HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1931.
EXECUTIONS IN BATCHES AT WENCHOW.
HONG KONG TRADE FIGURES FOR JANUARY.
SMALL INCREASE IN IMPORTS, BUT EXPORTS DOWN.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE PIECE GOODS TRADE IN 1930.
Prefacing its monthly report on the trade of the Oolong of Hong Kong for January, 1931, the Statistical Branch of the Imports and Experts Department states that as the huge falling-of in the exports of British entton piece goods to the Chinn market is one of the main problems walch la being investigated by the British Economie Mission, it would be of considerable in- terest to analyse the figures of the importa of British and Japanore cotton piece goods into Hong Kong during the years 1930 and 1924.
COMPARATIVE FIGURES FOR BRITAIN AND JAPAN
COTTON TRADE.
It is not within the province of this report to assign reasons for the phenomenal losses sustained by Brítish manufacturers in the Hung Kong cotton market, but the self. explanatory tablo Lólow "will show
Umbrella
Twills 41/47. Velveteens
at first sight that while Japan's | Venetians share of the trade in 3930 (allow-
ing for the three unrecorded | Cottons, Dyed months) approximated that of 1924,
the British figuro fell by over £2,500,000.
1994.
1930.
(April-Dec.).
Kingdom £3,000,340 £281,263
United
THE STRUGGLE AGAINST PIRATES AND BRIGANDS.
YEAR OF ORDEAL BY WAR AND
FAMINE.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. }
WENCHO (Chokiang), Feb. 8.. 1. Many cases of bullet wounde by
This country of Wenchow has bandits and pirates have been experienced in 1930 one of the most treated in the United Methodist. trying years perhaps since the Tai Jission Hospital which during the Ping. Rebellion. To the early part | terrible, apidemie el, cholera thint of the year famine stalked through insted for an exceptionally long a large part; the major portion of time, received close on one-thou- it; like a ravendas mönster. Thou- | sand cholera patients. Dr. Noel sands of country people, especially. Marrow and nurses and stall were 'wonnen and children, were housed working night and day and wards in eity temples where they were fed had to be cleared of other patients to accommodate, these cholera sufferers..
tin November and 1.2 per cent, in daily by this kindness of the city 38,000 1921..
merchants of the Yung Chin Hsien, (22,000)
The Different Lines.
who formed a relie! society, of The following table shows the 35,000
which by their courtesy one foreign- total values of imports and exports (12,000) 78,000 during the month of January byer, the Chairman of the United (141,000) main groups of articles:
Methodist Mission, was elected a member of the Committed. This society contributed some tens of thousands of dollars to relief, pro viding food and clothing for the living, and coffins for the 'dend, of whom some had met their end through starvation and from ex- posure to the bitter cold of the winter. Numbers of country people emigrated to other parts of the country being pasisted therein by officinis. It is to be feared that 215,832
large numbers of children were sold 97184 by parents too destitute to feed 784,039 them, and it is known that con- 3,539,914 siderable numbers of them were sold to the South to people in 100,001 760,bia ·|||Fukien. Ong steamer load of such 4,203,620 girls and women was lost at sea on its way from Wenchow to the South with its human freight.
Taffetas 231/47 83,085
· (00,130). Umbrelin
(12,274 (40,500) 67,188
(102,100)
208,306 (112,400)
257,000 (34,000)
Figured,
others 160,304 10,000
(4,332,700) (419,000) Cottons, Dyed
Plain, others 238,500- 78,000
(17,620,347) (3,284,000)
Prints.
Animals Live 1,075,170 Building
Materials 1,332
Toports. Exports.
8 35,301
394,017
Chemicals
and drugs Chiness
087,818
(825,015,305) (83,981,000)
Medicines 1,028,021 Dyeing & Tan-
303,984
1,373,807
Дарви
£1,225,941 £1,537,295 ($15,404,395) ($10,737,000)! Cretonnes
Yds. 45,050
Total all
Countries:
Crimps
(3,870,848)
0,037 (139,300)
57,000 (715,000) Fuels
5,000 Hardware .... (40,000) Liquor intoxi-
583,299 sing materials 108,033 Foodstuffs 19,298,907 18,501,578 900,003 277,358 427,801
348,783
L
cating
140,014
ground, etc.
34,016 (79,430)
20,000 Machinery &
(18,000) engines
1,272,803
I 1024 Great Britain recorded 53.50 per cent, of the total imports.
