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WORK OF THE WAR CABINET.

Illuminating, Report for Last. Year.

TAIKOO CLUB,

The Election of Officers,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1918.

GERMANY AS I SAW IT, most openly ; but while this war bis backer of slope into the trap- lasts they will never be able to door and expresseurprise and con- practive their Saialism. The trition when the German soldier military cast ia 'weakening, emerged bubbling, with a crues Mr. W. B. Prowse presided HER PRIVATIONS AND HER certainly, bait entrois the of bread in his hand, and a wore yesterday at the 57th half yearly merting of the Taikoo Club held in the Clab ball, and he was sup

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Not the least aggegirs part of the War Cabout Beport for the year 1917 is a chart ebon ing the administrative organies tion of the British Government The minutes of the Isat meeting and its development during the were read by the Ben. Sreretary, war" In come, of ie webticle who perisubmitted the statement the organisation is, of cars, a of accounts and balance sheet for direct result of Mr. Lloyd George' the year ended March 31st, 1918, reforms Ia be aer cirale of which received the approval of the thie diagram is the War Cabinet meeting. consisting of the Prime Minister and six other webes. I de

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Making it last throughout the Week.

Our Onton writes as follame- machinery of be ocunuy, and no than plentiful sprinkling of tea Owing to the suspension of While the conference of the revolation is possible while leaves and what not leewhere. business by the Bank of Chins in licensed made with the Liquor Germany la ia-a-state of war. (The "uncorsoious" orderly in Osaten osusing the Canton notes Control Board is not yet ended, ported by the Hon. Secretary, Mr. By a New Zealand Ex-Prisoner The evolution-it may be deed had said to me, “Just to deprecists in fron value, the matters are acfficiently advanced T. Baemsa and Hon. Treasurer,

peaceable or violent-can only watch, sir." "That is by the Tuchas and Civil Governor and for is ro be assumed that liceused. Hr. J. B. Speira.

come when the present ruling way. The point is that the Financial Commissioner have victuallers will be advised Sta I have recently had the rather pawers are discredited by so Germans are a hungry nation, corified the public And the adopt a system of beer rationing. doubtful privilege of spending ignominiova peace.

They are deprived of all luxuries, Magistrates of various districla- The idea is that they shouli eighteen months in Germany. In It may be said: That is all sad they have only andesitates to the effeat that Centon notes will divide their supply evenly over these daye Germany, is an un- very true; that is all well-known for beer and tobacco. Their be accepted at their face value the week. This system has been comfortable country for Germans already; 'but we bring cigars are beetroot leaves soaked in payment of all nocounte das to already adopted in many places,

it is even more unpleasant for Germany to an ignominious in nicotine. A German deo or the Government.

and especially on the north-east English prisoners of war. It is peace? Is she not just as strong, who was sucking one told me so, The remains of the late Admiral coast. No compulsory orders will The Chairman said that the an experience that bappily falls even stronger, than she was two and I believed him. They have Ching Pik kwong will be carried be issued to the trade, but it is Clab was in a very flourishing to the lot of only a few Englanders, rears ago-stronger in the no sugar, no chocolate, no sweeta to Shanghai for barisl on the understood the plan will be onter circle are the Disitus of condition at the present time, bat some of us consider it an territory abe haa gained of any sort. More important still, 21 inst. on board the as generally agreed to, the experience the Empire, sad from the United They had a good ossh balance in experience almost worth while. Ramanis, Bassis, Northern they have far from sufficient Suisseg. A the officials here of licensed victuallers confirming- Kingdom taliais in lines the bend and the prospects of the The average solider finds it very Italy? What about England and necessaries. The bangty lock are preparing to attend the ita desirability.. Ministers-29 of them with the coming season were excellent herd to feel sny real animosity the submarine menses? Is not was particularly remarkable in departure of the funeral.

