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Operations

In Silver

Reviewed

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1935.

TRIAL

U.S. PROTECTING LANTAU MURDER

PAPER MONEY

LONDON'S MARKET NO MORE SUITS FOR

STEADY

SPECULATORS

SELLING

London silver transactions, ro- ported by Reuter, showed that Amorien bought extensively yes. terday and that Chine bought and nold. Speculatora also sold, but the market was steady.

After the official · price-fixing, America bought at one-sixteenth under the fixed price.

The New York Allver market was steady, but Bombay spot silver, up to 74 at the close, was unofficially down to 73 on Inter sales.

MOCATTA REVIEW Mesars. Mocatta and Goldsmidi in their allver review for the past: week, write:--

Indian Belling has continued, but American buying has not been keen enough to hold the price of silver.

China and loent speculators have also been sellers, though there has also been some buying on China account.

Tho bu necount, though still very large, has been rather duced which, with the fact. silver is being shipped away American purchasers, gives the market a healthier appearance,

The weekly stocks totaled 60, '000,000 fine ounces-Reuter,

COLD RESERVES

GOLD DOLLARS

RECOMMENDATION MADE TO CONGRESS

Washington, June 27.

Legislation designed, to tighten up any possible loopholes threatening the nation's new monetary system has been recommended to Congress by President Roosevelt. In a special message to both Houses the President declared:

"I believe important and definite action must be taken to eliminate any uncertainty with respect to the rights of holders of Government gold clause bonds to sue for payment either in gold or else for legal tender with an additional sum of 69 cents on every dollar.

"To this end I urge withdrawal by the United States of its consent to be sued upon its currency or its securities.

"I

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and permission to bring such suits principle of universal acceptance,

is an act of grace with us which may be granted or withheld by Congress.

ACCUSED MAN'S DELUSION

Preliminary hearing of the Lan- tau murder trial, in which Tse Tam. 36, a poultry kooper, is charged with the killing of Chan Hang-tak, 35, fisherman at Tong Fuk vilinge, Lantau Island, in the carly hours of June 11, commenced before Mr.

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trict Office South this morning.

Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant Attorney General, is conducting the Crown case.

In the course of his medical evidence. Dr. Ingram Shaw, who performed the post-mortem of the deceased and has had the prisoner under his care since June 13, stated that in his opinion, the accused had definite delusions that someone had designs on his life; also delusions

about stolen ducks.

The prisoner, he said, also went through various antics with a blon ket several times. The antics were always the same.

The doctor believed the prisoner to be of very primitive intelligence but apart from the delusions on certain points he was of Found mind.

"I could not certify him na a proper person to be detained in a mental Institution," said Dr. Shaw.

CROWN CASE

Stating the case for the Crown, Mr. Fraser said that on the night of June 10 the accused went to sleep in decensed's hut in Tong Fuk village and about 3 o'clock the next morning a fisherman went to call the deceased. He went into the hut, where the accused told him he had killed the man. Ileiatives were called, but they were told by the accused to keep back and were also told by him to go and calf the police,

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.

7 p.m. Stock Quotations. 7.03-7.38 pm. Concert.

Colle Solo-The Nightingale and the

Rose, Op. 2 No. 2 (Rimsky- Korsakov).

Bentrico Harrison. Songs-Manella Mia (Neapolitan

Folk Song) (Glanulni). Songs O Sole Mio (di Capua).

Dusolina Giannini (Soprano), Violin Solo-Tigane--Rhapsodic de

Concert (Ravel).

"M. 2. Francescatti. Songs-The Dandolero (Stuart). Songs Bedouin Love Song (Pinsuti). Petor Dawson (Bass-Baritone). Sangs-Love, I Give You my All

(Dowdon and Besly). Songs-Always (Dyrenforth and

Smith).

Ins Soucz (Soprano). 7.38-7.50 p.m. Concert Waltzes. Tales from the Vienna Woods

(J. Strauss). Blue Danube (J. Strauss). Carmen Sylva (Ivanovici).

7.50-8 p.m. From the Studio. "Book Reviewn" by Sabrina.

6 p.m. Time and Weather Iteport. 8.03-8.20 p.m. Harry Roy's Tiger- Ragamuffins.

1. Fox Trot Medley.

2.

