+
KEEPING WORLD GUESSING
Churchill Plan For Moscow Trip
London, Oct. 27.
The unpredictable Sir Winston Churchill will probably, keep the world guessing about whether he intends a lone "Save the Pence" flight to Moscow-- at least until he sees if Russin will attend a Big- Four Foreign Mijisters' Conference, diplomatie
Sources said.
There was no confirmation of a report that the 7-year-old salesman had abandoned his reported intentions of making personal appropels to M. Georgi Malenkov, the Sovie Pr ko
if he und hol arrange Ministers # confereter of world lesalers, Only Jast week The Prin Minister himself declined in the
of Commons to deny widespread reports that hu would By to Moscow tu attempt us sound out the Krem?
in on its foreign policy.
It is true that he also refused
to conflem the reports,
But they came from a variety
of high-placed people
in personal contart
Prime Minister,
NOT PUT OFF
recently
with Ji
by
The lust, published Daly Tebarnph. th Cavern-
nent's big
apporter, cam
aftor the "Big The Porciza
Minister vond rence
Jast week.
a grea
Anthony
At that wecting Mr Eden, the Foreign Secretary, toli
Amer.com
248
Freath
colleagues. Mr John Foster Dulles and M. Georges Bicmalt, that Sir Winston Churchill was still determined
lry to t-level meeting be armonge tween himself, President Eisen-
hower, M. Jos ji
Laniel. 1.
French Prime Minister, and M Malenko
do
126i!1-,,1st
harm was unallovteet
My sisterer that this might
W+el litt
by Th apparent coolness of Muscow the iden, by the American anal French dislike of the proposal,
bis, wo and by the state, of health.
The Western Powers are now awaiting a reply from Museo to their nvitation 10 M. Vyacheslav Melativ Savirt Foreign Mhitster, to a meeting on the German
Austrian adel problem at the lakeside resort
Switzerland,
of Lagano, November 1. China Mail Special.
Professor's Theory
On Cancer
Jimmy Edwards And His Fiancee
fame. photo- Jimmy Edwards, of “Take-Il-From-Here" graphed with Its Bancee, 21-year-old Aune Michelle Carew- Gibbs Their engagement was announced on Oct. 18 and they plan to marry in the New Year. They met at a party the night before the Coronation.Central Prem Photo,
Longest
The
Planned
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1953.
Bridge In World
By Sicily
Palermo, Oct. 27.
A bridge across the treacherous Straits of Messina, which divide the north-eastern tip of the island from the toe of the Italian "boot," has been advocated for years by a succession of Sicilian It has even reached the blueprint politicians. stage at least 15 times since 1887.
TRADE and
COMMERCE SECTION
Shipyard Workers Are Holland's
Among Best-Paid
Labour In Britain
London.
that
Yards Booming
Rotterdam. Oct. 27. Holland's post-war ship-
| building boom; which in the two years has lifted her
Gas Turbine For Ship Propulsion: Britain Leads Way
engine.
bc.
but
HONGKONG SHARE MARKET
The British marine engineering industry is As had been expected, the Shipbuilding Emfrom sixth to fourth placement, to begin production of a gas turbine for the now able, after nearly seventy years of develop- ployers' Federation has rejected the claim of the among the world's shipbuild- propulsion of ships as an economic proposition in Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering ing nations, shows no signs competition with the steam turbine and the dieser Unions for a 15 per echt wage increase for some of slackening. 250,000 shipyard men. The union leaders, after
Only the United States, Bri- considering the employers' reply, indicated
tain und Germany send more It was in 1804 that Sie Charles ships down the slipways today | Parsons took out a patent for they would seck a further meeting with them.
thon Holland,
this method of driving ships" In this connection, It is interesting to note
propellers, and in the interven- As an exporter of ships this ing years many other engineers that a Ministry of Labour investigation has country leads the world. hrve worked ou the idea. In revealed that shipbuilding workers are generally
the war years, and
since. gas Holland's 300 shipyards are turbines for alteraft have better paid than those in other UK industries.now fully booked with
orders come B famillar and highly The investigation covered about 6,500,000 workers Hot 100 fur vesels ranging successful form of power,
from big passenger lines down no one until now has been able and concerned the first week of April this year.
inz bargts. Roughly half the to offer then to the saippu now pader construction workt ns, a
shipping reliable and It showed that men of over Competition. 123 ever.
gets for export. Last year, the Medal
means of
propulsion. Now, DA 21 In the shipbuilding and re coming from Norway, Holland, hdustry brought in 375,000,000 cas pairing Industries were earning Greece, France, Italy and the guliders (about £37,000,000) in result of some eight years
Business done on the Stock concer concentrated work in the an average wage of 200s. Gd per US, while Germany and Juan foreign currency out of the to search shops of P.A.M.E.T.R.A.
