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A SILENT POLICY.
THE DEFEAT OF SUB-
MARINES.
SILVER'S REVENGE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
NEW COMPANY AT HARBIN.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1919.
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
Silver is having' a remarkable
FISHING IN DAIREN WATERS. revenge. It was displaced from A new company under the style On account of the cholers quasi-equality with gold as a of the Russo-Chinese Trading Co. epidemic, fishing has been prohib If the British, after capturing money metal as the result of the will be established at Harbin.ited in Dairen Bay and the the German submarine Bremen,
Franco-Prussian War. Acting The new firm will aim at develop-neighbouring waters, but as the had not had some special reasons on the theory that gold is the ing the trade relations between epidemic is nearing its end, the for preserving strict official proper standard for rich and Russia and China. It proposes to fishermen are eagerly awaiting silence in regard to their achieve silver for poor countries, Ger- buy some factories at Tientsin to the withdrawal of the prohibition. ment, and for keeping the crew of many, having grown rich on supply Russians with its own At Port Arthur, the prohibition the boat in the strictest sort of plunder and indemnities, demone-manufactures.
of fishery is said to have been what in American-Spanish war tised her thalers and cast the
already removed, and it is report- days was called "incommunicado." silver on the market. From the
ed that, in view of the approach the course pursued would have blow silver never effectually re-
of the fishery season, the Dairen been hard, or even impossible, to covered until Germany went to
authorities are considering an early removal of the prohibition, justify.
war again in search of plunder,
condition warrants doing so.
The
MOTOR CYCLES IN CHINA. It is suggested that the interest which is being shown in Chins in motor cycles is due to the fact
paths used by foot passengers and for wheelbarrows, and that if these paths were improved some- what, commercial could pecetrate with ease places which now practically inaccessible..
are
travellers
BEEF FROM TSINGTAO.
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VESSELS LOADING.
EUROPE, USA, ETC.
Ecuador....P. M. S...Oct. S Wakasa M...N. Y. K....Oct. Akita M. N. Y. K.Oct. 9 Bessie Dollar R..D. ...Oct. 10 Nile. C. M..
...Oct. 11 Nagato M. N. Y. K. Oct. 11 Eatori M. ...N. Y. K. ...Oct. 14 Manila M....O. S.K....Oct. 15 Eurymedon B. & S...Oct. 16) Shidzuaka M. N. Y. K....Oct. 17 Tamba M.N. Y. K.Oct. 19 Prinzessin ... P. & 0. ...Oct. 21 Iconium. A. L
4.Oct. 22 ...Oct. 25
Shinya M....T. K. K....Oct. 28 Celebes M...O. S. K....Oct. 30 E of Russia C. P. O. S. Oct. 30 Nanking.C. M. S...Oct. 31 Toyooka M...N.YK. E. of Oct. Luzon M......O. S. K. B. of Oct.
Wheatland...AL Khiva......
I
... Nov. .P.&O...Nov. 1 Suwa M. N. Y. K.
Nov. 1 Seiro M. T. R.K. No. 3 Colombia......P. M. S. Nov. 4
E. of Japan...C. P. O. S....Nov. 5 Africa M...O.S. E..Nov. 13)
It has always been held, not 'fhu: whereas as the great fall in they can travel on the narrow according as the local epidemic | Seattle Spirit A. L. quite obligatory, perhaps, but cer-silver was a direct result of Ger- tainly something more than per-man action, the present rise is only missible, in war between botour-obliquely related to the war. If able foes, for each to take some Mexico were settled and product trouble to let the other know, by live the scarcity of the metal one means or another, the where would not be so extreme, and abouts of its missing men if they anarchy in Mexico preceded and are still alive. This is usually done has outlasted the War. by allowing the prisoners to come irony of the silver situation is by municate briefly with their rela- no means seen principally in the tives, in order that their anxieties contrast between its appreciation may be mitigated and that they and the depreciation of cur. may render such aid to them as retcies, and especially of the ed 8,837 tons. In the last named that between January and July Persia M. T. K. K. Nov. 14) circumstances permit. The Ger- mark, ostensibly based on gold. mans did it to a considerable or between the halcyon times extent, for the reason, a harsh enjoyed by critic would say, that thus the cost of feeding their prisoners was decreased, and, on general principles, the British should have done the same thing.
friends heard never a word until,"
silver
SULPHATE OF AMMONIA According to telegrams receiv. ed on September 15, 2.188 tons and 9,500 tons of sulphate of ammonia were exported from England to Japan, during July and August respectively. It is also reported The exports of beef from Tsing that between the beginning of tao, China, are increasing steadily. this year and the 10th of last In 1915 the exports amounted to month, 6,081 tons were exported 1894 tous and in 1918 they reach to Japan from San Francisco and year nearly 3,000 tons were pur- this year 2,185 tons were exported chased by the quartermaster's from Seattle. (The tonnage "in producers department at Manila while 2,660 the case of American exports is tons went to Japan. 1.401 tous based on American reckoning). wear to Vladivostock, 200 tons to Quotations are reported to be Shanghai and Dairen and 872 tons comparatively moderate, Y260 te all other countries. This year's and Y262 being quoted for Septem. export, so far, we learn will be ber and October delivery and also an increase on last year's October, November and December states the China Critic.
