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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST
SILVER ISSUE IN PRINCESS ROYAL'S
CONGRESS
Drive For Bi-metalism Indicated
Washington, Aug, 23 Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklaho ma told the United Press to-day that bimetalism was one of the first subjects coming up before the next session of, congress, which meets in January.
He indicated that Senator Key Pittman of Nevada would lend the fight in behalf of silver.
Thomas and his allies are not sa- tisfied with the use which President Franklin D. Roosevelt made of the authority given him in the farm re het bill to fix the weight of the sil. ver dollar in relation to the gold dollar, and placing the currency on a bi-metallic basis..
Little Used
In fact the President has made virtually no use of the silver fan tures of this measure, except to have the silver paid on the June 13, war debts by Great Britain, amounting to $10,000,000, issued in coin.
President Roosevelt has not clari. fed his monetary programme as it Affrets silver.
His intentions toward a possible remonetization of silver with gold un definite ratio are unknown, ex- cept that he has indicated a desire to or as conservative as is possible
HEALTH
Lord Harewood And Public Demands
{Special Air Mail Service)
London, Aug. 1. The Earl of Harewood, deputising for the Princess Royal, opened at Rotherham on Saturday the Row Harringthorpe Valley road, which has been constructed jointly by the. Rotherham and West Riding Coun eils at a cost of E00,000. It pro- vides an alternative route from Sheffield to Doncaster.
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Lord Harewood said the Princess Royal had lately been extremely in disposed. She had attended so many functions throughout the summer that ber doctors forbade her to de any more until the end of Septem- ber or October.
The public, he thought, asked a great deal of members of the Royal family, and particularly of the King's sons and daughter." "I do not think he continued, "that the public realise how few. numbers of the Royal family there are to at- tend the very large number of func tions to which they are invited.
The King has four sons, one daughter and one daughter-in-law, and when the Queen is unable to fulfil a function herself one of these two ladies has to attend. I do hope
in pursuing his campaign of inflate publie will realise that it is heoil the strength of any human tion and restoring prices.
being, let alope à lady, to do all that is asked of the King's daughter and daughter-in-law
Higher Ratle
At 36 couts an Janer, its approx imate present price, silver is valued at 38 to 1 in relation to gold, which is fixed by law at $20.67 an ounce, When William Jennings Bryan made his campaign for the remonetization of silver in relation to gold, he se lected a ratio of 18 to 1.S
At the end of 193, leading, 'na tions of the world were using as a basis for their money. a total of $11,040,605.000 in geld and 84,110, 046,000 in, silver.
The department of commerce in special study of the silver metal question said that many countries recently took advantage of the ris ing gold ratios of currency by sub stitution of gold with baser metals.
Use Limited,
The department survey said that total of 59 nations throughout the world could, under present laws, in crease their subsidiary silver coin-
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The report further observed, however, that the use of silver for. money can only reach certain limite. In the United States when the use of silver becomes too cumbersome. other means of exchange are em- ployed."
WORLD PRODUCTION
INCREASING
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(BY UNITED PRESS)
New York, Aug. 93. The American Bureau of Metal Statistica announced world silver production in july amounted to 12, £29,000 fine ounces, as compared with 11,831,000 fine ounces in June.
The largest increase in production was in Canada, which increased from 641.000 ounces in June to 1,227,000 ounces in July.
United States production in July was 1,552,000 ounces and. Mexico's 5,100,000 ounges.
Burma and Europe showed small decrease in production.
The total world production from January to July, inclusive, amount- ed to 91,961,000 ounces. American
GOOLE ENGAGEMENT. CANCELLED
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Intimation was 'received at. Goole. yesterday that the Princess Royal had cancelled her visit to Goole on She had arranged to lay Sept. the foundation stone of the now church old Goole and to open a naw bowling green at the Earl Haig Metórial British Legion Club.
Princess Alice Countess of Ath. lone, when deputising for the Princess Royal ata stone. Inying ceremony સ 11 Lon- don hospital on July 7, made a laughing protest against the public habit of expecting ex- traordinry physical endurance from members of the Royal "fam- ily. "We really are not robots," she said.
