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TAE HONGKONG DAILY FRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26:1, 1918.

WHAT IS A KEY INDUSTRY ?

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offensive has now involved all the troops NETH, which took part in it, and only one division is believed to remain intact and in reserve, The Italian counter-offensive is beginning, and as the masses which General Cadorna has collected are ade quate for all purposes, it is hoped that this campaign will soon assume a differ ent complexion,

Sir Hugh Bell, in his pamphlet on Since the war began there has been a Trade After the War" denies any great deal of talk In this country (says The Military Correspondent of The value to the idea of a key industry. This The Moray Port) about capturing GerTimes, writing from Northern France, In a errtain dorkyard in England there name is given, as everyone knows, to an man trade. So far it has been all talk, compients on the feeling of confidence in is in be fomed a splendid rilate to the industry which allows a second to be the truth being that what is first required the Successful issue of the campaign of prowess of British sharines and the derived from it.

We have seen during is not the capture of German trade but 1916 that increasingly prevails among It is one this war that the absence of certain in the recapture of our own. And we shall those who are best informed of our re-. skill of those who man them. of the finest of his Majesty's undersea dustries of a fundamental order has pre-

not be in a position to recapture our sources and of the troubles of the enemy, boats, which, with her how twisted and vented the pursuit in the same country

trade, until industry is once again ref The stream of troops and of drafts which of other industries, which utilise the pro-garded as a national interest worthy of reaches our front Haves ceaselessly, d bent as the result of a collision with an

How is it pos- perny mine ja enemy waters, covered a ducts of the first class, distance of, als 200 dies, ander he:sible to makes dyes explosives when national support. In the meantime the we receive constant proofs of the admir- Germans, who are no fools, are pretendable efforts made by those who dirt our es pter, and arrived safely in a homphenol cannot be made and when no more ing that treat Britain has all her plans strategy at home towards the building

of it reaches you from abroad?

The French up of a formidable Army. There is no key industry, says Sir Complete for a tremendous attack upon

are justly proud of their feat of holling German trade, and that, therefore, no Almiralty 1 was permitted to see this ugh, because' a hundred years ago the sacrifier is too great for the support of UP, all by themselves, and for four long

answers to this question

What is a key industry l would have been quitement is both wasteful in its expenditure they are pleased that their valour and Gennan industry. Whereas our Govern-ths, the German enemy in a position none too favourable upon the Meuse, aud different

asd because they will be differ. Star is in Harlour, with her bow-platent again in another hundred years, and unsympathetic towards the manufac ing turn into strips and two of her tor-One might as well refuse to make villes,turer, the German Government is frugal constancy have given time to their other Allies, to complete their preparations. Her plates are

Or howitzers, aeroplanes, pek tubes rushed.

saband allows tlu: manufacturer to accumi- The extraordinary successes of the Rus erampled : 4wo of her heads are marines on the pretext that new inven late his war-profits as a great industrial sinn Southern Armies have aroused i broken away at the brew: het is het bestions will render those weapons useless. reserve. Moreover, thri Gorman Governthusiasm, and the naval battle off Juj- are we nesplended torpedoes. Their There are key industries, and the na-

ment, having well-organised and welk land is also now understood, and it is easing is twisted and stayed in, and the tion which allows such industries to die prepared industries, has got his maxi expected that the German Navy will not. rear deas of them ar jamned. But the out from its midst, loses the key which mum of work out of them with the miai be worth much for some months to come. Galvanised mom of dislocation. All these things-com- Our blockade is not relaxed, and the in- quality of the high explosive in her tor opens the door to others, pedoes and the nechodism controlling it iron has been an important English in-sidered, Great Britain will do well to re- creaking strain imposed by an Navy prevensed an explosion, thus saving her dustry, says Sir Hugh, and will be

if it can be anvil and will be again, cognise that the Germang have got a very upon Germany will, it is felt, bring G from lomi destruction.

long stari, and that this country has a many to her senses and make her under- Now to contend against the German in- very long way to make ap.

stand what it costs to hear the hostility SPATTERED AND SUNK; NOT LOST.