delivery respectively. in Japanese
and the demands for assistance to make gold mining pay. The rupee was pegged at a convent ional relation with gold to pre- vent it being dragged down in the wake of silver, but it cannot resist the upward momentum of the metal, The India Council has raised the exchange price of the rupee to 1s 10d. while the absolute parity between silver at 590. in London and the sight rupee is 1s. 10 11. 16d. The rise is serious from the point of view
the other day, they were set free
and sent home, to be received as
WITER
LETURN.
risen from the dead.
CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATEs WORKS LIVKE.
Exceptional treatment was ac- corded by the British to the
Level and Storage of water is submarine crews because the sub-Reservoirs on September 1, 1919 marine was itself exceptional- something new in marine warfare and a peril of such seriousness that new measures to make it less effective properly could be used. Had the Germans known where their undersea craft were in more than ordinary danger they could have refrained from sending them to such areas.
Informed as to the means by which submarines were found and destroyed or captured, they could have invented and used protective devices.
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A JAPANESE OBSERVATORY. According to a Japanese con- temporary, Japan is going to establish a central obsercatory at a Shanghai for the purpose facilitating the
exchange
PULP FROM THE SEA.
Hartland......A L. Aki M. Chine
Korea M.
E. of Asia
...Nov. 14 N. Y. K...Nov. 19 I.K. K... Nov. 26 ....C. M. ...Nov. 22
.C. F. O. S... Nov, 27 Siberia M. T.K. E. Nov. 23 Endicott.A. L. ... Nov. 30 C. of Newcastle B. & S....Nov. 30 Seattle M...O. S. K. M. of Nov. Nishmaka AL. Nov. 30
St. Albans...E. & A. E. of Nov. Alps M... S. K... E. of Nov. Venezuela ...P. M. S...Dec. 2 Nippon M.... T. K. K. Dec. 6 Montague L
...Dec. 15
Monteagle...C. P. O. S...Dec. 19 Tenyo M....T. K. E...Dec. 18] Crevecoter...A. L.
...Dec. 20
Grace Dollar R. S. 1st half Dec.
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As a matter of fact, they did. except in the case of the men taken from destroyed or captured .submarines. No information, at
JAPANESE TOY TRADE all regarding them was given out,
According to a Tokyo message, and every effort was made to
group of Japanese business prevent such information from
of men are now interested in a reaching the public. So success- ful were these efforts that nothing
weather reports between various for the manufacture and sale of of scheme for floating a company but rumours of German sub of India's export trade, and the places on the Asiatic mainland, toys and general sundry goods. marines lying in British docks check is administers would in the "It is reported that the work of The scheme, it is understood is gained circulation, and nothing ordinary way bring about an constructing this observatory was almost complete. The company at all definite concern adjustment. But adjustment by to begin on October 1, at a site is provided with a capital of ing their crews, not even whether reduction in the supplies of adjoining the shipping office of 1,000,000 to start with and will JAPAN, COAST PORTS, ETC. they were dead or alive, was commodities from the East is the Nippon Yusen Kaisha near be named the Tou (Far Eastern) | Haihong.... divulged. One resuit of this exactly the
reverse of what the Wayside Wharf. An engineer Toy Trading
..D. L. Co....Oct. policy was that for three long Europe wants. With a Montag has arrived from Japan to super capital will be divided into 20,000 Shantung. B. & S. Oct. 7
Company. The Loksang ....J. M. Co....Oct. years the fate of the Bremen was at the head of the India Office vise the work of construction, shares, part of which, it is said, Nanking M...O. S. E...Oct. 7 a complete mystery, outside of awe should not be without intelli- while the astronother in charge is wil be put on the market for Kanebow B. & S. Oct. 8 narrow official eircle in England, gent understanding of the situa also expected shortly to leave for public subscription. The British Yatsbing...J. M. Co....Oct. 9 and of the men who had been ontion in the highest quarters.- Shanghai.
manufacturers who have been Senning....B. & S. her their families, relatives, and Ceglo Tinies.
...Oct. 9 demanding protection against the Chaksang J. M. Co....Oct. 10 The project for the establish-German toy trade will, no doubt. Yuensang..J. M. Co...Oct. 10 ment of a marine pulp manu- be supremely .delighted by Haitan.... ...D. L. Co. ...Oct. 10 facturing company is reported Japanese substitutes. Japonese Kaifong B. & S. ...Oct. 10 from Tokyo. It appears that Chronicle.
