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GENEVA A BASE FOR DRUG SMUGGLERS.
GANG OPERATING FROM LEAGUE CITY.
EXTENSIVE TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS,
Paris, Sept. 7. - is a result.of frequent seizures of narcotics made by the police of several European countries in recent month, a search is being conducted for the members of an international gang whose headquarters
appear to be Geneva.
at
German French, British and Rolice are assisting in the search for the gang who choosing Geneva, the sat of the League of Nations, for their base, enjoy a great liber Ly of movement as most of the nar- in Germany, cotie factories are Switzerland, Italy and Czecho- Slovakia. Experts estimate the present traffic as being very high, and shipments are made to the Far East among other countries.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1930.
Money and Markets
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
SUPPORT FROM THE MARKET WITHDRAWN.
MOST INDUSTRIAL LEADERS LOWER.
[UNITED PRESS.]
New York, September 18-Bulls on the New York Stock Exchange to-day failed to bring a rally, and when they withdrew their support, prices declined, says the daily review of the Dow Jones Financial News Agency..
CANTON TRADE NOTES.
Chinese sugar is being imported from the North and East River, districts in large quantities.
*
The market for edible marino products is slack due to the strike
DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS
SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATION.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE
Y
Enger Barre
Bates Nominal
TUESDAY. SEPT. 23. ̈
Buyers Ballers
Mamical
Banks
$1,510
་ ་་་
2100
$110
of restaurant proprietors Prices 81,010 have, however, remained unchanged as arrivals are"short."
$1,528
H.K. Banks
Do. (London)
10. Chartered Banks ...
Mercantile Bk. “À”
Da
Bank of East Asis ..!
Triguzan.com
Canton Insurances..} $1,020| Underwriters *****
North Chinas;..............
Yang taze Insurances
China Fires
H.K.. Firess
Shipping
Douglases
Steamboats
$2.90 82.63
1160
$400
Union Insurances
Large quantities of foodstuffs have been imported from the North.400 of groundnut oil, 1,048 bags of Monday's figures showed 6,000 jars 81,070 groundnuts and 3,950 bags of beans..
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There have been large arrivals of 3251 great demand due to reduced prices.. foreign fertilizers which is now in This bas greatly affected the Chi U.S. Steel broke and other in-hose fertilizer market. Arrivals of dustrial leaders followed, with the Chinese fertilizer are also large and China and Production,
speciala hard hit. The market prices have fallen, off on account of Well-informed circles infer from opened irregularly and held with the dull market. Geneva information that an essen. in a narrow range until Steel de- tial chapter in the opium commit-clined, closing at 167, off from tee', repert denis with the neces sity of considering the problem from the point of view of produc tion. The committee was unable to work in China and this fact limits the value of its report for oplum is still the most important produc- tron in several provinces and the real basis of provincial life from an economic and financial point of
view..
The problem seems to be consider ad by Geneva as one distribution of production of provinces which, have large opium fields rather than n problem of searching for auggl ed opium or purchase of the pro- ducts by smoking, countries.
1
Heroin Seizure at Marseilles. Marseilles. Sept. 17.-A large cargo of heroin was discovered here on board a steamer coming from the Black Sea and which loaded at Stamboul. The heroin was con, cealed in a watertight box inside a barrel of oil. The frequency of → such cargoes and their seizures seems to prove that the smugglers are operating. under Turkish offi cial equivance. The French Cus toms have made a strong protest to the Angora Government.
PASSENGERS.
Arrivals.
ärrived
$24
The cotton yarn market has be- yesterday's close, while the Dow come very active. Demand by mer Jones average for 30 industrials chants of the country districts is T1.30 showed a decline of 3.30 to 234.19. brisk and prices have risen by three Te
Bethlehem Steel closed down a dollars per bale. Quotations are. point to 871; Westinghouse was likely to advance still further in down two points to 1472; Eastman the immediate future as stocks are Kodak was down 31 to 2121; Ameri-limited. According to a Shanghai can Can as down 24 to 1261; Ameri-telegram, the market there is also can Waterworks was down 24 to 99; promising. and American Rolling Mill was
down 34 to 48
The Dow Jones average for 20 utilities was down 1.32 to 86.18, with American & Foreign Power off 2 to 691, American Tel. Tel. Frown 11 to 21. International Tel. & Tel, down to 411, Southern California Edison down a half to 59, Consolidated Gas down 12 to 10% and Electric Bond & Share (on the Kerb) down two points to 80.
The Dow Jones average for 20 rails was down, .53 to 130.33, with New York Central off a quarter to 1614. Erie closing at 45, Pennsyl vania down a half to 73, B.. & 0, down a half to 100, Canadian Pacifie up an eighth to 1853 and.. Rock Island down 1 to 05.
Mu
$160
GOLD SHIPMENT FROM JAPAN.
