"HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
BANKS
BONGKONG & SHANGHAI THE CHARTERED BANK OF
BANKING CORPORATION
Authorised Capital....................... $50,000,000 Issued & Fully Paid-Up $20,000,000 Heserve Funds:
Sterling
INDIA, AUSTRALIA
11
AND CHINA Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1863. Paid-Up Capital £6,500,000 Reserve Fund H.K. Currency Reserve $10,000,000 Reserve Liability of
Proprietors....
$20,000,000
Head Office:-HONG KONG
·Board of Directors; A. L. Shields, Esq..
W. H.. Lock, Esq......
Hon. Mr. J. K. Bousdeld,
Chairman.
Deputy Chairman,
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
£3,000,000 £3,000,000
MONEY AND
EXCHANGE
CLOSING QUOTATIONS
SKPTEMBER 18. 1999 On London:-
Telegraphic Transfer. 1/9 13/16 Bank Billa, on demand?/2 13/16 “Credits 4 months' sight 1/5 3/8 .£3,000,000 | On Ahangbal:----
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 39, Bishopsgate E.C.2. Sub-Agencies In London: 117/192, Leadenhall Street, E.0.2 West End Branch; 14/18, Cockspur Street, S.W.1. Manchester, Branch: 62. Mosley Street, Manchester, 2.
AGENCIES AND BRANCHES;
On demand....kg. 340. In Singapore:→→
GENERAL
STATISTICS OF CHINA'S
NEW INDUSTRIES GIVEN
CHUNGKING, Sept. 18 (CI.C.)-Excluding those capitalized", be- low $20,000, 472 factories are operating in China's southwestern pro- vinces, according to a survey made by the “Commercial Dally News," a newspaper in Chungking. Of the number, 382 are in Szechwan, 49 in Yunnan and 41'in Kwelchow,
One hundred and thirty factories, or 325 per cent, are concerned with chemicals, while only seven deal in lumber. The following table shows the detailed Agures:
Number of factories in Szechwan Kwelchow Yunnan Total
Classification
P
Lumber
2
7
Transportation ...
12
22
On demand
..: 1/
Machinery and Metals
61
87.
On Japan:-
14
Tile and Glassware
9
15
On demand
15 1/2
Electricity.
25
31
*
On India:-
Chemical Industry
109
14
130
Telegraphic Transfer. and demand
89 248
Spinning and Weaving'
21
29
Leather Tanning
7
2
13
On New York:-
Tobacco
85
4
90
Paper mills and Printing
'51
62
Grand total
382
41
49
472
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1939 -PAGE 9
PAYNE &
& CO.
COMMODITY BROKERS STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
HONGKONG
A. H., Compton, Esq.,
Hon. Mr. B. H. :Dodwell,
D. F. Landale, Esq..
G. Miskin, Esq..
K. S. Morrison, Esq.,
Hon. Mr. I E. Pearce,
H. V. Wilkinson, Esq..
Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn,
ALUM STAR AMBITHAR BANGKOK BATAVIA BOMBAY CALCUTTA
HARBIN EONG TONG
PINANG LANGOON BALGON SEREMBAN SHANGHAI SINGAPORE
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CANTON
CAWNPORE CEBU
TUALA
LUMPUR ZUGHING
MADRAS
(Peking)
Chief Manager.
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Branches:
Amoy Ipoh'
Bangkok
Johore
Penang Rangoor.
COLOMBO THELI
MANILA
MEDAN
Batavia
Kobe
Saigon
Bombay
Kowloon
San
HAIPHONG HAMBURG
NEW YORK,
PRIPING
Calcutta
Kuala
"Francisco
Canton
Lumpur
Shanghai
Che/co
London
Singapore
Colombo
Lyona,
Sourabaya
Sungei
Patani Swatow Tientsin Tokyo
Dairen Malacca
Foochow Manila
Haiphong Muar
Hamburg (Jchore)
Bankow
Mukden
Harbin New York Hongkew Peiping Iloilo
Tsingtao Yokohama
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened in LOCAL CUBRENOr and Fixed Daycrits received for one year or shorter periods in Local and other Cur rencion terms which will be quoted on application.
