THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,
TUCK'S CARDS.
RED CROSS WORKERS.
U. S DRAFT CALL.
A Splendid Display' This Season.
Result of a Canton Appeal.
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9.000,000 Men for Military and Industrial Duty.
the foreword ha 'has written to
second call will be made.
DECEMBER 22, 1917.
SUGAR EXPORTS RESTRICTED.
Growers in Jamafca. Need Licenses to Send It Away.
OBLIGATIONS OF THE STATE.
Needs.
HUNGARY'S RUIN.
Paper's Outspoken Attacks on Germany and Austria.
pledge myself in the middle of the war to bring in a Scottish Home Rula Bill, that is something| which I think is beyond the con- templation of the most daring wal Prime Minister on the Nation's in thisdeputation. We are getting ane or two bills through now, and The following is the result of
it is very difficult to dad time to Washington, Nav, 10-Presid
devote to them. I came down the special appeal for funds to
Me, Lloyd George received a bere to-day to an Irish debate. I Amsterdam, Sept. 24.—Ã¥ER assist the work of the British Redent Wilson put the new mach- Orosa Locs! Workers, Canton, inery for the carrying out of the British West Indies, has forbidden Committee of the Scottish Trades tremendous questions which are journal, recently brought downs
The Government of Jamaica, deputation of the Parliamentary bal to be taken away from the widely circulated Budapess $10
Selective Draft Bill into operation the export of sugar until further Union Congrees at the House of coonpying the time of every mom- apon itself the revere condemas- to-night with the publication of notice, except under license from Commons recently, which was bet of the War Cabinet at the ion of the Berlin Pan-German the regulations under which the the Collector General, according introduced by Mr. A. Wilkie, present hour. However, I am in Press, for daring to pass favour to a Kingston anrsepondent of P., and consisted of Mr. Lyon agreement with Mr. Lyon and the
able judgment 011 President The regulations themselves and the Christian Science Monitor (osairmen of the Scottish Horse deputation that it is not merely Wilson's reply to the Pope's Note. Such a license, moreover, is only and Metormen's Association), Mr. desirable, but that it is a practical Its latest attgranos is no less the questionnaires which more than 9,000,000 registrants will to be granted for the sport of J. Houghton (Scottish Union of business proposition, when you noteworthy.. be required to fill out are being comparatively small quantities to Dock Labearers), Mr. W. Shaw come to consider reconstruction Referring to a speech in which forwarded to local boards, but such small neighboring place (Glango Trades Council), Bailie in these islande, that the time of Hangaran ex-Minister oon- the Caymans. The reason of this B. Climie (Ayrekire Trades Parliament should be taken up demned universal suffrage to a have not yet been made publia
War Department officials est-prohibition is that the Govora Council), and Mr. B. Allan (Edin-only with matters of great national peril, the journal takes ment has ascertained that there barga Trades Council. The sub-magnitude affecting the whole the opportunity of referring him imate that the whole process can be completed within sixty days. I now remaining of the recent jects to which attention were call kingdom, and that we shall have to "the real danger threatening This means that no second call crop only just anfficient to meated were Scottish Home Bale, the little time for dealing with purely Hangery." That, it says, "lies
local needs. The probibition be made upon the draft force before the middle of next Febra-bolds till the crop for 1917-18 ponition of the blind, and old-age local and provincial questions in our being fettered to Austria, in
pensions.
