SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1913,
Hughes & Hough
AUUZIONEERS TO ZHE GOVERNMENT..
General Anotlanders Share, Coml and General-Produce Brokers and Commission agents.
PROPRIETORS
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction, (NOS ACCOUNT OF THE CONGRAXAD)
110
TUESDAY,
the 9th April, 1818, commencing at 2.30 pm, at their Sales Booms, No. 8, Des Vœux Road, Corner of Ier Kocax SCREET,
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INTIMATIONS.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
Applications may be made through t the undernoted Banks from whom full information and the necessary forme may be obtained-
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA
AUSTRALIA AND ÜHINA. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION..
THE CHINA MAIL.
SHIPPING MARVELS OF
“AMERICA.
BADEN PM/23 INDUSTRY-CREATED FROM ›NOTHING NESS.
STRATED WINTER
Struggling against something that fa cumot ber
be avoided is T
more baffling bed than struggling, against something that sun be. You can appeal to men|1 en strike to go back to work but you ki en make no special appeal against We did what we zero weather. could. We told the new shipyards to abend and use dynamite in locuts ing their pilings..
NOTICE
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Messrs. CROSSE & BLACKWELL much regret that for the first time for a fundred years war conditions prevent many of their products being shipped to India., They much appreciate the letters they are receiving, and in reply would state that it is fully recognised bere that under the circumstances of life in India the absence of English Celicacies and foods is a very real hardship. It is one of the Anglo-Indians' "Hittle bits" in the war,
Messrs. CROSSE & BLACKWELL will take care that not a day shall be lost in forwarding supplies when a return to more normal conditions permits. In the meantime they trust that those who have been accustomed to rely on their products will be good enough to accept this explanation.
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· [THROUGH · REUTER'S AGENCY.}
New Ton, Mar. 23. Mr. Edward N. Hurley, Chairman of the United States Shipping Board, in a speech to the National Marine
The men in those new yards fought League to-night skid:-
the bitter winter. They had the Wo have the men, we have the same spirit and demonstrated the MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD, guns, we have the supplies, but with some pluck and unselfishness as the out the means of getting them to men in the trenches. They have the Front we might as well be without virtually completed the job of build- them. So it all comes back to oceaning America's new shipyards-new transportation to the vital need of rds that will make
the greatest fan forsland of glong | sbipe." Fail there and wo fail utterly.
Shipbuilding nation
If has been an Upon the Shipping Board has
been devolved the responsibility of supply uphill struggle but we have ing this need and supplying it under elated when we have felt we were the most extraordinary conditions making progress. + | that ever existed-supplying it at the most crucial period in the history of the war, at a time when every other industry is being taxed to its utmost
War Savings Certificates
Value 5 years)
after purchase
£500
Furthace Price £387 10 0 153. 6d.
FREE OF INCOME TAX
For every 15s. 6d, lont now £1 will be paid in 5 years' time, equivalent to 5 per cent. com will be payable.
This was especially so when one American shipyard launched three 9,400-ton vessels in a single afternoon accomplishment which I believe
pound interest. No Income T→ Peapacity in the matter of materin unrivalled in the world's, annals of }
shipbuilding.
Anyone, whatever his or her and labour to provide war necessities.
There are two methods of comput- insome may be, can buy War
The problem of providing tonnage Savings Certificates up to a madmum of 500 £1 Certificates such as required by the exigencies show what has been accomplished. ing the construction of tonnage to in all or their squivalent. of the existing situation would in One is by showing the tonnage in the
Mennwbila the money may be withdrawn in fail any time, with itself be an enonnous task even in
water and the other by showing the an addition after the first year,"
northal times of peuce. The diffi-
tounuge under construction. But culties were quadrupled when all the when a great many ships are put branches of the Military Service were under construction at the same time struggling for enlargement, strug the question to be asked is how are gling for the same materials and they all progressing, how near to labour, and when we must at the completion is the vast programine?
TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
(1) A Certificate entitles the purchaser to receive £1 for each 158.6d. on the fifth anniversary of the date of purchase, free of income tax in respect of the accima- lated interest.
