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THE DIRECTORY AND CHRONICLE
1915.
POR CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO- CHINA, BIAM, SERAITS SETTLE- MEN ES, MALAY STATES, WETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP- PINES, BORNEO, ETC.
FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL ISSUE
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■ large volume.
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The Directories and Descriptions are of :---
CHINA.
Faking
-Soochow ~~~~ Canton, Fiontain. Chiakinng Whampa Feitaiko,
Nanking. Kowloon.
Chiawangtao Wuhu, Lappa
Taku.
Antung.
Kowkiang. Samehui.
Horkow.
Kongmoon.
Manchurian Tochow. Nanning.
Trade C'tros, Shansi,
Newchwang Ichang.
Dairon.
Wuchowfu.
-- KwangchauwaJ. Chungking Pakhai,
Port Arthur. Hengchow. Hothow.
Chofoo..
Weihaivoi.
Teinanfu.
Mukden.
Ningpo. Lungshow.
Wochen. Môngtre.
Brotu.
Hokow.
Foachow. Szemzo.
Shanghai. Amoy. Tengruak.
Swatow
JAPAN AND FORMOVA,
Tokyo.
Osaka,
Koedang.
Yokohama, Moji.
Hyoga.
Tainania.
Nagunki. Takow Hakodate Anping. Shimonoseki. Tamaui.
Kobe,
Nicolojerak,
Eastern SidebiA,
Vladivostook.
CHOSEN.
Beoul.
Chomulpo.
Kunsan.
Wonsan. Mokpo.
Fusta. Chinnampo. Pingyang. Songchin.
HONGKONG AND IT DEPENDENCIES, MAULO,
Hanoi,
FRENCH INDO-CHINA.
Appom Tourers
Saigon. Cambodge
Haiphong. - Hus. Tonkin Provinces. Quinhoa.
Manila:
PHILIPPINKS.
·Iloilo.
Cebu.
Bacawak Rrunei;
Perak.
Labuan.
British North Borum. BINGYOK.
MALAY STATES.
Selangor. Pabang-
Nogri Sembilan, Johore,
Kelantan.
Kedah Trengganu. Perlis.
Bingapore, Ponang, Malacca, Prov. Wellesley.
Batavia.
Buitensorg.
British. Trench.
STRIES SETZLEMENTS,
NETHLANDS Imma.
Bamarang. Padang. Sourabaya. Masnasar.
East Coast of Sumaira.
NAVAL SQUADRONE.
Japaziere.
United Staton, Siamese. Italian.
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The
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The CHRONICLE covers the notable events together with the Texts of all the most important Treaties concluded with the countries of Eastern Asia, the various Customs Tariffs, Trade Regulations, Oban- bors of Commerce, Scales of Commissions. Consular and Court Fees, Hongkong Stamp Duties, Postal Guide, Signal Codes, Chinese Festivals, Tables of Money, Weights and Measures and other Commercial Information The CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY, though condensed in every possible manner. contains every year more pages.
It was years ago universally pronounced te be the cheapest work of the kind anywhere published, and although very much enlarged and improved in every way, the price in ailver is now below the equivalent of £1 5, mki widok # was originally published.
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WEATHER, REPORT,
China and Annam.
to-day is as followsian
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No. 1. Routh coast of Okins between ƒ The same as Hongkong and Lamooka. No. 1. South coast of Chins between (The same se
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JAPAN'S TRADE WITH CHINA,
THE FAR EASTERN COMPROMISE.
THE MANUFACTURE OF DYES AND CHEMICALS. JAPANESE STATE-AID SCHEME, A Bill has been introduced in the Japanese Diet by the Government to ou courage the manufacture of dyes and The text of the
On the 18th at 10.50 am-Pressure has
Mr. Tsurumi, Secretary to the Depart given way moderately over N. Japan and ment of Agriculture and Commerce, who
The Times of May 10th has the follow- increased slightly elsewhere; it in cow highest had some time ago returned from an ex-ing leading article:-- to the South of Japan, the anti-opclone having tended trip in North China for commer syraad westward. Relatively low arent cover Ncial inspection, has published the follow confidence on Friday have been realized chemicals in Japan,
The hopes which we expressed with some ing summary of his views on Japan's China and Japan havo-adjusted their dif-measure is given by the Japan Chromele trade with Ching which we reproduce Hengkong mistelle 34 boar endu gat from the journal of the Japanese Chamferences, and the war cloud in the Fars follows: | 10 ́am, to-day, 0.11 inches.
Article 1-The term " ber of Commerce at Yokohamní:-
East has been dispersed. At an early this Taw includes aniline salt, auilice, dyes" used a The forecast for the 24 hours ending at our China is one of the most important hour yesterday morning, the Government dyes, alizarine dyes, and synthetic indigo. fields for Japan's foreign trade, only next of Peking wisely accepted the terms of the The scope of the term chemicals" will to the United States in the bulk of trade. final Japanese Note. Говиолет
ho determined by an Imperial Ordinance. The latest returns show that Japan's
This document, as Article 2-Any joint-stock company (S. 48.E. winds, trade with China reaches 150,000,000 yen we stated on Saturday, withdrow from organised in accordance with Japanese Bangkong & Neighbourhood moderate; fair to a year. Consequently, the progress of the the present negotiations, and reserved for law; more than half the capital of which Laloudy, Chinese trade has an important bearing friendly discussion hereafter, the most is subscribed by Japanese and the major upon the national economy for the future. contentious portion of the demanda oriity of votes boing held by Japanese sub- Inpan mould spare no effort in encourag ginally made by Japan upon China, ing her trade with China. But it is to the questions in Group V. of these pro and chemicals in Japan, rus apply for a Aljects, engaged in the manufacture of dyes be regretted that the present coonomic condition of China, as investigated by posals, except the Fukien question, on subsidy for ten years dating from the day various measu, is not what could be
which a compromise had been already on which this Law comes into force. desired, and only one-tenth part of reached, disappeared, and China assented China's vast population can afford to pay without further demur to the other claims for foreign supplies. It is quite safe to of Japan in their revised shape. The assert that, if the conditions of the thinly- Powers have yet to see the text of the populated parts of the country are taken Agreement, but there is reason to trust into consideration, only one out of forty that it will prove to be generally accept- Chinese can afford to pay for the imable, at all events in principle. Both ported goods. Assuming the Chinese countries are to be warmly congratulated population be 400,000,000, only upon this issue of a controversy which
Article 4-Any concern enjoying the 10,000,000 of them can be said to have any might have had most deplorable results. subsidy, must not dispose of its profits purchasing power, the rest, 300,000,000. It does particular credit to the Japanese without the sanction of the Minister of remain unable to consume any foreign Ministers, who had to resist a strong supply. It is to be observed that nature current of Chauvinist feeling-in-the-
the competent Department.
Artiole In the case of a company favours Chinese agriculture, and the crop nation, and it justifies once again the which, carrying on another line of busi- of natural products is rich and abundant, world-wide reputation of the Eider States-ness, engages in the manufacture of dyes In spite of it, the people at large are pour met apparently because of the long continued reign of extortion and internal troubles. It is, therefore, urgent that the people's wealth may be improved by enlightened administration, if the trade with China were to be developed fundamentally.
CHINA COAST
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Tindrostook Neuro Hakodate Tokio.
No. 1.
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Article 3-The amount of subsidy to be given to any concern shall be sufficient to enable it to pay a dividend of 8 per cent. per annum on its paid-up capital at the end of each financial year.
The rate of calculating profit and sub sidy shall be determined by means of Tins perial Ordinance.
To speak quite frankly, the pro-and chemicals according to law as au Posals which have been withdrawn did not auxiliary venture, the stipulations of the easy to reconcile, as reproduced in two preceding Articles shall apply.
Article 6. During the period the sub- this country, with the broad assursbesa which Japan voluntarily communicated to aidy is given the Minister of the compet Washington at the beginning of the negocat Department may supervise the busi- tiations. Demands that China, shouldness of the company, issue necessary purchase from Japan more than half of orders, and enforen their execution.
In order to increase the wealth of Chinese farmers, it is necessary that their sicul- tural products he exported. If by munitions of war she might require done, the wealth of the people would in the alternative that she should per increase to an enormous degree.
mit Japan to establish an arsenal in many foreign merchants are doing their China to be worked jointly by the two best in China for the export of Chinese States, that the police in parts of the products is, whether voluntarily or not, Chinese Empire should be jointly ad in consonance with the above view. That ministered by them, that Japanese ad- Buch & view is correct can be proved by visers should be employed in political, the fact that because the Mitsui Bussan financial and military affairs, and that ofd Kaisha is engaged in the export of beans Japan should have the right to own land in Manchuria to the amount of over in the interior for certain purposes were 80,000,000 yen a year, the wealth of the certainly liable to misconstruction, and people in the entire region of Manchuria might readly have opened the door to and that in the vicinity of Tientsin have dangerous controversies in the future. increased in recent years, and this has in Lights of the kind, require to ho strictly turn resulted in the larger demand for defined, if they are not to interfere with imported goods.
