A PICTURE FROM THE WAR,
ESCAPING FROM THE JAPANESE,
FINANCE AND TRADE IN
ENGLAND IN 1901,
EFFECTS OF THE PAR KASTERN WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH, 1905..
Welling a year ago on the conres of mtain the City during the twelve months then can cluded, saya a writer in the London Duity Grophie, we had to racorii general disappoint
commencement of the antama, howevor, thore his life-whistling and humming of it over wore many indications of growing confidance to myself in solitary corners; and am not yet on the part of the public, accompanied by signs arrived, they tell me, within many guavors that the relums of capital seeking investment of it." On one ocension at the Novellos he was growing, and from September down to the managed to weather the Mozartian storm" present. tiros sosurities have steadily appreciated. with thu aid of southing porter; but his power Tho the chief features have been the improvements of musical receptivity was very soon exhausted, in American Railroads, Argentine Railways, as be has explained in his own inimitable way
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Great Britain-Nanking, 181 Tientsig 1858; Tarif Agrestpent and Rules, 1858, Convention, 1860; Rulos for Joint Investiga tion of Customa Seizures, 1889); Chofoo, 1876,
Private Raskopatin, of the 1st Regiment of Drageous, of Chernigolf, relatos in the Russk Late how he managed to escape from the Japaneko. Ila was coating with half a be fol into a strong Japanese caid that prospects have improved, and the comining shares. As regards the latter industry, introduction of Chisean labour, the Labour Or Russians Beil, but Raskopatia's horse was hiting year cau coriainly be faced with ohoertal benefit as aturally been derived from the several times by the enemy's tre and brought anticipations.
As regards the Money market, the dominant dinance having received the Royal Anson early down. I'akopatin tried to escape, but the 100 footer has naturally bean the outbreak of war in March. The total Transvaal output for the
eized him. His story proceeds:
They surrounded 10 eat took away my ga betoon Rassin and Japan, and the consequent year promises to be worth loss on £16,00 1,000,
the 1
Or through the world with comfort go e purclass and sword. I was and greatly. Then they train upon the rosorters of both Empires or practically equal to the record 1898 figure. led me away about three on to a village, and London is direct y ben concerned, from our Waterwork stocks have benefited by
And Gluck and Bestboron, Bach and from the thero they locked me in a widebed house. Only position na her allies, with the Baansing of for the County Council, and Telegraph securities |
War. The conclusion of the one man was left to guard me. No questions duzzara, azd two Japanese loans have been fort, by the iveronson, of the Anglo-French Wober and Purcell are disposed of in a similinutės, day and night, for this had been put to me, but I had been searched, ani ed for ton and twelve millions sterling, though
Butisfaction: tmt any "A century earlier both Pope and Swift were they took from me the little kaifs which in each case half the amount was subscribed in Agreement at the commencement of April was light-hearted fashion. New York. Indirectly London has boon affected nil with geuoral carriol of bailed rice, and as much water as I wished by the needs of Russia, through the steady | Tocovory in Consols has been prevented by equally ruminaica). Swift, indeed, whose feelings They are a special kidney help (no, action or the concluded with the conntrion of Bustora Asia,
my pocket. They gave me half a pound
repnited schroe conaseled with Russian policy, renover half-hearted about anything, hated daily. I not insultual, but I was guarded withdrawal of funds Litborto on plaged hors on including the Baltic Flest episode, azol the fact the art. Ho cyaically made mathematics and
France has already taken
ared that there is little likelihood of the direct appli- music the two chief purenits of his absurd night and day. I was reizet with such a long-Franch account, as ing, that I involved to
esenps at all costs. So, no large Russian war loan and has prepared,
In work.
and after much solicitation was at lest when night camo I began to sneen, as if I were jointly with Gorusy, to repeat the process. Docation of the Sinking Fund for many a day to
In regard to joint-stock flotations, unofficial persuaded to go into the music-room. But he did and I thought my guard might fall spite these factors ursking for disturbanco.mony alcop. They do not hoop guard, as we do: une been in fairly simndant supply throughout figures blow that during the first elevan mouths not stay very long. "I was weary," he wrote of the year 3,400 new companies were register to Stelle, in half an hour of their fins stult, they it und lie about while they smoke cigation of capital, and paving the way, by the sayed with a nominal espital of £31,000,000, which and stols out so privately that erarginaly saw
Etos, but they never soup. Thus passed ten daya tarms on which
money in On the tenth night I lay down sud pretended tr
conditions compares to be 35.001
of companies actually existing is 37.287, kept on walking ap and down past me until he equent upon the onormens expenditure of £126,016,000 for the whole of 100%; while the after ten."--Giebe,
with capital paid up to the amonat of began to yawn: he was tired: at last he lay the South African War. During the first
£1,999,669,000, as against 35,365 concerns with down will his ridle by his site, and soon he was eight months of the your gold was almost con
4 total capital of 1,849,155,9.0 a year ago. The NORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN snoring. I felt as if I were free already Itinually loving into the Bank of England, and
jastog of the year off
aggregated bonts and listened. All the position became so favourable that a ra rose, pulled my
duction was made in the official rato of discount 11,472,000, as compared with £108,403,000 around was still, and only the moring Japanese from 4 per cent, with which the your started,
to
for 193 and £153,812,000 in 1902. Besides the TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEUTER, 1993. was to be heard. I ers
my guard. I crapt up thought I would take is grand drive the to 3 per cent. on April 13th, nad 3 por cont. bayonet into him, but he had wind the gun on April 20h, and this latter level has boon Japanese loses there have been issued the final ive millions of Irish and stock, siz mil straps roout end, and I could not take his aintained throughout the remaining months portion of five millions of the Transvaal loan, lions of Exchequer bonds, in wdition to the gon from bits without awakering him. So I of the year, though expectations wore rifo at left him stooping.
