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THE HONGKONG DAILY PERSS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 317, 1923.
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NEEDA OF ROADS AND RAILWAY, The extraordinary wealth of Szechuan, the great storehouse of China, and its crying need for development, are thus described by the Republic of China Bureau of Economia Information
Szechuan is the largest and richest province in China. In the country which can embrace the continent of Europe and yet leave enough room for another France and Germany, and which can safely be said to the the richest 'stere house in the world, the importance of its largest and richest province) is 2 matter of some nioment to the world.
LONDON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART
MAATSCHAPPIJ,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES." FROM SINGAPORE AND PENANG.
18 Steamship
"VAN OVERSTRATEN : | having arrived from the above Ports, Con- dances of Cargo by her are notified that wil Goods are being landed at their riak into the hazardous and/or extra-hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whenes and/or from the wharvee delivery may be obtained will be abject to rent.
Claims doods not cleared by the fith June 19,
constraction work, is at the time of writ ing helt up on account of lack of funds. The surveyors have taken their inves tigations as far into Szechuan as Kwer- chowfn, and" here the project festa till foreign capital can be interesteal to take up its undertaking. Another road into
At the fortieth annual meeting of the Szechuan has been surveyed by Ameri can engineers under the contract be London Chamber of Commerce, held on ween the Chinese Government and the May and, at the Skinners Hall. Dowgate Stems-Carey Railway and Canal Com Mr. Stanley Machin, the, retiring pany. The route is connected with the President, in the chair.
Mr. W. DARISHLAR, speaking ns an Peking Hankow Railway at Sinigangchow. a paint 11 miles ucrth of Hankow, and
East India merchant, complainil. that enters Szechuan near Taeyang in Sheusi
the London Chamber of Commerce did province. Both these schemes and a tor
not fall the functions which merchants minus at Chengtu, the Yangtze route expected of it. He was astounded that being 929 uniles in length and the Shen there was no reference in the report or route 893 mites,
in the Chairman's address to the neces Another scheme intimately bound pity of abolishing the Department of with the opening of the province is the Oversous
seerued to have the idea that I square miles, is larger than the combines and Chungking tu serve, as an alternative the merchants and traders of this count wanted in writing within ten days after arrival The area of Szechuan, which is on construction of a line between Ichung mit officials o od bianch. Govern
were a lot of blithering idiots area of the eleven American states of carrier to the Yangtze river route. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhile Such a railway would carry nearly all laughter)ad could imly carry on bust-of-steamer, otherwise they will not be re Island, Connecticut. Massachusetts. New the present river-borne trifle owing to
department. The dependiture was a No Fire it superior advantages over river com York, New Jersey, Pennyslvaning Delu ware, and Virginia, whilst its population, petition in cheapness safety nml speed small matter-2400,000 a year! He would At present it is impossible to transport like to know what the Chamber was going estimated at 45,000,000, is nearly half the
to do with regard to free trade, total population of the United States. heavy unchinery for industrial estababandoning of that might mean the loss and is greater than the combined polishments and mining enterprises, and of 100 millions. They would be told. per. pulation of the thirty seven states not railway route would instantly remove included in the area comparison Trily these obstructions, thus giving the pro-aps, that this was a matter of party
polities. A vast, populated province, and, as the vince an opportunity to make use of its
Besides The CHAIRMAN, interposing said that interest of international traders testifies, enormous natural résources.
Szechuan, it would also if Tarift Reform and Free Trade were to one trening with raw materials many opening up times in excees of the needs of the absorb and supply the rich mining rebe discussed, they might be there the people.
gions of Yunnan province, which is in whole of the day or a week. the drainage area of the Yangtse river"
COMMUNICATIONA.
resulte
agaluat the steamer must be pess
| Beas with the help of such a bareniteratic I pognised. Trance will be, affected by the.
Thê
Bills of Lading will be countertigsed by undersigned in any case whatavar
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
Agents. Hongkong, 19th June, 1923. 11146
AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. ...
