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BRITISH TRADE
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Seeking Closer World Understanding
Members of the Japanese Econo- mle Mission, visiting England for the purpose of establishing closer commercial relations with fireat
Britain. were entertained at lun- 'cheon at the Hotel Victoria by the Association of British Chambers of Commerce and the London Chamber of Commerce, writes a correspondent in the "Time." The joint chairmen of the gather. were Sir Geoffrey Clarke, president of the
former body, and Sir Alexander Gibb," president of the latter.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1937.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
Now York: August 3,
(Through Reuter's Servicn!
New York/London Cross-mate New York Cotton-Dec. New York Rubber Sept. Chicago Wheat --Sept. Chicago Corn
-Sept. Silver-Official Winnipeg Wheat-Oct.
83.44 65.58 11 Commodity Index 88.09
Stocka
Sir Geoffrey Clarke, in welcom- ing the mission, said that Japan.Adams Express as an island country, like Britain Allis Chalmers. had to rely on imports for a great Amer," Can deal of its raw materials and must correspondingly maintain a large
these export trade. In
days of economic nationalism countries
Britain like Great
and Japan found themselves faced with „šer¬ lous obstacles, and were compell- ed to reduce their production of
Lust Bale
Aug. 2. 3
187
691 111
am. Car & Foundry Amer. Cyanamid -... 34 Amer. & For. Power Amer. For. $7 pt. 574 Amer., Locomotive Amer. Metals......... Amer. Radiator Amer, Rolling MID, quotas and protective tariffs Asmer. Smelting. great deal had been sald at the re-, cent International Chamber ot Commerce Congress in Berlin about the need for freer ex- changes of goods and services, but he was afraid that until there was an improvement in international relations there would be no sub- stantial increase in international trade. In Berlin there was almost complete unanimity among the representatives of all the nations on the absolute necessity for ra- ducing trade barriers, and one could only hope that on their 'Ye- turn to their own countries they would be able to influence their
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The interchange of commercias delegations, with the personal con- tacts offered, was a great step in the right direction, and an im provement in the commercial understanding between the two. countries WLS a desirable
one. Members of British chambers of commerce were looking forward to the great gathering of internation- al chambers that was to take place in Tokyo in 1839, and he trusted that by that time Great Britain and Japan together would have pointed the way to some real im- provement in world trade as a forerunner to 进 better under- standing between all nations and a further step towards world 'peace.
Amer. Steel Fdries.. Amer. Sugar Amer. Tel & 'Tel... 1717 Amer. Tobacco "B" 83 Amer. Waterworks.. 201 Anaconda Copper ... 581 Atchison, T. & B. Fa. 801 Atlantic Redning 291 Atlas Corpn.
151 Aubörn Motors... 201 Baldwin. Locomotira
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85. Baltimore & Ohio... 271 271 Barnsdall Cu
250+
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Bethlehem Steel ...... 1001 Boeing Airplane 35 Borden Co. ............ 25 Brigge Mfacturing 461 Brooklyn-Manhattan
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Business Done:—000,000 shareN,
Stocks
Great Northern Rly. 50 Great Western Bugat“ 341 Holly Sugar Corpn. Humble Of....
Int. Nickel..
Int. Tel. & Tel. Int. Dept Stores Kennecott Copper
Lambert Corpn. ".. Loew's Inc. Lorillard
McIntyre Porcupine
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EUROPE, NEW YORK
Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal, Naples, Genos and Marseilles, Pres. Polk 8am. Aug. 15th 8 am. Aug. 29th Fres. Van Buren 8 a.m. Sept. 18th Pres. Garfeld
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OUTWARD SAILINGS
QUOTATIONS
961 94. 248..
Last Today's High Low Close Close
4.98% 1070 10.5 10.5 10.38 18.38 1893 18.40 18.98 115 112115
Change
.07 op .19 of
2 of
443
131127
132 127
1038/7
Aug. 3,
High
Law Dow Jones Averages,
Aug. 2.
High Low Close Change
194.40 160.51 50 Industrials
188.91
187.14 185,43 185.91
1.00 of
84.40 50.17 20 Baile
59.63
37.54 25.45 20 Utilities *106 89 99.54° 40° Bonds
29.76 101.19
52.81 62.08 52,30 .83 oft 29.68 29 37 20.41
.35 of 101.17 .0% off 68,70 ..38 off
Last Bale Aug. 2 3
481
341
831
B31
661
65
111
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Pres. Pierce
191
104
473
68
89
521
141
133
Prea. Hayes
Prea. Monroe
214
405 95
85 211
55
211
44*
McKesson & Robbins 42 44 Monsanto Chemical 1034 Montgomery Ward 63+ Murray Corpn.
102
621
•
91
101
Nat Cash Registor.. 361
36
Nat Dairy Products 21 Nat Distillers
201
301
30.
Nat Power & Light New York Central - Niagara Hudson P.
Corpn. North American
101
40
391
137
14.
281
277
Northern Pacific"..... 201
281
Pacific Lighting
Pacific Gas & Rec. 321.
Packard Motors ......
92+
447
441
81
Paramovat enest
154 *
152
Pennsylvania R.R.
