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PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
"FRANCE WILL ABANDON GOLD STANDARD WITHIN TWO WEEKS"
MUSSOLINI DISAPPOINTED BY OFFICIAL DENIAL ISSUED FROM PARIS
CHANCELLOR HITLER
Nazi Leader Hu No Proposal
On Genevi Problems
Roma, To-day. German Ambassador yesterday informed
the
1 bat
The ILuty Premi Signe Musselin
Chanell Hitler had no proposals
1
k regarding thearmament
ot the Lengte
Signor Mussobnu is behered to
be most disappointed - Reuter.
SUBSIDIES
FOR BRITISH
SHIPPING?
Tramp Owners Want £3,000,000 A Year.
AGAINST UNFAIR FOREIGN COMPETITION
London. To-day.
PREDICTION BY U.S. SENATOR
AFTER TRAV ELLING WITH MR. WOODIN
CONTROLLED MONETARY POLICY FOR ENGLAND?
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL
By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinauce, 1894.
Record December 8, 7.39 0.m.)
EL. PASO, TEXAS, TO-DAY. SENATOR LEWIS, OF ILLINOIS. AFTER RIDING FROM ST. LOUIS TO EL PASO IN THE SAME TRAIN AS THE EX- SECRETARY OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURY, MR. British shipping has been WILLIAM H. WOODIN, PREDICTED THAT FRANCE WILL driven at last to seek the help of ABANDON THE GOLD STANDARD WITHIN TWO WEEKS IN The Government in defending It FAVOUR OF THE FORMER BI-METAL SYSTEM. self against the competition of its subsidised foreign rivals, de- clares The True, in a leading article to-day. commenting on she resolutions passed by the Council of the Chamber of Ship- ping.
British shipping has car ried on a long and gallant fight against unequal, com- petition, and it is now clear that, unaided, it has no hope
of muccess, the paper states.
The tramp skip owners
He also predicted that England would adopt a con trolled monetary policy similar to that of the United States.
"The United States may unite with its controlled gold standard. ja proportion of silver that meets the demands of small trade," he de- clared. Senator Lewis did not reveal whether his forecast was based on conversations with Mr. Woodin.- United Press, per S. C. Gold Bar Co. ROOSEVELT SEES PEEK OFFERED NEW
MALCONTENTS
scheme for a moderate subsidy. But Morgenthau Re-ope
estimated
to
cost £3,000,000
yearly, may have to be adopted As an emergency measure. The Times continues, but the ultimate! object must be to make sub- sidies unnecessary by bringing direct economic pressure upon foreign Goverħments to abandon, subsidier and give reaonable treatment to British shipping.- Reuter.
SHIPPING WAR
ENDED
Dissension.
Washington. To-day. Efforts were made yester day to bridge over the gaps which appeared overnight in the United States adminis- tration.
POST.
Wallace Attempts Conciliation.
Washington, To-day. After a conference which lasted throughout yesterday, the trouble in the United States Agricultural Department culminated in the Se-
The disputing parties were in-cretary for Agriculture, Mr. Henry vited to the White House where C Wallace, offering Mr. Peek President Roosevelt himself took new post.
hand in the affair.
Subsequently the Secretary for
¡Agriculture.
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The dissention arose on Monday
Mr. Henry Clast, when it was reported that Pro- Wallace, stated that they all had fessor Tugwell was contemplating
Complete Agreement the same objective. namely to resigning from the post of Assis
Reached.
NEW RATES FOR ATLANTIC PASSENGER SERVICE
London, To-day.
fair
ow-
jsceure for the farmer a
tant Secretary of Agriculture share of inconte.
Meanwhile the Acting-Secre-ing to the differences between the tury of Treasury, Mr. Henry Department Liberals, headed by Morgenthau. has announced Professor Tugwell, and the ortho- that the secret service will be removed from the control dox group, headed by Mr. Peek.----
The international shipping of the Assistant-Secretary, Mr. Heuter. war over passenger transport on Hewer, because Mr. Morgenthau
the North Atlantic has ended. must have direct contact with December 15 Debt Issue
Complete agreement upon the the
in charge of the
Atlantic
Reuter.
men
rate question was branches, reached in London yesterday at a conference of representatives of HIGHER GOLD PRICE various British, Continental and United States shipping lines, pre- sided over by Mr. A. R. Cauty of
the White Star Line.
At the conclusion it Wal RD-
EXPECTED,
SPECIAL TO CHINA HAIL.
Over-Subscribed.
CHAUTEMPTS
ASSURED OF
MAJORITY
SOCIALISTS WILL
NOT VOTE.
FINANCE BILL'S PASSAGE
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL, (By Tilegraph, Copyright. Telegra- whic stages Ordinance. 1804. "Re- ecived December 8, 8.45 a.m.)
Paris, To-day.
The Socialist Party în the French Chamber of Deputies has decided to abstain from voting on the entire Finance Bill thus practically assur- ing a majority for M. Camille Chautemps' 12- day old Cabinet.
