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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
THE Motor Vessel
THE
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* SILVERTEAK" having arrived from the above Ports on 15th instant. Consignees of Cargo are bereby informed that their Goode are being landed at their risk into the Go dowes of the Hong Kong and Kowloon. Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, sad stored at Consignees risk and spons
All broken,chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, whore they will be examined on Friday, 21st instant, 1938, at 10 mm.
All Claims must be prescated within 15 Days of the vessel's arrival here. after which date they cannot be re cognized.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 22nd instant, 1038, will be subject to
Rent.
No Fire Insurance bas been effected, Billa of Lading will be countersigned by
FURNESS (FAR EAST), LTD,
2nd Floor, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building Dils 23165 & 23169. Hong Kong 15th Jan.. 1938,
Jam Buk
(5005
Queen's Building.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD BREMEN
THE Motor ship
THE
"FELDA **
aving arrived from BREMEN, HAM. BURG and Ports. Consignees of cargo are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at their risk into the Go downs of the Hong Kong sad Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. Kowloon where Delivery can be obtained.
All Goods remaining undelivered after the 27th Jan, 1935, will be subject to Rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by as in any case whatever.
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godown for examination by the Con siguess and the Company Surveyors, on the 26th Jan, 193 Messrs. Anderson & Ashe, at 10 am,
Consignees must have a Revenue Oficer in attendance when damaged datiable goods are examined by the Company's surveyors.
No Claim will be admitted after the Goods sve loft the Godown and all claims must be presented within To Wooks of the Ship's arrival here, aftes which date they will not be recognised.
Consignees are requested to surrender for Countersignatars. their Bills of Lading to the Undersiqued
MELCHERS & OU..
Agasta NORDDEUTSCHRA LLOYD, BREMZX. Hong Kong, 20th Jan., 1993.
The
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1938.
JAPAN OVER ASIA
Fascinating And Timely Book
Japan Over Asia, by William Henry Chambertin (Boston: Little. Brown. $3.60), is as fascinating and timely a book as has been written about any of the major theatres of world diplomacy in a long time. If, as Chamberlin's opening sen- ́tence indicatës, ་་ན spectre is haunting East" Asta: the spectre of Japan." that spectre is taking on
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grim actuality. No book has made clearer the tragic pity of the transformation of this peace- ful island Empire from the days of the Shogunate into the modern scourge of Asia. The forces, coth material and Intellectual, that drive Japan on military conquest are described with all the insight
and clarity that made Mr. Chàm- berlin's books on Russia. so out- standing.
LIFE SENTENCE INCREASE IN ON "MAGNETIC" REVENUE OF
PARSON Y200,000,000
Sentence of life imprisonment Higher Taxation To
Finance China War
was passed at Pittafeld, Illinois, on the "magnetic parson," the Rev. Ellsworth Newton, a frall Baptist minister, found guilty of
Tokyo, Jan. 19 the murder of Mrs. Maybelle An increase in revenue of Y200,- Kelly, aged 45, during a "whoopee | 000,000 to finance the China war, ride" in a car.
Newton, aged 51, was described by police as "a god to women," and was sold to have had affairs with many of his parishioners.
He helped Mrs. Kelly, a wealthy woman, to flee from her "unhappy" home.
After a wild ride Newton batter- ed her to death after she decided she would not elope with him...
In a confession he said he had hit Mrs. Kelly on the head with hammer and thrown her body into the Mississippi.
through higher taxation. both direct and indirect categories, are being planned by the Japanese Ministry of Finance, where enorts are being speeded to draft the necessary measures for presenta- tion to the Diet, soon after its resumption on January 23.
Approximately Y100,000,000 will be raised in addition by extending the "North China Incident" taxes. The Y200,000,000 increase has been provided for mainly by an increase in
the individual income and national taxes, a revival of the transit taxes. Impositions on new built homes and an extension of the new special articles tax.
In court, however, he accused his faster-daughter of having en- gineered the crime.
