FOOD PRICES IN GERMANY,
QUOTATIONS NOMINAL AS MANY ARTICLES ARE UNOBTAINABLE.
AN AMUSING SATIRE. Returns are now available of the prices in Germany of the principal articles of food as they were at the end of last November. The prices given below are An average of 50 of the chief towns. We anex the prices of the year before the outbreak of war:-
Nov 1910. Nov. 7913
0% 20. Bid
*Yellow neais......per lb. (none)
*Haricot bean....
*Lentils
Food potatoes...
Butter
Wheat
flour.......
Bye flour
*Rice
Coffee and sub--
09
"old..
Os Old
·24, A.
19, Bd. Gu. Bid
SOs. The (none)... s. 2d.
28. ML
18. 6d. On 34. Os, Ad. (none) Og, Tid. Lac**** *Buckwheat;
On 2001. gronts Full milk......per qt. 08. Bich... Os. Sid. One egg Horse flesh per lb. 28, 0d.
stitutes.........
Sugar (refined)
...On, 42d
NOTES ON THE BOAROITY.
TAI HONGKONG DAILY
THE BRITISH SOLDIER
VISCOUNT FRENCH'S EULOGY. Field Marshal Viscount French de clared open No. 150a,. Bouthampton-row (formerly the Premier Hotel), as a Sala vation Army hostel, last month, and, in his address, spoke in glowing terms of the British soldier and of the good work done by the great organisation which had provided the hostel. It was his firm con- viction, he said, based upon his experi- ences at the front, that the British soldier of to-day was possessed of a very extraordinary moral spirit and power. Cheors.) He could not in any other way explain the almost supernatural courage, tenacity, and endurance shown in the Geld throughout the war. It was only those who had served with our troops and
PRESS, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23RD, 1917.
THE BEST OFFICERS.
WHAT THE SOLDIER LIKES IN US.
[BY AN OFFICER IN FRANCE
The fileal officer in this war is not quite the man of the text books. He is not the requirements of Bandhurst and the necessarily the man who has answered all Officers Training Corps
He is not always of the pattern moulded by fine writing and high thinking. He is the man who approximates, as far as is humanly possible, to the standards laid down by Thomas Atkins himself, the only authorised judge of how an officer fills the bill. O
ENEMY BANKS.
SIR W PLENDER'S REPORT. The report of Bir William Pleader, Controller of the London agencies of the ne enemy banks, concerning which there as been much discussion in Parliament of a Blue-book [Cd, 8430] of 32 pages. and the Press, has been issued in the form The salient features of the report are
of the five banks, the Deutsche Bank, That on the outbreak of war the assets the Dreadner Bank, the Direction der. Disconto Gesellschaft, the Oesterreichis cae Laerterbank, and the Anglo-Aus- £23,373,404 and the liabilities trian Bank, were returned £98,481,007, leaving an apparent de- ficiency of £6,107,513,
That by September 30th last this deh- ciency had been reduced by £87,091 to £5,020,122
had known how terribly they had been comparatrake They were good That liabilities to Britisa, Allied, and
tried who could realise that. Only men imbued with the spirit of the noblest eclf. sacrifice and devotion to the duty towards God and their country could have possibly obtained such results under such circumstances. Cheers.) I was
men
I have met out here officers who on military grounds had the approbation of their C.O.8 und the commendations of higher people. Yet they were so far removed from the actual life of their as a Laplander is from the to the alphabet their way lived is the matter of regulations saw that on parade, at everything was "posh the just lacked that understanding touch which bridges distinctious of rank when civilian Army
in
neutral subjects to the extent of £27,800,000 had been discharged by September 30th
the man in the trench who had saved it comes to making a brotherhood of our acceptances had been reduced by the
this country from disaster. (Cheers.) That was a fact none of us would or could forget. One could not help think ing that the work of the Salvation Army and kindrod associations during the past fifty or sixty years had helped to bring about that wonderful spirit, their aim and object heving always been to incul onte in young men and women. tlie noblest and highest ideals. (Bear, hear) Most gratefully and thankfully acknowledg Salvation Army and done for it, he had pleasure in declaring the hostel open,
The following notes are necessary for the better understanding of the above table Potatoos are sold at a fixed price but as they are practically unobtainable, and where obtainable are doled out at the rate of 36 per adult per week the low price means nothing in varying measure the same thing applies to butter, wheat flour, and rys flour; also to sugar, milk and eggs. The other day the Ger man papers stated that holders of egging, on behalf of the Army, all that the clever amateur in the business of war.
ards were entitled to one egg between January 8th and the end of the month, but that after this date there was much uncertainty
The important articles marked with an asterisk are among those which have not heen offered for sale for some months The Inst quotation for yellow peas was a1b.. against 2d, in 1913, for haricot
lentils beans Gid, stains Std for disappeared, the last quotation being sad, against 7 d. and buckwheat groats at old, against 21d.
