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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11mm, 1921.

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BECRETARY OF THE ASSOCIATION, c/o Train Barnan Governmiekl dailways, Tokyod

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THE COTTON TRADE OF

JAPAN. COMPETITION WITH GREAT BRITAIN.

BRITISH TRADE WITH OHINA UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.

A NEW ENTERPRISE AVOIDING

· TAXATION..

The

As Chairman of the Board of the Bri USE OF FRAUDULENT TRADE MARKS, is Manchurian Corporation, the vendors and promoters of the regently formed Amalgamated Trading and Industrial Cor At a meeting of the members 'of the poration, Lord Louth, with his fellow diros Manchester: Gaamber of Commerce da tom, gave a lunch at the Savoy Hotel on Weremoor. Söth. Sir John Bapules, M. November 26th to explain the objects of who, as president of the Inter-ained the undertaking. Farudiments, recently visited Japan, gave The corporation has been incorporated un'uccount of commercial developments under the Jersey Limited Liabilities Com

panies Act, 1882 mod 1888, and the solicitors, that country,

Man Mogar. Ashurst Morris Crisp & Co., havo According to a report in the chester Guardian, Japan, ho said, issued a certificate stating that this rs seriously intended to become one of the gistration was not done to avoid the Eng great mercantile countries of the world.lish Companies Act, 1900 to 1917. It was developing its mercantile marine directers were further advised that the in a very efficient manner. Un the steam Acts of Parliament imposing liabilities to ars of no other country had he travelled income-tax, corporation tax, and with more comfort. One of the matters profile duty would not apply to this com which, before going to the Far East, he pay and that the whole of the profits, after making proper provision for reserve, was asked to inquire into was whether would be pailable for payment of diy the Japanese Government subsidised denda. Ti corporation takes over the cotton Lor the manufacture of cotton business carried on by the British Mar gouds. It did not, but it did what was churian Corporation, and will carry on and equivalent to that, for it subsidised the develop the business of merchants, agents, steamers that carried cotton and cotton contractors, and concessionnaires in China, goods, thus making it easier for both im- With those objects in view it is proposed porters and exporters. This was a serious to ise at an early date 200,000 10 per- matter for the whole of the competitive cent, income bonds of £s each.

In amplifying the programme of the cotton trade. Ho had made a point of visiting the bazaars in various parts of company, Lord Louth said they had secured the East and had found them loaded up the so-operation of some of the most im with Japanese goods of the cheap edda portant houses and institutions in North and-enas kind generally associated with and South China in business of every nature, invariably, with the co-operation of German trade before the war. The Chinese capital, Affording ample proof of Japanese were very imitative and pushed the enormous potentialities awaiting a in wherever they could during the war British corporation formed under the right with all the cheaper classes of goods they auspices with sufficient capital and credit. could produce. But he found also that | As already stated by the Federation of to-day the Japanese were not popular; British Industries, after protracted that the buyers of the East were weary negotiations with the Chinese Government, of their goods and waiting for Europe to be in a position to supply their needs again.

a unique charter had been obtained granting an extension of the British sphero of in- Auence throughou, China, permitting Bri ish subjects to hold landa, mining con cossions, erect, factories, houses, and busi-

promises jointly with the Chinese, and beyond the limit of the treaty ports. The British-sphere of industry had hitherto been confined to the Yangtze area.

Mr. C. W. Entwhistle, M.P., and Mr. George Tarrell, M.P., both emphasised the hindering and hampering effect of the excess profits daty on production coming on top of the crippling influence of the war. Thoy regretted that it should be necessary to take the registration of his company out of the country, and agreed that the enter prise was deserving of every encourage- ment in such a vast field of opportunity

EXAMINATIONS HELD IN

DECEMBER 190

MATEICULATION EXAMINATION.

Candidate

No.

3-Richard Lee, Diocesan Boys' School, 4-Kenneth M. Tyson, Diócoman

Boys' School.

FAMINE RELIEF. HOW THE SURTAX FUNDS ARE EXPENDED.

SHANGHAI, 'December 20th, Mr. Wm. E. Souter, Chairman of the Distributions Committee of "the, Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee, writes as follows to the Shanghai papers

At our weekly meeting held last night we voted a further #50,000 to buy grain:

7. William Graham Lawson," "H.K. in Manchuria. Grain-trains are now pass

Tutorial and Educational Institute.ing through Tientsin daily, and a total 8.Tau Tiong Boo, H.K. Tutorial and of. 7,000 tons of grain is expected to be

Educational Institute,

delivered at the famine-dumps by the end

-Hau Bauing Ching, Hongkong of the year.

University

We further decided to purchase 10,000 12 Tsin-bao Yen, Hongkong Univer-wadded garments for distribution in

nity..

Hozan and Shantung, and Chihli -13-Lee Fu Wing, Private Study.

The question of the Government proj 19-A. G. Abbas, St. Joseph's College.posals for dealing with the proposed foar 20Tong Kue Shun, St. Stephen's million dollars loan (guaranteed on the

College,

SKEIOR LOCAL EXAMINATION.

31. Douglas Laing, Queen's College surtax) was considered. The proposal is. The following candidates have failed in for 20 per cent. to be administered by the the Matriculation Examination, but are Government Famine Relief Bureau and 10 per cent. by the Peking International entitled to a Senior Local Certificate:-

2-Delano Lopes, Diocesan Boys' Famine Relief Committee and the Tien- tsin Famine Relief Committee has pro School; distinction in English. 18.-Jal Pestonjo Cooper, St. Joseph's tested against such allocation of this loan

Colloge,

| It is of interest to know that, the Gov- ernment proposal involves the spending by them of the surtax funds in embank ment building, etc., in connection with. the new railways, Chefoo to" Weihaien and Shinkischwang to Tsangchow, and half a million dollars has been sent to the Peking-Hankow and Tientsin-Pakow Bail- ways to have this work begun. In his communication to the Press "announcing this arrangement the Minister of Com Kowmunications omitted to mention that the frozen state of the ground will not allow of building of embankments or any other railway construction work until the Spring Meanwhile the people are dying

··Pass List (Boys). 3.—The Sea Leung, St. Paul's College Wong Ping Lu, St. Paul's College, 25.Au King, Ying Wan Collego 27-Yang Po Hong, Ying Wah Col

lege; distinction in Chinese, SENIOR LOCAL EXAMINATION-

Pass List-(Girls), « 30-Florence Elizabeth George,

Joon British School. 31-Bernice Chepalloy, Belilios Public

"School.

School.

92-Ethelyn. Cheralloy, Belilion Public 33-Kwan Wai Fong, Belilios Public School; distinction in needlework drawing. 4-Luciola Lopes, Belilios Public

School

for lack of food and clothing. One won- ders how much of this surtax will be. available for the famine sufferers We have asked the Shanghai General Cham ber of Commerce and the Chinese Obam ber of Commerce to protest against the

35. Tung Lau Ngan, Belilios Public proposals of the Chinese Government,

School. 36Lybia Vas, Belilios Public Schools

distinction in Needlework. --Lena Choa, Diocesan Girls School.

JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATION.

and, however, effective the Chinese protest will be, we believe the foreign business interests could make representa tions through their Ministers in: Peking and so prevent this sattax loan from being handled by any but the recognised Pars Zist—(Boys):

Famine Relief Committees in Tientsin, 86.-Jafar Hoosen, Queen's Collega 87-Wan Yuet Ming, Queen's College tainly there is no guarantee at all in Peking, Shanghai, Kaifeng, eto. Cer 88.-Wong Woon Pui, Queen's College.

the Government proposals, notwithstand 93.-Chin. Yung Kit, Queen's College' ing their appointment of an Audit-Board

distinction in Arithmetic. 94-Wong Kun Hing, Queen's College,in Peking. What is wanted is that this 98-Loung Wai Yuek, Queen's College for distribution and that it be used to surtax-money be sent to the right people Wong Wing Tong, Queen's College, 104-Lau Ming Cheung, Queco's Colour food now. Railway construction schemes are of no avail until the Spring, and one wonders if the Government pro posals are anything more than words.

In the East, as in Manchester, there was a disposition to rate the Chinnman as a business man very highly and then Japanese not so highly. He believed this was because, for centuries, men who wanted to progress in China had found commerce their best avenue; whereas until the Japanese began their rapid Westernisation, business had been loft in their country to the lower types of men, men tricky and sharp. But we must not reckon upon that continuing. A change was coming in Japan. In conver sation he told the president of the Cotton Association of Japan that in Manchester there was considerable dissatisfaction with respect to the use of marks on cotton goods in the Chinese markets. The president replied that he was aware of it, that he did not like it, and that the active financial work in China as Inte man lege. members of his Association did not lika ager of the Ruso-Asiatin Bank in Tientsin. Dr. Ellis Powell said one aspect of the it and were ready to-operate in legis company's scheme which appealed to him lation or any measures that might be was that the registration in Jersey was taken to stop all copying of the marks of in complete accord with the sentiment of other people.

the investing public, and called for neither explanation nor apology. The throttling effect of the excess profite duty justified every effort being made to out-mancarre the Government within the limits of the law, and the action of the corporation was

As one of the joint managing directors of the corporation, Mr. Murray Campbell gave some information based on his ex-.. Perience gained during twenty odd years'

much in the interests of the public as ita owned unit s

COTTON AND YARN MARKET.

Mengrs. Polishwalla and Kotwall, eotton and yarn brokers, of Hongkong, in their report dated January 8th, states:

Bince our lag report on the 13th Decem ber by atr. Daner the whole interval has passed without any improvement in our yars market, which has remained very much depressed, and buyers hero show a inclination to operate on account” absence of demand from up country. A

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DESIRE FOR BRITAIN'S FRIENDSHIP. The Japanese were not only building ships, hat were putting up mills and fac tories and laying themselves ant to do everything that Europeans did so far sa was possible. And all the time they had their Government behind them. At the head of their big commercial concerns were men of the very highest rank, and a sincere effort was being made to bring their great commercial interests up to date and put them on straight lines. He never met any people more sincerely and earnestly desirous of being friendly with Great Britain. They considered that their proper role in the world was to become the Britain of the East. They had adopted Western methods, and their training, skill and attainments qualified them to take a high rank among civilised nations. It was for us to honour and try to appreciate them as they had tried to appreciate us. They had been loyal Allies during the war, their interests were really the same as ours; and though we would have to come into competition with them in some of our great under takings, there was room for both.

Ms. Edwin Stockton, who presided, and Mr. Edward Rhodes, chairman of the India Section of the Chamber, spoke af the mission which the cotton trade af Lancashire has arranged to send to the Far East and expressed a hope that it would be able to set out from this coun- try next year. Mr. Rhodes pointed out that it would have a strong representa: SHANDUAL-Recent reports show a very tion of labour in order that the workers quet market without any inquiry.

JAPANESE YARN. — Notwithstanding

A few foreign holders, with a view to et rid of their stock, havo sold about 1,200 bales of best chops in 106 and 125. yarn further reduction of $3 to $5 per balo; while big importers, although they are holding large lots, finding present prices too low, are, refraining from selling in order to maintain the market, and are tying their utmost to avoid a panic.

At the close, our market thus remains in s rather critical condition, and depends entirely on any sudden and unexpected torn of events."

Unsold stock: 18,000 bales; Bargains, 2,000 bales.

ARRIVALS From Bombay str. Dalvara and Banca, 6,500 bales

$188; Yellow Joss, No. 108. at $180; 600 bales Yellow Joss, No. 208. at $205-8100; 400 bulia Betru, No. 108. at $180-8174; Betza, No. 20, at $203, Blue Fish, No. 90s. at 8200.

in the industry here should be the better heavy decline in price, buyers are not show able to understand the problems which ing any disposition to operate, and stocks had to be faced. Mr. Rhodes added that are accumulating The following are the Sir John Randles bad strengthened bis latest quotations 25 balts Nagasaki, No. opinion that the Japanese would become 10%. at $183-8150; 50 bales Nagasaki, No: more formidable competitors as they be 12 at 8192-8189; Nagasaki, No. 208. st came more honest. The other day bo was $200; 3 Horses, No. 10s at #177; 3 Horses, shown in London a fountain pen resem No. 16 at $188; 3 Horuce, No. 20-at bling in the minutest detail a well-known English make. The box containing it was an equally clever initiation of the Eng- lish make, yet it was sold in Bingapore at a quarter of the price for which the English article could be produced. The RAW COTTON-The interval has passed very best-known marks on our piece without any business, the latest quotations goods were imitated and stamped on Bengal: 830-834 per picul; Chinese: goods far inferior. Further, when Indian $26-$40 per picul Stock: 300 balee buyers had bought goods from Japan they Bengal and 100-(Bman) Chinese had found them correct hall-way down the case and entirely different in the other ball. In the long run that kind of thing was doing Japan more harm than good,”"| and he was glad to hear of the movement in that country to put an end to it.

Mr. A. Hosworth, president of the Blackburn Chamber of Commerce, agreed that so long as Japanese competition was on saunt and straight lines there would be plenty of room for both· British and Japanese in the markets of the world.

EUROPEAN MURDERED IN

BORNEO.

The B.N.B. Herald of December 15th says: It is with deep reget that we re cord the death of Neel Baboneau at Tam buna on December 6th. From the little” news there is at present it appears that ho had been playing golf and after the gamo went over to the office telephone to speak to Keningau, After speaking, and DISASTROUS SEASIDE EXPLOSION, when going down the office stops, P.C. 420 que je fan Lima Dusun of Tuaran, who was on guard at the office, shot him in the back A bonge explosion wrecked houses on of the neck, death being instantaneous the Parade at Sandgate recently and No one else was in the office at the time shook all the district for miles round and no cross for the murder is yet known. a small French mine which was washed Lima committed suicide directly afterward, ashore having exploded blowing to pieces in Mr. Baboreau's house. The funeral two constguards who were in charge of dok place in the Tambunan Station it and doing damage estimated at thou- | sands of pounds. All the cmel, shops had windows blown in and in other houses ceilings, doors and furniture were ames [ed also.

grounds at 5 p.m. the next day after the arrival of Mr. Hille From Keningau The news was cabled to the Court of Directors for transmission to Mr. Baboneau's mother "who lives at Tower Hill, Dorkings of

101.

105-Tang Wing, Queen's College; dis-

tinction in History, 108.Joe J. Edgar, H.K. Tutorial and Educational Institute; distinction in Hustury, 100W Nai Fu, HK Tutorial and Educational Institute; distinction in Chineso, pasko 113-Wan Wai Choi, Private Study. 114. Ng Han Bin Private Study, 118-Chan Pak Chuen, Private Study 116-Ma Wai Man, Private Study. 117-Lam Tez Ying, Private Study:

distinction in Chinese c 118-Lui Pak Him, Private Study; dis-

tinction in Arithmetic. Chao Ki Yuen, Private Study; distinction in Chinese." 102-Lee Kwai Wing, Private Study

distinction in History and Biblical

In connection with the present famine in China Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks, in the course of an article in the Far Eastern Fortnightly, remarks that it in quite possible that from the humanitarian. view-point one of the greatest beneâts that may come to China from the work of the Bankers Consortium will ha eventually the prevention of famine." Ching can easily raise her own food supply in any year. A failure of crops or their destruction by flood does not ex- fend throughout the country. It is only a local phenomenon, although in-some sections where the populationis denser die within a relatively restricted ares. than in any part of Europe millions may It is understood that one of the leading Purposes-if not the chief purpose of the Consortium is to extend as widely and rapidly as possible China's railway systeme Naturally, these extensions will Kobe built on the most strategic routes from loon British School.

the economic view-point, so that supplies. 172 Donald Ogilvie, Kowloon British can be most readily transported from one

School.

section of the country to the other, from 178.-Young Fook Ping, Wah Yan the interior to the coast and from the School, distinction in Chinese, coast to the interior. As has been re- 180.-Jose Maria Alves, St. Joseph's peatedly proved-in China, in India, and College; distinction in Arithmetic during the period since the "Armistice 181.--Henrique da Silva, St. Joseph's even in Europe-lamines can be promptly held in check or relief afforded if only College.

adequate means of transportation can be supplied.

