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HOOVER'S VIEWS.

IMPRESSIVE REMARKS IN MEMORIAL ADDRESS

MEANING OF KELLOGG PACT

ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT

EXCHANGE

FORCE VIS-A-VIS CURRENCY

[From Our Own Correspondent.1 Yunnanfu, May 18. "By order of the Governor (Gen- eral Lang Yen), messengers were sent to the Government Bank to draw Yunnan $300,000, for which This was they gave a receipt. paid to them in Yunnar $50 notes, which they took away.

Washington, Yesterday. "We feel it useless to talk about the limitation of armaments if such limitation is set so high as virtual- ly to incite to an increase of arma- Shortly afterwards, they return- ments," declared Pres. Hoover ined with the notes and stated that hia Memorial Day address at they wanted smaller denomina- Arlington Cemetery.

tions as the soldiers were not paid in $50 notes.

Pact and

If the Kellogg Pact is to fulfil its high purpose the aggressive use of armaments must be abandoned by every signatory of the their defensive use only consider- ed. He lamented the fact that every important country since sign- ing the part had been engaged in strengthening its armaments.

Fear and suspicion would never slacken till we called a halt to com- petitive construction. The pact im- plies that we must endeavour to develop the instrumentalities of peaceful adjustment that will re- move disputes from the field of emo- tion to the field of calm and judicial consideration. Reuter's American Service.

"CHICAGO MAY”

NOTORIOUS QUEEN OF THE UNDERWORLD" DIES

"INTERNATIONAL CROOK"

Philadelphia, Yesterday. The death is announced of May Churchill, aged 52, who was notor- ious in her youth as "Chicago May," an international crook and "Queen of the Underworld."

She was twice married and alleged to have driven five men suicide.

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She was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude, at the Old Bailey in 1907, for shooting, with intent to murder, Eddie Guerin, former associate, who had escaped from Devil's Island, Reuter's

American Service.

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INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE

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Geneva, Yesterday. The

International twelfth Labour Conference attended by delegations of 50 out of 55 States, all members of the League of Nations (incidentally the largest number of delegations since the inception of the International Labour Office) opened to-day,

Dr. Brauns, the German ex- Minister of Labour, was clected President. The agenda includes the questions of forced labour, and the hours of work of salaried employees.

The conference will also con- sider the report of the Interna- tional Labour Offer on unemploy- ment. Reuter.

A formal meeting of the Sino- Belgian Commissioners appointed to deal with the Belgian share of the

will be held Boxer Indemnity Nanking. The Ministry of Rail- ways, according to the Chinese press, has announced its desire to

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The Bank scoured the city and bought the required notes, paying

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77 Temperature, 2.39 p.m.,

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85 lay Humidity, 3.30 p.m., yes-

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2 per cent. commission, as notes of small denomination are scarce, and then handed them over to the Government messengers,

The Government then sent. out their messengers with the notes of small denomination, which they sold to the shopkeepers, who paid 2 per cent. on them,

Then Coppers

Then the Government sent Yan- nan $200,000 in $50 notes to the Bank and demanded coppers for them at the rate of 8 to the ten cents (the current rate is 41) and the Bank had perforce to let them have them, as they had a large stock of copper coins on hand.

KABUL

AN EXPLOSION

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE NEW AMIR

"MINED WITH LIVE BOMBS"

Peshawar, Yesterday.

A telegram from Kabul states that a terrible explosion occurred there on May 26 while Habilullah was inspecting his troops.

One регзод was killed and several badly injured.

Habibullah had a narrow escape. A bomb was discovered buried in the earth. It is believed that the ground in several places was mined with live bomba as part of a secret | conspiracy against Habibullah.

Reports as to the assassination of Syed Hussian, Habibullah's War Minister, are believed to be true.--- Reuter.

PHILATELY

THE KING AS STAMP COLLECTOR

R.S.'s DIAMOND JUBILEE

The week ended April 14 saw the diamond jubilee of the Royal Philatelic Society, of which the King is the patron, the Prince of Wales the honorary president, and Mr. J. W. Hall the chairman. Founded in April, 1869, by the ex- Speaker of the New South Wales Parliament, Sir Daniel Cooper, who was also its first president, it formed its first association with the Royal Family when the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha became its honorary president in 1890. announced that his nephew, then Prince George of Wales, was an ardent collector.

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Six years later the King be- president, on occasions The Government then sent cut taking the chair and contributing

showed

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very no mere col- their messengers with these cup- papers. per coins, which they sold to the clearly that he was

serious student. thus making 100 When he visited the Society's pre- shopkeepers at the rate of 4 to lector, but the ten cents,

Place at 41, Devonshire per cent. profit.

However incredible this may last June, whilst the Philatelic scem the facts are as stated, for Congress was in session, it was respon- eame from the information

a quite evident that his

his member of the Council who is sibilities had not lessened

ardour in the pursuit of his! "anti-Lung."

hobby. He was conducted round the exhibition, which included various rarities, by the president, Mr. J. W. Hall, and noticed the in great rarity of St. Vincent, which the "bar" is missing from the d. surcharged on the 6d. of 1881. "Yes," he said, "I've got that" and went on to give its exact position on the sheet!

"RAIN LATER”

"N. and N.E. winds, moder- ate, freshening; cloudy, rain later" is the forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-

morrow.

At 11.35 am. to-day the Ob servatory reported:-A weak- anti-cyclone area extends fram Shantung across Japan to the Pacific. A depression or ty phoon has formed in the centre of the trough. It is situated about 120 miles N.W. of Ap- parri and its direction is un- known.”

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At 10.15 a.m. to-day Manila Observatory cabled:- Typhoon in about Lat. 20 N.- Long. 120 E, direction known. Typhoon in about Lat. 21 N., Long. 127 E., inclining northward.

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At their headquarters in 41, Devonshire Terrace the

Society

has a series of photographs of their past presidents, the place of honour being occupied by the au tographed portrait of His Majesty. Of philatelie curios there is na- turally a wonderful collection, one of the most interesting being fine engraving of Peter Graham'a $ Storm." "Highland Cattle in In the corner of the picture is a copy of the United States dollar stamp issued for the Omaha Ex- hibition of June, 1898, which is a replica of the Academy paint- ing, but bears the untrue caption, "Western Cattle in Storin."

The main function the Society.

is to protect them against frauds.

The White Flower Society in performs for philatelists generally borrow 40 per cent. of the money Shanghai, recently sold marguerites The stamp which bears the certi- at the rate of four per cent. fu-in aid of destiture Russians there ficate of the "Royal" an honour

afflicted with tuberculosis.

terest per annum.

See the popular juvenile star play cupid in a thrilling romance of the sea!

Jackie Coogan

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granted by King Edward in 1908 -makes that particular copy, like Caesar's wife, "beyond reproach." Its members include every phil- atelist of note in the world.

It all the members would ex- hibit their collection not a rarity in the world would be absent. Mr. Arthur Hind would be able to show his 1 cent British Guiana, which went West from the Ferrari collection with a price of over £7,000 on its head, and Mr. A. F Leichenstein his famous envelope bearing two of the 2d. blue люте Mauritius stamps worth than £10,000 whilst the King's collection of Empire stamps would be beyond compare.

REPARATIONS

Paris, Yesterday.

The proposals accepted by Dr. Schacht include a payment of an annuity of $102,500,000 and a cessation of the Dawes plan pay- ments Reuter,

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