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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY

WEATHER REPORT.

On the 22nd at 114-No returns from Japanese stations, Promure bas deceased lightly om Shinghai to Tournas, and increased lightly ever N.F. China, It 30 nestly statibusty 12 the South

Au anti-cyclone has formed over N. Chian The modicou will freehen along the eat coast of Uline and remain fresh to moderate over the China Sea, ***Hongkong rainfall

10 am today, 0,00

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HUNGRY GERMANY.

GRAVE ECONOMIC CONDITION,"

FEBRUARY, 28an. 1917.

WHAT THE WOMEN SAY.

it is the gradual exhaustion of the sup plies of all fatty foods that has caused the gravest injury to the health of the

How she came to be at our working people; and, in spite of various Gov ernment schemes to increase production party I do not remember. I suppose me THE ROUMANIAN HOPES

and ensure a fair distribution. fatty

of the regular members brought her, for foods grow scarcer and scarcer. Germany is rapidly exhausting her Berlin the milk supply is so short that certainly she had never been before and reserves of food, and her prospects for the ordinary citizen cannot even buy, never came again, g the winter are of the gloomest, while as diminishing, and little, if any, bog's kimmed milk, butter is steadily

If she had been an habituée, well, the for Austria-Hungary the task of pro-fat reaches the market.

rest of 125 would shortly have resigned viding adequate nourishment for her po-

She could do straight knitting if she was

CAREERS FOR BOYS.

WASTED YEARS AT SCHOOL. « We take the men from the navorsi who might have got a First in Greats they had tried men who werd presidem of their common toom or first în

men who showed they knew how to get on with their follow-men," said Hicbens, chairman of Messrs.

January, 089 inch, against - an average of Pulations is beyond the power of any mind that as they are regulated by art helped at intervals, and she could hem. Laird & Co, explaining to the

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The forest for the 4 henew ending at noon formed. These are the conclusions, ar to-day fas follows

DISTRICT

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N.E. windi fresh to strong.

South Coast of China between (The same se

Hoogkong and Lamecke

South Court of Chins between The same se Hongkong and taima No. 1

HONGKONG 'TIDE TABLE

From 23rd February to 1st March

HIGH WATER.

H'kong

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS,

TO-DAY 11:30 am ---China Provident Loan and Mort- gage Co., Ltd, Meeting of Sharakaldomu. 2.30 p.m.-Auction of Vainable Household Furniture, de, of No. 17, Kennedy Road (Top Flat), by Messrs. Hughes & Hongh

TOMORROW

Noor-Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Mesting of Shareholders the City Hall

Monday, 26th Feb

Hongkong Race 1st Day. Tucuday 27th Feb, som

Hongkong Race201 Day. Wednesday, 28th Fen,

Hongkong Race Sri Day. Esturday, 3rd March

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Races Of Day. Thurs, and Fri, 86h and 9th March

And Vegetable Show in the Botanical

Saturday, 10th Marchi zem

12.30

Hongkong and Bouth Chine Star Fisheries Co., Ltd., General Meeting, at the Office of the Liquidatore, New Government Building

CHAPOTEAUTS

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DELLER OF LEKO Capazilas.

rived at by a well-informed correspon dent (say: The Daily Telegraph) after & survey of the economic condition of the Central Empires in November During no month since the beginning of the war did the information from every source, enemy and neutral, unicial and private,

As regards prices it has to be borne in

ficially fixed maximum rates they furnish no index as to the state of up plies. Still they afford fair: indica tion of the cost of living. Rice in October cast five times as much as before the war, eggs and lard more than four times, bacon more than three times, and beef, muttou, veal, pork, butter, split peas, and haricot beans more than twice as much. It is not surprising, therefore, thus the Government are at their wits' end how to provide the bare necessaries of life and to curb the rising tide of

masters' Conference at the London Guild- hall recently the qualifications of univer sity men engaged by his firma.

a seam (very badly), but as for cutting out or putting together what other people had cat out, or fashioning a pair of socks or eveu a muffler off her own bat, she His firm preferred recruits between could no more do it than By, and what ar

sixteen and seventeen in the engineering was more, she did not want to be able shops, and he often wondered why the pens

suppose she thought the helpless pose number of boys from public schools was small, for it was to engineering we

furnish sucht striking evidence of prudisappointment and discontent annoyed us so inexpressibly it was her world Boys preferred the counting

gressive deterioration.

No more satis

Hp factory evidence of a grave crisis in Germany's internal affairs could how been afforded than the recent peace pro

she

again and all the shops lighted up: food not so frightfully dear, wouldn't it And then it's so dreadful to think of all those boys being killed at the front. There was a picture of such a baudsome one in the paper this morning VC I think he was.''

young men have to get a good part of their training through the ordinary everyday mechanic, who looks upon young fellows from the niversity ns suspect but treats the hofs of sixteen like his own

was still in fashion to some extent,."

