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WORLD-TRADE AFTER THE

WAR.

A URUGUAYAN SURVEY, Señor Pedro Cosio the Uruguayan Minister, has issued, in pamphlet form, what appears to be the gist of 2 report to his Government on The Post-War Organisation of Labour in the United Kingdom He bus other shan merely diplomatic qualifications entitling him to write with authority on atch a topic, for he has been Minister of Finance and of Labour in Uruguay and was President of the Uruguayan, Delegation to the Pan-American Financial Confer ence in 1915 and to the Conference at Buenos Aires last year. On the whole he

TER

CONSPIRACY OF THE

TWO EMPERORS.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO LISTEN WHEN WARNED.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH. 1917.

HUNGARY AND THE WAR

WASTAGE OF LIFE.

SIGNIFICANT FIGURES.

FRENCH AND ENGLISH SOLDIERS

A COMPARISON BY M. PAINLEVE.

[FROM A HUNGARIAN CORRESPONDENT]levé, the Daily Chronicie e special corre Relating na interview with M. Pain

spondent says

caths juste published. It has alrenda pen the other, wtihouf, however,

with the

little smile,

NOTHING IS MORE EMBAR- RASSING THAN EXTREME THINNESSA

BY DR, E J, DILLON,] SAMANA

The suggestion that among all the M. Painlevé began by making an in- Something of a sensation is being. caused by the revelations of the Paris belligerent countries Hungary is the one teresting comparison between the French New York Herald respecting telegrams which has suffered mest averely in pro-and English soldier. He remarked, how alleged to have been exchanged by the portion to population receives support the qualities of the one seemed to have Kniger and the Tsar in the year 1914, and from statice slating to births and

Kny loss of original characteris the treaty scheme in which they culniinat

been mentioned that the German citics Lics For instance, he said, the ed. Some publicists have received them with a degree of reserve bordering incensed to publish such statistics early in pidity of his own countrymen was freely the present year for these revealed such acknowledged They were known for scepticism, and the question has been

offensiva, But after the shed when and how the German plat fell an alarming state of affairs that the their dashing

authorities deemed it wiser to suppress first shock, it was supposed that they am the only outsider them

them In As it happened, I am t

down has a statesmanulike outlook over the who has had cognisance of this intrigae, has been contina, however, publication were easily discouraged and t

and the lette Vapis But now the astonishing discovery remarked the Minister with great problems with which he deals its origin, progress, and eat. I have has just given the Agures, wi namely, the methods of reconstruction been aware of it ever since the year 1905he latest Hungarian birth and death capable of resisting brusque and violent

lowing comments:

been made

de that they are not only

is known as the Whitley Committee on mise not to breathe a word of it to any.

nature. The attacks, but of sustaining with the utmost the means to be adopted for the closer co one before the of one of the two war has caused a

power at the front which can hardly be renchman knows

REAU COMRADES socially. marked the be

estimated, oven approximately. but" the Again, every Fren

the Scrawny, inny people are seldom

Wo add that I

admire fine figures." even more terrible than that among fish, but noce suspected his dosh and No dressmaker in hide a bony, skinny

contact, seems to have brought about You ought to test the one guaranteed which has made the milis good" for years in England, which has superficially hes

hes had not been awarded a gold medal and diploma

has

It is the plump, well-developed man

which are called for; the report of what at was ut first bound by a solemn prostatistics are of erosion of man valour the pressure of weeks and months. who cats the meigas" and has the fun!

whose

and

operation between. Labour and Capital; personages the end of the episode devastation caused at home, seems to have traditional bulldog qualities of the Eng- popular. and the vast extent of the preparations gingival eed hardly after thechting forces. The losses at home energy inattnek. Emulation through form.

the

other

tnry, splendour of the realised

but he adds: judged bi apparent coldness hid a of honour at Brussels, Belgium. -

great patriotic ardour." Directed by his

Nothing

the marvellous success of this now treat in history has ever approached

ment, which, according to report, has made more thin folks plump than all the

which must be made if British trade is to resume its old position after the war kept this promise religiously. A Particularly illuminating are the contrast lapse of some form the British Govern have certainly been much more serious oral combination in the two armies, reliable treatment

of

years

rs I was

was unexpectedly be draws between the national economy;

