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THE

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12тs, 1919.

BRITAIN'S OUTPUT:

PIANOS CUMPARISON WITH AMERICA

Have quality of tone,

In the first issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics," propaced at the instance of the British Departnutit of the Supreme Hemonic oneil, an interesti ime comparison isugisony of the produc tim of roul is the United States. The monthly average output in the two vonin. tries during the yetis fots- iots was as faltus, the figures representing cons:----

United

"Bites" States. Kingdom.

lightness

of

touch,

beauty

of

design:

THE PIANO OF QUALITY,

1914

1918

HOTT

1913

specialized by years of

experience to withstand

the cliniste,

RACKED

BY

GUARANTEE FOR FIVE

YEARS.

PRICES from $425.

CASH OR EASY TERMS,

S. Montrie & Co.,Ltd.

SHAPE 25

[17-5

For Evening Wear

Newest

Styles

Shirts

3

Stiff or Soft Fronts.

Collars

Ties

20,953,000

K

21,100,000 21,1,૧૫૨૦ 20,71d,TH 19,000.000

14. 10.000 35,200.000 39,333,000

$ER DONG, DOG

15,388,000

30,903,000

It will be noted then whil the British almost continuous, output strowed ar decline during the six years, that of Ame rien greatly expanded during the latter la recent months. part of the period. however, the American mines have talien considerably short of last yar's Egures. Uw the cher and the British output. although showing considerable fuctua tion has uut harkedly deteriorated. The particulars" for the periodi October, PUIS to un

Faite Kingdom.

Vetuber (1)

$112.000

November (69). 2,16, 192, E9

December (

28.176000

January to

21,632,000

February (4)... 19,172,000

March (6)

April (6)

Stis. C)

1,6×600

Whited States. 54,611,000

47,08 1,000!

40.681,000

BINI14,000

32,666,000 17.270,000 39.200,000 HO BE available. 17.30,000 not available. (a) Evo u seks, (5) four weeks, As regards the proxinction of pig'iron und eride steel, the output of the two In this countries compaers as follows.. (table the figures represent thousands Af-

tans:

15.

In alt

the

in Quarter Sizes.

Ditl

CAFE SYPPL..

Etitl

kingdom states

kingdomw

Mouthly age.

1913. 1919

0 3,254

Smart Shapes.

Oct. 1914

649

286 3,187. 1,62804) 2,344 149 3.35

Swoch) 3,000

1

Dr.

Jan BI

3.30-

Feb.

62

March

April

3 648 2,47 BA2 2008 41+

Socks

Black Silk.

Pumps

Best Patent Leather.

MACKINTOSH

#

& CO., LTD..

Men's Wear Specialists,

VIEUX ROAD.

Telephone 29.

HAPPY HIT

COMPANY MEETING. SHANGHAI COTTON MANUFACTUR-

ING CO., LTD

The 10th annaal' general meeting of

THEFATE OF THE "HAUROTO.

STRONG CRITICISM BY A SHIPPING JOURNAL.

The refusal of the tavernment

16

·SHIPBUILDING IN HONGKONG RESCUE-TYPE TUG LAUNCHED FOR THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT Yesterday the Hongkong and Whanipen the Shanghai Cotter Manufacturing Co. Bock co., Ltd, launched as their longkong to take steps to ascertain Ltd., was held at the offices of the agents | uniitan, Bock; the 'NA. Auer, the think whether the Heurate or any of her (Mithi Bussa Raisha, Led.). No. 12 the cute Tags contracted to be fer are still abwe water and capalile of being suevoured: has armuarit a eva- Szechuan Road, Shanghai. on September it for the British Government.siderdile agant of adverse criticism in

ting to be gained St. James will be ach, Mr. John Prentice presided. The

shipping circles, where the indifference of the Naxy to the safets of the lives of The St Borine and S. Sampathuse" in the Merchant Service is keenly

fonath

Jamount of profit for the year, includ1unched at an early date.

|

ing T, 2.901.81 brought forward from the previous year's account, anointed to- Ils, 1,368,011.01. which sum the Directors proposed to appropriate as follows; To write off as depreciation

upons huldings.. Spinning and

weaving

machinery and plants Furniture

To distriimte us dividend Tis.

18 per share whe To plaer to greit of special

Petve fund ...............................

To carry to new gevonnt

Tix.

