1925-05-18 — Page 7

MONDAY, MAY 18, 1925.

FLOW OF GOLD.

HOLY YEAR.

LEADING BANK TAKES ACTION.

French Nun Made Saint.

OUTLOOK FOR MONEY.

Awkward Choice for London Market.

The monetary position at Home is by no means clear foilowing the country's return to the gold standard.

GLUT OF LOANS,

(Reuter's Service:)

London, May 17.. *| Nervousness in the City owing to the steady outflow of gold from the Bank of England last week, has been “allayed by the Bank's purchasing £1,610,000 in gold bars, thus reducing the net efflux' since the embargo on the export of gold was removed to £561,000. But the underwriters who have been saddled with 85 per cent. of the New Zealand £7,000,000 loan are" seriously perturbed at the prospect of many large blocks of similar stock being left on their hands.

It is known that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Winston Churchill, hopes soon to bring out

further conversion scheme in connection with the 5 per cent. war ban, while the London County Council is asking for a loan of £8,000,000.

An East African loan, possibly of £10,000,000, is awaiting issue. and South Africa is preparing loan. Two Australian States are said to be coming on to the market.

ready, the largest being the £4,000,000 debenture issue of the Niger Co., guaranteed. by Lever Brothers.

It is felt that unless the terms. offered to investors have subatan- tially improved a condition of general indigestion will result, but the conceding of better terms now will jeopardise the future.

Therefore the consensus of opinion appears to be in favour of postponement of some of the larger-fasues till the monetary position le more clearly defined.

POCR AIM.

MOROCCO TRIBESMEN'S

GUNS.

SEVERE FIGHTING.

(Reuter's Service.)

PARIS, May 17.

IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY.

THE CHINA MAIL,

POPE SPEAKS INTO LOUD SPEAKER.

(Reuter's Service.)

Rome, Mar 17. An Impressive ceremony ex-

HIDDEN DEATH.

ANOTHER TERRIBLE MINING DISASTER. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.

Over Two Hundred Men Reported Missing.

Within six weeks of the disaster that took 150 lives, another terrible explosion has occurred in a mine near Dortmund in Germany.

All the bodies have been re- covered. The mine is now.clear,

Earlier Cables..

HEAVY TOLL

(Reuter's Service.)

Berlin, May 17.

Berlin, May 16.

Two hundred miners are miss

ceding six hours was carried out Up to the present thirty-fouring as the result of a terrific by the Pope on the occasion of the first. of the Holy Year canonisa- tions which will be performed every Sunday for the next few weeks.

The French nun, Sister Therese, of Child Jesus, was to-day elevat- ed into sainthood in the presence. of 60,000 people.

An electric loud speaker operat- ed for the first time inside St. Peter's, carried the Pontiff's voice to the most distant corners of. the Basilica.

The dome, facade and obelisk of St. Peter's were illuminated for the first time since 1870,

General Freydenberg's forces A message from Fez states that have relieved the Bou Toument CHEUNG CHAU course of which the enemy used post after severe fighting in the

two guns of which the fire was badly directed,

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Several Home corporations desire to borrow money, and many Enemy propaganda is intensify- industrial issues are practicallying on the Branes, and Ghennats fronts to the east. The tribesmen on the Ghennals front are reported to have been reinforced by 700 rifles.

BACK TO NORMAL...

SPAIN'S MARTIAL LAW ABOLISHED,

(Router's Service.)

Mudrid, May-17.. Martial law has been "abolished, "throughout the country.

THOSE WAR DEBTS.

(Reuter's American Service.)

Washington, May, 16.

SOVIET IN US TRY.

(Router's Service)

NOTES.

WHERE THE DISASTER TOOK PLACE.

MILIS

Cologne.d

Our map shows the great mining district of the Ruhr where a second terrible disaster has occurred. disaster cost 150 lives."

The first

The Kung Yik has been back on the run for a week and looks: spick and span but we wonder when her next visit to dock' will take place. We hear that the Cheung Chau is having her bodies have been recovered at the explosion at the Dortsfeld mine, overhaul.

Dorstfeld mine.

near Dortmund, where five hundred were employed in the pite. Hitherto only three hundred, including eighteen injured men, have reached the surface.

Bite..

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To-day a start was made by the Botanical Dept. in digging the

FORTY-ONE KILLED. holes for tree planting on the Hall A new path to the front

Berlin, May 17. entrance has been laid out and The total casualties at the in a few years we hope to have a Dorstfeld mine are 41 killed and 27. row of trees on either side. injured. Further garden improvements are being carried out at No. 3.

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Further contingents of visitors from Indo China have arrived, others are expected shortly.

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having the roofs put on; a two The new shops on the Bund are storey house towards the west of the village is nearing completion

.BOXING PROGRESS.

HONGKONG MAN'S SUCCESS

-AT-HOME

Hongkong boxing "fans" who of HMS. Hawkins, in action, wil saw A. B. Willoughby, former y I have it on good authority that abe pleased to hear of his progress further five shops are soon to be in the Old Country. commenced on the Bund. Most of the trees have now got their Spring dresses and in a few weeks the Island will be looking its best the wild fowering shrubs are commencing to bloom.

