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AMERICAN CONSUL GENERALS REPORT

The Lind C. Express of 'April 4th gives extracts from a recent report of the American Consul-General on Hongkong's cigarette industry:

THURSDAY, MAY 11TH, 2018,

REALITIES OF WAR

A SOLDIER'S VIEW.

[DY W. BRACH THOMAS.]

BRITISH HEADQUARTERS, France,

OUR DUTY TOWARDS THE

CINEMA".

WOODBINE OR HAVANAT

Ten years ago the cinematograph (then called the biograph or some other name The thousands of people who have pubes imposing than the long Greek tem licly praised the man in the trench that has trimphed-to become diablement In the past two years, and especially whether soldier or officer, have unwitting change en route) was still a liule adjunct in the last six months or 80, writes they in their cumulative admiration helped of the music-halls. U.S. Consul General, there has been an to give or so the soldier sometimes immense increase in the imports of leaf thinks - wrong impression of the tobacco from the United States intorture of the war.

once from the States into

with ordinary development of a local cigarette factory No reliable returns as to the actual imports of American leaf are to be had except from commercial sources, but it is estimated that arrivals are at the rate of about 400 tierces and bugs heads per month, as compared with im- ports of about 300 such packages per month a year ago and a very small por tion of that amount two years and more ago.

The bulk of these imports at present go to the cigarette factory mentioned This factory is now importing 300 hogs heads of 1,050 lb. of tobacco per month, largely from the United States, paying for it on an average of about 823 gold per 100 lb. ⠀⠀⠀

AMERICAN · MACHIKERY PREDOMINATES.

The local cigarette concern is the chief factor in the entire tobacco trade of South China at the present time. The factory was established several years ago by: Chinese, fir at least Asiatic, capital, but with modern machinery. It is now

The truth is that the oberver is so con stantly struck by the cheerfulness of the men that he has come to regard their occupation as in itself an almost cheerful thing, or rather to give the impression that it is a cluerful thing. Every visitor to the front has so far ecaped without tragic and many singularly picturesque hurt and most visitors have seen few

sights. Even in the trenches goodly cook

ng smells titillate his nostrils; and if the day is quiet and rifle grenades are infrequent ho is conscious, as he reachos the fighting line, of a curicus feeling of security after the tremors of his ap-

roach.

Late in the programme, there used to the 10 minutes or so of " pictures "the country seen from a moving train, a burlesque scamper after a criminal, the unfolding of a Bower, or something. equally slight. And so things remained for some time, making it doubtful whe ther even those concerned in the business foresaw the possibilities of the invention and the immense importance it was going public. to assume in the entertainment of the

Everybody

From the music-halls it spread to houses or palaces of its own. Ther were a little suspect, rather despised. They were the cigarette-the very "wood bine in fact of entertainment; cheap. easy, and quickly acquired as a none too wholerome habit. Then the palaces Afterwards, when he returns home, he multiplied by hundreds. fapt to give a picture of the war whic

began to go to the pictures" and a traves the soldiers a little resentful. Cat many people gave up pretending Somehow the trimmings and dressings that they did not. A great step forward cone to smother up the reality, and the indignity was taken when one of Lon

a very temple of dramatic art, the Scala,. fact does not appear that life in theo's largest and handsomes! theatres, trenches is no soft, pretty, or sentimental was occupied by the cinematograph and thing. Let me give two pictures to illus revealed the cinematograph's power of trate the soldier's point of view in face representing coloura of his admirers.

On the uerrow of a severe local attack operating 31 machines from 7 am to 9 I went to visit the neighbourhood of the pr., and cannot keep up with its orders scene of notion. No picture could have Twenty-one of its machines are of the been more idyllic. There was great serial latest pattern of American make, and activity. The machines looked like silver the rest are Japanese

Recently the capacity of the factory ed butterflies chasing one another on a was increased one-third by the purchase summer morning. Even the sound of of American machines, but it is consider the machine guns, followed by the patter ed doubtful by the management whether of the bullets here and there, was dwarfed it pays to operate American rather than by the great apace of intervening air to Japanese machines with Chinese labour. the tap of a nesting woodpecker. Even The Americas machines are immensely when a plane wae hit--and I saw one hit finer and mora effective and labour-it slid to earth like a homing seabird, saving, but they are also more delicate, giving no sense of catastrophe. The and with the unskilled Chinese Intour shrapnel made soft pillows for a cupid's available they get out of order easily and bust. The general scene, viewed from a often. The Japanese machines require point of vantage, had the glamour that more labour, but involve less capital, sunshine following snow can give to any and so long as cheap labour is available, landscape, eron after it has suffered such probably represent a lower actual cost carthquake shocks as disfigured part of of production. Nevertheless the manage the land in front of me. men: of the factory here is disposed to favour all extensions along American Rines and with American machines.

