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A COMING OIL WAR?
Fight for the English Market.
FRIDAY, AUGUST
CONSTANCE TALMADGE IN TWO WEEKS.”
A Piquant Picture.
CAINESE BOXER'S
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Wins in Half a Round.
There was a Carpentier Beckett A few days ago it was announe- Of all the feminine film stars tough about the third meeting ig ed that a London financial group who strut their little hour up the fina ring of Teng Kang Kes and had formed a pool to take over screen there is none more charm-Johnny Carvalho atthe Harbour rather are than half of the ing, none more vivacious than Con-Board Godown last night, for the present baldines of the Royal stance. Tul nadge, who comes to fight was finished in the first Dutch Company in the Shell the Corone: this evening is "Two round by Trng Kee landing Transport and Trading Company. Weeks."
beautiful rightawing to Carvalho's jaw and sending him down for the count after only one minute and and 45 secondsofbaxing. Teng Kes
The number of shares involved is Despits, its title. "Two Weeks" a million and a quarter, and as the is no picturised version of a novel purchase price was stated to be £4 by that eminent pourtrayer of life's
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+xceed £3,700,000. In the last is just a piquant little story of trim when be entered the ring Lew years we in Great Britain pretty little chorus gut who, by shortly after 10 o'clock, and it was hade herself-evident that he had trained have learned a good deal as to the trick of inte scale on which the oil industry ensconced in the home and very himself to perfection. He was four needs to be financed: of all com-sour in the hearts of three re-pounds heavier than Carvalho, mercial enterprises is at once putedly meurrigible bachelors la who, on the other hand, seamad rofitable. Transactions, there them know that they are alive and appearance first and went to his fore, even of this magnitude, no hartly after her arrival she gets jonger startle. On the contrary, pussess15-2 of the surprisingly they are accepted, and rightly so, susceptible heart of one of the trio. as a sign of health, growth, and all is not plain sailing. however. confidence.
There are lots of amusing ecouplica is not, however, with the tions before she gets him ap tel Snancial aspects of the deal or the point of a confessing of lores rush when the gong sounded. with the reasons for it, but with and then promptly accepts him on ita results and contingeut conse-fthe spot. quences, that I am now concern- ed, states & writer in the Sand ty Times
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corner. The weights were an nounced as: Teng Kee, 9 stone 6 Caralhe, 9 stone 2 the fight! being for a pures of $600 divided in the proportion of 60 to 40-
Teng Kes left his corner with and Carvalho was evidently taken by surprise at the swifness of his We have opponent's tactics,
never seen as fast and it was evident that his spell of training had done him a world of good. 17, as out to win without giving Carvalho a chance. He soared s'most immediately, before the Jahre man bad much time to
They may be of very con-needed to supply any part of British the country at any moment with siderable moment to
a erests in the supply of oil and the petrol, lubricating oil. lamp to Great Britain's Share in its juil. fuel oil, and other by pntacts xploitation. I takeit.for instance, required. One seems to be wis for granted that the group which nessing in this immense provision bought the boval Cutch of facdites a sort of trial atite shares will depose of them almost in the war if it is & we realise what was happening, with entirely within the United King-between the British, the in- right to the face, which was -hort period of sparring Teng Ker dom. This near that the British can and the Dutch at groups for only partially blocked. After a investment in the Shell Company what the papers cali "the control)
Carvalno's guard after scoring on will be appreciaby increased, and of the world's oil supply." Haw, went in again and getting past
landed
right is the Shell Company has long one asks oneself, is it all going to the body. and unquestionably ranked among end? Can this country really ith most powerful and enterpris support three huge and elaborating well to the side of the jaw. was a roar from all paris of the ing vibeoncerna in the world this establishments of this kind? Is hrvalho went down and there iling. Half way through the sa development to be heartily possible that a few years h ng
we may see a rusthroat war Welcomed.
count he rose prot one knee and eemed to make an effort to ise. He failed to do so and Tong Kea as immediately lifted to the haired round the ring to the ac ompaniment of a perfect storm of applause.
reach
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THE SHELL COMPANY. of prices among these giants to the other hand, the Shell of the petroleum world? Or is i Company is only part, and not equally possiblethas 12 at any the grester part, of a stift vaster rate, of them may organisation, the contralling in-understanding and merge their
uence in which is Durch, not interesin? British. When it amalgamated | ome fifteen years ago with the
AN AGGRESSIVE NEW COMER.
The newcomer in the a-ld is
van, edect was fusion by the formation of two years.
-hauliers of his seconds and
In a six round contest Claude Royal Dutch Petroleum Com that lusts and aggressive concerts, 9 stone (Singapore) was given to the Anglo-Persian. In the pay ten iven the verdic: over Gabriel under the jospit of Morales 9 stone described as the new operating companies. one leadership of Sir Charles Green-atherweight champion of Pen- sone remarkably ng. The fight is no: an in- registered in England and the way, it has
This ahead other in Holland.
In these two companies the formally opening
it ss buil- Royal Dutch bold & pir cent. of refiners
"on.bine
it month
the KTOL'
is
A
teresting one although both ment newed that they bad plenty of
an were"
Humbert Olivairo. 7 stone 9,1 he capital and the Shell 40 pericost of something like £30,00 tent. In the pist decade and near Swansea: The completion Chwee Seng, 7 stone 11, in a for nound contest; and Johnny half the Hoyal Dutch-Shelf that enterprise promises to be
landmark in the history of ad perreau, & stone 5. beat D. Lar ex. has normou-ly ended its operations, and be For the first time perpel-um will, stone 2, the latter giving After three hasiba refined and its be.pmducts/ burchase cr azreement
rounds Chin Beng 1.13, beat Boy scquired control of company after manufactured six thousand miles; in the first routd
so the distance between sales stone 9. on points. Russia, in
Egypt,jor America. Mexico.
