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INTIMATIONS
THR HONGKONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH, 1915.
MOUTRIE PIANOS
SHANGHAI PAHANG RUBBER
ESTATE.
ANNUAL MEETING,
Represent the highest degree of perfection in artistic construction Yusa Ming Yuen Road, Shanghai,
and are backed by a
GUARANTEE
for
FIVE YEARS.
JAPAN'S WARNING.
THE MONARCHICAL MOVEMENT IN CHINA
THE BATTLE OF LOOS.
SHANGHAI VOLUNTEER'S FINE DESCRIPTION.
PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS.
The directors of the Pacific Mail Steam- ship Company, which recently sold five
writes from of its ships to the Atlantic Transport
The annual general meeting of share. The following official communiqué was
A Shanghai volunteer holders of the Shanghai Pahang Rubber issued at the end of last month by the
Company for 85,250,000, called a special France on October 3rd:-- Estate, Ltd, was hold on November 3rd Foreign Office at Tokyo:-
meeting of stockholders in New York ou at the offices of Messrs. Meyer & Moasor, The movement recently set on foot in
You will probably be glad to hear September 2nd. to vote upon a proposi and secretaries, China for the change of the National Con- have got through the great battle of the tion to reduce the capital stock from general managers
stitution now appears to have taken a last week without a scratch. Our divi-820,000,000 to $1,000,000, so as to permit a distribution of assets among the stock- Mr. V. Meyer (Chairman) said:-Dur rapid turn towards realization of its aim.sion (47th) started the ball rolling on
holders. "At present, when as yet there is little Saturday, September 25th, and after a ing the year under review a great deal of
The plan provides for a redue- work has been put into the estate, as in prospect of an early conclusion of the war week in the front line we have been tion in the par value of the stock from
$100 to 85, leaving pach stockholder with the autumn of 1914 it passed from the de-in Europe and when a sense of misgiving brought back about ten miles to "rest"
We are now in
the same proportionate ownership as velopment to the tapping stage, There prevails, every possible effort should be and well we needed it, was the usual difficulty of organizing a made to avoid the creation of a situation comfortable billets getting over the most before. An official statement Guid
The act of Congress approved Mareh tapping force, but eventually we had in any part of the world prejudicial to strenuous week I've ever had in my life,
"About a couple of weeks before the 4th, 1816, generally known as the Sea- 17,000 trees under the knife. Out of 200 peace and tranquillity and thus prevent
great battle I was transferred to the men's Act," becomes effective November aores under cultivation 176 are now pro- the outbreak of a new complication. ducing. To given detailed prout and loss
Although it would appear as if there brigade machine gun battery-exactly the 4th, 1915, as to vessels of the United Stater The company cannot continue account in connection with the work dur- were throughout the country no great opsame as the Maxim Co., S.V.C., and we
to the establishment of ahad the same kind of guns as we had out operations under the terms of that Act ing the past year would be misleading, as position
For a couple of week we were without incurring heavy losses, Figures the working cost of an estate just com Monarchy, a careful observation of the there. mencing to top is necessarily very high, actual state of affairs in China based upon busy making new dug-outs (which we show that the act would increase the and we have therefore written off from information possessed by the Imperial found very useful afterwards), special expenses of your trans-Pacific fleet as to the items of wages and feeding crews along general expenditure the proceeds of rub. Government shows that it is undeniable emplacements for guns, cellars for am-
munition, etc. So by Friday night, by $640,805 per annum, other previsions of that such appearances are more superacial ing the net expenditure, inclusive of de than real. preciation and Shanghai charges, at Ts. 12,450.62. With the addition of the expenditure to June 30th last, namely, Tis.
INSPECTION OF OUR NEW MODELS ber sold, amounting to Tls. 10,544.51, lony.
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12,450.62, the development account now stands at Tls, 25,119.77 and as there are only 25 acres not in bearing, this account will not be materially increased. Tex. per cent, has been allowed for depreciation of buildings and other moveable assets, and, in view of the fact that all this property is comparatively now, this allowance is con- sidered sufficient. The paid up capital at June 30th last had been increased to Tis. 83,950-as shown in the balance sheet, Mr. Spedman had the option of taking up. to 100.000 shares in all at par, includ- ing 50,000 as vender. A portion were sub- scribed in the accounts now before you and he hag since taken up the balance.