Some of the residential clube Food Controller and the Muister The Club has now s first rate against the Germans and Ger. England fast se badly off as big industrial districts like Eesso,

The Minister of Interior of the in London are introducing liquor of Recastrations to cater pavilion splendidly equipped, many; the "Laritsais," the Germany? Look at our food though I passed through there Military Government has declared rations. Members are supplied most rage. It is worth noting, in which was recently presented by sanken hospital shipe, the bomb-quenes, and our shortage of meat in Midsummer. If they were not that owing to the reorganisation with cards, which are marked parenthesis, that a Cabines ou the Messrs. Butterfield and Swire.

The eletion of officers for 1918 zoased bis interest, but not bis mest yesterday, and only half a see children

ing of defenceless towns have and sugar and batter. We had no Germans, it would be pitiful to of the Military Government the "luncheon" and "dinner," and old libes would now .coctail.

thin and pale. Ministry has saspended discharg.members are entitled to a specifi thirty members. The Imperial 1919 was then proceeded with, violent hatred; being "etrafod" pound of margarine each last Thousands of children are sent to in public business.

ed amount of liquor with esok, War Cabinet is enperimposed Mr. M. O'Brien being elected in the trenches, seeing his pals week; and we only get an ounce Holland each year to be fattened

All the Commanders of the In one olab the quantity of beer apon the cirols of the Dominiars. Hon. Tressorer and Kr. George killed, and getting & painful of sugar a day. Lan't it terrible! ap-within a month of their expeditionary armies for attacking allowed in half a pint with each ard above all are the member of Gerrard Hon. Secretsry. The "Blighty" himself, are all part Are the Germans really as badly return to Germany they are as Lung Chai-kwang's troops have meal. the Suprime War Cooze. Great President, Mr. G. T. Edkins, of the day's work; he does not off as that p

thin on ever. Datch folk told me telegraphed to Osaton stating Britain, France, Bly, Udi edad Vice-Presidente, Mr. Whate brother Books for that. But

Then I laugh Those are the 80. The next two or three that they favour the resignaștiau States. As wuge on cliber sise Matrary Socit and Mr. J. Reid, put him for six months in Ger- questions, tas very natural ques generations of Germans will suffer of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. are the later All ed combination were again elected. The other many, and be will come out with tion, that a repatriated prisoner for this lean time. There were foare: States before members of the Committee elected hatred of the Bras and every hears every day,and he is not Bassis dropped out. «

were: Messr, W. H. Prowe, W. thing Hangish, which he will complaining more than ones s Hardwick, W. P. Seath, W. J. carry with him to his dying day. Eldridge, C. Dickens, J. Russell, And that is what makes being a J. McCabbia and T. Bateman.

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CHURCH SERVICES..

St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong.- Whit Sunday. 19th May, 1918. Holy Communion (7,50 am;) Matina (11 am) Responses: Festal Venite; Goodson. Psalms; Cooke. Te Deum: Oakeley in F. Jubilate: Ouseley in F. Eymas: 154, 157, 207. God Save the King. N.B- Psalm 48, verses 1, 6, 8, 13, in unison. Hymn: 154, verses 1, 4, 7, in unison. Hymn: 207, verses 1,4, in unison. Holy Comman ion (12 noon) Evensong (6 p.m.) Responses: Festal." Psalme: Old Melody, Travers (20th) Cooke. Magnificat: Turle (2nd evening). Nunc Dimittis: Barnby (26th evening. Hymn 154, 156, 155, 215, N.B.-Psalm 104, verses 1, 7, 13, 20, 21, 24 26, 31, 32, 35, in unison. Psalm 144, verses 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 21, in- unison. Hymin 156, verses 1, S, in unison. Hymn 155, verse 2, in unison. Hymn 215, verses 1, 4, in unison.

Union Church, Kennedy Road,

Sunday Services, May 19th, Morning 11. Hymns: 368, 555, 133, 300. Subject: Partings. Prescher Rev. J. Kirk Macona chie. Evening 6. Hymns: 144, 219, 147, 443. Preacher: Rev. E. E. Bryant, B.A. Communion at 7.

