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area at Home, by separate bodies. because it is so best done. Kow- loon has grown big enough to. occupy the full attention of a board of its own resalents, and we believe there is justification for Kowloon complaints of neglect, What follows is that if the depart- ments on this side were to devote more attention to Kowloon. we should be neglectot, for there is quite enough work on this side to keep them busy. We would like very much to see a Vitoria Muni- cipal Council, as was a Kowloon
one:
LOGAL IND GEMERIL
Mr. Witter Bynner, the famous American poet, and Mr. Fiche a well- known American art collector, are both staying in Shangbai.
The death took place on August 5 at Hill, near Narberth, Pembroke shire, of Mr. Launcelot Baugh Allen, formerly of H. M. Consular Service in China, at the age of 67 years.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER E. 1920.
COMPANY MEETING.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
GUILD'S DEMAND FOR INCREASED PAY.
IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN,
viewed with satisfaction by our employees afloat.
Shareholders will doubtless again 'observe with satisfaction the further Increased amounts shown in the Balance Sheet against "Investments". which now
total 52121,365-16-2 The sum of 4579,710-17-4 has been added to this account during the year under review and you will, I am sure, approve of the steps taken by your Directors to avail of the high rates of exchange ruling by converting our silver revenue, as it became available, and Investing as much of our surplus- securities.
The Governor of the Straite at Canton has written to the Police | Company was held at noon wo-day | adequate storage accommodation at mopèy as possible, in good sterling
approval:
The 39th ordinary general meeting shippers from the Yangtze, and The American Consul-General of the Indo-China Steam Navigation from the North generally, for more Bureau requesting that particular at the offices of Messrs. Jardine. Canton, and to avoid increasing Settlements, colony no large attention be paid to protection of Marbeson and Co., Ltd,
delay in the discharge of the Com- than this, the hot find his duties American
Applications from various Marine life and property in The Hon. Mr. John Johnstore pany's vessels at the latter port, your Charities bave again been received insufficient, his dignity impaired. Canton.
prisided and there were present General Managers, as a Firm were and during 1919 the Company nor his powers usurped, because
Sir Robert Ho Tung, Mr. A. O. Lang. successful in acquiring a very suitable contributed amounts commensurate Singapore and Penang both have
Mr. H. W. Brazier, formerly a Mr. G. W. Barton, (Directors) Mr. property formerly owned by the with the needs of each call. Such elective, municijal councils. Yet
Commissioner in the Chinese Mari-E F. Aucatt, (Secretary), Mr. D. V Hamburg-Amerika Line at Canton, payments I feel sure will have your Perang is scarcely a bigger placere Customs, died at Inverness on Steavenson; (Solicitor), Hon. Mr. Ho situated in a very convenient post than Kewloon is now getting to be, August 11. He was the third son Fook, Hon. Mr. A. R. Lowe, Messrstion and consisting of a steel wharf The fact that an agitation for in- In the meantime, there is no need of the late Professor Brazier of GC Moxon, U. Rumjahn, Lo Man and two large godowns of 5,000 tons creased pay is being supported by 10 gr excited about it, because Aberdeen.
Hin, Ho Shai Kit, Ho Tang Ying, J. capacity each. This property has the two Coast Guilds does not 'pre- those elected conneils are ruled by
Bell Irving, N. L. H. Railton, W. C been Teased to the Company from 1st clade your Directors from once again travernment me, they have not much more than advisory powers.
da Luz, R. H. B. Hancock, Ho Leang. in a great saving of demurrage. The of the services rendered by the Float- automobile caught fire and was con-. da Silva, R. E. Macdougall, P. C. availed of and are highly appreciated, remarks. Dificulties in connection when Dr. Gray's Yuen Hang Kin, Ho U. Shang, T. M. consignees alike were inmediately doubt wish to be associated with these siderably damaged before the flames Potts, R. J. Paterson, D. McMurray, so mu so that the property has al with demands put forward by the
A. M. da Silva.
ready been developed by the addition Guilds are unfortunately causing us The Chairman Gentlemen,As of extra godowns, bringing the considerable concern (to these I will the time for which this meeting was storage capacity up to 27,000 tons, refer in a minute or two) but past called has passed; I will ask Mr. whilst ample room is still left fer services well rendered can and should Aucott to read the notice convering further extensions if justified at a be gratefully acknowledged. the Meeting and the Auditors' later period. Report.
