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WEATHER REPORT,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 291, 1917.

THE POSITION IN TURKEY., a great blow to the sweets-loving Turk.

On June 28th at 11,52-No returns from A SEPARATE PEACE DISCUSSED. Japanese stations Pressure bas decreased elightly over Tormoss and along the south- east coast of China. It ban intensed alightly In other districts.

A foreign official, who was recently in Constantinople and in whom the Daily New expresses every confidence, cour A depresion, which at present appears te bebuted the following article to that paper shallow, is central betresa Pratas and the Facenderes.

on April 30th

Hongkong rainfall for $4 bouw ending st 10 sm, to-day, 0.17 Insk. Total alton 1st January, 27.41 inches, against an average ef 27.92 inches.

The Turkish Empir, has often been in very difficult circumstances in the past, but never, in the opinion both of the

Lumps of sugar at 21d, each Jump are hawked about the streets Austria has recently promised to send Turkey 9,000 wagons of sugar, at the rate of 200 wagens - a month, but owing to the great scarcity of rolling stock none of the Turks treat this promise very seriously. In apite of the hunger and object misery overywhere prevailing, the Turk manifests no desire to revolt. Food riots are unknown at Constantinople, and the shops are never looted

WHEN FOOD HOARDING

WAS A VIRTUE. BEING THE LETTER OF A DISOUR- SIVE PARENT TO HIS BON

AIR POWER.

LONDON TO PETROGRAD IN EIGHT HOURS.

The forest for the 24 hours sading at Rods Turks and the members of the Diploma Turkish Government, at the instigation Hat I like your idea of the "Organi technicalities, a manner at once clear?

to-day is as follows si

DISTRICT.

Hongkong to Gap Rock

Formous Chal

FORECAST.

Light, variable Į windh; Läir.

"The"" satse a

BouthCoast of China between – The same

Horgkong and Lamadeks No. 1. Bouth Coast of China be ween, The manis sa Hongkong andainas – No J

tio Corps at Constantinople, has ite situs tion ever been as critical and precarious as at present. No one knew exactly why Enver Pasha, hurried off to Berlin and Vienna carly in the year, but at the Turkish Foreign Office the officials, ut the time, when the subject cropped up, looked vory grave, and talked vaguely about a serious situation having arisen. When Enver came back some werks aga he told the public, through the newspapers, that the mission had succeeded beyond all HONGKONG'S STORM SIGNALS anticipation, whereas at the Club de Con- stantinople, once practically a British institution, of which the Grand Vizier is the present president, he told (as I happen to know), one of his closest friends, that his reception at Berlin was cordial, but that everyone was too furried, sad upset to pay much attention to his pro posals,

New

non-local

A NEW CODE.

local and

storm signala codes will be introduced at Hongkong on July 1st, in place of the old Local Code and the China Coast Code.

THE GAZA BATTLE

AT THE FRONT,

My dear Mumbo, My grateful thanks for your offer to send us a tin of biscuits now and then. You are an impudent young raseal to chaff your family about The shortage of bread is a great cause their depleted cupboard, and if you do it for complaint among the women The again I shall have to stop your allowance

of the Germans, early in the present gear introduced a rationing system, but the tion of Officers at the Front for Forward wealthy Turks declined to submit to it,ing Food Parcels to Fond Parents." and the elaborate organization set up I may come to that yet, but we do not speedily collapsed. The apathy of the Tork angers the foreign observer. Only once have they been roused from their apathy, and that was when the thousands of wounded poured into Constantinople from the Dardanelles. The sight of their dying, men-folk caused several bundred women te march to the War Office to onil on the Government to give them back their 8008

The public, remarks a London paper, has been waiting for a standard work on aviation, and Mesers, C Graham White. and Harry Harper have supplied it. The volume to which these twin exports have put their names has the advantage, rare la booke of this o character, of expounding a complex subject, interlarded · with

and enlightening to the non-lying citizen. I is much more than the reco of astupendous evolution precipitated by factors, great and small, which in the the war, or a comprehensive survey of actually go short of anything we really short space of two years have built up want, Calm your anxious coninudus upon and powerful fighting arm that point, but we are getting apprehen-world from their position aloft, see fur- The authors observing the changing sive every morning of some fresh Devon ther than the man on the ground. Their

What

section on future events is intensely Ruggestive. To the ordinars war jaded, port "Don't" in the newspaper. the British middle class mother--who is bread-restricted inhabitant of these Public Opinion feels most keenly up to islands the bald statement that “a man now is the prohibition of Food Hoarding will in the future be able to ding one In Turkey, as in other belligerent coun-She is Hoarder by instinct and babit evening in New York, and the next in tries, the war bas opened up new avenues of employment to women, The Greeks

