COMMERCIAL NEWS:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, PTEMBER
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
1919.
UNREST IN EUROPE.
HONGKONG STORM SIGNAL CODE." (LOBAL).
Introduced on Ist JULY 1917,
AIRBAL SYMBUIL.
.1.
DAY SIGNALS.
MEANING.
THE SHANGAI MARKETS. Shanghai, August 23-Piece Goods Reports all show à featureless market during the
(RED) {A typhoon exists which within 24 hours a week. trade all round being
Hongkong
Gale expected from the North (N.W. to N.F)
South (S.E, to Sw) .
East (NE to `SE)
West (N.W: to SW)
Gals expected to increase.
Wind of typhoon force expected (any ŝirection.)
Kanal Salu in latent on 1A WENGE (AMSARY BY Must watch for the must seat, Wharton Shest sõver a black wanki has been duplayed it wil man that, on socant of a chatut in the track af the typhono, or für some other reason, a gate la no longer expected from the direction indicated by the Just signal, and that another black signa) MAT PORRBIT de Adistal laser,
Sun No. 7 will be accompanied by three explosive banda, died at intervals of 10 seconds at the Pater Pole's Btation and reposted at the Harbour Offer.
The signals will be lowered when it is considered that aŭ danster in orBY.
stagusat. Conditions generally in the Yangtze valley, especially considering the favourable export trade of the past few months, suggest a brisk demand to be met sooner or latter, as may be sɛen from the fact that up country buyers are occasionally testing prices with offers at severely cut rates, no doubt with a view tol purchases when they are satisfied, that the lowest prices have been reached. Attendance Bt the
The Day Sisters will be displayed at the masthead of the sortu tiene meat on Rackbead flat auctions have been small. Owing Barbour Offos. HK Timer. Green and asal mast. the dad on the premto forced sales by some of the
Kanekong and Igwigen Wühurt and Godown Company at Xawinan, the fagstaff on the ponencies States) Dil Compass si Lai-chi-kok, and the flagstafavar the Field Officer'a Quarternal Lyunun,
L
WHITE
2.
HITE GREEN
NIGHT SIGNALS.' (Lamps.)
3.
4.
GREEN
WHITE WHITE
b.
GREEN WHITE GREEN WHITE
6.
The Nighs tirgusio mz bedasiared, as monnet, on the tower at the Hartway Stalma, on Ha Famar, and in the Hh*t. Once Shehat. They will know the macam kerfesten suchering menata,
Bagi So. 2 má na a poupaded by vaj fonte domada sa xlove, un tân vront of the tutoraation sem reynd Xy thin signa, beza Kret_published at sig bl.
SUPPLEMENTARY WARNINGS."
When los! signals are d'splayed in the Harbour « CONE will be azhibited at the fullowing wistlose —
GAP ROCK
WAGLAN
STANLEY
ABERDEEN
well the fans to native muft and peasing areas resmia
SAU KI WAN SAI KUNG
SHA TAU KOK TAI PO
Further details can alwam begiran to ocean memais, on demand, by signal from lighthous
HONGKONG STORM SIGNAL CODE:
Introduced on 1st JULY, 1917.
(NON-LOCAL).
The Signals are made by manne af men symbols representing the tên nam stala sa
1-LT+AV
3.
4.
ness.
smaller dealers, merchants are dictating their own prices and have obtained marked conces- sions, principally in whites and OREEN RED GREEN GREEN shirtings. Hankow buyers were WHITE GREEN GREEN AND
about to book staples and blacks but in consequence of easier con- ditions have confined their orders! to immediate needs onty. Stecks continue to accumulate in Tien- tsin, and there is not much pro- spect of any inquiry from that quarter in the immediate future. There has been little de- mand from the North generally. and the same may be said of Sze- chuan. Demand from river ports was about average. Wollens have attracted some attention for shipment early next year. On the whole tightness of money may be said to have been the chief factor in the general slack- Jardine's report a very quiet market, due to a great extent to the shortage of money.
Venetians about the same as last Italians were a little firmer, and
week, though the average was slightly lower. Greys were easier, and also Whites with the excep tion of one or two qualities for Korea, which were up. There was a fair demand for Fancies, and Prints also were in good de-
good. mand. Clearances were fairly At Prober's auction on Tuesday, 183 packages were disposed of, as against-140-a-week- ago. There was very little life about the auction. bidding being tar from brisk. Fancies and Blacks were steady and Whites rather weaker. Clearance were about up to sales. Quantities at Maitland's auction on Thur- day were about the
7.
8,
9.
0.
They are displayed as the yard arms at the Storia Signal mast on Blackhead Hill, and remain satil an order to change or lower » received from the Observatory.
