There are now not more than a store--all the rest have joined the colours," Pretty soon," he said, no really able-bodied men will remain in British Columbia. They are giving up af for the cause, and I tell you we don't like to hear of young slackers hare hiding in uition shops and government offices, protected by exemption badges."

DURATRE POSITION OF THE DIVORCED,

One of the oddities of the Service Act rulings is that which concerns men who are divorced. According to the Local Govern A particularly abusive chapter on Mr.ment Board, such men, if eligible in point Lloyd George anda.

of age, become liable under the Act, oven though they have children of the marriage The way against England cannot, indeed, dependent on them. This may be said to last for ever, and peace between the two add a new terror to the philanderings of countries must and will come some day, b the peccant husband, who may fing himself. we shall only gain John Bull's future not only cut adrift from his life partner respect and recognition if we first give him but also swept into the army as a result such blows with our fists that for a long of straying from the narrow path, If the time he cannot see out of his eyes, husband is the injured party he will think he is receiving rather hard measure for his wifes frailty,

our

SIR EDWARD CARSON'S INDISP

Sir Edward Corson, the forceful Ul leader, is out of the limelight justyn The reason is kept very quiet, so far the public are concerned, but the fact that he has been ordered to do a th works water cure with an after-euro. letters are being forwarded, and none his Parliamentary associates has t given big addrces, 80 03 to ensure absol rustfulness. With Bir Edward away the efforts to coorce the Cabinet. in and that direction, lack cohesion. He drawn the loose Parliamentary thre its his own hands and with that mast fulness that has characterised aliko Ulster and his legal career, he was in fluential Opposition than people stri way of making a larger and & more when his breakdown came

MEP, F, WARNER'S ILLNESS, Fow mon have performed more signal more unobtrusive service in the w especially in the delicato and import missions, then the Ismous cricketer position of selecting candidates for co P. F. Warner, Therefore, it is all the m regrettable that he should be seriou malady that laid him low in Austra threatened with a return of the danger when he was there as captain of our English team. His recovery then y ascribed to the untiring bursing of energetic and capable wife, who is a ni of Sir James Blyth. His subsequ scores for Middlesex and his usapari energy in war work proved he had ta

new loase of life, but hos - has undy exerted himself, and is now confined to bed in his flat in Ashley Gardens. Not least part of his trouble is the very tural depression that its recrudescence caused in his own temperament.

INTERNATIONAL COURTESIES. The Parliamentary representatives w have just been in Paris have been no entertained, and the Frenchmen selected the leadership of the reception commit spoke English fluently, The welcom chief was M. Clemenceau, perlians best-known Frenchman over here. Thou fire in Champagne. He delights in ent seventy-two years of age, he has been nud taining Englishmen at his hore in t Franklin Bonillon, took his degree at On suburb of Paris. The vice-chairma bridge University. He is forcible, comt wealth of emotional expressions, He is to the neck in politics and is a dose frie of Lord Murray of Elibank, who, by t way, has knocked himself up in organisi munition work,

incrase in the output of work, and a far Hon, Emily Kinnaird, and Miss Picton. It may not be long before one of five, and truly Gallic in his enthusiasm a

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women noveliste produces a shocker" in, which the wife deliberately brings herself within the jurisdiction of the Court in order to pay out * husband by getting him "conscripted."

OFFICIAL INEPTITUDE.

workers

Perhaps the ideal conditions have been reached by one famous firm engaged in the manufacture of cordite. A clony for the workers was erected in a long eories

One point for considera'ion will be the of wooden hut, each containing some full to overflowing. The Queen paid position of the parties when a decres nis twenty-eight two-bedded cubicks. In the it a long visit of inspection recently and has been pronounced. Does the husband centre of all is a very fine dining hall with has expressed her great interest in the ap become "single" within the meaning of a perfectly equipped kitchen, a recreation pen), Twice, indeed, has her Majesty the Act from that moment, and if so, what room, and a small modal hospital. As soon made donations of £50 towards it. Then happens if the King's Procter steps in and as these plans had been approved the firm Ashley House, near Euston Station, is gets the decree annulled? requested the Young Women's Christian another similar establishment which has son ation to take up the responsibilities had to refuse from fifty to sixty applicants for them on behalf of the girls employed. This was gladly accepted, two ladies of great experience and tach in dealing with girls were placed is charge, a housekeeper, who brought the knowledge of catering for one of London's greatres hospitals to bear upon the teak, assumed the important duties of kitchen management, and night and morning hundreds of girls

while at their Work with results that are working ad- mirably,

a week since it was opened. The opportu: i The Leicester correspondent of the Shoe nity Las come to it of extension provided and Leather Record sends to that paper * funds and a prompt decision are forthcomination that deserves a wider Gir coming,

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FURTHER NEEDS.

