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Some Suggestions,

THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1916.

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the Chinese company by the Ger- mans' contract were required to retain one of the firm's engineers to be responsible for the plant for so many years at a handsome salary, the engineer to be allowed to act as the German representa tive for the district. This method of retaining a representative in the district is being copied to large extent by the Japanese.

THE RHINEGOLD PROBLEM.

Significant German Memorzo- dum.

a

war

A FINE RECORD.

French Colònies and the War.

In the Observer, Philippe

the war.

Algiers and Tuals.

And

TRADE WAR IN CHINA, two Chinese shroffs. The er- gineer, as a rale, is not a man

POST WAR TRADE, who has been trained in one

Pertinent Proposals from India.

prcolaim his independence. He "It is long journey from branch of engineering, but who

was arrested wishin forty-eight || Liverpool to the New World, bas on talk steam, electricity, oil,

from India for conducting trade The frankurss of the proposals

hours and replaced on the throne still longer ona of his ancestors by a more sober Lindson River to the Golden Gate from the pompe, &, and who spends most

after the war is distinctly refresh- A correspondant

man amidst the general indiffer of San Francisco. Let me esy af who has of his tima touring round the

ing after what was been called Millet writer: recently returned from Übina ham, ountry in his distriot.

ence of his faithful subjeo's. The

once that the problems of Maine contributed to Engineering anual conclusion arrived at by

which characterises the British Paris. September 1.-The Gw- the "spirit of inert abbinasa”

are as far apart from MontanE'S number of notes embodying bis the British traveller who sees

Government. The mcat pertinent manu do not seem to have partien-

-morally, physically-an thom impressions and opinions as to these places is that they are run

of Ireland are from Albania'g' the course which trade is likely at dead loss. The amssing

suggestions have been made by larly enjoyed the presence of German plot the French colonial in which the negroes outnumber As a result of this failure of the What can a State like Mimissippi, to take there after the war, and part is that they more than pay

the Bombay Chamber of Com black troops among the French empire has been able to supply the whites, bave in common with particularly as to the means the working expenses on the email

merce, and the recommendations on the Somme. This, however, the mother country with a con- cultured Massachusetts ? Germans will adopt to maintain orders received, the excamive

¡inslade temporary messuree and is only part of a more general siderable number of the position they have already percentage charged compensat-

meared for the Empire general disprointment. They hoped Although no precise figures are slligators and palms of Florida men. how far a fling it is from the sequired. These notes are of ing them for the smallness of the

Ly as well as for Ladis particular that the French colonies would available for publication, the sise to special interest at the present order. They will receive an

ly. In the former connection it is be to the Mother Country a source of this military effort can be easily needia, where the

the icy fits of Min- time, and deserve sa wide a cir-order for a dozen packets of need-

proposed shat for a period of not of omsiderable cable during indicated. First of all, one has a

wolf is culation as possible. We make low or for an electric lighting

low than six months after the

problem calling for the following extracts :——

to remember that thers are in Government plant with equal civility, and To the Observer, Philippe allowed, except for purposes of know. The huge Colonial Em- more French province than a New Mexico with emelier no enemy subject at all shall be What their plan was, we now French North Africa, which is States greater than Britain-say

aid. It would be well for the British have them eat up from their Millet "writes :-

There are manufacturer to recognise that Hongkong or Shanghai offies with the Paris Trade Conference can

State and under special licence, pire of France had a weak spot: colony, not far from one million population then Sheffield. the utmost despatch.

Paris, Sept. 8-I hope I shall to enter or remain in any part of Morcoco. The do little to assist him to capture

main German colonists, who are either French be excused if I remind our British the British Empire. In addition device which, of course, had been by birth or have become natural sixty degrees of longitude. And The following is an instance friends that out of every four it is urged that no snemy ship carefully prepared long before ised Frenchmen. All of them when President Taft suggested

“America' embraces or keep the open market abroad; where a British arm benefited bombs which the Zipps dropping whatever shall be permitted war was declared, was to raske are liable to conscription, be it in an all American toast to the wel- nearly and if he wishes to retain the from the enterprise of one of the over England, three at least come to enter British porta. Ia all use of the more or less continuous Tanis, Moracco or in Algiers, fare of the new San Francisco, markets that are under his sphers German engineers in a branch from the iron ore deposits of Ger- there are thirty recommends agitation of rebel tribes in the They form the bulk of the Zmare which rose from the wreckage of of influence, he must ex:rt him office in Yunnan Province. A man Lorraine-from that Rhine- tione, and they include such com Atlas mountains-a region very regiments, which are among the earthquake and flame, the projnot self, to the utmost, to copy Gercerisin mine there had a great gold the Prussian Nibelung stole monsense proposals as preferenti much analogous to the North- best of the French Army. Then had to be abandoned because it man methode of business, and deal of trouble with their water in 1871. improve on them. From reports supply; the German heard of it

The problem is such a pressing and among the Allied and neutral organise a general upheaval not of the natives of present fighting four noons in the United States, al treatment within the Empire Western border of India and there are the natives. About half was found that, as there were different campe and spent some time examining one both for England and France, countries; the prevention of only in Marccositself but through in the ranks of the French Army a simultaneous toast on the official coming from where German prisoners are the country round about. He that we cannot pay too much damping; the uniformity of oat French North Africa. Had are white men recruited from opening day was impossible? interned, it appears that Germany then went up to the mine owner attention to what the Germans patents; abolition of double is they succeeded they would have North Africa. By far the largest is preparing herself to make an and said, "Yon attempt to oplare the whole trouble at this mine ?" "Yes." they are, fortunately, very candid and the establishment of and Tunis most of the forces avail itself, but Tanie, where natives State compartments' which maka have water themselves have said about it, for some tax throughout the Empire; been tied up in Morocco, Algiers contingent comes from Algiers change, though still divided into Chinese market; Germen prie." You will bay a new plant if I and seldom avoid giving them- Ministry of Commerce. Then it able for the war in Europe. In are submitted to conscription, large national effort and complete To-day America throes with oners are being taught. the can give you plenty of water?"selves away. So with the N be in saggested that shipping re-addition, the French might have has also furnished a very great unanimity an ideal and no more.. different dialects of the Chiness" must get water acon or I willung himself in Wagner's poem, galations shall be reciprocal, and had to send to these parte a con- number. As for Morocco, where Even the Atlantic States, from language. Germany is fully have to close my mine." "Ioan which, after all, is much more ansther excellent recommends Fiderable part of the black army French rule is very recent, it has Maryland up to Maine, live sheir aware that Japan during the get all the water you want by Germin than Wagnerites thought tion is to the effect that no raised among the natives present, war has attempted to oust pumping it from that laks 26 li in the early daye her from ber hold on this market;from here."

of yielded a small number of native own lives, unconcerned with **Impossible!" "I enthusiasm. ·

company with less than 75 per

French West Africa. and it shows that her paat trade Garantee."

troops, but a fine quality. "How much?"

coat of ita ospital held by British Now the German manufactur- subjects shall be qualified_for

General Lyautey's Choice.

wider American istuen. with China has been greatly to The deal was closed on the spot. ers were kind enough to send to registration in the British Emportant rising took place in

The plot failed. That no im- The Black Troops.

"There will be no more spread her advantage, when she, even at This was just before the outbreak the German Chancellor on May pire, a time when that trade is uil, of hostilities, and the German 20, 1915,

eagling on the part of Uncle retains men of military age in afterwards, was unable to get which they gave all their views of Bombay's suggestions, it is at there. When the war broke out which was termed a long time and Chiefs of 8:aff, by President Berat petition in practicable to carry out the whole skill of General" Lyanter, the foros. It is almost exclusively from the housetops by Admirals While it may not be Morocco was certainly due to the Then comes the famous black 8am. For to-day he knows his China to maintain berconnection delivery of the pumps, & Thea to the importance of the least refreshing to have clear, he had to take wishin twenty-four ago "une terre a soldats" and Ministers too, and all respons military weakness, wailed as it is French Commissioner-General drawn from French West Africa, and keep the market open until idea had been put into the Lorraine ore deposita, and also of she is again able to enter into Chinese bead, and conditions. the coal qnsation connected with dotalis, dif the main hours the tremendous responsibil- which has supplied during the cible publicists as well as by competition.

would not allow him to await for the ore problem. Let us listen ment possessed a tithe of the ity of either withdrawing his present war a contingent superior Get Ready pamphlets from

posals, and if the British Govern Before the German representa- the conclusion of the war; be to what they have to say. First daring of, say, India or Australia, troops towards the coast, and to the whole of the native force tive of his firm in China attempts

sensation mongers who drop therefore to do business there he makes a British Worthington pamp people ant part the so-called "mireite

arranged with the of all they ebow what an import the Empire as a whole would thus giving an impression of from Algiers, Indo China come Christian Science assemblies. close study of the Chinese char- to supply the plant, which ran the iron ore from Lorraine change.

scstatio pesce meetings and weakness acter; be learns to understand into thousands of pound. There has played in the prereat war :--

or maintaining the next, although rather far behind. positions he had conquered on About one-third of the contingent what the term "face" means to was also another pamping plaat

"Never again will America's "The manufacture of heils

both sides of the Atlas, while which has alresily come from Chief Executive throw down the the Chinese, and he is too ready to be supplied for the same

neighbours to fall completely expeditionary force, which was Anaamites," who look very much rover Cleveland did over the

seading to France half of his there to recognise that

ocnsists of tirailleurs challenge Arbitrats or Fight, province to pump 48 li. Fqueeze Pidgin ог 'abarp," which

atrol such as nobody would have | under the dependency of Eng General Lysatey, with character Indian army, and are equal in gone that the Uni'ed States can The German supplies the idea thought of before the war. For land."

wanted on the European front, like the Ghurkas of the Anglo- Venezalan affair. The illusion is Dones under the name of" graft and in many instances, as he is the shelle in grey cast-iron alone, in the US A., se been inboru in the caly European in the district, which are being used, when no not only on the past, but on the

This throws a decisive light istic determination, chose the numbers to half the Anglo-lick creation with volunteers the Chiness race through han-accares the contract dreds of generations. It would competition. It is for the British place of steel shells, quantities of pose the iron ore deposits of rightly. His task was for a long autumn of 1914: the remaining

without superior quality in required, in fatare policy of Germany. Sap proved that he had decided landed in Marseilles in the of the Civil War. Amerina in course, and experience Indian expeditionary force which enrolled in the leisurely fashion be incorrect to any that the only syndicates now being formed to pig-iron have been required for Lorraine, even coupled with the time an arduous one; so it was two-thirds are being used for all than ever from the blood last of older-wieer. for and more averse method to scale business in sendmenout to these open markets the last months which reach at coalfield of the Sarze, are taken for the handial of Regulars which sorts of works. Finally, there is China is to use the graft method, who will be able to plan out such lesst 4,000 tons a day. No pre- from Germany as a result of this to fight cesse lessly a brave enemys very small pat if a basiness firm wishes to undertakings and beat the Gercise figures are available on this war and given back to France, armed with German rifles and "tiraillears Malgachee

armed strife, though it surge at succeed and have a fair chance of mans at their own game. There point. Bat it is already certain the economic problem which bas even with German machine-gune. Madagascar.

her very door, as it did for many contingent of competing an all contracte they has been a great lack of enter that if the output in iron and been more or less the cause of the But the last serious agitation was

months in cheolic Mexico, where mast be prepared to recognise prise on the part of the British steel had not been doubled since pressnt cox Aict would by no crushed in January last, and tingenta make a very considerable Prassian ferocity.

bandite wiped the winter streets- where the graft is necessary.

with the Stars and Stripes and merchant in Chios in the past, as the month of August the prose means be solved. Even before things since then have become force indeed. Without taking

The aggregate of these con-hot Americans To those ajanected with the following will show, whic's cation of the war would have be- this war, when France only imporm. At no time had the into account the black troops scenting new dangers which an with altra. Chinese martera it is common happened only a few months ago. coms impossible. knowledge that German mer. A traveller was in a certain town

ported 21 million tons of coal a local risinge en opportunity of employed in the French Congo, fine words at home will avert, nor "I say America ia sobered now, chants in China have secarali Yonaan Province, and the manufacture of these quantities with only seven million tone,

A8 raw material for the

year, Germany, who supplied her assuming & general character. sufficient contracte daring the war mauderin informed him that be of iron and steel the minette' is while England provided ten, bad Tunis, they never so much as and yellow, the total of the abroad, from Poking to The to give them a good commercial was forming a company to build sasenming a

