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CHILDREN OF FAR CATHAY,
·BOOLAL" AND POLITICAL JOVEL OF
ABSORBING INTIKISI,
By UHAS, 3. HALCOMBE,
Formerly of the Imperial Chinese Om
Soma Bervios, Author of “The Mykin
Flowery Land
eta.
THE VOLUMB, which consists of 400.
of historical interest showing the disposi tion of the Forces at the battle. of Kwel Lin, is dedicated to Bir Könner Hanı, GO.M.G., and Dr. A. Ba
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NOW IN PREPARATION.
THE
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DIRECTORY CHRONICLE
1918.
FOR CHINA, JAPAN,
INDOCHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP PINES, BORNEO, ET.
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 15гm, 1918.
THE SPIRIT OF THE NATION. A LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER
[BY 4.0.0.1
of
WHAT 18 WRONG 1
KING AND QUEEN AT THE PRESIDENT WILSON AS
BANK
NATIONAL HERO.
But it is not only the distrust of the people inherent in all this that has Wrought the change, Distrast has bred
The King and Queen, accompanied by A SYNONYM FOR UNCLE SAM.” distrust. The people and Government distrust the
distrust the govern Princess Mary, and attended by Colonel people
BY J. WE MASON.] You will need no reminder, my dog instrument. We started this war as Clive Wigram and Major Reginald Sey. democracy, fighting for the cause of
When President Wilson spooks about Prime Minister, of the associations democracy against the cause of despotism.mour, visited the Bank of England on this week. Just a year ago you became is incapable of carrying on a war auc Deputy Governor, Lord Revelstoke, Mr. American people to a degree quite with-
It is a common delusion that democracy December 18th,
They were received at the war he is the spokesman of the the First Minister of the Crown and the cesfully. It is not true, and in any case Governor of the Bank, Sir Brian Cokayne, out parallel in American history. What
we had to accept the fact that we were most potent figure, for good COREA,
or evil, in
a democracy. We could not set up the the Lothbury entrance by Lord Cunliffe, President Wilson says the American peo. the councils of the Allies. other cir- machine of despotism. If we tried we cumstances I should be tempted to devote should only fall between two stools and Montagu Norman, Sir G. Nairne and ple say, what President Wilson wants, the this letter to the methods by which you
safter the penalty, PA Mr. H. Tilden, the secretary. scized the reins of power and the verdict promise. It is a compromise which has to see the bullion and misted coin. In
American people want, what President What you have attempted is a com- Their Majesties went first to the vaults Wilson does not wait, the American which events have passed upon that couplest us the passion of democracy and has ong department they sew ingots of pure people do not want. One might say, and de muin. I should remind you that, not given us the efficiency of a despotic gold ready for minting, and the King be within the truth, that the war, as far instrument The destruction of the lifted one of these, which weighed 271b.. nearly two years and a half ago, I warn Cabinet system was a fatal mistake. The and represented a value of $1,750, Boxes as the United States is concerned, is ed you that your alliance with Lord Cabinet was the great clearing house of of minted sovereigns were shown, each President Wilson's war Northcliff would be a misfortune to the the departmenta mot, pressed their claims dant named Wallace told the King that American people booking him to the clamorous interests. There the heads of containing a million pounds. An atten-
with the country and fatal to yourself, that it and found basis of accommodation be he had been at the Bank for forty-four limit. would remove the key of power not from tween this demand and that It meant years, and during the last sixteen years Parliament to Downing-street, but from good and resulted in the co-ordination of the establishment had gone through his le is less the President of America than
the clash of purposes, but that was wholly every sovereign which had passed through Indeed, President Wilson is fast b Parliament to Carmelite House, that the parts,
The clash has been removed
coming a synonym for Uncle Sum." in some form.or
other your strength lay in the confidence of the the co-ordination line gone, with it
King How much
The The
do organised democracy of this country liament and the departments. The heads be impossible to count, your Majesty.ublic men, it is a surprising change aloof alike from Par have handled in this wou suppose you he is America itself. Accustomed as would Americans are to constant political strifes Not only is the Directory as full and working through the House of Commons of the latter sit in watertight compart he anthe Roval visitors were taken that has slowly come over the national and to bitter partisan criticism of their
FIFTY-SIXTH ANNUAL ISSUE NOW IN THE PRESS
THE DIRECTORY covers the whole the ports and cities of the Far East, from Netherlands India to Siberia, in which Europeans reside
millions.
but many thousands
Cunliffe introduced to their notice as states ontored the war. The utter and to sen & weighing machine which ford spirit in this respect since the United being capable of weighing either a ton or complete confidence now felt Mr. instrument go down 40 feet, and its de: Americans have learned to trust him be a postage stamp. The foundations of the Wilson is not a sudden development
complete in each case as it can be made, but each Colony, Fort or Settlement in prefaced by a DESCRIPTION, carefully revised each year, most or which will serve as scourate GUIDES FOR THE TOURIST, giving every detail in connection with the places, their History would be the master and you would be ose of Commons finds itself a more monstrated to the King and Queen In Cause they crathusiastically approve the
Topography, etc., etc.
and would be shattered by reliance on a neurotic adventurer, working like Alcibiades on the passions of the moment and through a machine of which be alonu
the instrument. I should ask you to con- The Information in these Descriptions sidor all that has happened in the interval consisting of a hundred interesting articles in the light of that warning, der gerek packed with facts concisely set out, and containing statistics of the TRADE of each Country and Fort, wed alone suffice to s large volume.
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Besides the usuni Alphabetical List of Firms the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED LISTS of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larger Commercial Centris.
The
ments. They are out of organic relation the War Cabinet and only in a perfunc 20 cach other, their responsibility is to tory sense to Parliament, and the result sion of policies that is undermining all is a chaos of cross-currents and a confu confidence in the governing machine. The plished facts or with vast proposals affect debating society, confronted
with посол
State after the war-proposals like the too grave and too argent to permit of Laporta and Exports Bill and the Non- this. We have come to a crisis cf the Ferrous Botals Bill that fill the world of war in which we can have no thought that industry with panic. And these pro 19 not directed to meeting and over- coming the perils that threaten us, and also presented at the point of the if I refer to the mistakes of the past it bayonet to be accepted or rejected at the
peril of a crusade against the is only that we may learn their lesson
ing to get
and accuracy.
cannot
racy were practically
But the situation that confronts us is not the war, but the fabric of the bination, and learned that orn
*
Bolos
of
The
saw a number of safes which even the tion that has arisen since America's do- another of the vaults the King and Queenway he has handled situation after situa.
in
control singl but only laration of beiliger(ney.
It is a fact, beyond controversy that President, Wilson's public utterances expressions of what the great mass of about the war have invariably been vocal Americans were thinking, or were trying. dimly to think. This may be the exercise of conscious genius on the President's
and arm ourselves for the ordeal before and the pro-Germans who are refus-the cutting and attachment of coupons part, or it may be that in him an uncon-
us
real
ᏤᎵ "
THE REAL PERIL
of
on with the war." PARLIAMENT OR PRESS
мего
THE TREASURY,
MAN AMONG MEN.
in the Far East contains the names of over and with a unity of moral purpose that the systematices which attach the vaulta below The comparison of chief claim to greatness that, though bo
string. We knew that we were
them contained about £180,000. walls and roofs as of enormous thick ness, and sufficiently strong, it is believed to resist any form of shock from above In yet nacther department the Royal visi tors witnessed operations connected with representing the half year's interest on bonds of various nationalities In the scions average of American war beliefs next department the safes were again latter. It does not seem possibly that finds expression. Probably it is, the The total effect of all this is to shift notable feature. They occupied the whole anybody could sit down and guess what mount of this time! It is not the col the centre of gravity from Parliament to height of the building, which approx the American people want said and done
What is it that constitutes the grave Inpse of Russin, it is not the new evi Printing House Square The manipulanted to twelve leet.
even the submarine. These are all the manipulation of Parliament. It was dences of the strength of the enemy, it tion of the Press is more important than
about the war and guess right every time. The President's thoughts are the disquieting the seal peril is in ourselves sont system; and by whose authority it stairs into the hat they are not the the Carmelite Press that created the
Pre- The spirit of the nation is darkened, its exists. Parliament's leave was never of notes Two comparativel mall as only a highly disciplined and trained
peril. The
Thence the King and Queen went up. Plain, natural thoughts of plain, natural Tressary, and saw stores Americans, though put into language such ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS war with a splendid faith in our aim the least initely a paid retainer, and the Princess in turn, and they
solidarily is crumbling We began this naked, nor its consent, given And not packets were banded to the King, the intelleet could find.
fict tis that itself ina becoine
Parliament
invited to compare is thronged with men
the weight of 23,000 FOREIGNERS,
a challenge to the principle of who have been given
them with the ingots they had lifted in This, then, may be President Wilson's throughout the world and we arranged, with the Initials as well as the took up the challenge without thought of
to the Government, and who form value also was interesting, for these two is a deep scholar and a man of intensive Surnames, in strictly Iphabetical Order, conquest or revenge, but because we basted criticism,
guard of the War Cabinet against packets of £1,000 notes represented ex mentalit yet he has retained through that if the gospel enshrined in the the Northcliffe-Cowdray affair and the millions in notes were seen in this de average citizens of the American demo
Incidents like
actly a million
pounds. From 25 to 30 out his life the points of view of the military avatem triumphed leaflet censorship increase the sense of partment rich sovereigns, and half-made the President a political aristocrat
and irresponsibility that in pro
The next department visited cracy. Intellectual exclusiveness has not perish from the earth.”
one in was would of the principal ports in the Far East have still true, but our faith has grown din need not add that the personnel of the weighed on wonderful little machines American people, and it is proved, they being automatically Such is the instinctive fetling of the Firma in Great Britain and aro saznally wonkened. What is the reason? I have orgating distrust. There are no three fall hut promptly reject any coin found President has scored in s speeches and been engraved by one of the most eminent and our confidence in
is War Cabinet itself is a grave factor in which not only classify them automatis lieve, by the repeated bull's-eyas the
niça in this country less in touch with to be slightly out of register or under
of tradition Milner,
and Sir Edward from the store and put
In this way worn coins are the Government of the country is on Carson ord Curzon than Lord
of silver coin was also affront to decency, and has been the main drew a hindrance to the
Ireland, while the un couth clumsiness of his utterances on every occasion is calculated to give the utmost help to the enciny and to do the utmost harm at home.
so that any amo esu be found instantly.
THE MAPS AND PLANS
corrected and brought up to date.
A that this nation stood for only affecting public condence. And sovereigns were
That it
ourselves is
just returned from listening to the eloquent and statesman-like speech of Mr. J. H. Thomas at the Aldwych Club,
one in England knows the the people better than he does and no
mind
commande command their confidemere entitled to
the
messages since the beginning of America's part in the war.
The CHRONICLE cover the notable events together with the Teria of all the most important Treaties conduided with the countries of Eastern Asia, the various one Customs Tariffs, Trade Regulations, Chart bera of Commerce, Scales of Commissions, striking and sombre contrast between the able tragedy settlement of the miser- demonstration of the manner in which term's record gains enormously in pres
The presence of the latter inning of The automatic American public life, a President who is
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is
He
temper of the working classes three years ago and their temper to-day, and I wes struck by the causes to which he attri- buted the change. I shell deal with these the thoughts which were in my mind in causes, for they represent almost exactly wh deciding to write this letter.
WHAT IS TRUTH?
WHAT IS THE GOAL Î
Even under normal circumstances of and nested, and the visitors had practical elected for a second term on his first
factory ones are detected and de-tige. Add to this the firm belief of the visited, their Majesties climbing to Wilson has made good" without n Various other departments were people of the United States that Mr. the
very top floor. One very interesting single major mistake since America's en- part of the visit was to the printing de trance into the conflict, and it is impos partment, where the King had quits asible to avoid the conclusion that no part in the Jutland fight and was a com- sesses so much power obedient to his long chat with a young fellow who took other statesman in the world to-day pos rade of the heroic Jack Cornwell.
But behind these considerations there is one that overshadows all others in its effect upon the spirit of the nation. We
single will as the present occupant of the The first is the loss of faith in the public are in the fourth year of the war, but
AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
White House. When in a neighbourly declarations of statesmen. The most we are less assured to-day of what we
controversy one person in a group may Crossing to the Stock Exchange, the peak in less than eulogistic terms of example of this, of course, is are fighting for than we conspicuouis
were in the Royal party were received by the Chair something the President has done, he in connection with the food position and autumn of
when the youth of this
this man, Managers, and Committes The instantly hushed. the submarine
responded with such. menace. The people aro
ready House was packed bewildered between your own repeated in 1
Most frequently the call of freedom. We as soon as their Majesties reached the retort ist Give him time," or "Don't confident assurances that the fear of the
the for the entire assemblage word him, or He's doing better than submarine campaign has passed and the for the final conflict with Militaring at centre of the
Anthem, Mr. C. Overybody else together ***** (conductor of the Stock Exchange So when Europe reads of something
our aun
then that we were
Our
that
But the vision has faded
the hope that from the fur-
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limits, and
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the voice of America. Pride in the Pre-
xpress.
AMERICA'S WILL TO WIN
urgent pro08/2 tons of your colleagues that crannce of Force and establish in owed the National Anthem, and the go wrong, so far as the present is con was to deliver the world from memoir) leading. Three rousing cheers the President has said Europe will not it has not passed effect of this on the dangers ahead.
and that there are gravery land the governanceZemonstration was continued all the time cerned, in interpreting the utterance as question of food, consumption is serious have been subdued to the dreadful dr the visitors compliment was paid to the ident is becoming a cult. If it con enough, but far more serious is the feel- ing that the facts are
var and trifled with, of that Speechve are agreeable or disagrenace of these times humanity might very pretty able according to momentary considera emerge with a better gospel than that of Queen and to her daughter. The electric tinues for the duration of the war on tions and not according to the plain of the United States holds up bravely the M.R
Prussia has grown
faint
The President to
call boards had been so manipulated Wilson may be the man to break the two.
