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A BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR CHINA. FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE

SHANGHAI CHAMBER,

The first annual general meeting of the British Chamber of Comineres, Shanghai, was held on the 11th inst, when Mr. J. Johnstone presided over a large attendance The Chairman said: There is no need for me to recapitulate the circumstano which fed to the formation of the Chamber,

the

deny, but it apparently required some thing in

nature of a great upheaval to make us realize the importance and necessity of banding ourselves together for the protection and advancement of British

Circumstances make it impossible to deal with this subject fully in a general meet ing, but you may fel assured, gentlemen, that your Committes have been fully alive to the requirements of the situation, and have spared no efforts in endeavouring to prevent Trading with the Enemy, and to divert what was formerly enemy business into British channels.

Shipping and FreightThe Committes hare given a great deal of attenton to dificulty in deciding that it was useless this question, Your Committee had ne

to look for any reduction in freights with tonango as short as it is. It is probable

facilities for despite high rates, profit high freights than by lack of shipping able busines, could have been done if there goods into the right markets. Steps are had only been the means of getting the now being taken by your Committee which they hope will ameliorate present condi.

LORD HARDINGE. FAREWELL TO THE IMPERIAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

THE RICE MARKET. The Compagnie do Commerce et de Navigation d'Extreme Orient, of Spigan, At the Closing of the cold weather session of the Imperial Legislative Coun increasing on account of the withdrawal cil at Delhi recently Lord ffardinge bade the 7th inst. of the prohibition to ex- report as follows, under date April 10th- Our market is firm and our prices are

lengthy speech bis Excellency said: It Indies. farewell to the members. In concluding a port rice from Indo-China to Netherlands only remains for me now to take leave of my council, and I do so with a pang of the 1st January to the 3rd April is The total amount of rice exported from. Ngret the thought of how little more 320,675 tons, against 253.370 tong in 1915. I can do to help and to serve, the people We quote today White rice No. 2, sifted,

In

and faith in theilt I uu full of hope Japan quality, Hongkong 84:18 her pioul That it has been long needed no ovog that exporters have been less troubled by ad faith in the future, and it is with f.e.b. Saigon, for April and May ship-

my successor Lord Chelmsford, whom deep sense of confidence that I shall in mont. a few days' time relinquish the helm to regard a man of huble ideals and of SHANTUNG CATTLE FOR THE trust him as India has trusted me. generous sympathy. India will, I know, arriving at the close of this session, we despatch to the Vagasaki P's.es from.

U.S.A. have arrived also at the end of the CX-Tsingtao state, that an American has ob- well the occasion when I first presided attained a contract for the supply of Shan- this council in Calcutta on January ard, tung cattle to the United States Army 1011 1 then stated my hope and belief at the rate of thirty thousand head per that frank expression of opinion might annum. He lins a capital of five million asist us to understand each other and to dollars, The Japanese military authorities ppreciate one another's point of view, have granted permission for the cattle to There have been day changes in my shipment will be made in August

be shipped from Tsingtao, and the first council since then. but throughout Uiese

commercial interests in China, Well gentlemen we have had the upheaval, and we, now, have our British Chamber of Commeter

we

We started with the assumption that could count a membership of 150, I am glad to be able to tell you that the total number on our Register is 238, made up of 295 full members, and 13 asociate member.

tions,

THE COMMON PERIL

tended form of this councel. I remember

A litt less than a year ago, gentlemen, we met for the purpose of forming this Chamber, The national peril with which we were faced brought us together as no thing else could have done. The chairman urged us to seize our opportunity to form of the inaugural netting; Mr. Girardet, INDIA'S PATRIOTIC LOYALTY a combination that would add to our the expansion of British trade and flist strength, that would work strenuously for would uphold Dritish prestige in this coup try. We have succeeded in doing all that and more.

than justified and I think I can say from my hope and belief have been morë experience gained in different parts of the world this this council is second to none There are still a number of firms in

in the dignity of its proceedings and the Shanghai that have not fond the Chamtence are infinitely more cogens today than.

The reasons that brought us into exis good feeling that animates its members We have been colleagues in this council for ber, and it is hoped that thes, will become they were a year age We knew then that the past three and a half years and some members in due course,

we wore faced by a ruthless and unzeru if anybody has a right to call you his of us for five and a half years and surely Several home pulous foe. Perhaps we did not quite roncize firms have joined as associates, and the the lengths to which even such a foe could friends it is I. for you have always treated number of the ought to be largely in- and our fuller knowledge ought to make ey. And I think I may say that during or would go but to-day we know in fall, with invariable friendliness and court- ug more determined than ever that millways have been in full agreement I have past years although we may no

advanings which our free and easy commercially she sha no longer enjoy the tarily Germany shall be crushed, and that

her. At our inaugural meeting I rewinded methods at home have hitherto allowed you of the fact that our enemies called us in derision Nation of Shopkeepers."

creased.

thewo

India whom you represent have shared over known a discordant note in my

although the latter have been heavy, I have council. Further, you and the people of with me my joys and my sorrows, and niso had for which has helped me to bear

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It would be idle for me to pretend that not deeply affected by the thought that our in taking official leave of you to day I am

closed. But I wish to express to you mam- days of co-operation have now almost

India whom you represent ny very warm bera of ng council and to the people of appreciation of the confidence and trust It is probably known to all of you cant

and my administration, and to thank you that you have always displayed in me British Chamber of Commerce have been

again for the ever friendly hop that 1 formed at Tientsin, Newchwang, Chefoo, Hankow Changsha Foochow, Swatow and

have received front members of my execu- Caton. The formation of some of thess inmittee the folowing passage occurs:cretaries and the officials who have done Chambara is dirty due to the efforts of The German spending of time and money In a letter recently received by the

tive council, and from Government. thing more than the mere formation of inland calls for equal spending on the part circonstances of advancing representative your Ports Sub-Committee. But some

so much in India in the past, of which in establishing their export machinery they may be justly proud and who are now Chambors buas been accomplished,

shaping theselves to meet the changed All the Chambers I have mentioned have not enough nierely to acquire a share of the Crown, and I leave India with an in- of those who would displace them, it is institutions. I am the highest officer under agreed to affiliate with the Shanghai Cham- the fruits of their labours while their ener herited love increased manifold by personal ber, thus forming a British Chamber of gies are perforce dormant. There need be experience of the stening qualities, the Commere, of Chisa. Steps are also being feeling of insecurity or uncertainty on kindness and the sympathy of the people taken to establish some form of co-opera- the part of those who enter upon fat of India I can honestly say that I have tion with the Hongkong Chamber of Com-fight to supplant the enemy in the produce given of my best for India and that she on the importance of this achievement. It supplanting cannot ho achieved on aby thoughts. I shall continually pray that

Too much emphasis cannot be laider any other branch of trade: but the

will never be absent from my heart and my menus that while each Chamber will re- cheap or easy system,” tois entre independence in ell respects,

the peoples of India may be blessed ja all machinery is being provided by which the

these things that make life brighter and British Chambers may be enabled to speak morcantile county are preparing for ancil steady progres and developmen; on In Great Britain the Government and the better worth living. In wishing this coun with one so co when it is desired to do so British Commerce in China. --a thing unprecedented in the history of and it will be no small one, in this issue, session closed and bid you el farewell.

economic war. We shall have our part, safe and sound lines I now declare the It therefore behoves us to prepare our selves so that we bear that part worthi.y.

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Your Committee have ngrod that the ministrative work that may arise from the aliation, the reason for this being that geographically, numerically and finane al ly, we are perhaps in a better position to do th's than others,

THE STUDY OF CHINESE,

of

AN ECONOMIC WAR

VERDUN.

{ST A NEUTRAL CORRESPONDENT IN THE

PILL MALL GAZETLE"]

Ministry of Cource and the ap- THE MAN WHO IS BOMBARDING It is certain that in the immediate future | GERMANY'S BIGGUNGENERAL most important topics, such as the formation pointment of a Trade Commissioner in China will come up for discussion. There will also be the larger question of inge lation, having for its object the buiding up Another important step taken by your of trade within the Empire and the removal Committee is the establishment of a Behop for the study of the Chinese languaible for Germany to compete with on Hindenburg" there is no more popular of those facilities which have made it pos FOR SALE.

With the single exception of: "Father og. That there was a demand for such a unequal terms. The Manchester Chauber figure in Germany to-day than that of DICHMOND HOUSE, No. 143, Barkered with 69 students Of these two or three that it is not a day too soon to consider s schools evident from the fat that it open -

has expressed itself as strongly of opinion General Hans von Le vier- Unser Hans," Road.

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have dropped out, but others have taken close overhauling of the machinery and rank and file-who combines the functions as he is fanary celled by the German HASTINGS & HASTINGS,

ther place. It must be fairly obvious methods of our manufacturing and our of Inspector-General of the Solicitors.

that the extension of Pr.tish trade in this na possible any handicap from which Empire-ring and Flower Corps and for-

commerce, with a view to removing as [371]

British trade has suffered in the past, and to improving the systeus, the machinery tlenen, we are vitally interested in all and the appliances in uss hitherto Gea- your notice to-day because they are inters these things, and I have brought them to which must engage much of the attention of the Chamber in the near future.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

TO-DAY

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country which we are looking for, can never be adequately brought about by the old methods, A huwledge of the Chiness language may or may not be difficult to acquire. That is not the question. I am rather inclined to think that in the past we have been need casty alarmed about its dificult, it is essential to nitimate success dients. But whether st be easy or they the task of learning it should be takẹu up whole-heart d'y by our younger men.

Now, gentlemen, it wil be obvious that if our younger men acquire a knowledge

It is therefore well worth the white of of considerable va us to their employers employers to do everything possible to hel towards its acquisition, by encouraging their young teu to go to the Schoo by paying their fees by providing facili

-CONSULAR HELP.

for

Prussian

tresses with those of Inspector-General of the Prussian foot or garrison artillery.

the German bg gun and mining opera- It was von Beeler in person who direet,

and Novo-Georgievsk. It is von Etseler tions before Namur Maubeuge, Antwerp, once again who is in charge of the 1užin, Krupp howitzers nad 12iu. Skoda mortars, whose fire is being concentrated on the "forts" of Verdun N

pose of von Bexler there can be no doubt: Of both the ability and tenacity of pur-

12:30 pm.-Chius Traders Insurance Co of the language that knowledge will be undoubtedly brought us in closer touch even though he be a typical product of

Ltd, Extraordinary General Meeting. 4.43 p.m.-Tennis Tournament on Centre

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TO-MORROW. Noon-Hongkong Tramway

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In conclusion I think it is only right to refer to the assistance we have received from Consular nathorities. The war has

made and are making to extend their ser with our officials and the efforts they have vics in order to meet the wants of her chants really deserve more then passing comment;

extreme specialisation in just two sub. sections f modern war industry he is a man of great and original ideen, bl the slaughter involved in repeated frontal Beseer won'd certainly not fuch from assaults on entrenched positions. Stel it mind as von Be'er's would approve un-

Ordinary General Meeting at the Ofoeties for study such as are already provided I say that a long felt want was supplied may be doubted whether so scientific a

I think you will all agree with me when 12.30 p.m.-Luzon Sugar Refining Co., Ltd by cue or two of war larger firmas and hy when our Legation in Peking decided to restrictedly of the mad-ball tactics pursued

Extraordinary General Meeting.

Friday, 21st April 2000.

Good Friday-Public Holiday. Tuesday, 25th Apríl →→

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2-Parades for Tuesday, 18th instant..

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5.15 p.m.-Nos. 3 and 4 Bub-actions Arty, Batty. (as detailed in Corps' Order: No 4 dated 30th December, 1915)-10 pdr gun drill at Hend quarters. Sergt. Bradley, RG.A., will attend,

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Tuesday, April 18th-All Sergeants of all. unts (except Band) appointed sine January 1st, 1910, under D.S.P. The A.S.P. (R.) will also attend.

Wednesday, April 18th-N43, 13 and 14 Sections under Sergeant-Major. Also

Thursday, April 201-Recruits of No, Recruits of No. 1 Company, and d bulance.

Company.

HOW TO BE NEUTRAL.

Import Trust, has been appointed Vige Herr Hirter President of the Swits coal monopoly in Basel which is to supply President of the newly created German

ost, a pro-German organ, pointy out the the whole of Switzerland, The Zurich extraordinary anomaly of such an appoint.

rewnding those who are successful in ob-

send us & Commercial Attiché, and that tairing the Chamber Certificate. they have been fortunate in their choice by some of the Kaiser's infantry generals, quest en of language study is being taken

none of us who have had occasion to deal

For instance, von Begeler favours night np by the Chambers at Canton and Han

with Mr. Bose will deny. Peking is too attacks as being distinctly more economical distant kow and Hongkong is also following our

Shanghai noeds & Commercial in life than attack by daylight arguing Attaché of

her own and in an extended ser that the darknes is bound to hampir the vice of this branch of the Foreign Offer fire of the defender's batteries, question which is at present exercising the prior to the war, eight Prussian and one will be found, I believe, a solution of the And to serve this special purpose just minds of the Board of Trade and Foreign Bavarian pioneer battalions-suce dupment As President of the Import Trust understanding of British interests in cource in siege tactics ander his per Office at home, namely more thorough cated were selected to undergo a training Herr Hirter's business is to see that only China B

sonal direction. Each of these units is permitted to get raw materials from Swiss firms, friendly to the Allies, are follows: Messrs. A. W. Burkill C. Might train" to facilitate sight opera

The election of the committee resulted a provided with a most elaborate search-abroad, and as Vice President of the Ger Main, H. E. Campbell, H. H Girardet 0 tons of his own invention,

This is a subject which, during the latter half of last year, received a great deal of Lit At one stage a very difficult situation attention inside the Chamber and out of arosa owing to the action of the Board of

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Trad, in modifying the King's Proyama- bios (No. 10 of 1915) of June 25th 4 strongly worded protest was cabled to the The action of the Chamber, and smilar Foreign Office through the Cossul-General

an excellent result. action by other bodies, undoubtedly had

ES Little E. F. Mackay, EI understand, been captured wholesale by G. Humphreys, A. Howard, J. Johnstone, One of these special et battalions has, Richards. H. G. Sma, and A. Gthe French, in the course of last week's Stephen.

battle

man coal monopoly his principal duty will

be to prevent all such manufacturers fran Hirter is President of the Swiss Nationa being supplied with German coal. Herr Bank, and in prace time was the largest importer of German coal into Switzer and.