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CHINA'S TARIFFS.
CANTON AND AMERICA'S' REPLY.
"REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION,"
STRIKE ECHO.
EFFECT ON SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
A FORMIDABLE PROBLEM.
The Foreign Office in Canton In his report on the Sanitary
by the Hongkong General Chamber has authorised the publication of Department for 1926, Mr. N. L of Commerce on July 30, comprise the following reply to the comSmith says in his concluding para- the following:-
munication of the American graph- Mesars. Idris & Co., Ltd., Pratt Consul-General in which he an- Street.
Chamber).
Reference has been made in
Camden Town, London, swered the note of the Acting several of the preceding sections desire to appoint an agent in Minister for Foreign Affairs pro- of this report to the effects of the Hongkong for mineral waters. lime testing against the resumption of general, striko, which was the most Juice cordial, etc. (Price list with the Special Tariff Conference-notable feature if the year under review and which porhaps affected Canton, July 28, 1926. Messrs. J. G. de Coninck & Fils,
Sir-I have the honour to the Sanitary Department more. 13. Due du Convent, Anners, are acknowledge the receipt of your nearly than any other brunch of desirous of making business con-letter, dated July 26, in reply to the Government. Apart from the nections with firms interested in my note of protest against the re-emergency measures necessary to varnish, paint, etc.
sumption of the Special Tariff counteract the wholesale desertic Mesars. Carnegie & Co., Embong Conference at Peking. In no of butchers at the slaughterhouses Malang. 47. Soerábáta, desire to get querulous sense do I draw your and the almost complete stagi in touch with exporters handling attention to the fact that the text ton of the markets. for several yooda suitable for the Dutch East of your reply was handed to weeks, the maintenance of the Indian. market, viz-woollens, Router's Agency in time for essential sanitary services called cotton-goods, lace, underwear. publication in Peking and else- for very long hours of trying labour china-ware, soups, stationery, etc. where on July 24-48 hours be-on the part of the (Full particulars with Chamber). fore it was delivered at this Minis- Chinese staff of the Department. Messrs. Marunaka Company, of try. While I do not wish to The defection of the regular night- was anticipated by Otaru, Japan, desire to get into stress this lapse in procedure, you soil coolles touch with importers of onions and will, I do not doubt, agree that its selecting a suitable number of potatoes from Japan. (Particulars repetition should be avoided in the stormwater manholes for the recop
future.
tion of excreta, marking these with
small non-
Britain act on her own initiative in an emergency involving the interests of other Powers. in China there are likewise eer-with Chamber). tain adroit Chinese leaders--both The Gomel Kaleha Kanda Shoten I note that Mr. MacMurray paint, and notifying the public. military and political-who would of Osaka, Japan, desire to get into views my Government's strong By this means there was compara- like to see division and acrimony touch with dealera in trocas shell opposition to the resumption of Uvely little dislocation when the
und other shells.
the Conference as evidence of "a collectors, finally deserted. The sericusly disturb the solidarity of Messrs. Yussoof Abdool Aziz & disheartening lack of unanimity supervision of this work and the the Powers with Treaty rights in Co., No. 15-88.30th Street, Ran- amongst the Chinese people in re-flushing of the sewers in question' goon, wish to get in touch with apect to the efforts of the Govern was in the hands of the European their country.
This point of view was in effect manufacturers and exporters of ment of the United States jointly Sanitary Inspectors, who also has with the other friendly.Powers the work of seeing to the clearance recognised by Sir Austen Cham- Messrs. S. N. Hadley & Co., 149, concerned to carry out its purpose of dry public latrines. berlain in replying to his ques-Fenchurch Street, London, EC. 3, of bringing into effect certain re- District nightsoil coolies, who are. tioner in the House of Commons export merchant house, desire to adjustments in its treaty rela-supplied by the conservancy con
get in touch with a firm in Hongtions with China." But what tractor, did not go on strike at any yesterday. Whilst he recognised kong willing to act as their sole seems to Mr. MacMurray to be a Lime.
аг on inclusivo disheartening lack of unani- the difficulty which might some-representatives
The collection and disposal of basis. commission
(Particularsity in understanding and ap-refuse was also a formidable pro- times arise of securing unanimity
with Chamber).
preciating the policy of the United blem. Out of 771 scavenging among the Powers having Treaty
Eduardo Jenza A., Box 532 Pana-States is, in truth, a convincing coolies over 600 deserted between relations with China, there were, ma (Rep. of Panama), wishes to proof that that poly is wrong July 2 and 7. At the latter date he pointed out, obvious.objections | get
Arsenic.
into communication with
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Co.
therefore, a Revolutionary i.e. a fundamental solution is necessary
The H
to resume the normal methods of refuse disposal All Kowlcon re-
at once in conception and in ap-
there were left only 5 out of 64 bullock drivers, 5 out of 111 barge- to His Majesty's Government tak-exporters of silk for stocking manu plication.
*acture.
Foreign "Interference."
no launch engineers. ing any step which might impair Messrs. Mohamedally &
The policy is wrong because iti men and Bank's New Building, the solidarity of the Diplomatic Central
is an expression" of American The entire fleet of launches and Mandvi, Bombay, are desirous of failure to realise that the Chinese barges was laid up until July Body in Peking or which could be making business connections with situation is fundamentally a Re.from which date it was possible regarded as being contrary to the importers of Indian produce and volutionary situation and that, gradually to recruit fresh staff and FIRKINS-On July 19, 1926, at Washington Treaties. It is dif- raw material
Messrs. Jon. W. Paton & Co.'s the Maternity Hospital, Pen-ficult to see how Sir Austen
Sucers., 41, George Street, Manches ang to Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Chamberlain could have given ter, desire to get in touch with as opposed to a solution involving fuse was meanwhile taken by motr Firkins, A HOT.
And the In Hongkong, "where a number of any other reply. The British fly firms, not already represented in a series of so-called "evolution-lorries to the Cheangshawan dumi.
ary" re-adjustments. is not so foolish as to walk blind-England, Interested in the importa situation is Revolutionary because bullock and hand-drawn dust-carts
tion of cotton and woollen piece the principle change implicit in still survive, it was necessary folded into the parlour of any goods.
the Revolution of 1911-12 has supplement, the Department's re- spider, however specious may be
Its Auckland, New Zealand, General not the Nation, particularly in rowed from the Public Works De Mesars. R. T. Wilkinson & Co.not wet been worked out in the fuse lorries with motor lorries ber- Refuse dumps were the allurements. held out.
merchants, indent and manufactur-
its politico-economic aspect, partment.
started on the Prays East Re arts of diplomacy may to some
ing agents, desire to establish
Lowing to the constant interference built up on the right lines of ready sales in New Zealand.
direct, of certain Foreign Powers and the refuse was burnt, covered. Messrs. Seki Yasahura Shoten, who (to cite some signal in.(with chloride of "Safety First in regard to inter-
Tokyo, wish to make business con- national politics and policies innections with firms interested in shinkai in his attempt to destroy distated.
stances) first supported.. Yuan with Chine. Any departure from that printing matter stationery ideal might easily prove fatal to general office equipment, Baron the Chinese Republic and financed harbour the lorries were driven by
MARRIAGE.
MEREDITH-LIST-On July 14, 1926, at the Church of St. Simon Stock, Putney. George,
W
youngest son of the late Major appear one-fashioned, but they are agencies in any lines suitable and intervention, direct and in-clamation-and-at-Kennedy Town.
E. S. Meredith, R.E., and Mrs. Meredith, Broadstairs, Elleen, eldest daughter of "the ate G. R. List and Mrs. List, Putpey.
Hongkong, Tuesday, August 3, 1926.
