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INTIMATIONS

NEW SHIPMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG DAILY PEESS THURSDAY, JUNK 151, 1916,

VICTOR-VICTROLAS

AND

VICTOR RECORDS

RECEIVED BY THE

S.S. "DAIREN MARU,"

INCLUDING · THE

LATEST

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SUCCESSES.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.,

Hongkong, 15th June, 1916.

EXCLUSIVE AGENTS.

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STERLING QUALITY

AND

REAL VALUE

ARE WHAT HAVE CAUSED THE IMMEDIATE SUCCESS OF

"GOLD BAND

THEY

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES.

ARE THE ORIGINAL

99

NON-THROAT CIGARETTES.

FOOD AND PRICES.

THRIFT APPEAL MADE IN VAIN.

HOLLAND IN WARTIME. SOCIAL PESTS THAT COME IN

THE SPRING:

Mr. James Danu (special correspon dent of the Daily Mail in Holland) writes from Rotterdam :--

U. S. AND ALLIED TRADE ENTENTE,

NO BOYCOTT OF GERMANY." The results of the ceungmic conference

SHIPPING IN THE EAST.

LARGE JAPANESE PROFITS.

'A recent isstic of the monthly supple-* The prices of food of all kinds in

in Paris, so far as they may become ment of the Japon Weekly Chronicle con Great Britain continue steadily to go

known, will be scrutinized here with Spring has come to Holland glowing interest, says a Washington message to tains some remarkable examples of tho up (says the Times). Since the outbreak.

with colour like an Eastern bride. In The Times. Our sympathizers will be: of war the average increase has been splendid audacity the bulb fields of Har only too glad if the Allies should, during profits and dividends of Japanese steáme 49 per cent. The purchasing power of lem are challenging the colour schemes, the war, use to the utmost their economic ship companies.

of nature, crimson lakes and golden pools weapons. Our slowness in doing so, Of the two principal companies the sovereign is now only equal to 119, 2d.lurking in scented flower-land, Spring regarding the blockade, for instance, has accounts of the Nippon Yasen Kaisha for the six months.ended September 30th Things are expected to get worse, the brings henny to the lowlands, but the caused surprise and discouragement.

warm sun and the fair skies also foster

It is recognized that we have every show a transfer to depreciation and res reason being that demands exceed sup-ocial pesta which the tolerant Dateh right to arrange for the legitimate recon- serves of £662,803 ;- ̧« net profit of plius.

endure with irritating placidity,

straction and protection of our trade 334,500, as compared with £228,800 in In the following table, prepared by the First of the pests is the cafe beggar after the war. In thoughtful quarters the previous six months; and a dividend Board of Trade, is given a percentagee men, women, and children who levy there is no question regarding the desira and has equivalent to 15 per cent, qur binckmail from all who seek rest and re- I hifity of precautions against the resuscannin The Toyo Kisen Kaisha paid a comparison of the level of prices at April freshment at the little tables placed out-tations of Germany's intolerably treacher dividend equal to 12 per cent. per ous policy of politico-commercial pene-annum, after making allowance for du ist in relation to the normal prices of side every Dutch cafe. Of course thera

are beggara in every elty, with thetration. Press and Congress are dis-preciation and adding £100,000 to its July, 1914--

characteristic exception of the German using the necessity for provisions reserves Of smaller firms, the Meije Percentage Increase organised municipalities; but there are against dumping and unfair foreign Marine Transport Company, established from July, 1914, to beggars like the Dutch beggar. Some competition and for the encouragement in 1911 with a capital of £50,000, made a April 1, 1918, say the Dutch beggar is a product of the of industries like the dye manufacture, profit for the six months of £01,801, which will make the United States less chiefly resulting from the sale, of two survival of the terrible trek from Large Lowas Siñall towns {popularista and Isid

Antwerp agross the frontier. All I know

But there steamers, and for that period paid a villages. Kinghora.

