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The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 1fth Nov., 1924.
As reflected in the fortnightly report of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerco published by us on Saturday and as told in another column of this issue,
of blessed by those at present in charge of administrativo áffairs.
Lieutenant-Commandor R. A. Yonge has boon, ordered to join the Tamar at Hongkong about next January,
The Empress of Russia brought On The Up-Grade.
just one abort of 500 Chinoso Bo gradual has boon the storage passengers when she change from throatoning chaos to came into port this morning. comparative prosperity in Gor-! many, that most casual observers
CORRI
ONDENCE.
(To the Editor, Hongkong 14 Telegraph."*$
The Kowloon Hospital.
Is
BAD TRADE
THE BUSINESS SLUMP.
Interviews With Local Men. Sir-Do you not think that the
In view of the very gonoral· appointment of slators of the Maryknoll Mission to: a local statomonte curront regarding the light on the present dopresalon in local com- hospital abilities and loyalty of British mercial circles, a Telegraph re- olsters at present in Hongkong 1 prefentative yesterday had in- toresting interviows with local Probably the public do not bankers, businesa men and realise the amount of work which members of the stock exchange. devolves on the nursing staff here. In all thren aphores it was ad- Many of the sisters have boon mitted that at the present time here several years, and would it business is not what it WAB. not be fair to them to be given ovou three or four months ago.. any promotion which a now But as to the reason for the. hospital would provide
depression some widely different The "Lyrio" dance orchestra,
If British aistors have worked views are current. of events in Europe must hardly
of well-known danco hero for so many years, they "Are you outting down over- rouliss bow that country has one- overcome its many difficulties and orchestra, here, will contributo must be capable and have a drafts, and is it true that you are is now on the highroad to wealth; their share to Earl Haige Fund valuable knowledge of local con- raising the rate of interest on that is, compared with several of by playing free of charge at the ditions and ailments. Why not prosent loans and overdrafts!" the other countries involved in Victoria Recreation Club fanoy extend to them the possibilities one banker was asked.
of promotion "
"Yes, we are cutting the gross the late war. It is perhaps apdress dance to-night.
In any case, there is an organis amount of our overdrafts," be propriate to examino this quos
ation known as the Oversons replied. "But as to the In- tion on the sixth anniversary of
A Tokyo fologram to the Daily Nursing Association" which has terest charged, we are,etili the onding of hostilition, and it Bulletin naya: Dr. Shigeru
the figuro, about means that the Germans, with Kusama, attached to the Kitasato several hundred names on its holding
SATHC. You must ro- the assistance of the other nations Laboratory, who had proviously waiting list for appointments the concerned, are emerging within claimed the discovery of the abroad. Why should this institu- member that this is near the end these six years from the serious bacteria of eruptive typhus, now
tion be ignored? throat of dismemberment to
Thanking you for inserting this, announces that he has succeeded a period of reconstruction and
Yours, etc. discovery of measles: in the probable affluence. The Dawes bactoria.
"FAIR PLAY." plan is principally responsible for
Hongkong, Nov. 10th, 1924.
this early return to noruri..and..
The new
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of the year and we are trying to olose our books for 1924 with as good condition provalent as possible. It is not that wo afraid · of the stability of any of our customers to whom we have allowed overdrafts."
mour is correot, they have also get overstocked and is liable to
other
Yours, etc.
BRITISHER.
to
buy
takos
in that we see the differonco| A Stall quantity of fram
The banker thon explained that which the dropping of punitivo caught fire in the kitchen of one
Sir, -Ïnvlow of His Excelloney business want in cyclos. For a measures has mado. Naverthe-of, the houses in Canton Road less it took about five yours to Kowloon, at about seven o'clock the Governor's renthe period, he said, the periur prose morning. The Brigade Logislative Council concerning pority would be reached and the make all concerned reniles that this repressive measures would in the turned out, but there was no Government support for religious avorage merchant, buoyed up and and defeat their object, and that occasion for alarm as the flames institutions in the Colony, it is enthusiastic over the prospects oasily oxtinguishod by interesting to observe that the of a continuod salos increase, only a reconstructed Germany were
Government is not only building will bo fiable to overstock. Then could hope to satisfy even a pro- scattering the wood.
