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SHIPPING STRIKE INEVITABLE Compromise Attempt By Owners Fails

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MIDNIGHT TO-MORROW WILL SEE WALK-OUT

Attempts at a compromise be- tween the China Coast Officers' Guild and certain Chinese ship- owners were made yesterday but without sueSELS.

Mr. Peter Sin, representing a number of Chinese ahipowners, wrote suggesting a meeting with Capt. W. E. Kirby, Secretary of the Guild. A subsequent meeting was held, at which a suggestion made to the Guild by Mr. Sin as follows

WAR

That the owners who were not signatories of the Arbitration Award, in consideration of their: signing the Guilde Agreement to recognise the Award, be given six months' grace; that they pay the same amount as they are pay- ing at present, and pay the Arbi- tration Award rate us from July 1, 1935."

The suggestion was made on be half of the owners of the following ships: Tai Lee, On Lee, Tol Shan, Anjou, Chuen Chow, Lee Hong, Sun Nam Hoi, Ting Sang and Yuet On.

A meeting of ships' officers WAS held at the Guild yesterday after- noon and it was unanimously agreed to take an uncompromising stand in the matter. The following resolu- tion was passed:

dis- be no "That there can. crimination between owners who

signed the Hong Kong Arbitration!

Strike Unavoidable

new camera

study of Teni Mooney, taken as he waited in Sant Quentin for the California at thorities, to set on the demand of the United States Supreme Court that they show cause why the cele brated political prisoner should not be granted habeas corpus hearing. This is the latest move in the 18- your fight to free him.

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Personal Pars

Mr. K. E. Greig, Justice of the Peace The China Coast Officers Guild's the Colony yesterday decision to call a strike at midnight Naldera.

on Saturday in respect of Chinese-

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1934

Trade Outlook On Wall Street

(Continued From Page 6).

"Bonda:

U. S. Government

Bonds were up fractionally. High

grade issues were a shade easier!

NEW YORK STOCK

EXCHANGE

and second grade lasues were mix-S. E. Levy And Co. And

ed. There was tax- swapping.

"Grains Sub-zero weather (in important sections is stimulating

A.O.F.C. Quotations

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The following quotations from Now.

buying. Grains for feeding pur-York have been received by Messrs. poses and hog prices are advan-a. E. Levy and the American Oriontal

Wheat: Total sales:-Binance Corporation. 431,000 bushels, Corn: Total sales: -10,087,000 bushels.

cing.

NY/London

Last

close 10.10 11.00 4.94% 4.931 4.93%

'Cotton:-Producers' "pool" of NY: Cotton-Mar 12,63 12.60 12.57 ........ 12.71 12.71 12.68

ferings are expected to subside.

July The market was dull with poten-M. Silver Mar: 54.10b 54.50b 54.50b

May tial. buying needs for mills in-NY Silk May. 1.83

* 54.80n 35.05b 55.05b

184 creasing.

NY Rubber Mar 13.08 13.12 13.13

July "Rubber:-News is constructive!

18.52 13.46 13.52 and there is a belief that invest- C. Wheat May.. 90% July. 93% ment interests will re-establish

C. Corn May .. 884 large long lines after the end of W. Wheat May 83 December. Total sales-210 lots. STOCKS;-

Market Factors

The following telegrams were Con Gas NY. 19. received by Messrs S. E. Levy and Du Pont... 04%

Co. from Reuter:---

Favourable factors, prevailing prior to the opening of the N. Y. markets included:-

my

9344

89

82%

Amer Smelting 37% Auburn

3774

37%

244

18%

10

04%

TX

Elec Bond & Sh.64

·

0%

92%

3244

Int Tel & Tel. 8 8

81

84.34

33%

28% 28%

28

272

-271⁄4

27%

19.

42 41%

36

30%

19% 41% 86%

Gen. Motors... 924

Loew's Inc. Mont..Ward

(1) The fact that yesterday's ac- Nat Distillers

tivity was greatest on occa- NY Central ... sional railies, is considered to Stan. Oil NJ

US Steel be very encouraging.

London Prices (2) The weakness in utilities has The following quotations from Lon- been intensified by consider-don were received last night between

6.30 p.m. and 10.30 p.m. ex- SILVER:

re-

able tax selling, which is pected to result in some buying after the year-end. Unfavourable factors included:

Silver: Spot 23-15/16 (last close), 24% (last recd.), 3/16 up (change).

Forward 24-1/16 (last closo) 244 small.

ap.

Mrs. Gennaro Piscana has pealed to New York's mayor, Florallo LaGuardia, to decide The- ther the baby she holds is actually' the infant born to her in hospital Immediately after the birth, she was informed her child was a boy. The babe brought to her later was a girl. The hospital says the nurse who gave the mother her Informa- tion made an error.

GOLF STARTING TIMES

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Sunday's Pairings

At Fanling

The

D. J. Keogh, J. B. Macdonald

W. N. A. Smalley, W. S. Rillier.

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T. J. Draper, R. Sanger.

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9.66

++

G. B. S. Thomson, D. S. Edward,

10.00

A. D. Humphreys, A. B. Purves.

(1) Pending the re-opening of Con-(last reed), 3/16 up (change).

Silver Report:-Offerings gress on January 3 and Presi- Speculators bought and sold. Market dent Roosevelt's message to quietly steady.

Gold: 140/8 (last close), 140/10 Award and the non-algnatory Miss Mary Louise Bennetts of

Congress, a further period of owners, and that the Joint Branch Lelant, Cornwall, England, who in

relative inactivity is expected. (last reed.) 2d. up (change).

London/N.Y. Selling Rate: 4.944 Wall Street was active and (last close), 4.93-12/18 (last recd.), Secretary he instructed in any engaged to be married to Mr. Her

following Bre the Royal future discussion with Mr. Sin, bart Vincent Steer, mariner, of No. steady. Utilities eased slightly 7/16 down (change).

London/Paris Selling Rate: 74.00 and/or any owners, to insist on 21A, Cameron Road, Kowloon, ar-but the absence of important pros- observation of the

times for fanling on Sunday:— Arbitration rived here yesterday by the 8.8. sure clsewhere is construed as be- (last close), 74.78 (last recd.), .12 down Hong Kong Golf Club starting

(change). a favourable Award scale.from January 1, 1935, Naldera.

Ing indicative of

OLD COURSE Liverpool Cotton-May: 0.33 (last technical position. However, a close), 6.80 (last recd.), 03 down 9.86 a.m. J. C. Dunbar, G. T. May, without any compromise what-

0.40 non-official narrow and indecisive market is (change). ever."

Liverpool Wheat-May: 5/2%. (last) 9.44 returned to expected, pending the completion close), 6/2% (last recd.), up 0.52

Daily (change). by the 8.5. of year-end adjustments.

London Rubber-Apr-June: (buyers) average petroleum production was 2,423,000 barrels against 2,419,000] (last close), 6 (last red.) un- owned steamers whose owners are Mr. A. J. Wadmore, overseer at barrels last week, Weekly electri-jchanged.

London Rubber-Apr-June: (seliers) not paying the arbitration scale of the Public Works Department, ac- city production was 1,788,000,000 6-9/16 (last close), 8% (last recd.), 10.04 wages remains unaltered, stated Mr. companied by his wife and child, w. hours, an increase of 7.9 per 1/16 up (change).

London Rubber at noon (buyers) 0% 10.12 W. E. Kirby, Secretary of the Guild. were among the passengers who recent over last year.

1036) yesterday...

turned to the Colony yesterday by Cabled from New York by Reu-(last recd.),

London's Foreenst

10.20 ter:-- Mr. Kirby added that the only the 8.8. Naldera.

"A forecast from London on the pro-10.24 Carloading estimates indicate

abable trend of the New York market, 10.28 new development in the situation

10.32 was that one or two of the owners Mr. T. Swan, of the Taikoo decrease of 25,000 units from last states:- concerned had invited masters to Dockyard and Engineering Com-week. Bank clearings totalled $3,- attend their offices, for a purpose pany, Limited, accompanied by his 994,000,000 as against $3,551,000,-

Cotton is expected to be featureless. 10.44, wife and two children, returned to 000 for the corresponding period The 1935 crop should be around 11 10.48 which has not been disclosed.

