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THE WORK FOR THE NAVY.]

BRITAIN'S GROWING STRENGTH.

To have paid a visit to the Fleet, and to have failed to combine with it a glance, however cursory, at the work of the great industrial organisations which contributo in all-important ways to the fighting efficiency of the Navy, would have been to miss out one of the vital connecting links in the story of British sea power, writes & correspondent of the Daily Pelegraph.

M. BRIAND AND THE ALLIES IDEAL."

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THE HONGKONG DAIET PRESS, SATURDAY. JULY Sra 19165

THE BURDEN OF SACRIFICE

TWO MEN A CONTRAST.

This is a story of two men and how the wor bas affected them and changed their lives and made or

smashed their fortunes.

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FROM Shanghai come in from the void. Marriage, home,

Amoy children, are solaces of other workers Wing Hing, Queen's

obb, Tanmay 1st Floo, that they can only look for in early Kianing, Shanwan

Yokohama Road, C. Bosniensi middle age. It was so with this man. Yushing, coo Hong Streat. It was only in the fouth year of his Neomonging Room No. 22,

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Shang al By taking work home and keeping his ho was able to rub along with a clerk and average working day to fourteen hours

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U.S.S. Helena ...

ACTS WANTED, NOT-WORDS.

At the reception of Russian parlin mentarians recently, M. Briand, the French Premier, said: When where the guns are rearing it is not words which are wanted by the cause of right of thousands of other men. But, as the The story of these two men is nothing new; it is being enacted among hundreds which our heroic soldiers are defending wife of one of these two men in

observed, common. It is acts such as the sacri-

"It's a strange world."

One of the men was & professional man. fees which they impose upon themselves. It had cost long years of study and ap "Do you really think our Navy is all Let them not be hat. Victory lies in their Prenticeship and much money of his parents to make him a professional man. right?" I was asked the other day by heroism and we have to employ all our His school and university years cost an auxious friend, who had been con determination to give them all menns to about 1,000 his articles of clerkship, Juring up visions of what Germany conquer. Between Parliament and Gov-examination fees, text-books, and the cast might have accomplished in the way of ernment there is a close solidarity for of his living during the five years of his new construction behind the veil of war. the safeguarding of national interests indentures cost at least another thousand How convincing would be the assurance What makes our strength is that we did

pounds one could give, not only in reply to an

not want war. There is no stain upon individual

quory of that kind, but to the public at large, were it politic to describe acts of provocation by perseveringly seek our alliance, for we replied to numerous in definite torms what has been and sing for pacific settlements not for fear being done to reinforce our Navy! Whey hears times return, perhaps the Ad- but in order to spare the world the hor- miralty will see fit to give details of the pers of war, and Frenchmen who hort on expansion of the Navy under the stress their side a very painful wound awaited of war, and, if so, it will be a tale really necessary reparation only as matter of worth the telling. The public will then right. But a nation let loose a war to ob be able to realise fully the enormous tain the domination of the world at a efforts which have been made in the face moment when we were seeking a friendly of unprecedented difficulties, and also settlement. Now we are fighting we wish the debt which the country owes to the to win and we will win. Germany by cir self-sacricing labours of men who have culating illusive words of peace counts had the direction of affairs in various upon dissociating the Allied nations. To essential industries.-

day the word pence is sacrilege if it Last week, for example, I met with means that the aggressors will not be bends of departments in various concerns punished. It would be a dishonour to who have slept regalarly at the works in the Allies What will the generations to order always to be available if required, come say if we let escapo the occasion to and whose working hours have often establish a firmly durable peace? Peace zun to nearly a hundred per week. Such can come out of victory of the Allies ice boy, and his net income vas men are worth ranch in times like these only; it must be based on international agree that this was a very fair progres- about £400. Most professional men will Shortage of labour remaius to-day, as right. Such a peace will shed its rays sion and quite an average return for it has been for months, one of the chief over humanity and will give security to fifteen years' specialised toil and a obstacles in the way of more rapid pro all nations. It is this ideal which makes capital expenditure of two thousand gress. Dilation is not possible iu ship-the greatness of our task; it is on account pounds, yards to the same extent as in some other of this ideal that mourning women keep Industries. although in the workshops back their tears: it is for this peace that clerk. His age was twenty-four, he was The other man of this story was his women are giving useful assistance on machines which do light work-making shall obtain victory by united action and married, and no worldly responsibility our countries will grow in nobility. Wo screws, small electrical fittings, and so incessant fraternisation. We owe this vict on his broad shoulders. Life to him on. They are also employed in the lesstory to humanity and it is coming.

