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"NEW SILVER BILL WILL RESULT IN INTERNATIONAL CONFUSION"
Rene de Chambres
Thanks to a law passed by the State of Maryland in 1784, bes towing American citizenship on Marquis de La Fayette and all his descendants as a reward for. the Frenchman's uid in Revolu- tionary War. Rene de Cham-
brun 1.3
La Fayette's great-great grandson has won his fight for American citizenship and the right to practied law in New York.
CRAWFORD
IN LAST EIGHT.
AT AUTEUIL
DROPS SET AGAINST INDIAN PLAYER.
McGRATH FALTERS
Paris, To-day. jack Crawford, Australian Da- vis Cup captain, has reached the last eight in his defence of the French Lawn Tennis Championship tille at Auteuil.
Continued on Page 9) Results as 'cabled by Reuter
were:-
J. A. Crawford (Australia) beat M. Sleem (India) 0-6, 6-1, 7-5, 6-0.
6-4.
"EXCEEDINGLY RISKY SOCIALIST
IN AMERICA"
GENERAL SENTIMENT IN
NON-SILVER STATES
SYMETALLISM WORKABLE
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL
(By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894,
Received May 28, 822 a.m.)
DISORDER
SHOOTING
REPORTED
IN VIENNA
"Down With Dollfuss" "Long Live Freedom."
SEQUEL TO NEW POWERS FOR SUMMARY COURTS
Vienna, To-day,
.:
San Francisco, To-day. Editorials in the "San Francisco News" and An extension of the powers of other Scripps - Howard newspapers, characterise Summary Courts led to Socialist the Silver Bill as a political gesture forced by the demonstrations yesterday evening in the working class of district of Congressional silver bloc, which may add another Schmelz. factor of fear and uncertainty to the business Cries of "Long live freedom. situation, which is now needing confidence and Down with Dollfuss," were rais
ed. Shooting is reported to certainty.
have occurred but the reports are Police and mili- taken precautions
The "San Francisco News," however. states that the Bill's not confirmed. feature of encouraging the International use of silver with gold tary have
as a monetary base is intelligent, because there is no doubt that against a repetition of the dis some form of symetallism, at the suggested ration of 75 per cent. order.
It is understood that troops gold and 25 per cent. silver for reserves, would be much more! workable than the old gold standard, provided other major na-have also been sent to Syria and
Carinthia, where tions agreed.
trouble - has
Reuter.
BOMB PLOT FAILS
Vienna, Later.
"BUT THERE IS A RUB," THE JOURNAL CONTINUES. "NO SUCH broken out. AGREEMENT 18 IN PROSPECT, AND FOR US ALONE TO ATTEMPT SUCH SYSTEM IN MONETARY CONFLICT WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD WOULD END IN INTERNATIONAL CONFUSION, AND MIGHT BE EXCEEDINGLY RISKY HERE AT HOME.”
THE EDITORIAL REFLECTS THE GENERAL PRESS AND PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN THE NON-SILVER STATES OF AMERICA. UNITED PRESS, PER SC. GOLD BAR CO.
FOREIGN MONEY TRADE BAN
Mussolini Announces
New Measure.
HOLDERS TO REGISTER
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.
FAVOURABLE REPORT
"Not An Inflationary Measure."
GRADUAL INCREASE IN SILVER PRICE DESIRED
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL. (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra phic Messagen Ordinance, 1894. Re-
May 27, 10.27 p.).
By Telegraph, Copyright, Telepra-crived |phic Messages Ordinaner, 1884, Re- [rrived May 27, 1937 panj
Rome, To-day,
G. P. Hughes (Britain) beat. The Italian Premier, Signor Beni- Hecht (Czechoslovakin) 6-2, 6-2, 2-6. to Mussolini, told the Chamber of H. W. Austin (Britain) beat H. W. Deputies on Sunday that the na- Artens (Austria) 6-4, 6-0, 6-3. tions which had abandoned the
H. Menzel (Czechoslovakia) - beat
V. M. McGrath (Australia) 6-2, 6-2, gold slanderd would return thereto.
6-$
F. J. Perry (Britain) beat H. Hopman (Australia) 6-2, 6-3, 6-3.
WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP 3D ROUND.
0.
Washington. To-day.
The House of Representa- Lives' Ways and Means Com- mittee has reported favour- ably on the Silver Bill. The Chairman. Mr. Robert L. Doughton, said that an attempt would be made to bring the Bill hefore the House this week.
Representative Dies
told the He announced that henceforth Committee that the Silver Bl}] was trade in foreign currencies would not inflationary. "It simply means be prohibitable unless it could be restoring the normal percentage of proved that it was necessary for silver to gold” he said. Mlle. Valerio (Italy) bent Betty industrial and commercial rea- Credit Inflation of U.S.$74.000,- |000,000 was at present possible due
Nuthall (Britain) 6-4, 6-4.
sons.
