TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 1917.
THE CHINA MAIL.
A PATRIOTIC CALL.
THE HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY COMPANY, LIMITED.
PROSPECTUS
Inviting public subscription for 85,000 shares at par ($10 each), upon an increase of the Capital of the Company.
Tis desired and a resolution for that purpose has been passed, to increase the Capital of the Company to $1,000,000 by the issue of new sharon, for the purpose of extending the business. which is firmly believed will, if so extended, not only prove exceedingly profitable to all interested in the Company, but will also supply a want to local concerns.
The Capital of the Company is now $1,000,000 of which' only $78,080 has been paid up and, on this the Company last year made a Det profit of $19,817 and paid a dividend of 10 per cent. at the end of the present financial year. It is anticipated that doubling the Capital will at least treble the proft; and, should this anticipation be realized, the Company could pay at least a steady Twenty per cent.
Bteel Castings are needed for numerous purposes by all Railway contractors, Engineering, and Deck Companiés, everywhere in China. and by many small manufacturers. At present a large portion of the Steel products which this Company is able to manufacture is obtained from abroad-at probably great expense-in consequence of the very limited capacity of this Company to camy out orders received. With an increased Capital, enabling more furnaces to be erected, and more labour employed, this Company would then be in a position to apply most of, if not all, the needs for steel castings in this part of the world; for, with the experience now sequired by the General Mazagere, and by their present head workmen, there should be no difficulty whatso- ever in most satisfactorily fulfilling such requirements.
It is much desired that sufficient additional capitai be subscribed, beyond that which is required for the further development of the Steel Custing department, in order to enable a plant to be obtained, and ret up for the purpose of tolling Steel Ingets inte material for Engineer- ing. Dock, and Building requirements; for which material there a now a great demand..
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It is therefore trusted that many persons in the Colony will be found ready to subscribe towards the increased capital desired both for their own benefit, and for 1bat of the community generally,
The General Managers are ready and willing to enter into any. reasonable agreement desired by the Company 10 continue their services for a lengthy period. Also, if desired by the Company, they are fully prepared to transfer the control to a Board of Director, comprised of such persons who are in a position to introduce business, as the Company thinks advisable.
The minimum subscription for the new shares now offered to the public, upon which the General Managers may proceed" to allotment, is $200,000.
Ma. C. BERNARD Brows of the frm of Messrs. LISSTEAD & DANS, Hongkong, is the Auditor of the Company.
A copy of this prospectus has been duly filed for registration with the Registrar of Companies.
Application for Shares should be mece to the Company's Bankers,
or the cffice of the General Managers, where forms will be supplied.
GORDON & CO.,
General Managers.
Dated this 2nd day of August, 1917.
MY FOUR YEARS IN
GERMANY,"
FIRST INSTALMENT OF GERARD'S
MEMOIRS."
[DY JAMES W, GARD.j American Ambasader at the Germiko Court, 24th July, 1912, to 4th February, 1917.
REPORT AND STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR 1916-17.
Report presented to the Shareholders at the Seventh Ordinary General Meeting held at the Office of the General Managers, on Wednesday, the 3th August, 1917 at 11.30 o'clock sm
The General Managers hage now the pleasure, to submit their annual report and statement of the Company's "accounts made up 31st May, 1817.
The net predt for the year ended 31st May, 1917, after allowing for interest, Auditor's Fees and writing off depreciation to Company's Plant, Machinery, Laanches and Stock in 818817.03 This aayount together with the sum of $19,548.69 undistributed profit brought forward from last year makes an available balance of 838360.55 which it is resolved to appropriato as follows:To place to Reserve. Fund 10,000.00. To pay a dividend of $1.00 per share $7,808:00. To carry forward to crepit of heat year's account 891,558.55.
Dr.
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BALANCE SELET AT 31st MAY, 1917.
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`PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
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GORDON & Co.
General Managers.
I report that I have wadited the above Balance Sheet with the books and vouchers of the Company and have found it to be in accordance therewith.
I have received all the information and explanations I have required. No depreciation has been written of Steel Process Patent Rights which appear in the books at their original cost namely 821,369.6 Subject to the foregoing observation in my opinion such Balance Sheet is properly drawn up so as to exhibit a trus and correct view of the state of the Company's affairs according to the best of my information and the explanations given me and as shown by the books of the Company.