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Mr. DANDISHIA said the Safeguarding"| of Industries Act was a direct contradic tion of free trade. If he were not allow-
"ROSERIO" rd to speak he would sit down, and tak having arrived from the abore Port, Consigneer. steps to form a free trade association. of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all The London Chamber of Commerce was Goods are being landed at their risk leto the degenerating as the defenders, of the combasarlons and/or extra-bazardous Godowns of cheap Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa mice of this country inte edition of the Federation of British In. Campany, Limited, "whence delivery may be
and that was no us at all. obtained. dustri." (Laughter and applause)
The CHAIRMAN said, the experience of commercial men was that the Department of Overseas Trade was on the whole ren- lering really valuable service to the com- mercial community. With regard to the Safeguarding of Industries Act. Chamber had not taken any devided Rolicy.
They were a composite body.. they had a large section representing manufacturers and another section re
the
Goods not cleared by the 26th inst. at 5 p. will be subject to rent.
All broken, obafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns whore they wal be examined at 10 .., on the 26th inst, by Capt. Douglas.
Claims against the steamer must be pre- sentod within ten days of arrival, otherwise they will not be recognised. in any case whatever?
No Fhe Intrance will be effected by which Bills of Lading will be countersigned 1
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IMMENSE RESOURCES. Szechuan claims to produce everything
A GIUNABING-CHRNATE LINK, raised elsewhere in China. Silk, wheat, In view of the fact that many years sugar, tubacen. fibres, rhilsarh, Eximboo, must elapse, before these enterprises are ten, herbs, and word oil are among the cumpleted. it is well to turn to less principal products. The mineral wealth ambitious projects, which, although they is stated by competent investigators to leave the Yangtze the ene ferder of the be immense, and although surveys have province, are important because they been so far superficial, extensive de will develop the vast interior, trade of posits of iron, goal, copper, gold, quick-Szechnan. Chungking should be provid. silver, and petroleum are known to exist. ed with railway cumiounication with the Salt wells fon depth of 3.000 feet have capital; that is the first consideration, disclosed the resence of petroleum and Á railway between the two great trid gas in considerable quantity. The indusing marts of Szechuan would cut through tries, of which silk holds the leading the famous Red Raxin, or, as it is some place, inclusle wood oil, vegetable tallow times called, the Chengt plain, which is wax, musk, metlicines, wound, hides, to 43 by 15 miles in area and has a popu lation of no fewer than 2,000 per are bacco, and paper.
uile, or ten times, the average density: of the whole of the proviser. This zone In this great teart of land there is not is perfectly irrigated by ein renting merchants, Each of the fifty- a single mi of railway. The need of system 2,000 years old, and is probably fur sections comprised within the Cham transportation is greater probably than the most fertile region for its size in her had considered the matter, and had in any other part of the world. Sze-China. It is a matter of considerable in taken the course they considered right, in shana is situated in the roof of the test, therefore, that the provincial the interests of their particular trade and industry. With regard to frer trade or world"
and is bemmed in from communi government proposes to undertake the
the question hul been dia cation with its neighbours by stretches construction of a
of the Chamber, of mountain range that find their origin line if suthcient capital can be obtained. when the mandate. in the Himalayas. Its bottle like shape The scheme prepared by General Yang of three to one, was, to support tarif has its only outlet in the neek, an elongsen, the enlightened Director of the riform, but in view of the difficulties of sted piece of land through which runs Chungking Port Administration. has the situation card hy the war, it had the Yangtze. The story of the fight been submitted to the foreign consuls, not been revived, and be hoped for the with the upper reaches of China's great who pronounce it feasible project, present it would not be. Hear, hear.)
The report was adopted. river is art of the history of navigation. Briefly, it will join Chungking and From Lehang, in Hupeh province, to Chengtu and then connect Tachieniu, the Chungking, the only treaty port in Sze-"gateway of Tibet, with a 50 mile exten- chunn and 100 miles along the waterway, sion. Owing to the cost of constructing most of which section drains the lower standard gauge railway over a hilly EFFECTS OF THE " EGYPT'S" BUTTER.-Daisy, Dairymaid and Sham- section of the latter province, there are gorges of
iniense height, and shoals, whirlpools, and rapids have played have
Chungking-Chengtu tariff, big meeting by a majority
country ke Szechuaï it is proposed to build a narrow gauge line, and the amount of the loan tentatively set down
BENEFITS TO TRADE.
cused at
LOSS.