As for the native of Algiers and colonists, natives, white, black the old shirt-sleeves" diplomacy

it may be stated that including standing immediately the war is generating station to light up the important pisos, as only this

more and more managed to control an important moved. The only "incident" over. These have mortly been town; be was also in the market | kind of iron ore can be extracted part of French metallargy by which occurred was due to the strength contributed to the Ear.Hague. Prussia's Great Adven- secared by graft and sharp for some mining machinery. The in our country in quickly incress convenience the prices of ooke, reacted on one Tunisian tribe in the whole of the present Canadian erecce with Old World affire raising or lowering at her own

conditions in Tripoli, which pan fronts by the colonial emites inclined than ever for inter practice. At the beginning of traveller asked a firm of Hong-ing quantities.

pire of France is about equal to the war the Germans refrained kong engir o rato read aps repre

Once the Lorraine deposits are:

the extreme eon'h during the

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tract, but lately most of the They replied that largest contracts have fallen into would do German hands. When the depositing £100 as

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of their

requires a quantity of iron and

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Political fofluence."

sppreciate anch

a lead.-Ez

A Problem for England, British opinion should be alive to It is indeed neossary that

latter

throughout the other parts of the

A Runaway King. › The same conditions prevailed

few incidents occurred and none French colonial empire. Very

the

ORA ONE.

from

tare has left the United State

AMERICA AND THE WAR, apathetic people's wish to Keep

A Mere Topic of Conversation."

lesser neutrals in crusading protest, from Norway to Spain, from Holland to Brazil and bị: yond. So President Wilson moves to perfect accord with his Oat' and not embroil them with enemies, byphenate or foreign- German, Mexican or Japaneɛe. A few American thinkers view with horror and amazement the present lapse

of

progress and the night of civilisation in which we The manten tee them.

An endeavour is made to grope.

from quoting on any large coa-Bentative to go into the matter. ritories is considerably reduced, the yearly imports of coal in force was sufficient to punish the the part played in the war Ly volt heroics, no desire to lead the The production in other ter again in the hands of the French salamn of 1914. A very small army. No other comparison of She has no ear for Root or Boose they and the importation by sea even France will be nearly doubled. rebela before they could make

the French colonies is a moment his of Swedish iron ore has become If, as such a high authority as M. any impression on their neigh- specification for any large coo-to cover the representative's ex-

guarentes so difficalt that in many regions, de Lauady thinks, France has to boars, and peace has not been tract is now given out they penses. The traveller dropped Lorraine, the minelte at the from Germany instead of seven,

even outside Luxemborg and get 22 million tons of coal a year disturbed in that part since the invite the head Chinsee concerned the matter. Most of the electric present moment covere from there is little doubt that the to a magnificent dinner-most lighting plants supplied within to 80 per cent. of the manufacture Germans, however besten, will

beginning of 1915. Chinees deals are settled over recent years to Chins--and they of pig-iron and steel. If the out not neglect this chance of exerting food-a point the Germane have are not a fe-have come from pui of the minette' been quick to recognise-ecnor through German agents. Adistarbed, the war would be as flacace" over the industries of

were to be what they call a vince them that the war will be few weeks before thespecifications good as lost."

political in over in a few weeks, make them were given ont for the generating

their neighbours. a handsome present and secure plants for the Riverside power

of them was abnormal. Franch their permission to

Weet Africa had "to deal with Ac Luxemburg only yields a iceert a station, Shangbai, the size, type, small quantity of "minette," it

two black fetichist tribes south of explain the seeming apathy of selves richer than ever through temporary disturbances among olauso in their quotation that the de, of the machines were known appears from what the German such a danger. To consider that Timbuctoo, and also with one in Americe towards the Europesnite war, and wooed by all belli material is to be supplied a to the different agents in Shang- manufacturers say themselves the problem of the Rhinegold cursion made in the Sedan by war by Mr. William G. Fitzger-gerents for the sake of material certain time after the conclusion hai, The German egents im that without the possession of will be entirely solved cass L^I- | 8 of the European War. The mediately abled to their works Lorraine the German Empire raine British firm, ot knowing what to build for stork machines to would have been azable to stand amounts to ignoring the onorm remarkable feature being the fact

party of Taaregs. These aid in the last number of the resources in their vast and virgin has transpired, quotes a price for the unauthorised Shanghai speci- the industrial strain of the war, ous power which the possession that

becomes French again troubles were easily dealt with, a Nineteenth Century,”

domain-wheat and colton, eɔp- the material to be applied at the fications. When these were issued as it would have been unable in of cost places in the hands of the population of the French Sudan Atlantic States are America, As the ends of war.

"Europe," he explains" makes per and steel, as well as machines present time. The German this the time allowed for delivery

numerous Moslem the mistake of assuming that the of endless ingenuity adapted to way secures good "face," as he was such a short one that only the time to build up that Germens. On the other hand, it remained absolutely loyal. has been able to quote lower than German firm who had the ms room called German metallargy, remove the danger, that England of the Empire, might have been manity which is not nation at le to the Great Neutral little more

gigantic and poisonous musk-ie not necessary, in order to

a matter of fact they only rapre- 218 competitura and has secured chines in stock were able to

Indo-China, at the other end sont the leisured fringe of a com- | desperate clash of races and ideale "Thus the World War-the the goodwill of the Chinese guarantee delivery to time; they aadum contains another state task of providing the whole of the there are very different from virgin continent sparsely people more or less excited, a porient But the same secret memor shcald undertake the diffoals more troublesome. Conditions all. The United States ise vast and than a topic of conversation, offisiale by a little “cumshow "therefore secured the order, or present, which in no way comes out of his pocket, as bin secars work at an excessive profit, disclose the main trick of Ger- which will be needed is that a responding to the one headed by and the rest a welter of all Ear the madness of it all, and blame peat which is, perhaps, even coal Lorraine will have to import those in British Ladin. There is by a hundred millions, of whom altogether incomprehensible and A favourite German method to ore striking than the first, as it from abroad. The only thing no Indo-Chinese movement cor- one in ten is a person of colour strange. Heads are shaken over prien ie higher than the after-war especially in the interior, ie to price would be.

work the "extras," The British

man Imperialism. There is one method of secur. quotation for a certain slectriotion of the exportation of oual gold region to break the German Chins makes it comparatively appreciation of the American attitude, indeed, in that of the aufficient quantity of British coal Tilsk and his imitators, but, on ope, with a leaven of Asia, from distributed sarprisingly among "Afready to day as the probibi- should be able to reach the Rhine the other hand, the proximity of Syria to China and Japan. Das all the belligerente. America's ing business that is a credit in gbling plant was approximately made by the English on the 15th opal monopoly, and thus make a easy for profesional terrorists to problem is not possible unless we spectator 21 a football match, with the German frms, and one that $2,500,000 Mex.; she German of May proves is again, coal is German contzol the British manufacturing firms prios $2,000,000 Mex.; the Gerone of the most decisive means metallurgy, with its consequences, however, occurred which might sprawling continent instead of a huge baal. The President him- would do well to copy, working mane secured the contract; the for exerting political foflarnos, impossible.

Over French try some of their tricks. Nothing, keep before me this idea of a beta so safely placed as to ensure it through combins of mann-whole amount paid to them with The industrial neutral Bates facturers. In the interior, where extra was approximately or are compelled to submit find the means of enforcing sanh ordinary incursions made by low and black, with an abnormal concern of America. Blis

Britab diplomacy will have to Auram in 1908. Apart from the all the races of earth-white, yal-cause of this catastrophe is mo have recalled the loosi rising of a country, and instead of a race self bas said that the origin and one would imagine there would 800,000 Mex. They had, through to those be no business, will often be the good offices of some of the eats who can provide their supplying that the first step will consist of Tonkin and Laos, the only the paths of peace and prosperous row for us all and high conscious of the belligers solution. I cannot help think Chinese bands sorom the border mixture of Jews who pursue the read the daily *story* with tot- found ■ large bailding, the Chinese cfficials, been allowed to of Qual. We cannot do it safic in secaring for British shipping fairly seriona sffair look plaas in days. In New York Olly lone new of their own nebler branch office of one of the com- insert a clause that certain shinge ently at present, and we are com- free socess to the Rhine and ad- May last, when the to bines of German manufacturers, in regard to the lighting would

always to be found shero be extra, these had been metaded Pelled aven today to resort to the lining swers and in societies

dwall 800 000 Town. These haye which wa may khain a poze porscher and one or in the British quotation, *** Also

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