The following informatius a
Trakons and Costianata
Depression Signals
Gale Sisaslı
5: Duretion of ma and keity of centre, ad the tar, by 3 týmbols
(a) Position of centre; by 4 aytibols at una varÉ armı.
air of her yard arm (Tables 1, 2 and 3)
The region rated, the direction from which the, esim in metected.
and the time; beyshots as she yard art (Tabies 3 kaŭ e
EXPLANATION OF THE SIGNALS.
The two der eignata si groep (a) inderate the latitude, and the two lower aya beistis ongitude of the centre the Taskuma or Dansen in degrees, 29 Danty as can be prometniced from the informa- „tics Railable. Only the lace and uzite of the lingurile are given: pants indicates Timextude 109 E.
The upper symbol of groep (d) indrates the direction in when the Typhoon or Densessing Merolling, (Table 1)
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The dumbok at group (Indicates tüm velneity at which the centre of the Typhoon is waving. Alarmatively it may indicate certain tubditions, de a Coasites al Depression." In wich w solut is given.
The low by wnch of us the indicates the line at which there was in the position said The drper aya ) of group (e) indicate the region threatened: the middle symbol tas diretion traps which the gala is expertec. and the lowest #yiabol the time at wara pale conditions were feat Indicated.
TYPHOON SIGNAL
CONTINENTAL DEPRESSION SIGNAL.
Langit da
Latitude
เกมเกมหล
Candţion
Conditions até a m. yesterday tadicatat a N.
gain in the Formosa L'hannaḥ,
Time
direction
Time
TYPHOON SIGNAL.
CALE SIGNAL
CAUTION: Under the most favesmåle sircumstanser the position signal ikdiesta only Ba dagres of falituis sad longitude sourast to tha saitmatud position of the coatre, Whakiki mentre in far from May reporting station, at when telepaskic reserts are lacking, the posities nişandled may be si bych se 2o la serat, beth in, latitude, and longitude, nad fha valocity and Proctins al medios will then be in aerne by carréasending amonatu
El should be particularly noted that the velocity signalled in«ike waan for the aretions, Sec 24 Sotra."
Table No. 1.-Direction Signals.
UFFER SYMBOL OF HOIST...
Thoas indienis the direction in which a 179hoes or daztension in travelling, or the direction from which a thonsoon gale in expected.
2. 3.
6.
6.
1-1T+AV
J.J.L
8. 9.
0.
K. 2.or.SE WAW... W.. W.K.W. *.*. 3,8.7. ·Vökauwa
Table No. 2.-Velocity and Condition Signals.-
MIEDLE SYMBOL OF HOIST.
·YELOCITY.
CONDITION.
2, 3.
42
5. B
7,
8,
8,
0,
1-1T+AV
above Kosely "Valocity
2150 30.1?, Stationary Unknown
Table No. 3.-Time Signals.
LOWEST SYMBOL OF HOIST.
m.p..
Šator Yesterday.
2 p.m. Testerday.
8.
6&m Todern
Forming
Filing Cenrantal
same
as at the previous week's sale but the marker was very poor. Black Italians and Venetians were lower. Greg Shirtings four mace and Whites five mace low.
ет.
Orders were few.. The num ber of packages disposed of was 265, about the same quantity as as last week, and clearances were fair. Cotton:-New York quotations dated the 20th instant for American futures are:--Oct.. 30.23 cents. January 30.45 cents, March 30.35 cents; with the mar- ket easier. These quotations are 50-100 points lower than those of last week. A telegram received from Liverpool by Messrs. Tata and Co. reads:The favourable crop report at present is the only bull factor, the financial outlook being very unsatisfactory." Liverpool market quotations, dated the 18th instant. are:-
Pence.
Egrytan Fully Good Fair
Sakellaridis
29.50
M. G. Fine. Scinde and
Bengal
14.85
Good Middling American
Spot.
18.29
Good Middling American
Sept.
18.71
18.85
Good Middling American
ww
Oct. Market Steady.
A feature of the week (Messrs. Ilbert report) has been the steady downward tend with occasional daily reaction in cotton quota- tions in Liverpool and New York with new crop prices quoted ap- preciably higher than the old crop, which tends to bear out recent unfavourable reports of the new season's prospects. Un- fortunately, as far as fresh business from Shanghai is con- cerned. Prices in Lancashire ap- pear to be little affected by move- ments is cotton, being at the moment more sensitive to local conditions such as labour unrest and the increased cost of coal and materials generally. Cotton up Depression during the past week has been practically dead as far as actual demand for the raw material is concerned. Notwithstanding, the enormous profit-taking which. was constantly indulged in by those who had been engaged in the short side, the market showed very little resisting power and no rally of consequence has been er- perienced so far, according to Rosenfeld's Weekly Cotton Market Report. As to the orop outlook, evidence is accumulat...“ ing that the favourable weather which is prevailing practically. throughout -the -Belt-bas "been instrument'in in bringing/shont. la marked improvement in its
#Tordas.
