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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

£10,000 FOR AN AUTOGRAPH

In

U.S. Collectors" - Best Seller

RISE IN EMPIRE

POPULATION

[80,000,000 More Than 27 Years Ago

H. K. STOCK

EXCHANGE

The market has not yet quità recovered from its holiday feeling.

Although some quotations show improvement on the closing ones or last Saturday, trading was only

Buyers

An Empire population of nearly fun a limited scale. library of Congress. the Washington. reposes that United [500,000,000 on the latest figures, re- States Magrin Charta, the Declara-vealing an 80,000,000 increase since tion of Independent, signed by the census of 1911, is shown in a the Statistical Abstract for the Bri- the 56 representatives States. Like

outstanding tish Empire, published recently by treasure in the British Museum at the Board of Trade. can never be sold.

any

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Twenty-seven years ago. how- ever, the Rostribuchs snapped up

Areas in which the populations have doubled in that period in- ende the Gold Coast, 3,748,000, the Bechuanaland Protectorate. 265.000. and Hongkong, 1,006,000.

for over £50.000, the certified copy of it which Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, the Commission-

the new Those which have nearly doubled Plenipotentiary of

South Africa. 9,887,000 States, hal sent in 1776 to Frede-italude

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rick the Great's minister, Baron and British Malaya, including the von Scotlanberg, whose descendant Straits Settlements, 5,102,000. had carefully preserved it.

This event stimulated that scc tion of collectors who, had been quietly garnering any documents or letters bearing a signature by one of the original 56 State re- presentatives. The game acquired the avidity of stamp-rollceting.

Only Eire. 2,944,000. the Channel Islands, "04,800, and Sarawak, j+2, 1000, show small declines of popun

tion in the same period.

Since 1911 the population of Canada has risen from 7,208,000 to 11,120 000 that of Australia frem As a young man Mr. W. Ran-445.000 to: 6.866.000, and, to the dolph Hearst had been bitten by latest available gensus of 1931, the craze, and, after many years that of India from 302,995,000 to his score came to 36 out of the Lotal of 58.

It is pertinent to mention this because in the"general dispersal of the multiform Hearst collections these 36 literary scalps are to be offered for sale in New York,

338119,000.

FEWER IMMIGRANTS'

Canada,

Australi and

New Zealand all show a big drop in the umber of immigrants in the past ten pars, but most of the Domin- Bons showed slightly better Agures A RARE SIGNATURE

the question now be put.for 1937 over those of 1936. Who was Button Gwinnett? Few

Let

The highest rates of wages were readers in this country will be able to be obtained, in 1937, in the to answer it, but there are thoù- United Kingdom, but, the cost of sahds of collectors in the United ving in this country was the States who know that the signa-highest, with the exception of Eire. ture of this man, who signed for Apart from the United Kingdom. Georgia in 1776, is the rarest of with a public revenue of £918,700, the original 56.

200. Australla is the wealthiest part

It suema incredible that Dr the Empire, with a revenue of Rosenbach gladly puud £10.000 a gin100,000, telluwed by Canada. few years ago, for a letter"signed | @μM,000,000.

New Zealand,

by Gwinnett" in 1776. Before 11036,100,000 in 1926, he had given as 'much as

£5.700 for one of his signatures.

The rarity of a Gwlanet letter is creased by the tart that th young Georgian legislator was kill- edina durl with Gen. Lachlan Macintosh the year after the sign ing of the 'Dcelaration

The Hearst Gwinnett survivor

adds one more to the 33 known to collectors. It is dated March 16, 3770, and shows that Gwinnett was financially embarrassed, as 16. 15 a bond to repay a loan of £1.000 to Mordecal and Levi Sheftall.

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The savings banks of nearly every part of the Empire' showed that more people are putting money on deposit."

A significant conclusion from the shipping aures is that there has been a steady increase in the past

10 years in the tonnage of foreign

vessels cleared in Empire ports.

Total Inter-imperial trade rose last year to h value of £831.000.000, but was still lower than..the 1928 total of £857,000:000.

The grand total of the trade of

It seems strange that the auc- the Empire last year was £2,643. tion probabilities are that this old 1000.000. the best for eight years. Gwinnett bond will fetch muen Trade with foreign countries fell! more than any other of the Inde per cent,

pendence series.

One of them is a letter by the

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original Signer from Massachu- MASKED BANDITS

setts, John Adams, who wrote it in

1821 after an unrivalled experience RAID WEALTHY

of the making of Governments.

Yet Button Gwinnett will be pre-

ferred.

SEALED BOOK OF

BOYS' VIEWS

WIDOW'S HOUSE

Thee masked Chinese bandits

made a daring rald on the house

occupied by the widow of the well-known Chinese millionaire. Ody Tlong Ham, In Semarang, re- cently..

Fortunately for the occupants

What They Think Of of the house, the police were

Their Masters

"What does the modern boy think of his school, his headmas-. ter and his housemaster?

Boys were asked to write an... wers to these and many other questions bearing on school life on the promise that they would remain secret for 10 years.

This "sealed book" was compiled

awire of the premeditated "raid,, and several detectives and co.astables concealed themselves at various vantage points on the premises.

The robbers, led by a Shanghai

Hongkong Bank, $1440, Canton Insurance, $210. Union Insurance, $478, Douglases. $63.

HK & K. Wharves. $115. HK Ducks, (Old), $184. Providents (Old), $8.40. Providents (New), $8.20. H. & S. Hotels, $8.80. HK. Lands, $36.60. H.K Realtles, $5.15. H.K. Tramways $71.55,

Peak Trams (Old), $7. Peak Trams (New), $33. Yaumati Ferries (Old), $221.

China Rts.. $91.

China Lights Rights, $3.55. H.K. Electrics, $17. Sandakan Lights, $10. Telephones (Old), $23}, Cenients, $18.10:

H.K. Ropes. $4.

Dairy Farms, $24. Wing On (H.K.), $36.

Entertainments. $7.

Vibro Piling, $81.

H.K. Govt. 4 per cent Loan,

per cent pm.

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H.K. Govt. 31 per cent Loan, par.

Sellers

Hongkong Bank, $1475. Union Insurance, $485. China Underwriters, 70 cts. H.K. Steamboats, $18.

H. K. & K. Wharves, $117į. H.K. Docks, Told), $187. H.K. Docks (New,) $17}. Raubs, $3,35,

H. & S., Hotels, $6.90. H.K. Lands, $36.00. H.K. Tramways, $71.80. H.K. Electrics. $58. Telephones Old). $24. Cements. $15:35, Constructions, sii.

Sales

Hongkong Bank $1455.

H. & S. Hotels, $6.90.

H.K. Lands, $36.85.

China Lights (Rights), $3.80, H.K, Electrics. $58.

Cements, $16).

Watsons, $8.05.

(Prices below in Phil. Currency}

Artamoks. .53 Atoks, .27

Bagulo Gold: 24

Benguet Consol.. 14.30 Coco Grove, 51

Consolidated Mines, .003 Demonstrations, 28 Paracale Gumaus, .13

San Maurielo. 1.82 Suyou .194

United Paracales, .68

HONGKONG SHAREBROKERS'

ASSOCIATION

Buyers

.K. Docks Old) $184.

Trams, $17.8C.

Y. Ferries (Old), $22.35. China Lights (Old), cum RtS. Dally Firms, $24.

Sellers Watsons. $58.10.

Sales H.K. Docks (Old), $18). China Lights (Old), $0.55. Benguet Consol., Ps. 14:20. United Paracale, Ps 0.64.

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INDO-CHINA IRON

AND MANGANESE

PAKHOI, Jan. 3 (International) The Importance of Iron and manganese in national, defence is being seriously considered Indo-China, according to a Hano! report. The permanent commis slon of the Indo-Chinese Govern-" ment Council has noted that ex- port or tron and manganes ores to. foreign countries at very low prices 14 1n- creasing to such an extent that the richest and most favourably situated deposits are in danger

On the eve of the three-day or being exhausted." tandit scaled the high on gate ashing festival at Deal recently,

As a result, it considers advis-

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and made their way to the rear of boatmen saw a huge "monster" able, in the interests of national the building. They forced an en-sh just off the shore. It was des-defence, to reduce substantially, or trance to a room which was filled cribed as having a fin which roseven prohibit the shipment with policemen.

aft. from water. Dhen efforts were these ores in drder to supply the Here a hand to hand encounter made to kill it. the fish swam off colony's "metal works with ade- Exhibition at the Royal Horticul- took place, the robbers slashing into deep water.

quate materials tural Hall, London, during the fout desperately with razor-edged Christmas holidays.

by the visitors to the Schoolboys'

One by one the boys entered a polling booth in the shape of an enormous volume designed by a Czechoslovak architect, Inside were a table, and chair, paper, pena and ink, and each boy wrote exactly what he thought of his school, whether it was Eten, or Harrow, or an LC.C. secondary

school.

With the knowledge that his re-. marks would not be read until he is no longer, within reach of his muster, the schoolboy was free to Het himself go."

His contributions were placed in a steel box, which at the close of the exhibition was deposited in the vaults of a bank, not to be opened until Christmas, 1948.

POPULATION OF UNITED STATES

hatchets.

A Dutch police Inspector was wounded in the arm, zad a Chinese watchman who came runaing up to join in the melee had his skull split.

The police were compelled to use their revolvers, and two of the robbers were shot, while the third

surrendered.

G-MEN METHODS

FOR LONDON

Students at Hendon Police College are to have explained to them the methods used by America's famous "G men," the body of highly-trained detec- Tives at offences against the Federal laws.

Three Hundred Years Fight For Freedom Of The Press

"I have often lampooned Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rother- mere.as the Wicked Uncies of the Press," said Mr. Tom Clarke, form er editor of the "News Chronicle." speaking at a meeting organised by the Active Democrats at the Essex Hall. "But I prefer the control of the Press by, men like these to control by bureaucrats: in any shape or form"

Protesting against the view that he had taken the trouble to find the "popular Press" always tried to out about German rearmament in "give the public what it wants" the air. His views were incon- and sought only its own profit. Mr. venient to Mr. Baldwin. They Clarke declared that "Lord Beaver-were unpopular with the pacifists. brook pursues his unpopular poll-Bo Lord Rothermere was ridiculed cles of Empire Free Trade, of and abused and charged with Agricultural Reförm and of Isola- lying tion from European affairs, whe-

"How night he was," said Mr. ther they bring him profit or not Clarke, "we know now, to our re-

"Where in a totalitarian country

gret."

The Census Bureau of the United yard officer who was selected to go David Low the freedom which heute." he went on, "the truth about Det Inspr. Leslie, the Scotland could you find a Press Lord giving "When Northcliffe told the pub- States estimates officially that 130,215,000 persons lived in that to the United States early last year gives him, and that in a paper the shortage of shells during the for a course with the "o men" which must cause considerable war, which meant the loss of thou- country on July 1, 1938.

This number did not include anwhile one of their number atten- shocks to the gentlemen in West sands of lives in France, authority. estimated 62.700 In Alaska, 405,000ded a course at Hendon, has been End clubs who read it?” in. "Hawali, 1,806,000 in Puerto appointed an Rico, 52,800 in the Panama Canal Metropolitan Police.

Instructor of the

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GERMAN BEARMAMENT

not liking this exposure, thunder-

ed at us. We went to the office Mr. Clarke recalled that in 1934 under police protection, our paper, Zone, 22,000 in the Virgin Islands, He took up his duties recently. Lord Rothermere was "very much was burned on the Stock Exchange, Guam and 11,700 in and is to lecture on crime detec-assalled on account of his irres our sales went down, by 60,000 in

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ponsibility, and stupidity" because two weeks."

22,700 in

Samoa

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U.S. MONETARY CIRCULATION

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! RECORD Highest monetary circulation had in the United States since the bank' crisis early in 1933 was reached during the first week of November, according to the statement released re-

TIL 30261.

that of the same period last year. cently by the American Federal Reserve banks.

Gold stocks in the United States. The total in circulation through- | continued to climb to a new re- out the country during the period | cord high of $14,091,000,000, u gain soared in an unseasonal move to of $20,000,000, the second week in $8,764,000,000, an increase of $58, succession which brought an in- 000,000, During the same week of trease of this figure. However, it last year, circulation showed a de- 18 the smallest rate of increase ini cline of $1,000,000 whereas the cur the country's gold reserves since rent figure in $200,000,000 ́above ¦ early August.