dustry is it mat better to buy one's zine Now, there are four factors in this of England. The arrest of the Austrian She struck a ninet beari an. The s more cheaply than by paying high prices national problem: the Government, the offensive from Trentino, and the resacīja, -plosion smashed two of her bulkheads at Swansea ?-

merchant, the manufactur.rs-includ tion of the Serbian Army, are both cages bunke all gli aboard her, and sent the

sects. The manufacturer of ing always the farmers, who are man

For real satisfaction, The Austain crew sprawling to the fear of the courton-plate belies that he is doing good facturers of foodstuffs and Labour. In Har her torpedoes did not business when he profits by the prices of Germany these four interests work in explode her mots did not stop brzine dumped in Swansea by the German dials did not fail to register. She drop- Cartel. He is pleased to think that he,general harmony, because they are all ped to the bottom of the sen, and the

an Englishman, pays less for German greed upon a policy of production. In water flooded in under the doors of the zine in England than the Germans pay this country there is no harmony be

cped Lubys. But within 10 minutes in their own country, and that conse-cause there is no common policy. The ale the collision she had been righted, glenquently he is able to winke iron late-Government, whose policy-still-con- bail comer to the surface, and turned her plates less expensively than the factories times, existed by the support of that in Dusseldorf. And this is true for a section of our mercantile interest which certain period- long as the practice of imported the manufactured goods and dumping is applied only to the produc-foudstuffs of other countries. In other words, our Government and 2 section of our merchants were actually hostile to British industries. This unholy alliance had the support of organised Labour, which was misled by its quarrel with the employer and by the doctrine that cheap ness, not strength, or security, or em ployment, was the thing chiefly to be de sired. The manufacturers, believing in individual competition, fought for their own hands, and there was no understand it becomes a question of German ironing between the various industries. Thus I had heard stories of German subplates intended for English custom in the British house was divided against marines sunk by a single shot, so I asked

ters are arranged in the following way tself, and the well-organised German The Zinc Syndiente agrees to deliver to industry was defeating us in detail. one of the officers low his boat hud sur- vived the tremendous shock of a

the Iron-plate Syndicate a fixed quantity mine: explosion.

Now we have got to change all that if of zine, no longer at the current market price in Germany, but at the dumpins

we are to survive, and the question prices of Swansea, or even at a lower arises How is it to be done? We ven- price. Consequenrly the iron-plate main-

ture to say that the best way of begin-Hindenburg is a man facturer of Dusseldorf will at last be able ning is for ur industries to organise to compete with the English manufacturer themselves in former times the City of the same article. As the Coke Syndi- Compapis, which How exist · för ente, the Cast-iron Syndicate, and the charities schools, and dinners, were the He asked me if I would hot come below

rest will have agreed to furnish him with fighting organisations of their respective and see the marks of the disaster. the same advantage, he will be able, industries. The Fishmongers' Com- I followed him across a gangway and on when it may be necessary, to lower hispany, for example, fought a long and to the marrow deck, which already was prices by several marks and drive the Eng successful fight against the organised beginning to show red patches of rust. lish iron-plate trade out of the Swiss or compitition of Hanseatic and Dutch The hatch was open. Below I could see Italian markets,

fishmongers. If each industry is organised 30 white compartment with grass fittings.. Grandually the English trade in gal-separately on the old lines, as Guilds, I do not know what I had expected to vanised tron will be threatened, for the there should be a place for labour as well find, but when I stood in this compart-very reason that it has for a long timeus capital in the organisation. In Ger- rent could see no feners-whatever-of-previously-improvertly profited by the many the Guild system was revived by the catastrophe, Directly in front of medumping prices of zing. The zine in were the rear doors of the torperia tules,dustry was a key to the iron-plate in- painted brilliant white and to my dustry, and the key has been transferred right and left the great shining torpedoes from Swansea to Dusseldorf. we glamped in their rucks. Only the wheel controlling the hand rudder was not true. The slender bras rod supporting

use toward home.

When I looked at her lying with her exposed tubes shining in the sunlight and ber bulkheads in strips of rusty iron, it semed incredible that she had been wider

the cam guns of the enemy that she sunfl have made in her damaged gendis tim a journée of 300 miles, returning to a safe harbour with, the information site had been sent to obtain.

And added to this was the fact that she

d made the vinge in a high sea. that for 20 hours, deferireless, she evaded the Chemy patrols,

"She held because of her strength," I said. It broke her how and it tore off two of her bulkheads. Bat the last er held. The efficiency of her pumps was not impaired. Within two minutes we had them working."

