THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1915.
BROSSARD, MOPIN & CO.
Telegraphic Address—“BROSSARD
Telephone-2566.
CIVIL ENGINEERS,
King's Building, HONGKONG.
Codes.-A.B.C., 5th, A.Z. Francais,
Omnibus and Private.
Agencies :-SAIGON, SINGAPORE, PEKIN and TIENTŠIN.
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REINFORCED CONCRETE WORKS: Road and Railway Bridges. Boods, Wharres, Weirs, Retaining Walls, Dams, Industrial Buildings, Towers, Tanks, Godowns. Frameworks, Cal" verts, Vaults, Floors, Rools, Piles hollow and full, all lengths and sizes, Soles and Foundation plat- forms, Chimneys, Poles for support, ing Telegraph and Telephone lines and carrying Electric Light and Power.
COMMISSION, IMPORT & EXPORT Industrial materials for railways. factories, mines, iron, steel, pipes. steel angle bars,
joists, iron
sheets, motors and Fichet's fire:
proof safes.
REINFORCED CONCRETE IS ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF AND OFFERS SUBSTANTIAL RESISTANCE TO EARTHQUAKE SHOCK.
SAIGON CENTRAL MARKET
MARINE CONSTRUCTION: Lighters (river and sea) up to 1,000 tons. Hulks, Ferry Boats in steel and reinforced concrete.
Sea going ships in reinforced con- crete. Steamers and Sailing vessels up to any tonnage.
IRON WORK:
Frame work, machine tools, boilers, and industrial installations.
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORKS:
Private and Public Buildings, Fae- tories, Godowns Tunnels, Found-" ations in bad ground, by com- pressed air. Walls, Drains, Sewers, Churches, Hotels and Hospitals.
M. M. Brossard, Mopin and Co., shall be pleased to study all technical andļindustrial questions and are prepared to supply specifications and plans on every kind of metallic or reinforced concrete construction which may be required. Address as above or to their agents Wm. C. JACK & Co., Ltd., 14, Des Voeux Road, Central.
Reinforced Concrete SPECIALISTS.
COMMERCIAL NEWS."
Promotion of Japan's Trade and ladustry.
based upon the idea that the authorities at Washington were looking only upon the record of war-steel shipments during the preceding three months, and not The Japanese Howe Depart sking euficient account of the ment has decided to establish greatly increased rate at which Extraordinary Industrial Investi- the mills would be able to ship gation Committees in the Prefecin fature. Two months have tores where trade and industry bave shown the greatest develop ment since the outbreak of war, The Prefectares selected are Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Kanagawa, Aichi, Hyogo, and Fakaoks. The regulations for there Committees are now being considered by the Legislative Baresa and
THE SIGNALLER.
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of being, in a sense, wireless. A good deal of wire is used, but not (as in the case of the telephone) from one instrument to another Present Day Communication scrose the heavily-shelled ground
ia War.
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passed, and the War Industries follows:-
A signaller weare two orosted Board showe no signs of relaxing its grip on the steel supply, not has any evidence appeared that flage on bin left arm; as a "flag" there are anomfortable aconma-wagger" he is known.
But this does not mean that lations of steel in any of the war sotivities. It is not true that sil
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How to Fix Textile Prices.
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EXCHANGE
SELLING.
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in between. If I say any more I eball find myself neing difficult/T words again, so perhaps I had Demand
Let us get on to
60 d/8............... 3/4/4 Lieut. A. A. Milne writes as better leave it.
37436 something more human.
Messenger Dogs, there is nothing / Shanghai.... Nom. technical about them. They iske T Singapore ... 143
14816 Nom. the place of runners, being very IT Japan.... much more speedy and very much! IT Ladis ... lces of a target than a man. But Demand, India...... Nom. they are there solely on business. T/T San Francis-1 7914
oo & New York) Only the keeper is allowed to feed or even to pat, one of these dogs, Jaya 1513⁄41⁄4
T/T Franca their exercise sad supervision. Demand, Paris...... and strict rules are laid down for Marke........... Nom. They have accomplished some
BUYING, wonderfully good work.
it
B&W,
communication are
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INTEREST ON FIXED
DEPOJITS:
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For 6 Months 4% per annum.
For 12 Months iì% per annu
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Chief MansgII,
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE. Subscribed Capital... France 45,000,000, $9,500,000. Paid up
(5 of the Capital, is. Frarca 15,000,000 subscribed by the Government of the Chinese Republic.)
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DEAK TRAMWAY CO. LIMITED.
TIME TABLE.
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predictions have gone wrong, for communication in the field is are there was such a variety of carried on simply by waving a expected to be issued shortly. predictions that same were eure flag. Nor, as others think, is The object is to make investiga. to hit the mark, but it is strictly merely a matter of talking down tions with a view to derising true that expectations entertained
Carrier Pigeone, as is pretty! means for the further promotion in many high quarters, s to what telephone. On the contrary, of trade and industry. It is would be the teel situation at the signalling in this war has become
matter generally known now, are in
4 m/s. LIC... elaborate very A
4 m/s. D/P. estimated the surual expenditure end of eprieg, have proved
indeed. A signaller must bave se common nee. They are laet
Bale very
resource. 6 mie. LIC.... inourred will not be more then radically erroneous,
many strings as possible to his Obrionely if the country in rear Y60,000.
Melbourne...*** Shanghai Coal Market.