361
36
Phelps Dodge
14
Phillips Petroleum
.633
62+
Public Service of NJ 43 Pullman Inc.
421
Pure Ofi
214
20
Bt. Joseph Lead Co.
Schenley..
Schenley 61% pl. Sears Roebuck.......
Radio Corpn of Am. 8 Republie Steel
394 Reynolds Tobac. "B" 37
53
531 931*
942" 051 95
91
"SCHEER"... ...for Shanghai, Tokohama. Kobe, Osaka,
Moji. Dairen, Taku, Tsingtao... 12th Aug. + DY. “SAUERLAND" for Shai, Thama. Kobe, Oka,
Dairen, aka " HOMEWARD SAILINGS
18th Aug.
381 -381
+ 1.v. "KULMERI AND...for Genoa, R'dan, H'burg
15th Angi
+ m.v. "DUISBURG "...... for Genos, R'dam. Hamburg
2nd Sept.
52
"Shell Union Off
28
28+
Bocony-Vacuum
211
211
Southern Cal Edison 20
28
Southern Pacific..... 481
471
Southern Kly 5% pf. 441
421
Stand Brands .........
12
12
Stand Gas & Dec.
94
84
Stand Gas & Elec.
501
**47. Di. '****
52
511
Consolidated Edison 381 38.
Standard Ol of NJ. 69
691'
Sterling Products
Swift: International 271
Technicolor
64.
Transamerica
Texas Gulf Sulphur 384 'Tidewater' Assoc: 011 211 Timken-Detroit Axle 244 244 17 (n) 18%
651 65 28 831 3B+
TH
214
20th Cent. Fox Films (361 381
20th Cent. For Films
pf.
45
451.
Un. Carbide & Car-
DOT aki
101
1004
Ua. Pacte 125
123
United Aircraft
301
Un. Airline Trans-
port:
171
171
United Corpn.
6
54
United
Corpn.
ctn pf.
41
40 *
Da. Gas Iprovem't 13%
132
Un. Light & power
By
US, Industrial Alco-
33
334
U.S. Rubber
621
614
UB Rubber 8 f
97.
90
U.S. Steel
1201
Vanadium
321
118 312
Warner Bros Plet 144
14
153+
& Tube Mari
881
Chase National BL 501*... (401* National City. Bark (46)*
Call Money nésarmé 1% 1%
I ez dir,
- 451*
Bld
Hong Kong Buys
TRADE TREATIES
Canadian Macaroni OTTAWA, Canada-It is not eus-
391
737
Canadian Paciic
- 121 Celanese Corpn. of
America Cerro de Pasco
Chesapeake Caran -704 Certain-Teed P'duëta
Chesapeake & Oble 51 Chrysler Corp. 1174 Columbla Gas & El 141 Columbia 6% "A" p. 91 Commercial
Credit 824 Commercial Solvents 141 Commonwealth & 8. 3 Commonwealth 56
cum. pf.
684
73
201
157
Consolidated Of:.... 15% Corn. Products ... Continental on ...... 58
Curtiss-Wright (C) Curtiss Wright "A" Delaware & Hudson Del. Lackawanna &
Western Distillers Corpa Ses.
141
grama
23
58
-182
114
201
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COMING EVENTS IN TOKYO Mr. C. Kadona, chairman of the Japanese Mission, referred to the visit made to Japan by the Bitish Economic Mission
in 1934 under the leadership of Lord Barnby, and said it was their hope that in com- ing to Great Britain the present mission might carry a step far- ther the splendid work accomplish-Douglas Aircraft ed by the Baruby Mission in pro- Du Pont moting Anglo-Japanese under-Electric Boat: standing and business cooperation. Elec. Band & Share He hoped that British business Elec. Bond & Share men would visit Japan in large
$5 pr. numbers in 1939. An internation- Elec. Bohd & Share al exhibition would be held in $0 pt....... Tokyo in 1940 in commemoration Elec Power & "Light 23
744"
of the 2,600th anniversary of the Elec Power & Light founding of the Japanese Empire. $7 pf. By a happy coincidence, the" next Firestone Tire & R Olympiad would also take place in Hintrate the same year at Tokyo, though at a different time. He trusted that many British business men would visit Tokyo in that year also.
Gen. Cigar Gen Asphalt......
den. Electric Gen. Foods Gen. Motors
78.
35
321
581
373
58
Gen. Railway Signal. 44) Gillette Safety Razor Gidden
43
Gold Dust Goodrich (BI.), .304 Goodrich. #5 pf. ...
In the absence of the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. B. Matsuyama, the Commercial Counsellor, pro- posed a toast to the two British bodles. He delivered a message from the Ambassador, who ex- pressed the hope that the efforts of the Japanese Economic Mission Goodyear would provide a really satisfactory basis for future cooperation, be tween the two countries.
| BENEFITS OF Bir Alexander Gibb, in respouse, said that the London Chamber of Commerce was certainly prepared
ཎྜཱ བྷབྷཏྟཱ ཚནབྷཱཝཏྟིཔྤཎྞསྶ, ཙg#ཡྻུཾaཎྞཨྰཿ ནཊྛོ, t# ✖ ཙོབྷཱཝོ བྷོ ཙོའྲིཏྟོམྦཀྑགྒཡ ལྷོརཱཚུབྷགནྡྷནཱ བྷུ བྷུདྡྷིནྡྲིaནཱ བྷཱ ཝིསྶོ ནྟི བྷགྷཊྛགྷe ཙ གྷཊྚནཱ
201701
421
Westinghouse Elec. 155. Youngstown Sheet.
