$300
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deal of money on the trade. For example, they sent a man to Japan to learn dyeing and kept him there for three years, end they used to send men into the interior to teach the Chinese for months at a time. Still even with this expenditure the commission seems very large. It is stated that the Germer dye trade was financed for the purpose of securing the trade in England.
3.
With regard to the sale of piece goods at a loss, it is just possible that one trade was used as a support to the other. The Attorney General was informed by Mr. W.M.Humphreys of the firm of Messrs. V. G. Humphreys & Co., the liquidators of Messrs. Jebsen & Co., and also by Mr. Backhouse, that some piece goods can be sold only if dyes can be obtained also. One firm in England, with a German name, Messrs. Hiltermann Eros., Man- chester, the same firm as Messrs. Brinckmann & Co. of Singapore, who used to ship large quantities of a particular kind of fine
Moong hair mhirtings "We:3006" to Jebaon & Co., still refuse to believe
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that their goods were sold at a loss. On the other hand Messrs. Arnhold Karberg & Co's piece goods business does not seem to have been carried on at a loss.
4.
In the case of Messrs. Carlowitz & Co. there seems to be more evidence of payments by the German Government than in the case of other firms. The winding up has proved to be a troublesome one, and the liquidators have had their hands full, especially as Carlowitz & Co. have been inclined to be truculent and overbearing, so that the liquidators have not had time to go thoroughly into allthe materials in their pos session. Mr. T. M. Ainscough, the special Commissioner of the Commercial Intelligence Department of the Board of Trade, stayed for some weeks in Hongkong on the termination of his work in China and took the opportunity of investigating the liquidation of certain firms.
He returned to England about a month ago and I would suggest a reference to him, as he has acquired a good deal of
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