Enowledge.

168. Wang Pak Fun, Private Study. 169.Bydney Jack Flegg, Fictoris Bri.

tish Behcol

170 John Arthur Colett, Kowloon Eri

tish School. 171-Borge Hichard Rasmussen,

But Chit, Ying Wan College, dis tinction in Chinees.

JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATION. Pau List (Girls). 185Ivy Thelma Alice Musso, Victorin

British School.

188, Suzaane Weill, Kowloon British

School.

HISTORIC GIFT TO AMERICAN COMMODORE::

A silver candelabrum, & gift to Confe modore Perry from the business men of 187 Frances Evelyn Dua, Kowloon Shanghai and Hongkong after his famous British School, distinction in Bibli-voyage to the Orient in 1853 and 1854, cal Knowledge. 188.Pearl Ogilvie, Kowloon British States Naval Academy at Annapolis by has just been presented to the United

of the Commodore. Mr Perry Tiffany of New York, grandson

Babool 189Elas Robson Bell, Kowloon British

School

100 Grace Lee, Diocesan Girls' School;

distinction Needlework. 191-Emina Fauster Remedios, Dioco

san Girls School... 192-Aurea Christina Souza, Diocesan

Girls' School. 191EBzabeth In Syn. Wong, Diocesan

Girls' School. 19-Julia Tu Chan Wong, Diocesan

"Girls' School

distinction in Draw ing

195 Wei Kam Lun, Belilios Public

Achool.

196-Alice Maria Gutierrez, Belilion

Public School, A 197-Greta Mooney, Bellion Fublic Sex Bchool;

108.-Mercedes Rosario, Belilios Public

Bchool.

the family's possession since Commodore The candelabrum, which has been in, Perry's death in 1858, was given by Mr. Tiffany in memory of his grandfather and his long anval career.

According to a New York dispatch through Reuter's agency, the gut was made by the merchants of the Chinese cities (o) in appreciation of the Ame rican naval officer a visit to their country and his efforts to promote friendship between the United States and the Far East."

The candelabrum is an elaborate affair, of 38 inches. consisting of 17 branches with a spread

190-Iry Adeline Chaalloy, Belilice HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENOZ

Public School; distinction in Bibli cal Knowledge":" 900-Julia Gutierrez Belilies Fublic

School.

202-Wong Kwai Fong, Belilion Public School; distinction in Biblical Knowledge and Needlework. 200-Bertha Yas, Belllics Public School 201-Beatrice dos Santos, Belilios Public

Bchool.

205--Lau Shuk Ying, Belilión - Public

School

206--Molly Rahman, Privato Study;

distinction in Arithmetic. 208.-Mingle Doodhs, Diocesan - Girls'

School.

Mr. Richard Colgate, of shaving-soap fame, left a fortune of nearly £1,700,000.

CORPS.-

NOTICE.

„HITLE“ MEETING.

A Ride meeting will be held on King's

Park Bange on 20th and 30th Janu Ary All Comers Competition (Open to all comert) will be fired on Satur. day, 29th,

|_ Distance 209-500, and 800 yards-10-ahots of each Hango.: Entrance Fes 50 cents,

• Entries to: be sent to Gunner U. E.. Frith c/o Beuitary Department "Off" P. O, Building, not later than

Beturday 15th January, 1991.

G. F. E BARBON, Bt Major, Adjutant, HKD Hongkong, 10th Inounry, 1981.