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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NOTICES.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1920.

COMMERCIAL NEWS,

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"ASSOCIATED BRITISH MACHINE TOOL MAKERS, LTD..

Comprising the fożliwing Firms:-

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The

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THE RACE FOR DIL" According to reports"from

petroleum, industry in Lower California has been secured by the British Government Japan dominates this industry in the States af Sanora. It is said un- officially that

Japanese corporation financed by the Japan- eae Government is behind the concessionaire.

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TOBACCO AT is 3. A LE

At the concluding day of record tobacco sale conducted on behalf of the Navy and Army Canteen Board at Liverpool when, with the exception of a few lots which proved to be out of condition, soma 20,000,000 cigarettes and 100 tons of pipe tobacco were sold, the prices for several well-known brands of smoking mixture ranged from 1s 3d. to 35. 4d. per lb. The: stock disposed of yesterday was for both home consumption and for export.

JAPANESE RAILWAY

PROGRAMME.

Up to the 18th financial year of Taisho (1929) the Japanese Rail- way Department intends to pro- ceed with the railway reconstruc- tion programe passed at the 43rd session of the Diet, providing for the relaying of 960 miles of track. At first it was urged that a part of the reconstruction pro- gramme belonging to this fiscal. year should be carried over to next year in consequence of a decrease of V17,000,000 having been shown in railway receipts, a portion of which had been allotted

revenues.

accepts the sigmacy of the to the cost of reconstruction, but this was thrown out on the ground Covenant to the Anglo-Japanese that the Y5,000,000 sanctioned Agreement: states that the two fiovernments recognise that there by the Diet for reconstruction independent of railway are some inconsistencies between the Covenant and the Agreement and be that fact admits that GERMAN COMPETITION IS should any question arise

PHOTOGRAPHIC CHEMICALS. The difficulties in the way of the| Public these points the Covenant would

be considered as the binding production in England of a number! Ledger, commenting on the que obligation

Following through of photographie chemicals on a tion of the renewal of the Anglo-till further, they claim that if a commercial basis have been over- Japanese treaty, sage:

[dispute were actually to arise as come, and sufficient manufactur- An interesting suggestion wi- nade the other des by an into whether part of the Agreementing plant now exists to secure an were bt were not inconsistent tousput adequate to the world's Buential English statesman with the Covenant the question demand. German producers are Karding the Far East. He thought would involve the interpretation seeking to re-establish their that the Angib-Japanese Treaty

with the trade in of a treaty which would gofronnexions might well be superseded by an

and in foreign Anglo-American-Japanese-Chin-automatically to the new Per-] Englan:1 ese understanding. the purpose

manent Court of International countrics, and by the under- Justice, which Mr. Elihu Rɔo: is cutting of prizes to re-establish being to prevent friction and to

monopoly. The helping to create at The Hague their former have those Governments with a

It has been suggested that the low exchange value of the fier dominating interest in the Pacific

League acknowledge the Note as man, mark gives them a great! keep the peace.

the competition: failing under the provisions of advantage in No action would be taken inconsistent with the League of Articles XVII, and XX. for the with British manufacturers; but Nations, but it would merely restration of new agreements the latter are resolved not to be Jard the revision of old ones in-out-done, and are instructing extend the Anglo-Japanese anderstanding to include the consistent with the Covenant, their agents to meet the attempt

that it definitely specify a certain to under-sell them. United States and China.

CEYLON AND RESTRICTION OF It is a question well worth context as the text to which it under

Istands the two Governments!

RUBBER PRODUCTION. sidering, and one which oor people have reference. and that it ex- A 2 conference of rubber may profitably discuss. and, if

press the expectation that each planters in Colombe, it was de- approved. coold probably be Clovernment will preceed "tofcided that it was impossible to Meanwhile it is well to remern- take in medite steps to procure introduce any form of restriction aiga-this gear regarding robber, bat ber that the Anglo-Japanese Yote its release from such

tions."

that Ceylon producers would be to the League on the Agree:hen!

We are interested to know, first, willing to restrict outpul in 1921 to between the two cations is an the exact test of the of Agree the extent of 20 per cent. of 1920 important and baffling official

meat, and, second, whether this crops provided the Straits, Malays. document, The

it is

Sumatra, Borozu, and studied, the more one wonders joint action by the two Govern-Java,

meats effects 1 fundamental other Eastern rubber-producing what its full scope may modification is it Whether any countries would co-operate on be. An alliance between the two great Asiatic Naral Powers action will be taken is problema-the same lines. It was further in a part of the world where wetical. None of the Power on the decided to ask if the Rubber have always claimed a special Council has the necessary inter- Growers Association are interest is of importance to to the necessary freedom of favour of the Governments of action to force a clarification of Ceylon, Malaya. the Straits and 19. Consequently. American

the situation sach as the other rubber-growing countries centred for nearly two decades upon the clarifction of the rels-Japan and Great Britain, of the imposition of a heavy duty course, will do nothing: France on the export of scrap grades. tions between those two Powers, and Italy are neither particularis Tois, it was thought, would have and the effect of those relations upon Americs a future in the interested nor particularly anxious probably the same effect as a

to press such a question, while coluntary restriction of output. Pacific. A feeling of deep i

Dessiness has always brooded the four smaller Powers--Del-

MANCHESTER GOODS. over the whole question, and it gium, Greece. Brazil, ani Spain-

to takst has never been exactly clear cannot be expected

Mess. Robert Barbour and action.

Bro. on September 9. Hope where we stood in relation to it.

With the situation ze it is, it is deferred daketh the heart sick." Now, suddenly, the two Gov- eraments have put the whole probable that the full scope of this Sabstitue "market for heart," Note, which is 30 vital to and a fairly accurate description matter before the Council of the

America's whole Far Eastern is arrived at of the present situa- League of Nations in a way policy, will remain a mystery for tion. July afforded a welcome which is frequently interpreted as tantamount to the practical aboli-back of some one willing to force indication of renewed activity, tion of the Agreement, at least in it to the light.

consummated.

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FRENCH LESSONS.

G. MOUSSION,

15. Morrison HIN Road.

JUST ARRIVED

A FRESH CONSIGNMENT OF

YARDLEY'S

jo

diplomacy in the Far East bas United States would desite being approached with a view to

the form we have known. This result came most unexpectedly after long and secret negotiations between the two Governments, beneath the surface of which it has been almost impossible to pierca.

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

bat the considerable inquiry of that month failed to make good. There are no heary stocks to draw upon, and this is the most satisfactory phase, but in India the home-made article is helping AMERICAN COTTON CEOP. the native to tide over, and in The Journal of Commerce the other Far Eastern markete The action taken by them is, of (Washington) saya that in Texas the financial crisis in Japan, course, & very welcome recog-rain and weevils are damaging resulting in the unloading of

SUPERIOR CLASS WARE & CUT CLASS nition of the validity and fores of the crop, the excessive rsins caus-heavy consiguments of cloth pro-

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Hot, dry duced in that country, has enabl Article XX, especially in that ing rank growth.

In Okla.fed, dealers, in spite of Bay these two Eastern Powers have weather is needed. submitted the whole basis of their homs bollworme are active, and theoretical boycott, to reDSW relationship to the examination of there is some deterioration since supplies at rates far more favour- able than those ruling for English the League. When such action last report

fabeica. China appears to have has been taken in a case so utter- ly vital and fundamental, a The Daily Hens states that recovered to some extent from precedent is established which is the trade agreement, with Soviet the panicky feeling prevahing broad enough to cover all other Russia has been drawn up but recently, and the advance in agreements of whatever nature not yet signed. It provides for silver should give further relief. inconsistent with the Covenant the releas of British prisoners The menace of a coal strike hangs The question it now raised as in Russia. There is a mutual like a cloud over the whole come to whether the Note of July 8th | agreement that there shall be no munity. The spount of macb constitutes's new international hostile acts. The Soviet GovernInery lying lile la daily becomin

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