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THE HONGKONG DAILY 12185, YRIDAY, OCTOBER 1st, 1915.
BRITISH MANUFACTURERS AND THE MACHINERY TRADE OF CHINA.
We have before us a letter received by a well-known London firm from an agency firm in China which affords apple evid enes that unless British manufacturing engineers are willing to come into line and
Amorison and Continental competitors are willing to accept, China trade will Ioradnalle. harama impassible for Reirish
FUND.
work more closely on the conditions thei: may reasonably ask that manufacturer try was, on the whole, slightly deelia Per Tak Shing Hong from
arins to secure, or be not worth the getting There can be no question, therefore, that manufacturers should now take such steps as are possible to strengthen their interests in China.
It will be immeasurably more difficult to do so after the war. It must be remembered that whilst many thousands of English engaged in China in commer. cial pursuits have left China to engage in the war. Germany's commercial influence is as strong in China numerically as before the outbreak of hostilities. For obvious reasons Germans in China are unable to roturn to their country. Thave as wieh to do so. Indeed in very many
four un
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China, Eastern
THE SILVER POSITION, A London paper of the 27th August has the following of the position of silver
Total
---------₫ | 2,400,00`
84.00 $550,044:91
$552.528.01
THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS. conrs ORDERS MY LIZOT,-OOL. CHAPMAN, V.B.
JOINED.
1.-Gunner H. McE. McTavish joined the-
Corps on 29th inst., allotted Corps No. 1916 and posted to No. 3 Sontion Artil lery Battery.
LEAVE.
thom oven amail machines, costing per- THE FUTURE OF BRITISH KWANGTUNG FLOOD RELIEF- haps up to £50 on consignment, ovon Al
ENGINEERING. they gave a guarantee to take same over for their own' account after 'a certain. timė,
The Tung Wah Hospital bege to. if no sale could be effected. They contend. The present abusing activity and that they have to run the expense of keep adaptability of the British engineering acknowledge with thanks the following ing su expensive show room (rent, light, industry is particularly surprising when donations to the Kwangtung Floods Relled and taxes count for scthing in the for we call to mind the state of depression eign settlements in China), keep expensive into which the industry was plunged and foreign and Chinese engineers, do all the year ago by the commencement of hosti. Par Mr. Lak Ip Kwing from Han Siang Kiok at Asalian, advertising in Chinese papers, and they Lities. On the outbreak of war last August the engineering trade of the coun-
Sumatra should make some sacrifice, too. We know of one firm which, owing to the ing. We appeared to be entering upon
Hung On Shop, Annam little support it obtained
one of thana nasinda of tendo depression Already acknowledged arra, had to turn to American that occur with ayolie regularity. But. suppliers, where they found more nesit the war speeded up the decline till it be ance, and consequently have done quite an colled-in evory-direction, and the out came an utter slump. Orders were can- amount of business with the United States look except for those few engineering lately. The firm in question would be firms normally engaged on the production only too pleased to go back to British of the machinery of war, was extremely manufacturers, but they naturally ask black. It was little use making for that they should receive the same facilities stock, seeing how impossible it was to It is high time, therefore, that British estimate future demands. The war might manufacturers themselves should decide to change every market Hinge all that take more active steps to secure the ma could be done was to wait patiently for chinery. trade in
something to turn up. The change Engineering.......
was not long coming. Within a month of the outbreak of war orders were be
Plant was ginning to come in again. wanted for the many new factories and casus they have instructions not to do so.
lised would be required in connection factory extensions that it was goon reas but to wait until the cessation of the war.
with the supply of unitions. This Then, when British commercial influenca The undertone of silver appears some- is woefully underrepresented in China, what improved, in consequence of the makers of machine tools, gas engines, meant that it was not long before the they hopa to come down like a wolf on the purchases made by the United States electrical plant, and construction steel- fold and regain not only the business and Treasury during the last few weeks. The work, to mention but a fraction of the prestige that the
war lost them, but total is said to exceed 2,000,000ozs, during engineering industries directly affected materially to enhance their scope and in the current month. Prices, howover, havby these extensions, were working at the fluence in Far Eastern markets. Yet the not been well maintained, but have fallen highest pressure. The necessary co-ordi- British manufacturer delays appointing gradually from 22 15-16 quoted on August nation of effort was brought about by the agents in that territory, or quibbles over
A slight increase in establishment first of local munitions. rates and terms. The demands of the the amount of supplies, and the sluggish committee, and latterly by the setting up Government upon manufacturers for war
ness of demand from Eastern markets, of the Ministry of Munitions. In this munitions and equipment, is surely not especially from the Indian bazaars, are way the potentialities of practically every the apparent reasons for this set-back engineering establishment in the country important matter of appointing represenChina is inclined to buy at falling rates.
