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INTEREST TAKEN BY FOREIGN COMMUNITY.
REFORMS ALREADY PUT "INTO" FORCE..
PEKING, August 3rd. Business men in North Chitin took a great interest in the recent rail
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25th, 1927.
THE SIBERIAN ROUTE.
"ARRANGEMENTS OF THE CHINESE EASTERN
RAILWAY.
THE CARE OF PASSENGERS.
One of the
most attractive
SIKH MONEYLENDERS AT SHANGHAI.
A SHANGHAI VIEW OF
ENGLAND..
SIGNING FOR DOUBLE THE COUNTRY NOT GOING TO THE
LOAN.
COUNSEL'S CRITICISM AND
AMOUNT REDUCED...
Strong remarks' were made by a Siberis is the excellent service. ia- Provisional Court, Shanghai, in features of the journey through Chinese lawyer in the Shanghai stituted by the Chinese Eastern connection with an Indian money
Administration, which lending case.
Railway
`DOGS.
GENERAL SIGNS OF
PROSPERITY. -
A Shanghai resident now A
despite what people say, there is en Home on leave writes:---
"It really does seem to mt, sir of prosperity and редсе Despite the fact that imports are greater than the exports, trade is" improving and an honest endeavour is being made to boom British goods. The Advertising Exhibition now on at Olympia is really won derful, whilst the motor trade have
way conference in Peking. Not that the Ministry of Communications is expected to effect any fundamental reform. It is recognized that the Ministry's hands, it not tied, are pretty well crippled for service. It is realized that the state of the It is to be regretted that a 'con. Mr. William S. Hong) for 8400 an opened an Overseas Club at 9.
The case was one in which Sewa as attracted much comment among travellers who have had occasion Singh (represented by Mr. Daung to make this trip, and favourable Taung Ying) sued Zau Ching Ling descriptions of which have repeat (who was legally represented by edly appeared in the press.
the
siderable percentage of travellers a promissory note ́ signed by de Northumberland Avenue, connect- railways is grievous enough to neves. are not yet aware of the
cofendant.
ing with the Rojak Colonial In- sitate a surgical operation. Yet venience of the new through-traffe
tradera from overseas service, since it has only recently Plaintif, in handing the promis.tute, for the free use of motor It is an much can be done by way of allevia been inaugurated, and to evercome sory note into Court, said that he organized effort by the British tion; and the Ministry of Com this, the Chinese Eastern Railway had advanced $100 to the defendant motor industry to offer every pos munications, under the very forceful as just issued descriptive and if
and had been paid 89 interest each visiting this country, and, consider- sible kind of assistance to those lustrative literature (printed in leadership of General Chang Ying their own printing establishment) month for 12 months..
ing the great strides made by the Husi, concurrently Director General which is filled not only with prac
Judge Yu asked Mr. Hong whe-trade in the last five or six years, of the Peking-Mukden Railway, has tical data regarding the journey ther be had anything to say and
the Overseas Motor Traders Club is but with interesting reading mat- shown itself eager to promote sachter concerning the regions travers counsel said he wished to make some
a step in the right direction.
Cars and More Cars. alleviation. Its efforts are being ed.
very emphatic remarks. Indian
"The number of ears on Trip Without a Change. followed with great hope by both
money lenders, he said, always roads is astonishing, just like long Chinese and foreign commercial One of the outstanding advan wrote in the promissory notes an stretch of transports going up to
tages of the trip which of great interest to travellers is as follows: amount which was double to that the Somme! The number of licens. ed vehicles reveal some astonishing Naw Feeling in the Capital.
Od the entire trip from the Man which they actually paid their
facts. The popularity can be This shows the new feeling that churian frontier to the Polish-Rus clients. The nates were signed by gauged from the following figures is growing up in the capital. When i re- istance of the unfortunate clients either be up to May 31st:-737,443 private
kilometres-no change of car is Chang Tao Lin packed his own bags necessary.
cause they were ignorant or because commercial, hackney vehicles, in- cars, 635,427 motor cycles, 960,317 for Mukden, most of us packed any valuable information, in couleased they were compelled to sign owing cluding charabanes,
86,485: No lingering expectation we had still
form is given in the publications to poverty and the urgent need of wonder there is a move for better heid of even a last stand by the of the Chinese Eastern Railway re money. The Indians were very Mukden cause, and waited to be garding passages between Asia and clever, said counsel, and they know plunged in a welter of fresh trouble Earope in which the advantages that if they wrote down in the and disadvantages of the various
men.
