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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20th, 1928.
MONEY & MARKETS.
AUSTRALIAN WHEAT FOR INDIA.
BIG DEMAND FOR TONNAGE,
CHINESE FUNERAL
CUSTOMS.
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
WASTED.
Aillions of dollars which go
One factor contributory to the up in smoke every year in China, present greater volume of employ at funerale where paper ornamenta ment for cargo shipping has been are burned in bonour of the dead, the poorness of the last Indian will be saved if the movement wheat crop, which was less by about 1,000,000 tons than that of the pre-started by Chao Chen Ping, new seding harvest. This comparative director of the Bureau of Social failure, coupled with the increas- Welfare in Peking, proves success ing consumption of wheat in India which has been noticeable in recent ful years, has been responsible for an exceptionally large volume of wheat exports Trom Australia to Indin.
In previous years India has im- ported a few cargoes of Australian grain for mixing with the native descriptions; such imports have sometimes amounted to seven or eight cargoes in the course of a season. This year, however, the
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voyage from Australia to India hai brez on a much larger scale and some 14 vessels are known to
have been fixed for the voyage to Calcutta direct and 11 for Bombay and Karachi. Most of the vessels, including a number of Japanese, have been chartered to load in Western Australia, bat gumber have been secured for loading in South Australia or Sydney. The ships will begin to load the new Australian wheat crop at the end of December or in the beginning
o! January
In face of a steady demand for tonnage in this trade and the offer of employment for vessels in other routes, the rates of freight häve risen from about 21 per ton to about 288. In the middle of August two Japanese steamers were fixed to load for India in December. January at 21s. 3d., while last
with
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Mr. Chao says he is saddened by the thought that millions of dollars are thus wasted on an empty saper- stition when so many of the Chinese people are near starvation. He wants to make it an offence punish- able by fines or imprisonment, to follow this ancient custom at funerals.
Anyone who has visited China knows that this one of the most picturesque of customs. It affords employment for many thousands of people in every province, who spent their entire lives in making the paper money." lang strings of paper imitations of the obsolete cash, and paper likenesses of a great variety of objects which a person may care to use in the next world.
Recently a great funeral proces sion wound through the streets of Peking, reminding residents of days of greater splendor, when such pro- cessions were common. Carried be hind the coffin and in front, were cath a rate of 29 was paid for life-size, representations in paper of tonnage for the voyage from South Australia or Victoria to Calcutta, horses, man and woman-servants, The automobiles, made only of paper loading. volume of chartering has "affected but exact down to the maker's name the amount of tonnage available
on the front-that of a welkkdown for full cargoes to Europe, and there are believed to be very few American manufacturer. vessels suitable for loading in Australia in the immediate future. Possible Further Requirements:
carrying Taking the average capacity of the 25 vessels referred to above at 7,000 tons, the total tonnage so far definitely chartered for the movement would represent about 175.000 tons, whils it is esti mated that between 250,000 and 300,000 tons of Australian wheat have been bought for the trade. Further, many of the steamers fix- ed to load Australian wheat for England have been secured with the option of discharge in India. There would be no surprise if fur ther substantial supplies of wheat were to be bought in Australia, making the "total purchases there about 400,000 tons.
No funeral, however poor the man, Jacks at least a string of paper money. And the more well- to-do spend thousands of dollars on these paper equipment, which is supposed to be transported in the process of burning to the dead man's use in the next world.
BRITISH AIRCRAFT BOOM.
£150,000 ORDERS FROM TWO DOMINIONS.
MOTHS AND AIR LINER.
of Orders for £150,000 worth aeroplanes for
Australia and Canada have been placed with one of the biggest of British aircraft firms. These orders provide a re- liable indication of the immensity of the boom into which the British aircraft. industry is passing, and at the same time they throw an interesting side light on the big aircraft trade which is being car ried on between England and the Dominions.
The orders have been placed with the de Havilland Aircraft Co., and in all they are for 122 machines- from light aeroplanes to fourteen- Beater air liners. Canada has ordered 160 Moth light 'planes, and Australia has ordered two D.H.61's for the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services. These 51's are single-engined eight-seater machines, which are used either for freight or passenger transport, and have a speed of" 112, miles an hour when fully loaded.
The West Australia Airways, who operate the service between Perth and Adelaide (a distance of about 1,300 miles) have also placed an order for four Hercules fourteen- passenger, three-engined air liners. Airways on the Cairo-Basra air similar to those in use by Imperial line. There is a further order for sixteen Moths for Australia.
Light Aeroplanes Popular.. Board of Trade figures show a fall in the value of aircraft exported by England since 1920, but such figures are not a true guide. In 1920 we exported machines to a total value) of £798,961, while last year the total was £903,183.
This is accounted for by, the fact that until quite recently Govern ment surplus stock was being sold machines were sold at a much higher on a large scale, and also that price than now. Many of the old machines which were gold abroad are still doing noble service on the airlines, and until quite recently it has not been found necessary to re- place them to any great extent. The hoom in the light aeroplane, too, has been a big factor in the reduction of the actual value of machines exported.
