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DAI NIPPON

THE WAR.

(Continued from page 5.)

AND CHRONICLE General.

1918.

CHINA, JAPAN COREA, FOR

SIAM, STRAITS INDO CHINA, SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP PINES, BORNEO, ETC.

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EARLIER CABLES. THROUGH REUTER'S ACKNOY.]

THE

THE MILITARY SERVICE (FEMALES) ACT 1920.

[FHOM THE "NATION. ""]

1918.

WARNING

TO IRELAND

THE UNITY OF THE ALLIES.

The Irish Fullowship Club, the largest.

that any

One. which at first caused much heart IRISH-AMERICAN barning to good Churchmen în părți. cular It may be summarised by citing the two principal expedients employed. The first was a measure for the facilita- I was net a little curious to learn how tion of conditional divorce. wou and the woman's movement had Ah I remembered the stir which the Irish organization in Chicago, has adopt fared under the rules of war. For who. Report of the Divorce Commission raiseded a declaration of principles supporting

Party, and. I went out four years ago, the war spirit before the war. But I confess it isn't that the Parliamentary

served the women of all classes and obvious to my how the dissolution of son which cocks to embarrass, any of tho was hurrying them into munitions and maritial unions helps towards solving tion. OUTPUT OF SHIPYARDSothor wat work and some of the most your problem of raising the birth-rate Allied Powers in its conduct of the war renowned Buffragists were leading the No perhaps not. But I used the is committing an act of open hostility to Never-Endians. So I lost no time in term conditional divorce." Now, the the United States The declaration is. looking up Martin, who had been my main conditions of the new Divorce Act addressed to Mr. John Redmond fellow curate at St. Aloysius, and a word expressly designed to meet the It was announced at the same time that. mighty man of valour among the Chureb dificulty you have in mind. In the first the club is forwarding the first instal. Bustragists,

place, its operation was confined to cases ment of 10,000 dollars (£2,000) towards where existing unions, lasting over a the fund which is being collected on bo specified period had not yielded the half of the Irish Parliamentary Party. proper quota required to meet the esti The declaration will be submitted to all mated future needs of the military autho the Irish organizations throughout the

warded to Ireland S rity for the maintenance of our fighting country and it will bo ultimately for- toros

APPEAL TO WORKERS

LONDON, February 27th. In the House of Commons, Mr. Gun, Barnes appealed to men in the shipyards to put their backs into the work He said that during the last month less than half of the estimated number of ships had been turned out. This month the position is apparently not improved, The matter was very serious, because as regaras shipbuilding, America was fail ing us. We must turn out a much larger number of abipa if we are to get through the trouble of the next few montha

LATENT CABLES

THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE POSITION

LATER

In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law emphasised that our output of shipe in January and February was very dis appointing largely owing to

I found him, as, ever, abounding in enthusiasm for the cause and with the old exuberance of language. The great achievement of the Suffrags had he explained brought women back, almost with n jerk, to what he onlled the primal verities."

The declaration says, fer alt, “any attempt to make distinctions between the Allies would be futile, foolish, or insin- core, Any policy which promises to aid the cause of the Allies, and at the sam time singles one out for attacs, is self- We are therefore com-

Still, I interrupted, "I cannot sex The life of the Home The voics how mere divorce that breathed?" I interjected. No doubt, continued Martinit Yes, horlied, “hat with a differ couldn't. But the second condition meet ence. The voice that breathed over Eden your point, for it restricta divores to now blows hot and strong, as you shall cases where the claimant or claimants contradictory any Irishman hear. But it is no inere return to the produce satisfactory proof of an agreed pelled to Victorian home. The home is now firmly proposal for re-mitriage with a properly this time tries to embarrass the conduct harnessed to the State, and finds its certified person of marriageable age of the war by any of the European

as trying to embarrass America. higher meaning in that service only made absolute by the registration of home that they cannot look to America or

