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FINANCIAL FUTURE OF

RUSSLAY IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY M. BARK.

THE

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UNPAID PATRIOTS. SACRIFICES OF WAR WORK

“UDVISERS

A SPLENDID IDEA

Unsung and unknown, scores of Eng There has been a good deal of talk ish professional men who before the wor about the football dribbling which our TLANS FOR AFTER THE WAR,

men have added to the excitentnt of a earned thousands a year are doing their bit". under conditions beneath the The Paris correspondent of the Finun charge When the French troops say the cial Times writes His Excellency M. London Irish start it in September last in nnncial dignity of a munition worker. Bark, Imperial Russian Minister of Fin the Loos battle, they were petrified with In addition to being unsung and un- Ances, has been good enough to make the amazement. The Germans sniffed with known, hay of them are unpaid. Fov contempt. It only proved that the of them get much more than £100 a year. following statement for publication British those of them who are not de- Redly a great Department of State is

The Russian Minister of Finances, has been placed in a much more dificult posi ction than that of his colleagues of the

Allied Powers owing to the total supprès sion of one of the most important sources

Monarchical sentiment is not yet, dead în China. At any rate, there is a move. ment, by no means i wconsiderable, which favours the restoration of the youthful Manchit Emperor. The argument of its

advocates is that China, is not yet ripe for Parliamentary Government, as is de-

poly

cadent were so absurdly devoted to sport without its quota of these unselfish pat that they could think of nothing else. Theriots, With few exemptions they are mon idea has been carried farther in the over military age. Y struggle which for want of a better name A high official sonewliere in White-

of braine

country's disposal a masa. which ordinarily Government money could not buy

ed for fighting Hardly one of the great callings is unrepresented in the depart mente with the possible exception of the clergy, which is doing its hit magnifi- cently elsewhere, Probably there are evÓN clergymen, personally unknown to tue, who have deserted the cloth for Govern mental war work. My own activities drave acquainted me with conditions in three or four important quarters like the War Office, the Admiralty, Munition and the War Trade Intelligence Divistion

PEKING September 14th, BINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS The Japanese demurché arising out of the Chongchistung and Manchurian in cidents has created the impression that Japan is bent upon further aggression in Ching, and very unhappy feeling pre vails among thoughtful Chinese, who view with Alarm the state into which their country is drifting. For some time it was apprehended that the Japanese of revenue, namely, the monopoly of the We must call the battle of the Somine, hall" described in the course of conver- tended apply the methods

Rifles, who took not one but many foot with the Twenty-One Demands of inst was prohibited by Inperial Decree at the balls over No Man's land with them, very beginning of the war. This measure year, but at the moment of writing Baron was an excellent que from a social and Some may have thought it reckness

FROM 8. TO 88 GD. A DAY. Hayashi has inspired a greater feeling of moral standpoint, for, thanks to the total devilry, on the lines of trophi optimism, a feeling that the negotiations abolition of the sale of alechalic leverne tantonly, a wantonly, so dantonly The men of the professions," he

go'd he

Domid, joined up for war service as on- uges, the saving capacity of the Russian will not be based altogether on force people has been increased and the labour. He played a spring and dared around thusiastically is our men have volunteer majeure, but that some attempt will be production has een strengthened On Beneath the gallows trés

the ather band the total abolition of the Others no doubt considered it mere made to have regard to the facts, disput-alcohol monopoly and the prohibition of insolent bravado, pure swank There are the sale of alcohol produced serious quite a lot of people in England who con Budget problem, which had to be faced sider it undoubted swank, though they immediately by an increase in taxation love themen for it, and one of the foot and by the introduction of new taxes. Halls, limp and riddled with machine gun From the beginning of the present year, fire, is to be preserved for all time a 1916, the taxation returns of the Russian regimental headquarters. But it is no Empire began to show that the country thing of the kind. The man who hit on and recovered from the loss brought about the idea, whether it was Sir Douglas by the suppression of the alcohol mono-Flag or a sporting colonel, au irrespon sible junior sub, a bully bully sergeant, INCREASINU REVENUES or a boisterous Tommy, deserved well of of the Foreign Offer. It is not going The returns for the first five months of the whole army. Any one who has ever too far to say that without the expert. knowledge put practically for nothing at monstrated by the present members of the present year show an increase of 375 been under fire knows the tense ago the disposal of these departments by........... millions of roables on the corresponding of waiting waiting for the word to

barristers, engineers, university charge, "or" over the parapet or any Parliament, and if these Repbulicans dis-period of 1915, and that despite the occu

financiers, dramatists, authors,

-worke credit themselves further the people may,pation by the enemy forces of the Polish whatever it may be Even those who have clans,

milway managers, perhaps, look with more favour on the and Baltic provinces. But the Russian merely been in a bumping race know du solicitors,