Mr. Chao has studied funeral customa in further detail, and says that the Chinese people will be able to save enough by reforms in this one respect to go a long way
Hold On World Markets. toward reconstructing the war-torn "That last year's export figures country. He is urging also that the will be considerably exceeded this custom he forbidden of employing.. Buddhist monks in large numbers year is a foregone conclusion, and to carry on a service, laeting in there is every indication some cases for a full month, in Britain has a very firm hold on honour to the dead. Great sums the world's aircraft industry. are thus handed over to the monks,
that
By this single order of 100 Moths
One consideration which cannot who are producing nothing worth Canada has already passed the be ignored is that Bengal is pro while in return, Mr. Chao avers.
figure registered last year, when she mised a particularly fine rice crop
Reforms have already been in-accepted only eighty machines, fifty- which should become available at about Christmas. Should prices of stituted in Peking and elsewhere two of which were supplied by the wheat rise there might be a ten- under Nationalist supervision, modi- United States and only twenty-five by Britaia, Australia last year im dency in India to revert tem-fying and simplifying funeral cus ported £33,838 worth of machines, porarily, at any rate, to a larger toms and processions. The dress of and of these over £30,000 worth consumption of rice in place of funeral, marchers, modelled on an- wheat, whereas in the last few years cient Imperial models, has been came from England the consumption of wheat has been changed by law to a more demo- The cratic fashion.. The high cone impinging on that of rice. harvesting of wheat in India shaped hats. have been changed to usually begins at the end of March common black slouch hats. and extends until the end of May, and it will be until the new crop is harvested that India will be in need of imported wheat.
Besides the chartering of ships to load Australian wheat, arrange menta have been made for two or three cargoes of wheat from the Plate and also from Canada for India. Thus a xessel was fixed in July to load grain at Montreal for Bombay in the closing days of De- tober at 251, per ton.
NEW INVENTION FOR
PRINTERS." "
PATENT TYPESETTER PRO- MISES BIG CHANGE FOR NEWSPAPERS.
This last figure is doubly import- ant when it is, remembered that Australia is one of the largest markets for aeroplanes in the world. It has vast tracts of country which, When visitors to China see one
na yet, are not served by railways, of the fantastic funeral proces and it is in these areas that great! sions, they are charmed, and ex-scope is provided for the aeroplane. claim, "How picturesque! But both privately owned and operated. Mr. Chao declarea he exclaima some..by companies. The West Australia thing very different. He thinks Airways, which bas been in opera "Here are other thousands of tion for seven years, is one of the dollars being wasted, which might most successful air lines in the keep hundreds of persons in food world, and on this line, as on all for a long time.”—United Press the Australian air routes, exclusive
use is made of British machines.
A MUSICAL LUNATIC.
STRANGE INCIDENT AT SHANGHAL
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SHANGHAI, Dec. 8th. For 11 days a musically-inclined Chinese who claimed to be General Chiang Kai Shek balled the police of Chapel. The man was picked up ROCHESTER, New York,
on Chapci streets in a dazed con- Dec. 6th. One of the most revolutionary in-dition. He wore foreign-style cloth- ventions in the printing art was put ing and spoke excellent English. into working practice to-day when The man was first taken to the the Rochester Times-Union, leading police station and, later to the hos- afternoon paper here owned by the pital At the station be pointed to Gannett interests and a United a portrait of General Chiang and Press client, installed a Tallety exclaimed: That's me!" typesetter combining the principles At the Red Cross hospital physi
were baffled. They tried of the printer-telegraph and the uiang latest style of typesetter. A
various tests but could learn Through use of this device, a nothing definite about the man, who single operator working over & was obviously well-educated.
A piano resulted in the establish- long distance can both transmit news-as has been done by the ing of the identity of the man. ordinary telegraph, and more re-Permitted to wander about the rently by the printer-telegraph and-set-it-up-in typo at the recep- tion point.
The machine was invented by Walter Morey of East Orange, New Jersey, after long experimentation
hospital, the patient came upon an American-piano in the reception- room. He seated himself at the instrument and played "The Side- walks of New York."
A startled Chinese doctor, educat
in an effort to cut down the timed at Columbia University, New required for transmission and put York, heard the music and recalled
ting into type of telegraph news. that a Chinese merchant from New
In the machine as put in opera tion to-day, the receiving device automatically punches a tape which
York Had arrived in Shanghai and
had been reported missing. The doctor communicated with relatives
is then run through a typesetter, of the missing man. They identified learing the product in type form the patient as Mr. Loo Bang Tsai, ready to be placed on the press former restaurant owner, of New
York. and printed.
It is expected that the new device The hospital authorities stated will be more efficient and economi- that the man bad been struck on Fiat, as well as effecting a market the bead with some sort of sa
instrument.-United Prese,.... improvement in speed of handling.
Next Year's Exhibition. Some visible demonstration of Britain's position in the world of aeronautics will be made at Olympia next July, when the Society of British Aircraft „Constructory in co-operation with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders,
will stage an international aircraft exhibition, covering all existing types of military and civil ma- chines.
The Air Ministry has given th warm approval to the enterprise and contemplatca exhibiting a com- prehensive selection of machines. It is expected that the exhibition will make a strong, appeal to the general public, as well as those ac tively interested in aircraft.
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Son of Araby
Daughter of Paris
WHO DARED AS
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