· Regions Threatened by Monsoon Bales.
8
Q.
London, Aur.
very
“It is authoritatively reported that fighting has broken out and the Montenegro situation is extremely serious, the whole country revolting. Serbians are endeavouring to repress the rising by strong measures bur not successfully. The Montenegrins cut the railway between. Firbazar and Antivari both whereof are seriously endanger- ed. The Serbian policy appears to be inflating the Mon- "tenegrin ustionat feeling and increasing the already bitter
anti-Serbian bate.
··
Notwithstanding optimistic German reports the situa tion in Silesia has apparently improved but little. The whole of the south-eastern corner is at present in a state of armed revolt, The Polish Government is acting with much forbearance under great German provocation and has hitherto not sent troops across the frontier: to "assist its compatriots, but Polish is feeling"daily being embitter- ed against the Allied delay in sending representatives to enforce order and fair treatment of the Poles at the hands of the Germans. The whole situation may be summed up as giving great cause for anxiety, ..
In West Russia the successes cigined by the Bolsheviks around Kamenka on the Dreister are most unlikely to affect the campaign in view of the imminent junction betwech Fettura and Denikin Such a junction would destroy as an effective organised force, the whole of the Bolshevik troops in the enormous pocket 250 miles deep br 150 miles wide south of Kieft. In South Russia the capture of Odessa now leaves the Bolsheviks without a foothold on any sea coasty. which will permit communication with an outside coast..
The situation in Upper Silesia is still serious, aggression and provocation by the Germans continuing. Insurgents are struggling against great odds by lack of munitions whereof the Germans have ample. On the Pazcyoa front the Ger- mans brought up armoured cars, machineguns and tanks. In east and west Prussia and the parts of Posnania occupied by Germans, they are systematically provoking the Poles Germans are rushing up reinforcements while thousands of the population have been forcibly deported from Silesia and many others imprisoned Polish quarters declare that the provocation of the population into rising is done in order exterminate the Polish element in Upper Silesia and thus secure the result of the forthcoming plebiscite farrarable to Germany.
TROUBLE IN LETTLAND.
Copenhagen, Aug. 25.
A message froth Riga says the Lettish Press bureaz announces that German troops.in Lithuania arrested three members of the British Mission and took them to Mitau but thanks to the efforts of the British Mission in liga try were released Russian soldiers coeperated with the Ger- mars in plundering the Leut headquarters on August 24 They stripped the Lett guard of clothes and money and destroyed the building, using boobs. Representatives of the Entente Mission to the Lett Government have gone to Mitau to take counter measures.
Paris, August 25.
Von der Goltz has reappeared at Mitau where the Ger mans raided the Lettish Headquarters and looted the trea sury, stealing thirty thousand roubles.
Berlin. Aug. 29.
It is serai officially explained that Von der Goltz re- turned to Mitan on his own responsibility in consequence of the insubordination of troops in refusing to evacuate and claiming the fulfilment of the Lett Government's promise te grant them the fights of citizenship and settlement. Dis- turbances ensued wherein two companies of Lett troeps. were disarmed and the Lett Headquarters plundered. Ton der Goltz apologised to the Last Headquarters ami had the Letts' añas returned. He drew the attention of German troops to the fatal consequences of indiscipline and disobedi
ace to the Government's orders.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIER HOME AGAIN.
Freemantle, Aug. 27.
Thousands of people enthusiastically welcomed Mr. Hughes and Sir Joseph Cook from France. The statesmen were hauled in a motorcar to the Town Hall where Mr. Hughes was crowned with a digger's hat.-
THE TRANSVAAL TRADING ACT.
London, August 29 The H. ES. Montagu receives to-day a mixed Indian and European Deputation to protest against the Transvaal Trading, Act.
SERVICE TO RUMANIA,
New York; August 26.-
It is, announced that the new passenger and freight service between Kew York and Constanza, Rumania, begins on September 15.
OBITUARY
NOTISWE
FISK
TIRES
Reduced
Prices
from
Sept. 1st
1919
Covers
Size
Non-Skid Plain
Inners
28 x 3 30 x 3
$21.00
$.5:50
23.00
5.50
30 x 3
29.50
28.00
6.00
32 x 314
34.50
33.00
7.00.
31 x 4"
45.50
44.00..
8.00:
32 x 4
-47.00
45.50
8.50
x 4
49.50
48.00
9.00
4
51.50
50.00
9.50
33
75.00
-12.00
35 x 5
90,00
12.50
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