Affecting, perhaps, Scotland and oor unholy alliance with Austria The Prime Minister, having Wales and Ireland and England, and Germany, in the annihilation ary, as the period of classification begins to come in, when the will not begin until December 15 matter will be reconsidered,
pointed out that the deputation either in whole or in part. of our wealth, which is making The President describes the The movement in the United had raised very important issues Now I come to the other ques- beggars of us, and in our beizg new plan of dividing sil register States of colored labor from South for the consideration of the State, tion that has been raised with led by a foreign-speaking Army ed men not already mobilia to North is creating a vacancy proceeded to say I listened with regard to the blind. I need hard Command to death." ed into fre olamgee, subject to that is attreating with much some sort of reminiscent interest ly say that I am in complete
The last phrase, of course, is a military service by classes sa be intensified force the workers of to the subject of Scottish Home sympathy. It in the least we can referaros to the fact that the ing intended to produce more this island, and an increased Bale developed by Councillor da to utilise the resources of the Hungarian Army has passed perfect organisation of our man emigration of women has been Lyon. It carried me back to an State to mitigate ons of the worst almost completely under German and continues to be a marked evening about twenty-six" or afflictions that can befall sny man offours. That," says the journal
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The famous house of Raphael Tack and Company has this Christmas senang issued its fifty- ascond annual collection of mani- Mr. W. A. Alexander fold art productions, and, in spile Mr. M. A. Annett "of the conditions created by the Mr. F. Norton Bell war, tbees are well up to the Mr. E. 8. Bennett „standard of previons times. In-Mr. G. E. Bowkers
cidentally, it may be mentioned Mr. H. D. Browne that the whole of the fighting Mr. J. E. B. de Conroy strength of Raphael House is on Mr. O. W. Dsroh... Botive service and that the Mr. Herbert F. Dent Raphael House Women Workers' Mr. W. Farmer.. Guild, now affiliated to the Brit Mr. D. Forbes inh Red Cross Society, continues Mr. O, Fumagalli its beneficient work for the Mr. F. Gandossi ... wounded. Shortage of staff not- Mr. A. Gandossi. withstanding, this British firm is Mr. F. C. Herb. able to put forth for the festive Mr. J. Hookveen... Resson' a Dew line of Christmas Mr. A. Vivian Hogg and New Year cards, postcards, Mr. O. E. Holworthy oil facsimilies and other art Mr. G. G. Hoppeler novelties which are astounding Mr. A. Hotson because of their variety and all Mr. M. Hotta round charm. There are over Mr.J.W.Jamieson, C.M.G. thrso thousand designs of carde, Hr. N. B. Karanjia among which the Early Victorian, Mr. B. T. Matheson the "Oil Facsim." and the Indian Mr. G. MavOC Print series take first place, these Mr. C. A. MoAllam " all being works of true artistic Mr. D. R. McEwen merit, The first-damed are Mrs. McEwen especially dainty, constituting Mr. J. McFarlane... the most beautiful cards we have M. A. McKinnon... ever seen. Once again the firm Mr. A. P. Mei is able to reproduce for the public the Royal Obristmas cards which it bae the had honcar to prepare for Their Majesties and the Prince and Princess of Walee, these being issued in various styles and Bixes. King George's card very fittingly gives a beautiful paint- ing of the Battle of Jutland; by Bernard Gribble, while Queen Mary's depicts the wooing of King Henry V. and Princess Katherine of France, this being the work of Frank Dizoo. Both cards are Mr. H. Speakman beautifully coloured. Of the Mr. H. Satton
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detail, but it should be mentioned that there is the usual very fine display of pictare "pozzles, a representative library of charming books for boys and girls, as well as a fine assortment of toy books for the little ones. These are only
a tithe of the host of good things: which Tack's have to offer. Bo
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MORE SHIPS."
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The selective principle must feature. The depressed indus twenty-seven years ago, when or any woman. I may tell you in conclusion, "is the real danger be carried to its logical conela trisl condition here, owing to a young Scotiah member, who, that a committee presided over for an, and the fight against it sion," the President said, and he great extent to war conditions, am glad to say, is still a member by Hr. Hayes Fisher, has been must be regarded-by every earnest added that there must be made accentuates the lowness of the of this House, proposed a resolu-sitting upon this very question and honest Magyar se the grest s complete inventory of the quali local wage generally and this tion in favour of Home Rale all for two or three years, and they straggle of the lature." fications of each registrant in helps to throw into relief, the round, and came to me to ask me bare made recommendations The Transylvanian "Deutsches order to determine the place in opportunities open in the States to second the motion. We got quite recently in favour of the Tageblatt, German she military, industrial or agrical and in Cuba. A somewhat similar into the House together, and we provision of further accommoda-published in Hungary, Boks if tural ranks of the nation, in which emigration to the latter place is have been very good friends ever tion and workshops for the blind, there are no means of stopping the Lathmus of since, but we began our partner also for additional fands to pro-the mouth "of this most evil of his experience and training can best be made to serve the com- Panama just now, and is due to ship on a motion for Scottish and vide pensions for the blind who all Entente journale. In Tissa's
like conditions. Here the Military Irish Home Bale, mon good."