A commercial writer in the New bow, if he is to maintain com-of an advanced position is so Msegre, Wheelock & Co,'s fort-
isco &NewYorkĺ nightly coal market report issued York Times raye bile the markete munication under all sorts of con-beavily shelled that only a pig 30 d/s. San Franc
4 m/s. Marka that there is co means cf.replac Jaly 18 thus summarizes the posi- of cotton and woollen fabrica are ditions; and since this war is eon can get through, it followe
mle. Franos **** tion:-Japan Coal-Basinees in alittle disturbed over the prospects many kinde of-wer, some ing the pigeon once it bas this market has been exceedingly of price fixing for their producte, some old, eo it follows thai many. A battalion eignalling & mis, France... 4.75
going into action Demand, Germany.. duil and there is again no change there does not seem to be any means of
Demand, New York, 794 carry Beveral to report for the past fortnight. haste indicated by the actions of employed, some new, some old. section
T/T Bombay There are indications that the one newly appointed Textile It may be of interest to mention will probably
From this it is one or two of the newer methods. pigeons. However bad things Demand, Bombay... Nom.
are, the battalion can get a cerT/T Calcutta Allies are contemplating sending Administrator.
The Fallerphone is an adaptain number of messages back, Demand, Calcutta... Nom." troops to Siberis and if such inferred that no plan has as ye should prove to be the case it been matured, even if it has been ation of the field telephone. nad that is sometimes a comfort Demand, Manila
Demand, Singapore. 143 Speech or "buzzing" on the would certainly have the effect of considered. It seems to be reBRIN-
ing thought.
134% still farther increasing freights ably certain, however, that what telephone oan be picked up by Daylight Lampa are need more On Haiphong. 30 that it is not likely that there ever is ultimately determined on the enemy; "brazing" on the freely than the laymen would On Saigon.......... will be any decline in coal prices must be applicable no less to fallerphone is secret and enfe. It
Sovereign brightest day to eignal with one in the near future. Fashon Coal: prices which civilians must pay is named after the Captain Fallar expect. It is possible on the On Bangkok........ 46 -No change. Kaiping Coal: than to those payable by the Gow who invented it; an explanation of these lamps to a station a mile Gold Leaf, per oz.... 44.40
Bar Silver, per oz... 48 13/16 number of
The station signalling: Owing to the dull state of the jernment. Any great discrepancy of it involves a
SUBSIDIARY COINS. market, stocks are somewhat between the two sets of prices difficult words like "alternating with its back to the enemy cannot
"choke-voile" and corrents" beavier than asasl, bat a. the will be bitterly resented. In cases
of course. "be seen (eupposing] difficulty of secaring tonnage is where the Government has hither condensere," with which I need is under cover); and the rear now more scale, the possibility to cut down the asking prices of of increasing stocks in. the ceartextile manufacturers there has not trouble you; and in normal station, by signalling through 8| fature is improbable, and the pro been no pretence that the latter lines can be laid and maintained, tabe aligned on the front station lamp that it is quite invisible to spects of cheaper ocal still farther were not enabled to make a very it has superseded the old feld can so restrict the rays of the 'kong 50 cte. sub. remote, Toral coal arrivals in estisfactory profit. Those who telephone.
an enemy further c Shanghai daring the fortnight have bought for civilian asce have
Wireless Telegraphy bae the Message-carrying Rockets are Canton from all sources were 92,385 tons bsen forced to give the mills on compared with 36,505 tone for inordinate profit. To curb the pro obvious advantage indicated by a simple and useful way of throw fitearing, vations plans have been the word "wireless". You may ing a message across the zone of the previoge, two weeks. Steel Predictions Gone Wrong. suggested. One of them, which have eeen the 400 ft, aerisla of a fire into the comparative safety
Pitte bargh, June 10-It was bes attracted much attention, was big wireless regeiving etation, and beyond. Every rocket baa & either rends it back by wireless, The above are some of the less sbont April 1 that the War In-put forward by Mr. Malcolm D. told yourself that they wouldn' certain known range, and a fies back and drops it. dustries Board began calling for WHRman, Vice President of last very long near the front line. receiving-groood, for messager greatly izcressed shipments of William & Co. His idea was that, They wouldn't of course. But from the objective which is being well known methods of signalling Aeroplanes are, cften the caren, čepends on the cir steel to the various war zotivities, instead of firing sales prices, there are such things as portable attacked, is arranged beforehand now employed. Their volue, of It is illeminating to recall that at excess profits should be limited reach wireless rets, which can be
by taxstion. Thie, be insisted, carried about and run up in teo mediom of communication be cametence of the moment. When ed in a biab quarter that about would destroy the incentive to miculte Their serials are not tween attacking troops and head one way faile acolher most he qasrters in the teer. When it is ried. It is for the signalling six weeks of the intensive ship overcharge. If the Governmen: 400 ft. high.
The Bower Buzzer is difficuli mpossible to signal backward- ficar to understand them all ping of war material then con fixed prices on what it required, templated would cause the War he contended, the manufacturer to describe without being techni by lamp without exposing one.thoroughly, and to decide in any Industries Board to reverse its would even ap by charging morcal. It has the disadvantage of self, if may be possible to eignal situation. bow best to keep his attitude and release much steel to civilian purchasers rather than the Telephone-buzzer in that it upwards from the bottom of unit in touch with other units, for the ordinary commercial be spurred ap greater osn be picked up by the enemy trench in perfect safety. The and to preservé inter-communica
but it has the advantage, airman reads it, writes it ant, and ition in the field. consumer. That prediction was efficiency.
that time sa pinion was express
to
trench warfare, where telephone
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Hongkong-N. J, Staði, Mars,
MANAGER
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