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WALL STREET SAID

TECHNICALLY SOUND

Sentiment Continues

To Improve

RUBBER SHOULD OPEN BETTER

New York, To-day.

The COTTON market is expect- ed to open upathetic with prices unchanged. The proposed legla: Iation for regulating the commodi- ty exchanges is checking business, The market is technically sound.

General sentiment continues to' improve on Wall Street. Business at present is restricted pending Washington developments.

RUBBER prices are expected to be better at the opening.

The WHEAT market is anticl- pated to open unchanged. The weather is continuing to be milder. Traders are awaiting the crop report.

S. E. Levy And Company's Report In their market report, Mesera. S. E. Levy, and Company, Corres- pondents for Messrs. White Weld and Company New York Blate:-

5

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1935

The polico of Lewiston, Me.. nny that Will Bouthilette, aged 20 killed his aweetheart Jean Assclin; aged 17 (both above), but refuses to tell the motiva. The youth, a cripple since birth, turned the girl's body over to the police and confessed, they assert.

To-day's Short Story.

The Horrible God

By Thomas Burke

Rainwater wasn't easily outside the Monico,, some 80. yards

Main, but for the last away, was an Algerian rug-deller.

three or four days he had had a But the distance of these mon from strong feeling that he was being him made it impossible for any of followed, and it was upsetting them to have spoken those words him. He knew that the feeling in his ear two seconds ago.. of being followed is often a He stood and considered. It was symptom of a neurotic or morbid odd; very odd. The voice had been state, but that wasn't his state. so sharp and so close that it must He was quite healthy and frea have been addressing him.-It-had| of melodramatic or nervous come right into-his ear, as though limaginings. He was being fol- the mouth had been touching his lowed. He could feel it through shoulder. Yet nobody to whom hej his skin. He could feel it in the could trace it. He knew, of course, air the moment he left his home the trick of self-effacement; that He could feel pursuit and the sleek movement by which a cat will| prickings of danger,

pass round you before your, eyes Towards midnight that evening without your seeing it, and which hia suspicion became certainty. He ****

·was:

walking down Shaftesbury- avenue towards Piccadilly and was in the thick of the crowd coming from the theatres when, clearly' and with electrical urgency, a volce reached his ear. It was a keen

"Stocks-Little change in re MADE EYES THEN BORDER QUESTIONS mutter, and it said: "I speak as a

gard to the market is in prospect, until after the Gold Clause, deci-

sion has beon given. We continue |

to favour purchases on reactions.

Business done-490,000 shares, -

Commodities: ~ The markets

STAGED GUN BATTLE

acted rather well, under contin- Polish Girl's Escapade

uous easing of speculators!;comit-

Warsaw,

OF CHINA

Research Association Organised

friend. The vengeance of the god Imbrolu la a terrible vengeance. He seeks his own place."

TUESDAY'S STORY

Tuesday's Story will be "Uncle Sambug's Fortune,” by Paul Arene.

Rainwater turned swiftly. He the certain people can achieve by a collided with two girls just behind cessation of mental action. He at

the him who were giggling and talking|tributed the vanishing of of Ronald Colman. On one side. of speaker to that, and he had reason him a policeman was striding. On for believing that the speaker was

paces ahead was a newsboy, and sure, was meant for him, and no walking away from him were a other person in the crowd; he was Nanking. couple of nondescript youths who sure that it connected with his feel- ing of being followed, and 'that

menta, a considerable volume of A Polish girl from the coun- SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS NOW the other side was a wall. Two not English. The message, he was which entered inie strong consum- try, secured a post as a servant ing hands,

with the same period last year.

The following telegrams were received by Mesara S. E. Levy and

with a family in Krakow.

BEING EDITED

י

"Flash The American Railway She imported with her a dis- Association reports that carload-position remarkably, romantic, A series of publications deal-had evidently been drinking. ings totailed 558,000 units for the and she made eyes at the masing with China's frontier situa- As the crowd swirled-round, him everything connected with that hor-i week ending January 26th., deter. Her glances were inter- tion in being edited by the he looked here and there, for the rible idol. eline of 7,000 units as compared cepted by the mistress. The girl Chinese Frontier Affairs Re-possible speaker but could see no- The idol had been worrying Rala-

was dismissed.

search Association Rushing to a cupboard she organisert by

recently body to whom that queer mutter water for some time even before students and could have belonged. It was not an the following had begun. It was a reckless fusillade on all the In-lian and Tibetan School under On the opposite side of the street fore seen; an idol which gave him seized two revolvers and. began faculty members of the Mongo English mutter,

an Idol of a kind he had never be-

The stock market ruled steady,

mates of the house.

the Central Political Institute. was a large negro in a brilliant blue the shudders every time he looked with minor

The women fled. to the streets fractional changes and begged the assistance of the entitled

The first book of the series suit; in a bus coming frm Pleca at it. As a collector of native bric- about evenly divided. Nervous-

"Chinese Frontier dilly-circus sat a man of muddy a-brac, he was accustomed, police.. ness is subsiding, but with the

Affairs in 1934" now nearing colour and Oriental features; and hardened, to the many variations Meanwhile the girl shot her completion, is expected to be out. market atlll under a severe rea- way to the roof, from traint;

upon certain themes of which, the which of the press shortly. Giving as

black mind, in its more exalted fervours, is capable.

