1934-07-21 — Page 9

PRICES WEAKER ON WALL STREET Industrials Slumps 2.50 To 94.74.

SILVER MARKET QUIET

New York, To-day. With the exception of bonds, which rose .07 to 95.44, prices were weaker on the New York market yes- terday.

Industrials and rails were down 2.50 and 1.47 to 94.74 and 40.64, respectively, while utilities declined 55 to 21.96, the com modity index, dropped .79 to 68.95.

The silver market was quiet. S. E. Levy And Company's Report

Jiri (George) Stribrny, former Prime Minister of Cze choslovakia, le hailed as the man of destiny in ble' coun- try's affalra. Observers be. lieve that. Stribray, leader of the Fascist parly, may some time climb to the helm of the nation..

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1934.

KING'S GESTURE TO POOR GIRL

Rumanian Constable Taken To Task.

INCIDENT IN SOFIA

Today's Short Story.

THE RUNAWAY

By Stefan Zweig.

Sofia. NE night during the summer the strand, among them the mayor The King had been to the Opera ONE the in his or the little place. mayor

Outside the theatre the crowd boat on Lake Geneva, not far fellow,, self-important and full of} surged, eager to see His Majesty from the little Swiss town of the dignity of office, called to mind caught sight of all the instructions that had come emerge and enter the waiting royal Villeneuve, car. Policemen pressed the people something unusual on the sur-from headquarters during the four

Drawing years of the war. face of the water. back to keep the way clear,

Convinced that the new-comer But Д young woman slipped nearer to this object he perceived through and stood by the King's it to be a raft made of beams must be a deserter from the French car. In her hand she clutched roughtly tied together, which a shore of the lake, he promptly en- naked man was awkwardly try deavoured to make a formal in- a letter.

acon baffled by an "Here, what's this? What doing to paddle forwards by means quiry, but was

impenetrable obstacle - they could another. To you think you're doing?" A police of a plank.

The paddler was cold and ex-not understand one officer scized her.

"I want to give this letter to the hausted, and the amazed fisherman all questions the stranger (rigged was touched to pity. He helped the out by now in an old pair of trou- King."

She was Dimitrana Zaharieva, shivering voyager on board his own sers, and a coat found for him by in some neta one of the villagers) made no other once an attendant in the theatre, doat, wrapped him

a short which were the only available cover-answer than his own query, "Ros- dismissed from her job

ing, and tried to open up a conver-siya? Rossiya?" uttered in implor- time ago.

"Give the letter to me," demand-sation. But the rescued stranger, ing but ever more faltering tones. ed the policeman. "And stand back cowering in the bottom of the boat, You ought to know the King has answered in a tongue of which the The incident off the Turkish better things to do than read let fisherman could not recognise a syllable, Giving up the attempt as condition or coast, in which an officer of tera from a girl like you."

In their market report, Messrs. S. E Lovy and Company, corres pondents for Messrs. White, Weld) and Company, New York, state:

"Stocka:-To-day's "action can be ascribed to nothing specific but to a more growing feeling of distrust and general discourage- ment regarding Summer buainces and the longer range outlook. Un- til some favourable combination of events occurs

SAMOS SHOOTING INCIDENT.

Turkish Tribute To Fallen Officer.

London To-day.

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "Old Loza's Mango," by Richard Carol.

to II.M.S. "Devonshire" was killed So Dimitrana was engulfed in the a bad job, the latter hauled in the net he had come to examine, and change this attitude, we foresee last Saturday afternoon, by rifle crowd, her letter taken from her.

Then out of the theatre came the rowed with steady strokes towards little chance for more than tem-fire from Turkish guards, has

been amicably settled between Royal party-.. King Boris, his the land.

When the outline of the shore. porary reversals.

Queen, his brother and his sister. "Bonds:-High-grade issues are the two Governments.

while second Arrangements were made with They got into the car. Just as it grew plain in the gathering light slightly better,

of dawn, the naked man began to

A trifle annoyed at his failure, the Turkish Government, who had was moving off, a shrill cry-- grade bonds are lower.

"Your Majesty! A policeman has look more cheerful "Catton: Hitting stop-losses, already expressed their regret at

A smile played about the large the mayor strode off towards the scattered liquidation and local the incident, for the joint funeral taken my letter to you-now you

month half hidden in an exuberant court-house, signing imperatively to selling caused a reaction. We be service which was held yesterday will never get it!

King Boris heard. He stopped and disorderly growth of moustache the refugee to follow. Amid the lieve that the speculative long at the spot at which the death oc-

and beard. Pointing shoreward, he bubble of the youngsters, who had by now assembled, the bare-footed half ques outlook for Cotton is pretty well (curred.

