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Hongkong, 29th November, 1918.

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BRITISH TRADE IN CHINA, THE OLD METHODS AND THE NEW.

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whole of the export trade, the despised the only available source of supply for MARRIAGE OF MISS SWIRE

muck and truck" of the past, is in machinery, it might not matter

ND CAPT. WYNDHAM-QUIN. German hands, a very considerablo per- much; it is true that the British mer- centage of the imported piece goods are chant houses in China would gradually

Capt. Richard Wyndham-Quin, ̈12th unded by Germans, and the Japanese be replaced by German houses, but our- The following article is taken from there finding in China a useful market and manufacturers would still find openings Lancers, son of Col. and Lady Eva

useful dumping ground for their new for their goods.

Wyndham Quin, of Castletown, Carrick- special China supplement recently pub-industrial products cotton goods, cotton Serious competitors are in the indus-on-Suir, Ireland, was married to Miss lished by the Manchester Guardian, yarn, cigarettes, sugar, and a hundred trial field, however, and they must not Helen Swire, elder daughter of Mr. John smaller things-which did not count ate under-estimated. Our competitors are Swire and Mrs. Swire, of Hillingdon, Har- It was specially written for that paper few years ago but which now represent no Free Traders, and sooner or later a low, and 47, Queen's Gate, Kensington, at

domination of the China market by nou-

St. Margaret's, Westminster, on October by a Shanghai resident with intimate a very considerable trade,

British distributors would mean the lose 20th.. knowledge of his subject.

of that market for British goods.

To write of China trade at such a time as this is to write of Ching as affected by the war. It may seem strange that tais great peaceful country, so far re moved from the actual centre of hostili ties, thould be in any way affected, but even though the country may have been little moved by the expulsion of the Gor natis from Tsingtao, and although the people may still continue their daily round as the most impassive of neutrals, the foreigner in the Treaty Port has suddenly realised the existence of new conditions and in China the foreigner is still the medium through whose hands overy ton of the foreign trade must pass The Chinese have all the instincts and capacities of great merchants, but they have not yet acquired the international credit or the financial organization which would enable them to handle any big business direct with the producer and consumer in Europe.

HARD WORK.

THE REMEDY,

any

Of course, China has been one of the

The bride, who was given away by her pleasant places of the earth from the commercial pains of view, and the mer.

father, was dressed in emiffon and old cream chant prince was not inappropriately And the remedy. The remedy appears Brussels lace, the skirt having a pearl- named. He had very little to do but to lie in individual effort and in coser to sit in his office and finance cargoes personal relations between the British edged tunic which formed a short square for the big Chinese denjera. They made and the Chinese engaged in the China train, while a Court train which fell from it very comfortable for him, and ho trade. No one who has seen the British the shoulders was of rare old lace with a enjoyed some of that fragrant leisure. and the Germans and the Japanese double edging of net frills. Master Hume Kidaton; in a white sailor suit, and Miss and dignified prosperity which is to working side by side can have essentially a part of China. The Chinese misgivings as to our power of recover Elina Kidston acted as trair-bearers. The understand its value whether they being the position. The Briton is by nature bridesmaids were Miss Betty Swire, sister officials, compradores, merchants, or a pioneer, full of energy and enterprise of the bride; Miss Noel Swire, her cousin; servants; they know that the English and resource. If our manufacturers and and Miss Olein Wyndham Quin, sister of man has a proper appreciation of commerchants will not realize the gravity of the bridegroom, who all wore dresses of fort and ease and sport, and, where it the present situation and the splendid pale orchid mauve ninon, with brond sasher suited their purpose, they took care that possibilities of the China market in the and brocho silver tissues, and mauve veils Capt. all were at his hand. The Chinese and future it is not to ste to put things fastened with silver 'wrenths. the British worked very well together. right. But we must abandon the present Dermot McCalmont, 7th Hussars, acted on attitude of waiting for business to come best man in the absence of Lieut. Valen- There is no doubt that the Germans to us. Manufacturers and shippers tine Wyndham-Quin, who was unable to would gladly have settled down quietiv the United Kingdom must ensoperato and taken their share in this easy and whole-heartedly with British merchant got leave. The Ber: J. B. Andrewes, vicer profitable game; they had no special houses in China; they must grasp the of Harlow and Rural Dean, officiated, and craving for discomfort and hard work, fact that the employment of non-Britial the service was fully choral.

