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SINGLE and DOUBLE

TERAL HATS.

The most comfortable Hat for Sports wear.

NEW STOCKS JUST RECEIVED.

MACKINTOSH

CO. LTD.

Men's Wear Specialists.

16. Des Your Road.

THE "LUSITANIA."

(Continued from page 5) Included in this cargo were many things. "which cannot have been harmed in the least by their years of immersion in the dark depths of the Irish Sea. There were precious stones valued at $160,000, a great, fortune in gold and copper metal, $50,000 worth of sheet brass, and a

Telephone 29.

parates designed especially for the recovery of the valuable cargo of this and other abipe sent to the bot tom by German submarines. He calls it a "semi-submersible tube."

This unique device consists of a steel tube five feet in diameter and 15 reach from a long enough.

wreck ship on the surface to a several hundred feet below. The inside of the tube is fitted with a staircase, up and down which the divers climb, and it also carries tele- Phone lines, electric light wires and air pipes.

variety of other goods that are worth At the lower end the tube enlarges just as much or mere to-day than into a good sized working chamber, they were when they left New York.in which the divers make their pre- The "Lusitania" had not been bene.liminary investigation of a wreck and to which they return for safety in ath the waves many hours before plans case of any emergency. This cham- ware under way for raising her pre-ber is equipped with motors, power- ciods.cargo and, if possible, the ship ful searchlights, apparatus for con-

trolling air presure, and, most im itself. But, of course, so active move portant of all, a new and ingenious. could be made while the war was on, ens arrangement which Mr. Lake has and the waters off the Irish coast, christened the "aquascope." The latter where the liner lies, still infested with is really a submarine spy glass which enables the operator to look for con- submarines.

siderable distances through the dark ocean depths and locate the wreck or whatever else it is, for which he is searching.

"The operator descends into the chamber by means of a stairway built into the tube," says Mr. Lake in describing his invention, "and, after passing through the airlock. goes into the working chamber. He then looks through the aquascope, while the steamer slowly navigates around.

As early as 1916-less than a year after the "Lusitania's" sinking-one English firm had collected the most complete data as to the position and probable condition of the sunken liner, including the depth of water in which she lies. Its temperature. the currents and other conditions prevailing in that vicinity. It is this same firm which since the close of the war has begun active operations. Its divers are now at work in the waters off the Old Head of Kinsale, where the "Lusitania" went down, and within a few weeks they expect to the latter brings his vessel to a stop be bringing portions of the ship's treasure to the surface.

The "Lusitania" lies 240 feet below the surface at an accurately charted, point eight miles off the Irish coast, A few years ago such a depth would

she lies would be a serious

SHANGHAI COTTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

THE CHINA MAIL.

is marwally easier for the board and His Lordship: Then I shall give the management to negotiate with one directions that the want of compliance representative than treat with with the requirements of the Com large number of shareholders indivi-panies Order Is Council which applies. dually

the Companies Ordinance, be brought "I am directed 'm faguire what to the attention of the Registrar of THE PROPOSED BALE-QUESTION steps the board propose to take to Compani

His Lordship pointed out that the OF THE ORDER IN COUNCIL-Carry out the terms of the Order. IMPORTANT CASE IN SUPREME Whether it is intended to transfer the matter was of considerable import- company to British management orange, because there was net a major- COURT

whether some scheme is being ity of British directors, which was evolved, through which the share necessary.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6,

DAIRY FARM

FARM NEWS.

FISHT

FISH!

FINNAN HADDOOK -

FILLET. HADDOCK

SALT

KIPPERS

AND SIBERIAN

SALMON

NEW SHIPMENT JUST RECEIVED.

We now have for sale

COULOMMIER CHIESE

DEVONSHIRE CREAM

THE DAIRY FARM, ICS & COLD STORAGE 60, LYD.

DEATH OF MR. JENNER HOGG.

63 YEARS IN CHINA.

The China Mall had a telegram

ANOTHER SCIENCE SENSATION,

STRUCTURE OF ATOML

ance.

