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THE
".. "HELIOS"
. "HIRAM "
5.4.HELLAS"
CHINA-SIAM
LINE.
HONG KONĠ-BANGKOK
leaving Hong Kong, 4th August via Bwatow Isaving Hong Kong 16th August via Swatow" leaving Hong Kong 24th August via Swacow BONG KONG-SWATOW-AMOY
7th August "HAL HING" leaving Hong Kong "..." HAI LEE" leaving Hong Kong 18th August Accepting Passengers & Cargo for all the above motioned ports." HONG KONG-SINGAPORE-PENANG-RANGOON. Regular Express Service
"HAT BING" leaving Hong Kong 13th August m.r. "HAI LEE" leaving Hong Kong 24th August »
Accepting cargo for all the above mentioned ports.
Excellent passenger accommodation available.
For freight, passage rates and all other information-Apply to
THORESEN & CO., LTD.
Tel. 30237.
General Agents.
Queen's Building.
S.S. "BENMOHR"
Sailing for LONDON, ROTTERDAM, ANTWERP, HAMBURG, HULL and LEITH on or about the 9th August.
Cargo will also be accepted on through Bill of Lading to the usual transhipment ports.
Next Sailing for SHANGHAI & JAPAN
“BENCLEUCH"
S.S.
S.S. "BENNEVIS "
Tel 12533
2nd Aug. 6th Aug.
For Freight and Passage apply to:
W: R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD."
York Building.
Agents;
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.
PIECE GOODS QUOTAS
CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
PRINCE LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FLOM NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES
Motor Vessel
TEMALAYAN PRINCE" "having arrived from the above Porta on 30th instant, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company,
Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Consignees risk
and expense.
All broken, shafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where į they will be examined on Thursday, 5th Aug., 1987, at 10A.M.
All Claims must be presented within 15 Days of the Vessol's arrival here, after which date they cannot be re-
Claims will be wiuitted after the Goods have left the flowns, and ali Goods remaining andelivered after the Bib Aug, 1937, will be subject to Rent.
No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be avantersigned by
FURNESS (FAR EAST), LTD.,
2nd Floor, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building. Dials 20165 & 23168.
Hong Kong, 80th July, 1987.
"
[5438
New Requirements Be Waived
The Hong Kong General Cham- ber of Commerce received from the Hong Kong Government, on
July 31, a letter, dated July 30, giving the text of the Secretary of State's telegram of July 28 on the subject of plece-goods quotas and the rule that plece-goods manu- factured in Hong Kong must be woven from yarn spun in the British Empire. The letter stated that in view of the representations of the Chamber of Commerce, the Secretary of State had requested all "Dependencies concerned, with the exception of Jamaica, to waive the new requirements for
sa) any goods shipped before July
7:
(b) any gooda shipped on subse- quent dates before the end of July if accompanied by a cer- tificate from this Government that the order
placed before July 7.
was
The significance of the words "before the end of July” in clause (b) was unfortunately överlooked when the communication to the Press published on Friday was.
drafted.
The Chamber of Commerce is asking the Government to cable Secretary
LOAN FROM BRITAIN | immediately to the
TO HELP RAILWAY
CONSTRUCTION
London, July 30.
J
Dr. H. R. Kung, Chinese Finance Minister, has concluded a contract with the British and Chinese Cor- poration with which to finance the Corporation of Shanghal Associat- ed £5,000,000 five per cent. loan.
The loan proceeds will be devot❘ ed to the construction of 'a' rail- way from Shektan, on the Canton- Kowloon Railway, to Meflaten in Kwangtung, and will be secured on the revenue of the rallway, with the Balt Gabelle as collateral.
Part of the money will be spent for the purchase of material and equipment for the ballding of the line. It is expected that the loan will in due course be offered to the public in London.
Dr. Kung has concluded a fur- ther loan contract with the British and Chinese Corporation for £4,- 000,000, for the construction of a railway from Pukow to Hslany yang, in Hupeh. The terma are identical with the other loan."'
