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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935.
ABYSSINIAN FRONTIER
DIFFERENCES
Italy's Statement On
The Situation
LATE NIGHT
CABLES
The following cables were rË.. ceived last night through Reuter's Agency:-
London Forecast of the American Market
Cotton; The cotton market is expected to open rather low, Price disparities which so far have been
London, Feb. 13. Italian ultimatum to Abyssinia | operating against American ex- The situation in dispute between had been officially denied. Proports, are now partially eliminated, Italy and Abyssinia was the sub-tests had however, been made in Stocks: The comparative firm- £131ject of a statement in the House Addis Ababa following the recent neas which prevalled on Wall of Commons by the Foreign Secre-frontier incidents and in making Street yesterday is expected to be tary. Sir John Simon to-day. He these "protests the Italian Govern-maintained to-day, but trading said the 'British Ambassador inment reserved their right to seek will probably continue to be slack. Rome had been informed that reparation.
Rubber: Rubber prices are anti- following certain recent incidents
The Ethiopia Government state cipated to open up. involving Italian casualities in the they have lived up to undertakings frontler "Zone between Italian
given in their letter addressed. to Somalland and Ethiopia, where it the League and strict orders have is stated substantial Abyssinian been given to avoid further in- forces have been concentrated, the cidents. So far as he was aware Italian Government had, as a
no fresh appeal has been made by precautionary and defensive mea either side to the League of Na- sure. mobilised in Italy two divi-tions, said Sir John.-,
aggregating · some 30,000 British Wireless.
$275
Cauton Insurance.
$230
21.40
Underwriters ***** $1,30
Union insuranc...$1
$497
$490
China Fires ***** 8470
Hi.K Fires
3227
3587
International Assos, J.
Shipping
$39
Douglasss...
$39
LI
Steamboats
$30
Ludos (pret)
$7 $30
sions
$33
Do. (dat)
$36
60/7
Shells...........
Waterboats
52/ $12
men..
$12
Mining
92 sts
Amtaznoks .....
94 ota,
TH
#l
Balateos
$4.00
3101
***
$20.10
10
93 otw
39 ete, Baguio Gold
$142 Baugust Consolidated!
18 eta Do. Exploration
Do. Goldfield
10 sta,
10 ot. Big Wedge
!!!!
Gold River
38ets Gold Crusk......
10.-
+1
11 cté.
21 cts. 59 ctv.
United Faracales...
Salacot Mining...... 14 ct,
Ipo Mining..................
42 cts. Itogons
Kailans **** Langkats (single).
Explorations......
141-cts. $:3
14
36 cts.
18/0
515
18% $15
15
$8
Shanghai Loans 8,
***
36
$7.90
Raubs.
$74
15
Venezuela Gold Fids. 59.80
Godowns, sta.
Docks, WhareOS,
$112 H.K. & K, Wharte. $111
Providents (old)... $1.25
Do. 30"cts
(now)... 10 cts, 311 H.K.&W. Docks
B. China Motors A'
Do.
"B" $120 Shanghai Docks S.
New Engineerings8. Hongkews
Lands, Hotels, and'
- Buildings
H.K. Hotels***
HK Landa...........
Do. 4% Debentures]
$5,50
$309
B
$10.00 China Do...5..
New Asia Hotel...
**
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712
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$50
***
$115
36
$5
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$50
$49)
$22
$13.2
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Shanghai Lands....,,]
**
15.10
H.K. Realties....................... | $4 65
$123
110
Do. Debont read. Humphreys
$17
Asia Realtor "A`S,
Do.
"B" S.
$93
Chinese Estates......
Cotton Mille -
38.80
| 39.10
174
$74
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3443
89.30
255
89.40 .361
$100
$45
$20
Star Cottons(old)S.
Do.
Zoong Singe S. Wing On Textiles(S.)
Public Utilities
Tramways....
Poak Trams (old)...) $8
Taumati Ferries ---
China Lights (old).....| $10
Do. (DOW)...
Macao do. 325 18
------ #701
Sandakan Lights..... Telephones (ald)
Do.
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HE. Electrion
KAKAYA
16
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$94
Star Ferries posceret
359
#10.15 $10.05
$701 $701
1701
$25
$25
(new)
$10,30
$12.40
China Busss......8.
7/3
18/.
Do. (pref.)
121
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Industrials
Malabon Bugar...
Caldbeck, (ord. 8.
