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INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10mm, 1916.

MOUTRIE PIANOS

HAVE

ESTABLISHED

an unequalled reputation for tone, touch,

artistic construction and lasting qualities.

GUARANTEE

FIVE YEARS.

CASH OR EASY TERMS.

MOUTRIE'S

BOXING!

CITY HALL

FRIDAY, 13TH OCTOBER, 1916.

|29-2

BOXING !!]

. Commencing at 9.15PM.

For the Lightweight Champions of the Colony, 10 BOUNDS CONTEST,

SAPPER RICHARDS. SEAMAN ISAACS. For the Bantamweight Championship of the Colony,

10 ROUNDS CONTEST,

Pte. BIESTY SEAMAN ALLEN.

27,

For the Amateur Lightweight Championship of the Colony, 8 ROUNDS CONTEST

YOUNG MAHER, Champion, SAPPER SAKER. 8LOUNDS CONTEST,

Pec. COTTON

79. SEAMAN MESSENGER-

BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S.

G. GOLDSBOROUGH, Promoter.

PRICES: $5, $3, $2 & $1.

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WAR CHARITIES.

"OUR DAY

THURSDAY, 19TH OCTOBER.

will be devoted all over the Empire to collecting funds for

THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY

AND

THE ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM

IN AID OF THE WOUNDED. LADY MAY'S ROSE FUND

20,000 roses have been given, and will be sold throughout the day by numerous ladies and school children.

Subscriptions to the Rose Fund will also be gladly received at any time before the day by Lady May at Government House, who will send a rose with the acknowledgment.⠀⠀⠀

GREAT ENGLISH FAIR

in the Afternoon, from 3 till 7, on the Murray Parade Ground. COCONUT SILIES,

DANCING ENCLOSURE,

JUNGLE SHOOTING RANGE

(Elephants, Lions, and the Peak Tiger).

RED CROSS COMPETITIONS,

THE "EVERYTHING" STORES,

WILD WEST SHOW,

THE MAN IN THE TUB, CHILDREN'S MAYPOLE DANCE, THE LUCKY WELL, INDIAN TORCH DANCE, TWO BANDS,

THE SWANKS.

ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR Entrance 50 Cents.

FETE AND ILLUMINATIONS

in the Evening, from 9 till 11.30, at the Public Gardens.

CONCERT

Two BANDS. Entrance, $1; seats in Reserved Enclosures, $2 and $i extra.. Refreshments on sale during the Afternoon and Evening Tickets obtainable at MOUTRIE'S and the ROBINSON PIANO Co., and from MEMBERS OF THE WAR CHARITIES COMMITTEE.

E. B. HALLIFAX, Hon. Secretary."

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WHY

SHOULD ONE DRINK

No. 10 WHISKY ?

BECAUSE.

ONE OUGHT.”

DISTILLED BY JAS, WATSON & Co., LTD.,

DUNDEE.

SOLE. AGENTS IN BOUTH CHINA:

Talephone

DONNELLY & WHYTE..

HONGKONG AND CANTON.

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PASSPORTS FOR AUSTRALIA.

NEW REGULATIONS:

WAR CONTRACTOR'S

COMMISSION.

OUR SOLDIERS IN SWITZER-EMPLOYMENT OF CIVILIAN

WAR PRISONERS. LAND

REPLY TO THE CHARGE OF PROFIT THE QUESTION OF EMPLOYMENT. BOARD OF TRADE ARRANGEMENTS. WORK AND DISCIPLINE.

SNATCHING.

The Gazette contains regulations relat ing to persons entering or leaving Aus- fralia. The regulations, which date from Sir John Jackson, M.P., the eminent September 1st, state that no person whos, contractor, has given a représentative of age exceeds, or appears to an officer to ex. The Daily Mail his version of the but- ceed, fifteen years shall Jand at any placements contracts

in the Commonwealth from any place bu In the study, that overlooks, an old yond the Commonwealth unless he is in world rose garden, he scnuned: worne possession of a passport which, in the case extracts from the report and comments of a person coming from a foreign countherson and then readily accepted the try, has been issued or rised by the Britist view that the firm of which he is the chief, Ambassador or a British Consul in that Sir John Jackson, Ltd., is the one special country, and, in the case of a person comly indicated in the following passage of ing from another part of the British, the Commities's reports