An interesting case arising out of holders will be given an opportunity Mr. Macleod stated that be was not the recently published China Com-to dispose of their holdings at the aware of the fact beforehand and he panies) Amendment Order in Council, real value. In the event of the latter could not say he was really prepared: was commenced on Feb. 26 in H.M. Course being suggested I am instriscito deal with the point then.

ed to request you to allow me to i- His Lordship pointed out that the Supreme Court, Shanghai, before his specs and investigate the books, ac-board. was improperly constituted; Honour Judge S Havilland de Saus-counts and documents of the company there were three Japanese and three marez, in which Mr F. N. Matthews and to obtain any information neces- British directors, whereas "the batter and others, shareholders in the Shang-ry (o enable me to arrive at an should be in the majority.

Mr. Hartopp then continued read- opinion of the value of the company's hai Conon Manufacturing Co., Ltd, undertaking as a going concern: this ing the affidavit of Mr. Matthews, filed the subjoined motion against the with the object to arriving at an equit-which was as follows:-

able price at which my principals will! 7-On: February 17, I received company :-

That the defendant Company its be willing to dispose of their inter- a priated Notice, at exact copy of the ests to the Japanese shareholders. or notice which had appeared in the Directors and Agents may be re-others or to pet same to the considera-North-China Daily News, and also a strained by the Order and injunction tions of an arbitrator should it rer be printed drcular letter.

The said circular letter relem to of this Honourable Court Hom sell- decided to refer the matter to arbitra.

Section 4 (1) of the China (Companies) ing the undertaking of the delen- tion.

It it proves impossible to arriva Amendment Order in Council, 1919, dant Company to any other Com-

at a price to which all soncerned can and states that it is necessary either pany not subject to the jurisdiction agree. my instructions are to request (1) that the nationality of the manage- of this Court and receiving, in com- the hoard to transfer the generaliment be changed or (2) that the busa- pensation for such sale shares or management to a British company fness of the company be carried on

It has been announced from Mos- other like imerests in such other approved by my principale. 1 am in under a system of law which allows announcing the death, which took!

# position to name one local company the management to remain in Japanese place at Shanghai on Feb. 26, of Mr. cow (says the Wireless Press) that Company otherwise than in com-experienced in such work, which is hands, that the directors feel confident E. Jenner Hogg. During the stay to Profess Rojdestvenski has made n pliance with the provisions of Sec-willing to accept the management and that the shareholders will agree that Canada, last summer, of Mr. and discovery in the domain of physiol tion 185 of the Ordinance, until hot which my clients approve.

a charge of management is not desir-Mrs. Jenner Hogg, he suffered a good science that was of universal impon

He had established the "As the time is rapidly approachable and that the proposed resolution deal in heakb, but before the return

structure of atoms. judgment in this action until

ing when the Order will come into is for sale of the whole undertaking of to Shanghai he appeared to have re-

This message comes from Sevict hrther Order.

force, I shall be much obliged it you the company to a Japanese company gained much of his former buoyancy. -A declaration that the pro- will favour me with a reply as quickly under the power given by clause 3. (The voyage, however, was a very bad Russia, and would indicate that the and (k) of the Company's Memoran- one, Mr. Hagg was again takan seri-blockade and civil war have not killed scientific investigation any posed scheme, notice of which has as possible.

4-On February I wrote and dum of Association. The said letter ously ill add since his arrival in been given by the defendant Consent to the said chairman and direc- then proceeds sherly to outline the Shanghai Inst November had been pany to its shareholders, for the tors a further letter in the terms proposed scheme and mentions that out compelled to lead an invalid's life,

it Professor Rojdestvenski kas sale of the delendent Company's following

of a captial of 160,000 shares of the although, with his usual cheerfulness, found out how to use the foxess undertaking to a Japanese Company Following mine of the 9th instant proposed Japanese Company, 159,990 he was apt to make light of his ills. within the atom, the world is on the With his decease closed the career eve of one of the greatest economic is altre vires.

beg to notify you that I now repre- shares will be allotted to the defen- 2-Ar injunction restraining the sent considerably more than 10,000 dant company which will remain infot Shanghai's oldest European resi-revolutions in its history.

