IN THE NEW
PASTEL
SHADES
DELIGHTFULLY INVITING...
ASK THE LEADING DESIGNERS.
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
China Building.
Tel: 20269.
Street, Hongkong.
FIRST EDITION
Library, Supreme Cour
Hongkong Telegraph.
No. 14201
FOUNDED tan 五拜體 號九十月正英港香 FRIDAY JANUARY 19, 1934.
日五初月二十
BINULA QOFT 10 CONTE
$16.99 PER ANNUM
....
LONG MILEAGE SAFETY...
DUNLOP
The World's Best Tyres
DOLLAR AND STERLING IN CURRENCY BATTLE
Depreciation Duel Favours
Favours Pound
AN OKLAHOMA HEAVY SLUMP IN
SENSATION
Company Failure Sequel
New York, Jan. 18. Warrants have been issued in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the arrest of twenty-five oilmen and bankers in con- nexion with the fallure in march last of the Exchange Trust Company, Allega- tions of embozzlement are made in tha charge.- Router.
FRANCE WILL NOT DISARMA
FEAR OF GERMANY EVIDENT
THE PREMIER'S ASSURANCE
Paris, Jan. 18. There can be no question, of reducing the effectives and equipment of the French
NEW YORK
STERLING NEARLY DOWN
TO PARITY RATE
MORE INFLATION IN THE STATES
New York, Jan. 18.
The momentous duel between sterling at the dollar is the feature of the foreign exchange market.
There is no doubt that a keenly contested currency war is proceeding and up to the moment sterling is winning all along the line. Sterling fell sharply both in relation to the American dollar and to all Continental cur- rencies.
The duel to-day ended in the pound closing at 4.96 only ten cents off parity level, as com pared with 5,03 yesterday and 5:13 before the Roosevelt revaluation announcement.
The slump in the pound is ditri-l buted mainly to the maximum! valuation of the dollar and the
Britain and France.
-Nazi dáring to wall illustrated in this pleture, showing a flag being removed from a lamp past in Vienna. It was erected in board day. light by 'pasudo,workmen and unfurled by a small detonator.
RUN OF VICTORY ENDED
COVENTRY LOSE AT HOME
AFTER SEVENTEEN
· UNBEATEN GAMES
the
Army when other countries FREE STATE fear of self-defence measures by fourth round of the FA Cup
.
are re-arming, declared M. Chautemps, the Prime Minister, in the Senate to». night.
A reduction in armaments could not be effected unilaterally. It could only be carried out in a futuro general convention, he said.
The Premier was replying to debate in the Senato on foreign affairs, in which disarmament} gured prominently, together with *peculation on the attitude likely
HARD UP
DRASTIC-CUTS-IN- SALARIES
25 PER CENT. OFF HIGH LEVELS
Dublin, Jan. 18. Drastic cuts in salaries,
the event of a European conflict. especially in the higher to be adopted by Great Britain in'
The speakers all expressed the levels, are contemplated by conviction that Britain would Mr. de Valera in view of the Support France in the event of German aggression.
A slight repatriation of Ameri- can capital and moderate foreign investments in American securities were other factors in a heavy market.-Reuter,
·FRESH INFLATION MEASURES
Amendments to
Monetary Legislation
Washington, Jan. 18.
London, Jan, 18. Northampton, entered
competition to-day by defeating Southampton by the only goal scored in the third round replay.
one of the best performances of Northampton, who accomplished
the day on Saturday-in-eharing six goals at the Dell to force the replay go to Huddersfield in the fourth round.
STERILISATION IN BRITAIN
Special Committee's Recommendations
London, Jan. 18. Among the principal - recom- mendations of the report of the. departmental committed on the sterilisation of the nalt, published -to-night, are that, "subject to safeguards, voluntary sterillas- tion should be legalised In čase of a person who is ment defective, or who has from mental disorder, a person who suffers from or is believed to disability which has been shown a carrier of a grave physical
be
the
to be transmissible, and a person who, la belleved to be likely to transmit mental disorder or defect. British Wireless.
Two more postponed league Hitler
matches were played off and one of them resulted in a 'somewhat Bensational upset, tho defent of Coventry City by Queen's Park
Rangers.
·COVENTRY'S LONG RUN.
The House of Representatives occasioned if the match had;
Snubs
wwwww.
Bishop
No surprise would have been Mueller will consider President Roosevelt's been played at Loftus Road, but Dollar Devaluation Bill on Satur-Coventry were playing before TOO BUSY" TO SEE day and the Senate next week. their own supporters.
HIM
Mr. Morgenthau, Secretary of Free State's financial the Treasury, has urgently re-
quested speed..