The arrangements for the even-1 Venezuela, Swansea and the Persian oil-1d-j Rumania, and the Dutch East) Rom the source of supply, and
ng were perfect and it must! die-practically everywhere, a' the heart of its principalmarket.
have been more than gratifying a short, excep: Fersia, where oil When the plant is fully operating
o the promoters that they suc- to be had. But the general should not be surprised if it ceded in drawing together what rame-work of the combine, so far were found capable of meeting by was undoubtedly the largest box-
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housand spectators present.- the present deal in the Shelli hares owned by the Royal Dutch against Governmental participa Sign Free Pres, August 4. That is to say, the Shell is splition in industry. But in the case in an of the Anglo Persian Com. the junior partner amalgamation in which the pany, in which the nation ho'de! majority interest-three-fifths of two-thirds of the ordinary shares, i
the decision taken by Mr. Win the whole is hell in Holland.
None the less, the more decided-jston Churchill eight years ago ly British character which it has has been amply vindicated. Not now assured may quite conceiv only has the insestment proved extremely profitable one bly have an influence on in olicy in some respects, and may financially, but it has given us ven prove to be the beginning of control over all stages in the pro new orientation of its interesteduction of a vital form of naval
The Strife Over Canberra. Canberra, the site of the Aue tralian Federal capital, where already cae or two million pounds have been spent, has been the ubject of a long wrangle between sections of the Commonwealth
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of its operations in-de the United it has brought an element of interested have been those from Kingdom and of the p culiar posi whalesete and effective con- Victoris and New South Wales. on of Great Britain as a market petition into an industry which but the squabble tas besa mors
falling more and of
persona! matter with which the three largest cil con was
under non-British and the politicians than a reflex of erns in the world are competing more
monopolistic domination. More-pible feeling, which is not really with one another in supply.
orer, the arranzement by. which keen on the point. A Melbourne describes how. the commercial management of correspondent Anyone who gues about Engh company 19 left wholly when the Prime Minister and land can hardly bfp noricing-itu fettered is one tha" com! in is other, members of the House
No. 14, PEDDER T. HONGKONG. i thrust et him in ways there are with unique felicity the ad. complained of the cold, New no escaping that the motorist is vantages of individual enterprise beseeched by every rident) on the one hand, and on
The Federal capital area com.
MANY CHANGES 'HAVE artifice of sign and hoarding and other, the resources and influence to Canberra, a suggestion which
provoked derisive comments from prise about nine hundred square
BEEN MADE advertisement to use one of those of the British State.
the Victorians.
miles, situated ort THREE ALTERNATIVES.
the Cotter orauds of petrol. Up to quité recently be was offered the choice Hitherto something over five. The choice of the Canberra River, near the pastoral top of the manufacture of glasses, ine of the most important is that if only to the Shell." Bich sevenths of the petrol consumed site was a compromise upon a Yass, and there are very arrib of course, is the product of the in Great Britain bas been brought compromise. In the first place, tinus schemes for the establish invented by Sir William Crookes, who, as the result of numeroas and: decoration of abib is the product of the Atberican. We owe both com-the Federal Agreement, and the city. These are describ-perimente, combining glass hell Company, and "Prati's," in the Shell and the Anglo New South Wales failed to ratify mant
with various metals has succeed-
the
South Wales members suggested they should hasten the transfer!
Angle-American Oil Company, a panies a debt of gratitude for the was then agreed that the capitalled by the opponents of thed in producing a material which
itself
become
erazing land, with a variable
absidiary of the great Stand excellence of their services. But should be fixed somewhere in scheme (led by the Melbourne ard Oil organisation. But now it is on the very face of things New South Wales, at least age), who always speak of "The als off 93% of the Infrared or heat has hundred miles from Sydney, Bosh Capital," and describe its 58 together with the ultra-violet he has solicited at every turn that the Anglo-Persian
which would
or chemical rays, oslled Sir Wil~ : to dis-land To buy a third brand. the "B.P." equipped
And Federal Territory. Thus thearroundings as a desert, thougiam Crookes glass Crookes This is the brand put on the mar-pate their ascendancy, ket by the British Petroleum is in a position to do so.. What [i-aloney' of both Victoris and the district is of medium-quay lanses of any prescription in Company, which, as everybody then, will be the upshot of it all? New South Wales was soothed, Fairfall. The principal completed sither regular or Toric form see knows, is the selling and dis- A fight without quarter? And the Federal compact buildings to date are a large Optical Co; succesvors to Clark"&
number of internment huts which sribating agency for the Anglo-gentlemen's agreement to divide concluded. Eventually, Canberra Persian Oil Company.
the field equally between the was chosen se a compromise site, were prepared for the reception of some thousands of German There three concerns, the Shell, three companies? The fusion ofiroong many rível sites.
inter-State 4
jalny prisoners, who were never sent che Standard, and the Angloi two of them into a single concern? The
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then there. Persian, are very clearly doing I cannot tell But I have a feels their utmost to get the cream of ing that the increasingly British memory with the people, the British-trade. The rivalry completion of the Shell and the hat the Victorian members of the between them go very much proved capacity and enterprise of Commonwealth Parliament do further than a campaign of sd-Its all-British competitor, the not want the seat of Administra vertisements. It must mean that Angio-Persian, may turn out ton moved from. Melbourné,
ach company bas built up before very long to be the defar while there is a strong league of THE DEVIL TO PAY
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