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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH, 1919.

THORNYCROFT

JOHN I. THORNYOROIT & Co, LIMITED,

SHIPBUILDERS AND ENGINEERS,

LONDON, SOUTHAMPTON AND BASINGSTOKE

Shanghai Office: 65, Szechnen Road.

MARINE MOTORS AND MOTOR BOATS.

MOTOR LIGHTING AND PUMPING SETS.

SHALLOW DRAFT STEAMERS. THORNYCROFT OIL FUEL" SYSTÈM

Commercial, High-speed and Pleasure Craft.

THORNYCROFT WATER TUBE BOILERS. THORNYCROFT MOTOR VEHICLES.

Our Motor Engines and our Naval Architect, bosh Thornycroft experts.. now resilent in Shanghai, will give attention to all inquiries.

Early deliveries can be made of 15-b.b.p, 30-b.bp., 43-b.b.p., and 70-bhp. Kerosene Marine Engines.

R. R. KOXBURGH,

Manager for China.

LA PERLA DEL

ORIENTE

GENUINE

MANILA

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TABAQUERIA FILIPINA.

10. DES "VŒUX ROAD,

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

Manufactures the most Importans Point is Improvement, and in Dieteticą Cleanliness. Science always inmats on these Maxima,

Groundnut or Pestint O can be used as suberitute for Olive Oil Batter or Lard, but when Slightly Dirty is injurious to health.

Ia Chind, by the Ordinary Methods of Extraction, Dirt and Dust are not guarded against: Our Method shows a great advance. By the use of New Machinery

and New Methods Scrupulous Cleanliness is Assured.

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Our Machinery during the Process Filters the Oil while our Factory is Free from Dist. Our Oil is Clear, Sweet and Fragrant; and Compares most favourably with other Oils used for Culinary purposes: there is no residus.

Prices are moderate so sa to induce neir business.” Analysis is always given before Shipment to Foreign Countries.

NAM CHAU OIL FACTORY, Office: No. 28, Connaught Road West, HONGKONG... FactoryNo. 28, Kwei Lin Street, SAMSHUIPO. This Role Proprietorship of this concern belongs entirely to a Chiness Citizen.

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RAILWAY CONTROL

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S FIVE YEARS WORK.

FROM A CORRESPONDENT TO THE TIMES."

With the transfer of railway control to the new Ministry of Transport, the fune tions of the Railway Executive Committee came to an end on Beptember 23rd.

The occasion gives an opportunity for reviewing the work of the Committee dur ing the last five years. It has been freely criticized ebiefly on matters of policy, for which it was in no way responsible, but none of the railway systems of the belli- gerent Powers can show so ing & record. For the purposes of the war our railways have been splendidly efficient, and it waa only natural that the public should suffer some inconvenience in consequence. But this inconvenience has been, small in com- parison with that which" existed in the other belligerent countries.

The Railway Executive Committee na such came into being with the declaration of war in August 1914 The nuclens of such a Rommittee bad, however, existed for some years previously, "Before 1914 the co-ordination of anticipated railway movement and requirements was carried wat by the Railway War Council, which consisted of representatives of the

War Uffice and the Adoursity, certain mem bers of the Engineer and Railway Staf Corps, and an advisory body composed of saneral managers and engineers. The connell was, of course a peace-time

8" organization controlled by the War Office. As far back as November, 1912, the Government had decided to form a Comi mittee consisting of the general managers of some of the principal railways to con- trol, on behalf of the Board of Trade, such railways as might be taken posses sion of in the name of his Majesty in the event of war. A clause in the Re- gulation of the Forces Act of 1871 em- powered the Government to take over the railways of Great Britain and Ireland is any such emergency. This was done im- mediately after the cutbreak of war. At the same time it was announced publicly that the staff of each railway would re-

control and would receive instructions through the same channels as in the past. It was necessary to

make this announcement because during the war the Bailway

Ex ecutive Committee had no control over the appointment or dismissal of railway servants, er over the conditions of vice under which they worked. It was felt that the Committee. would have enough to do in dealing with general questions, and that the control of staffs must be left to the companies themselves. At first the executive consisted of nine general managers, but when it was en- bodied under an Order-in-Council the number was increased to 12. "

main under the same

MILITARY REQUIREMENTS.

as before,

The number of railways and joint com- mittees which were taken over was 130 their mileage being 21.3331) Only & per cent. of the railway mileage of the coun- try was left out. Under the financial arrangement with the Government, parti- culars of which have already been pub lished, it became unnecessary for Govern- дель

traffic to" be

be charged for.

There were enormous difficulties in meeting the traffe impused by war conditions. The shad to cater not only for the nt of the Expeditionary For

and

for

the concentree

concentration of large num bers of troops at their war stations, but while the new armies were, being formed i large numbers of men had to be carried to and from their depots and training -stations, and particularly from their training centres to their homes and again on leave. These and other military requirements meant the transportation f hundreds of thousands of men week.

men every With the formation of the Ministry of Munitions and the expansion of the various arsenals and shipbuilding yards, enormous numbers of workers had to be. carried to nad from their homes and their workshops.

At the end of 1816 the companies were alled upon to send 300 locomotives to France, and in consequence passenger train services had to be drastically cur- tailed. With the object of reducing travelling a surcharge of 60 per cent, was put on all fures except workmen's and Season tickets. Nearly all cheap travel ling facilities had been abolished early in the war. The 30 per cent. increase on fares had an appreciable effect right down

to the end of 1917, but in 1912, 0%

throughout

to

THE FOOD QUESTION.

One of the wisencres in the Mother of Parliaments has had a brain wave. The food question be says. "will be acute for the next ten years' Anybody could have told him that! The food question is aprays acute-to some people There are nicounted thousands--beaven who can't get enough food.

them!

ure

souls of people, who

for 20

had

to put up with food they have looked at, once upon a time. And

wbo some people, can get

wholesome food, can't get any real beneft out of it. Way

Perhaps the unnatural excite ments of the last five years have played havoc with our digestive systems, and i: isn't likely that some of the make do foods of war-time have done is much "good

After all, the digestive system isn't cast ron. Really, it is of delicate, complex

all too liable to become

little

erard perhaps through some appar.

soon

trilling cause- Many a pan or wonian will feel well to day. Then, to- morrow up goes the temperature a few degrees, and that same man or woman"is

conscious

of lost appetite and decreased vigour.

Sometimes we can't even be sure of the canse, but we are quite sure that we feel little off the mark. Now that kind of thing isn't Very important unless it continues, but if it does continue, good-

to health and appiness. In place of

health, and the feeling that it is good to be alive, what do we get? Why ! Just the opposite ! A miserable existence and the horrible feeling that perhaps life isn't worth liv

after all. Our food-well! We don't relish it, and it gives us pain when we eat it. Then we have flatulence, perhaps, or biliousness, or

stant headaches, unpation, with con- We feet played out And all because our digestive system bas lost tone and strength."

Now some people, when they feel out of sorts, say they're going to be right- down it; but experienced folk say they are going to get again quickly. by Aking

tried remedy, Mother Seit the well-

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which is the very thing to Eanish all such troubles, surply. This world-famous quickly and stomach and liver tonic acts directly upon the organs. of Eigestion, and tones, strengthens and stimulates to healthy activity.

In this simple, natural

was, it perfect digestion Consequently, the evil ensures effects of indigestion are entirely removed. .Appetite returns, but there is no pain- no sense of fulness-after we have eaten. We begin to digest our food easily and and to secure from our food the

naturally, it contains the nourish

ment essential to health and strength.

other Seigel's Syrup has helped countless thousands to banish stomach and liver troubles, and to-day, after £fty years it is still the pre-eminent remedy fur all digestive disorders. Put it to the test to-day.

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to the high wages that were

the ty, the com-

country, bad

carry more passengers than ever before. Further reductions in the train services had to be made owing to the coal trouble, which became acute at the commencement, DI 1018. One of the greatest difficulties which had to be over- come was the shortage of wagons. Over 30.400 railway-owned wagona and a large number of those privately owned had

to be sent to the various theatres of war. In all more than 800 locomotives were sent from this country to France Egypt, Mesopotamia, Salonika, and other parts. In addition, the work of the railways bad

to be carried on with great Egures reduced stafis. In 1913 the Board of showed that the railway

companies were employing

Early in 1918 the railways were employing 601,000, per.... sons, including women. The mileage was .only 60

per cent. of

of 1913, whichb, course, mennt & considerable saving of employment. The pressure on the rail. ways in March of last year, when outlook for the Allies was so gloomy, was, the

Breater than at any other- but all

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beartiest comb operation of all those engaged on the railway of all this port of the troops. On top

after the Armistice mobalizat.an. Since November, 1918, nearly

came de 3 million men have been released from -military service, and practically every. one had to be transported to his home. This in itself, is an immense achievement, which reflects the greatest credit on the organization and control of the British railway system.

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