TEAKWOOD AND
BLACK WOOD FURNITURE BRASS AND TEAK TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, FICTURES, &c.,
AND AN ÅRSORTMENT OF USEFUL HOUSEHOLD GOODS, As follows:- Arm-chairs and Chesterfield Sotia, Card Tables, Upholstered Buites, &c., Bad-Department, London, the purchase price, task is generally realized. Constant
(2) A Certificate is not transferable same time give unprecedented aid to except by permission of the Postmaster General; a fee of is, will be charged in the Allies both by, furnishing habour respect of each transfere. In the event
room Furniture, comprising Double and Single Brass and Brass-mounted Bed- #toads, and Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Ton and Occasional Tables, &c, Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stores, Cutlery, Toilet Sets, J, Bath Room Utensils, Sundry Electro-Plated Ware
Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood and Teakwood Screens, Blackwood fumiture, including large 6-Fold Black wood Screen with B-Coloured Panels Side Tables, &c., Engravings, Pictures, ác., &c. Tumis Poles and Ket, Iran Safe, Several Carpets, dtc., doc.
PIANOS and I RUBBER TIRED
RICKSHA (Full Particulars from Catalogue). TI-Cash.
HUGRIN & HOUGE,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, April 3, 1918 €77.
of death, the same rules will be applice to then for the manufactury of what
A WONDERFUL RECORD. Here is the answer. The total amount of our steel construction on
as in the case of Savings Bank Deposits they need in this country and in March 1st was 8,200,708 deadweight
(3) On written application (on a form furnishing them with materials, - obtainable at any Post Office) being. made to the Controller, Money Order
I doubt if the magnitude of our or part thereof in multiples of 166. 6d., will be repaid at any time, with an supplies must go to our boys already addition of 3d. for each 16s. 6d. on the in the firing-line. We have numerous first anniversary of the date of purchase and with a further addition of td. per army training camps and millions yet
to be called to the colours and with 158. ed. for each month thereafter.
(4) No person may bold more than 500 £1 Certificates or their equivalent. out ships we can neither keep up our line of supply nor get our new arraies to the Front.
The £1 Certificates (purchase price 15s. 6d.) are issued in book form. The Certificates for £12 (purchase price £9 68) and £25 (purchase price £18 75. Bd. are issued without books. The £1, £19 and 295 Certificates are on sale at local Post Offices and at most Banks.
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He continued:
inally cold weather.
We are all hopeful that the
tony. This was made up of 5.106.300 deadweight tons under contract with the Emergency Fleet Corporation and 8,043,109 deadweight tons of requisi tioned vessels. Of this total steel. construction, 2,191,668 deadweight tons, or approximately 29 per cent.warm weather will result in the has been completed. That nears speeding up of the deliveries of that, in addition to building our big material Sixteen solid tins of new yards, we have also been build- Douglas fir are now en route to the When we took hold of this job ofing ships. That is, the programine North Atlantic wooden shipyards. shipbuilding we found there was no for steel ships has advanced 28 per Similar arrangements have been shipyard in existence with which we cent. toward completion. Of she made for a movement of steel when-i
Single Certificates for suas from $100 could place an order. The old yards; amount of steel ships under contract ever it is practical to do so.
Sale Manufacturers: 1.T. DAVENPORT, Lidij London, S.
to £500 may to the Co Obtained on application with their trained force of ship- and requisition 650,456"deadweight| Our figures indicate that, our ship-}
and Accountant builders, were filled to capacity tons or approximately eiglit per building programme at its height will YOUR EYES General, General Post Ofce, Lendor application forms are available at all Seventy per cent. of their space was cent, were actually completed and require approximately 3,000 separated at 15 The
SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTEL: Post Offices and at most Banks.
taken by the enlarged naval pro-in "service March 1st this year, shipments of material every day cards an numbers can be furnished to the gramme, The remainder of their nearly a month ago. The amount of Many of these, however, will be At the first symptom Controler of the Money Order Depart-space was taken by orders which had floating tonnage exceeds our total small lots to concentrating points of eye strain, you should ment, new Certificates will be issued at been placed by American owners output for 1910, including steel, which ure being established through
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(For examples of investment in War Savings Certificates, see the other side.)
Examples of Investment in
War Savings Certificates.
4 years. 5 yours.
- 80
事
year.
