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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11a, 1919.

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HISTORY AND URIC ACID *It is impossible

to read the recent Life of Bir Charles Dilice without coming

to the conclusion that publia men are un extraordinarily bad-tempered not," says 3 reviewer in the New Statemen

* Almost everybody of importance who is mentioned in the biography, has a vile temper.

Gladstone, Chamberlain, Harcourt, Lord Randolph Churchill. Queen Vic toria, even the lazy-faced Lord Harting- ton, who afterwards became the Duke of Devonsinire-all of them are as touchy

SENTENCES.

MEMORIAL BY THE HOWARD ASSOCIATION

The following memorial has been ad-

dressed by the Committee of the Howard Association to the War Cabinet and also to the Secretary for War and to the

A FERTILE LAND. THE COMMERCIAL FUTURE OF

RAGDAD

WITNESS BY ONE WHO KNOWS.

MY PROBLEM.

BY A WORKMAN'A WIFE IN THA DAIKIN

NEWS"]

My problem is the problem of hundreds

An important statement on the future of thousands of working-class women of Mesopotamin, and the splendid trade and what I say id but the coho of what. prospect that kina now opened out before, is being said in many homes throughnut not only the people of that land, but the the land. Our household consists of Ava... Home Secretary

merchants of the world, has been made my husband, myself, and our thres The Committee of the Howard Asoby bicut-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes, a

children. When war came in 1915 our ciation desires respectfully to call the member of the British House of Com income was £2 per week; at the present. attention of his Majesty's Government to one, who has devoted much study to time it is £2 178. Such a wage increase the treatment of conscientious objectors racial, and political problems of the Near would have seemed fabulous in the old i to military service.

The Howard As East

days, but it is very different when it has sociation, as is commonly known, is not He is convinced that with the removal to compass a rise in the prics of co- paoifat body, but has devoted itself for of the paralysing hund of the Turk, who modities of at least 100 per cent. To

as for so long kept a strangle hold on make it do this is my problem. the development of the fertile land and Before the war, if we could not get

of life and a few comforts. its peoples, will come a great and steady any luxuries, we did get the necessaries We wero improvement in its fortunes.

Abf the meretrants in the world will well clothe, and we got good food and profit, said Sir Mark. It will mean suficient. The rise in prices may be only eventually putting down something like 100 per cent.; but to enjoy the same new Hamburg in the world. Monty standard of living now, more than 100 will be woude there, and the Arab, if the per cent, increase in wages would o past, is any criterion, will acquire Euro necessary. It seems gluttonous to talk pean tastes, and will want to buy things these days, of what we bio the

If the Arab in the fourth century husband is a manual worker, and his

as children and burst into a rage or some sixty years to watching the admini, tantrums on the slightest provocation.

Dilko hitelf is one of the few im perturbable figures in the book. Sir Eyre Crowe was struck by the Roman attitude of Dilke at the tragic crisis of

stration of justice and to sucking and advocating the best methods of treating and preventing crime. It appears to the Committee and to many supporters of the Association to be a grave contravention

hát

My

his life, and Dilke always comported of justice that men should be subjected himself with a certain Roman gravity in to repeated sentences of imprisonment his political career. He seems to have for what is in reality the single 'offence Iacked that element of irritable egotism of refusing, on conscientious grounds, which is the fruitful parent of bad tem- obedience to military orders: This policy it regards as contrary to the spirit por I believe, he said to Harcourt in and letter of the Military Service Acte 1850, I am the only English politician and sa involving the nation in a course who is not jealous Harcourt, we are of religious persecution akan liked Corinthian columns so much that hours are long. For his breakfast has

The Committoo therefore earnestly told, laughed very much, and said: requests

prison and to discharge reason to believe that he will have simi-butter. Egge were twelve for a shilling, We all think that of ourselves.

from the army

all men who have proved lar ambitions again, now that he is to bacon 10d. por pound, End butter 18, 2d. mean it,' replied Dilke.

the genuineness of their conscientious be a free man, able to respond to the per pound then 1 For dinner there was jection to any form of military service.

usually meal and a pudding; The memorial is supported by the high intellectual impulses which have tea occasionally a piece of ing and for

of Lincoln

Omar Lord Courtney of

cares were few and our lives, were happy. After we had met our liabilitics, Dean of Worcester, H. Boott

we could put away a few shillings as and Harcourt to the end labour- Holland Ragitis Professor of Divinity, Dr. W. B. Selbie, President of

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS,

TO-DAY 3pm-duction of Booths and Matabeds on the Government Ground adjoining the Race Course, by Mesam Hughes Hough

TO-NIGHT

0p.m.-Billiard Match at the V.R.C.

