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RUBBER REPORTS.
PROGRESS OF LARGE MALAYAN PRODUCERS.
THE HUNGEL WAY COMPANY Mr Thomas North Christie, in moving
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13TH, 1914.
an average acreage of approximately 3,010 acres. The average gross price realized was 29. 9.42d, per lb,, while the "all in" cost amounted to 13.100. against 18. 8.55d in the preceding year. Including £8,568 brought in the net profit this capital expenditure written off amounts to £103,381 Deducting from £21,346, and three interim dividends at 8
of 20 per cent,
ACTIONS AND REACTIONS
IN CHINA
VIL—THE ARMY.
4
qualities in her sons. The reverse, in Everything goes to show that, given some years the only efficient force in deed is rather the case the powers of good pay and good leaders, China can key to the situation for the whole of the China, and on two occasions they held the the Chinese, and their turn out troops of which no army head he Empire, It was on them that the adaptibility to the widest range of ashained, but it is especially in the latter Emperor Kuang hau relied when he conditions, all fit thom to rank high destierulum that she fails. It frequently launched out on his reforming crusade, the report at the meeting of the Bungeper cent, less tax, there remains £51,004, conversation between him and one of hispite of the fact that badly armed, worse victory on one side or the other was his troops with him, the fate of the re- The Analects of Confucius record among the world's fighting men, and, in happened during the Rovolution that & Empress Dowager, bringing, of course, and when Yuan-threw in his let with the Way (Selangor) Rubber Company, held Out of this the directors propose to disciplesTzu-kung asked for a defini. led, and perhaps totally unpaid Chinese allowed to be fruitless in the end, for at Glasgow, said that the board presented transfer to reservo of satisfaction, for, even despite the far making 44 per cent for the year (less replied. It consists in providing enough Japanese forces equipped with all the home the advantage, but in that struggle their statement with a justifiable feeling to pay a final dividend of $12,000 and
troops have fled before European or want of following it up and pressing tion of good government, The Master that there had only been an actual in tax), leaving 88,505 to be carried for food to eat, in keeping enough soldiers to refinements known in the way of weapons every issue was so complicated by cros erease in profits of £176, that had been ward. The crop estimate for 1914 19 attained by improved quality and lessened 1,400,000 tbs. For 1812 tho dividend was guard the State, and in winning the of destruction, there aro not wanting and undercurrents that it is perhaps advanced at the head of his army at the
confidence of the people. And if one of events that go to show that the Chiness scarcely a fair test, but the whole course these things had to be sacrified, which soldier is not necessarily a nord of the wars in which China has been should go first!' The Master replied: General Gordon had
experience of
sums up the traditional Chinese attitude has had, and he was emphatic as to their
Sacrifice the soldiers. This quotation Chinese troops such as no other foreigner aged during the last 100 years reveals
the same fact. towards the army, and explains why soldierly qualities when well led and re-
The long campaign against the Taiping Rebels was distin military service was, in the old days in sularly paid; Colonel Bower has repeated strategy or tactics on the part of Chinese guished by no brilliant examples of China, in such ill repute, soldiers being his testimony with special reference to
DAMANBARA
formers and of their hopes of a new his troops to support the attack on the Empresa Dowager ordered Tuan to lead China wore sealed. In 1900 again the
Concessions at Tientsin to obey or rate of a mile a day (was the future refuse was shika dangerous, so he
then!) President suffering in his legs even Another abortive scherun of army reform was brought forward by Jung-lu, towards the end of 1898. The armies Generalissimo of the Northern Forces, others, that is to say, all the brigaded under the command of Sang ch'ing and
cost of production. Their crop was over 50 per cent. 118,000 lbs in excess of the provious year, and their all in cost fell seed. per The report of the Damansara (Selau- Some companies deducted commis- gor) Rubber Company states that the sions before bringing the proceeds of the profit for the year ended December 31st sales into the revenge account, some sst, after writing off £2361 fer deprecia included depreciation and other charges tion and including £3,048 brought en some did not. Their all in cost forward, amounted to 264,690, The included everything. While having marts directors, propose to pay a fuel dividend tully as large a net profit as in previons of 29 per cent,, making 50 per cent, for years, they had knocked the dividend the year, and to place to general reserve classified with nctors and barbers as the the Wai-hai-wei regiment; Captain generals the share of Tseng Kue-fan and troops in North China, are to be organiz down one-sixth, That was due to the account £9,000, lehe rubber crop dregs of the population Perhaps in noyard of the same regiment, relatas Hang-chang in the military events of loft-to occupy different strategical points.
