1918-08-27 — Page 8

FUNCTIONS OF TRADE COMMISSIONERS.

An Interesting Resume.

ENDOWMENT FOR MOTHERS.

THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH,

M. KERENSKY,"

TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1918

A Scheme of State Recognition. His Address to British Labourites. #gainst the tyranny that again

A scheme for the endowment of

VEDOWN THE UPPER

YANGTZE.

Oà a Cargo Junk During the Civil War.

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U. 5, FOOD EXPORTS.

armies

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SINKING OF U-BOATS.

Record by Allles In Thres

Months

was able to

The Russian working men, to, gether with other classes at Russians, strongly protest now reigas in Russia. Probably most

·A Year's Work for the Allies. of you have recently seen in the At a meeting of the Com-motherhood was outlined by Miss. The address of M. Kerensky, MOEDO workmen have passed papers the resolution that the

Washington, July 18-Food miltee of the Bengal Chamber of Haude Boyden at a meeting ex-Premier of Bussis, to the demanding the reinstatement of

Talaed at approximately $1400 Lɔndoo, July 7.—Within the Commerce, Mr. T. M. Ainscongh, recently of the National Birth Labour Party Conference in Lon democratic institutions and, the

000,000 way rent to the Allied past three months the number of Q.B.E., H.M. Trade Commission Rate Commission.

don, on June 28, was a strong termination of tyranny.

The Chengta correspondent of entries from the United States German submarines destroyed er in Calcutta, gave, shortly after

The ides, she said, was that criticism of the Bolshevist Go have said just now, the workmen

As the O. N. Daily News writes:- during the fiscal year which has been greater than during any his arrival in Caloutts, the the separation allowance at pre-verament, which he described as protest against tyranny. But I

By a stroke of good luck I have ended 30, The Food similar period since the beginning following summary of the main sent paid to wives of fighting men a dictatorship of the proletariat. do not insist on that description runes of the hemp and tallowate

been permitted to follow the for- Administrator, Mr. Hoover of the War. Depth charges bare duties and functions of his office. should be extended after the war It was his first extensive pro- of the state of affairs now existing with which I left Chengtain's letter made public to-day ting an end to the activities of Freeident Wilson played an important part in pat Me-Ainsoongh lesid:—-

to all-mothers-of-young children, pouncement of his position since in Russia. The primary duty of his and made definitely with the his arrival in England and at-

Changking these articles were reviewing the work of the Food U-Bost Majesty's Trade Commissioners right that it should-not be tracted the greatest interest. "The

To my astonishment, some very transferred to a large jank, and Administration. The shipments Datails of the sinking of three sapointed in various parts of the administered through the Poor full text of his speech, as officially serious Europesa political men on the eve of the time promised represent those made for the German submarines, two of them British Empire comprises the law or any charitable society, translated, is as follow:---

consider the regime sa democratic for departare I boarded the vessel. Allied

and civil by British submarinse, recently collection of information in but should be regarded sa

the regime which has dispersed There was no sign of Lao Pan or Population, Belgium relief, Red became known in London." Yesterday one of the members the regard to opportunities that may recognition by the Siste of a great of the Conference asked the abolished the freedom of speech, represented the crew of £2. There forces. The figures indicate night sighted in enemy submarine Constituent Assembly, Hao Chi; three asked individuals Cross, and the American military British patrol boat on a moonlight srise for securing and develop service to the State. No money, Chairman, "What right has made haman life the easy prey of was ing the trade of the United King however, should be paid to a wife Kerensky to be present at the every Red Guardaman, destroyed for the

also place possible Mr. Hoover told the President, the on the surface about half a mile dom, and such other parts of simply because she was a wife. Conference?"

accomodation of a mesaure of effort of the American away. She was apparently re- the British Empire as may ex- She should be paid as a mother, the question myself. (Cheers.) in the Councils of the Workmen, individuale referred to succeded food supplies.

