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MONEY WASTED ON FOOD

Every penny counts in the kitchen now days. Food prices have mounted rapidly They are likely to keep high. You can afford to waste that is very certain.

To go hungry because food is not obtain able is bad carugh 1. But to starve in t? midst of pleaty with good money in your pocket and no hindrades to buying-1 infinitely worse. Yet, this is what a host of people are doing to-day, Starving, mind you, not for the lack of food, but because their digestive organs have lost tone per osanot properly digest the food they oat Remember, it is not what you eat, but what you digest, that nourishes your body and sustains your life.

-Uniege food to converted by the digestive processes into a condition in which it can be absorbed into the system, muscles, bon:, nerves and brain, are slowly but surely

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH, 1916.

WHEN THE SOLDIERS RETURN

TO CIVIL LIFE

MR. ASQUITH'S PROMISE. An important deputation on work after the war was introduced to Mr. Asquith last month-by-Mr. H. Thomas M who wid of the Labour bodies represented more than half a million are with the colours.

Mr. Robert Smillie, president Miners Federation, said trade-union practices and regulations which had been relaxed should be resumed on peace Men and women taking the places of those at the front should get other work at standard living rates or full maintenance by the State.

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The public tre constantly told by the zan absolute confidence that no power military pundits that our greatest in heaven or ourth-could-dispossess them is to kill Germans und "that"they":"070 largely mistaken in taking any notice of their gains pervaded the Gurmaı of the actual ground gained. T

But the public are incorrigible. They forces up to July 1st. I have heard the persist in feeling specially glad when faith expressed by prisoners and had 'ozieres is captured, or when the Delville abundant and various evidence of its pre- Wood is cleared. At the risk of being valence; but not till to-day did I feel, as condemned by the experts and of being well as understand, the material grounds told that I am unorthodox and stupid and on which it was based, ignorant, 1 venture to suggest that in

Let any doubter pay n visit to Ovillers with this shatter the instinct of the public to-day; and go the rounds

the cleanere or

col organisers or not so very far wrong.

Let me at once quanfy this contention. salidators of the troops in possession. When an expert insiste

that we must

starved. In other words, they fail to 5 Army pay, separation and billeting kili Germans, and proceeds to urge that Alter a fortnight's work these men them-

all the nourishment they need to keep the strong and healthy.

Food in such a caso, is indeed sometimes positively harmful, It hinders instead of helps, weakens instead of strengthens How Because it ferments in the startach or intestines

Impurition are given off which fud their way into the blood and affect disastrously the whole body.

Mr Harry Gosling president Trans- port Workers' Federation, dealt with the dockers, and Mr. Bellamy, president National Union of Railwaymen, proposed extended furlough for the men at full allowance, in order to recuperate them selves, and full maintenance by the State if they enouot get werk.

HADE UNION RIGHTS Mr. Asquith recognised that the three great branches of industry represented had contributed nobly to the Army. It is quite right that while the war still rages and while pence, which we hope is If you would get full value from the fool not very far off, is still not yet assured, you eat, you must see to it that your diges, we should occupy such time and attention Live organs are always equal to the work as we can spare from the prosecution of you give them to do. Now and then, from the war for forcasting the provision that one cause or another, they may lose toa has to be made well in advance for the At such times you will find it better to aar?resumption of our normal activities as a a shilling or two on food and spend it opence-pursuing and as an industrial com Mather Smigel's Syrup than to pile up funny misery for yourself, by continuing to est As to departures from trade-union more than your weakened orgaus par practices, the Government's appeals in this direction had been accompanied by properly digest

pledges of a distinct explicit, and em phatic character; "the obligations are in our view obligations of tronour and intis putably valid, and nothing but the assent of all the parties concerned will vary them or dispense with their complete fulfilment,"

This renowned rentedy clears the system of the injurious producte of indigestion and by toning up and stimulating the atom arsh; liver and bowels enables you to digest and draw nourishment from what you eat You will then po longer have to deplore money wasted on food.

Ja.confirmation of the remarkable effoasy of Mother Seigel's Syrup, read this lett from Mea, M. Peterson, Oxford Street Wynberg, Capo Province, on April 18tq 1911For a number of years I suffers very much from a complication of stomach disorders, and was reduced & and stats weakness and nervous debility. My appe tite disappeared and the little food I at was generally the forerunner of a bibious attack. I also suffered from constipation, flatulence, and dizziness, had many restless and aleepless nights, and on rising in the morning was usually afflicted with a split ting headache, and found food attorly dis tasteful.

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this war will not be unded by the killing selves only just begin to discover what Aus the fortifications mean. In this little of Turke or Bulgarians, or oven trians, then his arguments are indisput-country village there is underground able. The subsidiary operations of the shelter and lodging for quite 2,000 men- Allies have not been conspicuously for We know it to our advantage as well as tunate, with the exception of the great cout. If the enemy choose to shell us Russian successes against the Austrian there, we can take refuge in caves so deep armies, Most of our secondary enter and snug that, in the hefty phrase of a prises have not essentially weakened Ger soldier, sin, shells falling on the top sound many, and our main object is the defeat like bees buzzing in the roof. The exag- of Germany.

geration is permissible.

