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THE HONGKONG DAILY FREES, SATURDAY, MAY 20TH, 1917.

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JAPANESE AND AMERICAN YARNS IN HONGKONG, Japanese cutton mills not only are com- mencing to dominate the Far Eastern market for ordinary counts of cotton yarn, but during the past year have developed a tinde in fine count yards that

SOUTH MANCHURIAN

CONCESSIONS:

HIGH COURT JUDGMENT. In the Chancery Division recently, Mr, Justice Peterson delivered his reserved Ltd, of 3, judgment in the action brought by the South Manchurian

MENAGERIE IN A WEST- CUTLER PALMER & CO'S

END FLAT

LIZARDS AND GUINEA PIGS IN THE BATH ROOM,

Mrs. Louisa Hocker, who kept a hotel in Park-lane, brought an action before

Adolph Bush. trade of the United States and Great Plaintiffs claimed a declaration that an option given to the defendunt by an Britain in knitting yarns and amilaragreentent made on December 2nd, 1908, between the plaintiffs and the defendant finer products in this field.

for the purchase of certain properties in Chian, as extended by an agreement made on May 18th, 2009, between the same still remained in force and may be

has cut into and almost destroyed Loudon Wall-build Henry Mr. Justico Bailhache and a comman

For a number of years, say, the US Consul-General for Hongkong, Mr George B. Anderson, American knitting

jury recently in which she claimed £113 from Mr. George Lehmaier, an engineer, and Grace Lehmnier, his wife, as damages for injuries to a Bat at Grosvenor Court Hotel, Davis-street, Berkeley-square. The defendants rented the Hat in 1915 at five

yarns had possession of the Hongkond by the plaintiffs up to the guiness a week,

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be

Mr. Marshall Hall, K,C., said that the defendants turned the fint into menagerie. They took inte it dogs, cats, lizards, guinea pigs, ferrets, and doves and other birds. The place had to fumigated when the defendants were. induced to leave. Mrs. Lehmaier on ons occasion cleared all the ornaments off the mantelpiece to fing at one of the atten- dants. She wrote many remarkable post-

of twelve calendar months from market so far as supplies for the hosiery the dare upon which the defendant should and underwent factories were concerned. communicate to the plaintiffs that the final edict had been obtained from the and even yet American manufacturers Chinese Government for the time being hold the trade for the very high-class confirming the concessions referred to in goods; but in the more common grades of the agreement. Plaintiffs also asked for knitting yarns, Japanese mills have taken ab injunction to restrain the defendant the trade, and they are now furnishing from dealing with or disposing of the said or any of them, or any right bobbing af prices far below what Ameri-off can manufacturers can compete with Bybering, then, so long as the option re- tising cheap Chinese and Indian cotton murd in force. The plaintiffs further in the mailgy, worn-out old flat-disgust-

estate and interest mixed with a comparatively small pro-asked for the appointment of a receivering to dwell in Ashanied of same to in the invite their tied aristocratic friends, Going Gone! £o to buy the job, lot in

knitting yards won ni on cone or everest therem, or charging or encum cards. One of them read:→ KESERVES

properties,

There is absolutely nothing damaged

portion of American long staple, cotton of defend trader Feven to take a cup of tea Going??||

Baid

the Japanese manufacturers turn out a

His Lordship, giving. faif yarn at a low price: The Japanese mills are making yarn up to i discount certain concessions were granted to the int They are able to secure their supplies of Chinese gentleman, who transferred them

Dr. Jones Mr. Lenmaier is cotton from India, China, and the United to the defendant, and the agreement was A letter by Mrs, Lehmaier roud :-- States as very low rates over the lines entered into by which the plaintiffs Dear of subsidised Japanese steamships, and acquired them from him upon certain con- panting like a steam engine with heart can distribute their output in the same ditions. The defendant raised various disease from the incessant letters from advantageous way. So long as these objections. The first was that the con- this boarding house hotci's friends. The be granted by the Chinese colonel cannot have him made so excited. advantages continue they can hold theircension was to

Emperor of a Chinese Empire, and, as the It is dreadful. His nerves must be rotten trade A

COTTON TRADE A COMMERCIAL BAROMETER.nity was now under n Republican with smoking all day long- all his life. second place, he said that this unfortunate American gentleman to leave This development of the Hongkong yarn rnment this could not be obtained. Do ask those who are tormenting the territory was now under him in peace. He is paying £10 weekly trade in 1913 Followed a similar develop, particulate and the edict, was there a rotten, old nigger-like shanty here--

Japanese ment of the trade in 1915, during which latter year the Japanese mills took over fore impossible. Thirdly, the defendant larentulas, spiders, and cobwebs ! Dicken's

postulated the practically the whole of the trade in count said it was incremation of both Little Dorrit sends compliments "