Finance Minister has had still another strain-it-is-to-wait for the starting gun superintendents, shipping directors, and restoration of the Empire, supported, as problem to face, and that was to discover after the warning gun and will never other four figure men, the running of of the last ten seconds the war, with its endless new problems,

eories. Some high would have been far more difficult.. it is certain to be, by the military leaders. ways and means to meet the interest on forget the agony

the war debt and to prepare this ultimate before the

One of the most valuable of these I am told that the movement has gained liquidation of all these extraordinary ex-strung natures find the mere waiting for considerably in strength during the past penses, With a view to the solution of the kick-off in a football match racking men is an actor who was earning £125 ▼

a week in the United States when war these problema fiscal questions in Russia to the nerves, Wheri men have been under have been studied with great intensity, shell fire shrapnel fire, gas shells, tear broke out Ho came home, joined up in and the immediate outcome has been the shells, for many minutes or hours, the this department, and now lives, with a establishment of an income tax which is longing to move, the eagerness to do wife And two children, on his pay of to take effect on and from the 1st Janu- something, is almost more than some men ary, 1917 This income-tax goes up to can stand. Anything is a relief from mere 8 d. a day. Not long ago a manager 18 per cent on the income. A law tax waiting for the word. In past clays var begged him to create the title-rôle in a ing war profits has also been elaborated, ous devices have suggested themselves. American play in London at £80 a So much for the permanent taxation side Officers have been advised to smoke Week, but he refused. Important and of the Russian Budget.

cigarettes, to carefully fill and methodi effective service is done in the same de Turning now to the extraordinary excally light pipes in full view of their partinent every day by a dramatic author penditure, it became absolutely necessary men. Singing songs, or cracking jokes, of international reputation, who has to have recourse to an internal loan for or efforts on the mouth-organ have done abandoned his regular profession, which all the disbursements made in Russia much. But none of them come near the brought; him,in between £3,000 and itself--nameis, payzaeut of the troops, Football idea. If the wait is expected to £4,500 a year, in work hard for the cour purchase of provisions, of equipment, be long there can be much play with blow try at a nominal salary allowances to families of men mobilized, ing up the rubber and lacing the leather. assistance to the victims of the war, pay- Naturally it is a socker ball that is need. No one has given more efficient war ment of requisition notes and of muni- 4 discussion of the relative merits of service than the dous, who allow the War tions made in Russia. The internal loan short and long passes will interest half Trade Intelligence division of the For was carried out under various forms: the company. Someone will recall farmonseiga Ofien to utilise their theoretical by short bills, long bills, and also by the runs, or invent them for his own purposes. knowledge of politico-economic problems. popular form of the recent Five and a There are openings in the determination It he been something of a revelation to half per cent. War Loan, to which the of where the goal posts are in the Boche observe how the dons" oft-despised acade- rural classes largely subscribed.

lines. Shells in the parapet only make me lore turns out to be of the utmos SAVERS THE EXPORT PROBLEM,

it necessary to repest what one has said.

practical value. One of them, who is in The closing of the Dardanelles, the inGas and lachrymatory shells suggest only fine the master of a college from which It is interesting to note that a loan is terruption of trade in the Baltic Sea and a fond hope that the Boches are going to Premiers graduate, puts in from eight on the Austro-German land frontiers. make a rush Atast there comes the to ten hours a day in Downing-street ut being negotiated with the Consortium have had a serious effect on Russian ex-kick-off and then the anxiety to get the 2400 a sear, and has made himself almost hanks, but it is more interesting to note ports, which, however, have found a ball over to the enemy's line prevents any indispensable. There is hardly an econo-

issue on the White Sea, and at the far one from bothering his head

about cas- that negotiations are being conducted oud of the Trans-Siberian Railway at unlties. It is a fine idea, and swank ismic war problem for the glution of the part of the litter by Mr. Odagiri, of Vladivostock. A way-but a very costly the last thing that should be associated which these dous theories, noe before the Yokohama Specic Bank. This fact one for the exportation of Russian pro- with it. On the ball and Park the tested by practice, are of daily use. Perhaps the legal protagaton has fur duce has also been found elé Sweden and serum were fine fighting cries from the speaks for itself. He is also negotiating Norway. While out exports fell off our commencement of the war. The introduc-nished the largest quota departmental smaller loans for industrial purposes, imports increased in a formidablo cuantion of the all itself was enabled our volunteers. There is agister who The bank notes continue to be heavily er owing to war requirements. The men to take positions that the Boches could not have earned has than 14.000 rouble exchanges, which will recover their confidently believed no human being oquld to £6,000 a year in the old days. He is

