1930-10-14 — Page 2

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1930.

BRITISH TRADERS

IN INDIA

NEED FOR MORE PUSH TO JOUST FOREIGNER.

"I do not know

of a single TRANSATLANTIC AIR MAN KILLS FAMILY AND British firm represented by more than one European-employed in

the whole of India, Burma and Ceylon. As a general rule ne is sent out for a brief cool weather visit to make a tour of the whola of this vast territory. Then, whiên “AMERICA IS EVERYWHERE." he returns home, everything is left enes more in the hands of the local indian agent."

Mr. C.. J. Ketchum, the Daily Express special correspondent, who has recently returned from India, describes below, how foreign manu facturers are invading India and, by intensive methods of business, capturing markets which should be held by their British rival

Are British comanrcial interests

ROUTES.

THE PRACTICABILITY OF

REGULAR SERVICES.“

OCEAN SEADROMES.

"The gradual but steady advance More than 30,600 motor-cars were in aircraft design has brought the sold in India in the past year Atlantic crossing into the realm of alone, according to my informant.regular organised air routes rather In five years-and this is where than of promiscuous flights." (" Great Britain's opportunity should como in-there would be a market, he predicted, for £3,000 to 75,000

motor-cars a year.

"There is a vast potential market at home preparing to hold their own for motor-care," to added. There against the rapidly changing oris plenty of room for every one, sentation of the trade position in and as far as we are concerned we India?

welcome all the competition that comes along."

Aro they taking full advantage of the present hiatus to devise more modern methods with which to moot a new and extremely vigorous world competition which is permenting its way into the remotest corners of our Indian Empire1.

If not, they should begin now, for one has only to step ashore for the first time in Bombay to appreciate, with

apprehension, the alarming strides being made in a most every fald of commercial on-

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WHIMSELF

DRIVEN MAD BY FAILING

BUSINESS..

A terrible shooting tragedy took place in a villa at Saint Gormain-en- Laye, last month, when M. Hoock, who had a lamp-shade business in Paris, okot his wife and two little boys and committed suicide. When the police entered the bedroom they found M. and Mme, Hoook in bed This statement occurs in a memor- with revolver wounds in the fore. pared in the Blus-book on the months, was found dead in his cot. andum on Atlantic air routes pre-head, their baby Michel, aged six Colonial Office Conference recently and his brother Jasques, aged nine, airship routes the memorandum that M. Hoock's mind was unhinged held. Dealing with possible British was in a critical state. He died shortly afterwards. It is hélioved

states

by the unsatisfactory state of his business,

shode to neighbours of the Hoocks, The tragedy has come as a grent

common

When sufficient experience has been accumulated with experi mental flighta with the British It is, of course, an economic fact airship, R.100, it is intended to who were known to be a happy and that the foreigner has burrowed his organise regular services between united family. It was

knowledge, however, that At. way into practically every trade in Cardington and Montreal and New Hoock's business had been going India. American competition ex-York, The actual route to be fol- tends to machinery, rubber tyres, lowed will vary according to the from bad to worse and that in addi- electrical apparatus, and type time of the year and the prevailing

-writers.

The Germans have roade a great advance in their imports of dyes, chemicals, hardware, machinery, artificial silk and woollen piece goods; the Italians in artificial silk and cotton goods; the Japanese in textiles, and the Belgians in iron and steel.

weather conditione.

The three main routes which are likely to be followed are:

1.-The northern route vid Cape Farewell, the most southerly paint of Greenland.

2.-The direct route eid New- foundland.

3.-The southerly route via the

Azores.

Plans have been formulated in America for the establishment of

floating seadromes at intervals of approximately 300 nautical miles between New York and the Azores, and the Azores and Plymouth. An experimental sendrome has been constructed and tried in shallow water. Further experimente are to be conducted with anchorage in deep

} water.

cheaper if it was assembled and built in the country. He has now began the manufacture of machinesa on a wholesale avalo in the face of serious British opposition. He predicts that by the end of the year he will have captured 80 per cent. of the entire Indian market.

The sendrome, it is stated, will provide all the usual amenities of land aerodrome, such as refuelling and repair facilities, so that the establishment of a regular route will become a practical proposi.

tion.

.

But even in the commodity of the typewriter, the American leads the list to-day when it comes down to a matter of sheer enterprise.

Mr. F. H. Hull, tho managing ply the streets. Every taxicab director of the Remington Type- driver has one. For every British-writor Company in India, recently revealed to me hia intention of made passenger car there are ten resembling American typewriters American, and for every British- | here, - made motor-lorry nearly 100 are in- He decided that it was possible ported from the great manufactur-to place on the Indian market ing plants of the United States, typewriter more than 50 per cent.

