SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1919,
* CHINESE GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS IN 1918.
RESULTS ARE THE MOST FAVOURABLE IN HISTORY OF THE
GOVERNMENT LINES.
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RED, CROSS IN SIBERIA.
RUMOURS CONTRADICTED.
THE CHINA MAIL.
FOR THE INSANE.
'TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S
SOCIETY.
ST: ANDREW'S BALL,
Communities of Parsees in Hong keng, Chaton and Shanghai have THE The American Consul General has always been generous supporters of received a communication from the
charitable institutions. They have The Ministry of Communications announces the complète and final American Red Cross in Siberia bear for years shown their interest in the tabulation of the returns for the year 1918. Since considerable time will be
ing upon conditions in Red Cross John G. Kerr Hospital for the Insane required to print the full report with its many analytical summaries and
work in that part of the world shd and the School for the Blind), ]
vance. It will be observed that the appearance of these results at this time reports which have been handes i number make frequent visirs andį ĦALL-from 5 to 7 PM on TUESDAYS, diagrams, a synopsis of the extensive volume is given to the press in ad-which has special reference to certain bath of Canton. Many of their PRACTICE DANCES for the above will take place in the CITY marks the achievement of a geal toward which the Ministry has beer which it has been particularly of these institutions. A few years DANCING SHOES must be worn by
about, particularly in the Far East, in give financial support to borh striving for some time, namely, the prompt and regular compilation of indicated that considerable part go these communities erected a build all dancers and it is requested that no 11ch 18th and 9th November. railway statistics. It may now be said that these reports are "on time."
Compared with the year before. Revenues show an increase of forwarded by various chapters to which is known as the "Paress
ing in the Kerr Hospital for Insane children be brought. Cross supplies $13,778,000 or over 20 per cent. While Expenses show a considerable Siberia have been lost. This com Building." About the same time one increase also,-$4,282,000,-Net Revenues were $9,496,000 in advance of the year before or almost 30 per cent. At the same time interest munication among other things says: of their number, Mr. M. J. Patell, of payments and similar items decreased to such an extent that Net Income
For some time past it has been Sassoon and Company, himself put Debits showed a decrease of $2,578,000, The final result is that the noticed that foolish, exaggerated,up a building in the Hospital which Surplus for the year is $33,505,000. This sum is nearly $11.875,000 more ments have been appearing in Ameri- Mr. Patell visited the Hospital and and unfounded articles and states cost about $1,200. A few days ago
the U.S. and in the Far East. Seeing the crowded condition made can and other newspapers, both in after looking over the entire place and ST.
gift of $5,000. This generous gift of
than the same result in 1917-an increase of more than 50 per cent.
This comparison is fully as good as it appears, for while there were some depreciated bank notes included in the totals in 1918. the quantity is not
of
Red
F. TOD, " Em. Secretary. Hongkong, November8, 1919.".
SOCIETY OF VINCENT DE PAUL
so large by half as that in 1917. Among Cash and Special Funds in 1918 concerning the situation in Siberia Mr. Patell will make possible a two THE BAZAAR #COMMITTEE
'these Nates amounted to some $6,000,000, while in 1917 these items amounted to fully $12,000,000. In both years of course, a certain pro portion of such notes had been earned in the year previous..
The results upon the individual fines are shown by the following summary which shows Revenues, Expenses. Net Revenues, Net Income Debits, and Surplus for the Year upon each line.
We Shave felt it desirable
that these statements as to let Our chapters
know to the
upset conditions of the country, and the successful activities of the Bol sheviks and the loss of American Red Cross supplies are absolutely without foundation on fact.
storey building which will greatly. relieve the present congestion.. At the same time Mr. Patell visited the School for the Blind, and made another gift of $2.000. This fund will be used to erect an infirmary with sleeping porches and an isola- Red Cross supplies come in by tion ward, thus greatly improving steamer too a well guarded harbour, the health conditions of the School $7.977.853.50 where several large Allied war vessels These gifts are especially commend 6,903,148.24 are lying at a cher. They are un-able in that they are made to the 6,334,726.56 loaded at a Red Cross deck and poor of a different race. 2,969,195.92 transferred at once into the big main 2,066,830.96 warehouses of the Red Cross which 2,859.949:12 are immediately adjacent to the 1,337,384.15 dock. These
Expenses.
warehouses are
CRICKET.