It is to be borne in mind that these are average prices, and that in some tchrus the orices ranged 50 per cent, higher than in the table,
A VIENNA SATIRIST
At the best this New Army of ours simply stands for a nation in arms The I have censored scores of letters in which life of it is civilian, the soul of it human. Thomas A of 1916 bas confessed he could rever be a soldier either by training or for his faith. He is ton fiercely fighting by enthusiasm. He is just a good patriot, bad a soldier, in the text-book, sence, to pick up the tricks of the professional he is too good a civilian to be anything but Already he has proved that valour is not a product of the militarist machine, and hat what he lacks in comparison with. the professional soldier be more than which have balancer by the qualitie voluntarily brought him to arms,
น
I graduated to a commission from the ranks, and have therefore experienced the point of view both of the man who gives the order and the mat who obeys. A knowledge of the latter, life, his ideas his whole varson d'etre for wearing khaki has been invaluable to me since I
his philosophy, his psychology,
Bank of England to these banks in That the accommodation granted by the order to enable them to pay off their end of September from £11,835,037 to
4,810,823 the licences, the following work remains That, to complete the work required under
to be done _______(1)-The_collection of outstanding
·
assets must proceed as far as possible, and any surplus assets be deposited with the Bank of England. In the case of each of the banks, except the Deutsche Bank, the Bank of England advances have not been repaid, and in the case of the Lenterbank the claims of unsecured creditors have not been ract in fully
(2)The remaining balances and securities held by the banks on behalf of
customers must be with drawn
the
AFTER THE WAK
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from loss of or
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don't get enough to eat, but that they. like a bag af bones not that they not assimilate what they do eat. They imply go through the natural motions
sssimilated, and consequently does not do eating, but the flesh giving part of what team lai just pass away without being
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COLOMBO AND STRAITS.
CARDIGANSHIRE
The War Oflce, Viscount French de clared, were deeply grateful to the found era which offered welcome ors of these hotels, then of the many
than those at social organisations that had conto into
free disposal of non-enemy customers existence, and had been of enormous
Irons the realized, beuent to the community none had done
must be vested in the Custodian, and the finer work, none had attained greater or more splendid results in all parts of
Ps. Willian Plestealingkeste that, as the Empire the Salvation A tmy (Cheera.) It might be said with
cho, bermon banker premises are to be
given to the purchasers. absolute justice that the followers of
come to an end as soon as possession is that great and wonderful man, the late crossed over."
With reference to the form of the Even now the study of Thomas A
licences General Booth, bad reached peoples and
s under which the scope of the communities in all parts of the world whom they alone had been able to touch by no means complete. He becomes piore Flour, bread, and coffee are sold in the with their benign and wholesome in complex, more amazing, and more lovable operations of the banks has been restrict prescribed mixtures Coffee is sold main. Auence. I was indeed, a very great as the war goes on fed the Controller sayidicate whether the prescribed mixtures: (1) with 50 per work the Salvation Army had done. Its His letters do not reveal all that be banks would or would not be permitted to cent. bean coffee, (2) with 25 per cent., and activities throughout the war had been thinks and feels, for the simple reason resume business after the war. No bust in its amimilation. There is no need for (a) with 10 per cent. Qualities lower of the greatest benefit to the soldiers, and that he cannot always find words for hisness has been done other than what was than those are corn coffee, malt coffee, etc. were deeply appreciated by the men. thoughts. His conversations are just 48 necessary to secmplete transactions of hst pinched hougry; hall fed look RE Steamkipy
evasive because he rarely talks shop and banking character entered into before Hutments had been established every where, at home and in France; motor- never goes luto heroics. Many people August, 1011 The practical effect has ambulances had been at work throughout have wondered why tac soldier on leave been to dissever and break the relations
To those whose vision of war is limited Until January, 191