After the Premier's assurance stringency. that no reduction in Army strength was contemplated at the present
The cuts will range from five to time, the Senate passed a vote of twenty-five per cent. and will confidence in the Government by affect several thousand 257 votes to three.-Reuter, "
LIGHTNING STRIKE ·
IN CUBA
NEW PRESIDENT INSTALLED
Govern-
ment oficials and those employed by local authorities.
Meanwhile, the Banking Com- mitteo of the Senate has amended the, proposed monetary legislation to authorise the Secretary of the Treasury to issue small non-in- terest bearing bonds, an inflation- ary measure.
It was their first; defeat ... since September 18. In seven-
· teen" consecutive league mat- chs, up to to-day, they had won ten and drawn · Beven, climbing from sixteenth posi tion in the table to second, after losing four of their first. six games.
}
Queen's Park Rangers, whò, arò also making a strong bid for the championship, won by the only goal scored.
|
The revised positions, at the head of the table follow:
3
TREASURY NOTÈS. If the projected Government: Bill is carried, the salaries of be- Another inflationary amendment tween two and three hundred men was.introduced by Senator Fletcher, will be reduced by five per cent. chairman of the commitice, on le while at the other end of the scale, half of the Treasury, increasing by twenty-five per cent, will be taken $2,500,000,000 the amount of Tren- off salarics exceeding £1,500 sury Notes that can legally ba Norwich. annually.
issued,
Q.P.R. The Treasury Department has ex-Coventry plained that the amendment will Reading facilitate the forthcoming huge re-
Charlton funding operations by permitting
The tenchera, Army officers and civil servants have already had their salaries cut, but the Civic Guard (the police force) has been exempted.
P. W. D. I F. A, Pts. 24 15 45-55 33 34 23 14 4 5 44 253 32 24 12 76 61.32 31 23 13 46 02 20 30 22 14 2 6-53 31 30
Tranmere defeated
Havana, Jan, 18. The oltuation in Cuba has been
the purchase of any class of Govern- Section).
In the Third Division (Northern further complicated by a light
mont accurities with any otlier. Barrow by four goals to one and ning strike this morning which The measure which will be in- The explanation did not, howjump to fifth place, in the League resulted in depriving, Havana of troduced in the Dall in a few days over, any whether the amendment tuble. The leadors are:-- gas, light, water and transport. will be strongly contested by the would authorise the lasue of non- Chesterfield 24 18 24 68 21 38 Oppoaltion and. Senate.-interest bearing bonds of small Router.
denomination.-Reuter.
It did not, however, damp the wild enthusiasm exhibited when. Col. Mendieta took office 16 President at noon.-Reuter.
NEW LIGHTWEIGHT
CHAMPION
-MIZLER OVERCOMES
CUTHBERT
London, Jan. 18,
the
CHICAGO SURGERY MURDER
ACCUSED'S "CONFESSION" ADMITTED
INTO EVIDENCE
Stockport
Barnsley Walsall Tranmere
AFTER SEVENTY 'MINUTES' WAIT Berlin, Jan. 18. A remarkable incident occurred to-day in connexion with the Church conflict in Germany."
AUSTRIA AT END OF PATIENCE
DR. DOLLFUSS'S CHALLENGE
WAR ON NAZIS
Vienna, Jan. 18... Consternation has been caused by the vigour of an anti-Nazi speech by Dr. Dollfuss here to-day and Austro-German relations
The latest picture of Dr. Dolifans.
seem likely to be subjected A FORTUNE
to further strain.
There were hopes that the visit of Signor Suvitch, the Italian Under Secretary for
FOR THE Foreign PICKING UP.
Affairs, who arrived In Vienna. during the morning and had a long and cordial conversation with Dr. Dollfuss, would coincide not with a fresh declaration of froatility, but a declaration of Austro-German peace.
Such hopes were rudely shat tered in the subsequent speech by the midget Chancellor, who declared that Austria was at the end of its patience with Nazi terrorism.
AT ANY COST.
Dr Dollfuse expressed his dc-| termination to restore order in the country by the employment of all necessary force, not counting the cost, since their restrained methods Had been misunder
stood,
They had had proof, he asserted, that German materials for bomb- ing attacks had come across the frontier, but he hopes that the reasonable elements in the Nazi camp would at length see that thoir methods were wrong-Reu- ter.
GRIM TRAGEDY OF THE SEA
CREW GO BEFORE AID ARRIVES
BOAT CAPSIZES
HUGE DIAMOND FOUND
ELDERLY DIGGER PAID £70,000
" · London, Jan. 18. Great interest has been aroused by Press messages from South Africa stating that a pure white faw1063- diamond, weighing 720 carate, which was found by an elderly. digger named Jonker at Elandsfontein, twenty miles from Pretoria, has beep bought by Sir Ernest, Oppen- héimer, the Chairman of the Diamond Corporation and is being sent to London." The reported price paid for the diamond is £70,000.
