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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3RD, 19:6

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CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS REPORT FOR. 1925.

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INCREASED TRADE RETURNS.

-LINER'S HOSPITAL-ASA

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£2,330 INSURANCE PROBLEM.

Among the passengers at Southampton in the New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Remuera was an elderly, tried woman wearing black bonnet and dress. She is alleged to be Mrs. Susannah legally met her death in a drowning ac- Bevan, a widow aged about sixty, who 'cident at Ilfracombe four years ago.

It has often been suggested, says the Far Eastern Review, that the economic boycott might be a substitute for wars, particularly when the small or backward nations have grievances against the The woman's clothing was found in`s powerful nations, The Chinese people cave by the sea, where she was thought, to have been bathing, and leave was later have often resorted to the boycott as given by the Probate Court to presuma method of roicing their opposition toʻng | her, death. official, or to the imposition of an ob-paid a claim for £2,581 made by the The Prudential Assurance Company jectionable tax. Similarly, the Chinese next of kin, but in January last year hare, on occasion, articulated their ob- doubts arose whether Mrs. Bevan was jections to the political policies of factually dead.

People who left Swanses, where the particular foreign power, by attempting dead woman was a school, teacher, to enforce a boycott against that nation's wrote home from New Zealand stating goods in China. Thus, in 1919-20, anwell. Information was at once given to that they had seen Mrs. Bevan alive and anti-Japanese boycott was attempted. Scotland-yard, and Mrs. Bevan was ex- Although that boycott was supposed to tradited and returned to England to be nation-wide and complete, although clear up the mystery. it was often suggested by Chinese that Japanese industry had suffered so severe ly, that there was no recovery, the Cus toms returns indicated altogether different result. They showed that there was a decrease in trade, but it was com- paratively small, and from it there was soon a recovery... The following were the figures:

1918

1019

1920

1921

-1999

· 1923

Hk. Taels

409,252,670

441,947,029

371,063,763

382,469,063

291,163,030

400,341,643

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The year 1925 has been regarded by business men as one of the worst that China bas-known. From May 30th until September the whole country seethed with anti-foroiga, particular ly anti-British, agitation. Hongkong was boycotted. British gr. ds were supposed to be boycotted. Yet Lue Customs returns for the pear indicate an increase for the whole country. On this subject, the Statistical Secretary of the Chinese Maritime Customs remarks as follows:

"But, from the point of view of revenue collection, the year under re- view cannot be said to have been un- satisfactory. it is true that the increase on the 1921 collection only some Hk. Tls 275,000, but even 36 small an increase, in the face of all the obstacles to trade which arose during the year, is very encouraging and auguis well for the future. "It shows that trade may have been shampered, but was not discouraged; that at every possible opportunity it gathered a fresh impulse; that if an outlet to the sea was "closed to a certain produce it succeeded in finding its way out by some means or other; and that even if up-country dealers in foreign gooda followed a hand-to-month policy, still they kept themselves supplied with goods and never allowed stocks to run out altogether. The Shanghai inci- dents of the 30th May, with their coun- terblast in the South, bade fair to paralyse trade; but the strike and boy- cott movements were soon restricted to certain, centres only, and what could not be shipped or imported through Shanghai or Canton found its way in many cases through neighbouring porta or through other large seaports, such os Tientsin. Exception being made for the southern and, principally, the West River ports, the Shanghai incidenta "were but a temporúry sethack`to`trade"

in general"

The net value of Foreign Trade for the year, as compared with 1924, show- ed a slight decrease: 1924, Hk. Tla. 1,759,895,143; 1925, Hk. Tia 1,724,915,881. According to the statements of the Can- ton Government, Hongkong was alto- gether without trade and on its knees; yet the figures show that whereas the trade with Hongkong ta 1924 was Hk. Tis. 417,082,283, it amounted to Hk Tls. 291,126,067 in 18925, when the boycott of the island was supposed to be 100 per cent complete. Similarly, British ship- ping, which was boycotted in South China during the year since May 30th, and in all parts of China for from three to five months, showed the following results* -

1924 ........ 1023

"

65,715,925 tons 42,942,484***

On the other hand, the city of Canton showed a decrease which is so enormous that the figures speak, simply for them- selves:

1024 1925

Hit. Taels -138,795,718 46,142,534

The story of silk most clearly, shows how merchants having goods to sell will find a way, no matter what impediments are placed in their paths. The Statis- tical Secretary gives the following:

"The average monthly importation of raw silk into America for the past five years is given as follows im

1921......

1922

1023

1924

Bales 97,095 32,574

29,184 32,306

1905

40,500

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Mrs. Baran was interviewed on board the Remuera by a police inspector who had travelled from London, and was ac companied to London by the inspector and a wardress in a spécial compartment of the boat train.

Mrs. Bevan, £ frail looking woman with sharp features and alight figure, had travelled as a third-class passenger from Wellington under the charge of the ship's commander.

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CEMETERY MEMORIALS OF

FUTURE.

Cemeteries of the future, owing to the growth of cremation, would possibly be known A Gardens of Remembrance,

id Mr. Arthur Piggott, secretary of the Manchester Crematorium, addressing the annual congress of the National Association of Cemetery Superintendents, at Manchester. They would be gardens. containing columbaria, gracefully de- signed as a combined memorial and reat-" ing-place for the ashes of the dead, and the space now devoted to couple of graves would accommodate a hundred or more urns. These, like the funeral urns of the ancient Greck beroes, might depict in sculptured relief events in the lives, or symbols-of-the attainments, of those whose ashes they contained.

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"The Shanghai market WAS affected to any great extent by the May 30th incidents, and a brisk trade has been carried on throughout the year. Canton, on the other hand, has been hampered seriously by the boy- cott and by labour troubles, with result that towards the month of September the Canton silk market had to be trans ferred to Shanghai; where-trade could be effected under almost normal con- ditions. The silk trade became active immediately after the Chinese New Year holidays. While Shanghai steam flatures and tussore filatures found a very good market in New York, Lyons showed an interest in Shantung and Szechuen yellow silks, so that the old season closed, early in May, with al- most depleted stocks. The new season opened under favourable conditions, with good crops and satisfactory prices. The market was steady and without fluctuations in prices until "August, when a rise of Tls. 50 to Tis. 100 per bale was registered. The fall of the franc towards the end of the year seriously affected the Lyons market, and though the price of yellow silk from Shantung and Szechued declined about: TI 50 per bale, the two months of November and December were very un- favourable to low-grade silka, especial- ly to Canton silk Better conditions prevailed for Shanghai steam flatures, thanks to the active demand from America and to speculative buying in the open market. The new fussore erop was good, and the market opened. in November with prices ranging from Tix 435 to Tls. 470 per bale, to steady down around, Tlà. 450 at the end of December. Domestic consumption also has been very good, so that a fair amount of Shanghai steam filatures, which formerly was, exported abroad, has been absorbed by local mill."*"

In another place, he states the following:

"The Canton silk trade will be con- sidered in a later section of this report, but it should be stated here that, in spite of the fact that during the Sept- ember quarter many firms, were forced to transfer, their business to Shanghai, it compares favourably with the results obtained in the preceding year. One must remember, however, that 1924 was not considered a prosperous year for silk."

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Now, the fact which becomes most obvious in any discussion of the boy- cott on the basis of Customs returns 18 that a regional boycott is bound to fail, because the Chinese merchant will find a method of bringing goods into his market or sending his raw products abroad. This was true in the anti-Japanese boy- cott of 1919; it was true in the anti- British boycott of 1925. It is utterly im possible to shut off the supply once the demand has been created. The boycott, then, resolves itsell into an internal political struggle between the articulate boycotters, and the shrewd merchant. I naturally affects foreign imports to un extent, but it does not do anything like the damage expected of it.

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