Prosecuting counsel told semil-fascist
the
Appropriations for the "China jury: "It is your duty to send this Incident" will be asked from the man to the electric chair. I de- Diet in the form of extraordinary mand it before God."
military accounts. The budget is But the jury recommended life likely to exceed ¥4,000,000,000, imprisonment
There is this difference! Jap- anese militarism, though it may be, does not seem to all its author with the distaste, often amounting to hostility, that
marked his accounts of Russian communism. He writes with detachment and with * certain sympathy for the Japanese sympathy which few people who have lived among them fall to show.
JAPANESE TRIALS
relation
The Chinese, briefly treated in to Japanese designs. leave him apparently baffled by the sheer mass of their problems, Not that he is unfair. He 15 scrupulously detached. But he sets himself much more sympatheti- cally to interpret the soul as well
as the trials of modern Japan.
Natural beauty has its charm, and ritual, too, in this esthetic people who carry the teaching of the arrangement of flowers even into the training of factory giris. Japan to-day, tar more ideally than
Western fascism. answers the
life is as shaken as the social structure by the "dangerous
Many frenzied women tried to "enter the court, screaming that Newton was innocent..
He has received dozens of lavish presents from women.
COALMINING IN CHINA
the
In its last financial year Chinese Engineering Mining Com- pany was able to show satisfactory results. A marked revival of trade.
costs
in the autumn of 1936 enabled the company to benefit from increased petition of Chinese-owned mines sales at higher prices, while com-
'diminished and
duced.
During effect upon trade caused by mill- the current year the
tary activities has been seen in a
were re-
Negotiations are still progressing between the Finance, War and Navy Ministers. The latter, in view of China's announced determina- tion not to sue for peace is alleged to have decided to ask for sumcient appropriations to avoid the neces- sity of calling another extraor dinary session of the Diet in the near future.
The higher taxes will remain in
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after the termination of the Sino- Japanese hostilities.
TAX PROGRAMME OUTLINED
An outline of the tax programme given in the Chugai Shogyo, the leading Tokyo inancial paper is as follows: firstly, Income taxes will be increased by a minimum of 20 per cent. to realise between Y110,000,000 and V120,000,000 ad- ditional revenue. Secondly, there
tax
on profit
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FROM NEW YORK VIA MANILA hunger of undisciplined and there- drop in sales of coal for 23 weeks will be an amplification of the fore unhappy nations whose family from 1,702,000 metric tons to 1.-business and industries directly Wharf, Kowloon, where it will is are hersby notified that their Cargo provisional
discharged
Holt' 567,000 tons: the reduction, due largely to the company's inability Thirdly, there will be an extention Terms and Conditions of Storage at connected with the hostilities. at Consignees' risk and subject to to ship coal to Shanghal and other Yangtze, ports, would have been { special articles tax on ten selected ready for Delivery from Godown on of the North China Inside Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be
and after 17th Jan,
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The
"Kodo (Imperial) way of life is struggling in Japan against the modernizing Influences of capitalist industrialism. And the officer class of the army, recruited from the frugal and puritanical peasantry is trying to put the limits of a Platonic. "Commonwealth" upon a mere tradesman's view.
"SPLIT PERSONALITY"
increased
greater but for the partial com- pensation secured by sales elsewhere."
of the company) spoke with neces- Mr. W. F. Turner (the chairman sary caution observing that the war was causing profound changes in the political structure of North China the end of which could not
articles. At the present rate this tax is expected to realise Y30,000,- 000. Fourthly, there will be an ex- tension of the term "North China not affect income taxes, and also Incident Tax," insofar as it does of the "North China Incident Special Articles Tax," which is ex- pected to realise 50,000,000. Fifth-
In brilliant and entertaining be scen He was, however, ablely there will be an increase in the chapters, the "split national per to state that so far the company saki, sugar, and gasolene taxes sonality" of the Japanese is shown had suffered no physical loss dur-
realising leading them on to the conquesting the fighting and that
the of "Asla, and perhaps to eventual | general effect on the business had clash with the West,
been less severe than might have been expected in view of the wide- spread area over which the bust- ness extended.
