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AN UNDRAWN SWORD IN

BRITAIN.

SOMETHING THE KAISER DREADS.

Tight locked in the vaults of the Bank of England is a powerful weapon against The Kaiser, which it is said he keenly dreads, but which thus far England has not produced against him, in spite of the re which has been brought to bear TUFSUEG upon her It is a question of honour that

THE HONGKONG. DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH, 1917,

FIFTEEN MILLION TONS

STILL AFLOAT. PRODIGIOUS WORK OF BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE.

TRADE SACRIFICED TO WAR.

After three years of war, and in spite of the piracy of German U-boats, which normal or intensive, the United Kingdom still possesses over 15 million tons of ocean-going shipping.

That, says the Daily Chronicle) is the

THE SACRED WAY,

ETERNAL MEMORIAL OF SACRI. FICE AND GLORY

E. TEMPLE THURSTON.]

in

the

TOMMY'S SPIRIT MORTIFIES HIS FOR

DOES HIS BIT WITH SUNG ON

HIS LIPS.

An incident which deserves to beconie

saves him, the honour of the Bank. This salient fact of an examination of the the eye that see and bewilders do but stick it until such time as our own

weapon, recording to an account given in Sgures dealing with the mercantile marine and the multifarions duties in which it the New York becuing Sun by La Mar is engaged. They come from a source quise de Fontenoy, is the manuscript of which may be regarded as wholly reliable, The third and most interesting volume of Before the war the ocean-going vereels the memoirs of the Iron Chancellor his on the United Kingdom register repre posthumous revenge upon the Kaiser."sented between 17 and 18 million tons, ¡The Sun says *--

but of these about 2,400,000 tons were engaged abroad. Fifty per cent, of these ships have been brought home to supply our urgent needs. As regards home ser vice, the position may be put thus:-

"It may be recalled that Bismarck died full of the most bitter and savage resent. ment against the Kaiser; 2 resentment carefully fanned by the old princess and to all his entourage. He had a vitriolic tongue and a still more vitrolle pen, and it is known that he did not spare the Emperor in his final reminiscences,*** In the unpublished volume are related with all the bitterness engendered by Bismark forced retirement the events in connection with the illness of Emperor Frederick, the vain attempts to eliminatu that fated monarch from the succession; his brief reign, and the first few years

tona.

Beside the atmosphere of sentiment 50 vividly colouring the conception of the historic is that of certain Royal Fusiliers Sacred Road which, in its double venec,

who vere out in the line of buttered there is as well the stirring and noble (writes The Times correspondent). They will lie aerose the

trench and shell holes along the Broen- every heart of France beek and the enemy was shelling them purpose of reconstruction

practically no shelter,

ter and the Ger Down all that 400 miles of country

country had

the across which the line of battle has been mans knew the range of josition

on they flung, some hundreds of thousands

of and

recently lost to a yard. auch

There was nothing for the Fusiliers to acres have been laid

waste 3 mind can scarcely.

it. it is not only guns could beat down the enemy batteries. the debris of battle, that lavish waste of Meanwhile it was about, as heavy shelling all the countless materials of war, it is as troops can be called on to s stand. Then not only the earthquake of three years some une among the Fusiliers started bombardment that has churned the soil singing, and what he into an unsightly enumeratat sud version of In these Hard Time stones, but the very soll itself has been hapa you know the song:

You've got to put up with anything poisoned and its life destroyed by the impregnating chemicals of the millions of In these laid times

Other voices took it up till, from the high explosive shells.

whole line of shell holes, where the men crouched with the dead in the bloort stained water and the fragments of trench where the living and wounded Inv chorus welled up mightily, The

THE ORIGINATOR.

ba

Army

Times. Per-

July 1914. July 1917-ituation, the fruit trees and forest trees. Look to the shell bursts, and.

On import trade... 15,000,000 On war service

nil

tons.

7,500,000

Total 16,000,000 -14,000,000

A further million tons of the total is being used un war service on the out journey, but is available for imports.

of the present Emperor's rule. The story floating hospitals, Many are transports, des Pépintères and Direotour the way must bave heard it, too, and

Home of the speediest and most efficient vessels are auxiliary cruisers; others are

of the Kaiser's differences with his mother A whole fleet is engaged in taking coal over the disposal of his father's diaries and oil and supplice to the Navy a very und the details of Bismarck's own dis substantial number is assigned to the meal from edge, are set forth, The Allies for the marriage of munitions and memoirs would have been published in essential is con- their Writer's lifetime had not the En-tantial foodstuffs, and there in the en- per threatened, dire penalties to the at the various fronts. author in the event of its appearance,

if you live to be ninety-four And carry on to the end of the war ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You may get leave, but not before,......

