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NO *+=AXAF TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1933.

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AMERICANS ADVANCE SILVER RESOLUTION

Remonetisation, Form of Bimetallism and YANGTSZE STILL Agreement for

Control of Sales

RISING HONGKONG CRICKET KEY PITTMAN'S

HANKOW ALARM

GROWS

CHIENTANG TOWNS

FLOODED

(Special to "Telegraph”)

Telegraph, gyright. Telaprophie Received June)

Message Ordinance, XV, 18.44. J

Nanking, June 20.

The rapid rise of the Yangtsze. continues and the emergency is becoming .one of increasing gravity.

At Hankow, the river has risen to the record high level for the year of 43 feot, 3 inches, and is now, within three feet of the top of the dykes.

TEAM AT HOME

GOOD DISPLAY AT TAUNTON

(Special to “Telegraph”)

(Dy Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphie Mapes Ordinance, 189. Received June #o, La.m.)

A tremendous volume of water! is coming down from up river and tho perilous possibilities. are shown by reports from Chungking}" announcing that the river there has risen to 48 feet.

Hangchow reports that citics on the Upper Chlontang River have been flooded.

NAVIGATION SUSPENDED. Navigation on all rivers in Wostorn Cheklang has been tom- porarily suspended because of the danger that movement may cause .The n collapse of the dykes.

weakening of the dykes along the sea is also feared.

Some brilliant bowling by A. C. Beck and sound batting by F. S. W. Smith were the features of the first day's play at Taunton yesterday when Hongkong commenced' their match against the. Somerset Stragglers The Stragglers led by thirteen runs on the first innings. 'Details will be found in Page Eight.

GANDHI IMPROVES

NOW PUTTING ON WEIGHT

SON'S MARRIAGE EXCITEMENT.

(Special to "Telegraph")

SCHEME

REDUCTION OF AMOUNT OF GOLD COVER

SILVER-GOLD RATIO IN RESERVES

LONDON, JUNE 19.

THE FIRST DEFINITE MOVE AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE AIMING AT THE RE- HABILITATION OF SILVER WAS MADE TO-DAY BY SENATOR KEY PITTMAN, WHO SUBMITTED AN IMPORTANT RESOLUTION TO THE MONE TARY SUB-COMMITTEE.

The resolution is backed by all the American dele- gates and it requires all central banks immediately to institute a lower legal gold cover for currency.

The Americans suggest a uniform 25 per cent. metallic coverage and also the remonetisation of silver.

The central banks' metallic cover, says the resolution should consist of eighty per cent, gold, and twenty per

The new motor turn-table fire escape built in London for the Hong- 'kong „Fire Brigade. The ladder is bulit entirely of steal and extenda to a height of 100 feat.. It has not yet been delivered.

NAZI PARTY BAN

IN AUSTRIA

NECESSARY FOR LAW AND ORDER

Vienna, June 19, Dr. Schuschnigg to-day "announced that the Cabinet has decided to forbid all the activities of the Nazi Party throughout Austria.

He declared that the Government had done everything to avoid extreme measures and bloodshed, but the latest events, bomb- ings and so on, had made. necessary Immediate and strong action for the main- tenance of law and order. Reuter.

cent optional, gold or silver, provided silver can be pur- BREEZE AT

chased at or below current prices.

In the meantime, faced with the (nu · Telegraph, · Copyright, Telegraphie RESTORATION OF GOLD STANDARD

Ordinance, 3293. Novnice Juna danger of a great catastrophe, ges parallelling the 1931 disaster, the 40. 10.11 m.

Poona, June 19. Nanking municipal authorities are purchasing large quantities of: Following his recent set- The American resolution which in the "Telegraph") ho will sail sandbags and lumbar for the con- back, the Mahatma Gandhi has been tabled by the Committee, for London to-morrow.

suggests that gold should be re- He la salling in the American struction of emergency dykes in

the international liner "Manhattan," and the pur- case the Yangtaze should continue is now reported to be mak-established as

pose of his visit is associated with ing satisfactory progress measure of exchange values:

The use of gold should be con- the negotiations at the World WATER GATES CLOSED. towards recovery.

Ained to cover for the circulation Economic Conference for a tem- Nanking, June 20. The setback is attributed to of paper currenev and as a medium porary stabilisation of the world's The anxiety of the authorities the excitement attendant upon the for settling international balances lending currencies-Router. has been increased over night by recent marriage of his Box, payment. Incoming roports from Hankow. Devadas, to a high-caste Brahmin which brought strong Hangchow, Chungking and Chang-girl,

to rise-Reuter.

·

SILVER CONFIDENCE.