:
A great amount of concise and
And oversens route vid
America, the Singapore-Suer route, and the overland Siberian route, with table of fares, time-tables and other details.
It was certainly not the time to routes are compared and explain promissory notes rates of interest think of any improvement of cop-ed, the routes comprising the over which were too excessive they would ditions, especially in communica tions. But foreigners had reckoned without the dissolving view that nake up pecsent-day political China. Ja is as unprofitable as it is unwise to make any deduction from a given You will use Western situation. processes of logic, and lo! you will b confounded. We had also rec koned without the determination of Chang Theo Lin and his men to resist humiliation. On this base a new enthusiasm has been built, and constructive-minded officials have taken their cue from it.
Mr. C. S. Lie, the Director of the Railway Department of the Ministry, is one of these construc- tively-minded men. He has a direct mind and persuasive personality, knows foreigners, and is liked by them. A few weeks ago be warned th: various foreign associations, in the north of the imminence of the "railway conference, and requested them to prepare memoranda of abuses for consideration,
It took sometime for the foreigners to per- suade themselves that some show of reconstruction was in the air, but when they did, they diverted their typewritera to the task of giving the Ministry chapter and verse of their grievances. These have been studied in detail, as I have reason to know, and many inor complaints have already been injusted.
Uprooting Petty Malpractices. The Ministry says quite frankly it cannot hope to accomplish any thing fundamental in improving the service provided by the Chinese railway system. Neither can it do more than tinker with a few pallis- tives, but foreign business men are pleased with what has already been done, and hope that at least the Ministry will continue the policy it has laid down of uprooting petty ADVERTISING malpractices that are almost as
much a handicap to trade as mili tary interference. The recent confer. ence seems to mark the end of laissez faire in the Ministry.
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The estate business must be booming, for the number of houses being built will astonish you, not not have so good a chance of win in hundreds but thousands and the public seem to be purchasing at ning a case in court, so they al£1,000 to £2,000 types. Brighton ways put the amount at double the will, it would seem, be connected In the" through-traffic timetable actual amount paid and mentioned with Greater London in 10 years time. The new Brighton Exten- and 80 page pamphlet, all the in- a small interest.
sion Bill, which has already pass- formation about direct sleeping Actually, continued Mr. Hong, ed the Committee stages, will in cars, tickets, berth and sundry his client had only received $137, crease the borough area from 2,630 charges, bookings,, passport and although the note mentioned $400 acres to 19,940. No wonder the customs formalities, children's fares, baggage,
Plaintiff had deducted $12 at the Territorial Council are finding it travelling expenses, currencies, and ment of interest, as well as 81 for annual maneuvres,
general time of the loan as the first instal difficult to obtain suitable ground other matters of practical interest, which, he said, was for ricaha fare. is given.
He verbally assured defendant that, though 8400 was written in the promissory note, he need only re- pay the 200 actually lent. That, Plaintiff denied Mr. Hong's state- said counsel, was a verbal contract.
ments and counsel reiterated, that The addresses of the various
the interest paid had exceeded the cffices (called commercial agencies) of people sued in the different principal. There had been a lot of the Chinese Eastern Railway, at which tickets may be secured and
courts of Shanghai ca claims by berths registered, form a necessary practically without exception, had Sikh money-leaders and all of them, feature of the pamphlet, together alleged that the amounts they had with the plans of cars for the borrowed from Sikhs was only half Chinese Eastern and connecting the amount named in their premis railways.
All this information is worked ory notes. It was more or less an established custom for Indians to out to the last degree of detail i do this. Such a thing was con the effort to keep the traveller trary to the peace of the locality, completely posted—-about--hig
said Mr. Hong, and contrary to journey.
an order recently published by the Nationalist Government which limited the rate of interest to 20 per cent. per annum.
general information about China, Japan and Korea, the booklet gives interesting, brief de scriptions of the points of interest along the railway line vid Siberia, between Vladivostock and Moscow, with illustrations.
The Railway Commercial Agencies.
It is advisable for those contem plating a journey between Asia and Europe, in either direction, to Judge Yu (with whom sat Mr. get in touch with the commercial Whitmore) remarked that He quite agencies of the Chinese Eastern realized the conditions which exist Railway in order to obtain exacted and that it was possible that data with regard to the advantages there was such a customs among the of this route, and the publications Indians. He would make an order issued by the Railway.
that defendant should repay plain-
Mr. Dzung anggested that the. Court should ask the Administra live Commission to notify the peo ple' not to sign such promissory notes in future. It would save & lot of time and worry.
