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Hello! Are you there? Oh, no, it's not nearly finished yet, and Haig's simply pouring shells across into the Hun positions north of the Somme.

Hind grenades, too, are the order of the day, and our boys do REALLY GOOD WORK with them.

Eh! What's that? What do they cost ? Well, a £100 EXCHE- QUR BOND repre- sms about 800 hand- grenades, and these in the hards of a fast. bowlr.

you

won't need my help to draw a mental picture. Lively picture, eh? Yes, the Hongkong Buik gets the Bonds for you. Think it over. I'll ring off now. Byc-bye.

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BELGIUM UNDER THE SURFACE.

THE WORK OF THE RELIEF COMMISSION

an interview Mr. Hemphill said:-

scanty ration, which is all the Reliet CUTIER PALMER & CO'S.

Organisation can supply would be in adequate to prevent increased disense and mortality.

NAPIER

JOHNSTONE'S

WHISKY

JUST

RECEIVED

FRESH

STOCKS

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Good stories—or, rather, had stories- about. puno meu become part of our

HIGH GERMAN WAGES REBUSED; orced, and we cling to them with the

Under ordinary circumstances the tenacity of a member of the Wee Free

population wouja te pauperized by free.

•VALGETSU VI DEOBALUN SORUNLUK DO-Jurienver. Mr. A. J. Hemphill, Chairman of the ceding of the unemployed. This is not CHU SLUTY OF DYG, two serpent and tuð rouge. Quaranty Trust Company of New York, the vase in belgium, in the arst place, fruitou. Tiere, Wi ilg. DB Mykas, rang of the post powerful banking institu-u daug, niet or soup, bread, sometimes pratory Luqma with some "wisuum to lue tions in the United States," "fina just left potatoes and & fitiis pacon, and occasioni: autuess furich produces & Buring-rod, London after a visit to Belgate and any Five and beans, continued over two

Germany jer uvozytulng pulcum Ing SUBES AITCE

years, does not offer many attractions. surer of the Neutral Commission for people themselves that makes it bearable. Mr. hemphill, who acts as Hen. Trea- It is only the incomitable spirit of the Relief, crossed the Atlantic to see for They will be glad enough when peace comes unself the conditions in the German to exenange tree meals of such a kind for occupied part of Belgium and to invest the food they can earn by work. At gate the distribution of the relief sup piles to which the American people have present, a small percentage get a few days work weekly in local industries, generously contributed. In order to We honour. bim above had to go to Berlin, where he spent thef at a few francs per week, They unceasing- secure permission to enter Belgium hosen as the enamel, glass and coal trades, man of action. We do not like to see hetter part of a week. In the course of refuse wages of from 15 to 25 franca a matting on the fence too long. We 1 Be to su jump down make a

week which they could obtain by work- weite rast at somebody and give him in with the difference of opinion which ware, by consent of the Allies, are being I was greatly impressed while in Boring for the Gernians Glass and enamel a blouds nose. The gut is the thing exists among prominent Germans as to exported in small quantities, but the pay it helps us to take sicks, it releases us the advisability of permitting the conments for such exports are retained in from the shilly-shudly of reason, rominuation of the present system of reliev Allied countries until the conclusion of our childhood we love to be able to allying the Belgians in Belgium. The short-the war. The German assertion, that the ourselves violently to A or B-Uxford-urage of food supplies in Germany itself, whole Belgian nation has organised a Cambridge, Grunge or Green, Liferai or owing to the shied blockade, has give rise passive res stance sur ke on an unpro Tory, so that we can endure to hear to considerable criticism of the Gerayin federted scale, is undoubtedly correct. nothing but evil of the other. It is gual Government's action in agreeing to the ly a matter of pure accident to which Allies demand, as a condition of con

In one relief canteen which I inspect side we belong, but, having once selted tinued whief imports, that the whole of ed a man came up and made a complaint" bze matter, we are anxious to had cause the home-grown food supplies in Belgium There was no meat, he said excitedly, in for quarrel in a straw till the end of should be devoted to the sole use of the his soup. He had long given up the ideû the capter.

