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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, - FRIDAY, JUNE 27rit, » 1924-
BRITAIN'S EXPORT TRADE.
A GOVERNMENT INQUIRY.
In the House of Cominens last month Sir A. Shirley Bean (U. Plymouth, Drako) called attention to the condition of our export trade, and moved:-
RUSSIAN OIL DEALS.
SHELL AND STANDARD AGREEMENTS,
writing, rontly on this subject said- The Park correspondens of The Pers
Additional - details are now available converting
the agreements entered into between the Royal Dutch Company, asso That a Committee. be appointed to cinted with the "Shell" Company, and consider its position and the means to the Standard Oil Company for the aequl. be taken to obtain the nécesssary | Mion of oil concnsions in Russia. markets; that the Committee shall The fire agercent relating, to,
to the consist of a judge of the High Court as vision of the markets of the world be chairman and six members of the tween the ro organizations conclud House of Commons, two of whom to bed between the representatives of the Roy nominated by the Governintent, two byal Dutch the Conservative party, and tw by the Liberal party that three of the menu. bers shall be Cabinet or ex-Cabinet Ministers, and the other three shall possess business or tende qualifications: and that the Committee be requested to report to the Boase prior to the
summer, recess.
Sir C. Croydon Marks (L., Cornwall. N.) recusaded
Mr. Webb (President of the Board of Frade) said the Government was not une sympathetic towards the proposal ad.
Shell Company and the Standard Oil Cocpany in Switzerland at the beginning of last March. In this agreement were also includul the naphtha
the by-products of naphtha, (petro- leum, benzine, patrol, lubricating oil, k). rady purchased or which the Royal chase in the course of the year from the Company had arranged to pur- Sovies Government either directly by the Anglo-Dutch, organization or indirectly by hansey controlled by the two organizi- A second agreement goocerning the concession of oil enterprises in Russia fellow Some time after the first age
In this cis the Standard Oil acted a behalf of Messrs. Nobel rather united.
vaned by Sir A. Shirley Bonn. But her, associated,
or
with the great American company. As Messrs. Nobel Brothers controlive from 35 per cent, to 10 per cent, of all the pre- duction of Buku before the Revolution, it is believed that the dividon of the con- cussions and of the exportation was mule on that basis.
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believed that as a nation we benefited by the prosperity and advancing civilisation, ennd not by the adversity of other coun
tries. He admitted that the present state of things was very unsatisfactory, but in regard to the figures for 1813 it
The conditions of the future ennenaions must be femembered that that was, he
are not known in detail, but it is reported believed, a record years. Unemployinent that one condition is the payment by the was sad enough, although it was going concessionaire of a sum of £25,000.000
Soviet to the
The down, fut he believed the figures to-day undertake to indemnify the former
concessionaires, also 1170- corresponded closely with the unemploy.prietors or to come to an arrangement with them. In Russian oil circles the ment figures for 1909. In that year it arrangement between the Royal Dutch was not thought that we were in such a and the Soviets is approved, but its suc- very great crisis. Surely we need not ceas is considered doubtful, as many Com- munist leaders in Moscow are onnosed to lose all heart if, "having gone through it. Another obstacle may be the campaigu the Great War and the slump which fal- which the Government of the Soviets is lowed it we were in no worse a position present conducting against the New
Economie Policy and private capital. than in that year. The reason he was concerned about our exports was because | it was unly by exports that we could { obtain imports to keep our people in employment.
We had got into the way of thinking that Europe was ruined, but, as a matter of fact, there had been remarkably little alteration in the distribution of the United Kingdom trude. In 1883 Europe took 33.77 per cent. "of our export trade, as against 34 per cent, in 1913. It had to be remembered that our export trade was down $0 or 25 per cent, but the proportion of the distribution had scarcely altered. The Dominions, or, as he pre- ferred to call them, the British Common- wealth of Nations, last year took 35.5 per cent of the quantity of our total exports, As against 38.3 per cent. in 1813. The L'nited States and South America "took 15.8 per cent, as compared with 162, and f the Far East 5.6 per cent., as compared with not. The Government wished to see how they could pursue polity of over. aris settlement so as to make migration within the Empite as easy as possible. He did not like the shape of the proposed Committee. "It was a question whether a julge of the High Court was the best person as chairman The motion did not provide for all the elements which were necessary for such an inquiry. An in- quiry into the subject of our trade was being pressed for from many quarters, and the matter was being very seriously considered by the Government. He could assure Sir A. Shirley Benn that he would- hear about the committer very soon. At present he could not state what form the inquiry would take, and if the hon. mem Jer would address a question to the Prime Minister the following day or at later date, the answer would probably satial him. There was no question of inking this partisan matter; indeed. it was strongly desired that it shotld not f a party matter. Consultation would take place with the other parties, as re gards the formation of the Committee and terms of reference. If the Govertment set up the inquiry, it would be done so as to be satisfactory in these respects. The motion was by leave withdrawn
BANGKOK HATS.
A paragraph in a home paper recently. stated that Queen Marie of Rumania wore a hat of Bangkok straw when she i lunched at the Guildhall and that every other woman one met was wearing a tiny bowler hat of this straw, The Bangkok Timea remarked that these hats were not exported from Bangkok and liat no cơm nection with Siam, being manufactured in the Philippines.
A correspondent has since infers the paper-that the "Bangkok hat "actually bas some connection with Siam. In 1000 the East Asiatic Company import from Canton straw for hat-making and shipped it to Europe it, became very popular in Europe and the "Bangkok hat was born. Some years later a similar straw was made in the Philippines and Bang kok hat was the term used to describe hats made from this straw to ensure à ready txule, despite the fuct that 'appar ently only the one shipmení, passed through this port.
BIG RICE MILL FIRE-AT BANGKOK.
MARKWALD'S BURNED OUT.
Markwald's rice mill, the largest and one of the best equipped in Bangkok, was totally destroyed by fire curly on Sunday, morning (Juan toth), and a great gunz- tity of rice, paddy and paddy husk was also destroyed in the blaze. The mill be longed to Khoon Seng (Luang Chitr Champong Vanij) and was purchased from the Custodian of Enemy Property. for Tes" 750,000:"The damage to pro porty, upart from slocka, is put at some thing like Tos. £50.000.
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