was not 'arf" a bad thing. He could arduous forms of labourer's work, and day in spite of pretended successes Ger and think no more of it. Its work and leave the office daily at a regular hour was noticeable that far greater use is being made of their services on the Tyne many is not triumphing. More and more than on the Clyde. Clad in workman-like she appears to be lowering herself in the had made no outlay, either with capital body. Digestion, like the uninspring of cares were his employer's, not his.. Ho Indigestion acts in the same way on the brownslops they pursue their varied world; she lives in anguish. It is the or time, for his calling. In fact, as he a watch, is one of the principal things tasks with an air of cheerful alertness power of the ideal which is acting and it often said, it was only a fioke that that keep the wheels of life running quite good to see, and every foreman has is the beginning of the end. It is certain he was a clerk. a word of commendation for their excel that the hour of victory will soon strike what came along,"

He had just taken smoothly. Let it be disturbed and every lent timekeeping. Scope is found for a for us. There is no longer but one coun- thought of chucking it up" and going your nerves are upset. Why?

and sometimes he part of your system suffors. Notably considerable amount of boy labour in try fighting for the same cause as the benting rivets and helping the skilled Allies, employing in common blood men always had an amateurish taste for depend upon each other very closely.

into an engineering works. He had Well, the nerves and digestive sys hands who operate complicated machines, and material. And now, gentlemen, we

ystems but everywhere one met with the same

mechanics. But any old thing for One cannot become affected without the tura our hearts and our minds towards change and adventure. cry-more workers wanted.

those who are fighting at the front and

other becoming upset Bad digestion means Jack of nourishment from fool. upon whom glory is already shining)

fed. They lose tone and energy. Let us Your nerves cry out because they are ust show how Mother Seigel's Syrup rapidly

In a state of IndigentionTM mends matters, remains too long in the stomach an

food often ferments. Again, the supply of bilo (Nature's own laxative) from the liver is frequently poor in quality, and badly gish to expel the body's refuse, impuri regulated. Or the bowels are tro slug

centre of a special norvous system. Lies are then thrown into the lood. All these important digestive organs are the Naturally the iritated norvis protest like the eye doeg against a particle of sand.

asked one of the heads of a great firm how many hands they employ. In roost numbers, 10,000," was the reply.

Surely

host is sufficient for your purposes," I remarked.

Buen

He laughed. "Look at that ship over

he said, making-ag to a warship in whose huge bulk

There

the

To

The Berlin correspondent of the New swarmed with workmen and resounded to York World emphasises the the elang of countless hammers.

grave prob.

And then the war camo.

The professional man stuck to his office for a time. There were plenty of "WAR OF THE STOMACH."ad only just built up a practice, after younger men, he argued to himself. He all those years of work and all that sunken money. He had only been mar ried two years. It meant the smasti-up of hia professional career, his home, every why should he But the calls went out thing. His clerk refused to enlist,

clerk and the office boy, shut up the office, for men, and more men, and more on and he enlisted. He discharged the disposed of his home, and put his wife and two infants into cheap furnished edgings, with only her separation allow ance to live on.

There are 3,000 men, working on that lem of feeding the empire's 70,000,000 ship at this moment.

And the ship is only one of quite a and declares that when the new Minister people which now confronts Germany, zumbe though by far the biggest- which the Arm is building. Here are of Foods is appointed the entire nation figures which illustrate the kind of ex-is to be put on uniform rations. Paasion that has been taking place. A

census of live stuck taken in April showed

The

firm which before the war employed at the necessity of still greater economy and Da of its establishments on the Tyne restriction of the ment consumption. The between 1,300 and 1,800 hands has now 28,000 there. In its different works, correspondent admits that there have been which are not all on Tyne-side, no fewer food riots. without bloodshed, however, than 75,000 persons find occupation, and and says the riots were directed wholly of these 13,000 are women-no bad pro-against the food usurors" porlion, after all.