Sunday, May 19, 1918. 8 am: Holy Communion. 11 am. Morning Prayer and Sermon. The Gospel Hall.-(No. 10 and 1 Pedder Street). Weekly Services:-Sunday, Breaking of Bread, 11 am. Gospel Meet- ing, & p.m. Tuesday, Exposition of Scripture, 8 p.m. Thursday, Bible Class, 8 pm. Friday, Bible Class for Ladies, 5.30 p.m Saturday, Prayer Meeting, 8

Tam Ho-wing, the Commander- in-Chief of the Southern Armies in Banan, bas sent a circular are those who say, The volume ie extraordinarily

day. But be remembers the last What a wonderful people the telegram to the Authority stating valuable pot so moon for the in-

Germans he saw, the inhabitants Germans are to carry on under the, according to report re formation it contains, for early

of Aachen, men, women, and such conditione; we Ecglish ceived from the front, the South- all of that may be found in Min-

Your prisoners of war know children, påler even than Gerooqid not do it.”

I hope we

ero troops commanded their isters' speeches and official re-

only too well bow all-important it mens were wont to be, thin as orald, if need were." Bat the stack upon Changaba on the porte, bat because, in a space of

is that England and her Allies Germane never were, wearied, Germans are not wonderful, 14th inst: and entered the City 250 pages, is to be found a skilful about the deeda of the U.hosts should win this war. Give your fed-up. And be remembers the They carry on because they jully from the western gate in the even zeview of the Imperial effort dar let them read this ipcio summary repatriated prisoner the choice of first English folk he saw as he well bave to. The Kaiser, or ing. He adde that further inform ing a year which may well be the of the matter:-.

returning to Germany or a clean landed in Botton the happy. Hindenburg, or Ludendorf, says, ation will be reported later. most memorable in history. No Yet, in spite of the insidious ballet-he will take the olean cheering boys and girls who lined On with the war," and "on" it better example of lucid focating and far-reaching powers of the bullet every time. But give him the banks and the docks, and the is. Eighty per cent. of the Ger- PARIS of events about which many attack, its effect has been for the choice of staying in Englood railway stations; their plump, man people would stop the war people are still rather bezy cas below what the German people to see a patched up peace this pink, healthy faces were 80 to-morrow on any terms, if they perhe be giras aben the were promised. It may be stated year, or of going back to German answer to all his anxiety about could; they tell you so frankly, Detalls of the Big German Gua. psasages which describe

toe that, where the German official imprisonment to swait our final the condition of England. I have but, they have no say in the evolation of the Saprame War fizures for September claim 672,- victory ten years hence he will seen German hospital trains wait-matter. They have proved that Council:-

000 tone. they sank less than one-take his ticket for Holzminden, ing st a station, and there was it is possible to support life for "From the beginning: fibe war hsit of this amount of all nation- Nor this mere personal Dever a cheer nor a smile from a time on surprisingly little food, ft, long, esys a Home paper, More conferences between the Alltes alities. Yet in September the animosity for ill-treatment of him- the populace. I have seen "long but they are paying for it now remarkable than the gun is the have become steadily more fre overesse sailings of all ehips were self or his comrades. I am not leave trains packed with Germans and they will pay for it with ebell, which was 58 in, in length quent. This inter-comunicaton 20 per cent greater in numbers allowed to speak of that, nor do I retuning from Flanders, there increasing weight in the near and sad prolonged into a bottle neck developed very capul, dating and 10 per cent. greater in want now to do so. Your prisoner was not a cheerful locking man distant future. They cannot sub the front with two copper driving 1917. A special Alli Mission was tonnage than in April. The net of war bae seen the German sa be among them. The Germane are sist indefinitely on their low diet, beads and rifling extending in sent to Rossis in January, to co-reduction in tonusge is 30 per is in his own country he has fed-up. But not with food. Tes Time will starve them ons. They advance of theer, the weight of ordinate the preparations for the cent. less than the estimate fram- come to know Germen ideale (if quedes and batter queues amuse are infinitely wares off now than the shell being about 350 lb. The Alded five, but its plans ed last July by our own authorities one may call them idesle) and to me! No German I speak, of they were twelve months ago chief secret of the great length of were disorganised by the Russian of the probable losses in the see what they have made of the course, of the great bulk of the Twelve monthe bence--who renge obtained is in the chell itself Revolution. Immediately after feecond half of the year, and the greatest nation which the Con- population-no German, for knows!

