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SIGNAL

YMENTS CONCERNING

HONGKONG.

Since the loss of the splendid Japanese steamer Chiyo Maru, in the spring of 1915, on Lema Island in the vicinity of Waglan Furing a fog, mariners have been patiently waiting to hear that the obsolete fog-sigual gan on Wagi is to be superseded by a more up to-date signal and now that the

BUDGET AND CROWN COLONIES

SOME CONJECTURES,

The London correspondent of the Times of Ceylon thus wittes on a matter of interest to us---

tion

to the

IN EUROPE

of the Germani preople undermined. A man ge

8 COMMISSION'S VIEWS pay for service in the army

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gold basis-which is almost im- possible and by wiping out the paper money issues.

he doem as wages in-civilian life. A German soldier's allowance is Mr. Frederie C. Hore, Com missioner of Immigation of the eight marks a day, and wages in

most industries range consider Port of New York: The returned ably below that. The Government recently from three months in does not dare cut off all-allow- Paris and in England, Belgium, ances, as it would increase the I wonder if the Crown Calenier Germany, and Italy, told to day danger of revolution, and the only will be brought into the scope of of conditions in Germany and way to make the payments is to the Chancellor of the Exchequer the difficulties involged fu bring issue paper money which de effort to cope with the bage am ount wanted for his Budget needs.ing about a stable condition in preciates the value of the mark. as yet, compared with Britishers Europe He said the thing that which is already depreciated 50 on this side, you, in the outlying truck him most forcibis on reper cent. And a great part of war has come to an end, it is to positions of the Empre, have between America and the coun-provinces during the war has no

turning was the difference

paper money issued by cities and be hoped that the matter will become off remarkably, lightly tries visited in regard to the free value now whatever. taken in hand with as little delay There is not yet much specula-discussion of economic and * possible.

"If this goes on, Germany will way political problems. Over there soon come to the condition of Much has beersaid and writen in which the Government he said. even the Allied com-Russie, where there is against the responding fog-signal likely to attempt to find the

manders of the American medium of exchange within the guns of the China coast, which, colossal sum-one unofficial

French, and British armies of country or for use with other It is good to learn are being estimate puts it at $1,280,000,000, occupation pent: the Germans nations. Germany can only

perseded as rapidly as possible, without taking any account of

the fog-signals in use in the the outgo for the Navy, Munitions blish proclamations, and discuss other countries by getting on a to express their opinious, pobreestablish her exchange with. vicinity of Bengkong are still Department and Air Board -that more unreliable and impose a will be required for national their affairs with freedom." greater strain of-anxiety on the services in the ensuing year. But mariner attempting to make the it is regarded as inevitable that port

fresh and onerous burdens must The responding signal, unreli- be baid upon the taxpayer, and more is known of the able as it is when compared with until a mechanical foghorn, is very incidence of these burdens we much better than those now in live in a more or less apprehensive operation at the southern port state. fnasmuch as the signal guna áre I have gone further into this fired whenever the whistle of a maner and, apparently, as you, teamer is heard and continued Cayton have to face no income o long as she is in the vicinity, tax you are, except in certain whereas the Hongkong signals instances, given no facilities for are fired

twelve recovering what is deducted on minutes.

this side. As promised last week, The responding fog wignal is I akced the query before the best admittedly inefficient even under firm of income tax

recovery the most favourable circum- agents and this their reply: stances as, no matter how great. We have your letter of the may be the Ligh-keeper's 28th February. We presume by devotion to duty, he is naturally Lordon Companies you mean not so much on the alert to Companies having their re- detect the slightest sound as aregistered offices in the United the captaine and officers of the Kingdom. No person residing Thip groping her way through the out of the United Kingdom is Log, the safety of which depends entitled to any repayment in upon the acuteness of their hear respect of the income from these, ing. He is, therefore, more liable but exceptions are made in the to fail to detect the whistle of cases of a person who is or has steamer which may have been been in the service of the Crown: partially intercepted by an area

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"It was like a plunge into cold water to come home and find

"So the Peace Conference is freedom af speech under the ban and the press and the Government confronted with these two alter- agencies sitting on the throttle natives, neither one of which is as though some terrible calamity easy: It must either undertake would happen if people got to to rehabilitate Germany or refuse gether and discussed things which to admit her to the Peace Con- some other people in authority ference and exact an impossible thought ought not to be talked indemnity. The latter would prob about," said Mr. Howe.. "This ably put the revolutionary party is the most depressing thing about into power. On the other hand, to America and the most extra-provide Germany with raw ordinary thing about Europe materials and enable her to get whare one would have supposed on her feet again would give her free discussion to be under police an economic advantage over the and ufficial surveillance. There Allied nations. Yet he cannot people discussed problems of pay any indemnity until she economics, industry, and politics begins to produce wealth, and her with the utmost freedom.

products will be of value for the payment of an indemnity only as they are sold to other countries and in competition with the Allied nations. This, then, is the situation that confronts the Peace Conference.