Nor is it necessary to discuss the very

Even now the whole of the system is not long periods of comparatively stationary

The investigated. There are chambers or cells wartare, especially in the west. Allies waited and were stationary not in this morbid subcutaneous growth s0 because they could thus destroy the foul that no one has the power or will tö enemy more readily but because they penetrate. They must be cut off from were developing and accumulating their the system, isolate to put out of reach "of" They always hoped the senses. Nevertheless a great part has military resources, to move forward in the end. They have been cleaned au disinfected and can be now-begun to do so.

visited as one would visit the Cata- combs.

Corridors between the dwelling. houses and rooms run everywhere under the same shell-proof rool.

The theory that this war was going to be won by standing still and destroying

I have sech Montauban, Mameta, Fri- Germans has always puzzled the humble layman. It was first hammered into a court, Boisselle, and some of the many at the time trench warfare developed. fortified places behind these villages, but Had it been urged that our object was none of them is at all comparable with. FULL KEEF FOR OUT-OF-WORKS. to stand fast until we were able to move Ovillers, and this is my excuse for writing forward it would then have been gener yet again of the German methods of de- As to the people who were to be really understood and appreciated But fence. Two days ago we found dynamus placed, the principle embodied in the very soon the means of success became and apparatus which supplied the whole deputation's proposal had been already elevated into the sole end Kil! Ger of this subterranean acreage with electric recognised by the Government as far as mans, and it doesn't matter where," be light. persons engaged in the munition works came the watchword, and those who were concerned, by temporary insurance doubted whether this phrase covered the against unemployment. That applied to whole enterprise were browbeaten into The Government silence. Yet the spade, though a valu 1.500.000 workers. would consider what, if any, were the able auxiliary, and for us an instrument appropriate means of applying the same for gaining time, is not the weapon of must not assume he was prepared to

Meanwhile They victory, but of stalemate.

the public wondered why they were called pledge the Government to their proposal foolish for rejoicing when a casati vil of work at standard living rates or fall lage was snatched from the enemy's grip maintenance by the State, but they were actively alive to the gravity of the pro- blon. It would be the duty of the Government to endeavour lo create special emergency machinery to deal with the problem,

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*** I tried elf possible means to combat my complaints, but nothing helped or gave m any: relief. Two years ago I was recon mended to use Mother Soigel's Syrup, ani that seemed to be the remedy. I had boen in It was quits, obvious that demobilisa search of. A few doses gave me relief, anttion would be a gradual process. ITe I Ronn recovered ny health and strengte.doubted whether there was any prospect I attribute my recovery entirely to Mother Soigel's Syrup, and as I have not suffered since from any of the above symptoms i proves the cure a permanent one."

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The fact is that a theory which was excellent as a temporary expedient be came in the end almost a soporific

Men could, of course, sleep there with

out risk. What is more, they could both sleep and, fight without nervous strain, however extreme the fight. When, on July 1st, 000 meu of a famous brigade of a famous division seized and held the front lines here, the withers of the Cyclops in the caves were still unwrung. Bombs down the staircases did, them no injury. They would still fight or escape as they wished, or surrender with due leisure

MACHINE GUN HOISTS-

Never mind if we don't move, for we are killing Germans, was a statement which had something of the effect of an

You must not suppose that these cares opiste. Such soporifies have before now in warfare been elevated into great mis only extend behind the line of preach. The guiding principles There was a time chambers in front of the line are the most in the eighteenth century when generals notable, for they are arranged for the deliberately educated themselves in the attack as well as for the defonce. Some art of how not to give battle. War care built forward for a distance of about came & system of evasions, of marching 60 yards, and, like a chimney running up and counter marching, of little darts and from the far wall, rises a straight shaft - thrusts, of efforts to achieve the end by with an upright ladder and pulley ar- lesser means and coups while avoiding rangements for hoisting machine guns, the one great overwhelming issue of From a score of such shafts the serpent battle. The pundits of the day cloquentcould emerge and strike at will: ly defended these strange methods until

certainly there was no probable pros pect-of a sudden glut of labour. From a military point of view the difficulty of discharging men industrially according to their trades was very great. The Government was very much alive to that problem.

"Some period of furlough on full pay must inevitably be granted at the end of the war, I do not see how you are to deal with the problem at all without that. What precise length the furlough should be is a matter of detail, but in principle it will have to be done?

All these questions are being considered by & Demobilisation. Committee, which Labour was represented. It is most actively at work, and he trusted in a very short time it would be able to for multe conclusions which would enable them to set up in advance the machinery brought into operation the moment that the war comes to an end.

