New Britain herald., 1918-01-19

l on the west front tnlS f11Snldnucf was caught by the camera bringing l The unorganized state of finance and ] the uncertainty of the Central Govern 1 mcnt offer no guaranties to the cred1- ] tor and can only bring advantages to l him by bribery of the ruling factors. 1 Terauchi's ministry owes it's success ! in China, as in Imperial Russia, in the i first place, to it's system of bribery. l Tn spite of it's delivery of munitions l and it's improved trade during the war, Japan is still a poor country compared to the United States. Amer l ican capitalism is we'll aware of this, and has weakened Japans influence | in China by Japan's own methods, be- cause it overbids Japan on all occa- 1 sions, and at present is not called upon to sacrifice any military power. The Japanese press has silenced it's belli- cose utterances against the United States. It is suddenly discovered that Japan and the United States can be very good friends. Yet both sides know that there are political differ ences which must be settled sooner or later, The waning fortunes of the entente and the breakdown of Japan's imperialistic and Wilson's democratic plans demand this strange co-opera- tion as a last resource. It is a strange spectacle that Japan has now to rely on help from the United States to enable her to carry out her new ship building program, which was origi- nally directed against the United States. Japan has the necessary money, indeed but has become de- pendent on the United States for | iron and steel, since Great Britain has l been totally winged. The Terauchi l ministry has completely changed it's 1 policy and made a pact with it's for mer opponents whereby America is to supply steel for the new ships, in 1 return for which Japan undertakes to l expedite shipbuilding to replace ton mage lost in the course of tho war Provision of the New Clothing Order. 1 The Vienna Zeit of September 25 says that the expected introduction of 1 clothing cards in Vienna is now an accomplished fact. The new card is 1 actually called a supply voucher" 1 but the object is the same without an
 official voucher no article of clothing 1 can be bought. This includes under 1 clothing and spun and woven goods. "The aim of the clothing order is
 
 1 poorest classes. With this object, 1 clothing supplies are to be regulated J for all classes in order to insure sup 1 plies of peoples clothing so far as
 this can be done with regard to other
 necessities, especially the needs of the
 army.
 'As long ago as the beginning of l the year the cotton and wool centraIs | fn Q nf al
 procurable supplies of clothing. Both
 centrals were instructed to have new 1 goods made up for popular use ,ac- 1 cording to the available quantities of 1 raw material. These articles, together
 with the old clothes collected at the
 depots established by the Crown 1 land authorities, will form the basis of
 the peoples clothing supplies, which
 can only be obtained on production of l the supply voucher
 The Ice Supply of Vienna. Die Zeit of September 30 says that ] the president of the united ice fac 1 tories of the Vienna provision trade l has decided to address to customers
 circular stating that the delivery of
 ice in bulk must be entirely stopped,
 and the supply to retailers limited as
 much as possible.
 1 This is in consequence of the re-
 cent acquisition of horses for war
 purposes and the withdrawal of many
 workpeople, and also of the serious
 weakening of the remaining horses by
 lack of food and the necessary sIaugh-
 ter of many of them in consequence
 The power wagons can not be used by
 reason of the insufficient supply of 1 benzine.
 This restriction of the ice supply
 will have serious consequences. The
 greater number of consumers have no
 means of fetching their own supplies,
 and even the war hospitals and simi-
 lar institutions will be without ice un-
 less they find means to fetch it them
 selves.
 Next summers ice supply also
 appears to be seriously threatened. l The machinery of the factories is for
 the most part out of working order
 owing to delays and lack of necessary l repairs: the remainder ought to be
 repaired during the winter, but all ne
 cessary materials are lacking. It will,
 therefore. be hardly possible to pro-
 duce the necessary ice supplies if the l authorities do not take steps to supply
 working materials and facilities for
 Cartage'
 l The Status of Cakes.
 The Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger (Sept 1 25) states that hotels, cafes and other