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NEW WEBER

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRALE, TUESDAY, MAY 28TH, 1918.

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RED CROSS DRIVE IN SHANGHAL

Chinese with a small sprinkling of other nationals, participated. The tiffin took the form of an international family gathering, with much talk and much display of enthusiastic patriotism, and there remains no doubt, as Mr. J. K Bague said, that the Drive Committee in- tend to turn Shanghai upside down be fore the end of the week in the work of making every non enemy foreigner here an active supporter of the American Red Cross-in other words, a bandage buyer.

The Chinese are taking care of their own work, needing no arging, and at the close of the tiffin at three o'clock it was announced that 15,000 Chinese member ships had been enrolled up to that hour. It was to rouse interest among foreigners and even among Americans that the tiffin was held in the maio, and plans were unfolded by which it is expected that overy foreigner in Shanghai will wear a ked Cross button by the end of the wock/

A NAVAL ENGAGEMENT IN SHANGHAI, ALLIED BLUEJACKETS AND GERMAN ROUGHS,

There was

anaval engagement on

INTERNATIONAL COTTON CO. SOLD TO THE JAPANESE.

attendance.

GERMANY'S GAINS. GREATER THAN THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

[BY LOVAT FRASER] Germany is making new kindoms every

soon

BIGHER OFFER REFUSED. HELP OF CHINESE.

The adjourned extraordinary general Every time you lick a bandage stamp

mecting of the shareholders of the Inter you help to lick the Kaiser.j

This was the key note, says the Y.-C. | Sunday morning (May 19th), in Bhang untional Cotton Manufacturing Co. day. She is acquiring great ports, fleets, Dally News, of the American Red Cross hat, in which a combined American and Ltd., was held at Shanghai on May 21st, railways, waterways, illimitable foreste, Drive inauguration tilfin at the Carlton British force successfully dealt with an when Mr. & Hide presided over a large vast corn-hunds, inexhaustible stores of The Chairman said that since the last petroleum, the control of wide seas, the Café, Shanghai, on May 25th, in which equal number of the enemy (says the 300 men and women, Americans and Laly News). The Trenches in mecting they find asked Messrs Jardine, undisputed mastery of ancient trado

North Szechuan Road Extension have not

lions of new slaves- all these are passing been one of the safest spots on earth for Matheson & Co., and Mr Kawasaky, in routes between West and East, city after

into her. hands. a quiet, Ally to visit. zor gonic months view of the situation which arose at the city, endless manufacturing centres, mil- control dominions meeting. They had received a scaled

She will go past and there has been quite a long list last meeting, to submit sealed tenders to if stories floating about of isolated Allies be opened on the day of the adjourned being set upon by numbers of Teutonie tender from Mr Kawasaky but none greater than the Roman Empire posses- toughs and being thoroughly beaten from Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Bed at its utmost period of expansion. On Sunday morning, however, numbers They had also received two offers from Make no mistake about the meaning ci were about equal and, as a result, about syndicates. They were all based on the all the swift moves which have suddenly baif-a-dozen Germans some of whom by same conditions and the sort of thing he made her immeasurably the greatest the way, wo learn failed to report at detailed to them at the last meeting and and most formidable Power in the Old their police stations as a result therefore it was only necessary for him World. To-day she bestrides Europe like nursing well-broken heads.

There are two stories of how it all to give them the actual figures offered for a Colossus, and is reaching forth to grasp the buildings, property, land and plant the riches and the resources of Asia.

is promising to protec happened, and, as the location of the Messrs. 9. Kawasaky & Co., had offered Every one of the provinces she is an-

sho fight does not come within the jurisdic-Tis: 1,300,000; an offer had been made on nexing, the kingdoms she is creating, the

republics

to keep Shi has made of the Baltic a German ton of the Municipal Police, the exact behalf of a Chinese syndicate of Ts. story is difficult to obtain. It would 1,230,000, though the terms were a little she means to control seam, however, that Heinrich Kremla, bit vague and not quite as definite as he who is already well-known in Shanghai, would like, and they had also received lake. Having agreed to neutralise the proaches to Stockholm and to Petrograd, was in one of the bars in North Szechuena further offer from Messrs. J. P. Bisset Aland Islands, which command the ap Road Extension, where there were also & Co. on behalf of a syndicate, of is she cynically proceeded at once to occupy She has taken six or seven Germans. Kremla is said 1,350,000, accompanied by a certified and to fortify them.

protection," and to have expressed himself with a certain cheque for Tle, 300,000. Those were the Finland under her,

German king of the usual sealed pattern, amount of force on Germans and things three offers which were before them that talks of supplying the Finns with a German in general, whereupon ono of day.