Co, from Reuter-

narrow Indecisive move vantage point she shrilly declared it does systematic review of the ments may be expected.

that she would never surrender. events in the past year, it is

Gassed B. A. Plerce Co.'s Report

understood to be of great value. In their

The police conferred with the as a book of reference. - market report, the fire brigāde. American Oriental Finance Cor-dragged

These stalwarts "Publication of other volumes forth their poration, correspondents

gas of the series giving n

basic Mesars. E. A. Pierce and Company unconscious. Then the police various Chinese border „quea- for apparatus and rendered the girl knowledge in connection with of New York state

CHINA TO APPOINT TRADE ATTACHES

Regulations Being Drafted

FOUR APPOINTMENTS TO BE MADE AT FIRST

even

But this...The most cloister- jed nun, knowing nothing of the images by which men express the baseness of man, would have known at a glance that this thing was in form and spirit horrible. The most experienced Madame of a Bueños Alres sailors' "hotel would not have confused it with the realistic am- blems of native religions which her customers brought from their voyages and with which they im- With a view to promoting Chia-proved her knowledge of anthropo lose tråde abroad, it is learned that logy. It was just a masterpiece of Needle Injection Into the Ministries of Foreign Affairs unrelated horror,

The artist who made it had with-i and Industry are jointly discussing plans for the stationing of com-drawn from the unfenced flelds of mercial attaches in foreign coun-religious ardour and had immured tries.

himself within the narrow dogmas

took charge. China New Year Holidays,

tions will follow in succession.- The girl wounded 20 persons Central News Agency. Our office will be open on Mon- before being disarmed, but none day, February 4th and Tuesday, was hurt seriously. February 5th, from 9 to 10 a.m., The "battle" was staged in and from 4 to 5 pm. Night service one of the principal streets of as usual on both evenings. Krakow, and for four hours the

Mesars. E. A. Pierce & Co., New "hostilitien": held the traffic up.

York Correspondent for the Ameri

can Oriental Finance Corporation,

report:-

Stocks. There were only minor adjustments in the market to-day. Traders were doing nothing, but were awaiting for the Court's de- cision.

FAMOUS POPULATION

DEAD BABY COMES TO LIFE

Heart

THEORY RE-STUDIED

A case of bringing to life "dead" baby is reported here.

a

On the occasion of the cele-

heart-heat. It remained in this

Nanking, January 26.

It is understood that the Minis of art just to show, apparently, When born the baby did not seem try of Foreign Affairs has drafted that art, with all its fetters of form Grains. The general disposition Malthus on December 29, at the

bration of the death centenary of to breathe, and apparently had no set of regulations governing the and technique, could outscar any- was to stand aside, pending the de- Indian Economic Conference at condition for an hour, despite arti-elal attaches, which has been sub- and tolerance, by, which the darker appointment and duties of commer-thing achieved under the license

religions distinguish themselves from art.

cision on the Gold Clause cases. Patna, steps were taken to ficial respiration. As a last resort mitted to the Legislative Yuan for The market was a dull and inactive initiate an organisation for the a doctor inserted a needle into the affair. All graine developed an scientific study of population cavity of the heart and injected a revision and action.

As soon as these regulations are Certainly he had succeeded. declines were only fractional. For institute of Population Research heart immediately began to func-approved, commercial attaches will Never had Rainwater, under that

easy trend after the opening, but problems in India

called the powerful cardiac stimulant. The

eign marketa were steady, but there in India under the lead of Drtion strongly was little in the news to affect Radha Kamal Mukerjee. sentiment,

Cotton There was a good classi

of buying in evidence. Price fx-

Arst be stationed in the United

cloak of respectability which hides The baby is now a fortnight old States, Soviet Union, Japan and so many anomalies, even imagined

England. Chekla! Agency,

anything like it. Nor had anybody and doing well.

clae, whom he know. Of all his no-i The doctor, speaking of the case, It is notified that at the expiration sald:

quaintance among curators of ing by trade continues, while offer- of three months the name of The Ning

His Majesty the King has not museums, not one could put a name ings were small.