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Moscow, May 16% Replying to some opposition from the industrial districts ex- pressed at the Congress of Soviets to the scheme to increase imports, M. Dzerjinsky, chairman of the All Russian Council of National Economics, pointed out that increase of machinery was un- avoidable in order to effect the quickest possible revival of indus- It transpires that the United try, whose production was ap- States took the initiative in seek-proaching the pre-war figure. The ing a general refunding arrange- peasants' demand for agricultural ment with all America's principal implements had increased' to such war debtors. It is indicated that a degree that the Soviet face the United States Government tories were unable to satisfy it. virtually alrealarised the debtors, Seventeen million roubles worth including France. Italy, Belgium of agricultural implements must Crecho-Slovakia. Greece. Jugo be imported during the current Slavia, Esthonia and Latvia, year. expressing the opinion that the time had come to strike a general The Hague. May 17-The Fer balance. Russia is the only maent l'qurt's riding in connection debtor nation not addressed, as with the Danzig letter boxes gives she does not possess a Govern- opinion tant no ruling was made ment recognised by the United connection with the disputed States. Furthermore, the French point by the Duazig High Commis- Government has been informedsioner-but the Pelisi postal ser- the foreign store here last year that the United States will bevive of the port is entitled to install pleased-it a French Debt Commis-letter-boxes outside its premises, sion is sent to America. It is though the service is not reserved possible that M. Cuillaux will for Polish officials and anthorities come personally to Washington. but is for the public use.--Renter.

Sofia, May 17.--It is offensly un- London, May 16-It is officially nounced that the police have" dis-announced that the attendance at covered a barge -veret store of arms ¦ Wembley up to Friday night was and explosives, supposedly intended 350,000, as compared with 302,000 for an armed insurrection and for for the first six days lust year, the blowing up bridges and railways, latter including Cup Final day. Consideral le money was also found. Therefore it is evident that the Several arrests have been made. attendance has this year hitherto

greatly-increased.-Renter.

Reuter.

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VOICE CARRIED BY LOUD SPEAKER.

No further move has been made in regard to the Wireless telephone or the repair of the Fler; both are urgently needed.

The Compradore who opened up

did not meet with sufficient en- couragement to warrant his re- peating the experiment this year, however some other man with a Hongkong connection may see his way to serve us in this way.

HOME FOR WAIFS.

Marine Trinder in an eliminating He has been matched with contest, the winner to meet the winner of the Tom Berry v. Phil Scott contest for the cruiser-weight championship of England, which is now held by Berry. It will thus be moved up to the top ranks and his seen that Willoughby has progress provides yet another instance of servicemen being able to hold their own with the best of professionals.

somewhat similar

Peking, May 17.-A disturbance to that in shortly in Fuken. It is reported Szechuan, seems likely to break out

that a group of dissatisfied military leaders stationed in the southern part of the province have tule- grupled to the Government urging the dismissal of Tupen Chow Yin. jen-By Comptesy of Daily Bullebn."

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Later.

The disaster was due to the blowing up of a store of explosives in one of the pits, the gases spreading to where the men were working. So far Ave dead and 25 injured have been recovered, and some thirty are missing.

MRS. NASH.

BEST-DRESSED WOMAN'

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DIVORCED.

proceedings in London was re ferred to as

Mrs. Jean Nash, who during legal

the world's best- dressed woman and who was married in Cairo on February 2 former First Secretary to the to Sabet Bey, the nephew of the Egyptian Legatlon in London, has been divorced from him. Sabet Bey was her third husband. My Egyptian husband and I found our religious differences were too great for us to agree," Mrs. Nash said: "I do not think Moslems each other. and Christians should ever marry

There are

many things on which people of the East and West can never agree.

"I told my husband about It and he was most charming. About ten days ago I went to Nice and he went to Cairo.. All he had to do was to state that he wanted a divorce and the necessary papers were made our at once We still are the best of friends, however, and all continue to be so.".

Mrs Nash said it was the mast

heard of.

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chosen as the site of the proposed armed robbery at No 603 Shanghai Stanley peninsula may not be Arrested in conne?tion with an Home for Waifs and Strays as a

Street, Yaumati, a Chorese W.F result of the visit of the promoters formally charged and remanded of the scheme to the industrial at the Kowloon Magistracy this charming divorce" she had ever home at Macao.

morning. The extensiveness and general lay-out of the Macac institution particularly impressed the visitors, and although they have pot de- finitely decided to abandon the present proposed site, it is their intention to approach the Gover- ment with a view to finding, if possible, a larger site capable of Į easy development.

Berlin, May 16-The Reichstag Budget Committee. adonted the Presidential estimates, providing für an increase in the, President'san- nun sudary to 60,000 marks, und expenses to 120,000 mirks, "The}

·Commumiste oppisod the proposal, The Soviulists abstained from voting-Reuter

Paria, May 16-M. Marsal, Ex-1 Minister for Education, was mobbed and assaulted by students on the Boulevard Saint Michel. He was rescued by the police with difficulty

Reuter

Washington, May 16 The In teratate Commerce Commission an». Dounces that it has ordered an in- vestigation into the financing of the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Tail-

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