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An alarming incident occurred / Cornaby, Li Yun Kum,Ho Ki, S. E|January last and has already resulted placing on record their appreciation and in this respect the Kowloon at the British Legation in Peking as, E. Grimstone, S. E. dos 'Remedios, advantages offered to shippers and ing staff and Shareholders will no
Katepayers Assiation carries per haps as nech practical weight. So long as it is willing to do the work it is doing, and our Government i willing to consider its expressions of desire and opinion. Kowloon is not likely to have its real needs reglected more than the real needs the Colony, generally neglected.”
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The wedding took place at Tien- in on Saturday week of Mr. William M. Sparke and Miss Frances Wrough- ton. Mr. Sparke, who was stationed at Tong-han before the war, was awarded the M.C. and bar' for his work at the front.
Abras of fan-
authorities there.
vessels would be released during the
1
This concludes what I may call the ordinary routine business of the meeting Gentlemen and I now arrive at the most dificult feature to be dealt with the Chairman's annual remarks, to wit, Fulare Prospects.
The very sound financial position the Company finds itself in to-day is a matter for congratulation, in that it enables us to face the future with a certain degree of confidence in the knowledge that we have reserves to fall back upon. I would be failing ja my duty however, were I not to call your attention to the reverse"
Casual reference to the Accounts
The life our fleet, as the result of
hard wage during the war, has been considerably shortened and in spite of thorough. overhaul some of the cider vessels will shortly have to be sold,
is continually increasing, and is be
Competition already very keenTM** ing encountered from sources which have hitherto never operated tonnage on the China Coast.
that the staff in 1910-14 got 41.65 stand why she sowed on stony pictare expedition into the Far East China ports and Siam, and the out- account on a footing which will bet-in mare direction than one, already
rise,
Turning to the Report and State The notice and report having been ment of Accounts you will observe read,
that the amount standing to the The Chairman said: Gentlemen,credit of our Underwriting Account Among the passengers arriving The Report and Statement of tas been considerably increased in Shanghai by the str. "Silesia" Accounts, have been in your hands The usual premia has been credited was Captain JS. Flood, late Royal for some days, and with your per- in connection with the line taken by Professor Sully, the psychologist. North Lancs. Capt. Flood left Shang- mission, I will, as customary, take the Company against Total Loss and auentions in his memoirs, meetinghai in August, 1915, saw much them as read.
and For Constructive Total Loss etc. the Lady Welby who wrote a service on the Western Front and was The principal feature of the year and the sum of £108,612 has also
nemorable article
Sans twice wounded. He is accompanied under reviews, affecting as it did, all been added plus £40,000, from Re
British shipping companies, was the venue Account.... Meaning and Interpretation." in by Mrs. I. S. Flood.
termination of the national control the magazine called, Mind, It
The reasons for these extra addi- made a great impression upon us. The Chefoo Correspondent of scheme. In the case of this Company tions are, that with the present at the time, for all wins have to the N. C. D. Mail says there has been į the Government announced that our high cost of repairs, the loss side of the picture. de with words, with exposition, a big haul of opium grade there by months of February and March 1919, of a steamer or series of accidents to and vially with introversy the Customs from the str. "Hana- and plenics, must come to realizimet." The local report has it that Many of the Company's steamers our vessels would amount to so large might lead one to think that we were the subtle ways in which words re-most of it was found in the cabins of were at that time running on Govern- figure the balance at credit of Un- an unassailable position. This the officers. The quantity was soment account in distant waters and derwriting Account would probably in my opinion is far from being
be wiped out altogether. a. mainly mischievo large that the rewards to the finders after their return to the China Coast,
the case and it will vaiy be necessary thinking.