But it was not her uselessness that must look to increase the wealth of the mentel attitude. I did not kabin, thar

house, the Army, or the Civil Service, and How far all this has affected the bealth there were any women like her lett of the people is a matter upon which England, but after all, there are some the explanation in part was that comh- paratively few scholarships were offered Statisties have fools that even this war will not cure of to carry boys through the period of evidence is conflicting.

evidently one apprenticeship. been produced to show thas the rate of their foolishness. She was infant mortality is low, but evidence Somehcms, it does seen a pity,

The engineering pupils must be at posals of the German Chancellor. No frani other sources seems to show clearly began conversationally in the first con doubt there were other motives, but Ger that the women and children are suffer venient pause that we didn't make the impressionable age, when the got a

adopt the life of a working man and be- many would never have opened these the head of the Imperial Supply Office, It would be so nice to have pence portant, too, because

ing ir health, and Herr von Graevinitz, peace when the Germana seemed en retreated like a working man's son. It is

these negotiations unless the had been con recently made the significant admission vinced, in the first place, that nothing that the health of both male and female was to be gained from a continuance of workers in the industrial districts had the war and, secondly, that the internal been impaired by their enforced absten distress had reached a point which might tion from fat and milk, and that the threaten irremediable disaster, efficiency of workers in munition factorie:

Papers like the Krens-Zeitung and tha had diminished by 30 per cent. Koelnische Zeitung still indulge in vagun. It would nevertheles, be misleading prontises of ample booty from Boumanus even now to encourage hopes of the to make good the deficiencies in the boro enemy's immediate exhaustion, or to re- production, but those promises no longer present Germany as on the point of carry conviction. It is now stated that being starved or on the brink of inancial between January 1st, 1916, and the date bankruptcy or revolution. Her stocks of the entry of Roumania into the van are low, but there is still enough to go that country exported 2,332,000 tons 8 round, at a pinch, for many weeks to grain and fodder to the Central Empire come Her people are irritated as the of which Germany received 1.200,000 duration of the war and the sufferings tons, Austria 087,000 tous, and Hunga entailed by it, but there is as yet no sign. 135,000 tons, and there is every reason of revolution. Her powers of resistance magnanunity in her voice one couldn'ting an apprenticeship in the shops to hope that the booty in grain and the economic sphere, may prove to be fødder will not exceed these figures by more stubborn and sustained than bighly an amount which would materially in coloured accounts of conditions in Ger fluence the clicct of the blockare many might load us to anticipate Though a patched up peace might pos sibly be secured by economic exhaustion, a peace such as we aim at can only tone as the result of Germany's defeat in the field.

There is, however, another danger to be apprehended from a continued occupation of Wallachia, and that is that if the enemy succeed in sowing wheat the crops will be available nearly two months earlier! than in Germany, so that the fruits of this year's harvest need only be made to last ten mouths. A change of tone it the German newspapers in regard to the relief to be expected from Roumania has lately been very noticeable, and it looks as if they had received instrue tions to avoid raising exaggerated hopes. It hits to be remembered, too, the Austria and Hungary, and probably Turkey and Bulgaria also, are coutende ing for the benefits to be derived fgang Roumanian booty, though no one will have much doubt as to which will as the lion's share.

INCREASING DESTITUTION,

AUSTELA-HUNGARY,

There was a pause. A speech like that needs some thought for its adequate answer

Ability and moral strongili character is what we want, The trum function of education is to tench a man to live and not how to make a living-a Very different thing. He condemned the *You have many relatives fighting maxim of safety fr*** perhaps?" asked someone politely as last, a boy's career and the senseless examing- in choosing a "Oh, no," she answered, my husbatt tions which gave a man a place for life is exempt, and I haven't any ear because he knew whether shawms had relation of military age. No, the war strings. (Laughter) has really done us a good turn on the whole for my husband'e income is just about doubled with Government contracts, But of course there was a note of wish the way to go on just because it chenchts oneself "

This again seemed a difficult remark to answer, but fually a quiet woman spoke from a distant corner.

