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HOW FRANCO GAINS CREDITS ABROAD

Sterling From Rio Tinto Company

EQUAL TO "VALUE

OF EXPORTS

It is learned from" a reliable source that during the past year more than £1,250,000 has passed from the British-owned Rio valuable copper and Tinio Company in London--which owns pyrites producing mines in the south of Spain-to Gen. Franco's government in Burgos, in exchange for paper pesciss at a fixed rate of 42 pesetas to the pound, wrlies a Dally Telegraph special · correspondent lately in Spain.

IN

This measure has been forced on quisitioned by Franco for Italy and the Rio Tinto Company by the Germany in return for war mate- Franco Government, which refuses rials.

to grant the company permits to

t'.

HONG KONG MAN

FINED

3

LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS.

Y

Champagne In Case PUBLIC AUCTION.

Of Beer

A the of £20 with 2 guineas

costs was imposed at East Ham THE Undersigned have received,

to

71

recently on Arthur Gunnell Cooke. boarding officer at Hong Kong, at present staying at a London hotel. on summonses for making a false declaration and for endeavouring

avoid

Customs payment of dutles.

For the Customs and Excise, Mr., J; B. Finlay said that Cooke ar- rived at the King George V. Dock on September 24 and left nine packages of baggage with agents, He signed a declaration in respect

instructions

TO SELL BT

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

WEDNESDAY,

FEB 23, 1933

AT 10.30 A. M.

At the premises of the

of one case which he said contaio- ed a radio set and some Japanese beer. A quantity of champagne HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA ship their products abroad unless ITALY AND GERMANY BENEFIT was found at the bottom of the DOCK CO., LTD, HUNGHOM

The opportunity to trade by the case containing beer. In other sterling payments are deposited,

artificial silk socks, silk (For Account of the Concerned) equivalent to the value of the pro-"barter system" has proved as cases

and silk underwear. for beneficial to Italy and Germany as pyjamas ducts exported, in return

to Franco. In spite of Italy's ef- which had not been declared. | 411 CASES PAPER pesetas.

that

It has proved to be one of the forts to be self-supporting, she is were discovered.

Cooke's explanation was main methods by which Franco largely dependent on foreign sup-

& Chinese has been able to finance his war.plies for many essential minerais. he left the packing to London sterling has enabled hima Her shortage of iron became acute boy and did not know the goods to secure foreign credits, to make in the latter months of 1936 when were there. 90-day cash payments on the pet-naval orders and oll contracts roleum purchased from the United made large demands on the fron States, and to buy large supplies and ateel industry.

of food-stuffa and army materials,

This has been eased somewrat; ..

He Found The Words

Of Death

(All More or Less Damaged)

TERMS: CASH ON DELIVERY.

LAMMERT BROS..

AUCTIONEERS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

instructions

by her imports of iron ore from PROFITS IMPOSSIBLE

Spain, which have risen from The chairman of the Rio Tinto [35,000 tons in 1936 to nearly 180.-) Board, Sir Auckland Geddes, de-'000 last year, and by scrap from clared in a speech to the stock-Spain which has increased from holders last April that although 327,000 tons to over 500,000. the company had, the close as-

Italy is also dependent on im- Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, The Undersigued bave received sistance of the British Foreign Office, Franco's system of control. ports for adequate supplies of fer-prophetic of his own death, were rous metals. Her imports of man-inscribed on a coffin found by Mr. which demanded the steady drain

ganese ore and ferro-manganese J. L Starkey, the archeologist, of sterling from London to Spain. ore from Spain increased from 23,-just before he was ambushed and made business profits impossible.000 tons in 1936 to 75,000 in 1937, murdered by Arab bandits

Nevertheless it is interesting to while pyrites-mostly from the Rio Palestine on January 19. note that Rio Tinto has exported Tinto jumped from zero to nearly

a larger supply of pyrites to Great 10,000 tons.

Britain during the last year than

years.

Mr. Starkey was Field Director of the Wellcome-Marston Expedi- tion, which is making many re- amarkable discoveries in the burled Old Testament city of Lachish.

Wellcome's

Bir

TO SILL BY

PUBLIC AUCTION

OX

FRIDAY, FEB. 25, 1998.

COMMENCING AT 2.30 P.M.

AT THE SALES ROOM, DUDDELL STREET

at any previous period. And in Germany is as badly in need of view of the fact that sterling de-barter supplies from Spain posits to the Franco Government Italy. Due to the rigorous Nazt

The story of the finding of the swell with Rio Tinto's increased organisation in Franço territory, exports, it is more than likely that with thousands of Germans in ad- prophetic inscription was told to when the company's total figures ministrative and bureaucratic jobs, the "Evening Standard" by

Charles Marston, who, with Sir for 1937 become available, they will in the long run it is possible she reveal the largest output in many may reap the greatest advantages. Anancing the expedition with the OF CHINESE ART CUBIOS

Heary

trustees, JEA VERY FINE SELECTION

A short while after Southern assistance of Sir Robert Mond. The Rio Tinto Company trades Spain came under Franco's con- Sir Charles said: with America, Holland. Belgium,trol. a German semi-official or-

Starkey discovered in a Lachish Denmark, Great Britain. Poland,ganisation krfown as Hisms was tomb the terra cotta, fragments of Old Porcelain Vases und Jars, Old Italy and Germany. Her copper established with its counterpart three great slipper-shaped coffins Bronze and Jade Ornaments Inlaid contracts with Great Britain, to Rowak in Germany.

belonging to the period BG, 1500) whom in 1935 and '1936 she sup-

Jade Screens, Carved Ivory Figures, This company was given the full to 1200.

celled last year however, and re-Spanish Moroccan mines, with the iron and manganese ore resources of the Fix at its disposal,

„"

Comprising

plied nearly 18,000 tons, were can monopoly of the exports of the "One of them had the incription Lacquered Ware, Uld Pictures, Car.

NEW CHIEF JUSTICE OF F.M.S.

FIGURES OMITTED

In comparing the latest available German. Import figures, which are published only for the first half of 1937, with those of the first months of 1936. German imports from Spain show a decline of nearly 50

Cordially Welcomed per cent.

In Egyptian hieroglyphics. pets, Embroidery, etc., etc.

"This has been deciphered in Cairo, by Mr. Alan Rowe, the (The above in the property of a well authority on Egyptian scarabs.. It known curio merchant who is giving

reads:

May it be granted to thee to alight upon the water of the beautiful West to sail to thy place.' "It is remarkable how the in-

scription links up with Tennyson's Crossing the Bar,' which was sung at the memorial service for

Sunset and evening star,

"This has caused certain observers Starkey at St. Margaret's, West- Sir Roger Hall, the new Chief to declare that German interven- minster, on January 18"; Justice, F.MS., was welcomed by tion has proved a costly failure, the members of the F.M.S." Bar | but there is more to these reports and Law officers at the Supreme than meets the eye. Court recently.

Mr. Adrian Clerk, the Legal Adviser, in welcoming the Chief Justice on behalf of the Law off- cers, sald, that sometimes the administration of justice in this country required a firm hand.

He expressed his faith in the capabilities of the Chief Justice who came to them with such an excellent reputation.

In conclusion, Mr. Adrian Clark. assured the Chief Justice of the co-operation of the law officers at all times and wished him the best of luck

On behalf of the F.MS. Bar Mr. B.E. Joaquim associated himself with all that Mr. Clark had said.

First, the 1937 list carefully omnits Agures of import from Spanish Morocco;

Secondly, the rich iron ore de- posits in the north of Spain were not under Franco's control until the last half of 1937:

And one clear call, for me! And may there be no inoaning of the bar

When I put out to sea......

DUKE'S PIANO FOR SALE, BUT BUYERS WILL NOT KNOW IT

Someone will buy a second-hand

Thirdly, the German import that decreased the most Has fruit, due to the fact that in 1937 the fruit districts were in the hands of the Valenda Govern-plano in London in the next few ment, who sold their crops a-weeks not knowing that it once belonged to the Duke of Windsor most exclusively to Russia.

and was his favourite instrument On the trade which Franco con-at Fort Belvedere, writes a special | trols, such as Rio Tinto pyrites, correspondent.in the Daily Mail. however, German Imports increas-

While French crowds

up business)

ON VIEW FROM THURSDAY, THE 24TH FEBRUARY, 1998.

TERM8;—CASH ON DELIVELY

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

instructions

TO SELL BY

PUBLIC AUCTION

OF

were WEDNESDAY, ed from £417,000 to over £580,000. watching the Duke and Duchess

arrive at their new home, the Chateau de la Maye, Versatiles, I

MARCH 2, 1938

COMMENCING AT 9.38 A.M.

He told Sir Roger that although BICH ECONOMIŲ REWARDS the Members of the F. M. 8. Bar It is not a peculiar coincidence found the piano, a rosewood grand. might not be as brilliant as the that the nations both in the East in a second-hand saleroom in Lon-AT H. M. KOWLOON NAVAL senior members of the English and in the West now engaged in ton.

bar, yet they tried to do their best "beating Bolshevism" are fighting

As I played a few bars an om- and this quality had always been on territory rich with economic re-elal of the plano firm told me: remarked on by the previous Chief wards,

"To us it is just another second- Justices.

Although Great Britain seems to hand instrument to be sold at an Sir Roger Hall, replying, thanked take the view that in the event of ordinary figure. Mr. Adrian Clark and Mr. Joaquim a Franco victory the Spanish Na- for the kind welcome that they tionalist Government will be forced had afforded him. He said he was to turn to England for a loan, thus glad to come to the country and enabling her to cut Germany and Tooked forward to a pleasant stay Italy out of the picture, this may here. He wished Mr. Justice easily be doubted. Whitley who was succeeding him

We bave no Intention of capitalising the fact that it was owned by the" Duke, al- though we could get a fabulous figura for it if we did.

once

AT THE CHATEAU

OLD

DEPOT

AND .SURPLUS

́VICTUALLING STORES

Comprising:-

Clothing, including Blankets and Berge, Duck and other Remnants, Electro Plate, Cutlery and Table Linen, etc., etc.

Lots may be inspected on Tuesday

in Africa success in his new post. During the past year Great Bri-

"It is to be sold very cheaply, and He was going to a pleasant land tain has been able to sell Spain several buyers have come to try it. of the goods There is nothing, to distinguish it and would And everything in good only 40 per cent.

which she sold her in 1935, the last from dozens of other pianos, and the 1st March, 1938. order.

year before the war. One of the even when it is bought we shall most significant drops occurred in not reveal its secret."

goods

LANDED" CATTLE IN

UNAUTHORISED PLACE

If Franco can continue to férés 'For landing cattle in an unau- thorised pluce in Bhaukiwan and British companies to supply him offering a bribe of $1.50 to an with the necessary sterling for The Duchess's bedroom at the Indian police constable, Wong foreign credits, it is not unlikely Chateau de la Maye is decorated Ngon, 29, shop fokl, was fined a that he will continue to develop in blue and gold. Adjoining is her total of $50 by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest his trade with Italy and Germany private bathroom with grey-blue. at Central Magistracy yesterday. along "barter system inça." tiles installed by an Englishman.

listed under motor-cars, Many pieces of the Duke's furni locomotives, ships and aircraft.

ture are now on sale in London, for (TERMS OF SALE:-as detailed at his new home the Louis XV

in Catalogues furniture is being retained,

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS.