1917-06-08 — Page 6

CUTLER PALMER & CO'S

NAPIER

JOHNSTONE'S

Known as the

WEATHER REPORT.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH, 1917.

On June 7th at 1106.--No return from Japano stations Pressure has demonted modaralely at Vladivatock, and all hayat the majority of other station; it is probably highest over Japan. A shallow depremion is indicated in the vicinly of Hainan.

Hongkong rainfall for 24 hores anding at 10 am to-day, 1.24 inch Total ninos Ist January, 20.61 incher against an average of 28.88 Inches

The forest for the 14 hours anding at 20oz to-day is an follown som

DISTRICT

FORMAST.

FOOD PRICES IN HONGKONG.

SCHEDULE OF MAXIMUM RETAIL

RICES.

Shrimps H Snapper Lap Ya Soles Tat She Yo Tench-Wan Yü

Turbot To Had Y Turtles, small, fresh water

· Kouk Lü

FOULTRY.

Hainan-Hoi Nam

(a) First Grade...

per bag of 50 lbs. per lb...... (6.) Second Grade,

4.50

Chicken Kai Tuni

Capons, large, smal

per bag of 50 lb. per b

4.00

DuckAp

Doves Pan Kay

(2.) Third Grade.

S. ad S.W.

per bag of 60 lbs. Per Ib.

Eggs, Ben-Kai Tan (cook

251

ing)

doz

Eggs, Hen-Kai Tan (fresh)

Hongkong to Gap Ber

winds, moderate

Tinned Mill

Fowls, Canton-Kai

to freak; cloudy. some showers,

(a) Sweetened Condensed Milk,

Fowls,

(b.) Unsweetened Condensed MIE

per 1 ib. tin

25

(e) Sterilized Milk, por tin, (18

(d) Sterilized Milk, per 1 litre tia (e) Eagle Brand, per 1

35

WHISKY.

6) Skimmed Milk per 3. Sugar

tin... lb tin

38

90

Snipe Sha Tsui...

Pheasant Shan Rai

CHINA

COART METEOROLOGICAL

ESTABLISHED:

Cube, (in lb. time), per tin Refined Crystallized, par b Granulated, per la

1.20

14

REGISTER

Soft, No. 1 quality, per lb.

18

Apples (California) Shan Ping Ko

“ OLD

SQUARE”

Formosa Channel

*NEMAwinda,

moderate.

SouthCoast of China between. The same sa

No 1 Hongkong und Lamoaks Boath Court of Chins between The same s

Hongkong and Haine

1745.

SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG AND BOUTH CHINA"||

LANE. ORAWFORD & CO., and from ALL Wiss MuroraNTS,

Vishvostock

Nemuro

Hakodate

ASAHI BEER." To

Kochi

DAI NIPPON

DAFNISPONE

Kagoshima

Nagasaki

Ochima

Naha

Ishi'jma

Bonin Ta

Telangana

Shanghai

Gatzlaff

Sharp

Sleep Pook

Anoy

Taiboku

ASAHI BEER

GRAND BRIEK

EWERY

BE

BREWERY

CO. TOKYO.

Taleau

Tänan Koshun

Puscadore

CA

Hongbong

Gap Book

how. Foibow

Fhu

Capest.Js

Aparri Dagupan

Manila

Tacloban

Hoilo

Surigao

Gnaw

Labuan

7TH JUNK LEL

Wiad

Hour

Berome Level

Temperaturo.

Humidity

at Sen

Westber

Direction.

Fores

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Soft, No. quality, per lb 412.

4. Frozen Meat-

The Dairy Farm prices of frozen food, and other stores as printed in the Dairy Farm price list and amend. ed in red ink dated the 21st day of February, 1915, signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Food Committee are the maximum retail prices of the articles enu- merated in the said list Ap proved copies can be seen either ab the Treasury or on the premises of the Dairy Farm Co., Ltd., In Wyndham Street.]

5. Market Brudures

BUTCHER MEAT..

Beef Sirloin--Mei Lung Pab. 21 Beef Prime Cut

Geese Ngoa Pigeons, Canton Pak Kap each Pigeons, Hoihow-Hoi Hau

Turkeys, Cock-Fo Kai Faug Turkeya, Hen-Fo Kai Na

each

Quail Om Chun, ty

Partridges Che Kde 19

* FRUITS

Almonds Hang Yan

Bananas (bride's),

Macao

Heung Chine Carambola Young To Coconuts Ye Tse Lemons, Chinging Hung... Lemons America-Kam Shan

Jing Mung ..... Lichees, dried (small stone)

Lai Chi Koty dopal Oranges (Canton) (sweat)

Shan-sheng Tim Chang Oranges (Canton).

