COMMERCIAL NEWS.
Bir Cotton Goods Drder For Japan,
It is reported from 'Osaka' that, cotton epioning companies, there last week received orders from the Washington Government for the supply of certain war necessaries valued at G.$3,000,- 000. The Osks market hos) consequently assumed anaeust activity,
American ExportTM Prohibitions.
Úr, Sito, Japarere Ambassador at Washington, rerorts by tale. graph to the Tokyo Foreign Office asfaltowe regarding the American. embargo on exports:-"Uader! dale of September 17 the U, 8, Board of Export Control has announced that the expert of iron and steel plates, pig iros, steel scrap, stoel billets, and the other articles mentioned below, owing to abors supplier, or the necessity of the conserving supplies for purposes of the war, will only be permitted under licence in carea where the exports are: (1) for actual war purposes or contribute directly to the case of "the war; (2) directly contributory in exceptional to speeding production of important arti alea wanted by the United Slates; (3) not large enough to affect American requirements, and (4) are used in small gaset ities for medical purposes of for the preparation of medicines. "The above "decision is not any extension of the export prohibi- tiona already announced. It in mimply a publication of the basic regulations fromed for the ans of the
circumstances
cfficiale in determining whether a liceres for the export of given goods should be granted. The articles coming under these regulations, besides, the iron and steal goods mentioned shove, are follows:Alcohol, aluminium, hydrochloric acid, ammonia, nitrate of ammonia, silicio acid, silicate of moda, boiler Tabe (iron and steel), batter, phenol,
cil,
cream, nicket
BOSSMEE
are, cotton lint, ferrc-silicon, nitris soid, nitrate of rods, nitria salt, phosphoric acid, nitrate, searchlights and genera tors for Army and Navy nee, sodium, steel bicom, steel sheet and bar, steel alab, zugst, salpbar, salphario acid, œcal, tinplate, tungsten, wireless ap paratu”, wheat, fisur, and wool."
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1917.
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DAY
18th OCTOBER 1917.
DRAWING OF WAR BONDS
LANE,
CRAWFORD &
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FREE
ONE TICKET
FOR EVERY $20.00
WORTH OF GOODS
GO.
PURCHASED IN THEIR STORE
(SHIP CHANDLERY DEPT. EXCEPTED)
FOR CASH ONLY
FROM SEPTEMBER 26 (TO OCTOBER 16.
LANE,
A THEILLING STORY,
4
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-SELLERS; GA-SALES; B-BUYEES; N-NOMINAL-
OFFICIAL PRICES.
BANKS.
$600
H. K. & S. Banks 68.
MARINE INSURANCES. -
· Cartons " North Chinas
11.
$820
f. 110
Unions
$770
Yangtszes
n. 61 73 $199.
FIRE INSURANCES China Fires
H.K. Fires b.
$180 $290
SHIPPING.
Douglases Steamboats
b.x. d. $78 *#17)
· sa. 893) Æ 94
Indos (Def.) 8. Indos (Pref.) Shells
· Ferries-
$20
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BANK OF CANTON,
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TOREIGN EXCHANGE and General
Banking Business Fransacted
INTEREST ON FIXED DEPOSITS
For 3 Months 3% per annum:
For 6 Months 4% per annum.
For 12 Months 41% per annum
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$35
D.
107/6
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$29
REFINERIES."
Sugars
8.
$85
Malabous
B
MINING
f
Kailans Langkats
401-
n
Raubs
..
14 $2,60
Tronohs
4.
281-
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n.
32/-
Oriental Cons
b.
281-
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GODOWNS, &C. --
H. K. Wharves* ca. $82) & 8 Kowloon Docks S'hai Docks n..
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AND BUILDINGS. Centrals
b.
$89
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B.
$94
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D.
288
H'phrey Est. ***
S..
$6
K'loon Lands
#33
Shai Lands
'S.
West Points Reclamations
b.
t. 74 $85 $115
COTTON MILLS.
Ewos Kung Yiks
13.
t. 160 b. t. 1474 S'hai Cottons b. x. d. t. 114
Yangtazepoos b. ..t. 3.13
Orientals
MISCELLANEOUS.
