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DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS
Hong Kong Stock
Exchange
Sharebrokers
Association
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69 cti.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY, 11.
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Bayers
Batters
Bank of East Asis$30
Bel
£13
$1,620)
#1,610
£139) B150
Do. (London)
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Chartered
Banks
239
alorcantile Bks."
£31
£13
Do
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N, U. & S. Bankë
1:30
1.80 Ch. Fin.Corp. ord. S.
Am. O. Fin.Corp: S.
$80
#+1
Do.
Pref.
- Insuranceme
Canton Larances...
3776
$9$5
Underwriters
Kaka
$1.20
$500
Union Insurance8 -
$500
3520
China Fires kvarta
*
Fb20
$240
H.K. Fires
$234
International Asscu, 8.
数
***
Shipping
140
Douglasea ..**
$71
Steamboats
$20
Indos (pref.)
$33
Dv. (del)
50/-
Shelle.......
$181
Waterboata
Mining
Amtamoks
+
$30
17
$30
$38 43- M43
191.ct
[00 ats. 90/91 jots.
Balatcos
30/3 ct
Baguio Gold....
$141
Benguet Consolidated
20 eta
Do. Exploration.
38 cte. $14 10 sta
20 ct.
Do Goldfold
10 ots.
Big Wedge
22.01. 37 cl
Gold Br
sl cs.
1 cts.
"Gold Creek..
United Paracales ... 34 ota
36 cta
149
Salacot Mining.......
Ipo Mining....
Itogons
19/-
Kallaste
$15
Langkats (singlö) J.
$5 18.
Explorations... di
55
Shangbai Loans 3.
38
3102
Raubs
Yenezuela Gold Fids.
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afd
142 ots
19 et $1.
Docks, WharVOR,
Godowns, ete.
H.K. & K. Wharton Sili
$1.40 Providents (old)
ay
60 eta. Do. (now)...
312.K. & W. Docks
"B"
-S. China Motora* A'
Do. $120 Shanghai Docks S.
New Engineerings. Hongkewa ga Lands, Hotels, and
8.
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$110
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935.
THE SALTS LANGUAGE
A Trip On The Billows Of Make Believe
The days of the clipper ships main deck, providing quarters for are passed... The picturesque the crew; midships; and the poop square-rigged vessel is a ship rare-br quarter deck a raised deck aft ly seen to-day, but on the high in the stern) reserved for the seas of literature galleons and officers.
barques and briga caravels, whalers and clippers, their sails full set and tinted by a setting sun, still plough the billows of make-belleve.
never-
And to ship on the fictitious vessels, whether before the mast or to pace the quarter-deck the reader must possess a vocabulary of the set that exacting writers are demanding.
Most people who like a good sea story (and few there are who do not) know that we must say: bow and not front, stern and not rear, cabin and not room, and shrouds and not rope ladders
They call the right side of a vessel starboard and the left side, port:
But how many know that the "Roaring Forties" are the wester-
y gales that can be counted on to blow practically every day of the year between the parallels of forty 18 ots. degrees and sixty degrees south: or that the region of calms near the Equator is known as the "Doldrums," where ships were becalmed for weeks and the crews were nearly frantic from boredom:
19.
+16.
$8.80 514
$1,45
115 ats *18)
115
1309
Buildings
351
H.K.. Hotela *****6.10
#52 52/521
HK Lands.........8 $018 | 3524
$52
$100
th
Do. 4% Debentures
1%
$24
Shangha! Land...8.
$19.
Metropolitan Lands..
$5.30
B.K. Reulties......**
$2
China Dode
་
1123
Do Debentureas.
191·
Humphreys ...............
New Asia Hotel
$10.
120
$8.90
***
$89
Chinese Estates,
Ewca
8
ter
Asia Realties “A*S.
Do. "B" 8.
Cotton Mula
S'hai Cutton(uld)S.
now)S
$0.40 Zoong Sings S
855
Wing On Textilon(S.)
Public Uthities
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$74 −$44}~
Do
$5.15
+45
38.80 $74
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89.40
$52
114
15
3100
Yaumati Ferries....
192
China Lights (old)... 10.30 $10.15 10.30/40
20.50
Trainwaya...............
312
Poak Trains (old)....
37
Da. (new)...
1100
Star Ferries
$22
#10.45
Do.. (now)....
PTI
$73
H.K. Electrica #721
78
Macao do.
12.
Sandaz in Lights" ....
$26.40
$11
Do.
(new)
8/
47/8
$8,70
111
DATENS IN
145.40
#123
********** $1.85 $1.95
· $24
Telopivuus (old)........
$12.40] Ching Buses....... B.
Tractions,
Do. (prok)***.
Industriale
Malabon Sugara ... Caldbeck, Hord.) d. $20 $198 Maogregora/{pref.)8,{
12.88
Canton içserosion
$1.90 Comentes
$4 Hopes
Miscellaneous
$34) Dairy Far
Der A Wings...ser
Amusements *****
Constructions, (old)
Do.
(new)
Lane Crawfords
Mackintosha
Nanyang Tobacco...
Binceresi.