Our passion for violent Belgians. An influential German section of receiving meat as part of my daily aemsution is seen at its best in politics maintains that at least a portion of these meal, but if he was to live, he declared nad during periods of international tion, the rightful support of the occupy-mout provides. He was right. There was supplies are, under the Hague Conven- he must get some of the nourishment that crisis. It is here that the charges begining army, and the so, long as there is practically no meat in the soun to fly about like missiles. One remembers any possibility of German women and what is one to do? Such meat as there is But how Mr. Gladstono used to be sincerely children and German soldiers being in the country is six shillings per pound", regarded by many of his enemics as want of food those Belgian native pro male Jezebel, During the South African ductions should be taken by the German

THE PLIGHT FOR THE CHILDREN. War many honest Ridicala talked ex Army for this purpose. citedly of Chamberlain as a man

There are 100,000 children in Belgium who bad cynically brought on the war in

CRITICISM IN BERLIN.

entirely dependent upon the tender- order to get contracts for the firm of man Government is that the policy of per tage of the remaining two million

Another oriticism levelled at the Ger-heartedness of the outside world. A jargo Kynoch's-with which some members of permitting relief supplies to the districa ldren, up to the age of 16, are partially he family were connected. Leard a young Socialist, referring to the ance which is still practically universal 1 bnging them up and oven of We have outer merely prolongs the passive resist dependent upon relief, The problem Featherstone shooting, describe among the seven million Belgians who are keeping them alivo is becoming more Asquith as Assassin Asquith. Even under German rule the Opposition Front-Eendars have at the serious opposition on both these ton has just started an extraordinarily However, despite and more grave. The Relief Organisa ways a way of speaking of the Govern scores, I am confident that the more interesting experiment to meet the emer ment of the day as men clinging to offer humane policy authorised by the German gency of short milk supplies in industrial at the price of their honour. Their chancellor will continue to prevail.··· favourite snoer is: All is lost save" When I got to Brussels my first in lend, free of charge, for one year, one centres. They have asked the peasants to Ice. They invariably, or almost inpression was that everything was normal, variably, pretend to regard them as men except for the absence of vehicles owing cow from each o ftheir herds to a com who care nothing for the public interest, to the scarcity of horses and the prohibi-munal herd which will provide milk for

tion of motors except to a few.

te children. In Antwerp, the herd now NOTHING IS MORE EMBAR but who are absorbed in a greedy pasaioneaple are well clad, the shops are open numbers over 400 cattle. In other centres

The for the leaves and fishes. They remark and everyone goes about their daily life the peasants are responding rear the derisively upon the five thousand aach the same as they do in London to the appeal. At the end of the year of the Prime Minister of the day or New York, as though no other Prime Minister in cople buying and selling mostly veget-will be compensated for the loss of av At the markets I saw cows will be returned to their owners, who history bad ever soiled his fingers, by abies and business being freely transact of their cattle, accepting money from the State. The ed in the ordinary way. That was on men who sit on the Treasury Bench, their the surface But one has to remember hides are covered with hair," sang a post that Belgium normally lives on imported

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RASSING THAN EXTREME THINNESS.

There's reason. Plump, well, formed men and women assimilate what they cat. Thin, scrawny ones do not

This new discovery aims to supply the power to assimilato food.

It renows the vigour, re-establishes the norme, all in nature's own way.

It is not a lash to jaded nerves, bat:

It is the plump, well-developed man who cuts the melons" and has the fun A MARVEL OF EFFICENCY.

socially.

Borawny, skinny people are seldom My visit to Belgium gave me my first popular. We all admire fine figures. of our own time. And we like to credit raw materials and food and pays for her opportunity to see for myself the actual No dressmaker can hide a bony, skinny them with the prehensile fingers and food by export of her manufactures, working of the relief systent. It is a marform to test the one guarant hairy wickedness of the least admirable. The vital current is stopped by the war vel of emciency and devotion, As un You ought to the one animals of the Zoological Gardens.Itd 60 per cent. of Belgium's work-people American I am proud not only of my reliable treatment which has made is difficult, we hear, even today to gerare ille: A large part of the romanercial fellow countryman, Mr. Herbert Hoover, good for years in England, which has sunde suing Ulster farmers that rains are also idle and reduced to depen to whose genius for organisation than taken America by storm and which has Ashith and Sir Edward Grey are notdence upon charity. When I went to the whole structure owes its continued exist been awarded a gold medal and diploma in the pay of the German Government.lief stations where the wholly destitute These simple men do not understand amounting to a large proportion of the difficulties, but of those Americans who,

ence through. thousand heartbreaking of honour at Brussels, Belgium.