were speedily made known. But out of tacion. This makes no call on manu-
The imports of the United Kingdom all the vast, seething changes of the past facturing facilities. It is a managerial from Chinn, during the first six months year there will arise an incalculably
almost clerical-matter." The mutufat-
of 1915 amounted to £3,233,720 in value, a greater British engineering industry than lias ever existed in the past. That is vac turer argues: What is the good my up compared with £1,075,840 during the cor-tremendously important fact that emerges pointing agents if I cannot execute the responding months of 1914, according to out of the first year of war. When we orders they will send me !" Here, again, Messrs. Samuci Montagu & Co. This re have utterly crushed Germany, os assur- the excus0 is hopelessly insufficient.
prosents an increase of 63 per cent, owing edly will be the case, the world's en- Agency negotiations take time to transace;
to the closure of enemy markets rather gineering trade will be in but two hands hence the advisability of taking them up than to an expansion in the total export those of ourselves and of America. We without delay. Orders do not follow trade of China, The exports from the shall once more become the workshop of immediately an agency is arranged., Far United Kingdom to China during these the world. All the war-devasted coun- from it, very often. The agent if he be worthy of the names alive to the condi- periods were £4,059,376 and £8,444,712 in tries will look to us to supply their in- value respectively, a diminution of 62 mense engineering requirements their tions both in China and Great Britain, per cont. in the case of the first six months railways, bridges, steel buildings, and he is willing to wait while he relains of this year. This remarkable falling of factory equipment, electric power sta the sole agency.
The great moral, the necessitates a substitution of so much tions, tramway systems, gas and stean moral that the manufacturer at home is silver, or credit in some form based upon engines, to mention but a few of an end so slow to realise, or realising does not silver, in order to balance the altered con-thing-we shall be in a position to meet less list. And here is the important apply, is that he must have some compot-ditions of trade,
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ent individual, or company or combine, The figures apply only to the relations the world's demand, thanks entirely to actually located in China, watching and between China and the United Kingdom, our factories were as they were & year ago our participation in the world war. If protecting and advocating his interests and it is possible that the balanost we should be quite incapable of meeting there, and able and willing to steer China trade between China and other countries, the enormous demand. Our loss would trade his way immediately conditions per especially the United States, may not have been America's gain. But the volat mit Advisory and selling organisations rave altered in the same proportions, but changes in our engineering works that have been, and are being, formed to help it is reasonable to assume that the more have perforce had to be made during British engineering interests in China, ment of trade was somewhat similar. If the pag year of war give us every chance but these, strange to say, do not always this assumption be correct it is hardly of pronting by the traile that will conne meet with the encouragement which it probable that China is in a position to with the signing of the treaty of peace. might be thought British manufacturers re-sell permanently aby portion of the A man of broad views, the Minister of would be only, too. ready to give.
large stock held here on account of that Munitions, we may be sure, secu some- There is an unlimited outlet for country, though, possibly, there may be thing more in the twenty six vast national ANY EUROPEAN, Non-Asiate or Anding achinery in China, but the drawback is occasional attempts to make a favourable munitions factories that are being buit
desiring to have the Colonging apply that the Chinese usually have no money to sale, with a view to replacement at a
in various engineering centres through- in writing for permission so da se to the pay the purchase price, and ask for pay- profit:
out the country, than a capacity to pro- duce such a super-abundance of shell as Captain SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, as Lentment facilities. The reason why German 48 hours for the intended hour of departure, arms occupy such a dominating position
will inevitably crush the enemy. He sees in these admirably-equipped facturies the giving namo, cationality, age, sex, height in the machinery markat of this country and occupation of the applicant, and stating
is due to the fact that they have always It may be interesting, when so many cpportunity for trade development at name of the steamer or other vessel or the hour of the train by which the applicant wishes to met the buyers, taking part-payment upon officers from the mercantile marine who present undreamed of as soon as the war is over. Here, truly, is a wonderful lease, Applicants should apply in person for delivery and the balance extended over n belong to the Royal Naval Reserve are
For instance, there are two serving their country, to publish a few vision of which the first year of war gives their passen at the CENTRAL POLION STATION few years. between the hours of 9 AM. te 1 P.M. and electrical installations for, together, about facts about Mesars. Devitt and Moore's us a glimpse. Of the future of the Bri- 30,000 lamps in a certain district in China, ocean training ships, the first started in tish engineering industry we many rest P.M. to 4 P.M. daily. Hongkong, 10th July, 1915.