and equipping what is in reality a the other side of the oycle comes. portion of the obligations incur
Medical Mission for the American forward and the public bogin, to At this week's mooting of Roman Catholic nuns of the Mary-tighten-their-hold upon money, THE COST OF STRIFE. red. A Router message published
yesterday mentions the reduction the Hongkong Lodge Tho of taxation, and the coming excess Theosophical Society, 16; Queen's knoll Mission, but, If Dama Ru-The merchant thon finds himself. of revenue over expenditure, with Road Central, on bright prospects of increased ex- November 12th, at 5.45 pm., Mr. Chapel. Moreover, the nuns business slump" rather than on Wednesday apart one room for their use as blame the misfortuno upon a port trade. It is not very pleasant M. Manuk will lecturo
00 will havo no anxiety about his over onthusiastic buying. reading for the old school of ox-"Reincarnation" and answer maintenance, no worry with "To know whon tremiste, but it apolls the result questions. The Meeting is open rogard to subscriptions, donations and how much to buy
0.5 etc., suah
Modical is knowledge that it of assistance in the form of to the Fublic.-Ailet. loan, which might well havo beon.
Missions have to endure, since almost A lifetime to ac | Hongkong is under the cloud of extended two years ago, and
The sloop Potersfield is being they will be maintained by the quire," said the banker. "Many a buniness slump. During the it meane that the chances of the
for further rates and taxas of the Colony.mon who are the executivos of past four years business has agreed reparations being paid are recommissioned
service on the China Station. Is not this, to say the least, a business aro poor, buyers because Hall-Curri nover beon back to pre-war level practically assured.
crow will be sent by most remarkable procooding for they do not acquire the funda- and it has cortainly been a long Spanish Revolutionaries, freight ship to Ilongkong on Jan, the Government of British mental principles involved."
The Potarsold was Colony?
A businessman and morobant way behind the boom your of
That all is not well with Spain 15 next.
was next called upon and he was Ikewise questioned as to the busi-. 1919. Merchants, native as well has been evident for some yoare commissioned for hor spell on the noa, and the repeated campaigns China Station in September, 1922,
ness depression.. He said that it as foreign, have long since foltn North Africa, and the agitation at Portsmouth. She is tender to Hongkong, Nov. 10th 1924..
was true that business was not as tho ollects of the unsettled con against various governments the flagship Hawkine.
good as some months back. Ho dilions prevailing in South China. which ross for a brief spall of
also stated that with the foreign authority, with the oft-repeated
and Chinose holidays coming on, The large provinco of Kwangs
there was sure to be better salos has for many long months boon wore dominating all affairs in the presentation of the modern work- Sir,It is probable that many within the next few weeks in the virtually cut off from foreign country, pointed to an early up-Madame Butterfly". The soloists dog owners are not conversant with retail stores. trade, owing to uncertain and heaval of some kind. The sudden and chorus again earned wail the early symptons of Habics, and "It is hardly to be expected rise of a man who assumed marited applause." while the the following, taken from a work that Hongkong should be as pros- dangerous communications and something of the power of orchestra wae in splendid form on the subject by Professors Muller parous 隐修 four or even two also owing to the inability of the Mussolini, and formed what be-Owing to an alteration it ship and Glass, will be of interest: years ago," he said. "The internal people, by reason of military came known as the Spanish ping arrangemente, the season There are three distinct stages, trouble has made it difficult if not exactions, to purchase the goods Directory, removed the immediate has been extended for another namely, the melancholic, the impossible to do any business did thros nights, particulars appear-irritating and the paralytio stage. with the interior at all It is they would normally have bought, not eliminate it. The war in ing on page 4 of this issue,
In the melancholic stage the impossible to ship goods into In Canton and Kwangtung con- Morocco has not gone well, and Primo de Rivera's
dogs seem to change in their dispo. China for fear of pitacles and ditions have also been bad for a Genoral
position has been considerably Among the passengers to arrive ation. They are capricious, irrit. confiscation by warring factions. The war has largely stopped long while, and an intensification shaken, so it is not surprising to by the Empress of Russia this able or depressed, are easily anger- of those conditions has come learn now of a counter-revolution morning wore Mr. C. H. Basto, ed and excited, frotful, aud rarely production and hence reduced the purchasing power of the Chineso about by reason of the catas-being planned, with agitators Mr. and Mrs. 11. A. Cartwright, affectionate. They soon show a
this is going to have ita tropbo which last month visited both inside and out of the country Mr. and Mrs. E. F. L. Sturdes, tendency to gnaw or swallow indi- in the interior towns. Naturally ready to strike at an opportuno Mr. W. C. Shiner, Mrs. W gestible substances and may refuse effect on Hongkong. We are Canton. The effecto of the moment. This latest obullition Adanson, Mr. W. D. Goodfellow, their usual food, will lick and gnaw Canton trouble have been very of unrast has failed apparently, Mr. H. R. Harling, Mr. S. Berg in a greedy manner various objects merely the entrepot for Southern quickly felt and their duration but it shows how the wind is Mr. and Mrs. A. Hicks, Mr. Paul such as wood, coal, furniture and
blowing, and it marns that there Lauder, Mr. and Mrs. H. Heat straw, earth, wood, blankets and interests had had no much diffi- all depends on how soon or how will probably be a more powerful Friestley, Mr. Eldon Potter, even their own fecus. In the first culty with native merobants of long it will take for the general attempt next time. The cure for C, the Very Rev. Father Robert, stages an uncertainty of gait and late that they had become very populace to regain confidence all this is better organisation. Mr. Harold Soth and Mr. Lweakness in the bind quarters is cautions as to the amount of
and better education of the Yatos illiterate masses who ary too
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Last night the Italian Grand assertion that the military clique Opera Company gave an excellent
of revolt, but nienace
Rabies.
