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Jan. 3

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Dec. 16 Dec. 17

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N.X.X, Xink's Ballding:

ALLIED TONNAGE HE WANTS TO

LOSSES

$1,000,000 IN

BORROW

GOLD

ང ་ མ༑ ཏ ་ག་

Mr. Clifford Johnston wants to borrow a million pounds or more

NEW U-BOATS PUT in gold and is willing to pay 11 per cent for it.

INTO SERVICE

LONDON, Dec. 4 (Reuter) During the week ending Nov. 15 enemy actioni accounted for 19 British ships totalling 75,000 tans,

i

He is the man behind an advertisement which appeared recently. He is a member of the council of the Corporation of Foreign Bond- holders, chairman of the Guardian Investment Trust, and director of many companies.

He offers 200 per cent, security, borrowing of gold and purchase of and three allied vessels totalling half of it in British Two-and-a-War Bands. nearly 12.550 tons.

Halt per cent. War Bonds. The

MOTE

He desires an option to buy the gold in seven years at today's price.

These figures are above the loan is to be for seven, years, re- weekly average but are not half payable in either gold or starling. of those in the worst week, The and he does not require physical Germans are putting into service possession of the gold their new submarines and have the whole of the French coast to use for bases, British experts are hard at work de vising ways of meeting the pro- blem while a steady stream of new warships is going into service. Some of the new U-Boats never ever get to sea.

LORIENT BAIDS

That is the story behind the "repeated' RAF.`ralds on Lorient which again on Monday night had B Lose of British bomba

While this is going on the United States is selling us ship- ping already in service and build- ing new ships for us.

Britain meanwhile is making the best use of the tonnage ste has and is doing without non-essen- tials to make" more space for shipments of munitións and other war materials.

“ras,” he explained, “is a plan to set gold to work.

"It is really, a 'practiesi method of putihng to work the vast amounts of gold now late. It would provide a great deal of money for the purchase of War Bonds."

By Mr. Johnston's plan, the gold Itself would not be moved. At pre-·| sent it is earmarked in favour of the present owner. When he bar- "I have, my, £1,000,000 in Wars it the earmarking would Bonds. I borrow £1,000,000 in gold transfer to him, and then to the in New York, turn this over to the British Treasury, who would use British Treasury there, and re- it for war purchases in the USA.

War And it would be earning 1 per celve another £1,000,000 Lean, I have then £2,000,000 war sent for its owner, and 14 per Loan, which provides security for sent for Mr. Johnston. the loan of the gold,

HOW IT WORKS

"The owners of gold in the United States at present re- ceive no interest on their gold. I pay the lender. 11 per cent. ret 2 per cent on the War Bonds. This goes on for seven years:

"At the end of that time the War Bonds are repaid, and 1 pay the lender back in sterling, dollars,

DOMINIONS NOT TO BE INFORMED OF GOVT. DECISIONS LONDON, Dec. + (Reuter) For wartime purposes the Brillan Government is departing from the previous invariable practice of sending all important Cabinet de- etsions to all Dominions.

The Dominions Secretary, Vis: WEATHER REPORT or gold. If the value of gold has count Caldecote, Indicated

that Increased. I can exercise my op such communications were not tion to buy it at today's high very made to Eire. price. If it has gone down, I return the loan in gold. (am,

"Hongkong Royal Observatory

10 am, Dec. 4 Barometer (at sea level), 30.18-Ins, Temperature, 72 F. Humidity, 68 per cent. Wind Direction, EXE Wind Force (Beaufort), 2. Temperature: maximum yesterday

72 F Temperature; Minimum last night.

04 T.

.

Rainfall for 24 hrs, ending 10th

today, nil.

1J

Total rainfall since January 1st.

117.39 ins. Against an average of, 84.18 ins. Bunset tonight, 15.39 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 6.49 8.m.

4 pan., Dec. 4. Barometer (at sea level, 30.03 Ins!

Temperature, 72 P

Humidity, 70 per cent.

Wind Direction, E

Wind Force (Beaufort), 2 Maximum temperature, 76 F. Minimum temperature, 44 F. Rainfall. nt.

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 5 to 11 Dec. 4940.

HIGH WATER.

Height

LOW WATER

Bong

Hong

Lotug་

Kong

Blandar

Standardi

Time.

Time

h. m.

b. na

Thor

0737

10 1950;

18 20

Fri.

R

0036

08 31

16 20

19:40

Sa

7

0159

Telephone 10201.

17 1554

21 66

San 8

03 04 15 3

10 16

17 66

£3.40

Mon, 9

04.50

11 04

18 28 18.0.

Tues. 10

06 20

6

1-54 6:4

·11 50

07 25

4'0

01 29

19 15

6 6

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This assurance was made tri re- ply to a questioner's suggestion "It may be that as a result of that there are Germaži and Ita- the war all gold will be in the lán Legations in Dublin in con- U.S.A. and that other countries tant touch with Rome and Ber- will have abandoned it as a medium of exchange, and its price may have fallen greatly to its value to dentists and others. In Lt. Gen. Sir Edwin Atkinson, en that case I could buy gold cheaply behalf of the British Volunteer, to return to the lender.

Ambulance Corps, handed over to Col. K. B, Fraser, of the Australian "GOLD WOULD NOT MOVE

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