The resolution adda that in view

sha about the continued rise of opposition from the Brahmins. the Yangtse, Chiontang and It is not now anticipated that of the necessity for restoring the Hunan rivera levels, while the sit-Gandhi will experience any fur-confidence of the East in its pur- uation in Nanking is also causing!ther trouble, Ho .18 slowly chasing medium, silver, which can putting on weight and now weighs only be done if the price of silver All water gates are closed for six stone, seven pounds.

is restored to equilibrium with fear of the river water pouring in- He is able to get up and to read commodity price levels, stops should be taken to rehabilitate sil- to the city.

for two hours daily-Reutér.

concern.

The river at Hsiakwan is now within six feet of the top of the dykes-Reuter.

AN ANGRY BLOW TRAGEDY

AMERICAN GIVEN 2-YEAR SENTENCE

WINDOW FRAME CRASHES

ver.

It is suggested with this object,

inter alia, that an agreement be

WAR DEBT TALKS

GENEVA

GERMAN THREAT TO RESIGN.

CRISIS AT LABOUR CONFERENCE.

Geneva, June 19.

A serious crisis has arisen in the conference of the International Labour Office. - The German delegatos have threatened to resign unless they receive satisfactory excuses for the attitude. of the workere' dele-

TO BEGIN IN gate, Dr. Loy.

JULY

It is understood that the re- marks of Dr. Ley, to the effect that the South American States bad not the right to vote on a footing of equality with the repre-

FANATICAL NUDISTS

FIFTY DOUKHOBORS ARRESTED

PACIFIC DIPLOMACY

UNITED STATES: AND JAPAN:

THAT ARBITRATION. TREATY TALK

Loudon, June 19.

The interest with which the Soviet delegation is reported to be following the negotiations be tween Japan and the United States said to be for the conclu sion of an arbitration treaty, is not shared by Mr. Quo Tai-chi,

In an interview with Reuter, the Chinese diplomat expressed the opinion that the Interests of China' and the United States in the Pacific were perfectly uniform He was sure that tha. United States will not enter into conversations; prejudicial to Chinese Interesta,

It will be recalled that the first

PROTEST PARADE report of negotiations for an ar-

(Spacial to "Talegraph")

10% Tilegraph, Copyright,

20, 20.44 +19+]

Telegraphie

bitration treaty emanated from Tokyo, attributing the commence- ment of discussions to that ond by Viscount Ishii, :

The report was immediately met Krasigan. Ordinance, 12934 "Received" June with a statement by President Roosevelt denying that such a Ottawa, June 19.

question was raised at any time Fifty naked Doukhobors, a Rus- during Viscount Ishil's visit to sian fanatical sect, who insisted Washington-Reuter.

upon holding a nudist parado des- pite warnings by the authorities,

were arrested by the police to- THE “SHANTUNG" Įday.

The Incident occurred at Kam-

suck, in Saskatchewan.

INCIDENT

Both men and women participated NO SETTLEMENT YET

in the nudist parade, which was staged as a protest against the com- pulsory attendance of their children at school.

REACHED

No settlement of the Canton dia-

Soon after the parade had compute affecting the China Navigas menced, the nudists were surround- tion Company has yet been affected, ad by the police and bundled Into according to latest reports from trucks and police cars and taken to Canton.. the nearest jall.

OTHERS ISOLATED. This is the first renewal of the Doukhobor nude parades since last several hundred

autumn when |paraders in the British Columbia Colony were, isolated on an island off the Pacific coast-Reuter.

CHIANG'S AID TO AGRICULTURE

BIG DONATION TO UNIVERSITY

The stevedores and wharf coolles nro still declining to work the s.s. Shantung, though she is while it is stated that pickets are: not the vessel subject to complaint, stationed to prevent other-Inboar being employed for this purpose..

DEPRESSION OVER S. W. CHINA

BUT REAL RAINS STILL HOLD OFF

In the twenty-four hours endett at ten o'clock this morning, 105 inch of rain was recorded at the Royal- Observatory, making a total for the year of 15.38 inches, against an average of 13.57 inches.

The depression remains overs has increased generally. winds, moderate; fair to showery, Local weather forecast: South

Hought between the chief silver WASHINGTON SENDINGsentatives of Germany and Italy.mgra Ordinance, 1891. Exceived June South-West China, but pressure-

producing and silver-using coun- tries to limit arbitrary sales upon; the world market.

OUT INVITATIONS

TWO CHILDREN HURT -Senator Pittman, in introducing THE ORDER OF

THIS MORNING

Two Chinese lads aged five and Blx were the victims of a serious accident near the junction of Ash- Shanghal, June 20. ley Road and Peking Rond this Glenn Hargraves, the Oxmorning when a window frame American Marine, who was ro-fell into the street into a bunch of sponsible for the death of Mr. boys who wern playing in that L. M. Bell, of Mustard and Com-vicinity, pany, appeared.in the United The accident occurred shortly States Chinn for China this morp after 9 am. Both the injured lads ing.

were in a serious condition when The charge against Hargraves admitted to the Kowloon Hospital. had been reduced from one ΟΙ

The window frame fell off the murdor to one of "involuntary top floor of No. 41 Peking Road. manslaughter.”......