900.00

sister ships to the St. Munare, proved. very nevessful in trial, anti-testy pers

It will be reinembered that the Mammuth farmed, under direction of the Chief (left Saison with a full enego of rice and Tis.

the hundret souls on beard, anong 13,350.36 Constructor, Naval Yard, showed amste

"sonbility in'ench "condition of fading. [who were the Britišis munster, chie? „and 13, THO.30

being seed oilfeer and chief and Regund engi 5,262.50 War. Regulations

enforced, slight modifientions have been meer. On July 30th a ex phoon of strept 50,379.35

made to the accommodation for offers intensits swept over the Phiña Seas géréső and epow. ke store-roonis, otel, from the the track the Humpto,would have to make and when. instead of the six or seven days, usually decupied by the passage, a fortnight had elapsed and nothing had heen benet of the vessel, her became anxings and requested tia Naval untlarities end a cruiser me search of her, they were told that no ved ans available,

[ 1.862. KOT

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Lloyd's

350,000.00 design adopted for the earlier mugs.

The St Manance is a steel single-serw BAHR

aean going 'tus, builg quirements and special serves of their The baitinian explained that a representative. Mr. J. R. S. Gardiner.

Follows: amount of nonry was required to meet the wayments for balance of new machinery, various works or equiporatsuth overall. Fists, Bin 2 bngth, he, en property, ste ark the Beard at tween perpendiculars, 185tt: breadth

· devided to set aside as a special, reservestone, soft in beradth" moulded.

dimensions are The 31,

HJ

to met the expenditure, the sun of T. and depth moulded, 16ft, thin,

und gress tonnage being 131 tons; and 230,0in our of profit, and less account.

deck tomance, 3 rones and net tonnag

In accualance, with the solution pass ed at the last animal meeting, the Board awarded Mr. Bobertson in Honorariam choque for that of Tls. 21,000 and w

him out December anunt, was sent to 20th, 1915. On January 14th. 1910, Mr. Robertson wrote that he had cashed the cheque Wid, hell the amount at-call-and

Aremodation is provided far Cas tain. Chief Engineer, and officers, in the top-gallant forecastle, which is 32 fert long: for petty officers and crew on

lower decks forward and aft: A large uk house is fitted at the after end of

the

his letter foncluded as follows: To forecastle deck. providing a well-fur- Beelerate matters this (the honorarium), nished cabin, and chart and wheel-house

|

A Day

That the typhoon, which she must haver

encountered was of a most destructive character was proved by the expérience E them. Phringerh - which, leaving Saigon about, the same tiam, encountered ths blow North of the Paracels and her steering gear Becoming disabled and her engine-noon. Hooded, she driftest for several days Bang only breught, thringh by the magnificent seamarship of her master: aided by her officers I assisted probably, by an amount of goud: Foggiane that may have form heking in the vase of the Hour The l'heumpen dur

I have assessed at the reasonable figure and above the house a second stringing the for terrible days that she lay

af and it fell thels ane lakh S.S. Allow-position with up-to-date fittings: signal disabled in the track of the typhoon. ling apparatus, and searchlight Pro

ing for those Taels twenty thousand now

in my hands, there yet retains a balance vision is made for wireless teleachphy for the to preise of Turls eighty thou-but the installation is not bring procesied and S,S. and for which sur your cheque with as in the St. Thominje and se. will oblige at au.early date, and whereby Sampsas, Compartments providingample this episode tu be both mutually and stowage for salvage gear, provisions, and "amicably closed."

ship stores are arranged at the fore end of the vesicl

On February the agents wrote to Mr. Robertson stating the Board did not we

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24(e) 2,939 June

63300

(5) Five works, di, kongwerke, pianots amb vastges In an introductory note to the Bul Tetin. which deals also with shipbuild- ing ports and experts wholesale prices, te it is stated that the aim is to bring together such published statistics. as have a bearing on the reonomie condi- reason to alter their deision regard tions prevailing in as many of the leading the amount of the honorarium,, but. ing countries of the world as possible should he desire, they were quite p before, during and wine, the war, with A view to affording some focusure of their pared to cingulate his letter among the progress towards man normal conditions, sharhoidon and request then a state For the present it is hardly possible whether they wished to increase the to draw any definite cinelusions from the amount of the honorariums and. if " by figures given. Le may he said, however.

how much, and, should thes, decide to in that so far as they go they indicate a general decline in production and foreign crease it, the Board would carry on their trad, from November 1918 (the month in instruction. Since then they had heard which the Armistice was concluded) until about February-March of the persent nothing from Mel Robertson on the sub year. decline due" no doubt to the jert. " suspension of

of certain phases of economic activity in consequence of the reduced de- Since then a period of reenary seems to have set in theggh everythis points to a slight check to this recovery in the beginning of the present quarter."

CIGARETTES and for war material.

The Real Burley Cigarette

IT'S TOASTED.

An entirely New principle in

Cigarette Manufacture.

SOLE AGENTS:

THE HONGKONG CIGAR STORE

CO.. LTD..

THE

Hotel Mansions.

Tel. 161.