on
HANKOW
SIMHAWAN DOU LABAYA TAIPING
Bank Bills, on demand 24 Credits, 60 days' sight 25 1/4 Un Batavia:---
On demand. 48 1/9 On Paris:-
Bank Bills, on demand 1080 Credits 4 months' sight 1140 On "Saigon ---
On demand
Un Manila:-
Or demand
TIENTSIN
NEW HOSPITAL
107
48
(Bhuket)
On Bangkok'—
On demand Sterling Notes:-
*150 1/4
เ
Bank. Buying Rate 3 1/4 Bar Bilver per o
22 1/8
TONOKAR
TRINGTAO TOKOHAMA
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General-
Banking Business transacted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for Onè Year or shorter periods in Local or Other Currencice at rates which will be quoted on application.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with interest allowed at rates obtainable on application.
The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor and Trustee business, and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at ALSO up to date SAFE DEPOSIT (any of the Agencies and Branches. Box in various sizes To LET
R. A. CAMIDGE,
Manager.
Hong Kong, 8th June, 1930.
HONGKONG SAVINGS
BANK
THE CHASE BANK
The Business of the above Bank 15, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL
is, conducted by the HONGKONG SHANGHAI BANKING COR- PORATION. Rules may be obtain-" ed on application.
For the HONGKONG & BRANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
VM. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager.
·Hong Kong, 5th Feb., 1839.
BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED
Authorised Capital.....10,000,000,00
Paid-Up Capital
Reserve and Undivided
Profits.....
5,609,600.00
2,883,832.01
Head Office:-HONG KONG
No. 10 Des Voeux Road, Central,
k.
Board of Directors:
Sir Shoeson Chow, Chairma
Li Koon Uhan, Esq. Ll Lan Sang, Esr
·P. K. Kwok, Esq.
Wong I'm Tong, Esq. Chan Ching bek, Leq.
Wong Chu Son, Esq.
Kan Ying T'o, Esq. Fung Ping Wab Esq.
Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chial Manager. Li The Foog. Eaq,, Manager.
Bafarin
Born bay
Caleatin
Haiphong
Harzge
Honolulu
Kobe
Branches and dyencing 200
Kowloon Pashk Ningapore Landos Rangoon
Manila
Melbourne San Fran Sagun
Bowralaya
Bwator
Brdney alece e
• New York · Seattle Vancouver
Bemarang Petplag Shangha
Paris
Every description of Banking and
HEAD OFFICE:
18, PINE STREET,
NEW YORK.
An American Bank offering com
plete Foreign Banking Service in the principal Markets of the world. Interest Rates on Application.
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SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
This Bank is entirely owned by THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK, New Foxx, with Basources of over U..$2,900,000,000,
D. M. BIGGAR,
Second Vice Pret.
MIGHTY MEN OF
NEW ZEALAND
Markel Report
were
FROM ROZA BROS.
Silver prices
unchanged over the week-end, the quotations remaining at 221/8 for. Ready and 21.15/16 for Forward. Ameri- can Silver was quoted at for Spot.
36.1/4
+
The London/New York cross-rate was quoted at 402. New York/ London was quoted at 388.
Market Extremely "dull"
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Sterling
There were sellers at 1/3 Sep- tember. 1/2.31/32 October and 1/2 15/16 November/January, buyers at 1/3.1/32 Cash, 1/3 November and probably 1/231/32 December.
U.S. Dollars
buyers at 24.1/4 for Cash, ́··
Shanghai Dolları Notes were quoted at 376.
Shanghal Market, Sterling was quoted around 4d. for Spot.
Afternoon Market Nothing doing.
Sterling
Infantile Paralysis Treatment
Sir Alexander Maclean has given £100,000 to the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples' Hospital for thei
British Motor Boats
TWO FOR BELGIAN
AIR MINISTRY
The Administration de la Marine
construction of # new seaside have ordered from Britain for the branch of the hospital at Sandy Belgian Air Ministry two 371t. Bin. Point, Hayling Island. Hants,
aircraft tenders of a make and Accompanied by Sir Henry pattern similar to those used by Gauvain, Medical Superintendent the Royal Air Force. of the Hospital, he recently visited: The boats will be fitted with America to study hydrotherapeutic British wireless telephony appara- treatment-under-water gymnastics tus and searchlight gear adapted -for infantile paralysis and other for their particular requirements crippling conditions. He WEA so by the designers"and builders of impressed with this method of the craft. the British Power Boat treatment that he determined that Company. Ltd., Hythe, Southamp- sufferers in this country should ton, and in addition they will, be have similar facilities, and the new fully bonded and screened for
KIRIN
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Choice of
The Multitude
H.
