THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MAY
1936.
ITALY'S TRADE CRUMBLING
DECREASED BY
50 PER CENT.
A$
PRESSURE OF
SANCTIONS
GROWS
Geneva, May 6.
soon as 'sanctions became really effective they halted Italy's trade.
This is the lesson of a docu- ment issued to-day by the League Secretariat, which gives statistics covering the first four months of sanctions (November to February).
Owing to the time taken to pass legislation, sanctions did not really become effective until the New Year.
In January Italy's exports fell by 40 per cent, and imports by 39 per cent.
The figures for February are too in- complete for conclusions to be drawn, but they suggest that they will be similar to those of January.
FLOW OF COLD GOES ON As happens in cases of new. tariffs, imports, from Italy and Italian colonies increased in November, but began to fall in December, and fell Increasingly afterwards.
For January 39 countries showed
a decrease in imports from Italy from 17.6 million gold dollars to 9.5 million gold dollars.
In February, the statistics are for only 23 countries and do not include France and the United States. Here the fall is from 10.7 milon to 5.6 millions.
increases overy The pressure month, while the outward flow of Italy's gold reserve continues.
In the first four months of sane- tiona her treasury has lost bullion and specie to the value of nearly 63,000,- '000 gold dollars. The old gold dollar
is worth 4. 1.32d.]
TOTAL SHRINKAGE Italy's total volume of world trade has shrunk by nearly one-third fron 145,000,000 gold dollars in the four months, November-February, 1934- 1936, to only 100,000,000 gold dollars in the same period 1935-1936.
period of
The Ynumat! Ferry Company's, now ferry-boat photographed as it hit the water on its launching this week. Clouds of smoke from crackers almost obliterated the new ferry as it entered its natural elements for the first time.
Staff Photographer.
ANOTHER CLAN MAY HAVE
IRAQ. BANS TITLES
Bagdad, May 5. Iraq banned all titles to-day, The Chamber of Deputies passed a Bill whereby any one using one may be fined £2. It was proposed on the ground that titles are unsuitable in a democracy and cause social strife and jealousy.
The Premier, General Yasin Pasha El Hashimi, has set an example by dropping his title "pasho."
The following table shows the pro Public Enemy's
portional decrease from 1935 to 1930
In imports into various countries from
Italy during January,
It will be seen that Italy's exports
to Germany, a non-sanctionist coun
try
Sweetheart:
havo decreased, as Compared WEDDING
with Australia have actually increased.
While no official explanation of thin anomaly has been offered, it is likely that the volume of contracts made between Australia and Italian mer- chants prior to the imposition of sanctions, and now in process of ful- Alment, was sufficiently large to no- count for the increase over 1935.
Italian The steady decline in world trade indienten that contracts made before November Inst are now almost all completed.
year ago, whereas those
A more rapid decline is therefore likely in the near future, should Italy be unwilling to cease hostilities.
Scientists To Meet At Harvard
FIXED: NO HUSBAND
WOMAN CHIEF
WIDOW IN SCOTTISH
CASTLE
Glasgow, May:1..
EFF
FFORTS are now being made in Scotland to secure for a second woman the chieftainship of her clan- the first, Miss Catriona Maclean, of Ardgour, a girl of 16, has already lodged a petition in the Court of the Lord Lyon, King of Arms, to be regarded as chieftain of the Macleans of Ardgour.
The new woman claimant is Mrs. Flora MacLeod, of Macleod, a widow who, after her husband's death some years ago, reas- Aumed her family name and returned to live at Dunvegan Castle in Skye, the home of her ancestors.
Mrs. MacLeod has the support mittee explains her right to be chief of her clan society, which meets of the clan society by saying that she
E next week, when a recommenda-
tion will be made that' she shall The elder daughter of the late be supreme chief of the society. chief of the society and in the direct of blood to the chief of the Then steps will be taken to line establish her as head of the MacLeods of Dunvegan, heiress and New York, May 1.
and owner of the lands successor Marion ("Kik!") Roberts, sweet whole clar-Miss Maclean's claim and castle of Dunvegan, and that per-
the sonage
in whom the arms of "the heart of late Jack ("Legs") is for the chieftainship of
York's Public Macienne of Ardgour oaly, and chiefs of the MacLeod of Dunvegan Diamond, New Enemy No. 1, was to have been not of her entire clan, which is have been matriculated by the court led by Sir Fitzroy Donald Mac-of the Lord Lyon is Flora, Mistress MacLeod of MacLeurt, in the Isle of married to-day,
lean, of Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, Skye.
But there was no bridegroom.
Her husband-to-be is August who next month celebrates his Savarese, athletic instructor. 101st birthday. Kiki's brother objected marriage
to the
arrested.
It is the first time in the history of either clan that women have been considered as leaders. the two men A fight between
Mrs. McLeod said: followed. Both wero
"It is a very high honour that August was taken to a home for the clan society is contemplating for the criminally minded. Kiki is not downhearted. "I'me, and I can say nothing more than marry him just the same when he that I am very proud indeed. comes out," she said to-day.
SISTER (OR TWO) FOR THE QUEEN MARY
FOUR FIRMS SUBMIT DESIGNS
"I am the 28th pf my line of de Htent direct from the time the first MacLeod established himself al Dunvegan."
Miss Catriona Maclean banas hur MacLeans of Ardgour as the elder claim to the chieftainship of the daughter of the late Alexander John How Maclean of Ardgour, 16th lalrd and chieftaic.
Her claims were overruled by the Clan Macican Society which accepted L-Commander II, H. Maclean, of Wendover, Hampshire, as heredi-
ary chieftain.