is that he (the and it) takes high ra in the profession of alms. I have read 40

The insistent and fearsome appeals of the crippled beggars of the East; I know the valuble tenacity of the child beggars of Dublin; but for cynical mendacity and impudent imposture the beggar of Rat- terdum has no superior, y

Beef, British ELIS

Thin Flank

Beef, importedl~~

Thin Flank.. Mutton, British-

Legs Breast Mutton, frozen-

Lege

Breast

Bacon (streaky)

Fish

ver

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Flour (household) 56

Brend

Tea

Sugar (granulated)135

Milk

Butter-

Fresh

Salt

Cheese

Margarine

Eggs (fresh)

Potatoes

44

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20

34

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31

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WALL,

EL

of

would be seant sympathy with any sug- divident at the rate of 220 per cent, per dependent upon German gestion of an economie boycott of Ger- | anaum while the percentage many after peace. Newspapers like the dividend, also chiefly due to the sute of Yew Turk Times and the fournal of d'é- | steners, of the Lehida Steamship Com2 merer have come out against it. We are pay, was, notwithstanding a handsome urged not to threaten to visit upon allowance for reserve and depreciation, German commerce the sins of Prussian even larger, a distribution having been utilitarism. It is claimed that this made for the six months at the rate of threat might prolong the war and tend 800 per cent, per ännu.. to turn neutral sypathies from us wards the underdog."

11

10-

Take a warm, suing afternoon such as it is to-day: the little tables outside one of the chief cafés are occupied by Dutch business men discussing war pró-

In some quarters it is hinted that such fits and war scares. There is talk of an

policy might encourage a trads entente other Dutch ship torpedoed by a U-boat-between healen Germany and the United the effect of the American Noten Dutch States which, whatever her position now, politics is keenly debated, the attitude

is after all the strongest commercial of the Dutch aristocrats is a subject for

rountry to offset in Latin America and enger speculatim, and the entire scene

the Far East the activities of the Allies. is marked by feverish excitement and This idea is due partly to the ingenuity of Teutonic propagandists, partly to such things as Mr. Ranciman's reported sag gestion that the British Empire any hereafter be able to provide the Allies with raw cotton..

nervous tension.

.::

tra

There is no doubt that the Japanisse steamship companies owe their present prosperity to a considerable extent the absence from Eastern waters, under military requirements, of a large pro- portion of the British tonnage usually engaged, and to the total disappearance of steamers under the German flag. The resulting scarcity of tonnage has had the double effect of raising freights and Enter the first Dulch beggar, a child

of leaving the Japanese owners to enjoy, Frained like an actor in the art of facial

up to the limit of their steamers' expression. His speciality is the silent

capacity, an altogether unusual propor- tion of the trade. To what extent appeal, the dumb pathus of the neglected orphan." I know him well. All last

After a long period of isolation behind permanent loss, if any, will have been summer the reproachful glance from his

a high tariff wall, American commercial suffered by the tritish ship-owner in pitiful eyes was like a searchlight of sor-

thought is tending towards a certain consequence of this displacement remains All above articles 52/

row probing the depths of hidden senti-

cosmopolitanism. One saw that at the to be seen. ment. In his hand are three greasy post- time of the abortive Canadian recipro- It may be remarked that such British While prices of food go up imports of cards, the same I'll swear he held last

city agreement. One sees it in the South liner companies as have been enabled to Food swell in volume. Eupared with September. Nobody has ever seen him