The masters who have such invl-the Colony yesterday by the as of last year. Brokers' loans to-million bales.

Wheat is expected to be unchanged tations will comply with them, and, Naldera.

Italled $626,000,000.. A seat on the if any fresh offer is made, will re

Cotton Exchange was sold for $15,-to slightly higher. Mr. R. Roskruge, light-keeper at 000, a decline of $1,500 from the port to the Guild.

The Guild held a meeting yester-Wagian Island, accompanied by his previous sale. National Distillers wife, returned to the Colony by the has declared a dividend of 50 cts. All the vessels involved, except the 3.8. Naldera yesterday,

Consolidated Gas has declared a cts. quarterly dividend of 25 ying which is on the Hoihow rii, are engaged in river services, Mr. D: Peoples, of the Taikoo against its previous declaration of either between Hong Kong and Can-Dockyard and Engineering Com-50 ets.

day to discuss the strike issue.

ton

Ford Motors 1935 prices or between Hong Kong and pany, Limited, arrived back here of two models will be $10 lower, and on. eight models from $15 to Kong Moon.. They will all be in yesterday by the s.a. Naldera.

1885 higher, Hong Kong on the data fixed for the strike.

10.08

Wall Street: should be quiet with 10.86 rome irregularity in prices.

PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE

10.40

C. Thwaites, P. S. Grant E. Lewis, W. Pittendrigh. Comdr. Hole, Col. Matthews. S.. T. Butlin, D. L. Prophet. G. Madgwick, A. A. Bremnar A. O. Brawn, H. H. Beddow, K. S. Morrison, I. H. Geare. J. A. Shaw, F. D. Tracy.

W. A. Stewart, J. Forbes.

N

T. Low, N. K. Littlejohn.

R. L. S. Webb, D. Ellis.

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11

G. W. Reeve, G. H. Bond, 10.52 R. A. Rodgers, A.

Girondal

3.

10,58 B. D. Evans, A. Sommerfelt.

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$

11.00 L. R. Billinghurst, D. K

Hislop. t

NEW COURSE *

9.36 a.m. R. Young, S. H. Dodwell. B.40

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Budget Note Expected 9.48

On January 7

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9.52

10,00

10.04

10:28

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New York, to-day-President 10,12 Roosevelt's regular message to Con- 10.10 Inspector L. P. Lane, of the

A message from Washingtongress is expected on January 4, and 18.24 Police Headquarters, returned from states that the shaving of another his Budget message on January 7, DANISH AUTHOR ON leave yesterday by the s.. Naldera. 80 cts. off the value of the dollar wherein he is expected to stress 19.36 is the goal set by Senator Thomas (hopes for an early balancing of the 10.40 ENGLAND

Mr. F. W. Bradley, of the Sani-aa he prepares for the Conference, Budget-United Press, per 3. E. tary Department, accompanied by scheduled for January 16, and de-Levy and Company.

10.52 his wife, returned to the Colony by signed to align the various India- the sa. Naldera yesterday.

National Character Diagnosed

G. C. Worrall, R. E. Valen tine.

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A. B. Stewart, W. Li Marshall.

J. C. Taylor, H. L. Schultz. G. S. Archbutt, A. Ritchle.

W. N. Buyers, J. Fleming,

G. Marseille, A. C. I. Bowker

R. I. Cherrill, H. H. Mundy.

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P. Morrison, J. W. Mayhew.

J. P. and Mrs. Sherry

D. L. Newbiggin, .. Pethick.

Miss Whimster, H. N. WI- liamson.

110.48-

Mrs. Thomson, Miss Curtin.

F. Robinson, Mrs. Turn .:.bull.

Mrs. Smalley, Mrs. Hillier.

