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AMERICAN LADY'S SUICIDE AT HAIPHONG.
HER LIFE IN PEKING... Mrs. Raport Hughes, wife of a distin- guished American author, recently look | her own life.in Haiphong."
THE TIENTSIN COTTON SITUATION.
REMAINS ÎN DEADLOCK.
TIESTSIN, December 14th. The Cotton situation remains at a dead- lock, and outside of what Compradores." have purchased in the spot market to cover their firms, no appreciabla effort has been made on the part of the "tsans' to full contracts. The total commut
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Mrs. Rupert Hughes had been residing ir Peking and had left there intending to go to Paris à Suez and then home to America. She had taken a house near the Druri Tower for the winter but sud-meats are estimated by the Chinese denly changed her plans, sold her house authorities to he above Fix 4,000,000. hold effects and went to Shanghai. She of this the arrested "tsana sailed on the s digdor qud intended Bible for about Tls. 1,000,000, while the to make rief stays at Haiphong and other "tsans," not arrested, are ́respón, Saigon, proceeding to Marseilles on the sible, for the rest. l'hambord. She had been ill for NE time before leaving Peking but had ap- parently recovered.
She planned to visit some famous ruins while ashore and was hopeful that the pain would pass. She intended to change Ships at Singapore and proceed to Mar seilles and thence to Puris by train. THE-TRAGEDY OF THE DRUM TOWER HOUSE Under this, hending the Far Eastern Pinces says:-
Investigation of books belonging to the arrested tsans" finds they are bailly in the hole and unlikely to be able to meet the fall amount of their losses. It Arriving at Haiphong a series" of
also uncovers a story of speculation and troubles confronted Err. She was di crookedness. These "taans," or brokers, pleased with the services and conditions did considerable speculation among thein- o the ship and just as she landed she selves, buying and selling from each other. became ill.Physicians feared a severe after the fashion of stock market opera. pain that developed in her ear might be tions, though not with their usual safe- due to mastoid trouble. She suffered guards and control. It appears that when intensely, she told her friends. On the the up-country dealers, from whom the way she had lost part of her baggage and | brokers buy the cotton, came here and many of her valued art objects were heard of the better prices they could get,, destroyed or damaged due to faulty pack owing to heavy buying by Japanese, they ing by her servants in Peking.
agreed with many of the brokers to eau- She had failed to get the proper pass-cel the previous contracts. It was settled port vise before leaving and learned at by the dealers paying the brokers for Haiphong, that she roahl not get it there release, and the Brokers agreeing to settle and might not be permitted, to land in with foreign firms on the best terms they Salzon.
could get. As an instance the contracted price in several cases whs Tis, while the market soared to Tis. 36, an eight trel difference. The cotton dealers saw a chance to make money on á "hearish market and in return for cancellation paid the brokers Tls. 4.00, half the mar in. The brokers saw a-net-profit of Tis 4 per picul and snapped it up, while the dealers sold for Tls. 36 instead of Tha 8, also prosting by Tls. ; eight tels less four paid to the broker. As a matter of fact it is not clear just which aide is responsible for this contract breaking, but it is said with a fair amount of re- liability behind it, that several Compra- dores of lount foreign hongs, were the originators of the plan. They were in- terested in spot buying for their own private account and, sensing the market! tendency, played a safe hand to This, however, is not true of all Compra- dores, for it is reported four of the largest foreign firm's Compradores have done their utrpost to fulfil contracts for which they, as middlemen, are responsible. In several cases they have, by spot laying, made up the full amount of the contracts and intend to nettle later with the de- In other words, they Many of faulting brokers. have taken their medicine. them, nevertheless, have not done much to aid their firms, once again proving the gradually diminishing usefulness of the fumed Compradore in Sino-foreign com-"
Mrs. Hupert Hughes, like her husband, had very considerable literary talent and only left -Peking a fortnight ago. Early in the autumn she took over from Mr. Kirk. formerly of the American Legation. his so-called Drum Tower house, an traordinary place, with secret passages and other Manchu refinements, which Mr. Kirk bad furnished in a lurid maner.
Mrs. Rupert Hughes had arrived" in Peking with a trained nurse, but as a result of a difference of opinion this lady left for America. Mrs. Rupert Hughes, when left alone. fell into despondency and was seen less and less, living a nula. ber of days without seeing a European a highly dangerous position for a woman with a nervous disorder, Word forts nately was brought at last through a Chinese servant to friends who went to her resche and brought her to the (ier man hospital in the nick of time. Her own Chinese servant, in spite of her being newcomer, behaved in an exem- plary way, nothing bag been stolen or touched, although in her helpless rou- ition, it would bare heen easy to rob her completely. They had gone so far As to remove the cartridges from are volver, they had found by her bedside. thereby probably saving her from the rash act she has now committed.