extensive overhauls were necessary As you are aware this Company for me to say that the present cost of pae new Calcutta Steamer is guage make for bad thinking will run to about $200 per head.
before they were in a fit condition to follows the procedure adopted by the almost as much as the criginal paid Words whose tull significance is
resume regular employment in these majority of Shipping Companies and up capital of the the Company to not Teslized make for misunder- English speaking policemen will waters. The period of re-condition-insures its own vessels under
point this remark. standing This safe charming be established in a special bureau in ing occupied a considerable time, and particular average Your Directors lady, whose philosophie intuitions each police cistrict of Tokyo in order it was not until well into the Autumn consider it advisable therefore to were so marked, was the writer of to give every aid to foreigners, ac that pormal conditions were reverted credit Underwriting Account with an the characteristic article in the 25th cording to a decision of the police to and the various services re- adequate premium based on a re volume of the Encyclopalia Britannumber of foreign visitors and
The growing organised.
valuation of the fleet by Insurance nica, on Significs, in which she residents is given as the cause. These situation on the China Coast dering arising lunder particular average.
Speaking generally the freight Authorities to cover possible claims tries to establish a difference be police will also keep close watch over 1919 was satisfactory,especially in the
The claims have in the past been tween semantics and significs. movements of suspected Bolsheviks. North where there was a good demand debited to Underwriting Account but There are so many people in the
for space, Southern business, how no corresponding premia has been world in whom clarity of thought is
Gertrude Emerson, writer, travel ever, was adversely affected by the credited thereto and advantage of a to point out that the statement obnoxious that it is easy to under- ler and editor, is heading a moving restricted exports of rice from Indo good year has been taken to put this The China Mail.
Ratex as I have said ·before are, SERVICE 1 cent of the earrings and 70,6 ground. One of her own illustra for Asta an American magazine on look was not improved when, to- ter enable it to meet future calls. *TRITE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC
per cent. of the nett profits, while tive citations will serve to suggest the Orient. Donald Thompson, war wards the end of the year, news was
I trust our action in this connec running expenses, especially the cost reduced to pre-war levels whereas in 1989 they got 30 per cent of a source of onsition. Some of correspondent and photographer, received that the Siamese rice croption will meet with your approval. ECACIONO, WIDNESDAY, 16, 1920the earnings and G36 per cent. of us talk." she writes, of the my will make the pictures. A part of was an entire failure resulting in the
In view of the need of acquiring enormously, the price of coal con- of stores and repairs have, advanced the profits looks very like an Irish tie and his mysticism, meaning by the trip will be made by aeroplates total prohibition of rice shipments new tonnage and the present high tinued at a very high level and per
on the face of it. But here this, enlightenment, dawn herald- from the new flying centres in China during the year 1920.
cost thereof, to which I have already manent increases have had to be INDOCHINS AND THE
also we propose to go more closely;ing a day; others more justly) and the Philippines. The party will
You will thus appreciate that with referred, your Directors have decided, granted to both our European and into detail to-morrow...
mean by it the mystifying twilight, visit fifteen Eastern countries during tonnage gradually becoming more with your approval, to augment our Native Staffs to meet the higher cost Meanwhile, we regret very much darkening into night." Dogmatic the expedition.
plentiful a decline in Southern Building Reserve Fund by the addi- of living. the evident attitude shown toward, theology would he in trouble were
chartering rates took place, and Ition of a further £100,000 bringing The average person scarcely per- the Guilds, which the members fixed signiteance to be attached to
In connection with the Factory regret to say freights in several the amount sow standing to the cre: haps realises the cost of operating cannot possibly tolerie.