into Finland her rule and influence the Teuton aightfowl seized a bottle of

All the Baltic provinces of Russia bave Esthonia, Livonia, Courland, whisky and hit the Czech critie over the head with it Kremla apparently prae tically collapsed. At this the rest of the

gone. are in German hands. Mr. Chen Lien tong, vice-president of crowd with that characteritic courage

names which mean little to British ears, the Chinese General Chamber of Com which has made their nation a wonder of merce, speaking in the absence of the world, joined in. Things looked bad Chu Pao-san, the president, who was for Kremia, called away, Mr. Y. Chang, inter- preting, said that there can no longer De East is East and West is West," but a world of flized brotherhood The would develop from the war. Chinese people welcomed this opportunity to take their places among other nations and felt it a duty to themselves and to the world to accord hearty sympathy and support to the noble work done by the

Red Cross

Mr. U. T. Wang, former president of the Senate, said from the day America declared war thinking Chinese felt that she had done so opay after long and careful deliberation, and China had to towed. America. China is at war, but why should China fold her arms and co nothing but wait! If we cannot now send an aty to Europe as we hope to later, we can do the next best thing and subscribe to the American Red Cross.

oked, and

Mr. Rayner thereupon moved :— 1.That the Company be wound up voluntarily and that Charles Ernest Rayner, Esq., of Shanghai, be and he is appointed Liquidator for the purposes of such winding up.

By her will extend to the Arctic seas.:

The

these

peasant race inhabitingets a regions, aro doomed to enslavement great slice of White Russia is to be trana- formed into the State of Lithuania under another German king. Riga, the scend port of Russia, and Reval, a said at the last meeting was still fresh invaluable naval base, are to be German- their memories. The figure they were used. The hopes of an enlarged and in- The spacious new Ukraine Republic, dealing with then was Tis. 1,184,000 dependent Poland are extinguished: That had since grown to a maximum of Tis. 1,350,000 but in spite of that growth stretching from Brest-Litovsk to Odessa, he was not prepared to say that the may call itself what it likes, but it will

many. By gaining

undisputed increase was commensurate with the value be completely under the thumb of Gor

to the The resolution was put and carried by ring and Bouthern Roumania the of what they were selling.

a large majority.

Mr. Rayner then proposed resolution No. 2, which in its amended form, was as follows-That the said liquidator be and he is hereby authorized to accept the offer particulars of which are set out in the offer in writing of S. Kawasaky, dated May 21st, 1918.

Mr. Levy second the point at that He was already hall-dazed from the stage was not to whom they were going blow on the head which had cut it open to sell, but whether they would sell at for him, when three American sailors all. He expressed the hope that what he entered the bar. The sight of Kremla on the floor with half-a-dozen stalwart men taking it out of his all but uncon- scions form quickly helped them to decide on intervening on his behalf, and, with- out anything in the nature of preliminary negotiations it is of this that the Ger- mans complain -- butted right in From information received, the fight seems to have become a very pleasant bickering indeed, but the Americans, hopelessly outnumbered, were not having it all their own wayalam

Matters began to look desperate, for Germans always fight well against a numerically inferior enemy, when rein forcements arrived in the shape of three or four British sailors, men who had geen And for this among other reasons, that service in some part of the world or the we may learn the etectiveness of organother and who would be handy men in a zation and how to organize and do tor mill. They were. They threw themselves into the mêlée and shortly after they had good. Shen Tun-ho, president of the iced for action the skiemish Chinese Red Cross Booty, with evident brought to a conclusion. The six German pleasure extended a welcome to the move stalwarts maintaining a weak rear ment of the American society and speks guard action vanished through the door of the honour that was his in announcing and took their aching hends off in ricshas that his society would contribute 10,00 Kreml was taken to the North Szechuen bandages, in other words $2,500, to the Road Extension Police Station with fair- American Red Cross. Further, he had telegraphed to all the branch societies in ly severe injuries to his head which neces sitated his subsequent removal to the China, suggesting that each should con- tribute so much as it could afford. General Hospital for treatment.

Thore is no report at present of any American or British casualties,

Mr. JK. Sague, the last speaker, closed the meeting with a characteristic speech, which resulted in the lining up of some dozens of lagging Americans for the Drive work this week. He and Mr. Arnold had called on business men to whom they exposed their plans to sell a few million bandages followingthe Liberty Loan and British War Loan drives, and he was told that it could not

be done.

corn

economic

the

Germans will obtain command of the two richest granaries in Europe. A year bence our blockade will only serve to keep wool and tropical products out of their food problem. Germany. The enemy will have solved

Take oil. At one bound the Germans have obtained possession, in Roumania and in the district about Batum, in Transcaucasia, of enough oil and petro- They have gained leum products to enable them to wage access to inexhaustible supplies of coni and minerals. The position regarding Roumania is still uncertain, but I greatly fear that the Roumaniaus may to succour from the Allies later on. have no alternative but to yield now and If the Baltic becomes a German lake so

Mr. 8. 4, Levy seconded. The Chairman pointed out that by the amended resolution they were selling the business of the company to Mr. Kawn-war for evermore saky for Tis. 1,300,000. He asked them was to remember that he had told then just

previously that there were three offers fls. 1,250,000, Tls. 1,300,000 and T. 1,350,000. He pointed out that the offer of Messrs. Bleset, & Co. was accompanied by substantial bargain money.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. The twenty-second ordinary meeting of shareholders of Messrs, Lane, Crawford &Co., Ltd., was held at Shanghai, on and shareholders present all 1,457 shares.

