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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

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INDIAN LASCARS,

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1992.

AMERICAN GARRISON IN

"CANTON NEWS.

THE CIVIL GOVERNOR AND THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

Mr. Chan Chik Yu was unable to

NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

"GLES" LINF, LIMITED. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

KINGDOM, GENOA, PORT SAID, COLOMBO & STRAITS,

THEIR VINDICATION:

THE PHILIPPINES."

Interviewed by a representative of the

Three thousand two hundred and ninety Acaciated Pres of Indio, Mr. K. C. American troops will be held in the Ray Chowdhary, Labour Member of the Philippine garrison, according to the Bengal Legislative Council, and Founder latest figures given out at department assume duty us Civil Governor yester Fax UNITED of the British-indig Seamen's Institute, headquarters, says the Manila Times. dag owing to delay in laying Hengshan London, replied to fe accusations against The entire garrison will total 12.000 soldi- Indian Lascars bought by af. Cotter, ers, 830 Scouts being retained after the General Ip Kur is ́sending an escort of

guabonts for him to go to Canton. Chin TE Motor Versel President of the Marino, Workers' Union, re rganization is effected. before the enquiry into the loss of the. The infantry with 1,150 American soldi.angouners that he will formnly take up baring arrived from the klare porta Con...

th 4th. General Chen'

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signees of Cargo by her are hereby informed

Chiung Ming has also postponed his rothas all Goods are being landed af önismer Godowns of The Hongkong and Kowloon asumption of the position of Chamander into the hazardous andfer extra barations Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, in-Chief till the 4th as he wishes to com- ren e an the same day as Chan,

whence, and/or from the wharves, delivery may be obtained.

Eurot. Mr. Roy Chowdhury anid thaters is the largest branch, to be followed the post on Mr. Cotter's criticism of the employment by the const artillery corps with 500 men. of Indian spamen because a handful of The air service will retain 730 American them might have behaved badly at the time enlisted men under the new plau, while of pagio at the sinking of the Egypt 276 quartermaster men, 215 medical corps should not be taken too Beriously. Hemen and 100 ordinance men will complete might as well accuse the British army of the allotment of American troops. cowardice because a single battalion haid misbehaved itself during, the particular engagement, 'as had been recently pointed out by a well known män connected with the shipping world.

Mr. Chowdhury sail that Mr. Gather's attitude was not difficult to understand. Since he started the Stoward's Union lastof year, he had been endeavouring to bring about the replacement of the Gonnese by the British stewards on the P. & O, bouts,

THE SHIPPING OF THE PHILIPPINES.

FIFTY YEARS BEHIND THAT OF CHINA AND JAPAN

THE, PROVINCIAL BANK NOTES. General Choo invited Chung Sau Nam, the Chief of the Finance Department and Chan Lim Pak, the compradore of thd Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Canton, to a conference at the White, Cloud Moun. tains. Steps were devised to bring the Provincial notes back to par. Notes to the value of ten million dollars would be

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Goods not cleared by the 5th Sept 19, stp.m., will be subject to rent.

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but had been unsuccessful. He raised the i headquarters at Manili last week sets) depcsited in the Hongkong and Shaughy case whatever,

question of employment of Lascars at the Shipping Conference at Genca last year and had a disagreement with 'Mr. Have lock Wilson of the National Seamen, Union. Mr. Chowdhury said that British skippers liked to have indian seamen serving under them not because they cest less than others, but because they were scher, reliable and amenable to strict dis cipline. A British Captain related to him a few days ago that when he was in com

ard of steamer manned by a purely Indian ere, they encountered a strong gale in the Bay of Biscay and every Lascar kepit awake all night, and underwent the severest possible strain to keep the vessel afloat. But for their pluck and tireless efforts"

he added. We should have been wrecked. The same officer was in charge of a boats manned by Asiatics which we're torpedoed during the war and he did that the crews worked like men possessed to keep up stoking and that alone saved the boats from being lost.

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SOME ESTABLISHED FACIA

A statement given out at marine

forth various reasons for the stagna condi inn of Philippine "shipping

are the age of ions, among which the present vessels used in the coast wise trade, the high rate of brokerage charges, the high percentage of insurance policies on interisland vessels compared with those in Europe and other countries and defects in the tariff law of 1909. is claimed that the Philippines is 30 years hind China and Japan in regard to shipping conditions.

Bank at Shameen; bearing certain rates! of interest. The unissued notes will bọ sealed under the supervision of the Cham- ber of Commerce and deposited with for- rign banks.

Notes are to be the only currency accopted in payment of duties, and a certain nainuut of silver will be paid into foreign banks every mouth to form a reserve for the notes. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be call-

to discuss the proposals.