There is The inquiry projected in the Service law being in force, the another little incident, if I may living. It is obviously better written-which is just the hope
are incapable of earning their time such things could not be questionnaire will go deep into emigration of males between six refer to a personal one, which has that you should teach a trade fal sign. the qualifications of each of nearly teen and forty-one, who are fit for bearing upon this. Mr. Lyon to a blind man or a blind woman 10,000,000 men, The success of military service, becomea. im referred to, the obvious absurdity if they are physically capable
of having to the plan, and its completion possible.
come up from than offer them obarity. Your Newspaper reports of a project within the estimated time rests
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long as Baphael House remaina, U. S. Working Out Agreement were a most gratifying demon-
the time-honoured British custom
with Neutrals and Japan.
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Scotland to ask a number of great point is that during the the lives of hundreds of thon- eupport given by the people, the United States are reashing will allow you to construet antenance should also be provided deserve well of the community, of old people who eap cially by the doctors and Jamaica. The sentiment bere is extra tram-line in Glasgow for them. You will be glad to and who had been neglected Isagera of each community, and soundly and socios Pelion: Only served on a Private Bill bear that that is recommended by sadly by the very the President calls upon them for and there is no prious movement Committee once, and I had en Mr. Hayes Fisher's Committee. ity they
to change figs, but the point is ough of it. That was a bill which Their report will come before the faithfully and loyally for fifty that unstinted aid. $815
The President's foreword made with increasing strength involved s
dispute between Government, and I have no doubt or sixty years of their strength, thes the British West Indies mast Stirlingshire sad Dumbarton; at all that it will commend itself Well, I hope the State will go on You bad all the great to my colleagues in the Cabinet. extending, I will not esy-its ben mobilising the first contingent of a new fashion, so as to develop counsel of the day engaged in it, Now I come to the last point evolence, but recognizing the
The task of electing and be handled within the Empire in shire. the National Army is nearing their recources as never before.
all very able men, and men whose which has been raised; that is the obligations it owed to these completion. The expedition and
fees were in proportion to their question of pensions to which accuracy of its accomplishment
ability, and for days and daya the Baille Climie addressed himself people. It is not a question of time of many busy membera of I have a special, and even of charity; it is no more a ques- benevolence; it is pot's question stration of the efficiency of our
Parliament was taken up, and parental interest in this question. tion of benevolence and charity democratic institutions. The of our resources of meris regard. score, if not hundreds, off had the privilege assigned to thon it is in the case of a Civil of exchanging greetings in the
swiftness with which the mach-ed by all as a national war under witnesses brought up to London me by the Prime Minister of the servant. The Civil servant, when Yulafide season will never die oul.
inery for its execution had to be taking of aneh significance sa to to give evidence. You also had day of pileting the Old Age he gets his pension, does not asy And for originality and high quality, this famous house has
Wsabington, November 14 assembled, however, left room for challenge the attention and com expert witnesses employed in pensione Bill through the House Thank you for the alas notasy, never exceeded this year's array. the final details of an agreement New regulations putting these cap.
Officials to-day were working out adjustment and improvement, pel the assistance of every Ameri. London to give evidence upon of Commons, and I feel a debt of.
