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THE HONGKONG DAILI - PRESS,
THORNYCROFT
JOHN 1 THORNYCROFT ♣ 00., LIMITEJA
SHIPBUILDERS AND ENGINE,
LONDON, SONTRANTRON AND BASINGSTOKE,
Shanghai
Office:
SHANGHAI AUCTIONHERS. LTD. IN BANKRUPTCY. NOT ONE DOLLAR OF CAPITAL PAID IN.
At H.D.M. Supreme Court, at Shang- hai, last week, before the Assistant Judge Mr. Peter Grain Mr. Paul Line- winding up of the Shanghai Auctioneers, barger made an application for the
Ltd.
Mr. Linebarger appeared for Yus Hao, one of the creditors and Mr. Tersdale for the provisional liquidator and special manager. Mr. Mortimer Reid, 10, Kiukiang Road. The petition stated:
1.-Shanghai Auctioneers, Limited, (hereinafter called "the Company ") was incorporated in Shanghai us n private Company" under the China (Companies) Order-in-Council and the Companies Ordinance of Hongkour on
15 B.H.P. 30 B.H.P. 50 B.H.P. Engines
in Stock
For quotation apply....
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NATURAL MINERAL WATER.
Since its foundation in 1872, the Apollinaris business has
ALWAYS BEEN BRITISH OWNED..
THE APOLLINARIS CO., LTD.
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Obtainable in Quarts, Pints & Splits.
HONGKONG HOTEL,
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at
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EMPRESS STORE, KOWLOON, and all the Leading Clubs & Stores.
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December 9th, 1920.
2.The registered office of the Com pany is at 97, Szechuen Road, Shanghai, aforesaid.
3.-The nominal capital of the Con pany was Taels Fifty thousand divided 500 shares of taels one hundred each The amount of capital paid up or credit ed as paid up is.nil.
-The objects for which the Company
was established" are as follows-
To carry on the business of auc- tioneers, real estate and bond brokers and other objects set forth in the Memorandum of Association thereof.
THE DIRECTORS.
THE SITUATION IN THE YANGTSZE REGION.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18TH, 1931.
THAT KWANGTUNG - MINING CONCESSION. AMERICAN v. BRITISH INFLUENCE AT CANTON.
issue of the Japan Chronicle:--
The following pots is from a recent
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to
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WU PEI-FU INTERVIEWED.
[BY VITOX CLOSE-]
tions to take command in the Wukau distriat pending my going personally to Hankow. which may not be for some time.
Your troops are provisioned for a
stay," I commented.
10 may remain,” was the brief
the immediate history of his coal.
to
reply.
With an invitation to remain to attend the dinner in honour of the visit of the Aloslem chief, the General ended the interview.
statesmanlike views that I had eve
"I left the audience room Beling that I had listened to the most sane and heard from the lips of a Chinese offcial Behind the kindly light brown eyes and friendly smile of the General I a and quick decision. His statements are Hashes of the man of close concentration, worth noting. They evidence a reaction to the militant idealism of last miner following his lethargy of the past spring. of duplicity or inaincere visioai- They may be more than the usual phrases. Peking and Tiratsin Times,
entriner
and
CHENachow, Hoxis, July 30th. The statement quoted by Mr. Brailsford
In the immense, half-completed mili occupy in South China the same position ancient city of Honanfu. I was received from Professor Dewey that the British ary plant of the would-be Emperor, Yuan Shih-Kai, outside the quiet and North is worthy of some attention. Pro- the train upon which I arrived brought of suspicion as is held by Japan in the
General Wa Pei-fu to-day. Although fessor Dewey is connected with the Im Wang Chinya, the agent and relative of perial University in Peking in the sante manner as was Mr. Bertrand Russell. of the Upper Yangtsze,
the lottering High Inspecting General As a distinguished American scholat, he special train brought General Mn Fu following was invited to deliver a series of lectures hsiang, the Moslem lender and Tutung in Peking extending over two years. of Sui yuan, and the train apon which, Mr. Bertrand Russell. it was hoped, through General Wa's kind invitation. would remain for the same length of I returned to Chengchow this afternoon, time, but the condition of his health has carried Hankow-ward prevented him from doing so. It is of Yao-nan, commander of the 25th Divi
General Hsiao interest to note that Professor Dewey is sion, with instructions as to the control strong advocate of the Consortium, of the Wuhan situation, the headquar and has recently paid a visit to Canton. ters of General Wa appeared to be calm Consortium, has also recently been visit teemed exceedingly unfastered and wo Mr. Stoyens. "the representative of the and unrushed The General himself
CHARTERED BANK WAR in Canton, and after remaining there for some weeks he suddenly packed up.