H. K. Electrics b.
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Capital (14 Paid up)...France 45,000,000 (1/3 of the Capital subscribed by the Government of the Chinese Republic). © Chairmen of the ma
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minster Bank, Ltd,
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Tel. No. 2552
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MATION,
Paid-up Capital. „815,008j500 BESERVE FUNDS:
Sterling
£1,500,000 at 2-
-$15,000,000
Silver $18,500,000
Reserve Liability of
Proprietors...
$33 300,bes
..$15,000,000 COURT OF DIRECTORS.
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Manages Hongkong, 11th April, 1912,
THE MERCANTILF BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED) /
Head Office 15, Gracechurch
3treet, London.
Authorised Capital Suharribed
„Paid U
Reserve Fund
£. 36
Bordeos
11.
China Light & P.s. Providents
$61 $4,50
$714
Dairy Farms_
b.
$21
Green Islands
$7.25
$48
1:
$ 149
$26
Помо
$10
#6
$81
Tombay
ota, 90
"alcutta
b..
$8
Beth...
312
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8.
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16 Hot
Wm. Powells · 6.
Morning Posts
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$6,50 $29
H: K. Ice Co Ropes
'Steel Foundries n.
es.
CRAWFORD & CO. from Low Level ca
hrough the awful bush was about 100 yarda an hour. Hi
IRELAND.
clothing was in ribbons, and hie A Low Birth Rate Last Year. Airman's Trials in African flesh exposed to the thorns,
The 53rd · detailed annual Juncie,
aword grams and flies. ·
He wan even mare rivers report of the Registrar General airman in the East African jangle that day and sack down exhaust for Ireland, giving statistica for are told by him in a letter recent ed against s sree. He could bear 1916, shows that 22,246 marriages
Terrible experiences of a British
more important war um, ily received by a relative at Guild. lion roaring about 600 yards were registered during the
a large amount of tonnage far
by increasing the density
of the American bale from
291
ile present average of pounds to the Egyptian baai of about 37 penade; or better still, the Chinese baris of 55 to 60 pounds, mys the Textile World Journci (Boston.) The tonnage involved is enormous and the œst of the plan would be small us sompared with the "expense, in- volved in providing a similar amount of new shipping. Our Government, through the United Shipping Board Em- ergency Fleet Corporation, i. planning to build 8,500,000 dend- waight tons of shipping within 18 months at an estimated cast of about $800,000,000. If the plan of ecconomising tonnaga by increasing the density of the American cotton bale could be put into operation within a few monthe, based upon sonnal expos of only 6,000,000 baler, it would realt in a saving of not far from 1,000,000 dead-weight tone, annually. This would be. the case even if the averago density of American. bales was incressed to only 25 pounds." It would render available for other.
year,
ford. The aviator, Lient. Gaway, and, somewhat nearer, the equivalent to rate of 1.13 per ** |1,000 of the estimated population. Garrood, of the Boyal Flying mating of a hippopotamua.
Being exhausted I more or less This rate is 0.44 per 1,000 below Corps, went up to bomba Ger- min ambush on the Babji River.ost consciousness for perhaps the rate for 1915, and 0.11 ander so. Nothing the rage for the 10 years but through engine trouble had half an hour or ta descend in the bash, the short of a hippo charging could 1906-1915.
have made me olimb a tree. Am The birth registared daring machine landing with broken afraid life had little to cffer sbon: 1916 numbered 91,437–17.161 propeller in a bog. It took him that time.
boys and 44,276 girls-the ratio four days to make his way to a
It was whilst lying here that to the satimated population being the lieutenant "had the annoy-21.1 per 1,000, which is 19 below
place of safety through the bush infested with wild animale..