I don't quite follow" I broke in do you mean that the State controla

and character This decree of divorce is

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The CHRONICLE corers the notable avants together with the Texte of all the

workers of

the

seriousness

of

the

position

and to convince them that their work was as vital as fighting. He was on vinced that when the workers realed that then there would be no complaint in shipbuilding was during because the men were not working their hardest

house 18

Ost tell our Irish brethren at

doss

and

the certificate of remarriage. But though this induced a certain number of pat Irish Anterica for any sympathy in any such policy On the contrary, we regard open hos wives and to take on younger and more any such policy as an act of

and to us

88 Americans There is not a single honest promising substitutes, it could not, of tilty to America course go very far towards meeting the genuine Irish-American who requirement. For the essential difficulty stand behind the President and the policy lay in wastage itself, that is to say is of the American Government. The Irish

people have now

to choose betw United the ever growing gap in the numbers of marriageable men. Indeed, it was not and friendship long before military needs seemed to States; and, loyal as we have been to threaten the very institution of mon the cause of Irisa liberty, we must tell the Irish people that we will not, and cannot, retain sympathy for an Ireland hat makes war on our beloved country

Do longer his castle to take steps to inform the shipyard Oh, no, it is more than ever bis castle, for it is armed to meet the enemy at the gate. You will remember the conflict that was always coming up potween those who were interested pri- marily in securing home rule for women, the right to marriage and children, pay ment for motherhood and housekeeping, with facilities for getting rid of husamy vands who didn't suit and those whe You are most alarming Martin, I were for giving marriage and the family exclaimed Surely the influence of the the go-by and inciting women to realise Church, even if it had to make conves- their potentialities in the large fields of sions on divorce, was able to resist the politics and business"

degradition of polygamy

BULGARIA'S

·BANLJER CABLES:

FINANCIAL

NEEDS

AMSTERDAM, February 27th

A message from Sofia states that the Balgarian Finance Minister in the Sobranje, requesting a war credit of 1,000,000,000 francs, anticipated that the foon would not be borne by Bulgarians.

This confrom telegrams that Bulgaria is demanding, in addition to Dobrudja, big economic concessions and a war in demnity of a milliard frages in gold.

ELECTION SURPRISES IN

SPAIN.

REFLECTION OF BOLSHEVIK

ANARCHISMO

MADRID, Februniy 27th. The Spanish elections, which, were con ducted under the Liberal Government, bire produced

great surprise Speialists and Republicans have almost disappeared

The famous

Leader Der tour, was defeated.

The Monarchist Partice, comprising Liberals and Conservatives of various groups, secured some 300 seats. most important Treaties concluded with the it is impossiblo yet to predict the effect countries of Eastern Asia, the various upon foreign policy, te not unlikely Customs Tarifle, Trade Regulations, Cham that these elections are the first refice bera of Commerce, Scales of Commissions. tion of Bolshevik anarchism, which has Consular and Court Fees, Hongkong Stamp alarmed the sober-minded in every coun- Duties, Postal Guide, Signal Codes, Chinese Festivals, Tables of Money, Weights and Measures and other Commercial Information. The CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY though condensed in every possible manner contains every year more pages, and now numbers nearly 2,000,

It is published at the Office of the 64 HONGLONG DAILY PRES

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Tientsin

Apes And Descriptions are of

JEG UHINA.

"Peltaiho,

Ch'awangtao. Waku.

THE POSITION IN IRELAND IRISH CONVENTION ADJOURNED

LONDON, February 27th The Press Bureau announces that at a meeting of the Irish Convention, the Chairman reported the results of the de legation to the Cabinet

After duscission the Convention was adjourned until Wednesday to consider Count Plunkett's report

Yes," I replied. "I remember bow Why certainly, replied Martin thick the air was with the recriminating bastily we have never dodged upon cries of free love, "aco suicide and essentials, though some concession had the rest, and how embarrassing it all here also to be made. In judging them, was for liberal clerics like ourselves, who however, you must bear in mind that we saw the importance of the Church notare living under the Mosaic dispensation alienating the advanced women of either for the duration of the war."

camp

Well said Martin the war with its plain lesson of reconcilement was most

opportune

Well, what are the concessions? Chiefly two. In the first place, we have been induced to sanction the prac tice of Concurrent Unions,

and her sons.

of course, one can't expect so radical a policy to work quite smoothly. Indeed, among the military Liologists n ferco Mendelian controversy is raging at the present time.

