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THORNYCROFT

JOHN L THORNYUROFT & CO., LIMITED,

Shipbuilders' AND ENGINEIRS,

LONDON, SOWSKAMPIOE AND BABYSITOSE.

Shanghai Ofce: 10, Kiukiang Road.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 18rm, 1991.

15 B.H.P. 30 B.H.P. 50 B.H.P. Engines

in Stock

For quotation apply-

SHANGHAI OFFICE,

JUST LANDED

Very smart rew range of Gents' Soft Felt Hats, in pleasing and dressy shades of Grey and Green, with Black Bands. roll-stitched brims, and lined White Silk.

$15.00

SHIP HELD UP IN CUBA. STRANGE OASE OF A CHARTERED VESSEL,

CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY. THREE REASONS FOR THE

PRESENT DILEMMA.

Mr. H. Nagao (Japance: Representay tive on the laterallied Technic Board for the Siberian Railways), now visiting Tokyo, is reported to have made, state- aunt to the following effect :-

During the last few weeks ominica tions have been received in Shanghai, by various persons, in regard to the flight of the 8.8. Wollawra and the unenviable position in which the crew of that vessel Tha question concerning the Chinese are at present. The Wl'ollowru arrived at by the Central Government, and I am “Eastern Railway is under consideration Havana, Cuba, from Shanghai early in not at liberty to speak freely on the sub.. January, and Shanghai and Engineering, jest, (Shanghai) says it has it on reliable: In my personal opinion the reasons authority that since the middle of Febrilor the Railway, falling into the present ary the crew have been unable to receive dilemma are triple. Firstly, the pay, or toner for current expenses effects of the new extrenie ideals are the in spite of repeated applications

new ideas that 30 The facts of the case which have led to deliged, practically all the world after

China most telling.The the present position are briefly as follows: the great War have been absorbed also The Folterra is detually owned by an by the railway men, giving rise to agita American concern in Shanghai, but is tions for the rise of pay, etc. The Com mortgaged to a considerable extent with a | pany's refusal to comply with the men's. Chinese merchant in the same city, the demands, which in several cases were ents for the vessel being a British ship- hardly reasonable, was met with a strike broking concern also in Shanghain or some other effective demonstration. October of last year the Wah Ha Steam: This forced the Company to accept the ahip Company, of Hongkong chartered men's demands in the end. The present the odour for a period of one year all of the Railway comprises about

any

at it inderstood, $20,000 per month, or in ag baing nearly thre

to

too oftarra, actually miled

from

who are paid .65. per capita per vessel in the cooli traffic

times

as large as the average, puy, of on November 5th last, for their brother workers in Japan. Cuba, under the aegis of the Wah Ha

Speaking of the prices in North Min 8.5. Company About six days after her churia, Mr.

Noga

saich meat, eggs, milk, arrival in Cuba. however the charterers and other daily necessities are cheap, (... the Wah. Ha S.S. Company) carlxuries only being dear. Consequently, called the charter, for what reason our the cost of living is not very high. None contemporary is unaware, but presures these the men, infected with the Bol- that it was owing to the difficulties then attendant upon Chinese inmigration to Cuba.

After disenssing

this presumption, at some irngth our contemporary says:The stand, and so the agents, have already pominal owner of the vessel wa, under,

số much money at stake in the each.

Mollaura that they cannot be blamed for desining to risk more and it is for the Wah 8.8 Company and particularly Meers. bre By San(whose money was at the back of the subsequently cancelled charter) and Tan Kang Poh manager of the Coma pany), who appear to bave been the lead ing lights in both the charter and its cancellation, to take some action in regard to the Wollguru, of at least in regard to her crew.

Real Velvet Plush Velours in Cream with Black Band, or in Dark Lavender, lined White Silk.

ces aejefaspection: Invitat

$25.00

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OPERATING

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No. 13

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WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.,

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Y.20,000,000,

notions, have kept presenting their detanda in a mass. Therefore, the Com pany's expera's steadily increased, whilst decondly, the Railway, since the down-

receipts failed to keep pace.

hand consequently, it cannot make fall of the Bossuoft Government. Has financial support to fall back

both ends meet, has liabilities totalling over

Thirdly the Chinese Eastern Bailway

whilst on the other hand, it holds credits for Y.19,000,000 for the transportation of troops and stores of the Powers. Ligero Blovakia owes Y.7,40,000; China 13,000,000-and France about Y.800,000. Thorais po knowing how soon thes credits can be collected. With 1.20,000,000 în liabilities and Y.19,000,000 in unpaid credits, the Company's finan cial position is far from enviable.

