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Washington, May 14.

A Bill to establish a 3100,- 000,000 indlüsrance. division of the Export and Import Bank in order to insure American ex- partera against the risk of non- payment of foreign customers hna-been prepared by Senntors Pepper, of Florida, and Murray, of Montana, bath democrats.

Pepper aald the "measure - would not provide a subsidy for American exporters. The fun- damental of the contemplated system is that premium incomes shall be aufficient to defray the coats of the system's operation and any loss incurred. Other

THE biggest news for you. Just unpacked Exquisite jade-gold nations have for years provid necklace, bracelets, earrings, ed export credit insurance for fingerings, washable pure silk their trade.-Associated Press. embroidered garments, etc. grand exhibition of China's Finest carved teak-camphor-lined

Also

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Warranted prewar-made, Mode Elite, 20 Queen's Road Central.

HALF A MILLION

MEN'S SECOND-HAND JACKETS and TROUSERS Suitable for Hongkong trade at FOUR SHILLINGS each.

East

SHIPPING MOVEMENTS

Arrivals

Yesterday:S.S. Iraq Victory from Shangh S.S. Thos frum Kure, 5.S. Oradel, 5.5. Bengal from Singapore and S.S. Blaucus from Shanghai.

Scheduled Arrivals

Today: M.F.A. War Bharata

Kure and U.S.S. Orleck.

from Singapore, HS, Karon from

Thousands shipped to Middle

Tomorrow: -U.S.S. Adan. bales

H.M.S. Pheasant from Pratas garand S.S. Scapool from Seattle.

Tuick shipment of pressed of me thousand assorted

acpa.

Establish confirmed credits payment of any quantity on English Bank.

M. Nowman, (Contractor)

Ltd.

Bean Street, Manchester 7. England.

Cable Address: Harbinger.

Always rely

in

for Singapore.

·THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1946.

Silk Prices May

When

agency,

Go Lower

the

NEW YORK; MAY 14.

N.Y. STOCK MARKET

New York, May 13. Individualizeity strongth per sisted in the N.Y. Stock market

sure put many leading lesuca ou the losing side.

Buying was again based partly on earnings and dividends, split- up possibilities and faint hopes of labour adjustments. Denlings were quiet throughout the session.

Transfers totalled liares,

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.

SHIPPING DEPARTMENT

16 Pedder Street Tel. 80811.

General Managers.

INDO-CHINA S. N. CO., LTD.

SAILINGS

1.200.000 5.3. KUTSANG .....to Singapore, Penang & Calcutta 15th May.

5.S. WINGSANG

F

ARRIVALS

IN PORT

.to Shanghai 21st May

.from Shanghal 16th May

Kowloon Dock *- ...Buoy A 8.

All the above subject to alteration without notion

EASTERN UNITED STATES SILK MANUFACTURERS EX-oday although light selling prea-

RECT COMPETITION OF JAPANESE, CHINESE AND ITALIAN SILK SOON TO FORCE PRICES LOWER IN THE AMERICAN AND OTHER WORLD MARKETS. "EXPECT SUBSTANTIALLY LOWER PRICES OF RAW SILK AND FINISHED SILK ITEMS AS COMPARED WITH RECENT HIGHS,” SAID THE MARKET AD- VISORY SERVICE OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATIS- TICAL BUREAU, A PRIVATE RESEARCH ORGANI-Dow Jones Averages .3 76.92

30 Industrials

207.34 ZATION. "THEY WILL CONTINUE, HOWEVER, 20 Rails

64.04 3.S. WINGSANG SUBSTANTIALLY ABOVE PRE-WAR PRICES: DE- 15 Ulities

43.06 Adams MAND FOR SILK ITEMS" WILL' EXPAND WITH A

Alaska Express $23, $87, Jonenu SHARP GAIN IN SUPPLY, AND ESPECIALLY WITH American Smalling $884, Ameri- J. WAISANG