$30
T15
T.280
FIVE MILLION YEN TO AMERICA.
【THROUGH BEUTER'S ÄGEKOY.]
TOKYO, Sept. 23.
to
MIHK
*
A.
NI
$40
Indos (prof)
$35
Do. (def)
Shell Transports.
$31
Water-boats
Mining
$9
Benquets.
348
$100
$1,075
323
$9.90 $2.85
90
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Langkats (comb.) Do. (single) Explorations....................... Shanghai Loans Raubs *** Tronch Mines ******
Docks, Wharves, Godowns, etc. HE&L Wharfs... Providents (old). .|||
Do (new)
H.K. Docks ********
Shanghai Docks ...
17,301 New Engineerings
Hongkossa estos
Lands, Hotels, and
Buldings
HK. & S. Hotels $10.90 $11.10
H.K. Landa cam.r
Do. ex rights $74.
$4
HIN
$3.30 $5.26
537
$79
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JAPAN, SHANGHAI and EUROPE TIS
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SAIGON
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серт
JAPAN and SHANGHAI
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Suth Sept.
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1st Oct.
BATAVIA JAPAN...
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Thursday, 25th,
9:30 Ax 1050
*3.00 9 °
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Hoitov, Pakhoi and Haiphong.
Chongtu
Halvard...
Baigon
Taiyuan
Amoy... Manils Straite Fermoss
5.00
$11 $781
8787
Straits ..
$701 $75
Day
".. rights 3135
Amoy and Fermosa via inatow Bwator
Deli Maru
Bydrangea
T.SOS
Shanghai Landa...
Amoy and Japan
Bus Sang
88.8J
H.K. Healtys var ́582
Friday,
28th
$18
Humphreys
114.
315,45
$37
Chinese Batates
Elcbow, Pakhoi and Haiphong
Limehow
8.30 A.
getton Mus
Shanghai, Japan and EUROPE via Biberia Khyber Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Haiphong
10,30
1.00.
Carton
Iwoa
TIS.60
T84.
S'hai Cottont...
Zoong Sings
110
It is officially announced that the Yokohama Specie Bank will ship Yen 5,000,000 in gold coin Call money was at per cent. America by the Asama Mara, lear T12,60 T1270 with time money at 21 per cent. foring Yokohama on the 6th inst. 60 days and 2 per cent. for 90 days. Sales for the day totalled 1,370,900 shares..
QUOTATIONS..
New York, Sept. 19. Market weak, Business done, 1,876,990 shares.
Sept. 17
261 261 1294 1261
15
424 481
esi
The following-passengers
Adams Express *** yesterday by as President Taft: American Can....
American & Foreign Power
American Emelting
Mr. B. Bissell, Mr. Chas. Edger- ton, Mr. Wm. Howard, Mrs. Fran-American Rolling Mill... cesca Landes, Mrs. M. P. McRae, Mrs. G. C. Schryver, Miss Florence Schryver, Mr Win T. Wallace, Miss Lulu M. Warner.
Departures.
Tel & Tel.
American Tobac20 * B*** American Waterworks...
Tantic Be Baltimore & Bethlehem Steal Bethlehem
"arder
Pacife
Railway Canadian Chiengo Rock Island .... Chrysler
The following passengers left yesterday by s.5. President Jack son: Mr... Chow, Mr. Wm. J. Deegan, Mr. Maynard Dodd, Bra, S. F. Gaches, Mr. Jose Lim, Jr. Mr. A. Strok, Mr. Masuji
Service Common Masa, Mr. Clifford H. Barlow, Father Adolofo Caballero, Captain Columbia Gas & Electric Thos. J. Davis, Mr. and Mra Victor Columbia Graphaphone
Commonwealth & Southern
Cities Ser
Diaz," Mrs. Bert Jilg. Major-Gen-C48. Wart
Gea of N. T
oral Douglas MacArthur, Major John J. Reddy, Mr. and Mrs. Continental Oil... Stanley G. King. Mr. Zadoc Riggs, Corn Products.... Lieut. Colonel C. H, Patterson, Curtis Wright, Common Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Kirkwood, Du Pont de Neinoura
Rustinan Kodak... Master LJ, Kirkwood, Dr. Adoit Alpers. Mr. CJ. Wafelbakker, Miss C.. J. Wafelbakker, Master C. 1. Wafelbakker, Mr. R. R. Womtek,
1. F. V. Chamberlin, Miss K. Shekury, Miss Lucy Pashanina, Mrs. M. E. Tomkins, Mr. O. D. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Enault, Mr. C. T. Smith.
The following passengers left yesterday by 5. Atsuta Maru Mr. T A Edipeades, Mr. R. J. Ferry, Mrs B. Cox, Miss P. Har- wood, Mr G. Turner, Mrs. Bering, Samal.
PRINCE LINE. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM NEW YORK.
