"LION OF LORRAINE”
Mons. Raymond Poincare Passes Away
Farls, Oct. 15. | spoke, many
M Raymond Poincare, former President of France, died to-day as 3.30 a.m.
Only members of the family and a few close friends were present ut, M. Poincare's death bed. The end came far more suddenly than even the doctors expected.
Through M. Pointate had been practically an invalid since the operation in 1929, he was in his usual health when he returned to Paris from his country house three weeks ago.
He was able to re- ceive friends and continue to! dictate memoirs...
He was deeply affected by the Marseilles tragedy and was taken il last night. Doctors who were summoned were so satisfied with his condition that they decided until the morning. not to return but the patient collapsed in the early hours.
"It is expected that M. Poincare will receive a national funeral- Rester.
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EARLY LIFE
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M. Poincare, who was in his 75th year" joined the Paris Bar on De- cember 20, 1880, and for a hall century continued to lead in his profession, and in French politics. By 1895 he was already a.Minister" in the French Government and by 1913, he had won his way into the Presidential Palace, the Elysee. Silent, doggedly determined, a born orator, 3 man with tew friends but with a reputation for honesty and integrity which won him universal admiration. M. Poincare has had a successful but rather unbrillant half-century career at law.
He never stond in defense of a criminal. His name was never mingled in any of the sensational trials of the past 50 years, and yet there have been many of them. He was not a criminal lawyer, but has a reputation of having won
all but a score of cases" in his life. "From the time I entered the Bar, it has always been forbidden for anyone in the profession of law to talk about himself, or to encourage anyone to talk about you," M. Poincare once said "Dean only say that, I know no, nicer pro- fession than law and were I to start all over again, I would be a lawyer once ever."
THE YOUNG LAWYER
M. Poincare struggled along for 19 years without rising above the mass of lawyers, until in 1899 he assisted the Batonnier, M. Barboux in the famous trial of De Lesseps, "in the Panama Canal scandal. M. Barboux found the pleй of the young lawyer very satisfactory, logical, impecceable but with a tendency "towards literature."
M. Barbour urged Poincare' to enter the offices of a famous civil lawyer, "to cut the wings of liters ture," but M. Poincare has re- mained always an ardent writer,
Poincare owes his fame to his brilliant mind. His voice is weak and monotonous, too highly pitch- ed, and his place would soon prove tiring except for the striking beauty of his language and the Iterature of his thoughts.
His pleas are always long, and often when he fates the court to start him arguments he puts down be fore him 300 pages, written in his minüscule cramped beadwriting.
Then he starts to speak and seldom looks at the 300 pages, for he has the uncanny Faculty of being able to memorize anything that he has written, so long as he is uninterrupted from start to finish of his composition..
members
of the Academy of France sat in court.
They were so much impressed by the literary and oratorical skill of the man that it was Hot long after he received a warm invitation to take his seat in the Academy.
FRANCE'S SAVIOUR
France's Third Republic was facing bankruptcy in 1928 when after a series of short-lived cabi- nets, the ministry of Edouard Herriot collapsed because of the continued depression of the franc. In desperation France sought a Saviour. The search was short. for only one man promised hope of success. Raymond Poincare was recalled to power..
Poincare was short, stocky and aggressive. Forty years in the French political arena had left his hair snowy white but bad not dimmed his eyes nor disturbed the cold, relentless logic of his words. Sometimes he was called the Lien of Lorraine" and sometimes his "Tadical opponents
"Poincare-la-Guerre." Never did Poincare-whe
three times Premier and once President of the Republic-permit a break in the
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1934.
M, RAYMOND POINCARE
the most momentous period in the history of the Republic.
"TO PROTECT CHINA'S
"CURRENCY"
Flexible Export Duty On Silver Imposed
MYSTERIOUS
WOMAN
Hunted By French Police
(Special is "Hong Kong Daily Press"}
... (By Telograph, Copyright,
Tele-
present duty should not be const- | graphic Mezzayn Ordinance, 1893
Received, October 15. 4.30 p.m.)
