CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915 — Page 42

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Liverpool & Globe Insurance Co.

Accounts. Featly kepty but no abstracts of departmental

working even taken out. Working on a capital of $ 80,000

loaned by the Shanghai Office, the following are the nett

returns since 1891.

1891 Loss.

1892 Profit.

$ 1,001.

63.

1903 Profit.

1904

TH

108,248.

123,818.

1893

8,848.

1905 Loss.

12,487.

1894

M

6,564.

1906 Profit.

35,304.

1895

H

68,356.

1907

W

38,068.

1896

14,756.

1908 Loss.

281.

1897

10,621.

1909 Profit.

40,074.

1898 Lobs.

38,944.

1910

33,334.

1899 Profit.

23,191.

1911

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24,778.

1900

48,694.

1912

1901

1902

52,526.

1913

" 8 mths 17,015.

16

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38,700.

71,760.

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This gives an average annul profit for the past ten

years of $ 23.829 or 29% on the capital of the branch. Jebsen & Co. Very wealthy Firm with large shipping

business interests. Principal houses in Hongkong:- piece goods, Dyes, sundries, shipping, and asmall export business.

Dyes. Agents for the Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik, The amount outstanding on who consigned the goods free. dyes alone at the commencement of the liquidation was

661,472 for which there was no security whatever except the Compradore's guarantee.

The dyes were distributed

The total amount

through the subsidiary Firm of Sin Kee run by the Compradore with Chinese demonstrators, guaranteed by the Compradore was $ 2,286,507, and his own securities consists of a mortgage on godowne of $100,000 and $ 17,000 in cash.

Imports. The goods were all paid for cash against documents in London or Hamburg and financed by House Drafta discounted in London by the Direktion der Disconto Gesells-

The documenta

chaft and the London and Hanseatic Bank.

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