70 ota-WinPowella",
#1
$1.65
$71
Ch. Etainmenta......
32
170 ats.
$31
927, CL.G.821995 G.@Bdz, „00"}
18:
35
Warsons
$2
M. Greyhounds
11.36
8. C. Enterprises
United Theatres...
Pr
HCK, Gort. 4% Loans
prom
Do.
31%
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$71
Wallace Harper
$110
HLK Wing On
Bha
$6.60 Vibro Pileng
$290
$3.50
·882- -31_10 180 st.
$4.80 $8.40
55. eta
$1.95
or that the "Trades" are fresh breezes, which blow steadily from the north-east in the region of the Tropics?
"Sheet" Is A Rope
Of do they know that a square- rigged sailing vessel was called a "windjammer, a slave. ship, a “blackbirder," a whaler, a “Spon- ter, or that a "Bluenose shipe" was from Nova Scotia?
A word that is often missed is
voyage" People say voyage,
when
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Then off three-masted vessels from bows to stern we find in order: the foremast, the main mast, and the mizzen-mast.
Strangely enough, a sheet is nota sail, but a rope attached to 2 sall; and "stern sheets" is the floor covering in the stern of a small boat.
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Eight Bells
One c lé sea customs most" confusing to "landlubbers," and
LATE NIGHT CABLES
The following cables were received last night by the American Oriental Finance Corporation:--
LONDON FORECAST,
Stocks
Not much change is expected on Wall Street Increasing interest is being shown in European affairs.
Bubber
Rubber should be lower,
Wheat
Wheat will probably be steady with the Farm Reserves Report bullish, particularly in Corn.⠀
Cotton
Cotton is expected to be steady with the trade awaiting Washing -- ton Credit Regulations. It is re vealed that desirable qualities of nutaide growths are growing scarce..
one made use of almost universally NEW YORK STOCK QUOTATIONS
in sea stories is the method of measuring time at sea, not by hours. but by bells.
This custom dates back to the day's of the sandglass, when the apparatus had to be turned over after the sand had run from the upper glass, which took a half- hour.
A boy was stationed to watch- the glass turn it over. and then strike a bell. At the end of the Arst half hour he struck the bell once, then twice at the end of an hour, and só on.
Appear on Page 3
S.E. Levy & Co.'s Cables
reports
The following cabled were furnished by Messrs. 8. E. Levy & Co. last night.
London Silver-Spot: 24 7/18, down 1/8; Forward: 24 9/16, down
At the termination of a watch-1/8. which was four hours long-eight were sounded and another shift of men or "hands" tumbled out on deck to take up the necessary duties.
Since the sea day is twenty-four hours long, beginning at noon, it was divided into a series of six watches.
The men on the imaginary ships come in for particular titles, too; the
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captain was known as the old man."
The cooks in the galley answered to the name of "Doctor," and the. carpenter to "Chips."...
in reality they mean "passage." A Passage" is a one- **Sealawyer" was a name given way affair from port to port, while to busybodies and disputers, while a "voyage" is a round trip made an old shell back" was an old. by a ship to a port or ports and sailor, "with every hair on his or a trip around the head a rope yarn and every finger
return world.
The deck of a vessel may be divided into three parts: in the bows(hence the term sailing before the mast) the "fo-c'sle," or forward deck, raised above the
BRITISH TROOPS
ARRIVE
Police Guard Along Route
(Special Air Mail Service)
Saarbruecken, Dec. 23. Several thousand Saarlanders watched in silence to-day when the first British troop train came into the town and the troops mar- ched through the streets.
Crowds had waited for hours to watch the arrival. Their silence was significant of their feelings a They are prepared to admit that the use of British troops is the least objectionable form that milit- ary precautions could take. But ney do not want troops in the ter- ritory at all.
200 Men
Two hundred men from ... the Essex and East Lancashire regi- ments and the Royal Army Service Corps made up to-day's conting ent
a hook
And so, If we readers must go cown to the sea in the ships, we should at least Embark with the rudiments of the nomenclature of the sea
SWISS CINCINNATUS
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Deck: 23.
A Swiss friend tells me that M.
Rudolf Minger's election as the
new Swise President is something of a break with tradition. He does not belong to any of the learned professions..
M. Minger is a farmer, When first elected to the Swiss Parlia- ment he could have been seen following the plough on his farm in the Canton of Berne
Since 1930, when he joined the Federal Council, his special depart- ment has been that of defence. As President, he will continue to be responsible for it.
M. Mmger has proved an active chier. Under his-administration the frontier defences have been strengthened and the equipment | of the army brought up to date.
of the world They might almost be called the diplomats of the Bri-
sh Army,
"Af="Incident'
Elaborate Police precautions They were all a lttle perturbed were taken to prevent any incident. to-day about an incident which or Mounted officers of the Saarbruec-curred when they had breakfast at ken police were along the route, Chleranville in France. and foot police were mustered in A French band had played to them at the station, and unfortun- adjoining buildings, pa
The Essex detachment will pro-ately the driver of the troop train ceed from Saarbruecken to Heintz left at the precise moment about 15 miles away, and the East Lancashires are under orders to Kommisseriat Vnutrennikh Diela go to Brebach, five miles outside The resu
troops ha Both Essex and Lancashire de the train tachments will take up sentay duty | 1o
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SECRET POLICE the Russian Home Office, which Saarbruecken.
