1918-12-18 — Page 7

H

HURRY UP

E missed the train through putting off to the last minute. Don't you miss the WAR BOND

DRAWING through: the same cause.

Going for a home trip, are you? Well, any of the first six prizes will ensure a most enjoyable one.

The winning number may be a high one, Buy it before another gets it.

If all the tickets are sold one prize alone will be about £4,000. It's worth an effort.

The last winning number was 11,820. The next one might be 40,000. You'd be sorry if you just missed it.

*

Celebrate Victory. Buy another ticket; you'll never see another Victory like it.

BUY

ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY WAR BOND DRAWING TICKETS

and

BUY NOW

THE HONGKONG DAILY' PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 181, 1818)

$5 a ticket. On Sale at all Banks, Hotels, Clubs & Stores.

On Arising

A little Sal Hepatica taken the first thing in the morning has proved with millions of people practically a specific for sluggish bowels anda

Mild and other intestinal ailments. palatable, Sal Hepatica can be taken freely by every one, and is always

effective.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.,

AND

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA-

TION CO., LTD.

CONSIGNEES por Company's Steamer

"POLYPHEMUS "

INDO-CHINA

[1924

NAVIGATION

STEAM COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEEL,

From CALCUTTA, PENANG AND

SINGAPORE,

THE Bowmahip

"KWABANG" having arrived from the above ports, Con are hereby notified that the Cargo will dignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that bo discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowall Goods are being landed as their risk into the loon, where it will lie at Consignee's basations and/or exben hardon Godowns of risk. The Cargo will be ready for de- the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and livery from Godown on and after 14th Godown.do, Ld, who snd/or from the December.

delivery may be obtained. Goods not aloured ď by the 17th insh, at Noor will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godown, where they will be examined. Claims against the steamer musi be presented within 10 days of arrival, other wise they will not be recognised,

Optional cargo will be loaded, unle notice has been given prior to steamor' arrival.

All broken, chafod, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 am. and Noox within the free storage period. No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the atenmer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 21st December will be subject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 4th January, or they will not bo recognieod.

No Fire Insurance will be effecter).

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agenta. Hongkong, December 14th, 1918.

(2004

No Fire Inturanos will be offooted by us In may see whatever.

Bill of Lading will be ogantanirmed by

"JARDING MATHESON & Co., LTD.,

General Managers.

[2705 Hongkong, December 11th, 1818.

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY

HUTABION N

For Binder Catarrho. Nach for flood

Rain Dimmer. No. 1 far throxie Takkennis. SOLATKY ÉMAINns Onakira. PENEEN KHOLARD, SA DR. On Litas Mus. Do., Hørerneck Rd, N.W, 8, London.

MA-Mantan WORLD THEJAFTON

SE

Barr: Curr. Brany ÁFUEND TO Üskyzna Pacerin,

[2074

OUR LONDON LETTER.

FRO OVA OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

ENGLAND AND THE GERMAN PEACE NOTE.

LONDON, October 21st.

I have often wondered while... reading history what were the feelings of people who lived through periods when great events were taking place. Did they "rise to the height of this great argument," as Milton says, and realise that they were spectators of a drama that would be talked about so long as the world en- dures? Probably they did nothing of the kind It is more likely that they dis- cussed the ordinary affairs of life more or less as usual. At any rate that is what most of us are doing now, the Ger- man Peace Note notwithstanding.

Everyone ought, of course, to be in a perfeet fever of excitement over the enemy's acceptance of President Wilson's famous 14 points; but truth compels the admission that everyone is quite calm and critical Yet the gorrespondence is destined to live for ever in buioan annals beenuse it marks the beginning of the end of the Great War. It is the first real proof we have had that the Germans admit they cannot win the struggle for world power. The Note from Berlin is an acknowledgment that the game is up. and that the best and only thing to do iz to make the best terms possible.

Was

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN

your brave English hearts to-morrow." It i & phrase which lays bare the murderous soul of the Hun. The record is the most terrible indictment ever printed. One direct result of the evid ence is to redouble the demand fram all quarters here that the author, of theso monstrous crueltics should be held per sonally responsible and made to expiate; their primes as soon as we can get hold TJIPANAS... of them. They must be delivered up

TJILIWONG to justice." is the verdict of the public.

TJIKINI

UNDER THE DERMAN YOKE.

REGULAR FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE BETWEEN

JAVA, CHINA AND JAPAN.

7

EXPECTED

STRAMEND

FROM

он он

ABOUT

WILL LEAVE

ON OR ABOUT

For

JAVA

KOBE

AMOY

AMOY

22nd Dua.

23rd Dec.

26th Deo

26th Dec.

92nd Deo.

25th Dee.

Slot Deo.

MACASBAR

BATAVIA

BATAVIA

JAVA & MACASSAR

4th Jan.

** Wireless Telegraphy.

No man or woman can read without TIMANOEK emotion of the deliverance of French and

TJILATJAP Belgian towns after four years of tyranny and hapless misery under the heel of the brutal Hun The Morning Post gives a moving story of human tragedy in Litle, the Manchester of France. by - A Recent ly Escaped Citizen."

The Steamera are all fitted throughout with Electric Light and bare accommodation for a limited number of Saloon Passengers. All steamers carry a daly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken at through rates to all ports in Netherlands India and Australia.

For Particulara of Freight and Pausage apply to the York Building, 1st Floor.

K

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

Telephone No. 1574.

JAVA-PACIFIC LINE

OF THE

All through the German occupation well-known and highly esteemed inhabi tants were held as hostages and made responsible with their lives for the good belaaviour of their fellow citizens. Daily were to be seen the names of victims for ออม Tho petty offences (chalked up Board of Death" outside the Town Hall) to be shot without trial the following day- But the favourite method of the oppressor was a house-to-house search Any pretext was good enough; and it can be imagined NETH, INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO

what happened to the female population under is tyranny. The worst crime of all was the seizure of sume 20,000 women and girls, taken from their homes indiscriminately as the Hun officers page. ed along the street. The women of gentle birth, the women of the working classes,

ther and transported into slavery in Ger many. This outrage stands out as one of the crimes of world history, and will never be forgotten or forgiven in France.

THE NEWS IN LONDON

The

that Jews

the Germans had President's accepted the

terma received here officially at noon, and be come public property about nine o'clock.the women of the town were herded toge It was then too late for the evening papers, but it was announced in the theatres and music balls, where the audiences in nearly every ease rose and sang the National Anthem. In the streets people exchanged views on the situation. The inevitable had happened at last, it was said. The Huns were beaten and had sued for peace. Naturally there was great delight. But there was no cheer- ing, no unde clation, no wild excite ment. On the contrary there was a lurk- ing suspicion that the Huns were playing a trick on the Allies for we have learned to know ur Hun!

But now that we all know what the terms are that the enemy must accept before peace talk can proceed public opinion is satisfied. There is still pros- | pect that the statesmen will give away with the pen what the soldiers have won with the sword. And meanwhile the war goes on!

MADNESS OF MILITARISM.

The question is naked what would have been our fate if the Huns had not the British Fleet to deal with, and if, land- ing here, they had been able to work their will on the hated English.

FOOLISH OPTIMISM.

Some of our Buper-optimists propound the query, Will our boys be home by Christmas"

The answer of course is emphatically "No"

Only very foolish people can framo this kind of question. it does not occur to them that it will take probably a couple of years after peace is cured to transport the British Armies and material from France, to say nothing of 100,000 Territorials in India

garrison duty, and hundreds of thou sands in other lands overseas, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine and East Africa

Some idea of what is likely to happen may be gathered by recalling the Franco- German war of 1970-71. The Germans remained in France for two years and a

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

8.8. "BILLITON "

MONTELI SATION BETWEEN

... On December 22nd.

The Steamers are fitted throughout with electric light and have sccommodation for a limited number of saloon passengers.

All Steamers carry a duly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken on through Bill of Lading to all Overland Pointe to the United States of Amerton and Canada

For Particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to the-

Telephone No. 1874,

Shipbuilders,

Bators, Repairers,

Badlarmakers, Electrical

ath Mechanical Engineers.

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN, General Managera,

York Buildings.

up

Graving Dock

787ft. by 88ft, by deft, din.

Patent

Sipways taking to 4,000 four.

Electric Crane sifting up to 108 Tons.

SHIPS

ENGINES

TAIKOO DOCK

BOILERS

MOTORS.

Agenta for Joka

I, Thornycroft à cu

@peedy, Launches. and Boad Motors, Light Draft Carrier, Craft, Houseboats and

Harbour

pleasure craft of

orary, Kusarig.

There have been many surprises in the course of the war in the way of atrocities, but nothing the Germans have done since the sinking of the Lusitania bas sur prised the country more than the sink-half after the end of the war in February, ing of the Irish packet boat, Leinster, 1871, the Sual date of their departure and the Japanese liner, Hirano Maru, at being September 1873, when the last in the very moment that Berlin had opened dement of 200 millions sterling had been Consider up the question of peace. The olive Pad Indemnity by France."

What the claims will be on Germany by ranch is held out with one hand, as it the nations she has wronged in the world wer while the other is used to fire and ----- But the suggesting is torpedo to murder women and children.scient.

the Thie cannot be explained along lines of logic and reason. In default of WEST, WE FOUGHT FOR. any better explanation it is to be sup- posed that the German militarists have so soaked their minds with the gospel that Might is Right" that they still believe force is the only thing that matters, and that force must prevail. Militarista on the German pattern is lunacy, a kind of dementia in respect of which it can be truly said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.

THE WAY OF THE TRANSURËSION.

16 is noteworthy that in all recent writ Ings about the war you will fail to find any Foference to it on a great adventure -the note that was struck by so many authors in the early days of the struggle. There is no glamour or glory in modern war:-

When the man who never knows it kills

a man he never seem,

And the women mours in sifonce for their

dead.

I beard D veteran the other day It is one of the penalties that the describe war under modern conditions as The saine idea is German nation-and no doubt individual bell all the time." Germans will have to suffer for many a expressed in some verses recently pub year that no man will accept their word shed from the pen of one of our soldier- or even their oath. It was made appacts, supposed to be addressed to a child with wooden sword and toy gun marcbing rent to them ne soon as they wanted to talk of

pease. As a condition precedent up and down the heartrug: to any discussion they have been required to give iron guarantees of good faith. The Kaiser and his patellites might offer to go down on their knees and swear they meint what they said, yet no Govern- ment the world would accept their

in

KSSUTANCE.

Since then are neither good nor wise, such

things as these must be, had ours it tr see the matter through,! That the world any be a cleaner place in

nineteen-thirty three

For decent little soldier-men like you.

There you havo in a few lines the reason why the Boche must be rendered power less for evil both in the present and the

The unkindost cut of all was President Wilson's inquiry whether the Gorman Chancellor in asking for an armistico futura-H.E. spoke for the German people or for those ruE SALE OF THE "CHRONICLE.", who have hitherto conducted the war f

The fact that the sale of the Daily The Chancellor replied that he repre- sented the Reichstag, which represented Chronicle has been the subject of a the people. But this is the same Parlic debate in Parliament is being criticised, ment that once before passed a resolution the argument being that it is outside in favour of a ponce without annexa- the provinco of the House of Commons tions and indemnitics," and shortly to discuss the sale and transfer of Down afterwards at Brant when the Russians papers. But on the other hand as the had been coxened, tore up the precious so that it in n monopoly it is of moment Government now controls paper supply Nesolution and applauded the Govern- 8G ment for carving whale provinces out of that the Hours should desire to know Russia and at the same time tregomething of the manner in which now tremendous indemnities in cash a Pestminster. Gazette rightly says from one intorcet to another

The situation might, conceivably ariso by CRUELTY TO OUR PRIBONERS.

which a party, or parties, in the Houen The country is simply appalled at the of Commons, would be deprived of all report of Mr. Justice Younger's Com means of presenting its case to the coun- mittee on the barbarities inflicted 26 try because all great organs of oplaaion British prisoners of war in the hand had been bought up by rival parties the Huns. Nothing has touched theBesides, politics apart, it is obviously. imagination of the average man bro not good for the country that the con- than the phrase of a German officer trol of the gront papers should be in tho We have Addressing helpless captives at Marchion hands of a few individuals. nos on March 224d. "We will brenk had wome experience of that already,

kind.

Lion.

THOS.

Marine

The Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co., of Hong-

kong, Ltd.--Butterfield & wire, Hongkong, Obiga and Japan, Agents, Telegraphie Address: “ TAIKOODOOK."

Telephons 119.

COOK & SON.

TOURIST, SINAMSHIP AND FORWARding Agents, Baskets, #70. OFFICIAL PASSENGER ÅSHEFES TO THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT,

TIUKKI BUFFIER » ALE PARTS at me WORM> m Turri Banga. LETTERS of CREDIT and CIRQULAR NUTES ISSUED and GASHED, BAGGAGE collected, forwarded and insured at lowest rates. Cook FAR FABTERN TRAVELLERS GAZETTE" penisining findings and Farms from the Far East to all paris of the World will be forwarded frm on appilsation.

****Telegraphis addrom “ COUPON”

Tslaphano No. 634.

-IHOB, COOK & SON (Hongkong Hotel Buildings, ogrner of Paddor Birsot and De Vox Bond, HONGKONG. Also SHANGHAI, FEEING, YOKOHAMA, MANILA,

Chief Ollon (~LUDGATE CIRCUS, LONDON, RO,

CANADIAN

3040

PACIFIC OCEAN

SERVICES, LTD.

THE COMPANY'S CHARTERED STEAMER

"KEY WEST”

Will be despatched for SINGAPORE on or about the 23rd

DECEMBER.

For Freight and further information apply to-

J. H. WALLACE, General Agent.