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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15т. 1919.

LANE. CRAWFORD & CO.

Shipchandlery Department.

HAVE

JUST

FROM

RECEIVED

W. F. STANLEY & CO.

DRAWING INSTRUMENTS, ETC.

in cases.

Sets

and

Half

Sets of

Spring Bows, Dividers,

Drawing Instruments

T. Squares, Drawing Pens, Drawing Boards, Set Squares, Parallel Rulers,

Coloured Drawing Inks, Sectional Drawing Paper,

THE

also

Nautical Sextants.

SWAN

FOUNTPEN.

NEEDS NO "COAXING " !

It's made right

To write right.

That's why it's the most popular

Fountpon.

Does not Leak, Baratob се Dry Up. Fitted with Gold Iridium Tipped Nib.

WHERE IN YOURS F

TRY ONE NOW!

Sold by

JEWELLERS, STATIONERS

IMPORTERS.

MABIE,

TODD & Con Manufacturers, LONDON.

By Appointment

AND

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DIAMONDS AND DISABILITIES

RY GED. A. 138.

I is a commonplace to say that never in history has thore iren a war such as that which for over four years gripped the world with borror and amate But black na were the shadows that fell upon the world during those long mouths and years of tragedy, bright rays of golden light pierced them again and again Never before in history has such practi- cal sympathy been shown with those who braved all and those who suffered all the great and holy emuse in which, at the call of her King, our country took up the Bword of justior

Never before has there been such gen Grous and strenuous endeavour among all classes of the community to lighten the burden of the melt at the from and of their dependents at home. Never before has the State recognised so fully trim | the human point of view, not duly al that the war in its progress, would arenas, but all that the aftermath of the war

would email.

For the first come in history, the difh cultaes involved in the return revival ipfe

of a varst denied algsedapena foreseeti kun sympath proudly and perinta cally provaded fen It was to chat with

the future of the soldiers who survived the war, the soldiers disabled in the war, and the wives and children and depen. dents of soldiers killed in the war, that the Ministry of Pensions was established. The Ministry of Pensious has done its work admirably, and in no branch of its work has it shown more practical tho roughness than in dealing with the

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Soup to cleanse, Olutment to heal. Britlab | Depot: 2. Newbury di Dam, Lodi 37, Carr tarbonas Bau Landeer. Gold everywhere.

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WELL WIRE NAILS

5 Barbed Wire

STEGLO WIRE PRODUCTS

1200

somewhat similar in strumienie to the sawyer. He only forma about one-half of the faces, leaving t to the polisher to form the remainder.

TRADED.-Period at 27N til., BIX The utter

months; subsequently second BIK month at 35s, 61, third six months at 42 6 fourth six months at 328. od., Rith six months at 378, dd, sixth six months at 679. 40. Wagen for the fourth, fifth, and sixth half years are excisive, of pensions bFul++ta1:at wages not stated

Where the final wages are not stated they are underssoned to be the trade uni

rates.

At the Oppenheimnes Works the period of training six months and the pay is 27 0, the muḥsequent minimum wage 40s, exclusive of pension: the average for the next six months 1. ciusive of pension, and the working week torty five hours

At the Oppenheimer Works by men have the additional nd vantage of being paid full snges for add bank and public holidays, and each man has a week's holiday at Full pay

is

The box over which he sawyer works is provided with a double bottinn, the first of which is pierced with holes like

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Wharf and Gndown Co. Ltd, when and or from de whares delivery many balitangeri. have left the downs, and Clouds remaining No claims will be admitted after the Chris

sjeve The powder of the diamond resulting from the bubbing falls into the C that a floods use jus tard at their second compartment, and the larger fog menle rest on the sieve, where they can teneily collected in order to be mut agrÍU.

The chips alone from one large dammond which was out at the Amster an mills are misar to have been worth

tramonds are polislard on an tron plate lating rapidly, and impregunted wath skammd dust and il The diamond ind is to be polished is met in an el lead and tin, which is given the form of a cone, of which the stone mreujates the aummit. The operation etther for large ition from the geomantic figures to dir or stall stones is about the saltte. The humun ofics, and "mingle with the men worker may sometimes be able to polish who are Bilting at their work with the several stres at the same time. The sanshme of a Brighton November morn- Operation takes a long time and requires ting streaming in open them. They lay the exercise of extreme patience, and the aside their ergaroites, but not their work. † result is certainly in every sense of the k to me Here as a disabled solder worst Tratton!" MA