the terms it uses. Language is Lew of Japan there are to be regula directions have already reached a dit of this Account to £323,130-15-5 tonnage nowadays, and whilst we As called for under our Trust Deed are in a better position to hold car used to make vague emotions ma fons for the compulsory insurance of pre-war level. On the regular lines! querade as thoughts. There is a workers against accident. It does however, satisfactory support was 15,650, First Mortgage Debentures own with competitors, it is only right soporific literature belonging to this not appear clear from the statements offering, although rates were natura were redeemed during the period to point out that the increased cost It is not increly that the so far made on the subject whetsery not maintained at the abnormal under review. Further, in view of of building (which must be unider-
the high rate of exchange ruling taken if we desire to retain our. histeric meanings of some words the workers will themselves pay the levels ruling during the year 1918.
As mentioned by my predecessor during the early part of 1920, and position as a British Company on the haye changed. That is semantics.premia, whether the employers will Nevertheless, before we publish There were some points mised fi is that words whose meanings, pay, or whether it will be shared at last year's meeting, your Directors the favourable position in which the China Coast) coupled with the added considered article dealing with at the meeting of the Kowloon purport, inport, bearing, connora between them. The new regulations considered it in the interests of the Company was placed thereby, your cost of standing charges and the facts and figures and principles as Ratepayers Association upon which tions, weight and valuss have not are in preparation and will be laid Company to take advantage of the Directors also decided to avail of Certainty to judge from present they should be dealt with, the we did not toneh. One was the changed, are habitually loosely used before the Diet at the next session:
high prices ruling for old tonnage by Clause 9 of the Trust Deed and give conditions-of lean -years it exigencies of journalism, to say pious aspiration of the Chairman and loosely read, the
disposing of two of the Company's the required six months notice call not in 1920 in the near future. general
steamers, the "Suisang " and ing for the entire redemption of all renders the position extremely diffi nothing of the injustice of public that the Jubilee Year of Kowloon drift of groups of them being The marriage of Miss Eleanor
Mansang," which, owing to their outstanding. Debentures amounting cult and indicates that reserves will opinius being prejudiced by an (next year, might le signalized by enough for the ambition ref White of Kobe and Mr. L. V. Cham- inquestioned as parte publication, the institution of a meaicipal coun-most people. It is needless to ❘berlain of Yokohama was solemnized age and general condition, had be- to £104,850. It seemed to them shortly be required to keep us going. requires that we should come out ¦eil for Kowloon,
come unsuitable for the requirements obviously against the Company's The proposition add that general drift is a dan in the chapel of Kobe College a week of our business. They were sold on interests to continue to barrow regret that it has not been possible Finally, Gentlemen, I must express with a few resuaris in the same does not appear to us so essentially] ger. so far as clear thinking is con- Chamberlain was a member of the very satisfactory terms, the proceeds money at 5 per cent, when surplus to present the accounts earlier this
sie as the report appears.
absurd or unthinkable as it seems cernel. It is not the unfamiliar
year. Certain matters in connection can, the speech of the chairman is caster for us to think of reasons the familiar, those which the rab- Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain will return
We have rad, hastily but with to have done sto some others. It words that are misinterpreted, but Kobe College teaching staff. After ang dealt with in the Accounts now funds were available, and you wil
Lo doubt felly approve of the action with the requisition of our vessels short honeymoon in western Japan, It is with much regret that taken in this matter. of the meeting, and are sink with why there should be a municipal ble think they understand, and to Yokohama to make their home, the loss of the ss. "Fansang," has been established called the therewith are therefore not closed to by the Government are still outstand- your Directors have to record You will observe that a new funding and the Accounts connected the fact that it is a conspicuous body for Kowloon than to think at therefore never trouble to ilration of the honey adage reasons why there should
look Mr. Chamberlain is on the staff of which steamer stranded on Hai "Floating Staff Peasion Fund." In a final point. We are, however, nuf. up.