1916, the limited opera the war zone members of the Salvation has so little to say about his life out here between the banks and their connections. Army were engaged in the visitation of the sick and wounded at the front; com to written or pictorial descriptions it trons of the banks wore carried out within. forts of all kinds had been distributedeems almost incredible that a man the terms of the licences. In that month, to the troops; and, last, but by no means traight from the cauldron should shrink however, directions were lasued by the integration of the banks, and from that the report had been rendered to the widows, or The best explanation I can give is that time for all practical least, the greatest help and assistance there fois experiences. It is Treasury, having for their object the dis
The new hostel is the seventh of its ontire and regulation there are feir banks protested against these directions, PETER
salient features. They are summed up in but the Treasury refused to amend their Kind set up by the Salvation Army since confers Discomfort, Life, and Death. order. Ne alteration, however, was mado the outbreak of war. It contains 350 bedanese are the elementals that play upon in the terms of the licences, except in the and makes the total sleeping accommoda
on October 30th, revoked in them you have the causes of his depres for which tion provided by these hostils sufficient the chords of the soldier's emotions, for ease of the Deutsche Bank the licenos for 2,000 soldiers:
e allegations made in SIONS, his gaiety, his hopes, and his 1918. faith
In regard to the August, 1914, that the German and Ane- triga banks had been shipping abnormal quantities of securities and bullion to the Coatinent just before the outbreak of war. the supervisors appointed to the different banks report in all cases that they have been unable to discover that any pausual movements of the kind occurred.
The Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung makes & satirical suggestion based on the exceeding scarcity of provisions, and on the in ability even of those, blessed with means procure the necessaries of life. The Socialist journal says:
Lily engaged getting up theatrical per ***A multitude of young people are
the truth nevertheless.
formances for the benefit of the very poor phans, and wives of the men fighting in a life so ordened, as it were, by states, liquidation ensued the enemy
Crowds of charitable persone flock
to
these entertainments and pay their money. The booking clerke swim in Darlehucnasa bills, the ladies of the committee revel in But the poor get nothing but delight rasiley, for there is nothing to get. The food is not to be bad."
for us at the front. (Cheers.)
SOCIALIST UNREST IN
GERMANY.
The Arbeiter Zeitung makes the follow- ing suggestion': * Let the entrance money be paid in potatoes, meat, butter, sugar, eggs, peas, beans, turnips, even in jam and other preserves Fish is inadvisable, The booking office. koep. ns it does not resives added importance. A table and a plate would be no longer all that is necessary. There would be necessary large storerooms. A dificulty, however, would arise in the valuation of articles For example, how much would a ham be worth compared with a peek of peas! The programme on which the prices are printed would grow enormously in of volume. First row of stalle: A box sardines, or a ponad sausage, or half A strike of 60,000 workers occurred in a fowl, or alb. of potatoes, or 31b. of peas. Berlin and Brunswick as protest "Or thore might be simplifications. against the condemnation of Liebknecht
STRIKES AND DEMONSTRATIONS The Dutch Socialist extracts from the first numbor of the German Socialist minority paper Spartakus, giving incid ents which, though several months old, reveal the extent of the revolutionary movement in Germany
This, then, is the man for whom the ideal offeer has to be found. Let it be said at ance that the Old Country has not wanted in vain for men to lead its citizen soldiers in the best possible manner. The successes have always been temporary officers but permanent gentlemen
Indeed, the only way to the heart of the New Army is the civilian way, the social way, the human way, the way or sympathy and understanding. There has to be a spirit of We're all in it" and #realisation that the man in the ranke officer's sacrifices so much to him as the has given up for his patriotism what is are to the officer. Ney, many of them have given up more. The great terror to
For wxample, there might be a potato in July 1916. This is referred to as a the man in the ranks is that his
WILD
The cost of control and supervision has not fallen upon the Public Exchequer, it having been entirely paid out of the funds of the banks.