American Can $90, LOWER PRICES."

can Telephone $194, American 3.5. KUTSANG (Operators P. & 0.) government, Manufacturers of women's Tobacco $99. American Water-

Anaconda War Acts Corporn-stockings and

Copper other silk tex-works $25. tion, sold 3,000 bates of murplus | Wes

$47% Aviation Corporation $1f*. increasingly im Baldwin $34%, Barnsdall $30, raw silk in February, bayers patient for revision or removal Bendix Aviation $46, Bethlehem All intending Passengers are requested to register their namen a paid an average of about $11.75 of price ceilings by the govern Steel $105, Beeing $27, Borden, far as possible in advance of the time at which they wish to leave....

pound, Hosiery manufactur-ment Office of Price Adminis, Co. $55, Canadian Pacific ers paid as high ns $22.25 n tration. Retail price cellings J.I. Case $47,- Eastman Koduk pound for fine quality silk.

Electric Light & The Journal of Commerce, aing the war. at $1.85 to $1.65 n

Electric $46, General newspaper of business, reports pair, based on a pre-war price General Motors $73, Goodrich some important silk buyers of $3.08 a pound for raw silk, 580%, Goodyear $74, Homestaken.. GING LA... Due from United Kingdom about 26th May have stated they will pay at the In order

International Har-. EMPIRE PARK Duo from United Kingdom about 27th May to make a profit on Mining most. $9 a pound for Japanese stockings made from silk bought vester 500%, International Paper mv. GLENAPP Salling for U.K., Antwerp, Amsterdam Rotterdam United States a 2,600-bale shipers say silk stockings would be Kenncestt Copper $68%, Mout arrived in the at present prices manufactur-851, International Tel, & Tel. $24, Johns Manville $166, ment now being tested at Habo- priced at nearly $4 a pair at

gomery Ward $100, National Dla

Managing Agents ken, New Jersey. An executive | retail,

tillers $84%, National Lend

$39, Packard Motors $10, Pan Ameri M.V. KAFIRISTAN Duo from Melbourne, Sydney, Torekina New York Central RR $25,

AUSTRALIA CHINA LINE can Airways $204, Ponnayvanla KR $41, Radio Corporation

silk

recently

were

on silk stockings were set de Fine

of the U. S. Testing Company, Stocking manufacturers said

which is grading the Japanese silk, estimated its

Power

Departures

value at that any sales of silk stockings Yesterday:II.M.S. Oceanway

$10, an for Singapore, S.S. E Sang for about $2,000,000, or the equiva-would be delayed until removal

or revision of controls over re- Real 30k $30, Republic Steel Shanghai and S.S. Brockley Marlent of $6 a pound.

-$44 tail sales prices. Price controls $305, Reynolds

Schenley

Roebuck $80% were removed from raw silk in January. Nevertheless, hosiery

Pacific were ailk, first of manufacturera imports expected to be about planning to make silk stockings 10,000 bales (of 133 pounds in anticipation

Scheduled Departures

Today :-nil.

Tomorrow:-S.S. Sampbill

Price Ceilings

For

The Japanese

Mike and H.M.S. Whimbret with H.D.M.L. 1082 to 1dian,

"Camel "Brand"

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- SAILINGS TO. U.K.

"BENVOBLICII" sails for London via Straits-Early June.

FREIGHT ONLY...

VESSELS DUE

"BENVORLICH" from U.K. via Straits-2nd half May,

"BENLÈDI"

"LOKSANG'

"AMMLA"

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from Melbourne

Mid Jupe.

End May.

End May

For further particulars apply to W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (CHINA), LTD.

York Building

Tel. 34165.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.

S. S. "HAI YANG''

Salling for SWATOW

On or about 19th May.

Subject to alteration without Notice.

For Particulars of Freight & Passage Please apply to: DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.

General Managers.

P. & O. Building, 5th floor. Tel. 23755.

or

CHINESE SHIPPING DEPT.