As for America's stake in the outcome in China, Mr. Chamberlin feels that it is too small to war- rant any but quixotic motives for interlocution, American trade with Japan has been growing.. he
shows, till it now totals about two £200,000 For Wire
or three times that with China. He
discounts China's
future as
market, though at the same time
he points
out
Chine that Ir ever does become a great market she will also become a much more
Broadcasting Experiment
Sir Walter Womersley, Assistant
760,000,000. Sixthly. 2 revival of the transit tax (a tax will realise Y30,000,000. on the purchase of railway tickets)
CONFINED TO MINIMUM Otherwise a revival of old taxes and the creation of new taxes in principle will be connned to a minimum.
Seventhly, the newspaper states, land capital, interest and business profit taxes are unlikely to be in- creased, but a decision has not yet been reached regarding a tax on capital of "Juridical persons." Eighthly, the present Y1,200 ex- emption for the assessment of
be reduced to Y1,000.
Optional Cargo will not be landed hare, unless Notice has been given prior to Versal's arrival, but carried on from port to port, to the final port of call to whith the option extende.
All broken, chafed and damaged fooda will be examined on any Tuesdays and are to be left in the Godowas, where they Fridaya berwoon the hours of 10.45 4.. and Nook within the Free Storage period. No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Vessel's Godown and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 24th Jan, will be subject to Rent
All Claims against the Vessel must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 7th Feb, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be affected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents 17th January, 1938.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA – MINIE
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
THE SS.
THE
"TIRPITZ" having arrived from Hamburg, and Ports of call. Consignees of Cargo are, hereby notified that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk
obtained as soon se the goods are into the Feng Kong & Wharf & Godown Company's godowns Kowloon at Kowloon, where delivery may be landed.
Optional cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been given 48 hours prior to vessel's arrival, bat carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the option extenda
Goods have left the Godowns, and all No claims will be admitted after the Roode remaining undelivered after the rent.
4th Jan, 193," will be subject to
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on 22nd Jan., 1839, at 0 am. Ky pur. Bar- veyors Mesara Goddard and Douglas
Warehouse Regulations consignee To comply with the General Bonded must have a Revenue Officer In attendance when damaged dutiable goods are examined.
All clairs must reach us before the 17th Feb., 1938, or they will not be recognized.
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HAMBURG-AMERIKA LENTIR
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
formidable competitor along the Postmaster General, announced in art clasa Income tax will probably TE S.&.
lines that make Japan's "cheap labour" so exasperating to western industrialists.
TANGLED SKEIN
It may be
questioned whether
the House of Commons recently that it was proposed to introduce
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A
"NORDMARK*
se the Goods are landed.
This eighth measure is likely to Forts of call, Consignees of Cargo am having arrived from Hamburg and a public experimental wire broad-be postponed as enforcement would hereby notified that their Goods are casting service in Southampton probably realise no more than Y3.- being landed and placed at their risk into this year.
000,000 at the cost of widespread the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & It would be undertaken, he said, social affects.
Godown Company's godowns at Kowloon, where delivery may be obtained as soon Optional Cargo will not be landed bere, unless Natice has been given 48 hours prior to Vessel's rival, but carried of call to which the option ostends. on from port to port to the final port No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 24th Jan, 1938, will be subject to
FRENCH ECONOMIC
* POLICY
Mr. Chamberlin or any other for- as part of the practical experi- As soon as the drafting of the eign correspondent can unravel mental work on wire distribution tax programme has been completed the tangled skein of the Japanese [ of broadcast programmes with by the Ministry of Finance the pro- economic position. But he makes which the Post Office was charged jeet will be transferred for further the most valiant and intelligible in accordance with recommenda- study to a Taxation System Inquiry effort so far available. The drift tion of the Committee on Broad-Commission, and only after the toward a war-time, economy and easting, 1935. the resultant crisis in
approval of this commission will Japan's
In addition to the main public it be presented to the Diet.- present economic position is clearly service distributed by means of a Reuter sketched. The vicious circle, clearly special wire network, a limited ex- evident in Germany and Italy periment would be made in the also, of having to stifle domestic distribution of breadcast program- distress with nationalistic exalta- mes over the telephone wires. Sub- tlon, is shown in both the Man- scribers would have a choice of churian and the present Chinese crisis. What ultimate fallure to relieve the position of Industrial labouring classes and particularly the peasants may mean he does not venture to predict-though he thinks the short-run prospects all against revolution. It is a matter It was hoped to start work in that may be vital to the peace the laying down of equipment In of the United States. For foreign the next few months and to open adventures are most tempting to the service in part of Southamp
relieve political strain if they do not threaten revolution.-W.YE. in the "Christian Science Monitor."
