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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAT, APRIL 4, 1919.

NOTICES

THE UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER

"The Machine you will eventally buy.”

HORNSBY-STOCKPORT

CAS ENGINES AND SUCTION CÀS PLANTS. OVER 10,000 IN DAILY USE.

HORNSBY OIL ENGINES.

ABENTS FOR:

THE EXPANDED METAL CO. LTD. EXPANDED METAL FOR KL-INPÓRCED CONCRETE

TARATES' MAONIKE TOOLE.

FARBAIKS: Monse à 40.

All Kinds of Machinery and Ingineering Supplies.

BODBLAS & SEANT.

Rios Mülls and Steam Engines.

PRAROLS. WEBSTER & SOU.

OLETAL TWO da

LIDGERWOOD MANY. CO. Holting Engine Pile Drite ka

THE REDMAND COMPOSITIONS LTD. Anti-Fouling and Anti-Cormorire

Patati

AND VAMOUS OTHER 'MANUFACTURERA..

Quemtions for any description of Machinery of Engineering Plant an application so

DODWELL & CO. LTD. Machinery Dept.

Maltheid Roofing

SOLK AGINTS —

BRADLEY & CO., LTD. (MACHINERY DEPT.).

QUEEN'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG,

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO:

New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment:-

Principal features: Small Premium, Liberal Surrender Value, No Medical Examination, Return of Premium in the Event of Death, and Numerous Options at the Age of 25. WRITE FOR PAMPELET AND FULL PARTICULRES TO

DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agania...

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING

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ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERA OF

PURE MANILA ROPE

3

STRAND

14 to 15"

CABLE LAID 5" to 15"

4 STRAND

3 to 10"...

SIKGÖK FÉRENCER ;* | CIRCUMFIERŰK

Oil Drilling Geblas of any size up to 3,000 feet in length... Primas, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded an application

SHEWAN TOMES & CO. General Manageen.

LIQUEUR

GRAND

MARNIER.

CORON

ROUGE & JAUNE.

CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO.

15. Queen's Road, Central Telephone No. 75.

HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.

Mr. U. SUGA

Mrs. A SUGA EL HONDA Mrs. S. HONDA 8.Queen's Road Central.

• Hengkong.

METALS

of all kinds, especially for shiper building and engineering works. Largest and best assorted stock) in the Colony.

NORTH BRITISH-

AND

MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.,

in which are vested the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD. AND

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.

The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents,

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED,

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks of 375 ibe, hot In Bags of 150 lbs. net.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers, Hongkong, 16th August, 1916.

MASSAGE HALL-

33, FLOWER, STREET.

MR. T. TAKAYE, Mas. MORITA. CERTIFICA) ED

MASSEURS."

PARENTS TREATED i Thun Ows Homepa

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SINGON & CO., LONDON DIRECTORY

(Established a. D. 1880.) HING LUNG ST.

-Phone $15 -4

MEE CHEUNG ICE HOUSE STREET.

·FOR-

EXPERT PHOTOGRAPHY DIVELOPING, PRINTING.. ENLARGING A SPECIALITY, STOKE OFFISITE. CITY HALL..

JUSTE KIRW" "FREREN KEMERY.

THERARION NG1 THERAPION N02 THERAPION No3

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Suburbs, It contains last place.

EXPORT MERCHANTS with the goods they sums most the Balonts (and) Foreign Markat keby nejbly: also- FROVINCIAL TRADE NOTICES

of leading Hangfiónerem, „Werakanta, #68, in the pelaniyal Proviicial Town, sad In- Furried Centrope of thin-Unibody gebedaan pi

which thay gis imperated 63, a cónt of 21 Larger utvecklas. menta facal 65 to 542. à copy at the jom zaselja of.

must by

"EVERYTHING for notoring M CHINA‡

&

ALEX ROSS C

BRITISH

MOTOR CAR AGENCIES.

CARS:

The A-C Three-Seater, Britain's Leading Light Car. A wonderful Hill Climber. Forty miles to the gallon. The FORD Universal Car Made in Canada. Fitted with Two or Five-Seater bodies.

The ARROL JOHNSTON, as illustrated above. The famous Scotch Car. One of Britain's Best. AMERICAN CARS:

The DORT Fire Seater. A small Car with quality in every part. The HUPMOBILE. The comfort Car built for Hill Climbing. The CHALMERS, A delightful seven-passenger Touring Car,

Cylinder Motor.

"Own & Dort-You will like it." Grey Body and White Wire Wheel, with the Chalmers Famous Six.

ALEX. ROSS & CO.,

4, DES VŒUX ROAD CENTRAL, Telephone 2487.

WAR-TIME CONTROL OF SHIPPING.

CALL

AT

THE HONGKONG CIGAR STORE

CO., LTD:

AND ASK FOR

EL PALACIO"

AND

YOU will be

convinced that Hongkong is

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favoured

with the best brand

LIE

MANILA CIGARS.

KODAKS

& FILMS Developing & Printing

Undertaken.

carry on, and them wrong? these years, ander commercial The answer is just because the control, our food imports showed! nas of ships as nationalised; a lecrease of 4 per cent. in weight,A. TACK & CO., they were ao lisposed, as they and an increase of 40 per cent. MISLEADING REPORT OF could not be disposed in private in cost, on the figures of peace.

THE OWNERS.

hands, as largely to maintain our In the second of these years, diminished under State control, the decrease

not

withi

a

1

tonnage.

in waight was 33 per cent., while:

the increase in cost was 76 per cent.

MISLEADING COMPARISON.

