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DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS
Hong Kong Stock
Exchange
Onarcorozers Association
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Insuranon
HONG KONG
DAILY PRESS,
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1936."
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
30
B
13
18
28
监管
Buyers
Betona
omiles
MONDAY. APRIL 27.
Buyer
Stor
Alm
Banky
31,510
S. Banks
£iost
Ba (London)...
$1,520
2141
Chartered Banks...
£108
£311
Mercantile Bks. “A”
214
£14
Do.
231
173
Bank of East Asia...
N. C. & S. Barks
$73
Au. O, Fiu.Corp: 8.
214
s
Ch. Fin. Corp. Ord. 8.
Da. Prel, S.
$276
Canton Insurancee.....|
3270
31
Underwriters
21.05
Union Insuran2008 ....
1480
China Fires
25071
1280
H.K. Fires............
$470
$340
Interasional Assce. 3,
Shipping
Acrode. 8-This shows an ardent desire
(7).
$38
Douglases en
$35
33
Steamboats
$5
$30
ludos (pref.).........
9-It's never wise to lean on it
149.
130
$20
Do. (def.)
96/3
Shells
$20 87)-
90 Waterboata
Mining
Amtamoka
$510
!!
$2.35 $2.40
$9.36
1213
33 cts
Bajatcos
Baguio Cold: 30 et.
$18.20 Benguet Consolidated
Do Exploration
32 Big Wedge............ 34 cts
71.cta.
76 cts,
75 cla
11 cta,
$1.18
$14
-
$19 20
**
318
126 ota.
2 ets. 113 sts.
40
Demonstations
70 eta
M
6 ct.
Gold River
16 cta
Gold Creek........
United Paracales
74 ots.
73 cte.
A
Salacota
Itogona
15 cts. #1.15
11/6
$9
32 70
***
LXL.
Kailans PD
Langkats (single) 8.
Masbate
Exploration...., S.
19/0
$10
70 ota
$1.17 #1 29
71 cte
14
Stangbai Loans
3.) $2.30
BELL
Hauby....
$10
#1 10
#31
Docks, WharVOS,
San Mauricio$1.17
Venezuela Gold Flda. 33
Godowne, oda.
H.K. & K. Wharvoa.
Do. (old).$90
Do. (new)
Providents (old) ....
Do.
(LOW)...
! ! ! ! ! ! ⠀⠀⠀ !!
+1.20
59.1
Bit
20 cts.
$8
11.K. W. Jocks
(30 sta, 30.
China Motom ́A'
#79
Shangnai Docks S.
$4
New Engineeringsd,
$51
$100
Hongkewe
.......
Landa, Hotels, and
Buildings
H.K. Hotels
$105
$4.95/100
$32
#311
$100
$18.
Shanghai Lands.... Par
$10
36
B.K. Healties... $42
54
$8.80
$83
H.K Lands.........................
Du. 4% Debentures
Metropolitan Lands..
China" Do "&••B]
Do. Debenturess.
Humphreys ********
Chiness Exta205................ |
Cotton Mum
EWS LAT
S'has Cottons(uld)88.40
Li
$9.80
"Du. (new S.
$80
$39
$12
Zoong Sings
$95
Wing On fertiles(S.)
www.
Pabile Ulition
$10.85
Tramways ............
$7
$3.
Poak Trama (old) .....
Da.
IN
$0
(DOW}...
$3
$48
Star Ferries
$10
Yaunati Ferries ...
10.70/76
Do (new) $7.30
Chins Lights (old)... $10.00 $10.80 $10
$20
153
HK. Electrics ***
$512
$20
Macao do,
110.70 $7.35
$4.10
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18.30 Sandakan Lights ....
$25.40 Telepbones (old)...
Do. (new)...
Chius Buses
Traction **********"23/6
(prof)
Industrials
Maisbou Sugar ***
38
$11
201.
28/.
10.
$8.40
$101
$15
Canton Ice
10.30
Cements
Воров
L
$20
Caldbeck, ford) 8.
Macgregors (pref.)8.
LARP$10.10
Miscellaneous
Farma
Basry Amuadiments marat Ch. K'tainmenta................ Constructions, (old)
Do.
(new)
Lane Crawfords...... Mackinwahan. Nanyang Tobacco.......
