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GOLD COUNTRIES MAY WITHDRAW FROM ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
GERMANY'S
DEFINITE BREAK TO BRITAIN
BE AVOIDED
AGREEMENT
WITH VATICAN
Von Papen Arranges
FINANCIA
DELEGATES
MAY LEAVE
FATE OF CONFERENCE HANGS
ON
Concordat...
DISSOLUTION OF CATHOLIC CENTRE PARTY
Vatican City, To-day.
It is understood that an agreement in principle for a concordat between the Vatican and Germany has been reached between Vice-Chancellor Von Papen and Cardinal Pacelli, the Papal Secretary of State.
The new concordat will link up the existing concordats be- tween Prussia, Bavaria and the Vatican.
It is presumed that Chancel- lor Hitler will give adequate assurances regarding Catholic education, and also that the Vatican will probably consent to the dissolution in Germany of the Catholic Centre Party. -Reuter.
GIANTS WIN TWICE AGAINST CARDINALS Jimmy Foxx Bangs Out Three Homers."
U. S. BASEBALL RESULTS
New York, To-day.. New York Giants nosed out the Cardinals in both games of their "double-header" yesterday and thus gained an appreciable lead over the 1931 World Champions in the ince for the National League pennant.
(Continued on Page 4) Results as cabled by Reuter:
Nation League.
R. H. E.
Chicago
3. 15
0
Brooklyn
7 16
0
Lopes hit a homer.
Chicago
3 6
0
Brooklyn
4 10
2
Cincinnatli
0
4
1
Brandt pitched,
.Boston
1.
£
0
Cincinnatti
3 11
1
Benton pitched.
Boston
0
1
St. Louis
0
€
1
Hubbell pitched.
New York
.1 10
0
Game went to 18 innings."-
SL. Louis
4
0
Parmelee pitched.
New York
5
Vergez hit a homer.
American League."
New York
7 15
Cleveland
8 5
Philadelphin
6.11
Jimmy Foxx hit a homer
St. Louis
Philadephia
3 - 13
14
Jimmy Foxx hit two homers St. Louis * 11 12
HONOUR FOR MR. RUDYARD
· KIPLING.
Paris, Mr. Rudyard Kipling, has been unanimously elected an associate member of the Institute de France, -Reuter,
HULL'S STATEMENT TO – DAY
LONDON, TO-DAY.
TO ACT WITH
AMERICA
No Association With Gold Countries.
RUMOUR OF BRITISH DECLARATION
London, To-day.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald last night informed the gold standard WHILE NO MEMBER OF THE GOLD BLOC IS APPAR- Countries that Britain could pot'as- ENTLY WILLING TO SHOULDER THE RESPONSIBILITY sociate herself with the gold de- OF SETTING A LEAD BY WALKING OUT OF THE WORLD claration without the coneturrence ECONOMIC CONFERENCE, THE FEELING IN CONTINENTAL of the United States, according to GOLD CIRCLES LATE LAST NIGHT WAS IN NO WAY the daily telegraph. HAPPY,
The newspaper adds that Mr. Mac-
The French have definitely denied the intention of moving Donald hinted at the possibility of an adjournment and possibly all the other gold countries are separate but not identiel de- hanging back from such a definite step in the event of Mr. Wil-claration by the United Kingdom, liam Cordell Hull's statement, to be made to-day, bringing up for which the endorsement of the concrete, new suggestions.
Dominions is being sought-Reu
As a number of Americans themselves do not appear to hope for much from Mr. Hull at the moment the most likely course seems to be that a way will be sought by the gold countries dissociating themselves from the Conference without causing a definite and obvious break.
THIS IS POSSIBLY ACHIEVABLE BY WITHDRAWING THE CHIEF FINANCIAL DELEGATES. IN ANY CASE, UN. LESS THE SITUATION IS CLEARED UP BY TO-NIGHT OR TO-MORROW, SOME OF THE GOLD COUNTRIES ARE EX-
PECTED TO MAKE A DEFINITE MOVE. — REUTER.
Little Expected Of
Statement.
•
MAY PROMISE STEADYING OF FLUCTUATIONS
London, To-day,
The fate of the World Econ- omic Conference seems to hang on the statement to be made to-day by the United States Se- cretary of State, Mr. William Cordell Hull.
While forecasts from New York anticipate that the state- ment will leave matters much as they were before the Con- ference, there is hope in Lon- don that he will give some in- dication of America's plan for temporarily steadying the dol-
lar in foreign exchange mar- kets through the Federal Re-
serve Bank and foreign central banks.
Yesterday was a busy day at Downing Street and Mr. Hull, after a conference with Pre- sident Roosevelt's adviser, Pro- fessor Raymond Moley had 40 minutes' conversation with the British Premier, Mr. Ram- say MacDonald in the after- noon and subsequently saw the Chancellor of the Exche- quer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain and the Treasury officials.