£3,100 to be
amounted to 616,150 lb., against the estimate of 600,000 15. It sold at a gross with is. 6:13d. a 16. for 1912 crop. The average of 3, 2.8d a lb., as compared manager's estimate for 1914 is 850,000 Ib
how, when he was 1
reconnoitring with bis
the time was administrative rather than
ed in four corps-front, rear, right, and phase of Chinese life in the contrast
In addition Jung-lu will raise a centro nor the transition, so abrupt, though even position at Tientsin in 1900, a sbell saden, the Mongol cavalry Kader, do hundred thousand taels has already boca between the old and the new more marked, company at the attack on the Chinesecutive, while the successes of Rengko corps of 10,000 men, to be stationed pre- sumably in or about Peking. Four here the process has occupied several denly burat behind them, and he found not show any sigos of being due to skilful appropriated towards the expenses of the yeats. Army reform was first taken in himself in charge of native troops for Soneralship. An exception must be made now corps, The importance of bring hand after the disastrous war with the first time under fire. To bis satisfac of Too Tung tang, whose
ing the other four corps into an efficient campaign state is dwelt upon, and the Edicts are Japan, and in 1885 dve divisions of a new tion the Chinese under his command were against the Mohammedan rebels under stern in demanding the production of
sufficient funds for the purpose. this tentative effort soon came to an end tinued to advance in excellent order, but example of patient but resistless crushing closely sorutinize the condition of the The (with an important exception, to be noted strongly demurred at first when the order down of opposition. The history of the Pei-yang drilled troops-formerly Li army reorganization, but it was not until later). An Edict of 1901 again ordered came to retire.
late Chao Erh-feng's expedition to the order. They are to bo; ander tire order Hung chang's army-and bring them into In those instances, it is true, the Tibetan frontier, to come down to the of Jung lu, instead of the Viceroy. 1907 that a concerted effort was made to Chinese were fighting against their own present century, exhibits him as a tacti (hing, No. 1, 1900, p. 14). An interesting provide: China with an homogeneous countrymen, but even when they have
cian of high order; but the
the share in it of Yin-chang, the future who have so distinguished Commander-in-Chief, who assisted in and untrained provincial troops which, not always been the cowards they are before 1895, were all she had to depend sometimes painted. The _Black_Flag on, but even now the process
Troops" were very successful in the reorganization is still incompleta:
characteristic caution of the board, carried forward. siso because they wanted a largo reselv fund, which might be drawn upon as they estate was in splendid order, and two screased their Bonn, for working. The thousand acres would shortly be under cultivation. The crop had been good for the past three months of this year-and lavier than that of the same period of The crop of rubber secured by the Last year. Working costs had bean Seremban Rubber Estate Company in reduced, and, while the price of rubber 1913 amounted to $64,000 lb., an increase was lower, they still found sales re of 118,812 16. The cost fo.b. was about army (the Wu-wei Chun) were raised, but not in the least disconcerted: they con Lakooh Beg should become the classics Viceroy of Chihli is also instructed to
18, 5d. per lb., a redaction of about 31d. per lb. The profit and loss account shows a credit balance of £2,471, making with the balance £25,020. The directors propose to write brought forward off for depreciation of buildings and machinery, 41,000; to transfer to develop ment account £11,000 to pay a dividend
lands
und to carry forward £3,026, The Company, the past year's working 007,000 b
And Lowlands Para Rubbor estimated crop for the current year ie resulted in a profit of £78,078, miking with £13,101 brought in, total of
RUUBER ESTATES OF JOHORE. £98, 180, The directors recommend a The directors of the Rubber Estates of fias dividend of 7 per cent. (less tax) Johore report that the crop of rabber har
munerative. Had it not been that they had once experienced the delights of a 30 per cent, dividend they would have been perfectly satisfied. He moved a dividend of six shillings per share, making a total dividend of 50 per cent for the year. The report was unanimously adopted.
