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U.S. CURRENCY.
QUESTION OF A STABLE
DOLLAR.
A new campaign against the high cost of living, which may be carried into the 1920 campaign on the issue of a revision of our money system, is being organized by Prof Irving Fisher of Yale, political economist of intema tional repute.
THE HONGKONG
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1920.
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Government, through the Foreign Office staff and the Ministers st the various Allied capitals, is seeking to obtain a semi-official statement from the leaders in the various Governments whether they really wish that the demand Prof Eicher is in Washington
for the surrender of the former with the draft of a bill designed Aiser be granted. Your corre- to stabilize the value, the pur-spondent has learned this from an chasing power of the dollar. Once Attache at the Dutch Ministry in that is done, he says, the problem Paris who asserted that he of dealing with the high cost of is working on the proposi- living will be solved.
tion with the French author ities and that Prof. Fisher does not expect President Deschanel will not in- be believed early favorable action by Consist on the Netherlands giving gress, however. He anticipates & up the refugee. This young long and hard-fought fight before Dutch diplomat asserted that his his plan which he says he has spent years in evolving from the Had already received assurances government officials in Tokyo merely academic to a practicable from Japan that the Mikado will working basis-is adopted. Bat oppose bitterly any attempt to adopted it must be in the long try the former Kaser and also run, he contends, if we are to promised that they will not pressed goods are to be left in the Go- eliminate the injustices and hard-the demands if others would downs, where they will be ex- ships that now result in a dollar drop them. The King of Italy is amined on February 25th at to-day buying only half of the said to have given private assur- article it would buy in ances to the Dutch envoys that he will discountenance the try
All claims must be presented. To support his fight and carrying of the Hohenzollerns. It is within a week of the steamer's it into the coming campaign, if reported that the Vatican is pre-arrival here, after which they need be, Prof. Fisher is organiz-paring for a moment on a pro-
cannot be recognized. ing a "Stable Money League." inpaganda aimed the ranks of which he hopes to farmer Kaiser remain in Holland: at letting the enlist every man and wo.can who at the same time, exacting a want to know what the dollars promise from Germany that he they are saving to-day are going will not be permitted to return to to be worth next year. Hethe fatherland. opened his campaign in Washing. ton with an appeal to members of the National Popular Govern ment League to get in on the ground floor in the fight for a stable dollar.
same 1913.
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All broken, chafed and damag-
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Express, Banyei Maru, Anchor- ing, from Kobe..
5.5. Yakikoman at Mitsubishi
Shoji Branch, from Kobe.
Tungshingcheung Virgensee Road 66, from Shanghai.
Chuognunyous, No. Còn nought Road. from Shanghai.
Pitki, from Kobe. Singlee, from Kobe. Kwangtaila next of Sincere, froin Shanghai.
Kwarchiahing, from Amoy Wingtungchong, from Shang-
hai.
Captain Usui Hwahwa, Tusen- kaisha, from Kobe.
Yancheong, from Kobe. Chaiting, from Osaka.
Oginomatsu Barahatee; from" Tanokuchi.
Courtees from Shanghai. Yulai, from Amoy.
World Insurance Co, from Shanghai,
T. KRING. Superintendent. Hongkong, Feb. 20. 1920.
No claim will be admitted Godowns and all goods remaining EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL after the goods have left the
undelivered after February 26th,
will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.
send it their Bills of Lading for Consignees are requested to countersignature immediately,
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My Dutch informant asserts that the emissaries to the Hagu hare discovered a feeling in England averse to trying the former Kaiser and that onls a handful of men headed by Senator Owen. president of that Mr. Lloyd Georze really want the league and former chairman of trial The Dutch Government can the Senate Committee on Bank-never submit to being forced to ing and Currency, one of the surrender the former Kaiser. Ac- authors of the federal reserve act, cording to the informant, rather is understood to have given than hand him over to the Allied approval to Prof. Fisher's new Agents, they would persuade him bill and to be ready to sponsor it to return to Germany or seek an in the Senate. Secretary of asylum elsewhere.
