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390
N. G. & S. Backe ...
318
Ch Fin. Corp, Ord, S.
Am O. Fin. Corp: 8.
Do: Pref. s. Insurances
Canton insumano,
$250
Underwriters
31.35
+44
Union insurances .......
$180
348
China Fires
$400
$460
H.K. Fires.
$224
International Assee, S.
+6
Shipping
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Douglases
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Steamboat
*30
Indos (pret)
$33
32/6
Sutis......
$132
Waterboats
Mining
las cta.
Antumoks......
$397
3490
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339
37 cts. Baguio Golf 37 cts.
814 Benguet Consolidated
18.cts. Do. Exploration
17 $30 $35
$13
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935.
CARDINAL BOURNE'S
SUCCESSOR
Three Likely Candidates Mentioned
(Special Air Mail Service) ·
London, Jan. 12. Any forecasts of the successor to the late Cardinal Bourne must be highly speculative.
The Canons of Westmuster sub mit three names to Romo; the Roman Catholic Bishops do the
same,
The appointment rests with the Pope, and the present Pope has the reputation of making surprise appointments.
LATE NIGHT
CABLES
The following cables were received last night
by the
American
Oriental Finance Corporation and Messrs. 8. F. Levy & Co.:-
London Forecast
Wall Street is expected to open with little change in prices to-day, as general uncertainties continue to overshadow the market.
The Cotton market is anticipated haired boy who played a modest to open with a fair tone, but with forward's part in the second fif-business negligible pending Wash. teen. His nickname was "Theugton development. There is some Young Bilge." It was acquired speculation as to the present crop, from his father, who was always which is backward, while Boll- known as "The Bilge."'
weevil damage is expected to be light. It is probable that not.much attention will be paid to Far Eastern unsettled conditions."
Mgr. Heard, is a
to convert Roman Catholicism. On coming' down from Balliol in 1907 he became a solicitor.
He was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1910, went to the English. Collegs in Roma in 1913, and has made a name for himself as an authority on Church
Two likely candidates are the Most Reverend Thomas Leighton Willians, the Archbishop of Bir mingham, and the Right Reverenda. Edward Myers, Bishop Auxiliary of Westminster and titular Bishop of Lamus
Both are under 60; both have ox or 81 ets. distinguished themselves in educa-
tional work.
The Archbishop of Birminghara 3:3
1a former Cambridge man who 19.48
was Chaplin to the Forces during 10 ct.the war. 21jete.
135 ct
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110.ots,
Do... Goldfield
10 ot.
Big Wedge......
22 d.
Gold Raver.
38jots
Gold Creek...
United Paracalea .....!
16 ct.
Salacot Mining.......
Ipo Miging.
42 ots
Itogong .....
19/3
Kailans
10/
$15
Langkata (single) 3.
$15
15
Explorations..onshi
35
38
Shanghai Loan
16
$9.60
$5
Fouezuela Gold Fils.
$8.40
348
Karbis......MANSER
Docks, Wharves,
Godowns, ete.
H.K. & K. Wharves.
Providents (oldƒ.......! 31.25
3113
$1.30
130 ct.
Do.. (new)
3114
H.K. & W. Docks.
Do.
S. China Motors "A"
120 Shanghai Docks S.
35)
New Engineerings.
$309 Hongkews
Lauds, Hotels, 'and'
Buildings
3114
10 cts.
3:15
35
H.K. Hotels
$5.10
$504
H.K Landa... 9498
3101
Do. 4% Debentures
1%
Shanghai Lauða.„, S.
$24.
$12.20 Metropolitan Lesuds.
H.K. Kealties.........
$12) Chins Do
$5.10
+
Yaumati Ferries $211 $22
China Lights (old)... 39.90 $30
Bishop Myers who is of Dutch extraction, was Cardinal Bourne's chief assistant. For many years he Wha President of St. Edmund's College. Ware.
Rowing Blue Candidate · There is a third and picturesque candidate in Rome itself.
This is Mgr. William Theodors
Heard, the old Oxford rowing Blue of 1907 and the second son of the late Headmaster of Fattes.
He is bimself an old Fettesian. At school he was a pale-faced, fair
Rubber is due to open a little higher.
Wheat will probably be unchang- ed, with cash grains strong.
A.O.F.O. New York Cables He is very popular in Rome, The opening was even and light. and must rank as a strong caudi-Apprehension concerning the court date.
decision is less noticeable.
