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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY - DECEMBER 21, 1936-
The China Mail
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COST OF LIVING
GOING UP
DISCONTENT IN FRANCE
SCANDALOUS AFFAIR
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U.S. GOLD AGAIN IN USE TO STABILISE
EXCHANGE
CO-OPERATION WITH BRITAIN AND FRANCE
Paris, To-day.
· ́-CHINÄ NÄILTM SPECIAL
Rumours alleging that a scanda- Paris To-day. lous affair occurred recently in the Despite the stringent measures French Foreign Ministry and that All communications intended forjadopted by the Price Control Com-arrests had been made in connec- publication should be addressed to missioner, Parisian housewives are tion with the delivery of war ma- like Editor, and be accompanied by being confronted with a steady teriai tɔ Spain is given prominence
the Writer's Name and Address] increase of the cost of living. It by the Action Francaise. not necessarily for insertion, but is announced that from to-day thei The journal asserts that a girl as a guarantes of good faith. price of milk will be increased from stenographer was taken into cus- 1:50 francs per bottle to 1.60 tody when it was learned she had
handed over permits for the The unauthorised action of manyportation of arms to a Czechoslovak TVE years of guerrilla warfare of currency depreciation restaurantears to incrESSE the national acting on behalf of the in internationai monetary affairs seems, unthinkable.” “Since the price of wine has caused much dis- Red Spanish Government. The having culminated in the down- | agreement they are to be employed content and the authorities have latter has likewise been arrested all of the pre-depression gold in the harly-burly of the interna been obliged to issue a warning, The authorities' suspicions were standard in its last strongholds—tional money market, bludgeoning
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France.
REGULATION OF NATIONAL FUNDS
(By Elliott V. Bell)
now
Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 21. 1936 threatening those who fail to re-aroused by the expensive mode France, Switzerland and the Neback the unsocial ráida of the spe- spond to the national appeal On living of the arrested stenographer therlands-the leading nations culator or stemming the disorder- the other hand the restauranteurs and consequently a trap was set have now turned to the co-opera-led rushes of frightened capital maintain that their profits are so for her.-Trans-Ocean Service. tive task of rebuilding a system leaving one country to seek re
of ordered currency relationships.fuge in another. N
National Roads
·
| mezgre that they must raise the prices in order to make ends meet.
Trans-Ocean Service
SITUATION IN PALESTINE
POLICE RESERVE
the
Two steps have been taken to- Under the old gold standard ward stability. The first was an there was no need for equalisa- agreement announced simultane-tion funds. Since every currency Orders For The Currently with the departure of was worth so much gold, such was
Week
France from gold. In it the United convertible into the other at a fix- States, Great Britain and Franceled price called its gold parity, and Orders by the Hon. Mr. T. H asserted a policy of working to it was never possible for them to The vary more than about one-half of King, Inspector General of Police. ward currency stabilisation
second, announced recently,“ was 1 per cent. from those gold parit- Indian Company
sume les without being automatically an agreement among Training Course-Part II. The three democracies, implementing brought back into line through the undermentioned members of the the feat. It provided means where-international shipment of gold. Indian Company will attend In-
by their respective stabilisation When Britain suspended the dian Company Headquarters on funds could purchase and sell gold standard on Sept. 21, 1931. Tuesday, December 22nd at 17.31 gold among themselves in other this automatic control of exchange hours for Part II of Training words, means by which these funds values was broken. The pound ster- Course :---
could continue to operate in a non-ling became an irredeemable paper Constables 8201 S. L. Bux, R210 gold-standard world.
currency, governed only by the law Abdullah Shah,
Described by Secretary of the of supply and demand.
No party issues affect the Trunk Roads Bill debated re-j cently in the House of Com- mons. The Ministry of Trans- port intends to take over the maintenance and reconstruction of some 4,500 miles of trunk roads, at present controlled by 184 County Councils. A uniform system of lighting and a less Arab Delegation Bound varied series of widths may be
For Baghdad expected by the motorist, who at present does not know, when he makes a long journey on a
Jerusalem, To-day. through route, how many times
Arab leaders, the must adjust his vision to ncluding members of the Arabian the differing standards of Council, are proceeding to Bagh- lighting and road design en-dad in order to discuss with King joined by adjacent local au- Ghazi and the Irak Government B23 S. B. Hussain, E216 Lal thorities.
questions relating to the demands Khan, R236 M. S. Dillon. The bill is a long-overdue re- and wishes of the Arabs in Pale-
207 Fazal Ilahi Oppal. form and has been approved instine.
Mohamed Ali Oppal,
"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
A delegation of
principle by the County Coun The delegation will subsequent- cils Association as well as they visit King Ibo Saud. motoring organisations. In its At present the entire Arabian application it is hoped that a press in Palestine is placed under little more foresight will be ban.
Treasury Morgenthau as setting British Example Copied
R206 a new type of gold standard."