Every one of them that you and I know London, or vice-veria, sounds and Armenians formerly employed at the has always accumulated vast stores of edible; yet Messrs. Grahame-White and post and telephone ifices have been dise somehing or other old letters, five shill Harper apparently regard such u journey assed and their places taken by Turkish ing pieces, dried herto, school reports as the early and normal development of

nerizi progress women and girls The war has hastened balbs, dessert cutlery, and so forth. By the use of amphibious machines sa table centres, jam, used electric light rather than checked the emancipation of besides every kind of storable food The the Transatlantic service machines cap. Turkish womon. All the young women elderly ones, whose youth goes back to the able of alighting either on the sea or land were veils of the flimsiest description, and old conditions of country life, judge & --an sircraft which leaves New York with |· The fall of Bagdad and the steady in the tramcnra they always draw the house more by the capacity of ite gure its passengers and mails will dy right progress of the British troupa in Pals up from their faces. An incident which cupboards and cellarage than by the con on to within a few miles of London, The principal change in the Local Code tine his considerably undermined Enver's illustrates the strength of the new sentence of its bathroom

lighting at some nerodrome on the out is that the new signals will show the the Diplomatic Corps in Constantinople quite recently The following notice was fitches of bacon, the apple floor, the ten liner puts in to Liverpool or Southampton

movement in Turkey occurred authority. When Bagdad fell members of woman

You remember the flour bin and the skirts of the city. This will obviate the

delay

which takes place to-day, when a direction from which the gale is expected, expressed the view that the Turkish Em-issued by the police department :---- chest and the linen presses at The and tranships its passengers and mails: whereas the old signals shoved the posipire would collapse in six weeks The The adoption of new forms of apparel Priory There was not the slightest to train, in which they are borne to tion of the typhoon. The latter will be advance on Gaza increased the alarm has become a public scandal in Con necessity for all there accumulations London Travellers in the future will

among the general population, and depresstantinople, All Mohammedan women They were not home grown things and the enter au aircraft at New York, and no indicated, as heretofore, by the non-local aion among the ruling classes and; it is are given two days in which to lengthen tradesmen who supplied them called every get out of it again until they reach Lon- signals. The new Local Code is given possible that bad the British heen entirely their skirts, discard corsets, and sub-week for order

don, or vice-verad, successful in the Gaza battle Turkey stitute thick for flimsy veils.

They merely represented your aunt's would have päckeil off to Berlin its Ger- Two days passed, and the following inherited instinct for storing. I was man masters and have openly petitioned notice appeared ----

anything to deride or discourage. It was Signal. Symbal

Meaning.

for peace. As it turned out, however,

not greed of penariousness. It was good the British check at Gaza was exploited We regret that through the interference economy and careful, prudent, frugal 1-Rod cone-A typhoon exists which by the Germans as a tremendous victory, of certain old women a subordinate of housekeeping and was as saving of time rany possibly cause and the popular agitation has been tem the police department has attempted to and trouble as of noisy. All women have gale at Hongkong with- porarily quietened. Significant evidence regulate, the costumes which Mohammedan a touch of this instinet, and it because in $4 hours.

of the German reading of the present women Wear. The police department there is a female ruler in the hive that 2-Black cone-Gale expected from the situation is that the womenfolk and child regrets this blunder and cancels the pre- -bres hourd honey.

North (N.W. to N.E.).. ron of the terman officers and officials vious order. 3.-Black cone

who were sent to Berlin after the fall of

The police subordinate who hun inverted--Gale expected from the Bagdad have not returned to Constan- dered was an invention of the depart

tinople. The general feeling in diplomsment anxious to fad an excuse to South (S.E to SW.)tic circles ut Constantinople is that if the capitulate to the storm which the original 4.-Black drum.-Gale expected from the British succeed in pushing on rapidly to order provoked. The wives of Turkish

East (N.E. to S.E.). Jerusalem. Damascus, and Beirut the aristocrals, Ministers and high Govern -Black ball-Gale expected from the Turks will throw up the sponge.tuent officials threatened to hold up the

West (N.W. to SW.).

Red Crescent nursing work in Turkey, The telephone girls threatened to strike, 6.—Double cone-Gale expected to in

There is a great deal of talk now at the post office girls to leave the post-ce Constantinople about the possibilities of unless the offending order was cancelled, a separte, pence, Prominent Turke und before two days had passed Turkish distansing this question generally express women, determined to be Westernized, the belief that neither England or had won. The incident provoked an out France will consent to any peaces which burst of indignation on the part of the stops shurt of the dismemberment of the women against the German authorities in Offaman Empire. For the first time since Turkey, who were, accused, probably their inception there is a general dis wrongly, with wanting to keep Turkish position in Turkey to condemn and regret women in a backward condition. the Armenian massacres-not on humani tarian grounds, but simply cause (in. the belief of the Turks) the memory of

below:

DAY BIGNALS

oreuse.

tion)...