When he was fighting Lord Rose FB. Mayer, secretary of the National tion of main routes, and its central situat bery for the succession to Mr. Gladstone, Fres Church Council- Dr. A. Alexander,

situation.

*

gono. The children are in well-patchou

with the

he wrote to Labouchers Hell would? Moderator of the Presbyterian Church/tion is a very rich agricultural area. ItAnd now 1 Our savings are almost all be pleasant compared to the present of England Rey W. Y. Fullerton, Pres had a double advantage as a junction of

He was equally violent andsident of the Baptist Union; Rev. Jouten because it is a pizco where the clothes, as it is out of the question to rivers. Euphrates and Tigris come or buy new ones. The worst of it all is, mach given to swearing, however, as a Tolstree Parr, President of the Primitivo close to one another, two big rivers that the things wrach children need for Cabinet Minister in the eighties. At a Methodist Church, and Dr. Estlin Car: which, con under the primitive condi- their health's bake are missing led dur Cabinet meeting in 1883, he raged 20 penter, Manchester College, Oxford. tions of the present time, carry an enor table. When milk was 3d, a ferociously against the Irish that at last

mous amount of current-borne trafo, by used two quarts a day; but

"a quart wề Lord Carlingford, although an Irish

means of rafte on the Tigria, and barges price doubled we can only afford half the landlord, cried out :-Your language is. that of the lowest Tory.''y

and rafts on uphrata comes the water-quantity Butter is a pleasant memory

On the

and a very occasional 085 at

is a great borne transport from Aleppo down to the old price

Over there, 1 Franc YANA On the within thirty miles of Bagdad. ***

figris

comes the deal has the mad any as shotest saarist chuttelis transport of Diarbekir. Bagdad has the and any sacrificed wo make are

comparison." But surely the sacrifices of at home should be more. equal. AB those primodities got scareer, why should the price be raised so as to reserve them for fbxn by well- -to-do! I noticed in the Press that the profits of the wholesale traffic, drapers had increased three or fourfold

On another occasion, when Unionist, hopes of victory in a snap divi sion thin House and been folled Harcourtsid savagely across the tabla Bo

William Harcourt, we faney, is represented as having been per fectly furious more frequently thin any other politician who ap

appears in the Dilke biography

She was angry, too, when Chamber thelain made his famous They toil not, neither do they spin' speech about the House of Lords. She was angrier still when, at a meeting held to celebrate failed at, damned dirty trick has certain anniversary, Chamberlain 30 only caravan route from Central Persia, that the representatives of Royalty were

Basra, Bagdad is almost a scaport, an absent, and nobody missed them and as the Tigris is fully navigable from When Chamberlain was told that the important point when one considers that

by Queen would probably complain about his speech, he said. If she does I shall good come cheaper

the development of most likely deny her right to with t fury

We pretty temper,

BSQUABBLING CABINETEE

Cour

men

four times

are

by

he was not a solitary criticise my speeches. He too had it will be cheaper to send goods to Mosul since that ship had been sold at -

TWO DESPUTIC MONARCHS Budad South Wales port for some thousands of

than from the Mediter reported And a few days ago it was

ranean

the

pounds, which changed hands a lew

He was a fury in a troop of furice. looked forward to what the schoolboys call * à jolly blow up when Gladstone The fact is, the Queen and Gladstone

Then, course, there is should return, wrote Dilke on one ocen had both the bad temper of despots, and mously important factor of the Bagdad monthe ago for many sion, when Gladstone and been in France nesaly everybody else the bad temper of Hallway. Frimarily intended to be built While some are einffering at hundtrols and anfontmoet in a newspaper interview

of which his colleagues Palk of two Rings of Brentford Dilke the bands of the Germans, become strateegially the children- others

people who could not endure despots for commerce, it has, in the hands of changes of policy aly the m

fortunes from their misery.

