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JAPAN'S GROWING TRADE.

LESSONS FOR INDIA. Professor C.. J. Hamilton, Lecturer in Economics at the Calcutta University,

has just returned to India after four months visit to Japan, whither he went at the request of the Government of India to study the recent economic de velopments in that country, more par ticularly so far as they may provide son for a forward movement in Iulia In an interv'ew with 2 representative of

MASSACRES OF ARMENIANS.

EMPIRE SUGAR.

MR. HUGHES BOLD PROJECT,

EXCLUSION OF ENEMY PRODUCTS,

SHIPPING

NOTES.

NATIONALISATION OF SPANISH

SHIPPING:

A TURKISH CONFESSION.

Talant Bey, the Turkish Minister of the Interior, has made some interesting confessions to a German journalist

A Reuter despatch from Madrid an Constantinople. The Armenians in Russia and Turkey, he says, cultivate it

Public Works, introduced in the Spanish be realized

Before be had "been long in Greathamber a bill for the Nationalisation political ideal which can only be by the destruction of time: Ottoman Ein-it, Mr. Hughes felt the necessity of of shipping. It provides that the shares securing two or three concrete illustra of shipping companies shall be made ont Dire. At the beginning of the

fe race was held in Asia Minor, at han sohere which he brought, practi- and limits the number of scent. of the conference of delegates from both sections tions of his policy of Empire trade or in the name of the owners of the shares ganization. He found one ready to hand instead of being made out to "bearer"

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT TO THE TIMES.") that Senor Gasset, Minister of!

War R

theSistterman Professor Hamilton di which, it was decided that the Armeniacally complete, for the marketing ofisane to foreigners to 25 per cent of the

of the Cancasus should take up`arnis with usein, while shur in Turkey should Australian metals in Great Britain and total number of shares. To prevent the maintain an expectant attitude for the their manufacture here into finished transfer of shares to foreigners during present On learning this Palati, pode inqueras muong sung lund ermany and other foreign countries, signed a deeree patting the Bill into ferre decision gouds instead of, as before the war, in the discussion of the Bill the King has jag Armenians, who dut not deny their This scheme he pustied to a successful immediately.

reasonable plaus and excused them on conclusion with the British Government

FRANCISCO TO THE FAR EAST.

Within ten nombs two steamship, com- panies will be running five semi Dies type motorships out of San Francisc the Orient, Latter two more ships wil the added to the line.

cussed briefly the present position in Japon, ag

Perhaps the outstanding fact of the economie, position in Japan at the inoment," he said, is the very large number of orders which the merchants and manufacturers in ihat country are the ground of Turkish maladininistra-|before his departure. The second illus. MOTOR SHIPS TO RUN FROM SAN rec'ving from all parts of the world ow-tion. How the avowals were extorted wetration he chose was the sugar industry;- ing to the war, I do not mean for war are not told, "but domiciliary visits fol- upon which he set to work with an naterial, but for all kinds of goods lowed which revealed the existence of Empire conference, representative of which Germany and other European arms and bombs in Armenians houses, Australia, south afrien, the West Indies, This The removal of the Armenians from and India, cvened by the newly the eastern vilagels of Turkey became informed sugar wetion of the newly consequence a military, national, and formed British Empire Producers' As

Letters of incorporation have been filert historical necessity." Their deportation cation. Her

in California by the two steamship com from the western districts was decided

The sugar scheme, which Mr. Huglus panies, the Ocean Transport Comput on when, after the attack on the Darregartled as an almost perfect working capitalized at 8230000; and the China- danefies, Une transfer of the seat of model of his Bulics, and, which lean-tric Motor Ship Company, capi Eskishehr came to be considered.. government from Constantinople to