Among those present at the ceremony, Now the war has had an interesting and indeed a few of those who were distributors in this market is weakening effect upon us as foreigners. It has made early in the field have fallen in smooth, the position of the British distributor and afterwards at 47 Queen's Gate, in us take stock of our position, made nut to say luxurions, places. But to the and hastening and facilitating the entrymddition to the family, were the Earl and Countess of Mayo, the Dowager-Countess realize its strength and weakness, and the majority the old field was closed; they of non-British goods; they must remem strength and weaknces of our rivals in realized that some new channel of trade ber that Japan is putting on to the mar of Mayo, Lord and Lady Ardee, Lady Eva the field. Perhaps the first thing which was essential to success, and after care-ket large quantities of greys, jeans, and Wyndham Quin, the Countess Brassey and has been brought home to us is the greatful study they discovered it, They found whites, and that it will avail little to Lady Helen Brassey, Lady Constance Lea strength of German policy here. No that most of the British houses in China tell the Chinese that the Manchester lie, Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C., natter to which branch of the trade we were tied to shipping-houses in Great goods are of better quality and thon Lady Lecourfield, the Dowager Lady Lecon turn our attention, to the import of Britain by long-standing connections. they must watch the gradual develop field, the Downger Lady Hylton the Hon. ment of industry in China. The mer- Algernon Bourke, Lady Allreda Bourke, piece goods and metals, to the export of and that they snowed no tendency to produce, or the installation of foreign handle the goods shipped out by other chant houses here must abandon their the Hon. Sir Arthur and Lady Lawley, and machinery, the German is always there, British firms, The Germans had no such waiting attitude; they must realize that several officers of the 7th and 8th Hussars. a little further into the field, a little ties; they encouraged the travellers and the days of monopoly are past, and that more active, a little more before the eyes representatives from untied Manchester number of Manchester representatives of the Chinese. And we natural ask houses, bought their cottons and their are at their doors, with British goods to what it all means. how it has happened, metals in the cheapest market, and under sell, and a determination to get thom to why nobody noticed it before.

conditions of very severe competition.

the Chinese consumer by hook Having brought the goods, they had

crook then. to devise machinery for selling The great Shanghai dealers were occupied with their existing business, s they went to the smaller men in Shang- hai, and farther afield to Tientsin and Hankow and Canton; and then even far- ther into the interior, into Hunan and Szechuan and Kuantung, stimulating. their native agents by foreign supervi- sion, and teaching them the meaning of push and enterprise.

BREAKING THE MONOPOLY, The reasons are not far to seck. The Englishman was the pioneer in China He shipped away the early cargues of silk and tea, he brought in the first wool- len fabrics the produce of our great industrial centres a hundred years ago and he gradually replaced them by cotton stuffs as cotton came to the fore in the life of industrial England. He was first and practically alone, in the field. He got on well with the Chinese; the two people liked and trusted one another. He had as much business as he could comfortably handle, and very pretty fortune, were made by a closed circle of Chinese ou the one side and by the great merchant houses from England on

the other.

a's China.

But the industrial evolution of Europe has thrown out its influences as far East The increase of population and the steady advance of the industrial wave soon created some need of expan sion in Germany, as had been the case In England. Germany began to produce goods which needed foreign markets, and men who sought for some career over- seas. Then cause Japan, urged by the same need and eager to join in the race for the spoils. It was suddenly realized that China offered one of the best and biggest outlets for superfluous goods; four hundred million people in a pro- perous and powerful country with a serious political entanglements could surely provide rich markets as would absorb the energies of all. The British monopoly was broken, and some fifteen years ago a campaign began which was destined to change the whole course of trade in China:

THE REAL TROUBLE,

OREATING A DEMAND.

pre-

or

by

Politically Great Britain has always stood for a strong, united, and pres perous China. Her prosperity is the Erst need for us as a great producing nation. A knowledge of their people, their language, and their needs is the only passport to commercial success.

