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Carnation

Cormation

"From Contented Cows"

THERE'S CREAM

IN

EVERY DROP.

The dollar, on demand, closed to-day at 1/6 1-8,

The

FINAL EDITION

China Mail

THE OLDEST - ESTABLISHED NEWSP PER IN THE FAR EAST

En. 1845.

EL 1845.

MILK

Solo Agente: CONNELL BROS. CO., LTD. HONG KONG & S. CHINA.

No. 28,802'

HONG KONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1934.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

WE PRESENT A

Gorgeous Display

of Gowns.

AND OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT.

PAUL RENNET et CIE

Chater Road Hong Hong

Nathan Road

Kowloon

ROOSEVELT AND MORGENTHAU AT VARIANCE ON SILVER POLICY

Here is Sven Hedin, noted Swedish explorer and author, who was reported to have heen captured by A brigand Moslem chieftain, General Ma Chung-Ying, and a group of Turkestan bandits in the wilda of Hankiang province.

CANTON SILK

EXHIBITION

BIG SUCCESS

Industry Importance Stressed.

BETTER QUALITỶ SOUGHT

[From Our Own 'Correspondence]

Canton, To-day.

NEW CERTIFICATE ISSUE DISPUTE

PRESIDENTIAL SCHEME

CARRIED OUT

TREASURY TO REAP VAST PROFITS

MATTE

SPECIAL TO' CHINA 'MAIL.

1By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphic Mensages Ordinance, 1894,

Received August 13, 12.81 a.m.).

Washington, To-day.

Gold Price Increase

Thomas Urges 1926 Dollar

RELIEVE TERRIFIC

Observers believe that the Treasury Secre

President tary, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, and Roosevelt, are disagreeing on the monetary ex-phic pansion policy.

DEBTS.

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAILL (By Telegraph; Copyright, Telegra

ceived August 15, 8.20 ama

Chicago, To-day.

Messages Ordinance, 1891. Re

In a speech on the occasion of

They point out that the President, on July 14, executively ordered a U.S.$80,000,000 issue of silver certificates, based at U.S.$1.29 per ounce, on the 62,000,000 ounces of free silver which Farm Day at the Century of Pro- the Treasury then held.

Mr. Morgenthau has since frequently said that the issue would be U.S.$46,900,000 worth of certificates equal to the actual cost of the metal, the balance of the silver remaining free.

It is noteworthy that both value silver at U.S.$1.29 per ounce, but apparently disagree on the amount of certificates at present to be issued thereon. The matter does not affect nationalised silver,

Besides the 200,000,000 ounces from the nationalisation yield. It is estimated. that the Treasury must purchase 1,300,000,000 ounces in order to reach a 3 to 1 ratio with gold.

gress Exposition, yesterday, Sen- ator Thomas, of Oklahoma, urged the Government to increase the price of gold immediately to the U.S.$41.34 per ounce maximum, and thereby nullify gold's exces sive purchasing power and return to the Coolidge value of the dollar in 1926.

This, Senator Thomas. pointed

0

This photo, taken during the German "revolution", in which over 50 Nazi "rebela" and monarchists were summarily executed, shows left, Chancellor Adolph Hitler receiving the salutes of his "loyal" Brown Storm Troops, saccessor to Captain Ernest Roehin, who was slain in the Shirt troopers, with Viktor Lutze right, newly appointed chief of the

crushed "revolt",

VOCE EXCLUDED FROM ENGLAND TEST TEAM

SEA DRAMA IN SQUALL

5 EUROPEANS

IN WATER FOR

HALF AN HOUR

Cheung Chau Party Have Thrill.

JUNK CREW ANSWER CRIES FOR HELP

AN ALARMING EXPERIENCE BEFELL FIVE EUROPEANS, IN- CLUDING THREE, LADIES, LAST WEDNESDAY, WHEN THE - SAM- PAN, FROM WHICH THEY WERE FISHING, CAPSIZED IN A SQUALL WHEN SOME MILES OUT AT SEA, OFF CHEUNG CHAU ISLAND.

Fortunately, the party, four of whom were good swimmers, and the two sampan men, were able to cling to the upturned boat until rescued by a junk, half an hour later.

The party, composed of Miss E Burkwall, a missionary, Miss.C. Watson, a sister at the Gavern- ment Civil Hospital, Miss Sybil Dalziel, a teacher at the Dio

Girls' School, Mr. M, E.. Tavlin, of the Sanitary Depart

İcean

out, would burden and enab CONFLICTING VIEWS IN ment, and Master A Daizlel,

LONDON PRESS

London, To-day.

London,,To-day.

student at the Diocean. Boys". School, left Cheung Chan at 5 p.m. on Wednesday. The weather at that time was bright and the sea calm, but at about 7.90 p.m. a

The Treasury has vigorously insisted that the President debtors to repay with dollars of United Press, the same value as when the and the Treasury Secretary have not disagreed.

debts were contracted. per S. E. Levy and Company.