Muilarne Crisp. siders is worthy of immediate adeption, ralized at $1,000,000. The convoys of exiles from the eastern pro was outlined in a speech in which Mr. Lester McDonald, both of San Francisco, vinces were attacked on their way to Hughes at a deputation to Mr. Bonar and Louis A. Hewitt, of Oakland, are the Mesopotamia and partly assered by Law urged the project on the British incorporators of the China-American the Kurds, who, Talaat Bey says, were Government, Mr. Hughes authorized Company, whose ships will be 260 feet severely punished for this offence: tire the publication of the following ex long, double-deckers and wooden, and of removal of the western group to Deyri, tracts ---

4.000 tons cargo capacity. They will run Zur was unfortunately entrusted to an

to Vladivostock and té Chinese and other (Oriental ports: incapable official ant serious " EX CONKES followed,

countries are unable to supply. enormous - demand is affording Japan anı opportunity of advancing a dofiuite stage in resnomic development great advantage has hitherto been and still is, an abundant supply of cheat and on the whole efficient labour; while hee chief, lundicaps have been lack of capital and lack of the higher types of business organisation. The profits from the new industries are helping to swell her capital, and the development of busi- ness is enabling her to pass from the stage of small scale cottage industry in many instances to the stage of large scale fac- tory, industry.

CONT

USE OF THE RED CROSS EMBLEM,

As the result of consultations between the British Red Cross Society and the War office rules dealing with the use of the Red Cross emble have been issued. The use of the emblem on placards is I have here a table setting out the insregarded by the War Office as undesirable ports of Germany alone into the United and can only be permitted on the under- Kingdom during the years 1903 to 1913, standing that such use is carefully watch and will read the first and last of those ed and controlled. It must be limited

THE EMPIRE'S POSSIBILITIES. The ultimate ability, of thu. Empire tej It may be said," he continued, "that

produce its own, pquirements cannot be all classes of the community, including After making these revelations Talant questioned. Recent inquiries from the the Governingut and the private business Bey passed his hand over his eyes as British Oversca Dominions and Possre man, are straining every nerve to conso though to banish an unpleasant vision. sions have revealed abundant possibilities lidate their position. The banks are

We are not sarages," he said: "thes which, given the security of market offer pursuing a very cautious policy with the sad occurrences have

memned by our proposals, will in time supply idea of preventing any general relapse, sleepless nights. We have been blued the Empire's whole demands, and will

for not making a distinction between the make it self-supporting, the danger of which must arise when at the end of the war the volume of indus:sible: the innocent of to-day might be inneent and the guilty. It was impos try turns to something like its wormonl size. In particular, effort is being made must be thankful for these tardy admis that may be permanent, particularly of the Interior.

all directions to open up new markets sions on the part of the Turkish Minister

The main features of years. Of refined sugar, in 1906, there to placards or notices issued by the Ching, which is more and more becoming the terrible series of masseres are was imported into Groat Britain 602,807 Society its affiliated subordinate the plan to which Japan looks both as ready know, Int the ghastly details of tons, and of raw mgar 410,860 tông. The branches for the purpose of raising fands [d-sonzer fur raw anterials which she does the great tragedy have, it many cases. ↑ Headyuarters reports --The value off for the Society. The use of the emblem

not herself possess, and as a market for the finished products of her growing manufactures.

Professor Hamilton proceeded to speak. of the lessons to be drawn from an Indian point of view from recent Japan- eso industrial experience. "These," he TO-NIGHT!! said, are full of interest. They show what energy and carefud organisation can do in a country with comparatively small natural resources and little oppor tunities for obtaining industrial know- ledge, Most interesting is it to see the way in which thin, cottage industries of Japan ang utilising every kind of raw material at their disposal for some kind of definite purpose. It is still the mem bers of the farmers' household or the cor tage dwellers of the towns who are doing most of the industrial work of Japan and it is from these beginnings that the large scale enteiyeiess are gradually be ing built up

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Hongkong, 11th August, 1916.

HE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS &

TINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT

te now ready and contains:-

Far Eastern News,

Hongkong

Far Eastern Men and die War.

Capt. 6. N. Alison Killed in Action.

Faint Stabling Cen

The Second Anniversary of the War.

Bear Admiral Anstruther leaves Hong

kong.

