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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS – WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1918.

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PERSONALITIES IN POWER

WAR'S INFLUENCE ON THE BUBBLE REPUTATION

[BY CIVILIAN]

COMPANY, REPORT

SHANGHAI ELECTRIC CONSTRUC. TION CO., LTD.

The report and statement of recounte The events of last week point the of the Shanghai Electric Construction moral of the untability of all reputa Co., Ltd., for the year ended December tions in these hard later days that let, 1917, show a profit of £87,504 59. Gd, trouble us." The name of General which compares with £48,123 0s. 4d. far Maurice blazes across the heavens like a 1616. - Including £2,500 178. 5d. brought

ALLEGED FORGERY OF PASSPORTS

ARRESTS IN TIENTSIN AND

HARBIN.

GERMAN LOSSES IN SHIPPING

HALF OF HER MERCANTILE MARINE.

The Paris Chamber of Commerce At the Mixed Court, Shanghai, on July Bulletins- has lately published come 3rd, before Mr. Grant Jones, British interesting facts about the losses incurred trans, described as a German, living at increase of the Allies' arcantile feets Assessor, and Magistrate Tsang, F. J. by the German merchant service, and the No. 25, Carter Road, was charged with The command of the seas being in the failing to register as an alien enemy and

rocket and comes down like the stick.forward. from the preceding year, the also with forging passports contrary to hands of the Allies, since the outset of the

He pays for forty-eight hours of fame by the certainty that he will never again have to decide whether he is General or Citizen Maurice. His fate will act as an 14 awful warning to certain Army and Navy luminaries who have allowed their orbit to be defected into the perilous paths of political intrigue,

article 243 of the Chinese Provisional war, it points out, the German merchant- Criminal Code.

total standing to the credit of prout and Joss-account before making any appro- priations, was £10,014 23, lid. There Shungama said his consulate had recived case of Norway and Sweden, with which An official of the Russion Consulate in service have been stopped except in the had been transferred: to reserve in certain instructions from Harbin with countries trade has been carried op. regard to the defendant by telegraph. It renewals account £10,000; to the prelimin-was alleged that a certain offence had been Vessele, still out at sea have been either ary expenses account £5,000, and an

coramitted by the defendant with regard seized or destroyed by the Allies, or elsa interim dividend of o per cent. had been

passports.

Germany's mercantilo paid (£16,000), leaving a disposable

fleet thus suffered from the very beginning

to

Mr. K 8. Newman asked the Court sunk by mines. that defendant should be bound over to come before the Court when certain war

War is hard schoolmaster. In the balance of $30,014 29, 11d. The directors rants, which had been applied for, had of the war, a loss of 500,000 tons. To this

good old days we have nearly forgotten, recommended the payment of a final men built up their lame by slow and hidend of 5 per cent, (less income-tax), suro degrees. Portenta-like Randolph £16,000, making 10 per cent. for the year Churchill and Parnell indeed astonished and a bonus of 2 per cent. (free of the world alike by the rapidity of their income-tax), £8,000, leaving to be carried riss and the sudden crash of their fall.forward, subject to excess profits duty But the common order was that of Dis 215,014 28, 11d. T racli or Gladstone, Roberts or Wolseley familiar figures long before they reached the acme of fame. Palmerston was for a generation a steady Cabinet hack before in old age he blossomed into popularity and Premiership. And now we have Sir Eric Geddes as First: Lord, & man threa to see what the London Directors have to about the subject of the charge, ho was years ago utterly unknown to the general public. Verily the old order changes.

been executed in Tientsin and Harbin was simply a question of getting them The men had been arrested there and it down hore. He was not prepared to go Shanghai on because these unen had not arrived in The police would have በጨ the Assessor-This is a very serious objection to bail being allowed. charge in ting of war, and in other places the man would be put up against a wall and shot. Commenting upon the proposal of the Newman-Until we get further London directors to increase their fees information from Tientsin and Harbin 1 don't think we should he justified in ask from £1,500 a year to £2,250, the Northing that the defendant he kept in custody China Daily News says:- It is difficult

the accused was probably

IN THE MACHINE-

do to earn even £1.500 a year, as also to understand the need of a London office costing over £700. The whole working of the Company takes place in Shanghai,

gure we must add the tonnage held up

which amounts to 880,000 tons since the by the Allies in their own harbours and

entrance of the United States, Brazil and China into the war. Then, too, the large number of vessels sold by their German overlooked. Up to March 31st, 1917 owners to neutral shipbuilders must not merchant vessels. Germany's losses in might be estimated at two millions and a half, gross tonnage, or about 45 per cent. of her mercantile ileet in time of peace. The Berliner Tauchlas of May 15th, 1917, acknowledged the loss of 630 vessel 1917, 2,116,000 tons of shipping

or

Altg others and knew a great deal the German. Under Secretary of State

not satisfied that accused participated in the watter. If the defendant disclosed what he knew so much the better for him.

The Assessor-If we are satisfied that, though not a participator himself, he is ware of facts which it was his duty to disclose, we shall have to hand him over to the Chinese authorities for internment cannot let men like that wander about

Hellferich, announced in the Reichstag that two million tons of shipping had either fallen directly into the hands of the energy, or bean seriously imporilled."

OUT OF THE RUNNING. These material losses are of all the from a financial greater consequence point of view, since the cost of a tou, which was 200 marks in time of peace, had risen to 200 marks in July, 1917. On the other hand, the capital represented by the German mercantile fleet, which has Ha the losses it sustained, has been unpro

Just as this war is unlike any other wo have fought, so the conditions of per sonal fame to-day are radically altered. It is not only that the bubble of reputa- all its money is made here, all its manage tion swells and hursta with unprecedentment is directed and whatever occasional el speed, but so secret and overwhelming criticisms may be passed, well directed is the mechanism of modern war that it in Shanghai. In fact no company is hard to make a popular hit at all.could well be imagined which appears to subject, though registered as a German already decreased 80 per cent owing to Look at our Army leaders, men command stand in less nced of London directors.had at his home & certificate to that effect ductive since 1914: this, for the first threa

ing force far vaster than those of

Wellington at

march on

The defendant said he was a Swigg protège at the German Consulate.

Bloemfontein. 14 Bynging fee and a commission on material forging passports, and asked the Court to of 400 million frames (£10,000,000) exclu Plumer, Monro, Rawlinson, or Gough I purchased would seem to satisfy every dismiss the charge against him..

walled down a London street them would turn his head to look at them French, Haig, Jellicoe, and Beatty might he recognised or they might not be. Yet Roberts and Kitchener were as familiar to Londoners as the lions in Trafalgar square. As to the commanders uf army corps, men holding power of the life and death over 60,000 soldiers, we do not even know their names, much less their faces; and beyond these there are minor generals like the sands of the sea in number.

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heed. This question of London directors" of companies whose business and polley are wholly done and controlled in Shang hai is not confined to the Tramway Co. It is an anachronism which is hardly likely to be permitted for much longer and we should not be surprised if this additional demand of the Tramway Co's London Board hastened its eclipas.”.

HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LTD.

The approximate statement of traffic receipts for the week ending 6th July is as follows i

nordklē Leon

Receipta for

woor

Aggregate receipts.

eraba

for 27 weeks. $369,007 $14,3 4

360,727 10,078.

1,880 1,684

GERMANS FORCING MORE MARRIAGES;

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sive of coste for the maintenance of crews In answer to the Court. Mr. Newman and in the same lapse of time, the vessels blocked in various ports. thought there was not much danger of the Allies rival companies, pre benefited by by the defendant getting away if he were leased on bail and enggested that he considerable rise in freight, should also be ordered to report himself diverting into their own channels

given to German com- once every 24 hours,

custom formerly panics.

Owing to the prolongation of the war, the situation of German ship owners has become more and more critical. In 1916 the usual reports of shareholders' meet- ings of large shipping companies rio longer appeared in special papers, and the smaller companies were

bought up by financial or metallurgic trade com altees. In

1916, the Senndinavian

The Assessor, in reminding the defen- dant for a fortnight in $5,000 bail said the charge of forging passports in tima of war was not a case in which it small security could be demanded.

COTTON AND YARN MARKET.

Mears. Palishwalln & Kolsvall, cottons, the the market, at 750

and yarn brokers, of Hongkong, in their report dated July 9th, stato:

Since our last report on the 4th ult. per str. Huncre our yarn, market has kept in the same steady tone during the whole of the interval, and though the transactions have been on a limited scale, the prices have remained firm owing to foreign holders showing no inclination to operate on account of higher prices ruling in India.

Inquiry in 10s yarn still continues and busines has been done in about 6,500

1,000 mark shares of the Ham. burg-America Line, which before the war were quoted at 1,300 marks. This gives us an idea of the losses occasioned by the war to Germany's mercantile fleet, which is now excluded from the chief markets. of the world, however Germany is work- ing to Lake good her losses

ALLIES SEW SHIPTING. The Allies, too, have not been inactive, for in England, during the year 1917, 1,163,474 Lone of fresh units were built, Moreover, against only 630,000 in 1916. 170,000 tons, purchased abroad, have been In France, bales.

added to the British fleet. the close our market is showing a severul-powerful, wstallurgio societies.

' firm tone.

s the Etablissements Schneider of Total sales, 6,500 kales; bargains in the Societe Normande de Métal- Creusot, the Tréfileries et Laminoirs du Chinese hands 12,000 bales.

Arrivals.The mail str. Dunere and

have contracted with the principal

At the front it is just the same. One's brigadier is known, and the divisional general if he is a good one. I never sax my array corps commander, and should not remember his name if it did not bappen to be Plumer As to G.HQ. This Year it was as unknown to uggs the hierarchy Last Year of heaven. The machine is so complex, it simply swallows the man. Gone are the day's when Wellington's long nose struck terror to marauding or careless soldiery in the Peninsula, when Roberts rodo along his tattered line from Kabul to Kandahar, or Wolseley was the idol of the Army in Egypt. The grey cont And The German commission appointed to cocked hat of the Little Corporal are but examine the decline in the birth rato faded emblems on the walls of military in Germany has reported a recommenda glory, and no Cesar dashos barɛhendrition for the compulsory marriage of into the fray to rally his disordered | Gormars before their twentieth year is Legions as on that day he overcame the passed, according to a despatch to the Nervii."

Daily Express from Amsterdami. Ma “WHO NEXT?"

Financial assistanes would be granted extrù sir. Birni Maru, from Bombing societies, for repairing and the fleet. With the assistance Science has begun the mastery of its by the State Recording to this plan, have brought 5,000 bales for Hongkong of the Comité Central des Armateurs de maker, and personality is strangling which provides penalties for those fail and 2,400 for Shanghai..

& the Government has organized the in ita

telephone wires.ing to comply. Provision in also made Shanghai. The long unsettled politicul

of the naval dockyards, the Soldiers obey, follow, and perhaps love, for the punishment of married couples situation in China has greatly affected general commandeering of all French each their immediate superiors, and far who remain childless.

that market, which has remained so much vessels, with the exception of fishing- away to them is that bodiless and sil

depressed that several lot have been resmacks. It has obtained from Parli less entity which sends down the orders

shipped from Bhanghai and sold in our ment the voting of a first credit of 508 on the wires. If a high commander is

Mr. Asquith has shown that the ablest market, while, in the absence of inquiry, millions for building now ships. It has sen barges over from The Bent home the graceless subaltern merely of Prime Ministers in peace can be the stocks there are accumulating. Latest ulso had murmurs. And, who next?".

This is not lack of confidence in generals, it is greatest of failures in war, and the quali-vice shows no demand at slightly United States; these vessels are rapidly

improved rates,

constructed and intended for plying lack of interest in the man one never sees, tics for quiet times are unavailing when

Japanese Yarn has been in moderate between the neighbouring countries: The to can be 10 popular hero for our the blast of the terrible ones is against demand, and, with continued fluctuatiate England, Spain, Algeria, and Italy

Left to himself he might soldiery, for the conditions do not allow the wall."

in prices. of it. Maude in Mesopotamia, the Sir bove recognised the fact, and lapsed into passed as under:-1,000 bales. Nagasaki, France the German, vessels, interned in fair amount of business has Lastly, the conclusion of an agreement Brazil hus placed at the disposal of John Moore of our time, came nearer to a dignified repose shot with fasho, of

No. 20s at $228 to $23 000 bales 3 Brazilian ports, or about 200,000 tons of if than any: But in the main the general sage advice. But he never has been so Horses, No. 16s at $219 to 226; 3 Horses shipping. becomes an invisible calculating machine.left, Measrs. McKenna, Runeiman, and No. 208 at 8240; 2,000 bales Yellow Joss, Entente Powers will be able to keep the To bo more he must have genius, and no Samuel those competent mediocritics of No. 28, at 18 to 9228; 100 bales Setan, economic advantages obtained during the genius has gladdened our eyes,

peace, Ere the lineal descendants of the No. 10s at 6210; Setsu, No, 20g ut $240; course of the war, and thoroughly to With the statesman and politician the old Whigs. They cannot believe that Blue Fish, No. 203 at $240.

outdo German competition. case is somewhat different. War alters England can exist so long as they are values, but something of the old tests out of office. The cataclysm of the war remains. It is still an advantage to be bes not had the slightest effect on the able to defend one's policy in language they merely resent it as a disturbance to smug plausibilities which are their views; understanded of the people. Now their careers. So Mr. Asquith must be less, war is Pharaoh whe know their unwilling Moses to lead them back Joseph unless Joseph prove himself adapt oblarity of a department becouses subres result, he would not have imposed

Work in the silent and diligent to the promised land.

a been taken

MEDIOCRITIES OF PEACB,

vital than brilliancy in the glare and clatter of the platform. In the long run ruined his reputation for patriotism and on the editor of a senational weekly, such work tells on fame: hence the rise calm intelligence, and given to his quon- of Milner, rejected of Asquith for years dam colleague the greatest parliamentary of war, to great pre-eminence in the imph of the age

State.

and even their grey ghosts par sionless ste Grow paler and paler and less and less, Like the lords that fell at Lyonesse And the king that comes no more."

From the second in command and der-

The growing demand for cotton piece good, in various foreign countries has turned the attention of Japanese mills output of Japanese yarn has been much to produce more piece goods; hence the artiled, which has tended to an advance in prices to the extent of $5 to $7.

us to Sr. per pioul, Chinese, 245 to 98% Raw Cotton. There is no stock of Pengal or Chinese: Quotations:-Bengal,

per picul.

Its con-

These facts show that the

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

ORDERS ISSUED BY MR. P. C. JENKIN, OBE

BOUTS.

stop on Saturday dued to the Con

The issue of boots for the year 1916 will

July

tractor (Fook Bing, 7, Queen's Road East) will be withdrawn on the above date. Members are therefore warned to apply at the shop forth with.

By Order,

T. Hovaa. A.S.P. (R.) and "Adjutants July 9th, 1919, 1:

GREAT BRITAIN'S COMMERCIAL CONVENTIONS..

THE ARETHUSA TRAINING SHIP. It is a far cry back to July, 1914, andling of a party Mr. Lloyd George has

The secretary of the Arethusa training names then so-familiar Morley, Birrell risen to control the State. His amazing ship makes this appeal to Britons in the and Burns bay vanished

vitality, contempt of precedent, and Far East-It is of the utmost import sudden crises and unforeseen events during the war and onwards, quick decision make him the man for Arethuen training ship should not suffer ance that the splendid work of the

These are 6t qualities for a war which gives men little to face but the unextribution of 2,500 boys to the Royal Navy.

6.500 pected. Like the late Joseph Chamber boys to the mercantile and a fur lain, he is never go dangerous as when the 1,000 to the British army's various ser vices should make appeal hard to resist. Where are all the reputations of that to be weakened, but when the attack homes have been trained to become nel Sir E. Larson asked the Prime Minis

put in a corner. Left alone, he seems Another 6,000 from the

In the House of Commons on May 15th, age Lord Lansdowne staggers before a

1-to good motley and sxiguous bost, bearing the come, it is met with a sudden and terrible citizens of the British Empire, and many ter whether the Council of Ministers in strange banner, Peace by negotiatin

of them to day are in various British France had denounced all commercial Billew upon billow of crises roll down. Colomes Lord Curzon has become a contented much on him, but when they have broken with vessel belongs and its eight country and regarding most favoured nations; whe If the Society to which this conventions containing a general clause ber of a Council in which he is not a crash there he is still like a cork on supreme. Others have defied the rule of the top of the wave. For all his minor without a shortage of funds, it can only

London homes are to be maintained in 1913 ther the object of such denunciation was to leave the country's hands free for the Churchill in his reputation to to type defects, he has the confidence of the coun. be accomplished by an increase of sub time when peace arrived; and whether it Churchill in his reputation for an errada try, because it believes that he has both criptions and donations and by specment to adopt a similar

was the intention of his Majesty's Govern brilliance which places him one year at the will and the power to win All is gifts to the War Emergency Fund

of yax the wheel, and Benar Law in the gradual dissimilar than thoss of the Minister, who materials. The committee plead earnest material after the war and the necessity recognition by the public of those quali fought Napoleon and the Premier who 4 enerous response to us and British Empire and ber Allies.

providing for the requirements of the ties of steadiness, loyalty, and judgment faced the Kaiser; but he may set go gratefully acknowledged if cut to 164, Mr. Boaar Law: The answer to all

peal. All gifts will be promptly and his intimates knew him to pOSSESS,

down to posterity as the other Pilot who Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W.C.. parts of this question is in the affir (Continued at foot of next Column.):

weathered the storm.

England

counter-stroke,

the bottom and the next at the top of not over yet, and few characters are mor meet the increased cost of food and regard to the probabl, course, having

tive