In order to obtain the benefit of reduced rents, application has been made for the company's titles to be brought under the Country Lands Enactment, 1914. Under the provisions of this regulation a certain proportion of the uncultivated land has to be planted up by a given date. The com pany's undeveloped and consists of about 400 acres, and the bourd have arranged to commence clearing and planting one block of 25 acres. By carrying on this work at times when sufficient labour can be spared to attend to it, it is hoped that it can be done economically
The undercurrent of opposition is far stronger than would be imagined, and a feeling of unrest is spreading in all parts of the country.
In reviewing the results of H.E. President Yuan Shih-kai's administration during the past four years it will be found that the disturbed state of the provinces way becoming daily more tranquil and order now reigns in the country.
September 24th, we were all ready and
moved up into our new trenches ready for the next day.
Our instructions were to open fire, when a certain signal was given on the German communicating trenches and fire over our own troops as they advanced. We were on a slope, the advance was over a small valley, and the Germans were on the opposite slope.
the act relating to lifeboat crews and to your Central American line would swoll this amount. The abnormally large sur plus in 1915, due to higher rates following the withdrawal of Canadian Pacific and Japanese steamers, in consequence of the European war, would not suffice to me the increase of wages and freding ex- are forbidden by law to pay dividends Penses the act will demand. The directors out of surplus. profits or to divide any At 5.40 a.in. Saturday, September
stockholders. In order to permit the "If the President is resolved to main. 25th, the order came through that the part of the company's capital among the tain the political status quo in China and attack was then to start, and we saw little distribution of moneys as a dividend to leave unaltered the line of progress he has columns of smoke and gas rising up from stockholders a reduction of the company's hell was let loose. Our own artillery taken it will not be long before order will our front trench-that was a signal that capital stock is deemed advisable." be completely restored and perfect repose (which had been keeping up a steady bom and tranquillity assured in the country,
bardment for nearly a week) 'started in Should, however, a sudden move be again, and the Germans started a most made by the President to establish infernal bombardment, shells dropping Monarchy it is quite possible that a spirit all around us, and their rifle-firo and of opposition would immediately give rise machine-gun fire was awful. Most of it to disorder and disturbance and China came on to our trench, as they could not
more be thrown in serious
see for smoke and were firing high. would once danger,
In the face of the present situation, hering regard to the importance of the interests involved, the Japanese Govern ment cannot but feel deep concern in a possible recrudescence of dangerous condi- tions in China.
In view of sach a state of affairs the Imperial Government, solely actuated by a desire to preserve the peace of the Orient by timely precaution, has decided to ap. pronch the Chinese Government, pointing out to them the fact that there is in the present situation cause for grave anxiety and inquiring if the Chinese Government is fully convinced that it is capable to at tain peacefully the end of the Monarchical
That went on for forty minutes, then we got orders to open fire with our machine-guns, and they just poured it out, adding to the awful noise and von fusion. We could only s fifty yards in front of us for smoke, etc., but I had arranged a target overnight by placing my guns about twenty yards behind two ruined houses, and there was a ruin in front which gave me the correct elevation, My own gun shot off. 2,500 rounds in thirty minutes, and we were told by Ger man prisoners that our fire on their com munication trenches was so severe that it prevented their bringing up reinforce- ments, which was exactly our object. Also, our own troops said it was very com forting to hear the machine-guns firing over their heads and giving them sup- port as they advanced.
Furthermore, should a disturbance break out in Chins it would not only be to her great misfortune, but it would do im measurable harm, directly or indirectly, A highly important and very satisfac to the Powers having important interests tory feature of the Shanghai Pahang in China, particularly to Japan, whe Estate is the excellent yield obtained. As stands in special relations with China.