MEMORIAL. and returned to America, refusing both
UNVEILING AT THE HEAD OFFICE.. was democratic. Before the representa in China and Japan to make any state
In the head office of the Chartered ment, either as
tives of the Tuchans of Kiangai and Bank of India and Australia and China, the prospects of Hupeh, he answered frankly every ques- the Consortium or anything else. The tion I asked Torodiu now says that there is no doubt answers he gave were revelations of his
at Bishopsgate. E.C., on July 6th. Lord Whether
or not the George Hamilton unveiled a memorial Southern President, that the activities of Dr. Sun, the full intentions lime must be allowed to
to the members of the staff who fell in are financed by tell. His friendy, matter-of-fact air and
the war:-The memorial is attached to American (unds. This seems very doubt absence of self-consciousness tended
the wall on the ground floor of the bank- ful, but there are some curious circun inspire belief. And one thing is certain, from the
ing hall, on the right, some few yards 5.-The first directors of the Company stances which have apparently given rise he showed no reticenes, even in conner working desk. It consists of a handsons were... K Kentwell of Shanghai Bar to this belie: among Japanese. The re-tion with the most delicate topics. rister-at-Law (Chairman), S. R. Minnyference made by Mr. Bruilsford to the I started with a bit of courteous flat centre at the top is a
bronze tablet some 5 ft. by 4 ft.
In the of Shanghai, Merchant, and Liang Pin British colliery concession in Kwang-tery: to the effect that General Wa is Corge, with lance and pennon, stand- figure of St. Woon of Shanghai, Insurance Agent, tung as the must remarkable even in the being looked to by foreigners and foreign fing on a shield hearing the arms of the with Frank W. White of Shanghai, history of Imperialistic finance is tú a governments as the man of the hour... bank, and Hanked by shields bearing the Alerchant, Manager and Secretary,
general mining concession, not confined, failed to get the expected response and St. -No capital has ever been subscrib we understand, to coal.
George's and St. Andrew's crosses. Now this min- changed my maths of ed, the Company has never gone tong roncession has been rejected by the
approach. The inscription Pro Rege is between the **What." asked abruptly. is your shields on the left, and Pro Patria be allotment, it has never had a Board Kwangtung Government, or has not been purpose in sending troops to Hupch? tween those on the right. At the extreme Meeting, or its Statutory Meeting, and ratified a fact of which Mr. Brailsford Are you going to light Chao Hengti of right and left of the tablet are morn the wages of the Company's employés is not apparently aware. It is believed unan I thought he was your friend."ing figures. Below the shields and almost are in arreng and unpaid.
ingreply General Wh revented to me China that it was rejected as the a choice bit that the gossip-mongers of and the uaars of 37 members of the staff.
across the whole tablet is an inscription Petitioners in the sum of taeis one capitalists, and the sudden departure of Chao tu be my friend, he said, since Below the names is an inscription read
7.The Company is indebted to your result of counter-offer by American China have missed.