He tells how in the dusk being experiences of surveying two the average rats per 1,000 for the we confronted with an ugly large babcons, the size of a small 10 years 1906 1915 black animal about four feet high, man, quarrelling with vicious taske. He climbed troneers, now in threads, and gistered in Ireland during 1918,
GTBI my
a tree sad prepared to put in the among the tops of 40ft, trees,"
There were 71,301 deaths re-
equivalent to 16.5 per 1,000 of It was not until he had passed the population estimated to the night there. Inter he opened his eyes and saw something like two other horrible day and equally middle of the year. The death.
green electric balbe about 30 feet
terrible night in the bath that he rate in 1.1 below that for 1916,
Trams, Peak, olds. Trams, Peak, new s Laundries
U. Waterboats 8. Watsons
DORRECTED TO NOON.TUESDAT OCTOBER 2, 1917,
BENJAMIN & POTTS,
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Princes Building.
Tel address: Broker.
EXCHANGE.
SELLING.
T/T ***** DemandKLATEN VOL 30 afa.
2/11 2/1134 2/14 60 d..... 2/114 $11/.............. 2/112 T/T Shanghai......." Nom. T/T SingaporË SHO 12414
Japan... 135 T/T India - Nom. Nom. Demand, India T/T San Francis-Į
6914
oo & New York!
T/T. Jar...
16474
T/T Marks. TT Francs Demand, Paris ...... 40344
BUYING.
·4; LC...in 3-1/4
Nom. £13
:-4 m/■, D/P.... 3.-16
6 m/s L/C 31-78
30 dfs. San Frano-1.
5-54
Melbourne.my)
isco&New York)
-704
4 m/s. Marks
Nom
4 23
4.95
from the tree. They moved round at feat was picked up by some and 0.5 below the average rate : 30 dịu. Sydney &Į it in a circle. Tais continued for astires. Their eyes seldom left for the 10 years 1906 1915.
|me,” he adde.." Undoubtedly The number of deaths from all 45 minuta.-
The tension was unbearable, a strange sight-my legs forms of tuberculous disesse wanted to scream, about, and yell hire and bleeding, my short vast registered in Ireland during 1918 - all in oor, but instead I burst on sodden, dirty and torn, no tronsors, was 9,323, equivalent to 2:15 per of coures, just a dirty sao belmet, 1,000 of the population. With with "The Admiral's Broom," and with a full-throated buss 1 short stick in my right hand, the exceptions of 1812, 1913 and zoured out the three vereer, No and with four days' growth ci 1914, the rate for 1918 was the applause, but a reward the beard on my dirty face.
Leopard slank away. Why had I
not thought of it before?
I went through my repertoire. Golf Championship of Japan.
In the golf championship of
I laughed as I finished "Two Eym
50 from 15 to 20 steamers fool Grey." It seemed so ridiculous. Japan played at Rokkosen on
6,000 dead weight. tona saob, 81.aining that these steamera would be able to make only 12 round tripa a year between American and Europain, port, At #200 a dead weight top, these at-arners would be worth a far in exoem of that needed to reequip sefficient compresses at impalant exporting ports in the Bouth to handle cotton destined
m
lowest recorded for Ireland. The [rate_far_taberculour diseases in England and Wales doring 1916, among the civil population, waz 15% par 1,000, and for Scotland
per 1,000.
1.59
Then I got on to bymas, remem- the 23rd ult.. Mr. Roper won with
Ship Ralsed from Depth of hared four verses of "O God, our score of 147, Mr. White wee
jot Feet. halp in agen paur” and ung the second with 151 and Mr. Arthur
EXP.I third, with, 155. The afternoon The Seattle steel „The whole thing| "Amen," to had its ludicrous side.
was foggy. The conditions were schooner Northland has been
• Next morning. "whilst swim. 36 holes, medal play, Mr. White raised from the bottom of the era will be remembered by Shanghai at Kake, Alaska, where she sank galleys sa runner up to Captain June 25, 1916, and towed to LM, Barrett in the compalition Petersburg, Alaska. The vessel in Yokohama in 1915. The score was brought up from a depth of 101 top). The methods employed of 147 in believed to be record involved the use of too we for this compa
converted into pontoons,
ming a river be passed › seven yards from sornoodile's month bat just resobed the bank in time. Without lood or as his only weapon of defence his
pail
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474%, prom [On Saigon szemren 4947, pram.
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Bar Sliver, per oz. 1814
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