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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1931.

NANKING CANTON MASS MEETING OF HONG KONG STOCK

TRUCE.

HENGCHOW DECLARED A BUFFER STATE.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

NAVAL RATINGS.-

VIEWS ON THE RECENT

“ CUTS.””.

IN AGREEMENT WITH ATLANTIC FLEET.

CANTON, Sept. 90.

MARKET

SATURDAY'S TRANSAC

TIONS

The market opened katoady en Saturday morning with a good de mand all round.

Banks (worg again, in” domand at $2,040,

Gantoza were also in request at 1,546, as were Unions at 8555 after sales at this rate and $600,

Hong Kong Tires were also in

Raubs, after being dealt in at all, had further sollers at this rats, but buyers offered only

the

Wharves were in request at 31836. Whampoa Docks were wanted at

advanced

"rate of Providenta (old) could have been obtained at $8.60, but, at the alore there were buyera at $0.45.

Canton Government has The impression given by the con- made truce with the Nankingensus of opinion expressed at a régime and is withdrawing its mes moeting of the lower deck aroica from Hunan to Kwangtung.

Naval ratings of Hong Kong, which The partentious war clouds which was hold on Saturday night, was

that the men are in complete syn-demand at $1,485. have been gathering heavily ever central Hunan have dispersed, for pathy with thor of the Atlantic Flect, and that any question of the lima being at least. The South

agitation"

or propaganda orn forces which only a couple of

Tho days ago had engaged in skirmishes worthy of consideration. with Nasking troops in the vicinity

views expressed soomed to be in- dicative of a large body of opinion, of Hengehow, startell, to return to abont which, however, there is Canton en bloc yesterday in com- nothing of disloyalty or rancour. pliance with the ordore of the Although no trouble is antic Canton Higher Command. The Navy in Hong Kong, there is much pated with the lower ranks of tha Nanking forces at the same time resentment at the proposed reduc- evacuated Hengshow for Changsha,tions in pay under Mr Snowden's new Budget. Although they realise Evidently some kind of understand that the "cut" does not fall so ing between the opposing factions hard on them as on some of thuir comrades in Home stations, they has beca reached, in which Heng feel that the percentages of some of chow was declared a buffer state the reductions are out of proportion, What terms were agreed upon and tion.

Whilst the where the peace parlay was held

Admiralty@state that have been carefully excluded from cent, the majority of the lower the cuts are of only 7 to 13 per the public.

ratings are affected by a 20 por cent., and, in some cases, 231 per cent, cut. One of their arguments. ia: Why should not Ministers be subjected to a greater reduction than 10 per cent.

TO AVOID CUSTOMS TARIFFS.

SWEDISH MATCH SYNDICATE'S OPERATIONS;

[CENTRAL PRESB.]

CANTON, Sept. 18.

Views of the Ken..

Hotels (old), after being dealt in at $17.30, were on offer at 817,40, The new shares were in demand at 216.05.

Lands, which were dealt in at 891,

had further sellers at this quote

and at the close there were buyers at #901.

done at $17.40 and $17.45, could Realties, which were reported

have been obtained at 617

Ewos wezo reported to have been done at Tix 10.35,, and at the end there were, buyers nz Tls 16.15. Shanghai Cottons were in demand

sings advanced to a buying rate of at, Friday's rate Tis, 108. Zoang

Tis: 134.

Trams, which were debit in at 623.00 and $24, closed with buyers at 8931, with sollers asking 824.

The real sore point seems to he the re-adjustment of pensions caused by the new rates. It is pointed out that savings in this connection cannot begin immedi- ately, and there also appears to be. some dissatisfaction about the man ner in which the first news of the To evade the high Chinese Cus-euts was communicated to the men toms tariff wall, the Swedish match

It is stated that the cabled mice syndicate has bought several Chisages to the newspapers are incom

plete and in some respects mislead- | Electries could have been obtained mese match factories in the interioring, and do not give the true posit Bes, and at the close there were of the Province in order to extend. tion from the point of view of the their trade, in China.

It proposes to import materials from Sweden into Canton for the manufacture of matches at i grent ly reduced cost, thereby competing

th the eative factories,

lower deck man. The percentage of cut, from 7 to 13 per cent.,' as previously stated, is described as incorrect. Many ratings will have than that, to take a considerably larger cut

Star Ferrios were dealt in at 805, and at the close there were buyers at 8051, "

buyers offering $83.

· Telephones (fully paid) were in demand at $44.

...... Cements (combined) were done at $20.00 and $20.70, after which there

THE COLONY'S TRADE.

(Usutinied" from Page 63

Comparison of Quant

The following comparative tablo shows the quantities of certain

of the chief commodities Imported into Hong Kong during the month of August, 1930 and 1931 Animalı Live :-

Time

Bleachin

Sodn Ash

eing and

Gambier

(gust, 1930. – August, 1031.

