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The effect of Imperial Pre- ference on British enterprise în the Netherlands East Indies in the subject of a letter which has been sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the heads of |British firms interested in that region. The letter points out that in the event of higher Customs duties being levied on produce imported from the Netherlands East Indies, "British traders operating in those islands" will be, faced. by difficulties which will undoubted- ly adversely affect them The categories of enterprise thus con- cerned are summarised $15 follows.

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Once we might have appealed to foreign faimess there, too, he says, but now it is too late. Alsace-Lorraine is lost, and we lost it. This is too much for us, and we shout: But you're Mr. George Young, the Berlin speaking for partition. Quatsch! correspondent of the London Daily)(bosh.) Parteibrulle! (party "In the first place, the estates 4th Floor Hotel Mansions. Tel. 114.

Vews, describes a visit to a meet-claptrap). etc." Bernstein do- ing in Berlin summoned to protestminates the stormi enough to against the peace terms. The shout:

-You

have been so meeting was held at the Circus long fed on dies you can't swallow Busch-which is described as the truth." But we are not here very dingy and dilapidated circus to haye truth shoved down our The correspondent writes ——

throats.

(4) British commerce, shipping. and trade generally.

(both British-owned and Dutch- owned) operating in those Dutch colonies will-if the tariff has any result-find it difficult to marke their produce in the markets of the United Kingdom, and will consequently be forced As we come in Freiherr von. Eduard Bernstein withdraws to find markets in other countries Richthofen is perarating a sort of a prophet without honour, he has namely, the United States and commination service, each verse this week both left the opposition Germany--and as a result Ne- of which is received with a'loud" party and lost bis Government therlands India will be driven to response. The Paris Conference post. He is followed by the re-procure from these countries its is worse than the Congress of presentative of German-Austria,supply of manufactured articles. Vienna (aah). France is outraging the new type of professor-politi- | American and German financiers, and. robbing Germany when cian, with a Victorian appearance | bankers and insurance will follow, wounded and a prisoner (aah). and a Wilsonian address-very and the position of British inter- But not a yard of German earnest and emphatic. The ests in these important branches soil shall be surrendered without union of Germany and German of trade will decay. Nor can it consent of its population (sah). Austria is, he maintains, an in- be doubted that if German trade Germany can be dissected alive.ternal affair quite inevitable. We with Netherlands India" grows, but England will be disgraced and give Professor Hartmann a rous while British trade diminishes, America dishonoured (aah), and a ling reception, and file out into German political influence in time will come when such out-the cold, clear winter weather of Holland will grow, to the detri- rages will find their retribution Berlin.

ment of British interest. (aah). A roar of applause which Outside is a large black, red, "It is to be foreseen that rouses the wild Beasts in their and gold Republican dag, and a Dutch commercial men ard dens, so that they roar in unison. number of enthusiasts carrying Government officials in the The Faris diplomats have at last placards. No partitioning of Netherlands East Indies will re- succeeded in stirring up again the Germany."

"No peace of sent a policy which will not weary wolves of war where they violence," and so forth. A long permit them to export their pro- were lying licking their wounds. procession forms and moves off. | duce freely to British markets. It But then, like a thin trickle of Look at that group, mostly elder is to be feared that they may take cold water into a boiling pot. ly men and women of the middle up a hostile attitude and that they comes the aged, anxious voice of class, thin and threadbare with may, therefore, pursue the policy the patriarchal Bernstein... He the look given by hardship and of seeking to further improve begins by reading the resolution hunger that once in Germany one direct trade relations between of the Berne Conference; but we saw only in paintings of the Holland and the East, by no are bere to attack the Paris Con-middle ages-duil faces. but not ference, and get restless, shouting without devotional fervour. So "Zur Sache (come to the point). they shuffle along round a placard He speaks of the fairmind-inscribed Wilson's Fourteen edness of the British delegates Points." as their ancestors once there.. trade unionists as well shuffled in procession for Luther's as independents,

theses. Let us hope Wilson will cludes that England as a people yet succeed in nailing his theses wishes to be fair to Germany to the portals of the Quai d'Orsay, this can even be seen in delelop- ments at Paris. But we don't

and

con-

THE OLD FLAG AGAIN.

because he won't

But we are in the Wilhelm- share this optimism-Blodsinn strasse, where we join the proces (bosh), is about the mildest of our sions from the other meetings interjections. But Bernstein, We learn with gratification that nothing daunted, maintains that the Sport Palast has hooted if Germans bring facts before the Erzberger English the English will be fair. "Quite true," shopts an elderly man near by. What do you know about it? 1 cries a youth some rows away. "I have been longer in England than you have in the world, Lausbub." retorts the man.

longer giving British enterprise the fairplay which it has hitherto received, and by encouraging as much as possible their trade with other Powers which are already strong competitors with us."