Nothing in history has ever approached that, when Mr. Balfour accused Mr. Population get their soup and other self-sacrificingly and self-effacingly, the marvellous success of this new treat Asquith of having struck a felon blow visions. I saw, in the waiting queues are devoting themselves in the occupiedmont, which according to report, has at the Crown when he got permission to expect, but well-dressed men wonch and alive. M. Emile Franequi, head of the fifty years.

act only the needy class that one would territory to keeping the Belgian nation made more tur folks plump than all the create Peers in order to pass the Parlia

tonics and ineffective medicines for children" Ins, Brusosis and elsewhere ment Act, the charge was not intended throughout Belgium the human lines that Belgia Comité National, has also to be taken too literally Mr Balfour daily wait for the small ration provided achieved wonders, and his army of Belgi did not mean to suggest that the King's by the charity of the world are marked an workers is the most striking instance Ministers were actually felons. Ho mere by this sque sed feature. Destitution is The work, both of the Americans and Belone thing the thin folks Jack, that is the ly wanted to say something dramatic. If not only widespread, but there are now

in history of voluntecer collective, action. Mr. Asquith Sir Edward Gray had dependent upon relief- thousands of the gians, could not be carried on without died the next week, Mr. Balfour would upper classes who never dreamt of comthe humane and effective backing of the have delivered a must charming obituarying to such a pass. PRA

American and Spanish Ambassadors in speech in which he would have coinment MISLEADING FIRST IMPERSSIONS. ed on the amazing public spirit with

London, the American' Ambassador in which they had devoted their lives, to the service of th. State, He would have praised them in sifter words till their virtues shone like these of Perioles Public men have a beautiful waynormality is sustamed only by the furtite, despite the many other calls upon Tan EDWARD DISPENSARY. adapting these estimates of their oppon that relief to the value of over 1,200,000 its benevolence and resources a cuits to circumstances. Thus a Unioriat is, so to speak injected into the country tribute, through the National Committee leader has always three different esti every month. The external calm is an ifor Relief in Belgium, to the support of males of a Liberal leader ready for use, amazing tribute to the efficiency of the the relief work. After seeing that work and a Liberal leader three different esti system where the Relief organisation pro- for myself. I venture to say that it is the mates of & Unionist leader. There is one vides and distributes to this whole nation duty of every humane individual to help estimate for an opponent in opposition, the supplies without which there would these helpless civilians in Belgium--cspc- and another est mate for an opponent in le chaos and unthinkable suffering. Incially the children who, for nearly two coalition, and a third estimate for this complex work of rationing every day years, bave endured sorrows and privaJapan, where it is nearly stationary. It is opponent during the week after his over seven million souls, of whom just tions that would try the soul of any death For any man of intellectual one half are totally or partially destitute, nation in the world, and yet still remain elasticity the three estimates are easy to the Belgians themselves are cooperating heroically true to those traditions of reconejle: But the plain man, the honest magnificently. Without their anflagging liberty and freedom which they have in- man, the ignoraat man, is hard put to support and public-spirited work the herited through centuries." if to see how Anantas can be turned into efforts of those throughout the world who, Solomor in a single night-The New Tegardless of nationality, sympathise Statesman

with the Belgian people would fail of their

purpose. The Comité National in WASTE OF BRITISH MONEY. Is follows Brussels, composed of the leading Bel- gians who dared to stay and face the in-

it

It is only after being in Brussels for Berlin, and the devoted American and a little time, and after visiting Charleroi, Spanish Ministers, who remain at their' Malines, Antwerp, Liege and other places posts in Brussels. that one realises how misleading are first.

mpressions of life in Belgium as it is generosity with which the British Em "All Americans admire the magnificent to-day. The outward appearance of

ON ACCOUNT OF THE WARvaders, has enrolled thousands of volun-

teer helpers who are now experts in this problem of rationing pers

John Brown cannot pay me the money - RELIEF REACHES THE BELGIANS.

he awes,

you

There are thousands who have been told that before you.