ara with the British Fleet, they to us! We cconomised before he wer What i feree economy campaigns scem of reserve two despotic monarchs-one a Tory kept as Ine away from its induces but we are spendthriffe now. The week- conflict with the Queen was as to whether at Cannes (where Gladstone was at the hour it at Alexandrotta, but kovond that And the worst is not yet. The cold days.

passible.

e la mortgaged before it is earned. it was his city to mention all these blow Had it not been for the despotism of placa, instead of going the natural way are at hand and coal is dear the

knew nothing. the 1880 Cabinet is the

olly blow-up water-L OF wrote in his diary, This Cabinet has to 810 with a view to menacing India.

the

questions

that brought Gladstone

into

une, at Osborne, and one a Radical one,

momenti q

They

could not avoid going

Gladstone that the Queen by this in Chamberlain, the history of is a railway milk will go up to 7d, and 8d. per quart;

Always

und by Mosul

t:

That is

they wont will build and the profiteers will see that other ought not to be told about dissensions on the islands might well have run a differ itself. It

might well have run ser been the Mediterranean, and we may fill equipped for at spring, and we are

easy communication prom do not remain stationary it

to next the Cabinet; that Cabinets existed for ent course the purpose of differing that is, for the an out-and-out Home Ruler, but his witness return of what was the over How are we to win through t purpose of enabling Minister who differ sympathies with Parnell and radical to thresh out their differences and solutions were such that be was all but that the Queen was only concerned with predestined to complete conversion, bad the results. ---

**** But the Queen naturally not Gladstone on two fatal occasions e hater to have personal differences aroused his anger, going on

on of which informed: PROMAR, CHAMBERLAIN'S TEMPER, One sympathises with Queen TipThe first occasion was when Glad- toria. She must have taken special plen stone passed him over in looking for an sire in the spectacle of detestable Irish Chief Secretary, The second was Liberal Cabinet Ministers drawing hat in 1668, when Gladstone asked him what pins on one another.

office he wanted, and on being told The State And

HARTINGTON'S BLE TEMPER

Railway

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVI

ORDERS ISSUED BY, ME, F C JENKIN, D,

(RESERVE).

land routs of the Middle Ages, a route the problem which died out when Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape, a discovery almost as fatal to Middle Eastern culture as the destruction of Bagdad by the Turnaian construction across the Byrian desert will be so easy that prob ably Damascus will be connected with the Euphrates. There could be an open road across the fat desert for motor cars, and be stored. All over that desert

ancient dama,

is and there

con rendon why it should not have "The development of Bagdad has been siderable reservoirs is it bad in the past checked

by the bad sanitary conditions, causing frightful outbreaks of cholera The And Gladstone, anxious to I with of the split in the Liberal Party in 1886 and by the artificial restrictions imposed Argyll were here. wish to God be was not compatibility of ideals but in #33, oried

knowing that the compatibility of temper as between Glad. Duke wonld at least have sided with him stone and Chamberlain,

"One wonders whether the inner

of

on

ROUTE: MARCH.

abi

Even Lord Hartington emerges from Colonies,' answered Oh A Secretary there is plenty of water if only it canAll rants, except those on Patrol Daty the wood, a recognisable human being Chamberlain," says Dilbe,' was [ ̈remains of

offered by Mr Gladstone the Board of naturally angry at this slight, and being

arade, then refused to return to it.

One likes to picture his heavy,

rosentful face on the occasion on which, true to the interests of his class, he was

against an agrarian Bill in the 21

Bill would affect

learn how

One might say that the chief cause

by the Turks. For the last forty years practically such of the male population as could not pay exemption were carried off for long terms of service with the

colours. Fifteen per cent, never survived

the rest returned broken men.

lie was not supported only ferocious, “It is appalling to think that the mandatA HIGH BIRTEBATE.

even by: the other little tempers of great men, s

He

a fellow-roudtionary. Hartington history of all great parties is like this according to Dilko, Was exced the story of great causes ruined by the the life in the pestilential barracks, and angry at this Cabinet meeting landlorde. He being at bay. toid us that Lord destiny of nation may hang, so to

