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INTIMATIONS

Ten Victor Records which should be in every home

17349 (Silver Threads Among The Goki...

Broken Melody

Juliet's Slumber

17800

Venetian Love Song

35505

Finlandia-Tong Porm (Sibelius)

Fackel tariz

(Meyerbeer)

25502

Blue Paradiso

(Mia®

One Step

Vixen

Fox Trot

Song

84327Ah Love, but a day

64120-1 Hear You Calling. Me

74437-Love's Nocturne

74337-Legende

38401-La Campanella (Liszt).

88388-Abide With Me (Liddle)

Violin Pianoforte

Song

Cello

Rozario Bourdon Victor Concert Orchestra. Conway's Band Conway's Band

Evan Williams McCormack Hamlin Zimbalist Paderewaki Olara Butt

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, MAY 26TH, 1916.

BAITING THE GOVERNMENT

A FAVOURITE REACTION FROM THE TENSION OF WAR.

don't think history will be harsh to the Englishmen who kept the seas and raised a Bgbting force of four millions for the struggle with the Kaiser, but they must wait. So writes Mr. J. 4 Spender in one of his informning Letters to the Antipodes in the Werminster Gazette

SARAH PITT AND LINCOLNS

GERMAN DUMPING AFTER

THE WAR

ORGANIZED PREPARATIONS,

The Exchange Telegraph Company's special correspondent at Stockholm writea

politicians inclined to mount of dump goods which is con-

Mr. Spender points out some of the results which have come from & Cosli tion Government, and shows that the batting of Governments

is the one touch of nature which makes the whole world kin. peter en fika nga liga

When the airman who got returned to: Parliament recently, said afterwards to an admiring interviewer buat the air was everything, be brought him self into line with the noble army of cranks.

THE VERDUN BATTLE.

UNIVERSAL BELIEF OF FRENCH

THE MORPHIA HASIT IN CHINA.

FOLLOWS THE PROHIBITION OF OPIEM.

On the subject of opinn, ME F. E. Taylor, the Statistical Secretary to the Chinese Maritime Customs, say, in his annual trade report for 1915:

As was to be expected, the prohibition

Dr. Herbort Adams Gibbons, saya — When one goes out to the front, as far as the fighting is concerned, he hears rather than sees. The cannon do thunder: there is the tif-tat-tht of the machine gans and the occasional crack of a rille The shells whizz and burst. If you are at a distance you have a view of the en-of import and the difficulty of obtaining semble of the operations, but you see very the drug led to smuggling on an extens little except smoke, even through good sive scale, Large sizures have been,

made in Hongkong and Shanghai ou lines, your field of vision is naturally con British vessels, but the immense rise of tracted, and you have a confused notion the price in Chiva yields profits that if any notion at all of what is going more than cover the loss of a good pro- on. In the trenches one sees nothing.

portion of the consignments. The result I have found out in former wars that has been that regular traders' have found

of

and

some dificulty in disposing of the stocks remaining on their hands.

Another and more serious result of the

Office in Japan after payment of import duty, which is refunded on reexport to Korea or Dairen, and now presumably to Kinochow. No refund of duty can be' claimed on re export to Chins, because the importation into China is forbidden. Large quantities of morphin are intro-/” duced into Mauchurin, where the evil is now in a favourable position to obitin habit is spreading rapidly, and Shantung the drug, while the commencement of morphia manufacture in Formosa leads to the expectation that the province of Fukien will not he neglected.

rigorous steps to prevent the sale of the In Harbin the Russian authorities take

session of the poison being sent to prison, drug, any Russian subject found in pos while Chinese offenders are handed over to the Chinese authorities. But the Rus sian police cannot arrest Japanese with out the consent of the Japanese Consul. In the Japanese Railway Settlement of Changchun the traffic goes on quite open- ly. The Japanese dealers employ Chin- ese agents, who carry a quantity of alled syringes and give injections in quiet corners and back streets for 3 or 4 cents. is being rapidly spread, and its effects For In this way the deplorable morphia habit.

apparent than those caused by pum are much worse and much more quickly

smoking, as the victim soon becomes in- estimated that the annual profits of this disastrous traffe do not fall far short of £1,000,000,

