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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2018, 1917.
FOOD PRICES IN HONGKONG.
NEED NOT WAIT SCHEDULE OF MAXIMUM RETAIL
UNTIL OUR STOCK HAS BEEN REPLACED AT THE HIGH DOLLAR RÄTE OF EXCHANGE.
OUR
REBATE
IS APPLIED TO ALL PURCHASES OF IMPORTED GOODS.
MEN'S
BLACK BOOTS.
CALF
BLUCHER FRONT WIDE FITTINGS:
HIGH GRADE
Market Produce:
RICES.
September 17th, 1917.
DUTCHEN MEAT.
Beef Sirloin-Mei Lung Pa Beel Prime Cut
Beef Corred-Ham Ngai Yuk
Ib.
Ct
.21
91.
Beef Roast-Shiu Ngaw Yuk
20
20
18
18
20
Deef Breast--Ngau Nam
Beet Soup-Tong Yuk
Beef Steak-Ngau Yuk Pa
Beel Steak Sirloin-Ngau Lau ve Beet Sausages Ngau Cheung
No
Bullock's Brains-Ngau No,
Bullock' Tongue, fresh-
Ngau Li
Bullock's Tongue, corned-
Ham Ngau Li
B0
per set
9
ench
44
00
Bullock's Head-Ngau Tau ...
BRITISH
Bullock's Heart-Ngan San... b.
13
Bullock's dump, salt-Ngau ̈
Kin
18
Badlock's Feet-Ngnu Keak...ench
10
Bullock's Kidneys--Ngau Yiu
Bullock's Tail-- Ngau Mei
18
Bullock's Liter--Ngau Kon b
13
FOOTERY.
Bullock's Tripe (undressed)
Ngnu To
Calves Bead and Feet-Ngau
tsai-tan-keuk
Mutton Chop Yeung
Kwat
Pei
Mutton LegYoung Pei
MEN'S TAN CALF BOOTS.
EASY FITTINGS, BLUCHER LACE.
Prices $13.50 and $15.00] || Prices $15.00 $17.50
Pair.
TAN CALF
BROGUE
SHOES. Price $15.00 Pair,
Palr
STOUT WALKING OR COLFING SROE.
SOFT UPPERS... UNLINED. EXTRA STOUT SOLES.
Price $17.00 Pair,
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW
& CO., LTD.,
20. DES VŒUX ROAD, HONGKONG.
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DAI NIPPON
ASAHI BEER
GFAND PRIZE
VASANT
DAI NIPPONT
OKYO, JAPAN
BREWERY CO. TOKYO.
BEER
4SAHL
LAGER BEER
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LOSS
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JOHNSTONES
NAPIER
SQUARE
BOTTLE WHISKY.
NAPIER JOHNSTONE'S
$28 per case.
SQUARE BOTTLE WHISKY
Mutton Shoulder Yeung
Shar
Mutton Saddle-Yeung On
Yuk!!
Pig's Chillings Chu Chong
VICTIMS OF U-BOAT
CALLOUSNESS.
ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO DROWN
SHIP'S CREW.
SAVING FOR THE WAR APPEAL TO THE CIVILIAN POPULATION.
By accepting
Mr. R. M. S. Kindersley, Chairman of i A statement made to the representativa the National Wir Savings Committee, of a news agency by one of three writing from the offices of the Committee, survivors of the crew of 41 of a steamerys!
Three years nga thousands of men torpedoed by a German submarine sug- gests a deliberate intention on the part yoluntarily offered theruselves to the ser of the U-bent commander te drown the vice of the country; subsequently com whole of his victims. The three survivors pulsion was introduced. were picked up by a patrol boat and and compelling this sacrifice the nation as janded. The steamer was the Belgien a whole undertook the moral obligation of Prince, and Thomas Bowman, the chief giving to those whom we send to fight for | បទ support and protection without stint cagincor, gave the following narrative and to the extrete liraits of our power of his experience:
We cannot do less than this without cou feasing disloyalty to the fighing manhood of the country.