OUTPUT AND PRICES...

The factory in Hongkong is turning $1.10 out cigarettes at the rate of about 2,400

OzS.

Nearer the front some of the dugouts were comfortable and home-like. In one the only complaint was that the fire was rather big Its occupant was reading list of names of men recommended for gallant action. Farther back at a head

HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS,

CORPS ORDERS BY LT. COL. 4, CHAPMANS VID,

JOINED --Private Thonias Leeman, having joined, is allotted Corps No. 1999 and is posted to the Engineer Com pany.

DESIGNED

No. 1823 Pte. J. C. Hart is per mitted to resign on leaving the Colony, dated April 20th, 1916.

NOTICE.

3-Extract from Routine Order No.

447 of 9th May, 1915- (2.)-Walking out Dress:-In modi- fication of paras, 72 and 74, Command Standing Orders, belts need not be worn in walking out dress during the sumÉA” months, viz., 16th April to latí November, but khaki jackets wil be worn everywhere and shirt sleeves are prohibited. Sticks or canes will bo carried.

PARADES

4-Parades for to-day (Thursday).

5.30 p.m.-Recruits of all units (ex- cept Right Section M.G. Co.). Bauad drill at Headquarters under. Sergt. Major Higby Signalling Section A "B" and "C Classes at Headquarters. 0p.m.-Scouts Company No. 3.Sec-

tion at Headquarters.

DETAIL,.

5-On duty till to-day-H.K.V.R..

Next for duty May 12th-No. 1 Sec-

tion Arty. Batty.

Orderly Officer 19th to 15th--Lieut..

Weald.

Note. The parade urdered above for

B and C. Classes Signalling Section: for Thursday, 11th, is cancelled......

A F. CHURCHILL, Capt..

Adjutant, I.K.7.0.

VOLUNTEER RESERVES,

graph acquires momentum

Like most moving objects the cinemato And it is going so quickly now that there as it goes. is no knowing where it will stop. Eng land's best-known producer and actor of Shakespeare left England in war time to pose before the cinematograph in the Far West. England's National Theatre, Drury Lane, is occupied at this moment by the cinematograph. The War Office ORDERS ET HATGE WAKENAN, 0.0., H.K.V.K. has officially recognized the cinemato graph and allowed it to visit the seat of war and from the various war-films 6 certain part of the public at home has learned more about what it is like out there." than from any other source of information. The leading actors and actresses of the cinematograph world have more and more fervent admirers (who have never set eyes on them in the flesh) than the best adored actor actress of the theatre.

or

DETAIL

On duty till the morning of Friday, 12th

instant: "A!! Co. Orderly Officer: Lieut. Thornhill. Next for duty.: II.K.V.U

PARADES.

Thursday, 11th inst.

Machine Gun Section at Wellington Barracks under Lieut.. Thornhill, at 5.30 pm Dress: Drill order. -Recruits on the Cricket Ground

under Drill Instructor Sergeant Osberty at 5.15 p.m. Dress Drill order Mounted Section An the Polo Ground, at 5,30 p.m., under In structor Staff Sergeant Talbot. Uniform to be worn.

fortes a day. The cigarettes are put up in at the results of the fighting: the scienca packets of 10 or in tin boxes of 100, and of the engineers, the quick charge, the arranged in bundles of 1,000 and are few casualties. The journey to and from usually sold and shipped in cases of the front could scarcely have been more 50,000.

charming. My companion, who was new to these things, was especially pleased with the parties of men swinging along with towels round their shoulders, as if they were at a seaside resort. This was on the return journey. Earlier the birds had heralded a delicious dawn with a fresh and lively chorus. In very truth,

cases a month or about 3,000,000 cigaret-quarters everyone was exceedingly clated affair that does not redound to the hon-B Co, Kowloon Dock and Taiko

The cheapest grades are very cheap indeed, popular coolie cigarettes being sold in packets of 10 for el local gur rency, c.1 local currency or about c.45 gold per hundred. The nature of the cigarette sales campaign in this field can be understood from the fact that a opposition company sells a packet of 11 cigarettes and--a-bainboo-holder for c.1 focal currency Better-grade goods are packed in round tins, a popular eigar eite selling at 35 local currency or allout c 15.75 gold per hundred. Cigarettes of comparatively high grade, selling around local currency or 1.5 gold per hundred, form perhaps one fourth of the factory's production. The balance of the output is abpt equally divided be-

was well with the world. My com- panion and I had spent a morning swent with news of victory and the benediction of the spring. Who said War?