Paris, October 16,
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It now appears certain that the mysterious woman who calls her- self Marie Voudrot and who is believed to be of Czeck nationellty | Donasal was the head of the Turrerat party who had murdered the King of Yugoslavia and the Foreign Minister, M. Barthou. "
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Nanking. October 14. The Chinese National Govern-dered as final, as he believed that ment yesterday issued the follow in the event of a rapid rise the ing' order regarding the imposition" duty will be further Increased in of a new duty on stiver exports: order to maintain at all costs the
"In view of the undue rise in note backing. the price of silver in relation to China was now divorced from the level of general commodity the world market and no longer prices, the National Government, being forced to deflate in order to in order to safeguard Chinese | offset the monetary exchange economic interests and to protect situation which, developed in the China's currency, has Axed a Far East owing to American pur- This announcement from the customs duty on the export of chases. On the other hand any French Pplice is coupled with the Officially the President was kept outside politics during the war-us | sliver, effective as from October ❘ rise in world price of the metal news from Belgrade that the reat is the fate of the French Pre-15, details of which are as follows: will mean that China will be able name of the amassin, Kalemen, is sident at all times. But Poincare's
On silver dollars and mint to inflate.owing to increased valua- Wlada Georgieff, who during his in Buence was felt and he over silver bars, 10 per cent. duty, tion of her stocks: The bullian long criminal record had com- come personal enmity in 1918 to less 2-1/4 per cent minting authority believes that two silvet mitted two murders already and summon, Clemenceau to the pre- charges already paid, that is prices will develop one Chinese, who, in addition is said to be a Venery
7-3/4 per cent. net. miership to stand side by side with
and the other, world. All butilon | member of a notorious Terrorist | Lenin dealers agree the "Tiger" for France.
that the measure gang known as "Imro," meaning India Rubber was inevitable in view of the re- "Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Mandritsara. cent heavy drain on stocks from Organisation.”
Dusty ....... China.
The news has created a tremen-Dejazomba dous sensation · here. - Madame | Rising Sun Voudrof is said to be of excep- Bunkawa tional beauty and is wanted by Quests. the police. She put up at one of Sans Expor
most fashionable "hotels at that the
pesce
On all other forms of silver, 10 per cent. duty in Heu of the above 2-1/4 per cent, not paid). "In addition, an equalisation |
the
Disappointed with the treaty, Poincare left office in 1920 and was a private citizen once more. He began to recoup his charge will be imposed on referred to
fortunes by journalism and law export of silver equal to the de- practice but he could not keep out ciency, if any, existing between the theoretical parity with Lon- don sliver, and a rate of exchange
politics even though Madame Poincare often wanted him to re-
Speculators are now interpreting the increased duty as a bull point owing to anticipated absence of Large offerings from China, but another expert points aut
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carefully calculated course which turn to his private practice. He claily fixed by the Central Chinese banks' with stocks of the Aix en Province, a week ago, ac- Cesarewitch are Sirettes 10-
guided him towards a set goal.
Three years after the Lorrainer had answered France's call in 1926, Poincare stood before the chamber of deputies and hurled all of his powers into argument for ratiica tion of war debt accords with the United States and Great Britain. He won, but it was a costly vic-
tory.
The Premier who had held power for the remarkable period of three years-remarkable for post-war France was forced to surrender his post because of lness and in the next few months he underwent two operations.
But Poincare had surrendered to illness only after he had brought the programme fomulated in 1926 to a point within striking distance of realization. When he left the chamber of deputies with power for ratification of the debt accords he had a new title. It was the
"Saviour of the franc."
DIFFERENT NATURES Poincare started his government of 1926 with the purpose of sabi- lising the franc, ratifying debt accords, and winding up the war
tangle. When Ieparations
he stepped out of office the Owen D. Young plan for settlement of the reparations question lacked final acceptance by the various govern- ments but otherwise his program. me was complete.
returned to parliament as a sènt- tor and in January of 1922, he was back in the midst of the fighting again.
Bank of China after making due allowance for the payment of the export duty."---Reuter.
CENTRAL BANK ORDER In 1926 his great test was met
Shanghai, October 14. although his successfully-and
Bimultaneously, with the pro- government resigned and was re-mulgation of the National Govern. formed once he set a record by
ment's order "regarding the im- remaining in power until 1929. -position of a new 'export duty on silver, the Central Bank of Chine has made the following announce- ment:-
• ASTONISHING GIFTS
His memory was prodigious. Ke was said to know the Treaty of Versalles by heart and he learned English after he was nity years old because it was convenient in International conferences.