Tel. 20790.
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HONDA & CO.
40, Johnston Road. Hong Kong,
Marine Hospital, as it is to be call- radio reception and transmission. CONSIGNEES' NOTICES NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
ed. will be specially and fully A mounting for a machine-gun- equipped for the purpose.
FOR 120 PATIENTS
will be carried on the wheelhouse roofs. After trials in Southampton
During their visit Sir Alexander Water the craft will be required to Maclean and Sir Henry Gauvain proceed to Belgium by sea under had an interview with President their own power. The value of the Roosevelt, who is an enthusiastic contract is about '£8,000. Delivery, advocate of under-water gymnas-is expected in about eight weeks. Dimensions of the boats will be: ties.
FUEL TANK
MAERSK LINE
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
THE M.V.
THE
Bent
OURAN STRAM SHIP CO., LTD.
AND
CHINA MUTUAL STWA M NAVIGATION CO, LTD.
TONBIGNKES per Co's Vessel
TINDAREUS”
FROM SEATTLE, VANCOUVER
AND VICTORIA VIA JAPAN
** SOPHOCLES »
A small business was done at
it is proposed to build at Hayling-Length, 371t. 8in; beam, aft. sin.; having arrived from New York and. 24.1/4 for cash. There were sell-
Island a new hospital with draught, 2ft. Sia. Machinery com- Forts of call. Consignees of Cargo arears requested to take delivery of Flour ers at 243/18 September. small therapeutic pools and sea-water prises two Gray eight-135 marine hereby notified that their goods are and Lumber Shipments as soon as the baths designed on the latest engines complete with forward being landed and placed at their risk into vessel is ready to discharge and are scientific principles.
clutches, reverse gears, and electric the Hong Kong wid Kowloon Wharf & hereby notified that if their Lighters are Sir Henry Gauvain sald
"starting equipment. Speed-Full
Godown Company's godowns at Kow. not placed alongside the steamer sa required,' their Shipments will loon, where delivery may be obtained as "It is intended at first to take throttle, 3,200 r.p.m., 27 knots ap-
soon as the goods are landed.
be discharged into Holt's Wharf, children up to 16 years, but it is prox; service full throttle, 2,800
Optional cargo will not be landed Kowloon, where the cargo will be at hoped later to take people of any rpm, 24 knots approx.; eruising here, unless notice has been given 48 their risk and expense and subject to age from all parts of the country. throttle, 2,400 rpm, 32 knots ap- hours prior to vessel's arrival, but the Terms and Conditions of Storage
"As soon as plans are passed an prox.
carried on from port to port to the final at Holt's Wharf, Steamer will com-
which the option manca discharge on the 18th Sept. entirely new building, of special
port of call to extenda
General Cargo will be discharged into design, to accommodate at first 120 Other particulars are:-Fuel tank No Claims will be admitted after Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie patients, will be begun on what is One of 80 gallons capacity. Fuel the Goods have left the Godowns, and st Consignees risk and subject to the undoubtedly the nest site for a consumption-Pull throttles, 3.200 All Goods remaining delivered after Terms and Conditions of Storage at seaside hospital in this country. r.p.m.. 11 gallons approx. per hour the 2nd Sept., 1989, will be subject to Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for Delivery from the Godown on and ""It WES selected after an per engine; service full throttle.broken, chafed, and damaged Goods after 18th Sept examination of the whole of the 2,600 r.p.m., 8 gallons approx, per The market closed with sellers South Coast. The hospital will hour per engine; cruising throttle. they will be examined on 1st Sept., are to be left is the Godowns, where they are to be left in the Godowas, where All braken, chafed, and damaged Goods at 1/3 September. 1/231/32 Octo-face the sea, and will contain 2,400 r.p.m., 7 gallons approx, per 1989, at 10 m, by our Surveyors days hotwom the hours of 10:45 a
will be ansutined un sny Tusadays and ber and
many new ideas. It will house hour per engine. Cruising range Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. more up-to-date "appliances for Full throttle, approx, 27 knots, 90
To comply with the General Bonded and Noor within the Fras Storage perind. Warehouse Regulations consignees No Claims will be admitted after the the treatment of infantile paraly-sea miles. approx.; service full must bave Bevenne Officer in attend Goods have left the steamer Godown, de sis than can be found anywhere throttle, approx 24 knots, 120 sea ance when damaged dutiable goods are all General Cargo remaining undelivered else.