The British Legation and the British Consuls are everywhere engaged in keep. ing the country open to frade, assisting in opening up communications, and in preventing the incidence of irregular and The real health of The Germans realised, too, that in an

unfair taxation. undeveloped country such as China sup China is bound up with the future of ply is not necessarily governed by de-her Government and her administration. and. They supplied the goods, ex- Ag that administration grows stronger plained the value of them, and created and less corrupt, as communications in- demand. That is a point which is often

more regular overlooked in considering the future pos- prove, and as taxation and currency are

gradually placed on a sibilities of trade in China. Demands footing the trade of China will develop It offers a great field to are being continually created by supply and expand,

it is proved by the extraordinary sale

Lancashire and to every industrial centre of such new things a cigarettes, kero-

in the United Kingdom, It only remains sone cil, Russian and Japanese, prints,

to take advantage of the present crisis, candles, scap, caps, spoke and yests,

whilst our competitors are hampered by tinned and enamelted ware A

As these German agents penetrated war conditions and financial disabilities, into the interior they began to realize and to set ourselves to cur new task that a steady consumption of imports with energy and courage in a determina- would depend to a large extent upon the tion that British trade shall regain its sale of exports. The old staples, such unrivalled position in the Far Eastern

As they got more closely in touch with the merchants in the interior, with the producer and consumer, and with the various provincial Governments, they found possibilities of new openings.

PROFITS GO TO GERMÁNY.

markets,

FRAUDULENT WATCHMAN

AT SHANGHAI, BADGE THIEF SENTENCED. Lien Ching-young, who, was charged at the instance of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire at the Mixed Court, Shanghai, be Fore Mr. Grant-Jones, British Assessor and Magistrate Yu with being in unlawful possession of a metal badge, well knowing the same to have been stolen, and also with Fakely pretending to Pun Yok-ping, com- pradore of the str. Sinking, that he was employed by Yong Al-kwej as a police watchman on board the ship, thereby endeavouring to obtain the sum of 83 as payment for such pretended services, was sentenced at the conclusion of the hearing

as silk and tea, were in British bands, but were suffering severe and increasing competition from India, Ceylon, and They turned their attention Japan, therefore to minerals and to the old muck and truck," beans, seeds, bristles, oils, hides, and wool. They built up a great collecting machinery, they erected warehouses, and they provided useful cargoes for the German mercantile ma- The Consuls wrote warnings in traderine, which found in China a centre for

profitable freights. reports, a few Chambers of Commerce, showed a spasmodic interest in the new departaro, But no one seemed to take it seriously or to realize that their awn interests were likely to be affected. And why They were unmoved because they. saw nothing of the new campaign; new Their undertakings were fostered by Germany; their influences might be at work beneath the

great aombines in surface, but their results were not ap activities wore encouraged by Govern parent. The big British houses in China ment support, and they found that the still had as much business as they could banks, backs of ali nationalities, looked handle, the British manufacturers were with favour on enterprise which showed getting rid of large quantities of their considerable turnover. They have to eighteen months' hard labour. produce, and only the smaller British houses had any cause for complaint. This state of affairs might have gone on THE Kowloon,

THREE-ROOMED FLATS in Humphrey's for several years more but for the in- cidence of local disasters. The rubber FOUR-ROOMED FLATS in May Road, boom and the two revolutions shook the The with every modern convenience, fnolading China trade to its foundations, English Baths and Kitchen Ranges, Hot native banks began to collapso, the old Water and Water Carriage System. A few influential dealers, the props of three Flats specially designed to accommodate three generations, to fail. In 1914 the British bachelors at reasonable rentals. Immediate merchants found themselves in an in- creasingly embarrassed position, and, possession.

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Gordon with characteristic British phlegre, they at last began to inquire what was wrong. Terrase and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon.

