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The Telegraph.
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1926,"
SHIPS AND COAL.
called
off
THURSDAY,
1926
DAY BY DAY.
LEAGUE COUNCIL
SIR VICTOR SASSOON.
One British case of diphtheria was notified on Tuesday.
petition and before any of the collieries of France, Belgium or Poland had been damag
WEAKNESS INEFFECTUALLY ed or destroyed. That trade
SEEKS TO DISGUISE TTSELF-LIKE contributed
to the welfaro A BRUNKEN MAN TRYING TO of shipping and shipbuilding, and SHOW HOW SODER TE 18 Bovce. also helped to balance and Thore was a clean bill of health cheapon imports of food: Fol in the Colony yesterday. lowing the war, Britain, had the greatest coal trade" okancos over offorod, and in every year since that time we might easily have Dr. F. M. G. Ozorio has changed oxported 100 million tons annual-This business address to coal George's Building, top floor. ly. Yot in 1919, with famine in continental Europe, we only exported 35 million tons. in both 1920 and 1921 about 25 million tons, whilst in 1915 onr exports were nearly 20 million tons less than in 1913.
BRITISH PROPOSAL FAVOURED,
BRIEF VISIT TO HONGKONG.
Sir Vietor Sassoon, Chairman of Gonova, May 12. the woll-known firm of Messrs, "The Committee for the ReorganiE. D. Sassoon and Co., Ltd., arriv sation of the League of Natione ed in the Colony from Shanghai by Colincil has provisionally adopted the s.s. President Wilson. He has the proposal of Viscount Ceell that been in the northern port on a certain non-permanent members business visit and after remaining should be elected for three years, here for about a week, he wa St.assuming office immediately after return to India. Arriving with
election, while one-third of their
Captain R. E. Sassoon, number should be electable yearly.
The Spanish and Brazilian dele-head of the Shanghai branch of gates wore the sole opposers and the Company.
iade reservations.
The Empress of Russia loft Yokohama at 7 a.m. to-day, and is dus here at 4 p.m. on the 20th. Instant
The weather forecast up to noon to-morrow is: North or variable winds,. modorato ; generally cloudy, some rain.
Despite the rivalry of oil, the world's domand for coal is ne big us ever it was. Britain has
"The Quaints" returnod to the incomparable facilities for ox-and open their season at the Star Colony by the President Wilson Theatre to-night.
The Tabaqueria Filipina ask us to announce that they have ro- ceived ample stocks of the popu lar "555" cigarettes.',
Amongst the passengers arriv ing by the President Wilson were Sir Victor Sassoon, Capt. R. E. Sassoon, Dr. John Kirk and Mr. L. Dunbar.
porting the commodity, with pits so near to, the ports that coal can be carried to Cunndu at loss' cost for transport than United States coal can be convoyed to the Dominion. The Nano, romark applies to the great Republics in South America, whilst British coal can be sent to Bumbay at loss cost than Indian coal can be railed to that port. Those aro
The auction sale of printing some of the factors" which, it is machines, cto., at the offices of well to keep in mind at the the Hongkong Telegraph has been Economical postponed from Monday at 3 p.m. present moment.
until Wednesday, 19th. instant, working of the British mines at the same hour, would seem to be the groat necessity for the restoration of British shipping, shipbuilding and industry generally. In the meantime, It is with great relief
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Viscount Ccell said that Britain was opposed to any extension of the number of permanent members, with the exception of the admission of Germany-Reuter.
RUBBER MARKET.
LATEST QUOTATIONS,
Messrs. Carroll Bros. are in rc- ceipt of advices from Singapore in- forming them that rubber is 'now. quoted at 79 per cent, per Ib. The wire also includes the following quotations: Allenbys
Alor Gajahs...... Amalgamated Malays Ayor Moleks Ayer Balgownies
Panas
Brogas Bassetts Bukit Jelotongs Bukit Katils Chankat Serdangs Connemaras Glengalies
Witile Indian constablo B.88 Indragiris was attempting to catch a chow Jerams dog when on dog-catoling duty, Jimahs Kedahs the animal bit him in the right Kes
Kempas thumb. He was sent to the Go- Kuala Sidims that the whole Empire will hear vermont Civil Hospital, and the Lanny inns
Mulaka Malakoffs of the calling off of the general dog was later destroyed.
Mandai Tekonga strike, in order that negotiations. Lettors of administration have Mayfields Now that the General Strike may be resumed on the coal dis-been granted to Mrs. Dorica Mentalabs
and pute. In the words of the Primo Maria Wilkinson, of 25 Praya New Serendahs has boop
estate. The late Mr. W. J. Wil- Sandycrofts
Punggar negotiations are to be rosumed Minister, this is a victory for East, in respect of her husband's Pajam
common-sense, and we are nowkinson, an overseer, died on Feb. Scipis on the mining dispute, it
hopeful that both owners and 21 this year, intestate. He left Sungai Bagang
Tapahs will not be inappropriató tó
miners will come together in a $64,100. consider for a moment the inspirit of determination, to roach u portant part which anudequate and reasonably cheap supply of coul Plays in British trade and ship ping. It was put on record, in the recent annual report of the Cham- bar of Shipping, that freights are based more largely on the weight of the cargo carried thun on its value, and the freight itself, as well as the profit or loss to the shipowner, depends upon his
lasting settlement so that Bri- tain's coul trade may rise to the opportunities which lie before it.
A Military Threat.
The sale, by order of the hold property at Nos. 14C, 14D, mortgagees, of three lots of lense and 14E, Robinson Road, which was to have taken place at) Messrs. Lammert Brothers salos- rcom yesterday afternoon, was cancelled...
$2.30
2.95
4.85
him was
Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, who was born in 1881, was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cam- bridge. He was formerly a Cap- tain in the R.A.F., and succeeded hta father in the title in 1924, the baronetcy having been, created in 1909. He is known as a most cap- able business man, and sinco he. has been head of the firm he has hown marked abilities in the realm of commerce.
SUGAR SACKS.
THEFT LEADS TO IMPRISONMENT.
Two sugar-straining sacks, tha 2.00 value of which was very small were 14.25
1.95 regarded with covetous eyes by a
1.50
1.900
sugar boller in the Taikoo Re- 1.20 finery yesterday. It came to, pasa, 0.26 however, that, having "purloined
2.50 2.50 2.00
4.95
the sacks, the man was chary in 11.00 handling them himself. He passed .2.75 them over to a companion, a fire-
4.75
10.30
man, who was equally chary, and
4.10
4.AU he in his turn passed the articles
4.30
3.10
over to a third man. Eventually, 4.95 after being smuggled with great 0.95 15.25 0.65
care through the gate, the sacks 10 roverted into the possession of the 5.10 boilermaker, who was eventually 15.00 arrested with the sacks in his pɔs-
1.40 session.
4.00
3.20
When charged before Mr. R."E.
480 Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy
to-day, the boller maker was sent
34.50
1,410
16.25
to prison for one month, whilst his 200 companion, the fireman, who was
Tambalaka A. Teluk Ansons United Malacces
dividend of 15 per cent. Utan Simpans
Sandycrofts have declared a firul charged with aiding and abetting,
was given a like sentence.
.5.00
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Capt. Georze Fried of the Presi-. American film concern, according dent Roosevelt was telling fog to a report from Paris. stories at a dinner in Washington. "There's a good fog story," he said, "about a business man who received one foggy morning à tele phone message from his book keeper.
There is a possibility (although it is difficult to know just to what
Mr. Jaoquim Arcsamena, me- extent) of serious, fighting in the South of China before longchanic to one of the Spanish According to reports, Wu Pui-fu aviators who flow from Madrid to has in contemplation a big Macao, has arrived here and is staying at the Metropole Hotel. ability to obtain both outward scheme for the subjugation of the With him is Mr. Eduardo Ros, a southern provinces and the unify. and homeward cargo. If the ing of the country under the Manila newspaperman, who has price of coal is such as to restrict Central Government at Peking, been to Macao in connection with
the flight. its export," says the report, "and, and with this end in view he has, so it is further said, successfully at the same time, increase the formulated an arrangement för The following vessels are ex- cost so as to handicap the export uniting a number of provinces pected, to be in wireless com of British manufactures, as well north of Kwangtung for the pur-munication with Hongkong to-
"I'm sorry, sir,' the bookkeeper poses of an attack. There are day Van... Cloon, as of coal, the carrying trade of various and conflicting accounts Eurylochus, Kumsang, Kueichow, said, but I can't come down to the this country is diminished at of what has already transpired, Malwa, Macassar Maru, King- office this morning on account of I have not yet arrived both ends the tramp loses its but there, seems little reason to yuan, Chicago, Maru, Angers, the fog..
doubt that a big force of men is Kohoku Maru, D'Artagnan, 'Pros-home yesterday." coal cargo outwards, and is pre-on its way through Hunan making ident Grant, Shima Maru and vented from bringing its cargo of towards the Kwangtung border. Plata Maru." raw materials or foodstuffs home- This would seem to be borne out" ward."
Tjibosar,
Johnny's rendering of the first stanza of "The Psalm of Life:"
"Lize Grape men allry mindus Weaken maka Liza Blime, Andy Parting Lee B. Hindus Footprints Johnny Sands
time."
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It is estimated In New York that "each birth causes on an average 300 telephone calls." But surely Twenty-two years ago "Little a good deal depends on whether it Miss Dillon" was a clerk in the is the first or the fourth? by the fact that war equip- "I am well paid for my job; Coney Island branch of the Brook- ment is boing sent up from but I haven't got a motor-caryn Boro Gas Co. The other day There can be little doubt that Canton to meet this threat. yet."-Mr. J.. Cook, the leho became President Mary B. Dillon, head of, that $5,000,000; the connection between ships and
corporation. Did someone coal is not fully realised by the
What really flatters a man is once that women were out of place general públic, neither is due Shuikwan, which is the present that you think him worth flatter-in offices? thought given to the further terminus of the Canton-Hankowing-G. Bernard Shaw,
point that the slump in Britain's shipping and shipbuilding trades is more largely due to the decline
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and it is said that the Canton Miners' Secretary. expedition to repel the invaders. will make their headquarters at
railway This point is about 70 miles distant from the border of Human and the nature of the in- tervening country is such that it!
·ROYAL DUTCH.
DIVIDEND OF 23 PER CENT.
Amsterdam, May 12,
TRADE BALANCE.
The brushing of my hair, sald
he,
.j
Is, after all, no art.
I do it 'cause I realize
The best of mon must part.
Two kinds of men. That's all
..there are,
Bay
If just the truth be said: The kind who do as they are
told,
And those who never wed.
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If the Irish Free State goes through with its determination to issue. its own coinage and to give the pieces Irish names, another burden will have been added to the troubles of the traveller In this Few motion picture stars ever troubled Old World. For the Irish accumulate wealth despite the will have a pingin instead of a fabulous salaries they receive. penny and a leat-coroin instead of a With few exceptions most of them half crown.
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die on the verge of pauperism. But the Irish after all will only Barbara La Marr, who during her be following the example of ather life-time enjoyed all luxuries, left countries which have attained only a few hundred dollars when their independence since the war. death came.
Latvia gives us graschi, Lithuania And why?
tas and Poland zloty,
Because nearly all of them live far beyond their salaries. It is the common fallacy to spend just a few hundred above the pay Himit
of the coal export business than an expensive matter to push an ariny very far from the rail-head. to any other individual cause The water transport is normally or factor.
As the writer of an indifferent, although just now illuminating article in a Homo several of the small rivers are in
flood. Although the Canton' mili- The Royal Dutch Petroleum Oil financial journal recently put it,tary authorities can easily main- Company has declared a dividend cheap and full-scale production taid supplies of munitions, etc., it of 22 per cent.Reuter, of coal, and its cheap and rapid is being said that they are handicapped for want of funds handling on railways and at with which to support, so far away ports, would' romove ninety per from home, a force of the, size the thought to be necessary to stem cant. of the troubles. in
any determined invasion by a mining, shipping and shipbuilding well organised force. It is difficult APRIL FIGURES SHOW LOSS
Counsel at Bow County Court: industries of the country. Some for us here to ascertain the pro-
A lady was with you?--Witness: interesting statistics regarding dlse position, but there are good
A lady-well, yos, my missus, Britain's coal exports and the Brounds for believing that dovel opments of considerable import-
"The girl Mary Stokes, who is Robert Blair, 82, has been order- opportunities which have been ando are pending.
alleged to have adbusted a child ed to pay his wife, Julia, 74, an al missed in this direction were re-
from the care of its guardian at lowance of $25 a month. Blair is cently published. These showed
Manchester, has been arrested," an Indiana Civil War veteran and The figures show a falling off says one of the evening papers. It is said to be the oldest man over that in 1913-now regarded as an
Paris-The Duke of Guise has of over six millions sterling in is an offence none the less shock before the criminal court ord index year we exported over
cont to friends of the late Duke importa and thirteen millions stering because of its novelty, 73 million tons of coal as cargo, of Orleans a letter in which heling in exports as compared with plus, bunkers. This was at a declares that he assumes all the March when the figures were
Queen Marie of Rumania has If a girl says no when you nak responsibilities, and claims all time when we had to meet the the rights of the heads of the Imports, £106,804,000 and exports, signed a contract to write a series her if she loves you, it'e a nega-
£66,399,000-Reuter."-
of thrilling movie scenarios for antive, but not a proof full fores of Gorman coal com Royal House of Franco-Reuter,
OF BUSINESS.
London May 124. The Board of Trade returns for April are as follows:
Importe£100,718,000
Exports...£52,748,000
charge of wife, desertion,