He reads three times as fast as the average professional man. He writes at such a speed, without crossings-out or Interpolations, that he has no need of a short- hand typist and does not employ one. The common faculty" of re- membering readily what one writes he possesses in an extreme degree. '11 his speeches are written out and simultaneously committed to memory. His teral accuracy is impeccable. On the second day of his conference with Mr. Bonar Law in January, 1923, the con- ference which preceded the French entry into the Ruhr, M. Poincare
received his experts at 2.30 p.m. They read to him their comment on the Bonar Law Plan When they left twenty minutes later M. wrote The Lorraine statesman turned Poincare sat down and his government over to a man who several letters. At three o'clock be was in the conference room, where was of a striking different nature
Aristide Briand-but with whom he delivered a speech which "con- tained practically, the whole of the he had worked in closest harmony during the important years of re-long report in the actual words construction of the peace founda- and figures of the document. Sach tion, in Europe.
an occasional feat is astonishing. The differences of the two out- but not more so than his merciless- remembrance of dates, standing statesmen of the day-ly sure
Dersons, and events for many years the methodical Poincare and the clever peace-loving Briand were back emphasized in the months which saw creation of the Young Plan. Poincare, whose iron determina- tion to collect war damages had
into the Ruhr, seemed once sent the Armies of France to move nearer reapproachment with Ger-
many.
But "the Lion of Lorraine" never
lost his carefully calculated will to advance France. It was generally conceded that, if illness had not incapacitated him, Poincare would
have staged a bitter Aght · with Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the Hague re- parations conference in 1920,
OUTSTANDING CASES Always a lawyer of civil casea,
FIGHT WITH “TIGER" only three are really outstanding i He defended the interests of the! In the presidential elections of comedian Marthe Brandes against 1913 Clemenceau and his followers the Comedie Francaise in 1905, but opposed Poincare but the Lox lost. There was precedent, for his rainer won. The ancient "Tiger" beloved Batonnier Barbour had pulled his hat down over his eyes last for Sarah Bernhardt in the and stalked out of the election hall same kind of case, and Waldeck at Versailles mumbling abuse at Rousseau lost for Coquelin, for the Poincare but he always admitted courts still recognise the Na- the ability of the "Saviour of the poleonic law of 1812 which binds | franç.” astor-members to the Comedie This early bitterness was in- Francaise, a state subventioned
theatre, for life.
TRADE TREATY ABROGATION
Strain On German American Relations
Washington, Oct. 14° A distinct stram rn American- German commercial and fiscal re- lations has been produced by Ger- many's week-end announcements terminating the trade treaty and declaring that she is paying only 75 per cent. of the interest due on October 15 to American holders of Dawes Loan Bonds.
The corrected probables for the,
metal outside China will probably companied by a young man who field. L Pratt rides - Simonette, offer very freely in view of the is said to have been one of the Weston rides Solar Boy, Holmes quick book pront obtainable accomplices of the assassin. rides Duty. Short Run. is out of Nevertheless for the time being the Maria Voudrof who is believed to the race, otherwise the list is the market is entirely in the hands of
have given the conspirators the same as announced an" "October speculators. Therefore the future
last orders and also to haveŋ de- | 12.- ilvered arms to them, has mysteri- | Reuter. trend is very uncertain. Beuter.
ously disappeared. · Thousands of secret service men are searching
BANKERS PERTURBED
for the mysterious woman and. her two accomplices. Transocean Kuo Min.
WORLD BILLIARD TITLE CLOSING SCORES
"Notice is hereby given that the Central Bank of China will notify |
"Shanghai, Oct. 15. the Customs authorities at 11.30
The local exchange market was am. daily on all business days somewhat confused this morning, beginning as from October 15, of although it steadied up in the
Melbourne. Oct. 15. an official rate for determining afternoon.
" in the World's Billiards Cham- the deficiency between the
Shanghal Bankers are at present pionship final, the closing scores theoretical parity of London siiver unwilling to express opinions al were Davis 1,902: highest breaks and the exchange rate on London
Government's order fixing thể export duty on silver and impos- ing an equalisation charge on the export of silver":
"SELF PROTECTION
Commenting
on
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Dairen, Oct. 15...