Mendelians: I exclaimed, “I thought they were absorbed in crossing trains of whents and peas.

Well! so they were when you left England. But like every other body of specialists they have been taken over

$10

** The lessop,” I said, "may be plain And what may that mean? It reby the Government and set to work at warexpedients. For some time they were to you, but it is not to me low could minds me of the old Police Court expres innocently occupied in discovering the var settle such a deep-rooted sion, sentences to run concurrently.

Mendelian character, which would yield, Ah! I see you grasp the central antagonism?"

a strain of bomb-proof nerve and another strain of war-truth brain-tissue. By Why, simply enough. By enforcing meaning

song prefer to use Though

thehen a little group tarned their energie the supremacy of a single obligation. You see, so long as the franchise issue euphemism Co-operative Households as upon sex determination and the domi blocked the way, the true relation of presenting a more harmonious idea ant and recessive characters involved to women to the tute was obscure End Well, that is one expedient. Another is it And then the fat was in the fire the vote been won in peace time, it might the adoption of leasehold or terminable for granted that by scientific feeding have remained obscure. But the sudden marriages, though thin, of course, over and judicious Mendelian selection you bestowal of full citizenship in war-time laps with the facilities of divorce. But could control the proportion of male to made everything clear as day. Women it was felt right that every marriageable female births, what is the desirable pro were now invested with the full rights woman should have a chance of serving portion in war-time The problem, and obligations of citizenship at the her country, and that all minor con- appears, is not a simple one. For on moment when the nature of their siderations of pre-war custom or morality the one hand, as Geddes and Thomson obligation was most patent. For young must yield place to this prime obliga tell us, deficient or abnormal foods. men we saw that obligation take the tion. A most convincing exposition of encourage a katabolic habit of body, shape of fighting for their country. For the whole case was given by Father and tend to produce males War-food old folk, the supreme sacrifice was Compton in his sermon in the Abbey in economy. therefore, makes for males. similarly ordained On women of which he pointed out how in the patriar. But war itself far more than counter- marriageable age the duty obviously chal days both the concurrent union and acts this tendency. Where, then, do wo devolved to repair the wastage of the the terminable marriage were recognised actually stand as between the katabolic W This is pre-eminently women's as Divine ordinances, designed to ensure and the anabolic factors in birth warwork. For were it left undone the the continuality of the family, And economy? Until we can get an agreed. war with all its liberating mission, shall wa do less, continued the preacher answer to this question, how can we would speedily collapse. A few more with an eloquent gesture, for our ensure the indefinite duration of the years would plunge the world inte peace Fatherland that larger patriareby the war for sheer lack of the fighting material State su whom on earth we live and movo To my childlike intelligence," I said, It is for woman to avert such an and have our being Is it, not the re" it would seem clear that the business ligious duty of the God-fearing men of your Mendelians was to encourage the unspeakable calamity."

This, I interrupted Martin" is and women to raise families to the glory maximum proportion of males," very interesting. But tell me, do all the of the State It was an exceedingly Martin emiled. Yes, that is just the women see it in this light? Are they all servicable utterance. For, coming just at error that the novice in this thorny con.. willing to engage in repairing war-wast the moment when the new amendment troversy naturally makes. If you were

for a comparatively

short Some women, surely, don't want to for including Short-leave in the Military arranging ry and have families Service Act was before the country, if war, say, not longer than twenty or thirty years, of course, the more boys No doubt," said Martin, but what silenced all serious criticism. of that? Some young men don't want to But was there no real opposition 1" to-day the more soldiers eighteen years night. Some old folk don't want to be I asked, to these exceedingly drastic hence. But if you are guided by a wider military caution, you will take a longer cremated But the stern logic of war proposals?

Boochow Canton.

