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DODWELL & CO., LIMITED

Regular Sailings to

NEW YORK @and/or BOSTON

...ailing on or about 13th May.

1.5.

"BOWES CASTLE"...

Vis Suez or Panama Canals at. Owners' Outi

LLOYD TRIESTINO.

1 fi

TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING FOR LEVANT, BLACK SEA & DANUBE PORTS.

FIUME having been re-opened for traffic, cargo is abio, accepted for this port o through Bills of Lading,

5.20.

FOR BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE

via SINGAPORE, PENANG & COLOMBO.

PERSIA "...

...sailing on or about 16th May.

FOR SHANGHAI NIPPON ".

...ailing on or about 14th May. Passengers Luggage can be insured at the Office of the Agents.

NATAL

LINE OF STEAMERS.

Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to

SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS from CALCUTTA & COLOMBO,

Through Bills of Lading inned from Hongkong.

For Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,

Agents...

N. Y. K.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

SAILINGS FROM, BOROKORG BURJECT TO AZTREATION.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 3RD,

THE SANCTIONS:

A DANGEROUS POSITION.",

[BY LIEUT, COLONEL REPINGTON.}

COLOGNE, March 15th. The so-called sanctions, approved by the London Conference last week, appear, ed to most of the authorities with whom 1 discussed the nintter in Paris to be merely futile. Here they appeared to be dangerous besides.

so crowded are they. By the Bhine the coal passes to all the markets of Europe, by river, rail; and canal. From one-bal! to two-thirds the entire coal product of Germany passes to its markets by this route, and it may be said that the Allies, in occupying Ruhrort and the neighbouring Duisbourg, have in effect laid their hand on the economic heart of Germany 2

GERMANY'S

BLACK COUNTRY.”

1991.

INDOCHINA

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY - LIMITED

SAILINGS, SUBJECT TO ALTERATION

́STRAITS & CALOUSTA..... "YATSHING Tue,

3rd May,

Noon!

Ved thars

4th May, 9 an

Bth May

8th May.

LOKSANG - CHOYSANG" ...."CHEONGSHING "FIL, YUENSANG ...Fri, "HANGSANG Sun

HAIPHONG vin HOIHOWäs SHANGHAI & THINGTAT VIA SWATOW TIEN ISIN MANILA SHANGHAI via Swatow

144

8th May

Dlight.

D'light

8th May, Dlight

Singapore; returning from Caleneta steamers proceed via Skreia and Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai. All steamers have excellent passenger accommodation, - Ars. fitted with Electris Light and Fans and carry a fully-ausländ Bargoun LINE:-Ballings approximately every tire days between Ossion and Shanghai, sometimes calling at Bwalow. Through tlaketa ona bo obtalund and through Bill of Lading Are issued an al Northern and Yangtase Porta is Shanghai, LINE —A weekly ssevice la maintained with salls by vessels with good

paenger accommodation, mailings tem both parts every Friday LINE.

Sallings

weekly for passengers and ostes Approximately calling at Hoihow when inducement offers. LINE--One sailing per month between Honglong and Sandakan by

a steamer having up-to-date accommodation for passengers Cargo taken on through Bill of Lading for Kuadas, Jowsalban LINEA regular service to run from March to

Labuan, Tawao and Lahad Datu'

soNovember between

No one who has not visited this area On the military side there is little to be said. · The operation has been carried and is not intiniately acquainted with cut in perfect order and without incidit in every detail, should attempt to lay ent. It can be granted to be a warning down tariffs to control its trade, That CALOUTTA LINE-This Lins afordy regatar mitngs to Calcatta, Penang and

