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Frenzied Dealings on Grain Exchange

The battleship Eamillies com- pletes to full crew at Sheerness to- day for further service in the Mediterrancean. She WELK -with-

Winnipeg Oct. 2. drawn nearly two years ago. and

Frenzied deatings in wheat paid off into dockyard control in occured on the grain exchange February, 1933, at Devonport. | heré to-day, following the decl- where £160,000 has been spent on sion to call a meeting of members her. She will now replace the

to debate the suggestion of Mr. Royal Oak in the First Battle McFarland. general manager of Squadron, the Royal Oak coming the wheat pool, that dealings in into dockyard hands at Devonport for similar large repairs. Increas wheat futures should be investi- ing sums are neaded to keep these gated. battleships in an efficient condition, As although it is over 20 years ago that their, construction was begun, io hew ships may be laid down to replace them until after 1938, according to the London Treaty.

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Mr. McFarland alleged that speculators were trying to under- mine the whole price structure.

Bedlam reigned in the pit where the market was hammered by Eastern and Chicago selling, but a Government agency was later credited with rescuing prices from further collapse.

"All futures closed at 3 cents per bushel lower. The decline in prices means a heavy loss to the Canadian wheat pool which holds vast stocks of wheat Beuter.

GOVERNMENT DENIAL

EVENTS

To-day

Thursday, October 4 Anniversaries and Holidays.—- Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, ..:

Cinemas King's: The Trumpet Blows”; Queen's:-"Mr. Skitch" Central:-"Chinese Picture" Oriental:-Man Of Two

Worlds" World:-"Chinese Picture" # Alhambra:-"Man Of Manhat-

tan"

Majestic Terror Trail” Star: The Show-Of

Meetings. Women's Fellowship. St. Andrew's Church Hall, when Mr. Harold Scott will give a short Pianoforte Recital, 3 pm; Credi- tors Meeting. The Chosen. Com- pany Ltd., 96 Des Voeux Road Central 2 pm.; Toe H. Social Meeting. Lane, Crayford's Re- staurant, 5-7. p.m.; Theosophical society, Study Class, 8 p.m.

Miscellaneous, Prison Branch of MOL holds Ladies Whist Drive, Prison Officers Mess. Ar- buthnot Road, 3 p.m.; Walst Drives at Civil Service Cricket Club, 845 pm. and RAOB Club. 8.30 p.m.

Captain Ralph Leathara, former ly on the staff of the War College, joined the Ramillies on May 1 for. her trials, and is reappointed on her commissioning for service. The executive officer is commander P. F. Glover, late of the Signal De

and partment, Admiralty;

the Erst Lieutenant Commander, J. N. K. Knight, from the command of emergency destroyers at the Nore. and formerly in .command. of BM.S. Moth in the West River Flotilla, China. The engineer of Ger, Engineer Commander. H. E. Le Poidevin, began his career in the Merchant Service, and was Canadian Government Is. contem." Inward from Australla by Nel- promoted from engine-room plating taking over the grain lore; Outward for Canada by Artificer to commissioned rank in marketing machinery. the Navy as Mate (E) in 1914. Het George Perlez, Acting Prime

Winnipeg, Oct. 2. Usually well-informed traders on e Grain Exchange discount press reports to the effect that the

was the first officer from this sopro to beż pramoted to engineer, Minister, said the Cavernment had Commander, in 1928.

received no such request and the already arounced in The reports were withous fourstation, as Times, the Ramillies will leave on far as the Government was con- Beptember 17 for Gibraltar, and [cerned.-- work there until November's be Reuter

fore going on to Malta.

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Sunrise. 6.15 am. Sunset.-5.08 D.m.

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Friday, October 5. The destroyer Fury is to be put. V. O., leaves Chatham on Fri-

Anniversaries and Holidays.-An afloat to day at the works of Jay and Sheerness on Saturday on Bamuel White and Co., Cowes.her autumn cruise, which, as last niversary, Proclamation of the Re- Birthday of This will leave only one more of year, will be to the Mediterranean.public of Portugal. the night destroyers of the 1932 She will be at Gibraltar from Confucius. (Sheng-tan-chleb), ac- programme to take the water, the September 20 until October 1, and cording to Lunar Calendar,

Auctions-Sale of Crown Landë, the will afterwards visit Naples and Fox Hound, building.

a...; Clyde. All these destroyers are Ragusa. During November she is District Office, South, 11

China due to be completed by the end of due to visit Haifa, and Algiers, Leasehold Property Sale, March. next, when they will join returning thence to Gibraltar, Auction Rooms, 3 p.m.. the 8th Destroyer Flotilla. Home which she is due to leave on De Fleet,in place of vessels of War-cember 1 for home. She should time design. The Fury is to re reach Chatham on December 7 and lieve, the Windsor, completed in the cadets will proceed on leave

on December 1.1.

1918.

ENGINEER CAPTAIN RETIRED

Cinemas.

King's: The Trumpet Blows" Queen's: Mr. Skitch" Central:-"Chinese Picture" Oriental:-"We're Not Dressing” World: "Chinese Picture” Alhambra:-"Forbidden" - Majestic:-Terror Tra" Star: The Show-Off" Dances-Garrison Lecture Hall, 8.30 p.m...

Meetings Hongkong, Ladles Hockey Association Lane Craw- ford's. Restaurant, 5.15 pm; Final Meeting of Fete Committee and Stallholders. St. Andrew's Church Hall, 9 p.m.

Earlier ships named Fury have rerved in the Napoleonic wars, the war with Russia, the second wat Engineer Captain T. E. Aitken- with China, and the Great Warhead AD C, who has retired from The first vessel of the naine entered September 6, was Fleet Engineer service in 1779, and figured in Officer in the Mediterranean from North Sea operations of the next 1931 until May last, in which year. A bomb-shin, of the name, month he was appointed A.D. O under Commander C. R. Moorsom, to the King. He has had over 32 was at the bombardment of Algiers years commissioned service.. Dur in 1818. A paddle aloop of the ing the War he was engineer name, mounting six guns served lieutenant of the cruiser For in in the Black Sea in 1854, and was the East Indies and German East at Fateban Creek and the "capture Africa, and also of the destroyers of the Taku forts in 1857-59. The Mines and Vanity in home waters. last Fury, a destroyer launched in He attained the rank of engineer 1911, served throughout the War, captain, on the list of which he first in the Grand Fleet and after-had risen to third place, in 1958, Inward from America by Pres. wards in the Mediterranean.

while engineer officer of H. M. S. Grant: Outward for America and CRUISE OF THE FROBISHER Revenge. He has since been Fleet Europe via Elbera by Empress of Engineer. Officer in China, and (up] Asís, 10 am; for Australia by The cadets training cruiser to May last) in the Mediter- Brisbane Maru. 5 pm for Amer- Frobisher, Captain H. A. Forster, rances.

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