They tried

The

The

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"On account of the war?!

sends steaks that could muster as lead

tailor's wool suits are of shoddy" in stend,

On account of the war."

The tinner can't patch up my roof where

it leaks,

"On account of the war.

WANT OF SYSTEM,

in the

prices,

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75-2

WEATHER REPORT,

On the 14th at 11.10-Pressure has de preated slightly in all districts except orer 8.

corth of the Bonins. highest to the north of Hokkaido, and to the

Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending at: 10 am to-day, 0.37 inel. Tokai įduce pij January, 71.62 inches, against sa average of 70.72 inches.

The forcoset for the 24 hours apding at Noon

DISTRICT

FORECAST (E"or" variabló Hongkong & Neighbourhood-winds, moderate

Che light Sce

Forme Channe one

No

Hongkong and Tanooka South Coast of China between, The Deat

South coast of Chine between (The name Hongkong and Holnap 1 No: L

The Public Account Committee's re Both in America and England a good port for 1914-1915 criticises the extrava- deal of uneasiness somewhat The cook wants ten dollars a week, or exists, as to the relief supplies acutally want payments for billeting troops, the

she goes,

reaching the Belgians. I discussed this waste of rations, and the large commis "On account of the war. baker reduces the weight of his gians throughout the country and with says the report, was £51,751,000, and the point thoroughly with responsible Belsions paid to bankers. The navy deficit, the Americans who are supervising the distribution, besides seeping my own The Ministry of Munitions has effected

army deficit £211,857,000 ever open for any indications of confisca tion by the Germans. As a result I am substantial reduction convinced that the relief supplies sent despite the increased cost of labour and Belgian people. Extent for trivial local supply statements of the manufacturing into Belgiums reach, in their entirety, the uaterials, by compelling contractors to incidents, which are invariably remedied, costs, and also by exercising requisition- Germans breaking their guarantees to system before the war for breaking con- I heard of no instance whatever of the try powers. The committee regrets that the Admiralty did not possess a similar respect the food which the Allied Govern iments allow to be brought through the tractors rings. It is only now slowly. The cost of my shoes monats each line blockade. As regards the home grown introducing a system,

this drugs are prodigiously produce share most inevitable 50 of 23,000,000 annually in sandbags alone are probably, some The Government has effected a saving The prices of drugs are prodigiously my garrisoned by a foreign army by taking over the jute trade; £40,000

high," But when I demur I receive the reply, but I can safely say that 35 per cent of was lost in the purchase of unsuitable

"On account of the war.

The untive food supplies go towards feed Lorses in Ireland. Inferior animals were And what can I do when they airily say, ing the Belgian people. The inappreci supplied in substitution for those bought.

"On account of the war "able leakages to which I refer are always

The Army Council's refusal to recon- What else can I do but obligingly раз,

made the subject of negotations between sider, until at the end of the wor On account of the war

ent Powers. the Relief Organisation and the belliger system of paying retired and active ser Mon

vice pay to retired afftrers rejoining the people really think. They don't think nually. Civil servants and unval offi- You ask too as to what the Belaian service, involves a cost of £700,000 in- They just hope They live from day to cers, says the report, do not enjoy a Wed. day in the nudimmed expectans of re similar concession,

The car that I bought will not come for

six weeks,

Un account of the war."

of

Yet often I wonder what some folks will

do? When all of the world with its warfare

is through

And they can no longer pass by in

review

"On account of the war. GEE, in the New York Sun.)

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE,

From 16th to 21st September, 1918,

HIGH WAZKY

Month

height

Low Warn

BLong.

Mean

Time

10

Height

H'king

Main

Time

16 m 11-62 -

Satur, 18

tlie

-17

1:51

19

550 a 42

19

No infor, high or low water

20

20

No infer.bigh per low-water

21

m 3 12 13 0144 20

No infer high or low

wate

gaining their independence.might The cost of butting the troops, hospital also say they live on hope, because if that patients, and horses in the United King-Trı, wonderful spirit were not there, the den entails an outlay of £24,500,000,

8162N

0.1660m 127T

mm 1844-11 16: