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THE HUNGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1915.

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1915.

THE CONSULAR SERVICE, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatch.

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Router rather more than binte t-day that Sir Ian Hamilton's despatch has more of the literary character about it that one usual- ly Incke to see in a statement of evente from the pan of a practica! soldier. Ose explanation of this may be that Sir Ian, in addition to being a very fine general, has all the instincts of the literary man. We once sought-and suo cooded in getting an interview with him for publication in the Telegraph. Though he gave us many useful and interesting details concerzing military affaire (it was at the time of the Balkan

War) it was clear that he greatly preferred to talk on other matters, and, so far as we recollect now, nt least half the conversation revolved round books and authors, and literary matters generally.

DAY BY DAY.

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WE SHOULD COUNT TIME BY HEART THROBS:

RE MOST LIVES WHO THINKS MOST, FEELS THE THE BEST.- NOBLEST, ACTS Dalley.

The Weather.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 88; overcast.

At the Peak 8 a r. Temp. clear.

77;

Count the Columns,

Yesterday the Telegraph published 344 columns of solid reading matter. To-day there will be 381 published.

The Malls. Siberian Mail.-Clored per e.. Liangchow at 3 p.m. to-day. The Literary Soldier and Saltor. Canadian, U. K. and U.S. Moils

Closed per 8.s. Yokohama Mara to day at 3 p.m.

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General Hamilton bas peared in print many times, both in prose and in verse, and when he was in Hongkong we had the pleasure of publishing some verses which he had written on the subject of the Temple of Heaven at Peking.. In book form he has published "Iosrus," "A Ballad of Hadji," "A Staff officer'e Scrap Book," and "The Fighting. of the Fature." The fighting forces in all civilised countries have, from time to time, pro- duced poets, noveliste, essayists etc. This is particularly the case with the cfficers of the British and French armies and navies. In some cases such literary output has been a labour of love in. othera a case of stern necessity, many men being only too anxious to add, if possible, to their small service pay. It would seem only fitting that the soldier, roet should write glowing lines on battle subjects; but usually the reveras has been the case. Of course there are exceptions;

Up to the Minute-Share Market News.

Olosing prices

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank ing Corp. $815, buyers. Canton Insurance.-$3671, Union Insurance Society of O'ton, Ld.-$900, buyers. Douglas'e.-$50, esles. Hongkong Electrics.

buyers,

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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

CHECKS ON, GERMAN

-OFFENSIVES.

HONGKONG TRADE.»

mit'd by these concerned that the proportion held by the Gar man firma directly or indirectly U. S. Consul's Report. was large and the effect of the The trade year of 1914 in liquidation on the commerce of Hongkong writes the American the colony will be felt for many Consul General would have been years. The liquidation has been Two Big Despatches.

an unsatisfactory one had there coding with comparatively There was no dearth of war been no war in Europe and had little trouble or friction, bat, of telegrams during the night, the course of trade after August course, at an enormous lose to the Those of most general interest followed that previons to the German firms and at a tremendous are naturally the despatches from opening of hostilities. In nearly to the trade of the port and the Field Marshal rad from Sir all lines there was more or less

of South China. Ian Hamilton. From Router's des- depression.

The immediate effect of the

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cription, the latter must be some-,, "It was inevitable that with the opening of the war was lows thing like a work of art, for outbreak ofhcetilities there should disastrous than might have been within the compass of eleven be a collarse in trade in this, the expected. The usual embargo, thousand words-equivalent in centre of Great Britain's commers placed upon many lines of volume to two pages of the oisl influence in the Far East and staple exports, like rice and other Telegraph-he seems to contrive the financial centre of the Orient, foodstuffs, but an arrangement to work in the whole story of the Nevertheless, as the accounts for ments could freely go forward so WES GOOD effected whereby ship. Dardanelles section of the war, the year are cast up it is general long as there was a six months from the middle of Marchly conceded that the port came onwards. The Foreign Office ont of the year in far better shape supply of the goods in question wire. which

pablish than bad been anticipated.

on hand in the colony, and in in our telegram columns helps to

While trade in China was for ordinarily would let the colony most auch lines stocks carried bring this despatch practically up and crops only fair, the recupera iteelf many years. The grouted to date. Sir John French's mes tive power of the Chinese people effect of the war was in shutting off sage, as characteristic of him as was drawn upon successfully, as shipments of Chinese produce to the other is of General Hamilton, usual, and the filacces of the Europe., Throwing back such is as exhaustive a so cart and Chinese Government, thrown id-

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business-like atatement can well to onfusion by the large decrease Chinese products upon the market be. Though the German lies in in customs revenue, were saved here, not only lowered prices to connection with their uppositions by telarma in certain liner. This point where sales were no victory near Ypres had already not only aided the Government object, but deprived the producere been chotradicted, we are glad to at a most critical juncture, bat of the means of continuing have them finally disproved by inspired a confidence in the sitas production. In some lines of Sir John Frezoh himself. The tion on the part of the commercial native manufacture considerable sum of hiero y is that if we have and . financial communities dietress resulted, though the $41, not made especially marked pre-concerned in its affairs which Chinese producers, with their gress in print of ground, the they needed to carry things turned their attention to the usual adaptability, immediately $5,iring-out process continues to through in other lines. 40 cents buyers the return wok satisfactorily and the Ger-

China and Manilas

of $4.50 per ebore.

Indo-Chin19-$110), bayers.

Ewola. Tis, 171, buyers. Chins Sagora. $122, colas. Luzona.- $36), buyers.

The Dollar.

demand to-day is le 91.

To-day's Anniversary.

Chinese Monetary Troubles, One of the worst features of

There were many business" di-production of food and staple mans are growing steadily, if eastere in Hongkong and in Chioa goods needed by the Chinese. slowly weaker.

ports generally, but on the whole themselves and thus avoided Hongkong and W'poa. D. Co. Germans Repulsed. trade machinery was maintained greater calamities. The lack of

Ld.-$75, buyers.

The "raria "communique con- intact and things have been kept money and the fall in exchange Hongkong Laade- $1001, firms this idea. La fact it goes in such shape that business can be prevented any recovery in the

buyers.

farther, for it tells of the re-tak-rasumed in a more or less normal import trade and in nearly all ing by the Allies of the section of way affairs become more settled. lines of foreigu products the year a trench, on the heights of the The causes for the business closed with heavy stocks on band Meuse, the wiping out of an depression previous to the open-

and little or no demant from enemy counterattack, and the ing of the war were quite general. consuming centres. wholesale flight of the remaining As a result of disturbances in The rate of the dollar on Germans. Similarly, or the Eset-China" the people have become trade in South China & Hongkong ern front, the Germans are again more or less uncertain as to the

during the entire year, and more or being checked, and the magnif future and are disposed to o. ter cent move which they had plann- apoa new undertakings with less independently of the war, was ed still hanga fire. They have reluctance: The continued bigh ductuations in the vaine of Oh

theextrmadepreciation and great who wrote "La Marseillaise" was a French engineer officer. Bat in

been farned back pretty badly course of exchange militated near Kanyk and also on the again't exports, while without culation of Hongkong itself not a general way (what batler FX-

inese currency, the monetary oir ample could one have then Sir

Bug.. It ia noticeable exporta the people were not ic a Philip Sidney) the soldier poet has

that we get no high-sounding position to indulge in the luxury being without fault in this respect, preferred far gentler themes.

communiques from of imports. The depreciated The great mass, of unsupported Conversely, it was left for the the sale of Yunnen tin by auction Galicia and the neighbourhood carroney circulating in all Chinese per ourrency in the Soath Chins Provinces circulated during the sober and mild-mannered Thom- by Mr. G. P. Lammert, takes just now. If that long promised territory tributary to "Hongkong son who wrote "The Seasons," to place to morrow at 12 noon, at and crashing move by Germany's in a trade way made safe and earlier months of the year at verions the Po On godowns, Connaught millions had " come off," Hong satisfactory trading impossible rates of discounts, depreciation at "Rule Brittannia!" petto very truculent a poem as Road West, & sale of lace will kong could hardly have failed to and interfered with the imports one time ranging as high as 60 per be held at Mr. Lammert's sales bear of it, either through a Berlin tion of foreign goods, especially cent of the face value of the notes. rooms on Tuesday the 13th inst. communique or via the American with American flour, kerone; that the central government at The situation became so 'difficult at 11 a.m.

prese. Silence, we take it, gives and cotton piece goods and conasnt to the assumption that it sirciler staples. In most of these Peking finally arranged a plan for has never happened.

lines the year started oat quite redemption of these notes by favourably, but basincas declined others supported by a sufficient

In another column we print some practical remarks male byRonget de l'Isle, for instance, the London and China Express on the connection between trade sud the consular eervice. "Considering," says our contemporary, "the complaints that are so constantly made of the want of support by the. British Government to British traders, might it not be wiser for our "Government to pay higher salaries so as to attract men with com- mercial expérience? It will be noticed that the Commercial Attache for China receives a salary of £1,000 per annum with an allowance of £107 for rent. The man who ought to occupy that position at Poking could command a salary at least five times as great at Home." The London and China Express, next asks as to the kind of men who fill such poste. *

Are they members of the Diplomatic Service, and have they been trained in the usual manner without any experience whatever of business and business methods? Are they men who Laye come atraight,from Oxford or Cambridge to the Diplomatic Service, and who have been sent to Chins after passing an examins- tion in the Chinese language?" These and other pertinent ques-lived till to-day he would have been tions does our very practical contemporary ask; aud we who live in the Far East should feel grateful that the matter has been opened up,

A Dead Lion.

Had Mr. Jospeh Chamberlain seventy nine years of age. Though it is bat a year since his death

he had been dead to the world of politica for some long while, and one feels bound to add; "More's

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To-day is the 70th anniversary of the birth of the late Mr. Joseph

Chamberlain.

Sale of Tin. Our readers are reminded that German

HARBOUR OFFENCES:

the Isonzo, in

The Financial situation.

The Italians and Austrians. This morning's Italian com- as the middle of the year came on, the result being that the munique scarcely reeks to mince and collapsed entirely with the per currency as Canton acquir- The questions are such as any man who has been brought into

matters. In fact it says, with all opening of hostilities in Europe that of the subsidiary coin cir- ed a value more consistent with touch with the various consular bodies, British as well as foreign,

Before Commander O. W. Back-possible plainness, that the Aus need not devote much time in replying to; for to him the answers

In spite of the disturbanos in onlation on which all values in the pity! There are few greater with RN, at the Marine Court, trians are losing no opportunity are there already. Our Government does not pay higher salaries to tragedies in the history of British this morning, F. C. Ragg, charged of seeking to regain what they the world of finance caused by the South China are really based. its consular officials because, with so much money going to. politice than the unlooked for Kwok Fak, master of a passenger bave lost whether down on war the great banking institutions In Hongkong the Government waste (in normal times) in excessive, or needless salaries, there is physical collapse of so strong and Lost, and Kwok So Kan, master.

the Tyrol of the Far East located or repre has continued its policy of retir not enough left in the exchequer to enable it to avail itself of the gifted a man. If he had kept his of Holt's Godown lighter, with or in the Cornia district. sented in Hongkong have not only ing large quantities of ite sab

sidiary coins with a view of asrvices of the men whom it really wants. The men holding con. health, and if he had been made unlawfully being the outside There is quite enough significance stood the strain, but in most cases sular poste at the present time are, if not all of them 'varaitymen, Prime Minister after Lord Salis vessele, of more than five boats in ancha statement as "The have declared their usual, or anh- bringing all such coins to a par with the standard silver dollar, at least not of the class from which good business man invariably bury's death; much that will have lying alongside the se. Tean, enemy has hitherto failed," when stantially their usual, dividends. spring; and they have certainly not, tave in very rare exceptions, to find a place in English history thereby causing obstraction in it is taken ile by side with the The first result of the war in but for moet of the year the dis received a commercial training. Most of them have at least a would never have happened. We the harbour on the 7th inst. purport of the rest of the wire. Eastern faauce was the rush of count between the standard dollar smattering of foreign languages and of international law and, by the say "If he had kept his health." Defendants were fined $5 each. As we suggested on Tuesday, silver to banks in the Chinese and the subsidiary coins has been time they attain to any post of responsibility, have had plenty of ex-Had he not been Lance Sergeant W. R. Sutton, however, actual Italian forward treaty ports, where most of it was greater than over and at times the paper dollar, representing a perience in drawing up formal reports, copying tabular statements sick man ho. would charged thirteen boat-people, with movement matters very little to kert idle for months, etc.; nice things in their way but not calculated to make those pro.

the Allies. never have been so urgent in unlawfully being in Causeway choose to bivouac on the Isonze financial condition of the Hong-actually been worth more than If Italy's troops While the tanking phase of the Promise to pay a silver dollar, bas ficient in them particularly helpful to the pashing of British interesta, pushing Tariff Reforma questions Bay, without the written permis either commercially or in any other way. Of course there are good till the country was more prepared sion of the Harbour Master, on for the remaining period of the kong field was exceptionally sound the silver dollar itself. Discount and bad among them; capable and incapable; many of them one for them. It is far more likely the 7th inst. Defendants were inch, they will have done their rectly upon the war were co-ard silver colar, was a high as war without advancing another eo far as finances depending di-n enbeidiary coins in south China, compared with the stand- regrets to sey, would never rise above a post of thirty shillings a that he would have pursued Im-fined $2 each. week if they were placed in a merchant's office; many of them have perialiam pore and simple, with

fall share, to long as they can cerned, the situation from a com-27 per cent during the year, and neither energy, tact for good manners. So far as a consul's work such side excursions into Foreign |

continue to keep a large and io-mercial standpoint left much tɔ chances to be of a purely diplomatic nature, it is quite often ex-Policy as might kave made the

creasing proportion of Austrians be desired. The outbreak of the in Hongkong the discount on tremely well done; for it is pretty generally accepted truth that 3erman Kaiserait up and woa-

to busy to proceed to the help war and unes tling of trade bad Hongkong subsidiary coins com- diplomacy, in the souse in which we are using the term here, is der. With a Premier de strong se

of the Germans.

the immediate result of restrict-pared with the standard dollar greatly a question of social training and environment.

ing credits, and inaamach as some asually ranged about 10 per cent. Chamberlain was in his best daya, Some histerical discoveries of But the diplomatic side of the conaal's life is aasally small in

Seemingly Germany is not go or the important lines of business less than the discount on Chinese five-sixths of the nightmare great importance were made ing to find America so easy to in the Hongkong field depend money in the Chinese Provinces. comparison with his other duties. Britain, andar ordinary circum- through which Britain has been while making excavations in the hoodwink after all. The Note to upon long credits this in itself When it is realized that all goods stances, is a commercial country; and, looking at the position from a passing in recent years-labour villages of Bajrasan and Suapur, Washington, judging frankly loss and gain point of view, her consule should be, before all disputes, suffrage madness, the in the Dacos district. In the Renter's bints, appears to have large decrease in the price of cot-bought and sold upon the basis from wae enough to stop business. The for import and export mast be things, men capable of gauging the commercial needs of the country Irish Question, with the European former village a stone image of been planned with a view to in-ton yarn threw the business gen- unfavourable influence of these of this fluctuating medium, the in which they are serving, and of advancing the interste of their own war rounding off the situation Vasudeb end a brass image of volving the United States with orally into liquidation, practically conditions upon foreign as well Government wherever possible. How may this be done by a man who might have been avoided. has grown up to look with some amount of contempt on trade? We

Baddha were found. B jrasan other countries at war, Therefore all the native dealera being closed would be the last to wish to see the diplomatic affairs of the Empire

was the seat of a celebrated it would not surprise us if Wash-up for the time being. Foreign de local trade can be understood in the hands of any but those born to such work; but consular

monast ry where Athia di paukor, ington were eventually to take yarn interests arranged to share As a matter of fact, the loss on business is not diplomacy, and if Britain is to hold her own in the

the great Buddhist Saint and some such line as: "If you want the losses of some of them, how most staple producla bought on Scholar of Eastern Bengal, studied to force us into a quarrel with ever, so that they were able to the basis of the standard dollar in trade war that is coming on as when the existing conflict has finish-

in the tenth century. ed, she must choose different men for her consulates. She maát.

Stone someone, we may as well quarrel resume business and thus maia-large quantities and sold at retail take pattern by Amerios, Japan, and Sweden.

pillars and statues have been with you as with anybody else; tsin the usual machinery of the for the subsidiary coine is great found in the village of Suapur, batter, seeing that you have already yarn trade.

enough to overcome all ordinary profits, Sales and purchase

ALL'S WELL."

Gunner..

HISTORICAL DIS- COVERIES.

American Affairs, ・・

which show that it was once a defied us on several occasions,' Immediate Effort of War.

Would any of these select a man from one particular class for this work? And ie not each one of them succeeding in overseas commerce where wa Postcard from Triumph's Chief Capital town. It is believed that a Bince Germany and America be- A erious phase of the commer- moet of necessity be based upon are failing? A foreign country-especially if that foreign country be China, Japan or the United States-is no place for fine-gentlemen

Hinda king, probably one of the ganthis pleasant little interchange cial and financial situation grew gins of least value, and the consale whose chief occupation, in many instances, seems to be

Pal Deunaty, reigned in Saspur of Notes, Washington has become out of the necessity of placing all fluctuations in the value of these when it was attacked by Gazis wisez Be well as more embitter the German firms intɔ liquida, coins, matensafe trading @im. loafing, patronising ships' captains and being rude to travellers of

One of our readers has received about the middle of the foured. At the beginning of the tion, preventing these firms from possible. The situation at present their own nationality. If finding trade openinge for Britain had

a postcard from Mr. A. Allum, teenth century, The Gazia de-war Americans had quite a lot to transacting any new business, and seems to be improving, but only depended on some of these interesting young men, we should

who was Chief Gunner of the molished the temples of this village learn about Germany, and pro- bresking the commercial connec- a complete revolution in monetary,, never have had any overseas trade at all. But fools speak pretty Triumph, saying that he and the and gave the name Gazikhati to bably we may take it that the tions of the port with much of matters in South China and in much for themselves. Can British merchante, under existing Chief Carpenter, Mr. Hancook the river Karisi which flows to Lusitania, the Armenian and the the world through the correspon Hongkong itself will remove this cironmstances, hold anything like their own against other nationa

are well and hope to be Home Dhaleswari. The ruins of the performances of Mr. Holt have denie of these firme. The amount canse of great embarrassment that are exploiting the part of the world in which we are now living? Like the questions put by the Home paper quoted above, luck on the old Triumph!

BOOK. A postscript says "Bard palace of the old Hinda Kings vastly contributed to the improre of business held by these firms and los

are still to be seen in the village. ment of their education... it does not need answering,

is not ascertained, but it is ad, (Continued on the Ezira)