M Marshall Hall went on to say that 20 yarns and cut into the trade in Indian parties that the and British yarns otherwise. By reason issue of a final ediet confirming the con- of the attention paid by the Japanese cessions. And, finally, it was argued that when the defendants left the flat it took mills to the still higher counts during the the contention that the agreement was to four days to clear out the filth and the

of Mrs. Hocker gave evidence. Sha past year the Indian mills were enabled act as from twelve months from the grant-place was ruined.

ing

of the edict was against the rules that on one occasion she saw Mrs. to sell considerably more yarn of the

take the things from a tray at perpatuities

pass over Lehmater 20 count than the vear before though not an amount equal to their former trade His Lordship, said he

As she Boxb On the whole the volume of Japanese the arst and second objections. He had the door and fling them one after another. yarns coming into the market during 1916. been asked to satisfy himself by an down the passage at the head of the was little, if any greater than it was the application to the Foreign Office as to the rapidly retreating waiter. provious year, but the returns to Japanese status of the present Chinese Government, each thing lying she uttered maniscal manufacturers were very much increased but he did not think that necessary, yells. The furniture in the lat was For a good many years the beat bare because he thought the third objection almost new when the defendants went in, meter of general trade in China has been was final and sufficient. He was of but with the lizards, the buge. Welsh the country's trade in cotton and cotton opinion that the agreement postulated hound, and the rest it had been com- products largely cotton-piece-goods, but that the final edict could and would be pletely spoilt

obtajurd, and the continual attempts particularly cotton yarn. While the price made by the parties to obtain that edict of raw cotton in the world's markets, naturally dependent in the first instance shared that that was so. That the parties upon-American Fotton crops, is the chief we wrong was clear from the fact that factor in fixing the volume and latura the Government refused to grant the edict of this trade, other factors, such as grain and persisted in that, conse value of silver, peace and political quiet

The

One day Mrs. Lehninter came into the

office wearing only an old ulster Sho had nothing else un-not even stockings She was yelling, Oh, ph, I know who tionable language

and other crops in China, the exchange and failed to obtain a final arc. She also used the most objec

there was no prospect of their ever obtain in China, and similar considerations coming it. The basis of the contract had dia bine to make up the year's record appeared and the plaintiffs caso failed which the returns depend,

BALSS, DELIVERIES, AND STOCKS IN HAND

Arrivals of

vari, exclusive of ls of cotton yarn, exclusive strictly knitting yarus, daring the past year in Hongkong are placed at 154,150

It was unnecessary under the circum- stances to go into the fourth point, as to the rules of perpetuities.

His Lordship therefore gave judgment against the Company.

hales, of which 128,850 bales were Indiant en

and the balance Japanese, Sales during THE EXPORT TRADE WITH

the year (including sales to arrive) are

placed at 167, 100 bales. There is on hand

at the present time in Hongkong stocks

of

put 34,000 hales, of which about 10,000

hales are already sold but not cleared.

THE FAR EAST

STATEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF

AME.COMMONS.

Constantly enhancing prices of cotton In the House of Commons on April 4th,

ed in the above figures,E

the

maid Her dressing-table, which had swing mirrort, was piled up with stale breed, toast,

Mrs. Lehmaier banaria skins, butter, and fish. In the and birds of overy

kind bath rosu were kept lizards, guinea-pigs, had thrown pats of butter at the pattern on the wall-paper. She did this diversion, shouting with delight all the time When a particularly loud yell was heard people said,There! She has made a good shot (Laughter.) The sell in the place was terrible.

At a litter stage, Mr. R. J. Willa, who appeared for Mrs. Lehomier, announced that he had agreed with counsel on the other side to settle the action against his

RUSSIAN HEROINES

RELEASE.

Mr. Lehmaier, who is deal, was then in the United States naturally led to Me Holt complained of the adverse effect told that Mrs. Hocker accused him of augmented prices for cotton yara, and of the shortage of tonnage on our export dealers and importers generally have made money in consequence Political trade with India, Burnab, and the Far leaving the flat in filthy state. He An attendant at the hotel said that Mrs. East, and on the prosperity of our home denied that he had done so de and Kwanget troubles in Kwangtung

Lehmaior threw at him two collecting Provinces, together with restricted credite industries especially the coiton industry.

It took four days to and the difficulty of delivering goods My S. Samuel complained that in con redited thehur, on the other hand, The Government was helping the Japanese clean gone the pr reduced the volume of trade during mahntetion with many commodities preference boxes, an ash-tray, and all the things on

being given, to foreign competitors the mantelpiece

clean out the place when the defendants Yunnan Province, which is served by to capture Indian and Chinese trade.