HIGHLANDE AND LOWLANDS.
According to the report of the High of 5 per cent. (less tax), on April 4th national army in place of the ill-armed encountered European troops they have bames of those who paucity of point in connection with the scheme was
of
themselves is conclusive proof of China's planning the organization of the centre
(making a total dividend or 5 per cent,vested for 1913 amounted to 323,604 lb., few provinces have raised very guerilla war against the French in 1884-85 less degree, and the army is no exception, possessed no reliable force borond that
less tax, for the year 1913); £10,000 is against an estimate of 230,000 lb. and a placed to reserve (bringing the general crop of 106,201 lb. for 1912. The gross reserve up to £50,000), and £9,320 is price realized was 26, 91d. per lb. The carried forward. The output was all-in cost amounted to 28. 0.63d: per lb., 1,055,416 lb., which is 157,608 lb. in excess
against a corresponding cost of 28. 8.920 in 1012 The crop of rubber for 1914 is amounted to $10,931 and 23,004 was estimated at 600,000 lb. The net profit brought forward. It is proposed to pay carried forward £5,406.
quotum
and there
assigned under the 1907 scheme, a arc still vestiges of the old order of things in Kanin, where the old Greon Banner"
troops (li-chan) have not yet heen com-
In view of the sharp line of demarca- pletely disbanded.
military systems, there is little need to examine the state of the army. prior to
INTIMATIONS
weakness in this respect. W
In almost every department of Chiau's and was swept off the table by the events corps. The scheme was, however abortive, national life, the influence of the of 1900, and when the confusion had Taiping tebellion is seen in greater or subsided, it was found that China still and at Langson made so determined a The share taken in the suppression of the under the command of Yuan Shib-kai, resistance, that the French were obliged rebellion by the Ever Victorious Army to retire, and, Dr. Hawks Potts says, under Gordon was the most affective
(Continued on Page 5,) "this war revealed the good fighting could do if properly paid and properly demonstration of what Chinese troope qualities of the Chinese soldier (led: Gordon urged Li Hung chang te
the prowess of Chinese troops (or rather, cours might involve, had the perspicacity Sketch of Chinese History, p. 188). wake this force the nucleus of a standing Great Britain, too, has had experience of army, but the latter, perceiving the
dangers to the Empire which such a CHS. J. GAUPP spoken of with such contempt). The Ever Victorious Army was disbanded. encountered in the war of 1840-12 was at rebellion remained, however, and, by the WATCHMAKERS
& CO., first noticeable resistance that the British The Anhui military enrolled by Li Hung
chang himself in the early days of the Chapoo, the Chinese forces numbering leony of fate, it was at one time proposed that they should be used for the very of the resident military colony. This was pose that, it was feared; the Ever Victorious Army would be turned to if the first occasion on which the English maintained as a standing army. Among met the Manchus in arms, and they were the machinations following the Kuldja astonished at the sturdiness of the rests complication was a in the
scheme, which
provisionally arranged that the company a dividend of 6 per cent., leaving to be tion between China's old and now of the Manchu forces that are generally to decline the tempting proposal, and the
DIM BUNGEI KEIAN,
at all events show the disadvantages
of the 1812 output, For 1812 the dividond price obtained per th. was 28. 6.87d.. and was 40 per cent. The average net sale the cost all-in, 18. 2.24d. It has been shall acquire the assets of the Ayer Kuning (FMS) Rubber Company, on the terms of this company issuing to the The accounts of the Sungei Kriau its reform, but one or two incidents will shareholders of the vendor company one elare of the Highlands and Lowlands Bubber Estate for the year 113 show a Company for every four shares held by profit of £8,607, making with the amount under which it laboured. The Governor them, this company agreeing to liquidate brought forward £7,781. After deducting all the vendor company's liabilities as on the dividend on the preferences shares in of Hei-long chiang, in a memorial about 8,000, of whom 1,700 were Manchus March 31st, 1914, from which date this respect of 1919 and writing down the requesting permission to arm the troops company will take over the estates as preliminary expenses by £600, there going conteras. The area to be acquired remains a balance of £3,341, out of which under his jurisdiction with breech-loading is 0,922 acres, of which 2,040 acres are the preference dividend has been paid to gingais, explained that "this innovation ai un ates of 185 acres, the whole is in rubber mounted to 126,406 lb, The *** acquire the assots of the Ayer Kuning and the cost per 16 all-in 1873d. Company, it will be necessary to
yer inercase
the capital, and the shareholders will be asked to sanetion the application to
increase the samo by 40,000 shares of 81 Pany for 1913 amounted to £52,210. The each gun, ie, one man to carry the gun they could no longer fight, they could. Li Hung-chang refusing the bait.