Thought is confused, and the International Banking Corporaman Head that one tale i god only until Kowloon should certainly have its error perpetuated, by such inexacti- tion
Reef on the
26th this connection I would explan that already well advanced with the 1920 another is toli,
own sanitary board. For the pur-tude. Thus the word "awe" pro
May last, subsequently becoming a since the year 1917 as the result of Accounts and there is eve y prospect We have here a point of view se poses of municipal administration, bably still retains its proper signi- aniquated and out-of-date that we we are told, Kowloon must be con-ficance, but the word awful
In addition to a capacity list of total loss. She was a well-known Arbitration following a strike on the of holding our next annual meting
and popular vessel usually employed part of Ahould have expected it to he intent to remin an integral part of bonger does. It is an awful "Rooney of the "Shinyo Maru" was tering trades and her loss is one Co., in 1916, the payment of pen-in proposing the following Resolu-
the floating staff of the before the close of the half year. no passengers, Chief Steward in the Southern miscellaneous char China Navigation Co. and Indo-China I now have pleasure, Gentlemen, ponibile in 1920. It sounds more the Colony, and all its needs will nuisance.. like au reina of the br-gone battles require to be considered in their sounething could be done towards beetles consigned to the U. S. De by no loss of life, is greatly deplored, understood that when a favourable
Lady Welby thought responsible for the welfare of 600
which, while fortunately attended stong was inaugurated, it being tion:- against the now accepted prínciple [relation to the needs of the Colony reform in education. We don't.partment of Agriculture from Japan
"That the Report and Statement ed collective bargaining on the as a whole and to the general Beguise as yet the race seems during the voyage to San Francisco especially at a time when the cost opportunity arose, the Companies of Accounts as presented, including considered categance of a modern public purse. We can see the point clearly and, instinctirely averse These insects were. collected near of replacement is at so high a level. would take the necessary steps to the Transfer of £100.000 za Float- Brush mah. "The remark, aimed of the convenience of municipal from thinking. Talking comer Shimizu by Mr. C. P. Clausen, ex your Directors have given constant Owing
Since our last annual meeting secure the payment of such pensions, ing Staff Pension Fund, £100,000. at the Guilds, about unwarrant- finance being kept centralized in sore naturally and easily.
pert of the Department, and they
to abnormal conditions to Building Reserve; £40,000. to are expected to be of much benefit and serious attention to the question brought about by the War, your Underwriting Account, also the pay- of acquiring additional steamers for Directors decided to wait until suchment of a Final Dividend of Three to the farmers of New Jersey in the Fleet. Prices of labour and time as our steamers were released Shillings (3) on the Preferred and “ ̈ ̈ feeding on a destructive beetle which material have advanced so enor from Government: control, and 2-10—0 on the Deferred Shares be has recently appeared there and is mously however, that our energies the various services re-organised adopted, and that the sum of £8,099 doing much damage to gardes in this direction have had to be con before doing anything in this con-2-3 be carried forward to next fined to immediate requirements only, nection. We are now able to guage our year's account." The Dividend on and further tonnage is necessary to position with. greater accuracy Shares on the Hongkong Register We notice that Messrs. Kelly & enable us to maintain our position on and in the due course I shall bring will be paid at Exchange 4/4" Walsh, at Hongkong, are advertising the Coast. Contracts have been forward a resolution to set aside a a book on "Modern Road Construc- entered into with well-known sum of £100,000 out of this year's
(Continued on" Paze 5) tion and Maintenance," by Mr. H. E. builders at Home for a new and up earnings to provide the pecesary | me Goldsmith, whose previous work on to-date vessel for our Calcutta trade, bucleus of this fund. Your Directors
The importance, not only to our rea-faring friends but, to trade generally, of the pronouncement made at to-day's meeting of Indo- China shareholders, is so great, that ve ought to take more time over or necessary comments. It means
rious strike.
