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The

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Hongkong Telegraphi

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the SECURITY and

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DUNLOP FORT '90'

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No. 12

一拜禮 辦二十月八英港香

MONDAY,

AUGUST. 12,

1935.

日四十月七

SINGLE COPY 10 GENTS

$15.00 PER ANNUM

SILVER OUTLOOK BRIGHTER

N.Y. TRADING TO BE RESUMED?

FUTURE TREND HARD TO DETERMINE

⚫ New York, Aug. 11.

From very reliable sources it has been learned here to-day that quiet agitation is under way for the re- storation of silver futures trading in New York.

Many operators have built up sizeable purchases! in anticipation of the eventual resumption of silver trading.

Madame Galli-Curei, the famous soprano, who has just undergone an operation for goltre,

At present the future of silver is said to be rather Three Killed

difficult to determine, but at the same time the realisa- tion among competent observers, that purchases of an- other billion ounces is necessary, is causing silver traders and speculators to look for the resumption of buying to force the silver price to $1.29 per ounce.- United Press.

BOMBAY REVIEW

Bombay, Aug. 10.

Messrs. Merwańjee and Sons, in their silver review for the week!

ending yesterday, write:

Earlier in the week, the stationary trend which was mani- fested, the previous week tinued. With bull

con-

operators losing patience, the price suffered n set-back in the middle of the week on some liquidation.

Although towards the close there has been a partial recovery. the Bazaar is becoming acutely conscious of a burden of heavy stocks with the approach settlement day.

BRITISH RUNNERS

IN FORM

FINE SHOWING IN GERMANY

ROBERTS' RECORD

Munich, Aug. 11. In an athletic meet in which Ger- of many and Britain contended, the German contingent piled up 75 points against the visitors' 61 after several days of stiring competition. The British athletes, however, were brilliant on the track.

has

The up-country, demand averaged about 10 bars of silver a day. A surplus of about 39,500

bars is now expected after August 19 settlement.

There is no silver afloat from London to Bombay at this week- end. The incoming mall steamer I not bringing any silver from London to Bombay.-Reuter.

NEW YORK PRICE

New York, Aug. 10. Messrs. Hundy and Harmon's quota- tion for silver here to-day continued unchanged at 67% pents per ounce. -United Prens.

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By Village

READY TO CEDE PART OF OGADEN

ABYSSINIA POLICY DECLARED

COMPENSATION REQUIRED

Paria, August 11. Indication that Ethiopla might

be willing to cede territory to Italy in return for a loan and a senport, was given by the Emperor of Abyasinin to the Havas Agency correspondent at Addis Ababa. it was learned here to-day.

The Emperor is alloged to have said that the Government had al- ways wanted to obtain a loan to develop the country and speed up the work of civilisation. The possession of a port, of course, would

contribute materially to the national economic develop-

Blacksmithment.

BANBURY MAN THEN SHOOTS SELF

UNEXPLAINED TRAGEDY

Mpecial to "Telegraph")

fly Teleprank. Copyright. Telegraphic Mam tager Ordinanet, is. Received) August 12, 130 k.m.)

London. Aug. 11.

A village blacksmith, named Wil- fred Gibbs, of Shutford, near Banbury, was the central figure in a quadruple tragedy which occurr ed last night.

the

- For reasons which are at moment undisclosed, Gibbs fired a kun. at his wife as she alighted from a bus, wounding her and others. Then he himself three committed suicide with the same weapon,

Gibbs The victims, apart from

the latter's and his wife, were sister, aged 21 years. and two

men.

The outstanding performance of

The injured people were re- the meet was given by Roberts, the moved to hospital, where the wife. Northern runner, who won the 400 | her sister and one of the two men metres in the excellent time of 47.7 later succumbed to their injuries.

breaking the German Reuter Special. seconds, record,

Other British winnera were Stothard, in the 800 metres, with a time of 1 minute 54.4 seconds, Findlay, in the 110 metres hurdles, with a time of 14.4 seconds.

"

The 200 metres was a dead heat, Sweeney and Rangeley doing the distance In 21.9 seconds. Both are British.

The relay event was won by

German won only three track events, but won five events in the field. Britain won five track vic- torica.-Reuter

S'HAI EXCHANGE Britain also.

MARKET

LESS

NERVOUSNESS APPARENT

Shanghai, Aug. 12.

The foreign exchange market is quite stendy here this morning with loss nervousness apparent and the usual week-end rumours lacking. The general opinion is that the steadiness will continue for some timo

arrival the pending

of the Leith-Ross Mission..

Exchange rates at 9.15 a.m. were: U.S. dollara 37, Sterling 1/5.7/8. Gold Bars $908.20.-United Press. |

DOLLAR REMAINS

UNCHANGED

MARKET SLIGHTLY

EASIER

BN-

AMERICAN REVENUE

SCIENCE OPPOSED TO WAR

"UNSPEAKABLY DIRTY" METHOD

CONGRESS AT LENINGRAD

Leningrad, Aug. 10. Hundreds of delegates from thirty-seven countries, including the United States and China, wit- nessed the opening of the Interna-

INCREASE tional Science Congress here to-

$405,000,000 IN 28

DAYS

BUT $825,000,000 SPENT

day. The leader of the Chinese delegation, Professor Nim, said that Soviet psychology was widely known in China, and the Chinese Pyschological Society had hod several exchanges of scientific ex- periences with Soviet seientists.