IN RUSSIA
Successor To The "Ogpu
Air Mail Service)
took over the duties of the Ogpu in toto. Jagoda, last head of the Ogpu, became the "Home Secre- | immediately, The Royal Army Ber-, tary.
vice Corps are to remain in Saar- bruecken to prepare for the main dets
on Baturday, when
Old Power Restored
The powers of that body were more than 1000 men are expected. not, however, carried over." They
At the Station
were carbed largely because
the British rivalry between the Ogpu and the officials Red Army, and the ascen
the
latter had gained over Stalin, ∙his Int
era and on the
the band were playing the Nation al Anthem
British
London Silver Comment:--The fall of prices is chiefly due to In- dianand. Speculators resales America and Chia bought at fall of prices. Market closed steady.
to
MR. CHURCHILL LISTENS
The India Debate
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speech on the resumption of the
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Lords. Mr. Winston Churchill was there as well
Standing in the enclosure about the Throne and gripping the brass rail which separates it from the House, Mr. Churchill was Immediately behind the Woolsack and within a few feet of the Lord Chancellor.
Occasionally Lord Sankey turned round as he spoke, and often appeared to be addressing himself directly to Mr. Churchill
This conveniences of proximity.
lustrates the attractive Informa- lity of proceedings in their lord- ships House.
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Heredity In Politics—
One point which has emerged from the India debates is that the ascendancy of the great political families for questions - of-- national importarice stil persists.
Curiously enough, this was much more evident in the House of Commons than in the Lords. There Lord Salisbury was the sole protagonist of the great political | families.
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Sterling, New York Cotton: March Cotton: July Rubber: "March
Rubber July Wheat: May
EL Bond and share General Motors
Jan. 11 10.30 10:45 11.60 401240144914 12.5912.59*** 13,60 12.70 12.70 12.70 13.72 13.70 19,70, 1611-14:00-14:09-
1013-1015
93 927
837
3738
90%
Jan. 10
Close Open
4911
12.63
1271
13.84
14.22
1011
"Wheat: July
931
Corn: May.... Winnipeg Wheat May
..81
841
STOCKS
American Emetting Consolidated gas of NY. Du Pont the
381
22
961
96 961
72**
97
331
33 33 337
291 291 291 291
291
National Distillers
274 (289281 #281
N.Y. Central
201
Standard Oil Co. of NJ. US. Steel
421
384
42 381
381181
"381
COMMODITIES", PRICES
May
Old ~~ Old • Ola 1.94 193/945 181/82 New New
New York Jan. 11.
New York Cottom" •--
January 10
July,
Old Old Old 1.97 1.97/97 -1.85/90
New New New
Closing Opening Closing
1.921.91/92 190/91–
́ ́ Int. Tel. and Tel.
Leow's Inc.
Montgomery W,
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1.88 1.86/88 1,86/87
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In the House of Commons, how Jan 12.55 12.57 12.57 12.54 1254 ever, the Churchills, Ceclis, Caven- Mar 12.64 12.66 12.55 12.82 1263 dishes and Percles were in the May 1270 1871 12.10 1269 12.69 September 2.01 2,02/02 2.00/00 thick of the frayano
July 12.74 12.75 12.75 12.71 1271| Mr. Winston Churchill and Lord Oct, 12.59 12.59 12.50 12.59 12.50 Hartington, the Duke of Devon- (1995) shire's eldest son, Laturally stand Dec. 12.65 12.68 12.65 12.85 13.65 out as examples of inherited poll (1935) toal ability.
Bpot 12.85
, too, dnes Lord Eustace Percy, New York Rubber »whose contribution to the debate P
12.80
New New New 198 198/98 1.95/98
Total males-Old, $8,000 tons, New,
8,000 tonk
New York B
Mar 137 138 138 1.4011.403 May 1:38 138 139 141 141 July 138~138 139 140 141
was generally considered a ne Jan. 1359 13.56 13.58 13.93 13.63 Total sales: 120 lots example of political oratory. Mar. 13.80 18.80 13.80 13.84 13.84 Lord Wolmer, Lord Belbornes May 14.00 13.98 14.00 1402 14.02.
hen
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Who also
grea in Plate Lord Balisbu hosta
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Montreal Silver
with July 1421 1422 14.22 14.22 1422 Mar 54.90 54.95 55.25 54.80 55.20 on of the Bept 1440 1443 1443 1443 143 May 55.50 55.35/55.60 55.2
Oct 1450 14:50 14.53 14.53 14.53 July 58.45 55.80 56.27 Total sales, 96 lots
$6.4056.90
Chiesro Where
May 101 1011 1011 1012 1012 July 1934 : 938 1939 23 39 934 Bept
91011 1017
Wednesday's sales2715,534,000:
Sept: 58:90
Total
contracts Fork Metals
March in, March 50.30%
Corn
911 911
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