supplied by the Allgemeine Elektrizitaets Great Britain for the training of merwoll assured-Engineering Correspondent
chant sorvino ondets in specially adapted Daily Telegraph. The Chinese com gesellchaft of Berlin, pany only paid about 15 per cent. of the tailing ships carrying naval instructors. The idea of these school ships was value of the plant at the time when it inaugurated in 1890. Lord Brassey took delivered, the balance being made up in instalments divided over six years.
An other words, the Chines usually wish to pay for the plant out of the profits which they can make with the installation, and MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAIBBA it is very seldom that they can accept the terms given by nearly all the British (MITSỰ BISHI CO.) machinery manufacturers, viz., one-third signing the contract, one-third upon DEPARTMENT.hipment, and one-third upon delivery. If British manufacturers wish to get the SOLE PROPRIETORS 67 TAKASIMA, bulk of this trade in China, or at least a OCHI, MUTABE, YOSHINOTANI, fair share of it, they will have to give
NAMAZUTA, BAYO, SHINNEW
facilities for payment. The fact that AND KAMIYAMADA Collieries. German competition is tied up now does
AGENTS FOR
not alter the situation much as regards SAKITO AND OYUBARI Coals. terms, because the Chinese cantot buy the machinery if they have to pay in full fur HEAD OFFICE ---MARUNOUCHI,
it; they have no money, and unless they are assisted by sellers the business is simply impossible. To mention a few of the leading engineering schemas worked in China by German firn on the basis of extended payments, the following Chinese companies in the Yangtse Valley alone will show how German manufacturers got a strong hold of the trade:- Hunan Electrie Light Co. at Changsha, contract about £15,000, payment in sik years.
COAL
TOKYO.
BRANCH OFFICES:-NAGABAKI, MOJI PARATSU, WAKAMATSU, OTARU, MURORAN, HAKODATE KOBE, OSAKA, KURE, TOKYO, YOKOHAMA, NAGOYA, TSURUGA, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, HANKOW,
PEKING.
Cable Address for above: "IWASAKI.” Codes: A1, A.B.C. 5th Ed, Western Union, AGENCIES:-**
CHINKIANG-Messra, GHARING & Co. MANILA-Məɛɛrs, MacoNDRAY & CO. SINGAPORE-Mesra, BORNEO CO., LTD.
GLASGOW--Mesura. A. R. BROWN,
MCFARLANE & Co., Lan For Particulars, spply to
K. KATO,...
Manager, -No. 2, Pedder Street, Hongkong. (510 Hongkong, 24th April, 1914, ̈
Hongkong, 18th August, 1915,
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NEW CARTRIDGES.
香港中外新耀
ENG
(Chinese Daily Press), PUBLIC BND DAILY
NGOI HAN PO Bin Bores and Bises.
popnfar Engiian Izanufacturer
BMOKELESS POWDER and CHILLET SAOT. From No. 10 to 8889, at 16, 57 anë 17.83 per 100 SPORTING REQUISITES and AIK GUNS in Variety,
In the oldest and still immeasurably the bes Advertising madium among tha Native Community, Established for over. FIT Fassa Jirenlatos largely throughout Southern Chins Indo-Chins atr Terms for Advertising(Translation from) ene be obtained st the QMoë, ICA, Des Vœux Bon? Central, Hongkong, 131, Flest Street, Londes or from the different Agents
"Dcommenta translated trom or inte Clamine or Colloquial Chirime
Inspection Invited.
WM. SCHMIDT
Hongkong, 4th February, 1916-
Co.
1609
Chungkiang Eletric Light Co., contract
a keen interest in its inception, and still continues his association with it
AUTOMOBILES IN JAPAN.
The undermentioned ure granted leave of absenco as follows:---- Gunner F, H. Fisher from 30th Sep
̈tember, 1916, to 30th September, 1918. Private F. Ellis from 2015 September,
1935, to 30th January, 1918. | Private 0. W. Fulcher from 1st Octavis
ber, 1915, to 18th Oftober, 1915, -
BIGNALLING SECTION. 3.-The following N.C.O and men will. parade under Sergant-Major Blair to-day, 1st October, at Star Ferry Vharf, Hongko at 6:45 p., to provide the necessary signallers for the Command biguling Station, at Kowloon:-
Sorgoänt Silas, Corpi, Lawrence, Le.-
Corpis. Reis-and-Rechua, Ples.___ Chaves, Young, Hurie Jacobs, and. Santos,
KINO'S PARK RANGE. 4.The Range is allatted to the Officers of the 74 Punjabis today, 1st October, from 0.90 a.m. to 12 noon.