I shall saswer the liberty of the elections even foreigner. A dollar, and the three people to provide the Allies with charging her storage battering. press a desire to avail themselves and the payment should be made I am here not as a matter of right, and made an end of all the in causing an evacuation to be of the facilities afforded by the at a definite period before the birth but as a matter of duty. It is my institutions of self-government made in the stern, which has dominant part in the sacrifices but by the time the bost reached The American women had a mand of the patrol-bost captain, "Full speed." was the com Trade Commissioner Service, but of the child and continue until daty se s man who knows all that that have been elected by ani- already been my resting (?) place Dessary to accomplish these the spot the submarine had it is also a part of their general the child went to school. A weak-trath which for a long time did versal enfrage. If this method for eleven days. The junk is a resulta, Mr. Hoover doty to endeavour to promote the ly allowance to mothers, stop not reach the ears of the peoples of dealing with the population vesy old one, and the owner, who although it is difficult to dis immediately dropped six depth wrote, disappeared. The British craft trade of the British Empire as a ping when the children went to of western Europe and America. may be considered demooratio, insists on going with it, though tinguish between the factors charges. Quantities of oil come whole, within the area to which school, but continuing the child- You must know it, because in the then I may be permitted to sak hot as its captain, is also very old.contribating the homes, public to the surface soon afterwards, they are appointed.

ren's allowance until they left great and terrible world-war what may be the essence and the Unfortunately the owner was not caug places, food trades, urban and then cries for hele, in Ger Instructions are also given to school, would cost £250,000,000 the most Trade Commissioners to report & year on the present brith-rate. the Allied countrise are inextric reaction (Cheers.)

vital intereste of characteristic features of gennine bred up on Poor Biobard's or agricultural populations, man, were heard. The patrol: from time to time to the Board of A working women was always ably interwoven; and the fate of

Almanso,

The shipments of masts and boat searched for survivors of the sud might be Trade, and to the Governments of confronted with the question how

country which bore the burden

The Bolshevista, or by whatever described as a genial, helpless fate to Allied destinations were submarine, but sach parts of the British Empire far she was doing sa injustice to of a frout which was greater in to be known (cheers and booing], wise, and pound foolish," for I 2,186,500,000 pounds, and for the

for the fiscal year of 1916-17 resous only one of the enemy. nams they themselves now wish old man, who is penny as may invite them to do so, on the children born already if she length than all the combined claim that the present state of imagine that this trip has nearly 000 ponade, an increase of 844, submarine sighted the periscope While on patrol duty "some. all matters affecting, or likely to brought others into the world. It fronts of the other Allies cannot Bustis is a dictatorship of the if not quite, ruined him. The

Goal year of 1917-18, 3,011,100, where" off the east coast a British commerce of their area that may people who were placed in this fature of all the Allies, just sa for ruthless repression is applied matting at the rear, and made a mest se due to conservation and the German could submerge the affect, the trade, industry, and was not only the andesirable be a matter of indifference for the proletariat, although the most cabin, until I tore down the

600,000 pounds.

of an enemy U-boat and started The increase in shipments of for it ander fall speed. Before difficulty, but the more careful, her it cannot be a matter, of I need hardly say that it is responsible, and intelligent of the indifference what is the internal against the Democratic and opening in the roof, made me essential that the Trade Cammie-working people. To them the and exteras situation of the Socisliet parties in Bassis and the sympathise with the victims of extra weight of animals due to Britisher had rammed it. The sions in India should work in the addition to the family income countries which for all these foiling masses. War has been the Black Hole of Osloatia. It farmera efforts, Mr. Hoover British enbmarine out through closest touch with, and should which would come automatically have shared with her the ricinis organised against the belpless always overcrowded; four of pointed out.

the plates of the enemy boat and enjoy the whole-hearted with the birth of each child tades of fortune..

population, and every Russian as being permanent occupants, Cereals sad cereal products in stack there. Both boats endeavor operation of, the Department of would make an enormous differ-

citizen who refuses to recognise and the owner, and Lia Pan terms of cereal bushels were ed to extricate themselves, The Commerce and Industry of the ence. It would not, she thought,

I did not come here to beg or this method of government se occasionally honouring us with shipped as follows: In Real German cama almost to the ear- Government of India, and make them reckless, but it would complain (Cheers.) The Russian perfect is declared 6 counter their company. Once when it year of 1916-17, 259,900,000 face, carrying the British sub- particularly of the Director make it possible for people who people han in times gone by revolutionary. That is the rained I reclined on my bed under bushele, and in fiscal year of marine along. Finally the U-bost General of Commercial Intelli- were at present content with one passed through trials like the position of affairs in Russias canopy of oiled silk, and the 1917-18, 340,800,000 bushels, got

away. She made des gence at Calcutts and the Indian or two children to have four or from these, trisle strengthened the perfectly ressonable question at ander umbrellas.