Pears (Canton), Cooking

Sha Li

Peanuts Fo Shang Persimmons, large-Hung Taz Plantaina Bhiu

lb

each

Punclo Sinn-Taim L Tan each

Ib. Walnuts-Hop To Grapes-Po Tai Tez

VEGETABLES, EIC

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THE MAN PROBLEM. THE WAR OFFICE SPIRIT.

BY ARNOLD BENNÆTTA People are apt to forget that, though 60 this war is a war of ideas, for the War

Office it is a war of physical forge. I this fuct is forgotten the political (which, of course, includes the military) situation 20 at home cannot be understood. Nothing but the physical force opposed by the War Office stops the Gorman armies from 38 occupying the remainder of Belgium and larger portions of France, and so offering a still greater direct menace to ourselves 24 The pressure has to be continen), and it 25 has to be increasing. If it were relaxed eno amount of splendid and immortal so ideas would prevent a disaster to the

Allies on the Continent. 30

80

38

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35

T_AUTOGRÁCY AND WAR

The War Office liver with this fact night and day. It thinks in terms of physical force, and only with extreme difficulty does it think in any other terms. It has under its thumb probably the largest singly-controlled quantity of physical force in the world to-day just as its total organisation is probably the largest military organisation in the world to-day 8This organisation, within itself, is autocratic. The individuals in it, having saluted, execute orders without arguing The War Office therefore thinks in terms of physical force autocratically used amid 10 circumstances of grave

21

29.03

Bent Comed Ham Ngau Yuk

21

Artichokes Ah Chi Check. lb.

Beef Roast Shiu Agau Tuk

21

Beans, Sprout Nga Troi

3.

Beef Breast-Ngan Nam Tuk

17

Beans Long-Tzu Kok.......

Beef Soup Tong Yuk »

16

Beef Steak Ngan Yuk Pa

31

Beet Root-aung Tsoi Tan Bitter Boush-Fu Ka

4

Beef Stak Sirloin Ngau Lau Beel Sausages Ngau Cheung Bullock's Brains Ngau No,

Erinjals, Green-Ching Yün

each

Brinjala, Her Hang Ken Cabbage, Chinese (common)

Kai T801

29.78

por set 10 Bullock's tongue fresh-gau oach Bullock's Tongue corned

60 Bullock's Head Ngau Tau....... **) 81.00 Bullocks Heart Ngan Sam 160 11 Bullock's Hump salt Nga d

Bullock's Fict Ngau Heuk each Bullock's Kidneys-Ngau

Cabbage, Shanghai Ye Taoi........._y, Cane Shoots, bunch- Kauce Cauliflower (Large) Ye Tsoi

Cauliflower (Medium). Cauliflower (Broall) Corrots--Kam Shun, lb. Celery,Chinese Tong Kan

Chillies, dried Kon Lut Chin

Chillies, red Hung Fa Chiu Chillies, green-Ching Lat

Chiu

Bullock's Tail Ngau Mei

Bullock's Liver-Ngau Kon

Bullock's Tripe (undressed)

Calves Hent and Feet Ngau-day set $1.10. tsu-tau-keuk Mutton Chop-Yeung Pei kwa Matton Leg-Yeang, Pei. Mutton Shoulder Yeung Muttons Saddle Yeung Un

1b 25

Garlic Sun San

Ginger, young

Sun

naug

$18

each.

AGER BEER

SPECIALLY BREWED

TOB

EXPORT.

COMPANY

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T. E CLAYTON, Diveci.

1. BABOT, reduced to 22 degrees Fahran beit, on the Intel of the end in inves, tenthi and hundredtas

2. TEMPERATIer, in the ubade, în degrwa Fahrenheit.ANNAMALA

URBIDITI, ia peromiage of saturation, fai hamidity c

cf a saturated with moisture, bain

DIRECTION OF Wise, to two points,

100

detached

8. FORON OF WIND, according to Beaufort Ecala 6. STATE OF WHAINES, b blue sky, alond, d drinning rain, f fog, g gloomy, hhail 1 lightning, o overcast, p parang showers, Equal

rain, snow, thunder, v visibility, w dew (wet): 7. Karu în fokus, tenths and hundreds

Pig's Chillings Chu Chong Pig Brainshi No...per Pig's Feet Chu Keuk........ Pigs Fry Chi Chup Pirrs Head ch Tàu

Pig's Heart Chu Sam Pig's Kidneys-Chu Yiu - Pigs Liver Cha Kon Pork Chop Chu Pai Kwat, Pork Leg-Chi Pei

Pork Loin-Chu Hau Tun Pork Fat or Lard-Chu Yau Sheep's Head and Feet

SOLE AGENTS.

BUSSAN KAISHA TL No. 230 or 155,

HONGKONG

METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER

Hongkong Observatory, Jane 7th

Previous On Dato On Dati

Day

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

Frum 8th to 14th June.