WINDSOR LODGE, Kowloon, Six-Roomed There were, of course, a host of answers provincial capital, pashing their ma House with Tennis Court. Immediate possession. a lack of communications, a depreciat chinery, their cotton goods, their sun-

Apply to

ed and chaotic currency, a weak dovern dries, and their influence in the great RUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE ment, and lack of confidence at home and hinterland, ofter beyond the reach of

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abroad. The answers were all correct, railways and even of water communica Alexandra Buildings ·

but after all they expressed little that tion. The Russians too have found the [1177 Hongkong, 26th November, 1915.

was new in this slow-moving country. value of individual effort and personal The real trouble lay in the fact that supervision in distributing their printe the Germans and the Japanese had got in the north, and the citizens of the behind the first line of British commer- United States are constantly finding cial activity, and, unless war had broken new markets for their machinery, which out and brought home to our people he is now enjoying unusual freedom from seriousness of the situation in China, competition owing to the preoccupation there seems little doubt that these compeof British workshops as a result of war titers would have dominated the market conditions." within the next few years,

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OFFICES at 2, Connaught Road.

OFFICES in King's Buildings. OFFICES in Des Voeux Road Central. HOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit Road,

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HOUSES In Broadwood Terrace. HOUSES at the Peak.

IN GERMAN HANDS.

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It has

and

In the witness-box the defendant averred spent money very, freely, money which was found to a great extent by British that he had been engaged as a watchman banks, but the Chinese paid in the long by Fok Ching-young, one of the witnesses. for the prosecution Speaking of the Wen- run for this elaborate German chinery, and the major profits went to chow fight he said that it arose through Germany-deservedly so, for it was Ger the goods, which had been stolen, not being an enterprise which opened the field. equally divided. All the witnesses in the case had conspired to harm the defendant And what has been the result? meant the distribution of German goods because he did not visit Fok when he was and the dissemination of German in in prison, on conviction for extortion. fluence throughout the length

Yong Ah-kwei, he daimed, was a loafer The Japanese have and a thief before he was engaged by the breadth of Chine.

complainants as a watchman and, although been quick to follow the German lead,

was still recognized by the thieves as their leader. The Shanghai city magistrate Wenchow and as a result of that Yong Ah- investigated the matter of the fight on the kwoi was sent to prison for one month. The metal badge produced was given to him by Fok Ching-yoong when he engaged him as a watchman.

After the reception the bride and bride- groom lett London for Danraven Castle, Among the large number of beautiful Glamorgan, lent by the Earl of Dunraven. presents was a breakfast tea service, con- sisting of twelve pieces of solid silver, presented by Field-Marshal Bir Evelyn Wood, V.O., on behalf of the Essex Hunt.. Sir Evelyn himself took the service to Mi. Swire's London house, the gift being accompanied by the following letter, written by the gallunt Field-Marshal under date, Millhurst, Harlow, October 20th:--

My dear Mr. Swire-In recognition f the good sport enjoyed by the followers f the Essex Hounds during your happy and successful mastership-sport greatly en hanced by your generosity, hard work, and tactful courtesy to all-some of the residents in the district are giving to your daughter a wedding present. It may gratify you to see the names of subscribers which, as the oldest follower of the packs I forward herewith with our earnest wishsa for Mrs. Wyndham-Quin's happiness,

HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.

CORPS ORDERS BY LIEUT.-QUL, A. OHAPMAN, V.Ð ̧

JOINED.

1-Private H, G. H. Griffith joined the Corps on 30th November, 1910, allotted Corps No. 1944 and posted to Scouts Company (No. 2 Section),

PARADES.

2-Parades to-day.

5.16 p.m. Recruits of all units (except Right Section M. G, Co, Bad Signal ling)-Squad dill and Rifle exercises at Headquarters andor Sergt.-Major Highy and Sergt. Ramsay. Remainder, nil,

DETAIL.

3.-Gun Club Hill," Kowloon ;---

On duty until 7th inst-Scouts Co. Officer on duty Lout. Murphy. P. of W. Camp, Kowloon,

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and their people are established in every he was in the employ of the company, he All

Fok Ching yoong, recalled, denied that he had given the badge to the defendant. Mr. J. F. Messi, wharfinger for the Company on their Pootung wharves, said that he did not hear of the Wenchow fight until a month after its occurrence. He Up to the present these campaigns have knew the accused was one of a gang which suited British manufacturers, Wherever had caused a lot of trouble. He was co- It was all a question of method, method Germany has been unable to supply the stantly leafing about the wharf and wit and thoroughness. The British bouses necessary goods or essential parts of

nesy had repeatedly driven bins off. He were surrounded by their old ring of machinery, British manufactures have hard never protested when driven away, nor had he produced any badge as used Shanghai dealers and compradores, who served their purpose. Cotton goods resisted every suggestion of breaking from Lancashire have been taken into new ground. Their attitude need cause the country by German distributing by the watchmon no surprise; any divergence from the agencies-but they have gone under Ger old-established channels of trade meant man marks, their country of origin care the destruction of their monopoly and fully and effectively concealed. Before their power.

