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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. ` MONDAY, · JULY 16,

1936.

The Hongkong Telegraph

SIXTH

ANNUAL

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC

COMPETITION

JUNE-AUGUST, 1936.

$250

CASH PRIZES

$250

TWO SILVER TROPHIES VALUE $250

AWARDED BY-

ILFORD, LIMITED, LONDON

TO WHAT ARE ADJUDGED THE TWO BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION,

IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.

SECTION ONE.

FOR THE BEST STORY-TELLING PICTURE

SPECIAL PRIZE

ONE OF THE FAMOUS

BELL & HOWELL

COTTON EXPORT

BOUNTY?

(Continued from Page 13 purchases from American to Indian

Colton,

HUNTING CHING'S

SLAYER

(Continued from Paga 1.) Government at the time of the late General Chen Kwing-ming From the PRICE DIFFERENCE

post of Director of Public Works in The price difference between Ameri- Canton he was promoted to President enn and Indian cotton herinned, from of the Kwangting Provincial Bank. 1.28 cents (U.5.) per pound in Febru- is highest post In Canton was nry to 3.40 cents (0.8.) in March. | Treasurer of the Kwangtung Pro- American middling sold at Osaka at vincial Government. He was arrested an average price 35.2 per cent, nhove, in one of the Canton quarrels and that of Indian-Akola, and the aprend kept in prison for some time was believed sufficiently wide to in-j fluence many spinners to change their mixing requirements,

Japan's imports of raw collos in the September-March period of the current season were 2,117,000 bales,

of which 1,117,000 bales were Ameri- can,

708,000 Indian and 100,000 Chinese, whereas in the corresponding period of the 1931-35 season the total imparts were 2,171,818 balea of which 1,105,007 wero Ameriçan, 762,662 were Indian and $1,694 Chinese

also imported considerable cötten from Egypt.

Upon his release he came to

Hongkong and pramated the Indus trial and Commercial Bank as one of its founder-directors. With this In- until the Bank'n suspension some Hitution

he was closely associated

good deal of years ago. He bought Ching was also proprietor of a property here. For some time Mr. firm in Hongkong trading petroleum. Most

Chinese newspapers agree that the murder is connected with

in

high politics, although they cannot puy definitely in what way Ching was Involved in politien intrigue in the routh.

He is survived by an aged mother of 91, a wife,, two sons and four

The recent tendency of Japan to shift back to Inding cotton revived interest in the ultimate possibility of expansion in British Indian produc daughters, tion, India is an

An old calton Krowing country. Her production since 1850 range from minimum of P12,000 biles in the 1899-1900 season to 5,204,- dun bales in 1924-25, Experts think! her penk production in event of con- about timed high price would be 15,500,000 bale in 10 years,

Agures

do rust sanggest possibility that in cotton would seriously displace American cotton in Japan

within the predictable future,

any

FILIPINO FLIERS

PLAN FOR PUBLIC

VOTE

| nlthough Jypanese purchases with be The progress minde by Antonio diverted from time to time according Arnaiz and Juan Calvo, Filipino fliers to priers and textile marketing conswinging their way toward Mndrki, liliom.

has prompted Assemblyman Enrique Magalona to move for an early conki-

EXPERTS UNDECIDED

view of the foregoing situation,deration of his Hill which would vote government experts do 101 canredv | Pesos 20,000 to help them in their that a situatiin has arisen wherein fight.

the United States must immediately The Bill, signed by Assemblymen decide whether its brond polley should | Magniona, Guillermo Z. Villanueva be directed preferentially to the raw, and Tomas Oppus, the last being the rotton or the textile export trade, jacting chairman of the committee on There is a theoretical possibility that appropriations, has been referred to such a decision

ces this committee. Mr. Magalona de- however, become neces

current agitation clares that he will request the com- among textile traders for export mittee to report out the Bill at the bounties should gain greater strength, earliest time possible.

FILMO STRAIGHT EIGHT MOVIE CAMERAS kers, already have answered that once accomplished, will enhance the

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The United Press has canvassed The authors of the Bill declare that expert opinion In several departments the flight being undertaken by the on the hypothetical desirability of en- during Filipino avintors from Manila couraging exports of raw cotton or to Madrid kas ceased to be a private textiles. The preponderant informal undertaking and has become national. opinion was that foreign countries, They believe that the fent is giving Ivyond control of United States policy the Philippines great publicity and

question.

position

on the world's avia Most countries of the world levy

flon inap. protective tariffs against enttun- The Bill provides that the Pesos textile

in importa in order to encourage 20,000 proposed to be voted in it, be ninnufacture, while only a few used to defray the expenses in the countries prect important barriers

Madrid-to-Manila light. The money against imports of raw cotton. Ex will be placed in the hands of the. |ceptions ar1! countries such as Brazil, secretary of public works and com-

which have both raw

munications for disbursement in ac cordance with its provisons.

catton

cotton-textiles industries, and a few countries which put some tax on raw cotton for revenue reasons.

The

system of handicapping estab lished broad therefore is considered to make it more logical for the United States fo conserve

and

strengthen

where possible its foreign markets for cotton than, to force arbitrarily

tile exports. AMERICAN ADVANTAGES

an expansion of textile

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toward raw colton rather than fextiles is the favourable Commission for Kwangtung Province, physical geographical situation of showing the water levels in English America, with clinute and soil for feet at the places of observation growing cotton superior to most named: regions of the world.

Recurring price cycles since the American Civil War seem to have proved that periods of high cotton -prices-- leuk---in-- - expansion-of-non- American production but that the United States can recoup lost ground in international markets when ready to establish

competitive prices. textile trader's argument that The his interest should gain politient pres ference over nw cotton

COLL is based largely upon the large employment afforded by textile manufacture, and by the belief that if his interest should become ascendant then this countryta | facilities for mass production and its technical efficiency might be brought into fuller play.

The counter-argument runs that T.T: Shanshai employment in cotton-growing regions TT. Singapore abo is of great national importance,

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13, at 4 pm, arriving here on U.S. Cross rate in London

morning, July, 15. She

will then proceed to drydock and will

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