Professor Pavlov, the chief mem- ber of the Soviet delegation of 500, stressed the stimulating influence of science on the younger genera- tion.

If these two aspirations are realised, the Emperor saw no reason for objection to the cession to Italy of a part of the province of Ogaden.

"Against such advantages we can in principle envisage the cossion of a portion of territory," the Emperor is quoted as saying, "but numerous importailt detalls need discusion."--Reuter.

NOT "ACCEPTABLE?

President Lebrun, of France, who has made a supreme appeal to the people to cease internal strife.

Rumours Of

Siam Crisis

Discounted

EX-KING KNOWS

NOTHING

ALL. QUIET IN BANGKOK

London, Aug. 11.

Rumours of trouble in Slam.

following the reported arrest of 15 non-commissioned officers for allegedly apreading subversive propaganda in the ranks, have proved erroneus.

Bangkok despatches state that the situation is entirely peaceful, Rome. Aug. 12. . | while Imperial Altways passen- Ingers arriving at Singapore from the Siamese capital also report nothing untoward happening.

former Secretary of the King of Slam, Interviewed by Reuter at the ex-ruler's residence

stated in Surrey.

that the ex- King had not been' in touch with Slum or Siamese affairs directly since he abdicated.

On authoritative comment Available on the offer of the Emperor of Abyssinia, cabled from Paris, but it is unlikely that Italy The will entartain any such offer.— Router.

January

Election

In Britain

BALDWIN OPPOSES. AUTUMN FIGHT

Jagua

MOBILISING FORCES

(Special to "Telegraph")

(ly Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphic Mee

Ordinanes,

August 119. Received, IR. 8.30 6.M.)

London, Aug. 11.

The

Election General

In Britain is now expected to take place in January,

Although a number of the Gov- ernment's aupporters strongly { favour an election being held in the autumn, Renier learns that Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, hus virtually decided against an appeal to the country before early in the New Year.

con-

Mr. Baldwin had a long sultation with his political ad- viacra before he went on holiday to

advisers Aix-les-Bains, The put the case against an autumn election, and according to present indications, the election will be held in January.

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As far as any question of his return to the throne was concern- ed, any move in that direction must come from the Siamese people. The ex-King would not take the initiative in necking to bridge the differences between him and his political opponenta which might, lead to his restora- tion.

As

TOULON MOURNS ITS DEAD

STRUGGLE AGAINST DECREE LAWS

PRESIDENT APPEALS FOR HARMONY

Paris, Aug. 11.

Silence, save for the echoing tramp of the feet of 20,000 persons who marched behind the biers, accom- panied the funeral of the two civilian victims of the Toulon rioting to-day. The two hearses were draped in flaming red.

...

Solemnly the great throng marched through the narrow streets from the waterfront, along the cobbled thoroughfares where, a few hours ago, men were fighting desperately. Wrecked store-fronts, smashed windows, uptorn cobble stones remained to remind the marchers of the bloody days which followed the strike of arsenal and naval dockyard workers in protest against the wage cuts decreed by the Government in France's financial crisis.

There were no demonstrations. Not a single policeman was to be seen along the route of the pro- cession. Not a gendarme showed himself-although it is known that the authorities took extraordinary pre- cautions. But there were vigilant eyes in many windows.

HOOVER'S CHALLENGE

TO BATTLE

POWERFUL ATTACK ON ROOSEVELT

LIBERTY'S SUICIDE

Chiengo. Aug. 11.

In a speech which is regarded both by Republicans and De far as they know in the moernts as a prelude to a bid for ex-King's household it was in a second term of office as President correct to say that The Siamese Minister of the Interior, Mr. of the United States, the former Luangpradit, who left Bangkok | President Herbert Hoover, Re- yesterday for London, might come publican leader, declared to-

to see the former ruler.-Router.

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REVISED WEALTH

TAX BILL

SENATE DOUBLING POTENTIAL YIELD

EXEMPTIONS LOWER

(Special to "Telegraph")

Washington, August 11.

The Senate Finance Committee drastically re-writing the Wealth Tax Bill.

the The marchers packed cemetery in the northern suburb of the city and Labour and Com

the munist speakers addressed great crowd They condemned the rioting while urging the workers to continue their struggle against the decree laws.

SUPREME Appeal Meanwhile, M, Lebrun, the veteran President of Frunce, speak- ing at the unvelling of a War memorial at Metz, made a supreme appeal to the nation for the cessa- tion of strife..

They had had enough of clenched fists, he asserted. Black looks and words of hate were unavailing. He appealed for a restoration of calm. order and harmony.