AND
JEWELLERS.
INSTRUMENTS.
ZEISS PRISM BINOCULARS.
bearing. To enable this company to average net sale price per lb, was 2s. 4d, unanimously approved by the Manchu tance, to which they had not been accusthe prime movers, to induce. Li Hung- SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL
commanders, memorialist would now, ask / tom sm the consent of the Throne to arm the troops at The profit of the Seafield Rubber Com-with gingals, portioning three men to each, of which 27,689 shares will be issued anal dividend of 25 per cent, less
directors propose to pay on April 24th at par to the shareholders of the vendor (muking 45 per cent for the year),
write off for depreciation £1,000 and Messrs. Barlow Co write from
carry forvard L0,879. Kuala_Lumpur-We have received a cable from the scerctaries of the High- lands and Lowlands Pare Rubber Co., Ltd., informing us that the proposed scheme for the amalgamation of the Ayer Kuning (P.M.8.) Hubber Co., Ltd., with the Highlands and Lowlands Para Rubber Co, Ltd., has been cancelled.
company,
SELANGOR BUBBER COMPANY.
to
resigned from the
China's power lies in her numbers,
Representatives
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
and they were as much astonished chung to march on Peking at the head of the readiness of the Manchus to die Emperor, and set up a Government of these Anhui troops, overthrow the where they stood, at their own hands if his own. It is perhaps unnecessary to not at the hands of the enemy. tax at the muzzle, one man to fire it, and die; and the instances of mad self-destruc- the result of her refusal to ratify the When add that this scheme never materialized, tohird with the ammunition and armed
In the fear of war threatening her as with a sword to protect the other two The International Relations of the Russin), China turned to Gordon, invit- tion were perfectly horrible. (Morse, Trenty of Livadia ( Chapter II. sal while at work." (Peking Gazelle, August Chinese Empire, p. 283). And again at ing him to take command of her forces
SUN GLASSES. 24th, 1896.) The Governor of Mukden, Chinking, The Manchu THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA.
against Russia. Gordon's advice, how again, in a memorial
recommending the
garrison, ever, was emphatically for peace, and he SILVER AND PRINCE'S PLATE. however, fought with desperate refused to give China his assistance in As soon as the preliminary court in purchase of some rifles, made the naive Tokyo committed the three directors of suggestion that owing to their great desperate resistance (Ouchterlony), and memorandum of the course of any determination (Bernard), made a war. At the same time, he drew up a the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha for trial in expense these arms need not be used by behaved with great spirit (Sir Henry China's needs; some of the suggestions reform he thought most suitable to connection with
the troops in their daily drills, but when Pottinger) In moving the adoption of the report at
with the Naval bribery danger appears the rifles should by all with no intelligent leadership, with only sent day, but the document is of interest MAPPIN & WEBB.