HET. B.
TEET
ROYAL PRINCE"
Electric Bond & Share... Erie Railway Fokker Aeroplano Fox Film "A" General Electric General Foods... General Motors... General Railway Signal Gold Dust Goodrich
Rubber Goodyear Tire
Tire & Rubber Granby
Chasalate Horshey International Cement International Combuston Eng. International Harvester International Nickel International Tel. & Tel. John Binaville Keanecott Copper Trenger & Toll
Kroger Grocery Liggett & Myers Loews' Ind.
Ladium Steel Montgomery Novada Consolidated Copper
Railroad
mery Ward New York Central Parifio Lighting Packard Motor Car having arived from the above Port os Paramount Publix Corporation 33rd instant, Consignees of Cargo art
Pennsylvania) hereby informed that their Goods are Fennroad Corporation... being landed at their risk into the Faillips Petroletim Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloos Public Service of New Jersey Wharf and Godown Company, Eimited Radio Corporation Kowloon, and stored at Consignees risk Radio Keith Orphen.... Reynolds Tobacco “B”
This is the official exchange bank's frat gold shipment since the removal of the gold embargo in January.
Other shipments will probably 818.20 follow, reaching a total of Yen 813.60 30,000,000, for the purpose of 86.60 balancing exchange sold forward on New York.
711691 ALLEGED RUSSIAN FAMINE
2104 214) 250 3451 100% 98
CONSPIRACY.
ATTEMPT TO DISORGANISE
SUPPLIES.
Public Utilities
Tramways
Peak Trams (old)
Da (new)...
Star Ferries
Sandakan Lights...
Telephones (fully pd.) (part pd.) 1.184 China Buass.........
$18.15
$13.55
$7.20
KERNE
Cements (comb.)... $17:65 $17.70 17.68/7s
Strait, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, Eart and South Afrion, Aden, Egypt and EUROPE in Marraillesdne, biar sallies, 23th October
Kashgar
17
Amoy
Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, *.8‚„‚¬
Canada, 10, and 8. America, And *EUROPE via San Francisco- dua San Francisco, 22nd Oct., and EUROPE via Siberia
Bangkok vin Swatow
Hoihow and Bangk
Kalgan, in
Kowloon E.O Parcela 4.30
Letters
| Par.,26th, 5.00 PM }Bag,27th,9.45′′x v2 Letters 10.80 a's.
Saturday,
6.00 PM
5.00 i
Letters 8.00
Tuesday, 28th.
9.00
Monday, 29th
Beg
Taiyo Laru
*10.30 á x
Noca
10.30 AM
(1,00 1,36
6.00 PM
$25
C. Lights (old).
193
Do.
$784
$70
781/79
(new).
H.K. Electrica
#781
Macao do.
#112
$35
$22 32.10
Do.
B/
Tractions
19/-
Do (pref.)......
Industrials
82
Sandskan
Kiunjahora Hinaang
100 100
687 877
(TAROCGH REUTER'I AGENCY.]
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Caldbeck, (ord)
28
TI040
Macgregora (pref.)
Straits and Calcutta,
Yuen Song
Parcels Letters
13 127
Canton Icoa
185 185
Moscow, Sept. 22.
$17.65917817.65
Japan, U.B.Canada, C. and S.America and EUROPE Victoria, B.QTM***
Parcels 8.00 M
Pros, Taft
Reg.
4.15 7 w
Do
(old)...
28
27
$52
counter-re-
- Do. (now)...
#13 844
dua. Victoria, B.O., 17th October
Letters 5.00
··6,00 ₫°
28+ 281
68 631
$21.au
Ropes
$11.56]
Shoghai and EUROPE via Siberia
Pros Taft
Letters
| $1.10
|| Chins Sugara.
spth,
17 18
$27
Malabon Bugurə
$29
14
15
United Asbestos
Manila and Jata via Sourabaya“.
Tjibadak
-9,00 £
1084 107 says that seventeen members have
19 181
Miscellaneous
Japan, Honolulu, San Francisco and
South American Ports
Heiyo Maru
25 admitted that the organisation aim-
... 60
118 117
ed, in conjunction with foreign | -926) || 9:6,80 capitalists, at making the supply.
$26.70
Saigon, Straita Gavion, India, Mauri-
Beg
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Der A. Wingskapas
216.212
22
'80
17
gystem miscarry, thus creating a famine, hoping that the discontent- ed masses would dictatorship.
$254
Amusemente.....
$20
$10
Chin Entertainm'ts. 510
tins, East and South Africa, Adnu, (Genl. Helsinger
Egypt and EUROPE via Marseilles
due Marseilles. Ist November
Letters
Beg
the $2.40
$3
Constructions
$2.25
+4
Lane Crawfords
3.25
$9.25
Swałow
Hai Ning
491
Mackintosha
Bog
10
Nanyang Tobacco...