R
time
the agreement might rather have It was in an effort to protect been said to imply formal recogni-her interests in a depreciated cur- R225 Kasim Ali, 8226 A
tion of the establishment, tempor-rency, while at the same Razack and R293 Jaffer Mohamed.
arily at least, of a "stabilisation seeking to guard against disturb Flying Squad
fund standard" to supplant the old tag fluctuations in the exchange, Commendation. Crown Sergeant ES33 A. W. Mooney is commended gold standard. It gave fresh in that Britain, in April. 1932, es- exercised than in some road- On the road to Jericho, Jeru-by the Inspector General of Police Portance to the exchange control tablished her exchange equalisa funds and directed increased at-tion fund, which has served as a model for the funds, subsequently tention toward them.
established by other nations. Funds Total Five Bilions
When the United States under- There are Britain's Exchange took to stabilise the dollar in Equalisation Account of about Janning, 1934, it, too, formed a But whereas $2,000,000,000, our own stabilisa stabilisation fund.
MRS. SIMPSON LEAVES FOR EGYPT
Athens, To-day-Mrs. Warfeld
(Sgol) C. CHAMPKIN,
D. S. P. (E). Hong Kong, Monday, December 21st 1936.
WEATHER REPORT
designing experiments of recent salem, five motor lorries were held for the conscientious manner in memory. The construction of up and the stores and provisions which he performed his special a Kingston by-pass which had were plundered. — Trans-Ocean duties during Safety First Week to be enlarged and extended Service. while it was still new gave an excellent example of the errors jand waste which foresight The could have prevented.
tion fand of like amount, the new Britain, having no gold, obtained French fund of somewhat under the capital for its fund by Trea- Ministry of Transport will have
$500,000,000, a new Swiss fund sury borrowings in the London the power to equip the main
reported to be about $133,000,000,money market, the United States- roads with every safety device Wallis Simpson left Fatras yes-
The anti-cyclone remains over a new Netherlands fund of boutset. aside for its fund $2,000,000,-.. which the road engineer has terday, embarking on evalved. This power should be Athinet. She is travelling incos China unchanged. The depression $159,000,000 and others of undis-000 of gold out of the $2,800,000,- nito with Egypt as her destina-is moving westwards to the south closed amounts; the aggregate is 900 of gold "profits resulting used without timidity.
from devaluation. Other countries tion-Trans-Ocean Service.
of Mindanao. The local forecast possibly $5,000,000,000. Cannes: Mr. Herman L Rogers for to-day, as issued by the Royal
That these most spectacular and have since followed, France, Swit- told American pressinen yester-
Observatory this morning," is mobile armaments of modern eco-zerland and Holland within the day that Mrs. Simpson will not
used i past month. and north-east winds; nomic warfare should be see the Duke of Windsor before fresh; fair-
(Continued on Page 7) lagainst one another in a contest! the Spring. She will be rentin-
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
the 3.3.
At the meeting of the Rotary ing in Cannes for several months
Club to-morrow Bishop Hall will speak on "The Boys' Club."
the A small fire broke out in chimney of No. 15 Caine Road at about 10 am. this morning. One appliance from Central Fire Sta tion was quickly on the scene and the outbreak was extinguished: without any difficulty..
and will spend Christmas quietly with friends at Villa Louviei. —-- Reuter.
OBITUARY
SIR JOHN BLAND SUTTON
London, To-day. The death is reported here of
The late Mrs. Edith Frances Bernard, of No. 61. Highfeld Sir John Bland-Sutton.--Beuter.
Permission
Sir John Bland-Sutton was the Lane, Southampton, who died on July 5 last, left local estate, valu-Consulting Surgeon of the Mid-
He was for dlesex Hospital
pre- ed at $42,300. the sealing of probate of will has medicine from 1921 to 1922 and sident of the Royal Society of been granted to Mr. Maurice Mur-
was President of the Royal ray Watson, lawful attorney.
College of Surgeons from 1923 to 1926.
He had written several books, amongst them being "Evolution
The late Mr. Allan Keith, of No. 71, Princess Gate, Kenning- ston, Middlesex, who died at New and Disease," "Man and Beast, in{ digate House, Knole Road, Ber-
Eastern Ethiopia," and "Selected
hill-on-Sea, Sussex, on September Lectures and Essays.”
16 last, left local estate to the
value of $115,700. The applica-
tion for the sealing of probate of ARCHAEOLOGIST
the-will, by Mr. Gerald Andrew Leiper, lawful attorney, has been granted...
PASSES
DR. THEODOR SVIEGAND
**CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Berlin, To-day.
Local estate, valued at $12,100, was left by the late Mr. Augustus Henry Heath, of No. 9, Julien] Road, Coulsdon,” Surrey, who died on July 14 last. The applica Dr. Theodor Sviegand, presi- tion by Mr. Ralph Archibald Wa-dent of the Archaeological Insti- deson, fetal attorney, for the tute of Germany, died at Dablem sealing of probate of the will, has on Saturday. been granted.'
Dr. Svingand," "who: 72nd year, was the leade erous expeditions
The C.N.AC. plane Fukien which arrived here from Shanghai East, particularly Saturday brought Messrs. E. Las Damascus, and
las and TA Mitchell from Shang-in the discovery
hai nd Mr. Yu En chia tom then of the 1 mạc
Statow Leaving at noon the gamut,
same day, the Fakien returned to In the last Shanghai with Miss;N A Tallah, ed his time Messrs Y Chow, G.E. Warren | menta in and P. C. Teng / The Kwangtung, vited to th which" ardyed later in the gh Gover noon from Shanghai, brook Me 1Ostuganda: Man Trade Com-ship
{H° Moon and Mr. Mok Hing-wing, ingu
north
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