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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1936.
REFORMING BANK OF FRANCE
SHARES SLUMP ON BOURSE
SUSPENSION
OF TRADE
Paris, July 16.
Reform of the Bank of France is
SIGNS OF FEAR OF WARFARE.
NEW ARMAMENT LOAN IN GERMANY PRECAUTIONS IN BRITAIN
Berlin, July 15.
A National Loan of 700,000,
National
nt band, and the shares of the bank000 marks, for re-armament and were so seriously affected on the Bourse that trading had to be sus other schemes, was officially piled where they were concerned declared over-subscribed by until the Reform Bill has been dealismall margin to-day. with finally.
A few days ago, Dr.' Hjalmar
Minister of The principal reforms in the pro- | Schacht, posed new Government Bills include Economy, warned the industrialists of provision for complete independence of Germany to subscribe to the lan or the Bank's administration, the inde five new luxes.--Reater Bulletin Ser- pendent financial position of the | viec. Governor,
the enlargement of the re- gency council to include
quatified re presentatives of matlonal economy chosen for their expert knowledge and without political considerations, and the extchalon of the right of voting to all shareholders, which has hitherto been the privilege of two hundred of
the largest.
The outcoms of the reforms will be to make the Bank's methods in some ways similar to the Central Banks of The Anglo-Saxon countries.
The trading in the Bank shares on the Bourse was suspended after their fail to 70 francs in the afternoon. Trading will be resumed after the Reforms Bill is voted on in the Chamber of Deputies to-morrow.— Reater.
CALLS NOTE A FORGERY DEFENDANT DENIES BORROWING $2,870
A claim for 32,870, being monty lent and interest Frereon, was brought by Mrs. Fung Kam, ation Fook Kee, against Chun Hing-wan, before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor in the Supreme Court this morning.
Mr. H. C. Macnamara, instructed by Mr. M. C. McCallum, appeared for the plaintiff, and the defendant was represented by Mr. Leo D'Almada, jur, instructed by Mr. Peter H. Sin.
Mr. Macnamara sald the claim was for money lent and interest thereon, under a borrowing note made in 1933. He would call evidence to rebut the allegations of the defendant that he id not know the plaintiff and that the action was instigated by one Chan Hing-kau against whom he wan making bankruptcy investigations.
Giving evidence, the Plaintiff said
BRITISH PRECAUTION
London, July 15. The Home Office to-day began pre- parations for the manufdeture of over 40,000,000 a musks to protect every man, woman and child in the country In the event of war,
The new supplementary defence estimates provided £850,000 for the manufacture of these masks and they will be stored in convenient centres.
They will be issued free in any mergency-United Pres
ESCALATOR CLAUSE
London, July 15. Great Britain has formally and officially notified the United States an Japanese Governments that she hus invoked the Escalator Clause of the London Naval Treaty in order to retain 40,000 tons of destroyers which would ordinarily have been scrapped, being beyond the age limit-United Press.
MATCHING BRITAIN
Washington, July 15. The State Department decliner to comment on the British nole invoking the Escalator Clause of the London Naval Treaty, but Admiral William Standley, acting Navy Minister, says the United States will take advantage of this decision and also retain 40,000 tons of over-age destroyers, other wise due for scrapping. "We wil provided by match the British, as treaty," he says-Reuter,
LESS WAR RISK
London, July 15. Lloyds has reduced the war risk Insurance rates in the Mediterranean coincident with the removal of sane- tions and has also removed the clause in contracts banning shipment in Italinn vessels or in vessels calling at Italian ports-inited Press.
STRATEGIC RAILWAY
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Bucharest, July 10. she had known the defendant for six
· Rumunia and Czecho-Slovakla have or seven years. On October 22, 1933,
roached an agreement to build when she was residing at 101 Queen's
the two strategic railway nking Road East, first floor, the defendant, countries which will be used for the together with her brother-in-law movement of troops and equipment came and asked her if she would kim $2,000 to carry out construction and supplies in the event of war.
Work on the line starte Immediate
lenil
obtained.
YANKEES
DIVIDE HONOURS
BOSTON WINS TWO AGAINST BROWNS
JORDAN BADLY
SPIKED
The
New York, July 15. Detroit and New York Split, n double-iteader here to-day. League,standing was thus unaltered. crépi eloser to Detroit by beating the except that Doston, in third place; St. Louis Browns twice.
Detroit won the opener, Gostin and Gehringer hitting homers for the Tigers and boosting ten hits to Ave, runs, while the Yankees were led to
lone tally on seven hits.
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The night enp was struggle.. Yankees emerging victors by seven to four on ten hits to six. Detruit And three cITOTE
. Boston scored eleven against St. Louis' three, hitting sixteen times to six, in the opener, and again in the second game hit-lustily thirteen times! for nine run total against a long
errors this time. inlly on five hits. St. Louis had four
Chicago beat the Washington Senators six to four, on cleven hits to eight. There were no errors.
Cleveland beat Philadelphia six to four, on twelve hits to ten, when Hayes hila, hamer for the Athletics: and each team had three errors.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chiengo kept its narrow lead in the National League, when the Cubs beat Hoston two to nothing. Jordan was seriously cut by spikes and was carried off the diamond. He will le absent a fortnight. Carleton pitched and kept the Braves from counting once on eleven hits. O'Dea bit a homer for the Cubs.
Pittsburgh, in third position in the League, bent New York Ave to four, though they hit ten times to the Glants clever and had two of the three errors.
New York won the nightcap against Pittsburgh, scoring fourteen times on sixteen hits, to four runs and ten hits by the Pirates.
St. Louis Philadelphia beat the Cardinals five to four, pushing thera farther down the table.)
Cincinnati beat Brooklyn five to two, though they only hit five times to the Dodgers' ine. Each had an error-Reuter.
SWIMMING GALA
C.B.S. STUDENTS' COMPETITION
contract which he had just wim thely. Czecho-Slovakin la'making a loan gula this morning by the Central Bri-
Three
later, day's
สาย lunt honey, in respect of which the defen
ory note ave her a
to Rumania for this purpose.
Recent events in Central Europe and
have hastened the decision, it is re Since
dant gave. a promissory
રા her one and a half per ported.-Beuter Special.
pay
interest every month.
then, she had received no interest or the return of the loan, despite repeat-
requests,
ed
Cross-examined by Mr. D'Almada, Sanctions
witness said the person named Fook mentioned in the horrowing note
Kee
● TO-DAY-TO-MORROW SATURDAY was her afias and not her husband's,
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When she was first approached for the loan, she went to Yaúmati to look at defendant's shop in order to as- ceriain whether it did exist or not, She did not know the defendant's family,
AN UPRIGHT MAN Counset: Knowing so little about the defendant and his business did It not occur to you to get a guaran- tor? No, I trusted him because my brother-in-law, since dead, told me that ho was an upright man.
In reply to further questions, wit ness denied that the first time she aw the defendant was in the Chief
Surrender
The Kowloon Y.M.C.A swimming pool was the scene of a swimming tish School to decide both individual by Chocolate winners and-the-Inter-House-Cham- pionship, which was won by House amassing 1344 points to Red
HOUNG's House's 60 and Blue
4215. The first event, the Junior Girls! 20 Yard Free Style, brought out by
Miss D. Craig and Miss B. Edvin, who were able to win many
points for their team both in this and other events. Miss Cralg alno won the Junior Girls 60 yard Free Style and the Junior Girls Diving,
In the Intermediate Girls' events,
Celebrated Miss E. McKelvic played a leading
FINAL TRIUMPH OF JUSTICE MUSSOLINI'S CLAIM
Rome, July 15. The sanctionist nations have hoisted Justice's drambors a short while ago. | the white fing, exclaimed Signor She maintained that the note was Benito Mussolini, in a triumphant signed by the defendant.
funeral oration over the defunct Mra. Yue Sau-chan testified that sanctions, when he addressed a cheer- while he was living with the plain-ng throng of 50,000 from the Plazza tiff, she had often seen the defendant Venezin, to-day. In the house.
"The merits of our great victory
part, taking firsts in the 20 Yards Free Style, the 50 Yard Free Style, the Intermediate Girls' Diving, the 25 Yard Backstroke and Intermediate Girls' Obstacle Race.
Miss J. Booker gained two frais and two thirds in the Senior Girls division and was closely followed by Miss C. Bone who won one first, one second and one third in the same class,
Excellence was shown on the part primarily by R. Keown winning two first in the Senior division with Kennard, and Booker close behind.
In the Intermediate Events, Wil- linms won nearly every event in which he entered in the Junior division, Williams, Turner, Cook and Morris, acquired the most points.
In the girls' Inter-House Relay, Red House won, followed by Blue House
The defendant, in the witness-box,go entirely to the Italian people. No and Chocolate House. In the Boys' said that he was formerly a partner body flinched. of the Tui Yuen-soy factory at 34 Portland Street, Kowloon. The first time he saw the plaintif was in the Chief Justice's Chambers. He had never seen her before and had never dealt with any person by the name of Il Duce reappeared six times on Fook Kee. Although his name ap- the balcony of the Palace in response peared on the, note it was not hits to cheers of the crowd. — Reuter signature. At the time of the alleged | Special,
All were prepared for | Relay, Chocolate House won, and Red any sacrifice, in the certainty that louse and Blue House took second; civilisation and justice would finally and third respectively. triumph in Africa and Europe.
"Thus it has happened; thus it will happen to-morrow and always."
loan ho was in the country. He did not know the plaintiff's brother-in-law and had never visited 101 Queen's Road Enat.
ness
In answer to Mr. Macnamara, wit- en said the note was a forgery, and suggested that the plaintiff was an Instrument of one Chan Hing-kau, who instigated the action in order tó embarrass him in his bankruptcy Ins vestigations concerning Chan. Tho caso in procceiling.
ROOSEVELT GRANDCHILD
Porth Worth, July 15.
Reports Of Horrors In Ethiopia
In
TROOPS ROUND UP SNIPERS
BRITISH OFFICERS
WOUNDED
Jerusalom, July 16. Soldiers and police rounded up un- other gang of Arab snipers, sixteen miles norili of Jerusalem to-day. Two Arabs were killed and several captured Djibouti, July 15. Reports
in the clash. A quantity of rifles were i of serious trouble
Addis also dound.. Mrs. Elliot Roosevelt, daughter-in-Ababa have taken shelter in the Le-ment and one of the Armoured Car
Ethiopia, that foreigners in
Two officers, one of the Dorset Regi- law of the President, gave birth to agations as the Ethiopians march on Corps were slightly wounded in a kan to-day-United Press.
the old capital and that Marshal skirmish with snipers on the Nablus Graziani is either dead or badly Rend-Renter Bulletin Service. wounded, have been received here.
POLITICIAN KILLED
London, July 15. Mr. Patrick Hogan, former Minister of Agriculture in the Irish Froo Stato, mens killed in a motor! smash in Galway-Router.
It is reported that the Italians, as a reprisal for the Jimma massacre, burned 300 Ethiopians alive and exe ruted many others.
It is also reported that Ethiopians are attacking Harrar.
Djibouti is a notorious hotbed of rumours, however.United Prost
STRONG AMBUSH
Jerusalem, July 15.
An ambush of, fifty Arabs fired on patrol on the Nablus Rond an wountled two British officers and the Jewish chauffeur of an armoured car.
United-Press.
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A damsel who loathes the
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