From reliable persons recently back from Germany have received further Facts as to the great dumping plan under which Germany, by exporting vast quantities of cheap goods now ready, is to pay for raw materials and to regain "The statesruen who carry their counat a bound her lost marketsglasses. When you approach near the try safely through a long war must look The dumping organizations are not to history and not to their contem-complete, and the question is being poraries for their justification. A hun considered of quickly buying up tonnage dred years after we hail Pitt as a saviour when peace comes. In Westphalia, of his country, but his contemporaries Saxony, and Bavaria are being formed eye-witness accounts of fighting are assailed him with remorseless venom all manufacturers associations of a new through the long struggle with Napo kind, which will aim at common action practically of no value, owing to the very Icon Lincoln is a saint and a bero to and prevent excessive production of restricted field of vision and experience posterity, but words will not express some products, or insulficient production of the eye-witness. In this war prohibition of opium has been the spread- what the contemporary critic and jour of others. They will also rule certain treaches it is even of less value as faring of the morphia habit, which has led nilist thought of his bungling, his weak technical questions and questions of sales giving an intelligent account of the to the development of one of the unst noss, his lawyer-like methods, his wait ability arising out of the changing before. What one gets, then, by a visit portation into China of morphia and in-

ensemble of operations goes, than ever profitable trades in the country. The in and see" procrastination. I don't think public taste.

to the arinics in the field is certainly not struments for its injection is absolutely history will be harsh to the Englishmen The South German toy manufacturers clear idea of the military operations. who kept the seas and raised a fighting expect an enormous demand for toys Even were allowed to do so, I could practitioners and foreign druggists for prohibited, except by foreign medical force of four millions for the struggle aftor the war. The Nuremberg wood not write a single paragraph worth reads medicinal with the Kaiser; but they must wait pulp toy nakors are making British ing about the technical side of the fight-rules, but the drug is so easily smuggled"

purposes and under: special for gratitude till by and by layer soldiers, and they are also preparing to ing around Verdun The staff offers that the prohibition is practically a dend The standard by which the politician is invade the Russian market with Russian who have been directing the operations letter. Morphia is manufactured chiefly judged, while a war is on, is an enpulp soldiers, flags, sentry hoxes, and from the very first day tell me that all in Great Britain, Germany, and Austrisk, tirely unreal one. The public carries even "Ilya Mourometz acroplanes. they know at the present moments and is sent to Japan by registered post. its peace ideas to war, it imagines that. The manufacturers declare that Russia, how things stand. The results are tangid Siberia. It is released, by the Post you have only to order things to get in order to restore her credit, must re-ble. How these results have been obtained them done, that it only needs a display sume selling wheat to Germany, and that is by no means clear, even to those who of executive vigour to be sure of vie tory. It cannot realise all at once that Germany chooses to sell hor. But what the outsider can see

she must take in return whatever goods have obtained them

VERDUN NOT A DECISIVE HATTLE. the King's writ ceases to run on the Some bunks (really acting for the battlefeld, that with the declaration of State) questioned the saleability of cerwrite about with some degree of assurance war you are launched on a sea of incaltain goods specially produced for dump-

is the spirit of the men who are facing culable hazards and experiments, a large ing. The manufacturers replied that the

the enemy and the efficiency of the or number of which must go wrong before price, not the public taste. dictates the lines. From experience with the Turkish ganization for revictualment behind the the end is reached. In this war, at all fashion, and that if things are available Army in the Balkan war I kuow that events, it has got well into its mind that at specially low dump prices they will indiscriminate censure of generals and

they dogged determination can automatically become popular

exist, even fighting men is mean and odious, and

when there is no hope, and that men do Makers of optical, surgical instru fight bravely after they have lost con that is a great gain. But en seronchements, electrical machinery and machine fidence in ultimate success. The French it is the more inclined to scold the tools are all working together. The resistance is not at all of this kind. sidered necessary is distributed for pro that, Verdun is a decisive battle of the There is no feeling, as far as I can find, duction among different factories on war. It is looked upon only as an inci- lines which ensure economy and division dent a point against which the Germans of labour. The production price has are bringing their fall strength to bear been cut so low that the 90 per cent of at the present moment. And the belief is sale value, advanced by the State to universal that there will soon be a test enable production to be carried on, has similar to that at Verdun at some other been reduced. In the campaign for point along the lines. It does not seem economy factories and workshops are

to ne to be true that Verdun has raised being standardized and specialized.