Cigarette and Tobnyco Fund:

Hongking Association of Wonen War

Work,

Death of Mr. T. H. Martin.

Suddin Dmth of Mr. A. E. Danrich.

Plucky Indian Constable. ·

The Health of. Hongkong."

Aunnish Brutality.

Hongkong Police Reserve Club Law Enels.

Hongkong Tramway Co., Ltd. Bading Articles:

The Government Hospital Service. Reafforestation in Ching The Disorders in Kwangtung The Control of China's Waterways. President Pusition at Canton. Overseas Chinese Association.

pressions of Canton.

The Bank of China. Shonen Notes.

A Chinese Railway Accident.

China Association's Raport

China's Parliament Opened. State Railways in China

Opposition to the Kuo Ming Tang: Chinese New

Japan. Glad to Help..

Gerinan Activities in North China. Heavy Damage Done at Chengtu. China Not Suited for Federalisın. Teking and the Provinces. Opium Revival in Kueichow,

Peking Notes.

Swatow Notes..

Passenger List. Shipping Notes.

on the S.S.

"Chinese

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Conipaay Mestings and Reporta

Anglo-German Brewery Co., Ltd. - Hongkong Rubber.

Great Fire at Hankow,

The Legislative Council Meeting.

The Lar. Courts.

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Hongkong, 11th August, 1916.

BEER!

BEER

FER BEER

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OBTAINABLE

H

come the guilty of to-marrive.

not yet reached the outer world,

A NAVAL BATTLE

1)

the refined sugar

in any form on private motor care is $7,135,-446,

prohibited even when those cars are being and that of the raw sngur £1,982,310. In used for the conveyance of sick and 19 the refined sugar had dropped to wounded soldiers. Private houses which 466,749 tons, and the raw sugar had in-have been handed over to the military creased to 471,850 tons. The value of the authorities for the reception of sick and refined sugar had increased, in spite of wounded soldiers are entitled to fly the a decrease in the quantity of about one- Red Cross fing when written authority whereas the value of the raw sugar had the War Office. In all cases where the third, from £7,185,440 to £7,468,000, for this purpose has been received from

increased from £3,662,316 to £5,040,083. From Austria-Hungary raw sugar was imported in 1906 only to the extent. of 19,120 tons, of a value of about £180,000. There was no refined sugar. In 1913 we imported from her 198,431 tons of refined clips,sugar and 161,038 tons of raw sugar, the

Where south Irum storiny Skager Rack The Horn Reef guards the silvery track

The waves come dancing.

There Beatty watches through the mist That veils a sea of amethyst The for, advancing

A moment yet he holds bis ships, Like boarhounds straining in the And baying thunder; On foams the endless German Fleet, Above, the airship motors beat, and U-boats under 1

value not being stated; but the value for 1012 was £1,913,175 for refined sugur and £1,473,038 for raw sugar canende ka fol

DECREASE IN BRITISH REFINEMIES, You are perfectly well acquainted with the effect of bounty-fed sugar not only upon our sugar lands, but upon our in- dustries generally, One result has been swift propellers, churn the sen

directly traceable to this, namely, that And bring our Chief where he would be, the number of refiners in Great Britain For night is falling!

Brave Jell coc, now on the How Fager thou to share the fray, With Beatby calling!

Hast thou a foar 1-To see them run

Beatty, outnumbered two to one,

Before the finish: "--

If Ludfa, is to advance industrially it must on the whold expect to tread the saute path. Great undertakings and new -industries cannot be Morn fully developed out of good intentions. They must come as actual growths from existing begin nings in the majority of enses. What is necessary in-India is that every-en- couragement and every facility should by mist with clouded heaven blends, given to make this development possible Hour after hour the sun descends and profitable. In the last tesort, how His grans diminish: ever it is only the eficient labour of the workmen and the efficient organisation of 1 business run that can secure per ma at results such as will tead to the real ecomic advance of the country,

Huge thunderbolts converging burn And shatter and destroy in turn Our Foremost cruisers: The English give as good as seit, And in this iron compliment Are not the loŝars!