"It is also apprehended that the gen. already mentioned we commenced is tap in November, 1914. In December the outeral peace of Eastern Asia might thus be put was 1,516 lbs, and it rose steadily to endangered. the end of the financial year, the June figure being 3.847 lbs. Since then we have had over 4,000 lus, each month, and during
I FELT PROUD I WAS AN ENGLISHMAN.” the present financial year we expect a
Well, at the same time as our guns total of about 50,000 lbs. Owing to the
our front line small area of the estate the overhead
started the troops in charges are somewhat heavy, and for this
started their advance, and the way the They went out beautifully. They knew reason it seemed desirable to increase the
finest sight I've over seen in my life. size of our property. It was suggested to the directors that administration expenses
they were going to attack one of the strongest points in the German line, they could be curtailed by acquiring the adjoin- ing estate, known as "Inverawe,"
"The Imperial Government will then knew that many of them would be dead in a quarter of an hour, yet they went sisting of about 338 neres of which 279 present its views in 'n most candid and acres are planted and mostly in bearing friendly manner to the end that the Presiout as calm as any troops might be on a a steady walk, in beautiful order, line a matter of fact, dent of the Republic may be persunded to parade ground. No hurry, no panic, just I felt proud I was after line of them, planted by the original manager of the adopt, in the interest of all concerned, the Pahang estate, prior to the planting of the wise course of postponing the proposed an Englishman that moment, and proud Pahang division, while the general char scheme of changing the form of govern that I had the honour of seeing them and acter of the land is identical. On apment in order to prevent the outbreak of helping them.
an unfortunate disturbance and to con- proaching the Chinese owners it was found that the lowest price they would accept solidate the peace of the Far East. was £80,000, and we therefore secured the option for a sufficient period to enable a survey to be made as well as a thorough inspection by Mr. Roger Pears, of Messra.
This estate was,
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con-
movement.
The Imperial Government accordingly has given the necessary instructions to its Chargé d'Affaires in Peking
The company still owns eight steam- ships. It was officially announced that these will be sold as soon as a satisfactory purchaser can be found.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.
cores openS BY LIECZ.-GOL, CHAUSIAN, Y.J.
-JOINED.
1. Sapper A, B., D. Stanley Smith joined
the Corps on 5th November, 101ā," allotted Corps No. 1932 and posted to Engineer Company.
DESIGNATIONS.
2--Pte. CJ. Hewitt, is permitted to resign, dated 2nd November, 1915- Pte. G. de V. de Havilland is permit ted to resign, dated 4th November, 1916, both on leaving the Colony,
PARADES.
3.-Parades for Wednesday, 10th instant:
Nil.
Parades for Thursday, 11th instant. 5.10 p.m. Recruits of all units (except Right Section M.G. Co. and Signal- ling Section), Squad drill and ride' exercises at Hendquarters under Sergeant Major Higby and Sergeant. Longmire.
5.30 pm. Recruits of Engineer. Com- pany, Musketry and Rifle exercises. at Thikoo Dockyard, under Sergeant Everest.
Remainder: NH.
DETAIL..
4. Gun Club Hill, Kowloon,
On duty until morning of 11th inst
Scouts Company.
Officer on duty: Lieut. Weall: Next for duty; H.K.V.R.
P. of W. Camp, Kowloou:
On duty to-night: Loft Section M.G. Co, and 7 members of Right Section M.G. Co.
Officer on duty: Capt. Armstrong, Orderly Sorgeant until morning of th
bastant: Sergeant D. S. Cooper. Next for duty: H.K.V.K.
4. E. STEWART, Capt., Adjutant, H.K.v.c.
"They carried everything before them and took trench after trench from the wretched Hun. The cowards fired on our brave fellows up to the last minute and then threw up their arms and surrender- Well, by nine o'clock we had cap- tured Loas, and had done all that our HONGKONG VOLUNTEER RESERVES.
We had Division had orders to do.
ORDRES BY MAJOR. WAEEMAN, 2.0.X...B fought and gained our goal.
"In taking this step the Imperial Gor-ed. F. W. Baker & Co. The survey eventual-ernment has no intention of interfering in to be 279 the domestic affairs of China, Its action TO-NIGHT
ly showed the planted aren 9p. Mr. Meurice E. Bandmann at the acres, which was slightly less than the is prompted solely by a desire to perform Nevertheless it was what it conceives to be its duty to its owners had stated. Theatre Royal-Horace Goldin and Comfound impossible to obtain a reduction in friendly neighbour.
price. On receipt of the result of the sur vey and Mr. Pears' inspection, very little time remained before the expiration of the purchase option. It therefore became RUBBER PLANTATIONS necessary for the board to make a prompt decision in regard to the purchase and the method of raising sufficient money for the payment. The early date of expiry of the option made it impossible for the directors Noon-Guedes & Co., Ltd, Meeting of the to invite shareholders to subscribe for now
Monday, 22nd Nov.
Noon-Hongkong Cotton Spinning Weaving & Dyeing Co., Edd., Meeting of Members at the Office of Mesura, Jardins, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
| Wednesday, 24th Nov,
Creditors.
A LING & CO..
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Hongkong, 4th February, 1915,
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WAR TAXES.
"That afternoon I walked over the battlefield-there were still some Germans on var right flank, but they only fred on stretcher-bearers and Red Cross, and I don't AND did not worry stray officers.
want to give you details of what I saw our brave fellows were lying dead all around. One felt full of sympathy for their loved ones whose knowledge that they died in a glorious cause and died like honoured heroes must have been poor. comfort.
excess pro
It has been
DETAIL.
PRISONERS OF WAR CAMP,
Thursday 11th instant, Sections 1 and 2 of
A Company.
Friday, 12th instant, Sections Company.
and 2 of
Saturday, 13th instant, Section 1 of "C"
Company.
Sunday, 14th. instant, Sections 3 and 4 of
Company.
Monday, 15th instant, Sections 3 and 4 of
"B" Company.
of "C" Company. Tuesday, 16th instant, Sections 2, 3, and 4
GUN CLUB BILL.
Thursday, 11th instant, Sections 3 and 4 of
A Company. Friday
Company, 12th instant, Sections 3 and 4 of
Company,
14th instant, Sections 1 and 2 of
Saturday, 13th instant, Sections 2, 3, and 4 Sunday, 14 pasta
MOCKETDY.
Since the announcement of the Budget proposals there has been a deal of uncer- tainty as to the position of plantation rub- her companies in regard to
fits." It was originally enunciated that the shares. A proposal was received from Mr
"What a different feeling one had of a dead German, and I looked on them with Speelman, the largest shareholder, to take levy of taxation would apply togases where
less respect than I should have done on up the whole of the unissued shares at the money was being made out of the war at
a dead dog. You need to have been out date of his offer numbering 23,200, at the the expense of the nation.
here and seen what I have the past week prion of Tls 1.20, which was the market urged, and not without reason, that in the
to get the true feeling of hate and abso- rate of the day.
ease of many of the younger rubber com- After consideration the
No words can board decided to accept this offer, A vir panies any enhanced profits now being lute contempt for them. cular letter was on the following day, Octo earned are the natural outcome of pre-express one's feelings. On Sunday they FURNITURE AND PHOTO GOODS ber 12th, addressed to shareholders, advious years of preparation rather than the bombarded us with gas shells, and we got At the outbreak of tome pretty near us, and I had an anxious I was the only offer about, and vising them of the purchase of Inter-result of the war.
gassed" except estate and of the terms, as well as hostilities the price of rubber was 28, d. hour.
per lb., and since then the increase in all my N.C.Os, were
BCompany. of the means by which further capital was to be mised.
value cannot says a London contempor. one. However, I kept the fellows toge Monday, 15th instant, Sections 1 and 2 of The issue of the shares to Mr. Sprelmanry-be regarded as abnormal when the ther, as our gas helmets were very good, Tuesday, 16th instant, Section 1 of "C" Co.
and it passed off after an hour or so..
These guards will be in uniform and under arms throughout the day on which they From Monday to Friday we occupied together with our bank balance in Shang-heavy, freight and war risk insurance are hai give us a total of Tls. 142.881 in cash. taken into consideration. It is contended
go on duty, exclusive of cash in the Straits and unsold by some rubber authorities that instead of the captured German trenches, and had awretched time with bad weather, but
Members of "B" Co. with the exceptions rabber. The purchase of the proporty taxing Far Eastern rubber companies for
excess profits" such undertakings they made no effort to retake them in our
hereunder mentioned will parade on the involved an outlay of Tls. 62,661. Out of their
At one time I got no sleep at
Cricket Ground at 7.30 a.m. on Sunday this it is estimated that we shall require should be regarded as national benefactors sector.
the 14th November. Dress: Drill order, four hours only. Meals and sleep were for capital expenditure on both estates, for having made plantation rubber pos- all for forty hours and then managed
with haversacks and waterbottles filled for cleaning up. "Inverawa" estate and sible for war purposes at a nominal figure.
(no ponches), and proceed by launch to Kowloon City. Food will ho taken in for sundry incidental expenses about Tls. Otherwise, it is urged, the War Office taken if and when an opportunity offered. 36.000, and we shall then be left with ap would now be wholly dependent upon But after a fifteen miles' march I can
haversacks, All exempted members must That Sciatica, that most excruciating proximately Tis. 20,000 in hand, not in- Brazilian rubber, which could be obtained assure you. I did justice to a lovely bed Whereas the older here on Friday night."--.-C. Daily
parade unless employed on Government. Yeri. of maladies, can be cured! LITTLE'S cluding cash in the Straits and unsold only at excessive cost.
or Military duties between. 7 a.m. and ORIENTAL BALM cured me; after five rubber. The profits derived from the rubber companies have been earning good
p.m. on the 14th inst, in which case years of misery. It will care you.
working of the estates will therefore be en-profits for some years past, and might be
a certificate to that effect must be sent That voices the sentiment of one grateful tirely available for dividend distribution, able to stand heavy taxation, many of the
Australia has lost no ting in putting to the 0.C. "B" Co. three days n
advanco. patica. Thousands of others are ready after making allowance for the ordinary younger concerns have had long lean. to join in the chorus of praising this revenue expenditure,
periods prior to recent, tapping, and n into practice her avowed policy of provid remarkable dispellor of Sciatica and
Both the Shanghai Pobang and Inversuch cases the Chancellor might well ex-ing homes on the land for thee who have A num Rheumatism. Its benign influence is felt awe" estates extend on both sides of the tend the elemency he is already displaying fought in the Empire's defence.
On towards motor. tyres that are coming inber of wounded Australians who have re main road from Bentong to Raub.
turned to their homes from Gallipoli are one bottle is required to make it
from abroad.
already being provided for in this respect. plete and permanent cure. Sometimes it me side of the road they adjoin one au-
In New South Wales those wounded men will take two or thres or more to do the other. On the other side there are about 80 acres of native-owned rubber plots work, but it always gets there. If you
who are capable of working a farm can suffer longer these terrible tormente. you which sparate our two estates.
HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO.
a'most immediately obtain land and a cer- have always yourself to blame. Don't native rubber is mostly in tapping, end
tain amount of finencial assistance from despair just because other remedies have should the opportunity effer the directors
The approximate statement of trafo the Government. The Minister for Lands failed to cure your Sciatica. LITTLE'S will consider the advisability of buying it receipts for the week ending b November ORIENTAL BALM is different from all up so that we may eventual'y connect up is as follows:
The estimated produc It dures, as thousands the two states. other remedies.
tion of Inveraw" for the calendar can testify,
year 1916 is 76.000 lbs.
I SAY EMPHATICALLY
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from the first application. Often only
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Sold at Is. 4d. per bottle.
Agents for Hongkong,
Messrs. A 8. WATSON & Co., LTD.
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This
The report and accounts were passed This year and Mr. N. G. Maitland, Mr. M. Speel-Tast year man and the Rev. F. Sallou were re-ap pointed directors.
Increase...
Decrease
Receipts for week.
Aggregate receipts
for 45 weeks $10,5898494,9- 510,09%
75,643
9,578 1,010
explained recently that he had already issued instructions that wounded soldiers were to be given first preference at land ballots. Further, even if such a man had barely enough capital to work his farm the Government would provide assistance to a reasonable extent in both money and material.
a
special tram will leave The Peak at 7.15 p.m. The following members will not attend-Ptas. H. Cheetham, H. Wat- kins, W. E. Roberts, W. Sinclair, 0. 1, Ell, S. W. Bacon, W. A. Stephens and G.. A. Pentreath..
ORDERLY SERGEANT.
Orderly Sergeant from the morning of the 11th inst. to the morning of the 17th inst, Lance Sergeant J. M. Young.
G. K. B. BUTTON, Cant.,
Adjutant, H.K.V.R.
In the Luck district seventeen Austrians made their way to a Russian trench and surrendered, saying they had killed their German non-commissioned officer owing to his brutality