Printed
Manres
143,203
Sateens
441,337
173,000 Metals
3,012,834
(733,070) 73,200 (3,178,372)
TOTAL.
United Kingdom..... $3,081,428 Japan
$19,738,806
$29,093,320
£5,550,772 £1,048,024 (48,614,692) ($20,803,320) Prints, back-
H.K. 1924. 48d.; 1930×18.
atd.
of cotton piece goods into Hong Kong, while the Japanese propor Prints, others tion amounted to 33.05 per cent. The position was reversed in 1030 when the Japanese share reached 66.47 per cent. and the British sharo fell to 13.41 par cont
Cotton piece goods prices foll considerably in 1930 as compared with 1924 and, taking this factor into consideration, it would be rea- onable to assume that the total volume of cotton piece goods cater- ing Hong Kong from Japan in 1939 was approximato to, if not in excess of, the volume imported in the boom year 1924.
All countries
(258,000) Minerals And
44,000 Ores
248,0411 (516,000) Nuts & seeda,831,739, Oils and fats 6,779,704 Paints Paper and
paperware 1,074,407 1,070,933 Pieco goods &
JANUARY FIGURES.
A SMALL INCREASE.
185.905.
207,025
textiles ... 10,383,119 - 5,214,783 Railway
materials 54,181
Tobacco Treasure
the month of January recorded a Wearing Imports of merchandise during Vehicles small increase as compared with parel December, while exports receded Sundries alightly, The figures are given hereunder, the December totals being given in brackets:
Merchandise
From the following comparative table of the chief items of cotton piecu goods imported from the United Kingdom and Japan dur- ing the nine months April-Deerm ber, 1930, it will be noted that in practically every line the quantities imported from Japan were far greater than those from the United Kingdom. For the purpose of rasy Total comparison the Japanese figures are given in bracketa.
Trensure
1,793,708)
an
49,030 1,445,570 773,607 3,263,364 10,846,988 546.840 644,077
-667,210 1,297,309 8,541,284
6,581,774
Total.....64,832,150 68,819,871
Australia Burma Cannda
Newcomers to the Methodist Mission,
Since the end of October four newcomers have joined the United Methodist Mission from England, Rev. W. Roy Ayloth who has come fresh from College for general work, Nurse Fieldsend for the Hospital, and
Dr. Elmslie J.
Dymond and his bride, to act as colleague to Dr. E. T. A: Stedeford who with his wife and infant son have recently returned from fur lough In England. Miss Doidge, B.A., has also returned from fur- lough, and, in addition to the over- sight of the Mission Primary Alixed School, is hoping soon to extend her hctivities in work amongst older girls in the higher schools of the city, and in the organization af Christian Endeavour Societies and Sunday Schools in rural districts.
The Harvest
At the time of writing the fields for miles around the city aro bear- ing splendid crops of vegetables, of brend beans aiready in flower, and of Stantung cabbages-a recent culture here so far as your corre- spondent knows-while; the spring wheat is growing pain. A few weeks ago when unusually early Keen frosts were experienced, it seemed not unlikely that such vegetation was doomed. A walk across the fertile plain encircling this city showed the thousands of neres of vegetation as far as the ey could reach-in on almost hope- lónly wilted condition.
1930 saw record harvests of vari ous crops, rice, sweet potatoes and fruit being especially plentiful. One Chinese described the barvest Firing Squad and Executioner.
as eleven-tenths good. Rice at ones Piracy and banditry increased to fell in price, so that while in one unprecedented proportions for this week it was selling at six and, seven catties to the dollar, the following area partly because of the extrem-week it was 10 and 17 catties a ity of indigence, but also because dollar. of Red propaganda.Hundreds of bandits have been executed within the last 12 or 14 months within the precincts, of the city, these being public executions either by ring parties of soldiers or by the sword of the executioner. Batches of bandits. numbering, as many sometimes as a dozen to nearly two dozen were shot down simultane 100,675. ously, and in one such batoh, it 351,231 820,618 was said at the time, were & woman 180,101 | who had been seized as a pro-i
pagandist, and her nineteen-year- 3,240,847
old son. The writer from his 411,885 verandah counted up to nearly 110 such executions taking place near the foot of a hill inside the city wall some three hundred yards 207,256 57,138
away. For several months now the
.2,054.504 3,087,016
executions have been carried out 1,726,250 78,045
on another bill in another part of 202,288 31,000 the city. From time to time re 547,278 7,929 ports have come in from the coun- 6,187,604 2,526,020 try, where soldiers are bus round- ing up bandits, of executions there 2,313,005
too, but how many the writer doos not know.. A considerable number 1,904,602
of people have been carried off by 1,540,255 bandits who have ventured to within three miles of the city bere in the prosecution of their nefarious work
Imports,
Each Nation's Share. $59,309,025 (850, 110, 160)
The following were the chief trade recording countries during 8,263,184 ($1,3,548) the month-
Imports. Exports. $01,632,189
B 334,673 108,040 Exports.