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GERMANY » PREPARED

FOR ANOTHER YEAR OF WAR,

HERR BALLIN'S VIEWS

they were pulverised by the sudden riso French and Belgian forests-is used in A great amount of wood stolen from of Napoleon.

the structures, and our troops found one woodyard full of spare building material. We are now enjoying the benefit of these

permanent

Then came the encyclopaedic Clause witz, who demonstrated in his majestic work that the object of war is the den truction of the enemy's forces. But he 14

preparations, but their meant and said something more No very elaboration makes the work of con- single precept of a master of war can be solidation a labour of Hercules. To re- isolated. Napoleon said that victory store sanitation is in itself a great task. is to the big battalions, but he also said. The enemy who lived there were fed with that" in an army the men don't count supplies coming from north and cast. and thaiono man is everything."': Our supplies, of which always water is. Almost any, military proposition can be the most troublesome, must be brought supported from the pages of Clausewitz, from the south or west. The capture of but when I look at any battle on the place even such a thorny fortress as western front I feel that the statement this is only a part of the soldier's work. in his writings which interests me most He must make life an endurable thing is this: The decision itself can only

be regarded as having actually taken for the men in possession; and this may place when either the assailngt or de involve & water system-as in spots. I In discussing the situation in Germany Peder has left the theatre of was know of extending two or three miles Director-General Ballin of the Hamburg-When we hear that the enemy has left to the rear g Aowrica line in an interview cabled by

instinctively rejoice, the Berlin correspondent of the Ve Longueval we York World says: The war probably He has not left the theatre, but he is may last for another year, we are pre-possibly a little nearer the moment of

departure.

These things were comparatively easy in static warfare. They are just as neces sary and a dozen times as difficult in the stages of a slow advance. When we read

pared for that. Mr Bellin characterized What is our true and immediate pur in a communique or elsewhere that no as absurd the talk that by the attrition Germany's reserves and materials were use on the western front? It is to clear thing is happening we are to imagine exhausted. Such talk showed the utter these migratory barbarians from the fair first, a continuous cannonade which to Jack of knowledge of German conditions. lands of France and Belgium. to rescue quote last night's experience of a neutral Germany bnancially after the war will be the citizen of Lille and Cambrai and visitor may keep men much better able to begin her peaceful Liege and Bruges, and all the hapless miles from the field; secondly, the con reconstruction of trade commerce and in peasantry from the shocking forms of entinuous performance of engineering and dustry that England. The German slavement now being imposed upon them pioneer works which would be a nine people will be owing the greater partfan fold that this of its debt to themselves, while Engpurpose, that we should be content with days' wonder in England

not our chief

that it is wicked and

awake fifteen

The German lost enormously at Verdun,

* "killing Germans,” tha ground does land will be owing nr. enormous debt to America Mr. Batiin said: For the int matter," moment the other side scored a moral mischievous to cheer when our gaultimate defeat will become visible to victory but that moral success is one lant troops top another ridge that their armies, to their civil population, we ought to be doing suusto more of prospects and expectation that of Achieved reality. It has had the effect nd out how many German are left, then and to the whole world. to dissipate the war-weariness already strong in France and begiming to be felt in England and perhaps in Russia There is now the question, how long the revivified war spirit will last. Whatever mag happen, the next few weeks and months will neither decide the war nor end it; it is a question of who will stick it out longest that will decide the end of the war. Germany econamially, in dustrially and in military forces can and will hold out,”

think of all the military professors of the eighteenth century who went and they must have lost vory heavily on

HOSPITAL SHIP HEAT STROKES.

On the recent voyage of the hospital Ship Dongole, from Bussorah, Persian Gulf, to Bombay, there were 130 cases of heat stroke among British sick and wounded troops, and 1 deaths due to heat stroke occurred among troops and crew, and 5 other deaths were probably caused by heal.

astray in another direction and wrote the Somme; but have their casualty lists elaborate treatises to prove the true art weakened their national determination togo on fighting? Not abit. of war was not to fight.

There is more joy in the capture of the Their losses have only made them ruined windmill on the slope above more than usually brutal and bestial, ozieres than In all the contradictory as the events of the last few days calculations of the German reserves that testify: Our own losses, have not have been printed in the last two years. been light, but they have only increased Wo can see that heap of ruins on the the inflexible resolve of the whole nation greensward. We know what it means. to prosecute this war to the end. If the We say it is another step towards Germans could be compelled to fall back Cambrai, a few yards nearer the Rhine to the Meuse, we should perhaps find All the scolding and all the sums in ell the war articles published since hostilities began will not check the inveterate and, as I venture to think quite correct tendency to look at the ground gained.

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them ceasing to behave like mad dogs and more nearly resembling whipped curs Ground does matter, we want to gain it, and we are gaining. The more

ground we gain, the nearer, we shall be to the end.

The Germans have never said that What is the greatest source of strength * ground does not matter." Had they of the Germans in this war? Not their done so they might have advanced ten national spirit, not their preparedness, niles into French territory and then not their munitions; not their numbers, A following wind necessitated the ship explained to their people that they but the fact that they are keeping the being turned round every four hours for proposed to kill Frenchmen." ~ They war outside their own country. Why is the first thirty-six hours of the voyage, would be in an infinitely stranger Austria, shivering to-day! Not at her so that the wards could be ventilated. military position to-day and would huge losses, but because the Russians are The voyage was made under most trying kill just as many Frenchmen ein Galicia and are entering one or two of climatic conditions.

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