Even at Chinkiang, may appear somewhat quaint at the pre- the meeting of the Selangor Rubber Com-scandal, they pany, held at Glasgow, Sir F. A. Swetten directorate and Mr. Watanabe, who, fire means be placed in their hands a third of their enemy's number, and Chirteen army reformu. KAN Road said that since last year rubber had or six years ago was the managing (Peking Gazette, May 6th, 1997). This armed only with obsolete matchlocks,
as being the first reasoned scheme of fallen from over de per lb. to less than director of the firm, has been recalled proposal has, however, been reproduced bows, and spears, they inflicted a loss of
LTD... half that price. The fall occurred ex- from London to fill one of the vacancies in a modified form in far more recent 37 killed and 129 wounded on their tremely quickly, and led to something on the Board. Mr. Fujise, from Shang-
LONDON. like a pazic. Many proposals were mades hai has also been appointed to the days in 1918 the officer commanding the but he had not seen a draft of a working Directorate. Mr. Fukui, Dr. Dan and militia (hain-fang chun) at Ning yuan Perhaps the most striking instance of
opponents" (ibul, p. 296). scheme yet, though there were over 500 Mr. Hayakawa remain directors of the Fu, on the confines of the Lolo territory, all is the defeat Chinese troops indicted rubber companies in the Near East alone.. He favoured combination, if it could be firm
Baron Mitsui, the President of the stated that he thought it advisable to upon the Gurkhas the Highlanders of secured, but he had no difficulty in under- standing the shyness of the sheep to enter Mitsui Bassan Kaisha has issued to the issue only old rides to the troops engaged India at the very gates of their own the fold. The estimated yield 500,000 staff a circular in which he expresses his active.
e operations against these capital. Towards the end of the 18th lbs.was nearly obtained, and how good deep regret that certain officials of the the calfe told them that the 523,943 the Naval scandal, which casts serious Lolos captured them, the loss would not dispersed the priests, and levied tribute. the actual figures were they would under company should have been implicated in origines, on the ground that if the century, the Gurkhas invaded Tibet 16 Chained in 1922 came from 1,588 reflections on the reputation and prestige bo so great as if the new and more Tibet appealed to China, whose repouss acres in bearing, while the average ares of the company. He earnestly requests modern weapons fell into the hands of was to send an army of 70,000 men (the tapped was 1,413 acres, and the yield per the staff to be always mindful of the acre 368 lbs. In 1813 the average acreage instructions given to always act in strict the enemy. Then we have Mrs. Bird number must be taken for what it is tapped was 1,538 acres, yielding 363 lbs. conformity with the principles of honesty Bishop's account of an incident in tho worth, and probably half of this host were the crop and justice and, while striving for the Japanese war-troops armed with every ineffectives camp-followers of various per acre. For the culbs, and for the further development of the company's was estimated sat b60,000 first three months they had secured more business, to studiously refrain from any imaginable pattern of rifle, and a heap of descriptions) led by General San-fu, than a quarter of the estimats Their act that deviates from the right path all kinds of ammunition set before them, right across Szechuan and Tibet to the planted area stande to capital at £13 10s.in doing business, even though prompted with the order that cach man should pick Nepal border. San-fu attacked his foes per acre. Even at the reduced price of therto by excessive zeal. rubber they made a profit of over £50,000, It is as well that the public should refrain the size to fit bis own particular rifle, in the open, and indicted a severe defeat and the prospects were good. He moved from forming a judgment as to the guilt of a dividend of is per share, making of the persons aconsed until they have had an instances of meptitude and disorganiza and right up to the walls of Khatmandu, It would be possible to multiply these on them, driving them back into Nepal total distribution of 1371 per cent. per opportunity of learning what defence they
the capitali year The report was considered most have to make to the olarge.]
Here again the Chinese satisfactory, and unanimously adopted.
army attacked the Gurkhas now the pick of Britain's hill-fighters and again: defeated them, and to this day Nepal entered on a war, and show that the acknowledges China's superiority by repeated defents that she has suffered do sending periodical tribute missions to not necessarily imply a lack of martial Peking,
ATER HUNING (F.M,§.).
PERSICOS ODI, PUER, APPARATUS.