It don't mean a thing; Happy Feet: Every Loves I Got Rhythm, My baby.

3. Memories of You; Rain;

Goodbye Bluca. 4. Shine; My sweetie went away; Sweet Jenny Lee. 8:20-8.28 p.m. "Everybody's Songs" arr. by Geeht

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recommend, therefore, the jinberent right to sue the Govern- enactment of legislation which willment," the President went on.

fixed "On the contrary, the immunity make clear that it in our re- policy to continue to treat hand. the sovereign from suit is Ontholders of all our securities equal

byly and uniformly; and to afford any bondholder of any gold clause security who thinks he could, by any possibility, sustain any loss in the future, an opportunity to pul "Not only justice to the holders himself Immediately in a position of our currencies and securities to avoid such future Joss, and to who support and rely upon our remove all possibility of any such policy of equal and

uniform also the

The deceased was found lying Auit as might be designed to ham-treatment for all, bait per the Government la the ad- intereste our entire people partly in bed with several head

10 p.m. Press Bulletins. ministration of public debt and in reqatre that the Government of wounds, and by that time dead, or records by the Rev. C. B. R. Sargent,

clear Dearly so. The necused was hold-

9.15-10.30 $1,35%. Variety Pro- financing is ordinary emergency the United States make it

that it cannot and will not consenting an axe which Dr. Shaw would expenditures."

o use its courts in aid of efforts say was the only weapon which The President recommended the to sabotage the operations of the

inflicted the peculiar could have The total note circulation is ¦ immediate enactment of, legisla¦ Government or aid in private wounds on the dead man's head. given as 80,703,000,000 francs, ation: first. authorising the speculation.

The necused had never denied that decrease of 670,000,000 francs as Treasury Secretary, at the request;

he killed the man and told the police compared with the previous week,

so in answer to the charge. --Reuter.

Paris, June 27.

Bank of France for the period ending June 20 show gold reserves totalling 70,770,000,000 france, an increase -of $7,000,000 francs as compared

with the previous week.

The returns of the

FRANCE ATTACKS

ACCORD

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ground on

which to adjust the methods of the British and French Governments to achieve the programme mentioned in the London communique of February

4.-Reuter.

was

uf

"This proposal reasserta ANA

| of holders of gold clause securities makes definite the control of of the United States, to make pay: | Congress over the securities and ment therefor in cash, dollar for money issued by the United States | dollar, with accrued interest, or,jof Ainerica,” declared President

at the holders' direction, to CX-1 Roosevelt. change such securities for non-;

gold clause securities with the

PANAMA SATISFIED

SAMO interest rate and date of This message Follow on the maturity; second, terminating any heels of a report that a tentative contract which the United States agreement had been reached by may voluntarily have given to be the United States and Panama for! sued on its securities, coins or payment by the United States of currencies; and third, reafirming the $225,000 annual rental for the the fixed policy of the United Canal Zone in dollars equivalent

all make payment to Stites to

to the old gold value of the holders of its securities, coins or dollar. currencies on an equal or uniform dollar for dollar basis. and making appropriations available for payments on this basis.

male in

Panama in 1934, and this year also returned to Washington the payment of Canal Zone rental the depreciated dollars. IMMUNITY FROM SUIT and insisted upon gold dollars, to which it claimed it was entitled "There la no constitutional ord by the treaty of 1908-Router,

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

One case of Typhoid, two cases of und three casch of iphtheria Meningitis, were reported to the loen! Health authorities on Wednesday,

QUESTION ANSWERED

London, June 27. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell. asked in the House of Commons to-day to explain in what circum- stances the Government contem- plated giving its assent under the Anglo-German naval agreement to the tierman Government in the

WE ARE ASSURED THAT INTERNA- event of exceptional construction by other powers increasing its TIONAL UNDERSTANDING WOULD BE KNOWING OTHER BY PROMOTED

1 DOUBT IT. NATIONS NETTER.

THE BITTEREST QUARRELS ARE BETWEEN Ta reply, he read a portion of

THAT LIVE IN THE COMMUNITIES the section referred to which SAME STREET, LIVE ALL THEIR LIVES states: "If the general equilibrium CLOSE CONTACT, AND KNOW EACH of naval armaments as normally OTHER VERY WELL INDEED.-Norman maintained in the past should by Angell, violently upset by any abnormal and exceptional construction by The forthcoming wedding is an

total tonnage above its thirty-five per cent, quota.

other powers, the German Govern-

nounced of Mr. Gilbert Charles Wat ment reserves the right to invite

kon, engineer, of 29 Wing Hing Street, His Majesty's Government in the Causeway Bay, and Miss Chan Kwai- United Kingdom to examine the sim, of the site address. new situation thus created."