it is extraordinarily rich is obvious at to the Germans that the Allies are in the first glance, but we are here in the earnest. It has been accepted by the German Black Country; where: there is Germana with eslmness, and all is peace, an interminable series of manufacturing But it appears to have had no effect towns stretching for mile after mile, and at all upon the resolutions of the German there is, above all, this huge conl trade SHANGHAI Government, and to have brought the which, if hampered and deflected from payment of reparations no neater. We its present channels, may bring about an have seat two squadrons of the 14th economic catastrophe. The wealth of this Hussars and four tanks to Dusseldorf to area cannot be disputed, but all the de- MANILA eo-operate with the French. Out of our licate machinery connected with it in little garrison in the Cologne ares some interdependent, and it will need the most HAIPHÒNG four battalions under Colonel Wauchope profound stady before it can be profitably have left for Upper Silesia. Four others used and taxed for the purposes of Allied BORNEO remain here. The battalions are weak.finance. The Rhineland 'problem is one With a million or so of 'Germans to con- thing. Ruhrort and the adjacent town. trol in our Cologue ases, and with, the are another, and I can only suggest that TIENTSIS probable results of the economic sanc-nothing should be. settled regarding it tions in view, we may either have to rein. until all the results of a Customs barrier force our troops here soon or to accept have been weighed by competent men the presence of Allied troops in our area and reported by them personally to the The latter alternative is not favourably Supreme Council. regarded by those who are proud of the success of our administration at Cologne, and it may have some political disadvan- tages.

......

At present all is quiet. The nominal occupation of this area by comparatively diminutive forces has not disturbed to any appreciable extent the ordinary life As for the economic sanctions, it is the hive of human bees within it. Ne necessary to distinguish. Mr. Lloyd one knows what future sanctions may bo George's plan of deducting 50 per cent. applied here, and, therefore, all await of the price of German goods sent to the evente, but there is moch anxiety. All United Kingdom would not be a bad this immense industrial area draws its plan for recovering some of the money raw materials-and, to a great extent, due to us were it adopted by agreement its food-from outside sources, mainly with the German Government, or were German, and it is appalling to contem. this Government to decide to reimburse plate the irretrievable damage that may their nationals without an agreement be done by hasty sanctions hastily em- But, so far, neither event has happened, played. One may indeed discount a good and, if there be no change, the only redeal the cries of the employers and indus. sult can be that German contracts will tries magnates, who naturally do not wish be cancelled, and that we shall not only their interests to be touched, but ane be no better off than before, but poorer cannot ignore them, for they may have for the loss of a considerable volume the power, by ordering a lock-out or of import and export trade.

THE CUSTOMS 'BANEIER,

The other economic sanction, namely, the establishment of a Customs line east of the Rhineland, is the reverse of attrac-

SEATTLE & VICTORIA or VANCOUVER vis Manils, Shangha; tive to those who will have to enfores it

* Japan ports

Cargo to Overland Points U.S. in connection with Great Northern Northern Pacifo

BUWA MARU

and Chicago, Milwaukes à Bt. Pari Ballways.

T

JUSHIMI MARU (omitting Mazila) .. KATOKI MARU - KASHIMA MARU

6th May; at 11 am. '31st May, a 13 mm. 17th June, at 11 am. 19th July, "at 11-

otherwise alarming, the workmen, to cause an infinity of trouble. It certainly BFpears to many people here, rightly or wrongly, that the economic sanctions. with regard both to the Rhineland. and the coal trade, have been initiated with here, and nothing but economic ebaos is extraordinary levity and ignorance; but, expected from it. From the Dutch to the on the other hand, until a tariff is Swiss frontier is, I suppose, some 350 actusily imposed no irretrievable harm miles, and the creation of a chain of posts has been done, and as the Rhineland High to control this trade is a serious affair Commission is the most competent autho without German co-operation. It is pro-rity on the. Allied side, it should be con-. posed, I believe, to transfer part of the suited upon all future steps, and should German customs personnel from the west be given the sole charge of controlling to the east of the Rhineland, and to set any future Customs line:. it to work under Allied supervision, but

DEFIANT OKRMANT.

(omitting gingapore, Penang, Colombo, Bues it will be a heavy administrative task,

LONDON & ANTWERP vis

Friday, Thonday, Friday,

-- Tuesday,

Friday,

ITO MARU

Friday,

"ATEUTA MAKU .

Friday,

SHIDZUOKA MARU

Friday,

HAMBURG, LONDON, HULL &

ROTTERDAM

Port Said and Marseilles.

KAMO MARU.

**

LIVERPOOL & MARSEILLES via Suer.

12th May, as '11 Kas 27th May, 13 mi. 10th Jane, at 11 an 24th June, at 11 am.