H.M.S. Devonshire, H.M.S. Lon-"

man, his borrowed habiliments flap- "What letter? Where is the repeatedly exclaimed cleaned out und purchases are re-

tioningly and half exultantly commended on a further decline. (don and H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth letter?"

whe bid, and thus came to the present, and the Turkish "Rubber-Prices are steady in were

The zealous policeman, taken word which sounded like "Rossiya ping loosely about him, did as he court-house, where he was placed in view of heavy Commission House Government detailed a Turkish de-back, handed over the letter. The His tone grew ever more confident

safe custody. He made no protest;] selling and the market acted ex-stroyer to be present, and to asso- King asked him why he had taken and more joyful as 'the boat came

nearer to the land. At length the uttered no word, but his face, was ciate herself with the ceremony.it. tremely well.

once more overcast with gloom, and of the The Turkish destroyer east a "Well, I have your letter now," keel grated on the beach. "What:-The failure

The fishermen's womenfolk, who he stooped timidly as if in expecta- Winnipeg market to reflect unfav- wreath into the sea, with an in-called the King, turning towards

pros-scription expressing the sympathy where the excited Dimitrana was ran down to help in the landing of tion of a blow. ourable crop advices, with pects of showers and cooler wea- and regret of the Turkish Navy-standing. "You may ther in Canada and the North- British Wireless Service.

West, created easiness and the lack of short interest make the market vulnerable to realising. Purchases are still recommended on the scale-down."

Night Telegram

HEATS EFFECT

ON MIND.

Breeds Forgetfulness In Tokyo,

Many of the good people of the

the car.

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be sure the night's catch, dispersed with The news of the fisherman's re- shall read it carefully and do what cries of alarm, like Nausicaa's markable haul soon spread to the neighbouring hotela. Well-to-do ever there is to be done about it." maidens of old when they caught

Then he drove away loudly cheer-aight of the naked Ulysses. At the visitors, delighted to hear of some- ed by the spectators of this little strange tidings of what the fisher-thing which would help them to man had found in the lake, the while away an hour, came in great other men of the village flocked to numbers to inspect the wild man.

drama-Reuter,

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LOCUST SWARMS IN KIANGSU.

Hopeless Fight At

Tsinkiangpu.

A lady offered him some sweets,

SCREAMING HEAD but with monkey-like suspicion he

・

IN MARSH. Boy Scout Saves Life

Of Old Man.

Copenhagen.

A visitor refused to touch them. with a camera took a snapshot. Crowding round the raree-show,

they all chattered merrily.

The following telegrams were received during the night service: "Cotton:-To-day is the hottest

The summer heat is taking its day yet in all Interior, Western

mental alertness of and North-Central Cotton Belts, tail on the

Tokyo citizens.

At length there arrived upon the with very hot weather in the

scene the manager of one of the South-West and the bulk of the

capital, it seems, cannot think of The authorities in Tsinklangpu,

largest hotels in the vicinity, a man Mid-West and North-West Belts.

who had lived in many lands and "Grain: The weather for clear much else but the heat in the Kiangsu, are facing the hopeless and very torrid everywhere, with moments of relaxation while travel proposition of battling againet

Awful cries stopped a local Boy was a good linguist. He tried the hia way across some stranger, who was by now bewild- the temperature over 100 degreesing, and railway officials say that swarms of locusts which have been

ered and even frightened, in one in the bulk of the United States. the number of articles left on the destroying the produce of the tilled Scout on

racks and scata of cars on the land for miles within the neigh-marshy ground near here. There is no sign of relief but con-

He looked round but could see tongue after another German, of Liyang and other ditions in Canada are more cloudy Shose line have increased greatly bourhood

nobody. Yet the cries were close Italian, English, and finally Bus

alan. and signs are somewhat more fa-since the sharp rise in temperature northern provincial districts.

and a few days ago.

A curious report in the Shumpse at hand.

At the first word of Russian, the the Eastern vourable, In

The Scout searched carefully- Straw hats lead the list, some 250

states that the farmers are panic- South-Central Cotton Belts there

plucked up heart. His homely but are some heavyish rains which are to 300 of them being left daily stricken because they dare not kill then suddenly he saw a screaming poor fellow started, and instantly

Folding fans come next, nearly 100thorities to exterminate the pests head!

It was the head of an old man good-natured countenance was split 9.55 p.m.:-There le excessive of them being forgotten by passen the pests as they believed them to

be gods. All attempts of the au- who had stepped into a bag and by a smile reaching from ear to Instantly, and with confident hent and no rain in the Western gers each day. Railway officials Cotton Beit. There is blazing also state that the forgotten articles thorities to exterminate the pests who was gradually inch, by inch, ear.

mien, he began to pour out his his- range all the way from bathing

being sucked into the lime.. are not proving very successful heat over wlder Grain areas.

The Scout dashed off for help tory. It was long and confused, "11.09 p.m.:-The situation is suits to fountain-pene.

and the man was.dragged to safety and was not in all points intelligible to the chance interpreter. But aub Just in time. He had stepped off the narrow stantially the story ran as follows, path Into the bog 24 hours before. Now he le la hospital, recovering from his terrible ordeal-Reuter,

not wanted.

unchanged.