Arthur do Greet and the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra. 9.9.45 p.m.

From the Studlo. The 41st Recital of Gramophono

gramme, Orchestra The Frolicsome Haru. Piano Solo Jazz Goblins.

Rale da Costa. Vocal Duel-I'd do tho most extra- ordinary things ("Jill Darling").

Frances Day and Arthur Riscoe. Xylophone Solo-Kitten on the Keys.

Harry Robbins.

Hobbies.

The amount of blood found un the axe was not sufficient to testungurous--Clapham and Dwyer on whether it was human blood or not, but the Crown attached grønt importance to a coverlet which bore a blood stain the length of the blade, which, they alleged, was wiped on the cloth by the accused,

rat

TOLD BY THE DEVILS

The reason for the killing was not known. The accused in alleged to have told the villagers that he was "tok by the devils"!

to kill.

"Apparently he has in his mind Rome obsession which, however,

does not amount to actual insani- ty," said Mr. Fraser,

Dr. A. Greaves, Government Bacteriologist, testified to finding hominn blood on the covering "but not sufficent blood on the axe to test it. On a chopper he found much human blood.

"The chopper has nothing to do with the case," the prisoner interposed,

Clapham and Dwyer. Orchestra-Nicolette.

Song-Love, forever I adore you.

Ronald Murgatroyd "("Fenor). Fox Trotere come the British. Organ Salo-Ninette.

R. E. McPherson. Song Near and yet so far,

Evelyn Laye (Soprano). Vocal Duet-Roll along, covered

Wagon.

10.30-11.m.

Walsh and Barker. Druce Music.

MOTOR MISHAP

LOCAL DOCTOR'S

EXPERIENCE

WIN

Dr. D. Hope Gill, of 80 Nathan Road, was involved in a minor motor necident in Nathan Road this morning shortly after 8.30 Dr. G. Ingram Shaw, medical

Dr. Hape Gin

driving officer, Victoria Public Mortuary, Morris Minor No. 1892 following and Prison Medical Officer, testified motor lorry No. 3259 along Nathan A Coroner's inquiry into the death to extensive injuries found on the Road towards Prince Edward of Crown Sergeant James Francis deceased's head, including fracture Road, and when a little past the candy will be held at the Kowloon of the skull which appeared to be intersection of Argyle Street, the 2.30 pan. It will be recalled that the did not Magistracy on Friday, July 5, t of normal thickness. The brain lorry suddenly swung out to the

appear to be incerated. right body of Sergeant Kennedy was found

without warning. it is shortly before midnight on June 6 The spleen was enlarged and three alleged." in his room at the Mongkok Police teeth were missing, but not recent- Station, with a bullet wound in his y. The cause of death was frac-

ture of the skull and shock. hend.

factories

Mr. Kwok Hin-wang, Director of Hin Fust & Co., Ltd., is leaving the The First Lord said he could fine of $4 was imposed upon Colony Tu-day on a business four of add nothing to this statement, Fong Yau, get 53, widow, when she the Kwangtung and Kwangsi Pro- As the transportation of ult which seemed to him perfectly appeared before Mr. S. P. Balfourinces

at the Central Magis timey this mor of the two Governments

machinery for the sugar clear, but he pointed out that as

is being stated in Paragraph Three of the the Hongkong Telegraph at the bot-sent tour is chielly connected with ning, charged with selling copies of undertaken by his company, his pre- note, the British Government re- cognised the right set out in the licence. Anather weman, Mak Kak,

Lom of Wyndham Street without this matter. passage quoted on the under-aged 40, was fined £2.50 when she standing that the 35-100 ratte appeared before

Mr. would be maintained lu default_of | charged with howking English! an agreement to the contrary be newspapers at the junction of Chuter tween the two Governments,—— Rond and Ice House Street. British Wirdless,

"TAX THE RICH”

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The axe produced in Court was the weapon with which all the wounds could have been inflicted. The bearing was adjourned.