American policy of Washington. The maintain a measure of regularity in both a year ago and two years ago there sell a postcard; they are part of his

movement has two main motives-the their services have not prospered úudaly are large increases in the imports of make-up. Assuming an attitude of

necessity for new trade and financial from the temporary inflation of freights, grain and our meat and dutiable shrinking timidity he plants, himself in outlets, and the doctrine that close for it in times of depressed freights the articles of food. in starch, 1916, the in front of the first table, touches his cap

economic intercourse the world over regularity of their sailings claime For ports of grain and Bour amounted to with one hand, jerks the posteards with makes for peace. The outbreak of war them higher rates and the support of 17,070, 26 ent., an increase of 878,475 cwt. the other, and looks sad. Nobody could

dealt the latter idea a severe shock, but shippers (especially shippers of the more on March, 1915, and of 2,921,478 cwt. oh

be so sad as that boy looks. His sorrow

it is being pushed forward again.. valuable cargoes), in times like the pre March, 1914, The imports of raw cocoa | permeates the atmosphere, the warm air There is a strong hope, partly material, sent, when Free steamers reap from British West Africa increased from is chilled, the men at his table stir na-partly idealistic, that American capital harvest, the liners, in

view of the 3,250,000 in Maren, 1914, to 21,250,000 easily in their seals, the conversation

and energy will be given free scope instability of their trade connections, do 16. in March, 1015. The total imported Janguishes, The tragedy of the war is the work of post bellum reconstruction, little more in the way of increasing rates. from all soares in March, 1916, was nothing compared with the centuries of and development. President Wilson in than is necessary to meet the enhanced"

This shows an increase of suffering reflected in that boy's face.

various speeches has vaguely given ex-cas of ships upkeep, fuel, and stores. 10,351,1916. on March, 1915. and Out came the Dutch purses, away go the pression to this hope. There would be The condition after the war of British 19,881,01816. on March. 1913. Imports of Dutchi cents, and so from table to table much disappointment were the Allies to shipping interests in the East is, in any refur sugar from the United States and from café to café, govs, the silent boy erect an arbitrary barrier against it case, a matter which deserves, and will anbanted to over 1,000,000ewt. in March, wilt the greasy postcards in a round as That England will espouse protection, doubtless receive, early and close en 1916, as compared with practically regular as a London wilkman.

that there may be a reciprocal tariffsideration by those concerned.-Finca a year ago Unrefined sugar from an

CONFIDENTIAL BEGĠARN.

agreement, primarily between her and shows a sevenfold merenge. The total When he is too old for the dumb appeal her Allies and the Dominions, is regard- aumont of sugar brought into the dougthe silent child will develop into aed as probable. But the United States try in March, 1916, was 3,015,5000wt., an

"weeper." The "increase of 1,238,07zewt, on March, 1915, and 619313wi, on March, 1914. The imports of tea in March 1916, were 17,488,7711b., which shows an increase of

lb, on March, 1914 From British East Indies (including Ceylon) the imports of tea increased by over 4.700,0001k,

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a rich

"HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS,

**weeper is both is prepared for the give and take of fiscal aasiline and feminine, and in both arrangements. What is seems to hopa is, graders the tactics are the same, Politeas the New York Evening Past suggests, CORPS ORDERS BY UT-COL. A. CHAPMAN, V.D. ly the beggar offers some trials for sale. that meetings. like the Paris Conference The first refusal brings eloquence, the may be the germ of some sort of perman- ent understanding on the lines of a lengue to enforce peace as suggested by Mr. Taft and others.

WESTMINSTER TOBACCO 1234945th on March, 1915, and 2-717,986 seeped tears, Floods of tears and a con-

Houghour, 9th Jane, 1916.

CO., LTD.

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8

HONGKONG, CANTON, MACAO, the vent to impress upon the

WEST RIVER STEAMERS.

JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG. CANTON AND MAQAU STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.. AND CHINA NAVIGATION CU.... LTD,

Singh Farn Betara

P

HONGKONG-CANTON LINE.

Night Steamer

(available also for retara

by day seamer}'

singis Fare by Day Bleamer:

Batern a

HONGKONG TO CANTON, §

8... HONAM.

10 p.m. KINSHAR.

109

$5.00

11.00 5,00 9.02.

CANTON TO HONGKONG.