Mr. Barrett-It is a better offer. The Chairman: It is a better offer Tls. 50,000 over Mr. Kawasaky's offer

Mr. White Can you tell me why Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., having given us a firm offer, eventually with

dzew i

The Chairman explained that the Board had written to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. intimating the Board's intention to reecive sealed tenders, and they received the following reply:--

trust

i

does the Black Soa

Armenia with the great fortress of Erzerum, has been given back to the Turks. Our armies in Palestine and Mesopotamia cannot stop mobile forces from entering Persia from the north- west and stirring up strife on borders of Afghanistan and India. Ger- many no longer needs the Baghdad rail- way, for she has two alternative routes to India.

abe

is thero no hope of bre

breaking up the immense new Empire which Germany is eating before our very eyes? Yes, but not white guerrilla bands and disgruntled ex-Minister in the House of Commons

But it was being done und it would May 21st Mr. James Ned purchase the International Cotton Mille, all their energies to defeat the

#

We have to thank you for your letter of the 4th instant. In order to avoid misunderstanding regarding our offer to for Tis 1,200,000, we think it advisable

view of the decision reached at the shareholders' meeting held on the 1st to restate our position.

Our offer was made in order to give the shareholders an opportunity-if they delired to all of turning over their company to a British concern at a better figure than that which, we believe, they were, prepared to accept for a sale to the

Government rather than to defeat the Germans; not while speakers and writers lower over the pillaging Bolshevists, the Ishmaelites of our time, whose aim is to shatter civilisation ; not while our Lansdownos talk of peace negotiation and. speak as though the restoration of el- sium would settle everything, while 2 dy is acquiring in

position which may give her the mastery discussing the personal careers of generals of the world; not while wo spend our days trial and admirals who had a very long and are as dust in the balance compared with the awful issues which now confront.⠀⠀ humanity.

Eastern

be done. Shanghai had bet $1,000,000 on the races last week; this week Shanghai

The Chairman, addressing the share would invest $200,000 in the human race. The committee wanted women to volun holders, said:Again your Directors in presenting iter to go into the stores on Nanking have great pleasure

such a satisfactory Road and sell bandage stamps and men could for the year's working, and that they to arrange for the sale of stamps else result where Shanghai did not like proces will be equally satisfactory to you I do sions, but before this drive closed not doubt. When I presided at our lust Shanghai would have procession annual meeting I drew the attention of

the shareholders to the numerous and Japanese sion of 2,000 men and women carrying constant dificulties which had been ex As a result of the meeting above re- Red Cross banners and singing the Red perienced in carrying on your business ferred to our firm is now practically put Cros songs they had learned at the tifin.and 1 expressed regret that owing to into direct competition with prospective There would be several bands in the pro the war the cutlook showed no signs of

Japanese buyers, und, although this deci that ccasion and in it there would be British improvement. I am sorry to say French, and other Allied units, and very not only has there been no lessening of sion reached by the board of directors be which Germany is constructing is jorry those dificulties during the past year call for sealed tenders was no doubt built and mast swiftly collause, if only likely the Consular Body, TA

but rather have they increased. Many carefully considered from all points of we hold together. I believe we can bring view, it undoubtedly defeats, or renders down the Hohenzollerns as we brought CLASSES OF MEMBERSHIP, In order that thero may bo no confu- articles, particularly foods in Eng it possible to defeat, the object for which down Napoleon, if only we fight on and

absolutely unable to purchase in on the parts of China this week, the land, with the result that wo have been our offer was made, lost to British inter- the privation without dismay. I believe

and other

I believe the ramshackle new empire

Central Committee has published sheets compelled to go elsewhere for many of pany should not be lost to British inter the panch; and will go on indefinitely

tually put forward by the Japanese.