429,170 406,535 847,973,929 (848,509,920) India
-090,857 North Borneo. 323,407 $10,845,098 ($9,563,848) Straits and
F.M. S. 1,180,831 (283,763) (2,009,000) Total 238,810,817 (858,073,744) United
Kingdom 7,831,343 Calculating in terms of Hong Belgium
701,696 (3,000) Kong currency, which has steadily China, North.: 0,719,900
depreciated since April, is ex-China, Middle 1,019,347 3,836,007 ceedingly difficult to present an ao China South... 8,001,159 14,105,497 (179,000) curato picture of the fluctuations Francs in the actund volume of merchandise French handled in the port, and the figures
Chin (053,000) for the ten months' ended January, Germany
1931, have therefore been converted Holland (827,000) into sterling at the following rates Italy
12,000 of exchange:—
48,000
Drills and
Tableached Cottons.
Pos.
Ducks 0,044
€
203,000
Merchandise
Treasure
Shirtings,
Groy
977
5,000
Shirtings,
Gray, 10 lbs.
Shirtings
Grey (other)
(297)
5,200
15,003
(20,000)
14,016 (B1,480)
T. Cloths
Others
' (179,214)
Bleached Cottons.
April
Pos
$
May
Drills and
Jugo
Ducks (white) 20,054
398,000
July
(2),740)
(197,000)
August
Shirtings,
September
16. 3.11-ted.
October
Siam
10. 34d.
white 40/43
November
20,884
376,000
(207,095) (1,847,000)
December January
white 78/83
yards.
(£2,900,333) (£2,675,833) 854,305,387 €38,284,607
(£3,017,319) (£2,701,cas)
$38,682,830 232,143,275
(£2,431,529) (£2,028,000)
.850,870,877,634,395,347.
yards
Shirtings..
Others
April 4,933 83,000
May 18,101 574,000 (34,007) (248,000) June
Light Cotton Fancies.
Laws, Lenos,
Shirtings
July
85,000
Is. Bid.
18 5.3-16. Ja 3
18. 3.1-10d.
1. 3.8-10d,
Indo.
Japan Kwong Chow
Wan Macao
1,019,473 ........... 1,170,709 Netherlands
East Indies 2,502,742 Philippines .127.504 3,149,005
18. 3.8-10d. South America 10,408
18. ltd.
Sweden Switzerland
-333,557
130,504
****: 6,233,883
Dr. 11.13-160. U.S.A.
.....$38,405,508 $35,431,719
•
22,302 6,136,522
948,970
1.844.972 127,077 $,137 450 2,440,009
CHINESE WOMEN'S
EMANICIPATION.
(£3,198,054) (29.158.007) MASS MEETING AT CANTON. August...49,133,181 840,139,108
(£3,165,080)—(£2,002;770) (30,099) September 820,779,414 $30,207,659
(£3,710,905) (£2,569,797) October
105,000
853,168,170840,594,631
Piracy.
Oplum and Morphine, Your correspondent was asked in! Derciher last to get information here for the National Anti Opium Society as to the sale of drugs, and s to the prevalence of addiction to drugs. He learned that mor phine, red, golden, and white pilla were all on the market, that 90 sears ago saw the introduction of opium here, the others coming in zome 20 years ago, the latter sup plied from Shanghai, the opium from Fukien. Round about 4,000 catties of opium are annually im ported of the reputed value of about $84,000. Retailers number cired 1,000 and addite circa 8,000, mostly of the wealthier classes. Some ten per cent. become habi- tues through illness, the others take to it for pleasure.