BRITAIN BACKING

LEAGUE

The police are eager to get into [Continued from Page 1). Macfadyen, touch with n European gentleman

whe telephoned the Wanchai Police and the International control of Station on Saturday about 5.05 a.m. armaments. Over 11,500,000 parti- informing the officer on duty_that_ Chinese was lying injured in Gup cipated in the ballot, of whom the Bound over only a few days go, Road near Stubbs Road. The in vast majority voted in support of IA кір uge 34, unemployed. ap formune also stated that the injured the League and all-round disarma- peared before Mr. Macfadyen at the man had probably bean knocked down ment by international agreement. Central Magistracy this morning, by motor car.

The speakers included the Arch- charged with the theit of two felt

bishop of Canterbury, Dr. F. W. Norwood, Mrs. Corbelt Ashby and

MOTHER'S PLEA

Dr. Hope Gill swerved sharply |to avoid a collision but was caught between the lorry and the traffic island. The left rear mudguard' of the Morris Minor was dented, but apart from this no damage was sustained.

health.

other

hets valued at $1.00 from No. 111, Li Kay, aged 22, locksmith, and Wing Lok Street. When reminded Lnu Tiu-kwang, aged 28, office boy, Sir Walter Citrine, the T. U. C. The Beauty Champion. of his bond. defendant sold he did were charged before Mr. Macfadyen leader. One feature of the meet- not understand the significance of at the Central Magistracy this morn HEARING DELAYED

it. He was fined $26, the

Beauty dependent upon cosmetics timounting with (a) making a duplicate key ing was the resounding cheers of in bond, or three weeks hard for private box No. 800 at the General when two of the speakers palda cannot compare with the natural "TILL JULY 8

labour in default for having broken Post Office without the authority of tribute to the work of Mr. Anthony beauty which springs from perfect it, and on the present charge he was the Postmaster General and (6) dam- Eden. Washington, June 27. sentenced to one month's imprison-aging the letter box at the Post

To enjoy perfect health, internal After a three-hour conferencement, the terms to be concurrent. Ofice. Detective Sergeant Guild

cleanliness is essential, and to ensure with Mr. Morgenthau, Secretary

asked that both charges be withdrawn A working woman pleading on this there is nothing better than an of the Treasury, a group of tax Charged before Mr. Macfadyen at against both defendants, as second de- behalf of the mothers in the Great occasional dose of Pinkettes, the

dainty little liver experts of the Democratic section the Central Magistracy this morning fendant's master had agreed to pay War drew tears from the eyes. of pilules. Taken when needed, Pin- and laxative tho damage. The' of the House Ways and Means with stealing 21 cents from a money

wore the audience, while Dr. Norwood's kettes dispel constipation, ilven barket belonging to Chak. Chu, shop-i

accordingly withdrawn by the Committee decided to delay the keeper, at 95, Queen's. Rond Central, Magistrate. It

remark that the vast masses of the the liver, banish billous attacks and opening of the hearings on the Chan Sheu to two months' hardmaster to the Post Office to open the earth "feel pretty much as we do"

nged. 36, unemployed, second defendant was sent by his people of every country on the sick headachos, clear away pimples

and other "Tax the Rich" programme until

facial was sentenced

charge July 8.

labour An additionni

of letter box, but on the way he lost was greeted with loud cheering. digestion, ensure bright clear oyes The House and the Senate have returning from banishment was pre- the key. He thereupon engaged Ulte A resolution calling on the and pure breath. Obtainable at all vial of Pinkettes, ind

this accused was first defendant to make a duplicate Government to carry out a con-chemists. Get a CITI, accepted the conference report on

sentenced to Disputes Bill, labour, tho Industrial

eight months hard key, and as they were both trying structive policy of peace and uni- the champion beauty ald, to-day. the Bentences to be the key in the lock, it stuck. In trying versal disarmament was carried thereby comploting Congressional consecutive. It was sinted that nt to extract it, they male a disturbance, with one dissentiont, against whom (PINKETTES action. The Bill now goes to 0.30 this morning, defendant passed which attracted the attention of President Roosevelt for eignature. complainant's shop and snatched the attendants in the Post Office, who there were shouts of "Throw him

basket from an alcove.

out!"--Reuter,

--Router.

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