Besides the food factor theretion of the centre of gravity in it. in its shape and in the posi the Revelation, however, a mem- total net reduction from all canses tinent of Europe hae ever seen, eighteen months and more, has ber of the War Cabinet went on a to December 31, 1917, since the And he realises that the German had any tes, or coffee, or 6000s, are the almoet eqasily, importantConjecturally the projectile St. Peter's Church, West Point—- special mission of a politics! beginning of the war, of ships of would make another Germany or sugar, or batter, or margarine, questions of material and man-be divided into two parts, the Petrograd, and over 1,600 tons on the official re of England if he could, and that or jam. He has had simcet to power. There, again, Germany shell proper, which is probably this was followed by the visit gieter is neder 24 million tons he will do so if we do not best meat, he has bad very little milk.ie getting month by month in not more than 2 ft. long, and a of the Scarry of Stats groes, or 16 per cent. As against him in this present war.

A man whom I knew in Stuttgart even worse plight. In June last for Foreign Affairs to Wash bie, the mercantile fleet of the Daring my eighteen months I fifteen months ago, an accountant, the charches of Crefold gave their false cap, giving a very elongated *ingto

after the entry of United States of America bas very had, perhaps, a the United States into the war. largely inorested. During the experience than the average wife with a babe one month old. Fatherland. They had to give in. wide, and in front of these more varied with a fair income, had an siling bells to be made into gans for the nose, which may be 3 ft. The two copper driving banda are 1 This last ten cerloped into gre ter part of the war period, it prissaer. I was in five hospitals He had a card for extra milk in them. There are almost no motor is a steel or iron band of 8. a perman: ut cranestion of cou-most be remembered, our ship and five prison camps, in ten addition to his ordinary milk oara in Germany; there is little in. or more, over which the siderable size. Danng the whole building resources have not been different parts of Germany. I card. Not only did he not get rubber and petrol. The railway rifling extende, which would give year, however, 51 increasing largely directed to merchant ship spoke to hundreds of Germans, bis extra milk, but he could draw rolling stock is in a shockingly the shell great stability in the air. Bamber of inter-Governméntul : construction..

Occasionally in English or French, only half his ordinary ration. seglected state. Eighteen months The muzzle velocity is calculated and inter-Departmental confer-

The general result of the generally in my Tersion of their There is no tinted milk in aga air pilots told me that there to be 4.500 to 5,000 is, per second, Wesleyan Methodist Church, ences took place, both on diplo-German attack, therefore, though mother tongue. They were Germany. The baby died. I have was a great shortage of seroplanes, and the elevation reshape sa bigh matic sne military questione und serious enough, is far from an doctors, nurses, officers, under sesh a potato quene in Stuttgart They had the utmost difficulty in sa 55 degrees, by which the lesser Da problems connected with the precedented. In the two years officers, privates, clergyman (good wait outside a shop from early keeping up the demend for resistance of the thinner air sta distribution between the Allies after Trafalgar, when our com- and bad), barbera (full of informa- morning to noon, when they were machines and pilots; that is even great altitude would help the Soldiers imported supplies.

mand of these was unquestioned, tion in their barberous way), told that there were "no potatoes more true today. That is why fight. "We know how the gradual we still lost 1,045 merchant ships oivilians, men and little children, to-day."