507

CORONET

September 12th & 13th, 1919.

METRO presents

HAROLD LOCKWOOD

in

THE MASKED

RIDER

22

HAROLD LLOYD COMEDY.

etc.

123

He sent the real state of affairs.

of

drifted right through the Thraceflig

her steering gear disabled, the water in the stakehold nearly ng to the level of th, furones and her decks awash in the

vicious wits that were being hurled against her. Occasionally, when a pref was sighted under her "ber að few kięks ahead were got from her engines and shir A steam windlass for 11in. cadle managed to get clear. It is possible that fitted on the forecastle head, a powerful the Enaroto, less fortunate, has been steam capstan on the upper deck, aft.

driven upon unr of these roofs, or a sinali and a din edir: steam"steering-gear in istet such as Woody Istend ur Tree Island a steel house on deck abaft the machinery and the survivors of her 300 passengers casing. The quadrant tiller is operated and crew are waiting anxiously for the by chain having an easy lead to steering succour that has not been sent. Possibly." year. Ahove the quadrant a deep-sea she also, like, the Phewapen, has man- salvage anchor is stowed on a specially aged to clear the reefs and islands and. designed platform. Water ballast can be totally disabled and without wireless, is carried in the fore and after peak tanks, adrift on the seas beyond the track of month from the the capacity being '62 tons, and 21 tons bailer feedwater and 6 tons fresh water shipping. more than in double bottom tanks,

date of her departure from Saigon and Me. H. Robertson severely criticized A cross bunker for 10 tons of running short of water and food. the statement of accounts.. He stated and port and starboard side bungees fre 110 fons, re' amidships. this position

The excuse of the Navy has been that the accounts for the year ended Jung being sat suitable for trim,

th. 1919, were unsatisfactory and did bunker dividing the engine and boiler mission rer than HM.S. Camés at

The cross there is no gunboat or cruiser in com not

pärmita 40 arrangement with the matter of carrying rooms. forward in the manner done of unsold machinery casings such that the towing Weihaiwei and, apparently, the amount stocks and

remarked that the Company hooks are fitted amidships and as low as coal involved in bringing her from should have had a much better account possible. The position also permits there, or in ordering up a cruiser· from « TRADE AND LABOUR UNREST

and a letter balanes shent, as compared good derrick swing over engine, the Singapore is greater than the value-of RESTRATION OF EMPORTS.

with previous years, taking into consid Speed mast being housed within the towing:

the lives of merchant seamen who steri- eration the fact that they were working position. with 21.000 additional

spindles He ex- The machinery space, being separated, ficed themselves so freely during the war. Presiding at the "annual meeting of the pre the opinion that the amount communication is provided by a tannel Apart from the absence of a cruiser in "National Union of Manufacturers, on

pred for depreciation was not nearly through the cross bunker. July goth, Mr. George Terril. M.P..sufficient considering the bondition of the

commission. an absence that is in itself. original mills and machinery, and, deal

open to grave criticism, there lay in the said that in the days all had to acting with the assets, said that the new

Naval Dockyard of Hongkong a cruiser. Labour acted Collectively. mill and additions were all put into the

The machinery consists of two cylindri balance sheet in a lump sum, whereas by cal return tube boilers, laft, din, diam being refitted which, in a few days, could and they had the power which had this time they should have an itemized by 11tt-Din, long, having a working have been made ready for such a mission been obtained in collective bargaining.in full, détail. The shareholders had put pressure 150 lbs. per square inch, fitte of peace, even though she were sent away The manufacturers of the country had up their money in 1914 like good sports with Howden's Forced Draught, supply and they were now told that they would ing steam to one set of Triple expansion

with a nucleus crew. More, there lay-in also fact collectively. When the armis have to wait until, at least. 1 until surface condensing engines having cylind Hongkong Harbour two completed rescue the new mill was completely fitted withers 18in.. in and sein. diameter, and tier was signed the Board of Trade aur

machinery.

Bin, stroke The Auxiliarios

of tags, fitted with wireless, which had been ed the tap on, imports flosed into the

At this stage Mr. H” C. Gatland pro- | tw

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built for just such a purpose toward the with float country, and, as a result, many manu poyed and Mr. V. Sakura; seconded a arrangement, each pump capable of feed-clase of the war. These also had no crew facturers were likely to be badly hit. The vote of confidence in the Directors, whithing the boilers at full