426,453.83 guarded night and day by C.S.C.C. 2ND XI v. H.K.C.C. 2ND XI. 703,622.51 the American scldier guard and are, 1,075,219.57 moreover; situated in the Russian To be played on Civil Service 552,598.44 Naval compound with high brick ground on Monday, Nov. 10 com- 1,029,082,52 walls, running round it three land mencing 10a.m. The following sides. When the goods are shipped will represent the CS.CCE C (Not reported)
out they go on American guarded Fincher. F. Bacon. G. H. Haskett, 86,549.80 trains and over 2 line that is A. E. Wood, S. N. Piercy W. Hill, guarded from Vladivostock to B. W. Bradbury, H. W. Sandford. $34,322,615.12 Omsk by Allied troops. It is S. E. Alderman, H. E. Strange and
$13,387,867.89
SUMMARY 1.
.
1-Peking Hankow................
2-Peking Mukden...
Revenues (gross.) $23,822,621.24 20,853,632:26
3-Tientsin Pukow.
12,603,359.05
4-Shanghai Nanking...
4,863,436,58
5-Shanghai Hangchow Ningpo
2,397,350:59
6-Peking Suiyuan
4,394,397:58
7-Cheng Tai .................
3,210,437.29
8-Taokow Chinghua...
9-Kaifeng Eonan
10-Kirin Changshua
11-Chuchow Pinghsiang
·948,917,33 1,270,205.45. 1,776,144.09 554,392.78
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12-Canton Kowloon
,911,199.00
13-Canton Samshui
14-Changchow Amoy............................
46,159.71
$77,652,152.95
C
Net Revenues
13,930,384,02
Net Income Debits $2,456,899.85 (Icss) 29,216.28
3,554,116:57 987,041.21
Surplus for the Year
5-Shanghai Hangchow
Ningpo..
330,519.63
6-Peking Suiyuan
1,534,448.46
467,007.14
123,542.60
1,873,053,14
418,034.08
T
522,463,50 566,582.94
402,069 84
419,351.51
700,924.52
424.687.12
12-Canton Kowloon ....
1,794.34 (less) 117,883.52
(less) 1,444.21
477,067.09
13-Canton Samshui
(Not Reported)
14-Changchow Amoy ...
(less 40,390.09
43,329,537.83
125,261.74
9,824,418.26
2-Peking Mukden
1-Peking Hankow.....$15,844,767.74
3-Tientsin Pukow ...... €,268,632.49 4-Shanghai Nanking... 1,894,240.66
7-Cheng Tai
Taokow Chinghua
Kaileng Honan
TARTA
10-Kirin Changchun......
11-Chuchow Pinghsiang
true that occasionally small R. C. Witchell.. guerilla bands are able to tear up the
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
OF HONGKONG. -
BANK HOLIDAY..
track and cause slight damage to trains, but these instances are rare. For sometime back we have not sent goods West of Irkutsk but have *13,979.600.30 stored them at big guarded ware-
houses to the East, one of the largest FIRE of which is at 2,714,515.92
the American 907,199.45 military camp of Verkhina- (less) Udinsk Now improved military conditions West of Omsk are permit- 136,487 51 ting us to resume activities and.
some shipments have already been NOT 1.410,905.86 made as far West again as Omsk. I will be CLOSED for the Transection of 1,455,019:06 hope these facts will indicate that Pupic Business on
Red Cross goods are being regularly 10th instant. and safely received and handled and
By Order, 276,237.40 are not falling into Bolshevik
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTREWS,
Secretaries. Hoogkong November 8, 1919,
120,393,66 147,231.43
3,238,55 (less) 594,950.61
(less) 165,651.83
33,505,119,57
hands..
1
We hope the Chapters will not be lieve these absurd rumours and be afraid their support will be lost when it arrives. in Siberia, The Siberian Commission will be the first to stop the shipment of supplies if there were any danger of their being lost.
CHINESE POLITICS.
The Canton Intelligence Bureau issued the following on Nov. 7-
It will be observed that Net Operating Revenues are sufficient to meet all Net Income Debits, much as Interest, Taxes, Rentals, etc., more than four times over. The Surplus for the Year is equivalent to a 29 per cent return upon the Permanent Government Investment in the combined lines
Recent reports that the Constitu As the report will point out, these results are abnormally favourable tionalist Government or that the, and the year 1919 should not be expected to show a similar increase over South-western provinces have con- 1918. The reason for this is that the year 1917, with which comparison is tracted loans with Japan or pur made did not show normal revenues due to foods and other disturbances. chased arms and munitions from In addition considerable traffic which naturally should have moved in 1917 Japan are entirely without founda was left-over-until 1918 and swelled the normal traffic. On top of this, the tion. An official denial has been season of 1918 was unusually favourable. Crops were heavy and there was issued. practically.no interruption to the lines. The only exception of importance. to this statement was the closing down of the Peking Sulyuan during the early months of the year as a measure of "plague" prevention.