renewal of 61 millions of similar security, five I dared not cross, the yard: ono time of a further downward movement to were 10
in it. The roof of the por cont. This fical change, however, was for some Japanese
I mounted & bevek near the obviated by the apparaat absorption of surplus millions of London County stock. besides the placing of 103 millions of short-dated Treasury the vort
ot the window, tassed myself, made a hole in the real, working capital, and more isfely by
to alose du country has been brought up which aade of millet, and then climbed ap koon Continental inquiries for all gald
No instalment of the Transvaal fold of millet, and flud from the age without this respect have been very gront, and are dus millions.
partly to the somewhat unsatisfactory condition Huowing whither I was running.
of finance in the Empire, and partly by the realise Well, I ran without stopping for nearly antious of Bassian investments in London and the bour; the dema waist hand when I came out ting on the very rond just where I had been transfer of the funds through Germany. Apari, however, from tomporary spasms of stringsnes captured. I hid myself in the trashwood, and camo torost & cleft in the rocks, above which Lombard Street has been
und
A forecast as to there hung & stone; I crept into the left decided to pass that day there. I cannot say how than for many yours past.
again. My
Miding prospects in the coming your is somewhat merry I was at being froo
foundation for place was about six hundred parts from the hazardous, owing to the war element, without
there would soom ample road, nat I could hear the Japanese prasinghy anticipating plentiful supplies of funds to be
"I thought they and abonting all that day.
Our indebtedness to would be quist at right, but no such thing, for obtained an easy terms.
the Continent a legacy from the South more waggons pased along that road during African War has been greatly reduced, and the night, and I had to cleft. I wiw arcok Pond Aro days in that.. berrowing tendencies of Home Corporations | of it; the water was provided by a puddle closs On the fifth at hand, and it was not nice.. night there was silence along the road. forth, and went over the hill towards the
I know my way to Liaoyang eutered ne villages, but just want round them. On I feared the Chines might betray mo. as I
ewoond night, I came up to the railway
I was tol and found Japanese overy here.
I ru that we had abandoned Liaoyang. solved to make for the river and go northwards. I gave the station a wide berth, and reached I bad the river Tai-tai-cho, the riroz is deep,
10
was retten.
I.. AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL.... 2,750,000.
687,500 0 0 PAID-UP CAPITAL II, Fins FUNDS.............. 3,056,961 12 3 The Undersigned AGENTS for the above
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Á gente.
$1888 Hongkong, 18th June. 1904.
THE
to it. From the roof I jumped down into coming to this country. German reapplies bills by which the unfunded debt 100-1 Company, ara prepared to ACCEPT RISKS
north, us
and becamo fond
I came
Indemnity loan for thirty millions bas yet bear "gainat FIRE at Current Rates. issued, the responsibility for which the authorities of the Colony soom somewhat shy of Assuming. Once it is created, however, on end may be considered to the borrowing due to the
dependent, and certainly rates all salt. late Bouth African War.
which
thes
been lower
has undoainedly been checked, and it is to be hoped will not be revived in the coming twelve months. The total liabilities of the nation, as it is, including local debt, now exered £1,400,000,000, or about £3 per capits.
THE COUNTRY'S TRADE.
A farther record has been made in the value of the country's trade. Figures uro available for only eleven month of the year, but the
exports, and re-exporta show a total of 1680,251,000, representing an increase of 143 millions sterling as compared
corresponding period of 1993;
of merchandise
with the
MUSIC.