I have considered who gave their lives for their country. " thousand two hundred and sixty-seven Mr. Stevens and his return to America my stay in Hunan. He has proved to ing Their name liveth for ever more. Shanghai Cycee (Tis. 1,267) being the is believed to have been connected with be a tremendous disappointment proceeds of the sale by auction at the this circumstance. In denouncing the remember my demand, after the destruc
You across the traditional laurel wreath. L'ompany's premises of certain furniture British mining concession and suggest tion of the Anfu government inst sum tere informed them that greater love Lord George Hamilton said:-Scrip- and effects deposited by your petitionering that such
exposing mer, for an as with them for the purposes of "sale:"
Britain to the same suspicion in South tonal Assembly. Although my play was
inter-provincia Constitu. down his life for his friend and the
hath
no man than this that a man lay 8-Your petitioners have made repeat. China as attaches to Japan in the North, wrecked at that time by Chang Tso-lin, memorial was placed in the hall to per ed application to the Company for pay it is difficult to avoid the suspicion that I have not given up the ides, and still petuate that sentiment, and to asociate ment hat the Company has failed and Professor Dewey is not so much con- hold it to be the only means of con neglected to pay the same.
cerned with the doings of British solidating the nation. I had entrusted
with it the names of those who had thas 9.-The Company is insolvent and uncapitalists as with the scheme of the to Chad Hengti, of Hunan, the task a came, nowhere was
sacrificed themselves. When the call able to pay its debts.
Consortium, regarding British action aning the support, of the guthern pro spontaneous and general
the response, more than in the and the record of the Chartered the present assets and liabilities of the a pre-emption of the ground. When Mr. the work of rallying the Northern pro- Company:-
Crane, late American Minister to China, vinces. I had hoped that by the fall passed through Chica, ho was reported I might And it practicable to call such to have said in an interview that the an assembly, leaving out, if necessary. 1,000 only remedy he could perceive, for China the Manchuria provinces. Chao Heng 250 was some sort of international financial ti, by his precipitate and craven action, control. Mr. Bertrand Russell, in his fighting must delay it. I am sending has betrayed my plan. Any kind of 300 final address at Peking, quoted this re-
troops to Hunch to prevent war. mark as showing that the struggle over
I still Tis. 1,580 China was really a war of financial in
terests. This gave great offence to Pro- fessor Dewey with his pro-Consortium views, and eforts were made to get r.
The Vice-Inspector General glanced at Russell to consent to the deletion of the Wang's agent. To protect Wang is, passage before the speech was published. for the time being, to protect Hupeh," Mr. Russell declined, saying he had no he said. Hupeh must. at this time, 1.000 objection to the insertion of a footnote be preserved from strife and invasion. to the effect that Mr. Crane's frienda The foreign interests in Wuhan must not 5,500 thought that the late American Minister he risked. Already there is too much
must have been mis-reported, but he re-basis for intervention talk. fused to omit the passage, as he was a recurrence of a general war between Above all. Deficit Tis. 3,050 not relying on Mr. Craue's, expression the North and the South must at all costs alone but on general tendencies he bad be prevented. China's reunion can never 11-in the circumstances it is just and observed. It will thus be seen that when accomplished by-lighting. Chao has equitable that the Company should be Mr. Brailsfurd quotes Professor Dewey shown lamentable weakness before the wound up.
as a witness against British Imperialistic
bluff of the Sun Wen party.. He claims Your petitiopers, therefore, humbly finance, be is unaware of Professor that his financial shortage compels him
follows:- That Shanghai, Auctioners, Limit-its mainspring in the afhce of Messrs. I myself assisted him only a few weeks Dewey's support of the Consortium with to accept the invitation of the Hupeh disaffectants to attack Tuchun Wang. ed, may be wound up by the Court under Pierpont. Morgan & Co. the provisions of the China (Companies) mining cupcession in Kwangtung may be 8100.000 From Huph, and $50,000 from The British ago in outaining arms supplies and all that it is painted by Mr. Brailsford, Kiangai; He now uses these resources to we have no information on the matter attack Hupeh, which is perfidy. bat Professor Dewey, upon whom he re lies, is not a good authority or an un- prejudiced witness.
schemes are
10.The following is a statement of an invasion of the Consortium ɓeld and vineys for the schend, reserving to my was remarkable. At the outbreak
ASSETS.
Cash in band Furniture and fixtures........ Auction aules-accounts to collect
(estimated)
"LIABILITIER.-
Claims for proceeds auction
sales Claims salaries, wages, advertis-
ing etc.
Assets estimated to realise
pray s
Order in Council, 1015.
Tis.
Tis.
4,500
1,550
(2) Or that such other order may be made in the premises as shall be just.
MR. REID'S EVIDENCE. Mir. E. Mortimer Reid, chartereil accountant, who audited the books of the company, then gave evidence.
The Hon. Bertrand Russell, before his Chronicle the following comment on the departure fran "Japan wrote to the above note.
to execute the plan for a Constitu tional Assembly." Wang Chan yuan?"
Will you then," I asked, protect
of the war there were 193 men on the books of the head office, of whom 77 were Juniors training for service in the East: 32 were above military age. the
Many had advantage training, and others were associated of previous military with different tions. They all. as a matter of course. military organiga went; but as time went on the demands on the staff became more and more in- sisteat, until 60 per cent. of the whole available staff was taken. As the war went on juniors became of military age, gone from head office to the Front cr and at the time of the Armistice 101 had were in training, 8 went from the East- num. ern staff, and many, in addition to this number. resigned the bank's service in order to fight. The total, therefore, that of that number no less than a received the bank contributed was 139. and out commissions nearly 50 almost unprecedented proportion, whilst per cent, ad 18 military and naval honours were earn. ed by them. But, alas, on the other side casualties were exceptionally heavy; 371 laid down their lives. This unusually large proportion amounted to almost 20 per cent,, the general percentage being Palestine, Egypt, Mesopotamia. And Italy, Siberia, Montenegro, in Turkey, 10. They fought in Flanders, in France,
Some of them even on the North-West Frontier of India, and a certain propor "I believe that a province should have tion of them also volunteered for naval a voice in regard to the choice of its
work. The most hazardous service afloat ruler, and am willing that, after the present crisis is past, the Hupeh people whose business was to become camouflaged was to go on board ope. of the boata. should have the opportunity to obtain
No na to look like merchant vessels. One La reply to his Lordship, he stated
charges against whose administration the vessels accomplished almost the the replacement of Tuchun Wang, the of their that no capital had been subscribed, nor
on board one of young fellows had there been any board meeting.
Notice was given to the Registrar of leaderette with whose getierat scope Istigating the military of a neighbouring was shattered below the knee by a shell. In your issue of July 4th there is a state, however, that the dismatically unique feat of sinking two submarines
of one province, in hiring or in-
fac in one week. Companies, but to return of allotments am in agreement, but ending in a sug- province to assist in deposing no official yet he held on to his machine, came back Another took to flying, and became an expert fier. His leg was ever made. Mr. White, the manag- gestion which seems to me misleading er of the company, left everything in and not wholly just, to the effect that regard to such regulations in the bands Professor, Dewey.
is tending to set up a most dangerous with it; and also with his observer. of the directors, and he simply devoted good authority or an unprejudiced wit determined that in this case. sucir a pre-
precedente precedent which
Following not a contingal
would
the unveiling ceremony, chaos all his time to the auctions.
in China, and I am
which then took place, a brief religious His Lordship: There is a credit of Dess." I do not know that any one of us cedent shall not be established.
service was held, comprising first a Tls, 1,000 in the bank. What is thatness where national bias enters in. I to the establishment of righteousness in people." and the Benediction. could claim to be as unprejudiced wit Hunnanese must confine their
Apecial prayer, then the Lord's Prayer, the collect, " They gave up the lease on the premises have myself struggled against the dis- their own province
attempts
Grant to Thy faithful on Avenue Edward VII, and that was torting influence of nationalism on my support the "tulus quo in Hupch until YELLOW RIVER BRIDGE GOES
I shall therefore compensation for giving it up.