ENGINEER COMPANY. 5.-"Belcher's Reliefs" for the month of
October is posted on the notice board. alt Headquarters for information of members of Engineer Company. PARADES.
6. Parades for Friday, 1st October: Nil
DETAJE,
7.--Gun Club Hill, Kowloon,
On duty nstil morning of 3rd October;1
Ne, 2 Section Artillery Battery. Officer on duty: Lieut. Danby.
DETENTION DAMP, KOWLOON,
On duty to-night: Civil Service Co. Officer on dath: Capt. Churchill. On duty 2nd October: Left Section: M.G. Co. and the following members. of Right Section M.G, Co.:--Ptes. Hyndman, Cordeiro, C. Ribeiro, G. Roza and Goldenberg, Officer on duty: Capt. Armstrong. Orderly Officer until 3rd October
Lieut. Rees. Orderly Sergeant until 3rd October:
Sergeant Hall.
G. E. STEWART, Capt Adjutant, HKV
HONGKONG POLICE RESERV
COMMENDATION,
General order No. 16 states that P.e. a
Poon Why, Police Heservo, is commends. od by the Captain Superintendent of Police for pluck, and "intelligence in effecting the arrest of a man armed with a chopper in Hollywood Road on tho 28th instant.
FATHOLS (CENTRAL),
For October 1st and 2nd, as already ordered. Sunday, October 3rd-
6.50 p.m.-One Sergeant and six P.-c. from Nu. 9 Company, The Chief Inspector will visit.
8.50 p.m.One Sergeant and six P.-, from No. 3 Company. The Chief Inspector will visit
Monday, October 4th-
5.50 p.m.-Oac Sergeant nad six P.-c.
from No. 2 Company. The Sargeant- · Mujer will visit
*
8.50 p.m. One Bergeant and six P., from No. 2 Company. The Sergeant- Major will visit,
PATROLS (EASTERN).
6,60 p.m.-P.-es. Sufiad and Abdul
Khan.
8.50 p.m.-P.-es. Rahumat and 8.
Mcosdeen, Sergeant Sufiad Saturday, October 2nd:-
visit.
G.50 p.m.-P.-es. Hamid and Bandran. 8,50 p.m.-P,cs. Omar and Santra, Crown-Sergeant Sirdar Khan will
The increasing use of automobiles in A little over two years ago the Admiralty agreed to take cadets who had Adrien Bertrand in L'Economiste Fran- Japan appears from av article by M. served one voyage in these sailing ships into a battleship for 12 months for train-futomobiles ya Jago there were not ant "At automobiles in Japan. At the present ing for the Royal Naval Reserve. the end of 12 months the cadets were to time there are nearly a thousand. The return to the sailing ships to complete main obstacle in the way of the use of the period of service required by the motor cars is the condition of the roads, Friday, October 1st: Board of Trade for second matar carti- but this drawback will disappear in time. ficates. Several cadets availed themselves Already several roads have been improved. An automobile club, founded in 1911, is of this offer before the war broke out.
When the training ships Port Jackson active in this direction, and the roadways and Medway arrived home in the autumn will be bettered according as the number of 1914 no fewer than two-thirds of the of cars grows. In their fure, the cars total number of cadets on board were will become more numerous as the roads granted commissions in one capacity or become easier to travel. Indeed, the cause another. The total number of old cadets and the effect will go hand in hand. now serving is well over a hundred, from Tokyo and Kyoto have possessed taxi-cabs commanders R.N.It. to probationary mid for two years, and these have met with For
The Medway sailed again for the great success, Certainly, rich potential Colonies last April, with 10 cadets on Purchasers of motorcars are not numer- board, mostly first voyagera. Six more us, and all those who are in a position to have been sent out by steamer to join buy and maintain them will be rapidly. But in this country of fow her at Hobart, Tasmania, at which port supplied. she duly arrived after a good run of railways the supply of automobiles for the 95 days.
transport of passengers as well as mer chandise from town to town should prove an important branch of trade, American firms have sprung to the head of the Japanese markot, by having stocks in readiness when soliciting custom, by caus The 1st Platoons of No, 2 and No. 3 Com
shipmen R.N.R.