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It is the voter, perhaps, who has to The stone is exercise the greater skill SOOVITEREN VAt into twenty foga. Ences, THC

The famous fectly even and regular. diamond. The Sut of the South." which was cut in Holland, weighed, in the rough state in which it was found, 2644 carats. When it was finished it weighed less than that by half

From the beginning to the end, everg thing depends upon the skill with which the diamond workers exercise their art. And all these skilled processes are bou carried on at the Brighton works by dis ant aven a odding acquaintance with precious stongs

'difficulties of our disabled soldiers and profession of cannot go back to the abled soldiers who, before the war, had

Ti buty an char card and calveg lagd seath the eye of na spek before operating in 20 A hundred poumis à varat, this diamond is worth 24,000, and with skilful cutting it will be worth a great deal more. This man has come from the dragoons to the dia Juonds.

He was a dragoon before the He was wounded, and permanently disabled in the first inttle of Vares. I was windy at Roehampton, being fitted with an artificial leg that he hasard of the diamond-cutting Before the war bis pay was a shifting a day, during the war it was ghterpence, and now he has rest hit leg and

urine, his pay is £3 a week. is another disabled soldier. Here is 1915 he was in a ante-room in London

It wns, 1 mist admit, an astonishing Then he joined up, was wounded on the

thing to ine to see a sollier who had losi He back to his old work. Somme, and lost a leg. cannot go

leg and hadi his left arm injured. His disablement

and who, before the war, was a private prevents it. He was earning £2 a wook. When be

in the Foot Guards, take a large, rough went to th

the Ministry of Pell-diamond, examine

carefully, and then sions for information as to where he wro likely to get employment, he was recom

thin mended to apply to the danger of the Oppenheimer Works. He did so, and be is now earning £3 a week, with probably before the end of the year will be earn-

£4.

In conjunction with the Ministry of Labour it has issued exhaustive reports upon openings in the various trades and occupations. These reports are confined to trades which are to be found in every part of the country and are invaluable to the local war pensions committees, who have to ascertain what trades and indus tries in their areas are specially suitable for disabled men.

greatest

A mane

procped to mark it with various black lines. The ex-soldier had acquired, cient expert knowledge to enable him to by a course of training at the works, auth mark a stone out for the sawyer in order that, it should be cut in as give it ita

value. This itting next bim is a disabled soldier, to soldier was able to visualise the who tells me that before the war he was perfected diamond, to see by looking into a coal miner, bat he prefere his present the stone how to cut it in such a way occupation. In the old days I used to stand and sweat, sir.

as to get rid of the laws, divide up the Now I sit and stone, and yet at the same time increase amile." He prefers the white diamonds the value of the net result. to the black ones.

It is in this connection that I wish to deal with an industry which has CUING particularly under my notion, and in which I

"1. have had opportunities of coming into personal contact with the disabled soldiers and sailors who have taken it up, and are working to their great advantage and contentment.

Early in the war, Mr. Bernard Oppen- heimer, the well-known diamond mer chant, who had fought in the ranks dur ing the South African War, conceived the idea of bringing back to this country an industry, which for many years past, had been carried on principally in Hol land and Belgium. He determined, if possible, to make it the means of employ. inent to thousands of disabled soldiers and sailors.

This remunerative and fascinating in- dustry was, before Mr. Oppenheimer con ceived the happy idea of bringing it back land. As long ago as the sixties, the old to England, mainly carried on in Hol.

had practically disap English cutters peared from London and Birmingham

in Holland the industry was at one time carried on only by a few in- dividuals, and then by means of water or horse power, every man werking on his own account.

It was Monsieur Coster, the proprietor of the famous diamond mills in Amater- damit was Coster who cut the Kohi Noor-who first organised diamond-cut- ting and polishing in a workshop by get. ting together a number of workinen and training them witil they became highly skilled in the art. a pro.

And now Mr. Bernard Oppenheimer

Another disabled soldier, who is cutting a diamond tells me that he was a land surveyor when he joined up. He was disabled in August 1915. He lost a leg and when he was discharged that effectu- ally prevented him from going about to All he could do was to survey the situation. He was at a louso Survey land. end, when he heard from the Information Bureau, at Roehampton, of a trade that would give him fiving. He came to the Oppenheimer Works, and has now learnt With this idea, he acquired a large tracta trade which will last him his life, and of land in the Lewes-roud, Erighum, and he tells me, with a smile, that, although set about erecting a building which would he has lost a leg, he has fallen on his feet. be suitable for the carrying on of that Here is another man, who is potishing industry, namely, the cutting and diamonds He was in the retreat from

The building having ing of diamonds

Mone, and was wounded on the been erected, Mr. Oppenheimer was for in 1916. He lost one leg and two of his tunate enough to find in Dr. Beckit fingers. Before the war he was Burnie, the principal of the Brighton fesional soldier, earning a chilling a day Technical Schools, a gentleman who was

at Woulwich. Inquiring at the Ministry has brought back to England an in eminently qualified to become its maza of Pensions, he was sent down to the dustry which had lapsed for fifty years. ger, and

and the Ministry of Pensions, having Oppenheimer Diamond Works. Baw Dr. Like M. Conter he has brought together examined the scheme and given it its Burnie, and was engaged. He now wears Cordial

a number of workmen and trained them approval, sent down a ocrtain the Mods ribbon and a happy smile, and to become skilled in the profitable and number of disabled soldiers, who at onceur 33 a wet diamond-cutting is in-workmen are all brave British soldiers picturesque art. But Mr. Oppenheimer's commenced their training under the experts and foremen supplied by Mr.teresting to all concerned in it, but the who have lost their limbs in the service Oppenheimer.

romance of it appeals perhaps more to of their country, but who are now, thanks It was in August, 1917, that a com the stranger. The men pass their work-

to the training and.

the opportunities Boing hours with hundreds of thousands of provided for them at the Brighton works. mencement was made with ten men. successful was the experiment that a fur-pounde' worth of glorious gems around master of a skilled trade which will last ther area of land was acquired, and a thom. They have entored a cave of tbew all their life and enable them, range of buildings erected in which

though disabled, to earn a far better in employment might be given to at least

come than they could in the days when 2,000 inen. Every floor of these building

they were sound in wind and limb. consists of one long and lofty room, with 4 glass frontage, as the roaximum of tight is essential to the industry, Over 400 disabled soldiers are now engaged in diamond cutting and polishing at the Brighton works, and the buildings now erected or in course of erection will accommodate 1,000

more.

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delivered after the 18th February will le sulijan tas bent.

All Claims against the Steiner must bay prosented to the Undersigned on or before February 23rd or they will not be pungguised.

All broken, abafod unul dinged tiporis aro to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on February 15th at man

Nu Fire Insurance has been offreied.

Bill of Lading will he rountersigned by

GIRH. LIVINGSTON & CO.,

Agente. Hongkong, February 10th, 1919. 1319

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE F&O.S N. Co's Steamer

"NOVARA Arrovod Hingkong our February 11th, 1949. Paes LONDON, COLOMBO & STRAITS

sp sugo by the site amped wellspots Inflamed Class time goals ar bring Find and picted ar vai ark in the Hooghung w Kowloon Wharf auf Godawn Company's Godowas at Kuwlor, where tob Consigament will be sorted cut Mark by Mack sa delivery on he ablained as the Goods are funded.

Optional hoods will be landed here unless inste notions, are gives to the contrary hisfore 6 hours

Goods net ulevred within 8 days including date of arrival will be subject to real.

No Fire lazuraou will be affects by ne in ay on whatever.

Damaged packages must be left in the Go downs for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's Surveyors, Masare. GODDARD and DouGLAR, at 10 AM. on MONDAYS sað THORSDAYS. All Claima must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they canot be recognised, No Claims will be adatted after the Gooda Lave left the Godown.

PL KNIGHT, Acting Superintendent, Hongkong, February 11th, 1930. 11

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE, (Ellerman & Bucknall SS. Co. Ltd). THE THE Steamship

"BLOEMFONTEIN "

will be despatched for: - NEW YORK VIA PANAMA CANAL on the 26th February.

For freight and further particulars apply tr→

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RANEAN PORTS

LONDON.

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TODAв BILLS OF LADINO Insub roN BATAVIA, AMERICAN, CONTINENTAL AND BOOTH ÁPrican Ports.

His Majesty's Mall, will be despatched THE Homeward Mail Steamer, carrying froad this port as sana, taking Cargo for the above Ports.

Passenger moristinn in the connecting vessel, when vailable, secured before departure from Hongkong.

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Sux and Valuable Cargo for Italy, France aud London (aner arrangement will be Donveyed by bhi Steamer proceeding to Bombay and there transhipped to *be carrying Steamer for Marie and London,

Parcels will be received at the Bioe nati 1 P.. the day before sailing. The contente and value of a packages are required.

For further particulars, smiling danes, to *pply t

jewels he wonderful as that to which Ali Baba obtained entrance by saying "Open, astonishment, nor, it is needless to say, Seaame" But they do not display the the acquisitiveness which the hero of the

Mr. Oppenheimer has invested a very Arabian Nights Entertainment "did. large sum of money in building these "Mountains of splendour" and "seas

works and others in Cambridge, Wrex- of glory pass through their hands with. ham, and Fort William, and in equip aut exciting comment. The disabled ping them with machinery, which consiste soldiers, who are preparing and finishing principally of driving belts and hori the gema, which are to lend their adorn

but zontal turning lathos, he disclains The industry is especially adapted for ment rank, and flash upon the fingers the iden of charity or

or benevolence. disabled men, and more particularly for and the bosoms of beauty, are more con- has founded a commercial undertaking the man

who'

bas

Jost a leg, and finds it oerned, if I may judge from their con- on sound practical lines, but it has the dificult to stand for any length of time versation, with the present price of fish. advantage of being a work of national without a sense of weariness, and often the programmes at the loend places of importance, serving & distinctly patrio- of pain. It is a sitting occupation, one entertainment, the prospects of football, tic purpose The disabled soldiers em DAIRY which is carried on in a bright and and the latest form of the various cham- ployed get," but they give in return.

this environment, and it has pions of the noble art. additional advantage-that the workman

Apart from

the fact that they have Bat if the fabulous value of the gems acquired a skilled trade which is also can perform his task effectively while that lie in profusion around them leaves remunerative one, the soldiers employ. enjoying the solace of tobacco.

them cold, they are keenly interested ined at the Brighton works have one great eutting and polishing of diamonds the skilled processes by which they con- advantage. Their work is carried on in

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is not only an interesting occupation, but vert the rough stones into lashing bril. bright, healthy, and cheerful environ- it is one which is carried on under the fiance.

The processes in question are mout, and the risk of the occupation in best hygienic conditions.

three. The first one consists in cleaning negligible. occupation which compares favourably in

coarse atone of defective parte and the important matter of pecuniary re

They have, moreover, canteens which splitting off the flaws. The second in the compare favourably with those instituted ward with most of the trades recommend

cutting, which gives the stone its form for munitions workers under the direc ed for disabled men. During the period and in a rough way the number of fuocation of the Workers' Welfare Committee. of training, which is from four to six

which it shall have. Finally, there is the in these there are admirable arrange SAUSAGES BRAWN, months, the wages paid are 278. Od. 4 polishing, which gives to these faces their ments for married men. week, but to every man engaged a mini-

clearness and brilliancy,

At present, a table is set aside for the men whose wives mum wage is guaranteed of £2 a week. The sawyer, when he finds a flaw, corn come with them to make dinner a family The average wage, now being paid to the

mences his work by inserting the dia meal. As the number of men incresacs à men is a week, and the

mond into *xperienced

a fusible cement, which group of tables or a whole room will worker who shows diligence and ability hardens as soon as it is cold, and nup be set aside for married couples. Tho may rise rapidly to Es n werk,

ports the stone. The conant is lodged in. whale

arrangement To compare the conditions and emolu-

is popied from kind of gun as the extremity of a solid Krupp's where wives and children are ments offered to diablod soldiers in the handle, which the workman holds in one admitted to the canteen, and it has many diamond industry and in other trades, we hand He then takes in the other land & advantages from both the domestic and have only to turn to the official report second instrument furnished with a din-economie poleca of view.

and by the Ministry of Pensions, Formand recently qut, the edge of which sunny space are also provided for the VISITORS ΤΟ TANTON the purposes of comparison, 1 will ne projects sharply outside.

workora recreation. name the trados, but will indicate the

Supporting the two tools on the border Four hundred thousand diamonds have of the box placed before him on the table, already been sawn, ent, and polished at TRANE A.-Period of training at 27s. 6d.

he cmmunientes to them a see-aw mo the Brighton works. me vent: skilled our get 40s. did. to sharp edan, of the ether. He then into the intrusten. Given thu-men, thote tion, rabbing on one of the stones the likely to be awk and there is int of material to koop full swing But anore. THAIR Bleriod at 976, d., one year lightly in order to separate the two in no reton why in this particular en

duced a sharp, blade, which he strikes men are wages for skilled men, 30, to 428. THANE G-Perlod a 27s. ed.,

pieces. Sometimes diamonde arq nawn ployment our dimbled soldiers and years, subsequently one year at 308., with olive oil and sprinkled with din

two with a finely-fempered bow-aw moistened sailors should not be in receiht of ang Pehr ny l2u, od,

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