present, and has always emerged Here

which represents an increase of perate efforts to keep aflost, but me other thres permanent occupants - уса might ask Trade Commissioner in London. five. In the case of gross cruelty and renewed. And now, bending how this state of things can be

80,900,000 bushels.

finally sank. The British sab The sympathy, help, and co- or neglect the endowment would under the merciless onset of maintained if it is opposed by travel down the river either by

Of there amounts for the last marine was not damaged. Most foreigners, I presume, 30al year, 131,000,000 bushels operation of these branches of the be taken away from the Germany, which bas skilfully ex-practically the whole population. steamer or house-boat. They are of wheat werases, and 13,900,000 terman submarines played hide On another day British and Government of India are being and given to somebody else to ploited in its interests the heavy This precisely is the question the possibly ignorant of the fact, that bushels of who, it la million, and seek for nearly half an hour angradgingly given, and it is deal with. There should be some hoped that, the two services will restriction in the case of the legacy of our old regime, Russia, reply to which reveals the role of a cargo junk rarely travels when bushels of whest, it is estimated, each manoeuvring for a position be of great mutus! assistance in unmarried mother, such as only opposee the enemy's invasion.which exists in time of

bleeding at every pore, still that unseverable connection the sun is shining, from noon to ste now in port destined for to attack the other. The Britisher furthering the intereste, not only allowing her to receive the (Uneers.) I bear witness here that between the internal state of jank cannot travel when there is total of 1917 whest shipped ed. A few minutes later a second 3 p.m., or it is gaining and the Europe or sa routs, making the finally fired a torpedo, but miss- of Indie, but of the Empire aas endowment in the case of the the Russian people will never affairs of a country and the generals strong wind or the river is too 154,900,000 bushels of prime German cloes to the stern. With about 141,000,000 bushels, or sorpedo went home, striking the whole.

The Trade Commissioners are Mgr. Brown said that it was Litovsk, which is barling Russis

recognise the treaty of Brest international situation.

bigb, all of which are liable at also directed to furnish informs hard enough now for poor parents into the abyss of annihilation estimate of the personal motives

any time to happen during the breadstaffs. In addition, 10,000, smoke pouring out of the hole I bave no desire to attempt aa tion in regard to tariffs, an baidies, to keep their children on what (Loud cheers.)

000 basbals of wheat were sent made by the torpedo, the stern of We were to have left Chungking

to neutrals. bounties, contracts open, or likely they earned, but if the earnings to be open, for tender, the opening were to suffer diminution, as the army, the Russian soldiers, had to have led to great ostastrophes succed in effecting a departure since the argent request of the trail of oil and a whirl in the 868,

For three years the Bassian.

the U-boat came to surface. Then of certain individuals

Of the wheat situation, Mr. the consing tower appeared.▲ or to attribute ill-will to cause that Wednesday evening to be industries, the extension probably would by the enforced fightan enemy, perfectly equipped the moat imperfect method of until Friday evening, and we did Allied Food Controllers early in indicating the rush of water into

Thursday morning, but did not

Hoover wrote:

few seconds and the U-boat took a It is interesting to note that, perpendicular dive, leaving of pablic works, financial and attendance of children until 16 at. trade conditions, and other continuation schools ander the

and cruelly merciless, without matters of commercial interest, Education Bill, the burden would proper arms, sometimes with sticks explaining historical

The motives of men sre of no

I was then ignorant. We failed the year for a further shipment space. There were no survivors.

oome 'ander their notice.

first or second child.

C001zw requizes, on the nature the case of large families."

and extent of foreign competition

in the local markets so far as it affacta British trade.

years

war

events.

in their hands, under conditions importance; it is the actos! imagine. It is not to be wondered

Bummer..

or

so shorthanded, a fact of which

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while they are to report, as bacama àìmost unsupportable in which no one outside Rassis Can result of their satious that to make the likin station, or even of 75,000,000 bushels from our at that, having repeatedly suffered matters. Now the actual result the side of the river on which it 1917 wheat than originally

of the acts of Bolshevism, who was eitusted, and finally nearly planned, we shall have shipped 18 YEARS AGO AND NOW, and borne the blows of the end strength mainly lay in the dispare to grief on a rock ten miles to Earope or have en route nearly |

of the Trade Commissioners is to in the area covered by the Trade saving the western front, the be the vanguard of the triumph. to spring off the ship, A strong aiready more than exhausted. An Interesting Comparison of

