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THE

".. "HELIOS"

. "HIRAM "

5.4.HELLAS"

CHINA-SIAM

LINE.

HONG KONĠ-BANGKOK

leaving Hong Kong, 4th August via Bwatow Isaving Hong Kong 16th August via Swatow" leaving Hong Kong 24th August via Swacow BONG KONG-SWATOW-AMOY

7th August "HAL HING" leaving Hong Kong "..." HAI LEE" leaving Hong Kong 18th August Accepting Passengers & Cargo for all the above motioned ports." HONG KONG-SINGAPORE-PENANG-RANGOON. Regular Express Service

"HAT BING" leaving Hong Kong 13th August m.r. "HAI LEE" leaving Hong Kong 24th August »

Accepting cargo for all the above mentioned ports.

Excellent passenger accommodation available.

For freight, passage rates and all other information-Apply to

THORESEN & CO., LTD.

Tel. 30237.

General Agents.

Queen's Building.

S.S. "BENMOHR"

Sailing for LONDON, ROTTERDAM, ANTWERP, HAMBURG, HULL and LEITH on or about the 9th August.

Cargo will also be accepted on through Bill of Lading to the usual transhipment ports.

Next Sailing for SHANGHAI & JAPAN

“BENCLEUCH"

S.S.

S.S. "BENNEVIS "

Tel 12533

2nd Aug. 6th Aug.

For Freight and Passage apply to:

W: R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD."

York Building.

Agents;

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.

PIECE GOODS QUOTAS

CONSIGNEE NOTICES.

PRINCE LINE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FLOM NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES

Motor Vessel

TEMALAYAN PRINCE" "having arrived from the above Porta on 30th instant, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company,

Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Consignees risk

and expense.

All broken, shafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where į they will be examined on Thursday, 5th Aug., 1987, at 10A.M.

All Claims must be presented within 15 Days of the Vessol's arrival here, after which date they cannot be re-

Claims will be wiuitted after the Goods have left the flowns, and ali Goods remaining andelivered after the Bib Aug, 1937, will be subject to Rent.

No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be avantersigned by

FURNESS (FAR EAST), LTD.,

2nd Floor, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building. Dials 20165 & 23168.

Hong Kong, 80th July, 1987.

"

[5438

New Requirements Be Waived

The Hong Kong General Cham- ber of Commerce received from the Hong Kong Government, on

July 31, a letter, dated July 30, giving the text of the Secretary of State's telegram of July 28 on the subject of plece-goods quotas and the rule that plece-goods manu- factured in Hong Kong must be woven from yarn spun in the British Empire. The letter stated that in view of the representations of the Chamber of Commerce, the Secretary of State had requested all "Dependencies concerned, with the exception of Jamaica, to waive the new requirements for

sa) any goods shipped before July

7:

(b) any gooda shipped on subse- quent dates before the end of July if accompanied by a cer- tificate from this Government that the order

placed before July 7.

was

The significance of the words "before the end of July” in clause (b) was unfortunately överlooked when the communication to the Press published on Friday was.

drafted.

The Chamber of Commerce is asking the Government to cable Secretary

LOAN FROM BRITAIN | immediately to the

TO HELP RAILWAY

CONSTRUCTION

London, July 30.

J

Dr. H. R. Kung, Chinese Finance Minister, has concluded a contract with the British and Chinese Cor- poration with which to finance the Corporation of Shanghal Associat- ed £5,000,000 five per cent. loan.

The loan proceeds will be devot❘ ed to the construction of 'a' rail- way from Shektan, on the Canton- Kowloon Railway, to Meflaten in Kwangtung, and will be secured on the revenue of the rallway, with the Balt Gabelle as collateral.

Part of the money will be spent for the purchase of material and equipment for the ballding of the line. It is expected that the loan will in due course be offered to the public in London.

Dr. Kung has concluded a fur- ther loan contract with the British and Chinese Corporation for £4,- 000,000, for the construction of a railway from Pukow to Hslany yang, in Hupeh. The terma are identical with the other loan."'

The two loans make a total of £7,000,000 with, British financiers for two important railways

of State suggesting that there must be some mistake in the mensage. Possibly the end of August, the end of September, or the end of October, was intended. It is clearly impossible for goods to be shipped at a few hours' notice. In the case" of gooda destined for Africa. for example." no steamer with space available leaves Hong Kong before August

10.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1937.