Poverty, says some wise man, is no crime but it is a great inconveniense. And insens ibility to the concord of sweet sounds, it may also be said, though not criminal de pite Shakespeare's dictum that no man dest to the appeal of music should be trusted is certainly
grent duprivation. Yot,
great and lamentable foes though it may be, it is a loss which has been the lot of a really extraordinary number of meu und women, not merely among the rank and file of the world's workers and droues, but among those who have, in various directions, won distinction.
very
Do weans of crossing it, and as the day was at against the statistics of 1902 there is a33
dusic and don't care for it
A
of no less than 34 millions. Under
по baud, I crept under an old piece of boarding. the clief movements have been connected with and buried
as I could sen the river. whones
a lesser extent of manufactured metals, with
sina"! holhof in the earth, leaving only, | largely ivoroused arzivuls of raw cotton, and to
water,
વૈક
of the
value
of
WESTERN ASSURANCE COMPANY OF TORONTO AND LONDON. INCORPORATED A.D. 1851.
MARINE BRANCE
THE undersigned having been appoint:3 AGENTS for the above are prepared to
ALEX. ROSN & CO. accept riske at current rates.
Hongkong 28th April, 1904 L'UNION OF PARIS FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED
132
HE Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company are preared to accept Risks against Fire at current rates.
SIEMSSEN & CO.
31 Hongkong, let January, 1904. AACHEN AND MUNICH FIE IN- SURANCE CO.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL.
THE Undersigned, having boon appointe 盟 AGENTS for the above Company, an prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against F at Current Rates.
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & C».
Agents. Hongkong, 31st April, 1897
day camo I saw something like the Japanese contraction scntinues to take place composto his credit, loved our Engmanded by the Quean to thank M.Leng Chinese wore crossing the river by walking ports. Iterated in the closing The refreshed and strengthened by it, as Milton { book.""
hean
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Even the poeta havo boon divided on the subject, although one might naturally have imagined that felicity in verbal harmony wenld imply appreciation of music. Tenny- son is reported to have remarked ones to sie Hubert Party: "Drowning is devoted to music, and knows a great deal about it; but there is no music in his verse. I know nothing about the least; but my verso is foll of music" In a general way the statement was very true and embodied curious fact. Coleridge, though he protested not remember if I passed two or three considership shrinkage in wood and timber that he had no sw whatever, and could not sing there. I had with men sitre of millet for y
cattan good music, and, indeed, displayed material, our exports raw flight, and at night I stolu forth to drink theirports. Following the increase in the import an air to save his life, yet delighted llent Boothoven "At night I went down the river and Ind goods show a great oxpansion, and woollen tasta in his appreciation. Ho
alian DARLINGTON'S HANDBOOKS such as Palestrica and Carissimi, myself until dawu in a field of millet. Whom shipmouts are also been larger; but an and Mozart, and some of the earlier Italian
"Sir Henry Ponsonby is com- and steel ex-and, our iron of
never tires Red Cross on the opposite bank, and some
be noted that the improvement Parcell. "Good music," he said,
months o
Sof me, nor sends me to sleep. I feel physically Darlington for a copy of his Hand- to the despost part
of the ford, when they has
the year,
particularly as regards exports. Bloated over the middle of the stream on small
On the other hand, Southey was insensible Boats made of millet. So, when night came, I general tendency of the prices of commodities says he did." tried to cross the river in the same way at the Las been towards a lower larel, though thera ford, at first all wont right; then the water have been some extraordinary fluctuations into the charms of music, a deprivation which to his friend. Merritt, of rose to my neck, and, as I went on, all it once the value of colton, due to the manipulations of was shared by Scott. In November, 1815, Six
American operators. Since May the bankruptcy Walter wrote
bas Rokeby, that he was writing from a lonely the water met aberatny hand; I cannot awin,
It fireside, his wife and langhter having gone scrambled back as well as I could. of the moving spirit in this corner and I
a rosted to the skin, cald and husgry: is obvious, however that the figures of the in to Edinburghs to different good ser for
restored price to a more normal level.
attend a great musical Dying of Despair seized 08.
bruger or being the foe saemed to be
same country's foreign trade give a totally inadequate festival. "I have be the same. ching, 2 I want to the Clienso in the idea of the prevailing conditions. The numbuca jig, he continued, "but your solos and soutas of unemployed throughout the Kingdom are far give me the spleen, so I s'on rentained behind to Enfore reaching the village greater than a year ago, and this despite the pru
the pranz my on!
onks." Boott apparently would bare next village.
Beld I saw two Chinesa in
out, "I have no recovery in the cotton industry, which alone sympathised with Théophile Gantier, who once Rassico soldier," I catter
ourtailment of called music the most expensive noise on earth. 736 something
my employs fire millions, give but I t at;
on one occasion, and reduced Of Gautier it is also related that one concerns money, will give you a great deal of money." expenses in all traditoit the same tale when taken to tasis by a scandalised host for captain They
2.7! I said. At first hod
thal understood
je Le fais que DEVON AND Chiness worn sisigued, but after they had haul of depression in home trade, and it is this talking while some one was singing, he replied: A good look round, and saw nobody, they took home Leals which radeets the well-being of the "Je ne supprimae pas la musique,
hoped that the tide has now attenuer A still more famous Frenchman, pation. It may be me to a village which was further away, ant lo tarned, and indications are not wanting that Victor Hugo, objected strongly to his drames CORNWALL me into a large strongly-built house, painted beautifully inside. It was clearly the house of this is so. Maantime Mr. Chamberlain is being used as brettos he said the Brusio & rich man, who at that moment came forth pursuing his opportune campaign ou Recal spoiled his versos, Milton took a very different a kilken dressing gown. I saw he was policy, and this nation can hardly complaie, view. He soug of "soft Lydiau airs.