."I had read of Liquidation was Yeung Land Investment Company,

similar cases, been advised to exercise his power to it or even conjecture the country Limited, will, unless cause is shown to though there were only four or five of disallowance with respect to an or island of its origin. When he Rubber. Trading was very dull. and the company will be dissolved,

the contrary, be struck off the register known to medical science: The Ordinance, to incorporate a Body of showed it to them, they stared and There was he selling by dealers!

child was to all intents and purposes Trustees capable of holding pra- whistled. dead. I injected a powerful, drug, perty and empowered to administer And that was all he could get

due principally longa.

against actuala bought on

out-

side markets, but the volume was

a heart stimulant adrenaline and a trust fund known as the Morrison from them. They could tell him the result was dramatic The child Scholarships Trust Fund for the that it wasn't Egypt, that it wasn't began to splutter, then to breathe purpose of providing Scholarships Java, that it wasn't Easter Island, at Queen's College in this Colony. or Halt, or Liberia; but they couldn't tell him what it was. They could only tell him that he's better put it away, or throw it away. Y

too small to denote any trend. The . Latest Quotations London market closed steady but The following quotations have and ery." quiet.

been received through Messrs. S. E Sugar. The entire market was Lovy and firm.

Company and the

"Spot" quotations stood at American Oriental Finance 2.80 on sales from store, Phillipines poration: and shipments of Puerto Ricos.

Futures were strong, while Re-

fined prices remained, unchanged. N.Y./London

cross-rate

Cor-

Prov. To-day 70 School Children In Hands He put it away, at the bottom of Of Pirates For Three Days body he knew would have accepted

clore close

12.42

4.8714 4.87-

12.38

Chicago Wheat-May 98% 9676

584

one of his curio cabinets," He couldn't give it away, because no Flash-Annallet Index of Busi-NY. Cotton May ness Activity was 870, unchanged NY. Rubber-May, 12.90 12.88

London, To-day that the Tungchow had been pirat- It. All his friends

were married, from last week.

Fears are being entertained for ed and later abandoned. Yesterday And as a collector he couldn't bring The automobile, output in the Chicago Corn-May 8444 84 the safety of the 70 children of afternoon, she was reported to be himself to throw it away. Yet, in United States totalled 69,400 units Montreal Silver Mar: 58.00 53.401 British missionaries, merchants, proceeding under her own steam keeping it in his rooms, he felt a

Brokers loans decreased. by Silver Official

officials and tradesmen in Chins with a Naval escort to Junk Bay, distinct unease, as though in pos- $20,000,000.” ..

10. Leading.

who were on board the missing Hong Kong,

sessing it he were partly respon Jan. 31 close Change steamship Tungchow returning to The circumstances, in which the sible for its horror and had had “a port on the opening of the markets:80 Industrials 101.60 101.52 16 of school at Chefoo after the Christ-piracy took place are not yet known share in making it.

At the opening of Wall Street to 20 Rails 83.75 33.42 88 off mas holidays, were set at rest yes- in official quarters here. Admiralty

་་་་

He wanted to throw it away, or terday afternoon, 58.17 58.14 03 off 96.27 96.27 unshanged Anxiety was caused by the fact was pirated 10,miles north west of bridges, but whenever he reached Information is that the Tungchow burn It, or drop it over one of the

Dow Jones. Averages

that the ship was 86 hours overdue Shawel Shan Island, at the mouth the point of setting out to do it, the 344 and midh no fecupones toogireless of the fanstadelantalgesi

collecting instinct mastered him. It 24% marangċE, «

Messra. E, A. Pierce & Co.'s re

day the trend was slightly lower: 10 Bonds

20 Utilities 17.25 17/28 02 off

but the volume of trading continues 11 Commodity to be light. The cotton market Idold as if it as beln Well liquidat Amer. Smelt

ed. "Spot" house and small hedge

Auburn sales were taken by the trade. The Elec Bond & Share tone, however, was steady

General Motors

A message from Cincinnati states Int Tel & Tel Procter and Gamble Co. have an-Montgomery Ward nounced the purchase of the busi NY, Central Nat/ Distillers

Manufacturing Co.

ness and property of the Phill Steel

Busines

190,000%shai

An act of piracy was pirates landed in Honglat Bay to be thing had been emitting, an avil suspected and the Naval authori- the east of Hong Kong ties sent out ships in search of the bad Russian, gua vessel. The warships engaged in Bergeant Thorore! cluded the cruiser Suffolk and the seco

aircraft car Hermes.

slifp smell into his room he still wouldn't and have been able to screw himself up The to throwing it away. So be Jocked up, and only took hest, and

tinued on

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