Cattle Pige

Head

41528

27,808

Building Materials

Bricks and Tiles

Pieces

Cement

Piculs

5,001,000 128,011;

Glass

8qft

Piouls

Timber

Cub, ft.

287,823

Chemicals and Drugs:-

Acids "Alura

· 1,509)

A17

5,050

$2,736

5,854

1,100

0,782

4,989

145)

1735

63,182

42,184

15,005

17,657.

Shark Fins

-2,387

1,123

103,005

253,830

Poultry

507,450

360,203,

Baoan and Ham Bico

105,4840

08,061

lculs

$13,788

700,034

Sugars. Onions

599,313

€12,389

or

∙19,5

Potatoes

14,807

Vegetable, fresh and dried

69,761

46,310

24,825

45,154

Indigo(

Mangrov

Варап Foodstuffs:- Benn

Fresh Fish

Flour (Wheat):

Ginger (fresh)

Fuels--

Coal Firewood

:』『:",

Metals

Iron and Steel Bars

Lead Pig

Wire Nails

Tin Slabs....

Tin Plates

Nuts and Seedst

Groundnuts Molon Breds Pepper

Sesamum

Other Scoda

Oils and Fats:

Petrol Kerosene Lard

Tons

Picula

-7,201

51,140

909

704

1,931

811

7,881

,699

28,491

J3,008

3,179

3,544

4,740

1,688.

4,097

5,730

4,636

5,228

Gallons

892,873

733,8803

1,815,425

·908,682

Piculs

3,789.

1,785

Parafin Wax Coconut Oil

1,328

13,168

808

:.1,972

968 20,730 9,197

148

27,130 0,010

Cotton

Pieces

Constructions (cum rights) could

Yards

123,720 9,930,061

138,900 12,991,513

Suitings

Union Cloths N

54,204 41,993.

149,702

Silk Picco Goods:

Picult

Art. Bilk Yarn Sundries:-

847 (10,100)

692

· 48,411)

Pieces 1,197,583 Piouls

1,815,900

7,300

7,070

.9.792.

4,324

Bales

22,912

20.870

6,385 345

3,138

It is also hoped that the Admiralers buyern at $201 and sellers at ty will look into the question "of marriage allotments by the younger 820.66.

Watsons were in demand at

On learning of the proposed invamarried men. It is thought that sion of Swedish matches in the local undor, the new conditions the maxi market, the native factories met in mum allotment will not permit 317.30, conference yesterday and discussed Home, and will leave the rating much margin to a man's wife at measures to enable them to defy himself very little indeed for his have been obtained at $14. successfully the competition of this own pocket. foreign, rivalit

It is reported that the native match makers propose to ask the Government to impose heavy taxes matches imported into the city from abroad and to prohibit opera tion of factories in the interior by

foreign capitalists or with foreign Fospital.

U.S. CONSUL-GENERAL ON LEAVE.

MR. J. R. PUTNAM TO' ACE

DURING ABSENCE.

The American Consul-General and "Mrs. Douglas Jenkins left Hong "Kong yesterday morning by the ala.

Smaller Outs Expected.

but the amount has come as an in- A cut was more or less expected,

pleasant surprise. Nor had ratings been told officially that a cut might cabled reports appear to have been be expected, as certain passagea, în

cometrued.

one, not of angry resentment, Summed up, the attitude seems to

but of carnest conviction that the

OBITUARY.

MR. W. J. WHITE.

Mr. W. J. White, of the Store Department, Royal Naval Yard,

Thursday night, having been taken died in the reach Hospital ou

Linseed Oil Peanut Oil

Wood Oil

Piece Goods

Gunnies Hides..... Leather (Sole), Mats (Other) Paper (Chinese) Common Soap

23,846

new rates are disproportionats, and ill suddenly the same day. Pro- BIRTHS AND DEATHS Dades that arrangement, provi. need immediate consideration, It minent in Masonic ciroles, he had

is also felt that, as the Atlantic boon a resident of the Colony, for Fleet have received that promise, four and a half years, and had the same assurance might be given | here.

appeared in lawn bowls competi

REGISTRATION.

sion is made for notification to the nearest American Consul when ever a citizen of the United Stater

tions with Craigangowor Club. He CHANGES IN REGULATIONS. dies in the Colony. Under section

was aleo a member of Cathay

54 of the. Probates Ordinance, the notification is made by the Officini RECENT ARMED ROBBERIES Lodge B.C, 4373. A widow and

The draft is issued of an Or. | Administrator. three children aurvive him in dinduce to amend the law relating Plymouth, England,

to the Registration of Births and The funeral took place in the Deaths. Protestant section of the Happy

SEVERAL MEN CHARGED “AT KOWLOON;

The amendments made in the principal Ordinance by this Dr dinance make provision for in-