PROUD HONOUR
Following the death of Mrs. Mac- The case is under consideration by Leod's father, Sir Reginald MacLeod, the court of the Lord Lyon King of at the age of 88 last year with no Arma, and it is understood Miss Mac- male heir, it was claimed that the Jean's claim may be contested. chieftainship fell.on Mr. Hugh Vernon "If I am appointed chieftain I shall Australian, 1080 be tremendously proud, for to be the branch of the family, emigrated in head of the incleans of Ardgour la 1818.
a big honour Indeed," Miss Maclean OTHER CLAIMANT
said.
MacLeod,
Cambridge Mass., May 10. From August 31 to September a group of 75 of the world's greatest scientists and scholars, including four. teen Nobel Prize win will address
winners,
Conference the Harvard Tercentenary of Arts and Selences in Cambridge.
At that time he declared: "I do Profosenr Albert Einstein, Dr. Neils Behr, originator of the Bohr theory
The good ship Queen Mary not intend to take any special steps the atom; Dr. Robert A. Milligan, Arthur H. Compton, and Dr. Werner may soon have either a sister to catablish my claim and ahall abide Helsenberg, author of the principle as big as herself or two smaller
of Dr.
of uncertainty, are among the winners twin sisters. of the Nobel I'rizo in physics who will
on the programme.
The Cunard-White Star Company
"Folders of the prize in chemistry at Liverpool have now received de- who will speak are Dr. Hans Fischer signs and specifications for a sister
of Germany, authority on
tho
dor
photo Dr. Freedrich Bergius, of
venter of the process for! hydrogenation of
of conl; Dr. Theo- Svedberg, famous Swedish
.chemist.
ship to the Queen Mary from:
John Brown And Co., Lu, Clyde- banit (builders of the Queen Mary); Cammell, Laird and Co Italy Birkenhead;
Swan,
Hunter and Richardson, Litel.,
Wighant Wallsend-on-|
Tyne, and
Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., Barrow and Walker-on-Tyne.
Winners of the prize in physiology and medicine who will be on the pro- gramme are Sir Frederick G. Hopkins, British physiologist; Dr. August
Certain of the four firms have sub Krogh,
Danish physiologist Dr. Otto
initted two sols of tenders. One set Warburg
German physiologist Dr. relates to a single ship of roughly the Karl Landsteiner, American authority same displacement as the Queen
Dr. Hana Spermann, Mary. The second relates Physiologist, "and Dr. Edgar smaller shing, each about the size and British authority upon tonnage of the Britannic and Georgie functioning of the nerves.
-the two motor ships which tho
on blood
German
D.
tho
of
to two
of Sir Reginald's daughters,"
the decision Mrs. MacLeod has been accepted already by niony members of the clan as their hereditary tender, and no opposition to her la expected at the clan nociety meeting.
The proposal to institute her as the society's chief is made on the re- commendation of an investigating Committee over wizel Sir John Lazne.
MacLeod presided.
"LANDS OF MACLEOD" In picturesque language the com-
Wild Animals
Fight for Four
Hours In a Ship
Boston, May 1. Passengers leaving the Ameri.
Dr. Henry Norris Russell, dean of White Star Line put into commission American astronomers, will speak on just before the amalgamation with can steamer Excalibur here told
The Composition of the Stars." Dr. the Cunard Company. Antonio
rlo Pannekoek, of the University Tho
Britannic (20,943 tons) and the of a tremendous battle at the Amsterdami, will discuss "The Tem- Georgie (27,769 tons) were built in height of a storm in mid-Atlantic perature Scale of the Stars." 1930 and 1932 respectively by Har between a giant hippopotamus Cosmic rays will be discussed by land and Wolff, Ltd, Belfast. They and a pigmy elepliant from the
have a speed of 21 knots?
Belgian Congo. NORMANDIE RIVALRY
Elght native boys from the Congo,
Dr. Millikan and Dr. Compton,
Among the speakers on medical sub
MAILPLANE TO U.S. IN SEPTEMBER
BRITAIN will send her
first mailplane across the Atlantic to New York this summer.
Imperial Airways plan to send one of the new 17-ton Short flying-boats over the direct 8,000-mile route in September.
Britain's first regular Atlantic airmail service will be by way of the safer southern route, using the Azores and Bermudas for mid-ocean stopping places, WILL CARRY SIX
Its
On the ploncer northern run the
more than about six people.
40,000 flying-boat will not carry normal complement is twenty-four passengers and five crew, plus a robot pilot.
With that load it could not -Jects will be Professor B. A. Housay, There is at present an arrangement who had been sent to look after the of the University of Buenos Aires, between the Cunard Company and the two animals and deliver them to carry the weight of fuel needed to who ploneered in showing the re-
owners of the Fronch liner Normandie circus in the United States, were gat across the 2,000 miles of open lationship between endocrino Or
that the two ships shall not run in unable to get near the combatants, sca. between Ireland and Now ductless glands in the body..
Dr. Joann Hjort, of the University competition. If another. Queen Mary whose furious trumpetings and grun-foundland.
Machines of much longer rango, of Oslo, will speak upon "The Blower built that arrangement would tinge could be heard nil over, the ship,
Inve to be dropped.
alarming the passengers.
will be needed to operate Jogy of Whales.
If, as seams to be expected now in For four hours the boys watched direct northern crossing. Two shipping circles, the company decide the flerco combat, not faring, to go
At length the pigmy elephant high-speed Atlantic mailplanes they will be-e-little-bigger and faster died, and the exhausted hippopotamus are now being built at Hatfield for
this servico. than the Britannié and the Georgle was recaptured-Reuter,
The seventy-five speakers will in clude 47 from Europe, 21 from the United States, and soven from Japan, China, Argentina, Genda and Austra Ha combined United Press.
on to ships the probabillies are that near..
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