WHY NOT A KOWLOON MUNICIPALITY?
ed interference between employer the colonial government, and there and employse* is staggeringly was nothing in the remarks of the Carchaic; and we can asure the chairman of the K.RA. meeting 20 Speaker that he will find he cannot indicate that he was suggesting any establish his right to negotiate with otherwise. But the argument that employees while ignoring the for the purposes of innicipal 20-1 Ciuilds (a plain breach, by the ininistration Kowloon trust remain) way, of the first clause of the agree. an integral part of the Colony is rent made in May 1916) nr even meaningless.. It is possible. te the right he seems so sure of, to consider its strictly municipal needs! ugloy non-members. 1tain their relation to the needs of the Estion?is ca "wal with a ugly Colony as a whole, because there sind, but Trates Unionisin hae is no relation. Kowloon in Bat,
to this later.
includes
cult.
BILLIARDS. TH
PALACE HOTEL HANDICAP.
THREE PRIZES PRESENTED,
ago. Before her marriage Mrs.
crops.
presented.
diplitheris in
The entries for the above Handi- "Road Construction and Main- also two additional steamers for the are of opinion that this sum will be DIPHTHERIA HOW IT. MAY BE tablished as an elementary prin- Victoria is mountainous. The cap will close on October 11. All tenance in the Tropics is all Coast, whilst a new Lower Yangtze sufficient to meet the payments of
AVOIDED "ciple and condition what the Chair-Colony as a whole
entrance fees must be paid in before sold out, says the Japan Chronicle River steamer is building locally, and pensions as fall due under this head
\IPHTHERIV contracted anan, in a Rip van Winkle but of rural areas, with which again there the drawing takes place. The first Kobe is not in the tropics, arrangements have been made for for some time to come, but it is pro-Din the child has a cold vay persists in regarding us in can be no possible relation of needs, the second prize is a Cup presented for a couple of months every year, for the chang Chungking Line, to to be allocated to this account annu- reseptin 20-cre optuent of the diph
prize is a silver Cup valued at $150, though teletadle turtony. We shall return those of the crowd urban areas by Gecond prize a Presented so it may be hoped that the new assist in the development of the ally. Enquiries are now being made thera gems, he bar had chi orvit is under grave suspicion the construction of a river Steamer bable that a certain amount will have old prepares the child's system for Llun
being very different. Such a prize will be presented by A-S. Wat book will say something about roads Upper Yangtze trade; which your of Atcuaries as to what this smagot what live rods should be sept at be As regards figures, we request arguint is capable of logical but son and Co. The prizes will be in in temperate climes. If Messrs, Kelly Direction regard as one of great will have to be, based on the ages and off the street antil werend. Give the public to suspend jugent abound extensions, as that the view at the Hotel from to-day The & Walsh would supply a mammoth promise for the future. All these and number of men employed, so them Chamberlain's Cough Benul unul they are complete. Those plier, sanitary, and public works handicapping, and draw will take edition bound in asphalt to the Kobe reamers, it is hoped, will be com that the Company may be in a better and they will not have to remain út gives diaclure serious omissions, deurtuents ought to be abolished, place on October 12 by a committee, Municipality it might be found useful pleted and ready for service next position to decide what gearly provi-hose long. It also clans out the cultu such as the numbers of wen and in order that their administration and play will commence on the 15th for laying on our roads. We could year
sion should be made. The establish when it has a cold, cat minimizes the
· Beds, which" form in a whiki's throat ships taken in computing the gross may remain an integral part. In the earliest stages two games will not expect the city fathers to put: It will doubtless be of Interest ment of this fund is, your Directors risk of contracting infections diseas wages paid. Taking them as given of the governor governorship, be played mightly, commencing at themselves to the trouble of reading to you to know that in order consider, a highly desirable step to For sale by all. Chemists and - ktore to the shareholders, we are bound Munichal work in de area by 6p.m. and 9p.m
to meet the growing needs of take, and one which will doubtless be keeper