"
$2.90
$12
(50 ct
302
$5
$9
$32
ount. W, Powells
$2
M Greyhounds..........
prem.
par
Sinceres eram, Wasson SRAT MENY
31.35 8. C. Enterprise
933%. Ch.G.5% 1925G.Bds, 9317
RAILWAYS AND HIGHWAYS
HK.
Govt. 4% Loans 5
Do. 31%
Wallace Harper......
ALK Wing Op
Sh. Da
Vibro Pileng*******
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NOTE-Figures in parentheses indicate number of letis:s in the words required.
10-It may be a come-down, but
many travellers take it (4)- 11-Getting this bit of one twisted
ls a trouble to put right (5). 14-To express contempt without a
word! (5).
16 I may be a playful sport for some, but a monstrous thing for others (5).
17 This appears to be pitted and
depressed (7),
18-It's in its original pläce, when
it's in this (4).
19-A case of pins and needles (4). 21-Being able to change is Ackle
(7).
23 A special kind of tea (5) 24-To wander about in Scotland
(5).
25-A kind of crystal, formerly used
by fortune-tellers(5), 28-A musical character that com- posers put on the staff (4). 29-A molluse, and a grippert (4). 30-The saving of a ship from
wreckage (7).
Down
1-A short and sharp encounter
(5)
2-Shellfish, or evergreens flower- ing blue, pick which you fancy. for either will do (11). This, by the way one sees in aviation (3).
CHINA CLIPPER MAKES FOURTH FLIGHT
Uneventful Trip
to
|
5-It needs relays of men for this
post in India and (3). a-many a one is nailed in the
end, (3),
.
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7-A thing which cannot be dis- proved is in life, but rare" (anagram) (11). B-It is said to be part of a wheel
(5) 12-Sherlock Holmes
pictured in speckled band. made up as a this 7). 13-He was a leading light in olden
days (7). "
was
never
15-A water-channel for industrial
Use (5).
16-To pass swiftly (5)
20-An eventful time (5). 22-Sunt (5).
25-Lamb's Arst essay to attract
notice (3).
26-This in short, is a suitable title
for a clergyman (3).
27-Let us say, as usual. The last
clue!" to keep the record! (3).
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. The following is the solution of yesterday's puzzle:
Across 4. Strength. 8. Cleavage, 9. Vainly. 10. Heretofore, 13. Pilot, 14. Lascar, 17, Offish. 21. Films, 24. Inimitable. 25. Ordain, 26. Hucks- ter, 27. Amethyst,
BRITISH NAVAL STRENGTH
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Increased Cost Of Production
RENEWING DEFENCES
Various events of last year and
SINGAPORE RAW
RUBBER
Latest Singapore Prices
H. B. JOSEPH & CO
Monday, Apr, 27. Messrs. H. B. Joseph & Co., re- the following quotations
the subsequent movement towards warship rebuilding make the cur-ceived rent issue of "Brussey's Naval An-
W
. Buyers
nunt" of outstanding interest. This in Straits Currency for Singapore Is the 47th year of publication of Raw Rubber. this standard work, edited boy Commander Charles N. Robinson, R.N., who contributes an interest- Ing chapter on "Naval Forces of the British Empire."
He states that 1935 will be look- cd back upon as a turning point in the history of the modern Navy, for it was then that the nation first realised the extent to which reductions in the naval" strength over a period of years had reduced the Empire to a position of weak- bess.
The Disarmament Conference had proved fruitless. collective security as a practical formula was still afar off, and meanwhile the strength of the Navy-partly owing to reductions in its establishment at the various conferences, partly to the failure to replace ships as they became obsolete. and partly
Spot May/June
July/Sept.
Oct./Dec. Market-Quiet.
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263 up i 271 up t
271 up" i 271 up
DEPARTURE
PASSENGERS
VS.S. SHITRALA
i
The following passengers left the Colony yesterday for Singa-
to the increased construction in pare. Rangoon and Calcutta per other countries had dwindled to s.s. Shirala:-
its lowest ebb, since the passing of Mrs. W. W. Cunningham. Mr. the Naval Defence Act of 1889.