BERNARD BROWN, AC.A.
Auditor.
Hongkong, 0th August, 1917.
To be returned $3 the applicant.
To be retained by the Bankers.
This forta should be sentjentike, whis rheque for the deposit of $50 og exel share 10 ifie bankers of the Company namely tha?
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND
CHINA.
The Register for application of Shares will be closed on Thursday, 1st November, 1917, at 3 o'clock.
CHAPTER 7
don, who empowered him" to transmit to inc. verbally that England would remain.)
and at home there, are only the boys putarupation. Unless Germany is beaten old, men, easily kept in subjection by the, every nation will be compelled to turn Jalier.
itself into a urined ramp until the fier-1 was for some days cut off from peatral if war broke out on the Continent
There is a greater danger of the starvation ofur allies than of the starve. tion of the fertians. “Every available 'incli of ground in fiertranys cultivated, and cultivated by the aid of the old men, The boys and the women and the 2,000,000 prisoners of war.
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man mangracy either brings the whole world under its dominion or is, foraver
↑ wiped ontos a form of government..
«icroRY MEANS ATTACK ON C.S.
We are in, this war because we were forred into it, because Germany not only murdered or citizens on the high seas, but filled our country with spics and The arable lands of nortțiert, France sought to incite our people to civil war. ad of Bumaia are being cultivated by y We were given no opportunity to discuss The following is the first instalment of the German army with an efficiency never De negotiute. The forty-eight hours" Mr. James W. Gerard's bik, My Fourbetore known in these countries, and Years in Germany -
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food supplies of fienmny. Certainly the people suffer: but still in certainly
I am writing what should have been | this war will ant be vnded heemse of the thug last chapter as the foreword of this | starration of Vermany.
barik, because I want" to bring home to our people the gravity of the situation: læčnose I ́want to tell them that the military and naval power of the ferman day of reckoning will come, nevertheless,
the
Empire is unbroken that 12,900,000 "men" whom the Kaiser bas
INDEMNITIES ARE BAIT. Although thinking Germans know that if they do not win the war the financial
owing to the elever financial handling of the country by the governiceat and the grant baisks, there is at present no finan-p called to the plours but 1500,000 have cial distress in Germany, and the know been killed, 500,000 permanently dis, ledge that unless indemnities are gibtained bled, not ruore than 500,000 are prisoners from ther countries the weight of the of war and about 600,000 constitute the great war der will fall upon the people
Fires final albempt to win the, war and
ultibulum sent by Austria to Serbia was tut, as Pernard Shaw asid.s decent time in which to ask a tan to pay his hotel bill."
What of the six-hour alimatum given to me in Berlin,on the eveling of Jannury 31st., 1917, when I was, notified at 6 that eithless warfare would commerce at 127-Why, the Ger. government, which up to that int, had professed amity and a desire to stand by the Susers pigdiges, knew that it took almost two days to send a cable to Ameries! I believe that we are not
IDHIJ
At the enmanencement of the grout war
munication with the United States, but we soon extablished a chain of communi. catum, at first through Italy and later by way of Damark. "At all times cables from Washington to Berlin, or vice versa, took on the average two days intrans.
mission.
involving Germany And Frande, Austria and Russia. This message was telegraph- led to me by my brother from London after his conversation with H.M. the King, and repeated verbally on the 20th of July.
2.-My Ambassador in London trens- niited a message from Sir E.. Grey to | Berlin saying that only in case France was likely to, he crushed "would England interfere.
HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY CO., LTD.
Form of application for Shares."
To the General Managers of
HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY COMPANY, LIMITED. Gentlemen,
Having paid to the Company's bankers the sum of 8........... being a deposit of 310 per share for........ ...shares. of $10 each of the above named Company I (or we) request you to allt to me for us)... ...shares on the terms of the Company' Memorandum and Articles of Association and I (or we) agree to necapt the sunse or any less number that you may allot to me (or is) and I (og we) authorise you, to register ma (ur ow) an the holder (s) of the said shares.
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Description.
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Signature
Receipt for Application Money.
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Hongkong Steel Foundry Co., Ltd., from.....
....the sum of £...
$10 per share, upon.... above named Company:
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on Recount of the
.being a deposit of shares of $10 each of the
For the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.