PACKS OF WOLVES. IN SHANSI.
CROPS EATEN UP BY LOCUSTS.
Writing from Taikuhsien in Shansi to the ... Daily News, a correspondent
Gay's:
visit.
PATROLS (WATER POLICÉ),
October 1st and 2nd, as already ordered, Sunday, October 3rd:
6,50 p.m.-Two P.-es. (S) to be detailed
by Inspector Wong,
8.60 p.m. Two F.-ce, (8) to be detailed by Inspector Wong, also Mohamad Okbar (P). Monday, October 4th
.
5.50 p.m.-P.
Fothergill (8), Bailey (S), and Packham (P).
8.50 p.m.-P.-cs: Wessor (8), Robertson
(S), and Nicoll (P),
OVERHAUL OF BIFLES,
about £3,000 payment in four years. Shansi Electric Light Co., contract about
£4,000, payihent in five years. Siangtan Electric Light Co., contrast about £12,000, payment in six years. Changsha Cotton Mill, contract about
£110,000, payment in five years. Hunne Telephone Co., contract about
£90,000, payment in three years. To the foregoing might be added hun-present is such a time, and they are American cars have been so mediocre "Fal in under the Musketry Sergeant
beginning their attacks unusually early, that they are for the most part useless. dreds of smaller concerns for pumping. On August 30 in a place called The practical Japanese will not make re- mining, printing, flour mill, rice mill Ta'engohiaying in the Yuhsiang district purchases of these types, and they are Piques and other details will report to the machinery, elc.. Tho purchase price is in south-western Shausi, an old man, two
ing a demand for their wares and instruct-
panics will parade at the Central Police ing Japanesa chauffeurs. The Americans
Station for the re-issue of their rifles have thus secured a great start, It is
on Friday, October 1st, at 5.80 p.m. sharp. necessary then to construct cars in large quantities in order to maintain the same The 2nd Platoons of the same Companies types and to sell them very cheaply. They The The must, nevertheless, by well made.
Every fow years we hear of the depre- dations of wolves in this province.
will parade at the same time and place and return their rifles to the Armoury,
PROMENADE CONCERT, OCTOBER 2ND. PIQUET DUTY,
Sergeant Major at the Main Bandstand, at 8.15 p.m. sharp. Uniform with Capé and Canes Belts will be, issued. Inspector d'Almada will warn three men. Crown-Sergeant Sirdar Khan will
Warn
three men, P.-cs. Bailey, Nicoll and Guimarães will
report themselves.
Inspector Wong will warn three man to take admission money and three men for programmes.
F. C. JENKIN,
M. Bertrand even of less importance then the question small children, and a young girl, were ready to go therefors to the French (and of terms, and British machinery can be mauled by wolves. All four victims died equally British) firms, better and cheaper than anything else in the same evening. In that same district, suggests that a syndicate of houses should the world, but it is the terms which that Renlits un, a man named Wang sont establish a garage at Tokyo with a good Chinese require.
his son into the mountain ravines to representative. This, combined with judi- cious advertising of several types of cars The boy not return- There is another point as regards small gather brushwood.
on view, would soon open up an import- machinery. German machinery firms geting at nightfall, his father went in liberal assistance as regards consignment search of him and found his halfentenant trade. from manufacturers. Small boilers,body. In the Bukow district near here, and Peiyang between the Nanying steam engines, ice-making plants, and villages, a lad twelve or fifteen years old four mills and rice mills, oil engines, was attacked by wolves the other day and An Army Order state that. a badge motors, dynames, machine tools, etc., cas severely wounded. On the borders of consisting of the letter and an always be had from German firms from Sinchow and Tinghsiang in north on-outspread wing has been approved for stock, which they get free of charge from tral Shansi, the wolves are said to be wear by officers who are on the list of the manufacturers and make payment after going out in packs and are terrorizing the qualified observers of the Royal Flying sales have been effected. On the other villagers Bore is an opportunity both Corps. The badge will be worn on the thirty-three on the promenade of Douglas, hadd, we know of firms in China who have for exciting sport and for benevolent left breast above medal ribbons in the Tale of Man, are empty this sason. The found it nearly an impossible task to in-service for those whose tastes rus to same innper as the flying badge is worn ordinary amusements of the town have duce any British manufacturers to give hunting.
ceased to be. by qualified pikata.
D. S. P. (Reserve).
Twenty-seven shops out of a row of