"In England public meetings were being held from one end of te country to the other. I found the English press discussing subjects mare frankly than the American press, and public opinion accept ing such discussion by labour, "The fact is, the war used up socialists, or any group whatso nearly all the mobile or fluid ever. as perfectly natural. and wealth of Europe," Mt. Howe proper. England seemed to be added. It, wore out the rail- ashamed of the few instances ways and completely upset all credit relationships. All of the countries are on

a paper basis. Europe's peace commerce, which amounted to thirty billions in 1914, has been suspended for four! years, and Europe, and in a sense the Peace Conference, bave to find some means with the greatly reduced cargo capacity of getting Europe to function normally again.

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of silence such as are known in the service of a native state speech which had occurred, exist on a coasts end more in the Protectorate of the British and did not like talk about particularly on that of China dr. Crown: a person who satisfies the illegal iniprisonment of the as is of the case. by intervening the Board of Inland Revenue Irish who were being held, even high land, than would be the men that he is resident abroad though elected to Parliament. on the approaching vessel were for she sake of health; That the way England treats :the sound 10 reach them widow in respect of a pension political questions. She has so the same intensity as chargeable with income-tax Touch sanity, and believes that strikes the light-house, which was granted to her in con orderly development can only and failing to bear the whistle wideration of the employment of come about through old Anglo-

would be given her last husband in the service Saxon methods of discussion and "I took the commercial in- response When is added to this a certain of the Crown."

debate on the part of all classes. telligence of the world 100 years amount of carelessness on the

So in these days of a 6s And while relatively few persons to build up the inter-related. part of the light-keeper; it will incomezax those who have ad-were in jail as political offenders inter-dependent system of interna be seen that the situation is hered to Comparies whose or conscientious objectors. there [tional trade by which the world fraught with grave dangers to registered offices are in Ceylon was a strong movement, backed was zun. This system was de- SCHOOLGIRLS' GOLD PEN. the vessel that is unconsciously the Strais, or elsewhere are on by some of the must influential stroyed by the outbreak of the approaching the danger that is velvet."

and conservative people, to bring war, and the resumption of this

Ten little schoolgirls, fresh as concealed by fog, the navigators

trads is the great problem facing about their release. of which are relying to a large

grimroses, tripped lightly across us u-day. It affects practically the court of the War Ministry The French press is not as extent upon receiving timely

population- information is censored far more than in the United States, but because she is so self-contained. there is an open-mindedness in

It will take time to do this. facing problems, and a freedom Cargo space will be needed for of discassion of these problemas American. Canadian, and Aus-

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All officers and "mes living in Colonies, and who are

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Warning from the fng-station of hare been serving in the Armed free as in England, and outside America less than other countries. recently, and into M. Clemen-

phs whereabouts.

How much more dangerous. then, is the fired fog-gun which only fres once every twelve minutes, no matter how close the vessel may be approaching. In twelve minutes a steamer, even proceeding dead slow is dense fog can, if steaming with the current, cover a consideracle distance, while, were she to miss the Erst explosions, the interval

within its

a

Forces of the Crown, are, able to secure relief upon thefi unearned

incomes.

A JAPANESE BERNHARDI.

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MILITARISM EXTOLL ED.

, not

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ceau's ante-chamber to offer bim gold pen with which to sign the peace treaty.

Just think! We shall have our grand- in France, although the Liberal tralian soldies for the greater this tale to tell to forces are

organised part of this year. France will children," exclaims a bright little or articulate as in England look after her trade as well as she brunette. M. Clemenceau wel- Meetings жете

beld even in can: England will look after hers..comed them with outstretched His powerful head is though both countries have lost a hands. the Bourse de Travail, a mu- nicipal building erected by the great deal of tonnage; but Ger-covered with a black skull-cap. city of Paris. to discuss labour many, Russia, Asia, Africa and pointed like a military bonnet: America will receive his strong features, looking as if At a meeting of the National grievances. The city permitted South

the carved in by

old only

bear ivory... between would be twenty-four Expansion Society (Kokoku its use by the strikers on the consideration

of the other

stamp of health and mari- the minutes, or nearly half-an-hour. Doshi-kwail, formed of Imperial Metropolitan Railway recently, race,

is needless to recapitulate University students, which was even though the next day the time Powers that own the ship-energy. His gestures are quick the vagaries of sound trans held on the 26th ult. Professor authorities threatened to