Cashier,
S.£. This prenipt when raiurnal to the appilaat must be preserved, accompanied by tereips for the meat, dos ie Allotment, will be exchangeÍ la qae ruurse for a vértinente.
in the allotment,
Pi mot be enbezibed to cushin the General Mana sera ka
tambaçribed by sach websriber will be returne
We Save You on Freight.
MONTGOMERY WARD & CO.
IN THE UNITED STATES
After the fall of Liege, Von Jagow sent for ane and asked me whether I would transmit through the American Legation proposition offering Belgium peace and indemnity if no further opposition were 3.On the thirtieth my Ambassador in THE ONLY FIRM ade to the passage of German troops London reported that Sir Edward Grey. through Belgium. As the proposition was in the course of a "private" conversation, proposition jar peace. I took the told him that if the conflict remained responsibility of forwarding is and sert focalized between Russin-net Serbia- ths note of the German Goyernment to and Austria, England would not move, nur Minister at The Hague for trans- but if we "mised in the tray she would take quick decisions and grave measures; mission to our Minister in Belgium.
Doctor Van Dyke, our Minister at The i... if I left my ally Austria in the lurch Hague, refused to have anything to do to fight alone England would not touch with the transmission of this propositionme. and turned, the German note over to the Itolland Minister for Foreige Affairs, and through this channel the proposition reached, the Belgian government.
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number of wounded or on the sick list Perhaps makes then rendier to risk 'all Kreetly at first, but through an attack Emperor, which stated that the United my work c£mediation, stating that I was
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of each day, leaving at all times about impose indemnitive upon as only the 9100,000 effectives under GIN.
nations of Europe, but upon the United hid it would be at least as difficult for us to send troops us for fiernuny, And I slate these figures because the Ameri. States of America,
We are engaged in a war against the hali! this powerful nation, vowed to esas do zot rasp either the magniture {entent - slitary power the world has war, were once, firmly established, in or the importance of this war. Perhaps ever seca; against a people whose country South or Central America? What of our the statement that more than 5,000,000 was for wo many esuturies thentris of boasted isolation then?
It is only because I believe that our prisoners of war are held in the various euch degustating wars that fear is brod in conntries will bring home to Americans the very marrow of their muls, making people should be informed that I have
them ready to submit their fires and consented to write this book.. The enormous mass of men engaged.
fortunes to an autocracy which for een
There are too many thitiker, writers There have been no great losses in the turies has grounil their faces, but which and speakers in the United States; from German Davy, and any losses of ships has promised theth, as a result of thew on we need the doers, the organizers have been compensated for by the build-war, not only security, but riches sistold and the realists who alone can win this lug of new ones. The 9,000,000 oven and and the dopinion of the world; a propte which, as from a high mountain, have looked upon the cities of the world and the glories of them and have beed pro- mised these cities and these glories by the devils of antocracy and of war
more--for at least 100,000 come af mill tary ago in Germany every year-because of their experience in two and a half years of war, are better and more efficient soldiers than at the time when they were called to the colours. Their officers know far more of the science of this war and the men themselves now have the skill and bearing.
Nor should any ons believe that Ger-
of
voterans.
anxay will break under starvation or make pence because of revolution.
"THERE WILL UZ NO IZVOLT.
The German nution is not one which makes revolutions. There will scatter note in Germany, but to sima tansous
This communication being directly counter to the King's message, to me, only fastly in this war, but pridently in
telegraphed to H.. on the twenty-ninth or thirtieth, thanking him for kind this war. If we had stayed out and the war had been dran or won by Germany
HISTORIC MEETING WITH "EMPELOR,
messages through my brother and begging we would have beet attacked--and "that whil. Burape stood grinning not. The State Department cabled me
him to use all his power to keep France and Russia his sflies-from making any message from the President to the war-like preparations calculated to disturbs mutue t'entral or South American state to
States stood ready at any time to mediate in corstart communication with F.31. between the warring powers and directed, the Tear. In the evening the King kindly me to present this proposition direct to answered that he had ordered his govern the Emperor.