BRITAIN AND CHINA.
British interests!
{
ARMED ROBBERY.
EARLY MORNING RAID AT YAUMATI.
$1,500 BOOTY TAKEN,
and
him
lime or covered enrth As circumstanceR On both sides of the
with the Reorganisation European volunteer drivers who de printing machines, etc. je.
Loan of 1913, next supported by serve the gratitude of the com Messrs. H. Bohme & Co. of Hamburg, desire to get into com Tuan Chi-jui in his Anfu days munity for the efficient manner in with the which they worked for very long munication with a British firm in and financed him
All the normal work of the De- terested in import and export busi-Nishihara and other loans, then hours daily at this nauseating task. Supported Wu Pei-fu and financed nesa with Germany (not aiready him with Customs and Salt aur- partment was of course tempor- represented there).
A
LOCAL IMPORTS.
CHAMBER'S FORTNIGHTLY
REPORT.
pinges, and are now contemplating arily dislocated and it was not uni the support of a composita strong August 16 that the routine of man in the diversified persons of house cleaning, etc. could be re- Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tao-lin and sumed.
the financing of this brace of militarists with the proceeds of a
loan to be secured on the promis- bold statesmanship of
Russia,
Canton's "Power."
Soviet
In view of the fact that "at the moment there exists no central by ail
Many of the questions asked in the House of Commons, and even some of the official replies to them, may not always seem to suit our views out here, but that affairs in China should occupy a
In the fortnightly report of the ed Tariff surtaxes. A Chinese and is whe who re: Hongkong General Chamber c.C
Persistence in such a policy greater attention than heretofore on the "map" of the British Par-cently returned from a trip abroad Commerce the following remarks makes not only for Chinese dis- liament is all to the good: How were the victims of an armed robire taken from the chapter on order and what is called "chaos"
bery early yesterday morning Imports
in this country but for the intel- ever misguided some of the when they together with an amah|
Cotton Piece Goods: and Fancy lectual confusion and moral bank government supported
a basis of" queries may be or rather the were the only occuparts of a top Cotton Goods:-Nothing to report ruptcy of the diplomacy of the sections of China and recognised.. form in which they are put floor flat at Woosung Street,
material show a slight advance heartening lack of unanimity"Which to "deal on
Prices for both sorts of raw Powers, And naught but a "dis- by the interested Powers with
mutuality of responsiblities, -it- Conservative Government
Six men armed with dagger's Lotost quotations are those of the will manifest itself whenever the would be proper and pertinent
of the. insinnt - Eg. Sau 16:40. Government.
United alpars
for Mr. MacMurray to ask with 4 he trusteil to give my leasenterad the skor üröder, Maste the best possible diplomatic reply light at about 4.30 a.m. and sur-Mid. Amer., "spot" 10.13d
States is moved to apply its whom is America, either alone or prised the inmates who were in
Cotton Yarn:-in the early part "evolutionary" policy to the Rein conjunction with other Powers, warning that any undue meddling gagged while the robbers proceed moderate business in spot and for situation.
re-adjustment of China's treat with the tail of the British Lioned to hunt for. booty. The men ward was put through, but the de-
Soviet Russia Policy,
relations with Foreign Powers. only made their escape after taking mand has now eased off.
Nationalist China insists on The Foreign Powers can will not be tolerated.
Quotations are purely nominal. fundamental solution of the group money and jewellery to the value]
No. 10a, $150/168.No. 12% of issues known as the Chinese negotiate, in the interests of all concerned, with a National Gov- A report was made to the police $156/168. No. 18. $170,175. No. question. Internally, the means ernment of China whose authori- when the victims managed to free 208. $180/185. themselves some time after the robbers had left.
can
Yaumati
and at the same time to utter a bed. They were bound and of the fortnight under review a volutionary facts of the Chinese to negotiate regarding a general
Reuter to-day cabies that one member of the House of Com- mons, whose name is not worth mentioring apparently, has been suggesting that Great Britain should act in the Far East in- dependently of or in co-operation with the Great Powers concerned only. The suggestion is almost hoary headed. It has been ad- vanced in times of" crisis again and again, only be "noted" by His Majes-
Government ty's
to
of $1,584.