* Exchange this morning amount- week, including overtime and were out to recapture the trade turnover, including repair works,
Med to 3103,045. Noon quota- D.A. (Parsons and bonuses, while all workers in } they lost during the war. it, of
Marine tions and the noraing's trans- Aboul 800,000,000 guilders the reation were earning
Engineering Turbine Research was
increasingly (£80,000,000). force
D:velopment Association) The average of 1958, Bd.
British shipping depended the Long hours, hard work and industry's research for the Figures
marine first plece on its efficiency and relively low wages do much at Wallsend-on-Tyne, this enginnering industry were 1870. In the second on it- chesandes. He to ensure that prices remain has been achieved.
nrad 160s. 7d respectively, said that the prime need of the competitive. Dutch shipyard and for all manufacturing in- British shipowners
workers do n 48-hour week, and was 101s, 11 and 150s. "specialisation” in prices, dustries
strikes are almost unknown. if there caulti not be reductions. respectively.
Since the introduction of Thre From the shipyards comes the 44-hour week in March 1042, report that Canadian Pacific has the average wage for men of 2) Invited tenders for ft second yours old and over in the ship 22 600-ton passenger and cargo building and repairing industry | Uner. has risen by rund 43 m ecat, ruse of some flye per. cent
3d
un
becoming
The Fairfield
WIN
el
for
evel
of
the
(From Our Correspondant),
actions:
association BitARES BUYERS Sellers bales,
nr
HANKS
HK. Bank Ear Ala... INSURANCES"
Unich Undere... JL.K.
1501
BOLS
3.66
21.80
The research workshops, where has been done will be visited by representatives of tapping lincs
firms and shipbuilding The Dutch shipyard worker from Britain
and Europe, and DOCKS. Erc. they will
Dock enjoys a holiday bonus of one they
be offered, in the Provident ..-12.30 week's wage as well as his fort-words of Sir Philip Johnson, Wheelrch 8.63 89% 3:00 « 6.65
CHLAND, ETC. night's holldny with pay. Many F.A.M.E.T.R.A.D.A.'s chairman, HR 19. 7.85 7.09 1570 4 7.90 of the dockyards run a croft-who spoke to the first visitors. sharing scheme under which the designs for a gas turbine men share up to three per cent fectly suitable for marine work uf Their
annual
wage. benefits amount to 00
of the
11
ber
Slek in
per-
cent performance efficiency, and
HK Lood.. 02 03 50 03 S'hi ad 1.46 117 klámphret
LTTIES
10.03 10.pd
Tram...... 23.10 25.40
Star Ferry. 133
Rb 23.50 1800
23.3V
C. Might 101 131913.70 703 130
27.70 27.80
G. Right IN165
Electric
Macao
Firetele.... Telephone
23.10
131210
18.34 1.00 200 / 10.40 23.20 23.40 300 ur 23.20
400 23,30-
2.55
Textile Corp 6.40 15 4500 Yangtze
8.20
5.45
150
0.20
Sicilians are pinning their hopes for a more
Shipbuilding prosperous future on something they have dis- eussed for 70 years but always considered a pipe-aving been recorded in the six Company have the fist under is believed
no mal wage, and
FUEL PROBLEM that on the Clyd: hey dream-a bridge to link their impoverished months October 1952/April 1953. construe. ka end h
pension fund workers have
One
difficulties of the main Further prominence has beep | another local Arm are among
Inanced in equal
which has been experienced by island with the Italian mainland.
of the Xns! the four which have
+hares by berna:
Association I developing themselves and their employers. the turbine in Ben to the use
propulsion invited to tender. marine
Prefabricated
the the gas turbine engine lo parts are used on
INDUSTRIALS
Cement with the publiention of paper on the performance of the Auris Belfast reports indiente that fairly wide senie, particularly point where it would be able to the Horland and for superstructure.