JAPAN'S FOREIGN TRADE SHIFTING TO KOBE. That the foreign trade in Japaneis gradually shifting from Yokohama to robe, is shown by the returns of foreigh trade at the two cities during the first six months of the year. The total amount of exports and imports in Yoko- hania the first half of this year was 299,410,000 yen: exports, 200,340,000 yen and imports, 99,060,000 “yan, - with - a | Tis Jellicoeflich follows Bask balance of 101,250,000 yen in favour of experts. There we an increase of 80,791,000 yen in exports And 25,676,000 yen Le imports over the corresponding period last year.

Wo-gea the grant Queen Mary, cruskock Tint For awhile the battle hushed- Our docks were shaken! Death struck at her, and spared the rest- How oft of ships and in the pest Ars soonest. taken!

Is it the summer lightning playi To northward, through the violet haze ?--- Nay, shells come screaming!--

For home, the benton Teutons dash, With frantic steaming:

We harass still the fleeing for, And some like dying craters show, The total amount of foreign trada in | With red fix flaring: Robe during the first half of 1913 was Their feebler salvoes concentrate

| 340,630,000 yen, exports being 143,436,000 | The agony of mortal liato.. ren and imports, 197,193,000 yen. Com Doomed and despairing!, pared with the foreign trade in Yoko

hama there was an increase of 41,988,000 | Let would-be tyrants, near and fur,

Beware stern Fate-the British tar, This difference will be greatly increased And shan vain slaughter.

yen.

by the end of this year. In 1914, the for: | For Tyranny doth vainly, boast |sign trade in Kobe exceeded Yokohama's | While round about his guarded const

by 1,248,000 yen, which was increased to Beats the salt water! 21,509,000 yen last year. Should Kobe EVERYWHERA continue this progress, Tokuhama will be

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And long, beneath His Mighty hand, May George uphold the Right on land, And rule the ocean!

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EFFECT OF WAR ON TRADE.

tortura e single nerve or does it grind formed a portion of the Imperial Palace of the war) us indicated by the business

Is it a little pain or a big paint. Does it

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Red Cross Bag is flown over such es- ablishments the Union Jack must be flown aloneside it.

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PLATOON.

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All members of this Platoon, except fioso warned for duty on the dates named will parade at Central Station at 6 p.m. sharp on Monday and Thursday, August 14th and 17th. Chief Uniform, helmets and rifles. Inspector Mason will take charge.

NO, C COMPANY

Will report at Central Station at 6 p.m.

sharp on Tuesday and Friday, Aug. 15th and 18th. Unform, helmets and rifles. Sergeant-Major Roylance will taky charge.

MOUNTED POLICE,

has decreused. It is perfectly clear that our enemies contemplate the renewal of these amiable arrangements which exist ed between us and them before the war. We think nothing could be more unfor tunate than that those should be renewFriday, August 11th-Shirt-sleeve drill It is impossible, of course, to produce sugar within the Empire unless there is some inducement given, and that induce nient must extend over such a period as will warrant men embarking capital in

it.

The industry of sugar growing is not one which produces an immediate return. It has been said that it will take some five

oth and th

at Stables at 6 p.m., as por orders of Mr. F Hough has kindly presented

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Chief Inspector J. M. Wong resumes

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years or more before a very appreciable iucrease in the amount of cane sugar grown in the Empire can be made direct ly available, But some increase would be looked for within, say, two years. And an important part of any organization policy would be to encourage the growth of beet sugar in Great Britain.

The material facts of the proposition against dumping, and the growth of

ary: --

home-grown sugar stimulated by a bonus.

THE PRICE TO THE CONSUMER,

(1)That Empire sagar he granted praferential trentinent to the extent of 50 per cent, on any tariff that may size, that no industry which looks to the

I quite recognize, and wish to empha in force, such preference at no time toGovernment for assistance has a right to be less than one hallpeany per . for impose on other industries which use its sugar exceding 98 degrees polarizashed product as raw materials such tion, graduated according to the exis-conditions as in effect so seriously handi- ing British tariff. ›

(That sugar of their own produc-cap them in their business as practically tion exported to the United Kingdom to rule them out, nor has it any right to by Allied countries may by negotiation pose upon the consumer such heavy ob- be granted a concession not exceeding economic fabric and compel readjustment ligations as in fact disturb the whole 125 per cent, of the general tarifï.

force.