CLEAN SWEEP IN He also announced the pro-to the excess reserve in the Fe-
DAVIS CUP
Canadian Changes For Last Two Singles.
AMERICA IN ZONE FINAL
Wilmington, Delaware,
To-day. America entered the North American Zone Final of the Davis Cup by means of
clean sweep iriumph over Canada here
&
hibition of the purchase of for-deral Reserve banke, he said,
TAX PROVISIÓNS eign currencies abroad. Holders.
The Vienna police yesterday i morning discovered a bombs out side the Stock Exchange Build ing which also contains the offices of the official Austriansit agency, Reuter, and other world rgencies.
The bomb is said to have con- tained 411⁄2 lbs. of dynamite,
DONATI
47,326 FT.
LEMOINE
44,819 FT.
MT. EVERET
29,141 FT
Commendatore Rentato Donati, World War ace and lead. ing Italian aviator, is helped from his plane at Rome after he had broken the world's altitude record by attaining a height of 47,326 feet. The diagram at the left shows how Donati's record compares with the height of the Mt. Everest and the former record held by Auguste Lemoine of France.
DANCE CONTEST CRITICISM
Canvassed Voting Alleged.
SUGGESTION FOR FUTURE COMPETITIONS
The system adopted in judging
TURKISH ARMS STATEMENT
Regarding Dardanelles And Bosphorus.
LAUSANNE DEMILITARISATION CLAUSE QUERIED
Geneva, To-day.
the final of the Colony's first open" It is learned from...n usukily dancing competition has aroused well-informed source that Tew- certain amount of criticism, fik Rushdi Bey, the Turkish timed to explode at 6 p.m., the following the event at the Hong Foreign Minister, will make a hour when the official news Kong Hotel on Saturday. agency beging work on Sunday. ---Reuter.
$1.00 CASH SWEEP
BOOM
CORRESPONDENT'S VIEWS
[To the Editor, China Mail.)
оп
very important statement at the meeting of the General Commis- sion of the Disarmament Confer- ence, regarding the Straits of Dardanelles and Bosphorus, in- dicating that Turkey no longer Sir, While applauding the enter-considers herself bound by the prise of the local office of Fox Films de-militarisation clause in the
Treaty of Lausanne. — Reuter. and the King's Theatre their "Through Ticket" Sales novel form of advertising "George
ARRIVES OF DELEGATES Record Shattered.
Geneva, To-day. White's Scandals", by promoting &
The Lord Privy Seal, Captain the picture, I feel I must deplore the delegate to Geneva, Mr. Norman dancing contest in conjunction with
Anthony Eden, the United Statea
method adopted for the judging of Davis, and the Soviet Foreign the final result at the Hong Kong Commissar, M. Maxim Litvinaff, Hotel on Saturday. It would not have arrived here. be too much to say that the "popu- lar voting" has aroused indignation in certain disinterested quarters.
NEW
ISSUE OF TICKETS DO NOT INCLUDE BIG SWEEP
A preliminary result of the reduction of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Cash Sweep tickets from $5.00 to $1.00 is the enor. mous increase in the sales of "Through Tickets for the coming Saturday's Sixth Extra Race Meeting. Tickets numbered 1 to 400 were
Mr. Norman Davis and Mr. Hugh Wilson, the United States, observer at Geneva, had a lengthi- ly interview with Mr. Arthur It must be seen that selection byĤenderson, at which the proce- such a method les open to abuses, dure of the Disarmament Con- and indeed, there is a general opinion (ference was discussed. Reuter. that some of the contestants.
interested in
same 13 PERISH
of foreign currencies, he said, He supported the Bill's tax pro-insued at $9.00 a time, to include or parties would be required to register visions, saying that it would pre-one chance in the mammoth sweep of the contestants, rallied them. - United Press, per S. C.jvent speculators from making tre- on the Juling Stakes, but these forces to force a docisive vote on
[mendous profits,
Gold Bar Co.
STOCK EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL.
House Margin Provision To Stand.
The
Bald, Treasury, he should not be forced to pur- chase a given amount of silver monthly.
tlekets were sold almost before they much the same lines as a Govern- | came before the public, a large ment gathers support for some item
number of people, who could not af- of legislation. One alleged "bloc"
|ferd a $50.00 "Through Ticket," be-was stated to be seventy strong,
of the new arrangement. ing brought well within the. Hmita Assuming that these widespread re-
Aro
"The increase in the silver price should be gradual, otherwise the
Tickets numbered above 400 United States is at the mercy of
anow being issued at $8.00 each, but speculators and this, will cause ro-adjustment particulary harmful these do not include a chance in the China." he declared.-United Juling Stakes, buyers desiring
chance in the big sweep now having Re-Press, per S. C. Gold Bar Co.
to purchase their ticket separately.