English medical missionary at Derby was a mere owner of Liverpool speak, on a drop of uric acid. When we Mosul told me that if he could have ground Land, Hartingkn showed

who knew nothing about a particularly bad-tempered, harassed charge of the sanitation of the place the bis bad fer face in a London bus, we sometimes say years, because there is such a high birth population would be doubled fifteen pex when Dilke, though a Cabinet to ourselves The uric acid has entered

refused to

to vote against the into his soul? We are surprised that mot Remove the restrictions, and the Woman's

to the medical historian has as yet compiled a population of Bagdad, which was about Franchise

treatise on uric acid as a factor in the 140,000 before the war, and practically Hartington, wrote Dilke in his diary is very angry with me for notion furic acid in Buckle, and for this doubled

history of civilisation. There is no men. a commercial population, would be wing, and ont for are largely invalidat

&plus

He has to vote every day for things

quantity

that date will parade Central Station on Thursday, Jan. 17th, at 5.30 pm sharp. Helmets will be worn. Inspectors will went belta and swords, and helmet chaine..

Ambulance Flatoon will parade, with

Stretchers, S

T. F. Hovou, A.S.P. and Adjutantz Hongkong, January 10th, 1918:

JAPAN'S GOLD RESERVE

In the early months of the year, Mr. Shoda, the Finance Minister, predicted that the total of Japan's gold specie be at least Y.1,000,000,000. His prediction fore the end of the year would amount to

returng show that on December 15th the has been more than realised. The latest total rescres of gold at home and abroad amounted to Y1,003,000,000, Since the beginning of 191; Japan's gold specie hea been increasing at the rate of roughly Y1,000,000 day

which he strongly disapproves, and this ed

bat Turkish Government ia makes the position, difficult for Who knows how many of the mis always a minus quantity During the

To read these cotaic revelation,

ong of deeds of history have been due to a mere last years of the eighteenth century m resentments, buffs and irritations is to irritation in the blood from the murder Northern Mesopotamia, when the mun Mesopotamia has always bem a cen- realise that the novel the irresistible of Becket down to the onslaught on the try was in a condition of anarchy, tem-tro of intellectual life, and I will say comedy of political life still remains to Irish at the end of the eighteenth cen pered by feudalian, the

the population was this for the Turks, that with all their be written... What a wealth of minor tury 1 marzone more than it is now,pulation in the orices they did a very great deal, especials passion--and minor passion is always History assuredly justifies the good future, means that more labour will be it was part of their plan of

An increasing in nearly under Abdul Hamid, for education. man may succeed for an hour, but ituture irrigation works. One does the people were

The

Those who

ecmic passion appears in Hartington's tempered politician. The ill-tempered postscript quoted by Chamberlain not want to

Thank God we should soon be out of the sent quality touch of greatne te no doubt that the land is the richest ernment schools are capable of holding

trained in the Glov this damned Government,

B Pericles or an Abraham Lincoln, there is neewater supply is there, their own with the educated of any other

in the world «Queen Victoris did not give herself Even among the politicians of today, we You can cultivate as fast as you can and other centres should not turn ont

for great organisation.

on country. There is no reason why Bagdad. away in bor bad temper to this extent. cannot withhold our respect from the man irrigate, and irrigate ne fast as you can just as good men in the Bho wag testy rather than furious who, in the popular phrase, can keep his

professions and get labour her anger One can see, however, how temper. The suavity of Mr Asquith base The people will 80 there gradually, commerce as the European countries. herself in presence of the ill-deeds of her country is comparison with bis hastier after the Awakening. Mesopotamia will Now the Arch is once more coming dificult it often was for her to restrain given him an extraordinary hold over the but we must not imagine that ten your Bagdad in the studying Plato in

eighth century Ministers

contemporaries and the suavity and have become as great as it was a thot into contact with European Civilisation, «One can read temper in the telegram grass of Mr. Balfour have won him the sand years ago. It will take much longer it will be as well to bear lo mind that the sent to Harcourt when he ordered the admiration of his enemies as well as the than th

that it ever does

to i To such he is a Semite, with all the intelligence should be remembered that the There are rich oilfields near by, and Arabs are just as susceptible to the in the Black Country of Mesopotamia fluence of education as any people in the may rise here, and the demands on Enro world, and that is an enormous factor. pean manufacturers for machinery sad

(Continued at foot of next Column.) other things should be enormous.

release of Davitt: I can scarcely be affection of his friends, adiunce again: brand resource of that race

lieve that Davitt, one of the most dans kerous traitors, has been released without my having been consulted.

(Vontinued at foot of next Columa)

Ultimately, we respect nothing that is not associated with good temper. Good temper is simply balance and order, and without these the very universe falls

to pieces,"