Major-General those who prophesy tremendous Desmond O'Callaghan says the Sir integration of the alliance was by capture, and in the whole I was for four months in a civilian The German soldiers in my bombing raids in the spring are brought to a climax towards the period from 1794 to 1815 we lost hospital, where I mixed casually hospitals were so badly nourished liable to be wrong. The shortage capable of such a wonderful end of the year by the master over 10,000 merchant abips. Nor enough with the five hundred that quite simple wounds took of coal in Germany is only second performance stroke of the Repaile agreement should we lose sight of the very patients. They always spoke to months to heal. Their food was in importance to the lack of food. 75 miles is not one of insuperable 88 shooting *This agreement provided for heavy losses ruslained by the me quite freely almost eagerly. moetly a peculiarly vile form of Only one fire may be lighted in difficulty. To the formation of & Supreme War enemy in the present war. At the There was seldom the alightest mangelworzela (shall I ever forget each house in

the Council of the Allise, consisting commencement of hostilities Ger- trans of unfriendliness. This is those eleckraben"!), other old This does not make for comfort in must be s very long one, 70 or 80 necessary muzzle velocity the gun of the Prime Ministers and cremey had 915 merchant shipe etrangely true of Germany to-day. vegetables (including grass), country that has 30 deg. of calibres or more. The thing is s other Minister from exch of the abroad, of which only 163 got They no longer jeer and spit at cocasional potatoes (those were frost throughout the winter. The sensational that the consideration principal belligerents, which was homesafely; the remainder within the English prisoners: it may be the good daye), a sort of macaroni allowances of clothes per man to meet once a month in cider to a few days were cleared from the that they have no spit left, poor (made in Germany ?) a species of includes three pocket handker. of its military value has been First Church of Christ Scientist.

rather overshadowed. The target supervise the general conduct of oceans, either captured or driven things, for the German gets no quite rotten fish (made rotten in chiefs and two shirts per annum is a extensive one and permits the war. It farther arranged bas to shelter in neutral ports. In the bear these days. The average Germany), and, of course, blackit ie not permissible to buy of the amount of insecursor this Council was to be assisted by aggregate the German mercsatile German pesasnt or labourer is in bread. It would amuse English more without a special authority, inseparable from shooting at 60 a gumber of milit.ry representa marine consisted of over 5,000,000 himself a simple, honest, soft folk to see German black bread which is dioult to obtain. (One long a range. The damage to atives sitting permanently at tons of shipping; at the present hearted, earprisingly sentimental it is quite amusing, when you did not inquire into the allowance life and material is comparatively

The Gazette contains additional Versailles and advising it on all time nearly half of this bas been being, quite a decent fellow in have not to eat it. It is made of for women). I cite merely these slight, but as in all his efforts at special conditions for land sales aspects of the wax viewed as a sank or captured by ourselves or his unintelligent way. I have rys and potatoes, with an admix instances; they are not isolated frightfulness," the Enn hopes in the New Territories. single whole in the light of in our "Allies, while the balk of seen a German hospital orderly ture of eswrdnet. I am not casa, but part of the general to act on the moral of the izbebi.

Couldn't Explain formation derived from all fonts the rest is lying useless in with great tears in his eyes exaggerating, for it is unnecee impoverishment.

tants, with the smallest modioumsion of a cost at Yaumati yester For being in unlawful posses and all Governmente. The first harbour."

because he thought I was croessary. I have heard English As for man power, the shortage of risk to himself. meeting was held in November Nor is this by any means the with him. Bat it is just that medical officers serionely advise has been officially recognised for

day, a Chinese was charged before 1817. Shortly afterwards the whole of the account, for the same simple, soft-hearted, decent against eating the breed provided some, monthe past. Only three