SPECIAL TO CHINA MATI.. (By_Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra
ceived May 27, 10.30 pm.)
yesterday, both Shields and phin Messages Ordinance, 1894,
Washington, Conferees have agreed on the final form of the Stock Exchange:
منا
TARIFF BILL WILL COME FIRST.
Passage Expected In Senate This Week.
ports aro well-founded, it would be a sound plan, when and if similar competitions are held, to appoint & body of competent judges and thus eliminate the commercialisation of what should be a sporting event.
FÁIR PLAY.
All Goes Well With Two French
IN BLAZING
MOTOR-COACH!
Spanish Tourists Meet Death In France.
FOREST SET ON FIRE
ALDERSHOT
BLAZE
MILITARY
CALLED OUT
TO FIGHT FIRE
יז
PLANES DIRECT OPERATIONS.
HEATH AND FOREST DEVASTATED
London, To-day. Two Royal Air Force aeroplanes, hundreds of. soldiers and despatch riders, carrying messages from one part of the area to another, co- operated with fire- men in fighting huge-heath and for- est fires near Black- down, Aldershot, yesterday.
The flames covered an area seven miles long and five miles wide. A whole bat- talion of the second West Kent Regi- |^ment failed to check
the flames, and con- tingents of Welsh Guards, Coldstream" Guards and Life Guards, who were under canvas nearby, were rushed to the scene, while planes directed operations.
Owing to dense smoke, the soldiers wore gas-masks, while exploding bul- lets, dropped by sol- diers during train- ing added to the dan-
ger.
Six square miles of countryside were destroyed. The fire is now under control, but soldiers are en- camped nearby as a precautionary mea-
sure.
Reuter.' H.M.S. CALCUTTA DUE TO-MORROW.
Sailing For Home June 1.
She
Bordeaux, To-day.
H.M.B. Calcutta is expected to Thirteen persons are reported to arrive in Hong Kong from the {have been incinerated; and four in North at 8 am, to-morrow, jured, when a motor-coach crash-i scheduled to sail for Singapore ed into a telegraph pole mear Li-and England on June 1. postey (Landes), yesterday,
It is understood that the tims are Spanish tourists.
II.M.S. Calcutta made a special trip to the Far Egat, bringing, re- viclers for the Yangtse. She ar
rived in Hong Kong on April 23,
Airmen On Record Attempt Telephonic communication with and left for Hankow on April 26.
Stoelfen winning their re- maining singles matches without the loss of a set. America will now meet Mexico, who drew a bye, before meeting)
Control Bill, and plan to ratify it Brazil in the Zone Final. They will then await the challenge of in the Senate, to-morrow. the European Zone winners--; It places the control of margins
Bordeaux is interrupted as a re-She commenced her return journey either France or Australia. in the hands of the Federal Reserve
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.
Paris, To-day. Bcotia at 11 p.m. (Bummer Time) (sult of the accident, but it is re- on May 28, leaving Hankow for Lester Stoefen, No. 3 ranking Board. All the other provisions are
(By Telsgraph. Copyright, Telegra;
ported that the blazing coach set|Shanghai: player, beat Nunns, who sub-left in the hands of a newly-croat-phio Mestapes Ordinance, 184, R The French airmen. Cados and yesterday, states:--- stituted for Walter Martin, bed commission of five, to be ap-ceived May 28,hington, To-day. Saturday in an attempt to break Flying is very diffent. Visibility
Rosel, who took off at 6.10 am, on "We are flying over Nova Scotia. fire to the forest. Reuter. 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 yesterday, while Frank pointed, by President Roosevelt.
Mr. Alfred Morris, Commissioner of "Shields; America's No. 1, ovETEĄMŠ The conferees accepted the House The United States Senate is ex their own "world's record for a nil. All going well."
Cloudy generally, with moderate Watt, whe replaced Marcel Rain of Representatives margin provi-pected to pass the Tariff Bill this non-stop fight along a straight Having crossed that Atlantic, St. John Ambulance Brigade, will be ville, Canada's leading player, by sion, making the initial requirement week and will then immediately take line have sent out a wireless me the airmen now hope to cross the the guest of honour at a tea party at east winds, was the weather fore
Gloucester Building at 5.15 - p.m. | 6-1, 6-3, 6-4.
45 per cent United Press, per 8.C. up the silver Bill-United Press, per sage declaring that all is well American continent, landing at today, given by the Hong Kong Corps cast issued by the Royal Observa-
8.C. Gold Bar Co
The message, timed from Nova San Diego-Reuter. (Continued Om Page 12.)
Pof the Brigade.
tory this morning.
Gold. Bar-Co,
J.
WEATHER FORECAST