both sides. The expense must gratitude to him for giving me regards it as his recompense for you are giving to me." H Those seeking something really artistic in the way of corde should with the European neutrals and improvements in to effect are, I call upon all citizens, there have been enormous. I have not that opportunity, because it is faithful and dutiful tail nek for Tuck's novelties at loosi Japan whereby several hundred therefore, being published to-day.fore, to assist local and district the faintest recollection whether always a pleasure to think shat I
prime, and I think that the shipping will be obtained by essential obligation of men sub- and such material conveniences at any rate, whichever won, they degree with a movement of so worker in any rank of life ought this Government for the jeat to selection. The first drafts they can offer and by appear both lost. If-anything-were re-humanitarian's character
to be able to claim as a matter of transfer of troops and supplies must stand unaffected by the ing before the boards, either apon quired to convert me to the need
However small the dot may right from the community the STARS; to the fighting zone. Neu-provisions of the new regulations. sammens, toon than wel vootbal Fire Boule, I think have been in the beginning, it same security against indigenne tral vessels now lying in American They can be given no retrosotive initiative, to give such informs- it was that solitary experience has already grown, and I have no and squalor and misery hea tion as will be useful in classify-aver had upon a Private Bill doubt the benevolence of the his strength has given out. Those ports aggregate, it is estimated. effect; more than four hundred thousand The time has come for a more ing registrants,
Committee..
State will be developed and are the things which the State 1008.
perfect organisation of our man I urge men of the legal pro- I was impressed with the argu- extended in the fature, according has began to recognise.
There has been a new altitude,
bookstores,
"FANTASTIC"
Some of To-morrow Night Items,
The Fantastic Stars' program
throughout the thousand tong of deep-sea There is no change in the boards by proffering auch service Birling or Dumbarton wou, but was associated in the smallest
now the
years of his
All tonnage acquired under this power. The selective principle fession to offer themselves se mant which Mr. Lyon used as to not merely to its opportunities, agreement will be employed in must be carried to its logical associate members of the legal the increasing need for all-round bat according to its means. I transatlantic service or will re conclusion. We must make a advisory boards to be provided in devolution which would be crest- had great dificulty in raising the and it was becoming clearer and me for to-morrow night at the lease American vessels now in complete inventory at the each community for the purposed by the very necessities of the money. That took some time, and warmer and more genial than Victoria Theatre is one of unusual South American or Pacife trade, qualifications of all registrants in of advising registrants of their commanity after the war. The led me into a great deal of con- before the war. I think that the excellence and variety. Mies Hilda Felstead will introduce and Holland are to be reimbare man not already selected for daty assisting them in the preparations purely Parliamentary point of neighbours in the House of Com-think it has deepened sympathies,
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, order to determine, as to each rights and obligations and of prospect after the war is from a troversy and dispute with my
war has opened people's eyes.. I beveral new numbers, as well as ed in foodstuffs, procurable with the colours, the place in the of their answers to the questions view, a perfectly appalling one. mons and elsewhere. However,
it has cleared visions, it has givan some of the old favourites, inclad-only here and needed badly military, industrial or agricultural to which all men subject to draft There will be a hundred and one there it is. We started by spend people s greater social and com- ing "I've Been So Baar Kait in those countries. A concession raske of the nation in which his are required to submit. questions, all of the greatest ing £8,000,000. That sum grew
manal sense. The sort of indivi- ting," her humorous version of permitting the export of steel experience and training can best I ask the doctors of the country magnitude, calling for immediate to between $12,000,000 and dual conflict which constituted "Bing-a-sing-o'-eixpence," "Old ship plates to Japan for use in be made to serve the common to identify themselves with the attention if we are going to setour $13,000,000, and
simoss the life of the nation before Chap, and her Shanghai triumph, building her new marobant ves good. The project involves an medical advisory boards which rather sad and sorrowing and $13,000,000 has grown into some the war is merging into a kind of an imitation of Leonard Nelson re-sela will enable this Government inquiry by the selection boards are to be constituted in the exhausted house in order, and how thing like 18,000,000, and a sense of community, end aiting "When Are You Goin' to purchase Japanese tonnage into the domestic, industrial and various districts throughout the it going to be done ander Bailie Climie very fairly stated, might almost way of fraternity Away?" Miss Nellie Black, the outright.