At 6 p.m. Mr. Hull met re- presentatives of the gold coun tries and was in conference for 50 minutes.--Reuter..
U.S. COTTON FOR SOVIET.
Over 60,000 Bales On Part Payment
Washington, Tea-day." The Reconstruction Corpora- - tion has announced a series of Joans to American" exporters to finance the sale of 60,000 to 80,000 bales of cotton to Rus alan pa poleg
ter
The United Kingdom declaration, it is understood, will declare:
Firstly, the undesirability of States entering into currency competition in order to acquire a temporary advantage in inter- national trade by depreciating the external value their car- rencies below such a point as required to re-establish Internal equilibrium.
FRANC LOSES TO Secondly, the desirability of the
U.S. DOLLAR
authorities regulating curacies to smooth out exchange Actuations due to speculative influer Rea
France Prepares Toter,
-Devalorize.
London, July 1.
The battle of the gold franc with the American dollar and British pound sterling has been lost. Jeading financiers here and at Paris said to-day. The opinion was expressed that. it is only a question of time until France is obliged to devalorize, lowering the unit value of her cur-i rency to compete with the leading currencies that have abandoned the gold standard.
M. George Bonnet, the French fizance minister, told Premier Edouard Daladier by telephone to- day that there was no hope of Great Britain stabilizing its cur- rency independently of the United States, a move urgently favoured by France and other countries of the European gold bloc at the world economic conferenece in the last two days.
Economiste said that world econ- omic forces will force France shortly to abandon the present gold basis of the franc or to cheapen the unit by a fourth of fifth to compete with the dollar, which has declined markedly in terms of other currencies since America abandoned gold two months ago,
It was indicated in authori Lative French quarters that lowering the gold value of the frant would be undertaken as soon as the public in France has been educated to the
necessity of the move.
(Continued on Page 74) dy DOLLAR RECOVERS
TO 1/4
Slight Decline In Silver Prices,
RUSSO - JAPANESE INCIDENT
Visit To Soviet Trade Office In Tokyo.
REACTIONARY DESTROYS
FURNITURE
Tokyo, To-day Hajime Furitate, a member of the Japanese Reactionary Society, armed with a sword, entered the office of the So- viet Trade Commissioner, here, to-day, and proceeded to destroy all the furniture. Afterwards, he surrender- ed himself to the police, stating that he was accuated by the murder of the three Japanese fishermen on the east coast of Kamchatka on June 14. — Regler. 99
· PEKING-MUKDEN RAILWAY.
Repairs To Road To Tangshan,
Peking, Today. Two trains were waiting in Tient- zin station overnight to proceed to- day along the Peking-Mukden Rail- way as far as Tangshan, to repair
Official Photograph-The latest photograph of the children of T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of Yerk Princess Margaret Rose is seated in a chair presented to her at the annual London Exhi bition of disabled Men's Work, while Princess Elizabeth is hold--- ing a handbag presented to her, (S. & G.).
WIMBLEDON
PROSPECTS
FOR SINGLES
Probable Quarter- Final Pairings.
BRITAIN AND AMERICA WELL REPRESENTED.
The first two days of the second half of the. Wimbledon Fortnight are likely to be quiet and com- paratively featureless. The last eight singles players will be en- joying a brief respite in prepara- tion for the quarter-finals, and pro- gress will be made in the doubles championships.
The Semi-Finals of the Men's Singles will be decided on Thurs- day and all Final on Saturday.
Britain (Austin and Hughes) and America (Vines and Stoeffen) have each two repre- sentatives in the Men's event. while Czecho-Slovakia (Menzel), (Satob); Australia Japan
and (Crawford),
France (Cochet) are also interested. In the Women's event Britain (Miss Bound and Miss Scriven) and America (Mrs. Wills Moody and Miss Jacobs) are also on level terms. while Italy Mile. Valerio), Switzer- land (Mlle. Payot); France (Mme.. Mathieu) and Germany (Fraulein Krahwinkel) are the other nations represented.
Though Reuter have not cabled the pairings for the quarter-finals it is understood that the following are
RUTHLESS MURDERS BY the dragg
BUCCANEERS
GRAPHIC STORY OF PIRACY OF
S.S. SHENGAN
3 RUSSIANS AND 7 CHINESE SHOT WITHOUT WARNING,
Dairen, To-day,
MEN'S SINGLES.
J. Satoh H. COCHES H. W, Austin v R. Menzel. LJ. Stoeffen J. Crawford - WOMEN'S SINGLES." Mra: Wills Moody v Miss Jacobs.
Mlle. Valerio v Miss Scriven. Mme. Mathieu
Fraulein Krahwinkel
Mile, Payot Miss Round.