The most serious feature of the position and will cost a good deal of money, in which the Alies have placed them: even if it can be carried out...

selves is the attitude of the present Ger- What will it bring in No one cares to suggest a figure, which will naturally an Government. At some date between depend on the tariff. This is now under September and November of last year a the consideration of the Rhineland High new spirit was apparent in the councils Commission, which has to adjudicate with of Berlin. At what preciso date, and the knowledge, that if the tariff is low for what precise cause, the change came it may de little more than pay the coat about I have not yet been able to dis of administration, and that, if it be high, cover. Some think that the Germans had it may injure, if not kill, the Rhineland reason to expect that when sanctions trade, cause widespread unemployment, were applied we should not march with the French. Whatever the cause, the

MELBOURNE & SYDNEY vis Manila, Zamboanga, Thursday lead to the rise of prices and the cast Germans hardened against the Allied

Island, Townsville & Brisbane.

AKI MARU

TANGO WARTI

NIKKO KARD

NEW YORK via Suez.

YAMAGATA MARU

Monday,

23rd May, at 11 am.. 1st June, as 11 am.. 19th July, st 11' audit.

Tuceday, Tuenday,

Sunday, 8th May.

SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS vis CAPE,

KAWACHI MARU

AWA MARU

BOMBAY & COLOMBO vis

HAKATA MARU...

Beginning of May, Saturday, 21st May.

Wednesday Sunday,

CALOUTTA & BANGO, apore..

TAJIMA MARU

TOSA MARU

Tá Singapore &

Bunday,

4th May. 22nd May. Penang.

JAPAN PORTS--Nagasaki, Kobe & Yokohama.

TANGO MAXU

PENANG MAHU

Sunday,

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

KIRIN MARU

SHLDZUOKA MABU........

Sib May.

22nd May, at 11's m

Saturday, 7th May.. Wednesday, 11th May. Friday 13th May, ab 11. For further information apply to NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

8. YASUDA, Manager.

Talaphona Nos. 373 & 202.

YAMASHITA KISEN K

KAISHA.

(THE YAMASHITA S.S. Co, Ltd.)-

REGULAR FREIGHT & PASSENGER SERVICE

BETWEEN.

KEULUNG, HONGKONG & HAIPHONG

Bailing from Hongkong.

FOR HAIPHONG via Pakhol

SS "TAIKWA-MARU”

FOR KEELUNG via Swatow & Amoy

38. TAIKWA MARUME

on or about 10th May.

on or about 24th Mar.

For further particulars, please apply tow

Branch Office,

No. 37, Bonham, Strand, West,

M. KOBAYASHI, PREK AGENT,

Top Floor, King's Bailding,

of living, and disturb the peace which claims, and even the Inter-Allied Mili- has hitherto reigned in this fair land.

Everybody here knows that the raw tary Commission, af Control found its materials for the Rhineland industries orders flouted or not executed. The list come in the main from unoccupied Geraf complaints of the Allies for non-fulfil many, and much of the food from the ment of German engagements would be a same quarter. The finished article from long one were everything set down. The the Rhineland passes back, in the mainpeeches of Dr. Simons and others before again, into Germany, and all tariffs which the Conference showed the way the wind affect this incoming and outgoing, trade was blowing, per

In these circumstances the Allies must | hit the Rhineland very severely. The

German Labour leaders here are counreconsider their position and weigh very selling Labour to keep calm and await carefully not only the tariffs to be intro- events. Traders are more anxious. There duced on the Rhine and the methods of are reports of many articles being rushed recovering them, but also other methods out of the Rhineland to escape the tarifs of constraint should the present sanctions and of the cancelling of contracts for fail in their purpose. When they have incoming raw materials. It was only fully made up their minds on yesterday that a large firm of employers matters they should summon the German in a textile trade foresaw and warned Government to a fresh Conference and us that he might have to dismiss 23,000 make it clear to them that the moment for buckatering is past and that, failing the fulfilment of German, engagements under the Treaty of Versailles, a more effective form of coercion will be applied.

Daily Telegraph.

IDER.

ANXIOUS. PROSPECT.

these

TIRPITZ ON BATTLESHIPS.