the morale of the French army and put Where two shops in a given area for soldiers, as some have written.

new heart into the souls of the French merly produced indiscriminately two ther did not need their morale raised: classes of goods, one factory has now taken over altogether one class and the into them. The success of the resistance they did not need to have now heart pub

machinery has been exchanged.

by The the men in the ranks. Berlin ready-made clothing and under The truth of the matter is that ever clothing manufacturers are also prosince the battle of the Marne, now a year paring West Russia is the proposed and half-past, the French armies have dumping ground for men's ready-made had the firm and unwavering belief in clothes,

their ability not only to defend France, but also to win this war What has up- held them through two winters in the trecches has been the feeling that the game of Germany was up, ever since the failure of von Kluck to reach Paris. I gained this impression from permission- naires who were allowed to go back to their homes during the first winter of the war, and nothing has occurred since to change this impression. In talking lately. to staff officers on this point, I find that the agreement is universal. They declare that at no time since the battle of the Marne have they had to contend with the have watched the Ports the ruled We shall get through these troubles. spirit of pessimism or depression anth

mis

deferre ginger parties in the House of Commons, and I advise you not to take them on As one who is engaged in the They have nobody to lead them who seriously. After all, the one luxury of Verdun said to me the other day:

]] weariness at their perpetual interventry has left to him in time of war is other sectors to state that Verdan is the is not only unfair to the armies in the tions on all subjects at the same length that of attacking his Government, and turning point of the war. It is also un and with the same emphasis and the in all countries alike it is the favourite true. The turning point of the war was same querulous drone reaction from the tension of war. Ma

when we were told to halt in our re- | "One looks in vain for proportion, One sees it everywhere-in Germany, treat along the Marne and found that perspective concentration on any settled in Russia, in France, in England, and we were able to do so. Since then it has. line of policy. They are all over the even in Turkey. The military gentlemen only been a question of waiting. place, perpetually feeling about for who impose an iron censorship on the bave had the Germans besten all along, popular grievances and plausible cries, German Press in all that concerns their This has been the universal belief. Ver- and rushing blindly on any course which affairs leaves it free to bombard the dan is only an isolated demonstration of their favourite, orwspapers think pro civil Government. - You would suppose à fact long ago well established. The mising for their circulation department from the articles and reports which Germans cannot defeat us. Our in- HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

The worst price that we paid for the appear in a large number of German feriority in mumbers and preparation has Coalition Government was the destruc newspapers that, while a victorious army imposed upon us the disagreeable neces- tion of a regular Opposition, with an was showering blessings on the Empire,sity of remaining on the defensive for so

oficial line laid down by people who an incompetent civil Government was would be responsible for carrying it out oppressing its people, depriving them of if they brought the Government down food, which it is keeping locked away That meant discrimination, gravity, and in some secret cupboard, and ruining a certain measure of consistency. Now everything by muddle and favouritism we have only snipers who shoot at The Government cannot defend itself random, and are always hitting in the without making the damaging admission that the food is actually short, soir wrong place.

stands to be shot at as the unworthy. When the war began we registered | partner in the invincible and all-efficient large number of pious vows. We said army

THE AIR IN EVERYTHING,"

Sine the beginning of this war we

have heard successively that nun were other factory the other class. Sometimes at Verdim is only what was expected capable of work of any kind, It has been

everything, that munitions were every thing, that financo was everything, that the blockade was everything, that flying is everything. There must be at least u hundred inventors who are utterly con vinced that if certain engines of var pro duced by themselves and not been, turned down by the War Office or the Admiralty the war would have been over six months ago. The honest fanatic who sticks to his one point may be respected and for given; but restless politicians and news papers on the stunt which take up everything in turn with the sole idea of finding something to throw at the Gov ernment are a mere nuisance de

BARS LOUD OLD SOLEMX SYSTEM),

Never have I felt so convinced of the merits of our old solemn system of Government and Opposition as when

In general the thump preparations work efficiently, and there is no doubt that rentral States and, if they allow it, enemy States, will be badly hit by German competition, especially if a Germans themselves predict, a period of

industrial depression follows the war.

for made a stick to beat the Government with One thing after another is picked up and dropped

GOVERNMENT BAITING.