letters
of fire the initials term precedent and succeed himself for a realities of the case. The people of this Bng of that hope, for the fulfilment of Princess Mars shook hands it. And third term at the elections in November,
The King, country are a great People, proud of their
the Queen, which alone he entered the past and of their place in the world
howar But conductors on leaving the. Exchange, and
1020. Daily They will suffer
from this Terany sacrifices for the here is cause in which they are engaged, but they M. Clemenceau scoffe at the League had been so successful
Nay,
whose is repudiation from this ally thanked Mr Clarke must have faith in their leadership.
organization of the loyal demonstration They will answer, confidence with confidence of Nations, which is the only alternative They can stand hard truths very well, to a state of everlasting and world-wide and passed through to the Lothbury MINISTERS' STIRRING SPEECHES.
Their Majesties re-entered the Bank, but they must be appealed to as respon of the President's great utterance Sir who could possibly be spared from their war and last night within a few days Courtyard, where all the girl employes sible citizens whose whole destiny is at Edward Carson threw his Old stake, and not as children who cannot ha
Mr. Bailey
Baker, U.B.A. Secretary for War,. trusted to know that they are in perif judgment into the same devil's rale at the bead of the stono staircase leading Southern Society, Baid
work were assembled. The visitors belted. In a speech at a dinner given by the Can you wonder that the spirit of the THE ORSAT SLANDER nation is anxious and depressed! It is to the Lothbury Courtyard in order to comradeship holds the people in its grasp. The spirit of And the second cause I follow the
not that its courage
fails ordes adopted by Mr. Thomas is the have befallen our cause, are best and the National Anthem, and cheered lustily face the present crisis with
broken: The disasters that officials The assembled girls then sang
South, East, to victory belittling of the efforts of this country. menacing, but there is no desire for in The criminal misrepresentation on this
as their Majesties drove sway termination horn of one resolution-wo head has done incalculable harm to our peace that will not achieve the just Even now the City visit was not con-must win. The first triumph will be name and cause throughout the It bred distrust of us in Russia at the made great sacrifices and it will continue Princess Mary cleated to go on to Moor will come when our sons return and bring
The the world. minimum of our aims.
nation has eluded, for the King, the Queen, and victory on the field of battle. Another critical moment it has become a to unke great cardinal belief of
end in view. Is it the acquired as an extension of the Bank of at last been made safe for democracy malignant besiculated by the enem for, and which is no end, but only the inspsotion was thoroughly enjoyed by which Sir Edward Carson stands England premises. Here, too, the recep
God hasten that day have the in every country and have created dis beginning of an unthinkable struggle for of inspsotion was thoroughly enjoyed by nation had done so will in nine months
the enemy
Mr. Baker went on to say that no trust of our motives and contempt for ourselves and our children? Or is it the their Majesties.
and replied to criticisms of the scarcity our capacity. Mr. Thomas said that in end that President Wilson sets before p
of rifles in the training camps by saying the United States he found universal ine attainment of a peace, not founded credulity as to the measure of our sacri of death but a peace which will give want the conclusive peace which can only out a rifle, it was because the Government
in revenge, not sowing another harvest and armucents piled to the sky.
there was not a munition factory in the laad which was not working overtime, and if there was a soldier training with- of this horror the world security against the recurrence
come from the overthrow of millitarism had had first to equip the men at the and a world reconciliation. That is the front peace they entered the war to win. That
most
the
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French peoples the know what in the but it wants to gate Hall, which has been temporarily with them the message that the world has
selves described for years as a nation
recovered
They
many more
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But even worse than the effects abroad have been the effects at home The people bere bave known the wicked falsity of all
RESTORE OUR FAITHNE this crusade. They have seen the designs that have been masked by the insults tried the one. We have nailed the mock their best blood. And if confidence in aid that America had already added a We have to make our cholot. We have is the pence For which they have given Mr. Daniels, Secretary for the Navy, hurled at them. They have heard them out and the room to be restored; if tho splendid enthusiasm thousand ship to the strength of the dackers and shirkert hiding in mast, and the fruita are before us. We have and solidarity of three years ago fare to Allies, and she stands ready to add a funk holes manipulated by Loles in fuging Rassis's appeal for a ratole
V must be by blazoning we are sending many ships. hither and thither by the hidden ment of war aims and for a Stockholm upon our standards the grand message
as are necu We are hand" and bribed by Ger
Gerzian gold. They Conference.
to the lawless fanatics who are dragging shame, and turas it into a sacrifice for
Thelped to hand over our Aliv of emancipation from war which alone aessaan pouring out, liberally our
redeems this slaughter from futility and We die known, that of nation in this war has petual economic war on the enemy,
itself more unselfishly than this
and mide its cause
which we
many men
Pour Allies
have known it was unre They Do her to rain. We have, in declaring an eternal gain to men. A wealth, but more than our men
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