Mr. Dyer Ball at the Police Court Naval War Council of the Allies Admiralty have good reason to fellow who, clothed in grey uni- in some camps. As it is, the same months ago an outory was raised They see the war from the heart this morning. He denied the was brought into being. Daring believe that since the beginning form, and licenced or encouraged bread is quite edible; it veries; against sending back to the of the European continent, war offence, but it was stated by the year the democratic Alliance of the war between 40 and 50 per by his superiore, has committed but no one should make the trenches men whose wounds were rounded as they are by our Inspector Gordon that the man has thus acquired the radimonte vent of the German submarines the crimes and atrocities that he mistake of imagining that not yet healed. But it is not enemies and our Allies; they see could not give a satisfactory of a permanent machinery," which have operated in home is repeating in prison-camps and schwartz-brot" is the asme worth while my speaking vaguely it ever more from the heart of explanation of his possession, It is in these calm and die waters have been captured, enak, occupied territory to-day. I have thing se our excellent "brown about a matter on which car England, which is the heart of After hearing the case, his Wor- paccionste terms that the volume or otherwise destroyed. It is in this sean a German hospital orderly bread.""

sathorities must have precise the Empire. The sam-total of ship passed sentemos of 14 days' is written. Even the chapters on chapter that the author, whoever deliberately tweak an English- The Germans to day are always information,

their seeing is that if England hard labour.. "The Work of the Navy," "The he may be, 's tempted to leave for man's shell-broken leg when the hungry. Their lean bodies and

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is to remain England, if the The Frawley Company, Military Effort i 197 The a moment the even tenor of his doctor was dressing the wound. I less faces show it. I have Been I can speak only of what British Empire is to remain an

The long-awaited Air Service," and Mapitions" literary way, to pay a tribute to have seen other things too. German soldiers, drawing the prisoners of war bave seen of Empire, the one great, free Em- Company has arrived in the provoke no rhetoric or fine writ the devoted services rendered by Militarism and its system have princely military ration, rammag. Germany and Germane. Pri-pire that the world has known, Colony from Manila, and the ing, though she text might have officers and men of the mine-made the German what he is. Toing in dustbins for bits of bread soners of war have rather an un- England mast beat Germany in season will be opened at the Th pardoned it. How great the sweeping and suxiliary petrol unmake him again we must an- or other remnants. I have seen due amount of time on their hands this present war, must crush tre Royal to-night with the g military effort was and what servires. The ruthless nature make his accursed militariam and a German soldier in full uniform indeed, it is the only thing thay Germany to a peace on England's success, Paya to Advertions teslined when one sees it, and far from quelling the epirit which self would aproof Germany's of a destructor inside & prison restrictions to think ariously it may be twenty-four. Germany from 9 to 12.30 on Mond triumphs it schieved is only of the attack they had to meet, so given him a fresh start. He him- disappear through the trap-door have too much of in these days of terms; it must be done, it can be We are saked to state that book zes it whole, reflected in there the war had reawakened, esemed militarism, if he could and dared, camp to look for leavings, and I an hour or two to the ita aspecte, is out if only we will carry on, from 3 to 6 o'clock stan

done-it may be twelve months, ing will be open at Moutie admirable Lager. If any are only to make it burn with greater Seventy-five per cent, of Germans have seën sa unconscious orderly about the war in all ita aspecte. --Chronicle of the N.ZAP. disposed to feel Coy hearted sidour.”

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Wanchal,- Sunday Morning Service 10.15 am Sunday Evening Service.6.15 p.m.

and Sallors'-- Homa Arsenal Street.-Sunday Even- ing, Gospel Services 8 p.m. St. Joseph's Church, gun

Garden Road,Maas and Sermon at 10 am. followed by the Bene- diction of the Blessed Sacra- ment

Roman Catholic Cathedral, Cilen»

ealy,Low Masses at 6, 7, and o 9.30 am. High Mass at 8 am⠀ 5.30 pm-Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

MacDonnell Road. Sundayaja -*-*11.15.m, Wednesdays; 5,20 pm) /

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