$193 Macgregory (pref.)8.
--Canton fon
Caments
Hopes $24.
Miscellaneous
Dairy Farma
10418x dir.
9311
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1+
19.90
$2 12.08
$3.80
$231
Der A Wing.........
11 85
Amusements ......
$77
Ch. Etainment...... 16.15
$1.86
$37
Lane Crawforda................
#21
Nanyang Tobacco... $4.60
#B
Constructions, (old) 31}'
Do. (new) 50 pts.
Alackintos
TH
Biacores.....
Watsons
70 ala. W Powells
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M. Greyhounde
11.36
B. C. Enterprises ...
United Theatres...3.
89.
JUL,G,5%1925G,¶Bds.
617
premi
prom. 3%
$106
H.K. Gort. 4% Loans 81% 31%
Wallace Harper .. ELK Wing Un..... Vibro Pileng
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$231
意
$11.30
His Majesty's Government had been further informed that these precautionary measures in no way imply an intention on the part of the Italian Government -to-aban-- don their endeavours to seek 'an amicable settlement of their dif ferance with Ethiopia by direct negotiations, as foreshadowed by Letters addressed to the Secretary General of the League of Natlors on January 19.
The Government also has been informed there not only has been no advance on the part of Italian forces from the "line they have long occupied in the disputed area. but the Italian Minister in Addis Ababa has in fact been instructed to negotiate with the Abyssinian
Government.
The British Minister in the Ethiopian capital has been au- thorised to use his good offices promoting negotiations.
ROME CONFERENCE. [Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
Press" (Copyright).]
Rome, Feb. 13.
yet
The Abyssinian Charge d'Af- aires was received late on Wed- resday afternoon by the Under- secretary for foreign affairs, Suvich with whom he conferred for nearly an hour. No official information is available concer- ning the result of the interview but it is stated on good authority that no agreement has as been reached as to the proposed establishment of a neutral zone in the Italo-Abyssinian border districta, a procedure which is the safest considered to offer means of eliminating the possibl- lity of further complications.
Political circles here once more stress Italy's desire for a peaceful
Wheat: Wheat is expected to be stoady," m spite of the rains. Egypt has bought. The world visible supplies are shrinking," The constructive effort to raise freight from the Argentine is succeeding.
New York Cable Opening, light and even with market fri.
Cotton steady market more trade demand offerings light
DRUGS FROM GLANDS
Dramatic Advancé In Medicine
In a recent summary Prof. E. C. Dodds, of the Middlesex Hospital, has called attention to one of the most interesting. and drammatic advances of modern medicine,
The knowledge that certain glands in the human body produce what are known as internal secre trous, profoundly affecting the whole aconomy of bodily life, har
the success of these settlement of the dispute, but it been established only within many
ULTIMATUM DENIED
Sir John Simon added that press reports current yesterday of an
A CHANCE TO PREACH
Aimee MacPherson's Programine
Mrs.
Shanghai, Feb. 14. Aimee MacPherson, who put in the bustest twenty fou hours since her arrival, outlined the programme of her Far Eastern
tour.
She says she will do her first real work in Hong Kong and ManЯa. At present she is busy studying plans for a proposed church building in Shanghai.
She was much impressed with the intense curiosity of the Chinese ani says it takes no time to gather a crowd and she can Imagine what a chance it gave to preach. Reuter.
REICH BAN ON NEWSPAPER
Is doubted whether the Emperor of Abyssinia ha the
necessary
contemporary lifetimes.
It may be said to have been
power to keep the marauding bor-founded by the bedside observar
der tribes in check.- Transocean Kuo Min.
NOTED SCOTTISH in the front of the neck.
BARONET
Sir Harold Yarrow's Romance
(Special Air Mail) Service)
Glasgow, Jan. 26.
tions of Sir William Gull in the '70's of last century, who showed that a certain characteristic group of changes was always associated with atrophy of the thyroid gland
Patients suffering from this tended to become fatter, slowar in movement and mentally lethargie. Children suffering in a similar way did not develop on normal lines. His observations were cral-
armed by many others, and in the '90's it was found that, if such patients were given extracts of thyroid gland their signs and. symptoms disappeared in an almost miraculous fashion.