Parocher
$11,60 Hinceres
$11.90 Watsons ..---....
.312
12.85
Wm. Powells
prera, 8%
B. Ind. G.8 Bonds... 81% H.K. Gott Loans.
B2%
$108
An official communiqué relating $11.35
the discovery of a
volutionary and mischievous spying $11.10
organisation in connection with the
137 supply to the population of meat,
9afah, tinned goods and vegetables,"
Matl 40
Matla
30 Math
40
224 Mutl 53
59+
Matl,
21
The heads of the organisation|| $19 were a former landowner, a former Major-General, Professor Riazant Bev. and the former Chief Editon of the pre-revolutionary Trade and Industrial. Guzetic, M. Karatygain. The majority of its members are former nobles and ex-officers under
• Mat/ the Tsarist régime, and members of
201
41
the constitutional democratic Men- The organisation shevik parties,
was also connected with the White Guards.
The Oppu has been entrusted with the investigation of its activi
EXCHANGE RATES.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SEEVICE.]
Ruger; Sept. 29,
123:74
4.85 15/18 34.80
Dairy Farms-***
AMERICAN STOCK QUOTATIONS.
LATEST WALL STREET PRICES.
The following quotations have been received from their cor respondents, Mesars. Hayden, Stone & Co., of New York, by Mesars. Swan, Culbertson & Fritz, Sassoon House, Shanghai, (cable address Swanstock, Shanghai), who are not responsible for cable mutilations:-
NEW YORK, Sept. 22; 1030
Tone of Market. Weak
No. of Shares donoe-3,000,000. Call Money-9 per cent,
American Smelting
Anaconda Copper Baltimore and Obio Borg Warner ................... Continental Oil
City Service Common
225
901 83 341 84
275
tiea.
81
50
· ក
2789 771
361-88
162 1614 80. 80 12 13
Last Dividend.
4
3.50
Paris
107 10
39 881
New York Brussels Genera Amsterdam
None 30
25,045
12.03
Curtis Wright Common
Nons
627 511
Monday,
Bimmons Company. Bouthern California, dism Standard Gas & Electric
·201· 584 59
1011 104
Milan Berlin Stockholm Copenhaien
92.80
Eastman Kodak Menjani
20.41,
18.00
Electric Boud and Share ... General Motors
18:16
Oslob Vienna Prague
18.17
34.435
-1634/
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68 - 68
241.
Atheás,
Bucharest
Rio
193 1/16 44.58 108.25 3754 616 431/32
None
None
2D
Buenos Aires
40 1/16"
Bimmons Co
Montevideo
241
Btandard Oll of New Jersey.
19
169107
*18) Bombay
Standard Oil Co. of New York
1.00
Shanghai Hong Kong:
1774
Union Carbide and Carbon..
2:60
+1/3 11/16
United Aircraft and Transport....
1401 147 Yokohama
2/0.13/82
Non
Silver, spot & forward
and up chated, and damaged Goods Bears Roebuck...
All broken, are to be left in the Godowns, where Shell Union
examined on: they will be *29th instant, at 10 am.
20804 Helsingfors
611 51 Madrid
Olaims must be presented within Standard Oil cf. New Jermy, 15 Days of the Yeasel's arrival here Standard Oil of New York
Texas Corporation after which date they cannot be cognized.
No Claims will be admitted after the Texas Gulf Balphur
Roller Bearing Timken Goods have left the Godowns, and all..00
Trans Amerien Goods remaining undelivered after the Union Carbide & Carbon
Union Pacifle Railway... 217 218) 30th instant, will be subject to Rant.
United Aircraft & Transport 61 68 No Fire Insurance has been effected Bills of Lading will be countersigned United Gas & Improvement
United States Hubber... United States Steel FURNESS (FAR EAST), LTD,
Vanadium 2nd Floor, King's Building."
Wamer Bros. Pictures Connaught Head,
Telophone 28165, Westinghouse & M Hong Kong, 93rd Sept., 1980, 19884 Woolworth
Lisbon't
General Railway Signs! „Gold: Duit
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Granby Consolidated International Cement International Nickel
Montgomery Ward:
Radio Corpassavenusarán Radio Keith Orpheum Sears Roebuck & Co.
United States Rubber United States Steal-
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Ceylon, India, Mauritius, - E anis Africa, Egypt and EUROPE visi Marseilles-due Marseilles, 29th Oct.
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Shanghal, Japan, Canada, U.8.A., U. and)
Yatthing in
8. Amerion and "EUROPE via Van-Emp; of Japan
courer, B.0-due Vancouver, B.U..|
17th Dot, and Europe via Siberis ...)
Mantis and Australia (except places
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Australia and New Zealand in Mazils and
Brisbane-due Brisbane, 1945 Oct.) Brisbane Mari
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