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AMERICAN ORDERS FROM LONDON

London, Feb. 19. With sliver at its highest level since May last, allver producers' shares have commented to harden. In Washington silver interests represented in Congross are re- doubling their efforts to compol the Treasury to buy silver in quantities varying between 10,000, 000 and 50,000,000 ounces monthly until silver reaches a ratio of 16 to 1 with gold.

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Vienna, Feb. 19.

"

HELENA MAY RECITAL.

MISS AMELIA LEE TO GIVE PIANO CONCERT

A panic was created in the

Miss Amelia Leo will give her Meldiing district of Vienna Inst first Hongkong piano recital on evening, when fighting broke out Thursday next, February 22, at between the police and a band of 6.30 p.m. Although she has been Socialist dichards.

heard from time to time on the Crowds of nightseers were ina-wireless, she has not made a public pecting the scene of last week'a appearance in Hongkong since the fighting, when unseen anivers on Ovarsens League concert a year the roofs of municipal flats 'fired

awaited with much intorost. on the police near George Wash ago, and her re-appearance in

Court Ants ington and Indian (which give. the area. the nick Apart from the facilo tochnique Chincgo Some assort that President name of "the American quarter"), possessed by this young

A strong force of Heimwehr Indy, her playing has evoked much Roosevelt is playing with a scheme

the spot comment on account of the high to satisfy the silver interests and troops were rushed to

buildings housing the degree of musicianship she dis- their champions in Congress, and the others that he is growing more auipers were surrounded by a plays and the fact that she finds it

easier to play with her eyes cautious regarding his financial strong cordon-Reuter,

from beginning to end of her par- experiments and concessions to

formances. small groups.

Ounces

London financial circles are generally inclined to dread artificial attempts to raise the price of silver. --Our Own Correspondent.

shut

Montagu's annual Bullion Review towards gold, obvious difficulties

It may be mentioned that, in the says that India's consumption of are bound to arise owing to the course of her brief musical career, silver last year was half that of large accumulation of world all Misa Amelia Lee has played most of Bach's plano works, all Beeth- 1932, and China's was 24,000,000 ver stocks. ounces compared with 52,000,000 Such action, in the opinion of oven's Sonatas, the principal works

prominent the year previous.. Then

bullion broker, of Schumann, Schubort and Liszt, Revicio emphasises that fluctuations would be most Injurious to the every piece that Chopin wrote, and of allver last year always corres- Far East, lending to hoavy with 21 Piano Concertos; and sho played ponded with rumours from America. drawals of silver to New York, a large number of these works from

"Left to itself sliver would pro-and thus reducing the currency memory.

of bably follow the trend other reserves, of the silver countries, On Thursday, hur programme commodities and respond readily to resulting in deflation.

commences with a Chopin group, any improvement in trade condi- The same expert points out including a Mazurka, a Nocturne second tions," the Review states.

that silver is really a commodity and two Studies. The and it is proferable that it should group consists of a miscellaneous rise with commodities nather than sot of pieces by Finnish and Russian composers, including a by artificial means.

Silver shares on the Stock Ex-particularly fascinating Concert change have risen with the ex- Waltz by Gazounov. pectation of probable, United The second half of the pro- States action.

gramme is devoted entirely to Members of the Foreign Ex-Rachmaninoff's Second Plano Con- change anticipate that the Bank corto in C Minor, which has been of France will continue to lose described as the most popular piano gold to America as long as the concerto of the present day. The dollar is undervalued. The pre-orchestral part of this work will be sent French deflationary mea-played on a second piano by Mr. sures may lead to increased dif- A. M. Bowes-Smith. culties for the French Treasury The Recital is one of the regular

May Institute which may be forced to borrow, Helena If America desires to adopt a thus defenting the deflationary series, and admission is at the usual similar policy towards silver as object-Reuter.

popular prices.

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London, Feb. 19. Recent heavy buying of silver by America In the. London market has given rise to the belief that the United States Government silver policy is rapidly develop ing. But London is inclined to adopt a hesitant attitude until definite palley is declared from Washington,

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