Form of Iodine
It was then discovered, as the The engagement is announced result of laboratory research, that of. Sir Harold Yarrow, Bt., C.B.E..the active principle of this intern- Craigend Castle, Milngavie, Stir al secretion contained and largely lingshire, and Miss Rosalynde depended upon a foria of iodine; Lodge, twin daughter of Sir Oliver and later the internal secretion, or Lodge, the famous scientist and borrone, itself was synthesised in. spiritualist, and of the late Lady the shape of thyroxine. And it is an excess of this, produced by an over- enlarged and over-acting" thyroid The marriage will take place gland, that produces the tremors, quietly next month at Norman-rapid heart action, and protruding ton House, Lake, near Salisbury, eyeballs of Graves' disease or hyper- the home of Bir Oliver Lodge, thyroidisın.
Lodge.
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Sir Harold, who is 50 years of teanwhile, as the result of as brilliant laboratory investigations age, succeeded his father second Baronet ta 1932,
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COMMODITY QUOTATIONS
Cotton: July Rubber: March
Rubber: July.... Wheat: May
q
19.49
97. 971
901 891 #851851 821 821
(Through Reuter's Agency)
Last
February 14
Sterling, New York-London Cotton: March
488
12.33
Close Open 19.30 10.45
488 498 12.33 12,33
11.00 488 12.36
12.42
12.43 12.43 12.43
13.05
13.35
13.21 13.21 13.20 13.48 13.49
Wheat: July
971
90
Corn: May
851
Winnipeg Wheat May
827
STOCKS
-American Smelting
344
341
341
341
*341
Consolidated gas, of N.V. ............... Du Pont
181
181
18
184 184
94
04 94
94
94
5%
6
6
57.
5+
31 31
31 30%
301
81
81
81
B
327
331
33:
33
201
261
201 231
271
27+
- 27
New York Central
16
181
Standard Oil Co. of N.J.
401
401 401
351
351 351 351
08. Steel
EL Bond and Share General MotoTS Int. Tel and Tel Loew's Inc. Montgomery W. National Distillers
Commodities Prices
May
(Through Reuter's Agency)
I
July
in the '90's. by Oliver and Schafer, it was ascertained that another Sir Harold Yarrow gifted last September the Eda Yarrow Con-gland, the supra-renal attached valescent Home at Shandon to the to the kidneys, had been effect of causing a pronounced-rise-in- Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital.blood-pressure, with a constructing also trust funds amounting to action, especially on the smaller
y on th £10,000, in memory of his late blood-vessels. -- wife.
From these glands was extracted,
New York, Feb. 14. as ad Sir Harold Yarrow has an inter- the substance now known national reputation in shipbuild renalin, which has proved one of NEW YORK COTTON ing, and is chairman and manag- the most valuable drugs in modern
February, 19 ing director of Messrs Yarrow and medicine, notably in the treatment
Closing Opening Closing Co. Ltd. the well-known Clyde of haemorrhages and the checking. shipbuilders. He has interests in and relief of the excessive secre- Mar, 12.32 12.31 12.30 12.32 12.33 tions associated with many severe May 12.38 12.36 1236 12:39 12.39 low, one of the pioneers of the Na-Portugal and Jugoslavia, and it
cases of asthma..
Fuly 12.40 12.30 12.36 13.42 12.42 tional-Socialist party and a lead was his firm which bullt the
Even more dramatic has been the Cist. 12.30 -12.26 12.27 12.30 12.33 - December Dubrovnik, the ship which carried result of the discovery of the inter- Dec. 12.37 12.34 12.34 12.38 12.38 that late King Alexander of Jugo-nal secretion or hormone of the Jan. 12.38 12.34 12.34 1339 12.39 slavia to his death at Marseilles.
pancreas gland, which lies within Miss Rosalynde Lodge, who is the abdomen. It was found in the
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright):)
Berlin, Feb. 13, The weekly newspaper "Reich swart," edited by Count Revenst
56 cta. ing exponent of the Nordic faith movement."""has been prohibited until further notice by order of Chancellor. Hitler for having in fts
SHIPS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
$1,85
́89
$105
395
352
The list of ships expected to be it wireless communication with Hong Kong to-day
of reconstruction, according to a sister of the late Raymond Lodge, semi-official statement here on who lost his life in the Great War Wednesday, which adds that the and who was the subject of 30 significance of the article in ques- many of Sir Oliver Lodge's writ tion is characterised by the fact ings on spirit communications and that its author is a young man, survival after death, barely 20 years of age- Fransocean Kuu Hin,
Old Friendship
betes.
(1936)
12.55
NEW YORK RUBBER
CHICAGO WHEAT 261 261 901 97 971 89 887 891 90- 874 87334 Bắ
40
September
---868
40+
Old Old ...Old. -1971.96/981.95/96
New New
New
1.97 1.94/98 1.95/95 Old Old Old
192201701 2:03 2.02/02 201/01
New New New
2.02 2.00/00 2.00/00 Old Old Olá 2.08 2.07/07 2.07/07
New New New
2.06 2.05/05 2.04/04
Old Old
Old
2.13 2.11/12 2.12/13. New
New New 2.13 2.10/10-210/11. Total sales:Old: 8,000 tons; New:
9,000 tons, an
NEW YORK SILK
May 64.50 54.25 64.50 54.30 54.40 July 55.00 54.65 54.95 84.70 65.00
Total sales 2 contracta. Sept. 55.00 55.30 55.80 35.40 55.80
last issue published an article con- one of the younger members of eighties of last century that dogs Spot 12.55 taining inflammatory and even Sir Oliver Lodge's family, is whose pancreas gland had been malevolent observations concem-medium-fair colouring and has diseased or removed developed all ing the Reich Government's work a charming personality. She is a the signs and symptoms of dia. Mar. 13.09 13.00 13.00 13.04 13,05 Mar. 1.38 1.36 1.36 1.37) 1.38 May 13.25 13.13 13.13 13.18-13.19 May 1,38 1.361 -1.364 1.38 1.38 Many Experiments
July 13.38 13.26 13.27 13.35 13.35 July 1.37 1.37 1:37 1.371 1.38 This led to many therapeutic Sept. 13.56 13.45-13.45 13.50 13.62 Total sales: 33 lots
13.60 13.60
MONTREAL SILVER experiments with pancreas gland Oct. 13.66 13.528 extracts, which were unsuccessful Dec. 13.83 13.73 13.73 13.78 13.78 Mar. 54.30 54.05 54.25 54.00 54.10
DIPLOMATIC NOVELTY
largely because it was forgotter Total sales: 263 lots that the pancreas also produces a powerful digestive juice that was (Special Air Mail Service)
Miss Lodge and her father have capable, outside the body, of des- May
891 London, Jan. 28,
been guests at Craigend Castletroying its own tissues, July and Sir Harold acted as host to It was chiefly to the recognition Sept. 871 novel-post in diplomacy will
Bir Oliver Lodge when the veteran of this by Banting, and the jeola Monday's sales, 8,849,000 bushels shortly be created by Japan. It is
CHICAGO CORN the post of diplomatic Inspector Conte Verde, Hakozaki Maru, LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR scientist presided over the meettion by him of certain little islands HAMBURGER
ings of the British Association of peculiar formation within the which differs from the American President Jefferson, President Van
held in Glasgow in 1928. There pancreas that the relative hor May 871 ambassador-at-large in that its Buren, President Monroe, Prest-
mione, now universally known as July 787 has been a close friendship be insulin, was finally obtained. The Sept mission 18 to Japanese diplomats dent Coolidge, 8/8.. Canton, Mayon,
to foreign Lycaon, Hector, Glasgow Maru, Sentence of life imprisonment tween the two families for many immediate and beneficent effect of Total sales: abroad rather than
Hai Chen, Bydle, Szechuen, Esi was passed by a Military Court on years.
this upon cases of diabetes is so Governments.
Tensan Maru, Fritz Hamburger, 85, Nasl Indus Sir Harold TarTOW has three generally recognised now, as not to The Innovation is dus to the Ynen, Sidajoe,
Haruna trial magnate, on a charge or daughters and one son. His son, need emphasis. success of Mr. Yoshida's recent Taming, Tweedbank,
high treason. It was alleged that the heir to me baronetcy Master trip to Moscow, Berlin and Lon- Mary, Agamemnon.
Hamburger acted as Finance Eric Yarrow where he informed diplomatic
Minister to an filegal Nazi party; years. The representatives of the political situation at home, and heard their planned for South America, Africa receiving money from Germany ried Mr. Ha
Guards of Glasgow last and Central Asia, A. special com for Austrian Black rgestions and criticisms
tour of inspection is missioner will also visit Australia Reuter.
Vienna, Febi 14.
second, dan
834 84 85 851 78% 79 791 793 #357 757 761 764
6:432,000 bushels
81828
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