That is one picture. Now for the other, On the night following an old and grizzl ed officer, almost the last of those who had mehed with the regiment to Mors and back two years ago, received instrue

An English film-actor in America is earning for at any rate received) a salary far higher than the trifling hon- orarinn of the most popular leading the earnings of the most brilliant of lady in musical comedy, or than jockeys That, no doubt, is a freakish our of the cinematograph or its patrons. but helps to indicate the size and resources of the filmi busine the prohibition of the import of foreign films, and the determination of English actors and actresses to perform only for certain firms. From a hole-and corner affair the cinematograph has in a few years expanded into the largest and richest of all the branches of public en-

tertainment.

INCREASING DIGNITA,

So does

With its scope, the dignity of the cine

There must matograph has increased. always, perhaps, be something of the woodbine about it. Before the

war, when there was time to bother about such things, a good many people were gravely exercised in their minds about. the cinematograph habit, and the effect upor children and other childish beings

The Times

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Sections on the Polo Ground, as 3.30 p.m. Remainder on the road outside the Law Courts, at 5.lä pin Dress: Drill order. .: Signalling Section at Vol Hend-

quarters, at 5.15 p.. Uniform to, be worn.

Saturday, 13th inst. W

STRENGTH.

Pte. C. Suart, having joined, is alleged Corps No. 604, and posted to Co. "A" Platoon No. 3, Section 12. TRAVELLING EXPENSES. All claims for travelling expenses incur red in any one month" must reach the Adjutant, H.K.V.R., in dupli cate not later than the 7th of the following, month. No claim sent in after such date will be entertained. Outstanding claims for travelling. expenses must be sent into the Ad- jutant, II.K.V.B., in duplicate forth with

The

DRESS,

dress during the Rummer months, viz., 16th April to 15th November, but Khaki jackets will be worn every where and shirt sleeves are prohibit- ed. Sticks or canes will be carried: Khaki jackets will be worn by guards and-scutries in the suminer.-

-before-moving-was-a-model-of-desolation, complaining that there are films to be Fully 60 per cent of the output of gly with debris and foul confusion, seen which are not even honest woodbine, the factory at present is shipped to the showing up against an ominous mountain

but some deleterious stuff that ought not Federated Malay States and other East of stag, converted to a Gorman fortress. ably will die a natural death through the Belts need not be worn in walking ou

to be sold. That is an evil which prob- Indian points, but in recent months even monument of clinkered sin.!! "As hu

vaded to some extent. The goods are met the stretcher-bearers and their groan remain, to be controlled as host it may, And, in and his men felt their way forward they prohibition of foreign films,

general; if the woodbine element must consumed almost exclusively by Elaborate and more or less effective ad ng burdens

the Havana element is steadily on the vertising campaigns in behalf of the. The first crater they reached was increase. various brands are carried on in the Chi-valley of Gehenna strewed with bodies, Such an achievement as The Birth of nese newspapers, supported by Chinese all fouled with mud so deep that only fu Nation, which holds large audiences en- posters. The goods are practically un- the strongest could attempt to carry out trunced for more than three hours at a foreign business circles. known in English publications or in the wounded, and even the fresh and un-stretch, is true Havane Gabriele |impeded troops had much ado to ad D'Annuzio and J. M. Barrie have writ SHORTAGE OF CIGARETTE PAPER:

vance. At Inst they took up their stations ten for the cinematograph. A clause The cigarette industry in the Far in this same bottomless mud and slush, about cinematograph rights appears East has been greatly handicapped of some of them over ground beneath which every contract concerning a new novel ate by the difficulty of securing cigarette they knew the enemy were tunnelling or play. Our leading dramatists, dead paper. Since the shutting off of supplies all of the in positions open to erase and alive, are translated into cinemato ot auch paper from Austria and Ger- danger from above. Each man had only graphese, which has proved itself some- any-from which countries most dit ge course to shut his mind to any times a language even better than their was obtained heretofore--the difficulty of thought whatever, beyond an almost own; our leading actors and actresses securing stocks has increased to a point fatalistic determination to hold on to are much readier to play for the camera very serious obstacle to carry on, to go through with it. And than ever they were in old days for the trade extension. A large portion of the they held on. They made good, splendid. | music-hall, trade of the Hongkong factory at times ly, grimly. But the splendour was not It is time now for the publie to play is in tobacco prepared for rolling cigar-pretty not of a sort to make the ind its part. The day has gone by when any ettes. This is sold to the Chinese con- enjoy delicate appreciations of the ameni one needed to pretend that the pic Sumner with the required amount of paper ties of trench life, in very londo,

tures were beneath his notice. At least

for using it; and this special trade, usually including a large element among the lower classes of Chinese, is grectly humpered at present.

QUOTING THE GERMANS.