In these hard times.

E Our men back in the support lines beard it, and they took it up. The enemy across marvelled. The Fusiliers tended to their dead and cared for their wounded,

Bing- ing while they worked. They squatted, shells shrieked overhead, or, plunging, bowed

their shell holes, while the great heaped them with mnd, and still they

You may get more or you may

Bus apple and plum's your best, I guess, For the strawberry jam's for the ser-

goonts mess,

It was Clementel who, when come sidering all the varied aspects of the that must be found, the gardens that must the air was thick with furies and dirt and be replenished, the homes that

most ba 6,500,000 rebuilt, conceived the idea of combining debris, and through the crashing and the

with the work this sebeme of

muck the song rose rollicking on- 期

lasting Boul

One may call it a Snored

call it “Le Seore In conjunction with the Touring Club of France, assisted in council by M Düfert, the vice-president of thet club, M. Clementel has set that idea in motion.

Lieut. George

Gardone), has been sent over as

to England secure the co-operation of the Touring Club of England and the agricultural and horticultural societice, and a commitbes hus already been formed promote interests of the scheme.

wonder how such a read People may

can be constructed through prop which, though in a devastated condition now

are special private owners. Jawe in France engaged in distant waters on work which which allow the expropriations of land is vital to British Colonies, and of by the Government. In every district vessels chartered to France and Italy, what is known na the cadastro a detailed the British Government has requisitioned survey in mays-is kept from year to year about 97 per cent of the ocean-going the mayors of towns in the centre of tramps on the register. All British finers ench district. Every acre of land, build have been requisitioned, and in both cases with its valuation; and with this for a and unbuilt is to be found on these maps, the owners receive bire at Government basis with the laws of expropriation which rates, and the profits derived from private freight go to the Government, and not to a peculiar feature of French law the the shipowner. Moreover the coastal and will be secured for the purposes of

the memorial. of pu traffic of the Kingdom is being subjected.

ALL SHIPS REQUIBITIONED.

The old Chancellor, fearing that the With the exception of a few vessels But there belongs to:

Kaiser might procced to the length of ordering the seizure not only of his manuscripts but of all his papers, corres, pondence, and documents at Friedrich sruhe, managed, but not without difficul- ty, to smuggle the manuscript of the third volume and his most precious papers out of the country and over to London, where they have been lodged ever since in the Bank of Fogland.

den In a similar warmer, after the fron Chancellor's death, his sons were warred

aro

the

** In these hard times,:

Last night I was at the entertainment given by the formation to which these Royal Fusiliers belong in a temporary lath and tarpaulin theatre which holds 500 men. One of the numbers on the pro grammus was this song, sung by hips, London music halls in peace times. Some now a private, but well-known to the of these same Fusiliers who had lived and sung through all that hell were there, and you ought to have heard these 600 voices

hole whose

thai the memoirs were not to be published, to a searching review for the purpose of Route de la Corniche from Hyeres to sound tarpaulin roof bellied to the and all the heirs are now bound by a withdrawing vessels which can be utilised Cannes, well-known to overy Diotorist I do now I do know that all the rights, On this same principle of purchase the the into the chorus till it seemed that

solemn pledge that the volume shall re-. main in the Bank of England and shall not be published during William's life The Kaiser endeavoured to obtain from, them the surrender of the manuscript, but in this he falled. The Sun enn

The memoirs are mid to contain re

know

property, the

•One of the results of these measures 1shores of the Mediterranean. Bu in effect in and appurtenances, ought

for ocean-ging work, and of bringing who has travelled abroad, was constructed inny he, but about a limitation of rates wherever to preserve for all time the beauties of copyright, and title therein, with all the

of Fate posarble

that coast line which lics along

the

to be deeded to and vosted will this Route de la Mémoire Sacres be in the regiment of the Royal Fusiliers, stored for the people of all time to be that at me, in billets and on the march

the beauties of

but the they may sing it as their own and

generations to come how in 1017 the Gor

that at present the current market valu of neutral ships is double that of British ships.

The effect of the derangement of ship-

ping on last year's trade compared with pre-war conditions may be thus sum- marised

Before the war we were importing at the rate of about 50,000,000 tons a year

110

Location Jess than the self-sacritice mans heard them sing it on the Broen-

of men

As with the Route de la Corniche, this heck, Sacred Road.

with its cemeteries forests at either side, its sights of ruined villages and its broken churches, will be kipt up by the

Ponts et Chausées, which

THE BEST SAUCE!!

velations concerning the Kulser, both priva and vubsequent to his jaccession to the throne, which would place him in so odious light in the eyes of the house of Hapeburg and of the Dual Empire generally that the allinnen between Berlin In 1916 our imports fell to about 43,000,000 department especially set aside for There is no sauce like appetite," and Vienna, could not but he gravely tons, and in the present year it will be this work in the Bureau des Travaux says an old proverb, and the statement affected thereby And it is this considera considerably less. Of the 59,000,000 tons Publics. The scheme is no novel one in is altogether true With a keen appetite tion that is being pressed upon the foodstuffs were rather lese than a quarter. this respect. The Route de la Corniche British Government.