HIGH WATER,

Week or

Days of

Mouth

cong

Height

Low: WazzR:

Height

Hakong

Tims.

It is

Yeung Tau Kenket (cu Sheep's Heart-Yeung Sam Sheep's Kidneys Yeung Yiu Sheep's Liver Yeung Kor... lb. Sucking Pigs to order-Chu

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19

28

Suel, Beet-Shang Ngau Yau Suet Mutton-Shang Young

Tan

20

Veal Ngan Tsai Ynk

Veal Sausages Ngau Tsai

Cheung

Lard Chu Yau

Barel Kh Yu

BreAD-Pan Yu

Canton Fresh Water Fish

Hoi Sin Yus

Carp Li Yü Catish-Chik Yu

Crabs Hai

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regret. If the House of Commons, in it own interests, in the interest of the War Office, and in the interests of the country does not by its attitude after Easter cure the War Office of its tendency to dupli city, then the only conclusion will be that? the individual MP's of which the Honse is made up are defcient in fundamental character Many people, by the way, have already reached this conclusion.

of

THE WAR OFFICE SPIRIT The War Office has shown, in the second place, a lack of understanding of both the Pross and the public. Its severity and its leniency to the Press have boen alike

Of the Istest example very ill judged. ineptitude, the suppression of the foreign sale of the Nation. I will only say hera that it must have an effect quite contrary to that intended by the suppressor, and that officials incapable of foreseeing. know that the suppression was the work are unfit for their duties. How do k of the War Office 1, I do not know, but I am so that it was the work of the

spirit the War Office As regards lack of understanding of the public, this is really too p

of

notorious to require illustration A may, however. mention that the Way Office wanted Compulsory National Ser vice to he introduced at once, and held. that it would be quietly accepted. The War Office yielded, because the evidence strong against it, but it did not suficiently, and the threat of com Field pulsion which it insisted upon has done mense harm to the entire cause of National Service, The War Offics merely did not understand either human nature. or economics.

MEN AND THE MACHENT,

in the third place, has The War Office apparently failed to comprehend its ava relative position in the whole wer machine, of which it is only a part. It has again and again acted, or tried to act, as if it were itself the whole machine. The whole machine may be divided into

and they Office, the Munitions nation at large. Of these the meet important, because the base of the other is the last The War Office has three apparently not understood that even War Offies cannot exist without nations, and that the fundamental requisite of war 16 not soldiers, but national food. If the War Office had had its will our fields. would have been at the present moment unploughed True, it did surrender, but clearly bot according to its own ment for only last week it tried again to withdraw men from the land (by the Bill referred to above), and again it only surrendered to a display of superior force, I have no space in which to shops further the inability of the War Office to appreciate the value of a sense of pro- portion, but its effects could easily bet trated in various places,

danger. Its four parts the are the War:

14 responsibility to the nation is colossal What wonder, then that its attitude 11 towards the nation which it protects 14 should grow more and more autocratic?

What wonder that it gets over bearing The wonder would be thrice wondrous if it did not get overbearing. Indeed to a certain extent, perhaps to a considerable extent, it simply must be overbearing When a protector says to the protecter:-

This is what I think ought to be done, and I have decided that it shall bo dons Don't complain that you can't do it. You must manage as heat you can. The matter is one of life and death for us all. No arguments Obey when he says that he is apt to my it very curtly. And his tone is likely to be the more cart if he is conscious that he has been doing in the enterprise of protec

The supreme question for the Govern tion. Nobody can deny that the War Office Kas done well. Like other Warnett is the demands of the War Office Offices it has made horrible mistakes for men. As the war goes on this ques-

goin in

The desire of Like other War Offices, it has been saved. tion will

urgency from wiz obstinacy and blindness by the War Office to do all that a War Offices 9 the interfering help of civilians But it eaz

the sincerity of the War Offices 12 spirit is and must be autocratic, and the conviction that the satisfaction of 23 has done well-and more than well. I do, the technical skill of the Wer That is ons demands is essential to the winning of the nation must expect as much. That

War-these things are not in dispute. What is in dispute is the good judgment

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Curry Stuff, English-K、 L_______ THE 500,000 KXTRA MEN

Chu Liu

A second point. I wish to make is that there is often a risk of us blaming the Cucumbers Ching Kwa

War Office where the War Office is quite its own range. The new demands of the innocent. Last work the War Minister War Office may be absolutely justified.