'The pills and morphins are said On the Wenchoy river itself, to have the more deleterious effects, among the inlands just beyond the and the average per capita per river month, and along the coast, dien is put at about 1/5 of a Chi- piracy has been carried on exten- pese ounce. There are several in-. sively, hundes being boarded and stitutions in the oily for curing passengers looted and even killed, addicts, to whom certificates of and as other parts further South, cure are given on amendment. so here, the China Merchants' res- Sone officials are faithful in their sels have not altogether escaped, duty of trying to put the cril down, ste 160,024
pirater embarking here as passen imposing Goes varying from 8:30 to (931,344)
gers, and seizing the steamer when $1,000 other officials cond [FROM OUR OWN DOERESPONDENT] Shirtings
autaids and looting her. The saddits to prison for periods-very- Fancy
Kwangdi teft port for Shanghai ing from 30 days to three years. Bleached. 328,657
this morning and was unck again Some officials and people of in- CANTON, Feb. 24. (£3,433,778) (23,000,240) (1,703,236) (308,099) November....55,110,372 $42,060,003 Following the proclamation of the to the office and on board also to said and that were these publicly carly this attornson. I went, down flucnes are themselves addicta it-is (£3,510,187) (£2,684,183) Nanking wovon 225,702
Government that the ask the reason of it, and in both punished, the guilty officials being 58,000 December 30,110,100 846,609,020 women in China are entitled to places was told that when outside degraded there would be anime hope (1,381,402) ・(334,000)
(£3,380,520) (£2,770,215) the same rights and privileges as of the river, the military guard of of a more salutary and deterrent 97,353 6,000 January 850,500,025 $17,973,820 men, the
(940,000) ****(4,031,472)
women in Canton aro 12 and found 12 pirates among the result, (£2,031,013) (£8.01.212) exerting themselves to obtain these assengers, and these have been The missionary community hero 238,085 193,000 (7,507,833) (2,032,000)
Total 8515,033,024 8104.750.038 to take an active part in the coming tanded over to the, authorities. Suring the company of Dr. W. A. rights, and privileges, They desire brought back to the city to be are to lose from their midst this (£32,607,884) (£26,621,288) People's Convention at Nanking The steamer leaves again for Noel Marrow of Plymouth, Eng and Jeans 59,144 81,000
(9,202,141)
and are preparing to exert their Shanghai in the early morning, land, who has been acting as locum From the United Kingdom."' influence.
During recent months two or teneris for Dr. Stedeford-nud who The total imports from the United A big mass meeting of women three parties of local bandits have | had to bear on his young shoulders. (635,000) Kingdom amounted to $7,831,343 new held this maming in the audi- heen received into the array, the the brunt of the cholera healing -113.507
.07,000
compared with 84,574.403 in Deerm torium of the Provincial Kuomin: fargest party consisting of about work, a work of the kind greater .(4,217,686) (1,395,000)|er, the British share of the whole tang, at which a number of prin four hundred men with their wea than ever before in the 40 years' ~101,800- 231,000-import-trade representing 13:45 per ciples ausing at the emancipation pens. One or more of the lenders history of the medical work of the (1,867,000). (081,000) cent, as compared with 7.74 per of the women of China was formu- of these bands have been rewarded Mirsion. The Chairman of the cent. in December, 1.22 per cent. Inted. After the meeting, they with oliver's rank, nè least one of Mission, Rev. W. R. Stobie, is also (1,078,460) (133,000) | in November and 13 per cent. in paraded through the principal them being given areaptain's grade, leaving about the same time, to:
52101000
seringa firmelige hands of irrigaada-un to a ipsuma surle the shingake cat 1 (1,000) Exports to the United Kingdon all sorts of banners hearing appro hundred in strength, are still hold Home. His term of service is bav. 84,000 |stalled $441,805 as compared with priate slogans,
ing parts of the countryside in ing to be curtailed by some months (01,000) 8391;887 the percentage figure liking Practically every girls' schoul in terror. About a fortnight ago the on account of repeated illness **23,000 92 per cent as compared with 70 Canton was represented in the s. Haean brought three hundred among the members of his family. (30,000) ¦ per cent. in December, 188 per cent. I demonstration.
and Ally soldiers to the port. in England.
Others
Cashmeres
Dyed Drills
Flannelettes 12,473
(2.880,033)
Cotton'.
Italians
Pupling Dyed Reda
(2,400) 00.100
(281,710)
Bruised Twills
(67,192" (264,000)
(099,000)
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