The Chancellor of the Ex- chequer. in reply, says "that be does not think he can usefully add to the exposition of the policy of his Majesty's Government. which he has given in the House of Commons."

declare for a restoration of Posen THE PRICE OF JAPANESE BEER. to Germany, and that the officere Three Japanese Beer Com- meeting passed a resolution call-panies, namely, the Dai Nippon, ing for the exclusion from the the Kabuto, and the Kirin. have Peace delegation of the interna- raised the price of beer from the tionalist Professor Schucking; 20th ult. by Y3 per case, contsin- The procession from the officers ing four dozen big bottles, and by meeting is headed by a band play: Y1.50 per case contatning four ingDeutschland uber alles," dozen small bottles. and by the old black, white, and Bernstein again becomes aud-red national flag, which is fast ible, talking about Alsace Lorraine. I becoming the standard

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The fortnightly Price Current. and Market Report, published by the Hongkong General Chamber dispel constipation, regulate the of Commerce, dated July 10, liver, cure bilious attacks, sick states — *

headaches, bad breath, coated

reaction. After the Finance Minister Schiffer has wel- comed our quite unobjection able resolution from a balcony

Cotton piece, goods and fancy tongue, clear the skin of pimples of the Reichskaslei, a young cotton goods.-We have to record and blotches: Of chemists, or officer suddenly appears in an another active period. The big post free, 60 cents the vial, from other balcony waving a black, cotton strike in Lancashire has the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., white, and red flag, adjuring us to put an end to further operations 96 Szechuen Road, Shanghai." swear loyalty to it. We are pre-at present..

(Instructions have been given to all commanding officers in Army to note among their subordinates any shortness temper. and to mention the same in reports.)

the

of

pared to swear anything by now Cotton yarn.The scarcity of without much bothering what "it

Ye youths, from Sandhurst or the Shop,

If in the Army you wish to stop,

Attend, I pray, to what I say,

•

And guard your tempers day by day.

A lurid moment now and then

May wreck the career of the finest men.

Oh, be careful.

Oh, my young friends, do be careful.

Oh, be careful,

In speaking to the men,

If Private Jones declines to air

At the word of command of his officer,

Oh, see that oaths of no sort or shape

From your wrathful lips are allowed to escape, Suppress your feelings, and try to learn

To be a contented subaltern...

Oh, be careful

Oh, my young friend, do be care

Oh, be careful

Impulsive subaltern.

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is, and find ourselves being moved hence a limited business was informed. Col. Burn in the Com- supplies restricted operations Mr. Forster for the War Office, along towards the Tiergarten.

As we pass the British Embassy done. Valnes continue soaring mons recently that the present suddenly the officers procession upwards and advances of $5/10 intention was to reconstruct the begins to shout and wave to a per bale have to be recorded. Territorial Force on its pre-war Quotations are No. 10sat basis. Under that organisation flabby-faced portly person bow- ing and smiling on the kerb $220/250, No. 128 at 8232/255. the Territdhal Force consisted No. 168 at $270/285 No. 208 at of fourteen arvisions; composed of Ludendorff! By the undying $285/320. Arrivals mil Sales ants, of artillery engineers, "in- jingo! Well! what next? Then to 1.500 bales. Shipments 300 beles, fantry, B. 8. C, and R. A. M. C. Bismarck's statue where officers Unsold stock 2,000 bater. There were 14 mounted brigades

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offer tributes of rhetoric and wreathe, and finally a schoolboy, Bargains 20,000 bales...

Woollens Market "firming up, further climbing the pedestal, calls for cheers for the Kaiser, while a A few sales are reported from that due claque below start up "Heil Dir stocks. Clearances of army cloth attestation form im Siegerkranz." But this is életo, have been made and shipped

bit too much for the bystanders. to Shangtung. "Where's your Kaiser? Where's Raw Cottons

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