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NOTICES

THE HONGKONG TELEGR

POST-WAR TRADE,

ESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1919.

WE FORGET.

GENERAL NEWS.

NOTICES.

THORNYCROFT AND KELVIN MARINE MOTORS.

BRM ONSTRATIO93 AND FULL PARTICULARS, ON APPLICATION, TO

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MACHINERY DEPARTMENT,

U. S. CONTROL TO CONTENUE.

Mr. William G. Shepperd, Washington

BRITISH PRISONERS IN OAGES.

CALL

"AT THE HONGKONG

FUTURE OF MAILWAYS. An Advisory Council has More revelations are made of reported to the Ministry of Re - rèpresentative of the scandalous treatment to which construction that in the national

Ltd., writes as follows under datejected by their German captors.

out standardisation of railway of November 6-

Business is not going to run Caresu by the

After the occupation of Le plant as far as it is practicable to wild in the United States when interesting information was given locomotives and other rolling 6 EL PALACIO !!

do so. In view of the difficulties Allies very uf standardising complete

Get Bros and Co. of the Orient, British prisoners have been sub- und desirable to carry CIGAR · STORE

the waris ended. The hit-or-mis8, go-as-you-can business methods by the municipal authorities of

now

that used to bring panic in other that town regarding the British stock under existing circum- days will not prevail. The Go-prisoners of war which have been stances and of the excessive

amount of dead-weight vernment is going to keep as in that cominune silice 1917. strong a hold on affairs, and as On several occasions the Con- carried on British railways they steady a control, as has been seil Municipal passe votes of recommend: That a Committee kept during the war. It can censare on the disgraceful treat-

be formed to investigate the be stated authoritatively that the tent to which the prisoners were existing conditions of structural same governmental agencies that subjected. These records are still gauges and clearances of the are now keeping American pro-intact. They were recorded in British railways and the loading duction in good trim will stay on the communal archives, which and unloading arrangements at the job as long as there is need for them after the fighting is over, were walled in to prevent them works and ports in order to THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO. The War Industries Board, being destroyed during the ascertain how far uniformity

headed by some of the most bombardment, and also to prevent important business men in the the Germans confiscating them, reduced, and at what cost. They also recommend that the consali- United States, is going to be Attached to these locuments are maintained until the last need for the sworn evidence and formal ing engineers and represents- it has disappeared. Control of protests made by several British tives of railways financed by raw materials for manufacting

British capital in foreign ports will be ironclad. The bars will

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MEF CHEUNG ICE HOUSE STREST

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prisoners.

t

could be introduced anl' farea

not be thrown down so that the About the eul of April, 51 and in the Dominions be brought man with the most money can prisoners wera quartered in the, together to confer with the ocomotive aul waggon manafue- get the most copper or iron or Rue de la Gare. They were in steel or coal or any other supplies such a

arers in this country to deter terrible state that the mine what standardisation can for his factory, while the small mayor of the town has described be effected and that with a view manufacturer must remain idle. them as "no longer men."

There will be an apportionment; About March 1917 a "reprisa!", to the possibility of effecting partial international standardisa- for peace-time necessities, so that feage, about 60 yards square, was the small manufacturer will get constructed by the Germans a:hould lake roguisance of each

tion the separate omauttees, his full share of raw materials place called "l'aviation" on the others investigations. wherewith to fulfil orders. The road from Le Catean to Wassigny.

.

task of meeting the world's de-, This cage was surrounded by an SIR DOCGLAS HAIG'S AMBITION,

Speaking at the Bermondsey

mands, of fulfilling its unprece-

dented necessities, is one that iron railing, and was guarded by

the government considers of the two sentries. By way of shelter Military Hospital Lady Haig utmost importance and one that from the weather the prisoners, said she knew that her husband's it intends to help "American two in number, were accom-june ambition in life now, was to business accomplish.

modated in a very small hat see that those who suffered should Mr. Walter S. Gifford and Mr. about half a yard high and three be safeguarded against further Grosvenor S. Clarkson of the feet long; such a shelter did not hardship. Council of National Defence have permit of the whole of these gathered, at President Wilson `a

men's bodies being coveted. The suggestion, full and complete data

peace.

There is to be no sudden clos-

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as to conditions and problems prisoners were changed every 24 that will immediately follow days, and this "reprisal" camp was in existence for four months.

A correspondent who saw some may at last be able to go into actual operation, according the ing down of big factories. The of the British prisoners now in Canton press, Mu Ying-hsien, A. TACK & CO., small factories, which have not Paris ays two young men from the Military Governor in been on war work and which Manchester have been working Kwangtang, is again interesting 26, Des Voeux Road Central. have not been able to do other for the last six months in Belgium, himself in this matter. The work because of the lack of raw within 20 miles of the front lines.school has been organised for material, will get supplies to

JAPANESE MISSION IN FRANCE. A Japanese Mission, compris

Rear Admiral renching

Yoshida,

carry out the unprecedented list They were hamessed to wagons some years, every month drawing

They were of orders which they have. In place of horses.

on the public treasury for funda. other words, there is to be no vastititia shadows, quite unfit for such As far as is known, no instruct- scurrying around of discharged asks. They had no change oftion has ever been given by the working people for jobe; life is clothes, but two fumigations and

instructors appointed and no Dot going to become one grim one bath in six months.

pupils received. 'game of "pussy-wants-a-comer." Allied prisoners, gaunt, talter- Every agency created for wared and weary, continue to drag purposes, and now in existence, themselves into the lines of the that was intended to ease the armies in France. A strain between capital and labor, official reported that 8,000 were Captain Kono, Captain Oseki, to distribute raw materials as

when flivet was Captain Hayashi, Captain they were needed, keep prices of

Katashima, Chief Engineer raw material down to a normal) and fair basis, manage railroad

Lieutenant Takata, "I am confident that if we had Arakawa, affairs so that the small mann-stayed there this winter hundreds Professor Tamkadate and Pro- facturer as well as the large of our men would have pegged, fessor Subara; accompanied by should have supplies, and do out," said, one of 200 returned an interpreter-officer, are visiting the other things necessary to prisoners who reached London the naval aviation-campat Toulon keep business stabilized. will be yesterday from the repatriation and the aviation school of St. maintained with full power and camp at Dover. He was one of Raphael. By a special waiving, understanding of its problems these tarnet loose, without food of the standing regulation, these and tasks. An official high in the

officers will be allowed to fly in eruplanes if they wish to do so.

picked up foccupied.

Government's councils said. and with very little clothing, to "What we want in the United walk about 25 miles through States now is to have everybody Belgian to the British lines. have plenty of money. Wage-

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cutting will mean that, the and if the people have the money. demand will fall. Wages must be to fill them fwe will have such kept up, and they will be. Wanta period of prosperity, as we have in the world are unprecedented, never known before."

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