COST OF THE WAR
Economists here have calculated that
Evening at which all seats are paid for in park in a powder magazine; causing dependents, may, suffer want and pover them if hostilities continue until the be
37-8
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Daving arrived from the above l'orts, Consignesn of Cargo by her are hereby informed that All Goods are being landed AT THEIR BISK Into the hardons and/or extra hassadors Godowns of he Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, hanem
Ander from the
wharven delivery may be
Goods not cleared by the 27th lost, at BPK. will be abject to rent
All broken, obsted and damaged isckag are to be left in the Gedowns, where they will be
Claims Beafust the Stamer
Gramined on the 27th instiïng 10% Di
presented within 10 dois et antisal i therwise they will not be reusgnised.#acted by us in
will be Fire
No
BUY CARO
Bill of Lading will be counterdgned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LED. Hongkong, 20th February, 1917.
NOTICE 90 CONSIGNEFS
FRB CALCUTTA PENANG AD SINGAPUHEZ,
THE Smship
** FURYALUS“ haring arrived fromisslove in to Consignees af Cargo bez sro coiffed that ? all Goods are being Ended at the risk into the beardious and/or extra beydous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Ltd, whence and/or from the Whores delivery
by obtained,
-ared by 26th 1st, will be
Goodi 1.00 al-1 subject in st
the sum of £18,000,000,000 sterling between the belligerents will have spent on the war potatoes. There might be a butter, an great anxiety to the ruling classes, who if he gets one in the wrong place egs or a ham evening. Tips in re- foresce a grean movement of the pro- Officers as a whole do not have to add this ginning of the autuma at the present rate maurunts and elsewhere might also be letariat approaching to their anxieties while serving of expenditure. The German writer on Those strikes prove, says the Spartakus, Working up exprat de corps, getting to ecotomy, Herr Georg Bernhard, pablishes an article in the review Plutus, in which ot Germany pad in kind. If the waiter is attentive
up to the end of next at Whisky is the whisky with a service two potatoes, or if that soems, ex-begun to thirst after a struggle with the good will, and never slackening in
a small travagant, say a big potato and a
The Arbeiter Zeilung turns the ruling classes, and are unwilling any efficiency or discipline are matters vitally £6,000,000,000. He states that it
longer to be the tools and defenders of an important in the winning of wars. That extremely difficult to face this outlay by idea round and round with all the bitter Imperialist war. Against the threatening is where we have always a big advantage means of further loss, & point on which elegant flavour is solely due to biting humour of a Swift. There is a danger the ruling classes bring into mo- over the Boche, that is why the men out all financiers will agree with him.
Obtai able from all Wine ing about a sort of perambulator filled tion the old mana of conflict and force, here know that we can win as soon as the he thinks also that this heavy total cas original fineness developed by Age,
be over.
Not a general and confiscation of all fortunes in the Gor- when the war is to
This remedy Herr Bern Merchants, with potato tips and the guests measuring and reports, from all parts of the Empire people at home have made up their minds be reduced to £3,750,000,000 by the seizur
nad brutal sentences.
as a whole. The human stuff in of the best hard admits There was a great demonstration that ever went to battle But you cannot quences on Gerran economic and indus parting with them.
Essen on August 16th by the Social-
Patusion that a war indemnity, (or more Democratic Party Announcements of win modern wars with big hearts alone. trial life. Therefore he demands, in com the demonstration were allowed only in
delicately a “contribution, of from £2,000,000,000 to £2,250,000,000 shall be imposed on the enemies of Germany as part of the conditions of peace!
potato would, reward him, for extra that the great mass of workers have agalu know your men, earning their esteem and he reckon the war expenses June to growing popularity, because ste of Nimmer, they will not be
mimitable picture of a bead waiter Toll-
Bet
the precious tubers with their eye before reveal a real epidemic of arrests, trials, has you had to find fault with the men han Empire ld have disastrous conse
THE KING'S TRIBUTE TO
WORKERS.