diese! STORES, ETC. But tradi-compete with steam and gas turbine by the Marine Re-output from
Dery model this
Honal building methods are power was to design year o
Watson search and Development Depart Wolf yard there
ninintained, ind which would run on cheap crude | COTTONS ment of the Aucto-Saxon should agala exceed 100,000 tons generally
Ewn Petroleum
This engine ross Five ressels Company. This
of about Holland specialises in catering oil. Aircraft turbines run on an heen for the special needs. each expensive fact, curly models of 45,000 tons have already is 1,200 bhp open cycla ROB
British reversible
is anticipated customer rather thon mas pro-the marine engine would only Thomsen-uneled and it
duction.
operate
on a refined was that before the end of the year
successfully turbine set. 11 Houston
fuel, and until crude cll could Installed in the Auris two years a further five will be in the
SPEED INDUCEMENT b: burned the high opaat- water. These will include a Fago on an experimental basis.
CONS would more ing 32,000-ton dw tanker now under
Speed, both shipbuilding outweigh the advantage which for he construction
Pratich
perhaps the the gas turbine has, in biggest inducement which Dutch and initial costs over shipyards offer to the foreign
So lov
meet- Un with 411 od- vague, recom-
the hupraeileability upper, for read and pedestrians of the phins Inability
1
totrofle. meet, the enormous cost ha:: The two-day Messina always abruptly awakened the ing broke
thusiastle. But today,
Tanker Company. of amendation that "this great work bridge between Stelly and Italy be put in band. is beginning to proges beyond the talking stage.
dreamers.
왜요
the
idea
discus the scheme in
be
to
either
Copenhagen, Oct, 27, People who have smoked more than five cigarettes a day -over-a-period-of-20_years_are_
Habl to
hung cancer, Jel necording to Scandinavian lung specialists meeting and cancer in Copenhagen.
Professor 1. N. Bonnevie [ Denmark said men were thees three kiiret (1.004 miles) the mainland. main victims of the disease tes wids their Barrowst
They knew that prescuted across the Straits has
to
may
The semi-autonomous Re- gional Parliament of Sielly A Lithuanian-born, American- agreed take the first steps naturalised engineer. Mr David towards its achievement-steps a such as testing the zea beiloin D. Slettman, has submitted
distance project which eminent allan at the recommended
have declared feasible from engineers
shore
sest whether it is firm enough to and economists believe to
hold the piles and persuading financially possible.
Supporters of the bridge met the Italian Government to can- the tribute 60 per cent of the cost recently
Meusing, ON north-eastern tip of Sicily. toant private capital the rest.
CAUSE LOSS Leneral
this preliminary and Steinmi's blueprints in How long
will last kanyone's -work- partleutar.
Such bridge mess,
usually things always take a long time in Italy. In
Hils care, however, they considerable, and so
150 speeded up by Sielly's fer in agerable, difficulties.
urgent need of such a link with The Straits er Messina are
At present, a slow, expensive point
plice and kilometres ixteen
(1 ferry boat and milies) at
widest. Their helween Messina and Villa San
The
lowns nccwest largely Giovanni. Kreat death
remains munation.
Tyrrhenian respectively on the island and Sea gallops rough "Into the the mainland. many women sufferers as men.
Jew of Els Berven
31 carries the currents Tonton Sea, forming Professor
said smoking
conches of the peninsular Sweden
and caused
were whirlpools which illumination but not necessarily relericus even in the days of insular trains, the fow
the Ancient Greeks.
and private ears which make cancer.
the crossing. Coaches must be Professor Another peinlist, Engelineth of Denmark, said
LONGEST IN WORLD uncoupled and manoeuvred onto Mr Stolnozan's project
then strikes en- the ferry, which that aboratory tests with
visa 109
(because suspension bridge diagonally
the "smoking machine" showed that
which would be the longest of strong currents)
the 4,000 tigorelles produced about
Its kind in the world.
choppy waters, taking about no one and a half ounces of far
Two reinforced concrete and hour and a half from point to which was Bonducive to caner.
steel plies aver 400 metres point. Goods trucks have -China Mati Special.
(1,312 feet) high would bewall hours at either end to be
50 ferried across. sunk to a depth of about metres (294 feet) into the sea- To an Island whose lite
women have not been
heavy snokers for so long.
The preceed that
rears time ther w
117
15 to 20
by
10
North Atlantic Getting Colder
Copenhagen, Oct. 27.
north to breed.