I have drawn roughly in very

in

London is nothing less than a fashion-

ABSENTIEN FROM PARADES, following absentees without leave from the parade of A Co. on Tuesday, 9th inst., will parade with "B" Co. on Friday, 12th inst., on the road outside the Law Courts and will also attend recruits parade on the Cricket Ground, on Monday, 15th inst Ptes. T. Mackay and T. Clax

Those who obtained leave of absence will parade with B Co. on Friday, 12th inst.S

G. K. H. BRUTTON. Capt...

Adjutant H.K.V.R.

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

EQUIPMENT AND EMERGENCY · EDARD.“

BOTL

A.S.P: (R), as President..

CI. (Muskelry) or Musketry Ser The following will attend with their

geant. Sections

oue picture palace in the Weat-end of This Board will sit at 550 p.m. sharp detail two pictures, more or less extreme, able lounge. But more than that inch evening in the office of the though in neither case is there any touch needed There is room for more and The following will attend each night; A.S.P. at Central Station... ef exaggeration. The very worst side of more recognition by people of intelli- var it is impossible to give while war gence and taste that the cinematograph, lasts; and for this reason the soldier with ite marvellous resources, its u Thinks that people at home, while they canny abilities, can provide an entertain praise his cheerful courage, do not under ment worth anyone's attention. The kind stand how grim his business is, The of film-actor who receives An action for libel against the Horn-Fahter side of war is daily painted, the salary is not the measure of the worth the largest Post was recently heard before Mr. darker side seldom and less adequately, of the enterprise. Here is this wonder- Justice Darling in the King's Beach

Of course, the journeyman work of the ful contrivance, capable of anything is Carpenter, ason of of complained

By CHAS J HALCOMBE, Formerly of the Imperial Chinese Custom Service Author of The Mystic Flowery Land," etc.

the Bishop

which consists of

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Commander of the Platoon Commander of Section. Equipment officer.

need not produce Blue Uniform. JOINED No-1-8ection Edwards, and J.

Joseph, Motor Patrols.A. E. Iles.

Division. The plaintiff was Mr. Boydar, the front trench or behind it, is the realms of beauty, emotion instrucInspector AH. Hewitt, in charge of TPages, and includes sketch Plan article published in melled of an it improves for all our troops in all of it, the quicker it will shed the littts Ambon at his discretion. this Bonnt ut neither extreme; and as time goes on tion, fun. The more taat is demanded Emergency Call arrangements, will

attend of historical interest showing the disposi which had been taken from the German Farts of the line. Our snipers keep down peculiarities aptly satirized in The Real tion of the Forces at the battle of Ewei, paper Fouiche Zeitung. Counsel saide German snipers and much increase Thing at Last, and become a means of is dedicated to Sir ROBERT HART, that a Dutch journalist invited Mr. the anfety and so-called confort of life worthy entertainment for sensible. Ion House SreEET. TAL. 230-155 0.0.M,G., and Dr. A. Remy.

Boyd Carpenter, to contribute articles to Car artillery is more numerous than the people-Times Its description of Chinese Social a Dutch paper, but the plaintiff refused, ramy's and fires many times more shells. Customs and Superstitions, combined Subsequently the Morning Post quoted The trench maladies are more or less des with the insight it gives into political an article from the Fassiche Zeitung in frated. Confidence grows There are conditions in China, makes CHILDREN which the Amsterdam correspondent of some few men who enjoy war. OF FAB LATHAY" an excellent volume for that paper referred to interviews and presentation to frisuds at Home,

All this is true, but injustice is done alleged expressions of opinion by Mr. and a false view promulgated if the Boyd Carpenter. The Morning Post had world at home does not realise that every published an apology in their paper.little success won, every little attack de Allowing the record of the case to be feated, means a very terrible experience To be obtained from Messrs. KELLY & withdrawn, Mr. Justice Darling said the every man engaged. In the greatest WALAH, EAD., Moesra, Burwen & Co., or Morning Post was quite guiltless in the ttles in history few episodes have more from the Printery and Publishers, the matter. They simply quoted what s

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(Continued on next Column.)

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finely tested our British sort of courage ur better revealed the grimness of war than the Bluff and the Hohenzollern. and yet at the very time when the worst as in progress the edge of the battle disclosed scenes so picturesque-I might most say so pretty-as almost to mak

visitor oblivons of the gaunt, utfor ruin of the once happy towns through | which He passed or where he stood...

COURT CASES Cases heard at the Magistracy-ete, whatever the result of same, must be reported on Prosecution Forms to Staff Inspector MeEwen, Sanitary Board office. Forms can be obtained at the Magistracy, Marine Court, or at the office of the DSP (D)

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