GUN RUNNING IN HAWAII
Police Investigation. In Progress
Honolulu, Aug. 18. Tulice authorities said to-day they believed large numbers of firearms and ammunition were ne- ing surreptitiously imported into Hawai and distributed among alfens" and, Filipino plantation labourers, basing their conclusion on a six-month investigation and a dozen récent arrests in connec-
tion with unregistered guns.
Officers said they believed they had broken up an organization or Filipino gun, runners at the Afea plantation town with the arrest last night of three men on in- formation provided by Marino Thous; who is serving a six-month sentence for illegal possession of arearms.
Ibous and four other Filipinos were arrested Saturday night
GENERAL AGENCY FOR HONG KONG AND SOUTH CHINA, refiners' stock at the end of July when they called at the Alea de-
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PRIZES THAT GO BEGGING
For Getting In Touch With Mars!
(Special Air-Mail Service)
London, Aug. 9. The Guzman prize of 500,000 francs offered some years ago by the French Academy of Science for
pot for an express package con- taining nine revolvers and automatics and a quantity of am- hunition, Toous told police that another package of firearms, or- dered by the same organization, is awaiting a claimant at Alea.
Police also are Investigating Thomas King, a Chinese merchant of Honolulu, who pleaded guilty to illegal importation and sale of guns and ammunition. They said King imported a consignment of Colt revolvers early in July with- out registering them.
He claimed the guns were sold
the first man to establish communi- to the police themselves but offi- tation with Mars, is to be devoted cials said the department had not
to other purposes if not won by 1933. It is not the only big money prize of the kind that is going beg-
ging.
used this make of weapon for two years. They expressed the belle! he sold the guns to allens, parti- cularly Filipinos.
In 1907 a reward of equal magni-: Plantation police have been as- tude was entrusted to the Royal aisting the Honolulu department, Gottingen Society for the first sol- believing the possession of fire- ver of the simple-looking mathema- arms by the Filipinos to be dan- tical problem known as the "Theo-gerous in the event of labour diff- rem of Fermat.”
culties. More than 2,000 Filipinos Hundreds of competitors have en- recently struck but returned Lered each year for this prize, but work. se far none of their suggested solu-
to
The investigation was conducted Filipino birth.
tions has been accepted by the by J. I. Garcia, a policeman of judges as correct,
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Fermat's theorem is that overy number can be expressed as the of three triangular numbers.
GEN. CHEN TSAI TONG'S
GIFT
Victims
the evacuation for the Communists. Rellef is urgently needed in view of the famine there coupled with the widespread destruction of pro- perty during the Red regime.
Faced by starvation and harass- ed by the lack of ammunition, one-third of the Communist · for- ces in southern Klangsi have sur- $100,000 For Relief Of "Red" rendered to the government for- ces, according to the local press. The Red zones are now blockaded by the Kwantung forces assisted +. Canton, Aug. 28. by the Kwangs!" divisions and -General Chen Chi-tang, com- those of the 19th route army mander-in-chief of the first group hence there is no outlet" for "the army, has appropriated $100,000 for enemy except to retreat farther, the rehabilitation of Taun Ban into.the mountains. Central Wel, southern Klangsi following Press.
29, 1933
NEW US, BANKING REGULATIONS
Dealings With Foreign Banks
Washington, Aug. 26.
REGULATIONS alming at the controlling of the relationship of the Federal Reserve banks to foreign banks were to-day issued by the Federal Reserve Boara.
The
require regulations
the Federal Reserve banks to submit, forthwith, full information con- cerning all existing relationships and transactions with foreign banks, and forbidding Federal Re
serve bank representatives to negotiate with foreign banks ex- cept in pursuance, of agreement previously approved by the Board.
-Reuter.
Mr. James Charles West, late Chief Warder, Prisons Department. and Mr. George Frederick Hunt Taylor, late Sub-Inspector of Light- been houses, Hong Kong, have awarded the Imperial Service Medal
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