FULL SUPPORT FOR VICTORY. The King sont the following reply to a letter sent by the bon secretary of the
for
National Workmen's Council conveying with notices that the meeting had been bed children. As censor them his affection. Well-meant indness
some
consideration from another earns for the
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AUSTRALIA, BOMBAY EGYPTE MEDITERRANEAN PORTS AND LONDON THROUGH HILLS OF LADING ISSUED PE they
the non-Socialist Press, and the Censor In the middle of these notes I had a also demanded that the Socialist leader visit from the orderly sergeant, who asked should speak in the spirit of the Chame to ste Private B. I had seen Private cellor's declarations, but this he absolute B late last night. He had written a ly refused to do. Two thousand persons somewhat harsh note to his wife because
and dislikes. There are some people he assembled in the evening and found the things which can be bought cheaper at
not been sent out. Private cannot like, and nothing will gain. entrance to the meeting place placarded the Expeditionary Force Canteen than in and calling forbidden. The crowd, mem STEAM FOE STRAITS, CEYLON
er. I sent for the writer, and after The King's attention to the fact that the bors of the Socialist Minority letter. working classes desire that the war should tore up the police potices, and unofficial chat Private B said that it which he loather; while the slightest be prosecuted to a successful finish began to shout, "Long live imprisoned was a bit unreasonable of him to expect offer permanent place in the temple
Buckingham Palice, Jan, gud. Karl Linbknecht." They then formed so much of his wife. The postage alot of his caprit de corps,
BATAVIA, AMERICAN, COSTIZLETAT, If you are fortunate enough to be an
AND SOUTH AFRICA FORTS. beg to acknowledge the up and marched in good order through from Chelsen would cost almost as much DEAR SIR-I beg to
NHE Homeward Mall Steamer receipt of your letter of December 31st the town, passing the railway station as the parcel was worth. Through last, end to ssy in reply that I have the theatre, and the office of the great kiud friends at home who send me soldier officer of the likeable kind, life, in the ed. I gave him his service, offers a splendid opportunity for
Malls, will be Majesty & priceless reward received the King's command to convey capitalistnewananers, the Rheinisch comforts, I was able to fix up Private B. New Army, and especially on active
ed from this port
usual taking Passes through you an expression of his Westfalische Zeitung, close to the Korn with what he was him to let me know enjoying to the full the p
there is little and Cargo for the above sel seco Majesty's best thanks to the National, mandantur, and the soldiers' asylum to letter back and anketed it posted of your man's good will and affection. Workmen's Council for the loyal and the Limburg market, the crowd of tho He has just seen me. Ho has torn up Mise the opportunity
no chance of stonement. The Potsdam
before departure from Hongko their New Year's sands singing the workers Marseil that letter and thanked me for checking dr
Valuables and laise" and other Socialist songs. Cries
as a civilian in suite Bilk and A It is a matter of the utmost grati. of Long live Liebknecht and Away is impulse The parcel arrived to-day methods will lead to ignominious failure socommodation in the connect t great war he has the full support of The police repeatedly endeavoured to he workers of the country, who can so arrest the demonstrators, whom the crowd civilian officer can help to keep the home qualities are admirable. He will never ea Bambay to Muragilled greatly help in assuring the victorious as often rescued. In consequence of the fire burning without losing anything you down, oven-if you test him by Parcels will be received the Ones múl ́a
Some officers cannot and auo we all mean to attain, demonstration the secretary of the either in self-respect or the discipline of every demand required for heating the rat the by belire sailing The foundation of a lasting Social-Democratic organization was BID the happy way, some do not try and some other side. He is always ad patrioty value of all packages are required. bringing in its train all the blessings of futuro prosperity and welfare, calls for the helpful co-operation of the whole nation. Yours faithfully,
ERRINGTON-
cordial terms of message,
by to-night if he
Thomas
of his khaki
and Cargo for
Consignes risk, and Consigners of cargo are hereby notified that must produce an Import Parmakisigned the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, BILS
of Lading a he Hongkong, before countersigned.ed and damaged goods are to
bo
All broken, chafed
left in the Godown, where they will be amined on TUESDAY, Feb, 27th at 10 1. All claims must be presented within month the Stasiner's arrival heroi v
sarrival here, after which the cannot be recognized Se
No clans will be admitted, after the goods
fication to the King to know that in this with war resounded through the air POUR LES BARRY KNEE KARegain and his close inting collar," Italy, France and conden (under arrangement) have left the Godoway sud all goods remaining. There are scores of ways in which then you will find that has soldierly will conveyed by this Stamer.. preceeding undeus e vi after March 1st will be subject to
peace,
moned to the police office, where he was informed that if the workers held accond demonstration the whole organ sation would be accounted responsible-
Timer
his company.........
would not be successful if they tried Thomas A. let it be said in all respect something like a horse an his likes (Continued at foot of neat Column.)
alovable comrade: It is difficult to speak apply to
generous judge, sa heroic fighter, and For further parti of him without reverence difficult to write of him without adulation-Daily Mail,
The content and
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