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AVALANCHE OF BANK | FAILURES.

THREAT TO WORLD CREDIT.

Closings Continue in STOP PRESS. Danger of a Complete

the United States.

TEN IN ARKANSAS.

New York, Yesterday.

The avalanche of Bank closings continues throughout the country. Ten banks shut down today, in Arkansas alone, eight of which, being. State Banks, have been placed in charge of the State Bank Commissioner; the other two, being National Banks, being turned over to the United States Comptroller.

Three more Banks in North Carolina; two in Alabama and one in Mississippi have closed-Reu- ter's American Service.

'PHONE TRAFFIC.

GROWTH BETWEEN BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

NEW CIRCUITS.

Rugby, Yesterday. The Post Office announces that, to meet the growth of telephone traffic between Britain and Ger- many, additional circuits have to been brought into service Berlin and Cologne. Twenty- three circuits now connect Bri- tain with Germany. - British Wireless Service.

COMPOSER GASSED.

"PETER WARLOCK" DIES IN HOSPITAL.

FRIEND OF DELIUS.

London, Yesterday. Mr. Philip Hesseltine, the British composer, whose nom de plume was "Peter Warlock," was found unconscious in his house in Chelsea to-day, and died in hospital from pas poisoning. Mr. Hesseltine was one of the most distinguished of living song writers, and a close friend of the composer, Frederick Delius-Reuter,

CLERK SENTENCED.

EMBEZZLEMENT OF SOCIETY'S FUNDS.

OVER $4,400 INVOLVED.

Tokyo, To-day. According to reports from Harbin in the Aaahi Nichi Nichi the Soviets ordered the Vladivostock branch of the Bank of Korea to close up yes.. terday afternoon. Following the closure order it is reported that officials forced their way into the Bank and arrested the manager and three clerks. The Bank's head office here cannot confirm the reports, but as official admitted ак xlety as the Soviets had pro- viously threatened to close this branch. He considera that the reported arresta Are not likely to be true.-Reuter.

Los Angeles, Yesterday. The General Committee of California oil operators have agreed to restrict the daily output by 50,000 barrels, mak- ing a 14 per cent. total pro- duction.Reuter's American

Service.

London, Yesterday. The conspiracy to avoid a Cabinet crisis at the moment

Collapse.

GOLD LOCKED-UP.

London, Yesterday.

It is the considered opinion of the Bank of International Settle- ment that the world credit struc tura is threatened with complete collapse unless the central banks concertedly devise means of re- storing its stablHty, declared Str Charles Addis speaking in London. He pointed out the fact that nearly three-fifths of the world's monetary gold was locked up in the United States and France, and was one of the predominant causes of the con- tinuous fall in prices, which eerlously menaced the stability of the credit structure.--Reuter.

AUSTRALIA'S IDLE.

DESCRIBED BY MINISTER AS "APPALLING."

GRANT OF £500,000.

Canberra Yesterday, In the House of Representatives to-day Mr. J. E. Fenton, who an- nounced

of a government grant $500,000 to relievo unemployment

la Australia, described the

WORLD COURT.

ADHERENCE OF UNITED STATES DEFERRED.

UNDER CONSIDERATION.

is strikingly instanced-by-an-situation-as-appalling."-Reuter- analysis of the voting on the Dyestuffs Act amendment. Thirty Labour members and a dozen Conservatives were ab- sent and did not pair, the bulk of whom are believed to favour the House of Lords nmend- ment. The Government's de- cision to accept the Lords challenge was taken by the Cabinet, which Mr. Snowden road from his sick bed in the country and journeyed in thick fog to attend. It was rumour- ed during the debate that the Government were prepared to lose the whole Bill in prefer- ence to bowing to the Lords' dietation, but the result of the division is expected to induce a more conciliatory attitude to- day. The Labour Party axccutive have drafted final proposals for electoral re- farm, including an alternative vote; reduction of election ex- penses; restriction of the use of motor cars; elections to sick and disabled; the aboli- tion of plural voting; and the reduction of quota votes to save a deposit of from one eighth to one tenth-Reuter.

Washington, Yesterday. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee by 10 to 9 votes, agreed to defer consideration of the pro- tocol for adherence to the per- manent court of international Jus- tice until next December, Reu- Įter's American Service,

Sentence of six months' hard labour was this morning passed by Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Cen- tral Magistracy on Taoi Wan Um, a former clerk of the Confucian Society, 220, Hollywood Road, on⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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obtained the sum of $200 from Li Mr. E. S. C. Brooks appeared for Cheung-hing by false pretences, the prosecution whilst defendant whilst the third charge was one was not legally represented. A of uttering a false receipt.

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