1930-07-24 — Page 12

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ATTEMPT TO KISS A QUEEN.

AMANULLAH'S IRE AT

RUSSIAN'S DARING..

J.

CULPRIT'S SUICIDE.

Why Amanullah, at that time King of Afghanistan, left. Russia three days before he was expected" to do so, after his European tour,

Money

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1930.

and Markets

CANTON TRADE

NOTES.

Prices of pane glass, which were high recently, have dropped tower due to more arrivals.

Chinese cigarette manufacturers

is explained by Mr. Negley Farare doing badly due to foreign son, an 'American, in a book called competition and the high rate of "Seeing Red-To-day, in Russia,"taxation. published last month.

There has been a decline in the

Amanullah, it is explained, went | price of flour. Supplies from off suddenly because sonte one tried Shanghai and Hong Kong are to kiss Queen Souriya. -

abundant but buyers are few.

The incident happened in Titlis. the ampital of Georgia, just south of the Caucasus mountains, and half way between the Black Sea and the Caspian.

In consequence of the sharp rise in the price of fire-wood, there has heen a healtheir demand for coal. During of last month some 33,020 tons of foreign coal were imported.

con.

Here Amanullah and his queen' There has been a healthy were entertained at a banquet is sumption of cane molasses, import- the little palace which once belonged from the Dutch Indies and ed to the Grand Duke Nicholas,

And here, in royal style," says Mr. Farson, "the Russians chter- sained him, plying him with caviare from the Caspians, the smoked sal- mon of the Baltic, and the wines and champagne of the Caucasus.”

The trouble came when a

dis. tinguished Georgian official "stood up and made the mass rousing speech of the evening,

"He was overcome by it and the wine,"

and saya Mr. Farson, with a brimming glass in his hand he walked unsteadily along the table to the King of Afghanistan. I salute you,' he said, and, drain- ing his glass he leaned down, with the warm-hearted manner of his native mountains, to kiss the king

Amanullah pushed him away. in friendship...

"The Georgian did not seem to notier: He bowed to the queer; and then it was seen that his inten tion was to kiss Souriya also.

"Queer Tales."

Amanullah stood up. He made a sign. And then, as the appalled Georgians stared, Amanullah and his saite left the banquet-room. He left Tiflis at once, without wait ing for the three days of fêting that had been planned for him.

"The news flashed to Moscow. Mescow demanded that the official should explain himself. But this the smiling man of the photograph fa photograph an exhibition at a shop in Tiflis]) could not do, as he had put a bullet through his head,

Of Amanullah's visit to London Mr. Farson says:-**

"In England he slept in Buck- ingham Palace, und queer tales were told there of the domestic habits of his suita,"

Mr. Farson describes life in. Rus- sja to-day as he saw it during a 3ear's visit, travelling all over the country, talking with peasants" in their huts and visiting all kinds of "out-of-the-way places.

Without Bias.

. He seems to write without bias. and without any desire to grind a Soviet or anti-Soviet axe.

"The Communists day there is no God," he observes; "they laugh at priests and priesthoods, and yet theirs is one of the most austére. indefatigable, and unself-seeking brotherhooda in the world. If it is not a religion-which term they despise-it is a galt. ...

They are the whippers-in, the task-masters, the slave-drivers, if you will, of the most ignorant masa of peasantry in the world. A hun- dred and twenty million peasants almost bestial in their stupidity. . "I was surprised to find that only one out of about every hun- dred Russians was a Communist. I was surprised to find them a brotherhood amazingly similar to the Jesuits"

The book, which is published by Eyre and Spottiswoode at 15a, con- tains a number of reproductions of political and anti-religious Com-. munist postera. -

prices have consequently advanc- ed. Latest quotations vary from Tls. 4.67 to Tls., 6.52"

•

Large quantities of wolfram ore has been imported from the North River districts lately. Demand being limited. prices have dropped by several dollars per picul. A further decline in prices is Hikely. Ba,

The total quantity of raw silk exported abroad from Canton dur- ing the first half of the present" month was some 2,439 bales and waste silk 1,123 bales, showing a decrease of 450 bales of raw silk and 1.038 bales of waste silk dur. ing the corresponding period of last year.

*

The cotton yarn market was fairly active on Tuesday, demand by merchants in Pakhoi being brisk. Fine yarns were compara- tively less in demand and prices remained unchanged. According to a Shanghai telegram, over 700 bales were sold on Tuesday: The price of No, 24 fine yarns rose by dollar per bale, while quotations of other varieties were normal.

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The importation of foreign goods has shown a decrease due to the rise in prices caused by the ex- change. The buying power of, the Public has been especially weak during the past few weeks.

The foreign sugar market "has been rather active recently due to limited arrivals. Prices have gone up and are likely to advance still more in the near future.

EXCHANGE RATES,

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

Paris New York Geneva

Ruoay, July 25.

123.67 4.867

25.03

Brussels

34.801

Amsterdam

12.09

Milan Berlin' Stockholm Copenhagen Oslo

92.571

20.37

18.00

Vienna Prague

18.13 18.13 34.43 G-4

Helsingfors Madrid" Lisbon Athens Bucharest

103!

42.60 1081 1.375

Buenos Aires

Bombay

Rio

Shanghai Hong Kong Yokohama Silver:- Spot Forward

818 53 40.15/16 1/5 25/2 1/6

1/3

2/01

16

.......... 151

OKLAHOMA OIL

PRODUCTION.

FURTHER REDUCTION

ORDERED.

[REUIER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]||

OKLAHOMA CITY, July 23,

as already teen curtailed to As the production of oil, which 630,000 barrels, exceeded the demand by 100,000 barrels, the State Cur poration Commission has ordered that the daily outpat at Oklahoma be reduced to 350,000 barrels until August 31.

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE.

MODIFICATION OF SETTLE- MENT SCHEME,

The Banque Franco-Chinoise has received the following telegraphic information from the Banque Indus- trielle de Chine in Paris:

the

Holders of secuted bonds and re- partition bonds on franes assembled in general meeting. "have accepted to-day the modification to Transactional Settlement Scheme. a proposed by ns, which will facilitate the audit of liabilities ratified by special agreement with. the Oeuvres Franco-Chinoises and the Banque de France.

Modifications to the Contrat de have also been approved Gérance and accepted.

It particularly follows that the "Bors de Répartition en Francs " will be reimbursed at 100 per cent. of their tace value as from Septem- ber 26, 1948, from the special work- ing fund" put heretofore at the disposal of the Banque Franco" Chinoise.

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DECLINE OF WHEAT PRICES. AFFECTING BUSINESS.

are

Washington, July 15.-Observers here to-day predicted that the West- ern demand for equalization of farm relief will be revived at the December "short "session" of Con- gress as a result of the sharp de- cline of wheat prices, affecting busi- ness, markets and banks throughout the country.

meanwhile Farm leaders awaiting President Hoover's sug- gestions for possible remedies of a situation which cannot but have a considerable repercussion unfavour- ably upon the record of the pre- Bent Republican Administration."

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No. of Shares Done.-2,000,000.

Call Money -~2 per cent.

American Smelting

Anaconda Copper Baltimore and Ohio

Borg Warner an

Continental Oil

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