France honours her former Premier.—All Paris paid homage to M. Painleve, the former French Premier, to whom a national funer-
al was accorded at the Pantheon, the corlege at the Pantheon.
NAVAL WEDDING AT CATHEDRAL
Addis .Poland.
GOVERNOR PRESENT AT BRILLIANT FUNCTION
-
Miss Pamela Poland, only daughter
of
The wedding took place this The Bill, which was afternoon at St. John's Cathedral of responsible for the down-of Captain Allan Poland, D.S.O.. fall of the Daladier and RN., of HMS. Medway, and
South Stoke, Oxford, to Comman the Sarraut Cabinets, im-der Charles Thorburn Addis, R.N.. Doses cuts on civil ser-on of Sir Chaties and Lady Addia, vants' salaries: United of Woodside, Frant, Sussex,
The service was conducted by the
Press, per S. C. Gold Bar Very Rev. Dean Swann, asalited, by
the Rev. Austin Lee, M.A., RN.”
There no bridesmaids, matron of
Cathedral, crowded with Navy. Army and Air Force officers in full uniform presented a brilliant spec tacie.
Co. FRANCE WILL STAY honour, flower-girls or pages, but the
ON GOLD.
Protection For Franc.
Paris, To-day. The Government declares categorically that France wil} not abandon the gold stan- dard, said Mr. Bonnet. Fin- ance Minister, in the Budget debate in the Chamber yes- terday.
The franc will be protect- ed, he stated, and stressed the serious position of the Treasury. Reuter,
-
STABILISATION OF PETROL PRICES.
Equalisation Fund
Suggested.
SCHEME SUBMITTED BY OIL INDUSTRY.
The bride was given away by Captain Alan Bland, R.N., while i Lieut. Comdr. Hugh Browning, RN., performed the duties of best
FILLTE.
ITALIAN PROPOSALS FOR
LEAGUE REFORM
Czecho-Slovakian Minister To See Paul Boncour
Paris, To-day,
The Foreign Minister of Czecho. Slovakin. Dr. Edward Bones, has accepted the official invitation to vinil Paris on December 14.
Following the visit of Dr. Bener, tu French Foreign Minister, Paul Boncour wi]} vilt Warsaw und Prague
Hence it is assumed that a com- mon policy will be discurred to- wards the Italian proposal for re- farm of the League of Nations.—
Reuter.
NATIONAL CRISIS
IN JAPAN
Abolition Of Political
Parties Urged.
MATSUOKA RESIGNS
Tokyo, To-day.
in a manifesto demanding the The bride, whose dress was of abolition of Japanese political white and silver flamisol, wore white tulle velf and crystal coronet and carried a bouquet of white or chids. The dress of the bride's mother was of red flaminal, with brown velvet hat.
(Continued on Page 12.)
£3,000 ESTATE FOR DE VALERA
Wins Court Action On Contested Will.
London, To-day. Mr. Earnon De Valera, Pre- sident of the Irish Free State,
MUI TSAI
ORDINANCE IN
HONG KONG
Governor's Despatch To London.
STATEMENT IN COMMONS
London, To-day.
Replying in the House of Commons yesterday to the Na- tional Liberal Member for E. Wolverhampton, Mr. Geoffrey Mander, regarding the progress in carrying out the Mui Tsai Ordnance in Hong Kong, Mr. R. F. Hudson, on behalf of the Secretary for the Colonies. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Läster, referred to a despatch to H. E. the Governor, Sir William Peel. K.CM:G., K.B.E., on July 4.
It was then pointed out that the registration applied to only ex-mui tsai girls.
Three full-time Inspectors were employed for supervision. Particulars of prosecutions un- der the Ordinance were given in the despatch. No case of ill-restment of a registered mui tsai/had been reported.
Seveful benevolent institu- tions had helped the Govern ment to find openings for girls seeking other employment, Mr. Hudson said Reuter.
ROOSEVELT AVOIDS INFLATION.
Monetary Policy Praised By Gen. Johnson.
Washington, To-day. The claim that President Roose- parties on the grounds that they velt had saved the United States stand in the way of national from "printing preas" inflation was unity at a time of national crisis, yesterday made by the head of the Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, Japan's National Recovery Administration. spokesman during the Man- General Hugh S. Johnson, when ad- churian dispute at Geneva, has dressing the National, Association formally announced his secession of Manufacturers, who are among from the Seiyukai Party and the the Recovery Administration's mast redignation of his seat in the severe critics,
Reuter. Diet-
NAZIS TO RELEASE 5,000 PRISONERS.
Celebrating Election
Success
Berlin, To-day.