Foreign Power &

Foreign

Light gross income has increased by 10 per cent. for the year ended March S1st but the net income is the same as last year, Power loans have been renewed. A deferrment of purchases of Air- craft shares is recommended until the split-up takes place between

LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY.

Silver Prices Firm.

U. S. FAVOURED TO WIN

OVER AUSTRALIA

(Continued From Page 1)

It is noteworthy that Jack Craw- ford who this year has bowed to Fred Perry, Hans Timmer, Roderi

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He had fought in Russia. One day he and a thousand others had been packed into rallway carriages, and had travelled a vast distance by train. Then they had all embarked on a ship, and had made a yet long-

que Menzel, Andre Merlin, and G. CROP CONDITION IN er journey, a voyage across seas on

The local doilar remains steady, Aircraft and Transport."-Reuter opening on demand this morning Von Cramm, decisively beat Frank

E. A. Pierce Co.'s Report

at 1/5%.

York, atate:

-U.S.$5.04% on Thursday.

Shields in the Semi-Final Round

CHINA.

Survey.

which it was so hot that as.be phrased this very bones had been grilled. At length they had Another railway Jour- land.

ney, and Immediately after leaving the train they *had The Ministry of Industry has been sent to storm a bill. Of this

In their market report, the Spot and forward silver prices at Wimbledon, while Sidney Wood, American Oriental Finance Cor remain unchanged, closing prices who might have eliminated Perry Ministry Of Industry paration, correspondents for Messrs. yesterday being 20 7/16 and 20 in the semi-final but for over-con- E. A. Pierce and Company, New 19/10, respectively.

fidence, defeated Vivian McGrath The London on New York cross-in the First Round at Wimbledon. "Stocks: At the moment a feeling rate, which closed on Thursday at in the doubles match against circularised the provincial aufight he could say little, for at the of uneasiness is prevalent, with no-U.S.$5.04%, closed yesterday at France the Australian pair beat thorities asking for detailed infor very outset he had gone down with concrete reason evident. This ten-U.3.36.03% while the New Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon, mation, as to the condition of their bullet in and lors,

To the auditors, taking up the dency seems to emphasis the cur York on London rate closed at holders of the Wimbledon title in crops. rent business recession rather thari!

U.S.85.042, as compared with 1982 and 1988, but the Americans It is taken in Chinese circles to story as interpreted sentence after de any advance discounting.

went one better by snatching the mean that the ministry is prepar- sentence by the hotel manager, it "Wheat: The failure of the Win-i

crown from the Frenchmen at Wim-ing for the eventually of famine was at once obvious that this re nipeg market to reflect the

as the result of the prolonged fugee had belonged to one of the favourable crop advices, with the presumably on Government account." bledon this year, th

Night Telegrams

drought in so many greas through Russian divisions sent across and showery

Siberia and shipped to France from prospect of cooler

Not since 1924 has Australia out the country. The following telegram was re-

Vladivostock. Curiosity mingled weather in Canada and the North

Challenge Round,

with compassion, and everyone Wert, disturbed holders. The lack ceived from New York during the reached the

which this year will be played

wanted to know what had Induced of short interest makes the market night:

the man to start on the remarkable very vulnerable

"The breaking of the following against Britain at Wimbledon, realising.

Journey that had led him to the Liberal country sales and the easier prices would indicate the likelihood commencing next Saturday and

lake. Wheat prices checked the advance of a downward trend in the mar continuing on Monday and Tues- in Corn.

to

un-

ket

American Can

Anaconda Copper

Atchison, Topeka

Du Pont de Nemours U.S. Steel

1924 LABT MAJOR ATTEMPT

day. On that occasion they failed

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to prevent a clean sweep against America.

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80

TREASURY BILLS ISSUE

London, To-day.

"Cotton: The market cased on long Southern and foreign selling which was met by a more limited demand. There is nothing in the weather to warrant any reactionary trend. Selling, was influenced to a large extent by the action of the "In the silver market, speculators America have won the Davis, Grains and Securities' markets. continue on side-lines, while Banks Cup, donated by Dwight Davis British Wireless Service,

Westinghouse'

"Silver: The market continued to are buyers from the

Trade

With a smile that was frank, and A total of £59,570,000 was applied for in tanders for £85,000,000 Tres yet not free from cunning, the Rus Within the same period America, besides winning the trophy three sury bills. The amount allotted an explained that while in hospital was £31,220,000, the average rate with his wound he had asked where Russia was, and the general direc 88 times, has figured in eight Chal-

per cent, being 15/0.14d., as cortion of fila home had been pointed 84% lenge Round encounters,

pared with 15/7.73d. last week?

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former Governor-General of the

Philippines, In 1900, on eleven No case of a notifiable disease run and

In the Colony's he be featureless, with, the Trade con "In the Cotton market there is

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were

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