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THE DEARTH OF YOUTH.

ORIGIN OF THE TANK.

BY. DR. C. W. SALEEBY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 12. 1919

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.

THE

A LEEDS MAN'S CLAIMS.

A claim to the honour Even before the war it was having invented the tanks is observed by the few serious stud-being put forward on behalf of ents of population that the in- Mr. John A. Corry, a young crease in the number of the people inventor, of Burley, Leeds, and was abnormal and deceptive in this connection an article is There was, and still is, an increase, recalled which appeared in the but is of a kind unprecedented Northern edition of the Daily and specious. We must notes in November, 1911 marely count the people and

this announced in recken that the rate of increase article that Mr. Corry in past decades is approximately been experimenting for maintained, but we must ascertain who are increasing and who are

not.

Was

bad [WO)

had

HONGKONG

CO-

OPERATIVE SOCIETY,

LIMITED.

(In Liquidation)

NOTICE is hereby given in

parsovace of section '8% of the Compan es" (`rdinance of 1919 that general mesting of th mambers of the above-named

years with miniature and Company will be held at the ironclads," and that he written to Mr. Winston Churchill. Back Building, on Wednesday. Liquidators' uffice, Mercantilè then First Lord of the Admiralty the 14th day of May, 1919. at 2.30 directing attention to his invenelook in the afternoon for the tion. Descriptions of a large and purpose of baving an account small type of land ironclad followed.

The result of such inquiry was remarkable. Thanks to the work of Dr. E. C. Snow, for the Dominions Royal Commission, we learnt that the elderly are those

laid down before them, showing whose numbers were increasing

the manner in which the winding- Mr. Churchill most markedly, or at all, before handed Mr. Corry's letter to the peperty of the company disposed

apparently

up has been conducted, and the the war, and especially the elder-War Office, for the reply came af, and of hearing any explanation Is women. It is good to know from the Director of Artillery that may be given by the Liquida that, thanks to advances in I am directed to aequaint you tors. and also of determining by bygiene and medical science, the that your proposals have been elderly live longer than they examined. There is no novelty manner in which the books,"ac

extraordinary resolution used.. to do. In fact, they in the principles of the proposals count and documents of the tend to accumulate, especially the submitted, and it is not desired to compans, and of the liquidators women, so that the tendency take further action in the matter.therecf, shall be disposed of. may be expressed, with humorous

At the moment Mr. Corry is exaggeration, in the assertion home on leave at Leeds from ser- Daved the 13th day of April 919. that we are rapidly turning into vice in the Royal Air Force.! a nation of old women. (The

which he joined in August, 1916. He has been engaged in France since October of that year.

women live longer than the men partly because of their wiser habits, now being lost, and partly because of their sex. Woman

bas less muscularity than man, but, being designed for the supreme exigencies of mother hood, she has more vitality. He

Ia putting his case to a Daily Nega representative he said he

tanks. In all

had had many opportunities of inspecting the essential principles they followed his orginal designs.

"I can prove by my docu- ments," he said, "that they are using almost the identical things I suggested five years before they were used. But what annoys me is that they could have built

bullies her, but she baries him.)

It is evident, however, that there are limits to this process, for the old must die at last, and indeed, for the few years immedi- ately proceeding the war, we noticed that the general death-the machines before the war, and rate was rising. This was not they would have saved thousands due to a retrogression in the of lives and changed the whole standard of public health, but to aspect of the war in France and the fact that the accumulated Belgium." elderly were beginning to die off. Their numbers were pctually telling upon the death-rate.

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had, whilst old men and women The reader should be remain. These considerations had familiarised with the meaning of their own seriousness during the the term, "Age-constitution." It war, when I made an estimate of is not enough to know how many the numbers of men whom France persons there are in a community.had not to put in the field, despite We must also know its sex- the expectation from her known constitution. and its age-constitu- | population, because that was the tion that is to say, the numbers population of a country with a of the young and the old therein. long-maintained very low birth- A leading fact of our nation in rate, a nation of the elderly, in this century is that its age-coa-whom young men were not only stitution is steadily rising-less abundant than in Germany having risen so far, indeed, that on account of the absolute the pre-war death-rate was difference in national size, but Sugars beginning to rise, as it must at also less abundant relatively | Malabon.. last in a comparatively aged because the German birtb-rate population. The causes of this until recently, was rise in age-constitution were first.higher than the French. the accumulation of the elderly. To-day we hope that we may better sheltered and cared for ignore these hideous military Raubs than the elderly were in past considerations. But there are Trachs generations: and, second, the fall still the great campaigns of Urals in the birth-rate. It has long been peace to come," and for these we need the young. If, however we

