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INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 30d 1916.
S.Moutrie&Co., Ltd.
PIANOS
ON
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TRADE OF HONGKONG.
A GENERALLY INANIMATE?“ WWW MARKETSA
SHIPPING NOTES.
BOARDING OF SHIPS.
A notifiéntida issued from the Shang
The following statistics have been taken from the fortnightly price current audi Coast Tuspectors' Office states that the special boarding procedure by night market report of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce..
will be cancelled as from May 20th, and that merchant vessels are to disregard hoarding night signals if met with after this date..
OPIUM.
The stocks on June 28th were 39 cheats of Prina, 208 chesis of Benares, 273 of Malwa and 8 of Persian and Turkish, During the interval 114 chests of Persian and Turkish opium were exported. La uncertified Bengal ouium, the balance of stocks on June 29th was 1980 chests of Patna and 60 chesis: Benares. No opium was boiled by Government monopoly
EXPORTS.
IMPORTS.
TUNING AND REGULAR ATTENTION political anxieties the volume of business
Center
INCLUSIVE.
Falmer & C
Chi tione femchany of the Cast
1 NAPIER
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UNVARIED FOR OVER
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150 YEARS.
THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN 1743
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
KOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG:
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,
and from ALL WINE MERCHANTS.
138
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JUST LANDED:
SUPPLY OF
CALDBECK,
TKK SHAREHOLDERS DIFFER
BIG DIVIDEND."
It
Profits will
A profit of more than 1,300,000 yen has heeu made by the Kawasaki Dockyard Kobe during the last six months. has been decided informally to declare dividend of 13 percent. be distributed according to the following plan-
FACTS ABOUT GERMAN SUPPLIES:
FOOD FROM NEUTRALS.
An article dealing with the conditions of the civil populations in Germany under the pressure of the blockade has been issued for public informatión qu
There seems to be an adequate supply of bread in Germany. It is meat, fødder, milk, butter, and other edible fats that the Germans are really short. Sugar is served out at about half the normal
k
"A FIRST-CLASS LIE." MORE GERMAN MISREPRE SENTATIONS.
BRITAIN AND THE BOSNIAN CRISIS.
The Foreign Office issues, he following: for publication:
As the German Government attempts to support the charge made by the Ger- man Chancellor against the attitude of Great Britain in the Bosnian crisis it is desirable to state the facts.
Austria, by a stroke of the peu, amex arbitrarily altered an international this action and declined to recognize it treats. Great Britain protested against until the other Powers who were parties to the treaty should do, so.. But she was not one of the Powers most directly
the Foreign Office are concerned. rather with this action of other Powers more directly interested at the time, and cannot therefore be published in extenso, but an examination of the contains sufficient to disprove the charge mado by the German Chancellor.
The first part of that charge is follows :---
In the Bosnian crisis Germany “avert ed war. Great Britain showed displex- aure at this in Petrograd.”
In conncetion with the proposed in-mount, and the supply of coffee is near crease of the capital of the LKK thote ng an end. The scarcity of meat, how is u difference of opinion between the ever is the most serious problem, nnded Bosnia and Herzegovine and thereby
Mr negotiations are proceeding between the shareholders and the directors very Asano, president of the company, who Departments of Agriculture and War The Feuther market has been very dull, and there is nothing doing in foresees a great prosperity for the ship with a view to reducing the Army sup
inping trade for, several years more, ear-plies during the coming months. Ginger. There is no business
But it should be noted that the recent Galangal, and Cassia Oil is quoted nanestly desires to increase the capital by
But some of the share food riots in various towns were due lower rate without producing any busi- 13,000,000 yen.
leading role; the diplomatic records. pess. Star Aniseed and Star Aniseed Oil holders hold mors conservative views and largely to the feeling that the Governinterested, and it was not for her to play is a very inanimale market, and the same favour. A smaller increase. They will not ment and the favoured agricultural remark applies to Ground Nuts. The object to an increase of half the amount classes were to blame more than the actual Yuman Tin market is wenk, as is also originally proposed by Mr. Asano, An absence of food, the former for failing trade in Saigon Cassia. The Urists extraordinary meeting of the sharehold properly to organize the distribution, and
ers of the company will be held.
the latter for foreing up the prices. On market is steady.
the whole, it would seem to be a mistake As the Cotton Yarn supplies in "the BIG DIVI
to believe that Germany is faced with im minent famine. Notoriously the Gor man over-indulges himself, and the res strictions naturally cause discontent with a bare sufficiency of food-not always of the most paintable kind,
Neighbouring neutral countries still send Germany considerable supplies, espe Yen.
cially of iron ore and food, such as edible fate, toa, coffee, and sugar. Almost ouc 1,320,705
703 half of the potatoes exported from Hol- 102.708 land this year have gone to Germany. Alse from Holland Germany has received 1,490,804 supplies of eggs and large imports of 134,000 beer, spirits, and cheese. So many head 60.000 of cattle has she imported from Denmark 150,000 that prices have gone up there to an ex
75.000 orbitant height. Swedish supplies of 772,400 those commodities of which Germany 53,000 stands most in need are being secured by 181,361 German agents and, both openly and by subterfuge, they find their way to Gen many. Another source of supplies for the Central Empires is humanin, It is notified by the Panama Canal which considerable quantities of agricul- Executive Office that until further notice,tural produce are being obtaitic. the Panama Canal will not engage to Oils and fats are now available only on supply goal at the established rates to other than the following classes of (m) Those asing either terminal port as
Profis obtained during the last
Six months Brought from last account
Total
Legal reserve funds Special reserve funds Redemption funds Workmen relief funds Dividends
·Bonus ... Carried forward to next account
An attempt is made to support this by extracts from dispatches from the German Ambassador based partly on gossip of the conversation of Sir Arthur Nicolson, then Ambassador at Petrograd, at the dinner table
Sir A Nicoleon is positive that the gossip as to his dinner table conversation is not true. It appears from papers in. the Foreign Office that some charge was made by the German Chancellor during the Bostiran crisis that the attitude of the British Embassy at Petrograd was not such as to promote peace; this was brought to Sir A. Nicolson's notice, and. in a private letter in Sir E. Grey on March 9, 1899, he writes:pro
interior and in the hands of local dealers had reached a low level, the approach of the busy season brought buyers into the market and had China heen free of would have been on a much larger scale, Prices have improved somewhat but hardly leave a profitable margin on pur chases nede in Bombay. Quotations are: No. 10 at 801/105. No. 1 nt $06/108. No. 10s at $109/128. No. 90s at $109/138. Arrivals 15,000 bales. Sales 12,000 bales. Shipments 5,600. Unsold stock 45,000 bales. Bargains 90,000 bales. There has been no inquiry for Woollens at practic able rates, but stocks should now be getting rather short. A further duil fort- night is to be reported in Metals. Tin plates have been the medium of a mode rate business, some 10,000 hoxes reported sold. for shipment. Prices paid from $14.50 to 812.50, the latter quotation bring firmer at the clos Wire Nails are quiet small sales are reported Quo-
"I know perfectly wel, as it has bein tations from home continue firm, Trade
mentioned to nie from one or two quar- in Yellow Metal has been nominal. There
ters, that there is an impression that are no stocks of Pepper, Camphor no Window Glass. As to Coal, small sale
a very small scale indeed, for industrial encouraged hun (the Russian Minister. are reported, but all the quotations given vessels: (a) Those transiting the Canni-purposes, the prices being £32 108 per for Foreign Affairs) in an anti-German are only moninal. The demand for sugai
I have spoken 100 kilogrammes (290lb.), as against Ce and anti-Austrian line of policy. This
is absolutely untrue. is increasing at slightly higher rates.
In the American Flour market there a terminus of their established route: 10s to 1 in peace times. In consequence have been a few enquiries. Prices and (e) Those using either terminal port as a soap is at least five times denrer than it freely to Iswolky as to the difficulties was two years ago. The greatest economy which d'Achrenthal has created, but I freights are cheaper, Locally, the port of call on their regularly estab
able or, indeed, beyond what has been donand continues extremely dull, and lighed route. In this case vessels will be in the use of soap has been urged by the have never gone further than was justifi supplied with sufficient banker coal at Berlin municipality. German agents are said in London to Metternich and quotatiors are unchanged, Prices the established rate to make the next declared to be scouring the smallest and Mensdorf. I have never urged him to Shanghai for China Flour have further
for soft advanced on bad crop reports. Quola port of call on their established route most obscure shops in Sweden for soft adopt a lins which might widen the
breach between him and Vienna. tions American Patent $4. American Cut off $3.40, American Straight 3.35. Shanghai Tour $3/3.05,
CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO- FUND
PANAMA CANAL COAL SUPPLY.
where commercial coaling stations are soap. available.