A

A SEPARATE PEACE?

THE TASK-MASTER.

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without any oscillation or swaying on the And we are promised a tranquil night, part of the machine Economically a Transatlantic aircraft will have, it is pointed out, a meat pull over the liner. for twenty or thirty hours, instead of Passengers will only require to be fed weck it will not be necessary for AD aircraft to lie idle in port for a week while it is taking on board stores for a thousand or more people "> this new bird of passage will be able to cross several titres while the liter car only Cross, Quico. Consider, too, the questions of much sneller crow, automatic engines which do not require stokers, and other economies EUROPEAN HIGHWAYN.

The wretched, paltry hand-to-mouth conditions of life that have come with weekly-wage industrialism have stifled it more or less, but it still exists and our present situation shows what a good instinct it was. When you come to think of it, your kind offer of a parcel of

It is scarcely surprising to read that trench comforts for the old folks ni homo would have had no point, and the food European airways will make it practic problem would have presented no diffiable for the business man to leave his culty of food hoarding had been encour office at noon and take tea in Nice that aged in the early days of the ward - a non-stop journey to Petrograd will only The products of the whole fertile world take sight or sen hours, and that com- were pairing into England. The iconication between London and Paris marine danger threatened but could do will probably be tousy and frequent de communication between London and very little present harm. There was no shortage of anything; in fact, there was Brighton. Even will trains passing

day we see the measure of the late journey will not be possible at greater superabundance, thon ever under the Channel, it is hinted, the anything Government's folly in the fact that their like the speed attained by air. failure to encourage what was a virtue These are only a few of the anticipated. two years ago has caused the same thing results of air-power which the authors to be denounced now ag a crime Food discuss in their chapters devoted to thơ hoarding, which is now the meanest form commercial era of light. The pages of individual greed, would have enabled which describe and annotate the feats of us to defy the submarine if the Asquith aircraft activity performed in the present lot had only perceived it. And the sad war will be read with absorbing interest noble, white-soured women of spotless and frankness of inside knowledge, and dest part of it all is that the high-minded. They are written with all the authority record are now being forced by inherited constitute a remarkable

Commentary on instinct into crime without knowing it.

Imaneno munes, lest the Censor should

the one phase of our vast operations which has never been stagnant. Aircraft as machines for reconnaissance were on

7.—Black cross-Wind of typhoon force oxpected (any dires Signal No. 7 will be accompanied by three explosive bombs, fired as intervals of 10 seconds at the Water Police Station and repeated at the Harbour Office.

The signals will be lowered when it is considered that all danger is over.

It may be mentioned that some illusions The Day Signals will be displayed at the massacres constituted an insuperare entertained outside Turkey regarding able obstacle against any, understanding the powers possessed by the German the masthead of the storm signal mast on between Turkey and the Entente Powers authorities in Turkey. The Germans are Blackhead Hill, the Barbour Ofice, Naturally enough Germany on refully certainly the masters of the Turks in the H.M.S. Tamar, Green Island signal must, sense is talked from time to time, outside Governmen, but the influence of the Fusters this belief. A great deal of non sense that they control the Turkish the flagstaff on the premises of the Hong. Turkey, about the revival of the Old Gerumn officials over the civilian popala kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Tark Party, the uprise of a pro-British tion is very small. The German police in Party, or the alarm which Enver Pasha Constantinople are strictly forbidden to Company at Kowloon, the flagstaff on the feels at his dwindling power. As a matter interfere with the population, and even read this letter and pass it on to the their trial in the early months of the war premises of the Standard Oil Company of feet the utmost political stagnation in the army Turkish soldiers are not coupolice. But a certain lady whom I have but though they may have suffered fro at Laichikok, and the flagstaff near the prevails at Constantinople; and if the pelled to be subservient towards their known and esteemed for years has con a lack of numbers and effectivo organisa- truth were known Enver probably wants German officers. Besides holding them frived-how. I know not to obtain and Lion, their value was quickly established. as quickly as possibin to get out of the responsible for the misery and misfortune to smuggle into her house half a hundred When its use had been systematised by mess into which he has funded himself which have befallen their country, the weight of sugar. And a certain young experience, the scout soon became an arm-, and his country. Probably 90 per cent Turks dislike the Germans personally lady.