(3.)--That sugar of their own produc tion exported to the United Kingdom by neutral countries shall pay not less then the general tariff rate, but that

of the industrial system.

Now, the present tax un sugar is very high, 14 par to, or d. per il Sup- posing it were fixed thus:£4 138. id. sugar; £12 17s. for Allies; and £14 for for home-grown beet; £7 for Empire. neutral countries

(i) Declining to enter into favour-mine the price of sugar, but the price at neutrals. The amount of tax will deter- able reciprocal arrangements with which sugar can be produced has been the Empire, or

(ii) (iving more favourable treat-estimated to be such that when the tax of £14 is imposed, then sugar can be sold ment to other countries, shall in at sid. a pound. addition be subject to a surtax. ".

tab this reall I want to point out that this really (4)-inst the import of sugar, brings before the Government in a con- directly or indirectly, from enemy crte way, a policy that a great many countries be totally prohibited for a period of five years after the war, and people of Great Britain firmly believe in. It embraces two, or it may be three, great that thereafter it shall pay the general principles: one is the exclusion of enewy tarifi in fores, plus 50 per cent, surtax products About that I suppose at least such surtax at no time to be less thanine out of 10 people in Great Britain It may be noted that one consequence one halfpenny per lb. for sugar excced-

99 degrees polarization graduated soference to the Dominions.

are of one mind. It contemplates pre- As to that the Port of London cording to the existing British tariff. conducted at

Summarizing the proposal, we have if I may venture to say so, the large there may be dicerance of opinion, but, Authority's warehouses, is the steady growth of trade within the Empire and first of all prohibition against the enemy majority of the people of these islands with the Allies. The cutting off of sup- for at least five years, followed by pro are in favour of that. It contempistes plies of Turkish and Persian carpets has tective tariff; two tariffs for neutrals; the imposition of a tariff partly for the given considerable impetus to the Indian general tariff for friendly neutrals-that Carpet and rug trade, The Japanese, to say, neutrals who are prepared to to be made with other nations; that is to purpose of enabling favourable bargains again, are finding in London an ever in enter into favourable reciprocal agree say, it adopts the principle of reciprocal: proving outlet for artistic and useful ments and another for those neutrals tariffs. And lastly, it adopts the prin productions. Among current imports

who will not do so, who will pay a small ciple of encouraging home industries by from Japan are cotton, hostery, glass

surtax on the general tariff; a favourable bonus. It therefore covers the whole ware, suit cases, tennis racquets, and tarif for our Allies; and preferential amut of those provisions which, in one footballs. The Japanese are also assist-

form or another, and applied to on thing and another, have been much dis- cussed recently.

OPENING PEI-HAI ÄT PEKING. The Central Government Cabinet have resolved to open the Pei-hai Palace June, 1916. grounds to the public, and an effort is to be made to have this portion of the Forbidden Ground" prepared for the purpose before the cold weather sets in.

In a memorandum to the Kuo Hu Yuan on the subject, the Ministry of Interior states that historically the Pei-hai has of the different dynasties since the dave of the Tartar conquest of Northern China some seven centuries ago. During the thirteenth century when the Ching Tar tars occupied Peking as the seat of their Government, the Pei-hai was first Isid out as a part of the palace ground; and during the late Tsing dynasty, more im provements were made to: ill Pei-lai has a lake, rockery, bowers and groves of beautiful frees, all of which combine to make the grounds one of the finest sites in Peking. It is estimated that an initial ontlay of 390,000 willing British makers to supply the demand treatment, that is to say, a still lower be required to effect repairs and improve occasioned by the exclusion of German tariff for the Empire. Provision is made ments on the grounds.

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