My wife, dinna fash yoursel Wia the Southron whimsies. I canna bide sie unco wye Sae, pit awa your flimsies,
tien many times over, but the facts are notorious and are introduced here only because they demonstrate the disadvan
The report of the Ayer Kuning HORACE ODE XXXVIII. BOOK I. tages under which China has always (F.M.S.) Rubber Company states that the year's working has resulted in a profit of £1,521. The board made temporary arrangements for financing the company until the revenue was sufficient to meet the expenditure, and this position it was exported would be reached in the period ouder review. The fall in the value of rabber experienced in 1913 cutirely upeet the directors' anticipations and not only wore their hopes not realized, but they found it necessary to increase the tem- porary accommodation, and on December 31st the total borrowings amounted to £30,851. Since the accounts were closed Gücle barley-broth an chuckie
Bog-myrtle frae the moor oot-by Gies sweeter smell, I'm thinkin',
Than hot hoose blooms. An they be braw Braw's whiles the same as stinkin
Awa, an less the denner, ben,
lar
a further sum of £1,721 was borrowed. An anc; to tap, your kebbuck, s making a total indebtedness of £32,572 To
To pree aic-like. I'm lucky
Under these circumstances the directora have decided to recommend the amalgama- tion of this company with its neighbour. the Highlands and Lowlands Para Rubber Company,
ANGLO-MALAY:
The crop harvested by the Anglo-Malay
A gloss, não mair: an “ eko" maybe!
O güde auldFettercairn,
Aiblins an aipple for yoursel,
A sweetie for the bairn...
hamenwre, wys an halesome fare
Rubber Company for 1913 amounted to Are what set us, my Bonnie 1,045,008 lbs, against an estimate of We're cantie wi' what güde we ha'e. 1,180,000 Tbs. and a yield in 1919 of An needna copy onic 843,191 lbs. The crop was obtained from
The New Witnes
LOST
PERTUSSIN
Is a harmless and efficient remedy agafast til diseases of the respiratory organs, especially WHOOPING COUGH, CATARRH OF LARYNX ACUTE AND CHRONIC BRONCHIAL CATARRH, ASTHMA, &c, which bas been recognised: unequalled by the highest authorities Also the AFFECTIONS OF THE LUNGS will be greally rollered by the use of it
TO BE HAD AT
THE MEDICAL HALL.
HONGKONG.
in the quick moving of her troops, and in their few wants. It is known that inen armed with sword and spear can overcome the best regular troops equipped with breech-loading rifles, if the country is at all difficult and if the men with spears and swords out- number their foe ten to one. If this is the ease where men are armed with spears and swords, it will be much; truer when these men are themselves armed with breech loaders, China should never engage in pitched battles. Her strength is in quiet movements, in cutting off trains of baggage, and in night attacks not pushed home-in &
CHATER ROAD.
CALDBECK,
continuous worrying of her enemies MACGREGOR&C.
Rockets should be used instead of Cannon. No artillery should be moved with the troops; it delays and impedes them. Infantry fire in the most fatal fre guns mako, & noise far out of proportion to their value in war. If guns are taken into the field, troops cannot march faster than these guns. The degree of speed at which the guns can be carried dictates the speen at which the troops can march. As long, as Peking is the centre of the Govern ment of China, Chinese can never go to near the sea. var with any fiat-class Power; it is too
ESTABLISHED 1886);
SOLE AGENTS FOR
FALCON
Nething, however, cans of these ricom rendations, and nothing was done, to provide China with a military organiza PILSENER BEER
A PURE LIGHT GERMAN BEER
DISTRICT
tion until the war with Japan gave cons vincing, proof of the need, Up to 1885, China had nothing that could be called a national ermy, and had refused to have anything to do with the idea ber- military forces consisted of the Banner FROM THE PILBEN men udelu Mongol, and Chinese), PRE whose only training consisted in shooting Occasionally with the bow and arrow, and POSSESSING ALL THE DELIGHTFUL the semi-independent provincial troops, which existed principally on paper, while CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCH BEERS. the par went into the pockets of the Officers, Connanding. In 1995 divisions of a new national army-the
hre
PINTS
2.00
Wu wel Chin-were raised, and, although PER 1 DOZ. QUARTS $3.00 the majority of the force soon lapsed or were disbanded one division has writ its name large on the face of history, as well as furnishing the nucleus of China's. modern army,The troops under the com mand of Yuan Shib kai, who remembered. the lesson of the Ever Victorious Army, were well fed and well clothed and regularly paid hence they were for
Plas Government Daby for most enters