Bo far as I can ascertain, no member of the High Commission: was called to Lome barrier was decided upon. I doubt London to give advice before this Cus whether any one of them can regard the. prospect without the greatest anxiety The effect of the operation will depend. The late Lord Fisher wrote on one occa of course, to a large extent upon the tariffs themselves, but there is also this sion that von Tirpitz and himself really to be said, that almost any tariffs will did know something about naval war. This tribute lends an additional interest deflect trade from the Rhineland, and to the views of the German Grand-Ad- cause us serious difficulties with the miral upon the problem of the big skips employed. Were our occupation to ex versus the submarine which he has been tend to the whole of the Bahr valley communicating to a Berlin newspaper. might have some fifteen million souls on He is frankly pro-battleship, and very our hands for whom we should bave to lucidly explains why." The war" be find food or raw materials, and a very declares, was won so far as the son was little ill-will on the German side or the concerned, by the English ships of the new Customs Fine would make the situa- line. Then came the submarine war, tion difficult indeed. In short, the which England was, to feel against her economic sanctions promise to land as in own person. She was unprepared difficulties without end, and there is 30 against it, and, in fact, could not have far no colourable pretext for the belief been prepared, since science, had“ pro-, that they will give good bnancial resulta duced a vessel of any bghting value only or chasten the spirits of the German Limmediately before the war broke out."- Government.

This is an interesting point which we After visiting all the towns newly do not think has been sufficiently realized occupied and conversing with the com- during the controversy upon the subject. manders and others, I am particularly The Grand-Admiral thinks that the sub- impressed with the situation at Rubrott, marice will never be more than an im- where the Belgians have claimed and Portant addition to's feet. The cod- have been assigned the command and had not paid sufficient attention to the structors of surface ships, he maintain, where they are in occupation, alded by need for underwater protection, but French detachment. Ruhrort is a town dwells upon the progress since made in seldom visited by those not concerned this direction. So

So long

as the surfaco with its trade. It stretches over a large ship can do more than the submersible, arca, but its most distinguishing charache aaye, it will continue to hold its istic is that it is the Rhine port for the position as a ship of war. As to the Westphalian coal trade, and that it pos part that aircraft are destined to play sessed some twenty miles of quays and be-argace himself into

ch: a state of

and basins and a vast fleet of coal barges uncertainty that he arrives at the cone and steamers, which crowd all the availson to reserve his opinion Naval able quays, sometimes lying ten-deep, and Military Goretto

BANGKOK

Hongkong and Thontala, calling at Walhalwal and Chaton,

LINEA weekly service is provided between Hongkong and Bangkok, via Swatow, by four, ateamard fitted with up-to-date passenger accommodation

OALOUTTA

LINE

1.4. "YATSHING" will be despatched on or about Tuesday, May 3rd, at Noon, for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA

Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, PORT SWET- TENHAM, MADRAS and DUTCH EAST INDIES,

For Freight or Passago apply te.....

Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.

GLEN

GENERAL MANAGKER"

AED

SHIRE

Joint Service of Steamers.

U.K.-STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN SERVICE.

Towel

SA "GLENGYLE" 8.8. "GLENOGLE“

8.8. * GLENIFFER*

OUTWARDS.

HOMEWARDS. Leaves Hongkong

about 28th May

Die Hongkong

9th May. 15th May.

Discharges

Garoa, London & BorzzRDAM,

Movements are subject to change withogh notice: For freight or farther particulars please apply to —

Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. The Glen Line, Ltd., AGENTE.

Tel. No. Arab. 5 er 23. and 2896,

Cable Address

Kawakisen, Kobe

Bentley's A.B.C. 5th 1934.

sad Sooft's Codes.

KAWASAKI

KISEN

(KAWASAKI STEAMSHIP CO.)

QAPITAL PAID-UP

·2944' 3985,

KAISHA

720.000.000

Prodent: Mr. Y. Kawasaki

Vice-President i Mr.K.. MárnUKATA. Managing Director: Mr. Massta Âxı

The Company has on Kand a Large Hamber of

NEW CARGO STEAMERS

"ALWAYS" READY FOR

CHARTERS of all descriptioms,

following nee comprised in the Company's Plset pot Eleven steamers of 9,100 tons each deadweight.

And muder the Company's

Twenty steamers of about 9,100 tons deadweight sich. wo steamers of about 8,400 fons deadweilhf sson.

to the Kawasaki. Dediyini, Cha LAU

the

Kher particulary wypry to the KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA