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Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1881

No. 14876

二拜禮號十三月四英港香

TUESDAY,

APRIL 30, 1935.

ANOTHER

U.S. SILENT ON SILVER POLICY

PRICE STEADIES IN LONDON MARKET

WILD GUESSES AS TO FUTURE TREND

Washington, April 29.

Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, to-day announced that the conversations with the Mexican officials in connection with the silver situation were concluded. He added that they were mutually satisfactory, but refused to comment further.

At the same time, Mr. Morgenthan stated' that there will be no announcement to-night regarding a possible increase in the Treasury's silver price.

TREATY

BREACH

GERMANY TO BUILD

SUBMARINES

COMMONS. AGITATED

Lonoản, April 29. Anxiety regarding the interan- tional situation was revealed at question-time to-day in the House of Commans, on its reassembly after the Easter Recess, and it became clear that the debate on loren nire on Thursday will he invested with much importance, The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, when asked for a statement

one internationat situation re called the Prime Minister's state- ment to the latise on the Strean Conference and said, the results of the recent meeting of the Lengue Council had been fully re- ported in the Press and would no doubt be referred to during the debate.

Later he was asked whether he

been informed that German Government had issued orders for laying down a number of submarine vessels and for the

The Treasury is carefully guarding its silver plans End and has remained silent as the world price of the metal slumped to below the domestic price. Silver circles are hazarding numerous guesses as to further procedure, but there is not the slightest hint in official quarters regarding what will be done.

Sonic authorities on Wall Street |

expressed the opinion

that the Treasury would proceed slowly in pushing op the price to $1,29 ounce 80 aя not to violate the International Silver Agreement of 19:33. Other authorities feel that, the immediate boosting of the

SEEKING

NEW AIR RECORD

price to $1.20 might be undertaken | JAPANESE PILOT

on the theory that it would have

HEADING EAST

IN BRITISH PLANE

Amy Mollison, potod British air woman, who has crashed during a fight in England, but, fortunately,

without injury.

the America May

Fortify Her

North Border

reopening of the Submarine School at Kiel, and what steps he pro posed to take in view of this fur ther Bagrant violation of the Versailles Treaty.

GERMAN INTIMATION Sir John replied that the Cerman Government had intimated that orders had been given for construction of twelve 260-ton The sabmarines.

he matter, added, was now under considera- tion. No such offein intimation had been nude regarding the Kiel Submarine School.

Roplying to Sir Austen Cham- berlain, who asked when the in- a tens unsettling effect than I

timation regarding submarines gradual rise. In spite of the on

was made to the Government; Sir

from John Simon. speaking certainty at present surrounding

memory, said it was on April 25, the situation, the impression, how;

Captain Sidney Herbert asked ever, prevails that with the Mexi

if the Government proposed to London, Apr. 29.

take steps to bring this further can conversations now concluded,

A-British aeroplane, piloted by a violation of the Treaty to the -the-way-is clear for some definiteinmanere aleman, will leave Britain notice of the League of Nations.

major netion.-Reuter.

shortly on a record-seeking light and whether it was proposed to to the Fur Bart.

proceed with the arrangements for The pilot, Kutsuture Ano, will fly Anglo-German naval Nama: alone, attempting to reach Japan tions.

over a new route regarded as less Sir John Simon, after remark-. The official rate of the dangerous than that usually aming that, as is gravity obviously Hongkong dollar was

ployed by air speed seekers. un.

justified the matter was now under changed at 2s. 5d. on open-

The plane was christened to-day consideration, expressed the hope Very ing this morning.

by Madame Matsudaira, wife of the that he would not be pressed for Japanese Minister, who hecom- further answers to-day. little business passed, the

panied her husband to Feltham for market being uncertain

the ceremony. The machine is to Business rates

25

be known na "Blue Seas."-fester, 52d. sellers and 2s 54d.

it is understand that the machine buyers.

will visit Hongkong on its tight from England.

were

BAKİREKTORU SUVCHILARIORUSUNTALS;THE POTENDONKURASHNORATOR

LONDON DECLINE

London, April 9. The drop of 11/16 pence in Lon-i don silver prices to-day is at- tributed mainly to profit-taking,

In addition thère Is con- siderable uneasiness occasioned į through the United States Govern-¡ ment not making any definite statement as to their future polley.-United Pruna,

DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED

Washington, April 29.

GIRL STABBED DANGEROUSLY

YOUNG MAN CUTS

OWN THROAT

conversa-

A question regarding the proce. dure for Thursday's debate was addressed by Sir Austen Cham- berlain to the Prime Minister who said the usual course of first con- writing the opposition would be followed.

OPPOSITION HOPE

Mr. George Lansbury said the Opposition took it for granted that the debate would opan by a state- ment from the Government, and he hoped the debate would be as broad as possible.

The Prime Minister said thesa requests would certainly be com- plied with

CANADA REQUESTS

INFORMATION

PLANS LAID IN SECRET

Worligton, April 29. The proposal to establish powerful air “base” near the Canadian border was made at a secret meeting of the House of Com- Representatives Military mittee by Brigadier-General C. E. Chief of Kilbourne, Assistant Staff in charge of war plans, who suggested that the base might be diplomatienily camouflaged under

AMY MOLLISON

CRASHES

Famous Aviatrix Uninjured

(Spacia! to "Telegraph") -

London, April 29. Mrs. Amy Mollison, most flier of famous woman Great Britain, crashed in attempting

landing to-day.

a

The under-carriage of her plage was wrenched the machine away and skidded dangerously, and otherwise slightly damaged, but Mrs. Mollison escaped injury. - United Pycas,

was

no

Chau Chung (23), unemployed,

In reply to Mr. Winston Chur- 201 Свешта Wal-hing (20), chill, who asked for an assurance Waitress, are lying at the Govern that, as almost every day counted the name of "intermediate stations ment Civil Hospital, the girl in a

a second now

Foreign Affairs for transcontinental flights."

He suggested this strategy, he eritical condition, as the result of debate would take place before the

stabbing affair which occurred middle of May the Prime Minister said, in order that the United Mr. Henry Morgenthau, the after 2 a.m. to-day in that part of said the Governmen had no desire States might not give the impres

Treasury and Paddy's Market known as Upper unduly to delay Secretary of the

the debate.sion that she no longer believed in the century-old principle that other members of the Treasury Lascar Row.

British Wireless.

the Canadian border needed conferred to-day, first with the

The girl was employed at the

defence. silver group in Congress and Kong So Retaurant, next to the afterwards with the Mexican af Central Theatre in Queen's Road Central. After work, she was re- Acials in Washington.

After the conferences it was turning to her home at 38 Upper Indicated that some new silver car Row, when she was met by developments may be expected Chau with whom she is said to have been on intimate ternis. It is understood that the con-The few people who were in Upper Torence with the Mexicans co-Lascar Row at the hour say they Bintod of discussions on several witnessed a violent quarrel between alternatives to the price raising the two before the nun drew out policy but that no agreement had meat-knite and stabbed Its It is learned that adhesion to the

apon.

India Unity Anticipated

Mr. Hume Wrong. First Secretary of the Canadian Lega- tion at Washington, Immediately

日八十月三

AID FOR

RUSSIAN

REFUGEES

WHITE SLAVERY

IN SHANGHAI

LEAGUE TO INTERVENE

Geneva, Ape, 29.

The League of Nations proposes i to establish vocational training centres, cheap kitchens and special hurtels in Shanghai, stufes a report by Le Traffic in Women and Children Committee of this. Leagno.

to

This step will be, taken in order remedy the situation facing Russian women ret tikova, mory than one in every five of whom, the report asserts, are prostitutes,

The Committee says that thou sands of women have been driven from Manchuria by economic i necessity, and their situation is daily becoming worse in all the big seaports of China,

Of nearly 10,000 Rutesian women in Shanghai, 7,200 are between the ages of sixteen and forty-five, and of these 22 per cent. are known to be prostitutes-Router.

SPEED KING FINED

EXCEEDED THIRTY MILES PER HOUR

BINOLE COP< 10 CENTE

FILM PER ANNUM

TROPICAL HELMETS

SPECIAL

REINFORCED ALUMINIUM

LININGS

TEMPERATURE FROM HELMET.

;

TO HEAD WEAR

EXCESSIVE TROPICAL HEAT

CUT DOWN BY 70 PER CENT,

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WHITEAWAY'S

GREAT JUBILEE PROCESSIONS

GLITTERING THRONG TO JOIN RIDE

EMPIRE'S STATESMEN AT CELEBRATIONS

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Mesagte Ordinance, 1894. Received, April 30, 8.30 cm.)

London, April 29. The official souvenir · programme of the Silver, Jubilee shows that seven separate processions will leave various points for the Thanksgiving services at St. Paul's Cathedral on Monday, May 6. Their Majesties' procession will consist of six carriages, attended by the Sovereign's escort of Life Guards. The King and Queen will occupy the first carriage and Prince Arthur of Connaught and the Earl of Athlone, Governor of Windsor Castle, the second.

Persons of the Court will occupy the remaining four carriages.

In the Prime Minister's procession there will be six carriages, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and his daughter, Miss Ishbel, occupying the first, Mr. R. B. Bennett of Canada and General James Hertzog of South Africa, the second; Mr. J. A. Lyons, Prime Minister of Aus- tralia, the third; and Mr. George Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand, the fourth..

FEWER IDLE IN BRITAIN

THOUSANDS CO BACK TO WORK

INDUSTRY.

HEALTHY..

Sir Joseph and Lady Bhore, ro- presenting the Government of India, will ride in the fifth car- riage and the Viscount and Vis countess Craigavon, representing Ulster, in the sixth.

The Speaker of the House of Commons will proceed from the House in his conch and will be passed by the Prime Minister's procession en route.

There will be only two carriages In the Lord High Chancellor's pro. cession, in which Lord Sankey. and high legal functionaries will ride.

The City procession will include representatives of the Court of Common Council, the Court of Aldermen and the senior and junfor Sheriffs, who are occupying carriages in front of the fifth con- Iveyance in which the Lord Mayor

will ride.

NO SYMPATHY . FROM COURT

London. April 29. After earning the plaudits of The whole world for travelling at nearly 300 miles per hour, "Sir Malcolm Campbell was fined £1 at the East Leigh (Hants) Petty Sessions to-day for exceeding the 30-mile-per-hour speed-limit in a built-up ures near Southampton.

Sir Malcolm, in a letter to the makes the total improvement since The Duke of York's procession Bench, ploaded guilty to un the end of January 277,000.

of two carriages will bring the wittingly breaking the law, owing! Not one of the principal In-Duke and Duchess of York, and to the absence of restriction signs.dustries showed a decline, while Princess Margaret and Princess He said both his passenger and substantial increases were record-Elisabeth together, and the Duke himself were under the impressioned in engineering, coal mining, and Duchess of Kent behind. that they had passed out of the building, textiles and ship-build- restricted area, and pointed outing.

London, April 29. A drop of 109,000 in Britain's unemploymeat figures last mouth

Prince's Party

The Queen of Norway and the.

that he had driven motor-cars for Fifty-four per cent of the un- over thirty years and had never employed have, at this moment, had an accident involving injury boca Idle less than three months, Duke of Gloucester will share to persons or property. He had and sixty-four per cent, under four the first carriage with the Prince preserved a clean licence for the months. Only whole of this time.

to

The Magistrates, whilst fining Sir Malcolm, decided endorae his llcence.-Renter.

Air Police On mapectively. Reuter.

Frontier

FRANCE TO KEEP CLOSE WATCH

STRIKING FIGURES

London, Apr. 29.

Their

NEW HEAD OF

twenty-two per of Wales in the Prince'a proces- cent. have been out of work for sion, while in the second carriage will be the Princess Royal, the more than a year.

A bright feature has been the Princess Victoria and the Earl of improvement of conditions in the Harewood. Both these latter pro- distressed areas, like Wales and cessions will have captains and the North-west of England where escorts of Life Guards in attend- decreases in unemployment were ance.

In addition to registered of 3,000 and 15,000 there will be a fleet of motor cars the carriages

following the various processions, 160 at the disposal of the Diploma- tic Corps, twenty for Cabinet A big increase in the number of Ministers and forty for the Roya persons in employment, and ahousehold, besides a number fo corresponding diminution in the other guests. number out of work, is shown in

Majesties procession, the monthly return of the Ministry | preceded by detachments repre- of Labour.

senting the Royal Horse Artillery. It was estimated that on Aprli Dragoons, Hussars and Lancer Strasbourg, April 29.

15 there were approximately 10-all in full dress will be one of A squadron of pursuit planes, 320,000 insured persons, aged 16- the meat colourful in England's the Canadian authorities were in- capable of a speed of 250 miles per 64, la employment for which comhlatory-tenter Special. formed, indirectly, of the sugges-hour, will police the French parable figures are available. tion of General Kilbourne, frontier in this vicinity with The total was 120,000 more than preventing abuse of on March 26 and 175,000 more requested the State Department to view to supply him with a complete trans trespass regulations by foreign than a year ago.

The numbers of unemployed cript of the American military machines. expert's evidenes before the Com When a foreign plane is sighted parsons on the registers of the mitico's secret session.-Reuter.

on the French side of the border, Employment Exchanges on April particularly in the fortified arcas, | 15 totulled 2,044,400. This was

Paris, Apr: 29. one of the "police” machines, will | 109,410 less than the number on immediately take to the air, hoad | the registers on March 26 and Admiral Grayson, head of the it off and photograph it, and will 103,790 feas than the year before. American Red Cross, has been signal it either to land or return The latest total comprises 1,633,-olected chairman of the Inter Mr. Henry Morgenthau has saided the weapon on himself. Having entry into the Federation can be

to its own side of the frontier.

national League of Bed Croak 302-men. 57,989 boys, 300,943 wo-

societies, in succession to the late that he will not make any aliver eat his throat, only superficially, counted on are lyderabad, Travan-

The photographs will be used in men and 62,226 girls. announcement today. United he also stabbed himself in the ub-core, lys

London, April 20. connection with diplomatic repre- A gratifying feature of the re- Judge Barton Payne, at a meeting Alysore. domen. His injurice are not

The chairman of the tin. Buffer sentations.

turn is that the diminution in of the Board of Governors today- serious as those of the girl, and

as Jaipur Jodhpur and Udaipur.. Stock Committee- to-day announced This action is taken, it is be- unemployment during the period Reuter,

Although it is expected that some that there are 800 tons of buffer lieved, following the reports of under review was spread over u he muy recover.

Jealousy is believed

of the smaller States will continue stocks now in New York, where it trespass by German planes over areas, but the most substantial festo claiming that there will be prompted the attack,

to have to agitate against the scheme, was stored inadvertently in non- the French fortifed zones of the advance was in the North-Eastern no unemployment in Germany by

official_circles (regard the previous reporting warehouses, mitja frontier-Router.

area of England. None of the the end of the year.. misunderstandings as having been Out of this aquantity of 170

principal Industries in Britain Herr Loy sets down the workers' liquidated.

bons arrived in Now York on March

showed any marked decline in em-jobligations to the country in "Test, If the claims now being urged by: 28 and was stored in April.· ́A

Commandments." beginning: "WỰ" Travancore are fairly met, it is de-

VTV

To-morrow being, the German Na-ployment-British Wireleas. tons arrived early this further clare that other maritime States month, but the whole amount will dipperich will hold a reception at the

tional Day, the Consul General, Herr TEN COMMANDMENTS will groot The Leader in the mor

Ing and thank him in the even Berlin, Apr. 29. are likely to follow her load and be placed in reporting warehouses Gorman Club, 2 Connaught Road,] nccept the scheme.—Reuter.

during May-Brutar.

from 11.30 am, to 12.80 p.m.

Harr. Robert Ley leader of the for having given us the will to Labour Front, has issued a mani and help."-Reuter, de

been reaghod.-Vaited Press.

Prean.

NO ANNOUNCEMENT

Washington, Aprit 29.

FEDERATION PLAN ACCEPTABLE

Simia, Apr. 29. companion. She sankto the Federation plan of at least 51 per ground dangerously injured from cent. of lunt part of India ruled by a number of thrusts in the abdo- the Princes is regarded as practie-

ally certain in official circles.

Among the larger States whose

men.

After the incident the man turn-

SHANGHAI EXCHANGE

Shanghai, April 30, The Foreign Exchange. Market lavery firm due to the strong undertone, of London silver In which business was due at 3/8 dollars 41 7/16, Starling 1/8 1/2,

official fixing. Also and Gold Bars $750.80. over the overbought positions were being At 9.30, rates were, U.S. dollars Wearriad forward,

Opening ratos here were, U.S. Barn $757.30-Unied Press

41 5/8, Sterling 1/8 5/8, and Gold

Gwallor. Kashmir,

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