ment to use every possible influence with I therefore asked for an adience with bis allies to refrain from taking any pro- the Emperor and received word from the vocative military measures At the same chief court marshal that the Emperor time HM, asked me if I would transmit would receive me at the palace in Berlin to Vienna the British proposal that on the morning of 10th August. I drove Austria was to take Belgrade and a few in a motor into the courtyard of the other Serbian towns and a strip of coun- palate and was there escorted to the try as a "mala-mise to make sure that deer, which opened on a flight of steps the Serbian promises on paper should be leading to a little garden about fifty yards fulfiled in reality. This proposal was in square, directly on the embankment of the same moment telegraphed to me frota the River Spree, which flows past the Vienna for London, quite in conjunction. royal palace. As I went down the steps with the British propons!: besides, I had the Empress and her only daughter, the telegraphed to FL31. the Tsar the sama Writing of events new, I am, of Duchess of Brunswick, came up. Both an idea of mine, before I received the course, compelled to exercise a great stopped and shook hands with ine, speak two communications from Viennd and discretion, to keep silent on many thingsing a few words. I found the Emperor. London, as both were of the same opinion. We are warring against a nation whose of which I would speak, to spend Dy seated at a green iron table onder à large. poets and profesors, whose pedagogues judgments and to hold, for future, dis- canvas, garden umbrella, Telegraph forms relegrams vice versa, to Vienus, and 5-1 immediately transmitted the and whose priests have united in stirring closure, many things the relation of which were scattered on the table in front of London. I felt that I was able to tide its people to a white pitch of hatred, now would perhaps only serve to increase him and basking in the gravel were two the question over and was happy at the first against Bassin, then against England bitterness or to cause internal dissension small dachshunds, I explained to the peaceful outlook And now against America.
in uur own land,
Emperor the object of my visit and we The boat peril is a very real one faz The American who travels through Gar had a general conversation, about the war England. Rusin may either break up many in summer time or who spends and the state of affairs. The Emperor into civil war of become so ineffective month having his liver tickled at Ho took some of the large salegraph blank tizat the millions of German troopsburg or Carlsbad, who has his digestion and wrote out in pencil his reply to the engaged on the Russian tronk any be restored by Dr. Dapper at Kissingen, or President's offer This reply, of course, withdrawn and hurled against the westert who relears the lost art of eating maat 7 cabled immediately to the State Depart lines. We stand in great peril, and only at Dr. Denter's, in Enden, learna little ment. The document reads – the esercise sruthless realism can win of its real Germany and its rulers, and this war-for-as-Germany win this base articles felt someth the Form RSIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES"
contest for us, for democracy and for permaneat peace!
SILENT ON NUMEROCA HAPPENINGS,
of the whole people. The officers ar it more the triumph of the real Cerimany not only that my readers
all of one class, and of autocratic system. Ti means tie trinioph may understand tho svepts of
Clans devoted to the ideals of autocracy,
son of the army is impossible,
of those who beliere not only in war as there years, but that they *national Industry, not only in was what is likely to happen in i for flwolf, but in wat m a high and noble, relations with that country.-
Angust 10th, 1014.
of
Lejesty King George
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having a sufficient volume of
TRANS-PACIFIC BUSINESS TO SHIP
"A CARLOAD OF 30,000 POUNDS
EVERY OTHER DAY.
On shipments to the Orient we enjoy a low carload export rate, which is entirely on a weight basis. This low rate covers both rail and ocea haul from Chicago to Yokohama, Kobe, Moji, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Hongkong, and Manila, the distributing points of the Far East. By way of these tran- shipping points we, here in Chicago, can take out through bills of lading
the ports
the
practically
Far East.
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BUY OF US AND GET THE BENEFIT OF THIS BATE.
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HM. the Tear the next morning, to the Path Government/would guarantee Grey ever took my offer into serios 26. While I was preparing a note to inform him that Vienna, Lordon and neutrality of France and wished to know consideration, Earlin were gread about the treatment whether Germany would refrain from Instead he lied of affairs, I received the telephones from aitack. I telegraphed to HM the King defen Folgian neutra H.P. The Chancellor that in the eight perbally that mobilation heir befate, the Tat had Hiven the order to carred out could not he stoppe
by violateds grounds, new having mobilize the whole of the Edagian army, H., could guarantee with
França e ready prepa which was of eem Germany
whereas
up till then the refrain, izom, ratta had been mobilized | Lions, and
His Majest London, my my offer Andestador Informed me he understood g
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mwand the King
having sefu