The two loans make a total of £7,000,000 with, British financiers for two important railways
of State suggesting that there must be some mistake in the mensage. Possibly the end of August, the end of September, or the end of October, was intended. It is clearly impossible for goods to be shipped at a few hours' notice. In the case" of gooda destined for Africa. for example." no steamer with space available leaves Hong Kong before August
10.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1937.
THE EXCHANGE
MARKET
----.
MESSES. ROZA BROS,
Saturday July 31 Silver prices rose 1/18 yesterday for Ready" and 1/8 for Forward, the quotations being 201 and 20 3/16 respectively. Silver "advices reported India as having bought. -China sold. The market was quietly
steady. American Sliver quoted at 444 for Spot.
The London/New York cross- rate was quoted at 497,70. New York/London was quoted at 497.- 11/16.
MARKET Opened Birmi but towards cicse eased off slightly.
was
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
(Through Renter's Service),
Now York: August (2)
QUOTATIONS
New York/London Cross-rate New York Cotton-Dec. New York Rubber-Sept. Chicago Wheat-Sept. Chicago Corn
Sept. Silver Official
1935,7
Last Today'
Chang High Law Close Close
-4.97-11/18 4.97) 1/18 up 100 of 10.79 10.83 10,76 10.70
18.40 closed 118 118 18t 1:GA 93 90
14)
High Low Dow Jones Averages, 194.40 165.5) 50 Industriais
81.48 50.17 20 Baile
9010
unquoted
July 31.
July 30. 184.01.
09.66
12,98 63.56 33.95
High Low Close · Change 185.85 181.39 183.81 1.60 up .10 up
the
37.34 93.45 20 Utilities
29.56 103 69 90.54 40 Bonda
101.31 82.44 33.68 11 Commodity Index 67.31
3.17 29 94.30.09
13 up
101.39
unquoted
ol up
Business Done:--300,000 shares.
IN STERLING Opened with sellers at 1/2 13/16 with a small business reported at | 1/2 27/32 for Spot, Towards the close offers at 1/2 13/16 were accepted for forward and cash, finishing with sellers at 1/2 25/32 August/December. buyers at 1/2 13/18 for any delivery.
U.S. DOLLARS Opened with sellers at 30 for cash resulting in business at 301 for September. 30 11/16 October, 30 13/16 for cash. Subsequently 302 was arranged for August and also 30 11/16 August. The mar- ket closed with sellers at 30 11/18 for cash, 30 August/September and probably October, buyers at 304 for cash and 30 11/16 Septem- ber/October,
I
SHANGHAI DOLLARS Nominal. Sellers at 1037, buyers at 104 1/16.
for.
SHANGHAI MARKET Sellers of Sterling at 1/2 Spot, buyers at 1/2 17/64 for Spot. U.S. Dollars. sellers at 29 17/32 buyers at 29 9/16 for Spot. Quietly steady
STOCK H. K.
EXCHANGE
SATURDAY'S
OFFICIAL
QUOTATIONS
Last Bala
July 30 31
183
109
10"
461
50 22
372 932 95
44****
Stocks Adama Expre Allis Chalmers ....... 671 Amer, Can Am. Car & Foundry Amer. Cyanamid ....... 334 Amer, & For. Power" 10j Amer. & For. $7 pf. 54. Amer. Locomotive - Amer. Metals Amer. Radiator Amer, Rolling Mill. Amer. Smelting Amer, Steel Fdries.
45 Amer. Sugar Amer. Tel, & Tel. 1721 Amer, Tobacco E 834 211 Amer. Waterworks .... Anaconda Copper 571 Atchison, T. & S. Fe. 797. Atlantic Refining Atias Corp. 15. Auburn Motors"..... 194 Baldwin Locomotive
291
$ cum. pt. ............... B5 Baltimore & Ohio... 27 Barnsdall Oil
Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel
Boeing Airplane Borden Co.
251 25
95+
311 . 361
2+1
Brigg M'facturing 451- Brooklyn-Manhattan
Trans
Brooklyn-Manhattan
$6 cum: pr.
Case, JI.
