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JAPANESE TRADE.
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.
We have received from the "local Japanese Consulate-Goanral the follow- ing particulars with regard to the com- mercial situation in Japan for the month of November:
Japanese foreign, trade returns compar. edwith November last year show that the excess of export over import declined by million yea.
to the expectation of an unfavourable The exchange market was weak owing balance of foreign trade. The money market was easy and there was an abund ance of available capital at the Bank of Japan, m
Trade was dull and prices of general merchandise rather weak. The raw silk trade showed no uneasiness owing to the excess of the stock and market improved. The market of cotton yarn has also in- creased owing to the settled price of American raw cotton and also to the reduction of working hours.
For the second quarter in succession, H.M.S. Findictive, takes first place in order of merit of B.M. ships for the number of successful exercises in signal, ling with merchant vessela. She had the total for the quarter anded June 30th last of 185, whereas in the March quarter she was top ship with 83. The Coventry, Mediterranean, was second in the June quarter-details of which practices are now announced by the Admiralty-with 82; the Cairo, East, Indies, third with 50; the Clemati, Red Sea, fourth with sa; and then the Hawkins, China flagship. and the Emerald, East Indica, tie with 43 exer- cisos cach. The total for the quarter was 1,115, as compared with 1,391 for the pre- vious quarter. There were 22 failures to catablish communication, as against 25.
On the mercantile side, the British India Co.'s vessels were again first with SI successful exercises, but the P. & O. ships, with 67, were ousted from second place" by the Ocean Steamship Co. (74), which was formerly fifth. The P. & O.The rate of exchange quoted by the line comes third, the British Tanker Co. Yokohaina Specie Bank, Tokyo,, on the and the Ellerman Lines tying for fourth] 10th of November was:—On New York, place with 50 exercises each. Details of TT. 3491; On London, TT. ∞ já. the tests show that all methods of cam- munication were tried, fags, flashing, signals, and semaphore.
The following appointments were made by the Admiralty on November 19th:- Lieut-Comdre. J. A. Douglas-Hamilton, to Mantis, Addl. (January 15th); and in command (undated); H. Hamilton, to Cricket, add). (January 13); and in com- mand (undated).
The following appointment was made by the Admiralty on November 23rd Capt. J. G. Glencross, D.S.O., to Fitania, addl. (January 27th), and in command, and as Capt. (S.), 4th Submarine Flotilla (on joining),
SPITZBERGEN COAL.
A LAND OF BIRDS AND FUR BEARING BEASTS.
An interesting account of Spitzbergen, which is noted for its important coal- fields, and as a base for attempts to reach the North Pole, some 600 miles distant, Was given by Dr. Robert Campbell, Edinburgh University, Thomson Lecturer
at Aberdeen.
2.
The foreign trade of Japan during last: October was:-Exports, 177 million
yea; Expofts, 165 million yen;. Excess of ex ports, 12 million yen.
Trade of with China during October:- Exports, 41 million yen; imports, 21) trillion yen; Excess of exports, 21 mil- lion yen,
The amount paper money in circula- tion on the 10th of November was 1,148 million yen, and the amount of advances by the Bank of Japan up to that date was 275 million yen.
The proposed expenditure of capital on industrial development million yen.
WILS 149
Merchandise in stock throughout the country was valued at the end of October at 478 million yes, and at the end of November at 511 million yen
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE,
CLOSING QUOTATIONA,
Dзx 2, 1950,
Bongxing Bark ..............$1,130 sel Do London.......filó nom. Chartered Bank....................... ... sel Mercantile Bank, AB... £:01 nom.
Don
.....lög nqm. P.&O. Bank
10 bay. Canton Insurance Eset Aris Bank.. China Underwatera North Umus Insurance Union Insurance
*OW FR$*
$840 buy.
$1.45 nom The 145 DOG.
impression of the country, said an
in-earance $15 buy, 617) sa.
Dr. Campbell giving a broad, general
....$15 buy.
$299 nom. Yangiare Insurance ............alex. $15. nom.
un Fire Lusurance $900
buy.
Sing day. teresting feature was the abundance of Steamboats...$26 buy.
nongkang Tagastusvatanides
...ėlį nom.. hird life in the summer season, the Indo-Uhamas (Fra)......... buy. ptarmigan in some of the valleys, being Da, (18%) bay, the only bird that lived there all the year | Bhali transports... pom. round. There was a great wealth, par- Star 1'20susa ticularly at low levels, of Arctic plants baterbOBLE LORE which in Scotland were confined to the China Mugars premiu highest mountain tops The animal life, Malabon Bagar besides whales, consisted of lur-bearing Bengusta animals like bears and foxes, and he pointed out the influence these had on the human development of the country-the whaling industry of the seventeenth cen- tury, the trapping industry by the Russians in the eighteenth century, and the subsequent development of hunting by the Norwegiana
Kata Mining Ad..... Laugkata (combined; 10. (single) Shanghai Explorations LORD.......
Ваше Una Caspians Tronch Minos
HK. & K. Whats.. The occurrence of coal in Spitzbergen H.K. W. Docks, was traced, and the lecturer said the future of the country appeared to depend New Engineerings..
HongLaws largely on the success or otherwise of coal- Bangas Docks, mining. The country, which was former- HK & S. Hotela ly a no-man's land, was now under the Hongkong Lands... Norwegian flag, subject to the mining rights of other nationalities. One Scot ng kong Healtys tish company had very valuable and im- Humphreys Ketates portant coalfields in Spitzbergen.
Prince's Building®...». Kural bida Ewo Cortons Orientale
DEAR LIVING IN FRANCE.
The improvement in the value of the frane has up to now had no influence on the cost of living in France, and Civil Servants and municipal employees are demanding increases of salaries.
THELIOPIS
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Da (new)....... Singapors Tractions *---་་་་ལན་ Amebornente comen Unntun ices
M. Poincaré refused to consider the demand of the Civil Servanta, and at a. meeting of the Municipal Council discus-Ceaianta (combined) ........... sion of the salary question was postpon-
ed,
Do 120.
(old).
(KUW)
136 nom. ...$1.00 nas +381. nom. ..TH. 24g bay.
Th, 111 non.
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nom.
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$115 nomr
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$10 sal
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Six thousand municipal workers decid- Chins Lights (combined)......$16j z. div. sel. ed to hold a demonstration in the Place
(old)...ið 2, dir, sel (20W)......./..../¥§§ x. div. sal.
Constructions ............................. Dairy Farms,
de la Bastille and before the Hôtel de Ville, and they proceeded to these places China Providents ......... in groups, singing the Internationale." The police barred several streets and dis- persed the demonstrators, but 3,000 of them succeeded in reaching the Place de Is 'Baatille. It took the police half an hour to clear the square. Another group marched to the Eftel de Ville, but a large force of police had already arrived there in motor lorries, and after several scuffles the manifestants were driven
Away.
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