THE ESKENTIAL FACTS. -
The essential facts of the situation re:--
About 8 on Tuesday evening, while 200 miles from land; I saw from the after deck the wake of an approaching torpedo. To those who are eacefully studying the I gave a lurch when the torpedo struck financial situation in this country, it must I was thrown on the deck, by a picco of be apparent that the difficulties of finance debris. The vessel took a heavy list, and at present facing the Stat, are many, and all took to the boats. The submarine apare likely to increase These difficulties proached and destroyed the wireless by have largely been created by the civilian shell fire. The submarine ordered the population, and can only be remedied by
them. boats to come alongside, and called for the skipper Captain Hassan went aboard and was taken down into the submarine. The rest of us, 41, were This
(1.) During the last 18 months expendi- mustered in the submarine deck.
ture on the war has been doubled. It is Germans took the lifebelts from all of us therefore necessary that twice as much except eight, and outside clothing for money should be placed at the disposal of all of us. The submarine crew then the State either as the result of voluntary entered the submarine and closed saving and investment in Government hatches, leaving us on deck. Before this, securities. or by means of compulsory the German sailors had taken the dars, saving through taxation.
(2.)-The major portion of the Govern; balers, and gratings from our lifeboats" and smashed the bonts with an axe. The ment's expenditure takes the form of pay
Sud-ments to the civilian population for goods submarine went about two miles. dealy I heard the rush of water and and services. It is obvious that when -10 shouting, "Look out, she is sinking, twice as much
jumped into the water. Many men went down with the submarine; others swam about. I had a lifebelt. Near nie was an
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.set $1.00
fb.
Pig's Brains Chat Noper set
Pig's Text Chi Keuk
biz's Fry Cu Chan
Pig's Head Chi Tan
Pig's Heart Chi Sam
Pig'. Kidneys-Chu Yiu. Pig's Liver-Chi Kon... Pork Chop-Chu Pai Kwat... Pork Leg Chi Pei
8 na
A
#
道 Ib.
20
18
esch.
10
Pork Loin--Chit Hau Tun Pork Fat or Lard-Chi Yau Sheep's Head and Feet Yeung Tau Keuk..... Sheep's Heart-Yeung Sum each Sheep's Kidneys Young Yiu Sheep's Liver-Yeung Kon lb.
Veal-Ngau Tasai Yük
Lard-Chi Yau
Dab-Sha Mang Ya
Dace-Wong Mei Lap
Halibut Cheung Kwan Kap...
Lobsters-Lung Ha
Mackerel-Chi Yü
Mong Fish-Mong Yu
20
28
'set
60
05-
12
11
26
38 R
18
money is
heing distributed by the Government in this way, and even after allowance has been made for the increased cost of living, a much larger
FIGHTING SOLDIERS
GRIEVANCES.
FEW BUT IMPORTANT.
If any member of Parliament wishe to earn the gratitude of the whole of the fighting ranks of our vast British Army, lot him ask the Secretary of State for War the following simple questions:-
(1) Is there any reason why the man who is wounded should be accorded a badge of honour in the shape of a gold stripe while the man who has been in the firing-line perhaps since the beginning of the war should have nothing to show
(2) Is there any reason why a distine tion should not be made between decora tions bestowed for services rendered under fire and those awarded for services render. ed in zoues not exposed to danger?.
(3) Is there any reason why the men who have earned war medals in one or other of the campaigns waged by Great
terminated should not receive their medala Britain in this war and now definitely, Lefore they are all killed in campaigns still proceeding?.
The fighting forces would be glad if any satisfactory reply were forthcoming to For, these plain and direct questions. apart from: local "shop" and gossip from home, these three questions have bec, and doubtless still are being, de- bated everywhere along our far-fung battle-line in the world war.
The British soldier is not a captious critic. He is perfectly content with the material and moral support he receives from home. Doing his bit, as far as in him lies, he is quite prepared to believe that every other one of his fellow-citizens is likewise playing his jurt to the best as it is the idol of every Briton, and the of his ability. But fair play is his idol,
to-day he is not being justly dealt with as long as these three questions await a: satisfactory settlement,
apprentice, aged 16, shouting for help. I remains in the hands of the (2) If this surplus were saved instead of being spent the demand of the civil population for goods and services would be no greater than it was 18 months ago. Increased demand leads to higher prices.
went to him and held him up in the Population for spending or saving British fighting soldier undoubtedly feels
sale, and the State and private individuals compete as buyers.