John Cunningham, Mr. Hool The Writer adds that the policy | Cheng Loon, Mr. Wong Wing Hing, Mr. Wong Wel, Mr. Tseng Chu
of renewing British defences com- mands support from the over- whelming majority of people was proved by the election in Novem- ber, 1935, at which this was a car- dinal point in the programme of
the Government.
--
COMPARATIVE COST
The measure of the effort made by the British Government in the direction of disarmament is in- Down.-1. Sleep. 2. Babel. 3.
dicated by the totals of the Navy Jabot, 4. Second-sight, 5. Revel, 6. Estimates since the war. In 1925 Nois, 7. Tilka, 11. RIT, 12. Toss, 15. the actual expenditure under Návy
Forum, 19. Votes Adit, 16. Comb, 18.
£60,004,548. In 1932 Inapt, 20. Hinny, 21. Filch, 22. it had declined to £50.164,453, a Lapse, 23. Sleek.
reduction of nearly £10,000,000§.
ROME REPORT ON PROGRESS
Was
On paper this figure appeary a large one, and is often compared adversely with that of pre-war days. The last Estimates before
San, Mr. Chen Te Chan, Mr. Leong
Pao
CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,
25
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
DE S.S."
THE
MECKLENBURG *. having arrived, from Hamburg and Ports of call, Consignees of Cargo are boreby notified that their Gouds are being landed and placed at their risk to the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company's godowns at delivery many be Kowloon, where
will not be landed Optional Cargo obtained as son as the Goods are landet bere, unless Notice has been given 48 hours
prior to vesacl's arrival, but corrini on from port to port to the Enal port of call to which the option extends.
No Claims will be admitted, after the Goods have left the Godowns, und all Goods remaining andelivered after the 4th May, 1938, will be subject to Rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods and to be left in the Godowne, where they will be examined on 2nd May
1916, at 10 a. by our
Mesars. Goddard & Douglas,
comply with the General Bonded Warehouse Regulations, consignees must. have a Revenue Officer in attendance wher
damaged dutiable goods are
examined.
All claims must reach
before
the 27th May, 1936, or they will not be recognized.
So Insurnace will be effeated.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
JEBBEN & CO..
Agenta
Hong Kong, 27th April, 19:6.
L4365
HAMBURG ALIERIKA LINIE
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE SS,
NORDMARK" Pak Wun, Mrs. Ngọ Khong San Miss Liang Chin Lien. Miss Wang having arrived, from Hamburg and Ports of call, Consignees of Cargo are Shen, Mrs.
Godfrey and
hereby notified that their Goods are daughter, Mrs. Yuen Kwan Huie.eing landed and placed at their risk into Master Hule Yoke Hok, Mrs. Llu the Bong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Lee Shee. Master Liu Wen Heng. Godewa Company's godowns at Kowloon Mr. F. W Deere. Jemadar Abdul where delivery may be obtained as soon Rahman,
as the Goods are landed. Subedar Hazir Khan, wife, daughter and two infants. Jemadar Mit Singh, wie, daughter and infant, Jemadar Sultan Bux and wife.
ELECTION DAY
#i: SCENES
14
Optional Cargo will not be landed ·
nless Notice has been given 48 here, unless hours prior to Vessel's arrival, bat carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the option extends.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and al Goods remaining undelivered after the 5th May, 135, will be subject to Beat.
1.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowne, where they will be examined on 4th May. | 1636, at 10 ■,m.. by our Surveyora,
August, 1914, amounted to £51,- Hong Kong Daily Press" Special) Messrs, Goddard & Douglas,
550,000.
Paris, April 27. ("Hong Kong Daily Press" Special) But comparison of the figures Election day passed of quietly
alone does not afford a true con-
untoward throughout France, no Rome, April 27, The latest official War Com-trast owing to the great rise in accidents having so far been re- wages and prices and the numer-ported. An unusually large num- munique states:
aus technical developments which ber of electors went to the polls in victory near "Following the
have been made since the war, and Paris, where upwards from 50 per Djanagubo, General Graziani's which are much more costly to cent. of those entitled to, have
Itsunied the offensive
provide and maintain.
scored their vote, öze of the ear- against the enemy's fortified line
It is pointed out that in 1912, ror Hest voters being President Lebrun, of defence in Sasahbaneh.
example, the pay of the Navy. The polling booths were closed at numbering 136,000 officera and 8 o'clock, and it is calculated that men, cost less than £7,750,000. In only some 250 definite results have 1935, though numbers had declined been acquired, so that a second
The China Clipper, blazer of the troops "SHA
route trans-Pacific air
the $10.00 Ortent, landed in Manila Bay at 4.15 p.m. on Thursday last after an uneventful trip of about five and one-half days from Alameda, California. It is her fourth flight to Manila: ...
The giant flying boat brought 90 pounds of the first air express to $26.16 Manila and 200 pounds of air mall. Included in the cargo is a set of surgical instruments ordered by cable by Botica Bole for a throat operation at Manila.
*
A WEATHER FINE
do
have been
OS
To comply with the General Bonded Warehouse Regulations consignees must have a Revenue Officer in attendance when damaged dutiable goods are examined.
All Claims must reach us before the 28th May. 1936, or they will nat be recognized. ". No Insurance will be effected.
Bill of Lading will be countersign d by
JEBSEN & CO., Agents.
Hong Kong, 25th April, 1936.
14386
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD.
AND
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
in CONSIGNEES per Co's Vasel
be
"SARPEDON"
into
Holt'
FROM UNITED KINGDOM VIA SINGAPORE, bereby notified that their Cargo
discharged Consignses risk and subject to Terms Wharf, Kowloon, where it will his st and Conditions of Storage at Holt's What The Cargo will be ready for Delivery from Godown on and after
General Verne occupied Dagame
after a surprise attack last Thursday, In the early hours of Friday morning, a strong Abys-by over 40,000. the pay was not ballot will be necessary in most sinian motorised detachment at-
far short of £13,000,000.
constituencies. The only result so tacked our positions near Daggah-
The same facts may be observed far known is Saigon in French bur, but after bitter fighting our
establishments. In Indo-China, where none of the
candidates troops carried the day. Motorised in the civil
succeeded detachments pursed the enemy. 1814, when pre-war construction three
had who lost many dead, hundreds of and repair were at their height, obtaining the required majority.
the dockyard personnel cost un- Enthusiastic, suffragettes rifles and considerable quantities
der £4,000,000, whereas in 1935, taken recourse here to the in-are of ammunition.
as Our losses,
with no battleship construction in genious method of placing high far ascertained. Captain Ralph A. Dahlstrom, amount to 20 dead and 50 wound-progress and with a much smaller hat boxes before the polling booth,
fleet to maintain, the dockyard commander of the air liner, said | ed. that the weather was fine all the In the centre, our Home Army personnel cost nearly £7,000,000 way. This is his third fight to under the command of General The light cruiser in 1914. cost about Manila, twice on the China and Frusci, largely composed of Italian £330,000. It costs nearly as much once on the Philippine Clipper, els volunteers from abroad, as well as to-day to build a destroyer,
Lybian and Somali native troops, ter ship.
rapidly advanced at day break of April 24, and attacked the power- ful enemy position. at Hamaniel. The battle which was waged suc- left for Guam at "5.30 p.m. on cessfully by cur troops throughout the day, was resumed on Satur- Saturday and is due to arrive at Alameda with six days, weather day morning, wheti our men at 66 ota. permitting.
tacked the enemy with bayonets, and drove them out of Fafari, whereby the Abyssinians' losses are
$10.10 $4
$20
13
$12
$5.00
13.35
30 sta
$1.80
31
$59
Pan American Airways oficials have advanced the departure, of the Clipper, originally scheduled The China for Sunday morning.
CHANGE MADE
The Clipper will start night ay- ing from each Pacific station. on its flight eastward. This means that the Clipper will arrive at each station early in the morning in- stead of in the afternoon as here tofore, permitting a longer stop- over at Guam, Wake, Midway and
1
estimated at 1000 dead.
Our columns have now advanced 200 kilometers from their point of departure.
And are continuing their irresistible drive northward. The airforce distinguishes itself in bombing and reconnoitring fights. Seven machines were repeatedly 2. Co-ordination of the railways Honolulu," on the way back.
The Philippine Clipper is sched-hit and two pilots wounded, one and highways should be instituted
of them by a Dum Dum bullet."-- by the organs concerned to prefectuled to start her third fight to Mae
nila at 6.35 am. Friday, Manila Transocean News - Service. time, and is due to arrive next Wednesday, April 29. Captain Ed- win G. Musick will be in command, it is understood.
tile network of land communica
rions in the country.