Washington, To-day, Washington, To-day. A scheme to stabilise petrol prices has won an action in the Pro General Goering, the Prussian by' using an equalisation fund to bate Court in which he sought to Premier, has instructed the secret President Roosevelt yesterday keep the current price from depress establish a will in his favour police to release. 5,000 prisoners announced that the issue of ing supplies off the market, has been made by the 72-year-old recluse, from the Nazi concentration camps $950,000,000 Certificates of In-submitted to Mr. Harold L. Ickes, Miss Folly Fitzpatrick, who be before Christmas with a view to a (By_Telegraph, Copyright. Telegra- debtedness dated December 15 is Secretary of the Interior, by sections queathed her estate of about peaceful, internal position and the
£3,000 to Mr. De Valera,
stabilisation of the National So The brother of the testatrix cialist Regime, nounced that the conference had phir Message Ordinance, 1896. Ee-over-subscribed and the lists are of the oil industry.
The scheme, it is understood, pro- closed. Jceived December 8, 2.39 m.)
Earlier. Domestic gold purchases total-poses that the members of the In-contested the will on the ground
Five hundred good conduct pri- led 354,000 ounces, valued at dustry should contribute funds for of unsound mind.
It was
stated that Mr. Do soners will be released from concep Mr. the purchase of 1,000,000 barrels, $11:350,000, according to
thetration campe in Bavaria, "in view Jesse Jones, chairman of the which would be marketed slowly in Valera intended to use R.F.C., who added that foreign such a manner as not to disturb money as a trust for public pur. of the overwhelming Nazi victory in the elections and the approach of Beuter. purchases were hardly enough to prices-Reuter. at-
Christmas,Beuter. "make good bridge-work for false teeth.". Reuter,
MEXICAN SILVER PROPOSALS.
quite succoeded in reaching com- plete agreement regarding the clan- sification of ships and the cohse- quential rate adjustments that have occupied the attention of the linwa for several months past.
(Continued on Page 9),
FRENCH CONVICT SHIP MUTINY.
40 Reported Killed.
Algiers, To-day, Forty convicts are reported to have been killed in a mutior
on board a French convict ship en route to Grana-Reuter.
New York. To-day.
A higher gold price in the United States is generally expected after December 15, regardless of the continuance
of the conservatives' tacks. United Press, per S. C. Gold Bar Co.
NEW ANGLO-SOVIET
TRADE PACT.:
́GOVERNMENT LOAN ISSUE
· SUCCESSFUL
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.
December; B, 1,1# am) ¦
Washington, To-day.
poses.
Irish People Not Slaves,
Says Defiant De Valera
leavek
Conference,
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL (By Telegraph Copyright. Telegra che Messages Ordingsce, Re drived December 7, 7228 pajud Montevideo, Paraguay,
Dublin, To-day. freedom of choice to anter And Left At Pan-American (By- Telegraph, Copyright Tesoro e Irtald Free State Senate Referring to the moral constitu. Mr. Walter Runcimana nice sterday approved the recommends (onal right of the Free State to tion of the Imperial Committee of secede, Mr. Da Valers said that the Reports Progress."
co- purpose of his last despach to the The White House yesterday an Economie Consultation and
British Government was to get London, To-day.nounced that. President Roosevelt operation. The President of the Board of had ordered the Acting-Secretary of The President, Mr. Eamon De the position clearly defined, but
they ran away from it. J Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman, the United States Treasury Valers, replying to the taunt that He hoped that the British Gov- yesterday stated that the nego Henry Morgenthau, to clop the tiations for the new trade agres books of the new U8.8950,000,000 the Free State "Could not walk into srament would understand that the According to a semi-odicisi re- ment with the U.6.8.B. were still loan at 4.30. p.m. yesterday, on ac- the British Commonwealth with Irish people were not going to be port, no convicts were killed in the proceeding and that progress had count of it being bearily over-sub-ane leg and out of it with the slave people and that they were mutiny aboard the French convict been made -- British, Wireipas ribed United Fres per 8C other sald that co-operation was content to have any dictation
based on absolute, equality and Reuter, ship en route to Guiana-Beuter.
REPORT. DENIED
Paris, Later.
Gold-Ba
The bimetalliam proposals, god by the Mexicha, de- legales, appear to have, berm sheived by the Pag-American Conference - United Press, per 8. C. Gold Bar Co.
General Johnson eulogised the President's monetary policy which, he and, had preserved America's credit, increased her gold reserves and exports and had decreased im- Porta
He warned manufacturers to be ware of ballion pundits who at pre- sent were most vocal, and the so- called Captains of finance, who had "akinned the country alive by male- named securities."--Reuter.
U.S. ENVOY GOING
ATO MOSCOW.
Bullitt To Make Short Visit.
London, To-day.
Ambassador
The new American to the Boviet, Mr. William C. Bullitt, arrived at Plymouth, yesterday en route to Moscow. He is accorn- panied by his nine-year-old daugh- iter, Vips
He will rasch Moscow to-morrow and la expected to return to Washington within fortnight. Reuter,
MISSING SCOTT MANUSCRIPT.
Discovered In Moscow.
Moscow, To-day.
The manuscript of Sir Walter Beett's novel, "The Tallaman"; bought by the Russian Ambassador to london at an auction in 1868 for ||21,000, and which was subsequently
lost, has been found in the archives' lóf the. Historical Museum.--Beuter.
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