Sir Leo Chiozza Money writes

3POWNERS FALLICIES, - in the Daily News, as follows:-

The triumphant success

The in

Liverpool Steamship circumųstances of appalling Owners' Association has just

If the Liverpool shipowners difficulty and danger, in issued an official report of af maintaiding the food supplies, character so misleading that had desired to make the most material supplies, and unit find it difficult to understand aufsir comparison open to them not only of Britain how responsible men could put they could not have chosen a but of ear Allies in the war, has their hands to it. It affects to more effective way of doing it.

In the Erst of these two periods not given unmitigated satisfac-'compare shipping results under tion to the private interests which private control and State control the sabmarine attack was com- it actually paratively, a small thing. The had to be curbed in order to respectively. and achieve the alration of the represents that the figures for blockade of Britain was not com-

twelte months be the

ended menced until February, 1917. country. We need

In the second of these T surprised if wholesale grocers dis- July 31. 1916, and July 31, like the Sagar Commission, or if 1918, respectively, probably sford periods, and in the interim, the German submarine attack was in the shipowners whose gorgeous, "the fairest basis for a general fall swing. profits were locked-if tot ended comparison between the results

Here are the figures, which the by the Ministry of Shipping attained under State control and are antious that the public should commercial control over overses Liverpool shipowners forgot to wot draw a proper inoral from the trade and shipping, as the first present to the public:

Gross tons. success won by the Ministry in of these twelve months is the last

12 months ended July, checkmating the submarines. of the years in which commercial

1916

1,034,000 Early in 1917 a. deputation of control remained in fall operation, shipwners and others went to the and the second of these twelvej

3,175,000 Chanceller of the Exchequer with, months is the first year in which gures & prove that the shipping State control was in full opera situation was such that we couk tion in regard to both the shipa not carry on. How, then, did we and their cargoes. In the first of

A

THE

ROBINSON PIANO

Charming Baby Grand

CO. LTD.

-- ELLINGTON.

12 months ended July,

1917

12 months ended July,

1918

Loss from July, 1916,

26, Des Voeux Road Central.

THE CHINA PROVIDENT· LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO. LTD.

(Capital Paid up....-#2,#50,600.)

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Lonas en Morgenen af Boom Property, de Gooda ree:fred in Starsge.

AŠTETICOM KRade on Marshandias Loans made in the myt.dant Kyacam.

TRUSTEL, MERCATOR OFP WILLS. ATTORNEY, de. Unda sakan sad. Executed,

Chater and Particulars an

To the Duke ofis.com) BEBWAN, TOMES & CÒ...

General Mansgère.

DRACON MOTOR CAR CO.

MOTOR CARS FOR HIRE & SALE. PROMPT SERVICE.

Sole Distributors for South China and Macao for the OVERLAND, HUDSON and CHANDLER Motor Cars, and the HARLEY DAVIDSON Motor Cycles.

KOWLOON BRANCH. 28, NATHAN ROAD. TEL. K. 2928.

PROPRIETOR: C. LAURITSEN.

2

Tel. 482.

THE ALEXANDRA CAFE

2,571,000 The

5,746,000

to end July 1918 Had the Association forgotten these facts when it wrote ita report? I wish I could say that it had, for it would be more creditable to the author. A little farther on in the report finți these remarkable words:

"No doubt as the war dragged on the world's supplies of both cargoes and ships were diminish- ed.

Could anything be more dis- ingenuous? The author of the report ktaw perfectly well the farts of the case, sad he salved iis couciance by putting in these few words as much as to say:

I admit the submarines made a

家

RENOWNED THROUGHOUT THE EAST"

Alexandra Cafe (next door to Hongkong Hotel) for Tiffin and Dinner. Our famous filleted Haddock as a light Summer Snack is unsurpassed. Choice-Ginger Cake a speciality, try it.

FOOK LEE & CO.,

Established 1871.

IRON & STEEL PRODUCTS, HOUSE & SHIPBUILDING & ENGINEERING MATER ALS.

HEAD OFFICE:

ERANCH OFFICE: Yerk Building, Chater Rosd, Phone 1950,

Now, Hiller Sk

Phone 1174.

PRICES SENT. ON AFPLICATION.

slight difference. As a matter of against the truth in the compari-into the United Kingdom by fact, they made all the difference, son they make. Between the end of July. 1916,

British ships was only 2 per cent. SAVED FROM STARVATION, less than in 1916. In short, the

and the end of July, 1918, we

Is there means of making a wise disposition of vessels, im- suffered the crippling loss of true comparison? Of course there possible sare under nationalisa 5,746,000 gross tons of shipping. is. It is to compare like with tion, cancelled the German attack, I am sorry to say I have never like, and that can be done. In so far as British ships were known a worse of misrepresenta-1916 British ships were only concerned.

tion, and its authors ought pub partly under control. In 1917 Of course, the Shipping Con- the Ministry of Shipping had roller could not do the same ely to apologise for it.

Unfortunately, there is more to British shipe almost entirely thing with foreign ships. How under control. What was the could he? The point needs no add. The Liverpool shipowners,

argument."/

it will be seen, speak of our entire result?

In 1917; although we lost And, as I need hardly ad; the imports by all ships, but, of course,

big

the Liverpool shipowamam dor möt tell when the Germans announced 598 their murderous sink-at-eight Ministry of Shipping imported the public that the North Atlantic policy, they scared away neutral into the United Kingdom almost Shipping King's current rate for Hship sigs, of course, over which as much cargo by British" ships commercial cargoes is more than the British Government had no as in 1916. To be precise, the twice the Ministry of Shipping's control. The reader will see that British toanage available in 1917 rate for public cargoes, although here again the Liverpool ship was 20 percent lem than in the latter covers all costs pins lowners offend very grievously 1916, but the cargo imported shipowners' profit.