The memorial at Metz is unique in France in that it commemorates the dead who fell on both sides in the Great War.-Reuter.

Japan Again "Insulted"

night that the Roosevelt adminis- CONSIDERS PROTEST

TO WASHINGTON

tration had by its attitude towards the Constitution created one of the most momentous issues since the Civil War.

The Government's acts and utterances since the Supreme Court's decision against the legal-

to

SEATTLE EPISODE

Washington, Aug. 11.

No formal protest has yet bean

ity of the N.R.A. have evinced the made to Washington, but the continuous-intent to change the Japanese Consul in Seattle has Constitution directly in order roported on the incident during the Seattle Hunt Club “rag” when authorise a concentration of po the Emperor of Japan was repre- wer, said Mr. Hoover.

sented as pulling a rickshaw In which the Emperor of Ethiopia was riding. This is taken as an Insult to the Japanese ruler.

The time had ceme, he went on, when these purposes should disclosed.

be

The nation, he said, had a right to know what changes in the Con- atitution were proposed.

The Japanese Charge d'Affaires in Washington, meanwhile, has called on the State Department has drawn attention to the Seattle Consul's report.

and

For two years

the primary The question of a formal com. liberties of the people had been trampled on. Mr. Hoover declared.plaint will be decided upon by Ve have witnessed the astound-sador, Mr. Salto, who is at present Tokyo or by the Japanese Ambas- ing passage of a hill to prevent on holiday in Connecticut,-- citizens moving accesa to tho

Reuter.

Meanwhile, there ix much is activity at the heaquarters of the various political parties. The Conservatives

It was only a few days ago that It has oliminated the inheritance courts to right their wrongs," he are ready to put

sald,

Tokyo Ront to Washington, ⠀⠀ 490 candidates in the field, while taxes and Increased the estate taxes. The exemption for single Labour will make desperate

No matter how destructive the through the Embassy, a protest effort to add to its present Parlla-persons has been lowered from Constitutional amendment may be, agalust a cartoon which appeared mentary strength of 68 by putting $1,000 annually to $800 and the it would be better if Liberty in Vanity Fair and which represent persons committed suicide in the open raed the Japanese Emperor pulling forward no fewer than 505 can exemption for married

ther than that it should be a gun carriage on which was a didates. It is also rumoured that from $2,500 to $2,000.

"Nobel Peace Mr. Lloyd Georgo may come for-

It began surtax poisoned by misdirection at the script Inbelled

Mr. ward with over 300 candidates, schedule at a $3,000 level instead nation's capital,"

Hoover Prize." The cartoon carried the caption: "Unlikely. Historical Reuter Special.

challenged.--Reuter. of the existing level of $4,000.

Situations."

"Scientists, fortunately, are not Washington, August 11.

bound by frontiers," he said. The Department of the Treasury "They are true socialists in the reports that for the first twenty-sense that they are united in the eight days of the present financial common task of adding to man's

collections from various knowledge. year, sources of revenue amounted to "It is a fearful thing to think $405,000,000.

that should war break out in The Hongkong dollar was

This total compares with $195,- Europe we who are assembled here changed at 2. 03ad, this morning. 000,000 for

the corresponding to-day would enter into hostile rela- rates being period in 1932 and with the pre- tions towards the business

each other. We 11/16d. sellers and 25. 1d. buyers.vious high record of $342,000,000 would no longer use our knowledge The market was slightly easier on for the corresponding period in for the good of mankind. We opening, very little business, being 1919.

would turn it to the destruction of || pllat. Apparently the higher collection humanity. were figures

due to In London, silver prices

"I am sure that no ono hero increased

dosires this. War is a beastly unchanged on Saturday. America business generally. bought, while India operated both However, expenditures for the method of solving life's difficultion ays, with - China selling. The first twenty eight days amounted to a method that is unspeakably

$825,000,000.-United Press.

dirty market was quietly steady,

reported.

nre

BLACK RETURNS

Also

the

It has, estimated that the Tax Bili will raise $400,000,000 an- the nually as compared with $200,000,000 estimated by the Bill as presented by the House of Representatives.

CHICAGO WHEAT

Chicago Aug. 10.

Wheat prices opened higher on

This

episode is closed, however,

considered

"VANITY FAIR" BAN ́

Shanghai, Aug. 12.

In deference to a request from

London, Aug. 11. T. Campbell Black, and his co McArthur, arrived at

an accumulation of buying orders the Japanese Consulate General, the Croydon in 12 hours 15 minutos

and slumped later when long Chinese authorities have prohibited Senator Pat Harrisson, Demo-holders attempted to take profits in Chinese book stores in Shanghai from Cairo, where they were forced to turn back owing to crat of Mississippi, said that he a thin nervous market. The mar from selling the August Beue of engine trouble and abandon their hoped that the Bill would reach het closed lower in the absence of Vanity Fair, in which | Croydon-to-the-Cape record at-the floor on Tuesday.United any further support-United caricaturing the Emperor of Japan

tompt.-Rouler.

appears ---Reuter. Press.

Press.

cartoon