President Filimore for Europe en Fruitful work by Detective In Valley Cemetery on Saturday men The Hogistrar General (whose forming the Official Administra

route to the United States on home leave. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins plan to make a tour of Italy, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, arriving in the United States in

pentor Fallon, of the Kowloon C.LD., who has been engaged on investigations with regard to the

ing, the Rov. Mr. Foley officiat ing. A large gathering of friends attended to pay their last res

recent epidemic of armed robberies which has occurred in Kowloon,pects. resulted in the appearance before the early part of December Magistracy on Saturday of a num M Mr J, A. Fraser, at the Kowloon Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins arrived ber of Chinese charged on various hero in April of this year when counts of robbery, Inspector Fal Mr. Jenkins assumed charge of then conducted the prosecution. Consulate General, and in the short time they have been here, have made yan

a host of friends who will miss them for the six months they will be on

lexve

Ng Kau was charged, together with others not in custody, with entering 073, Shanghai Street, file, and robbing Chan Mo-kan of armed with a revolver, knife and

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

title was changed to Secretary for or Informants for purposes of Chinese Affairs by Ordinance No Registration of Death are therefore 21 of 1931) was Registrar of Births require to state, in addition, te and Deaths under the Births and the usual particulars, the nation- Deaths Registration Ordinance,ality of the deceased, it known, 1890, until 1009 when by the Pub. and where the information is cf lic Service Transfer of Duties Or the death of a citizen of the Unit dinance the fond of the Sanitary

ed States, the Registrar is requir ed to pass such information on te BANK NOTE CASE TO OPEN Department was substituted,

TODAY.

It is now considered, as a part the Official Administrator and of the scheme for re-organization through him to the Consut. This month's Criminal" Scasions of the Medien) and Sanitary, Ser- views of the Colony, that the Dirgn-

Registrar of Births and Death As the Medical and the Sanitery Departments are in the same build-

a quantity of jewellery and 100 will commence at the Supreme

in monay, to the total value of Court at 30 o'clock this morning for of these Services should be the

487, on August.

Late Fes Cancelled.

Section 4 of this Ordinance Amends section 10 (2) of the prin- Mr. John it. Putnam, formerly

There are two cases on the calen:

cipal Ordinance. Under thist sub- In connection with an armed. the American Consul at Amoy, las robbery which took place at 46, dar, both of which will be heard

section, which was introduced into been assigned to the Consulate Argyle Street on June 8, Chun before Mr. Justion Lindsell.. General herp and will be in charge

the principal Ordinance by Ordin- during Mr. Jenkins absence: Mr: uk was charged, with others not The more important case is theting, the transfer of office aud

"ance: No, "26 of 1923, the late re Putnam was with the Chinese Im Yan-yajor watches jewellery and of Kong Sze Yick and Leo Arthur staff from one department to su- gistration fee, after twelve months, perial Maritime Customs Bervice precious stones to the total value 'A Guimaraes, who were recently other involves no changes in the from 1896 to 1906 He joined the of 82,000. The robbers were stated

is at the rate of five dollars for American Consular Service in 1918 to be armed with knives, committed for trial after lengthy routine of registrat

every year or part of a year that fd since that time has served at Chan Yau, An unemployed proceedings at the Central Police

MU.8 CItizens.

has elapsed since birth. It is con Barcelona-and-Valencia Spain, Chinese, was slag brought up on Court, The charge against them

aldered that the progressive es Havana, Cuba Shanghai Had a similar charge, in connection is that on July 24, 1931 together Sections 3 and 10 (1) and (4) dolents its object as it deters per king, Foochow Chefog and Amoy with an afair that took place at with others not in custody "har With his varied experience in diner 05, Argyle Street, when defendant, ing on that date procured the implement section, 41(2), theson from registering might ent parts of the world and particu. and other men not in custody, handing over to themselves by Prolistes Ordinance, 1807, in order otherwise do so, partic

arly in the larly in China, Mr. Putnam entered the premises, and, after Wong To po of 87,000 in bank to give effect to at arrangement well equipped to direct the activi ties of the American Consular Ser using personal violence on the in notes for the vatensible purpose of which has been atzived at between New Territories, where the absence mates, decamped with watches, having the same changed for other His Majesty's Government and of distriot registries has been con- vice here

rings, and other articles all to notes, false or genuine stole the the United State Government reducive to late registration, a Mr. and Mrs. Putnam will reside the value of $442

muney from Wong Topa

Inting to the manner in which the Section BT) 8-9 and (2) and Chinese 4 hpavilion.pĚ.Articl liaHaul (a)braise the statutory fees for

sta and Rersonal Proper Convention | cortificates and searches. ticles of Washington, of the March 12.

temporazily-in-100-751

J. Owen Hughes at

which has been occupi Mra Jenkins for

laung was charge

and Upon the applice

fowtor Fallon, Mr.

remunda in pachres

arb indicated for

but in Kowloon, alleged to be stolen clothing and iswellery.

1800, which has been applied to this Colony may be carried out,

Section 11 postponed the opera tion of this Ordinando

unt

let January, 1932) §

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