20 Connaught Road, Central. Tel: 21639.

Shell Oil $39** Socony reported $17 Southern

, Standard Oll of Calif 368%

Agents: THE GLEN LINE LTD.

about 20th May

24th May

Loads for Sydney, Melbourne Bild-Juno also Brisbane it suficient inducement.

Also Agents for PRINCE LINE LTD.

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file stockign Standard Oil of New Jersey $78 S.S. WINDERMERE, PARK, arrived from VANCOUVER A13 Buny

Youngstown

ench) monthly, was imported of government price controls. $34%, Union Carbide $110, U.S. by the government agency, Some manufacturers expected Rubber $77. U.S. Steel $86, United States Commercial Com-silk stockings to be on sale by Westinghouse $36, pany. The Bilk will be sold the end of May. within the next few weeks.

BRIDGE NOTES

Knowing when to shift one suit to another is one most important features of sive play. East made choice in today's hand:

South, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable

B. Q 8 0 4

1

from

merc.

More Shipments

Additional silk was reported en route from Japan, China and Italy, The Journal uf Com- said three large ship- ments of Japanese silk, two of the defen-shipments of Chinese silk and wist three shipments of Italian silk wert expected to be en route to the United States shortly.

The first shipment of Italian silk which arrived aboard the! steamship - Notre Dame Victory --783 bales weighing 54,612.1 kilograms-was

H. 10 9

DK ] 19

8. 10 9 5 2

8. A 3

H. 8 7 4 3

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E. 0 0 2

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ED. & Q 154

0. K 3 B

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0.7 0 2

B. K J 7

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D. 9 a 8

QA 10 94

consigned to

Sheet & Tube $75.-Associated Presa.-

U.S. COTTON

BUTTERFIELD

AGENTS:

SWIRE

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

New York, May 13. Cotton prices:-May $27.34 bid, July $27.50, October $27.73,

SAILING TO BANG KOK via SWATOW December $27.78, March $27.80, May (1947) $27.87, Middling Spot $28.16.

S.S. "KWEIYANG"

3 p.m. 17th May New $27.40 bid, October $27.66, Deceru

Orics Cotton:-July

SAILING TO SHANGHAI, TSINGTAO AND TIENTSIN, ber 327.75/76, March $27.869.S. "HUPEH" (No passengers)

Associated Press.

N.Y. EXCHANGES

S.S. "ANHUI”

Now York, May 19. Foreign Exchange Market;-

. Noon 18th May

SAILING TO SINGAPORE

Noon 20th May

SAILING TO CANTON

9 a.m. 18th May-

Subject to alteration without notice.

For Freight and Saloon Passages all lines, please apply to:... BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

private manufacturers. Market T.T. on Montreal $0.90.814. Lon-] 8.8. "FATSHAN” reports said 78 percent Italian don $4.03, Paris $0.84, Buenos Bilk was

offered at, $10.75 a Airea (free market) $24.46, Ris pound, 81 percent silk was de Janeira $5.25, Mexico $20.05, offered at $11 a pound and 83 Amsterdam (ftorin) $37.80, Brus-

$2.29, Batavia percent silk at $11.25 a pound. sels

(guildor) More than 600 bales (133 $37.90, Singapore $47.00, Bombay

$30.35, pounds per bale) of Chinese

Hong Kong $26.25.-Asso- ciated Press. silk was expected to arrive.

Chinese and Italian silk is.