The newcomers had no the outbreak of war the Gerinang cem- such ties. They could not get into touch manded the vital centres in the com. with the bigger dealers, for most of them mercial life of China, and unless the are had old-standing connections with the replaced by British influences it is hard- British firms, so they had to look about ly to be expected that they will favour and discover smaller men, to go further British goods whether they be cotton ON SALE

afield and to try new methods a little goods or machinery when once they can casier terms, rather smaller profits, more obtain their supplies in Germany, or in POUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG individual effort. And they succeeded a cheaper market. In this connection it WEEKLY PRESS, JANUARY TO JUNE, Agence of opinion, no must not be forgotten that both Japan 1915. With INDEX, Price $7.50.

to the actual percentage of the trade and China are growing rapidly as in- now handled by the Germans in China, dustrial centres If Lancashire were but it has mostly been captured during sure of a continued monopoly of the the last fifteen years, Practically the cotton trade, or if Great Britain were

No. 21, WONG NELCHONG ROAD. No. 1, MORETON, TERRACE, Cangeway Bay

GODOWNS, at Wanobai, GODOWNS, at New Prays. Kennedy Town Nos. 1, 2 and 3, WEST END TERRACE CANTON Apply

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 4th November, 1915.

On Sale at the "HoNGKONG DALLY FR" Hongkong 10 August, 1915,

JAPANESE NAVAL INVENTION,

Mr. Naozo Suzuki, an artificer in the Yokohama Naval Arsenal, has to his credit an important and valuable invention, the application of which is said to make more bighly effective the use of the fish torpedo in naval warfare. Particulars of the in- vention are not to be published as its con- tents and design pertain to naval secrets, but it is said that the invention establishes a record in the anna's of naval mechanics, and will considerably add to the effective ness of the fish torpedo.

On duty to-night: Scouts Co. Officer on duty; Capt. Hutchison. On duty to-morrow': Centre Sectiam

M. G. Co.

Officer on duty: Lieut. Wright. Orderly Sergeant until 7th instant.

Corpl. Duncan,

G. E. STEWART, Capt.,

Adjutant, H.K.V.C.

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

MUSKETRY, TILE SHOUT.

uniforms, and helmets with white mushroom tops will be worn. Rifer will be provided on the range,

is expected that the Competition will be concluded by tin-time, but Teams should make their own arrangements for refreshment, if required.

BUGTE, MARUH,

ranks will parado at Central Polica Sta- tion at 9.5 p.m. sharp on Friday, Dec. 10th, for route march to Western Police District, Uniform, caps and covers, and rifles,

VIBITING PATROLS, CENTRAL DISTRICT.

21st, 26th and 31st." Inspector Hynes-Dec. 1st, 6th, 11th, 16th Inspector Tayler-December 2nd, 7th, 12tk,

17th, 22nd and 27th, Inspector WildenDecember 5th, 10th,

15th, 20th, 25th and 30th: Crown-Sergeant McEwen.-December 3rd,

9th, 18th 19th, 23rd and 29th. Crown-Sergeant Witchell, December 4th,

8th, 14th, 18th, 24th and 28th, Sergeant Major Roylance and Crown-Ser- geant Langley will make arrangements to occasionally visit the Western District Patrols.

DAN PARADES.

Thursday, December 2nd-Recruits of 3rd and stir Platoons, No. 1 Company and of No. 3 Company. Friday December-8rd. Recruits of 1st and 2nd Platoons No. 1 Company and of No, 2. Company.

Monday, December 6th-As on Thursday,

December 2ad.

Tuesday, December 7th- As on Friday,

December 3rd.

Algae has been formed in Colombo the members of which pledge themselves not to "stand" drinks during the period of the war, and, of course, the wits of Colombo hase lost no time in christening it the Can't Stand & Drink League.”