THE EXCHANGE

MARKET

----.

MESSES. ROZA BROS,

Saturday July 31 Silver prices rose 1/18 yesterday for Ready" and 1/8 for Forward, the quotations being 201 and 20 3/16 respectively. Silver "advices reported India as having bought. -China sold. The market was quietly

steady. American Sliver quoted at 444 for Spot.

The London/New York cross- rate was quoted at 497,70. New York/London was quoted at 497.- 11/16.

MARKET Opened Birmi but towards cicse eased off slightly.

was

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

(Through Renter's Service),

Now York: August (2)

QUOTATIONS

New York/London Cross-rate New York Cotton-Dec. New York Rubber-Sept. Chicago Wheat-Sept. Chicago Corn

Sept. Silver Official

1935,7

Last Today'

Chang High Law Close Close

-4.97-11/18 4.97) 1/18 up 100 of 10.79 10.83 10,76 10.70

18.40 closed 118 118 18t 1:GA 93 90

14)

High Low Dow Jones Averages, 194.40 165.5) 50 Industriais

81.48 50.17 20 Baile

9010

unquoted

July 31.

July 30. 184.01.

09.66

12,98 63.56 33.95

High Low Close · Change 185.85 181.39 183.81 1.60 up .10 up

the

37.34 93.45 20 Utilities

29.56 103 69 90.54 40 Bonda

101.31 82.44 33.68 11 Commodity Index 67.31

3.17 29 94.30.09

13 up

101.39

unquoted

ol up

Business Done:--300,000 shares.

IN STERLING Opened with sellers at 1/2 13/16 with a small business reported at | 1/2 27/32 for Spot, Towards the close offers at 1/2 13/16 were accepted for forward and cash, finishing with sellers at 1/2 25/32 August/December. buyers at 1/2 13/18 for any delivery.

U.S. DOLLARS Opened with sellers at 30 for cash resulting in business at 301 for September. 30 11/16 October, 30 13/16 for cash. Subsequently 302 was arranged for August and also 30 11/16 August. The mar- ket closed with sellers at 30 11/18 for cash, 30 August/September and probably October, buyers at 304 for cash and 30 11/16 Septem- ber/October,

I

SHANGHAI DOLLARS Nominal. Sellers at 1037, buyers at 104 1/16.

for.

SHANGHAI MARKET Sellers of Sterling at 1/2 Spot, buyers at 1/2 17/64 for Spot. U.S. Dollars. sellers at 29 17/32 buyers at 29 9/16 for Spot. Quietly steady

STOCK H. K.

EXCHANGE

SATURDAY'S

OFFICIAL

QUOTATIONS

Last Bala

July 30 31

183

109

10"

461

50 22

372 932 95

44****

Stocks Adama Expre Allis Chalmers ....... 671 Amer, Can Am. Car & Foundry Amer. Cyanamid ....... 334 Amer, & For. Power" 10j Amer. & For. $7 pf. 54. Amer. Locomotive - Amer. Metals Amer. Radiator Amer, Rolling Mill. Amer. Smelting Amer, Steel Fdries.

45 Amer. Sugar Amer. Tel, & Tel. 1721 Amer, Tobacco E 834 211 Amer. Waterworks .... Anaconda Copper 571 Atchison, T. & S. Fe. 797. Atlantic Refining Atias Corp. 15. Auburn Motors"..... 194 Baldwin Locomotive

291

$ cum. pt. ............... B5 Baltimore & Ohio... 27 Barnsdall Oil

Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel

Boeing Airplane Borden Co.

251 25

95+

311 . 361

2+1

Brigg M'facturing 451- Brooklyn-Manhattan

Trans

Brooklyn-Manhattan

$6 cum: pr.

Case, JI.

221

641 180

Canadian Pacluc

117 117 Celanese Corpn. of

America

38+

Cerro de PRECO....... 732

Quietly steady conditions pre-CertainTeed F'ducts

valled in the local market.

In Manila, slightly better prices and closing advices were seen, were firm.