Who would think ping. Uotil international econ- and precise. arse omic relations have been resamthat only a few days mission in fog or insist on the Kanokogi. of the Keig Gijuku military force to run the tramsed, until a gold basis shall have we believed his life to be in probability of a fog gun not being College, delivered a lecture on tied up by the strike. heard when the vessel is weli Thoroughgeing Japanism,"

bees reestablished and raw danger? of All parts of Europe which materials provided. Europe is His bead like black eyes, which range Such which the following is a transle visited seemed to have a higher.

be in going to pheonomena have been too com-tion of the summary made by the regard for the rights of free speech instability, while poverty will be emotion, and an almost tender!

of can be so terrible, are full of soft mon, particularly on the China Yorozu

and assemblage and for a free more or less universal and the smile shines on his face while coast, to appear strange, but it is

For national expansion, it is press than does America.".

immediate future of the world Mlle. Genevieve Rild, daughter disquieting to contemplate that

necessary to Dourish and. in- Turning to conditions in Ger- conjectural. The urgent problem of a well known Paris barrister, the safety of a valuable vessel may be jeopardized owing to the culcate ideas suitable to that many where Mr. Howe was for is economic and industrial for a pretty child with regular fea- interval between the signals being end. Expressions such a peace several weeks with

a French Europe may collapse if the tures and heavy brown plaits, ideal' or eternal peace are mission, he said it was being economic order is not quickly expresses to him the indignation great that, missing one owing the intervention of a zone of rather ideas fit for declining recognised by the Peace Con- reestablished. silence, she would be on the rocks countries. Eternal prace is aference in Paris that if Germanz thing which can never be realised starved, was denied contact with before the next round is fired.

in the nature of things. In this the outside world. forbidden to sense a League of Nations is a get outside materials necessary

A WIDOW'S CLAIM.

The Premier, in a most charm- other hand, is set in operation mere childish game, The Paris to start her mills and factories, it soon as it is observed that a fog Conference is valueless, especial-was quite probable that the that Mrs. Abe, the widow of an for their touching thought, epoke A San Francisco despatch says ing speech, having thanked them has set in; it is continued by ly as it does not recognise the present Moderate Government official of the Bank of Korea, har of their school life and of their mechanical means, independent principle of racial equality. It would be overthrown. The of human idiosyncrasies; it is high time for the Japanese to admission of Germany to the Palace Hotel there claiming had been neither a good nor a instituted a lawsuit against thefuture. He confessed that he more powerful than the fog-gup, be awakened politically. Demo League of Nations was being $50,000 as consolatium. Mr. Abe brilliant schoolboy. its note being adapted to attain cracy and Bolshevism are not discussed in Europe as a matters. Crushed to death by an the greatest penetrating power.new ideas to this

nation, of necessity rather than from any elevator in May last while he and it can be heard from the The revolution accomplished humanitarian motives. light-station to elicit a re-by the Meiji Restoration "Germany has iron and coal in was staying at the hotel.

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was one

which

more abundance," said Mr. Howe, "but vas

THE NEXT INDIAN VICEROY.

of school girls of France at the dastardly attack on his fe and their joy at his wonderful escape.

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"You will soon be wives and mothers. You must therefore. work, not for fear of punishment} or desire for reward, but for your The responding fog-signal gun, thorough. If the the Japanese these are not sufficient to start The Home papers to hand by own conscience to be worthy of which is a little more efficient allow themselves to be allowed modern industry. She has no the last mail state that much the sacrifices of your parents and, than the fixed signal fog gun, has by high-sounding names and cotton, no wool, no petrol, no gossip is in circulation in the above all of the children you will been condemned by the Marine influenced by non-thoroughgoing rubber. There are a thousand India Office and Anglo-Indian have the honour of bringing into Department of the Chinese Western ideas, it will mean a raw materials which come from circles in London in regard to the world. But, more than Customs and is being replaced By retrogression of the State. In all over the world needed to start the next Viceroy. At the all you must try to be good the continuous mechanical fog- order to act with the Imperial German industry again. The moment the choice, is held patriots."

Lord signal, Hongkong, which bonate House, which is the spiritual people have no fat, and this to be between

Then, after having assured the of a larger tomags of shipping centre of the nation and the afecting their physical strength. Ampthill and Lord Willing-young girls that the pen they then any port in Chima, would do motive power, to check the selfish Eight hundred thousand persons on the former because he de were offering him would wring well to look into the question of arbitrariness of a minority for the are said to have died of starvation patised so well when he was in good luck to the great tranty, abandoning the obsolete fog-welfare of a majority, and to en- because of the embargo, and Ger: India and the latter because he the Tiger, still smiling, his eyes sale with which the port is force in the world those principles many can only get along again made such a success of his five moist with emotion, took the ged, in favour of something and conceptions which are when she has these materials to year term of office in Bombay hands of the young spokes- more modern, and better suited to peculiar to Japan it is essential produce wealth with which to On the whole the balance of woman, and said, "Now, whether

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