"
Nanking, April 15. General principles relating to
3. To avoid competition between measures for promoting co-ordina- tion between railways and high-the two, all plans; relating to the ways recommended by the Tech-construction of railways and high, nical Committee on Communica- ways should be devised by the tions of the Central Political Com-Ministry of Railways, mittee were adopted at the 258th
4. The building of highways and meeting of the Executive Yuan bridges and the manufacture of motor-cars should be unified and yesterday as follows
standardized(Kuo Mm).
1. The organs exercising control over highways throughout the country should be placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rallways. The Minis try should undertake as early as possible to prepare and make public a map of the railways and highways in the country.
NEW ISSUE MARKET
Newspaper
A cruiser of similar tonnage to that of 1914 costs between three and a half and four times as much.
into which the advocates of wo- man yoting were asked to cast a symbolic vote, of which opportu- nity, numerous electors avalled
themselves.-
Trun ocean News Service.
an
4th Apr.
Optional Cargo will not be landed here anices Notice has been given prior to Steamer's arrival, but carried on froz part to port to the final port of call to which the option extends."
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods This is due in part to higher wages
a second clasa are to be left in the Ghodowas, where and prices, but mainly to the far to restrain even
has necesaltated they will be examined on any Tunadays greather requirements in regard to naval Power armament, production, communi- denuding our home and overseas and Fridays between the hours of 10,45 AM and Noom within the Frae extent which Storage period cations, and aircraft. Naval re- squadrons to construction, therefore is bound would make it extremely difficult to be costly, but, as is observed in for us to safeguard our ocean ship "Brassey's Naval Annual, it is a ping if trouble should arise else necessary insurance far less costly where." than war,
Foreign Navies
Ships Being Bullt
As regards material develop In a chapter on foreign navies ments. It is noted that France, Captain E. Altham, R. N. points Italy, and Germany between them out that anyone who studies the have in hand eight battleships, all situation of which will outclass in some res- present international must be forced to realise that the pect or another anything we pos- strength of our navy is not only sesa or can even lay down before the basis of our own security but 1937, It is also stated that the also a dominant factor in presery-ever-growing flotillas of submar 'ing world peace."
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 1st May, will be subject to Beat.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 15th May, 1980, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be affected BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents, 24th April, 1938.
[1390
ines built or building for foreign DONT FORGET
Powers make the deficiencies in destroyer strength more and more alarming.
The British Fleet in the Eastern Mediterranean more than anything else, has prevented the war be tween Italy and Abyssinia from Other thought-provoking fea- spreading into a general condugra- tures of the current issue of "Bras- London, April 27tion. Yet that fleet has only been sey's are chapters on "Relative brought up to the standard of Naval Strength." by G, H. Hurford;: financial columns
strength which circumstances have "The End of Disarmament." by comment on the revival of con- made necessary by drawing on the Captain Alfred C. Dewar, R.N.; and Home, China, American, and West "Banctions: The Naval Aspect" by Indies stations, and even on the Rear-Admiral H. G. Thurafield.
a section of the Australian and New Zealand naval There is also a
volume containing several chapters forces.
Captain Altham adds that a on the British and foreign 'neet air comparatively superficial survey of arms, naval aircraft construction, foreign navles cannot fall to de- and tying boats. The volume is monstrate the fact that the effort profusely illustrated.
SPECTATORS THRILLED .Captain Dahlstrom made a beat- tirul landing. Spectators of the roof garden of the Manila Hotel were thrilled to see the huge "ny ing Pullman" speed by at close siderable activity in the new issue range. The Clipper was flying low market. A check had been caused when she was sighted and did not by the Rhineland crisis after which circle but zoomed straight into the the Eastet hoildays and the Budget water, attesting to the skill of the prevented resumption. Last week's skipper who has watched Captain issues, however, totalled 29. J. H. Tilton and Captain R. O. D. million and farther issues this "I never see much in them," "re-Sullivan, both veteran filers, bring week exceed £5 million
Heuter's Bulletin Seruice; down their ship in Manila Bay. plied the other man.
The train was running through a long tunnel Wonderful things, these tunnels," remarked a passen- ger.
THAT WHEN You are at Home you can get the
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