An order was issued on April ist impor
This was the line consistently followed by Sir A Nicolson throughout the crisis. It remains to deal with the charge against Sir E. Gray. The special charge made by the Chancellor against him per- sonally is as follows
Sir E. Grey declared the belief that British public opinion would have a to be made of inferior materials, paste proved war by Great Britain. board and wooden soles being quite conside
Sole leather for boots is now practic ally unobtainable owing to the enormous requirements of the Army, and boots have
It is the policy of the Canal to retaining new restrictions on the sale and the price of coal at as low a figure as manufacture of cotton, cotton yarns, etc., possible, and also to stabilize the price of on which an embargo is laid, their sale butiker coal at the Canal daring the pre. Feing prohibited. sont unsettled condition of the world's shipping, but, owing to the scarcity of bottoms available to deliver coul at the The following is the subscription list on, it will be necessary to supply bunker coal only to those vessels that are Acknowledged to geth May,
using the Canal and its facilities. 1910
to date
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THERAPION NO. 2
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Collected by Mrs. Pentrenth:
31.
Perry J Lum Shan Shan $2,
She Ta Thoi 2
$14017.09
-15.00 11.07
Members of Kowloon Custofustape Staff for May, 1916, per Mr. -0. D). Ganderk
Collected by Mrs Pentreath,
List No BARA, W.B. JR.K
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20.00
on Russia's
a state- such Bir E. Grey never made ment with reference to the Bosnian crisis at a dinner table or elsewhere. In a review of the situation sent by him to Sir. A. Nicolson on February 27, 1960, tho following passages occur
THE FINANCIAL SITUATION, The Government comes in for much OPIUM ON THE TEAN:"0 criticism of the method by which it seeks to raise fresh taxation. The Socialists HEAVY SENTENCE PASSED ON A contend that the moneyed classes are not
WOMAN.
being sufficiently taxed, and take the line Nothing except economic concessions that if property will not stand further can be obtained for Serbin without a At Cebu last week Miss Consuelo Martaxation the Empire might as well declare successful war. Unless Serbia renounces
its bankruptcy at once. Baik returns in territorial claims there will to war
understood from M. Iswolsky in October 61.00 tinez was wertenced to three years indiente, however, that money is very plenti that these claims would probably have to
prisonment and ordered to pay a fine of ful owing to the few outlets which pre-be abandoned in the end: 1 made P.7,000 for illegally attempting to import sont themselves for the reinvestment of clear that we would support Russin in twenty-eight tins of opium into the Phi- money, and thut subscriptions to the getting what could be obtained by diplo 60,00lippine Islands, These were found in her Fourth War Loan are being paid up even.
matic support, but that we would nos. 3/25 possession when she returned Tecently
more rapidly than is required by the press things to the point of war, from Hangkong on the ais, Tean:
terms of the loan itself. 02.00
And again.
10.00
6.00 OFFICIAL NIGHTS FOR JULY.
22.00
There has been a striking Aberner or industrial unrest in Germany sines the beginning of the war. In 1915, there were, according to official statements, only 137 The following table shows the Stand-strikes, as compared with 1,315 in 1914, ard Time at which Official Night ends and begins during the month of July
Date Ends ........ Begins, July 1st, 5.31 am. 7.21 puu,
and 5.317
3d 8.32
7,214
4th, 775.337
781
5th; 4.30
2.50
70 521
Sth 5.33 9th 5.33
10:h, 3.85
Per Mr. Jordan, Victoria Lodge, from Ladies' Bridge Bock, including a donation
of $9.00
11.35
nh 5795 12th 5:30 13th, 5,36 4th, 0.36
7.21
er
7.21
Happy Day (Indicator
15ty 5.37
91
Bowls)
20.00
10th, 5.37:
7.20
Collected by Mrs. Pentreath:
17th, 6.38
*.20
20.00
18, 5933
7.50
10th 0.39
7.20
$14,429.35
20th 5.39
7.19
gist,
5.20 2nd, 15.10
"1:19.
9th June, 200,000 Woodbin Cigarettes sent to the frout 033.05
Bird, 5.40 24th, 5.40 25th 5.41
7-18
5.41
7.18
7:17
Balers in hand
$14,200,00
132.35
3.12
28th, 9,42
20th, 5:43
Both 5.43
15.
315, 5/14,
14
Expended to 20th May, 19:0 $13,995.0 Since expended 5-
WA. DOWLEY, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Hongkong, June 29th, 1970.
FRANCO AMERICAN TREATY OF ARBITRATION,
NAMES OF COMMIESIONERS.BL
SIR R. BADEN POWELL AND A SPY STORY.
the number of employés afinest being 17,010, as compared with 193 414, Only 24 strikes were fully successful, and 76 were wholly unsuccessful.
HERR BALLIN'S PLANS.
THIS STUPID WAR.”
We are of opinion that to risk for Serbian territorial claims a war which might eventually involve the greater part of the Continent of Europe must be out interests at of all proportion to the stake."
The atatement respecting Sir E. Grey made by the German Chanceller and supported by extracts from dispatches of German Ambassadors based apparently on untrue hearsay or malicious gossip at the time is absolutely false and de servis what has been said of it in tho House of Commons,
The impression left by the records of A general meeting of the Wortmann 19089 that war was averted in 1905 Line at Hamburg recently completed the because Russia was reluctant to press surrender of that unce very independent Serbian territorial claims against Aus and important conery to the joint contria to the point of a European way, This tre of the Han burg-Amerika Line, the point of view was also that of the Bri- North Geginan Lloyd, and the coal magh Government, and they never de date, Heer Hugo Stinnes. The syndicate viated from it. Had Germany taken a hs taken over at par the shares which corresponding view in 1914 when Aus- give it control of the company, and has trian demands upon Serbia wore pressed required the Woermanns to surrender to the point of extinguishing Serbian vations subsidiary profits for compensa-independerce war would have been tion which is to be paid after the war.
In a speech celebrating his new con- quest Herr Ballin said he hoped that the concern would have a brilliant future fat
averted then;
AS AUSTRIAN CONFESSION The Peter Lloyd states that Austria was not satisfied with the London Con
lish diplomacy wished to play there,
the end of what is the greatest, loodi est, and also stupidest war in historyference and less still with the part Eng- He threw out a challengo to British and The Fremrlenblatt adds that the dilemma other shipping by saying
of war or capitulation was propounded. We are clear about the fact that after by Russia and Serbia-
the happy conclusion of this war we shall bave to conduct a war in the world-econo- mic sphere against a competition which tas kven made extraordinarily strong by fantastic war profits."
concern. Timce.
GERMANY AND RAW MATERIALS
"AFTER THE WAR.
Horr Ballin warmly applauded the de sire of the Reichstag to ensure the rapid The discussions and demands in Ger reconstruction of the German commercial many concerning “after the war trade foet, and said that the German people return again and again to the question of was determined not to abandon sea-power, raw materials. Chambers of Commerce For several weeks past a remour has and not, in the phrase of Liszt, to become are now constantly insisting upon the been circulating in the United States to God's step-children. Herr Ballin, need for perfection of the proposed Gov- The International Commission of Inthe effect that Sir Robert Baden-Powell Herr Heineken, and Herr Stinnes are ernment organizations for importing and quiry and Arbitration for the settlement is undergoing imprisonmfut in the Tower assuming the control of the Woermann distributing raw materials. They also im
plore the Government to obtain definite of differences which may arise between of London charged with espionage.
security in this matter at the conclusion the United Stater and France, provided In order to ascertain the facts, the
of peace. A resolution, for example, by for by the Fram American Tronty of United Press telegraphed to its London-
the Potsdam Chamber of Commerce calm- office, which has received the following TSINGTAU NAVAL DISPATCHES. September 13 1914, will be computed as letter, written from the offices of the follows
****In order to protect the importation A. Loudon, Dutch Minister for Foreiga Boy Scouts Association:
Affairs. M. Carton de Wiart, Belgiau mister I am sojuming in the Tower of Lon. At last the War Office have issued of raw materials after the war from any
of Justice,
aldon under a charge of espionage cannot the belated dispatches concerning the detrimental measures on the part of for M Louis Renault, French Minister be correct, is I was taken out and shot British Tsingtau Expeditionary Foren sign countries, the peach treaty, or peace Plenipotentiary and Member of the over a month ago, according to a in November, 1914, which you rightly treaties, must include the provision that Chicago newspaper. I am not clear describe as "belated." But may one ask none of the States that are parties to the which country I was spying for, but at when the Admiralty will issue the distreaty shall take messures which would in the moment I am fairly busy on work patches in regard to the operations of any way place the German importation for Great Britain.Yours truly, Robert the ships in the same sphere, which should of raw materials at a disadvantage as Baden Powell
be interesting reading???
compared with other countries,
Institute.
Mr. Olney, former American Secretary
of State. Mon, Argentine Ambassador, in
Washington.
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report that
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