A second stone, weighting 287 carats, found near the same spot La few daya ago, has also been | bought-by-Sir--Ernest-Open-
neimer.
Elandsfontein is three-milce from the point where the famous Cullinan Diamond of 8,025 carats, ine largest in the world, found in 1905.-British Wireleza.
G.P.O.'s. RECORD PROFITS
Was
POSSIBLE RELIEF OF TAXATION
London, Jan. 18. It is revealed that the ten officers and crew of the London
London, Jan. 18. steamer Oakford who lost their The Postmaster General, Sir- lives to-day might have been Kingsley Wood, at Belfast to-day, saved if they had stayed aboard said he was about to present to the doomed ship a little longer. Parliament the commercial ac
The Oakford, a small vessel of counts of his department for the only 079 tons, had been driven year ended March last, which aground near Texel Island, in would shew that there had been treacherous waters, by high seas achieved anet surplus, “after on capital, of and the strong wind in last night's charging interest flerce gale.
ovor £11,000,000 over the previous News of the plight of the ship year. This was a record in the An announcement was made in reached shore and lifeboats went history of the British Post Office. the course of the day, that Reichs-out to the aid of the crew,
Sir Kingsley remarked that bishop Mueller, the Primate of the Unfortunately they were unable there were doubtless many admir- Evangelical Church, had had a
surplus to approach the ship until dawn able ways in which the broke this morning. They then could be utilised, but from the long interview with Herr Hitler.
It was subsequently disclosed found that there were no praons point of view of helping trade and that not only did Herr Hitler not aboard the wreck.
business, and of mitigating un-. have an interview with Bishop Apparently, the men aboard, employment, rollef of the burden Mueller, but he found himself "too fearing that the vessel was break- of general taxation, to which this busy" to discuss church affairs. ing up, had taken to one of the sum In effect contributed, was no It was Bishop Mueller's spokes-ship's boats during the night. doubt rightly regarded at present who informed the Press that It is assumed that the boat as of paramount importance Hitler had seen Mueller.
capsized for ning bodies were to- British Wireless. Lator it transpired that what | day washed ashore-Reuter. Bishop Mueller called upon the actually happened WAS that
23 14 64-65-26 33 Chancellor, who kept him waiting 24 14 3, 7.61 45 31 in an ante-room for seventy 24 14 2 8.47 28 80 minutes and then sent him a 22:11 6 47 26 27 message stating that he was "too
-Router.
|busy" to set him/-Router.
THAMES RISES
HIGH LEVEL AT LONDON BRIDGE
TWO NEW CARGO SHIPS
FOREIGN MARINES WITHDRAWN
Foochow Returning to
Norinal
Foochow, Jan. 18:
INDIAN QUAKE DEATH-ROLL
STILL IMPOSSIBLE TÓ ESTIMATE
London, Jan, 18.
It is still impossible to give more ... than approximate: figures
BOOTH LINE PLACES The elty of Foochow is gradua!-of the lives lest in the Indian Chicago, Jan. 18. that the confession was abstracted
London, Jan, 18.
ORDER
ly returning to normal. Shops earthquake, nait la foared that High winds at the river mouth After a long legal battle be- from the accused after hours of
hayo.resumed business. The many deaths so far unrecorded twoon opposing counsel in the questioning, in which she was un- piled up the Thames tide this
London, Jan. 18,
Japanese, British and American | must have occurred in the bazaars.. afternoon to fourteen inches over able to gain any respite.
Mesare. Cammell Laird and marinos returned to their ships. The northern portion of Bihar Chicago surgery murder trial, the The nocused declares the con- the predicted watermark at Lon-Company, of Birkenhead, are to last night,
suffered more severaly than any At the Albert Hall, to-night, in Court, decided to admit into fession to be faise the words don Bridge.
build for the Booth Bteamship. The military loaders, here are portion of India, and, it is feared a 16-round contest for the British evidence the confession of Dr. having been put into her mouth by The authorities had faued a Company two now cargo steamers bually, preparing for an attack on that the total number of deaths Lightweight Championship, Harry Alico Wynekoop that she shot her the police. She declares that she preliminary warning, as is usual of about 5,000 tons each, the Changchow and Chuenchow. there approached two thousand. -Mizlor (London) outpointed daughter-in-law on the operating wrote her confession at police die-whon high tide is anticipated, but first to be completed by the end General Chiang Ting-wen, the Tho work of reilet and reorganian-
Johnny Cuthbert (Shofield), the table
tation when too tired to resist na ilamage was done British of the year and the next by the Field-Commander, has arrived tion is provoading actively in the holder of the title.-Reuter,
It is insisted by the defence them any longer.--Reuter.
Wireless.
spring of 1980--British Wireless. | hero.---Central News,.
affected : árong--British Wirolean.