OUTBREAK OF LAWLESSNESS Chinklang. Whampoa. Nanking. Kowloon

The Press Bureau states that the outage break of lawlessness in County Lappa," Kewkiang Semhoi, necessitated that on Sunday addition

troops should be sent to assist the ponce Hankow Kongmoon.

The County, is declared a specisi__mili Nadning Manchurian Yoobow

Wachowfu.

tary area under the Defence of the Benim Kwangchauwan. Act.

Maku. "Antung."

Trade Obres. Shsusi

Newchwang Ichang. Dairen-> Chungking Pakhoi. Port Artur. Hangchow

Hoihow. Chefoo

Ningpo. Lungchow Weihaiwoi. Winchow. Mangtae. Trinanfa Santü

Hokow Makden.

Foochow

Bremao Tengyneh. Kicia Lungkow

Shanghai.Amoy

Changchun. Hunahun

JAPAN AND FORSLOS

SAHI BEER

GLAND PRIES

Harbin Beaton, Langchingchun.

Tokyo. Yokohama,

Osaka. Atoji.

Hyogo

LAGER-BEER

BREWERY TOKYO CO..

M.1.0 BUSSAN KAISHA

Koba, Shimonoseki

Tainaafu Nagasaki. Takow.

Hakodate. Auping. Tazmani

EASTERN SIREZIA,

Vladivostock:

Seoul

Nicolojevsk

CROAN. Ползат Mokpo.

Chinnampo. Pingyang Bongolun.

HONGKONG AND ITS DEPEDENCIE, Macao,

FERNOU INDO-CHINE. SA

Annama Tourane. Huế.

Baigon. Cambodge Tunkin Provinces, Quinhon.

Hanot

Haiphong

Manila

Barawak. Brunei

PHILIPPINKA:

Iloilo. Bonza Labuan British North Borneo.

BANGSCE.

Dehu

Perak Negri Sembilan. Kelantan.

Pen STRATTE

NETHERLANDS LIBLAZ

Selangor. Johore.

Padange

SEMATANI: Бонталята

Pahang Kedaa Perlis

rey. Wellesley,

East Coast of Bum Orriors of Corer and River Sykamiss.

WAR CABINET CONSIDERING

CONDITIONERS

LONDON, February 23tà. In the House of Commons Mr. Benar Law stated that the war Cabinet had been considering the condition of a part of Ireland, bat he declined to state for the present whether measures to strengthen the hands of the Executive were being contemplated. »

THE LABOUR

CONFERENCE.

LONDON, February 27th The proceedings of the Labour Party Conference are notable for the defeat of the extreme Socialists. The latter with arew the amendment denouncing the new constitution,and, other amendments, designed to strengthen the voting power of the Independent Labour Party in the new party, were defeated by big majori

DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS

F

with its frightfulness, is not to be well there was the so-called One Tange for the duration of this war, por denied Women cannot any more than Man One Wife parts, but their pro hasp even keeping an eve upon the next Thus you men escape from the rightful demand of paganda was soon surpressed as pro War, and the next but one. the State upon their services 1 doa German pacifism, somewhat unfairly as will see that it is necessary to provide mind confessing that it has proved unit seemed to me. But the controversy has not only for a large crop of soldiers now, commonly difficult to drive home the im now died down, and all these expedients, but for still large crops to ripen later purativeness of this call upon some so far as they have appeared to make on-say, thirty or forty cars hence. For women. In fact, at first it was neces good are now incorporated in the new sary to walk very delicately in the Astrag master, for fear of forcing the feminist And what are the main provisions movement mio tue arms of the No of the Act? maternity Fellowship."

this purpose it is as important to provide-

the mothers of the future armies as to provide soldiers for the existing war in the remoter stages.