Washington, May 14. The bidding:

being imported by private silk, - Railroad apokosmen today South

West North East merchants. Japanese silk im asserted the lines will show a INT

Рияз ENT

Passports are-under-government deficit of $345,000,000 this year ENT. Pass Pass Past control, and will continue under unless

West thought briefly

the Inter-State Com- about government control for some merce making an opening lead from his time, it was

Commission approves a understood.-A8-25 percent increase in freight| hopeless hand, and finally hit

sociated Preas, upon the deuce of spades. Eact

ratea. Associated Press. - won with the spade Ace and, in his turn, did

did some thinking

It was pretty clear that the spado suit could not be depended unon to provide the bulk of the tricks needed to defeat the con- tract. Hence there was no real point in continuing the sult; the part of wisdom, rather, was to look for a sult which would have Bomp chance to beat three no- trump

East's long diamond suit acon- ed to fill the bill, so East return- ed the five of diamonds at the second trick. Dummy won with the ten of diamonds, and South found himself unable to fuinil kis

He could win

three

Secret British Treaty Jolts U.S.

Ottawa, May 14,

United States and Canadian cooperation in mapping a de-

-Connaught Road, Contral. Telephone 30981 * (Private exchange),;

· PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship "STANHALL” "MYRTLEBANK" "SAMTYNE"

From

Karachi Bombay.

Karachi & Bombay

Dite.

May 20th

May 20th May 20th

fence of the Northern Hemispheres, received its first BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD

sharp jolt today since the start of war mearly seven years ago.

The jolt was delivered by the under agreements expiring at agreement among Canada. Bri- the end of the war.

ta, The only play for niu: thin and Newfoundland, signed |

on April 8 and an- nounced several days ago, con-

Air Dofanto

Sailings to Straits and Imlia

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD

Ship

cont three hearts, and one club In addition to the diamond already

lay in a successful club accretly finesse,

But when South tried the club cerning the defense of strategie effective for three years, pro-"KAIPAKI"

The agreement, which is finesse, West won with the club Newfoundland. King and returned a diamond. The United States has 99-year yldes for the return to Now- "KENILWORTH" Fast was then able to take four leases on several defence bases bases which were operated by foundland of control of air on Newfoundland, with about) $200,000,000 invested in them. Canada during the war and The United States considers covers future air services, herself the principal defender: of this island that controls the airways and seaways against at- tack from Europe..

diamond tricks, defeating the con- tract.

+ ·

esterday you

were Oswald Jacoby's partner and, with both vides yulnerable, you held:

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-Jacoby

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con-

American officials are corned because it also provides for occasional conferences for

•future defence coordination, but the United States Was omitted. Associated Press.

RUSSIANS VERY DECENT

No Change

American officials expresged Pass surprise that the agreement

was made without their know ANSWER: Bid two no-trump. ledge, after seven

years of Your haul is considerably botter

1 frank and open wartime co- than your partner may expect;

Frankfurt, May 14,

Mooro, Major-General „Cecil and you show your extra strong operation in plans for continen

United States Army's Chief ER: and game hopes by this bid. If tal defence. your partner has only d minimum In Washington, however, of zincer in Europe, said yesterday opening bid, you ought to be fairly ficinis said, the agreement in that Russian entries fired over or three volved no change in the reln his car while he was en route to tions of the United States with the Leipzig`· Fair, but declared Canada and Newfoundland. "We worg going the wrong way Question

The Canadian view, as oxplain and they wished to attract our Today you hold the same handed officially, is the agreement |

attention.

d that the reported Mouro bald. and the bidding continues

did not affect the United States Jacoby Schenken

You

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mander was falso,: "Wo ED

and it merely "idies, up" the not detained an the Rusians were 2NT Pa

situation regarding ··Canadian very decent when wo.sxplained we (1) What do you bid? (Answer defense installations in New had been confused," "Moore saldā. Tomorrow).

foundland built during the war Associated Pross

safe at two nó-trump diamonds.

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Discharging. May 19th

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

SAILING TO PORT SAID, LIVERPOOL VIA STRAITS,

GLAUCUS ADRASTUS CLENFINLAS LAOMEDON.

GLENFINLAS LAOMEDON PRIAM

16th May

6th Juna

7th Jung 20th June

VESSEL DUE. from U.K. via Straite

mdom

Into May

June

early June

from New York and San Francisco,

For Pasedge and Freight Particulars apply to:--

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