Among the facilities offered by tiff 850. the commercial agencies of the Chinese Eastern Railway both for freight and passenger trafic, may be_enumerated the following:-
Transportation of all kinds of goods to all world centres.
Storage of goods in the railway's warehouses."
Insurance of goods en route and in warehouses.
Insurance of loans against, goods, Handling of all transportation and business transactions on behalf of clients
Clearing of all customa formali
Lies.
Handling of all transactions with beans.
The Judge:-That not within my province-North-China · Daily New.
CHINA AND THE HUKUANG
LOAN.
INSISTENCE ON PAYMENT ON GERMAN PORTION.
HANKOW, August 12th.
One resolution of the conference, the simplification and reduction of railway transit taxes, was handled with a speed that was almost in decent in this city of procrastina tion. The day after it was passed, General Chang Ying Huai went to the Cabinet meeting, after his For passengers, agents of the GROUP BANKS TO ACQUIESCE. formal opening of the conference, railway speaking foreign and persuaded his colleagues to guages on board the train, attend petition the Tayuansusi to give the to all the work of passports, cus needed relief. The instruction was toms and other formalities at The Chinese Government, to-day issued the next day.
frontier stations : baggage, ex Most of the foreign business men change all the other matters con reported on the corrupt methods of nected with the trip, rendering ac atation masters in wrongly classify-counts of disbursements and thus ing goods for the purpose of exact relieving travellers of worry and ing exorbitant freight charges greatly enhancing the pleasure of This has been a prolific source of the journey-North China Daily squeeze. Another source is the Newe... open selling of cars to the highest biddera. Still another lucrative unrivalled side line of station officials is the levying of transit taxes nécording to schedules that have no other justi-
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SAIGON RICE MARKET...
PRICES STEADY.
The Compagnie de Commerce & de Navigation d'Extrême-Orient, in their report, dated Saigon, August 9th, state:There is no change to steady however as arrivals from the Prices are report in our market. interior are rather small and not likely to increase shortly.
The total amount of rice export- ed from January 1st to July 31st, 1927, is 1,017,022.806 tons against 897.077.050 in 1820.
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We quote to-day" white Saigon rice No. 1 25 per cent. brokens round grain: Hong Kong $7.70 per picul of 134 lbs. f.o. Saigon; 128. sd. per cwt. f.o.b. Saigon; Xens 7.00 per picul of 134 lbs. Saigon.
£20,000 FOR MRS. O'HIGGINS.
informed the_foreign_banks inter:
Lo.b. ested in the Hukkang Loan that would insist on the payment of the
White Saigon rice No. 2 sifted December, 1925, interest coupon, coupon 20 of the German portion. Japan quality: Hong Kong 27 per This portion has, up to the present picul of 134 lbs. Lob. Saigon 11. been held up on account of the 7d per cwt. Lob. Saigon; Yen 7.20 objection entered by the group per picul of 124 lbs. fo.b. Saigon. banks to the effect that the Chinese For August/September shipment. Government should allocate funds The Discrimination Against already appropriated to the re
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Another complaint of the for- 1925,
London was informed to-day of rice of the station masters. Some against his goods on the railway, the Chinese stand and there is every of these worthies have printed their These are sometimes charged many indication that the group banks. ...that being independent, own tariff schedules for the guid times the amount that the Chinese Will acquiesce, especially in view can place all this knowance of the business community. has to pay. Though this is a direct of the fact that the Ministry of They wore exhibited to the con- violation of Washington conference Communications has offered to re- ledge and experience at the ference by a business man, who pro- engagements, no uso was made of mit 2000,009 to make up the de. A sum of £20,000 was voted with-- free disposal of its Clients, ceeded to prove that the total cost the political weapon, and the point soit in the payment of interest on out discussion in Dail Eireann, the
af transporting a ton of wool from ensuring that the money Paotou to Tientsin, including both brought out was that many foreign this same coupon of drawn bonds. Free State Parliament, as compen firms had transferred their business Much concern has been excited in sation to the widow and children they spend on Advertising legitimate and illegitimate taxation, from the railways to the waterways London financial circles lately by of Mr. Kevin O'Higgins, the Vice will bring them the best amounted to six times, the total to the loss of the railways concern the Chinese Government's unwill President of the Executive Coun
freight charges for the same shiped. The economic argument may ingness to meet interest obligations cil, who was assassinated.....The possible return.
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