SPIRIT OF THE WORKERS,

DIGESTION AND THE NERVES.

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goes when and how it likes. You take it to the mender; and he, perhaps, finds the delicate movements have been put oat of magnifying glass. gear by dust, you can only see under a

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his employer did these mad things. It's The other man was very annoyed when hot-headed chaps like him make it bad for all of us," he said. Why couldn't he keep quite and mind his own business A nice ress he's gone and made of that." Mother Seigel's Syrup quickly stops With the armire lucked in an embrace The clerk sought another situation; but this sapping of the system. Its tonic and That the British shipbuilding trade which neither side aerus able to break, broad-shouldered young applicants; men by stimulating stomach, liver and bowels employers were becoming shy of engaging corrective action restores good digestion has responded admirably to the calls says the writer, it is no longer a war of and more men, were being appealed for by into healthy activity. ande upon it cannot be doubted. If I arms on the battlefield, but of the German the army. Compulsion loomed. People were full nourishment from your food. Robust Then you derive described my experiences at each of the stomach against the British hanger-nouse rude to him in the streets; women were health, with full nerva energy follo dozen shipyards which were visited it about Germany's throat Hitherto the particularly offensive in-some of their Mrs. T Momborg, 53, Eight Street would all come to the same story. Every "work of supplying and distributing food questions. He had no excuse--not even a Boksburg North, Transvaal, wrote on .tar. where-at Palmer's, Swan's, Hawthorn's, in Germany has been anything but well badge. Suddenly to his harassed mind July 21st, 1914: About four months Armstrong's, Brown's, Denny's, Fair-organised and there have been many in- occurred the flimsy amateur knowledge ago, I suffered very much from Indiges field, and all the rest the one desire of stances where the machinery failed com of mechanics. He remembered the only tion. the controlling spirits appeared to be to pletely. These errors are expected to be young munitioner he met one night at most trouble, and which were especially Mon.

The symptoms which gave me the make the best possible use of their great corrected by a central dictatorship, reurees in the interests of the country although it is admitted that many ob

ainusic-hall who told him that the work severe after meals, were a tightness and was as easy as kissing the back of to produce; the skill of their artisans form of objections from some of the Gerrianition work, and was socepted at three

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This caused me neute pain, and with their workmen dour, determined, harddependence and resent dictatorial orders headed ten of the North are prepared from Berlin. to slog on day after day to the last ounce of their strength.

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times the salary he had earned as a clerk, Joss of appetite. had the effect of upset Wed. 12 'n 5 576 8. He breathed in happy safety again. He my nervous system. After trying several Tum. 13 m 60 7 sas exempt, indispensable, and proudly preparations in vain, I was recommended badger.

by a friend to use Mother Scigel's Syrup. Fri. with his fellows at the bottom of a ditch and the use of two bottles completely At that very hour the other man stood The result was almost immediate relief,

down from the grey streak that was all and I now enjoy the best of health. of recking clay. Flakes of sleet eddied restored my appetite, banished the pažas, he could see of the and sky of Flanders always keep bottle handy, as I find ac Under the water that he stood in was occasional dose very heneficial" clay that sucked at his cold fest like a Mother Seigel's Syrup is a genuine quicksand, and somewhere under that tonic, not a mere stimulant, which gives again was & German pide, and he and you falso energy, and then, when its his fellows knew that the mine was there, action is sprit leaves you moro lifeless but know not when it would explode, than ever. It builds up sour strength on The dank air that puffed into the trench & firm foundation by ridding the body was foul with the aroma of the enemy's of the impurities created by indigestion, plicated; others comparatively simple, with other terrible odours

last poison-gas attack and fouler still and providing increased stores of vitality For example, a travelling crano comES

Near him from the nourishment it enables you to hurrying along with a solid block of red exposed by a trench slip that day that

protruded the leg of a defunct German, draw from food.. hat metal. The block is lowered into a had killed two men. It was the hour slot in a machine, and a descending when the enemy, with clockwork regu punch bores its way into the mass as larity, commenced their daily " strafe easily as a knife passes through cheese. When the block is removed it has become a hollow cylinder, and there, in the rough, is a shell case.

