THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 16, 1939.
OTHERS MUST AID
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TO SUPPORT THEUEENS
CHINA DOLLAR
London, To-day.
THE PLIGHT OF THE Chinese dollar presents one of the most difficult currency problems encountered, even during the last twenty years of exchange chaos, says the "Financial Times."
The fall cannot but interfere seriously with what remains of British trade with China, but the causes of the col- lapse are military rather than economic.
The Stabilisation Fund has done good work, but the recent drop shows clearly that an endeavour to hold the dollar at the 8d. of June or even the
NAZI SPY SUSPECT TOLD TO LEAVE
Scheveningen Holland) Aug. 2. Countess Januez. Dos Maros, the German airwoman alleged-un- der the hame of Elizabeth Buttner
to have been a central figure in the Nazi spy plot In France, has been staying with a Scheveningen family who have a relative work- Ing in the Air Ministry in London. The countess left them suddenly yesterday. She has moved into an hotel on the sea front.
"We did not know anything about her until we saw her name in the papers," said a member of the family with whom the countess stayed. "We were amazed when we read that she had been expelled from England and that if she went back to France she would be arrested.
"It made us a little anxious, and we decided to have a talk with the countess. We told hor it would be beat for her to leave. She agreed, packed up and went at once.
"She told us she had come to Hol- land to seek rest. She spoke very little about anything while she was with us. She seemed very interested in air- planes and everything to do with avia- tion.
AVIATION TROUBLE
"When she came to Holland six weeks ago she stayed at an hotel. Later she asked if she could come here. The relative of ours who works in the British. Air Ministry is on the technical staff."
When I saw. Countess des Mares to- day she admitted she had moved be- cause she did not want to give the the family any trouble,
"I don't want to talk much more. at the moment,” she said. “I want to have a rest. If I can't get it here
I shall have to go to Italy. Gen- eral Balho is a friend of mino.
"I have lots of society friends. They make a lot of fuss in Paris because: I went to Foreign Office parties at the Quai d'Orsay.
LOTS OF FRIENDS
"My husband's family were society people, so; of course, I was invited. Because I am a fler I have made lots of friends. Because I have lots of im- portant friends that does not make me
...a spy........
OPTIMISM ON STOCK EXCHANGE
London, To-day. There was an all round ad- vance in busier trading on Stock Exchange yesterday.
the
The liveliness was due to the growth of more optimistic views concerning the European situa- tion.
Kaffire and olis were promin- ent, while there were useful gains throughout the list, apart from home rails which continue to be depressed owing to the wage dis. pute-Reuter.
61⁄2d. of early July had been impos- sible.
The inception of the Fund was very largely the work of Britain, who, therefore, made a big effect to uphold her own interests and those of other countries with Far Eastern associa- tions.
It is only negative satisfaction that the lack of success has had serious reactions upon the Japanese who provoked It.
OTHERS SHOULD AID
Britain cannot be expected to give active support to exchange without limit, in the absence of the closer co operation of others affected.
"We can and should refuse the de- mands of the Japanese intended to make us help to enlarge their limited success in implanting their own cur- rencies in China and thereby ex- cluding our own commerce from these areas.
Reuter.
ARAB LEADER KILLED
Jerusalem, To-day. Fachini Soufani, former secretary of the Arab insurgent leader Aref Abdul Reazek, was shot and killed in a street in the Old Quarter of Jer- usalem yesterday.
Soufani some time ago went over to the pro-British party of Fakri Nashashibi, to whom he also acted as party secretary.
"The French police poided my house. The assassinations-was apparently "In Paris. three weeks ago and I am in revenge for this. Trans-Ocean.
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