£190,000 INCREASED RAILWAY REVENUE
London, Jan. 19. Trafic returns of the chief rail- ways of England for the first two weeks of this year show a total
several programmes, and he was in consultation with the B.B.C. con- cerning the arrangements for their selection.
The charge for the service would be is. 8d. a week, plus a small initial payment.
ton in the late summer or autumn, The total capital cost was eat!- inated at about £200,000.
increase of £190,000 compared with the same: period last year.
Part of the increase is accounted for by the five per cent, increase tn the passenger and freight fares
Reuter's Bulletin Service.
Paris, Jan. 19. The prediction made by political
Rent.
All broken, chated and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on 22nd Jan., 1938, at 10 abs, by our› Surveyors, Mesars, Goddard & Douglas.
Warehouse Regulations consignees must To comply with the General Banded
have a Revenue Officer in attendance when damsred dotiable goods are
All Claims must reach ne before the 17th Feb., 1988. or they will not be recognised.
circles in Paris and elsewhere that the Chautemps, Cabinet will show a mafked tendency to turn away - pramined. from Moscow, in order to seek closer association with London and. Washington, has found early con- frmation in certain pronounce- ments made by M. Georges Bonnet, whose position in the new Cabinet
is Minister for co-ordinating the economic and financial policies of the French Government.
No Insurance will be affected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
----JEBBEN & CO.,
Ageata
5803
Bong Kong, 17th Jan., 1988; ♬
No Insurance wil be effecten. Bill of Lading will be countersigned
JEBSEN & CO.,
A. Agents.
Hong Kong, 17th Jan, 1938.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
PENINSULAB AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION Co.'s STEAMER CARTHAGE."
ARRIVED HONG KONG ON 19TH JAN, 1938,
FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, GIBRAL- TAR, MARSEILLES, MALTA, PORTSAID, -ADEN, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.
bore named Vessel are hereby in MONSIGNEES of Cargo by the formed that their Goods are being landed... and placed AT THEIR AIRE in the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowas at Howloon where each Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and Delivery can be obtained the Goods are landed.
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Optional Goods will be landed here the contrary Six Hours before arrival of unless instructions have been given to the steamer 10 in the pers
Goode nos cleared within 8 days › inė cluding date of rival will be subject to rent,
will
No Fire Insurance be effected by as in any case whatever'
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's surveyors, Mesra, GODDARÐ à Dorolás, si 10 am. on Mondays and Thursdays, within the Free Storage period.
Consignees are specially notified that During his term of office as it is necessary for a Revenue Officer to- Speaking on Wednesday at a French Ambassador in Washington, be present at the examination of damaged banquest arranged by one. the Sald M. Bonnet, he had often dotiahés cargo, my lapt many Business clubs in Paris, M. received touching testimony of be presented to the Undersigned on or
All Cladne against the f Bonnet said that France was now the sympathy shown by the before 8th Feb., 1939, or they wil faced with a great necessity of American people for France. The not be recognized. reinforcing the political arid Minister would up his speech with
No Claims will be admitted after the economic basis of her partnership an appeal to all Frenchmen to Goods have left the Godown. with the two big democracies, rally to the support of the Chau-
MACKINNON MACKENZIE & Co., Great Britain and the United temps Government,
Agenin States of America,
Bong Kong, 19th Jan., 1938 Transocean New Service.
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