221
641 180
Canadian Pacluc
117 117 Celanese Corpn. of
America
38+
Cerro de PRECO....... 732
Quietly steady conditions pre-CertainTeed F'ducts
valled in the local market.
In Manila, slightly better prices and closing advices were seen, were firm.
BUYERS
Chesapeake
Corpn. 721 Chesapeake & Ohio, 51 Chrysler Corp. ----1133 Columbia Gas & El '14) Columbia 8% “A” DL. 91 *
Commercial Solvents 14 Commonwealth & 8. 27 Commonwealth £8
56)
Last Sale Stock
July 30 31 Great Northern Rly. 491 » 404) Great Western Bugat `341 341*
Holly Sugar Corpn.
•
821
651 12
Humble Of Int. Nickel Int. Tel. & Tel....... Int. Dept Stores 19 Kennecott Copper Lambert Corp. ..... 13 Loew's Inc. .............. 841 Lorillard
48
211
631
Molntyfe Porcupine McKesson & Robbins 44 Monsanto Chemical 102 Montgomery Ward. Murray Corp. Nat Cash Regiator Nat Dairy Products 21 Nat Distillers
10.
841" 341
30+
Nat Power & Light 11ỳ New York Central-a: 392 Niagara Hodson P.
Corpn.
North American Northern Pacide
141
281 29
Pacific Gas & Elec. 32)
45 Pacific Lighting
Packard Motors ...... 8+ Paramount
Pennsylvania R.R. N 961 Phelps Dodge........
Phillips Petroleum 621
13
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE Sailings
,,,,"",·→ -
Prendasy Liners' freqomi mailings and their unique stoperne prisilem allow you to «tenwol fours, wxselly sa yon choom, And Dollar Blaurship Lines and Amerioen Mall Liza worldwide offers and agents are maintained to serve you shore in whatever place yur chance to be. Make your arst trip mere enjoyable, trave Diem The Prestant Line WANG,
TO SAN FRANCISCO NIAW FORK AND BOSTON
Via Shanghai, Kabe, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, Panama
Canal and Havana. Att Pres, Taft M'night Ang. 10th Pres. Hoover Noon Aug. 21st Pres. Lincoln M'night Sept. 7th Pres. Coolidge Noon Sept. 18th Pres. Wilson Bam. Oct. 8th Pres. Hoover Noon Oct. 16th EUROPE, NEW YORK
тр
TÖ SKATILE, VICTORIA "THE KIPRESS ROUTI”
Via Shanghai, Kobe and
Yokohama
Prsa. Jefferson M'aight Aug. 15th Pros, McKinley M'night Aug. 27th Pres. Grapt M'aight Sept. 10th Pren, Jackson M'night Sept. 24th Fres. Jefferson M'night Oct. 8th Pres. McKinley Might Out.22nd, MANILA
THE MOST FREQUENT "
SERVICH
Next Sailings
Via Manila, Bingapore, Penang, Colombe, Bombay, Suás Cana. Naples, Genos and Marsellies. Free. Polk Ham, Aug. 18th Proe, Taft -
8 a.m. Aug. 29th Pres. Jefferson Pres. Van Buren 8 am. Sect. 18th | Pres. Hoover Pres. Garfield 8.m. Sept. 26th Pres. Polk Pres. Hayes
9am. Oct. 10th Free McKinley
Pre*. Pierce
M'aight Aug. 3rd
6 p.m. Aug. 7th
p.m Aug. 13th
8am. Ang 15th
6 pm. Apg. 21st
Pres. Honroe 8 am, Oct. 24th | Pres Pieres 8 am, Aug. 29th
MOST FREQUENT SERVIOR ON
THE PACIFIC
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP. LINES
* AMERICAN MAIL-LINE *
茶
· PEDDER «BUILDING-HONG KONG.
CÂNTON BRANCH ~13, FRIXOK VONCESMOR, SHAMEEN.
+443*
M.V.
Public Service of NJ. 431 43Į. Pullman 'Inc.......... Pure Oil.........
Radio Corpn of Am.
201
Republic Steel........ 377.