Ah Martin, I exclaimed, I vee Well, it sets up in every district Triburial of Women between the ages of you are the same old militarist as ever." Yes, he replied, and more con- forty-eight and sixty-five (the Aged vinced than ever, For war is not only Service limit, as you will remember), and

that

And now ald you proceed!" PARTYUh we took the same sloping, rigzag

road which served for getting me sola lers, the aged people, and the workers requires them to summon before them all the reconciler of class difference, it unites by the usual methods of inducement, women of marriageable age, not at pree sexes in co-operation for our suprema. huuoan purpose. Providence has assigned simulus, or pressure, we got hold of a sent occupied in multery services w to man the role of the fighter, to women. good number of militant suffregists and when passed by the Advisory Colomite that of providing the material where- put them on the patriotic appeal job of Eugenists, are enrolled in territorial we placarded the walls wita diagram companies to be called up for service as wish to fight. The voluntary rush of showing the inadequacy of the present the competent military authority for the young women to the munition factory low birth rate to keep the war going for distries may direct. Time is given to all early in the war was indeed a gostare of instinctive symbolism, the unconscious more than twenty years Then there was duly certified women (now deemed to the famous picture of the boy baby, en bo mothers) to qualify by voluntary con feeling for then true mission. And, titled Waten him grow in one year tract, but if they fail to qualify within he added, with an ecstatic fervor, he will be to eighteenth of a soldier, in the proscribed period, they come within mission has an even wider sweep than 1 two years and so forth. And every the compulsory power of the Act have indictatet It is women's great privilege not merely to provide for this. wall rang out with the challenging an A drastic policy, you say. But the war of the next war bat to provide for TRADE.

pal mother, what did you do in the country must have soldiers enough to war. For without the pressure of po Lareat War But the voluntary method ensure the duration of the war. AU CONSULS EXPECTED TO DEAL

was not really a success We tried, of private feelings and conveniences, it is Palation upon the means of livelihood, history teaches us that there could be no WITH TRADE

course, to stiffen up the moral appeal felt, must boy before this-paramount war, and that for lack of this bracing need. And how otherwise can the noed with material inducementa, remissions of LONDON, February 20th. -

taxation, and even bonuses on parentage be met? Besides, as historians point out and cleaning struggle mankind would In the Hease of Commons in introduc. But the trouble we that the problem we cannot havn the benefits of war with stagnate in comfortable and ignoble security. It is woman's part in the Overical Traile, te teperial Trade Quality also comes in. Now some ronomy was based, starembez order to avert the peril and to secure stated that out of sixteen Terprise toned bonuses of parentage were coon discover upon preferentis rights her fighting that War shall not perish from the earth. Commissionera thirteen wer

eil to be a process of dysgenic election, mon. Athens, after the tastrophe of and nine phasised the

up to date formation

the selling of goods too largely confined to men rejected for ent; and, to come closer home, its recent throughout the ages, and, with the assist. anso of the Military Service Act, she and also careful analysis and record from military service. In fact, it was the pres adoption both in Germany and Austria will continue to do th different foreign countrine of the whole sure of the eugenists upon this point compels us to follow suit

foaned transport that gradially forced us into the policy You mean," Linterjected, "that God methods of banki

of the Military Service (Females) Act will send in to the Kaiser the bill for sy reat present under discussion. But we moral degradation that may ensue

didat, of course 1pmp from voluntary Well, said Martin, you may put into compulsory service in a single 18 that way if you like I should prefer to say that the necessity of State washes

ing the estimates for the Department of

Steal Mailand of wastage is not entirely one of quantity out paying this price. Spartan military chetue of life to apply this pressure, in

the necessity pint He because the fatherhood was of necessity Byracuse, had resort to the same expediha has done her work gloriously

fact other grea

The British Cons be expected to deni

the trade of their districts,

De duty of the Commerc

to keep the Government Info general financial developmen

whole economic state of the country which they were stationed

bound weg

I should think not. That would be out all guilty stairs, consecrating Pach most an-English But what was your pecial sacrifice of personal feeling. Bat middle stage

continued at foot of next Columni)

|

But suddenly glancing at his watch, I must tear myself away front this alluring conversation though there is so much more, to be said. For 1 have iny Mothers Meeting ut seven, and I pro mised them a little talk on women's duty in the home

And so he left me wondering what Euripides, the friend of woman would have thought had he been there to hear.