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An interesting article in the Board Miotza. James F. Hution and Co., Ltd, of Trade Journal" describes the progress Manchester, report on October 18tik has that has been made in Germany, during | follows's d
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the war. At present it is said an mang There is not any considerable change a 250 Isctories in Germany and 300 in in Cotton values and the general out."
Austris are engaged in the minufacture
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look as far as the future peles e abre
of paper yarn, the outpat being between material is concerned remains United State 900,000 and 200,000 tons per The "article, continues →→
unchanged. The United States Cofs Southern District of
without cotite nove damages aggregating
ton Committee will not recommend petition of the Canard Steamship
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coltom prices at pany Ltd owners of the ship for Much will depend economically on the thefting of raw
limitation,
of Ibu ability The verdict, extent to which the Central Empires can prewent; nor will it do so before sufficient
"we", lesen › form; the pres render themselves independent of the textime has elapsed to test the effect as tiles which the Allied Powers control stabilising influence at the work assigned 'Paper is not a substitute for wool; it may to the Committee of Cotton Distribution, be used to a ama extent to dilute wool unless in the meantime unexpected in times of stress, but even the Germans changes coeur, of such violence to hally claim that this can be done on seriously affect legitimate. trading. The any but an insignificant scale. Since the potion with regard to the supply of enemy occupation of the West af Russia fection available hire does not improve | passengers and the ship and in the opin-
army.
from re
Bat 230 pm. 2.30 pm on
polja NIGHT CARS... which were brought against the com bang by falatives of passengers who lost 4.0.9.80 10 pm,
Page 15 patung 11:30 pm, and 11.4 their lives and by posons who,
BUNDATE port on the torpedoed ships. The course, sind hoka that the company took every room 7.30 Kan quisite precaution for the misty of the
lon, ritten by Judge Julie Mayer we read that the proof is boolute that she was not add never had been armed. nor did she carry any explosive." It i admitted that the Lumitania" "dik carry! wine 18 fuse-cases and 125 sharppal-caites, consisting merely of empty shells with out any powder tharge. Also there were is the cargo 4,500 men of safety esktrid- 80 and 130 case of infantry exuipment orch as leather Attings, pouches, and they like. While all those items were for dali very abroad none of these gunitions could
tax and hemp have become fase and less much, and the whole of the loom in of a difheulty to Germany and in any Lancashire are being stopped for a week case typho would appear to be the war to allow yun production, which suffered abstitute for these fibres. Paper is not during the recens strike stoppage, to
atisfactory substitute for either, and make some headway.... It seems: eved it. it were it may well be doubted parts that more may cotton front America whether paper will be needed is supply arived in England last week than in any the place of commodities that can be grown is large quantities on land at pra.ether week for the last thres months, Beat under the domination of the German and the quantity of ship in said to be higher than for some time. This will help matters certainly, but there does not neem much hope of any increase in probe exploded by setting them on fire in mass or in bulk nor by subjecting them to impact. The court Ands that the fault "must be laid upon those who are responsible for the ni king of the vossal, I while in this lawsuit there may be no in the legal as well as moral sensa," and a
recovery, it is not to be doubted that the United States of America and her Allies will well remember: the rights of those affected by the sinking of the! Lusitania, and when the time shall there was inuchs doing, under the circumcome will see to it that reparation, shall stances. One hears opinions in à many
Whether paper can ever be a salisiac tory substitute for cotton is at least doubtful. It is certainly true that paper is being usus largely in German cotton duction unless a shipping controller mills for a variety of purposes for which lean provide considerably more tonnage kotton was formerly employed, and the for the purpose then he has been doing German newspapers constantly claim that
The cloth market is very quiet thuis the dithculties in the way of producing week owing to the increasing possibilities strong, water-resisting and at the sune time fize and soft materials have been fof an early peace, and there seems to overcome, and that the use of paper as be very little enquiry from anywhere. a substitute has been practically perfect. This is, of course, caused by a lack of
ed. At the Berlin exhibition of bre materials held in March of this year a
large sawortment of paper ya fabrics Suns displayed. A few extracts from the
confidence and it would be surprising
be made for cas of the most indefensible
as Transcript observes
catalogue will give a good idea of their quarters that prices will ease for a ver acts of modern times” Or this point the diversity Heavy paper yaras, paper long time, but these opinions are in most twines and padding thread Cellulose susts interested ones, and do not find driving belts, couveyor belts, girths," support by any sethal haying. It is, School knapsacks, market bags, ship however, quite certain that Merchants here have never before had a few orders ping bags.**
on their books, at any rate so far as
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*This puts it up to the United State to get oss of the German Government, in the battling of the peace terms, at least a sufficient money indemnity to
Skirts, petticoats, children's clothes, boys' ready made linen. Men's linen, quantity is nomcerned, and further, it is compensate, the sufferers by the Erait- collars, shirt fronts." Afechanics' suits, a very long time since the stock of cotton. Lan" butrage and all other similar acts towels, scrabbing cloths, Caps und goods available in the markets of the of destruction by the U-boats hata for run,, wożen and children, world was a small. Prices are reported. It will be a pretty large bill, all told. to have faen considerably in the Indian The claim will presumably rest as a first Corsets," Washing blouses," Broks, Paper saileloth substitute, markets but this they have done each mortgage on the German-owned property paper leather substiture." and so forth. time peace was supposed to be at hand, which has been taken over by one Gov. But in spite of the constant boasts of the and perhaps it can be taken as an irerament under the alien eremy property excellent quality of the fabrics produced, dication of what will happen when peace law and which amounts to $700 000,000,
is retially, aztomplished. it is probable that the attempts at mang- facturing fine goods have not beez wyc cessful. No doubt per yaris serving Kacapong Kamunting Tia Dredging, useful purpose in providing a substitute Ltd., has declared a dividend of 28. per material for many of the article men-share together with a bogus of 16. pay. tioned, such as workmen's cours clothes, able at the offices of the company at hava suffered from the auɔmarias cam- etc., but so far no samples have been Taiping and Sydney on Monday, Decampaign, but will at least go some distance received in this country of any of the "ber 23.