darkness til about midnight, when he be same unconscious and eventually died 30 from exposure, I took his lifebelt and 24 waited for daylight. I then saw the
Let us take them one by one." The gold (4.) It is evident that, with the present Belgian-Prince still afloat and made for her. My way lay through dead bodies limited capacity for production and od stripe is rightly deemed a badge some in lifebelts, others not. As I neared import, the supply of commodities is con- of honour, but a large section of the This public goes so far as to regulate the siderably less than the normal: the ship she blew up. I held on for audaced supply is placed on the market for meed of respect it entertains and mani- other hours when a rescued boat picked me up in the last stages of exhaustion, after
fests towards our fighting soldiers by the presence or absence of gold stripes. Yet, 1 hours in the water;"
a moment's consideration will show how Another survivor, G. Biliski. of
fallacions such reasoning is Orissa, the second engineer, said he had a similar experience, save that he reached the doomed steamer in the morning before she was blown up and was actually on board when the Germans came and looted her. He watched them from a hiding place, and when they came, near him bo jumped into the sen, and, catching some wreckage, remained afloat till rescued, He confirms the chief engineer as to the obvious intention to drown the entire crew. A third survivor, the second cook, is too ill in the infirmary in tell his story, lb. Cts
20
21
(5.)-1f private individuals reduce their consumption and lend to the State the money thus saved, they transfer their purchasing power to that extent to the State, who can use it to buy, for the put pose of the war, goods and servire equi valent to what would otherwise have been consumed by individuals.
(6.)This
diminishes the process increasing demand and therefore obviates the higher prices that must take place if Government purchases are added instead of being substituted for, the put chase of individuals," These economic facts are not yet generally realized, and the result is that neither the State nor the civil population obtain good value for
Fears (Canton), Cooking their expenditure a
Kwa
Cabbage, Shanghai-Ye Taci... bunch- Kau
Cane Shoots,
THE REMEDY.
Nothing would be simpler than to, adopt the French plan of granting a man a chevron, worn high up on the left arm, for every six months he has served in the trenches, b
For the second question, it simply reseives itself into this: that the an
who has earned a decoration under fire hold not be asked to lent some of his distinctim to the nun who is given the same decoration for services rendered “at the back of the front. The esteem ju which a decoration is held is governed by the class of deed for which it is granted,
Civilians really have the matter entirely and if a man at a base receives, tur good in their own hands, for if they will make
administrative work, a decoration award.
11 ap their minds to devote all their energicsed to a runn at the front for conspicuous
au at the base receives-quite unwitting-
to increasing production and decreasing gallantre in action, then juevitably that. consumption they can ease the harden of financing the war, bring prices down, and prevent extravagant profits on the part
yp, be it said-part of the fighting man's fudus," add
of the producer and distributor, who, so It is felt, and strongly felt; by the men long as human nature is what it is, wil in the front line that this is not a fair. continue to take advantage of the condi; arrangement. It is not just, they claim, tions brought about by an increased that they should be asked to share their 7 demand and a diminished supply.
Wo
have in very good example of what can to decorations, won under fire, with men 5 done in the case of potatoes. The nation whose ves are spent in the quiet of the the lines of communication, 5 itself to increase the production of base
or'
this conunodity and to reduce its consump. There is no perseñal point or bias about tion, with the result that pointees are this feeling. It is fully recognised how 18 now on sale at a reasonable figure. magnifcently, how devotedly, the gond
Sucking Pigs, to order-Chú
Teai
Buet, Beef Shang Ngan Yan
20
[268
Suet, Mutton-Shang Young
. You
26
20
Veal Sausages-Ngau Tsai
Cheung, No. 1
Barbel Ka Yu .........g
26
Bream-Pin Yü
18
Canton Fresh Water Fish
Hoi Sin Yi
18
Carp-Li Yu...
90
Catfish-Chik Ya
14
Codfish-Man Yü
16
Sha Li
101
Crabs Hai
18
Cuttle Fish-Mak Yü
16:
Persimmons, Large-Hung Tsz Plantain Tai Shiu-
12
38
31
Pumelo, Siam-Tsim Lo Yeu each
Walnuts-Hop To
its.
14
Dog Fish-Tit To Sha
Grapes-Po Tri Tez
28
Eels, Conger Hoi Man
14:
VEGETABLES, ETC.
Eels, Fresh water-Tam Shui
Artichokes-Ah Chi Cheuk
1b.
Yü
18
Beans, Sprouts-Nga Tsai
4
Eels, Yellow Wong Sin
34
Beans Long-Tou Kok ......
Frogs Tin Kaj
36
Beet Hoot-Hung Toi Tau...