Trawlers found it worth their
1
1110
1720
lo
fro
through
zuzet
trucks
of
Ch
.10
The paper states that there is nothing in the operation of the turbine which is beyond the 1 capacity of the average ship's engineer and there is no reason
Installations why such
should!
not operate tntinuously and effelently on voyages.
the
langon
The
Arst
FOR NORWAY
launching
{
and
various
to
half
repair,
إلى
as
than
weight
scmpeti-
firms
The Rubber
Markets
LESS-RES
Dec.
Nov.
Jan.
51-555%
3316-354
who
Nov: rubber per
obter per lb.
No 3 rubber pur 3.
3414-6415
Nov.
525-323
No. 4 rubber per ib.
Nov
4DARY%
No.
Blanket crepe
1 pole crepe
Spot rubber unbaled ............ 0419-859)
-Uulted Press. NEW YORK MARKET -
New York, Oct. 27, Rubber futures closed to:lay
35-40 poiss lower with s.tes of it 100 contracts,
Spot No. Ris wire quoted high ot 20 cents pound. Prices
owner, Eletency and organisa-live forms of power.
It is mainly because research The Whilhelm Jebsen, built on are
elained also
Singapore, Oct. 27. have re- while elcre workers at Wallsend
Rubber prices were at lower found substances which, Swan. Bunter and Wigham Important factors, Richardson Ltd for A/R Caloris Inspection ensures high stan-cently of Bergen, Norway, has been, dards of material
when added to the crude oil, levels because of little trade and work-
by the effectively reduce its corrosive support but hardened delivered from the Tyne. This manship.
effect on the turbine blades, and Prices:
afternoon end closed off a bil. tanker will Im-
Im- One serious handleap to ship its fentiency to produce a clog No 1 rubber per Ir. Compared with the diesel 18.000-ton
start three-year building
in the Netherlands is engine. (or equal power output mediately the turbine has the advantage in charter for the Esso Petroleum the lack of the heme-produced ging ash. that PAMETRADA is Company. The Helix, another materials. This as been eased, now able to hold its open week, weight and should eventually
and the twenty the but only partly, by the opening. have the edge on the former in 18.000-lon tanker hull by ad- fuel economy. The main sume firm for the Anglo-Saxon of a new rolling at.l: at Ijmui- collaborate in its work ard
runden, with den vinies.
which supplies the ship able to accept orders for marine vantage of the turbine, how Petroleum Company, has
final
gas turbines. und ever-is-
Those yard ever, is-litely-to-De-its-low preliminary trials
WORK
K-TO-BE DONE due to take place had hitherla to be imported. maintenance cost, The running trials are
The directors of the associa Altogether, taking dependent of the set at sen showed that the shortly.
industries into account, nearly tion, however, believe that there nol affected turbine is
the of
250.000 people carn their living is stil a great deal of work to mechanically
conditions by
02 number
this be done before the cuperiority likely to be encountered in any 32,000 ton
tanker directly or indirectly from muer
of the gas turbine over its com- part of the worl
which the Furness Withy Cem-greal Dutch industry..
Of the 140 ships with a total petifors can be regarded as un-
The enteleney of 450,883 pross regat:red tons challengebine increases with: pany have on hand for WILL BE OVERCOME
owners is now not experied from
defects Apart
in take place before mid-December, which were building in the first the gas
cf this
22 year,
were the temperature at which a targe materials and workmanship, the This vessel will be
operates. Ons turbines in air- tonkers totalling 210,101 tens.
at operate life of the major parts-high-dollar earner since it is being
of last June, craft. At the cnd
very
1 con- of futures closed as follows: but as tens temperatures. turbine blading ex-built for the Gulf On Corport- pressure
75 ships totalling 304,251
Des. tion of New York. cluded of
March 1934 a conservatively
were building for 16 countries, sequence have an effective life
May about a thousand hours, ralett installation should not
The new 23,000-ton passenger compared with 74 ships totalling of
July less than the life of the ship. A
of the only 140.432 tons for 'Duteli | Beyond that the metal becomes life of not jess than
10,000 liner Olympla, flagship
unreliable. So short à life would buyers-Router.
be ridiculously uneconomic for working hours may be expected Greek Line, has left the Clyde
a ship's engines which are ex- for the high-pressure blades if on what is described as a they are made of the best maiden voyage cruise. Designers
pected to run at least a hundred the is vessel claim that this materla's now available.
