12
EASTERN MARKETS
"ABANDONED.".
ATTACK ON POLITICIANS BY LORD LLOYD.
WEAK POLICY IN CHINA AND
EGYPT.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1930.
Money and Markets
DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
SHAREBROKERS” ASSOCIATION.
*Duyar
Höllere
Baden
Nomina WEDNESDAY.Į
NOV. 12.
Bayer Beliara
Bates Nombat
ADAM BANK TO
RE-OPEN.
CUBAN SUGAR INDUSTRY.
$1,670
DEPOSITORS MAY BE PAID| $42,000,000 SCHEME SENT
IN FULL.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Lord Lloyd, late High Commis- sioner for Egypt, speaking in Lon don at a luncheon given by the Incorporated Secretaries' Associa tion to the Lord Mayor, Lady
PARз, Nov. 12. Mayoress, and Sheriffs of London, Jast month, accused politicians of
M. Tardieu and the Finance abandoning markets which had Minister, M. Reynaud, conferred iren hard won by generations of our to-day with the Governor of the adventurous traders, and called for Bank of France and other import strong leadership, and rigid economyant financiere regarding the re in the country's affairs.
Ap opening of the Adam Bank. In China we had for sugue years organisation was constituted to past been prematurely abandoning control temporarily the affairs of and audoning for no evident the Bank. It is believed with the return to ore passing leader or capital at the disposal of the another the hard won privileges authorities that the depositors built up hy generations of adven- could be paid in full. turons traders and in India we were allowing disorder and sedition to strike hammer blow after ham mer blow not only on our own trade but upon the trade of Indians and. up their pente and wellure which
it was our business to guard:
3
AUSTRALIAN LOAN.
HIGH RATES OF INTEREST PROPOSED.
[rngoron nesvin's AGENCY, }
CANDERIA, Nov, 11. The Federal Loan Council has
the issue of agreed upon £28,000,000 Conversion Loan, to meet the £27,000,000 Loan matur ing shortly,
In our attitude in Egypt we were prepared not only to weaken the special position which was the foundation of our trader and vom. merec but dctually to, risk the vital communications which are the link - betwe the Motherland, her Fur Eastern Empire, and Australin..
The conversion will be effected Distress in Lancashire.
upon the following terms: Two were prepared to abandon. Were we surprised that years at six per cent, ten years our markets failed us, that Lancaat 5 per cent. and twenty years shire was distressed, that the city at 5 per cent. was in gloom, that we had two million unemployed, or that the coa- Adence of our people overseas was broken, 1
All this we
"It is to these policies-void of either courage, faith, or political sense-that much of our economic distress is due," he said.
* Our statesmen for some years past, umeshed in the study and pursuit of cosmopolitan agreements and en tafglements, have neglected to give
to
genuflections
to
qur cversens markets or our traders the protection they deserve.
am rat nue who would any a word of eriticism of the fine ideals which have their foundation in the League of Nations, but our statesmen In their constant Geneva have ignored the vast op portunities that lie at their hands within their own Empire, Why need we spend all our time in Geneva when it was in such places as Ottawa, Sydney, Vancouver, and Wellington that our future Iny?
He believed, however, that "Eag- land was capable of the most nytounding recovery if only op. portunism and pusillanimity were thrown on one side and were, re- placed by courage, imagination, and statesmanship.
TERRIBLE FIGHT ON CLIFTON BRIDGE,
YOUNG WOMANS' SUICIDE TWO MEN'S EFFORT TO SAVE HER..
Bristol. Thero Has never been enacted in all the grim history of the Avon Gorge, a more dramatic tragely than that which happoned Fast month.
Two men struggled for a quarter of an hour to save a young woman who had gone over the parapet of Clifton Suspension Bridge with the intention of leaping into the river. 240 feet below.
Bho fought so furiously to ac complish her purpose that the man. at last bocato exhausted, and her flimsy clothing began to tear away from their grasp. The woman Bank Jower and lower; her garments alipped over her head, and finally she dropped into the water below. The men, throughout the struggle, shouted for help, and policemen on duty on the river banks below heard their cries echoing through the fore, but before they could render nid they hoard the spinah which in- diented, that the tragedy was 'no- 'complished.
SCHOOL BILL.`
LIBERALS DEFY PARTY LEADER.
¡TUNDTJA RECTER'S AGENOT.]'
LONDON, Nov. 11. The House of Commons to-day hy 271 votes to 242 paised a money resolution for the maintenance of grapts in connection with the School Bill. In spite of the Liberal Party's decision not to vote, seven. Liberals | voted for the Govertment and six against.
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TO SENATE..
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BLID
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Canton Insurances.. $1,000
2.30/3
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$2.DJ
$2.0J
1.100
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New Yonk, Nov, 12. It is reported 'from Havana that the Cuban House of Representa 940) tives has by 91 votes to passed. for submission to the Senate Bill of finance for Mr. Chadbourne's to re-establish 342,000,000 plus normal conditions in the Culina sugar industry.