Keung

Giuger, old-Lo Keung

Horseradish, Shanghai-Lik

Kan

Indian Corn Shuk Maieach Lettuce Yeung Shang Taoi...» Water Chestnuts--Mi Tailb Water Chestnuts, Mandarin,

Mushrooms, Fresh Shang Tso

Okroes av de Onions, Bambay Tenng

Chung Tau A Oniens, Green-Shang Chung Onions, Shanghai-Sheung

hoi Shung Tau Parsley Kun Tsai ...... Potato, Sweet-Fan Shu- Potato, Japanese-Yat Pum

Shi Tea Potato, American-F Ki Shu

Ewii Lao Ma Tác

Pumpkin-Tung, Kvo

Radish Hung Lo Pak Tsai Rhubarb (fresh) Thi Wong. Shallots Kon Chung Tan Spinach in T201 Tomatoes Fan Ke Taros Wu Tan

Turnips Punti (Long) La Pak A

Vegetable Marrow-Tait Kwa Water Creas Sai Yeung Tsoi Water Lily root ir Ngau Yams Tai Shu

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dietate in matters

9 arose and said that he must have 500,000 and it may be true that these demands

• What is this

10 extra men by the end of July, Many if can be met without detriment to other

Uential departments of nations?

But most of us thought 15lly? Here is a man who wait till the activity. But the contrary also is quited

06 beginning of April before he decides that

1 he must have 500,000 extra men by the

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possible And the War Office Las not up

end of July Such conduct is absurd to now at all succeeded in convincing the

entry that it is the proper authority to decide these crucial points, s Nevertheless, they ought to be decided

wisely.

DISTRIBUTION OF LABOUR.

I do not say that such conduct is not ahsard, but I say that it may not be. The War Office may have been trying for long time past without success to per- suade the Government to give it more. men and may only just have meceeded (Governments are like that.) We do not When the Government, in its earliest.> know. Again, the War Offee may just days, created the department of National have discovered startling new enemy plans Service, the principal and the most hope and combinations which render vast pre-fal part of the scheme was that the heads We do not know of that department should be charged. Cautions advisable. We Again, it may, for certain reasons, have with the apportionment of all the labour kuddenly undertaken fresh obligations in in the country. He would thus have regard to Allies. We do not know listened to every claim, including the Again, circumstances may have developed chim of the War Office, and satished cach which

make

it possible, by patting an daim according to his judgment of its exaggerated proportion of the national relative importance. He would have 3 energy into the army to finish the war llotted so many men to the Army, so Butterly with grand sinash at an early many to the Navy, so many to farmiert, so date. We do not know, and we cannot many to shipbuilding, so many to the know. That is a second point, credit-producing trades. He would have

These considerations, however, must not blind us to third port-namely that the War Offer, by the vory conditions in which it

"above

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136. In view of the prohibition of the exits direct operations, colours the whole happened to be ton milions more you port of certain fead-stuffs from the Government, and the shadow of its auto would still have argued that million United Kingdom, the prices of cracy spreads into all department intilmen more than you now have we the articles can no longer be the War Office practically in the Govern absolutely essential Yon Lenst mahago best you can You must economisera fized. If, however any conturner ment, as in Germany, where the conse considers that he has been over

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Eels, Conger-Hoi Man

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Mackerel Chi, Ya

Monk Fish Mong Yü

Millet Tea Yu...

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Oyster Shung Ho

Parrot Fish Kai Kung Yu

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Pike Fa Pan Fong

Femfret, black Ea dong

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Perch Tu Lo

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A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING.

INDEPENDENT AUTHORITY WANTED This scheme was unquestionably the best and the only logical scheme But was An independent authority (not neces- dropped. It ought to be taken up agam, setily Mr. Nevills Chamberlains, and not necessarily any single individual) ought to be constituted for the especial purpose

between the claims of the of

parts of the national machine for

Judgment is impossible without under standing, and the War Office has shown that it does not in the first place, under men Such an authority if it were mallya stand the political machine. The latest independent and really weighty, would was restore confidence throughout the country. of the lack of understanding streek The Military Service (Review and put an end to the lamentable ad of Exceptions) Bill was pushed through damaging selection which has occurred the House of Conunone with snbbornness and will otherwise continas to octur. and not without skill. It went to the The difference between the country and of courco, being the War Office can be put in a very few House of Lords, where, oppressive, encountered no trouble words. The country merely wants to win

The lea And yet. Lord Derby, with the Bill safe, the war The War Office wants to with went out of his way to confess that a trick the war in a particular way. had been played on the House of Com dency of departments to think and act ad notorious Is mons, he did not use those words) in though they alone count anding officers regard to the Bill. The trick playel on it not notorious that comman the House of Commons war politically of regiments will sacrifice the interests unnecessary, and can do nothing but of the Army as a whole to the interests harm. But assuming that a brick was of the regiment They doubtless mes necessary, to confess the trick at once was wall and are honestly patriolle, but they an act of hatonishing folly, which the Lack sense of propertiņu, Bluff and amiable War Minister must now and Leade