"We cannot retain the present Following Saturday's confer-deflationary dollar without preci

Conflicting views are express England's team to meet Aus storm sprang up, and the sampan ence, the United States Treasury pitating a social overturn or nation- has announced that certificates wide repudiation," he said. It was ed by cricket correspondents in tralia in the play-to-a-finish fifth was headed for the island. would be issued against 62,000,- now

to repay

from this morning's newspapers over Test match, which begins at the 000 ounces of free silver at U.S.$1.35 to U.S.$1.50 in goods and the omission of Voce, the Notts Oval on Saturday next, will be se CS.$1.29 per ounce.

services for each dollar borrowed howler, from the Test selections, lected on the morning of the match Explaining the intentions with before the depression.

in view of. his achievement from the following fourteen play- nationalised silver, the announce- Another possible way to dilute against the Australians when he wide publicity movement under- BOY KILLED IN ment cited the hypothetical instance gold's excessive purchasing power, took 8 for 66 at "Trent Bridge on ers

The Silk Exhibition at the Mass

GUNMEN IN

Educaties Institute in Cheng Wah SHANGHAI

Road drew a bigger crowd yester day than expected owing to the

taken by the Government and silk merchants to awaken the people to the importance of the silk industry in Kwangtung province.

Various silk objects are on dia- play, from the mulberry leaf and silk worm to the finished product. Women constituted the majority of the visitors, as there is a sales de- partment of silk goods, such as Chinese antin and crepe, which are

sold at lower prices than in the

local stores,

The Silk Exhibition was organiz

ed by 19 bodies

connected with

the silk industry in memory of Empress Huang Ti, who taught the people how to grow mulberry trees Since then, and rear silk-worms. Kwangtung has become prosperous on the development of the silk in- dustry,

In recent years, keen Japanese competition and the lack of im- provement by the Chinese silk pro ducers brought about a slump in the Chinese silk industry. The present exhibition is to increase públic Interest'. In this industry and to show the fine quality of

BATTLE

AVENUE EDWARD

VII INCIDENT.

Shanghai, To-day.

Five Chinese pedestrians, în- cluding a woman, were wound- ed, and a Chinese boy, 15 years of age, was killed last night in a gun battle between seven gunmen of Frenchtown and the Settlement police, fu Avenue Edward VII, which sent the residents into a 'panic. A quarrel between two Chinese in a tea shop, în the Settlement started the row, in which a shot 'was fired. This attracted the police and re- sulted in over 40 shots being fired,

The gunmen escaped into Frenchtown-Reuter.

Chinese silk and its exceptionally WORLDWIDE

resonable price.

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U.S. PLAYWRIGHT PASSES.

Augustus Thomas Victim Of Apoplexy.

New York, To-day: Mr. Augustus Thomas, the doy- en of American playwrights, died yesterday, following apoplexy.-- Reuter.

DUMPING BY

GERMANY

“SELL ABOARD EVEN AT LOSS."

"NEW INDUSTRY-THREAT

by

necessary

under which the Treasury could ac-he said, would be by a much wider Saturday.

quire 1,000,000 ounces at 51.6 cents use of silver as part of the metalllo The Daily Mail commends the per ounce the Government could use base-United Press, per S. E. Levy Selectors' refusal to be stampeded 400,000 ounces to issue U.S.$516,000 and Company.

worth of certificates. The remain-i

ing 800,000 ounces would be placed THREE BOATS

in the vaults as an asset," it states.

The 600,000 ounces would be car

ried at the purchase cost instead of jat U.S.$1.29 per ounce.-United Press, per S. E. Levy and Company.

:.

Government Assets.

on the strength of a single per- formance.

•

The Daily Herald adopts a con

IN COLLISIONtrary view, saying that the omission IN SHANGHAI tisfaction and bitter criticism.

will undoubtedly arouse keen diaga-

TUNGSHAN REELS TO. SECOND CRASH,

JAPANESE BOAT INVOLVED

B. E 8. Wyatt (WARWICK) (Capt.) C. F. WALTERS (WORCESTER), G. O. ALLEN (MIDDLESEX).

SUTCLIFFE (YORKSHIRE); HAMMOND (GLOUCESTER); HENDREN (MIDDLESEX). LEYLAND (YORKSHIRE). AMES (KENT),

I. A. R. PEERLES (MIDDLESEX)

VERITY (YORKSHIRE). BOWES (YORKSHIRE). GOVER (SURREY),

CLARK (NORTHANTS),

GREGORY (SURREY).

It had not gone far, how- ever, when a squall caused

the sea to rise alarmingly. The boat quickly filled with water, despite frantic bailing, and a sudden gust of wind then overturned the already waterlogged craft.

The occupants were thrown into the water, but, with the exception of Miss Burkwall, all managed to awim to the upturned sampan. Miss Burkwall was assisted by the others and managed to cling to the derelict.