UNIVERSITY AFTER WORK,

Mr. Hickens explained that after

and drawing office it was his firm's with that their young men should go to a university for an engineering course. They found that the boy of 18 or 19 hod not required any special advantages by his two extra years at school which would

"I think," she said gently, that it is enable him to outstrip the boy who had perhaps because you have not suffered started his business career earlier and sacrificed for your country that you The code of honour which regulated the feel like that about a German peace. I modern schoolboy's everyday life was don's way about a real pence—what we derived, not from religious teaching, but, all feel about that is the sort of thing from the cricket field or the football There are up to the present no indi it is quite impossible to express, I think ground. He grew to understand that be cations that the occupation of Wallachia but this premature patching up of must play the game in the affairs of has resulted in any alleviation of the things before the enemy size properly everyday life, but he was as taught that situation in the Dual smashed And, if you will forgive me there is a fair work" corresponding to economic Monarchy. Everything on the con for saying so, it seems to me that only a fair play. trary, paints to increased food string to whether they want peace or not to Assistant masters were on an average ency. The lower classes bannot under say, whether they want peace or not paid less than his (Mr. Hichens) Gre stand why, if all the reported captures We looked at the Quiet Woman approv workmen, and considerably less than hie of grain are true nothing is done to ingly we had not known she had this in skilled mechanics. It was in fact, & sweated trade as much as any in the East mitigate their sufferings, and they evis her

End of London, and for the same reason dently suspect that the greater part of

owing to the working of unrestricted competition.

She stopped and after a moment the War Bride began to speak in her turn

"I have been married six months,'' sho

NOTHING A YEAR OFFER,

the booty is being sent to Germany. TheIf I'm not mistaken," she went on, * available supplies of food are gradually there are in this room at the present becoming exhausted, and the general posis minute representatives of almost every tion is steadily becoming more desperate. kind of loss and trouble that the war Valuable corroborative evidence of the But it is too early to conclude that no has given rise to. I wonder," she looked In his presidential address the Rev. increasing destitution in Germany comes relief is to be expected from Wallachia, round, whether we could find out what R. Wynne-Edwards (headmaster of from neutral sources. A verißed instance and we must wait for some weeks before is the general feeling about fighting to Leeds Grammar School) said a scholar of is that of a member of a neutral Lega-attempting to form any definite opinion finish or making peace now. I will say Trinity, who obtained Best class in both tion in Berlin who fell ill from no other of the practical effect produced by the iny say at any rate. Some of you know parts of the Science Tripes in his three cause than lack of proper nourishment, successful enemy campaign in Romania. that my only son was killed early in the years at Cambridge, was recommended to A neutral diplomatist, who left Vienna war, over two years ago now He was a great armament firm, who offered him and had not entirely recovered from the effects even after a fortnight spent in his at the end of October, states that the what most of us call a typical young a post exactly nothing year for two and years, with the prospect of being on iowa country A Spanish journalist of food problem was then becoming more Englishman absolutely fearless

notorious pro-German proclivities, why and more acute, and there was growing straight and honest where he knew he was at the end, of that time at taken or

He was the

centre of my world, they had offered him 25s, or 208. a week wad sent to Germany for the express anxiety among all classes do to the fu- almost my all in all, set if by voting for he would have risked it, wook purpose of writing un the German case, ture. Prices were rising, and there was

the German peace I could bring him back A university student asked a possible admitted on his return to Spain that scarcity of everything, especially to life I would not do it. If England employer if his B.Sc. was essential, and Germany was suffering from a scarcity butter, fats, milk, and eggs. The people of food amounting in some districts wore particularly incensed at the price made peace now it would mean that the way told that it would not invali

country for which he fought and died was application, (Laughter.) One still heard almost to famine, and stated that the dir charged for beer, which cost as heller per not the England he had believed it to be of graduates serving in Government mani content and disaffection arising from ug against 20 heller in peace tine. it would mean, in fact, that his death was tion works as science experts at £9;n werk. this cause were very noticeable; while and was, moreover, exceedingly at all in vain,

while workmen in the same works might Danish traveller reports that the mea The state of affairs in the country dis

be earning £s or £0 a week, sures taken by the authorities to mitigata fricts, he said, was becoming worge and the want of food are so hopelessly inade worse, chiefly owing to the disastrous quate as only to cause the smouldering results of the corn harvest, Riots took discontent of the people to fare up into place at Gratz on October 12th and 12th, said, and my husband went back to all our troubles were to be multiplied a native expression, Danges whose business when the windows of the principal hotels France the day after the wedding. He hundredfold by the war lasting longer, has called them to Saxony, Wuerten and restaurants were smashed and has been wounded slightly twice since none of my family would vote for this in commercial circles la that the peoplo Potatoes are the sole remaining ebean 5000, without one of his legs and The grandmother took up the tale. She berg, and Bavaria say that the opinion several large shops were looter, then, and he will be coming home to me peace,

danger of losing his sight. But if I had will not be able to resist much longer staple food of the poor, and recently the to go through all those weeks of anxiety young grandmother, not much over Even the utterances of members of deliveries have been barely suficient to again, and if I knew that in the end ha sixty, an ordinary intelligent experi German Legations in neutral countries cover the daily consumption. It has been would be even more terribly maimed, cuced, elderly English lady. have become suspiciously open since their impossible to store up the large reserve would not have peace yet and I know During all the later years of my life?

