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THE "SHELL" REPORT.

LAROS INCHRASE OF CAPITAL."

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 28co, 1918.

The Shell dividend of 30 per cent. was known in the market late yesterday afternoon, and was received with some disappointment, 95 per cent, having been anticipated. We doubt if the feeling will leak after the contents of the report havre been carefully digested. This cogerly- awaited document was sent out last night. and if one had to epitomize its contents in a single rd it would hardly be extra vagant to use the exclamatory_ "Pro- digious!" made famous by Dominie Sampson. It is well known that the com- pany's principal revenue is derived from dividends on its investments in the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum and the Bataafs- cho Petroleum Maatschappij, which for tthe

year 1911 amounted to £591,213. — For... - 1912 these dividends, together with those of the Société Bnito and the Société Mazout, reached the extraordinary total of £1,638,216, and when the amounts brought forward and the interest on in- vestments and leans are included the income for 1912 is found to exceed that for 1911 by no less than £124,682. Management, depreciation of investments, tc., being subtracted from the totals, we arrive at a profit of £1.435,818. for last year, against one of £913,735 for the year bofore. It is important to note that this is arrived at after the intermediate.com-. panies have written off the huge sum of 21,100,000 for depreciation; since their inception in 1007 £4,290,000 has been so written off. The Preferenco dividend absorba £75,000, £46,025 is put to reserve (in connection with other additions to be presently referred to), and, as stated above, a dividend of 30 per cent. (includ- ing the interim) is declared on the Ordinary capital (£3,500,000; these allo- catione leaving a sum of £285, 191 to be carried forward. For the preceding year the Ordinary dividend was 20 per cent. an £2,710,000, taking £550,000 only, and the amount carried forward was £204,985.

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LIVERPOOL AND THE FAR EASTERN TRADE.

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AN EXPERT ON SPRUE.

Dr. Bahr, who, we believe, is a son-in- law of Sir Patrick Manson, is bidding farewell to Ceylon. Dr. Bahr bas gained a considerable reputation as a sprue expert, Dickio was ro-elected chairman of the and a Ceylon paper publishes a brief section for the ensuing year; and, on the interview with the doctor on the subject. motion of Mr. Owen, seconded by Mr. Heap, Mr. G. W. Anderson was re-elected He expressed omphatic disapproval of DEVELOPMENTS IN INDIA, CHINA, AND BURMA vice-chairman for the same period.

the custom, which was then in vogue, viz. Mr. Alexander Ross was elected member of the committee.

shipping away sprue patients to Europe PROPOSED RAILWAY FROM PHAMO TO TENQUER for treatment. He said that the danger It was decided to communicate with the of partaking of the diet on board ship Under-Secretary of State for India and could not be too emphatically condemned. the Secretary to the India Railway Board at Simla for information as to the survey Speaking of the conditions favourable to for the proposed Dhamo-Tongyueh railway, the disease, Dr. Bahr said they were It was reported that much information entirely in the dark as regards that on the subject of this railway had been Sprue was essentially a tropical disence. received from the ex-chairman of the It was prevalent in Morocco and Cong.. section, Mr. E. Darlington, and it was The East was the home of the disease resolved that the section's thanks be con, it was prevalent in China, Java, Batavia voyed to him...

-and-Ceylon-It-had-nothing to do with the climate. It was to be found in North China, where the winters were very severe. It had nothing to do with the altitude,

Apparently. Dr. Bahr is contemplating the publication of a book on the treatment of sprue. He said he had treated

a large number of cases, and had had only one failure, due to the patient not adopting the mengures he advised. Fresh milk and the fresh Bale frait would seem to be of importance in the treatment of sprue

India

These are extraordinary figures, but they do not exhaust the intorest of the The annual meeting of the East India report. In the 1911 balance-shect the and China Trades Section of the Incor- reserves stood at £1,120,000; now they porated Chamber of Commerce of Liver stand at £3,000,000. The premiums on the new issue of Ordinary shares in 1912, pool was hold recently, in the board-room amounting to £1,834,375, have been added of the Chamber. Mr. H. D. Dickie, to the reserve, and in order to bring it up chairman of the section, presided. to the even figure of £3,000,000 the £46,095 mentioned above has been transferred