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THE TIMES SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

AT BERNE

0, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill

trump,

The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing

fife. The Royal banner, and all qualify, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of gloris And, you mortal engines, whose cure

throats

sana wurda

The Board of Trade has issued the following announcement

The Employment Department of Trade is prepared to receive from employers inquiries and proposals with regard to the employment of civilian prisoners of war, and to make the necessary arrange ments with the authorities concerned. Inquiries should be addressed to the Assistant Secretary Board of Trade Employment Department, Queen Anne's Civilian prisoners of war may be em Chambers, Broadway, Westminister, SW, played upon work which is not commected with the war in the following ways. They internment The Immortal fore's dread clamps way, in suitable cases, be permitted to.

perform within existing counterfeit,

camps such work, upon materials supplied dominions, has been issued or vited by "At the beginning of the war a large Farewell! Othello's accupation's gone? the proper authorities in that part of the contractor came forward with an offer The British prisoners of war interned by employers, as does not require elaborats British dominions, and to erect buts for no payment beyond the in Switzerland have may, reasons. be-plant or equipment; or a number of

After the first day of August, 1926,

bare cost, but subsequently, when he was sides the not inconsiderable fact that they prisoners may be specially interned in person whose age exceeds, or appears to in possession of the work and the orders are still alive, for congratulating them suitable premises where they can live and an officer to exceed, fifteen years shall given him were consequently increased, selves on their present lot, as far removed work upon some process of manufacture, embark at any place in the Common he represented to the War Office that he in many cases what web: before it as if the employer is willing to instal the wealth for any place beyond the Commorought to be paid a commission, naiming heaven, or at all events, purgatory, from necessary plant and to provide the 3 per cent with 15 per cent, to cover the other place. But for all that, they technical supervision required, Proposals. wealth unless he is in possession of a pass standing charges.

can never, I suppose, quite shake off the to employ less than a hundred men under port.

*The suggestion carveyed by that," depressing feeling that they are placed an arrangement of the latter kind These regulations shall not apply to said Sir John quietly is that I did some on the shelf at the time of all others in cannot, as a rule, be entertained, owing. (a)-Any member of the Naval or Mil work for the War Office without profit their lives when they would fain be up to the cost of guarding the prisoners. It they Forces of any part of the Bri- and then flashed the red light before them and doing. Though they may not grum may be mentioned that there are a certain tish dominions entering or leaving in order to extract a profit on larger ble about it, they can hardly forget that number of prisoners who are skilled the Commonwealth on duty; orders. Of the several mistakes in the till the end of the war they are a race workinen, but the majority are persons. ()-Any member of the crew of any report that is the most misleading. apart, and that till then, and perhaps who have done more or less unskilled

vessel who has signed on in any The facts are very simple, and they for always, their careers as soldiers have manual work of various kinds.

In all the above cases it will be reces country outside the Common put a very different complexion on the come to the place called this friendlysary for the employer to pay the regular

When they first came to wealth, and who leaves the Com- transactions. The day after the war

A deduction will be monwealth in continuation of the broke out, realising the colossal task and they were, and to a certain extent rate of wages paid to British workmen same voyage in the same vessel or before the Royal Engineers in coping still are, in the position of schoolboys for similar work. any member of the crew of any with the requirements of a great Enro restricted by rules and bounds and fixed made for maintenance and other expenses. vessel who signs on in Australia pean war and the necessity of housing a hours for meals and lock-up, but without and the balance will be credited to the for an oversea voyage who satisfied large new army, I wrote to Lord Kit the schoolboy's stand-by of regular games a competent Naval or Military chener personally and asked whether my and work, and without his incentive of authority that he is by occupation staff could be of any assistance. If so, possible office and promotion and the a seafaring many