finer goods, and until such samples have
been seen and tested it is impossible not to view the large clains of the German Press with considerable septician. There have also been criticism frons Gar- man squrces of the paper, Landkerclufs and towels, etc., which are very dear and will not stand washing, and op the evi- lence available it seems à fair inference that the lack of cotton is at the present time very serious hardship and handi wap to cur enemies, and that the control of supplies of this fire after the war will be a valuable weapon in the hands of those who exercise it.
The case of jute is different. Although here, too, the boasts of the saccess with
which paper abstitutes for jute have| met are no doubt exaggerated, and some
EXCHANGE.
Hongkong, December 17, 1918. On London
Bank Wire
On demand,lam 20 days dight
months sight mar ¤ months' sight, Documentary, 4 mont
Credits, &
On Paris
On demand,
Credita, 4 months sight; On New York- On demand.
Du Bombay
447
Credits, 60 days' sigiai,
920 220+
Cm demand... On Singapore
of their defects may never be removed,
On demand, there is little doubt that they have been On Calcutta very much improved since the war began." They have been usefully employed on a very large scale, and have solved, or at szy rate greatly lessened, the difficulties that would otherwise have seriously hem. pered the Germans through the gutting off of their supplies of jute. Paper has schiered some measure of success as a substitute for jute, and that would see
On demand, On Manila-
On demand On Shanghai
On demand.
|- 20 days" sight(private Ja Yokohama
to be its chief sphere of future utility. On domsad,
That the use of paper textiles will con
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seems highly probable. It is not likely Bag 6119er Im Hongkong kukk k prano that at the close of the war there willChinese, Cappati 12 mese di pus be more than enough fate to replenish the Chine stocks of the British and Allied mannfag furers and to furnish them with quanti ties suficitat to last till the next crop le resped. Even if the British Empire were to topose to restrictions on thy purchase jute for Cerman and Austtish account, the use of jute in these countries would. labour under a handicap. The landed price of jute must inevitably be abnorm ally high until freights have had time, to recede from the present iusted fevral, end this. price would be still further in- hanced by the competiticar in the buying markets that must ensue. It free, access, them were allowed to the enemy manu- In either case the need and
for the
jation of:
there the struction
erind, is?
COULD NOT WORK WITH LEFT HAND
Came Out In Pimples Worse At Night Cuticure
pimples that petjad and spread all over my hands until A Zooked likek blest meate!The itching was wordi'at night sp that i could get alergiske eruptioc hot day and very painial, and I could not do any work with my left Night? Vector five menthe, my hand: kekadanset
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† as against only $14,000,000 of American-
owned property which the Germans have
been able to find in their country,
"It is probable that $700,000,000 would not pay the damage which the Americras
toward it. In all likelihood the Ger mans will consider that they have gotj off easily if they are not made to pay", us
a much larger sam than that
The greatest significance of this deck- non, remarks the New Tork Journal of Commerce, is not the establishment of any new principle, but, the application. of one long accepted to the new device for evading it. With reference to the court's assumption that the United States and the Allied nations will no doubt-rs- member the rights of those affected by the sinking of the "Lusitanin, this finan cial daily radds that it “may also be senied that it will result in re-establish- jog ́s. Fandamental principia of modern civilisation with gearantees that will take it unassailable in the future. Thera can be no doubt that in the final treaty of peace Germany will have to pay în full for the crimes of her submarines, mys the New York: Epening Post, but though she ran wipe of the money debt, she can never wipe off the stain on her came.
The New York San consider Judge Mayer's decisions document that pos Esetses an inter far beyond that create
Fød by its legal effect.
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