... CRIES FOR HELP

With darkness rapidly falling, the party began to shout for help, Eight of the side which was lucky and were eventually heard by the to draw at Leeds, are again selected, crew of a junk which was sailing Keeton, Hopwood, and Mitchell be in the vicinity at the time of the ing the three passed over,**

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HARROWING

"The Marylebone Cricket Club have finally demon- strated that they have given way to the Australians on the fast leg-theory ques Washington, To-day.

tion," the journal adds. The United States Treasury has

According to a Daily Mail· announced that the major portion of

Shanghai, To-day, writer, a strained atmosphere silver acquired under the nationali- nation order will be carried on the Three river boats were involved resulted following Voce'a fast Treasury books as Government as in a collision yesterday afternoon leg theory bowling at Nottingham on Saturday, and, while no official on the Whangpoo River near Gar complaint was made, some of the It is announced that a special den Bridge bend after five o'clock. Australians suggested that the Not- press conference will be called, ap- The China Navigation steamer tinghamshire County Cricket - Club parently to attempt to discount the Kian, inward bound, was keep Committee should be informed of inflation rumours-United. Press, ing well to the starboard, when their resentment. per 8. E. Levy and Company.

sets.

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name side.

SCENES IN

RAIL CRASH

FRENCH EXPRESS JUMPS LINES.. she noticed the Chinese steamer, Thomas Moult, writing in the

FRENZIED RESCUERS WORK Tungahun, of the Tatung Steam Daily Telegraph has contrary views,

IN DARK Company, proceeding down

"AVIGNON, TO-DAY. the river for Wrote did one saying that the Australians saw no teze porte, bearing down on the resemblance between Voce's leg. A TREMENDOUS CHASH AT

theory on Saturday and the "Body-O'CLOCK YESTERDAY MORNING line tactica to which objection was FOLLOWED BY THE EXTINCTION The s.s. Kian stopped her an

OF ALL THE ELECTRIC-LIGHTS taken in Australia.—Reuter, gines, and then seeing that a col-

AT THE STATION, THE HISS. OF lision was inevitable, the skipper On Saturday Voce rattled the ESCAPING STEAM AND THE

tourists, frequently bumping the ball. SHRIEKS AND GROANS ordered the engines to be revers in a total of 237 he claimed 8 for 66, DOZENS OF PASSENGERS, MARK ed, but the ship was hit on the W. M. Woodfull, the Australian skipper KD THE DERAILMENT OUTSIDE (By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegra starboard side, the bridge house who was hit over the heart several THE STATION HERE OF THE phic Messages Ordinance, 1891, Re and superstructure being con- times by Larwood in Australls, often GENEVA-VENTIMIGLIA EXPRESS

ducked before his deliveries in the WHICH WAS DELIEVED DUE TO ceived August 18, 8.20 am.)

course of his innings of 81. EXCESSIVE SPEED

PANAMA CANAL TOLL FIGURES Big July Increase Reported.

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.

Washington, To-day,

It is announced that 419 commer cial vessels passed through the

June toll figure United Press, per S. E. Lery and Company

siderably damaged:

(Continued on Page 9).

OF

accident, The rescuers circled round the party for some time- before they could be located, but (Continued on Page 9)

BYRD RESCUED IN ANTARCTIC

Winters Alone 123 Miles From Main Base.

THIN AND WEAK BUT IN GOOD SPIRITS

Washington, To-day. Rear-Admiral-Richard B.

Byrd has been rescued from the observation: hut in which he passed the Winter alone, 123 miles from his Antarctic expedition's main base at the Bay of Whales

This news was contained in Voce had previously stated that he All the eight carriages of the message received by the National did not wish to play in Test matches express left the rails. A postal Geographic Association and adds against Australla, following the example set by D. B. Jardine and van, next to the engine, crashed that Rear-Admiral Byrd was thin Harold Larwood, It was thin lo into a goods train on the parallel and weak, but in good spirits:

was smashed to The rescue party, under Dr. sa criticlama p

smi ereons, and the goods train Thomas Poulter, left the base at was derailed.

Panama Canal in July, paying London, To-day.. Worldwide, dumping

U.S.81,825,295 in tolls, which is

that were the butt of Australlantine, and STOP PRESS German manufacturers - is

more than U.3.$100,000 above the STOP threatened by the Hitler Government, according to the city editor of the Daily Herald, who states that goods will be sold at or below cost in a des- perate attempt to obtain funds 710, theto purchase raw materials.

STOLEN CAR FOUND IN GARAGE

The Crysler car, property of Mr. Sin Shui-kan,

No. 41, Conduit Bor

ported stolen from

Cark Park on Saturday: afteri was found this afternoon in Messi

Gilman's garage.

→ German manufacturers have.

"-bron--informed-that-it-is"

tional duty to sell

at a loss. Thou

bo boycotted ing

tracts Bester.

TYPHOON WARNING

A depres

tward

All four main lines were ocked. hampered by

SHANGHAI CRIME.

CHINA'S TAX STAMPS TO BE SOLD BY P. 0.

their first

is moving

the Hokka

ned by

Early

con: fared

Nanking, To-day. According to an announce

Ministry of CÒ

No

stamps: wil be

The dat

that the

Prexte

were

Little America on August 8. They had previously twice turned back owing to storms and other mis haps Beuter.

Continued on

WEATHER FORECAST