THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1977,
Britain
Building Up Secret Gold Reserves:
To Insure Against Crisis
130 Millions
HAUPTMANN'S LAST VISITOR
The Rev. John Matthieson, spiritual adviser of Bruno Haupt- mann, surrounded by newspapermen after he had visited the cons demned man, a few hours before he has executed for the murder of the Lindbergh baby. He was the last man to see Hauptmann
privately before the execution,
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EXTRADITED AFTER
AM
14-YEAR HUNT
Southampton, May 1.
MERICAN detective George McGee, after a fourteen-- year hunt, "got his man" early to-day, and sailed off with him in the United States liner Manhattan.
The man was Sam Brickner-
alias Jacob Klinger. In 1922 Detective McGee arrested him,
with two other men, in America
Dionnes
on a charge of swindling a forrier Are To
out of £600.
Brickner "jumped" his bail,|
fled the country. His fingerprints Be Filmed
were sent all over the world.
Thirteen years passed...
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In 1985, Brickner Jacob Klinger, was jailed in England for shoplifting. McGeo applied for extradition, granted at Bow-street on March 13 last, sailed for Eng- land with a colleigue.
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"Where Are My Children?" To Be Title of Universal
Picture
Hollywood, May 4.
NEST-EGG FOR INDUSTRY
ASTUTE MOVE GUARDS
OUR CREDITS
THE Bank of England is building up a huge sacrot gold reserve which has already reached £130,000,000, and which will provide Britain with a gilt-edged insurance against the repetition of a crisis such as that of 1931.
The "insurance cover" is even fuller than that, No matter whether France goes off gold, or Germany crashes, or whatever, international difficulties arise, Britain will not be affected.
The Bank's gold reserve |
insures the country against
NEW U.S. WARSHIPS MAY SURPRISE WORLD
DEFENCE AGAINST
AIR ATTACK
Washington, May 10. New and radical naval designs, particularly in the Geld of de- fence against air attacks, may give the world some distinct sur- prises when the United States builds the two battleships now in
almost any crisis, national Story of Attempt contemplation.
or international,
During the past fortnight the Bank has bought £500,000 worth of gold bars in the open market.
These have been stored away in
its vaults.
This week it is expected that anpther £1,000,000 worth or more will be bought. This policy will be continued indefinitely,
To Put
Profiting by 13 years of intense study since the United States complot. vil ils last capital ship, the West Virginia, in 1923, American naval de
Child in Ovengers have blue-prints incorporating
speed, submarine defence, and anti-
HOW a man attempted to put aircraft guns far superior to anything
his six-year-old daughter in
The police brought the girl before the court as belug in need of care and protection,
some years
rem
now allout under the American flag.
n gas oven was described at Naval officers naturally are Wealdstone Juvenile Court Inst|luctant to discuss technical details of FOR A RAINY DAY
month.
the new ships in ton concrete terms, These purchases are being made
particularly the aircraft defences. It so that the volume of money in
is known, however, that the navy ordannce bureau has been working for circulation.enn be expanded, in
A police officer said the parents had aircraft run which will train itself on rapid-fire anti- suring that adequate money and credit will be available for An-en married for eight years. About automatically on
an approaching nine months ago the wife left her aucing the considerable industrial husband taking the child with her, target by means of sound waves," expansion expected during the The father fetched her back to live The two ships being planned ure to | year.
replace capital vessels which will be But there is something more in
TE was alleged, sald the officer, ono over-are whell the first London Naval the purchases than this.
morning he took the child downstairs Trenty expires at the end of this year. and attempted to put her in the gas They have not yet been authorised but oven. This attempt was frustrated Admiral William H. Standley, chief of by other people in the house who dis-naval operations, is hopeful that Con- covered the place full of gas. Shortly gress will not only authorize them but after that the child was again taken provide $10,000,000 to Iny their keels away by her mother but the father before the end of the present session. whee more took possession of the child.
The Bank is building up without saying anything about it in public. a huge hidden reserve which will be available as a nest-egg for a day when it may be needed.
This is how the reserve come about:
ASTUTE BANK
Jins
with him.
On that evening another incidenti | was reported to the pollee, with the result that ofleers took charge of the child.
All the gold the Bank buyunid the court had come to the can
The Chairman, Mr. B. E. Figgis, and it has bought £65,000,000 Iclusion that it was not in the interests worth since Britain went off they of the child that she should be with Gold Standard-it enters in its either parent. She would be placed books at the old standard price of in a sultable home. 81s. 10. an ounce.
But actually gold is to-day worth 140%, Gd, an ounce in the market.
Thus, while the Bank shows in
Indication that the fight of its returns that it has just over Oliva and Elzire Dionne for com- £200,000,000 worth of gold in the
vaults, that gold is actually worth
MEMORIAL 20,000 PIGEONS
32,000 TONS
Under the terms of the recent, Lon- don Naval Treaty the two vessels must be limited to 35,000 tons. Naval that maximum than any of the ships oflicors expect that they will be nearer now afloat. The. largest battleships new in the navy are the Now. Mexico and Idaho, caeli 33,400 tons.
Speed also will be increased. The fastest battleship in the navy now is the California, înted at 21.46 kpots. TO The new vessels are expected to have
a speed of at least 25 knots.