LOCAL EXPORTS.
that the new military and political Arrivals 1,000 bales. Shipments technique which has enable the ty and power is a reality.
Unsold Nationalist Government to unify
Nil. Sales. 2,000 bales.
bales.
ket dead,
い
As there is not such a govern-
honour to repent the warning. stock 3,000 bales. Bargains 5,000 the Liang-kuang militarily, fiscal- ment at the moment, 1 have the ly and politically must be applied Woollens: Nothing doing, mar- on a national scale in order that that the Nationalist Government, the Chinese people may work out whose authority is now extending to Central China, will repudiate Raw Cottons:-No sales to re-their own ealvation in the inter-all and every loan to be concluded port.
ests of themselves as a whole and with the agents of Wu Pei-fu and Metals: There has been a sharp not to subordinate the same to Chang Tac-lin in Peking, and to CHAMBER'S FORTNIGHTLY rise in tin-plates but otherwise such allen interests as foreign add that the resumption of the
prices remain unchanged and business reported.
Flour Market Report:----
REPORT.
Hongkong, July 30, Cantharides: Market firm. Cassia (Canton and Kwangsi): Firm, little doing.
and "filed In the fortnightly report of for future reference if necessary." the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, the following remarks The ways of its diplomacy are not are taken from the chapter on always the ways of the man in the exports:- street or the man on the spot. And, because they are not, at times they do irritate and annoy but usually in the end it has to be
Cassia (Saigon): Dull. conceded that diplomacy was cor- Feathers: Firm, good demand.
Matting: Steady business. rect and that any idea of indi-
Dile (aniseed, casala, wood, ten-] vidual action by Great read, groundnut): Dull.: Britain would have been Crude antimony, ore: Sonie
1',
a tactical error. Certain of mand.
the Powers are so consti
Wolfram 65 W.0.8: Good mead.
Namhung tobacco: Some
tuted that nothing would please them better than to see Great quiry.
Stecks:-300,000.
Market:-Quiot.",
no high finance and foreign trade. Special Tariff Conference will be And externally, the dominating viewed by my Government as a feature of a fundamental solution deliberate attempt on the part of of the Chinese question is that the United States and the other America should revise its present interested Powers to convert the Quotations:-American Patent, policy of "bringing into effect cer- Chinese Maritime Customs from $4.26 per sack; American Straight, tain readjustments of its treaty a politico-fiscal organ into an $3.50 per sack; American Cut off, relations with China" and, re-engine of war-finance and foreign $9.60 per sack; Australian No. 1. cognising the necessity of a intervention in China's civil or $3.85 per sack: Canadian Cut off, General Re-adjustment or such rather Revolutionary wars. In ER per Back; Canadian Straight, treaty relations instead of read-this event the Nationalist Gov- instalment ernment will be compelled to take $3.10 per suck; Canadian Mixtur,justments on the $2.04 per sack; Canadian Second plan, satisfy the demand of certain defensive measures. Clear, $2.00 nominal.
I have etc., Nationalist China for the substitu- Sundries: (Window Glass)tion of the unequal treaties for
CHEN YU-JEN, Market dull owing to absence of de-other treaties consistent with the
Acting Minister of y demand and lack of export facilities. real independence and sovereign-
Foreign Affairs. Sugar:Better demand at slight-ty of China. This is a policy
that has been definitely brought The Honourable Douglas Jenkins, de-ly lower rates:
American Consul-General,
Saltpetre: Stocks 12,000 boga within the range of practical Markat very quiet since last circu- politics and proved to be bath practicable and expedient by the
Shameen.
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