Interviewed by a Press represente- delendant Company its directors or shares. either by direct signatures or existence to hold these shares and to dent. Mr. Hogg was born at Congle-

ton in Cheshire 83 years ago, and first tive, leading scientists expressed the agents from selling the undertak.by definite promises of support, in distribute the profits received.

cluding one lomi Mr. Horatio Robert- 8.-Under this scheme, there arrived in Shangha on February 1, following view - ing of the defendant Company to

fore. the defendant company would 1857, on board the P. & O. S.! Sir Oliver Lodge :--"I do not know any other Company (not subject to

Amongst the numerous signatures part with the whole of its undertaking" Eria" vessel of 522 tons burthen who Professor Rojdestvenaki is, nor the jurisdiction) in compensation for 1 hold appear those of

and in exchange would simply own which brought the London mail of am I acquainted with his reported such sale shares or other like in-

Mr. O. J. Barnes Hongkong & scrip in the proposed Japanese com- December 11 of the previous year, discovery. In the absence of detaile terests in such other Company, Shanghai Bank).

pany. I this deponent am the regis- showing that in those times the postal I prefer not to attach too fuck- otherwise than in compliance, with

The Netherlands Trading Society.tered holder of 50 shares in the capi- service was not any longer than it has Importance to the story.

"In this country much work bas the provisions of section 185 of the

Banque Belge pour L'Etranger. tal of the delendant company, I again become at the close of Mr. Ordinance.

Commercial Bank of China. have also received instructions in writ- Hogg's life. Mr. Hogg's two senior been done in investigating the "The Asia Banking, Corporation. ing from the registered holders of over brothers had previously established structure of the atom, and much is **have discussed the matter of 3,000 shares and from persons who themselves in Shanghai and, although known about the atom, I personal- compliance with the Order with the have bought forward for March in at first he joined the Erm of Lindsay have interested myself in the Crown Advocate, and have his per-respect of a very large number of & Co., he afterwards went into part question and lectured upon it.

"The atom is built up of electri- mission to state that the consequences other shares in the said capital author-nerstrip with them.

city, which has particles revolving may be serious if due diligence is not izing me to represent their interests. which they founded was known as round each other like the sun and exercised to carry out the terms of the The following is a list of the re- Messrs. Hogg & Co., and their pre- the planets." Order, of which, Section 4 comes into gistered shareholders above referred misee were situated on the Nanking efect on the 18th proximo. I ven-to

3.-Such. farther or other reliet as to this Court may seem just.

4.--Costs.

Messrs. G. H. Wright and E. L. Hartopp appeared in support of the motion, and Mr. R. N. Macleod, with whom was Mr. A. E. Seddon, appear As soon as the wreck is located,ed for the Shanghai Corton, Manufac- the operator telephones to the capring Co., Ltd. tain of the wrecking steamer, and

son.

ture to hope therefore, that I shall

The business

more than they did during the Frenia.

Revolution.

Professor Pope (Cambridge) -"[ Road within a garden which along its am not prepared to express an Sharea frontage jutted out and considerably opinion until the facts are more tally 200 narrowed the roadway. The building known. We have a crop of these 255 was pulled down in the early seventies theories every month or so." 225 and the site is at present occupied by Prof. W. H. Bragg (University

300

100

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50 YEARS WITH THE OAS Co.

Mr. Wright, who read the notice of over the wreck, following the man-motion, said that in the ordinary case be favoured with a prompt reply to S. R. Minny

Ellis Hayim oeuvering directions telephoned to he would ask his Lordship to order my letter of the 9th instant.

"5-No immediate reply was re- F. B. S. Burrett him by the operator. The tube is pleadings. but he thought it would

50 the premises of the Office Appliance College)?" The telegram does not then lowered onto the deck of the probably be more convenient if his ceived to either of these letters but G. H. Potts

Lordship heard the motion for the on the morning of Saturday, February Woo Fung-shu

184 Company.

read sense as it stands. If, however. wrecked versel.

The old frm of Hogg & Co. was the implication is proved true, we The working chamber has a door interim injunction first, for if that 14, there was published in the North-A. J. Israel,

known by the hong name of Chaou shall have come upon a very wonder- have rendered salvage work practical on its under side. The air inside is were not granted it would be of no China Daily News a notice convening. J. Barnes (Hongkong &

pressure to that of the use to proceed further with the action. an extraordinary general meeting of Shanghai Bank)

745 Fung, and it may here be noted ful discovery, Mr. H. G. Wells, in ly unthinkable, but modern improve equal in

1,000 that Chaeutung Road was named in one of his scientific books, has fore- ment in diving apparatus makes it water outside, and, as the doors Consequently he would ask his Lord- the defendant company for Monday, Netherlands Trading Society

ite Commercial Bank of China ....

300 honour of the business of these three shadowed some such event, and, of possible for divers to work at open downward, it is impossible for ship to defer making any order as to March next, at 4 o'clock in

course, scientists are always expect- water to get into the tube.

pleadings until the motion had been afternoon for the purpose of consider Banque Belge Pour L'Etranger 200 brothers. greater depths for

considerable the when the doors are open the dealt with, a course with which hising and it thought fit passing a resclu- Ellis J. Erza

Later, when his brothers left China, ing a discovery of this nature." periods of time at a streich.

This was demonstrated by the rais. operator, equipped with a diver's Lordship agreed.

son for the promotion of a Japanese "I this deponent and the whole of Mr. Jenner Hogg established himself step on to the deck ing of the United States submarine outfit, can

Mr. Hartopp then read the affidavit company and for the sale of the under the said registered shareholders and as a merchant on his own account. the F4. which sank outside Honolulu of wreck and immediately of Mr. F. N. Matthews which was in taking of the defendant company to the persons who have bought forward his office then being at the corner of were always open for the use of his Peking and Szectuen Roads, where young friends, and formerly it pas harbour on March 25, 1915, and was, begin work on recovering the cargo-

such new company when formed or as above mentioned are absolutely refloated and towed into the harbour or other things of value. The re- part as follows --

"1. Frederick Newman Matthews on its formation or in course of its opposed to such a sale as is suggest at the present time a new building is here always that the Christmas Burg finished. "Up.to 1910 the At Homes five months later. She lay on covered articles are placed in slings a slope of the ocean bed, her bow or on hooks and then hoisted to the of No. 36 Peking Road, Shanghai, promotion and that the directors be ed and object most strongly to the in the course of construction.

A British sub- authorized to carry the same into entire assets of a British company,

given every Sunday at Unkaza Rew - Besides successfully conducting his one of the best known and most pop- 288 feet below the surface and her surface by the derricks on the wreck chartered accountant,

effect. ject, one of the above-named phin-

of which we are shareholders, pass- stern 306 feet. Yet divers worked ing steamer.

6. On Monday, February 18, 1ing out of the jurisdiction of the own business he took an active inter-ar features of Shanghai society. It in fair comfort and without greater. "The operator carries with him a tiffs, make oath and say as follows:-

The defendant company was received from the said Mitsui Bussan British Court otherwise than for cash. est in the affairs of several local com- may be mentioned incidentally that risk than usual at these depths and special type of portable electric light

We are advised and believe that paries, and was for many years ons Chaouling Road is a permanent thereby established a new world's which enables him to see his way incorporated on December 5, 1908. Kaisha, Ltd., as agents for the defen- record.

clearly about the sunken vessel with a capital of one million Shang- dant company a lette acknowledging such a sale would be uitra vires the, the board of the Land Investment memorial to the Hogg Co., so also is Company of which, we believe, heJessfield Road a constant reminder of When the work of locating and Crossed lines or cut lines are a con- ha trels divided into twenty thousand the two letters I had written but stat defendant company.

one of the original directors, the good, done to the public by Mr. 9.-According to the notice con-

Mr. Hogg was ako a director of the Jenner Hogg, for, at the time when raving the "Lusitania" was first begun, stant danger 'o ordinary divers, but shares of fifty maels each for the pur-ing that a copy of the notice which

Gas Co. From 1870, becoming chair he first took over Unkaza, that trad it was thought that the low tem- they have no qualms for our operator, pose of acquiring and taking over as had been published in the paper and vening the meeting the proposed re peratures of the water in which because in case of trouble all he has a going concern the undertaking of a circular explaining the scheme would solution will be an extraordinary re-

not requiring con8mation man of that boord in succession to the was little more than a Beld path. Fer to do walk back to the operating the Shanghai Cotton Spinning Co., be sent to each shareholder and that solation

Ltd., incorporated in 1903 and of the the directors must decline to give any at a subsequent meeting and 1 this late Mr. Francis in 1895. The record many years. Mr. Hogg waged a per- handicap. This, however, proved chamber.

"According to reports at the time Santai Colton Spinning Co., Ltd., in- information except through the deponent and my co-plaintiffs verily thus established of being a director petual war with the local agricultur not to be the case, as the Gulf.

medium of a circular and at the meet- believe that in the probable event of of nee company over a period of 50 alists, who kept encroaching upon this Stream which sweeps the Irish coast of her "sinking," the Lusitania is rest-corporated in 1908." at this point zes a long way to feet. If this depth is correct, it would

the said resolution being passed by years, is a most notable one and one path whilst he continually reclaimed ing in forty fathoms of water-240 "On March 10, 1914, the capital ing."*

His Lordship: You have spoken of the meeting and in the absence of an which can. we think, be beaten but it for the public, until at lust ther of the company was increased to two wards relieving the low fempera' ure that would otherwise make the work be an easy matter to recover the million Shanghai taels by the creation somebody as managers of the Cons interim injunction or other protection rarely. In addition to these duties Municipal Council took it over and

bodies imprisoned beneath her decks

from this Honourable Court the direc- he was, up to the time of his death, macudantized it. of the divers difficult.

of twenty thousand new shares of fifty pany?

Not only the Light Horse, the Papor The task is made still easier by as well as her carro."

Mr. Hartopp A Japanese Com-tors will immediately after such meet a director of several rubber com- For raising sunken steamships, taels each. the "Lusitania's" great size. The 240-

"2.-The Articles of Association of pany, my Lord, the Mitsui Bussan ing proceed to carry the said sale into panics. Mr. Hogg was present at a Hunt Club and other bodies w

effect and et cnce hand over the said board meeting of one of these latter frequently entertained at Unkazn-but foot depth at which she lies is the Mr. Lake says, the same apparatus ocean bottom, and proper all-wance is used, with the exception that the company provide for the manage Kaisha...

His Lordship Are they the man- undertaking and assets to the proposed about a fortnight ago, and it is thought thanks to Mr. Hogg's generosity, ir that the nervous effort and excitement was a favourite venue for Sunday is to be made for the fact that she it can be operated only in depths upment of the company's affairs by

The agers?

Japanese company. Mr. Hartopp: They call themselves 10.-The grounds of such belie! attendant upon that occasion bore their School treats as well as for cutings to resting in a nearly upright position..to 200 feet. The special wrecking agents and general managers.

are that I have inspected at the de-part in bringing on the final break the bluejackets in port. His kindness As the ship is nearly eighty feet steamer devised by Mr. Lake for use present agents of the Company are high this reduces considerably the with his tube is so arranged that the the Mitsui Bussen Kaisha, Lid, the agents.

Japanese Company.

His Lordship: It seems to me that fendant company's registered office down. Mr. Hogg also took a very upon these occasions will live long b depth at which it is necessary for tube can be used in a heavy sea..

If the divers now at work off the 3. In consequence of the pub-it would be my duty at once to bring the draft of the proposed sale srce keen interest in local politics. and was the memory of many who were pre- the divers to work.

This upright position also lessens Irish coast succeed in salving any lication in the public press on January to the notice of the Registrar of Comment, and the same includes all assets chairman of the Parks Committee for considerable portion of the Lusi- 15 by direction of His Majesty's panies that these people do not appear of the company other than profits up a very considerable number of years." the difficulty of retrieving the con-

The terms of to and including February 29 instant."

To write an adequate life of Mr tents of the strong rooms which are tania's" contents, they will undoubted-Minister of the China (Companies) in the list of directors.

"11.-On February 17. the day mary of Mr. Hogg's business career, rcar the purser's office on one of the ly make a determined effort to raise Amendment Order in Council, 1919, the Order in Council are not obeyed: upper decks. It will be still easier to the ship itself. That would indeed I was approached by a number of there should be a majority of British the writ was issued on instructions he was identified with the life of the Hogg would largely necessitate whit recover the personal belongings of be a prize worth winning.

shareholders in the company with the directors. The Companies Ordinance from myself and iny co-plaintiffs, our community in many other ways, having a history of Shanghai for there Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and e'er New York harbour on her way to where and sent to the chairman and been; so far as I can see, complied" pany inviting them to file in Cauan devolving on foreign residents here was not prominently concerned. Mr. When the "Lusitania" salled out of result that on February 9 instant I and the Order in Council have not solicitors wrote to the defendant coming fully taken his share, in the duties was no public question in which he Have they been returned as undertaking that no sale should take since his first introduction to the port. Hogg was never, we believe, on the Council. He preferred the role of they occupied are located still higher doom she was valued at between directors of the company a letter which with.

$7,000,000 and $8,000,000, With

place until our claim in this action

In early days he was a member of critic, but this in no merely destruc-. following:

Mr. Macleod 1 don't know, my had been adjudicated upon, otherwise mining formal parts was in the terms directors?

"1 have been directed to approach Lord.

they would have no alternative but to the Shanghai Mounted Rangers, the five sense; and indeed his keen and His Lordship Well, I want to at once apply for an interim injunc predecessors of the Light Horse, end far-sighted counsel probably rendered you with respect to the consequences of the Order in Council recently pro- know Do the Misul Bussarf Kai- tion. The defendant company's so in this capacity had many tales to tell greater service to the public catsex muigated as a result of which the sha, who appear as agents, appear as licitors, however, have written stating of the days when the Settlement had outside, the Council chamber than it company cannot continue, under the directors in the fist which has been that the defendant company declines to defend itself equally from strage had entered in Mr. Hogg was a

glers of the Taipings and the Imperial extremely popular, member of the existing management.

returned to the Registrar of Com to give such undertaking."

troops; He was intensely keen on community, highly respected by ., "My instructions come from regis- panies?.

all forms of sport and this phase of His wit, his memory, and his personał A FAMILY NECESSITY. -

tered members having the right to Mr Macleod: I understand that

his character, was manifest rip to fascination made him the most de TWERY family should be privire vota, from registered members and the facts are that the list of directors

the end, although of course during lightful ul companions. To the fery. Loli and Diarrhes Hemely has be shown by ready but passive sym- extrordinary degree.

wealthy passengers, as the cabins

WD on the promenade deck.

The holds in which the passengers the present high prices of metals, the baggage rests are on a level with the wreck as junk alone is worth a for- lower deck, which is above the tune. And there is always the vessel's water line and thirty-one feet possibility that the damage done by above her keel. Just below these are torpedoes can be easily repaired and the cargo holds containing hundreds the ship fitted to sail the seas again. of tons of valuable goods that have andoubtedly not suffered in the slightest from their long stay under water.

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A LIFE SAVER.

While the above forms a brief sum-

UNRAZA:

sent.

A WIDE POPULARITY,

In their efforts to recover the with Chamberlain's Pain Balm, at from persons not at present on the does not include the name of the Mit- Lusitania's treasure and perhaps the times. Sprains may be "gured in

notice as agents... ship itself, it is very probable that much less time when promptly treated register but who are equitably entitled sui Bissan Kalsha. They signed the TT is safe to say the Chamberlain's recent years his interest could only last he retained all his faculties in the English firm which has under. Tame bus, lame shoulder, pains fa the to shares in the companyada

Hoved more offering than any oth taken the task will have to call to its side and che, and rbonaatio pains are represent at present approxi- His Lordship But the agents are saved the lives of mac, pntle and innathy in the endeavours of the vonger Mr. Hog married, in 1898, M aid the invention of an America pecially valuable. Try this liniment and mately 8,200 sharce and am promised described-sa-general managers.eds in exi ferro. It is known numeration. The spacious grounds of F. Hayicy Bell. Simon Lake, laventar of the type of become acquainted with its qualities and and expect shortly, to receive authority Me Macleod That is so submarine that boars his name, you will never wish to be without it. to act on behalf of persons holding Mr. Haciopp. I understand that the Shortly after the sinkding of the For sale by all Chemists and Store rights in many more shares. My ap whole business is in the hands of this

keepers,

pointment is due to the idea that it Japanese armer Lusitania, Mr. Cake devised an ap

some of the diseases for which-it-is-en-

over the divine would for its appally enres, if cramps in the stomach, dis by all Chemists and Scoretespas rhea and all intestinal pains For Life

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