An important part of the work commercial conditione pravalent again hit bim hard, thereby organisation of the "worn-out lower down. The captain seized 85,000,000 bushels. At the time

agricultural, industrial, and having in their torn again and

quotes a passge

the

masses of soldiera, was merely to

of this request our surples was the ship's papers and was about compile and furnish periodically Commissioner during the year Russian soldiers for whom their the names of principal itaporters ander review, together with a

eddy brought us safely to the This accomplishment of our

Public Credit. or bayers of British goods in the discussion of any matters of Government, was a stepmother,

own country, ander the Oxar's ing German Imperialism,

other side of the rock, where people in this matter stands different looslities of the area in special interest which have come

At the present time it is equally we camped until assistance pat even more clearly if "Commenting on the recent which they act, with an indica under consideration daring that ents to faint in the struggle.

were the first among the belliger- advantageone to German Imper could be procured. Later the we bear in mind that we had subscription in a single week af tion of the classes of goods in period,

ialiem to oreste strong reactionary Lao Fan went back to Changking available in the fiscal year 1816 £30,000,000, to the Nations War which they deal and also to

The great Raseisn tevolution powers in the rich provincer to complete the orew. Arriving 17 from res earry-over and as Boods offered "over the counter" It is also desired that these instilled new courage into the which can supply compile an agency record in annual reports should be supple tired spirit, bat could not im- material and fuel, and to days later & sw crew arrived. tion about 200,000,000 bushela newspaper

raw at Chungking he deserted. Two arpins over our normal consump in Great Britain, one London respect of firma or persons holding mented by special reports, or mediately revive the lacerated favour decomposition and snarchy The crew now resolved itself into of wheat which we were able to published eighteen years ago in agencies for firms domiciled in the monographe dealing se exhane bodies, and it was a thousand in the very heart of the country, a republic, with no recognised export that year without trench- the London Bankers' Magasine. Various parts of the British Empire, tively as possible with particular pities that the warning voices To reach this aim, Germany must head. At Wanbaien some flatlyg on our home lost. This year, Beferring to the second lean of and in foreign countries, eapple branches of the import and export coming from Bussis were not at paralyse the Russian centre, refused to proceed further at the however, owing to the large the Boer War, it said t roented by lists of firms or persons trade of their area or with poss-the time heeded by the western That is the true inwardness of the time arranged, which was ren

failure of the 1917 whest crop, desirous of acting as agente, forible openings for trade which can Allies.-(Cheers,}

"March, 1900, will be long firma domiciled in the various be developed or otherwise assist

connection between the interior sonsble as they had five hours we had available from net carry remembered in the City on ac The treacherous calls of peace affairs of Russia and this or that allowed on land. Fearing arrest over and production and imports count of the flotation of a National parte of the British Empire. They ed for the use of British firms by Germany were not unmasked result of the world-war. Thus the for disobedience the delinquents only just about our normal con War Loan for $30,000,000. Note alec are to acquaint the Depart which are, or are likely to be, and the mase of the Russian interests and the fate of the ran away. We ancceded in get sumption. Therefore, our wheet withstanding the many additions ment of Overseas Trade with specially interested. information in regard to import-

soldiers, incited by genuine Russian people receive a special ting a fresh crew, which appeared shipments to Allied destinations which have been made to the The Trade Commissioners are fanatics and by German agents, significance and value for the quite satisfactory. In the mean- represent approximately savings national debt of the country, But trade exhibitions, or agricult to endeavour to establish and were taken in by the false appeals whole world, and more particular time the poor old owner has lost from our own wheat bread. ural shows, &c., open to British maintain cordial relations with (some hissing), only to feel only for the interests of the world's all the money he had advanced to not fully convey the volume of Hotation of so large a British Ivan probably no one of the present Thses figures, however, do generation has witnamed exhibitora which it may be the governing authorities, as well their own backs all the bitterness democracy. proposed to hold in their area, as with other Government officials of

these gentlemen. Special importance is attached to and with trade sasociations in Ukrainian passant understood not to able to overcome the ghani occurred until we were held up American people. Despite the Even at the period of the Orimess * German** pesce, The The Bussian people alone may Nothing farther of interest the effort and sacrifices made at one time, and that in the form during the past year by the whole of a direct offer to the public. their obtaining and forwarding to their ares, in order to secure their how the Germana secured the yet of international reaction that at Kusifu, because the river wha the Board of Trade from time to co-operation and assistance so far the independence of small is holding them by the throat, too high. On returning from a magnificent effort of our agrical War the largest issue was about time gamples of :-

as it is practica bla. 1. Articles of foreign man- It is the duty of the Trade bayonets and chemical vapore eis will perish from went of blood. that the soldiers had comm not only was there a very large houses, and not by the pablic."