Mr. DICKIE, in proposing the adoption from the profit and loss account. The of the annual report, eald-You are all company's liquid resources outside the interested in the Eastern trade, and are business, consisting of investments at us well aware as I am of the trend of market prices and cash, at bankers, events in those countries and the position amount to nearly 24 millions sterling, of affairs generally in the East. This is an almost unexampled state of seems to be in a satisfactory financial prosperity combined with soundness. Not position judging from the last, excellent ALMOST GIVEN UP HOPE. humidity or water supply. only has evory item of expense been writ Wilson was able to present. One thing, Budget statement which Sir Fleetwood ten off by the intermediato companies however, still seriously hampere trade, before declaring their dividends, but great tetal of realizable assets has also and is a hardship and loss to the com- been built up by the "Shell" Company, shortage of rolling stock on all the rail- mercial community, and that is the The same policy of wise conservatism is exhibited in the valuation of the shares way systems of India and Burmah Tho in those other companies. Although the Chambers of Commerce in India have "Shell" assets have increased, by the pressed this matter before the notice of acquisition of a proportionate amount of the Government, and large sums of money their now capital, by more than 2 are being devoted to making up the wast millions, they do not represent anything so that the flow of merchandise abould like the fult value of the trade interests, soon be expedited, and transit facilities

be what is virtually a further reserve being hidden away by the policy of face valua tion. It has likewise to be noted that the

ward

greatly increased, The Government of India have now definitely fixed on the exact site whereon to build the new

THIS WOMAN HUFFERED.

FROM

INDIGESTION-PAINS AFTER EATING-BILIOUSNESS

UNTIL

MOTHER SEIGEL'S SYRUP RESTORED HER TO GOOD HEALTH.

cases.

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENTS,

"Shell" Transport Capital Proposals. The proposed increase of capital will

shares of £1 each, and 180,000 new Pre- ference shares of £10 each.

principal middle companies carry for. capital at Delhi, but from what I can how this insidious foe to good health, take the form of 3,500,000 new Ordinary |

THE COMPANY'S WIDE INTERESTH... It has to be borne in mind that last year got the benefit of the higher prices in the latter part only. The current year will get that benefit from first to last, in addition to which there promises to be considerable increase.

But once

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Federale (Belangor) Rühber pany.-A anal dividend of 50 per cent,, less tax, on account of the year ended March 31, making a total of 140 per cent. for the year. A year ago the dividend was at the same rate.

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Mrs. M. Maggott, of as, Gale Street, Durban, for many years suffered from a very severe attack of indigestion. Her case is a typical and striking example of more than they did for 1911, gather from the Indian newspapers, the gradually saps the strength and lowers Obviously a higher dividend might easily inancing of the scheme is not being the vitality of the whole system. Reading have been paid, But the vital principle carried out entirely in the manner urged Mrs. Maggott's letter, given below, you can see how she slowly and surely went of a great inancial and trading company by the Benga! Chamber of Commerce, like this must necessarily be to keep itself whose views we approved of, and by our from bad to worse, until, just before in a strong position: Dig and profitable resolutions of July. Inat-duly-supported taking Mother Seigel's Syrup, she had in contracts may be offered to it at any time.

viz., that the building of the capital and they can only be handled by directors should be carried out by special losas, her own words, "almost given up hope." That's the feeling many women have who have the control enormous and the surplus revenues of the country

of

not be absorbed for that account but be when suffering from acute indigestion. resources.

made available for the extension of rail. There are very good reasons for such ways and other productive works.

feelings of dejection and despair, but the China, under its new conditions of most important is that indigestion lessens Government, is being gradually opened the supply of nourishment from the food up to Western influences. Competing you eat, and, moreover, it further taxes nations are very wide awake, and in some the system by causing the accumulation of the great provinces bordering on the of injurious foreign matter, which not Yangtze riser are paving the way for only hinders the proper working of the Production largely extending their trade, so it digestive processes, but also brings about These two facts in conjunction justify one beloves British merchants and manu- an impure state of the blood. Any ip looking forward with sanguine expecfacturers to push ahead too, and prepare tations to the results for this timo next for the great expansion of trade which/Person who suffers from indigestion manded by the Queen to thank

year. It appears that the company has

should also always keep in mind this abundant supplies of petrol, and that its will before long take place. The German dangerous fact indigestion tends to contracts for the supply of liquid fuel are especially are making great efforts to

open up new country, and will be found become worse with each succeeding day. satisfactory. The various Governments