the political independence or the terri Turning to the industrial condition in torial integrity of the State to which they China, the raw material both from apply, or with the policy of the open door agriculture and pasture is unlimited in which Japan has advocated in common supply, the fuel is cheap, and labourers with England, the United States, and of better eliciency than the Japanese can other Powers. be had easily. Compare this with the Group V were particularly disliked by The railway clauses in stato of things prevailing hero. It is now the British community in China, and in reported that an Osala cotton mili poid
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Article 7u-the-event of a subsidised company acting contrary to an order of the Minister of the competent Depart ment, or contrary to the conditions at tached to the aubsidy, or failing to abide by measures taken by the Minister to enforce his instructions, payment of the hole or part of the subsidy may be with held.
Article 8-Any concern gaining receipt. of a subsidy by fraudulent means shall be made to refund the amount, so ob
tained.
The refund above mentioned shall bo
collected by a similar process as in the case of collection of national taxes in
arrear.
In this respect the Government shall have a prior claim to the company's property next to national taxes.
Article 9-Medicines or perfumery manufactured with by-products from coal tar a materials in connection with the be recognised as manufactured dyes and manufacture of dyes and chemicals shall
chemicals,
Article 10 The manufacture of the
40 yen for canvassing for shipping mill default of explanations undoubtedly hand hande, and still could not get suflisten to infringe upon British interests, materials of gunpowder and explosives
not upon British rights..
and of certain medicines to be determined While the courage and the good sense by Imperial Ordinance shall be regarded of dyes and
cient number of them. Thus Ching has far more advantage thap Japan for cotton milling industry, and the recent tendency of the Japanese statesmen in making these as the manufacture is that a great number of cotton mills have extensive modifications in their first pro-chemicals,
Indeed posals are deserving of the highest praise, grown up along the Yangtare. there are 48 mills there, of which only the reflection is inevitable that more cau six are under Japanese control. It will tion in formulating their original de- be noticed with interest that working on mauds and greater tact in the conduct of LEGISLATURE IN CALIFORNIA, the above conception, the Naigai Monks the negotiations might have ensured Kaisha of Osake has embarked in am them the advantages they have acquired
4,000 BILLS INTRODUCED IN A enterprise of establishing a large cotton without resort to so drastic a step as the mill on the Yangtze with 100,000 spindles issue of an ultimatum.
SESSION. It is hoped that the example maybe tion which Prince Yamagata is said to The dissatisfac
The San Francisco Chronicle, referring followed by many other spinning mill have expressed does not appear to be to the adjournment of the State Legisla companies in Japan.
wholly unwarranted. Japan has many ture, remarks:- enemies, and, under their tuition, the very
How many new laws will go on to the
1-BAROMETER, radnoed to 8 dess bruchal UNDER THE WHITE ENSIGN, affairs in Peking knows how to make the we shall not know until the Governoz ig
on the level of the men in inches, tenths an kundredths.
S'TEMPERATURI, in the shada, in- degrees:] Fehrenbelt.
$ HUMIDITY,
parentage of mimation, th bumility of air natursted with moisture being 100
4 DIRBŪZION OF WIND, to two pointu
THE DEADLINESS OF GERMAN TORPEDOES..
able and astuto politfelan at the head of statute book as the result of this session most of any tactical mistakes she may two years ago, enacted 699 statutes and through with them The Legislature of commit. She has obtained from China many valuable concessions, but it seems constitutional amendments and city char passed ninety-nine concurrent resolutions, probable that, with more circumspection ters, or 788 legislative acts in all. They and with more address, she might have were the product, in round numbers, of [BY FRED T. JANE.]
secured them without affording her ill-4,000 $ Ponen or Wma, mocording to Beaufort Scale.