The rest was practically all employed or is simple The memoirs reveal so much double consumed in promoting the industries this ple precedent enough. But while you can relish the plainest food while

is to be constructed

without it the daintiest morsel fails to to preserve desling it the expense of Austria, such and comicerce of peace, In 1916, however, for all time the memory of the greatest tempt you. Loss of appetite is a sure ashbiticus designs expressed in writing, two-thirds of all our supplies from over var the world has ever seen, there is also sign that something is wrong with the to supplant the Hapsburgs in the rulerseas consisted of fordstuffs, munitions of embraced with if the loftiest of purposes, digestive system, and if you are wise you ship of the Dual Empire, such a Prussian war, and the lui terjal for thy productive men aus, build up afresh that which be signal, digestion is the primo functi

will not

any other danger that Com contempt for the Hapsburgs and for the ture of a greatly reduced total by Austrians, for the Blay races subject to industries,

the hands of men has been so wantonly Emperor Charles' rule, that the Kaiser.

destroyed would never darn to show his face again

RECONSTRUCTION. at Viensta. BADALER STAATEN An examination of the value of our im What prolmbly William dreida even ports yields equally significant result still more are the revelations concerning in 1918 our total imports were valued his incredibly unfilial conduct toward at 60 millions sterling, of which about 94 millions came from the countries with

QUANTITIES AND VALUE,

both his parents s

confiscation of these memoirs by the imports were valued at 046 millions ster-:

function.

of lito-physiologically speaking the process by which the food you entis Here is a work of reconstruction in and muscle; the process, in short, by ultimately convertest into bed, brain, Belgium and in France to which all the which you exist, and compared to which Allied and neutral peoples of civilization all else is unimportant, even trivial It should find it in their hearts to lend as a long and complete process, and any hand. One has only to think of the fields failure in any part of it must, of recus 1 may add that nowhere would the which we are now at war la 1910 our England laid in such appalling, waste as sums up and includes every function of mendowa, the towns and villagestof sizy be injurious to health Digestion British Government and their publicationing The great rise in prices accounts for this in the cause of a liberty which has the

body, and it

you allow your dices create greater satisfaction than in Ger- a large part of the phenomenon of an been and still is in danger for the free tion-your stomach, liver, and

and bowels many where the cult of Bismarck grows increase in value with a decline in bulk, peoples of the world one has only to to rather

than diminishes with years, but on the best estimate that can be made think of this to realize what we should out of order, your whole system

suffer therefore the of the part

brunt espteinlly since the beginning of the pre- it would appear that if in 1916 wa hnd feel as if that

of battle sent war, and where his relatives and his imported the 43 million tons of goodsad teen ours. 2 aument of the human facy the admirers all look for the day when by which we obtained from the same coun- d'adrainistration are to be found the

Upon comité

and a

from which-barring accidente- the publication of these reminiscences the tries, and in the same proportion as we names of M. Fernand David, the French is a strong assertion, but it is true, and the nearly other disorders spring. This From Chancellor's name will be righted in imported before the war, they would have Minister of Agriculture, M. Leon for this reason: Good food, when per- the eyes of the world

cost us rather less than 800 million pounds. Bourgeois, Minister of Public Works, and feet; digested, becomes pure, rich blood, Students of history all over the world We paid, therefore, in the year 1910 150 M. Clemented, Minister of Commerce, all in which the germs of disease cannot live, look with interest for the publication of million pounds more than our imports of whom have pledged themselves and this third volume of Bismarck's memoirs would have cost us if we had continued their interests to

your body being thus Tully nourished, this plan of reconstruc and correspondence so dreaded by the to buy the same class of commodities and tion, the work for which has begun even organ does the work which Nature Xuiser and are gratified to know that the from the same sources as before the war now in order that no time may be

intended it to do, there is vitality, re- Boat

serve documents in question have escaped the

force, strength to resist, and disease We have therefore not only sacrificed, when once

peace has been declared fate of the equally frank, disconcerting, ruthlessly, the needs of industry and com- When