This young Treasury Glass, who went into diplomat pointed out that under the Senate Jan. 1. has also gone the Treaty of Versailles, Demand over the proposition
and is there is no specification made 30 d's declared to have given
50 3/
approval.
can
it that is Germany or any other country to give him up. Under the plan proposed by Therefore if the former Kaiser Prof. Fisher, the index number of leaves Heiland and goes to Ger- all general commodities entering many or anywhere else, there is into the cost of living would be no local machinery to reach him. faken, as of fixed date, for com- The Kaiser's name might have puting the value of the dollar. If been included with the German the index number of to-day were officers who are guilty of war eccepted, as compared with the crimes but that list is already basis of 1813 prices from which made up and submitted to Berlin. cost of living, increases
are It is not believed that the now figured, it would be 192, former Kaiser's name can be in- and the gold dollar resulting would cluded in the list. Now it is cer be almost double the weight ofthe tain, however, that if the former: gold dollar of to-day. In other Kaiser be not demanded from words, the actual purchasing Germany by February 10th, one, power of the new dollar would be month after the signing of the $1.92 as compared with the pre Treaty of Versailles, it sent dollar. It would have the never be added to that list as same purchasing power as the the Treaty specifically, provides gold dollar of 1913, on this time limit in which the guilty which present index figures are persons be demanded from Ger- based.
mats. The Treaty also provides From month to month, or year specifically that jadges from to year, as the index number of Great Britain, France, Italy, commodity values fluctuates in Japan and America should try terms of gold, the weights of the the former Kaiser. dollar would vary corresponding those Powers refuse to place their ly and its value. remain representatives on the tribunal, the trial cannot be held under the "A yard was originally the terms of the Treaty. The Dutch girth of a chieftain of a tribe." Government may demand of the says Prof. Fisher. "Suppose our Five Big Powers the names of yard of measurement had not the members for the tribunal been standardized-bat it was, in- before proceeding further with #tead, the girth of the president of the demand. It is expected that the United States. How would the this would cause an indefinite buyer come out who contracted deadlock; at least until the for yardage goods under President Seriate ratifies the Treaty and Taft's administration and receiv-the agreement regarding the ed deliveries after Wilson Amercian members is reached, became president? Yet the there is no definite information deprecision of the yardstick regarding the matter. between the Taft and Wilson itis declared that the recent administrations would be no articles saying that the former more than the depreciation Kaiser is insane are merely of the dollar between 1896 and propaganda circulated to abate to-day. The depreciation of the the demands for his trial and the dollar is just a disastrous as a principal reason why the Kaiser corresponding change in any unit never giants audience or sees used in commerce.".
reporters to keep up the ruse.
constant.
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EXCHANGE.
SELLING.
5/74
378
5,76
5/75%
Nom.
240
200
212
212
94
24514 Nom. 13.45
4 m/s I/T Shanghai. T/T Singapore.. T/T Japan T/T India. Demand, India T/T San Francisco). & New York.f T/T Java. T/T Marks TT Francs Demand, Paris
BUYING.
4 m/s. L/C 4 m/s. D/P 6 m/s. L/C
30 ds. Sydney and Melbourne
5/94
5/954
5,/10
5/1054
30 dis. San Francis-1
co & New York f
9534
4 m/s. Marks
Nom.
13.95 14.10
4 m/s. Francs
212
Demand. Germany.
6 m/s. Francs Demand, New York 3438 If any of TT Bombay
Demand, Bombay... T/T Calcutta 212 Demand, Calcutta... Demand, Singapore. 240 Demand, Manila... 19112 On Haiphong On Bangkok On Saigon
Gold leaf per Tae:... 30 Sovereign..
Bay Silver, ready... 82
forward
8014
Nom Nom. Nom. 3.55 Nom.
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List of Unclaimed Telegrams lying in the E. E Telegraph' Office at Hongkong:-
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Captain Sengupta, Kowloon, from Tientsin.
Chiba, Shosen, from Keelung. Chiveguil, from San Francisco. Clements American Consul. from Manila.
Gfnhank, from London.
Loomis (3) American Consulate from New York.
Vaikow, from Tsingreu,
Wm. Ezra & Co.. from London. D. de H. FARRANT, Superintendent,
Hongkong, Feb. 19, 1920.
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The N. Y. K. 5.5. WAKASA M. (European Line.) left London for this port via the Suez Canal on the 29th Jan. and is expected bere on the 11th March.
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The N. Y. K. s.s. TAMBA M. (European Line.) left London for this port via Suez on the 14th Feb. and is expected here on the "per. 24 24th March.
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