301
+ mr. "SAUERLAND ".. for Genoa, Rotterdam, H'burg. 17th Sept.
+ Passenger Vessel. Limited Passenger Accommodation.
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NOTICE TO CONBIONEES.
THE M.S.
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having arrived from Hambarg and Forts of call, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk into the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf &
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having, arrived from New York and Ports of call. Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk into the Bong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company's
Godown Company's godowns at Kowloon, loon, where deffe80downs at Kow-
a
may be obtained a soon as the goods are landed."
Optional cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been given 48 hours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the sylion extends,
where delivery may be obtained as sooD as the Goods are landed.
Optional Cargo will not be landed here
antons Notice has been given 48 hours prior to Vessel's series, but carried on from post to port to the final port of call to which the option extends,
No Claims will be admitted after the No Claims will be admitted after Goods have left the Godowns, and all the Goods have left the Godowns, and Goods remaining undelivered after the all Goods remaining undelivered after 7th Aug., 1987, will be subject to the 8th Aug, 1997, will be subject to Beat
Rent.
All broken, chafed and danged floods Are to be lett in the Godowns, where they will be examined on 6th Aug., 1937, at 10 am, by our Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas,
To comply with the General Bonded Warehouse Regulations consignees must bare & Revenue Officer in attendance when damaged dutiable goods are examined.
All Claim must reach us before the 31st Aug, 1987, or they will not be recognised.
All broken, chated, and damaged Gooda are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on 7th Aug., 1987, at 10 m by our Surveyors Capt. Walter C. Weston.
To comply with the General Bonded Warehouse, Regulations consignees must have's Revenue Officer in attend ance when damaged dutiable goods are examined.
All claims must reach us before the ⠀⠀ 1st Sept, 1837, or they will zos be recognised. No Insurance will be affected.
No Insurance will be effected, Bill of Lading will be countersigned by Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JEBSEN & CO.,
JEBBEN & CO., Agenta. Hong Kong, at Aug, 1987
Agents. (6468 | Hoog Kong, Tat Ang., 1937, * [8459
SWIMMING MAN PICKED UP IN MID-CHANNEL
A hoarse shout from the look
Michaelis was unable to tell his rescuers exactly what had hap pened; but in a few gasping sen
tences he told how, in despair, he had watched the receding lights
to do something to help Anglo- OTTAWA, Canada-The benents 'tomary to think of Canada as a Japanese commerce, because the of trade treaties are to be found in large exporter of vermicelli and the Belgian passenger night-ser- went on to Dover unaware of his out man in the foretop brought of the Princess Charlotte, as the members. felt that a very great the steadily increasing trade be-"macarunt and it is with rprise, vice steamer, Princess Astrid, to a deal could be done to encourage tween Canada and the United Sta- that many people find out that the stop in mid-Channel, writes a There was not a ship in sight
plight. trade relations between the two tes. Experts of Canadian com- Dominion holds a very prominent Home correspondent countries.
but Mr. Michaells, young, akrong, modities to the United States mar- place among shippers of these pro- Bells clanged hurried orders and a good swimmer, refused to ket during the first five months of ducts, 1937 were valued at $185,088,681
were given, and soon passengers give up hope! In Hong Kong the bulk of the peered curiously through
the as compared with $140,375,858 in macaroni and vermicelli which is darkness, and saw the lifeboat sister ship, on her way to Detend The Princes Astrid, the Belgian the corresponding period of last imported comes from Canada. Or going out to a figure struggling in arrived just when Michaelis had year. Of these totals, commodities the 3.150,042 lbs. of these products the water.
barely strength to keep afloat. affected by the trade agreements exported by Canada during the It was the luckiest moment in He was taken on board almost were valued at $101,445,038 6.com- past fiscal year, the United King- the life of Mr. Frederick Michae unconscious, and is now in hos- Rome. Aug. 3.pared with $80,844,237 last year, com took 1,768,077 lbs., New Zea- Its, aged 23, of Callow-street, Chelical at Chatend with every chance, The motor road connecting Commodities exported by Canada land 333,606 lbs., Japan 272,300 lbs, sea, who more than an hour be of recovery after his terrifying or- Addis Ababa with Aamard and to the United States which berie-Hong Kong 114.288 lbs. and New-fore had fallen overboard, from deal Masaws on the Red Sea has been fitted most by the trade agree-foundland 87,662 lbs. øpened, to trafne. The road is ments included bran shorts and 1196 kilometres long
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the Princess Charlotte, which left I don't remember how it hap Ostend at 1 am, for Dover P
pened," he sald "and Exhausted after swimming fully mow how long I was clothed in a choppysen Mr, water,"
don't
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