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In notes, with many a winding boat Of linked awentnose long drawn out. The composer of the deep organ harmonies of There are evident sigus of reriving confidence Paradise Lost" was probably one of the great. on the Stock Exchange, and this is something est music-lovers in the ranks of the posts. He was a musican himself of ne menu ability, and One night, while the village was asleep, the to be thankful for after se many years of Chinese fed me forth to the river Tai-ini che, stagnation and falling prices. It is trus that his love for the art stands revealed in many
ia bis which we crossed in a little boat, three of us at during the year under review Colisele and passages:
Insensibility to music has been by Journey of twelve miles we other gilt-edged securities hace again teashed time. After
but the satisfac means contined to peste. A latter day dueal the World. a record low level reached village. The Chinese refused to go tory feature is that this point sous to have Governor of Madxan is said to have declarad any further: nor world they let me go on
'was not"! aleno, for fear I should be caught by the passed. sad the your closed with every prospect that there were only two tunes-ons "fred
Save the Queen," and the other Japanese again. At last we could go for- of material expansion of business in the
a river, over which the coming twelve months. The Bankers Magazine He would have appreciated the remark of the We came to a
that in spite of war in th Far East, Frenchman that music is the only noise for points out
dictam with a bridge. My heart
gud political alarms from time to time, the which one is obliged to pay"; sack at -ing the.
Chinese friends began to wave heavy.future
friend, notic theoo.cornered framms out of rushes; then they the whole ble repented it wil be soon dancer, pathised. The doctor's remark at a violin
seen that for performance is familiar. When a
the great man's inattention to the dexterity smeared my face with clay, and told me
ing
of tho lower my head and stretch out my hands. I did the your there was a total net appreciation of
the were made with the lowest level touched during performance to which they were
call
it, ? prited the triangular frame of rushes orer my were
would be more striking. Doctor oried: which hidden by it. Thes.wo head, aath as the topic which a rows, compared with February las, for instance, the wish it were impossible t do you mali siste with a crowd of Chinese with whom we had valuation at the end of the year shows a pain of in a gusting fit, described how music affected fallen in. I shall never forget that walk of something like 146 milions The following him so strongly and painfully, producing in his fror a mile. All at once the Chinese stopped, tabis gives the morements of values throughout mind alternate seneations of pathetic dejectious,
so that he was ready to shed tears, and of daring M. rosolution, as that he was inclined to rush into and shouted "Throw it away" I pulled off the the year from month te ravuth:
Total of 325 representative securities of par from the hsh frame. I was in
the thickest part of the battle, the docier simply, value of £2,308,932,000.
bim
Sir, and effectively geve * cold douche, Millions. Weary walk, and my kauds were quite bonambed.
End of
End of 2.091 July, 1901 Not calcul I should never hear it if it made me such a Jokuson once confes el to having 2,930
atod (Millions). Jau. 1304
fool
Yet 2,996 Axig.
2,978 boots impressed by solemn music at a funeral; 2,010 Sept.
3,000 and on another cccasion, when asked by a lady 2.072-Oct.
whether he was fond of music, he replied 3,JUX Nov
16 the 8,012 gallantly that of all noises he considered it the 3,015 Dec.
went as
BO. One of them seized my knuds, while another about forty-oiglit millious; but if comparison displayed, remarked upon the distin
great pa
paiz
Dea.,
I looked bookwards. The bridge was out of kt, and the Chinese laughed at mo. We rent forward two miles until we came to an outpost Feb.
little hil, I thought
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was a Japanese March,, Tatpost, but the Chines nodded their heads wid April nid, Rusius outpost, soldier," I set aut to May ran quite forgetting that I was in Chinese June
face Bhorn and my garb, with my head
with BOLeared
พ
3,031
3,087
clay. All that I saw was a whole Low-water niark was touched in February, and to ask his friend Dr. Burney, the historian of detachment coming out of the tronchas, and all having boon demoralised for a time by the out music, to teach him the musical scale. Dr. Barney," he mid, "teach me at least the As I came break of war on the 6th of that month between alphabet of your language, the men wearing Russian cloaks
to the outpost called out that I was Russia were of self, klased the earth, and could say nothing, downwards the depression was general is all in the character of a music pupil.
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