Drysdale

and whether sufficient naval ratings were was carried with only one dissentient. centrifugal pamp

in the con- union gut ne Advisory Committee a The Directors report and statement of dener: general

rafservice pump of the available to man one of them is im pointed which was sureesful in inves aerunts as presented for the year ended duplex type: and, on a raised platform material, for suficient merchant seamen tigating all claims by freigners who June 30th, 1919, together with their sug at the aft end of engine room, & Weir desired to import goods into the country, gested appropriation of the balance at evaporati capable of making ten ten

and engineers were prepared to man her and distilling of machin. and in reasonably restricting

credit of profit and

And los account. was ery, is

to go in azarch of their brothers in dis- had an interview with the Prime adopted and passed. heter, when a promise. was practically!

of fresh water per day.

tress. Yet the Navy could not see its way It was agreed that at the discretion of

Lpon cumpletion & four hours foto despatch a vessel to search for the mads that the restrictions in force, which the Board, a bonus be paid to the per power trial will be run over the AJ

on September 1st., would be con I until the Government could format-manent staff for the past year and that, miralty course. Aberdeen, als circle turn. missing.ahip!

in consideration of the valuable services ing, stern, manevring, and anchor late and give effect to their trade policy.

he rendered to the Company, the thanks trial. The sister ships St. Harainio aud Dealing

with Labour unrest. Mr. Ter of the shareholders to Mr. Hatabu be. Sum easily maintained a foundered and carried all her human.

recorded, and that he be rewarded with of 12 knots per hour on trial, the machin- an honorarium of Tla. 10,00 8. S. rry developing 1,200 indicated horse

collectively.

er

great

rell said that employers were agitating and begging the men to give them

To that appeal the men Production.

You want greater production so that you can get more profits. " But out of every severeign's worth of work performed only 1 went to the employer. What the workers did not realise was Great Britain me

as that

CZECHS AND THE PREMIER,

The total length of machinery space and bunkers is ft.. or 37 per cent of the length of tug.

power,

for

Pronajat

jank

The launching ceremony was grac-fully performed by Mrs. E. G. Kennett.

LACNCH OF A TUG FOR THE.

ADMIRALTY, ...

Yesterday morning Messrs. W. We were lowing is a translation of the inscription Bailes & Co., Ltd., launched from their

The Prime Minister has had conferred

him the liquorurs of

had to buy from abread, and pay of Laws by Prague University. The fal

for the importe by your

obliged to shake up

S.

could not do that, Prodening If we accompanying the diploma, which is in shipyard at Kowloon the steel single- |

the "nation was

to the form of a beautiful book

dooned, and it would ultimately lead to

directorate of the University of in offering th.. 1018, for the up thanks at a meet-

a split with our Colonies. The colliery Pragu strike was a murderous blow at the naing held BI

tion. It might be some time before the great help. by means of which the rights

raw tug William Jangland, built to the order of the British Admiralty.

It is to be hoped that the auroto has

freight to a swift and merciful" death rather than that she is still afboat with her starving crew waiting for the succour which will never reach theme-Shipuing and Engineering.

EX-GERMAN BUSINESSES AND TRADE-MARES,

In the House of Commons on July 17th. The vessel is designed

gned for deep-sea 31. Bridgeman informed Lieut-Colonel dimensions being Bir F. Hall that under the provisions of 126 X 25 beam x 13' 6" deep.

men really understood that they had to of the Bohemian-Slovak people had been work, her

help, and support him by very means when the Bohemian Slovak neople. were

engines and bailers of so IH. P. are the Trading with the Enemy Acts Ger- man "businesses, plant. and other assets

were, during the war, sold by controllers

work. He proposed a "resolution thank restored, decreed unanimously that being supplied by H.M. Dockyard, all ing the Prime Minister for having re honorary degree of Doctor of Laws should constructed to Lloyd's highest class and ceived a deputation from the unics on be conferred upon that most excellent built under their supervision. the subject of economic trade policy, and and noble man, David Lloyd George. assuring him that the union, desired to. Erime Minister of Great Britains a fully-performed by B. T. Rugansters was disposed of in such-sale, any The christening ceremony was grace-appointed by the Board of Trade or the

Platt who was Court. Where the goodwill of the busi possible to find an amicable solution of still forced to fight for the lords of subsequently presented the Labour unrest which, without any other race, and when they were perishing a souvenir of the occasion. Mr. Platt on the register would be transferred to Fishing with a platinum-and-diamond branch as trade marks of the businesses zemaining definite grievance, was threatquing thin prison and in battle and were oppress on behalf of his wife thanked W. S. paralyse industrs, and, as a consequence, ed by hunger he brought comfort to their Bailey & Co., and complimented the by the previous owners, who would b

the buyer. This would prevent thrir une was causing a grave advanow in the price downcast spirits. and roused them all to builders upon of food and all commodities.

Baunch equally debarred from making any claim

"The resolution was carried.

the successful

hope that they soon might throw off the which had taken place. yoke of slavery

to the zoodwill of the business.

Thes