He pleaded guilty and was sen- tenced to two years' Imprison- mont-Router.

LONDON STOCK: EXCHANGE

SATURDAY CLOSURE

DECISION

2. London, June 20,

It has boon decided to close down the London, Stock Exchango

the resolution, declared it to be the first international recognition of silver since 1873.-Router.

CONTROL OF OUTPUT.

(Special to "Telegraph") .

(By Tilegraph, Copyright., "Teteprophie lod, the workers to decide to 20, 140 m.)) challenge, his credentials when the question came before, the Con- ference.

Shanghai, June 20. A donation of $20,000 has been

The Gorman delegates there-made by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek | Reuter. upon threatened to withdraw. to the College of Agriculture and

The Bureau of the Conference PRECEDENCE

has issued a statement to the Forestry at the University of effect that no affront hus bean Nanking. offered to the German delegation at any sitting of the Conference Reuter.

Washington, June 20. London, June 10.

It is intimated that war debt Considerable discussion took talks, siming at a final settlement place during to-day's session of of the question, will be initiated the economic commission on the very shortly. French proposal for the Interna

The negotiations will take place] tional organisation of the produc- in Washington and each of Ameri- tion and marketing of cortain pro-en's debtors will be received ducts, including wheat, wine, tim- separately. ber cotton, coal, oll, wool, silver, and_so ̧om......!

Mr. Walter Runciman, the Presi- dent of the Board of Trade, sup MR. T. V. SOONG IN ported the French proposal on be-

half of the British Government.

PARIS

FLIES : FROM LONDON FOR TALKS

Parle, June 19, Mr. T. V. Soong flow from Lon- don to Paris to-day. He was met at Le Bourget by Dr. Wellington Koo.

on Saturdays during the summer It is understood that the

U.S. KIDNAPPING RACKET

The decision applies, It is under- LARGE SUM PAID FOR stood, only to those countries who have paid their debt instalments

BREWER'S RELEASE in full, or who made token pay-

Now York, June 10. mente in respect of the June instalment

The release of Mr. William This automatically rules out, at Hamm, the wealthy Minnesoth A THOUGHT FOR CONSUMER. this juncture, begotiations with brower who was kidnapped on Friday last, was affected after the Heald that Britain attached France, Belgtum and Poland,

payment of a heavy`ransom, much importance to achomes for

IN ORDER. the regulation of the output of primary products in order to raiso The State Department, it is re- Duluth, Minnesota, staton that it prices, always provided that such liably reported has already drafted was leas than the $100,000 demand- schomes were widely supported a schedule of projected talks with ed by the kidnappers Reuters and, carried safeguards for, con- America's debtors, commencing, in eumers' interests.-Reuter

Tato July A

PROF. MOLEY SAILING.

Washington, June 19.

The donation la to be employed for strengthening the crop im- provement programme.

RIVER LEVELS SUBSIDING

NO FURTHER FEARS OF FLOOD

In addition, on the Generalis- simo's suggestion, an export has boon despatched to Shensi to make Fears of a flood, disaster in, the A preliminary investigation and Kwangtung and Kwangel districts: surveys with a view to thoes are practically over. tablishment of an experimental The river lovela continue to sub station, preferably near Sianfu, side. The West River yesterday to carry on crop improvement fall from 28.9 feet to 26.3 feet at work, in that province-Router. Shlubing, the North Riverfell

from 12.5 feet to 9.9 feat at Teing yaon, and from 19.7, feet: to: 17.4% feet at Samshui

ALLEGED ASSAULT ON AMAHS

The exact amount has not been MR. W. C. LOYNES UNABLE}.| disclosed, but a message from

The order in which Presidenb Bontence. bi | Roosevelt will hear the countries | labour was

Tondon? will depend upon the proportion of the debt paid on June 18., Thur

months, The Saturday closure will Finance Minister will romain In Professor Raymond Moley, Pre- Finland, which made full payment, come into oporation on July 15 Paris. for three or four days, and sident Roosevelt's confidential wilf to the ar bheard under and terminate on September 9, will meet M. Daladior and other economic advisors has left for Naw, whiCADEIRAUJA "both, days inclusive.—Reuter.

officials to-morrow.—Router

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ANOTHER LOAN DENIED

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Weltumours In London" that Mit T26V3 Boong (hid (negotiated as loan of $20,000,000

bankers following, up the U |$30,000,000 1óân, has been forma)|

denied by Mr Soon".

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