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As would be expected, Operating Percentage, or ratio, shows a considerable decrease. It stands at 44 compared with 47 in 1917 and 52 in 1915. The present figure is probably, the lowest average in any country on the globe. Several lines show much better percentages, but the total is raised because of the unfortunate position of certain lines isolated from fuel supplies or without traffic connections. The individual fines rank as follows:-
Peking Hankow 33.1 Shanghai Nanking Peking Mukden 33.5 Peking Suiyuan Cheng Tai 41.7 Shanghai Hangchow Taókow Chinghua 449 Tientsin Pukow 50.2 Chuchow Pinghsiang Kaifeng Honan 55.4 Canton Kowloon Kirin Changchun 60.5 Changchow Amoy Chinese Government railways 44.2
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MONDAY, the
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FRIDAY; November 14, 1919, at 10.30 am, at their Sales Roonis, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,
A consignment of WATCHES,
by a well known Swiss Manufacturer,. To ba sold without reserve. Terms:-Cush.
EUGHES & BOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hoogkong, November 8, 1919,
(For Account of the Concerned),
zo
FRIDAY,
November 14, 1919, at 10:30 am, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8 Dor Your Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,-
A quantity of
DRESS MATERIAL, -.
fr, &c.
As follows:
Blue and white serge, Flannel and Flannelette, Pricts, Bed Sheeting Shirt- inge, Blankets, Counterpanes, Towels;
&c.
Terms-Cash.
of the Constitutionalist Government SIMPSON & SONS, Tailors, 22 A few lots of Toilet Soap, Perfumery,
MRW.P. SIMPSON, late of Mesara.Table linen, &c.
of the canard. There is a suspicion, joined our Firm as Cutter. are at a loss to account for the origin: Maddox Street, London, baza. This Day however, that as it emanated origin-j ally from the north, those who have actually committed those same acis have accused others in order to cover up their own sins.
65.1 INDIGESTION AND BILIOUS-.
NESE. Ningpo 86.2
89.6 YOU should not eat food of any kind 112.9
wben bifious, but take a full dose of Chamberlain's Tablets and drink 187.5 plenty of water. That will cleanse the stomach, move the bowels and restore the system to a healthy condi tion. For sale by all Chemists and Storekeepers.
Such an Opetating Percentage naturally leaves large Net Revenues The proportion which these bear to the investment in the various lines indicates the wisdom of the investment, provided sufficient time has elapsed: to prove inherent possibilities. Unfortunately in several cases, plans for the completion of lines have been held up by unavoidable causes, and the possibilities have not been proven, but for the most part very creditable returns upon the sums invested have been earned. This is reflected in the following summary, in which the per cent which Net Operating Revenues bears to Cost of Road and Equipment is shown by lines.
SUMMARY 2
Shanghai Nanking ............... Pekine Saiyuan s་-----མ 5.6
Peking Mukden
Kirin Changchun
Cheng Tai...........
41
62
Peking Hankow ....
****** 22.7 ...... 15.8
10.6
Kaifeng Honaŭ
42
6.4-
Shanghai Hangchow, Ningpo... 1.5
7.12
Chuchow Pinghsiang
0:0
6.2
Canton Kowloon
Deficit
Changchow Amoy
Do.
Chinese Government Railways 10.4
Taokow Chinghua
Tientsia Pukow
These results have been made possible by increased business and by improved efficiency. Passengers carried one kilometre increased 9 per cent and tons hauled one kilometre increased 24 per cent. In 1918, 229 pas sengers were carried per train compared with 211 during 1917, and in goods service there was a similar increase from 244 to 257 tons per train. Thus the additional passengers were carried with practically no increase in train service, while the 24 per cent increase in goods traffic resulted in only 17.6 per cent increase in Goods Train kilometres. There is a noticeable increase in the average length of haul per ton. The typical ton of goods in 1918 was hauled 184 kilómetres compared with 165 in 1917 and 141 in 1915. Rates have remained unchanged.
Very little change was made in the physical property during the year. Two short branches, aggregating 28 kilometres were built. The invest ment in physical property upon all lines increased some $4,396,000. Seven new locomotives were purchased. The seating capacity of Carriages was increased by 1,506 seats-2 per cent. Goods stock was increased by 21 wagons built and 200 leased on a permanent basis. The performances of all of these unita were much larger than in 1917. The Government's equity in the property-was-increased by $7,664,000 through additions to property and repayment of Funded -Debt through Surplus and the increase of Permanent Government Investment. Mortgage bonds were reduced by $2,550,000.
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