said, we were at the disposal of the sense of development and hathority which (c) Any person visiting or returning Department to afford whatever relief they carry with thein. The case of the officers was especially hard. Their office was désired, from New Zealand, if he is in post In a week or ten days the Army was taken from them and given to others. session of a permit to visit New Council asked me to relieve the Royal The N.C.O.'s though they were given Zealand issued by, or under the Engineers by taking in hand, with full a certain disciplinary responsibility, authority of, the Department of and unfettered authority, the hutinents were almost equally powerless, and all of External Affairs, and if he travels at the camps at and, which were them, officers and men, were in the posi ⠀⠀in a vessel trading solely between most urgently needed. I agreed to do so, tion of being cat off (unavoidably, of the Commonwealth and New Zea and we began the work at once, They course) from the work for which they had land;

asked what remuneration we would want, been trained, and were hard put to it to As a pendant to the article in a recent Evening Standard on the Civil Service, (d) Any person visiting the Common and I replied that for this undertaking, discover satisfactory substitutes.

in which the country! For a time, after the strain of all that a friend of mine, who has temporarily wealth from New Zealand or re in the crisis turning to New Zealand, if he is found itself, we would look for no more they had gone through, rest and repose left an important business to serve in one in possession of a permit to visit than out of pocket expenses. That is the were all that they were fit for or wanted. of the Government Departaments, tells me the Commonwealth issued by the work referred to us the original under The men especially were well content to (says an exchange) that he is constantly proper authorities in New-Zea- taking in the report. It aniounted to bask in the sun (only there was no sun irritated by the lack of business knowledge land;

about half a million in all. For that we for the first month) and do nothing, or among his new colleagues, who belong to (e) Any person going to or return not only built the huts but we designed as little more as need be. But that ob-what is known as the Higher Divisio

ing from Papua of Norfolk Island everything required, The War Office viously could not fast. It is all very well of the Civil Service. He recognises and who is employed by the Adminis merely, showed us a design and said, that to beat swords into ploughshares, but eren appreciates to the full the many excellent His is about the type of hut we want, and ploughshares ntust plough, or they will qualities of these gentlemen, notably their tration of either of those places;

urbanity and intellectual power, after that we carried out all the work get rusty.

complaint is that these valuable attributes. (7). -- All bond fide residents or touristenot merely of builders of huts but pro FILLING UP THE TIME

travelling to from Papua or fessional engineers as of his but All play and no work either makes are often attended by something of con- tempt for the more pedestrian virtues Norfolk Islande who hold return. "We completed the work with all Tommy a very dull boy, or else will make which are necessary in tickets;

speed and in a mariner which met with him extra lively and lead to trouble. To

He suggests that it would be a wise step exempting him from the dictation and we made no profit at all. In short any of the men were provided or pro text under the Immigration Act we carried out to the letter our original vided themselves with various kinds of to require all successful candidates for 1001-1002 has been issued by, or undertaking. It is important to state peaceful occupatione.

They cleaned the the Home Civil Service to underatke a under the authority of, the Depart that clearly, because the report shows windows, and they swept the floor, and year's training in commercial methods.. A knowledge of modern office methods, ment of External Affairs so long this transaction has been confused with they polished up the handle of the big particularly in the prompt handling of as the certificato remains in force what followed, whereas it is quite disfront door." They did their own wash

tinet....

i

Mar

The arrangements outlined above have been drawn up in consultation with the inter- Departmental Committee which. under the chairmanship of Lord Newton, advising the Government upon ques tions concerning prisoners of war in the United Kingdom.

BUSINESS TRAINING FOR CIVIL SERVANTS

(a)-Any person to whom a certificate the warm approval of the War Office, avoid these dangers, even from the first ness promptly, despatching busi-.

CHOLERA IN JAPAN. THE MIKADO'S FOOD...

NEW TRANSACTION.

ven the

ing and all the housework (except the correspondence, would, he thinks, removo cooking) in the hotels and chalets where some of the greatest matters of reproach

* NOT ALL NOODLES. The War office was under no obligathey were quartered, and they gardened, in our Government offices, tion to place further work in our hands, and worked in sawmills, and did odd

I always like to give both sides of a but by the time we had completed our jobs about the village. By way of recrea-question, and it is only fair to add that task al-and-they were in difficulties tion (when they were not being visited by condemnation of the Civil Servant is by in meeting hutting requirements at the Swiss doctors) some of them bicycled, no means universal among business men, It is interesting to note the precautions and they asked me to undertake the work some kicked about an aimless football in for if so how is it, suy the supporters of