False Legend Cardinal Bourne was not the who rose to be the highest digni poor boy of the populär legend tary of the Roman Catholic Church in England.
Cotton "trading is light pending the Gold Clause decision. The tone The market acts as if it is well is steady with no pressure to sell.
liquidated.
Although he was never a social figure like Cardinal Vaughan or Cardinal Manning he came of good professional stock. His mother NEW YORK STOCK QUOTATIONS
was the daughter of a Dublin "mei- chant. His father, a high official in the British Post Office, would have been knighted if he had not died at an early age.
Cardinal Bourne was inclined to
be rather stiff in his earlier years but mellowed greatly with the passage of time. In his later years he was an entertaining dinner companion and conversationist.
LONDON MARKET APPEAL TO THE
RUMOURS
Many Commodities Affected
London, January 30. Financial difficulties of the well- known grain firm of Strauss and Company, Ltd., are causing ner- Yousness in other markets than the Baltic Exchange, and more especially in Mincing Lone where rife among the
are
NATION
www
Hitler Reviews
The Past
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally
Press" (Copyright)-1 ...
Berlin, Jan. 30.
In a striking and "vigorous ap- peal to the German nation-issued on Wednesday on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Na- tional-Sccialist regime, Chancellor Hitler points out that the National- Scciolists' rise to power had been
Appear on Page 4..
NEW REGIMENT
OF 20,000
"Tough" S.S. Men
Berlin, Jan. 11. Chancellor Hitler is secretly re- organising his "Black Guard," the body of picked Nazi troops known in Germany as the SS.
Twenty thousand of these men are being formed into a separate organisation, called Regiment No."
1. They are to be more heavily
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armed than the rank and file of American Oriental Finance Corporation and S. E. Levy & Co.
the Black Guard at present.
Reserves have been drawn for the most part from the more hardened and experienced mem- bers of the SS. rather than the intellectuals of the organisation.
The majority of Regiment No. I is centred manoeuvres
on Munich, where with mechanised
One observer likens conditions there to what might be found unique in the history of parlia- forces are being carried.out on an
among gossiping old ladies at a tea party.
Rubber, cocoa,
"
pepper and shellac are all under the influence of these rumours.
Recently a big inancial group has been buying pepper at rising prices and there is no doubt that their commitments are extremely heavy. This fact has been causing some nervousness, which was ac- centuated by the news of the difficulties of the Strauss firm.
3148
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Debenturess.
$10
Humphreys
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New Asia Hotel
191 345
$10
Aria Renities "A".
180
Do.
388
Chinese Estales.....
Cotton Milla
$8.90
EOS.
S.
174
S'hai Cottons(old)s,
$9.10
$74
TROUS brokers.
$442
Do.
89.10
Zoong Singe S.
(new)S.
$415
$0.40
$55
Wing Ou fexules) 561
Public Utilities
1201
201
"Tramways
$201
39
Peak Trus fuld)... 8
$7
"Do ̈(now)..
31
$90+
Star Ferries
$381
$22
$9.8
$70
Do. (NOW)...
700/71
H.K. Electrics $70
$25
Macao do.
12
$25.40
$25.50
$251
$10
$104
S.
Tractions
ལ་
17/9
Industrials
Do. (pret.)......
484
Malabon Sugara ....
320
Caldbeck, onL) S.)
$192 Macgregors/(prst.18.
Canton Icos
$21
104
$3.90
Btiscellaneous
3ctu
$24
Dairy Farma
$234
Der A Wings.
$1.80
Amusements
.371
Cb. Etainmenta.....
$1.85
50 ot.
Do.
$31
Lane Crawfords.........
$8
**
Sandakan Lights...
"Telephones (old)
Do, (new)
$12.40 China Bases
$1.90ements $1.95
Constructions, (old) 314
Mackintosha
(new) 50 sts.
Nanyang Tobacco... $4.55
$8.15.
Sinceres soterrada Watsons..........$4.30
170 ota. Wm. Powells
$2
1,38
pren. prem
877 $105
M. Grayhounds......
C. Enterprises.
United Theatres...8. Uh.G.5%1825G. Bd3.
H.K. Gorb, 4% Losas
Do. 31% Wallace Harper ....... A.K Wing On S'haj
Do.. Vibro Fileng
£1,200 FOR 33 DICKENS LETTERS
14
$2.90
18
As many brokers deal in pepper and shellac, the latter commodity is also suspect; while nervousness has crossed the Lane and has now affected rubber.
mentary states.
extensive scale..