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JERUSALEM OF THE FUTURE.clock-tower put up in honour of the event should be pulled down, Other work done by the Ger. mans, was not so unscrisfactory, "Some," said Mr. Ashbee, "shows signs

of the coarseness and Interesting details of the work brutality that So with their how being done in Jerusalem vigoar, but, there is no doubt that ander the control of Sir Arthur at one time they were doing better. Money, head of the Occupied work, e.g., in bailding and Enemy Territorio Administra- education, than anyone else.” tion and General Stores, were Native in lustries are to br given by Mr. C. R. Ashbee, civic revived. Already one 14th cen- adviser to the city, who is now in tury street-an arcale-which London for a short time. The ha beza derelic; for, máay yours, chief difficulty has been to orer-ha- been taken over, aud soon come the jealousies batween the some 40 weavers will be installe

any nations and religion re there." presented in the city.

One of the immediate nee l- It was to overcome this that is to raise funds for the preserva- the Pro-Jerusalem Committes |tion of the great Islamic buildings, was formed by the Governor, and fou the Temple area, the Doms of representatives of all the various the Rock, and the Al Aksalı b 199) sa, 187/3/religious were called together to Mosque. It is to be hoped that

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consider the future of Jerusalem the British Government will take Jasa whole, apart from the interests the initiative in this.

of any particular sect. In the The work of the administration past the city and neighbourhood is welcomed by the inhabitants, were split up, as it were, bat with the Eastern lack of iato a number of religions enthusiasm. Thay seem, however, preserves. The Russians appro- thoroughly to appreciate the cow priate a large area of ground on water supply. On the night when the Mount of Olives, put a 15t. the defeat of the Turks was wall round it, and allowed only [celebrate.i a popular song had as those professing their particular fa refrain: "The English brought faith to enter. The Franciscans the water, and the Turks are in had another piece of ground with the fire."" another wall round it. And so

a suppressio veri on the part of the neo-Malthusians to point to

go to the statistics of our schools. H.K. Wharves the increase of the population, of our Sunday-schools, and of cur, K Docks despite the falling birth-rate, universities, we

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without mentioning that the in-younger generation is no longer, Engineerings b crease is not among the young, knocking at the door. So far as with their careers as individuals that is concerned. we senescent and as parents before them but may grow old in peace: but the among the elderly, who have no facts bode ill for our national such future. We have had no future. census, since 1911, and there is The speed of human movement urgent need for a proper enumera- | steadily increases. In any case tion of the people before the next what I have called the mental falls due in 1921. 1 will venture tempo of this nation is none 100 the prediction that, when such an fast. We certainly are not keep- ennmeration is made, it will be ing pace with the United States. found that the numbers of the and we may not keep pace with population of age categories, 0-25, the Germany of the morrow. But have actually diminished since mental tempo, which will be a 1911.

factor of ever-increasing import- For the war has disastrously ance in national affairs, tends to accentuated the pre-existing slow in each of us as we grow tendency, It lowered the birth- folder, and thus the national rate in unheard-of fashion, and tempo of an elderly nation like without anything like a compen-our own cannot vie with that of satlog reduction in the infant a nation which has its due quota death-rate. The birth-rate in of vigorous young people.

C. Light & P. b. cum rights $5 1917, was, less than eighteen-a Our immediate need is the

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Dairy Farms We may look to the asked for, as an urgent war meas H.K, Electrics years ago. vital statistics of enemy countries ure, four years ago, and which

Matao Electrics and congratulate ourselves that, Lord Rhondda championed, at my

Ropes whilst their populations have ab-personal suggestion, two years

Trams.LowLevel ni solutely declined during the war, ago. Under it we must have a purs has slightly 'increased: but General Register of the people, Trams, Peak, old b & sa. 874 the birth-rate shows how much such as the Registrar-General Trams, Peak, now b & sacta. 76 and how little this increase means. desires; and then such immense

Laundries We are suffering from, and will facts as I have outlined will be Steel Foundries

U. Waterboats n. increasingly suffer from, a dearth come generally known. The of youth.

sands are running out, but we Watsons THE YOUNGER GENERATION. may learn in time that the mortal War Powells

were disease of nations is decay of

Wiseman's It was the young who killed in the war, by hundreds of parenthood.

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