thousand hours corresponding сгл of a new forerunner
to to rather more than twenty for transatlantic travel and that it suggested that It is
years' service. prices. contemplated, gas turbine in offers luxury af tourist
Future research therefore will follows- stallations, the necent should be There is accommodation for 138 and 1,150 tourist
follow the lines of experiments No. 1 rubber per 1. Nov. 1.83 puvers No. 1 rubber për 15. Nov. 11 buyers on simplicity of construction frst-class
to produce models which will No. 3 rubber per.ib. Ndy. 1.50 buyers until more experience has been passengers. The vessel can also
work for lenger periods at much No. I erepe rubber per lb While distilled fuels carry 100 cars and 2,000 tons of
Washington, Oct. 27.
United Press. higher
temperatures without give the best resulls, indications cargo, or 3,000 tons of cargo
The total net income
of detriment to the component American farmers of the red in parts. A number of ways encountered with the burning of
is expected to
this doing
are contemplated. 'Propelling machinery consists the 1933 season residual fuels will be overcome.
of two sets of double-reduction be $1,000,000,000
of 000) below last year, the United One is to make the blades of capable In a speech to the Society of geared turbines,
of Agricul- sintered metal which will with- temperatures, and States Department Consulting Marine
24,000 plap Engineers developing
stand very high scrvice npced of 21 ture announced today. and Ship Surveyors, the Chair-giving
and another, is to discard metals The Department sald in man of the North of Englund knots.-China Mail Special.
Reviewing
The situation entirely and la cipoloy blades report revi Shipowners' Association, Mr
that the
Income of former made of refractory material. would be about four per cent
bottom, some 750 metres depends on its exporis to the obtained. (2,500 feet) from either .coast, mainland, or through the main- land, of fr wise, olives,
where the Straits are relatively roads and after agricultural | are that diMculties at present altogether.
the
cils-
P. D. Dolman, has highlighted the owners difficulties in the
pre-
me
face of high taxation and rising London Foreign
costs.
Exchange
shallow.
The bridge
be products, would
Euch delays incan, $1:specie: for 1,500 meires often, considerable loss.
believe Stelian businessmon (0.000 feet) between these pites. Dr Paul M. Hansen. of the
From end to end, the bridge that the bridge woulit give an Greenland Fishery Research
would ensure Just over 3,000 encrmous beast to the island's Bourd, reported that the North
metres azıd ronk among the cecnomy. Feel trucks instead Atlantic is getting colder again. world's longest, suspended or of slow
trains goods
would 1e lold the International ctherwise.
make the crossing In 1 few Council for the Exploration, of
Only three bridges, In fact, minutes and hurry their fondla the Sea that between 20 and 30
longer: the
10 lower up the peninsula would be years ago the sca beeame Zunbest, in Afrien, which | {ributing coniros,
in Northern (11,283- Industrialists warmer and cod moved further
cropsea 3,451-metro
He sold that from 1945 en- font)
encouraged to waterway, the Starss-Italy would be tromsbroen, in Denmark (3,200 send more raw materials couth.
warda, owners hnd enjoyed and small. metres or 10.507 feel), and the Industries, large,
cimost unbroken
of spall prosperity. Signs of a recession New York land and fish along the Green-Tay Bridge, in Scotland (3,136 would, they say, spring up.
A bridge over which tourists metres or 10,397 feet).
were seen about 1950, but with Montreal TWO LEVELS
could drive with no delay, no
the outbreak of the Korean war, Amsterdain
Brussela would formalies and but Elle ex- The Messina.' Bridge
and freights rocketed
while the stock-plling be longer than such famous pense would also increase
still was
taking Copenhagen
'Zurich tradic bridges as that over the Firth important tourist
they ne
place. They remolned high. Pur But for over 12 months
now. Stockholms freights had receded and were Lisbon....
Hamburg levels. around pre-Korcan
Blocket Mork In anything like pre-war con- ditions there would be no cause for concern, he said. But in the first place, operating costs were
while to move away from lec-
land coast.
temperature li now
But the
Dr Hansen be- dropping and Hoved it woulti
seriously upset the cod fisheries, China Mail Special.
Napoleon's Guitar
Sold At Auction Sydney, Oct. 27.