It is understood, however, that this. "regiment would not play a role as an external military force. but is intended for use solely as a weapon against internal foes.
Secret Police Troop
The appeal goes on to say: “Just as the outbreak of the world war marks the beginning of a new era not only for contemporaries but also for future generations so the beginning of the National-Socialist" regime marks the turning point for the German people. We did
In some circles the formation of this force is believed to be the not break up the old world in or-
r to reconstruct a new one but preliminary to the reduction of a new and rising world has con-
the BS., which at present num- quered the old
bers between 100,000 and 200,000 one. We have
secret achieved great success in our workmen, to no more than à of reconstruction. For though on police troop, of 20,000 strong. January 30, 1933 I asked for four
Hitler's personal black body- ard of 3,000, which is no longer
years for the completion of the Arst programme of reconstruction, two thirds of this programme have re-älready been accomplished in the
of
Arst half of the stipulated period,
Enquiries by "Reuter"" have vealed that surplus supplies shellac have been taken into new and very strong hands, while the pepper situation is unlikely to alter before February 8,
when commitments are estimated at be- tween £1,000,000 and £2,000,000 will be met.
If we are not celebrating January 30 this year by holding great fes- tivities that is out of respect to the memory of a man who on this day two years ago entrusted the government to me and thereby, to 'the National-Socialist movement. "It is pointed out on all sides We are all filed with deep emotion that the present weakness of rub- at the thought of the stroke of fate 55 ota
ber is entirely sympathetic and is which so symbolically linked our mainly due to a whispering cam-- movement with the tradition 01 $1.30 paign. Brokers state that the the past before leading it into the market is resistant and -in- future destiny. And then this *90*%
trinsically sound,"
gear's greatest festival should not Reuter.
be a celebration of the anniversary of the assumption to power but rather a festival of joy on the day that the Germans in the Saar ter-
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daughter Helen, denying that they belleved the differences between Mr. and Mrs. Dickens to be based on "circumstances deeply affecting the moral character of Mr. Dic- kens."
First Edition For £230
New York, Keen bids are being made at the 'two days' auction in New York of books, letters and drawings from the collection of the late Mr. Og- den Goelet, which included many items of interest to admirers of Dickens. Among these are 33 Dic- kens letters which were bought by A signed presentation copy, first the prominent Philadelphia collec-edition, of A Christmas Carol' tor, Dr. Rosenbach, for £1,200 was sold for £230,
ADOLPH HITLER STREET ritory return to us. They will find
anation worthy of them Transocean" Kuo Min,
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press' Copyright.).]
Sarbruecken, Jan. 30.
The proposal to call the main thoroughfare in Saarbruecken
A series of copies by Hablot Adolph Hitler Street instead of Browne. (Phiz) of his original illus" Bahnhofstrasse-that is, the sta- trations of Pickwick were sold for tion street was adopted amidst £670. Water-colour drawings by loud applause at a special session the same artist of David Copper- of the city councillors held on field brought £620, and others of Wednesday evening. Horstweasel- Little Dorrit £250,
platz was the name given to the square hitherto - known as Land- wehrplatz while it was intimated that the work of rechristening of
In one, sald never to have been A copy of the first edition poems the city's salient points are not
published, Dickens explains the Teasons for his dislike of his wife's family. Attached is an affidavit signed by Mrs. Hogarth and her
by Robert Burns, known as "Kl-yet ended, it being intended to re- marnock Burns," provoked brisk name other streets in a further re- bidding, and was finally sold for sion
2680.
Transoccan Kvo Mi
the leader of the S.S. and Secret under the orders of Herr Himmler, Police Chief, would remain un-
altered.*
The position of Herr Himmler is the subject of much speculation. Reports of his arrest are officially ridiculed
Friction Between Leaders
Sterling, New York-London ... Cotton: March Cotton: July Rubber March Rubber: July
Wheat: May Wheat: July Corn: May
MATTH
13.07 13.10
961 961
88
881
84 837
82+ 828
1
Jan. 30
Jan. 31 Close Open 10.30 10.45 11.00
4871
12.38
12.44
12.71
13.01
487 487 4867. 12.37 12.37 12,36 12.43 12.43 12.43 12.80 12.80 12.80 13.10
961
88+
83
Winnipeg Wheat May
824
STOCKS
34
35
*347. 341
194
194 191 197 197
937
$4 941 941 844
61
61 61
时
301
304
301 304 31
91
9
9
26
321 32+ 321 324 32 251 251 252 254 257 26 26 171 171 17 171 401 401 41 41 364 369- 364 368
26
26 178 41
368
American Smelting Consolidated gas of N.Y. Du Pont
El. Bond and Share General Motors
Int, Tel. and Tel. "Loew's Inc. ..... Montgomery W. National Distillers New York Central ... Standard Ol Co. of NJ. US. Steel
COMMODITIES PRICES
New York, Jan. 31. New York Cotton The reorganisation of the 5.8.
January 30 is said to have aroused friction
Closing · Opening * Closing between local leaders and the Mar. 12.32 12.36 12.35 12.37 12.38 central authority, and this was May 12:39 12.43 12.42 12.42 12.42 one of the reasons for the sudden July 12.39 12.43 12.43 12.44 13.44 calling of last week's "solidarity Oct. 12.29 12.34:12.33 12.35 12.35 demonstration at which It was Dec. 12.35 12.40- 12.40 12.42 12.42 noticed that the Reichswehr was Jan.
12,35-12.40 12.40 12.42 12.42 more strongly represented than (1935) any other body.
Spot 12.55
12.60
New York Rubber
Old
Old
May
1.89 1.88/89.1.91/01 New New
July
Old
News 1.87 1.86/86 1.89/89.
Old Old Old 1.94 1.93/94 1.95/95
New New New
1.92 1.90/91 194/94 Old Old Old September... 1.99 1.98/98.2.00/00
New New New
1.97 1.96/96 1.98/99. Total sales:-Old: 4,000 tons; New:
5,000 tons.
New York Bilk Mar. 1.37 1.36 137 1.35 1.35+ May 1.38 136 137 1.35 1.36
Herr Hitler is then said to have. referred to the Army as the "sole bearer of the arms of the nation." Mar. 12.50 12.41 12:42 12.70 12.71 July 1.381 1.36 1.36 1.35 135
If it is decided to liquidate en- May 13.86 12.67 12.60 12.84 12.86 Total sales: 175 lots tirely or in part the "Black July 12.79 12.72 12.75 13.01 13.01. Guard,” it seems likely that same. Sept. 12.90 12.90 12.90 13.15 13.18 will be drafted to the Army, while Oct. 1298 12.98 12.96 13-24 13.24 others, who are attached to the Total sales: 444 lats Secret State Police, will be merged
CENTENARIES with that organisation.
DURING 1935
French Academy- Founded 1635
Chicago Wheat Mag
95 951851981 961 July 873 272 67) 809 881. Sept. 857801 887 867 867 Sir Thomas More, Bishop Fisher, Tuesday's sales: 15,729,000 bushels Willian Cobbett, and James Hogg
Chicago Corn Champlain, the founder of Erench power in Canada, died in 1636, and
May 82 82 827 831 83 Bir Martin Frobisher, the naviga
July 781 78178 791 702) tor, was born in 1835, but to neither Sept. 75 751 757 767 17. event cala-precise date be fixed. Total sales: 8,852,000 bushels Among centenaries other than pers
Winniper Wheat Centenaries of the first interest sonal, it may be noted that the are somewhat sparse in the calen French Academy was founded on
821 821 82F 824 821 day of 1925. From the dim and Janusty 1635, and the City of
617 811 811 817 82 distant past we have the deaths of London School was established, on
New York Bukar and King Henry L, and, from later communication of Henry VIIL (an the Venerable Bedo, King Canute, October al, 1835, while the BI times, the birthdays of Madame de event whose historical implications Maintenon and Mark Twain, and need not be enlarged upon) occurr- the anniversaries of the death of ed on August 30, 1535,
May July
March
Old Old - Old
183783186/87 New New: NOW,
Montreal Silver
Mar 54:478 53.958 53.953 64.20 54.25 May 55.00 54.50 64.70 54.60 64.65 July 55.80 56.15 55.70 55.30 55.45 Sept. 56.50 55.80 58.10 55.95, 56.15* Total sales: 13 contracts.
S.E. Levy & Co.'s Cables
The following cabled reporta were furnished by Mesir BE Lery & Co. last night.
London Silver:-Spot: 2477/16; down 1/8: Forward 24.9/15, down 1/8
London Silver Comment: Ind! sold: American Government boug Treely American 183182/821.88/85 bought. Market closed steady,