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Reynolds Tobac. "B" 35↓*
391
St. Joseph Lead Co. Schenley Schenley 51% pl. ..... Bears Roebuck Shell-Union O
524 94
941
2828
Southern Cal Edison : 26 Southern Pacific
473
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Hong Kong Bank, $1920 Cum. Commercial Credit 621 62
Div.
Douglases, $48....
Union Waterboats, $9.30. H. K. & K. Wharves, $118. Chinese Estates, $90. Peak "Trama (old), $5. Peak Trams (new), $21. Btar Ferries. $87.
Wm. Powell, Ltd., 40 cts. Constructions (new), 50 cts. H. K. Govt. 3% Loan, 1% Prin. Wallace Harpers, $5. Marsinans: (HK) 7/4d.
SELLERS Union Insurance, $625,
SALES Marsmans (HK), 7/
- MANILA MINING-
SHARES
Hong Kong, July 31. Extra Manila closing quotations figures kindly supplied by Messrn. Els and Edgar.
Associated Mines Acoje Mining
Angeln
Dulong Gold Creek Ipo Gold Gold River
cum, pf.
Consolidated Edin 381
Consolidated on
16
Continental Oll.... 48
Corn Products 85 Curtiss Wright" - (0.)
79
191
Curtiss Weight "A" Delaware & Hudson 151 Del. Lackawanna &
Western
Socony-Vacuum "
Southern Kiy 8% pl. 45
Stand Brands ....... 121
Stand. Gas & Elec. Stand Das & Elec
$7 pf.
513
Standard Oil of NJ. ([68]
Sterling Products
€31
Swift International 274 271 Technicolor
63
BURNS PHILP LINE "NEPTUNA"
Due 4th Aug.
Texas Gulf Bulphur 384 384*
PASSENGER & FREIGHT SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA
Sailing Monday, 9th Aug.
Transamerics
Singles 647.10.0d,
Tidewater Assoc. Oil 211 Timken-Detroit Azle 231
131 131
136 1391
20th Cent. Fox Films 37
Distillers Corpn Sea-
grains. in waris 201 Douglas Aircraft .....
571 Du Pont
20th Cent. For Filma
for Saigon, Manila, Sandakan, Salamana, Rabaul, Sydney & Melbourne.
222
pí.
45 *
Un. Carbide & Car-
1601
bon
1012 1014
First Class Fore to Sydney::
Un. Pacific
Return: £76.-0-0.
126
United Aircraft
297304
Vn. Aliine Trans-
Passenger & Freight Agents
port
........
17
...
Joint Passenger Agents-
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
King's Building.
Electric Boat 101 Elec. Bond & Share 201 Elec. Bond & Share
15 pl............... 66 Elec. Bond & Share
$6 p1......
Elec Power & Light 231. Elec Power & Light
ST. PL..... Firestone Tire & R Estore
United Corp
United
Un
Corpn.
cum pt.... 401
Gas Fyroven't 137
Un. Light & power"
*A*
US. Industrial Alco-
321
38
US Rubber $8 p. 92
US. Steel............. 1154
Vanadium
791
.004
317
.11
.08
Den, Asphalt...
bol.
028
Gen. Cigar
351*341 4
U.S. Rubber
.105
Gen. Electric mai
571
Gen. Foodz
371
145
€32
Gen. Motora.
531
Gen. Hallway 'Bignal, 441
Mother Lode
ung
Paracale Gold Salcot
.09.
02
Batong Bahay
.11
Universal Expl. Bued
.10
Dayaka
Crown. Mines
What manufacturers asked from. Mambulao the Secretary of State was permis Syndicate Invest sion to full ex'sting contracts be- Tinagao fore the new rule applied, and this
Santa Rosa point will be again strongly press-" Mine Operations ed.
FRENCH DEFENCE
BUDGET
Paris, July (81) More than 11,000,000,000 francs
REICHSMARK
a E E s s s t i !
Strong
Gületté Safety Razor
aldden... 434
Gold Dust an Goodrich (BJ)
Goodrich #5 př.
37+
791*
481*
Geodynarzabrinumangar 400 401
STRIKE MENACE
IN FRANCE
Warner Bros Pict,
28
144
Westinghouse Eec. 1511 Youngstown
Sheet & Tube - 881 Chase National B 60% National Ofty Bang "464", Call Money
1%
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. Telephone No. 26031
P. & O. Building.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIIL
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEFS.
8901
THE MS.
MAERSK LINE:
NOTICE TO CONSIGNELS
[HE MY
THE
ANNA MAERSK " " DUISBURG".
having arrived from New York and 501 having arrived from Hamburg and Ports of call. Consignees of Cafgo are Ports of call, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their goods are hereby notified that their Goods are being landed sed placed at their risk inte being landed and placed at their risk to the Hong Kong and Kowlood Wharf & the Hong Kong Kowloon Whart & Opdown Company's godowns Lt. Kow
down Compapy's godowna at Kowloon, lood, whete delivery, may be obtained ex
delivery may be obtained as soon
1% Bid
GERMANY'S TRADE
PACT WITH FRANCO
soon as the goods are laisied, “
This Goods are landed on page Optional cargo will not be landed Optional" Cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been given 38 mahesa hare, gambar Holies has been given 48 hours prior to vessel's arrival, but -Berlin, July 31.
to Vessel's uniral, but carried carried on from port to port to the final
Foption
--Paris, July 31.:
hooporti tosport to the final port port of call (p The situation created by the treaty.
ketext of the cominercial which the option erlends, to extends shop med
between Germany and No. Clair will be admitted after the No Claims will be admitted after strike of agricultural workers in General Franco was published in Goods here at She Godowns, and all the Goods have left the Godowns, and
distinctly Berlin to-day, revealing that Ger Goods remaining
all Goodé remaining jantáreered aftet. - QUOTATIONS France is assuming
the 9th Aug., 1937, will be subject, to Berlin, Aug. 17 Reichsmarks quotations without
New
are provided for national defence guarantee were;—— expenditure in th 1938 Budget. dclared the Finance Minister, M. Georges Bonnet, after a Gabinet meeting yesterday.
40.251 Paris. No bourse 72 Amsterdam) London
12.369. Paris Catering) 132.76 to 182.81 Paris (dollar) No quote
Expenditure for public works is estimated at 3.500.000.000 francs-Transocean, Jews Service. and for the pensions rund at 2-STERR 300,000.00 franca,
threatening proportions, especially in the St. Quentin district, where open conflicts have broken out be tween strikers and workers import- ed from Central France to amist in the harvesting. D
In many cases, the workers have
70s
R
after the
Gooda
many has granted "most favoured nation" terms to the nationalist govenment, penting broken, chated and dam
The agreement, which comes to be Tert in the Godown, where they will ta szamised; on 6th Aug, 1987, 10, my by our Burreyors, Mains, Goddard & Dopgaa
to force to-morrow, does not specify iron ors among the mater fals to be burchased by Germany
Comply with General
been prevented from rolne to the from Spain, grea Warabout Regolation condemned
It is believed, however, that the hate a Herenne Offer in attendance "farms" by bands of strikera, and the gendarmes, in order to avoid an vital tron-ore deposits in the Bashen disaged duti
examined. outbreak of vidence, have even que territory are included in All Claims must reach us before forbidden peasants to enter their clause which reads products of 31st Auge This expenditure, however, would 17,000,000,000 francs by loans, and own felds, where the grain is the soil- be further increased.
241,600 000,000, trančs
For Its own needs, the Blate subject to rembursem
would have to
next
waiting to be cut, and
**All broken, chafed, and damaged Goody are to be left in the Godow they will te dramasd on 7th Aug., 1981, at 10 am by our Surveyors Capt.. Mo comply with General Bonded War Comph the Co
must haves Revenue Omeer in atten sace when damaged dutiable goods are
Hall "claims must reach us before the
will not 1st Bent, #1937, or they will not be
No Insurance will be
Grave fears are now arising that unless a settlement is reached in
the next few days, a large part of the harvest will be log Transoceam News Ray
ned 00.
Hong Kong, 1st Aug. 1967.251) 16458 Hong Kong, 1st Aug, 1982
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