In its earlier stages you may have an our keenest competitors. As you are have been tardy in taking up liquid fuel aware, the Chinese loan, about which eo occasional headache, bad taste in the for naval purposes, but now that they much has been heard, has at last been mouth on rising from sleep, and now and have done so the consumption is likely to floated, and the issue of £25,000,000 was again, pains after eating. be largely increased. The middle companies have interests in nearly every The chief interest of the Burmese section of distressing symptoms may arise, such very well received in financial circles, indigestion is firmly established a variety important oil district-in the Ural region of the Chamber has during the past year as biliousness, beadaches, constipation, of the Caspian Sea, Baku,, Borneo, been taken up with the old question of a flatulence, intense pains after a meal, Rumania, and Egypt, and an important railway between Burmah and China. languor, sallow and blotched skin, loss of holding in the Gravenhago Syndicate: This is a subject which for some years has appetite, and sleeplessness. It is not which is producing some thousands of barrels in Okahama. The aggregate out attracted our attention and claimed our suggested that a victim of indigestion put exceeds 3,000,000 tons per annum. interest, although we do not seem to have will suffer from all these symptoms Considerable interests bave been acquired made much progress towards the realise together--but any two or three of them, in Mexico in an extremely valuable territion of our scheme. But the subject is an if not quickly banished, can make the life tory where drilling is actively going on important one, because it is agreed that of any man woman most miserable. and where a well may be found at any would be an enormous increase of trade, Mrs. Maggott says:

if a railway were opened into China thore

Writing on the 12th of December, 1912, time. It would weary the reader to

For many years into detail with regard to all these oil and great benefits would accrue to my health was far from satisfactory. producing properties. It is enough to say cashire manufacturers, to shipping lines, and finally indigestion and constipation that they are reported as, answering all to Burmah railways, and to merchant made great inroads upon my constitution.

The Mexican

generally. What we keep advocating, expectations.

គ8 a first step, is a railway from Bharo to My appetite was poor, and my stomach alone might easily develop into a financial Tengyuch (formerly called Momena so weak that I was unable to retain the success of the first magnitude.

distance of only 120 miles to take the little i did eat, and the very idea of food place of the present tracks over which the became repulsive to me because of the The Governicent of pains that followed. Winds of a most We are informed that the directors pro- traffic is carried. pose to ask for authority to double the India have already surveyed the route, nauseous character accumulated and were share capital, both Ordinary and Pre but done nothing further, and no doubt very troublesome.

"I became generally debilitated, shock ference that is, for power to issue they have not yet seen their way to £3,000,000 more capital. It is not, how provide funds to carry out the scheme. ingly nervous, and so liable to fita of over, proposed that there should be any By the existing roads, with all their risks melancholia that life seemed hardly worth present issue. The directors want to be and diffenities, a geod trade already living. To add to my troubles I became in a position to carry out deals with other passes, the experts and imports amount afflicted with palpitation of the heart, and companies, where an exchange of alares ing in 1011-12 to a total of the equivalent this developed to auch an extent as to is the best method of doing so. The whole of £513,500, and chiefly carried by the

cause me to faint without the least of the existing capital having been issued. Bhamo-Tengyueh route. That amount is

warning. Mother Seigel's Curative there is nothing in the company's nor. 14 per cent. less than the previous year, Byrup was brought to my notice. folio to meet the case if such an oppor- the falling off being due partly to the opsa- "I procured a bottle, and began to tunity occurred, and it is thought to being of the Tonkin-Yannantu railways, absolutely necessary that this want should which the French built, and partly to the improve almost from the first dose. As be supplied by a new creation; The revolution in China, but latest advices the days went on I could sleep better, felt report says nothing about the American show that a brisk recovery has set in. brighter, had an excellent appetite, and competition, so it may be inferred that The Chambers of Commerce of Man- in a few weeks had completely recovered the Shell Company has beaten off its chester, Blackburn, and elsewhere are my health."

The foregoing letter should prove to great opponent, the Standard Oil Com-equally interesting themselves in this pany, which made an attack some ting matter, and we must keep pegging away you that Mother Seigel's Syrup can be back on the Dutch East Indies, and in the hope that some day soon our desire used with confidence for indigestion and attempted to "bang" prices in Java may be accomplished. I beg to move the its kindred complaints. Therefore, you This action was met by very vigorous adoption of the report for 1912-13.

will be doing a wise thing if, on the first reprisals on the part of the Dutch com- Mr. J. Heap seconded, and the report sign of digestive weakness, you take panies, at whose back stood the "Shell" was adopted.

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