Accordingly I

comfort his readers the writer. pursued by Germany and the political ment of what I knew.

eminent statesman who

plains

that the number of marriages and The Frenchman now rough He had taken America by storm and which has economy which has prevailed in Great sought out the

nd births has declined considerably in Britain for more than half a century; was then its authorised spokesman and

countries as well his anticipations of the probably result set about communicating the secret to

In Hungary the number of deaths of the great measure of enfranchisement him Keenly interested by the introduc

prefaced

not including the losses at the front- How before Parliament; and his careful to was shocked and grieved when told exceeded the number of births as long examination of the difficulties that will he

upon a discreditable ago 28 May 1916.

Since the the excess arise when the Old Trade Union rules him that it turned have to be restored and the demobiliea weakness of the Tsar, and be courteously of deaths over births has grown to such

hit armly refused to listen to my story

a frightful extent that in In consequence of this

the deaths the British Government remained in total The Royal Hungarian

generous attitude the present year

births b ignorance of that early symptomatic de has just published the annual figures to the first to organise its industry for the culars of an episode

June 1st, 1917. The book deals first of the timely and commercial campaign will be the one fully applied knowledge of which might. which will recupy the forefront in foreign have cambled them to save Russia from mark:ts. The advantages of Great premature ruin and the Entente from the Britain consist in her maritime position | loan of a powerful ally, and from all that and the integrity of her factories, her that radional reputation for honesty and

tion of the millions of fighting men and mmunition workers has to be carried out.

A DEFENSIVE DOSE OF PROTECTION.

more than 13, 2

will power, his peculiar virtues, woral and physical, his strength of soul, and his trained muscles as an athlete: mado of him an admirable partner for the French the man whose forte lay in his initiative. The Germans, added the Minister, Office will soon realise that the sum total of these martial qualities is fatal to their hopes

tonics and ineffective medicines for afty years.

There's a rengon, Plump, well formed men and women assimilate what they sat This, scrawny ones do not.

He remarks that the nation which is fection, and are evon now without all with marriages, and compares the Englishuen Frenchmen tro one thing the thin folks Tack, that is the

three war years with the last pre-war year. The figures are as follows; →

MARRIAGES. 1013-4. 1014-5. 016-6. - 1 1916-7 206,000 8,859 66,7,78 69,205

BIRTHE 1913-4 1914-51915-8. 1918-7. 738,256710,795 364,438 330,662 Last year's,

decline of

figures show more than 50 par cent

CONVIA CIVILIAN DEATHS.

This new discovery aims to supply the power to assimilate food

It renews the vigour, re-establishes the normal; all in nature's own way.

16 is not a lash to jaded nerves, but a

upbuilder.

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d Tommy find a com-

comrades in the real sente and this is even more true of their chich. It reposes on the feeling that each can count with certainty upon the other. The language AN ENFORCED SILENCE. Inie dealing, and the vastness of her Since then the death of one of the two

panionship. There has sprung up in the zones behind the lines a sort of trench Empire diandvantages are her dromalis persone alluded to above put

jargon, amusing and picturesque, in "generous policy of free trade though an end to my obligation of secrecy. I was free to make what use Thenceforth

which the poils

and of late, by a decorous and scrupulous liked of the narrative in my poranssion

mon stock of expressions. The contact transaction with protection, she has ne

is less frequent at the front itself, for sured differential tariffs with the Dominion, however, was still out of the

and because it would have demon In the first year of the war there was the two armies. English

French, are, ions and sundry laws relating to patents strated that the foundation on

thean increase of deaths as compared with of coura quite distinet. and trade marks and shorter hours and Allies then hoped to raise the

the last pre-war year of over 30,000, but It is natural that from this propin- a higger standard of living than prevail peace fabric was a treacherous

improvement in the death rate. This any amprovement that may have been trust in the wisdom of their leaders, improvement, however, is more apparent devised by one or the other. Thus we

It was contrary to

than real

real, as the

the writer goes on to Ax have applied methods that the English Plain

huve developed for the comfort and well- The figures appearing in the statistics.

