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CHARTERED BANK CHAIRMAN AND EXCHANGE. -

.......... The sixiy sirth-ordinary-general} meeting of the shareholders of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and thina was held on the bank's premises, London,' E.-C., în 9 April, Sir Montaga Cornish Turner (the ehairman) presiding.

The Chairman said: Before mor- ing the adoption of the report 1 would draw your attention to the statement of accounts for the rear! tata, which shows that there is now a paid up capital of £2,000,000, in 100,000 shares of £90 each, and a reserve hand of £9,500,000, which, if

the recommendations of the Court

THURSDAY, MAY 790, 1920.

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MORE GERMAN SHIPS SURRENDERED.

THE NASSAU AND OST FRIESLAND.

of Directors are approved of to-day, estimated, will amount to £3,000,000. This may object in which we bankers are con be considered a highly satisfactory earned is the stability of the rate of position; but, of course, it is always exchange. A ductasting value cans- capable of betterment. You will also es endless trouble and anxiety, and notice that in nearly every item af is a source of speculative and un the balance sheet there is a marked sound trade. The decision to gire increase. In current, and other ae-the Garemment of India a free f

Edinburgh. April K-The twa counts we have an increase of near-hand in the offer of reverse covari's, Dreadnoughts, Sassau and Osi ly £12,000,000; ñxed deposits are in India is sound, and there can be Friesland, forming part of the -larger-by-22,000,000, sereptancer no doubt to the wisdom of the contingent of eight-capital shipm which the Germans undertook to are almost double; loans payable Committee in insisting upon the are increased by over 200 pe anul convertibility of the note through-hand over when the Peace Treaty cash in hand and at bankers shows out India and in the free import an improved position of about 24 and export of the precious metals

500,000 The total entries on either side of the balance sheet show ant inctrase of £20,000,000

the f OVER

INDIAN BANKING PENELOPMENTS.

|

Firth of Forth HS. Tiger was ratified, arrived to-day in the

at

and a flora of destroyers pro- ceeded from Rosyth to meet them. and, as in the case of the generali The proposal fog amalgamating surrender after the Armistice, ngares for 1014. Looking back over the Presidency banks in India unides the ships met at a point agreed the period of the last sixty years, the uth of the Imperial Fank upon. The Tiger and the des it is interesting to find that in 150) India is one that has attracted a troyers then escorted the sur- the capital of this bank stood at considerable amount of attention rendered vessels into the Firth. £811,000, and the reserve fund at While regretting the parti disaj The German cruisers were not) £5,000 fa 1560 the fagital had been pearance of the individuality of the taken right up to Rosyth but

Presidency banks, it seems to mys

anchor were brought to increased to £soused, and the re

Aberdour, under the guns of the serve fund to B150,000. In iron the that the mixement for amalgania. capital still remained at £80,000,|Hon is fully justiñelf and is unlikely Inchkeith-fortress. There the but the reserve lund had increased to be prejudicial to the interests ships will remain until the Ger- to £325,000. By 1919 the capital had exchange banks in India, a'was man crews are transferred to a been increased to

11,200,000), and providiul that the present intention depot ship, pending their return to Germany. The surtender was sig reverse fund to 21.0000 In of not competing with the exchange carried through without any diz- 1920 the capital standa at £2,000,000, banks in their ordinary testiness of | play or ceremony.

and and the reserve at practically £3,. [exchange banking is fully ¤ÒÃO There i

the f course, the bourstly adhered to

"That he possibility of a ser-hark in trade remarks L-beg to mo**** after the urgent and immediate report now presented, together with world-wide demands for mx materi | the balance sheet and pref: and has al and manufactured gods have account, be approved ami adopteil." been tune. The political situation all (Applausea Sir Alfred Boul, Ke the world over, and especially M.G. seconded. in Central Europe, is unsettled. Mr. Frederick Tomkinson: High prices of foodstuffs have enne Chairman. I should like to mention ed general discontent, and the de la point which I had the territy mands of the wage estuers are ap being ledore you two years ago. It parently still unsatisfei), so that the jis nes which

Wich

Mr.

1 should ke te eu

The Times naval correspondent

It is a mistake to describe the two German battleships which arrived in the Firth of Forth for surrender under the terms of the

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powerful warships of the ex- Germany

Ther were

and contemporary with vessels among the early Dreadnoughts,

in the British Navy which are now being scrapped.