Final decision on armament must awalt word of whether Japan is will- ing to limit its guns to 14 inches. At London recently the United States, "Great Britain and France agreed to
To-day-in great secrecy Brick-plete custody of their quintuplet ner was handed over to Melice by daughters is to be told in pictures £330,000,000, a Scotland-yard detective.
There is a nest-egg of £130,000, A MEMORIAL to the 20,000 that figure as an upper limit provid-·| was seen to-day in an announce.
carrier pigeons that died ad other naval powers-meaning pri- ment from the Universal Studio, 000, therefore, ready to be placed during the war was unveiled at did not sign the general agreement.
marily Japan-co-oporated, Japan Charles Rogers, who recently at the disposal of the Government Lille last month.
moment's assumed control of that studio, or of industry at a said he had signed Mr. and Mrs. notice, merely by making a book- Dionne and their five older gold at its current value.
keeping entry and revaluing the children for a screen play titled "Where Are My Children?"
SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S "GHOST" DEAD
بد
Paris, May 1, SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S "ghost"
died to-day-Sylviane Man- The picture, Rogers sold, will be NATIVES HELP SICK dell, a little girl of 11, whose Bimed here. He did not discloso
SCIENTIST voice has replaced that of the when the French-Canadian parents American
of the quintuplets and their older in all children would arrive from Callan-
child-star
Government Commis.
It is a monument showing a not agree, the new American ships It is anticipated that if Japan_will sturdy pensant womaii, re-probably will have 10-inch armament. presenting France, with a cloud That, however, is nut Binal. There is of pigeons, ready to risk their favours the 14-Inch gun even though a school of thought in the Navy which lives in carrying out their task, America is at liberty to use the larger rising above her head.
FORTS CUT OFF
wedpon.
On
The monument also commemorates 13 civilians of the occupied regions
Ofcers of this school argue that who were shot by the enemy for there a little difference in the range having concealed carrier pigeons.
of the two guns, the larger being ad- Shirley's films shown in France. der. Ont to go before the areas Australian Blacks Nursc
vantageous primarily because of its Curiously enough. Sylviane, The Dionnes have sought, through
superior power of penetration. During the ceremony (says Renfor) the other hand, a ship other may with her curly hair and bright many avenues, to regain custody of
15 pigeons were released with mes-mount more of the smaller weapons the five famous babies, now ap- round eyes, hore a striking re-prouching their second birthdays.
sioner Until Well
sages for Verdun, where the pigeons or, as gun for gun they weigh less, semblance to Shirley Temple-Oliva revealed last Sunday that he
played a great part in August, 1916, more tonnage may be used for on- whose lines she had so often had petitioned King Edword in the
"It was the toughest, hardest tune when the French forts were practic gines and boilers, thus Increasing the I've ever had; I am dead tired, but ally cut off by the German bombard ship's speed. United Press translated into French without matter a month ago.
ment. having seen her in real life.
The quintuplets, wards of the I've done the job I sot myself," said King and watched over by an official Dr. Thompson, who is
One pigeon was awarded the Crol special com-
de Guerre. But letters had passed be- board of guardians, are at present missioner appointed by the Govern
Flying from Fort Vaux, tween the two children. One of making an international hit on the mont to survey aboriginal tribes in one of the focal points of the battle, was badly wounded while carrying! the last Sylviane received from screen. They are appearing in "The the disturbed areas of Caledon and
an important message. Shirley, asked her to "cheer up. Country Doctor."
because you will soon be better."
Now Sylvinne has succumbed to
‚a Ungering illness,
To Keep Control
Toronto, Apr. 25. Oliva Dionne's letter to King Edward VIII asking that custody of
Blue Mud Bays.
He
Dr. Thompson's conclusion is that the area is safe for white men. had made a pact with Wongor, powerful chief, to maintain pence.
SPRAINED ANKLE
Once Dr. Thompson nearly lost hia)
The exchange of Shirley Temple's his quintuplets be restored to him Volce for a French girl's is done by has returned to Ontario. It was re- substituting a different sound-trnek, ceived to-day from Ottawa by Ilon, life and was fed by natives when he which synchronises with the notion of II. C. Nixon, Provincial Secretary, lay fever-stricken in their camp. the film, so that it appears as if who passed it on to Welfare Minister Provious to reaching it he had had Shirley herself in speaking.
Croll.
to walk many miles over rough cour The letter was received by His try with a sprained ankle. Majesty and handed over by him to
Imped toward Arnhem Bay" he
lars.
STILL SPEAKING.
Nixon,
it
It few on, delivered the message, and then fell, utterly exhausted. receive its decoration. Picked up and cared for, it lived to
MONEY
GOES BEGGING
Ever since she was seven Sylvaine be returned to Canada. The Gov-said, "to find the way barred by a had been employed by leading French ernor-General, who received it, turn big, muddy, fast-moving estuary. film companies to supply the "ghost" ed it over to the Secretary of State, sank to my thighs in mud and swam voice for many well-known American who, in turn, forwarded it to Mr. across with my swag on a log raft.
Though she lies dead now her voice
Then I fell on a atlek which pierced In Bank That Started With Mr. Croll, it is expected, will an- my eye and nearly blinded me. in many cinemas throughout France swer the letter, explaining that the is speaking to tens of thousands of King, who has the five babies as his fed me on roots and sugar-bag honey "I was almost done, but the natives nim fans in Shirley Temple's wards, is determined to keep control until I could move."Australian Press "Daughter of the Rebels."
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