The best men's quarter final en- counter will probably be that be-
One of the greatest man-hunts witnessed in Dairen ended on Sun-tween L J. Stoeffen, the brilliant young American College player, and day evening with the capture of Gautschi and Maller, The Chinese Jack Crawford, the No 2 ranking crew of the pirated Shengan willingly joined in the hunt after recover-player and holder of the French
(Continued on Page 12.) ing from their nerve-shattering ordeal,
One of the seamen, interviewed by Reuter, stated that five foreigners on June 26 insisted that the captain accomodate them at
Tangku. On the night of June 28 at about 10 p.m., when the ship STOP PRESS
was 200 miles from Shanghai, after having studied thoroughly the lay- out of the ship, the pirates suddenly stationed themselves at strategic positions, chiefly at the head of stairways.
Without
The majority of the remaining TWO BUCCANEERS:
seamen, were scared and sought They lock- refuge in a tiny room.
any warning whatsoever, one of the pir- · ates shot dead the sleeping Chinese wireless operator ed the door.and, although without food and water, remained there and destroyed the apparatus. The chief mate, Azarieff, heartill the abip grounded. -
That part of the crew who had ing the shots, rushed out on deck. He was met with a hall of bullets not succeeded in taking refuge were and was killed Immediately,
whipped and then forced to turn back the ship to Dairen, where the pirates intended to provision and take the vessel to Valparaiso
Ship Rune Aground.
INTERVIEWED
"We Had To Bump Them Off After The Fuss."
PIRACY PLANNED SINCE LAST YEAR
Danen, To-day,
From outside Captain Vikhman's room, where he and Mrs. Azarieff were talk ing, a shower of bullets was sent through the window, The name of the Shengan w The Reuter correspondent here killing both instantly, painted out and the ship renamed was the first news man permitted The captain's boy had the Whall. When the ship ran to interview Messrs. Gautschi and It is hoped this will lead to a re-been called and when he appear-aground the pirates went ashore in Muller, who were captured by sumption of the "normal" fraffic as ed he was also ruthlessly shot two junks
the road and communications.
Japanese officer while descending a
far as Tangahan to-morrow, and that dead. A deck "boy" was the Westerman and Schroeder (not later the service will be extended as next to suffer
Schuller, as previously reported)knoll at the back of Dairen and far as Chinwangtao-Reuter, Within a few seconds three Bus were arrested while sleeping with heading for the City after hiding sians, and three Chinese were mur- pistols under their pillows. Tubby" for twenty-hours in the grass and dered, and quickly afterwards Taudin was arrested as he was at bushes,
US. DRIVE. AGAINST
two are of the crew, who tempting to leave the Shengan Gautsch), declared "Yes, I kill- RACKETEERS.
The other two, Gautachi and ed some Chinese. I don't know had appeared on deck, were killed, while two men sleep in Maller, were seized in the hills be- how many. I didn't kill Vikhman Crime Survey Planned. bed had their heads almost blown hind Dairen twenty-eight hours We threw all the corpses over-
off because of the closeness of the after they bad landed.—Beuter.
MULLER AND GAUTSCHI : Fashington. range at which they were shot
ARRESTED Homer B. As soon as the murders had been
General
Crime Admitted.
The buccaneers now in custody.
The local dollar has advanced 1⁄2- Attorney, since Saturday, opening on demand Cummings has announced that an committed, the bodies were bund- this morning, at 1/45%-
anti-racketeer drive will be launched led overboard. The loans will be secured by one Spot and forward silver prices de- immediately by the federal govern year five per cent interest notes by clined on Saturday, closing at ment. The first step will be a pre- the Autorg, Soviet Trading Organ- 18% and 18% respectively, liminary crime survey.* The American community is Hong isation in the United States and The London on New York crossThe older rackets of Chicago, New ada
and other larger cities, Kong will be “At Home to friends at guaranteed by the Soviet State rate closed on Saturday, at 1-G84.81
Bank Amborg will pay 30 per as against 4-084.28% on Friday: gether with new trends in anch as kidnapping). cent of the cash at the time of The New York on London: 'rate shipment. - Reuters
closed on Saturday at £-GSESS; under the scope of the
the American Club, Chung Tin Ball
ding, to-morrow from neon to 1.30 pm on the occasion of Independence DAY:
Darren, To-day. The search for the remaining two pirates concerned in the s.5. Soca- ted that the tale told by the gan piracy ended at 8 o'clock last true. They night with the capture of Arthur diffent to Gautschi, (32), a Swiss, and Wal- Captain Wikhman's body ter Muller (25), a German.- Reu
board. The shooting lasted, máy be, ten minutes, We only want- ed to scare them but they made such a fuss the only thing was to bump them off.
"We had planned the pir- acy since Inst year, We wanted to sell the ship with ber cargo in Valparaiso but kad no prospective buyer.. "After the killing I started feel-
funny but it was too late."-
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