For the above reasons, the Company is in need of radical relief. It is consider-

Anyway, the Walloura case will, it is to be hoped, have one good result in that it will be a warning to foreign maritime officers not to undertakes long voyage under the Chinese flog unless there is aed to be urgently desirable to float n guarantee left with some responsible per on either in Hongkong or Shanghai thai wages, and passage back to China are secure, a guarantee which the Wallours case has proved to be both advisable and necessary

CHANGES IN JAPAN TARIFF TO BE ENFORCED FROM JUNE -FIRST;

In accordance with Article of the Japanese Customs Tariff Law How in force, the following articles are now allowed to be imported to Japait free of [duty.....

relief loan with the consent of Japas, China, the United States, Great Britain, and France. But whether or not the Powers consent will be forthcoming re mains to be soda paketeroa

The

in

It be added that the Chinese Easté ern Railway was constructed on the out- lay of X.300,000,000 by the Russian Gov erament. With the completion of the construction work, the old Railway pass ed into private management. It is the most promising.of. the Russia Far East

the Iancial returns of the line used to be encourag ing. In 1917, the net proft amounted to Y 40,000,000. Even after Russia became revolutionized, the Railway could realize a decent profit. It was in the fiscal year 1920 that the Company's accounts showed 4 deficit, which, by the way, amounted to Y.100,000.

Steel and iron for the construction and repairing of vessels or machinery on vessels; steel bars, rods, plates, tubes (except those moulded), new inventions, engines, or parts thereof NETHERLANDS INDIA. special articles, the manufacture of which is difficult in Japan and which WHAT GERMANY IS DOING. are permitted by the authorities of the Communications Department to be correspondent of The Time Trade imported. according to Article IX. of the Cut Bush business man should note that

en Supplement says it is well that "the tems Tariffs, the following articles to be steady exodus of German schoolmasters imported duty free or allowed a rebate: and technical instructors and experts is Ginsa to be used as mirrors (exclud-taking place to the Dutch East Indies, ing those the thickness of which does not for where auch persons go the traderet, exceed 4 gillimetre),, clocks of all des the homeland may reasonably be expected criptions, canned provisions, iron bands to follow in the not, distant future. The or tin plates for wooden boxes, tin plates authorities in these overseas possessions for the manufacture of cans for mineral of Holland. haring decided some two ail or Alcohol, silk and cotton bands or years ago to develop very considerably braid interwoven with gold or silver, in numbers and scope the native schools, artificial silk, woollen and mixed wool found that they needed several thousand and cotton for clothing (excluding European masters, but the offers of velvets and plushes), umbrellas, glass money and appeals to the patriotism of ware,enamelled ware; bottled beer, Dutchmen did not succeed in their aim. orguns, moulded iron tubes, pig iron, Hundreds of the vacancies have since aluminium, sugar under Nos. 11, 15 and been filled by Germans, and well over a 18. Dutch standard, rock candy, peaoute, thousand are now undergoing short sesame seed, rape seed and mustard seed, courses in the Indies prior to taking up flour, beer, zinc sheets and ingots, posts in schools, commerce, industry, and fertilizers including beans, bean eske, agriculture A number of those present- groundnut oil, bean oil, etc.

ing themselves are men who have spont

The Chuo, an organ of the Beiyukai, some years in the various German tropi Bays an Imperial, Ordinance will shortly cal territories, and will therefore prob be promulgated granting an encourageably bring to their work the unfavour mont fund to day party who will con-able tacties of pre-war Teuton colonial stract vessels with materials mann commerce. It is doubtless not without factured at home.

FORMOSA THREATENS TO BE

A NEW KOREA. AGITATION FOR SELF-GOVERN

WONMENT

significance that a new company was recently registered in Hamburg for general: trading in the Dutch East Indies,

POCKET WIRELESS TOR POLICE.

Every policeman In Chicago is to be equipped with a wireless telephone ap There is possibility of Formota's be paratus so small and light that it can coming a second Kores, according to the be carried concealed in the tunic. By Japanese papers, which point to the means of it the officer will be able to growing discontent among the rising communicate direct with police stations, generation in the island as an indication Are patrol boats, and fire-stations. of the, shape, which things may assume

unless measures are introduced to check the tendency, withkonin tab end

The discontent, says a. Japan contem- porary, has become noticeably accentuat

ed since the rejection of appeal presented

YOUR GLASSES SHOULD GIVE REST

to the last session of the Diet by a native and comfort to your eyes. If they do and if the proposing the introduction of self-govern monatings are properly-adjusted: they are All ment in the island. Magazines and pam

phiots are being published for the pur. Right. Do not be satisfied unless they are poso of instigating the natives against There is no comfort in spectacles that ar cstablished authority, and, according to

a rows agency, the agitators in the island merely good enough. They are either Right are taking concerted action with their

friends in Tokyo and elsewhere in the All Wrong. If your glasses are, in need of main falsada

changes, adjustments or repairs, send them to

recent

The subject, was taken up at mesting of the heads of police stations

the Hongkong Optical Co, Bucsenters to Clark The decisions arrived at included the & Co, Befracting & Manufacturing Options adoption of stricter measures to control

the natives of Formosa residing in the (the originators of manufacturing Toile lettes metropolis. Among the plans adopted

for appeasing. the sentiment in the island.

in the Colony) lested in 53, Queen's Road,

war the bolding of lecture meetings on Central. They have the equipment to adjust

the colonial policy of the Government.

'your glumes to a nicety.—-ADVT)-628

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