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$0 MILLIONS BALANCE -

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WAR OFFICE MONEY WEIHAIWEI-TO-DAY

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London, Yesterday. The consignment of Treasury

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London, Yesterday.

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The Colonial Office has issued a returns published are those for notes worth £5,000 which was lost report on Wei-hal-wei which with the month of August, principu! fen-in transit between London and Hong the surrounding area in Shantung tures being:-

Kong has been written off as a loss provinco is held by Great Britain on in the Profit & Loss section of the lease. Treasury Chest Account for 1527| issued to-day. Reuter.

Revenue for the month upon last year,

Expenditure for the month down on last year,

In 1927, Wel-hal-wel become a

The report shows how this area has been exempt from the horrors Revenue for the first eight [Note: This la no concern of the undergone by millions of people of months of 1928 higher than that Hong Kong Government.

the province. The of corresponding period in 1927 Treasury Chest Account is under by over two million dollars, the control of the War Office. In haven of refuge for numerous Chine

Expenditure in Jan. to Aug. the South Chins Command, Hong

ese in eastern Shantung who found 1028 higher than expenditure Kong, there is a Command Pay Intolerable owing, not only to the conditions in their own districts In Jan, to Aug, 1927 by nearly master. A Financial Adviser and banditry but also to the capacity half a million dollars.

Local Auditor is attached to the and misgovernment of their own South and North China Communds.] officials.

Some comparative figures are given herewith (omitting odd cents) :-

August

.Revenue.

1928

1927

BANK NOTES

Port Edward ́ ́ Chinese merchants in Chefoo and other places who could not carry on Returns of the average amount business On account of ruthless 1,831,937. 1,656,947. of Bank Notes in circulation and extortion practised by local authorl- Jan./Aug...15,432,804. 13,246,403. of specie in reserve in Hong Kong, ties entered British territory and during the month ended Novem- opened business in Port Edward ber 30, 1928, as certified by the with the consequence that that port August 1,443,685. 1,680,493. Managers of the respective Banks entered upon a period of prosperity Jan./Aug... 12,919,758. 12,459,498. are as follow:-

and activity that it never knew in former years.

Expenditure

Assets and Liabilities The balance in hand on Aug. 31, 1928 was $6,498,807.19.

Total as- sets were $14,464,263.31, the higgest items in which are:-

Outstanding Trade Union $4,905,- 871,63, Subsidiary coin $2,038,- 481.3 Balance at Banks $1,300,-

Banks Chartered Papk of India, Australia bod

Average Specie Amount. In Rosarve.

The report says that it is estimat- ed that the wealth and population of Port Edward have doubled in five China $15,066,984 $5,900,000 years and if presént political con- Hong Kong and

Shanghai Banking Cor poration

ditions in Shantung, province re- main unchanged, it is more than

000.00, Investmente $1,279,861.69, front 45,300,433 34,000,000+ probable the next five years will

Crown Agents Deposit account $1,237,113.42.

Liabilities amount to $7,965,456,- 12, the biggest item being $4,310,543.68, being overdraft, Bank Trade Loan.

On the revenue side, Licences and Internal Revenue "not otherwise! specified" account for an increase of nearly a million dollars in the first eight months of this year, and Land Sales for nearly $800,000,

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Bank of In- dia, Ltd.

1,772,610 600,000§

Stipulations Total .. $62,140,007 40,660,000 Chinese inhabitants make no at- * In addition Sterling Securities tempt to disguise their hope that the deposited with the Crown British flag may long continue to Agenta valued at £1,282,100. afford them that peace and protec- + In addition Securities deposit-tion which they know they could not ed with the Crown Agents and hope. to obtain under the present Straits Government valued at government of Shantung. It may £2,999,202.

be recalled that Great Britain do-

.

In addition Securities deposited cided at the Washington Conference with the Crown Agents valued to restore Wei-hai-wel to China at £180,000.

but the stipulations which were then attached to retrocession, have not The following statement of the yet been fulfilled.-British Wireless securities lodged with the Crown Service. Agents by the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, against their notes! in circulation, is published for gen eral Information under Section 5 of the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Or- dinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 65 of 1911)-

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It has been asserted, and with some degree of force, that the libretto which MessrE. A. M.

Security Amount mkt. price. Thompson and Robert Courtreldge 5%% Treasury founded on

Bonds "Tom Jones," the

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famous novel by Henry Fielding, reflects but faintly the spirit of that masterpiece of fiction and that their plat would

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On Sunday, in Pentel Mission £180,000 101-101% ball, 90 Portland St., Yaumati, Rev. G. W. Ridout, of Asbury College, an Evange- Kentucky, assisted by listic Band from Shanghai will con- duct services at 11 am. 2 p.m. and

RUBBER

With Londen, stocks reported by 7 p.m. - Dr. Ridout preaches in there is another important factor a further 1,470 tons (Making pre- English and is being interpreted by to be considered; the English sent stocks in hand of 18,724 tons) Chinese preacher. An invitation! publk has a great fondness for the the price of rubber has remained, ia extended to English speaking familiar, and although not five per very steady,

people to come and enjoy these cent. will have read the novel the The continued steadiness in the revival services. name of Torn Jones has an intimate price of rubber has led to a better sound and makes a direct appeal to enquiry for shares. Sellers, how-

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GERMANY'S NOTE

The local public will have an opportunity of judging the merits of the novel and the libretto when the opera is produced by the Philharmonic Society at the Theatre Royal next Friday and on other nights during the following week.) One of the most notablo de partures made from the book is the toning down of the coarser features

BRITAIN CONSIDERING FRENCH 2.80 p.m. of the age. The story has boon

GOVERNMENT'S SUGGESTIONS [so, well arranged that it is well adapted to musical treatment.

London, Yesterday. Tom Jones' love for Sophia, her Indeed outside the sphere of The British Government yester flight from the paternal roof, the abstract music he has written day received the French Govern hero's lapae with the fascinating nothing better, The tris "Wisdom ment's suggestions for a draft roply Lady Bellaston, the reconciliation at Baya," the septette "The Barley to be sent to the German note of Randagh Gardens and the promise Mow" the madrigal "Hero's a October 30 In connection with the of conjugal happiness for the youth paradox for lovers, with the setting up of a committee of experts ful lovers are set forth with that brillant finale which contains that to Inquire into a complete and de- sense of clearness which is so ear-haunting refrain "For aye my faite settlement of the reparation necessary in comic opera. A +love," provide a musical treat of a problem. These suggestions, which The composer was Mr. Edward very high order. And it has the have been made in the light of the German, warmly sympathetic with further advantage of being as views of other Governments recently the old English school of muglefans attractive to the man in the street communicated to M. Poincare, are and possessing e natural aptitude as it has to the connoisseurs now being carefully considered by for reproducing their characteristic. In the second act, Mr. German has the appropriate departments of the melodics. Mr. German's distinct been less prodigal of his part music British Government. British Wire- vein of originality is pleasingly in but such an excellent number as the less Service. evidence throughout the whole of trio "Let's be merry" would redeem the opera To this indispensable the act from any charge of medio- quality is added that of consum crity even if it had a los afective Lodger at Bow: My-landford and mate musicfanship which will be final

Beguile, his family morning, noon, and night obvious to the most superficial if begalle" In last act is another sing "Old soldiers never die, they they give but passing attention to number

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