The Americana, moreover, are just beginning. Stimulated by their first experiments they have lost no time in emulating, the example of Mr. Ford in Detroit, and are al-

Another route, known as the sub- ready going in for mass production,

Arctic route, is under investigation. A typical example of the entor- That is, mass production in India. prise of the Japanese in their re- This route will pass via the They are no longer importing the lentless quest for trade was furnish-Faroes, Iceland, and the inland finished and, therefore, more expened by a recent Sunday afternoon plateau of Greenland, and so con- nect up with Winnipeg, and pors- sive product. They are building

ibly Vancouver via the Hudson Strait. their own vast assembling plants, employing almost exclusively In dian labour, which is cheaper, and, uy a system of intensive and bril liantly handled propagands, are rapidly converting a former ex- clusive British market into what conceivably may very soon become a hundred per cent. United States monopoly.

afy astonishment at the progress which the American motor indus try has made in the last three years throughout India led me recently to visit the new assembling plant of General Motors India, Ltd., Sewri, on the outskirts of Bombay,

Hove, in less than three years, a barren waste of land beside the sea hna be transformed, as if by a

visit to the Calcutta museumi,

tion he suffered from ill-health.

is act is believed to hayo been due to horror at the prospect that his family, who were accustomed to a life of comparative luxury, would be cast destitute on the world by his approaching bankruptcy.

A poignant feature of the drama was a piece of folded paper which gave the maid the first news of the tragedy. As she came down to pre- pare breakfast she noticed the paper pinned above an electric light switch on the landing.

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"Foor Suzanne." it read." You Just that touch of which are very young for such, & shock, individuality and I very sincerely regret it. Don't go into this room, and don't you or any other man touch the door. Warn M. Canchon appreciates. or a neighbour, and ask them to Clother is found in fetch the police. Don't disturb the Perfect Tailoring anything in the room until the

of BROWN'S.' police have arrived. I rely on the kindness of our neighbours to help the police to keep morbid sightseers any and to break the news gently to my father and mother-in-law. There is nothing for anyone to do in Paris. I have settled everything there: My sister will be warned at nine on Monday by a lotter. I have left on her desk. Good-bye, all"

On table at the side of the man's bed was a scribbled note in, which he begged that his sons at Fribourg should not be warned of the tragedy until after the func

WIFE.

MESSAGE BEFORE SUICIDE.

Advice for Customers. Four or five British cotton deal- An expedition under the com- LIVE CARTRIDGE SENT TO as comprised one group of visitors mand of M. H. G. Watkins is at when, to their amused surprise as present in Greenland conducting they wandered through the build-inter alia an examination of posS- iblo bases for this air route. ing, they came across four young he expedition is being assisted by Japanese salesmen squatted on the

the British and the Canadian Gor- floor before serios of glass cases containing rare collections of cotton ernments.

While this. latter route deviates to the north of the Great tapetrics and shawls,

Circle route between this country and Winnipeg it has the advantage of better weather conditions.

They sat there through the heat of the afternoon carefully copying the old designs for the purpose, afterwards explained, of using them in the patterns for their chonp Japanese cotton prints which to-day flood the bazaars of all India in competition with pur less colourful materials from Lancashire.

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About thirtysilver articles were stolen from Longwood, Maiden- head, the home of Mrs. Harvey du Cros, last month. The thiefen-

Giving evidence the inquest at Coventry on her husband, the widow stated that she received a registered envelope bearing the Coventry postmark and containing a note and a live cartridge.

Thompson was found shot at mid- night with a small revolver by his side.

He was formerly employed as a milwayman, but met with an accident and received compensation. He was separated from his wife and

his payments under the separation order, and a warrant was issued against him.

"Why do you not adopt suchtered through a drawingroom win-had recently got into arrears with methods as these 1"I asked one of dow, and the booty, which includ- eur British cotton men later ined a number of cups won by the Bombay. That is not part of our late Mr. Harvey du Cros at golf job," he replied, irapatiently. "We and other sports was placed in a are here to sell the goods; not tr summer house before it was taken away. The ground-floor rooms were ransacked.

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most modern manufacturing plants in the world, teeming with activity. It was only opened in December, 1928, but in the first ten months of its xistence more than 12,000 motor-cars and trucks were assen- bled hero for diatribution by rail and sen to all parts of India, Burna, and Coylon.

I learned from resident directors that sales of the company--and this is only one of numerous American companies operating in Indin- totalled 14,000 motor cars, which is two-fifths of the aggregate sales in the country. I sought out Mr. G. 10. Spers the enterprising (British) managing directbr, and asked him to explain frankly the secret of his

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"Our progress has been a simple mattor," he replied modestly. "We have gone after the business, and we have managed, to secure it. But our methods have been decidedly. diflorent from those employed by qur British contemporarios.

Japanese Salesmen,

Five years ago we employed eight European dealers in India, Burina, and Coylon. To-day-we em- ploy, seventy-seven. It is the one task of these men; from day to day. to tour the country in our intorests. They direct and advise our custom- ors. They give them overy asgjet. ance, from instruction in the art of motoring to advice on the roads of

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The Coroner recorded a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.

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