after the 25th Sept., will be subject to miles approx; cruising throttle. Í examined. AD TREATMENT IN POOts
All claims must reach us before the rant. approx. 22 knots, 128 ses miles "There will be pools in which approx.
tind Oct, 1939, or they will not be recognised. patients will do under-water gym- A control cabin containing` gear nastics as part of their cure, They levers, throttle levers, steering will be conveyed to the pools in wheel, engine instruments, elec- electric trolleys and lowered into trical switch gear, c., is situated them by special hydraulic cranes. right forward, opening hatches on Hong Kong, 15th Sept., 1989 Their submerged bodies will then both sides of this being fitted to be treated by specially trained at-allow access to deck. In the main tendants.
cabin are fitted detachablé střet- "After the under-water treat-cher berths, two on the permanent ment they will be given light, locker tops and two above these. radiant heat and massage treat- Over 8ft. headroom is provided ment and then returned to their throughout.. wards."
1/2.15/16 November/ January, buyers at 1/3.1/32 Cash, 1/3 November and 1/2.31/32 De- cember.
U.S. DollarS
done at
A letter from Mr. G. Grey Campbell, one
A small business was of the managers appointed by the New Zealand 24.3/16 for September. The mar Rugby League received in England ket closed with sellers at 24.1/8 says that at the very last moment September, buyers at 24.1/4 for owing to the state of his health he cash and 24.3/18 September. has been compelled to withdraw as co-manager" and has not ac- companied the team now en route for England.
He has, however, enclosed some
Shanghai Dellars
"Nominal.
7
Shangha; Market The last rate indicated sellers
Exchange business transacted. Loans interesting information regarding of Sterling at 41/32.
granted on approved, securities. the players, and states: "We are Current Accounts opened in Looal looking forward to a successful
Currency and Fixed Deposite retour, and I think a great deal will Shanghai Exchange ceived for one year or shorter depend on how the players ac- perioda in Local and Foreign Cur climatise rencies on terms which will be quoted on application.
SAFE DEPOSIT Boxes To Lar.
KAN TONG PO,
conditions."
two
Sterling
themselves to English
Chief Manager.
BANK OF CHINA®
Seventeen Auckland representa- tives, of whom 11 are blacks, five Maoris (two whose birthplaces are Island dependencies of New Zea- land), one Australian and English and one Scottish playar constitute the touring side.
Spot
0/4
sept. Oct.
Sellers" Opening Closing
0/4-5/61 0/4 0/4-5/64 0/3-15/18 0/4-1/84 U.S. DollarS
Spot
$6-7/18 $8-9/16
The pack is unusually heavy and averages 141st. per man,
The
Bep, Oct, Market: Steady
6-7/18 6-1/4
6-9/16 6-3/8
Sterling, 0/4
US Dollars, $8-7/16.
Silver Duty Rate
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BANK
ZAID-UP CAPITAL $40,000,000.00 (BRANCHES ALL OVER CHINA)
ORIGIN OF JOKES ABOUT SCOTS
Owing to our numerous Branches A Naat writer, Herr Will Vesper
in China and, connections in the claims to have discovered the principal Commercial Centres of origin of jokes about Scotsmen, the World, we are able to extend He makes the Jews responsible for to our Clients special facilities for them. Domestic and Foreign Banking and Exchange.
Head Office: SHANGHAI
Hong Kong Branch:
4, QUEEN'S, ROAD, C.
V South China Offices:
CANTON SWATOW!
Merchant Rate
Aft is a large, open, self-drain-
The present small hospital of 60 ing cockpit, on either side of beds on Hayling Island will be re- which, sightly abaft of amidships. tained in a slightly modified form. is installed the machinery.
Patients who are infectious will be detained there until fit to be taken Into the new hospital:
Sir
Alexander Maclean
WATERTIGHT.
The craft as a whole is divided four watertight compart- has into
made many gifts to hospitals, In-ments; all watertight to a reason-
No Insurance will be effected: Bills of Lading will be cantersigned by
JEESEN & CO.,
Agents.
All Claims against the Vessel - musi be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 4th Oct, 1988, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be affected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agurta.
(700 18th September, 1938.
New School
Planned In
For Girls Singapore
Suitable premises have been found in River Valley Road for Singapore's first Teochew Chinese girls" school, and arrangements are in full swing to open the institution at the beginning of next year.
Backed by the Gnes Ann Kongsi, jin the sense that they are controll- cluding £10,000 to the Royal Vic-able height above the water level, communal guild of the Teochews ed by representative groups of the toria and West Hants Hospital, so that if the craft is holed it can-bere, the school is assured of Chinese nere. Bournemouth, £5,000 for the can- not sink. Each of these water financial support. President of Beveral of the larger Chinese cer treatment centre at that has-tight compartments has a water- the guild is. Mr. Lee Wee, Nam of schools receive grants-in-ald from
fitted which | the Sze Hai Tong Bank, pital, £10,000 to the Hampstead tight self-baller
Government, and the standard of Hospital, and £5,000 to the Letch operates when the craft is under Plans for the school have, it is education imparted has been found worth Cottage Hospital. He also way at a speed of eight knots and understood, been approved both sufficiently satisfactory to justify
by the Municipality and the Directhese grants; financed the first laboratories: for over.
tor of Education.
the Empire Rheumatism Council at Bimilar craft were originally de- St. John's Wood, where he main-signed and constructed to meet the The Central Bank of China'stains three research specialists, requirements of the British Air rate on London at 10 am to-day and gave the hall to the Eventide Ministry to bend aircraft at their was 1/2-1/2d.
Homes, Castle-lane, Bournemouth various bases in all parts of the
He has given much assistance to World.
Extreme geaworthiness to allow the Queen Mary's Institute of Dis- trict Nursing, on the council of the boat to run whenever marine which Lady Maclean serves fying was possible has been ob-
tained...
The Equalisation rate was 18-3/4 per cent.
national force in the British
"Our papers brim over with the most "silly-Jokes about the Scots,” he writes in an article in the
Neue Literatur" reprinted by the Isles. "Stuermer," Herr Július Strelcher's anti-sematic weekly.
The Shenai Reclamation Com
..
Accommodation will be pro- vided in the school for ̄ ̄ ̄ 200′′ Teochew giris, whose educs-- tional Instruction will be up to the pre-middle school stage
· a course of six years or so,
LONG NEGLECTED ART OF TORTURE
The long-neglected art of tortare experiences a brief renaissance Edward Small's production of “Th
The school will be housed in Man in the Iron Mask" premises Nos. 277 and 279-River When this picture, Valley Road, where structural al-Louis Hayward and Joszt Berm terations will be carried ant is released abortly, and mission has marked out a large A group of ten Japanese war "Reason enough for the Jews in tract of wasteland measuring prisoners, including
shortly.
have a chance to see 涵 geisha,
was extracted England and those who have been 1,200.000 mow in northern Shemsi passed through Shinkwan under Other sections of the Chinese
seventeenth century infected by the Jews to hate and capable of accommodating more armed escort a few days ago. community have
their own EBONNERIEN ridicule them.
than 70,000 refugees to do re- They were captured at Hangchow. schools, probably the largest Among the "Reason enough for our papers clamation work, The land com- Soochow, Tatung, and other places | number belonging to the Canton pearing in the not to further the Jewish canse by prises areas in Kwanghsien, Ichun in the eastern war zone and had ese Though communal schools, the Iron publishing these ans Jokes, Tungkwan and Tachsler in Bhan- been interned at Shangyao, admission into them is by no Wheel, and "They alone are capable of n, especially as again and again one, and Chenning in Kanmi. Both Kiangel, for some time. They were means confined to any particular, construct SHOU J, CHEN, Britian racial development they meets Bootsmen who and the weather and soil there are being transferred to an undisclosed section of the Chinese, and most of pain with.
favourable for agricultu
place in the interior.
of these schools are communal only effort
These Bootch Jokes originate in the London Jewish press,
KONGMOON TOISHAN SHIUCHOW KINGCHOW
We also handle the fane of Bonds And other Public Funds of the Chimes Government both at Home tribe and Abroad.
The Scots are the healthiest. decent and most Germanic of the British Tales.
Monager are the last remaining healthy esteem Germany