Lord Barnby and his colleagues arrived from Mukden to-day after inspecting the Anshan Mines They are visiting Port Arthur to-
morrow.
in Shanghai, in accordance with though it is generally conceded 507, 477. Lindrum 1,774; highest Lindrum led at the the terms of the Chinese National that the export duty on silver im- break 343.
posed by the Chinese National Interval 899 to 848-Reuter Government will effectively Kill silver exports and will result in
F.B.I.TRADE MISSION lower exchange rates, thus pre- venting further devaluation of the Tocal collar. which" policy the the National Chinese Government is apparent Government order regarding the ly determined to follow, even i new duties on silver exports, Dr. further restrictions are found to . H. Kung, Finance Minister to be necessary, - the Government, stated that there
British and other Foreign Bank- | Reuter, had been no reason to expect era are perturbed regarding silver "that the forces which had been to the value of some $10,000,000, recently stimulating the price of which is at pesent aboard ships in silver abroad would soon cease to the harbour, for which the Chin- operate, therefore the Chinese ese Customs had already issued Government, out of regard for the export permits prior to the import- economic welfare of the people ton of the duty and on which the living in China, has taken this bankers are now required to pay measure as a necessary step to the heavy export tax imposed-or safeguard China's currency from thdraw their shipments from the potentially dangerous drain the vessels on the country's morfetary re- Reuter. serves and in order to place a check upon the operation of harsh deflationary forces, which had been reflected in falling.com- modity prices.
Dr. Kung said thai the measure had been decided upon after most careful consideration of various proposals for meeting with the emergency and after full pon- sultation with leader of business and finance.
RESTRAINING MRASURE
The Chinese Government con- sidered that it should not-Impose an embargo on the export of silver and preferred the imposition of a Hexible export duty that would restrain exports of silver within the limits actually required by balance payments.
The Fixiance Minister stated i conclusion that he would not even consider the reduction of the silver content of the Chinese dollar, which propost, he stated, was never mentioned at the con- ferences Reuter
SHIPS AFFECTED
TYPHOON WARNING
The following telegram was received by the American Con- sulate from Mantis yesterday, timed 3:20 pm
Typhoon in about 125 de- grees lon. E. and 14 degrees Let- Nj moving N.W..
The Hong Kong Observátory reported in the afternoon that the typhoon was situated about 250 miles to the East of Manila, móving N.W.
SILVER MARKET
IN BOMBAY
Now Open Again
Bombay, October 15. The imposition of an additional
While official, comment is not available, it is learned that the
Shanghai, October 15, American Government considers | It ́s reported that several the Dawes Loan proposal. 2. de- Banks have been anticipating the Anite discrimination against new duty and exported huge America, as bond holders of amounts of silver in the past fort duty on silver is considered to creased later when Poincare vigor seven countries are to be pald night Meanwhile it is disclosed have reached a bull point since ously opposed the policy of Cle- fully.
that the new duty is applicable the American attitude remains
unchanged. In 1887, he had won fame for menceau and Marshal Ferdinand
The denunciation of the trade to consignments aboard ships, in tale défense of the Goncourt Foch at the peace conference, He
treaty is not in accord with the harbour which had not clear Academy which was fighting" for left the presidency much disap- policy of the Secretary of State, ed the Customs. The vessels its life against the claims of the pointed that the Versalles treaty Mr. William Cordell Hail, aiming Pande, Comorin and President Goncourt heira, who were asking was signed during his regime.
at the extension of the most | Grant”häre. thereby affected the court to give them the funds.
In 1813 Poincare assumed the favoured nation treatment and Reuter. Goncourt willed to the Academy. prezidency and a year later he was the breaking down of intera- His third great cases was in on an oficial visit to Russia when tional barriers The State, De- 1908 when he pleaded for the an assassin in Sarajevo Ared apartment's reception of the sug- Authors: Bociety, with Alexandre, shat which led directly to the gestions of the German Ambas- Millerand, who was to succeed him world war, The President hasten-sador, Kerry Hans Luther, for a President of France later, as his ed home but peace entorts falled negotiations to replace the present
nent. That trial impassioned. and the Lorrgine lawyer was chief trade treaty was very recol. opponent. France and on the day Polcare of the French Government during Reuter,
LONDON OPINIONS
London, Oct. 15, Cina, forced by the American aliver policy, has now taken efter:) tive control of her stocks of alivar," aald a leading bullion authority to Reuter to-day, adding thats the
Local dealers, however, Are waiting a lead from London. The local market which closed. this morning, it is reported owing to differences between brokers and dealers regarding brokerage rates, his now opened The liest available/
Bett
Dec. I Bett
ater are
67-06
(87.08
INNOCENT MAN
ARRESTED
Not Connected With The Murders
Annemasse. Oct. H. The man arrested at Chamonix yesterday, thought to be a Bri tish subject, born of a Bulgarian father and Turkish mother, and ́ suspected of complidty in the Mar- seliles, assassinations, is now des- cribed as a Bulgarian subject.d Police state they have decided: that he had nothing to do with the murder of King Alexander and M. Barthou. He will probably be re- leased at once- Reuter
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