CABLE
DELAYS.
THE HONGKONG
reason that ordinary business codes are estimated to save quita 30 par cent of wordage. Thus
KINJURY TO COMMERCE. 30 per cent was added to the
A correspondent writes in the Anly Telegraph of June 9 as
Bows -
volume of transit, at an increased cost to the sender, aggravated by the sender being required to
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every attach message, and to pay for it. The For many months the delays in writer is awars of a single firm cable communciations of the which has incurred an outlay of Empire have been a serious gries- £2,000 since August 1914, through Dos and a cause of financial loss, the simple addition of its name pecially to men engaged in as the sender. Though we are ommerce. Under formal condi-no lonor at war, this costly detail Jors it was customary to reckon still prevails. It is safe to assume pon fully-paid unessages occupy that when the bampering condi- cors rship AJD ng no more than two or three tions of cable hours in transit between London abolished the traffic "will be And the Far East or Australasia. reduced by over 30 per cent.
there have been occasions when DETERIORATION AND SHORTAGE brief massages were flashed from
Apart from the difficulties that this country to Adelaide under fre minutes, but, as a rule, half-have been created by the Govern
mert's overwhelming weight of
and
very
loss
safety of speed.
Immediately
they stopped. in order to raise and splice broken cable, they
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-hour for short messages was messages, and by the censorship. TO RENT-No. 2 Queens Considered good work. From another contributory cause to
Road top floor, nicely furn arions causes, it now requires present delays may be found in fished bed rooms with large veran- ten days to carry business the deterioration of the cables. dahs. Will let as offices.
Apply cablegrams, where less than The enemy submarines virtually office Carlton Hotel. tan hours sufficed before the war prevental all renewal work dür- There were instances recently ing the period of the war. Repair- where Australian messages oca
ing ships which must, necessarily cupied twelve days in transmit-do their work at a standstill. sion, and a longer time to reac could not avail themselves of the
me of the large cities in the rar East. These experiences are ex- ceedingly disconcerting, and are seriously interfering with com- became a target for enemy correspondent of mercial enterprise. Prior to the submarire. The Mediterranean | Telegraph) is publishing in Berlin war much of this country's busi-and the Atlantic, from England some extracts from the confiden- ness with India was carried on to the Equator, were infested by tial correspondence of the "Bond by cable. The daily, almost under va pirates, and the of German Men and Women, for hourly, fluctuations of market British Covernment had such an the Protection of the Personal prices and rates of exchange were insuffici n supply of gunboats to Liberty and Life of Wilhelm the watched with close eagerness by stand by he repairing ships Second." One such extract runs = British merchants and manu- that pro. 02 for the much We must resume propaganda
acturers. Under existing circum- harried
ships was in-with all our forces. I have sant stances market operations are complete.rom this cause an 20,000 marks to a division chap- almost paralysed. The men of Lancashire are suffering in this average of two cables were almost lain living near Essen who h
completely and continuously out excellent connections in Holland respect very acutely. They are of use during the greater part of for him to influence the Dutch in competition with Japan "in the war. The companies were Press." It is curious to note this many branches of manufacture, also greatly hampered during the reversion to the tactics often and Japan has по Serious
war because of the insufficiency practised during the war, when hindrances in cable communica- of stock cables to do repair work, money was supposed to be used tion with India. It follows wherever the lines could have for such purposes, but then, as that British manufacturers are been safely fished up. To-day now, never went further than the seriously handicapped in one of several thousand miles of cable pockets of the excellent connec- the world's greatest markets: are wanted for renewal work tions." The Kaiser has so oken and, judging by the outery on alone. The existing orders and been unformate in his friends. the Manchester Exchange, we the laying of an entirely new Only a couple of weeks ago it must expect to see market signs rable to Gibraltar and along the happened in a village in Bran- of a diminished output for India.
Mediterranean with a possible denburg that a man of aristocratic The Cape and Australian merch extension to Singapore, will appearance, in an automobile, ants are also experiencing trouble absorb every yard of cable that called on farmers, telling them a
considerable through lack of information by can be made for months to come. pathetic story of how the Hol- It has been exceedingly un-landers were starving the poor fortunate that for over three Kaiser. The farmers brought Mail communications aro
noaths a succession of storms large supplies of butter, eggs, &c, likewise delayed. No one knows where deep sea repairs were in and the aristocrat thanked them, when overseas letters will be progress the occurrence of earth was moved to tears, departed, it delivered. Duplicates of business indents frequently arrive before uakes, and the brittleness of was supposed, to Holland, where, some of the old cables, which of course, he never arrived. The the originals; and it is not often broke away when they supposed influencing of the Dutch uncommon to have two mails were dragged to the surface. con Press is therefore not to be delivered by the same Moreover, maile to Australia and at a moment when the Govern-of the above-quoted extract is Posttributed to delay transmission regarded seriously. The writer the outer Empire take a fortnightment and the general public shown by further quotations to or three weeks longer in transit desired increased facilities of need large sums of money for then during pre-war days. Out oversea communication. The Eas-printing and advertisements, and going mails are placed on almost tern and its associated companies advises the Bond not only to send any outgoing ship that is available, have a dozen repairing ships at official protests to President to get the letter-bags out of the work endeavouring to overtake Ebert, but also to pay for tele. war. These vessels take in cargo the results of four years' enforced grams from "private persops." and homeward-bound soldiers at neglect. As above hinted, a new this or that seaport several days after the London post has closed for the ship, which is thus hang ing about Portsmouth. Plymouth, or elsewhere. The Post Office speedy transmission. It has been July to November, 1914, to con-. Tapestry covered drawing room notify a ship's sailings but a few tried as far as Singapore, but the tain the absolute truth, and suite, easy chairs, blackwood fire hours before the mail bags are day is not far off when it will to condemn utterly German screen, teapoys & flowerstands. closed, and the merchant has be extended to Adelaide. Direct policy condemnation of quite card tables, extension dining table little opportunity to handle his working between that city anda, different character to what & chairs, sideboard. dinner correspondence with the com- Londor will minimise repetitions friend or enemy supposes." New waggon, single & double brass pleteness which becomes a man and corrections which to-day it is suddenly announced that mounted iron bedsteads, teak of business. Thus, the mail
cause a substantial proportion of the book will not appear, but no dressing table & washstand, service affords no relief to the delay in trasmission.