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"Sir Henry Ponsonby is com manded by the Queen to thank Mr. Darlington for a copy of his Handbook.

"Nothing better could be wished for."

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Some complaints were heard regard ang indifferent timekeeping and delays caused by slackness in returning to work after holidays holidays always, hardly arned, as anybody will admit who has watched these men sweating at their Inborious toil. Indeed, the spectacle of so much splendid effort could have no other result than to inspire the onlocker with admiration for British workmen as a class, and it seems almost a pity to introduce anything like a jarring note. The statement was publicly made by a shipbuilding employer. however, that if the men at a certain place had been willing to put in 15 per cent more time, Anstead of turning out nine destroyers in a given period they would have com pleted one or two more. On the other hand, there was testimony from many quarters--on Tyne and Clyde alike that

porpoises in their flight, thud into para was a man and would kick him) to be when Minune bombs, tumbling like on long enough (oh, how I wished that I as a whole the men in the shipbuilding

pets and bury live men when they ex able to put by enough to get free articles ndustry are giving of their best in the interests of the great canse for which wo

plote; when shrapnel crackles overhead with a firma of solicitors in part payment are fighting There may be no doubt It was while passing through the shell crackers, when high-explosive sbells fall his own practice. I couldn't help asking when whiz pangs leap like devil's of salary as clerk and eventually open there are laggards, but & Clyde man factory that one realised the tremendous like bursting asteroids. summed up the position well when he important part which women are able man had to thrust into his tunic a letter science that he was not in the Army So the other him how he reconciled it with his con- to me, Workmen have learnt to play in making munitions. Once he had read Lot since the war, and now they know machine has been set for them they can, order a dozen times and turn to He said that his conscience had always how much really depends on them they after & little training, control ite are pulling out better than they have tions as skilfully and successfully na

been against war. I asked, if that were This is an extract from the letter: ever done before. And having placed could he desired. In a well-lighted and

So, how his conscience allowed him to Whom do you think I met yesterday make munitions. He told me to mind my

80 Hlustrations. on record this cheery view of the situa- lofty workshop. I saw a thousand mac Wilkins magnificently strayed. He pat rudely, that hoped he would be combed Bournemouth, Wye Valley Serem Valor

in a bus in the Strand Your late clerk own business I told him, almost as

19 Maps 56: tion the subject may well be left.

Guns and shells come from these dis, manipulated by women. & more cheerful the munition works at and in me that there was little fear of that. Women Gloucester Glandrinod

Visitors to Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings, shell parts. All were ronised poor me frightfully. He is in out. He laughed scornfully and assured Bath, Weston-supermare, Malvern, Hereford, tricts, as well as ships. In an armaments lot of toilers it would be impossible to formed me that he is making eight pounds works enjoying a world-wide reputation bad, I talked with some of them. They a week 1. He has become a member of despite all my loneliness and heartache, folgelly Harlach, howitzers, field

"Well, it's a strange world. dguns, naval guns, anti-were happy in their work, so they The Union.

But, Llangolle, Aberystwyth Towyn, Barmoukk aircraft guns, and other engines of war assured me and glad to be doing their "He is koking awfully well and strong you, dear, and the absurd pinches and were seen in every stage of mannfacture. bit

and the sleepless nights when I pray for to help the boys in the trenches,you know what a broad-shouldered devices 1 am put to to feed and house

Liandudno And shells! The owners of these works There was the right spirit in this fellow he always was, I saked him what and clothe myself and the hairns until THE HOTELS OF THE WORLD Vigh and Chanoad Inlandayshould send for alone are supplying 60,000 a week, and munitions factory. Small wonder, there he was doing with all that money, and my man comes back, I am still glad and a Handbook to the

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