China."
He went on to say that foreign
несп. After one to three days the
arodit allowed. second or aminoal stage appeara, A sharobroker was the last 'to
around Shanghai and in Northeasily led by amall, cotorios, but According to tho Canton characterized by a tendency to be laterviewed, and he, too, COR China has largely put a stop to the that would mean the expenditure (uzoite, prices of rien are escape and run away, grout irrita firmed the statement that there intorport trade-a larger factor of much revenue over a period of declining on account of thetion and an inclination
to bite had, boon a slump in business some length, and unfortunately arrival of the now season's crop animals, objects, or man,
or conditions. He attributed be in our trade than most people Spain is no longer a country of of rice in market. First class strange alteration in the voice or slump to several things, chief realise, and the local, merchant[richos. Where the people have
among which was the tightness of to day is faced with growing vottled in wide areas, as in South rice can now be had at a little bark."
There is also a fort known money. He called attention to the over ten cattles for a dollar. stocks and few orders. Thore Ambrica, they have done well, According to rice merchants, the Dumb rabies. In this case the fact that big businesses were not
but the effects of illiteracy are continuous arrival of rice of the jaw becomes partlysed and there sponding much money on im are many, rumours curront re-discornible even then, especially
orop from the country no inclination to bite even wore proving their presont holdings. garding the seriousness of the in places like Central America districts will show Д further it possiblo. Yours eto.,
8. L. II. slump. But it is to bo hoped and Mexico. In the homeland marked decline in price in two
thoro yot romains much of the wooks' time. Statistics indicate Hongkong, 10th. Nov., 1924. that conditions will so improve misgovernance of the past, and that this year's rice harvest will and confidence he so restored with the way feeling has been be twice as bountiful as that of| within the next few weeks as to worked up in recent years one last year..
make a resumption of business normal consoquence.
and rumours of revolt, as the lot can oxpect nothing but rovolts
of a formorly great country, While other nations havo
The lesson of to-day's exper-advanced with the times, it is to fonce is that internacino strife be feared that in some thinge in Chine is costly, not only in Spain bas laggod seriously money but in the general welfare behind.
(of the people. The purchasing
power of the ordinary Chinose
as well as bie opportunity to buy haa boon adversely affected," He
HOCKEY,
has earned loss and he is there- CLUB "A TEAM Y. THE føre forced to purchase loss; and
DOW
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FURTHER TELEGRAMS
RECEIVED."
Profite, and, hence dividonds on many stocks, were lower during the past twelve months than they have beon during the last five Усата. People were becoming more careful about their buying. than ever before, ho said, with the total result that thero aro fawor sales and hence lower
prices situat
In all the situation is not, alarming, - according to those
DELAYED BY STORM Generale Fong Yu-halang, Hu interviewed. Each expressed the Ching-yl, and Sun Yuh, the thrag belief that a few months would Phofon, Nov. 10.
leading commanders in Peking, probably.seo the south of Chins Lim Sum-ling, Wu Pol-fu's and ten other military officers, back again on a sound basis and Diplomatio adviear, statos: In a joint tologram to President business therewith greatly im "The heavy storm of Saturday Sun urge him to start for Poking proved, and Sunday delayed Wu Pol-fu's immediately. The telegram rende departure for the South, but the as follows R UNIVERSITY,
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