Garoupa-Shek Pan
44
Bitter Squash-Fu Kwa
Gudgeon-Pak Kap Yü
17
Brinjals, Green-Ching Yün
Herringa Tso Pak
92
22
Brinjals, Red-Hung Ke-
Labrus-Wong Fa Yü
20
Cabbage, Chinese (common)
Loach—Wu Y
28
Kai Tsoi
20
22
34
Mullet--Taai Yü
16
Cauliflower (Large)-Yo Tsoi
Oysters Shang Hò
18
T
Parrot Fish-Kai Kang Yü
14
Cauliflower (Medium)
Perch-Tau Lo
18
Cauliflower: (Small)
Pike Fa Pau Fong
J8
Carrots-Kan Shan
Plaice-Pan Y......
• 19
Celery, Chinese-Tong Kan
Pomfret, Black-Hak Chong.....
28
A
Pomfret, White-Pak Chong..
32
Chillies, dried-Kon Lat Chio
Prawa Ming Ha
34
Chillies, red-Hung Fa Chu
Ray-Pai Pa Sha
10
Chillies, green-Ching Lat
(32
Rock Fish-Shek Kau Kung
15
Chiu
Ronch-Chun Tâ
14
Curry Stuf, English-Ko Li
Salmon Ma Yau
39
..each.
Ginger, young
-Sim
Tse
Keung
Б
23
Ginger, old-Lo Keung
10
Tench-Wan Yü
18
Horseradish, Shanghai-Lik
Turbot-Teo Hau Ya
18
Kan
43
Turtles, small, fresh water-
Keuk Y
Indian Corn-Shuk Mai
06: ...each
80!
POULTRY.
Capons, Small Sin Kaf Capons, Large-Sin Kai Duck-Ap
30
20
24
Mushrooms, Fresh--Sbang Teo
Ku
Lettuce Yeung Shang Tsoi... Water Chestnut-Ma Tai .. Jb. Water Chestnuts. Mandarin-
Kwai Lam Ma, Tai
1
Okroes men
10
Onious,
per doz 17
Bombay Chúng Thụ
Yeung
21
35
Onions, Green Shang Chung Onions, Shanghai-Sheung-
hai Chung Tau b
05
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LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,
and from ALL WINE MERCHANTS.
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Watery blisters came first on my face, neck, and hands. They were very painful and irritating, and 1 could not get any sleep or rest for the itching. I could not do any of my household duties for nine weeks as
I
was obliged to have my hands bandaged.
After several months without any change 1decided -to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I found relief after the first application, and two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and four tablets of Cuticura Soap healed me." (Signed) Mrs. T.
Villas, Inett, Pentre Wychbold, Wor cester, Eng., August 8, 1916.
Most ekin troubles might be prevented and Ointment using Cuticura Soap
by
for every day toilet purposes.
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MARTIN'S
Shark Sha Yü Skate-Fo Ya..... Shrimps-Ha Stepper Lap Yü Soles--Tat Sha Yü
Chicken Kai Tsai
Doves-Pan Kau ..... Eggs, Hen-Kai Tan (cook
ing) b
Egge, Hen-Kai Tan (fresh) „~ Fowls, Canton Kai
Foxla Hainan-Hoi Nam
Kai
Geese Ngu
30
BERTO FAR 88 88
Shun
Chu Liu
Cneumbers-Ching Kwa
Garlie Süs Tau
Parsley-Kun Tsoi
Potato, Sweet-Fan Shu
Pigeons, Canton-Pak Kapcach 30 Potato, Japanese-Yai Pun
Pigeons, Huiho-Hei Hao
Tuk Kap.
Turkey, Cock-Fo Fai Fang 1b, Turkey, Hen--F Kai Ya
Snipe Shs Thi
Pheasant Shan Kai
21
Shu Taaining
Potato, American-Fa Ki Shu
Тарі
50.
Pumpkin-Tung Kwa:
Radish Hung Lo Pak Tsai.. Rhubarb (fresh)-Tai: Wong.. Shallots-Kon Chung Tau
Spinach-Yin Troj
Tomatoes Fau Ke
Turnips, Punti: (Long)-Lo
Pak
Vegetables Marrow Tait Kwa
As already stated, the major portion of work of the men at the back of the the Government's expenditure takes the front contributes to the general form of payments to the civilias popula eficiency of our fighting forces. Their tion for goods and services, and this extra readiness to meet danger, their willing payment by the State to the people is ness to serve, are neither questioned zor available for lending by the people to the discussed, for they do not affect the pre- Statel There is no disguising the fact
that, broadly speaking,... the civilian sant issue. The British soldier in the is not front line would be the last to join in population in this respre submitting itself to the discipline of war, the wholesale and ignorant haiting of "the 25 proving loyal to those whose voluntary Staff" in which the stay-at-homes so 12services it accepted, and to those whom it freely indulge. He fully recognises that compelled to fight, but this, no doubt the Staff officers of fighting units have arises from ignorance of the fundamental often to bear their share of the dangers forces governing the economic position and tails of batties, and he would be the 10 to-day.