His Lordship: And the Ts. 4,500, still conscious of being by no means believe the people of Hupeh will have own thoughts for many years, yet I am the Southern threat is removed, when I That was due for goods sold to various,
TO BELGIUM. customers, the proceeds of which wore Britain and a foreign country. Doubt- unprejudiced in an İxsuc between
the privilege of a voice in the selection never handed over.
of a successor to General Wang, who is appointed by the Chinese Ministry of The tender examination committee His Lordship:
less Professor Dewey also may be des- They conducted safes cribed-along with the
now over sixty years old." and people dever got their money t-thuman race as a prejudiced witness in rest of the
Many of the Hupehese would welcome tract for the Yellow River railway Communications has awarded the con appears that during the last few auctions this sense, but in this sense only. He
yourself as the old General's successor.' the compradore had been advancing the favours the Consortium. I do not. He
I suggested.
bridge to the Societe Belge pour l'Ex- company money the extent of Tis. sees in the extension of America's in ministrativo work," he said.
General Wu replied in an impersonal portation Industrielle, which estimates 2,000 to Tls. 3,000. They have been fluence or
manner, not cut out for ad- the cost at $10,000,000. losing Tis. 400 every month, and when China's regeneration.
China the best hope of prefer to remain free to launch my forces tively, are awarded to the Compagnie. "And. I Prizes. of 380,000 and 825,000, respec- he saw no capital forthcoming he said these are very dificult questions in of China's unity, as I have recently French company for the second and third
I do not. But he was going to put himself right out gard to which either opinion may be held done against the old Anfu remnant in
against any faction standing in the way Générale d'Extrême Orient and another of the subsequent auctions to reimburse rationally. himself.
His Lordship: It is obvious then the Dewey, "is ant a good authority," he has freely speak or act."
As to the statement that Professor should be fettered, and could no longer
best tenders. Shenzi, Once a provincial official, I company must be wound up,
WHAT IS EYESTRAIN? The question of appointing an official men, and is, no doubt, repenting what control
been in Canton and seen the leading receiver was then gone into,
"Will you send sufficient forces to
The eye has certain tiny muscles. After argument by counsel, His Lord: they told him." Nor is he the only "How about Ichang and the Szechuan up to a sharp focus in the eye, these the situation !!! I asked. When objects we look at do not come. ship made the order that Mr. E. Mor-which is repeated with more detail by
authority for the statement in question, border?" timer Raid shall be appointed Special Mr. Philip Haddon in the Review of the guarantee the peace of the Wahan region. enable us to see clearly in spite of the Manager with the same powers beld as Far East for July 15th. And certainly shall also occupy Ichange and other defect. These muscles tire and relax "I believe," he replied, "that I can muscles exert themselves unduly and official receiver until the meeting of creditors.
some explanation has to be sought for Yangtze porte. I am assuming command the extreme bostility of Hongkong to of all northern. expeditionary forces, and
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are well-known to me.
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Mr. Teesdale made an application that the Government of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Tuchua Wang and the Kiatge Techuausing the objects looked at to become
several
the fee of Mr. Reid for investigating the The favour shown to that Government have offered to place their forces under blurred and indistinct. Upon closing the matters of the company from the time by the Americans also needs explanation, my direction. The 25th Chihli Division eyes for a few seconds the muscles be... he started those investigations up to which, I hope, will be provided by some and Chin Yun-ao's eighth Mixed Brigade come more the present be granted, and Mr. Dick Americas as unpatriotic" as myself. son having no objection to this, it was
from Chengchow are already in Hankow,
or loss rested and objects accordingly made by the court.
Wuchang and Hanyang. Shantung and ara clear again for a brief period. Hozan are
I Properly fitted glasses correct øye strain,
but if required am propared to place Clark & Co. Manufacturing and Refract. move the Third Division from Houanfu, The Hongkong Optical Co., successors to do not consider it necessary "as yet to whether caused by astigmating"""org" ago,"
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Mr. Teesdale, further made an appli cation that a statement of affairs should. be drawn up and presented within four teen days. An order to this effect was made by the Court.
(Continued at foot of neat column.).
granted him a counsel for the pro
Mr. Teesdale asked that costs be visional liquidator and special manager. His Lordship: If there is any money,
in it.