193.15 ***
355-
513
206 # -
281.5 -
157 10-
07 10:
78 15
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187 10-
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44 7 0
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7 17 6
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We test who, pressed for more ships, had wooden and sailing vessels, by ap-out the country for the purpose of Consult us. filled the yards of America to over-proximately 60 per cent. In the combining fittings for complete hip eyes scientifically and fi flowing.
irto carloads, thus saving expense glasses to individual re
yards which we have already cora
We were faced with the necessity pleted and those which are nearing of creating an entirely new industry, completion progress will be cumula We had to locate or waste grond tive from this time on." › '
Thes while we have been building many new shipyards if we were te meet the need for the construction of yards and training the new forces new ships. This was the first and necessary to construction, we have the biggest part of the job that faced falso been building hips.
US.
There were only 37 steel shipyards in America at the time of our
entrance into the war.
We have located 81 additional steel dryl wood yards, while 18 others have been expanded.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE MENDES
"GALESEND" 100 THE FFAE,
Rooms, BANY
Apply C. EL GALE HOR FWD
Hongkong, Mar. 29, 1918.
FOR SALE
TUBCULUM, Barker Bond, 155 Prak.
Apply
JAUH MIDDUNCAN CLARK,
LANE,
· Songkong, Mar. I
FOR
103
and effort in fransportation us well quirements on structions to gell 10 the dulce
as reducing the labour of assembling
in the yards. two were
We have felt that it was our duty
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via philhada
to see to it that the problem of hous
the workmen of those vast plants recently constructed should be Notwithstanding the difficulties of solted, so we have not rushed into organization, the hundicaps of bad our great work with closed eyes but HONGKONG & MÁNILA. weather conditions, transportation with the intention to guard public embargoes and railroad congestion, expenditures and see that there nearly as much tonnage has been iso abuse of the liberality of Con- constructed in American waters ingress in the matter of appropriations. the past three months us by all other Every dollar expended must bring a dollar's worth in return to the Gov- We are building, in new and maritime nations of the world com
ernment. The new yards have been expanded steel yards, 285 new stcel biped shipways or 26 more than those st
We have had to build up a tre present existing in all the steel ship mendous administrative organisation yurds in England:
with expert abip architects, expert If we
had been content with doing traffic and operating honds, and at a the job in a small way we might time when the demand for such have built & lew new yards and added
talent greatly exceeded the supply TRAINING a little to our capacity. A fex ship we have had to negotiate for neutral
big we
established wherever possible away from congested districts and, wille this was necessary, it brought with problems of transportation as well us of housing.
St.
TRAINING NEW HANDS, Training new workmen for.: the
might have been finished more tonnage. We have had to requisition yards has in itself proved a difficult quickly, but it was the spirit and the and provide for the bperation of the task but we are accomplishing it. wil of America to do the job in 19
entire existing American Merebant We have cstablished a large training big way and the judgment of the
Marine. We have also had to pro-school at Newport News. Our lateat will be country
vindicated by the
vide skilled supervision for the repairs reports show that students have results when all these new ways are of the interned German ships we coropleted the course and have been completed and are turning out ships. Many of these ways have actually been finished.
The Man Who Gets There
Is the man who has blood real rich red blood aed plenty of 1-
body.
WATERBURYS METABOLIZED: COD LIVER OIL COMEGUND .makes blood-lots of i
elvlog, brain strength replen
PRIDESSA!$1.25
bent out as instructor. These mer were present 18 trades. Men taking the
course of instruction will be capable bi training, an lidastrini army sol $7,000 men. A department for trail
Three hundred and thirty two shipbuilding ways are now Dear-lo Ing completion. Added to our 898 eted shipbuilding ways, they give ps a total of 780, berths upon which electric weldera has been estab Eshed. We have recruited a rolun to build steel and wooden vessels.
leet force of 250,000 highly skilled! When you consider that we had mechanics who, with a pátriotismu only 162 steel shipbuilding ways that has made us ell proud, have Lew months ago
and 13 wooden ways agreed to hold themselves in reuil- hese lor our call. The men are total of 235 an increase isi thown
being held in reserve, retaining i of 490 wooden and steel berths on their present empicyanent, unt such which we can build ships, tame as in the development of our With our total of 730 wooden and yards a demand arises for their ser shall have 521 more A further evidence of the organiza berths than Sir Eric Gedder, in histion which has already been effected, recent speech, states England has let me say that in. 1916 there were rondless than 45,000 men employed in But the shipyards of the cointry and CULTIVATION on March, 2nd, 1918, we had
pointed out
that the
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19183
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