German Perhape, abandoned by all, Ras-visit to the customs house, I found tural population in planting a $16,000,000, and that was taken ufacture which may appear to be Commissioners to watch carefully were employed to rob bim of his But she will never of her own deared two of my precious crew.failure in wheat, but also the The comment is added by the much incrasized screage in 1917, in the first place by financial displacing British goods of sand to report promptly upon all set ornat of bread, and to will submit to the humiliation I ordered the San Ben to pursue corn failed to mature properly, London critic of today: similar kind in the local markets. proposals, whether emanating reinstate all the atrocities of the and shameful treason of Breat-taking a hand myself with

2. Any new or little known from the Government or other old regime. The Russian peasant Litovsk(Cheer.) It is for you, one of the ours as I was the and our corn is our dominans natural or manufactured products influential sources, for legislation when he returned to his village the oldest and most mature coach at a small Welsh Univer- orop. Therefore, the consump loan of 1900 considered (it was *Indeed, so large was this war of their area (such as minerala, affecting commercial, factory, and that fibres, earth, o.) which appear Is boux matters, and to direct fertile

was cat off from the democracies of the whole world, sity in olden days this was tion and waste in food have been over applied for, however, raze likely to be of use for industrial attention to any points of special which supplied her with essen is or is not possible to remains soldiers. I hung on to their craft during the year."

provizoss of Buers to settle the question whether it effective. We soon caught the greatly reduced in every direction than ten times) that only 3 per purposes

cent, of the total was paid on interest in the official trade returns tion provisions of victuals under calm spectator to that unheard-of They refused to hand me back my Farther, the Trade Commies relative to British trade.

application, while theʼremsining stood what annexations and con- tragedy. ioners are called upon to furaish The Trade Commissionere will tributions mean. The Russian

oraw. I was insistent. One of

instalments were spread over the

■ general annual report on the eleo make an official vieit to the workmen, too, have realised their to-morrow calomny and slander rifle, The only effect of this was we returned to our junk elated by Zet nowadays losy of I have finished. It may be that the soldiers presented his loaded his two captives as zansom, and period of nearly nine months. conditions and prospects of trade United Kingdom at regalar in- position when, in their thousands will begin its work again, and to make me more obdurata. Then our victory, in their area, with particular reservala for the purpose of inter- they were thrown out of work attempte will be made to deny the the fanior officer boarded our

£30,000,000 would not sumine to fererice to trade with the United viewing firms interested in the They understood then the mean truth of all I have esid to-day, ship and began to belaboar she present a very appetising spec expenditure of Great Britala

The river Tangise does not pay for one week of the war Kingdom, with the self-governing expansion of British trade in the ing of the dictatorship, not of the Bat, comrades, I would never poor old owner. This was too tacle for a swim, but the above to say nothing of the expens Dominions, and other parts of the area in which they are concerned, proletarist, but over the pro- have crossed thousands of miles mach for me, so I pushed of incident, and what a scrimmage of the other belligerent while British Empire. The report is and also visit from time to time letariat, who have lost all the of the Arctic Ocean to tell to the for land with the officer as in a espan might involve has a we have fast seen, a not expected to be of an elaborate various centres in their area, and political right which the revola Western land and "Amarios a ly statistical character, but is to furnish a brief remms of their tion gave them, and who again single word that I did not pro in the hands of determined revive my skill as a swimmer, mised in this market almoes

our captive. Finding himself encouraged me so continue to cum than $30,000,000 has inclade, under appropriate head-impressions of the trade of the live under the police terrorisms of foundly know to be the absolute anemies, who threatened him with Sometimes one feels inclined to matter of course during the space inge, general survey of the centres visited,

the yaman, he volunteered to give | bless a well speut youth,

nationalities

the old reigns,

when

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