being of

of the soldier. Our foyers are relating to deaths are only seemingly modelled upon your buts and clubs, and The deaths due to bad and we have now established libraries and

in Germany. The last named are, how and it might also have to following two war years show some quity, should arving & desire to profit by

ever, justifed on other grounds, as he points out. However,

their

public interest. I was fold, to

to dwell on past blunders

it is neessary to recognise that as regards the collective life of cach nation, of our statesmen, to criticise their cur as such, a certain defensive dose of Pro-rent action and inaction, or to refite

can

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than deeper

a

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INSURANCE.

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MR. E. P. HENDERSON. I.C.S., Retired

* of 42, Leinster Gardens, London, W.,

tetion is expedient, & Protection which their attractive forecasts of the future, food and to adverse health book centres, which, with our cinema wishes to remind the readers of this paper it is the patriotic duty of men and now quite so that without anche conditions certainly increased in a very and lectures, help to instruct and enter that his advice is available, now no for the parties wh have preached Free Trade, forced silence respecting the past, pre- from the platform, the tribune, and sent, and future, it would have been in marked way. That he statistics do not tain-our men

But

last sixteen years, to all those of known your employ

front through the Press, defend.If possible for the Allied Governments to show this, but, ont contrary, indicato Britian legislation is not modified in a

about the present international decline in the death rate, may be cand you Protective sense, even though the Proter hitun o

larger personel position who agree to his conditions. which

counted for by two circumstances. Tha in subsidiary directions.

Women now The war, which has pitilessly exposed the tion is defensive, she will not be able to and hopeful they assure us is bright first is that a large proportion of the hold certain military or semi-miliary werknesses of many kosaranes Offices, has consolidate the position she enjoyed pre- then I contented myself with documents the deaths there are not included in the of the country. ENGLISH triumphantly vindicated the soundness of

population the various fronts and pos

js at.

but not at posts,

the front, i

in the interior

vious to the war, nor to extend her, con that possessed them and hinting at their complet

for if they make.

THE SPORTING the figures and

them far The quality that the Frenchman most and overore unfavourable. The second is that admires in

the dimination in the birth rate has ben sporting good humour. This superb tions took place during 1915, only five

English confrère la his

Instead of

mere Beginning with the British Isles, character it inay be to-day, more

taa he observed that ventran

which the Germaus- called “National econmy, the synthesis of which is con tained in the formula self-supply

He instances the Corn Froduction Act and the State subvention in aid of the sugar beet industry as showing that Britain, having already recognised this- cessity, will be unable at a inter stags to withdraw these inducemprats. In re gard to the return of economic Protec

This I did

my

announcing

again in my articles and books, and

in private conversation.

On June 12th, 1917, for wrote about the

also

Mr. Henderson's advios,

Out of thirty British Offices, whose valua

so great that the absence of the heavy armour of the soul shines even in the child mortality, which usually accounts rudest moments of the battle, in the most maintained their pre-war bozus rate: included What manner of skeleton, the reader for so large a proportion of the death sanguinary hours. I remarked it in the amongst thess five are the two Offices most may ask, lay hidden away in the Im-rate, makes the death rate for the whole insault of "Vimy Ridge, where your frequently recommended by Mr. HENDERSON, merial cupboard still capable of making population appear smailer. The greater Colonial and Imperial troops moved to such mischief after it had rensed to be due to deaths among children under a gigantic football match two Ofices are respectively the highest and

the mortality fures was the att

e attack if they were taking part in and, moreover, the bonuses declared by these living

was, a political et, WAS known long since to the oat child. But so few children are born in the two an of

that British Government, and, if

was it mousty diminished; and this fact makes child mortality has of course, enior not a Damocles sword that might

"not

course, is s

French rush hurricane-wise upon the foci of neither of these Offices has the bonus, rate- great divertity of temperament. The second highest of the whole thirty. Moreover

like the

passage of & mighty wind

Lion, he remarks, in another part of then the monarch's head independe the statistics merease in the ungarian ey are graver in the battle than your ever once receded throughout their long