When one considera and voluminous diaries of his own father, mere, we have in addition paid a far diaries covering the entire period from material of wer which circumstaners have 1880 to 1888 were smuggled over to Eng compelled us to substitute. land while Emperor Frederick iny dying at his request and in obedience to his instructions by his consort, being carried away, it was said, by members of the mite of Queen Victoria when she visited Berlin to take a last farewell of that son- in-law whom she used always to describe as unser Fritz" and to whom she was Balkans is revealed in an article in the deeply devoted. Emperor William was Augsburger Postzeitung by Professor C WORK FOR GOLDIERS. unaware of this removal of the diaries, and Engert, who says that the whole railway the very moment that his father had from Belgrade to Constantinople is being breathed his last at Potsdam he caused operated by German railwaymen and that the entire palace to be surrounded with German soldiers form a guard at every 4 cordon of troops to prevent the diaries station. He declares that the entire from being carried of He starind management of the railway in Ger- relentless search with a view to their man hands.

the lase Emperor Frederick. These other higher price for the unproductiveerde that have the number of cannot get hold of your good.

seizure, Big abominable treatment of his mother during the flowing months was

GERMANY'S GRIP ON THE BALKANS.

On the other hand, food

imperfectly

wantonly destroy it may be), the trees which ruthlessly have been make purs

annot blood. because it cannot yield eat down, in the majority of cases to serve its nourishment; your system is starved, no military purpose, the been pitilessly the brain euffers fr want of answhile,

gardens, homes, s and

sacred

omes every organ of

of your body right up to decimated, che can easily are the vast you become weak, nervous, awmi

ed places that ha proportions of

zowmic; work that lies in front impurities, due to decomposition of b of the of the Government of France when the war is over Before us

us in England there undigested

is enough in all conscience to be done are dramass in stomach and bowels,

whole, system and prepare the

are the way

into your blood to poison your for

The firmness of Germany's grip on the out where is there to be faced such bitter dangerous diseases. FARRANTY

labour as this brai

without

It will thus be seen how all-important is this matter E digestion, affecting as This is allabout upon which, when the it does, every other function of the body, war is over, thousands of men in the

and how earnestly you should strive to French army will be employed while the EP it active. It is the foundation of are gradually being brought back to their your physical, bodily well-being for good health 18 peacetime employments. The aid of the utterl Royal Horticultural and the Royal Agri-n the lighter imposible

Societies of England will be weakness take Mother Bedgel's Syrup. slightest indication of digestive valuable in the progress of this work. Don't hesitate or delay about it. If tones

fruit and forest

trees

trees must be and invigorates the stomach, liver and found to make that double line of gen-

the blood and cont of

perfect the very borders of perfect

and therefore" perfect Albert, where done, through

notice the early symptoms of indig can the Chemin headache fulnes-take Mother Boigel appetite, furred tongue, win road will ran

erous woode

due to the knowledge that she had frus Government making use of its authority trated his designs. She claimed them us to seize the documents for political Pur her private property, and asserted her poses, the confidence reposed at home, right to publish them if it seemed to her and especially abroad, in the bank ns a Swiss necessary to defend her husband'e memory fiduciary institution would be impaired. tourage. It was only through Queen Latin-American dictators, capitalists Rheims. Victoria's mediation, which the Kaiser from Chins, from the Orient, and other the

much

Péronne. Et

Quentin,

spread from the bowels Kealth When

against the Insinuations ef her son's en- Foreign rulera foreign Government des Daith its hollow thell of one of map do not wait for the more. SETLOUR

most

beautiful ofthedrals in the world. effets, and you will be saved months,

na, for instance, at Hart perhaps years of suffering.

eventually induced to have them brought the one place in the world where their back from England to Germany and to riches would be safe and secure from all surrender them to her son, who promptly seizure was in the vaults of the Bank of destroyed them to avoid further risk.

invoked, that Empress Frederick was parts of the earth have

always felt that hole forest will need from

ouca densc

dens

It is said that if the British Govern England, the safest refuge on the face of

the globe. The directors hold that the limba of nature fame of the Bank as such would be injuri

the

lintered stumps now stand, all shattered heal, there is yet this aspect of that state ment has not yet proceeded to publish the

There are some who still amor that went which is true Wo know but little of the ruin homes, of the devastated Bismarck documents now in the possession ously affected were it forced to surrender ven now in England we have not learnt felds, stretching all their horror of to the Government the memoirs and the deeper truths war and despite unsightly desolation to the very horizon,

of the Bank of England, it is owing to the protests of the Bank. Its directors are said to fear foat in the event of the (Continued at foot of next colum.)

pepera of Friate Bramarck, even though they be in every sense of the word enemy properly.

Inses that thousands have borne wounds we know nothing but what a few pictures that, even time may not be long enough to can never succed in truly conjuring to

(Continued at fook of mezt column),"

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