And the best point about it is that now un' adviser at what ought to bo- discounted, but it is expected that within normal condition with a return to normal take

circumstances, have soffered considerably the Boches cannot copy it. It does not fit the regulation pay of £500 a year, which a month or six weeks specio, payments It therefore became necessary to and in with their actions of sledge hammer goes with certain service rank. Ho will be sanctioned by the Government. foreign financial assistance to pay for mass attack, still less with the custom of

has refused to accept any pay at all There is the general manager of an in- MISCELLANEOCK.

the goods ordered by Russia abroad, chaining men to the machine guns.-E. Great Britain and France have interven

portant railway system who gives five ed and placed large financial resources

hours a day of his time for nothing. He at the disposal of Russia by making ad-

has his counterpart a deputy direc tor-general of munitions, who, I suppose, vances on her behalf. These advances will be consolidated after the war.

commanded £6,000 to £8,000 a year as the head of a great shipping line, but

month or so.

PERSONA NON GRATĂ,

-Tang Shao Yi, the former Premier, and now the Minister of Foreign Affairs approved by bolh flouses of Parliament, is said to be on its way to the capital to take up his post. I have heard it asserted, however, that he is not likely to come farther than Tientsin. The Diplomatic Corps, at least he more important see The Latest Comedy by HOLACE ANNEALITY VACHELL, from the Haymarket Theatre, London,tion of them, have let it be known that Tang is a persona un grata, with whom they cannot communicate, indicating that Somerset Maugham's very Latest Successful Comedy from the New Theatre, London, they will see the Vice: Minister when they

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tration.

FINANCIAL,

The foreign community appreciated the performance of the Naval Band on the Wall the other night. For that occasion it took the place of the Orchestra of the RUSSIA'S RECUPERATIVE POWER,

Union Philharmonique. The Naval Band

in

BOOT SHORTAGE.

FAMINE IN PROSPECT.

DONS IN DEXANJA

Russic, despite its ever-increasing in A possible faming" in leather for dustrial development, is essentially #17 civilian boots, owing to the exceptionally works cheerinily now for less than many is now following the baton of Professor agricultural country, and possesses a reticavy demands for our own Army and of his own departmental clerks earn. Heymans, and the improvement effected cuperative power which can only be com those of the Allics, is foreshadowed by At the right hand of a certain-chief of is highly ereditable to that musician.

pared with that of the United States of the Shoe and Leather News. In setting intelligence sits a popular writer, who America or of India. When peace shall out the Government's requirements dur- abandoned £2,000 to £4,000 st year, for Peking is looking its best these days, have been restored it will; I am sure being the next few months, this journal partment of 2400 paid in the for department which now claims all his time and many visitors from the South, on that, despite the immense sacrifices 883%: ---

which Russia has been obliged to make **The upper leather required in a and talent

"I have not by any means exhausted addition to the usual complement of in connection with this war, brought serious matter -3,200,000 feet chrome tourista, are to be seen in our streets. about by German duplicity and ambitions des for the field service boot, 15,000,000 the lists, I have merely selected a few the Russian Empire will be less impaired feet of men for the Cossack boot, random instances which typify scores, PERSONAL.

in its productive energy than the Ger 2,600,000 feet of russet kips for the perhaps hundreds of others. These men Dr. Morrison, political adviser to the mans, and, above all, the Austrians. At Italian order. These boots must be dare working for the king and country President, has returned from a holiday herself from the German industrial and Between September 30th and Novem-themselves, and growing poorer from

the present time Russia is emancipating livered by September 30th next,

just as zealously as they used to work for

spent in Japan. While there, he had commercial grip which was so strong in ber 16th they will require a further hour to hour. They are giving one of conversation with Viscount Kato and our country. In order to attain this 0,000,000 feet of upper leather for the the war's many beautiful demonstrations other leading men in that country,

