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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1919

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BRITISH CHAMBERS OF tional responsibilities of a very grave character. The prestige of Great COMMERCE.

Britain had to be upheld in the face of unprecendented difficulties and there must have been many an hour of crisis in which Sir John Jordan had to rely mainly on himself.

AN IMPRESSIVE INAUGURAL

CEREMONY.

SIR JOHN JORDAN'S ADDRESS.

Beats near the entrance.

Yet after all this strain when most men would feel--and justly- entitled to leisure and ease, His. Majesty's Minister has been 'willing

ness to be present.""

THE CHINA MAIL.

deeply appreciate that H.M. Minister NEW HOTEL AT KENNEDY has consented to give us the benefit: of his long and unrivalled experience of China and her needs." (Applause.)

H. M. Master then rose to reply and in tharking, the Chambers for the Resolution of welcome which they had passed said →→→

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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS,

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THE Undersigned has received Inabunos

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'Bodhid£IBAR 3. poz.

at the Holt's Wharf Kowloon, 113 Kegs Bolts & Nuta

(ssortment from 5 to 14") 42 Bags Bolts & Nuts

(assortment from 1" to 1}") 14 Drums Caustic Soda. Tanks -Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT. Auctioneer

TUESDAY, November 18, 1918, ecmancing at 11 am.

At No. 19 Chiu Loong Street,

The big block of buildings at Ken SIR JOHN JORDAN'S SPEECH-

nedy Town lying adjacent to the FRIDAY, November 14, 1919, "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I well-known To Yuen Hotel facing The Conference of British Cham bers of Commerce in China and to attend this Conference and partiam greatly moved by the welcome the water front is the Kam Ling which you have accorded to me to Hotel. The building which consists Hongkong opened in the Supreme cipate in its councils.

"For this we feel deeply and day, and I rise to address you with of four storeys including a roof Court at Shanghai at 10 o'clock on. Nov. 5. The Court was crowded sincerely grateful. I move accord feelings of responsibility and pride garden was built under the design delegates occupying the centre of the inglyThat this Conference of am proud to see so representative of Mr. A. R. F. Raven.

now the leading hotel at Kennedy room, members of the Chambers re-Chambers, the first of its kind in a gathering of Britons from every presented and ladies, occupying the the history of British trade in China. part of this great country. and Town, so far as lavish and impos heartily welcomes H. M. Minister,cognize the responsibility of con ing furniture and adornment goes. Amongst those specially invited to the Right Honourable Sir John Jordan, veying to you a message which will There are two electric elevators the attend were Si Havilland de Saus G.C.I.E., K.C.B., KCMG., and expresses help you in the conduct of your first of the kind among Chinese marez, Commodore A. A. Ellison, C.8. its deep appreciation of his willing. affairs and will draw closer the bonds hotels here. Large and airy dining of sympathy between the great Bri- rooms, more than forty-five in num- Mr. Hugh Horne (Commercial

tish mercantile communities of China ber, are expensively equipped with Secretary of Embassy, Tokyo), Sie!

MR. DODWELL'S SPEECH.

and its official representatives.

up-to-date furniture from Canton. Paul Chater. C.M.G., Mr. Archibald

Mr. 5. H. Dodwell, representing "You have assembled here in a Blackwood chairs and cables inlaid: Rose, C.I.E. Mr. Herbert Beer, "and

the Hongkong Chamber, in second spirit of earnestness and progress, with silver plates, ivory, marble, others.

many of you from distances which valuable stained glass and old Shortly after 10 o'clock proceeding the motion said ----

"Hongkong is indeed honoured in would appear incredible in any Ching are in great abundance. ings opened with a Resolution moved by Hongkong, in the person of Mr. being granted the privilege of second other land. The fact that you have Every comfort and convenience John Johnstone, that Mr. H. A. Jing this resolution, and I will frankly undertaken such journeys is sufficient are provided for visitors. There area's Road Central,

5 piece ire Crackers, Macray, acting Chairman of the confess to a certain amount of pride evidence of your desire for united suitable card tables, and on every

elected that it should fall to the lot of reaction and solidarity of effort... It is floor, there is a space reserved for 3. Compare Shanghai Chamber, be Chairman of the Conference. Mr. presentatives of the firm whose a wonderful tribute to the work which musicians. The roof garden will R.G. Buchan, representing Tientsin name I bear both to propose and has already been accomplished by the find a big crowd every evening

second the resolution.