The

Allied Governments will? To

annual

pamphlet, thas the opinion of the work questions the answers are in the negative population of about 20 millions is given owa men. This comes from various facts history since they were established in 1638 ers, as expressed through Trade Union Odd though it may seen, the routter allud

in the following leaders, has changed,

sing Agures issued by the of history and environment. To begin PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCTION ed to has been hidden from the British

-Tuercase in 1913-14 243,384 All this, however, may not be accom, dozen men who were parties to it three and other Governments, and of the half-

Increase in 1914-16 .... 169,082 Increase in 1915-16 .............. 132,668 the

1916-17850

Royal Statistical Office:

bered,

with and the fact is not always remem and 1826 respectively.

greater

perhaps our_lassen have been When advion which has thus been vindicat than yours. Then we are defend-

plished without agitated resistance and had already died As chance would have Increase in de opad2172,558 and we have the memory, rankling in only to reasonable conditions, why not write

THE TREATY SIGNED,

[1006

disturbances unless, as the Whitley it, I was conversant with all that

10g our own soil-that makes a difference ed by time can be got free of charge, subject Committee advises, there is collaboration initiated State dignitaries knew about Thus, in spite of the seemingly favour breasts, of an old defeat. We are and ask for it on the part of the working classes in "the it, but I was at first pledged to secrecy population has fallen within the last

3 ourable death rate, the Iruge work of reconstruction Seflor One day, however, I suddenly received three years from 243,384 to 77,659, not

increase of the taking our reveng

that is why we are Cosio says of the British Monarchy that unsolicited permission to

inform the Bri-

me what is the fu

future of it is a popular institution, the venerat, tish Government of the fact.

taking into account the losses in the war, what is its scientific development i ed symbol glories, and that his present

Army, about which the Statistcial Office At present and I speak en connaissance VEGETABLE AND Majesty, with all the eminent personal Now that a foreign gova pohon of pointing out that the deaths among civi wutions hooren tore have presented 19

has something to say. The writer, after at

after de chise, because

Minister of In virtues, has won the hearts of his people, last

and published and who consider him the first citizen, just the important information which the exceeded the births by 130,000, says that startling discovery. Upon the horizon I

portion མ

during the third year of the war War-the inventors no as the Army considers him the first soldier tish Government refused to listen to write the Hungarian losses at the front in see nothing that is likely to have the and the workers the first worker Befar it might have proved helpful, I write killed alone amount to over 100,000, a revolutionary character of, say, wireless Casio looks for great results from the to say that the negotiations between the freedom, that even some of the most treaty was actually signed, that I had of men who are at the front, or who have nature of details rather than Reform Bill, which will enact an electoral two monarchs did take place, that the publishe too oficial casualty lists telegraphy: Developments are comingRESH OROP of 1917 having

up to the present. The number rapidly in aviation, but they are in the advanced and civilised Republics do not the melancholy privilege of reading it done military service at

put down in writing the whole given as 3,000,000, flat is to

the front. ally new departures.

European diplomacy.

"ideal of solidarity that has resulted from

this war, and he adds:-MY

of i

deal

and that it was one of seventh of the oatim ponuinone THE OLD SCHOOL

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The Statistical Office

out M. Painlevé lightly brushed aside the party in the work of common interest ment which I am now about to write there is no solution possible, and the nation would enter the commercial which dont with

one of yesterday's

articles war, but i

in authoritative circles the losses he said, that there is an abyes between

at present enjoy." It gives effect to the whole subject in writer conclude as the near possibilities I hazarded. Sprize sowing.

struggle and especially in the competi

tion with German trade under the mest

I read that it was

em are

estimated at from four to five times the old way of making war and the new

to the This Tsar's Ministers, and may quite well have the falsity is acknowledge of are the same. Of course, the old school,

Imperial Chancellor;+

but

significant 100,000 killed, is

of the official

List will be mailed free on

application.

unfavourable conditions. been unknown to the Kaiser Bing which mention only 70 Casualty liste, with its war of movements, and its NanoTHE YOKOHAMA NURSERY

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manœuvres

18

not

the point

GERMANE AND AUSTEIANS EXPELLED..