The Nassau'was the first Ger- immediate imiona is somewhat furth, and I am rather worry you man Dreadnought, and was laid glomp, and the top-heavy prices"of did not mention it in your speech, down on July 22, 1907, launched raw material, sach as cotton, and it is that the total dividend of 27 Jon March 7, 1908, and commis- manfactured goals, are a menaceine m being raid is net earned | sioned for service on May 3, 1910. tre kattikere and to traders alike. only on the rapital of £zjement in She was thus two years behind a confident that shareholders will it is earned on the reserve as well.the original British Dreadnought ful appreciate the excellent ser-Consequently, the capital has earn date of launch, and three and a half years behind in date of vices rendered by the stai, beth at¦ed something like pe and the

completion. The Dreadnought| long and abroad, whose legal and perveniret. 12 pr. I think that

was 17,900 tons, 21 knots speed. dered labors have contributed is about the proportion, and it and carried a main armament of so appreciably to the surces we well that it should go forth, becas have won For the mabazer“, pu not only here but in, the colonies pixlly thram at hesi eces, it has and other ploren we are reproached been a period of unusual anxiety with pasing enormous dividends. and barussment. The unprecedent.

10 15. guns. The Nassau was | of 18,500 tons. 20 knots speed, and had 12 Hin, guns, but she was superior in her secondary aima. The Chairman: I purposely did | ment of 12 5-90. guns, installed: Factuations in the price of silver not refer in my speech today to

in accordance with the German and zahl háve been very remate matter which Mr. Tomkins-o. |

idea that their feet would be abde, and the volume of businene brought to our notice in ra.

attacked at close range. She which fell to the boy of this bank in gard to the shrblend being ring only

waz built at Wilhelmshaven i connection with the ananting of ex-lug the expetal luz ales on the re

dockyard.

meta, raw material, foodstuffs, min

been as I pointed that 201 repired for national purposes, ils pear, and I thought you might bern far abees the average, and the consider me a bit atal if I repeatmi emmaple can be puma fendi dhe | sung of the marks which I mad- bank have been at every point far on that necasion. As to capitalising in excess of the ordinary.

YACHANGE DIFFICULTIES

reserves, that, në moram, is quite the fashion nowaday, and perhaps Mr. Tomkinson thinks we ngh: not Of earse. in other parts of the the nut of the fa-libn. It is a proz sur'd not only in the East, the ice that has its merits but is also Hoctuations in exchange have been las considerable demerity, and be xxxEmxia[, THE MORE FOLght such a yoty is adequad bare dodlar, the Chinese task, and the fit will require very rateful com Tuban rup-have all been jumping | sideration at hands of the

the 16th inat”

tro

czerxed.

The. Osi Friesland is very similar in type to the Nassau, except that she has 12in. instead of lin. guns in ber main stma- ¡ment. All the German Dread- noughts when the war broke out bad either 11in. or 12in. guos. There was nothing in their Fleet corresponding to our squadrons of 13-3in. Ur 1in. gun ships. Battleships with heavier guns wore, however, under construct ion, and such of them as were completed during the war included in the ships surrendered in November. 1918.

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Both the Nassau and the Ost to watch them. Look at the Ameri-| giren in the past, and the proposal | Friesland took part in the Battle ean exchange, which even to day has teses rejectedi. I have now to of Jutland, as part of the First shows that the dollar is worth over propose: "That a dividend at the Battle Squadron of the High Sea Nassau was com- 54. compared with its diary rate of 13 per annum for the Fleet. The value of about 15. Look at France, half year ended 31 December fast, manded by Captain Hans Klap- where the Frane is worth a little together with a bonus of per penbach, and the Os: Friesland by Captain von Natzmar. On over hl, Gerinang with a markalare, both free of income tax, he

her way home after the battle worth

id not quite that and wer declared payable on and after

the Ost Friesland struck a mine Tenly with the lira at 2jd" Of contras

and abipped 400 tons of water. Austria is simply unquotable; her Mr. Thomas Cuthbertson: I beg but she was able to return under current coin 14 Fortin less than 10

the resolution.

her own steam to port, where she I mention these facts to show you

New director were then appoint. The chief of the First Squadron was placed in dock for repairs. the difficulties that exchange bank ers have to contend with and the rd and the auditors' fees were in-reported to Admiral Scheer that, absurdits of people thinking that

after carrying out an evading mancebvre, the Nassau had not: exchange banking means Simply

returned in her place, and as she coining money; it is very often the minsteck

did not answer & call it was. reverse. Further cause if trouble

feared she had been torpedoed has bees the very serious delay in

Towards morning, however, the transmission and receipt of WORLD'S LABGE GOLD NUGGET faint wireless from her reported rable messages. In some instances A nugget,of pure gold, weighing that she was standing by the Vyl ordinary telegrams between India over 12b..has been received by lightship at Horns Reef, and and the Far East and this country the London branch of the Banque during the night had rammed and have occupied fourteen days in du Congo Beige. It was found cut through a destroyer, after transmission..and the average has last year fit the Kilo Stata Mines, which exploit Captain Klap- been about seven days. The loss in the north-eastern district of the peabach preferred not to retura Tel. to the mercantile community. in Belgian Congo, and will be sold on to the darkened line of the Fleet behalf of the Belgian Govern-bot to make for the morning's eluding the banks, owing to these

rendezvous. deplorable delays, can scarcely be

The proceedings were then ter-

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