I replied that we were pre-

a goalless field, some went for walks, some the Service, that retired Civil Servants. taken in the preparation of the meals there too.

pared to do so, but this was an entirely sumbroidered antimacassars for the old are so often eagerly sought after in the served to the Emperor, the Crown Prince new transaction which would take all folks at home, and the rest of their spare city. Men like Lord Welby, for instance,

business. our staff and would be a very great time was chiedy spent in saluting British and other members of the Imperialndertaking Therefore I said I thought and Swiss officers and in making friends would hardly be described as

noodles. Japanese family owing to the cholers we should be paid some consideration for with the village women and children. I am told also that some of the mer- epidemic

our further services, without in any way And one day, by way of showing gratitude chant princes who have come into close Every bit of food served at the Im-affecting my previous arrangement as to to their Swiss hosts, some of them gave touch with the Civil Service during the

—and perial table is supplied only after ex-

a concert, the first of a series which they war have expressed astonis montot at *They said, You will not want the hope to be allowed to give elsewhere as the stupidity of the higher links of civi amination and preparation under the supervision of the Coast physicians asual 10 per cent. I replied, Certainly a travelling troupe, in order to collect lians, but at the astomallingly low not. There was no bartering or confunds with which to build a holiday house salaries at which the Government gets After the day's menus are made and a siderable controversy about it. The and home of rest in the mountains for them. X gets less than £1,000 proved by the physicians, the food

work was not delayed in the least, nor the sick children of the canton,

said one great business man;" in materials are collected.

All this, however, was only the pre-City be could command four or five times Vegetables are obtained from the Shin-was there any danger of that happening. jaku farm owned by the Court, meat is We merely discussed matters briefly while liminary stage of the Swiss life of the that salary"

the work was proceeding. I said I would British soldiers in Château d'Oex, Rouge My answer to all this is that undoubt supplied by a specially appointed mer- chant in Kyobashi, and fish is sent to be satiated with 5 per cent, and that was ment, and Rosinières. It was impossible edly there are splendid brains in the Ser- Tokyo from the Odawara Shidauoks and quite easily and amicably agreed upon." to watch it without feeling that something vice but that they are secured not by the This, it was pointed out to Sir John, is more was wanted if the life there was to system but in spite of the system, and the Aichi districts. Only fishermen who have undergone strict medical tests are per quite a different situation from that sug be tolerable, and now this something else truth of that is admitted even by the mitted to engage in catching fish to be gested in the report, which says served at the Court,

number of workshopu carpenters', boot- “I was suggested to him that, under to be provided by the institution of a toutest supporters of Whitehall.(Ex.) All the fish are packed under rigid supervision of the the circumstances, he could with greater makers, tailors, mechainicians' book- propriety work for some definite fee, the binders, and so on in which the men. prefectural authorities.

reasonablences of which was not dis will be able to work at their old trades. Rice and all the other edibles are thoroughly disinfected, by three processes puteil: but he poristed in his demand, or to learn new ones against the rainy in which liquid, stean and gas are em

with the result that, under the necessity days which they may have to face when ployed. Other precautions are resorted in which the military authorities found the war is over.

For the men it is difficult to see what themselves of avoiding the delay which to at the Imperial kitchen before the food would otherwise have been caused, it was more could be done at present, though is cooked.

decided after considerable controversy to believe the Swiss Government have pay him the commission stipulated onder consideration an admirable scheme POST- all work additional to that originally for providing real work for all interned

undertaken free of charge."

prisoners, civilian as well as military, That again is inaccurate, said Sir In order to check the degeneration which Jobu with animation. They came to would otherwise be inevitable. us with their difficulty and we undertook

THE OFFICEES.

UNDERWRITERS

WAR POLICY.

The resolutions taken by underwriters in respect of trading with the enemy after the war are on the right lines. Leigslation alone can deal with the mat ter in the proper way; anything less would prove s handicap to the mors pat

is

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

PARADES, CENTRAL STATION, 5:30 PM. Tuesday, October 10th.Maxirn Gunners

Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 Sections.

Wednesday, October 11th No. 2 Com- pany Recruits-of-No-2 Platoon. under C.S. Major. Recruits of No. 4 Company under C.S. Major. Thursday, Datober 12th.-Recruits of No,

Company under C.B. Major, Friday, October 13th Maxim Gunners.

Octobnd Companies (Except

Recruits). Recruits of No. 2 Platoon under 0.8. Major, an Saturday, October 14th, Defaulters

drill, at 4.30 p.m.

AMBULANCE PLATOON

From Monday, 9th, until Thursday, 19th, the Ambulance Platoon will drill daily daily (Sundays excepted) at the Chinese Recreation Club Ground, Causeway Bay, at 5.20 p.m. in mufti, Ambulance Patrols are cancelled up to and including the 19th instant."

(gd) J. W. FRANKS,

AS P. (R)

it on terms that for normal contracts The problem of the officers is, it seems would be considered far too low. to me rather different. They ride, they repeat"-Sir John brought his hand drive the best imitations of dog carts that down on the corner of his writing table they can lay hands on, they play lawn that we did not hold up the De tennis (with their left arm if the right partment in the very least. We pressed is gone), they hunt butterfies instead of on with the work and we did not use our snipers, they dance (if they are young) ziotic firms who would adhere to au

position in the slightest to exact any even when they can only hobble, they agreement which might be disregarded by advantage. At we not only built the climb the mountains to see the sun rise, their less conscientious competitors The huts but we also did the designing and they fish for trout and sometimes catch recommendations submitted to the Board engineering work of the water supply, them, and they pursue their studies in All of Trade are thorough and far-sing drainage, and everything else, of course French and Russiau begun in Germany, No Company of enemy origin, propriet in consultation with the Department. and manage to fill up their time with To a ary interest, or nationality, is to be allow- In the ordinary way for building the various kinds of serious work. ed to transact marine insurance in the huts alone the contractor would receive | certain extent the blank in their lives is United Kingdom, directly or indirectly, 10 per cent without any of the respon now beginning to be filled by the business. nor are British firms to place insurances sibility of this designing and engineer of supervising the men's workshops, and interned prisoners of war if they were in the prohibited markets. It is also reing. What we did, therefore, was to do organizing mountain marches for them, to place all questions connected with the commended that our Colonial Governmore than the contractor's work for half and by the duty, thanks to the recent discipline of the British soldier entirely ments should institute similar legislation, the usual contractor's charge. Nor institution of orderly officers, of visiting in the hands of his own officers. The and tat the restrictions should also be hould you forget that in these war times the men's quarters, examining offenders, effect, as I see it, would be two-fold. In the first place men and officers would work only in its infancy as yet, and difficulties tit off and we actually received about must arise which will require much skillner cent. for all the services of our occupation, and, what is worse, Othello's tish Army--for excellent disciplinarians and forethought to overcome. The fluid Staff. The net result is that we received authority, is gone Moral sussion can do as the Swiss military officers are who now nature of reinsurances renders it difficult about a fourth of the usual contractors moch, but it can never take the place of have the charge of our men, they cannot

charges.

In what respect can you call the discipline under which the British be expected to understand them in the to control risks once they have been placed that rapacions fora de

soldier is trained and to which he is ac trals cannot be expected to observe the in hand at was that we had 10:0001 give for what it is worth, is that the desirable result of the change would be outside British or Allied marets, New The result of our taking the matter castomed. My personal opinion, which fane way And the second and most to restore to Othello a very important restrictions, and in the matter it is diff to 12,000 men down there at work within Bwiss military authorities would add part of his occupation as an officer. cult to foretes any solution. Nevertheless two or three weeks-a new township in enormously, to all the other wise and would give him a practical object in life, a step in the right direction having been themselves and we pressed the construce gracious measures which they have adopt and make him feel that he is being of taken, the matter can be safely left in the tion to completion with the utmost posed with regard to the treatment of the real use to his country and to his kind- hands of those who have instituted the sible speed, with all our resources, in the Continued at foot of next Column.) hearted Swiss hosts- movement.—(Fairplay)

national interest.”

observed by our Allies. The matter is he is the income tax on profits. Take and receiving complaints Othello's together to uphold the credit of the Bri-

But with these exceptions

It