8 m. HEUNGSHAN,

THURSDAY, 15TH JUNE,

1916.

5 p.m. FATSHÄN.

8... HONAM

FRIDAY, 16TH JUNE, 1916,

8 m. HEUNGSHAN.

10 pm. FATSHAN.

5 p.m. KINSHAN,

HONGKONG-MACAO LINE.

Bộ. TAISEAN, Roài 1933,

1

8.8. BUI TAI, Tōna 1,851. HONGKONG TO MACAO.

Wook day at 8 am and 2 p.m. trom the Company's Wing Lok Street What' Handsyn si 9 am and 1 p.m. from the Company's Wing" Lok Birsel Wharf,

MACAO TO HONGKONG

Wenk days at 7.30 am. und 2 p.m. Bandays at 7.30 am. nad 3 p.m.

EXCURSION

ΤΟ

MACAO.

SUNDAY, BTH JUNE, 1916.

The Company's Now Stammship

"TAISHAN*

Wźl depart from the Company's Wing Lor Sraxri WHARP SÍ 8 4.20, mad roter. Trem Haano al 3 p.m.

N.B.The Company will also run a Steamer from Maono on Bunday at 7,30 am and from Hongkong 311 p.m., from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf,"

FARES AS USUAL

MACAO-CANTON LINE.

8.9. SUI ANA

Departures from Macao do Camica on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 9 pm ⠀ Departures from Casion to Masso on Tuesday, Thumday and Baturday, at 4.30 p.m. JUINT SERVICE OF THE HÔNGKONG. CANTON AND MACAC STEAMBOAT CO., LTD. THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.. AND THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. CANTON-WUCHOW LINE.

8.8. SLIRAM, 588 koma, and 8.8. NANNING, 569 font,! One of the shor. Biosaurs lowres Canton for Washow every Monday, Wednesday sai Friday, at about 8 mm., and the other lowven Wuchow for Canton on the mine dayü nå 5530 mar, Round trips take about 5 days. Pamengam can return, to Hongkong or vice versa by the Company's diresh Steamers LINTAN sad BANUT. The Tesels have superior Cabin

commodation and are lighted throughout by electricity. Electrio Fan in unol Cabin. Booking Galse open daily (Hands excepted) 8.m. to 5 p.m. Farther particulars may be olisined så kle Oline of the

HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT Co., LTD.

Hotel Mansions (Fiesi Fisor), opposite the Blake Pier,

These remarkable unicial ógures gest "the" fatture of the economy miser

the obligation of being thrifty DI the consumption of food, 20 n to curtai imports and keep down prices. There 15 no husk at pristed appears. At the Board of Trade an inquirer, as to what is being done is suppited with a sneak of diuent wanets in proof of the depart Jūcuix actJVIL125. la one teaflets/wnien was widely circulated, the attention of the public is catied to ine, imperative necessity

economy of greater

an the eating of inelt with a view to econom12- ing the national supplies, timinishing

{

valsion of schs are produced as easily and as readily as one brings water by turning a tap. From sheer curiosity I followed and . ** weeper" in a damp pilgrimage embracing six or seven cafés, and he wept as copiously at the last as.. he did the first. I came to the con clusion that he was not so much a human fountain drawing inexhaustible supplies from the generous reservoirs of his native land..

SAIGON RICE MARKET.

The Compagnie de Commerce et da Navigation d'Extreme-Orient. of Saigen, report as follows under date June 8th:

conse-

Our market is still firm as at quence of the purchases made by the Passing in a deluge of tears, the Government and smaller arrivals of **weeper

makes way for the "father paddy from the interior. and the child.' An able-bodied young