reason is given. It is known that carpets. electric ceiling fans etc. shortcomings of the cable lines.
It is no secret that, owing to Moltke died an embittered and etc. the GOVERNMENT WORDAGE.
of Government disappointed pressure
and man,
dis- It is not difficult to understand messages, the incapacity of closures from that quarter have the causes of our cable troubles. cables to work up to their full long been expected. It is said that Take the case of the Eastern quota, by reason of deterioration, after the first battle of the Marne. Company and its associated lives and a distressing shortage of Moltke predicted the course of Owing to
or y were operators, a large volume of the the war. and the Kaiser tore up burdened last year with an Eastern messages for Australasia the memorandum in a rage. increase of Government traffic have been thrown upon the equal to 1,700 per cent. compared Pacific route. The Pacific has
cable.
WAL
N. J. STABB.
Chief Manager. Hongkong. 24th July, 1919.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS...
THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on WEDNESDAY, the 30th July 1919.
commencing at 2.30 p.m. at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street
.:
Another curious revelation is cable is to be laid to and beyond made in the case of the memoirs A Quantity of Valuable House- Gibraltar. It is also intended to of General von Moltke. which
hold Furniture develop new automatic apparatus were announced to appear. They to secure accurate and
comprising: more were to comprise the period from
And the Great Northern been
to
also
Two Large Steel Safes.
On view from Tuesday the 29th inst.
Catalogue will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery.
Geo: P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
.
instructions to sell by Pub
THURSDAY, the 31st July, 1919 commencing at 2.30 p.ní.. "at No. 12 Chatham Road, Kowloon
hold Furniturė
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with 1913. The Indo-European been overloaded with messages, fewer. But no one expects that lines, which passed through Gor-Government and public, to such future trade and future Imperial many, and which once carried a degree at cablegrams to interests will be restricted to approximately 50 per cent. of Australia av been taking ten old-time lines. Whatever may Indian work, were totally inter-or more s in transmis be the developments of the rupted from the beginning of the sion. Th: stern lines have wireless system of communica-THE-Undersigned has received
ov: whelmed with tion, the necessity for more Company, whose lines passed Government ork to and from cables is imperative. The Eastern lic Auction on through Russia, has carried India and at en route stations, Company is endeavouring practically nothing for the Far especially since the troubles arose make good some of the deficien- East since the early autumn of in Afghanistan. They have also cies in its particular field of the 1914: Nearly all the increased war been required to carry a heavy world's work, but it is also im wardage is attributable to the over-volume of messages to the Far portant that attention should be whelming volume of Government East, where they are the only paid to the needs of the Western work. Where, before the war, means of communication, It hemisphere. The "All-red route" the Government message num-thus became necessary for the has yet to be completed. It may be A Quantity of Valuable House- bered 2,000 words daily, they Eastern service to refuse all fall thus briefly described as another have mounted up to 50,000. rate messages to Australia. As British cable across the Atlantic,
comprising:- cable Government Traffic from and to Great Britain a result that continent and Newa
instead of the wire Teak extension dining table & has increased by 200 per cent., Zealand bave been dependent Canada
bired from and the intermediate traffic, in upon the single wire which lies that is
achairs, Teak sideboard & dinner Teak overmentels, Egypt, the Mediterranean, and five miles deep in the Pacific. private company (the Canadian waggon," so forth, has more than doubled. Users of this route well know Pacific Railway), and the laying mirrors, tea tables, teapoys, car The lavish wording of Govern-that sometimes there has been a of a second cable from Vancouver pets, teak bedsteads, teak ward- ment messages has added to the week's accumulation of messages. across the Pacific. The merchant robes with bevelled mirrors, teak burden. No merchant. who
class and the newspaper people of dressing tables, chests of drawers THE ALL-RED ROUTE. estred to escape bankruptcy
Such a record of disastrous Australia and Canada, have long etc. etc. would use such expansive
On View from Wednesday, wonlage as one may read in the experience by the Eastern route demanded the completion of this and the Western/route to the Far All-red route." Resolutions in itas published Government messages sent through the cables. An East, Australia, and the Cape favour have been passed at Press the 30th inst.
shows clearly that the cable Conferences, at meetings of the of trouble found in the abolition services are falling short of the Empire Press Union, and at many There may meetings of the merchant classes, of and the reject has received the All private cable codes, an ad- public requirements.
very public man who
the subject
(pater canse
can
ly necessary precaution in be some reli This prohibition in-peace-srriv mcreased carriage on the
now
across
Catalogue will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery
Geo. P. LAMMERT, Auctionear
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