of country are as

which must save the situation, for we shall get no help from the contemptible Bangs in the House of Commons who are making the greatest of our politicat institutions an object of general scorn, ind are pursuing the most miserable per. sonal and party ends instead of joining in the great task of saving the world from

of instructions that have been distribut our supplies, some of which we have eats. The possibility was no doubt, duly as the

to obtain at any price, and considered and wo merely state it in case rather than submit to German doming ed among all workers, in the various there appears every prospect that our our gealed tender does not prove as ad- tion, if only the great new issues are branches. The instructiona indicate the

to obtain supplies will be still vantageous to present shareholders from explained to them. But it is the country various classes of memberships that are follity curtailed owing to still further a monetary point of view as that even open to residents in China, whether restrictions on exports, Chinese or foreigners. Because of the

Dealing with the Lecounts, working "Our original offer is, of course, in desire of the American Red Cross not to account thews a proât of £118,175,33, of the meantime withdrawn pending con compete with or interfere in the activi- an increase over the previous year of sideration of the conditions now called ties of Red Cross organizations among 318,851.44, which must, I think, be crn-on of the cond other nationals only. Americans are ad-sidered very satisfactory mitted to full regular membership Land and Buildings stood in our books A further amendment which in effect Persons other than Americans are classed on February 28th, 1917, at 3355,000, but was to authorize the acceptance of the as will be seen from the balance sheet offer of Messrs. Bisset & Co was pro- The fees for the various classes of mem1your directors have considered it ad- posed by Mr. Simmons, seconded by Mr. Mr. Rayner said in recommending barship in the Red Cross are: Regular visable to write off from this account a Spunt. membership, or associate regular mem further sum of $25,000, when this will

in our sects at then stand

as Associate members. A IN

ruin.-Daily Mail,

bership as the cass may be, Mox. $1.50; Debenture issue remains une $380,000, them to accept the offer of Mr. Kawaanky than £10,000, f

Magazine membership (including sab scription to "Red Cross Magazine, Mex. 83 Contributing membership Mex: 87.50; Sustaining membership Mex 315 Life membership Mex. 876 and Patron membership, Mex. $150

at

hands, and, furthermore, Tis 50,000 ís à considerable sum: it represents more

Mr. Simmons' amendment was put to he would point out that that gentleman

As the Chairman was about to put the Tls. 210,000 or $226,360.62 or an amount was the first to come forward and make the meeting and lost. closely approximating with the value of a reasonable offer which gave a reason- the property as shown in our books able return on their investment. In addi amended resolution as proposed by Mr. Stocks stood last year in our balance tion, he had sent experts to see the mill Rayner, Mr. Burnett said: It seems to sheet at $372,671.26, and in the balance and had done a large amount of work me the shareholders of the company are sheet now before you they stand at in deciding upon his offer, and it would very generous in turning down The. In addition to this, persons in China $445,813.6, or an increase of 13,141.80, be for that reason very ungrateful to 50,000. That represents something mor may contribute any amount to the Red we having adopted the policy of purchaa turn down his offer. On the other hand than Tis. 6 per share. I don't know Cross for war relief work either in aing any goods suitable to our require

other people were practically based upon be possible to get Mr. Kawasaky to lump sum or in the form of a monthly ments whenever offered to as I trust the offers that had been made by the whether they don't want it. Would it not contribution or persons may purchase that policy has your entire approval, the work done by Mr. Kawasaky The amend his offer? Why should we sell our during the drive Red Cross Bandage for by it we have been enabled to carry stamps at the rate of four for one dollar on the business so satisfactorily not only speaker pointed out that they would have property for 13 lakhs, when we can get and what they received on July 1st de- | 1 have not known him. I do know Thus the purchaser of one stamp contri. to yourselves but to our numerous custo collect on the unsold stocks of cotton 13 I do not know Mr. Kawasaky and. butes toward the manufacture, of one tomers how the balance at credit peaded to very great extent on the Mesers. Bisset & Co., and have known

venort shows the bandage for a wounded soldier,

All persons who become members or of Profit & Loss Account, after deducting party with whom they were dealing. He them for many years and I contend their the several items mentioned, to be had known Mr. Kawasaky and he pre-name is just as respectable as anybody. associate members or who make subscrip271,550.00, which your Directors propose ferred to leave his interests in his hands else's

Mr. Barner's proposition was put to tions during the week will be given dealing with as follows

rather than have to deal with an anony-

the meeting and carried Red Cross button Persons who become

syndicate, 8 per cent for dividend of

mous sans-In accepting Mears. This concluded the business of the meet- which

will absorb $28,000; to

certificate from the National beadquar

To pay a

transfer to

life or patron members will receive & the Jet General Reserve $25,000, there Bisse & offer you still have got the hopeing the Chairman announcing that a

ter at Washington containing the per- by making it $125,000; to transfer to sonal autograph of President Wilson, the Stock Reserve $10,000, and to carry for head of the organization:

ward to New Account $16,000.89.

that the company will remain in British confirmatory meeting would be beld om

Continued at foot of next column.) June 5th.