These last two or three days the demand man who has passed through the stages from Hongkong is more important, conse of the silent appeal and the tyranny ofquently no improvement is to be expect tears approaches, holding by the hand & fed in the near future. The rainy season pretty child, too young as yet for the

is not yet regulär. During the last degrading profession of which she is a fortnight they were one showers but unconscious asset. Whenever I see this man I regret that fogging is not includ they came very irregularly. Only in some provinces have the natives started ed in Dutch penalties. All day that poor ploughing the rice fields. child is dragged from café to lato and ca- total amount of rien reported hibited by her abandoned father, who makes devilish profits out of her weary from the 1st January up to the 30th May lighs and tired body. She it is who is. 105,450 tons against 489,468 tuna in

inkes the pence from kind-hearted women 1915. who in their solicitude for the child

We quote to-day white rice No. 2 Sift encourage the unnatural conduct of the ed Japan quality, Hongkong 84.39 per parent, The mother and child" are picul fab. Saigon, for June shipment. inerely a copy of the first pair,

STRUCK OFF.

Reference Corps Order No. 1 of June 12th,

1915, the leave therein granted having expired, No 1481 Pte. D. G. Bruce is. struck off the strength of the Corps.

PROMOTIONS.

The undermentioned promotions in the Engineer Co. will take effect from

this date...

No. 189 and Cpl Matthewman, N. 175. and Cpl. Hill, and 1838 Lc. Opl Marley to be Le. Sgt. (unpaid) on 2 months probation.

No. 1245 Le-Cpl. Eldridge to be 201

Corpl.

No.

1933 Spr. McKay, No. 1436 Spr. Brown, No. 1420 Spr. Mathieson, No. 1734. Spr. MacIntosh, No. 1495 Spr. Trueman to be Læ. Corporals.

LEAVE.

No. 1001 Spr. G. Beat is granted thres months leave with effect from 10th inst.

ENGINEER COMPANY.

The detail of duties at Lycemun from 16th to 30th inst, has been posted it Headquarters.

PARADES. Parades for to-day.

the demais ujion supping, and avoid ing a murtaer advance in prices. It is also pointed out that the Board of Edu- cation was sent a circular to the local Causation authonnies urging them to use the silocks in tenering time importance of toriti in. Lue consumpoon of food stuffs. 16 hope that through the children the mothers may be influenced so to do their household, marketing as to get the great

L possible value and the greatest With something of relief we receive the rusizes. There is an understanding amount of variety in food out of the sun jovial familiarity of the confidential among the attackers that any single pos at money at their disposal. All this beggar. He is a hardened hypocritetion must not be occupied for more than advau is excellent. But what has been leaning on two sticks. He smiles upon an agreed interval, so that all may in its practical result? To that important you as one smiles upon friend; turn contribute to the assault.

With one question the Board of Trade returns give be charms cents from your pockets eye the approaching relief the man at no certain auswer.

with the Sweet allurement of that the wheel releases as many rounds as friendly smile. There is a you-know- possible, while the woman collects", the I'na-fraud-but-what-are-a-few-cents sort cents of the wounded, and the other man of look about him that successfully and checks the collections. Long ago I learn-8.30 permanently keeps him out of work. ed to dread Tuesdays and Saturdays in After him comes Old Volubility." This Rotterdam. Now I am grateful that is a disreputable ancient who talks like through the merciful dispensation of the

on

a

a gramophone and always uses the same Dutch police the terror that grinds by

But there still the terror that rides

5.35 p.m.-Recruits of all its except. Hight Section. M.G. Co.: Squad drill at Headquarters under 8.-M. Higby. 3.30 p.m.-Signaling Section A," "B" and "O" Classes at Headquarters. Mounted Section on Polo ground under Staff Sergt. Talbot. Scouts Co., No. 3 Section, Musketry Instruc tion at Headquarters.

p.m.-Signalling Section "A" Clas Headquarters for Comniand Signalling practice in Kowloon.

at

Batty.

DETAIL

records. His speech lasts two or three day is banished for five days in the week. On duty 15th inst-No. 1 Section Arty." minutes, and he invariably finishes it, no matter whether his eloquence is re: warded in the first periods or the last, I have heard him repeat the same appeal hundreds of times and I have never known him make the slightest alteration,

by day. In England the bicycle is a Next for duty 16th inst. to 22nd inst --- machine used for business and pleasure: H.K.V.R.