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water was spurting in and often glass was everywhere. We dily a know how much of her was gone, We show than every man aboard her had been knocked flat on his face, that the glass on the dml was rattling about wanderlust. But we didn't know what was to become of us. We were as far flow as we could le, and as for getting up well, it didn't look like men of a

tion of zine.

But the time will come when, thanks to dumping, the zine industry will have disappeared from England. Then the policy of the Gennan Cartels will as sume a new aspect. The Geraian mani facturer who buys Germian zine to make German iron-plates will continue to pay a few pfennis more than his English competitor, when his iron-plates are in ended for German customers. But when

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There is still no sign of any fresh. formation from the interior of Germany, and there are, on the contrary, indirect prodis that the creation of new units must be most difficult. The French have recently captured masy prisoners of the 1917 class in the field. These youths of training, and their incorporation in the 18 to 19 have had only three months' fighting units so early shows that the supply of good reserves is running short. Further, it is believed that the 1918 class. is now being called to the depots, and these 17 to 18 year old youths abroad, who are always recalled fast, are now being ordered home, showing that youths of the same age in Germany are already in training. There has, again, recently been evidence that German regiments in Krance are being lled up from depots of German regiments in Russia, and.

who has more Sympathy from us than from his Mais straws which show how the wind blows. Headquarters. All these things are No one here ventures to estimate how any German reserves are left, in addi- tion to the 1917 and 1918 classes. Germans, in order to set free more men the field, are compelling more prison- to work in the munition factories, and are indenting freely upon the male population of Poland for the same and for industrial or argricultural purposes. With all these circumstances to our credit the fact remains that the German fight ing machine is still intact, and has to Bismarck and was one of the chief be broken down before we can think of Sources of tle general harmony between peace. This task remains an exceedingly master and workman. When all the vari-hard oue, and not one man or gun or Galvanised: iron-plates, for instance,

ons Industries are organised they might shell cau legitimately be spared from are used for collecting tank for rain like the Headquarters Staff of an

met on a common council, which would its accomplishment. We cannot afford to reduce Germany by starvation alone. water. German damping allows English army. There are signs that our manu-She must be beaten in the field so that makers of reservoirs to buy during a

the ruling military caste may be con- certain

facturers are already at work on some time their iron plates more cheaply than if they had been made in such times as these, although up to the Viced, as profoundly as the poor people England, and consequently to heat their present there has been a good deal of of Germany appear to be convinced, that German rivals in the markers of the fambling and overlapping. Our industhe game is up. Even when the supply world, to sell them event in Germany tries have, in fact, forgotten what of the mesh their fans THE TAIKOO

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All is for the best in the best of words organisation for national purposes

instance, the 4th battalions which exist until the day when duriping shall have

in the case of many regiments-and they strangled in England the trade of

will fight in defensively as best they can, galvaniard-iron and when the German

und for as long as they can, trusting to Cartel of iron-places allows the Cartel of

theiatuur science equipmentt25~ Reservoirs special exportation prices.

We print dis other day a speech by steal victory out of the fire. What we Then the German reservoirs sell in Spain Mr. Dudley Dosker at the annual men say with confidence, is that the con more cheaply than the English reservoirs.ng of the portant manufacturing ditions are favourable to us, and that it Then they will be sold more cheaply in company of which he is Chairman. Mr. only remains ter generalship and hard England itself, and so en.

Docker gave sue details of just such a fighting to take advantage of them. Every industry is a key in relation to Curab-Staff as might unite and mobiliae) the industry immediately above it in the the industrial interest for national pur- scale of production) To lose one such poses. His hope is to secure the co-opera- key means losing at one the means oftion of at least a hundred of the lead- opening the doors of the floor above:ing industrial firms of the country as a eventually it means losing the key of all nucleus round which the national indus the doors,

We were, no doubt," says Sir Hugh he is able to say, "the membership em- tring might form themselves. "Already," It was fine, you know, to see the crew. Bell, short of zinc and dyes, but with braces many of the leading industrial They got on their feet and at their out them we waged war

with some studions before the commander had time energy." Yes, but at what price? And firms in the United Kingdom, the market to order them there. In two minutes the how many precious lives, how many mil value of whose aggregate capital is be order to rise had gone through to the lions also, should we have saved if wetween 80 aud 20 million pounds.' These engine room, and the pumps were going. had not lost the keys?

firms have all agreed to deposit £1,000 as the beginnings of a fand for the sorrion of the cause to which the organisation is devoted. That causes is nothing less than the cause of British industry, and it in bringing about a partnership between cludes, as we are glad to see, the task of

Conc....

But whether we were going to rise or not remained to be seen.

It was still enough down there, after

all the noise of the explosion. You could

hear the motor tursing-it's not much of

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Information has reached his relatives

We have at last begun to reach the stage towards which all our efforts have ence near Ypres in December, 1014, been directed since the celebrated confer- writes Colonel Mande. Then the policy of attrition was deliberately adopted in spite of all the poiltical risks it en- tailed. General Joffre and his assistants were masters in siege craft, and know exactly how the game was to be played. The French General Staff understood what the German.Staff could never grasp, and field warfare. viz, the essential difference between sicge The Germans and

a sound they make. But we were glad that Sir Charles Blane, commander of Capital and Labour, "At the Front, in Austrians, true to the traditions of the

nough to hear it. And when we saw thad the bubble in the clinometer was register ing, and the inclination was becoming less, we knew that matters were not as દેશમાં as they might have been.

Then they reversed the motors. waited. That was a mud minute. Then the broken glass began to rattle about again. We were moving.

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explosion previous to the vessel sinking. one exists, and when the battle is von cost of men's lives. the Queen Mary, was killed by a shell the trenches," says Mr. Docker, such necessity, have been buying time at the latter and also impelled by political Sir Charles was only promoted to the should not the partnership be consum

The French have Queen Mary two months ago. His mo

been saving lives at the cost of lime- ther has now lost all three sons in the

There, indeed, is a

time being all in their favour and the war, the two younger brothers having great deal. As to politics, Mr. Docker results are now beginning to be clearly been killed in France.

is no doubt wise in placing his trust less visible.. If the German infantry in in systems than in men. He wants an Frence had the same spirits as this Rus independent Parliament, representing sians in Galicia they would have taken the interests of the country. "After all," Verdun in the first ten days. But the he says very truly, our Parliaments are spirit of attack has died out of them, and what we make them." But before all and with all their devotion to the passive con- dustries, His advice and our advice to have undertaken is now entirely beyond above all is the organisation of our inception of duty and loyalty the task they

Turn the tables about and im- the industries of the country is to organ- them,

We weren't long in getting up. At any time there's nothing like coming up into the air and sunlight after you've been under for a bit. But this was promising. different. Yes, this was a bit differ

ent....!

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We came up.

In the silent room

there was the noise of the wireless spark

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ed looking her over for the damage.'

that there was no mistake about the mine, Things didn't look particularly whether we could make a part alone, or But it all came down to

whether we couldn't.".

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ise With organisation everything may agine what would have happened had it be done; without organization: nothing suited the general policy of the whole any rate, we were floating. So we start we could send; we couldn't receive. We sceptical of any good couning is our in-attack the Germans any time since the "The wirelem was working That is Like Mr. Docker, we have begun to be alliance for the French and British to This was how he told it to me the took a look at the bow-plating and at dustries except through the offorts of the Verdun fighting developed. The German story of that black interval when these the bulkhead. They looked pretty bad.industries themselves. We all recollect defences are no stronger than those the officers and the men of the crew waited. hanging loose in strips. But we decided how Mr. Asquith' insulted our business is markedly superior to that of the Rus

Austrians have just lost. Our artillery we could make it. The engines were at a hundred feet below water level, not

men by promising them a Peace Book on right; nothing broken there. The pori- knowing whether or not their bulkheads scope was true. It was only her bow and the lines of Lord Haldane'a War Book, 51an, simply because the supply problem

their instru- were destroyed, whether

If the Empire Business Con- sents were irreparably damaged, whe. her rudder that were gone.

So we started back. We drove along ference which meets this week is in carn ander our own power: It was a bit of eat it will not allow itself to be fubbed a sea, but we made it. The waves broke off by the empty nothings and resound- bulkhead we had left forward. over the bridge and pounded on the one ing platitudes of the Mandarins of both

sides who have so far contributed no **" And so,” he said, and smiled, "we thing but talk to this vital question of

came home,"

our industrial futuro,

ther or not they would ever come up apsin into the sunlight.

It was his shin he seemed to think of above all other things. "We found out what we'd coms into," he said, "knew (Continued on nezi Column)

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