is leonic plan has been replaced rather Turning to the methods likely to be Hudlow or Witte, or other secondary con

treuches and harbed wire and inschine adepted by our enemy Señor Sosio

gune,

but it would be wrong to say that writes

The expulsion from Budapest of Ger the education officers has become However long the war may last, and Now, as Count Witte is dead and mans and Austrians, as well as all other thereby something utterly different. It in which she is morally already beaten, cannot reply 1, who was his most in foreigners, on account of the shortage of is not so. Their training may be modified Germany, with practically the whole timate friend and adviser during All that

food and the scarcity of house accom to include new subjects, but we must world against her and expecting to see was not one of the

critical period

make

bold to say that lie modation was preceded by a very vebe not look for startling changes. Aviation her downfall sooner or later, will bring cipal or

conspiratora, prin papers Az

tient agitation, on the Parties of articles for complementary arm, a not a substitute or secondary. On the contrary, it

in a ent and virile people, and in their antir covenant was treated as a scrap of paper, foreign invasion; and shows that whilst

in the for others. Fourth Year of the able and tenacious energy they will set and that was one of the motives for the

into play all the energies of her intellig to him we owe it that the honourable under the herding 18 with the The Americans were surprised when

and

sent to them our rotasion of savants

oz font crery conocivable endeavour to label attached to Witte by both monarchs in trains from Austria in the applicationg of science":

Scienr

get the best of England, France, and the and their British friends United States in the world competition, man, but not to be trusted "Daily Tele and

He prints out that Germany has graph already purchased large stocks of wool in

are

no

to

The Average arrivals at the Italy joined at the which England and at the progress we had made amounted to 31,000 on an They confess, readily, that or va average day in Angust, 1917, the arrivals

following instead

at they are now ead of preceding us in the numbered 58,000 In

In consequence of this

of military pala

inventions Argentina and Uruguay, and will add to commercial treaties with England and furnished flats or

influx there

The in- ventive genius the Allies indeed the advantages of cheap production France, and states that Great Britain

to be had in been devoted with considerable

sed, has success to The circumstances although tran enjoys enormous prestige in Uraguay, the city at any price.

The 4,000

the study of mon and sitory, of a considerable disequilibrium, based on a tradition of unvarying correct ity who crowd into the capital towards listic science. In the capture

Bound and electrical women students at the Budapest Univer- and

August and among whom BTC have proved of great amaistą nation

-ot Busmarines, again, our find accommodation inventive treasure of the Old World has

or houshed

the depreciation of her paper money, will quality of her products the financial5000 than Hundred of their setonished by its richness. The Amort

for more

in her exchanges, which, together with near in business matters the excellent the end of exercise the functions of protective duties facilities offered through her banks there on one side and bounties upon exports on and the considerable amount of British number. The rest of the four thousand fans, I need hardly say, are putting their the cther, in conformity with an elemen- capital invested in the country. But had to bond the Bone strecks They disposal or research, and their collabora

the nights with some

Some not powerful laboratory equipment at our " POST-WAR CONDITIONS IN SOUTH AMERICA. goods are not alway, adapted to the fatal Interior Phthog to Minister of the tion is most precious to us SERIES

tary law of political economy, well known during the last few years the stumbling pitable to those interested in these matters block for British commerce has been that

sent

or in the

the

why

he gave orders for their Uruguay, like all other countries in and habits of the consumer, and of this accommodation in, barracks outside the that part of the world will receive, as the Germans have taken full advantage town. The writer informs his readers formerly, the lump of cheap production The German manufacturer mads à special that 130,000 persons arrive at the capital caused by European competition," and in study of this. He made goods just as every month, and of these only 28.00 hyg view of a strong financial position, they were ordered; he used the inetric recently reported their stay on the res especially the unprecedented holding of Leystem in vogue in South America, while tion sheets iscred by the police. gold; Uruguay will be the first recipient, British manufacturers still clung to their geste that allowing for the many Setor Cosio advises that his country own system, although they were dealing stay only a day in the capital, the test enjoy should endeavour to obtain advantageous with goods for exportation to a foreign were unable to find lodgings, and that

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