billg introduced, including wishers any pretext for the insinuatione duplicates, and do not include bills passed 1.STATE OF WHarnum, h blue sky, o detached
There is a certain amount of danger they have not hesitated to make. cload, ddrisaling rain, I fog, g gloomy, h had, 4 that in the horror caused by the torpedo withdrawal of the claims which seemed to Governor. It does not seem possible that. By the by the Legislature and not signed by the labizing, o orcast, pressing shower, a squaling of the Lusitania we shall lose our she has given the best possible answer to changes in the laws every two years.. rwin, axnow, t thunder, w visibility, w dow (wes
lend themselves more particularly to cavil the welfare of the people requitia 700 Baix in inches, & tenths and hundredths,
sense of proportion, which is, of course, insinuations of the kind. She has for- While it is possible that our record of just what the Germans hope. No one seems to have kept any exact record of the one nothing of material value to her at changer may be equalled by some other the present moment, and she has oogs States, nothing like it ever occurs outside non-combatant lives hitherto lost owing more reaffirmed and strengthened her this country. to Germany's peculiar methode of cou ducting naval warfare, but the cumula
moral position by a practical refutation One cause of our enormous output of tive toll of life must be little short of the her. The masses in Japan may be dis- minor importance which our Legisla of the insidious charges whispered against legislation is the number of subjects of result achieved by the submarine which appointed at the compromise to which ture deals with, but which in other destroyed the Lusitania. The crime the Emperor and his advisers have come, countries are handled by the executive against humanity is more dramatic, but but friendly observers abroad will gee in authorities. Our Legislature also passes the criminality has existed 'all along.
That being so, it is well not to give the
it a fresh proof that her statesman fix upon matters, such as the fixing of Germuns the satisfaction that some of the have the sagacity and the courage, even in
their gaze upon the far-off future, and salaries of county offices, which ought to things written must cause them to feel moments of popular excitement, not to
bo fixed by the people of the counties. Probably, the most potent cause of the For example, the charge of having used prejudice it by grasping in the present of our legislation is the unlimited freedom large output, as well as of the great cost.. "poison gas" torpedoes can be so easily refuted that it is a great pity that it should ever have been made.
HONGKONG MATEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, June 16th,
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WARSHIPS.
of members to introduce billa Hundreds of bills are introdued which have no chance of passing, but which take much- time of committees and the Legislature the Lusitania's hull before they exploded CONSTRUCTION OF JAPANESE and cost a great deal for printing.
had they exploded in the ordinary way,
there is a growing tendency to
pass such that is to say, on contact, it is very un
bills as an act of courtery to the mem likely that the huge liner would have been
ber introducing them or as the result of anything worse than disabled, she would. DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF PEERS, some trade of votes expecting the merely have had two compartments Blood-
Governor to, veto the unfit. Such abuses ed, Brating inside, however, their effect At a recent meeting of the Budget Comare impossible in countries having what was that of two magazines exploding. mitte of the Japanese House of Peers the which the executive is
are called responsible governments,** in Little wonder, therefore, that the ship following queries and replies were the Legislature, and resigns when not in responsible to sank so rapidly, or that go many were kill ed by the fumes of the explosive,
exchanged
accord with, the Legislature In those The explosive charge carried by Ger Mr. Hashimoto Keisaburo: How is the ment have the right of way, and while
countries, bills proposed by the govern man submarine torpedoes is enormous, no age limit of warships-determined f
private members may under varying lese than 420lb of T.N.T-a good buti Admiral Yashiro (Minister for the restrictions-introduce bills, they have dred pounds more than the charge en Navy) The age limit of a warship is small chance of passing unless the govern ployed in ordinary German ship torpefused according to experience. At prement gives them facilities that is. does. This is achieved by reducing the sent 20 years is the limit and it it is does not claim the time of the Legislature. motive power and limiting the range to proposed to shorten it, the Naval Es We are not likely to get such a govern about a thousand yards, which is about timates must be taken into consideration ment,, and probably should not like it, the maximum needed for submarine work when coming to a decisi this,
but surely there can some way, be devised The weight thus saved is expended in Mr. Hashimoto How is the building to restrict the volume of our new legisla heavier charge. In this, by the way, we of warships apporti ed in different tion. find the explanation of why the torpedoes. years?. Is it a matter of building.capacity of German submarines have been so unor of financial limits? And is the passag expectedly destructive. It is not due, as of the Naval Estimates likely to have the was at one time supposed, to the poster effect of causing a large exodus of specie sion of a wonderful new explosive--ther abroad is nothing novel in TN.T., which is only slightly more powerful than the explo sive generally used in war heads.
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A fireman who was among the saved from the Lustanie was also in the Titanic and Empress of Ireland disasters.
Ore of Germany's latest propagandist moxes is to issue to the neutral Press a statement by the Landammann of Heost, the new battle cruiser Kirishima, 74 per works that lately there have been 2 Admiral Yashiro: In the building of where are some of the largest German dye cent of the materials used were of remarkable number of fires in German Japanese manufacture. Destroyers are stores and provision depots, and that now built in Japan, so the exodus of these Bres are obviously due to arson and specie abroad owing to the construction have been caused by English agents sent of warships will not be very large. It by the British Government, This, how- is a matter for regret that submarines ever, is too strong meat even for pro- cannot yet be built in Japan.
Prussian Swiss papers.