BICYCLE TERROES.

a

A. F. CHURCHILL, Capt..

Adjutant, H.K.V.C.

It is the same with respect to the move- cient of the 'National · War: Savings Committee appointed by the Government. The Country has been divided into 250 territorial units, in each of which a local committee has been formed to spread the knowledge of the need for economy, Striking posters have been put up every- where, asking people to spend less their homes and families, their amuse atents, and pleasures. Eat less neat,

in Holland it is a mechanical microbe Orderly Officer to 18th inst.Lieut. Lin1- they say falling off in the imported supply must be expected to continue, and

eating up road space as the focust Bell. this may lead to the killing of our cows,

devours vegetation, Every Dutch man, and thus threaten the milk supply."

woman, boy, girl, and infant rides a These steps taken by the Government, or Promenading outside the café on bicycle. I do not know why they do it. by an agency under their auspices, have measured beat is the Permanent One. As the canals form the natural high- been supplemented by an appeal, signed Looking on the work-a-day crowds with ways of the country, the roads are har by well-known men, for the abstention mild surprise, he carries postcards from row and badly made, the streets of the from meat every Thursday, and from January to December. A strong, towns are cobbled while every side-slip alcohol every Monday. But, again, the healthy, middle-aged man, he dresses ac may mean a heatles into a canal, But question arises-What is the practical cording to the seasons, is on nodding ac- the Datch continue to cycle everywhere, All outcome of it a}}}/4/

quaintance with the police, and is said anywhere. They run into each other,

houses.

Somebody once asked tramway-cars, taxicabs, and pedestrians. These appeals have not fallen to own!

deaf

him to sell newspapers, and the outrage Now that the spring has come Rotterdam para. Tens of thousands of earnest, patriotic people to his dignity spoiled his appetite for streets have regained their seasonable Monday, June 19th-No. 2 Company have been influenced by them. But dinner. Here in Rotterdam we endure excitement. Only an innocent stranger Tuesday, June 20th. No. 3 Company.

our daily beg, but, thank fates and the tries to dodge a bicycle. To run from Wednesday, June 21st.--No. 1 Company. among the community generally the im

one bicycles simply means that you Friday, June 23rd. Ambulance Com pression seems to prevail that restrictions Dutch regulations, we get the street or-

week.The Dutch collide with another. When you hear a pany, M in food and drink are really not neces sans caly twice,

has the size of abell, or a dozen bells, the best way is to

BAND AND ORCHESTRA. Commodities of all kinds are excessively dear, but so far almost any pantechnicon and the sound of a storm stand perfectly still and let the cyclist Hand Practice Friday, June 16th, at thing can be got if there is a willingness at sea. It is usually manoeuvred by two run into you. He generally goes down,

entirely

sary,

on

street

organ

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

COMPANY PARADES.

ranks will parade by Companies under the D.S.P. at the Central Station at 5.45 p.m. each night as fol lowa:-

6.15 p.m.

to pay the high price asked for, it. The men and a woman, and it is effective over and you have the satisfaction of seeing Orchestra Practice,onday, June 10th.. money is not lacking. An artificial pros- a range of 500 yards. Paraded in batta half a dozen other cyclists fall over hin. perity prevails, built upon the huge war

lions in the early hours of Tuesdays and 4 bicycle spill in Holland is not an acci-

organs, the dent; it is a habit. expenditure, but, such as, it is, it fills Saturdays, these street

Such are a few of the penalties of the butchers and grocers' shops with howitzers of harmony" attack in swift customers who do not stint themselves.

Continued on next Column.) peace in neutral "Holland.

at 6. p.m. sharp, at Club Lusitano.

F. C. JENKIN

D.S.P. (R).