EMPIRE CONFERENCE,
REPORT ON ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION.
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$26
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Ruay, Nov. 11. Two meetings of the heads of the delegations to the Imperial Con- ference were held to-day. This 8172)
$5.40 morning's message was brief and at
$2.60 it various matters arising out of
T.120 the Conferepee agenda were con sidered. The meeting was followed T.285
Another meeting immediately by attended by the Commonwealth Prime Ministers and Mr. McGilli- gan, representing the Irish Free State, when questions of foreign polky were discussed.
A long meeting of the heads of delegations took place this after- noon at the House of Conimans, when a report of the Committee on economic co-operation was received and consideration of it has com
menced.
The bends will meet again to- morrow morning.
The report which was considered this afternoch is a very long docu- ment dealing with many matters and it was found possible only to review it briefly.
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$281
$25
H.K. Electrics
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Paris New York Brussels Geneva Amsterdam
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
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$35.35
Telephones (fully pd.)
6221
Do. (part pd.) $12
Sazł
7,9
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Tractions
Do. (prof.)......
Halphong
70
Straits and Calsutis ...
34.825
Industrials
8watow, Amoy and "Focshow
25.035
K
19.065
Milan
02.795
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Biralts, Caylon, India, Mauritius, *Ead
Berlin ...
20.385
Stockholm
18.115
RISING PRICES,
Copenhagen
19.10
$18.40 $18.00
(12)
Dalo
18.16
$6.20
Do.
Do (old)
Canton Tous Comonts (comb.)... 918.35 $18,50
*32.76
(now)...
Vienna
34.485
$11.10
Ropoa ........... 8103
According to the special corre
Prague
1832
$0.70
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Helsingfors
192
817
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42.20
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376 816
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8971
Foochow via Bwałow ...
38 11/10
8281
383
1/6.25/32
Hoihow and Dangkok
1/7
$22
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+
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$21
34
$3.60
810
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11.60
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$13.30
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EXCHANGE.
prem,
spondent of the Manchester Guard-Madrid ian, the revenue from indirect Lisbon
has again taxation in France
deeliued. There was an improve neit in September, to a great ex- trut due to an increase of a per cent. in the revenue from import duties resulting from the higher duties under the new tariff. The revenue from import duties in september was £3,208,332, and the athl revenue from indirect taxation £10,035,334.
Athena
Bucharest
Rio
Buenos Aires
Montevideo ...... Bombay Shanghai Hong Kong
Yokohama Silver:-
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CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
An infallible index to prosperity is time revenus from the tax on business turnovers, which declined in September (as compared with September, 1020) by £794,830 (15.6
to ON LONDON:— vent.), and amounted per £3,070,872. Tho falling off in trade indicated by this decline is no doubt partly due to the steady in crease in retail prices, for which the new Customs tariff is at least partly responsible,
Eron according to the untrust worthy official index, which is based on only thirteen articles, retail prices in Paris during September were nearly 6 per cent, higher than
of
in September, 1990, and the real increase was considerably greater. The volume of retail trade at any rate has therefore declined more The victim is described as a wo khan appears from the revenue man of oultured speech and luxuritax on turnovers. Increased Pro- cus dress, aged about thirty-five, tection in France has thus reduced but up to this evening her body consumption and diminished homo Jad not been, recovered, nor had any information come to hand as to her identity, The only one laft behind was a brown fur coat with Ham's wool collar, which she dis carded, before
Roing over parapet.
the
trado,
ON.
November 12, 1930 Telegraphie Trapsler... 1/3 Bask Bills, on demand 1/31 Bank Blila, 4 months”
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int Credits,
monthe sight Documents, Light..... PARIS - Bank Bills, on demand 7074 Credits, 4 months' sight 8324 NAW
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Do, ex rights
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ON CALOUTTA:-
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Bank, at eight a serious decline in the volume of
On demand foreign trade, and the value of the ON YOKOHAMA - exports has fallen much heavily than that of the importa O. MANILA-On: demand... 62Į Indeed, the value of the imports ON SANOAFORM ----
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more
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How she managed to get over the parapet is a mystery, because increased. For the first six months On BATAVIA: On demxod.. 778 the railings are five foot in height, of the current financial year (April Ox HAIPHONG :- with fine wiro covering the lattice to September), the total revenue
ON SAIGON: On domand.. taxation was work to prevent any one dimbing from indirect over, and there are spikes on top. £133,499,236, lower by £13,390,302 ON HANOKOK:--
misleide (19 per cent) than the revenue for
of the parapat for sonic, before he was observed and the 1920-30, but higher by £8,038,348 1 fruitless resque struggle began. than the Budget estimates.
Shumban
19,00 km, &
13.00 p.m.
12.30 p.m.
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