"AL broken, chatod and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined in the presence of Consignees by Mesars. Goddard & Douglas on 8th Sept 1984 at 10 AM. Claitas against the atramer including those for cargo short delivered and must also be submitted within 30 days must be prasented on the s ecial formir rovided,

of arrival, otherwise they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insuranon will be effected by In

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & 65., Ltd; Agents Tengkong, 69th August, 1921 1141

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

· COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM CALOUTTA PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

HE Steamship

THE

"KUMSANG "

The age of vessels used on the coastwie foruds is regarded as a distinct cause of loss in shipping operations? It is claimed that the charges for the repairing of these old vessels umafly amount to twice as much as the value of the vessels them selves. Most of the vessels, it is said, are ints ceu 28 and 30, years old. The buying of newer vessels is suggested as a remedy

for the development of Philippine inter- | WHY FOOD PRICES INCREASE IN Company, Tamited, whores, and/or from the island shipping.

Another cause for the pour shipping conditions, according to the statement, is the law prohibiting the engaging of for giga vessels in constwise shipping, which has produce a state of non-competition, Competition is regarded as a factor cen user to the promotion of interisland

JAPAN'S AMMUNITION STORES IN SIBERIA,

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WORTH 300,000,000 YEN

THE POULTRY TAX AT

WUCHÓW..

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HONGKONG.

having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of cargo by her are hereby informed that all gods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown

wharyes, delivery may be obtained. 。:│

Goods not cleared by the 7th September, will be subject to reut.

All broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined. Claims against the Steamer must be presented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be rest, he erected by ns in

No Fire Insurance will be aay on whatever.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,

Agents. Hongkong. Slat August, 1922.

The poultry tax of $1.60 per crate, in being levied by the Wuchow authori- In addition to this inpost the ties. farmers have to pay $2.40 per crate to bandits for garantering a safe passage From points pa the West River to Wuchow. Should the bandits be driven away, temporarily, by the officials, a reckoning is still taken of the number of crates passing through and the bandits "collect their levy when the next shipment MRS. HÄN INOKUCHI

Mr. Chowdhury commented "specially upon sobriety and the sene of discipline of the Learyand that they would not in any circumstances are disobey their officers. He admitted that reistly owing to political agitation, a small section tripping conditions. to assert themselves during the voyage, not realising that while self-assertion an shore might be good, it was dangerous on board the ship. Mr. Cotter's condemna tion of the P. & O. Company on the ground that they exploited the chrap labour market in Bombay fellat, h added, because Indian seamen had every right to be employed on steainers, engaged in Indian trade and they were not foolish enough to demand Europeen rates of pay, and so cut off their source of livelihood."

It was not true that Indian seren cost less than one-third the amount that British crews cost. Individual rates of pay might be one-third of the European rates but it should be borne in mind that twice as anny Lasers as European senmen were required to man a boat. Mr. Chowdhary hoped that the champions of Indian

The disposal of these arms is a very Swaraj, ike Colonel Wellgwood and serious question and must be settled Ben Spoor. would repudiats the opinions before the evacuation takes place." the expressed by Mr. Cotter and thus assure

General continued." If an agreement.is their Indian friends working for the weached with the Chita Goverment before fare of ludian labour that the British the troops are brought out of the Mari Labour Party had no intention of depriv ing Indian labour of gitimate employ be at once handed over, but if no settle time Province, the arms will, of course, ment, because thousands. of British seainen

ment is ingde of all the outstanding ques were at present out of, employment on

tions, ther does not seem to be any other are finding it very dificult to carry on account of the depression in trade.

alternative 'hut to turn over the arms to business. the Vladivostock Government.

CONCRETE WHARVES OFF SINGAPORE..

Hongkong has already been provided with one concrete pier and another (Statue pier) is under constructjou and this lends local interest to the following extract from a Straits paper :---

The arms and ammunition confiscated by the Japanese Expeditionary Force in Vladivostock will be worth three hundred million yen und would require more than half year to tranship to Japan, accord- ing to the opinion of Lieut-General Kikuchi. Vice-Chief of the General Staff, who has just returned from a tour of inspection in Siberia and who has been interviewed by a thao Shimbun corre pondent on his arrival at Tsuruga.

"In any case, as the latter has declared its intention of fighting should" the Reds attenpt to enter Vladivostock, the evacu tion is likely to be followed by a period of serious trouble for the people of that district."

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The General caneladed by saying that 50,000 Japanese and Korean residents in. tended to leave the Province when the troops were withdrawn.

SAIGON BIOE MARKET.