Whilst on this unhappy subject, we feel constrained to say that a stricter check should be kept on strangers in Peking, sonic system being devised whereby the Chinese police report to the Legation concerned the renting of hauses by new- comers. The case of Russing women in Peking is becoming an serious that it is the duty of the Diplomatic Rody to take some action for their protection.
CROWN AGENTS COM MISSIONS
"NO FINANCIAL ADVANTAGE FROM
DIRECT DEALING.""""
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It is not a question of cotton available, for there is plenty of cotton in Tientain. Altogether it was estimated, some week ore ago, that the total commitments to foreign arms were about 145,000 niculs, whereas the official return of the Chinese Native Customs show that several times that nimount has been received and, apart from what has heen sold, there still re- mains on hand more than sufficient to meet the foreign contracts.
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The Provincial Assembly has put the ease before the Civil Governor, asking for a fair settlement all round, but the Civil Governor has in turn passed it ou to the Industria)Bureau for action. In comman parlance they seem to he ing the hack. Meanwhile the "tsans are detained by the police and yesterday asked a further extension of two weeks to effcet a settlement. They requested, at the same time, to he released but to no aequiescence-fur this there was Eastern Times.
In reply to Capt. A. Evans, in the... House of Commons on November 13th, Mr. Ormsby Gore, Under Secretary for the Colonies, said it was unlikely that any financial advantage would result to the Colonial Governments from dealing direct with the market instead of through the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
The following statement was, also put
The Crown Agents' Office is financially self-supporting, commissions and fees for work done heing charged to the Colonial Governments, etc., which it serves. These may be varied from time to time to meet the expenses of the upkeep of the office, with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and are at present as follows:-
Purchase of stores-1 per cent. on the value (invoices cost, other expenses and freight).
Sale of articles-1 per cent, on pro- coeds of mile.
Inspection of stores (engineering, cloth- ing, general stores, stamps and currency notes), macking of stores, shipping of stores-Special tariffs according to weight,
ralne, quantities, etc.
Drawing Office charges to 1 per cent. on value of order, plus cost of draughts man's time,
SMUGGLING IN JAPAN Y.900,000 FINE.
Owing to the relaxation of the water- guard of the Yokohama Custom House since the earthquake, smuggling has in- creased. Kozato Rinzo, 37 years of age, In Tokyo merchant, and a cabin passenger of the Taiyo Moru, which arrived at Yokohama from San Francisco on the night of the 19th ult, was discovered to have smuggled in his big trunk, 1,100 gold watches and 2,000 fountain pens to the valus of Y30,000, barie, in sugar and- covered with clothes. The trunk has been seized, and he will be fined Y.00,000, an umoant three times the value of the goods. The man, however, denies having intended to smuggle. If the above prices are correct they must have been a cheap and nasty lot of goods-Japan Chronicle.
BRITAIN'S SAILOR KING. King George in his youth was Britain's Sailor Prince" of course, Recently Major Philip Hunicke, helmsman of the King's yacht, Britannia, let it be known Letting and execution of contracts for publicly what an intense interest the engineering works in the Colonies of King, takes in yachting to-day and how 1 per cent to 15 of 1 per cent, on alua deep is. his love of the w. Speaking at of contract, with varying minimum fees & dinner, Major Hunloke said that when of £23, £150, £375 and £600, according the King came in possession of the A Britannia she was rather like an old tub, to value of contract,
Selection of candidates for Colonial but Hunloke persuaded him to race her. appointments 2 per cent on first year's After the War the Britannia again came They did away with her salary: maximum £25. Passages 30s. per out in 1920.
bulwarks, but could not get a mast big passage
Loan charges sue: £2,500 per mil enqugh and had to glue a piece on, This lion. brokerage being charged to the brought her square feet of canvas tol Lissuing Colony, Management An annual 10,000 feet. This year the Britannia charge of £100 per million. Bedemption sailed twenty-six times and you deven
We ow £1,000 per million (except short-dated firsts and seven other prizes. Debentures). Conversation of Debenturea the King a great debt of gratitude, into Inscribed stock-2600 per million. added the speaker, I have never seen Issuerol-Colonial Treasury billa-1s, pory one enjoy yacht racing more than ho does. He is on the pite all "the Interest on overdrafts-At Bank Rato time, and this year he sailed her for a
whole day," ying.
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