last to grudge then the decorations they, receive,
The well-to-do, who should have a more complete knowledge of the conditions governing suck a situation, should be the first to set an example, and such an ex ample as will carry with it conviction to those who are generally less prosperous, but into whose hands at the moment money
But he asks that a clear line be drawn, between the nature of services for which decorations are" granted.
With regard to the third question, I fear that no reply which can be extorted, is flowing freely. These remarks are nok from the Government benches will satisfy
of course, addressed to thoa, who, owing
to the pressure of prices are finding it a survivors of Mons, of Antwerp, of difficult to obtain even the necessaries of Gallipoli, of Kut. Every day diminishes their number, for they are scattered all flife. SORROWING FROM AMERICA.
over the globe fighting the Empire's bat- Now that America has joined us, many thes. These men enjoy the esteer of their profess to find in that fact the excuse for comrades and the Army profits by their reducing their effort towards economy veteran experience of war. Is it too much because of the financial assistance which to ask that they should receive mayhe they hope will be received from that counorly a wisp of ribbon to tell the outside try. Apart from the fact that America's world of the man's part they played in financial help to us must be limited be the Empire's greatest crisis - Daily Mail, cause of the expenditure necessitated by
1.20 the creation of her own war machine, and
3 because of the demands of the other Allies on her resources, every shilling borrowed
B
a from abroad by this country must make ing for the war, they utilize their profits. or earnings on unnecessary expenditure our position after the war more difficult, they are making others work for them since it means that for many years, we instead of for the war, and are going far shall be paying tribute to another nation to nullify the effect of the good work Ginstead of paying it to ourselves, as we which they themselves have accomplished.
should if we saved now, and
and lent to our
It is of vital importance at the present, own country what she needs.
It is evident that from the frst day of juncture thit the nation as a whole should The only sound war we have not saved nearly enough, but appreciate these facts. this fact was largely obscured by the vast method of financing the war, is from av sales of securities made by us until recent- ing as the result of abstention, from ex ly to America, and other neutral coun penditure on unnecessary goods and ser tries, the proceeds of which were available vices by the individuals of the nation. 5 for investment in Government funds. The raising of money by any other means. 18 These sales are now practically at an end, muss of necessity lead to inflation of the und wo are brought face to face with our currency, higher and higher price, grat own shortcomings in regard to economy hardships to the less well-to-do section of Insion of the prohibition of the ex- One of the difficulties of the situation is the community, to industrial unrest ar port of certain food stuffs from the that those who are earning money in what consequent inefficiency in the conduct of is known as war work feel that, having the war, and to a grievous burden on the United Kingdom, the prices of these articles can no longer be worked to help to win the war, they have country for many years to come.
We pride ourselves des nution upon fired. If, however, any consumer a right to spend the money earned as they
think best. This is such a natural senti- the freedom of our institutions, and right considers that he has been over charged he may make represents-ment that it is hard to combat, but if wely so, but we are apt to forget that free- tions to that effect to the Secretary are to get through this war satisfactorilydom, like all other great gifts, carries of the Food Committee, Sanitary we must explain to all that if, after work with it great obligations, and the greatest
(Continued at foot of next column.) of these to-day is self control. Board Offices, for investigation."
Quail-Om Chain "
Partridges Che Kú
36.1
·FRUI75
Almonds-Hang Yan
35
Tarcs Wu Tan
Apples (California) - Kam
Shan Ping Ko
18
Bananas (bride's), Macao
Heung Chiu
5
Carambola-Yeung To
11
Coconuts-e. The .....
each
10
Water Taly root-Lin Ngau Yams-Tai Shu
•Lemons, Ching--Ling Mung.. Tb. Lemons, America-Kam Shan
Ling Mung
8
.each
Lichses, dried (small stone)-
Lai Chi Kon b. Oranges (Canton) (sweet)- Shan-sheng Tim Chang -... "Orange" (Canton). I
Peanuts--Fa Shang
(Continued at foot of next column.)
Water Cress-Sai Yeung Tsoi
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