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FRIDAY, 26TH

MAY, 1916-

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ET ROUTE MARCH

FOR THE ARMY.

MUTINY EXPERIMENT REVIVED?

Enlistment into the British Army has been opened in India to members of the domiciled white, community formerly All

country- known as born Europeans," but now officially designated Anglo Indians

** Eurasians" and

ranks and units will parade at the Queen's Statue, Chater Road, on Friday, June 2nd, at 5.30 pm sharp. Helmets will be worn.

FC JENKIN

DBSP (R).

that there would inevitably be reverans, In France there have been several and that we would accept them with changes of Government and every. fortitude we said that the war would Minister spends a large part of his time. be long, and that we would endure it in cross-examination by Committees of In Russia Governments: with patience we said that Governments the Chamber err but that we would maka charitable come into favour and lose favour, and allowance for the frailty of human Prime Ministers come on the scese and natureWe

We said that we would bury pass from the scene for reasons which our politics and be one people in the are undiscoverable by all except experts supreme cause of the nation

in Russia politics. Here we have had On the whole, we may look back on one Prime Minister and two Govern- The stedfast bravery shown by Eura the twenty months and, say we have not ments, and large numbers of people and slags during the Mutiny led to the forma done so badly. But when the Party all enterprising newspaper editors with ton of Eurasian corps but between 1830 truce was proclaimed a large number of really big circulations remain entirely and 1870 they were disbanded on the grounds that they were as costly as Bri- active politicians found their occupation convinced that they could conduct the regiments, without being as efficient. THE ORIGIN OF THE MOON. gone and really enterprising newspaper war a great deal better than either of

The pressing need for men in the last men saw themselves condemned to live them, or than any combination of the 20 months has altered the perspective of Professor J. H. Jeans has recently for months at a stretch on the dry husks | despised politicians.

this question, and at last the Anglo been speculating as to the origin of the of censored news and correct patriotism We have had an air candidate, we Indians have an opportunity to serve the moon, and he gave some of his conclu- Bo, before a year was out, we had a have a married man's candidate, we are Empire Enlistments of men between the song to the Fellows of the Royal group of ambitious men borsting with going to have a liquor candidate, and ages of 18 and 45 will be either for gen Astronomical Society at their last undelivered specches and embittered by then, no doubt, we shall have a widow's eral service with British troops or for meeting forced abstinence from their most con- son candidate, and probably after that the duration of the war, or if after six It is generally agreed that the earthi genial pursuit. Some were quite honest, a blockade candidate, and perhaps even months training their services are not and the moon were originally one mass and believed themselves to be charged some intrepid person will come forward required in an active capacity they will of fluid Sir George Darwin stated that with a patriotic mission. Others were as a single man's candidate. This is be liable to be transferred to the Army the continual rotation of this mass of the adventurous kind which comes to what we come to when the despised Reserve, with a further hability to be would reduce its splenical, ford to the top in all times of trouble.................. party system goes by the board.

the Behind them was a Press which Don't run away with the notion

recalled to the colours at any time while.

offered fame or notoriety to those who that serious people here have the slighter by ellipsoidal one, and this in turo would

pensions,

become pear-shaped. The smaller, end

would join in the game of Government-est intention of ousting the Government and concessions will be identical with would then break off and revolve is a baiting Material "for criticism was and plunging into the unknown. In the those of British troops serving in India. satellite round the large. Thus did lis abundant, and much of it quite legit House itself the malcontent groups have units will be attached for training Rupp that the moon came into bring to British units of the same arm serving Me Linponoff, a Russian physicist. mate but the critics are the most an little weight, and the Cabinet is more India, and will then be liable to be raised the objection that the pear-shape critical of men. All material is equally together than at the beginning of the sent to British unit of the same arm, was not stable. Mr Jeans therefore took good to them--air, sea, munitions, block war The agitators have their oppor- Regular or T

Territorial, serving in the up the problems to settle the dispute. ade, compulsory service, married men's tunity and are skilful in choosing their held. Married men or widowers, with He agrees with the Russian scientist, grievances, every complaint, rumour, subjects; but the House rates them at children will not ordinarily be eligible and concludes that a planet's satellites their proper value and will carry us for enlistment, but in special cases ap mast be expelled suddenly from the *(Continued on nezt. Columa.) 3 through safely to the end."

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