she said, there has been a shadow bat Government made the arst overtures of stocks necessary to feed the capitals he would not." peace. They have even been heard to during the winter months, when tranMy lover said the Engaged Girl recurred from time to time and made me admit that the economic conditions in sport becomes impossible, so that the was once reported missing for a month common with my fellow countrymen, Germany are ao serious that her resources inhabitants are faced with the potato and I thought him dead. But I too troubled and anxious. It was that

Widefnite thing that was best expressed cannot last out for more than two famme before the spring Meat with would go through that ghastly time again

the German menace. I months and that starvation is in sight. the exception of pork is cheaper, but I would even, her voice dropped, in Germany, and the atitude at the have travelled There are already signs of a threaten this does not imply any improvement in choose that the report should be true, ed shortage of coal in some parts of the supplies, which, on the contrary are and that I should never see him again, people always filled me with misgiving. Of course there were innumerable excep- Germany, owing to lack of labour and smaller from month to month The rather than have the peace the Germentions, but the majority of them were difficulties of transport, and restricticna reason of the fall in price is the small-want

fealous of English people and disliked are being placed on the consumption of ness of the demand meat having become "I was on the spot at the time of

them because they did not understand uption a luxury of the rich, ginning to Zeppelin raid," said the Moth results of them. I have never forgotten being there coal for domestic. Turposes,

All these hardships are beginning saw with my own eyes some of The sole article of food of which there toll upon the health of the people. The their system of frightfulness.A little at the time of Queen Victoria's death and being forced to recognise that the general appears at present to be a sufficiency rate of mortality among the working child living in the next road.

atmosphere was one of concealer. is bread. The whens and rye harvest is classes which was already high before I can't talk of it. My own

Fejoicing And their women are st said to be 1,000,000 tons, and the barley the war, has risen alarmingly, women thank God, escaped except for the fright; stund. There is no hope for a country and outs harvest 3,500,000 tons better. and children being especially affected but I shall never get over the awful feeling when that is the case, whatever the men than in 1916. If this were really so.

thas it have been one of them. And there would plearly be no reason to The percentage of female labour to male yet it I had to lose them in some such in

may be like. reduce the bread ration during the Among the registered workers 3,000 are horrible way, if the only road to ultimate Their marvellous military system filled. coming year, but the facts that there is under 12 years of age, and in the pro victory were through the depths of agony me with doubt and fear, and I med to Atill some doubt as to the possibility of vincial munition factories over 2000 must go on to the bitter end, for only so the day would come when I should have tha Belgiura know I would still say we look at my children and wonder whether maintaining the present supplementary children under 8 have been putting in bread ration for heavy workers, and that one hours for many months past...

can we exact payment to the uttermost to mourn my sons and my sons-in-law all idea of any increase of the gecerel

Farthing for the crimes they have com because of this so strong, so stupid, so mitted.

And the day has come jealous nation. One of my sons is dead and our of my "My troubles" said the Shabby Girl, daughters is a widow, and the others may *seem trivial beside some others, but are be before the end comes. And when I look very real to me. We were quite comfort my grandchildren, orphans some of them now F vow that they shall never, | Admiral Sir John Jellicoe paid a very ably off when war broke out, as we had of Fenn do my mite to prevent it, know _____ FALLING HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE high compliment to the Harwich Fleet the been all my life. But the outbreak of that has been the largest factor in bring to have as much leave as was granted to how we suddenly found ourselves very suffered much, we can suffer more great It is the failure of the potato, harvest other day. The Grand Fleet having asked meant that, without quite understanding the agony of mind and the ghastly horrore that we have had to go through. Wo have ing about the present scarcity of food the Harwich Fleet, Sir John replied: poor. I am not strong enough for in Germany! It amounts to anly The Hanwich Fleet deserve all the hard work, and I have never learnt to do deal more if necessary for the children's

any kind of brain work, so I have taken sake 21,000,000 tons, against $4,000,000 tons in leave they get and much more. When I post as useful companion, which is Thord was a silence, a longer one this the previous year. Potatoos for the see them I shall raise my hat to them, and all I seem to be fit for ly two brother time. priscipal food of millions in Germany, shall not expect a saluto in return;"

are in the trenches Life

Life is so unlike Do you understand bów." asked the and if the noweg, ber reports are to be It is impossible to conceive a higher anything we had ever known that it seems Quiet Wonian at last softly believed the German people are faced | compliment being paid by an office in ins if it must he just a nightmare and with the possibility of a potato famine, the position of the First Sea Lord of the that we shall presently wake up. But ifł before the springs At premet, however, Admiralty

(Continged at foot of new Colìmn.)

ration has been rejected, raise suspicions

of the accuracy of these figures. Mope

over, if barley is so plontiful, why is it wa

necessary to reduce the allowance of THE HARWICH FLEET barlar to the breweries

children,

war

Very

But there was no answer.

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GRACE MARY GOLDEN, in the Daily Mail.