• Caddles from Superintendent.

tlonist groups behind the common proved by members of the Sugar 11.00 programme. Expressing his be-Exchange. Trading, will start, on lief that the dollar must be divor- January 2. Consolidated Gas has

Mr. Christen Hansen a Danish EGYPTOLOGIST AND ced from gold, to bring about the declared a dividend of 25 cts." "author, has made a flattering "diag-

nosis of the English character.

Under a disarming title,

"The

English Smile," his book is full of

LOVER OF CATS

desired parity, Senator Thomas Router. jonid that the aim of the meeting will be to come to an agreement

Late Sir Ernest Budge on a proposal to be sent to Con-

the

Latest Quotations

QUAINT TALE FROM

MOSCOW

Bolshevik Elegance

He had occasion to visit the Cen- tral Office of the Domestic Ser vantal Trade Union. There in the manuscript "wall newspaper he

The following quotations have been kindness and candour. He finds ua

gress "bo finish what President received through Messrs. S. E. Levy

and Company and the American An American when in Moscow re clever, calm, and temperate-in! The late Sir Ernest Wallis Budge Roosevelt started out to do."

Oriental Finance Corporation: spite of our having 42 aynonyms for Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian A. Plerce Cola Report

Now York, Yesterday.cently observed an amusing: In- the word "drunk."

Antiquities at the British Museum, la their market report.

Prev. To-day's stance of the propaganda for the close close But as an intelligent Dane who who died last month, had been in American Oriental Finance Cor

new gentility in Soviet Russia. believes that Denmark should de-poor health, for some time. This poration, correspondent for Messrs. N.Y./London

cross-rate

4.94% 4.94. mand to be incorporated within the year he had to refrain for the first E. A. Pierce and Company New

NY. Cotton-May 12.66 12.64 13.28 N.Y. Rubber-May.... 13.29 British Empire, he is afraid that time from accepting an annual com-York state:

"Stocks:-Year-end adjustments Chile Wheat-May 99% ·99%. the smile of repression may be our mand to Balmoral. "

89% market. Chic Corn-May undoing. He says;

Sir Ernest's devotion to cats, and dominated

ated a broader

Silver Oficial......... 5814 .58% Among the facts that most of the Antiquities at the British Museum, Utilities were steadier in spite of Montreal Silver Mar. 54.25b 54.45 read a story with a moral

Dow Jones Averages: world has absorbed is that Britain's cat, "Mike," was a notable charac- the reduction In the Consolidated

Today's place is at the head of the nations teristic. It originated in part Gas dividend to 25 eta.

Doe: 26 close Change Now the English find it through interest in the cat goddess "Grains:-Wheat: The market

:00 off was a trading affair and a little 80 Industrials 100.85 100.20 bard to realise their own greatness of Egypt.

20 Rails 35.80 85.8404 up indeed, many of them deny it.

Lady Budge, whom he met as an easier. There was a moderate 20 Utilities 16,88 17.00 17 up 85.09 95.12 .08 up Mr. Hansen believes we shall undergraduate at Cambridge, was volume of trade with traders await-40 Bonds

Corn 11 Commodity overcome, our diffidence in time "to one of the Pit Victorian ladies to ing further developments. call the nations together and put wear her hair cut short. She was resisted pressare, The cash basis Index 61.12. 01.18 01 up mankind to work...

MOSQUE THREATENED

WITH COLLAPSE

The famous mosque of Hagia Sophia Instambul is menaced with collapse if extensive repairs are not undertaken: The Tur-

17 Leading Stocks

Amer Smelting "Cotton: There was price

Amier T & T largely by domestic mille, which Auburn

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also the first woman; organist to was firm, while country Cana

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proved sufficient to absorb further Do Pont "pool" sales and a small amount of Elec Bond & Share Southern selling. The market con- General Motors .... tinues to be largely a trading affair. Int. T'E T "Rubber: Interest here was small McIntyre

Montgomery Ward Nat Distillers liquidation. Dealers were NY. Central

stillers has Linton Pacing

SPAIN LOOKS TO THE AIR London, to-day-The twelve De

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