The Compagaje de Commerce and de Navigation & Extreme Oriem, in their report dated Saiguh, August 16th, state

To check the ravages of the pile worn on wooden piers. and co meet the increas ing demand for petroleum by oil burning. "steamers, both the Standard Oil Co. of K.Y. and the Asiatic Petroleum Co., have built reinforced concrete wharves on their island stations near Singapore The American company's pier was completed last year at a cost of 8176,000 Straits

Our market is still unchanged with currency, and is situated on the British slight demand. The Hongkong market, island of Palau Sebarok, a leasehold however, seeths to be improving and soms about eight miles from Singapore which shipments will probably be made in thút the Socony has held for some time. The direction, wharf consists of an approach 10 feet The total amount of rice exported from wide, which extends into the ses for. 900 January 1st to July 31st is 059,021 tons, feet, culminating in a T-head Thengainst 901,030 in 1021. Asiatic Petroleum Co. has been equipping

two islands with reinforced concrete.sified, dapan quality, Hongkong

We quote today:-White Saigon rice, wharves-Pulau Bukon, eight miles from 1.88 per picul, f.o.b. Saigon, for August/ Singapore in British waters, and Pulan September shrpraent, Sambox, twelve miles away in Dutch territory Wharf No. 2, pn Pulau Bukom, was finished in April of this year at, a cost of $280,000. Here will be the plant which will handia and pack the benzine refined at the A.P.C. Geldy in Sarawak. and other yards of the Malay archipelago. Another deep-sea wharf, No. 3, oo-Pulau Sambee, is costing $150,000.

TESTING THE EINSTEIN. THEORY.

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is effected. Only a very small number of crates have arrived in-Hongkong during, the last few days, these having come from puluts below Wuchow. Similar imposta are charged on firewood. farmer, who tried to evade the bandits,. had his poultry, taken from tim, and he is new held a prisoner, pending ransom.

Que poultry

Wochow is also the entrepôt for, most- of the enttle and pigs exported to Hong- kong. Some of the five-stock, have to be sent for days across land routes before aching Wuchow. The bandits also make collections on live-stock. The internecinc

about this state of affairs; and merebants strife in Kwangsi-provines has brought

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One of the ways in which the Chinese are developing in a manner which laro LET-NEW EUROPEAN FLATS. astonishingly rapid, but not fully realized Now, 11, 13 and 14 on Orient Boilding in many quarters in this country, is in Coronation Boul, Mongkoktsui, Apply to... shipbuilding and general marine cogi Mr. TANG KWAI SANG of No. 53, Caine Bonu neering, mys Syren and Shipping,,

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In this respect the most conservative nation in the world seems to be following closely in the footsteps of its neighbour, Japan, one of the most progressive coun 'tries the world has ever scen, It is not many years since the only shipyard which could be so called in the Western sense of

AND, apprarimately 7,000 square feet oxx waterfront at Swatow with modern the term was situated in the British storied brick and concrete building xitable for Colony of Hongkong, but the native office and gudował podje Chinese has of late years carefully studied: Further details the methods of shipbuilders of the, to 483) him, new world, and what is more to the point, has put them into practice, so that today there are yards in various parts of China, owned and operated by Chinese, which, in output, efficiency and equip those of the United Kingdom... ment, compare favourably with some of

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material froin abroad, but the war put a stop to this. Nevertheless, instead of damaging the industry, this stoppage of PLATE GLASS WINDOW.

foreign supplier proved of inestimable Speed 9 knobs. henefit, for, pressed by necessity, the 474, Hongkong- "Looking through my Toris lenses is Chinese steel makera were given the opportunity of showing what they could. like looking through a fine plate glass turn out from their own works. The test window,”

"said an American lady, in the was a severe one, but they experged from it successfully, with the result that many course of her remarks while in a tram- Chinese yards are now using home-made Web by October First or End, a Reliable NURSE, preferably English, car, the other day. She said just the materials, whereas previously they dad for a three year old girl with amal's Help, for relied upon Great Britain and America, three or four years, with hemir pastage. right thing. It cost a bit more to build This has also naturally led to big develop Correspondence addressed MaDANE DE ROSHI, plate glass window and it cost & bitments in the steel industry of China, Italian Consulate General, Shanghai. [1350 The three German members of the more to make a pair of Toric lenses than which mainly centres around the Man Einstein expedition have left for Batavia

churian border, and if out of the present en route for Christmas Island, where the ordinary fat kind. Tories are more internal disturbances, there should eventu gos Valtions are to be taken on September than worth the small difference in cost ally riso a really united nation it will 20th during the eclipse.

to you in the added comfort you derive probably not be many years before there They will have at their disposal the two from their use. Toric lenses of any will be two important ship-producing of the MEETINGS · large astronomical photo-telescopes, and it

countries in the East-Jupan and Chian. is hoped that during the six minutes prescription are manufactured by The eclipse eight or ten photographo will be Hongkong Optical Co., suocessors to taken. The results of the observations Clark & Co., Manufacturing and Refract The Australiah Workers' Union has will be telegraphed to the Potsdam Obsering Opticians, 53, Queen's Road, Central. heen fined 200 for encouraging its mem. vatory. The expedition is expected to return in November.

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TONGKONG HANSARD, REPORTS the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ·fort the Session 1921. S

Rormed by the Members:

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