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THORNYCROFI
Joux I THORNTUROFT & CO., LIMITED,
ÉRIPBUILDERLAŞ AND ENGINEER","
LONDON, SOUTHAMPTON AND BASINGSTOKE
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 2ND 1920.
Shanghai Office: 65, Szechuen Road."
MARINE MOTORS AND MOTOR BOATS. MOTOR LIGHTING AND PUMPING SETS. SHALLOW DRAFT STEAMERS. THORNYCROFF OIL FUEL SYSTEM.
Commercial, High-speed and Pleasure Craft.
THORNYCROFT WATER-TUBE BOILERS. THORNYCROFT MOTOR VEHICLES.
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Our Motor Engineer and our Naval Architect, both Thornycroft experts, now resident in Shanghai, will give attention to all inquiries.
Early deliveries can be made of 16-b.h.p, 30-bh.p, 4-b.h.p., and 70-b.h.j. Kerosene Marine Engines,
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NOTICE. TA Manufactures the most important Poins in Improvement, and in Disptics
Cleanliness. Belence always Inslate on these Maxims.
Groundnut or Feanus Off can be used as subeti ate for Olive Oil, Batier or Lard, but when Blightly Dirty is injurious to health,
In China, by the Ordinary Methods of Extraction, Dirt and Dush are not guarded against Our Method shows a great advance. By the use of New Machinery and New Methods Scrupulous Cleanliness is Assured.
Our Machinery during the Process Filters the Oil while our Factory is Free from Dist. Our Oil is Clear, Breet and Fragrant; and Compares most favourably with other Ofis used for Culinary purposes: there is no redkins.
Price are moderate so as to induce new business Analysis is always given before Bhipment to Foreign Countzien. Foreign Correspondence wanted. Capacity per day 30 tons,
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An interesting lecture on "India TwoADY TYFIST and STENOGRAPHER Thousand Years Ago." was delivered to the officers, commissioned officers and men
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THE YEAH, OF GHRAPNIES. Among other things the fair would striko a blow at the fatish of German ITS CIVILIZATION TWO THOUSAND cheapness, said Bir Hamar. Much of this
YEARS AGO. talk about German cheapness arose out The year 1990 is to witness a great effort of the Leipsig Fair, and the German by British manufacturers led by the Government had paid us a great compli- Government to attain a position ofment by granting the Leipzig Fair of the Garrison at the Fort Gymnasium, supremacy in the trade of the world. Bir sabeidy in order to fight ours They had Hamar Greenwood, secretary of the notiond the success of our faire, and bad Department of Overseas Trade, informed not besitated to copy some of our features. a representative of The Daily Telegraph At our last fair orders to the amount of that the Department of Overseas Trada 8,500,000 were taken, and it was hoped worked in the best possible harmony with that this gear the amount would be trebled. showed how the ancient Hindu people Mr. Uaten, in the course of his lecture, the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade, A. remarkable thing about those fairs was came into existence as a result of the and since he had been Secretary of the that they had not cost the taxpayer a fusion of the light-coloured, tall, long department be had never had anything shilling; they were entirely self-support the abort, dark, snub-nosed inhabitanta nosed invaders from the northwest with|
but the most loyal support from Earl a unique achievement for a Govern whom the invaders found already in pos Curzon and Bir Auckland Geddes Hement Departments and one of which be session. This fusion, combined in north- went on to explain that most, if not all, and the Board of Trade were justly proud. West India in all probability with a Mon- golian elementy produced a remarkable of our manufacturers were at present rangements had now been made for an civilization, which, with all its defects, overwhelmed with orders for the home
advisory committee of the exhibitors to was a great achievement, and one upon which the modern Hindu rightly looks markets, but, if our present prosperity help the Department in future. were to continue, we must maintain and the foreign buyers who visit the Lauras siderably anterior to the greatness of
Bir Hamar appealed for hospitality for achievement of his race.
back with pride as a supreme politics! next.
At a time consi improve our position in the foreign and went on to speak of now schomes markets. The time will come," he said, which the Department hoped to develop Rome, the ancient Hindu people had pro- when the letter boxes will no longer be in the future. One of the best forms of duced a religion and a religions reforma filled with home orders, bas when the advertisement, he said, was the shop win- tion each of which developed into one of letters with foreign stampa will be eagerly dow, and for this purpose it was thought the four present-day great religions of looked for, and it is our business to make advisable to have a movable shop. The the world, an Empire which in organi- the necessary effort now, so that we may Department was considering the possibility zation could challenge comparison with establish ourselves firmly in the foreign of giving manufacturers an opportunity anything that existed subsequently in markets. Many competitors are in the of having a number of movable shops and Beld, and, in my opinion, the trade will travelling exhibitions abroad. First there go to that country that most deserves it would be a series of Oversea touring Sir Hamar went on to tell how the exhibitions, and, secondly, a system of standards of life had improved in every permanent Continental show rooms In country in the world, even among the the first category was the Dominions untold millions of Oriental and African Touring Exhibition, which would visit peoples, who were rapidly coming to the South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, fore as consumers of British manufactures, and Canada. This scheme had already The luxuries of to-day became the neces been approved by the Treasury, and they nities of to-morrow, and the tendency to manufacture locally in the different coun- simultaneous touring exhibitions one for wara now considering the possibility of tries was a permanent and increasing our Eastern trade in India, Chins, and tendency. We were the greatest manu- the Far East, another for Bouth America, facturers of textiles in the world, and we and possibly another for some of our must unceasingly preach that greater pro-highest-class luxury articles for the duction meant higher wages, cheaper United States. Siz Hamar confessed that living, and decreased taxation, and that he was all in favour of the friendly com- the prosperity of our country and Empire mercial invasion of the great American was entirely dependent upon our trade. Republic, and be believed that certain of It was the earnest desire of his depart our products were in greater demand in ment to help our manufacturers to find the United States than they had ever been the markets and to develop them. We before, and our export, trade to the States could not adord to let other nations show was only limited by the limitations of our greater enterprise in securing these productive capacity. markets than ourselves, and whatever
may have been the attitude of our dip.be entirely dependent upon the degres of The development of this scheme would lomatists, commercial attaches and consuls before the war, their paramount interest Upport they could enlist from the mana- now was the furtherance of British trade.facturers, and from the exhibitors at the With some rars exceptions in countriestion would consist of 400 or 500 exhibits, forthcoming fairs. Each touring exhibi- where peace had not yet been concluded on ratified the major part of the time of the foreign services of the Crown was now taken up in considering British trade
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India till the advent of British power; A SHOP in Nathan Road, Kowloon, and a Bible, parta of which are a thou sand years older than our own.
WISE SAWS, AND MODERN INSTANCES. prenching and life of Buddha; the im
By means of a short ́ ́ ́ resume" of the porial organization of Chandragupta, who resisted the aggression of the Greeks who succeeded Alexander the Great; and the missionary enthusiasm of Asoka, the lec idea of the state of civilization in India turer attempted to give his audience some centuries ago, He explained how
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many aspects of the culture of that day are linked by direct filiation with Ein VALUABLE duism of to-day, which is essentially a product of the past. India is not, and for over 3,000 years never has been, a to be sold in one los by Public Auction, an country without a civilization, though at times in her chequered history it has some the eth day of April, 1820 && o clock P.M.,
TUESDAY, times through political conditions sunk to a low ebb.
at his Sales Rooms at No. 6, Duddell Street, Victoria, Hongkong, by ME. GEORGE P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
The audience being a military one, the lecturer devoted some attention to what be the ancient Indian Imperial army. The called the Field Service Regulations of following are instances of the tactical or strategic rules which the young officer was ordered to follow
1. The victory of kings depends mainly apon elephanta."
never attempt to fight, for it is by the 2. Without a reserve, the king should
reserve force that dispersed troops are collected together.
3.- When frontal, attack is unfavour.
The Froperty consists of :
All that piece or parcel of ground sitaste at Victoria, Hongkong, registered in the Land Office as BECTION D. OF INLAND LOT No. 988 together with all the messuage and gremises thereon known as No. 55, Wyndham Street.
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in charge of an officer of the Department invitations to the right class of buyer and the work of publicity and issuing of would be undertaken by the Trade Com The Germans, said Bir Hantar, used to missioners and diplomatic representatives, belittle the extent of our manufacturing presentative of each exhibitor, and it was able, strike the enemy from behind.
It would he impracticable to take a ro Capacity, and they gave the impresion equally certain that the tours would lose that they alone were capable of fulfilling much of their usefulness unless facilities the requirements of the buyer. Tha ides
4. Having made a strong force look was cultivated and expressed at the Ware given for the taking of orders. It a weak force, strike the enemy when he Leipzig Fair.
Again and again we got twenty-five exhibitors should be representage),
was suggested, therefore, that twenty or attacks" (An early instance of camou clear evidence from neutral countries that the extent of our manufactures was im-ibition might work out at £100 for each cede a siege." (In other words, go for the ed by one man. The cost of such an ex- 5. Reduction of the enemy must pre- perfectly realised, and this showed that exhibitor, exclusive of the cost of a sales enemy's field force, and don't waste your the German was the better advertiser. This had all got to be changed, and to future was now receiving the careful con- maxim which Marshal Foch would prob- representative This scheme for the time on forts till you have smashed it; a this end the Department of Overseas sideration of the Department, and would ably accept).
was going to do its best in conjune bo put before the individual manufactor- tion with the various trade associations ers at the forthcoming fairs. They were vultures, crows, parrots, pigeons, which
6. Having captured birds such as Corner of Halphong & Hankow Road
NLL.&. One of the also considering the possibility of entah have their nests in the walls of a fort, and means to that end was the organisation lishing permanent exhibitions or show having tied to their tails inflammable and development of the Exhibitions and rooms at the capitals and larger cities on powders let them Hy to the forts." BimiWO Minuten from Ferry and "Railway Fairs Division. Fairs originated in a peculiar way advantages of comparatively small cost, tails of mongooses, monkeys, cats and now up-to-date in every respect. sad anlar.
station. This Hotel has just bap The British Industries the Continent, which would have the larly tie inflammable powders to the completely renovated and refurnished in Almost immediately after the outbreak of frequent renewal of exhibits, and cheap dogs, and let them go over the thatched war it was found that many of the articles and efficient publicity. Lastly, they had roofs of the houses. (A very Hunnish Cuisine under personal supervision of the which were essential to one or other of the foreign samples and catalogue-section
English Management. our industries had been imported from in their Department, and they hoped soon dodge, reminiscent of famethrowers"). abroad, and, although the imported article to have it better housed and capable of a
Proprietor. might form but
As a matter of fact a very great part of
BAR AND BILLIARD BOOMS, amall part of the whole, I better display than was possible in its these old "Field Service Regulations " nevertheless the trade stood still for the
TERMS MODERATE, .. lack of it." A good example was the frame Present socommodation at 70, Basinghall were Hunnish. All sorts of Hanaish which was used in the manufacture of a
devices were enjoined upon the young Application to-
Special Arrangeman for Families lady's handbag. None of the frames were
In answer to a question, Bir Hamerofficer, such as slaying the enemy's made in the United Kingdom, although said they had already considered the G.0.0., poisoning his officers and horses,
manufactured large
quantities possibility of using a ship for exhibition and so on. This aide of the civilization of bags, and the moment the war purposes, but the disadvantages wie of ancient Indis rather detracts from our stopped the importation of the high cost, and the fact that the exhibition admiration of the achievements of "an- frames, tie manufacture of the bags would be entirely restricted to the ports cient Hindu India in the sphere of stopped too. In order to fight this state
polity.
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of things the department inaugurated exhibitions of foreign articles which vora badly needed, and to those exhibitions were invited British manufacturers who Fore making similar articles, as well as the wholesale firms who were waiting to buy them. The next step was to give these trades the opportunity of showing what
streek
MR. DUNLOP'S SUIT. OBJECTION TO CARICATURE IN ADVERTISEMENTE.
had done, and the British Industries John B. Dunlop, aged 78, inventor of the
In the Chancery Court at Dublin, Mr. Fair was the result. The first one was
मह
DAIRY
J. H. OXBERRY,
Proprietor.
FARM NEWS
FISH! FISH!
THE LAW OF THE LAUNDRY, Specimens of the laws of the time wore also quoted. Those connected with dhobis show how little India of to-day has changed:---*Washermen shall wash clothes FINNAN HADDOOK. either on wooden planks, or on stones of PILLET: HADDOUE... smooth surface. Washing elsewhere shall KIPPERS
gaging, or letting out for hire the clothes be punished. Washermen selling, mort. BALT SIBERIAN SALMON
of others shall be fined. In case of sub-
be made to restore the trae ones”. Bo it
A COSTLY. LAWSUIT.
BENSATIONAL ENDING, London, January 23rd-There was sensational ending to a big Manchester Hard Spinning Company snes Bir John Lawsuit wherein certain creditors of the
cts, per lb
New shipment just arrived.
We now have for sale. COULOMMIER CHEESE DEVONSHIRE CREAM
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held in London in 1915, and it proved so pneumatis tyre bearing his name, applied stitution of other clothes they shall not successful that, at the close, the mand for liberty to issue and serve out of juris-only be punished with a fine equal to facturers who bad taken part unanimously diction & writ on the Dunlop Hubber Com-twice the value of the clothes, but also begged Mr. Runciman, then President of the Board of Trade; to promise that the pany, Ltd., for an injunction to restrain is clear, that our old friend the dhobi was fair should become an annual event them from publishing advertisemente con at his tricks 2,000 years ago, And, spite of many handicaps result ing from war conditions, the fair had absurd or unsuitable costumes, or atti- taining pictures representing him "in been held every year, and had been pro- tudes or caricatures of him calculated to gressively successful.
The sixth of these fairs was now being Counsel read an athdavit in which plain- expose him to public ridicule or contempt. organised, and it had received such strong
from our manufacturers that the tiff stated: Cariad Palacor the largest exhibition company have, without any permission "For some time pass the building in the world-was insufficient for from me, been exhibiting in Ireland and their accommodation, and it had been im elsewhere advertisements containing pic possible to give the applicants the full tures obviously intended to represent me area they applied for. In addition to The features have been adapted from a Leigh, of John Leigh, Lid, and four ar this great fair in London-from February portrait, but the features are placed upon directors of the Hare Spinning Company, 23rd to March 6th-large local fairs would the body of a very tall man dressed in a be held at the same time in Birmingham foppish manner, wearing a tall white hat, for damages. They alleged conspiracy and Glasgow, and these would be devoted white waiscoat, and eyeglass, and carry and fraud, whereby the Hare Spinning to special trades-hardware at Birming ing a cane, none of which is it my custom Company sold cotton waste to John Leigh, ham and textiles at Glasgow, S to wear or carry.
The object of the fair is to bring toge The gradual extension of the ad value. There were enreral King's coutinel Lad., below ite valne, and purchased cot ther the British manufacturer and the vertisements and absurd attitude in which on both sides, and the retainers of the ton from John Leigh, Lid, above ita foreign buyer, and for the London fair the figure is represented has caused very two leaders are said to be a record Bir alone some 32,000 invitations had been great annoyance to me and to my relatives, Jahn Simon led the defence. Sir Edward inued to foreign buyers. 30,000 pamphlets had been issued in seven the belief has arisen that I have permitted plaintiffs, but returned his brief, Coun In addition, almost all of whom reside in Ireland, and Carson was originally retained for the different, languages. A total of 92,000 the company to publish the advertisements sel's opening speech lasted eight days. pamphlets and invitations had been sent in consideration of payments to me. I The case was expected to last 30 days, out, and ultimately it was hoped to issue have repeatedly complained to the com 130,000 or 140,000, both at home and pany of the above matters, and recently witness for the plaintiffs had been in the
GRAÛA & costing £8 per minute The principal abroad. It was hoped to make the fair af instructed my solicitors to write to them box for three days and he admitted to-day trade event that no up-to-date buyer could to discontinue them, I am informed and that he gave falso evidence yesterday. afford to mise. Even at the first fajt, in believe that no satisfactory, reply could Counsey forthwith agreed to judgment for Cards, Beeds, Toys, &c., ke. 1915, foreign buyers were waiting for the be obtained.
the defence, with full costs. The plain-
opening of the doors, and within half an Counsel said owing to his advanced age tiffs have been required to furnish £30,000
hour orders had been placed for thousands
of pounds. In ten days one firm alone it would be very inconvenient for plaintif security for costs, which is higher than opened 500 new accounts, of which 200 to appear as a witness in London, Mr.in any previous case, the previous highest were with overssa, firms.
Justice Powell made the order sought. being £10,000
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