Sir L. C. Money replied that since the The jury found a verdict against fir, Hongkong through Indo China, increased its demand abnormalis and absorbed Shipping Controller had been in office Lehmaier for £80, and judgment was much of the Hongkong stock Of the 1,000 more vessels had either been or were entered accordingly, with costs, 133,800 bales sold and cleared, 1,225 halı «

tessels were were of No. 6's, 05,125 bates of No. 1 being brought under requisition Includ

ed in this great number of 24,800 bales of No. 12's 6,325 bales of

One of the conse No. 16's, and 36,375 of No. 208. Of the over 800 cargo liners trading on well-

stablished routes. fine counts (20's) about 56 per cent were Japanese knitting yarns are not, incind.quences which had to be faced was that the Department were compelled to limit. the shipping facilities of our own Domin- tons when they happened to be distant markets. The representatives of the Dominions who were now in this country had, however accepted the situation in

Marie Spiridonova, whose sufferings es that spirit of patriotism and self-sacrifice which had been displayed by the Domin ions throughout the war (Cheers) a martyr in the cause of Russian Liberty assure the House that a total pro- are known the world over, was among a ibition of cotton imports was not con- batch of released political prisoners who were arrived at Chitra, says a Reuter message. templated endeavoring to arrange a regular service Sho was given a great receptioned of steamers, the capacity of which would tary, band played, and she was carried be inado known quite frankly to those shoulder high by the crowd.

Russia was stirred some ten years ago interested in the trade, so that they could enter into commitments accordingly. The by the case of this delicate slender girl Department hoped effectively to arrange of a school teacher, who shot dead an order of priority of imports, so that Luchennysky, a brutal vice-governer who whatever cargoes could be brought into pacified a countryside by wholesale the country would be the cargoes most floggings, burnings and abominable out- useful to it. (Hear, hear.),

THE LAST OF RASPUTIN. Russian papers give carious details of the final fate of the body of Gregory Rasputin. It will be remembered, that after the tragedy in Prince Yusupoff's house the dead impostor was flung

through a hole in the ice on ofte of the branches of the Neva The corpse was recovered by command of the Court, and interred with great soleninity at Tsarsko Selo. It was not, however, left long in its resting place after the old gine had been upset,asputin's spirit. had done an infinity of harm after his death, and the Provisional Government evid ently feared that his body might become the centre of some mischievous cult At any rate, they gave orders that it should be dug up and interred in a remote spot among the forests which line the highway

to Viborg Accordingly, one evening the

The Department

MARIE SPIRIDONOVA, MOST FAMOUS OF MODERN REVOLUTIONARIES.

rages,

Marie waited for the tyrant on the plat form of a station and fired five shots at him from her revolver, then tried to kill knocked down, beaten, kicked, her sense herself with the sixth. She was, however, less body dragged about by the hair, and, later in prison, she was shamefully ill- treated by the officers who had charge of

She was sentenced to death, but in view of the facts brought to light at the trial as to her martyrdom, the Government was sent to Siberia dared not carry out the sentence, and she

FMS. TRADE IN 1916 The Chief Secretary of the Federated coffin was placed upon a motor-lorry and Malay States in his report for 1918 despatched on its way. But when still says: SLOVAN three miles from the spot appointed for There was an increase of 16 per cent the secret burial the car stuck in a noiz the value of imports, the value being drift, and could not be persuaded to 9,621,113 (£8,122,463), a compared with move further, The four men who had 800,015,035 in 1915 There were substan- been charged with this grim commission tin increases under most heads. The thereupon decided to cover the coin with principal decreases were rice coal, steel, snow and leave it fill the morning. They manufactured metals, kachang oil, and

The value of exports was $219.943,686 Facing her judges with lofty calm, she carried it some little distance from the railway and tramway materials road, and hid it, but when they return compared with 8181,859,118 in 1916, an told them in words that had, a prophetic od to the they of in-ring party of local militia. The latter Onitivated rubber accounted for an i naturally had their suspicions of these nocturnal travellers, who left their car crease of $54,140,130, and tin and tin ore "I do not fear death. You may kill increase of 33,055,720 my body, but you cannot kill my belief and plunged together into the depths of The aggregate value of trade was that the time of the people's happiness ople will express of the forest, and insisted on explans $292,021,066, an increase of 868,248,723 and freedom is surely coming a time tiond When the matter was made clear compared with the trade of 1916, and of when the life of the people they came to the conclusion that it was nearly $100,000,000 comrared with 1914. itself in forms in which truth and justice best to take no chances of the body falling These figures include bullion. Excluding will be realised when the ideas of bro into unauthorised hands, and, tearing bullion, the total amount of trade in 1918 therhood and freedom will be r

that is to say, imports and exports mere empty Bonads, but part of our every down dead branches from the trees, they

$208,584,790 day real life. If this be truth, it is no grief to lay down mae's life." built an enormous bonfire, in which they added together was consumed it to ashes-

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