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TUR HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST

Str. 1915

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

WAR CHILDREN.

THE CHANGE

My little girl's joined the Army!" This somewhat starting stateinent, made by a proud, father, produced much laughter and many exclamations of in- credulity.

"It's a fact," he insisted. "She is a member of the remount department of the Army Servies Corpa!'

"Captains a regiment of motor-lurries,

GERMANY'S SALES TO

AMERICA.

A TRADE NOT STOPPED, BY BLOCKADE

That Germany, in spite of the blockada established by Great Britain, has still selling stocks, and bonds in America and chuducting other financial trans- alious, is asserted by the New York, Time-danalist recently." Neither de lays, or seizures, en stop modern: in- nor all the confusion of war," it says, ternational intercourse between neutrals and belligerents, however closely either may be hermed in." Commercial trade may be blocked in war-time, since it may be

impossible to ship goods, but even but shipment of goods from Germany has not I daresay she's even equal to that. Ateased entirely. Financial transactions, present she's weighing and checking hay however, it has been found practically im and straw and despatching it to its right possible to prevent. The writer adds:

Germany is still selling securities in destination. Doing her little bit.' and the United States, German citizens have keping herself, too, at seventeen. Why made Joans here (in some instances in at her age I was still at school," he added behalf of their Government, it is said), proudly, and chuckled as he recounted a have paid these loans off, and entered recent visit he had paid to his soldier-imo numerous financial engagements of danghter..

I suppose someone retorted..

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Not quite, the father replied,

*Now, dad," she had said to hun, "you must just amuse yourself for half an hour-I'm busy," and she handed him her cigarette-case.

And while she issued ärders here, there, and everywhere father had looked on, while the realisation rushed upon him that Time had placed him on the shelf. and labelled him "out of date."

"the

one sort or another. Some of these trans- actions found interesting reflexions last week in the market for German exchange. wek was the sharp drop in marks and The most interesting movement of the

the subsequent partial recovery. They sold as low as. 72 3/4. not the lowest at which they have sold since the outbreak of the war, but close to it,

Between the time when the previous low point was touched and last week's fall to close to the old figure there had "But I was mighty proud of her," he been a large: recovery in the value of said fervently. He admitted later that German exchange. That recovery was when she drove me to her bachelor attributed to many causes, one of them. romes in a powerful two-seater car which efforts on the part of the German. Gov- had been lent to her I felt at least a de-emment to improve the German financial ende behind!"*

ximation as Seen abroad through the mirror of the exchange market.

And now de confined, the little girl comes home occasionally for the sort, beard in the financial markets B

To the general suggestions of this week-end, 'trofs' her mother round, takes the time, wertain details were added last her out to lunch and to the thentre, as week by bankers who have been watching. she herself was taken only so short a timete movements of exchange closely,, being.

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themselves engaged in exchange opera tions on a very large scale. In these Listening. I understood, for when the directly through Berlin bauking in- quarters it was said that Germany, in- first whisper of way was wafted along stitutions, had done what the British the hot breezes of July, 1914, Peter was overnment had done more publicly working hard at college and Muriel was-borrowed money here to support eX- barely out of the schoolroom. But as change. July merged into August and the German Loans were arranged privately in bordes poured over the Belgian frontier, New York and the proceels invested in. the call came to these children of ours to marks. This absorbed a considerabit defend their birthright. Peter put down amount of German exchange which was his school books and donned the uniform of the King. Meriel put up her hair and exchanged her dainty summer frocks for the severe garb of a Red CrosS: JUESE,

In a few brief hours, it seemed, they had crossed the threshold of maturity and grown up." They bad become man and woman, while to ns they still were babies!

the market and improved the cate very considerably. But it was not a lasting, sprovement. These loans matured, and for some reason were not renewed. Funds for their payment were obtained. by sales of drafts on Germany which in turn depressed the price of marks. A transaction of considerable size of this sort was earried through a fortnight age, and this and subsequent operations car- Tied-marks down to the low point of last

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For months our brave little girl was gallantly nursing the heroic Serbians. week. And a few days ag after over a year sold without a demand for drafts on

But drafts on Germany cannot of weary waiting, of sleepless nights and Germany. Whence does this demand axious days, Peter eaine home-a mancome? at nineteen-with that far-away look of to it, but the most important singlo A variety of factors contribute the trenches in his brave young eyes and element in the demand for marks arises the mud of Flanders still clinging to his pat of the sale to New York of securities boots. But it was not the fastidious, held in Germany. The movement of somewhat difficult, delicate lad who had scarities from Germany through Hol returned, but a stranger son, strengthenland to the United States has been in- ed in mind and body by contact with the torrupted, but this has stood in the way. stern realities of Ffe...

of further sales of such stocks and bonds.

He spent his brief respite from the held in Germany as have a market in the tumult of battle very quietly, chiefly United States. Securities may change occupy ng himself with bathing, sleep transferred. That is what is happening ownership without being physically ing, and eating, and he spoke only within these German sales to the United great reluctance of the scenes of warlare.States. And when the time came round (all too The securities are sold by Berlin to quickly, alas) l buckled on his armour New York and shipped to some neutral again without a murmur of regret, swung country, where they are held for the his haversack across his shoulders, and account of the American buyer. 1 time. hearfully went away to face the Un-they will be brought to America if they own once again and strike yet another are not resold by this market before the blow for the freedom of nation

opportunity for their shipment - comes, I'd rather you and dad didn't conte Lonis & San Francisco railway secu Baltimore & Ohio, Canadian Pacific, 'St. to the station with me," he said.

Muriel will see me off.".

We understood his preference for his sister to accompany him, fer there was a bond between them that is far stronger than all else. Both of there had faced death and witnessed cternal partings a thousand times: So we bade him "good- bye at the garden gate and we watched them until they turned the corner of the ittle village street, he with his short khaki kilt awaying from side to side in rhythm'c motion like the surf upon the sease with the little bright ribbon, which told of distinguished courage and heroism while fighting death and disease among the stricken Serbians, piuned to the breast of her neat dark uniform.

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rities, and Japanese bounds figure pro- ninently in the list of stocks and bonds. which German holders have lately dis posed of to Americans.”

SIR DOUGLAS HAIG.

Is Sir Douglas Haig to be the great soldier who will carry our cause to suc cess7 asks a London correspondent. It is a curious fact, and yet hardly a sur prising one, that in the majority of wars a real leader of men has not been dis covered until the struggle has waged for many months. Our Civil War was well advanced before Cromwell rose to fame. The French Revolution had been in pro- gres four years before the coming of It seems but yesterday that they were for Wellington's greatness to be revealed. Napoleon, while we had to wait 14 years babies!" I said, and the flowers in the garden danced confusedly through the of the great qualities of leadership dis Our French Allies are loud in praise tears which could not shed. As we enter played by Sir Douglas Haig in the pre ed the silent house we both realised that war has set their lives apart from ours. their own Castelnau, the coup d'eil, tej aent offensive, They say he has, like They ave faced horrors which we shall instinct, flair, the eagle-eye that can em never know or comprehend. They have grown accustomed to the ever-lurking in a crisis devise the proper means of brace a complex situation at a glance and presence of death and the terrible sights correcting the errors of subordinate com and sorrows which are to us but nameles

manders. Lerrors.

Lord French, when himself Command- Our little ones of two or three years ingin-Chief the British armies in France, ago are fighting men and women now. dwelt repeatedly on Sir Douglas' remark They are fighting for us and for ourable powers of intellect and resolution; rights, while we, of an age that is far but it's particularly gratifying to have away behind, look on at the game of life to British Field Marshal's verdict. con- aad earth and are proud. We are chil-fired by so critical a body as the Fronek dren to them-they have outgrown us! Headquarters Staff

There are many directions in which The chuos of warfare has indeed placed the new Commander in Chief has intro us upon the fringe of life and stolen our duced reforms since his accession to children from us to fight the great battleoffice, but in no direction have they proved They have been swept, along by the swiftmore welcome than in his drastic weed running stream, huried down the broad ing-out of all incompetence in high sta river of Life, through a land which is: beset with new and deadly peril, and are public is sure to hear sooner or later but tions. To judge by reports, of which the uniting their endeavours to turn round which have already come to my cars, Sir the wheel of Progress, while we, the lar Haig is not the man to be twice mothers and fathers, left aside in the unlucky" with the same generals. sheltered pools, look on and marvel at Moreover, his co-operation with Generals the great revelation; nor do we sigh vain Jofre and Castelnau and the French regrets for the children who are no more, General Staff is as tactful us it is whole- for in the men and women who have taken

The British Commander-in- their places we see our noblest ideals Chick has completely won the hearth of realised.

the French, by whom he is nicknamed With a startling Buddenness war hastron Legs" snatched away the dear delusions of youth Sir Douglas Haig is a native of "the 9.15 p.m." The Scaurs" at the Thestre to which we have clung. But in glorious lov. sea-salted, wiod-vexed promontory“

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