Hongkong. June 19th, 1912.
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with native craft. During the figh water to complete, it is twenty-five, to thirty Mex 28th, gold rates were declining nod Last work, states a Calcutta message of sensor the Upper Yangtze in places rises million tacts.
bullion coming chenger. The sudden over 175 feet above the low water level,
arwa thus the gut had foundered hai and it is during this time that the river,
immediate effect. The liner waя becomes a tremendous torrent, the sight From the facts ziven above it will not h of which, with its banks of almost per be doubted that the Szechuan people trying gold to the value of £810,000 to pendicular heights is one of the most im- will support the venture as soon as it is delivered for the June settlement, and pressive yet fearsome sights of the completed. They have suffered tremends commened to buy, causing world. Navigation over this belt. it may uusiy from the lack of adequate and sharp rise of four annas at which the market remains steady. Present stocks. therefore be appreciated, is fraught with safe communication for years and still amount to about 500,000 tolas excluding the utmost difficulties. Formerly only they make demands on foreign manuunt
The daily demand junks, made the passage, and thousands factures which increase with the develop applies on the sea.
ia aume 20,000 tolus. There is The new on hand for the June settlement, but the is enough gold of them have been wrecked in. the ope- ment of foreign enterprise. ration, but, owing to the bravery and mode of travelling will be welcomed with luss of the Egypt consignment has dis- skill of pioneering foreigners, and the open arms by a population which is prey turbed matters, and there, will have to be advancement attained in marine engine cd upon by hordes of bandits, and the fresh buying in London. The following From New construction. the Ichtng Chungking sec-linking of the various districts from is the amount of arrivals.
From tion is now navigable by steam with a Chungking to the Tibetan border will York, Rs. 20.12,207, Bar Gold. certain degree of regularity during right mean the best safeguard against their Hongkong, Rs. 456,150. Leaf Gold. In months of the year. At the same time, depredations, and also tend to promote silver China's persistent buying has sent. the dangers to navigation still exist (the a control of the affairs of the province the London market up to 373 for both spot Yangisze has not yet been beaten by thus affording adequate protection to the and forward. India and the Continent man's ingenuity), as is illustrated by the people-which it has not hitherto known have been selling, but the China influener absence of insurance rates and the high in consequence of the inaccessibility of the is the stronger. The local market show.
ed an advance in sympathy with Londo freight rates which the steamship corn regions now proposed to be opened up and rose from Rs. 21 20 146. But
Most important of all, railway enterprise presages the development of industry drop was coming when the news camp and commerce. The untapped resources the Egypt was carrying silver to From this iteration of the difficulties of the province have engaged the atten- of £215,000 to Bombay for June settle
The drop was stayed, and the|| SHANGHAI OFFICE- attendant on communication along the tion of other countries notwithstanding ment.
When market now has an upward tendency only pathway leading into Szechuan, the the dearth of communications. claim that the need for more facilities railway facilities are available exploita- though rates are still under import Arrivals at From New
panies demand.
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that
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Calcutta, From London, 42.200 riches now awaiting exploitation and tion. "There is not single modern mine From Sydney, Rs. 1,321 transportation, than in any other part in the whole of Szechuan; yet
York, R. 12,58,442, of the world may be justified. The pro-Richtofen speaks glowingly of its con! duets of Szechuan are bottled up like its resources. In this connection the pro- people and its area.". Freight rates are vincial authorities have had the foresight of necessity abnormal; hence there are to establish a Mining, Bureau to be anch peculiar situations as was witness managed in conjunction with the affairs engineers are now making a survey. His ed in China in 19:7, when wheat, which of the railway. This is not only to energies are not confined to internal
O during that year was in great demand sure a supply of coal for the Railway but improvements schools are being re throughout the world, was selling in to encourage the development of new organised and great encouragement is Shanghai for $30 to 3 a bushel and inmines to supply the needs of the in given to all enterprises that help the rates, as from APRIL 1st, 1932, on the following Szechuan at ten cents. Between Ibang creasing number of craft now plying the people to improve.. and Chungking,500 miles of the 4,500 supér renches of the Yangtze. As it General Yang's genius for reforms is not mile course, the cost of freight works is, nearly 50 per cent, of the price of limited to one, district. The city of out at no less that Taels 70 to Taels coal produced along old-fashioned native Chungking was in gren need of clean- The results of improve 100 per ton. Even then the merchant has lines gocas in transportation fees. With sing,
an increased charge of 20 per cous, oh present
Fortunately Lesoriptions
to rely on junks or coolie labour. The the radical reduction of freight charges ment schemes) are that within a short upstream journey takes about six weeks and the increased prosperity of the period great changes have taken place and the difficulties from lehang to Chung people in consequence of the industrial in the outward appearance of the great king are of minor account when com expansion, there will be an immense de commercial metropolis of the west, pared with the rapids farther up the and for foreign goods, and a demand Great bands are to be constructed. A river, while the land journey, which, from 50,000,000 people who have been meter road to Chengtu is to be built and takes about a fortnight, is through deprived of intercourse with western seroplanes are to be brought out west."
Szechuan will cortainly take a hilly, bandit-infested country, where cart markets exceptat, extravagant cost is loads are unknown. The overland trans-eminently worthy of consideration.
lease of life when General Yang finishes portation charges between these two places, which have 'n population of half a million each, are 悲也 present about
per ton per mile. Although the river
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IF YOU WEAR GLASSES
big work. For many more years to there is almost as much comfort and come, however, the only means of con- pleasure in wearing Pince-nez. Eje Other activities aiming at the better reying the riches of the West in ex- Glasses, as there, is in possessing provisions of transportation are various change for the riches of this Chinese Taela 1:0 per ton, or about 40 Tacl cents road schemes. Highways radiating from province will be the formidable Yangtze, perfect pair of eyes-for they fit so com- charges are much less, cargo Frequently the capital will bring Wanksien, Kwang but foreign traders have proved that fortably and securely that you forget your arrives at Chengtu in a very damaged yuan Kwanhsien, Yachow, Fachow, and they are willing to spend their money have them on-the most important im- Chungking within comparatively easy and their brains in trying to curb its condition owing to the state of the ex each of the trade coming into the treaty present intractibility. The recent hydro provement in eye-glasses in the past treme reaches of the Yangtse..
port. Much of the activity of the plane experiments towards the mouth of twenty-five years. Pince-ner Eye Glazes people has been nullified in recent years the river is à portent that success is
„.." PROJECTED TAILWAYS.
The solution of the difficulties under by internal disturbances, but it seeran not far ahead. Chiness enterprise under of any prescription in either regalar or which trade now labours is the develop that General Yang is inaugurating a new the enlightened, guidance of General Torio form are manufactured by the ment of transportation. There are many regime of progress Commenting on the Yang Ben and foreign pioneering in the Hongkong Optical Co., „successors" to schemes aiming at linking the interior of new powers in Western China, a recent fight with the Yangtze are both means Clark & Co, Manufacturing - and Re- the province with the outside world. The writer says:-
nem towards the same ends the release of first of importance is at the Hukwang Railway system. This line will eventual-
"General Yang in planning to build the hidden wealth of Szechuan from its fracting Opticians the most competent model town near-Inchaw. A railway age-long sleep and the circumvention of optical manufacturing establishment in ly connect Peking and Canton with an is projected from Luthow to the salt natural barriers which have stunted the offshoot to Chengtu. Much money has well, abeat 100 miles in length. Foreign, growth of trade unparalleled in its South China-located in 53, Queen's already been spent on the project, but
Bond Central—Anys Continued at foot of next column.). fossibilities.
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