Public imagination is more stirred at the idea of women's labour in shell, fuse and explosive making than it is over the vort. army engaged in the more humdrum round of bus nèse rou ine. Yet anyone who gives a thought to the matter must realise the difficulties that confront the girl with 228. to 25s. a week then she has to maintain Sherself London, Tho dull back room

culation, so I include it, in order that you may understand some of the things that It may be, and has, in fact, been asked would otherwise be mysteries as to the why employers do not make some provision lines on which our officialdom works. The for their women workers. Custom is bard Government have intimated, through tho domestic servants, has always been left to they are wiling to receive tender for the worker to find for herself. Moreover, twenty-four emery pads, the total value of mazing contingencies arise in these days. which would be one shilling and fourpence, The tender forms are marked "very ur It is no long since a murition factory was opened a town of no great size, and sou gent and firms tendering are warned that gira from a Labour Exchange register ability of the railway companies to carry were suddenly called up.

Neither the the goods will not relievo contractors of Mayores nor any other lady of influencesponsibility for con-delivery-d had been informed, but the association, The goods are presumably intended for whose aid was invoked, succeeded after the Army boot-repairing depota, but in great exertions in finding shelter for the view of the admitted urgency" it will, arrivals Such undertakings can only be I think, etrike west business men an carried out by business-like, resourceful strange that there is not an official con. women, and to meet the demand for these perted with this branch of the service rented at 6s. or "s, a work up many fights the association has opened a training home possessing fufficient authority to give the of stairs, the monotonous food, whether at Hampstead, whose studen'e will be able fetch the goods from: the nearest grindory office boy sixteenpence, with instructors to cooked by herself or brained at a cheap to direct the kindly, but often mistake shop. Up to the time of writing I have eating house, the drab discomfort of it all efforts of the amateur enthusiast It is not nos heard which local firm has been for is a poor return for the services she is ren enough, therefore, to give a cold record of tunate enough to secure this "contract." dering to the best of her ability. She de- the colonies and hostels, the canteens, and serven something better than this, and it is the rest-rooms, where aching limbs find re bus bare justice that she should have it,

newed vigour in long chairs and easy

How does the time expired man regard With no wore than £25,000-about two cushions. There is nagpathetic work that the war 1 Here is a conversation that hundredth part of what the war is costing has seized upon the best of yourg English throws some light on the feeling of ane for a single day-the association, could do womanhood to be taken into account, and of thy members of the regular Amy whose great things towards meeting these wants the puble may be assured that the associs time is up in June. "Are you going back." and giving comfort bright surroundings, tion will utilise to the best purpose all the he was asked, "Not me,

be rep sed WORK REFERENCA damping meals to such girla. À special support that can be sent to Lord Hyden-Mind you, I'm not sorry I've been THE NEW SKACINITASIKLER MOET TO MARR committee, which has the Duchess of Sutherlan, at the headquarters, 28, George street, through it, but I reckon I've done my THERAPIONTAS

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On the British side Lord Bryce was worthy international chief, Sir Ivor He bort has long been an officer of the Legion Honour, a warrior of tried ability and happy boulevardier while Mr. T. 1 O'Connor contributed some of those grac ful Celtic speeches that appeal so strong to our Gallic neighbours. The enten cannot fail to be cemented by these clo exchanges,

FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

TODAY 4.45 pm Tennis Tournament on Centr

Stand Court

TO-NIGHT

9.15 p.m.-Bandman Opers & Comedy Co st the Theatre Royal The Man wh Blayed at Home 7

TO MORBOW.

9.15 p.m.-Bandman Opers & Comedy Co at the Theatre Royal The Man Wh Stayed at Home."

Saturday, 8th April

Golf-Mixed Foursomes Competition at Deo

Water Hay

Entries alone for Hongkong Tennis League. Sunday, 9th April ----

Golf Mixed Foursomes Competition at Dee

Water Bay,

Monday, 10th April.

11.30 Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co, Ltd, Extraordinary General Meeting 11:45, Green Island: Cement Co., Ltd

Meeting of Shareholders, Thursday, 13th April

6:15 pm ----Children's Thestiioni

at Mt. Austin Theatre.

Saturday, 15th ApHI1—

9.15 p.m.-Children's Theatrical Performan

at Mi. Austin Theatre.