much-desired result Russia is undertaking Cossack. Also they require 7,000,000 feet of genuine patriotism. I hope they are heavy charges; she is expropriating some for ankle boots for the British Army, not going to be unrewarded, even though Mr R Macleay left on Wednesday thing like twelve and a half million acres these outs to be delivered between night for home. He is to be in the German owners, mostly agricultural Solo leather is equally a serious pro-

of land that were in the possession of October 1st and December 30th. Foreign Offe Mrs, Macleay follows by colonies, and this operation is costing position. First is required the necessary Russia some £90,000,000. For the valor ization of her inmense natural wealth sole leather to bottom the boots just men- Russid can supply abundant and intelli-toned in regard to upper leather, and gent labour, but she is disposed to wel- 1,000 tons of bends for shipment to come the assistance, both technical and Russia.

The Government, have come to the financial, of persons or syndicates of per- gons belonging to the Allied countries. conclusion that there is not nearly

a later train,-

A Canadian named Mr. T. R. McInnes is at present in Peking in the interests of a Canadian dredging syndicate,

JOURNALISM.

now unsung.

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

MOUNTED POLICE, BU Candidates for admission to the Mounted Police will report to Inspector Gegg at Stables, at 5.30 p.m., on Tuesday and Thursday, September 20th and 28th.

SERGEANTS

One new hi-lingual newspaper in the Russia requires new railways to exploit enough upper leather being produced all Bergeants (not Crown-Sergeants) will interests of the Kuomintang-the hore mince, to increase her production of have given them an order, and are pre- her great forests in the north, to develop the country. The Russian Government

Oriental News-has made its appear cotton, her farm produce (butter, eggs, pared to take up to 40,000,000 feet of ance, but it is not likely to do anything etc.) A great manly problems have been upper leather for shipment between now like setting the Thames on fire. I hear raised, and these are being given close and the middle of November.

In conclusion M. Bark ex- attention. that another bi-lingual production is due pressed his admiration for the military on the 1st October. It is suggested that financial and economic rest is already this will be an organ, of the Premier. obtained by Great Britain and France. The great point about these bi-lingual shoots is that they are intended to impress the Chinese abroad. Their value is des- cribed by the phirese well known in your port, look see pidgin"

DROWNED IN SIGHT OF HIS FATHER.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY,

Mre. Mikaloma, a Japanese, residing in the Mitsubara Hotel, has reported to the police that while walking along a street in that vicinity she asked a Chinese boy if the direction she was taking led to Hongkong. He answered that it did. A The police have received the report of man, also Chinese, who was standing by, a drowning accident which took place in offered to conduct her to the city, but the harbour on Saturday. Hung Chow, the declined, and went off He, however, master of a cargo boat, states that while followed her, and when she asked him the his boat was being towed from Hongkong reason he suddenly attacked her. Grip to Yumeti, his son, a, boy, accidentally ping her by the throat he managed to fell overboard and was d-owned before take two gold rings, valued at $38, from effective steps could be ken for his her fingers, and a hairpin valued at $87. rescue.

The police are inquiring into the matter,

thees figures fairly put in the shade anything that has ever been heard of be- fore for such a short delivery period. They mean that there may practically be no civilian leather available in a very short time, it being the Government's intention to put a toothcomb through the market and take everything they can uso, whether it is suitable or unsuitable."

ME DUKE AND THE FRESS

GALLERY CONTA

Mr. Duke, replying to the congratula tions of the Parliamentary Press Gallery on his appointment as Chief Secretary for Ireland, writes

draw Rides at Central Station, st 515 p., on Friday, September 28th, prior to the General Parude, -

GENERAL PARADE.C Friday, September 29th –—Noe. 1, 2, 3, and Companies, Ambulance Platoon and Maxim Gunners will parede at Cen tral Station, at 5.30 p.m. Uniforif with helmets and rifles,

DEFAULTERS, Absentees from Parades, etc., without permission up to and including Fri- day, September 22nd, will parade at Central Station under the D:8.P., et 4.30 pm on Saturday, September 30th Umform, helmets and rifles.

ALICJINKIN,

D.S.P. (Reserve).

A DASH WITH THE DOLLARS

The police have been informed by

I often recall the pleasant and fruit-Chung Kwas, of the Yick Chong, shop, ful days (and nights): I spent in the Connaught Road Central, of the disap varied work of the Gallery between 1580 paranes of his nephew with 84,000 which and 1885. They were a delightful as had been entrusted to him, to take tox

the International Bank they were toilsome