educationational qualifications of United States for the purpose of existing Parliamentary procedure when you come to the question of which has come from common Boottish contralto, will sing sever- There still must be determined nearly 10,000,000 men,
making a systematic physical is by no means clear, it would age the National Health Insurance trials and burdens and sorrows, al old sweet Scotch songe, while the price Japan is to receive for
Members of these boards have examination of the registrance certainly seem that it cannot be provides a certain allowance for sad I think when the war is over her violin numbers and imitations her shipping, and the amount of rendered a conspicuous service, it is important siso that police done without the most drastic insured people who have fallen we shall be starting in a mack will, as always, be appreciated foodstuffs to be allowed the Euro: The work was done without re-officials of every grade and clase alteration in Parliamentary pro into incapacity. So that there better spirit and a much better by all. Miss Elsis Black will, in peas non-combatant nations, bat gard to personal convenience and should be informed of their duty cedure, and it is obvious that if it is no gap. All you can say frame of mind to lace our oblige addition to her flate and piccolo little difficulty is expected on under a pressure of immediate under the selective service law he got to be done on great is you have got your 7 6d for tions, and although our burdens soloe, he heard in several duets either "point.
necessity which imposed great and regulations, to search for scale-and there are many the old-age pensioner and you will be infinitely greater in con with her sister. Alf Redhead
sacrifices. Yet the services of persons who do not respond things, if you had Scottish have get your is for those who sequence of the war, I have never Wilson will again prove "T'is
men trained by the experience of promptly, and to serve the sum and Irish and Welab Home Hale, are incapacitated.
found that the men whose bas- better to be a witty fool than a
In connection with the Civil the first draft must of necessity monses "of local and district which would have to besttended Far be it from me to say that dens were the greatest were the foolish wit."
to by the Imperial Parliament 5a is in the least adequate to keep men who were least disposed to Service Cricket Clab, the Ladies' be retained and the selection boards.
Newspapers can be of very if it is to be done at all, then man or a woman alive,
increase them, but rather the Tennis Championship final was boards must provide the diveot- played off last night, the finalists ing mechanism for the new clonal great assistance in giving wide purely local, and if I may may 7: 6d, but it is infinitely better revarse. Often the men with the being Mire. Sare and Mrs. Wood.fication. The thing they have publicity to the requirements of provincial questions, ought to than what they had. I know the lightest burdens are the men who Another Christmas attraction man. The latter won somewhat
done is scarcely one-tenth the the law and regalations and to the be delegated to paraly provincial conditions before that, and the are hardest and least inclined to has been arranged at the Victoris easily by 6-3, 6-1
magnitude of the thing that numbers and names of those who and--I am not afraid to use the sense of insecurity, of dread of increase those burdens But I Theatre on Monday night, when
are called to present themselves to word national assemblies. There the future, of anxiety, which believe that a United Kingdom Richard and Gladie, who have
It is of great importance both their local boards from day to day. fore, I require no demonstration were worse than poverty, itself, shouldering the heavy burden of been souring & big success in. Mr. T. Tollefsen, for more than to var military hat the olde hos- time hereafter to be specified as and business point of view of and when they had their 5s, at for a righteous case will be in a Finally, I sak that during the of the need from the practical which poor people had to endure, war is has fought, as I think, Shanghai, will appear. They twenty years connected with the omic interests that the olsasifioa- will present the latest novelties Chinese Postal Service, accompan- tion be carried
swiftly marking the sixty-day period of delegating from the Imperial any rate they were able to make better temper and a beiter frame in dances and give comedy turns ied by his family, is returning to and accurately to a concla the classification, all citizens give Parliament questions which are arrangements with their relatives of mind to consider every other while Ball Chaplin will be seen China after a protracted farloughsion. An estimate of the attention to the task in hand in purely lool, and I think there is or with friende which secured for cause which is righteous, and I in a very funny burlesque of in his home in Norway. Mr. A. time necessary for the work order that the process may proceed a very growing sentiment in theme corner and a abelter at the think the cause of the blind and Charlie Chaplin. A most bright Eyde of the same service, who has leads to the conclusion that it can to a conclusion with swiftning and favour of something of that kind hearth, and it has made a differ- the afflicted and the aged and the and ecjorable entertainment is also been at home in Norway on he scomplished in sixty daye, yel with even and considerate being done. But if you nék me ence, which it is very diffculs to miserable amor promiscã,
| furlough, is returning to Boking, but only if this great marsinling: instion for all.
on behalf of the Government to reckon or to portray in words, la
Christmas Attraction.
Lawn Tennis.
Mr. T. Tollefsen,
remains to be done.
.or even
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