associated British Chambers in China, during the hot months. Tea is Hongkong's status on this occa- and it gives me great hope for the served on fine marble tables and in Peking. represented by Mr. S.

the centre there is a band stand. Mayers, then moved that Mr. E. M.sion is a little different from that of future. Gull, Secretary to the Shanghai all the other Chambers, of Commerce "I understand that you are to There is also a menagerie. On the a garden, Chamber, be appointed Secretary to represented, as she is a British discuss the problems of trade which ground floor, there is the Conference, and the motion was Colony, but nevertheless her interests call most urgently for consideration, where many flower pots of the olden seconded by Mr. C. A. Fraser, repre-are inseparably bound up with those You may rest assured that the result fashion are to

of China; many indeed are the occa of your deliberations, and the con- is what is called a stone-mountain " senting Hankow,

the wall The arrival of H. M. Minister. Sir sions in the past on which my Chamsidered recommendations of so re- and above, John Jordan.. was then announced. ber have sought the assistance. presentative a body, will receive the is a coloured painting of the sky, He was accompanied by H.M. Consul through the Hongkong Government, consideration which they deserve, with a moon that can be lit up when General. Mr. J. W. Jamieson, CMG..of His Majesty's Minister, and never

and that I shall do all in my power the real moon is a slacker.

Last evening the management of and welcomed by the Chairman who has that assistance been denied us.

to meet the views of so responsible a

the hotel bad its opening night. The seated him on his right, the Consul Moreover, we now have our own

gathering. General being seated on the Chair-Councillor to the Legation in Mr.

"I do not desire to influence in with a myriad electric lights, and

building was brightly illuminated Brett, and consequently feel that we

tenor man's left.

the

of your there was a great profusion of flags. are in closer touch with Peking than any way

discussions, but it many prove help heretofore.

"This Conference, the first of itsful to you if I give you some idea of Just after 11 p.m., a long string of crackers was fired, and the dinner, Gentlemen, rise to move that Kind, would not have been complete my personal experiences in this coun⋅ which was a complimentary one, was

without the presence of Sir John try. Jordan. His willingness to attend I think foreshadows a still closer relationship between British com-

seconded.

WELCOME TO SIR JOHN JORDAN. In moving the first metien the Chairman said-

this Conference of Chambers; the first of its kind in the history of British trade in China, heartily welcomes H. M. Minister, the Right Hon. Sir John Jordan, G. CE K. C.B., KC.M.G.. and expresses its deep appreciation of his willing ness to be present.

"In doing so, I think I can hardly do better than recall the fact that up

SOME EARLY EXPERIENCES.

.it

be seen. There

on:

started. The chairman and directors were present to receive the guests "I arrived in China 43 years ago, which totalled 'over 1,000. The party shortly after the murder of Margary, terminated at midnight.

mercial and industrial interests in and whilst the Chefoo Convention

China and the Consular service, and was still under negotiation. Condi- in no place in the world is this so tions of life and work and trade in necessary as it is out here. Sir this country were ther very different John's presence also, to my mind, from those of the present day. Provides desirable evidence of the Shanghai had only recently been to about the year 1375 one of the importance of the occasion and of connected with London by cable: no titles borne by His Majesty's Minis-the earnestness of our intentions, telegraph lines existed in China, and ter in China was that of Chief use the words "desirable evidence" the only railway in the country, the advisedly, because I will frankly ad-fittle line from Shanghai to Woosung, Superintendent of Trade.

day.

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GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer, Hongkong, Novamber 19, 1919,

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PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

Instructions to sell by Public

Anotón

(FOR ACCOUNT OF ME DONCILEAD),.

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If you will remind yourselves of mit, I had difficulty in convincing which Messrs- Jardine, Matheson & how the title came into existence.you some that I was going to Shanghai Co., laid, was being torn up and the will agree that its emergence presaged primarily for this Conference and rails removed to the wilds of Formosa: the prompt measures taken by the "In those days trade was confined, Kowloon Police Authorities to re- much that brings us all together to not for the event which coincidence

has decreed should follow im to a few coast ports, but the vision medy the ricsha trouble outside the Originally, as you will remember.mediately after. (Laughter.) I am of the interior was just beginning to Kowloon Wharf, as noted in the trade between the United Kingdom pessimist, but there are surely be realized, and the travels of early China Mail. Yesterday evening the THE Undersigned have received and China was monopolized by the warnings enough to convince every pioneers like Margary, Gill, Baber traffic was regulated, by a European Bast India Company and under this business man that the future of and others turned the thoughts of officer, in a manner such as to leave

British trade at this critical period mea to the great unknown lands no cause for complaint. system did not exceed £600,000 per demands the most serious and col-beyond the coast. The merchants | This shows that our complaint annum. In 1834 the monopoly was abolished, and two years later the lective attention of those 33zed in in the ports began to grasp the yesterday, was realized by the offi- it, and if we are to keep our place meaning of the 4,000,000 square cials to be just and that attention to value of the trade had increased to in the markets of the world, let alone miles of territory and the 300,000,000 the matters was urgently needed. nearly £1,500,000, while ten years after that it had more than doubled the question of expansion, in my of Chinese who formed the consung In blowing our own trumpet (that's The abolition of the Company's mono- opinion it will only be by combined ng and producing factors on which business) we are not too busy to re- effort on the part of all of us, and rested the basis of China's foreign cognize the smartness, efficiency, poly thus proved itself to have been a

and goodwill of our European police, liberating event and it is with this not by the more or less isolated trade.

"The next 20 years saw the who only require a straight tip to go event that the title Chief Superin-individual effort, which before the war tendent of Trade is historically was gradually but surely permitting China-Japan War and, after spend- for it baldheaded. They have our ity as had hitherto been wielded by our foremost position. (Hear, hear)ing 10 years in Korea and watching warm approval.

associated, for such political author-

henceforward

the Company was vested in the representative of the

Germany to oust US from

TWO OUTSTANDING LESSONS. "It is inconceivable that we have Crown. Thus from the earlies: days gone through this war for nothing,

the collapse of the Korean Empire, I returned to China in 1906 to find a

The wa new spirit in the air.

were

TUESDAY,

November 18, 1919, commencinget 3.30

pm., at their Sales Booms, No.

Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street. A QUANTITY OF SUNDRY USEFUL HOUSEHOLD

LINENS & Comprising:-

2

Double Plain and Hemstitched and Scalloped Sheets, Linen Damask CORRESPONDENTS.Table Cloths, Turkish Towels, Batten- berg and Drawnwork Bedspreads and Table Covers.

between China and Japaa, the Boxer ANSWERS TO of our commercial activities in this and of the many lessons we have Rising and the Russo-Japanese, War

·OF should have learned stirred the country and the people country the superintendence of His learned.

are, to my mind, two from their long sleep. Railway Majesty's representative has been there no mere formalism but a reality outstanding ones. First, the value schemes

eagerly discussed,

"Multum in Parvo,"-Please see associated with liberalism, expansion of co-operation. Until co-operation newspapers were spreading into the

"Adversaria," That correspondence and initiative, while today it has amongst ourselves, and co-operation provinces, and the British merchant become linked with the first organiz. with our Allies was brought to a had begun to stretch out his hands is now stopped. You say a Briton ed attempt to unite British merchants high state of perfection, we did cot into direct touch with his consumer is entitled to say what he thinks, make the headway we should have far away in the interior of the providing that it is the truth. We throughout China.

done, and I submit that until we take country. That is, I think, the most that lesson to heart and apply it to the significant thing in the trend of economic struggle, we too shall not modern trade. make the headway that we should.

"I think that this sequence of events is an inspiring one, in which we may read great significance to day, a significance made all the more pointed and vital by the esteem in The which we all hold the Representative tween us; the old disinclination to

old petty, jealousy bes

CREATING DEMAND. "We had built up a very fair trade

object to the proviso. It would bar 99 per cent of free speech. There is no test of truth but time. -

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

of the Crown whom to-day we have take any interest in politics or any in China, but it remained stationary the honour of welcoming. H. M. thing else unless it directly affected and altogether inadequate in volume Minister, Sir John Jordan. There is our own lines and pocket, must go to the numbers of the population. It no man in China in whom British by the board, and their place must was being gradually realized that a self-supplying merchants place such implicit reli- be taken by the desire to co-operate China had been ance, nore in whose superintendence for the common interests of British country and that it was now necessary manufacturers, for supply to create demand. Thanks they so readily and unhesitatingly trade. Merchants, entrust their affairs. There is not and employers of labour must co to the enterprise and energy of big THE Undersigned has received in- one amongst us who would not re-operate to a far greater extent than concerns like the British-American kard as a privilege his guidance and heretofore, and so make themselves Tobacco Co., the Asiatic Petroleum more eligible, better equipped to co Company, the Standard Oil Co., advice.

"And I say this on behalf of a operate with the organizations of Brunner, Mond and others, com

modities which were practically community which is very far from labour.

"The other lesson of the unknown. before have become being uncritical, which puts very practical tests to values and claims; war I have in mind may per articles of daily use in nearly every which has, I hope, its due sense of haps sound too sentimental

at household throughout the length and

tion

stractions to sell by Public Auc-

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BATURDAY, November 18,

-1919, commencing at 11 mm,

at hit Sales Rooms Daddell Street, 12 pieces Black Union Calimers, 10 cases Hypol

10 do. Fluid Magnesia,

10 do Eucalyptus Oil,

16 kege Hubbucks White Zine, 295 do Red Oxide Paint,

3 casks White Lead Fowder, 3 da Red Oxide Powder, 45 bags Younanfa Red Benar,

9 do do White Beans

Also

propriety and the fitness of things, a business conference, but neverthe breadth of the land and missionaries but which does not attach over-awed less I believe it to be one that must of trade are now almost as ubiquitous estimates to any designations as have a great bearing on the issues and as much in evidence in every It is the lesson of sacrifice. part of China as missionaries of such. The resolution of welcome ahead. which I put to this Conference is as True, there were and there are pro- Religion. And here let me in passing matter-of-fact and as genuine as the fiteers: there were and there are pay a well-merited tribute to the history I have just recalled to you people drawing fabulous wages, but wholly admirable work which has and I should not have been moving no one will deny that the war was been done here and at several other it had it not been inspired by a com- won by the self-sacrifice of the ports in the establishment of Langu mon wish to have with us on an oc- majority, and I cannot see how the age Schools which are turning out casion so vital to ourselves one of economic victory, which is the harvest men fully equipped to carry on the of victory on the battlefield, and more conquest of the interior in the in- whose interest in us we felt so sure.

"We are deeply appreciative of than that, which is our release from terests of trade. If I might venture this interest and of the testimony to the responsibilities placed upon us by a word of advice to our Chinese

A Quantity of Traveller's Samples, those who made the greatest sacrifice official friends I would ask them to comprising Ramonats, babys' woollen of all-I cannot see how that victory show a more liberal spirit towards jerseys, has so & felt ha'r, bathing tion constitutes. It is no light task is to be won unless the whole pation a movement which benefits the Chin-suits, neckties, braces, etc, etc. which Sir John Jordan has under- sets out to tackle the mighty economic ese consumer fully as much as it take, and he has under sken is nut propositions before it in the same does the foreign importer.

its vitality which His Majesty's

Minister's acceptance of our invita

only at a time when the purely spirit of cooperation and sacrifice 'I believe we have reached a stage political duties of his position are that won the war

in which our Treaties and Agree- This Conference of British Cham-ments useful as they are as charters peculiarly heavy but after vess of xceptionnt strain. The Great War, bars of Commerce, initiated by of our righte in China, will require to nécessitaunga itlid the concentra Shenghai) of Janke upon as a desire be supplemented by other arrange tion of Britain's imperial strength in on the part of all of us to improvements. Trade refuses to be confined Europe, ac Near and the Middle the rid order of things: as such it to marrow grooves and serka further East. threw on to the shoulders of has the wholehearted support of outlets in all directions. His Majesty's Minister in China addi- Hongkong, and I am sure all present

(Continued on Page".)

Terms -Cash on delivers.

GEO, P. LÄMMEKT,

Auctioneer. Hongkong, Nov. 13, 1919.

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Suit and Attache Cases, BrasS Jardinieres.

Terms Cash,

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HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers Hongkong, November 13, 1912.

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

TUESDAY,

November 18, 1919, commencing

* 2.30 p.m., at their Bales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,

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