A gultur which Napoleon used
to while away his exe en
of Forth in Scotland, over the argue-China Mail Special. Rio Saindo in Argentina, and
the Golden Gate
San
Francisco.
lowest At its
point, the
bridge would be
70 Exmo
metrod (229 feel) above
sca
MONSIEUR BING
110W
London, Oct. 27,
2.81 3/20-2.01 5/16 2.75 3/10-2,74 6/10 $0.0223-10.03 140.10-140.19
19.3014-10.383. 12.181-12.10 10.373-19.38 0784-0793%
14,4254-1444
20.81-00.10
11.6054-11.70 15 7/18-15 0/10
-United Press.
level, allowing easy phainge for crooner, recorded eight mas la considerably higher than even JAPANESE BONDS Steven the largest ships. Helena was cold at auction In The estimated
LA103 for
cost of Mr
Expected To
+
Earn Less
(£357,000
under 1962 but the total produc
-
lien expenses were down by New York Sugar
about Two per cent, icavinjt farmers
of
with a net los9 about $1,000,000,000 compared with last year.
I
added that next year the
net income
of farmers should
remain at the 1953
Murket
Sept. Dec.
10.35
120-
10.00
20.00 blu 20.00 bid
20.00 bld
United Press.
AMSTERDAM MARKET
Amsterdam, Oči, 27,
The rubber manket was quiet, Pleca c.f f.ucs clorod as
LONDON TIN MARKET
London, Oct. 27. The ti harke, was dry, Spot
fal 277 to 20214 and larée- months £31⁄4 to 2003.
Turnover was 40 tons of which'
10 tons were for cash.
Epot in, buyers
Elaine
sellers
3-months in, bliyera"
New York, Oct. 27.
Dudle
World No, 4 sugar futures level but closed 2-4 polis higher with that the gross income might be sales of, 120 contracts. a trifle lower than this year.
020
0226
(20
6021
welers
0021
-United Press.
Domestic No. 6 sugar futures Exchange Rates
can-
The report said this would closed unchanged to five points
sates of 46 probably be offset by further lower with reduced expenses.China Mail Spacial.
tracts:
Contract No. 4 (world) Ján. 1034 March
337 bid
3.12 bid
N.Y. Cotton Prices
New York, Oct, 27. Prices of cotton futures clored today as follows
May
4.13 bid
July
3.10
slept.
3.10
Spot-(cents per b. tob
3.00
Cofffafs &
1.2
13.00
Jan. 1054
5.90
7112
ps4.
March
1333
March 1934
IN MY
160
Ky July
Buy
234
Sept.
5.30
32.03
Nov.
103
Dec.
Spot (cents per lb. elf -
8371
Binrch 1935
13.07 vid
United Press.
United Press.
NY ex-dock)
3.83 -United Prash.
Parls, Oct, 20. Bing Crosby, the American
here-all in French. studion
two years ago--most disturbing Crosby, who jokes to every-
London, Oct. 27. of all the incidence of
taxation Sydney
(£84 Steinman's project la 40,000 body about his poor French each
Japanese bonds
"A" (45 of 10001 sterling),
milton fire (£2,300,000 sterling), time he comes here, chose lively was compelling owners only
of 1810 which lunes.
were partly to replace their feels. estimated French so Lar
út 1907) *c© {# A Melbourne Napoleonic col-Nobody has
marine
"D" (0% of 1024) 10 recorded en one long-playing The British mercantile Instrument, how long it would take lector bought the
record. They Include build the bridge.
"E" 10 of 1930) "La would rapidly dwindle in volume which. Is Inlaid with ivory and
"P" (Tokyo 5% of 1026) pro Seine" "La Vie en Rose" "La nothing wore done. Taxation Mr Stelmaria project
HO" (Tokyo. Ge of 1012).... mother of peart, and which has
Consule ecdar
case-China Mail vidas for two levels, the lower Mer" and "Embrasses Mol Bien." was one of the main dangers to
the shipowning industry. the-China Mall Special. Special.
railway traffic,- and
д
for
1905.
Boalner was done in the local and cla exchange. market. This morning, at the following rates 11.9. dollar (def. $11
| Sterling noten (per 211 *****
Indonesia guilders (per 100) Hair Moals (per 100)........ Singapore (Stra{L} Indo-China plastres (per 100)..
Copra Quotation
Now York, Oct. 27, Copra was quoted at $210 per short ton, sked, cit Pocide Const. Coconut oil was quoted E! 134 Echts n jound, asked, ett West Coast.United Press.