BUYERS

Chesapeake

Corpn. 721 Chesapeake & Ohio, 51 Chrysler Corp. ----1133 Columbia Gas & El '14) Columbia 8% “A” DL. 91 *

Commercial Solvents 14 Commonwealth & 8. 27 Commonwealth £8

56)

Last Sale Stock

July 30 31 Great Northern Rly. 491 » 404) Great Western Bugat `341 341*

Holly Sugar Corpn.

•

821

651 12

Humble Of Int. Nickel Int. Tel. & Tel....... Int. Dept Stores 19 Kennecott Copper Lambert Corp. ..... 13 Loew's Inc. .............. 841 Lorillard

48

211

631

Molntyfe Porcupine McKesson & Robbins 44 Monsanto Chemical 102 Montgomery Ward. Murray Corp. Nat Cash Regiator Nat Dairy Products 21 Nat Distillers

10.

841" 341

30+

Nat Power & Light 11ỳ New York Central-a: 392 Niagara Hodson P.

Corpn.

North American Northern Pacide

141

281 29

Pacific Gas & Elec. 32)

45 Pacific Lighting

Packard Motors ...... 8+ Paramount

Pennsylvania R.R. N 961 Phelps Dodge........

Phillips Petroleum 621

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DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE Sailings

,,,,"",·→ -

Prendasy Liners' freqomi mailings and their unique stoperne prisilem allow you to «tenwol fours, wxselly sa yon choom, And Dollar Blaurship Lines and Amerioen Mall Liza worldwide offers and agents are maintained to serve you shore in whatever place yur chance to be. Make your arst trip mere enjoyable, trave Diem The Prestant Line WANG,

TO SAN FRANCISCO NIAW FORK AND BOSTON

Via Shanghai, Kabe, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, Panama

Canal and Havana. Att Pres, Taft M'night Ang. 10th Pres. Hoover Noon Aug. 21st Pres. Lincoln M'night Sept. 7th Pres. Coolidge Noon Sept. 18th Pres. Wilson Bam. Oct. 8th Pres. Hoover Noon Oct. 16th EUROPE, NEW YORK

тр

TÖ SKATILE, VICTORIA "THE KIPRESS ROUTI”

Via Shanghai, Kobe and

Yokohama

Prsa. Jefferson M'aight Aug. 15th Pros, McKinley M'night Aug. 27th Pres. Grapt M'aight Sept. 10th Pren, Jackson M'night Sept. 24th Fres. Jefferson M'night Oct. 8th Pres. McKinley Might Out.22nd, MANILA

THE MOST FREQUENT "

SERVICH

Next Sailings

Via Manila, Bingapore, Penang, Colombe, Bombay, Suás Cana. Naples, Genos and Marsellies. Free. Polk Ham, Aug. 18th Proe, Taft -

8 a.m. Aug. 29th Pres. Jefferson Pres. Van Buren 8 am. Sect. 18th | Pres. Hoover Pres. Garfield 8.m. Sept. 26th Pres. Polk Pres. Hayes

9am. Oct. 10th Free McKinley

Pre*. Pierce

M'aight Aug. 3rd

6 p.m. Aug. 7th

p.m Aug. 13th

8am. Ang 15th

6 pm. Apg. 21st

Pres. Honroe 8 am, Oct. 24th | Pres Pieres 8 am, Aug. 29th

MOST FREQUENT SERVIOR ON

THE PACIFIC

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP. LINES

* AMERICAN MAIL-LINE *

茶

· PEDDER «BUILDING-HONG KONG.

CÂNTON BRANCH ~13, FRIXOK VONCESMOR, SHAMEEN.

+443*

M.V.

Public Service of NJ. 431 43Į. Pullman 'Inc.......... Pure Oil.........

Radio Corpn of Am.

201

Republic Steel........ 377.

aཧྲྰིཀྐནཱཙྩཀྐཚོ ཙཎྜཾཨཽ⪜ཨཽཝནྣིཀྐོ= #ཨྰཿཧཱུཾཿvaË་ྒུཉྩ ་ྤོeདྷགྒཾ, ༞ཚོ8ཨོཾཚུཨཱཝ žes##ཏྟཏུཊྚགྷ ༠ o t© ཙ 33ནྟྲ

Reynolds Tobac. "B" 35↓*

391

St. Joseph Lead Co. Schenley Schenley 51% pl. ..... Bears Roebuck Shell-Union O

524 94

941

2828

Southern Cal Edison : 26 Southern Pacific

473

-÷g ¤¤¤¤¤Ã¤× #⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ *** T*** * *** ** **15.«5<, «****** ⠀ *FICI 2 e 2 * T*** † F

Hong Kong Bank, $1920 Cum. Commercial Credit 621 62

Div.