who has hitherto borne and scout, and then, by natural evolution, of the Turks lament the pitcy which has On the other hand, the German naval and irreproachable character has yielded to destructive force of supreme value harnessed their country to Germany military officers make no secret of their temptation and turned her wardrobe into deplore the humiliation if is daily contempt for what they regard as the a warehouse for a store of six one-pound revealed? First thut the superiority of

What bus the great war in the air undergoing, and pray forvently for peace; laziness and slackness of their Turkish tins of somebody's Ideal toffee. our airmen over the German airmen is but in their phlegmatic, fatalistic way charges. Admiral von Souchon, the Ger Send the tin of bisenits if you will-human rather than mechanical. The tem- they let things run their course, hoping man Admiral at Constantinople, is never went ones preferred and I will save perament of the Briton, which has sent. the while that Allah will avert the final tired of declaring to other European at them up for a rainy day. But they will him adventuring through the world for catastrophe.

the Constantinople Club that the Turks, not be so welcome as your postcard this centuries, has proved almost ideal for fly- as fighting men, are hopelessly inefficiens. morning. Write as soon as you can. All In peace or war, the Briton flies The Goeber, and the Breslay have been our 10-Your affectionate with a personal and sporting zest almost anchored in Stenia Bay for over a year and, although it is impossible for a for.

that they are in a terribly battered and signer to inspect them, it is probably trije. useless condition

Field Officer's Quartera at Lyemuz.

NIGHT BIGNALS. (Lamps)

1.-White-white-white.

-White-green-green.

-Green-white-white,

Green-green-white.

5-White-white-green. 6.-Green-green-green. 7.-Red-green-red.

The Night Signals will be displayed, at sunset, on the tower of the Railway Station, on HMS. Tamar, and on the Harbour Office fagstaff. They will have the same signification as the day signals

Signal No. 7 will be accompanied by explosive bombs as above, in the event of the information conveyed by this signal being first published at night.

BUPPLEMENTARY WARNING.

to notify the fact to native craft and passing ocean vessels.

THE VERGE OF STARVATION.

WAR LOANS WHILE YOU WAIT.

FAIRER. unknown to the German who flies, geni

Da erally speaking, spirit of duty.

The reports which reuch the outer world from time to time about sonditions facts. The vast mass of the Turkish

The young Englishman flies an uoro- in Turkey invariably under state the

plane us he would ride a hora to hounds population is now subsisting on the verge

unmolested.

About 30 members of the or in a steeplechase, or sail & vacht in of starvation. The inery which prevails

colony have undergone periods of intern trestening wind. It is a sport to him... at Constantinople among the middle and

ment inland in reprisals by the Turan adventure; something to be enjoyed working classes is heart-breaking; while The principal pre-occupation of the kish Government for alleged bombard rather than to be done as a duty. And When local signals are displayed in which prevail, are ewins worse. There is Tnancial condition of the country and French avistors All British sub-mental advantages to the caution and conditions inland, owing to the pidentes Turkish Parliament is the deplorable ments of undefended towns by British it is this spirit, allied to his tempera the Harbour a Cone will be exhibited at no choloris at Constantinople, and the nickel, and copper hare long since jects in Constantinople must be at home judgment that leaven his daring, which the following stations-Gap

admirable sanitary measures imposed on vanished from circulation, and the court before nine o'clock in the evenings reader him invincible in the air, as he Waglah, Stanley, aoerdeen, San Ki Wan, the city by the Germans have succeeded try is flooded with notes and stamps About half a dozen members of the colony has been for centuries on the sea. Sai Kung Sha Tau Kok end Tai foin keeping typhus within close limits, latter worth about 2d. each of all kinda are at present interned" in a house in So much for the Briton's fannte quali- The Germans tried to make the tramway At the back of the notes in one of these also described as "reprisel, is 10 air ghting Material is enormous Constantinople. Their imprisonment, ties. But temperament is not everything company daily tisín feet - their vehicles, estegurics is a design of Kut, and an Further details can always be given but as usual, they acted in the matter inscription, rather amusing in the light formal one, and they suffer no privations. ly important factor, and it was hero.. to ocean vessels, on demand, by signal without tact, and, the company refusing of recent events, to the effect that, thanks looks after the interests of the British sonnel had been improved in 1818, that The American Embassy at Constantinople after our ground organisation and Der from lighthouses,

no European now travels in the tramears, to the bravery of coe Turkish troops and The object of the code is to give at least Pitiful incidents, indicating the misery their Geripan allies, the town will remain colony very thoroughly. The American the greatest lesson was learnt. The value 24 hours warning of a gale (Force 8 by of the people, can be witnessed daily at in Turkish, hands until the end of the Ambassador is on excellent terms with the of the machine which could combine suc Beaufort Scale, or 40-45 m.p.h., mean any street corner. The faces you see are rkish flanges are run on the simplest Turkish authorities, and his tactful intercessfully the attributes of speed and strik velocity by Dines Anemometer) and also haggard, pinched, and worn, the eyes lines. Every time that the Turkish venition often prevents internments. ideal, which affect a compromise between ing power was recognised. The naval warnings of expected changes in the haunted, the frames feeble. I do not Government is hard up in anks Ber Quite recently the Turks, at the instiga the necessity for speed and the import direction and force of the wind. Owing, knew whether people die uf starvation in lin

forn Joan,

The antion of the Germans, decided to internance of armament that dors not unduly however, to the uncertain movements of Constantinople, but I have frequently consists in permission by the Ger inland the British Nonconformist minis retard speed, became the serial_ideal. typhoons and to insufficient telegraphie en old men and women collapse I man Government for the Turkish ter--the most popular European in Con- How the many and diverse problems in observations, it will occasionally happen suppose from hunger in the streets authorities to issue paper money for the stantinople. The minister was seized construction were faced and conquered is that signals 2 to 5 may be displayed Poor people will pay enormous sums for mount required. The German Govern conveyed across the Bosphorus, and was set out clearly and succinctly- The Iny 8 pm—Anction of Crowa Land at Paille without a gale occurring at Hongkong, worm-eaten figs with white one would ment has promised to redeem, out of the on his way to an Asia Minor concentra reader finds himself marvelling at the or even Gap Rock, but the reverse is not not attempt to poison a mad dog. In the indemnities exacted from its encases, all tion camp when the American Ambassador patience, ingenuity, and enterprise likely to happen, except the cass of old far off days of peace the average the paper money issued in Turkey during heard of the case. Instead of protesting shown typhoons forming in the vicinity and humble class Turk would make a piece of the war. The mark has dropped indiquantly, the Ambassador quietly We have already mentioned that travelling rapidly towards Hongkong, or bread and chose, some olives and some extremely low lately in value in Turkey expressed regret that the authorities Mèsers. Grahame White and Harper

should treat a man harshly who had not limit their studies to war conditions, of a located typhoon increasing its rate Turkish delight form his principal meal. of progression abnormally.

THE BRITISH COLONY, Today Each a meal would probably cost

devoted a large part of his life to the por are they content to speculate vaguely him (in English money) about de..

Most of the members of the British good of the Turkish population. Enver on the development of air power when SUGAR

SAD A LUMP !

colony at Constantinople left at the out Pasha at once realized the force of the peace is restored. Their able work is a 9 pm Anction of Valmable Lenacholi Pro-

break of the war, and those who remain Ambassador's view; and a courier de popular treatise on every shade and perty at Sales Rooms, by Messrs., Hughes

Prices have risen steadily since the numbering from 100 to patched hot haste instructed the guards aspect of a revolutioning & Hough.

In the new non-Local Code the approxi- beginning of the war, and in English the admiration of feien 150have won return to Constantinople with the social and national lift. Even if the sthetic mind cannot profess any enthu mate velocity of the storm centre will be terms are now something like the follow- alike by their courage anft dignity is very Nonconformist minister--- Monday, 27th Aug. —

shown, in addition to its direction of ing:-Butter, 10s the ib, cheese, 148. dificul circumstances. The British busi The mental strain which the British Siasm for the prospect which fooms ahead, Noun---Anction of Valt alle Leechali Promotion, and the position of the centre the lb. olives as the In sugar, 108, mass have in Constantinople are open undergo at Constantinople is very great

party from the Liquidator of Menen will be given in degrees of latitude and the lb. rice, is the lh Turkish delight, sa usza, and generally speaking the sad men who two years hack were hale Witzke & Ca; at Sales- How by Me longitude. The time at which the warn 83 the lb. The veritable famine in sugar siembers of the present British colony ar and strong new creep about the streets Ara P. Lasteners -

ing was issued will also be shown. which now prevail at Constantinople is Contioned at foot of next tulum.)

mere shadows.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

Tuesday, 3rd July

Works Dept. Tasnday, 31st July-----

Non-Auction of Valuable Lesssheld Pro

perty from the Liquidators of Meas Jeton & Co, at False Bour, by Mr. Geo. P. Lammeri.

Monday, 18th Aug, 1–

Signal No. 1 is intended an a warning to Stand By" and watch for the next signal.

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in our

the practical mind must admit that fundamental changes are coming, and that there is imperative need for a re- insted neovile fo grasp their character, and their purpose.