Tean.... B. & S. ...Oct. 11 considering the feasibility and GERMAN IMMIGRATION. Soshu M.......O. S. K...Oct. 12 the profitableness of manufactur- ing pulp from the inexhaustible told that Germany has got over Amakusa M. O. S. K...Oct. 14
While on the one band we are
Dunera.P.&O. ...Oct. 12 stocke of marine plants, a party the strike fever and is getting Huichow...B. & S...Oct. 14 of Tokyo business men are start down to work. it is stated on the Laisang J. M. Co. .Oct. 14 ing a concern with a capital of other that there are signs of an ¥2,000,000 for the manufacture of exodus which will largely dis-Indo M. O. S. K...Oct. 14. Quinnebang...D. L. Co. ...Oct. 14 pulp and paper, besides handling count this effort. The Mainichi Fooksacg...J. M. Co. ...Oct. 17 a wholesale business in all sorts Chronicle correspondent at New Loongsang...J. M. Co....Oct. 17 of paper. The company will be York learns that 450 young and Aki M.....N. Y. K....Oct. 18) called the Dai Nippon Kaiso robust German immigrants have Gregory A....P.&O...Oct. 19 (marine plant) Pulp and Paper arrived at Buenos Apre-which Tjibodas J.C.J. L...Oct. 19 Manufacturing Company. The will create more misgiving seeing Shinryu M...N. Y. K.Oct. 21 public will be invited to subscribe that the Argentine has been the Saigon M.....0. 8. K...Oct. 22 for part of the shares which will peculiar preserve of Englishmen Tjikini....J.C.J. L. Oct. 29 be put on the market in the near heretofore-and that the German Tenshin M....N. Y. E...E. of Oct. future.
representative in Mexico City Konagawa M. N. Y. K. E. of Oct. talks about 30,000 Germans com- Shisen M....O. S. E....Nov. 1 Messrs. Ilbert and Co's (Ltd.) ing to Mexico. It is hardly to be. Tfiliwong......J. C. J. L... Nov. 2 latest Piece Goods Market Re-supposed that these emigrants Thimanoek...J.C.J. L....Nov. 6 40 port says:--The better feeling. have a very great deal of capital Tango M.......N. Y. K....Nov. 22
which was in an incipient stage to invest. Of course if they make at the time of our last report, has good in new countries, they will number of qutlets are beginning staging at home, and might do developed in the interval. Quite a do better than they could by
to find that the stocks they better for their country also, but possess are very light, and dealers it is very doubtful whether they are fullofinterest todiscover wha: would send big remittancea so advices of shipments of various long as Germany's revenues both rg18 and 1919. Constat supply fall diguelets, darine A cargoes have come to hand in were under Allied control. the last few days' vast quantity of While Germany's population is accumulated mail matter which badly depleted by the war, the every office in Shanghai has been infantile }}} less than the snowed under." Easier money adult, there is no need from the in native circles has also enabled point of view of pressure of popula- a fair amount of exchange to be tion for any emigration for many wiped off which was settled for years but the revival looks like a forward arrival at the time that return to the old days before im- forward cargo was contracted perialism in Germany became for, in order to legitimately pro-an intensive culture. Of course, ject the, then considered, enor-all sorts of suspicions will be con- mously dear sterling costs. This ceived of deep-laid plots, but the has led
to, no doubt, much net result will probably be that thea ht upon the might have the emigrants will make them- been. had the present wonderful selves welcome in the countries exchange rates been available in which they settle and that the upon everything that is to come indemnity will become harder forward this autumn.
than ever to collect.
This knowledge, or some of it. the Germans surely would have received had the submarine pri- soners been permitted to reveal even their continued existence.
It is claimed; too, that the policy of silence had another effect, also important-that of weakening moral in the German submarine service-and it is even said that thus is to the explained at least a part of the insubordin ation that marked the German Nary through the latter part of its history. That theory is plausible, but it is not quite con. vincing. Germans are sentiment- a', but they are not sensitive, and it is not easy to believe that the demoralisation of their navy was thus brought about. There were other and sufficient reasons for that.
PASSENGERS DEPARTED.
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STORAGE IN MILLIONS AND DECIMALS OF GALLONS.
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EXPORTS FROM JAVA As soon as the import restrict- ions of the United States were relaxed large shipments made from Soerabaya, Java, to the United States, of rubber, coconut oil, tapioca, coffee, hides and skins, guttas, and other trap- ical products, which had accu- mulated awaiting shipping facili ties.
OUTPUT IN GERMANY. London, Sept. 13-The Chrom- cle's Berlin correspondent says that industrial productivity is in- creasing, the strike fever has declined and the general situation. is more stable, Industrial Ger- many is putting her shoulder to the wheel in the making of glass, crockery and furniture during the last two or three months of great strikes, and is replenishing the home markets preliminary to attacking the foreign markets.
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