Douglases, $48....

Union Waterboats, $9.30. H. K. & K. Wharves, $118. Chinese Estates, $90. Peak "Trama (old), $5. Peak Trams (new), $21. Btar Ferries. $87.

Wm. Powell, Ltd., 40 cts. Constructions (new), 50 cts. H. K. Govt. 3% Loan, 1% Prin. Wallace Harpers, $5. Marsinans: (HK) 7/4d.

SELLERS Union Insurance, $625,

SALES Marsmans (HK), 7/

- MANILA MINING-

SHARES

Hong Kong, July 31. Extra Manila closing quotations figures kindly supplied by Messrn. Els and Edgar.

Associated Mines Acoje Mining

Angeln

Dulong Gold Creek Ipo Gold Gold River

cum, pf.

Consolidated Edin 381

Consolidated on

16

Continental Oll.... 48

Corn Products 85 Curtiss Wright" - (0.)

79

191

Curtiss Weight "A" Delaware & Hudson 151 Del. Lackawanna &

Western

Socony-Vacuum "

Southern Kiy 8% pl. 45

Stand Brands ....... 121

Stand. Gas & Elec. Stand Das & Elec

$7 pf.

513

Standard Oil of NJ. ([68]

Sterling Products

€31

Swift International 274 271 Technicolor

63

BURNS PHILP LINE "NEPTUNA"

Due 4th Aug.

Texas Gulf Bulphur 384 384*

PASSENGER & FREIGHT SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA

Sailing Monday, 9th Aug.

Transamerics

Singles 647.10.0d,

Tidewater Assoc. Oil 211 Timken-Detroit Azle 231

131 131

136 1391

20th Cent. Fox Films 37

Distillers Corpn Sea-

grains. in waris 201 Douglas Aircraft .....

571 Du Pont

20th Cent. For Filma

for Saigon, Manila, Sandakan, Salamana, Rabaul, Sydney & Melbourne.

222

pí.

45 *

Un. Carbide & Car-

1601

bon

1012 1014

First Class Fore to Sydney::

Un. Pacific

Return: £76.-0-0.

126

United Aircraft

297304

Vn. Aliine Trans-

Passenger & Freight Agents

port

........

17

...

Joint Passenger Agents-

Nippon Yusen Kaisha

King's Building.

Electric Boat 101 Elec. Bond & Share 201 Elec. Bond & Share

15 pl............... 66 Elec. Bond & Share

$6 p1......

Elec Power & Light 231. Elec Power & Light

ST. PL..... Firestone Tire & R Estore

United Corp

United

Un

Corpn.

cum pt.... 401

Gas Fyroven't 137

Un. Light & power"

*A*

US. Industrial Alco-

321

38

US Rubber $8 p. 92

US. Steel............. 1154

Vanadium

791

.004

317

.11

.08

Den, Asphalt...

bol.

028

Gen. Cigar

351*341 4

U.S. Rubber

.105

Gen. Electric mai

571

Gen. Foodz

371

145

€32

Gen. Motora.

531

Gen. Hallway 'Bignal, 441

Mother Lode

ung

Paracale Gold Salcot

.09.

02

Batong Bahay

.11

Universal Expl. Bued

.10

Dayaka

Crown. Mines

What manufacturers asked from. Mambulao the Secretary of State was permis Syndicate Invest sion to full ex'sting contracts be- Tinagao fore the new rule applied, and this

Santa Rosa point will be again strongly press-" Mine Operations ed.

FRENCH DEFENCE

BUDGET

Paris, July (81) More than 11,000,000,000 francs

REICHSMARK

a E E s s s t i !

Strong

Gületté Safety Razor

aldden... 434

Gold Dust an Goodrich (BJ)

Goodrich #5 př.

37+

791*

481*

Geodynarzabrinumangar 400 401

STRIKE MENACE

IN FRANCE

Warner Bros Pict,

28

144

Westinghouse Eec. 1511 Youngstown

Sheet & Tube - 881 Chase National B 60% National Ofty Bang "464", Call Money

1%

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. Telephone No. 26031

P. & O. Building.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIIL

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEFS.

8901

THE MS.

MAERSK LINE:

NOTICE TO CONSIGNELS

[HE MY

THE

ANNA MAERSK " " DUISBURG".

having arrived from New York and 501 having arrived from Hamburg and Ports of call. Consignees of Cafgo are Ports of call, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their goods are hereby notified that their Goods are being landed sed placed at their risk inte being landed and placed at their risk to the Hong Kong and Kowlood Wharf & the Hong Kong Kowloon Whart & Opdown Company's godowns Lt. Kow

down Compapy's godowna at Kowloon, lood, whete delivery, may be obtained ex

delivery may be obtained as soon

1% Bid

GERMANY'S TRADE

PACT WITH FRANCO

soon as the goods are laisied, “

This Goods are landed on page Optional cargo will not be landed Optional" Cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been given 38 mahesa hare, gambar Holies has been given 48 hours prior to vessel's arrival, but -Berlin, July 31.

to Vessel's uniral, but carried carried on from port to port to the final

Foption

--Paris, July 31.:

hooporti tosport to the final port port of call (p The situation created by the treaty.

ketext of the cominercial which the option erlends, to extends shop med

between Germany and No. Clair will be admitted after the No Claims will be admitted after strike of agricultural workers in General Franco was published in Goods here at She Godowns, and all the Goods have left the Godowns, and

distinctly Berlin to-day, revealing that Ger Goods remaining

all Goodé remaining jantáreered aftet. - QUOTATIONS France is assuming

the 9th Aug., 1937, will be subject, to Berlin, Aug. 17 Reichsmarks quotations without

New

are provided for national defence guarantee were;—— expenditure in th 1938 Budget. dclared the Finance Minister, M. Georges Bonnet, after a Gabinet meeting yesterday.

40.251 Paris. No bourse 72 Amsterdam) London

12.369. Paris Catering) 132.76 to 182.81 Paris (dollar) No quote

Expenditure for public works is estimated at 3.500.000.000 francs-Transocean, Jews Service. and for the pensions rund at 2-STERR 300,000.00 franca,

threatening proportions, especially in the St. Quentin district, where open conflicts have broken out be tween strikers and workers import- ed from Central France to amist in the harvesting. D

In many cases, the workers have

70s

R

after the

Gooda

many has granted "most favoured nation" terms to the nationalist govenment, penting broken, chated and dam

The agreement, which comes to be Tert in the Godown, where they will ta szamised; on 6th Aug, 1987, 10, my by our Burreyors, Mains, Goddard & Dopgaa

to force to-morrow, does not specify iron ors among the mater fals to be burchased by Germany

Comply with General

been prevented from rolne to the from Spain, grea Warabout Regolation condemned

It is believed, however, that the hate a Herenne Offer in attendance "farms" by bands of strikera, and the gendarmes, in order to avoid an vital tron-ore deposits in the Bashen disaged duti

examined. outbreak of vidence, have even que territory are included in All Claims must reach us before forbidden peasants to enter their clause which reads products of 31st Auge This expenditure, however, would 17,000,000,000 francs by loans, and own felds, where the grain is the soil- be further increased.

241,600 000,000, trančs

For Its own needs, the Blate subject to rembursem

would have to

next

waiting to be cut, and

**All broken, chafed, and damaged Goody are to be left in the Godow they will te dramasd on 7th Aug., 1981, at 10 am by our Surveyors Capt.. Mo comply with General Bonded War Comph the Co

must haves Revenue Omeer in atten sace when damaged dutiable goods are

Hall "claims must reach us before the

will not 1st Bent, #1937, or they will not be

No Insurance will be

Grave fears are now arising that unless a settlement is reached in

the next few days, a large part of the harvest will be log Transoceam News Ray

ned 00.

Hong Kong, 1st Aug. 1967.251) 16458 Hong Kong, 1st Aug, 1982

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