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FOUNDED 1831

No. 14791

一拜禮 號十二月正英港香 MONDAY,

JANUARY

20, 1936. 日六廿月二十

SINGLE COZY 10 CENTA $35.00 PER ANNUM

MOTORISTS

WHOSE MOTTO IS

Safety

"First"

ALWAYS FIT

DUNLOP TYRES

GROWING ANXIETY FOR KING

LEAGUE COUNCIL MEETING

THORNY PROBLEMS LIE AHEAD

LAVAL AWAITS EDEN

Genova, fan. 19.

It unlikely that M. Pierre Laval, the French Prime Minister and de- lagate to the League of

Nations

con-

of

Council mooting, will take a spicuous part in the discussions the Council during the next two or three days.

The Council, at least to-ingrrow and the next day, will not be deal ing directly with the Italo-Ethiopian thorny dispute, sanctions or other questions which lie in its path.

the

The principal conversations, how- over, will take place behind scenen. M. Laval is anxious to meet, Mr. Anthony Edon, the British For- represent eign Secretary, who will his Government at the Council meet- Ing. Mr. Eden arrives to-morrow.

Mr. Stanley Bruce, the Australian High Commissioner in London and Australian delegate to the Council, will have his first experience chairman of the Counell, commencing to-morrow--Neuler.

DALADIER SUCCEEDS HERRIOT

LEADING RADICAL

SOCIALISTS

EX-PREMIER OF FRANCE

(Special to "Telegraph")

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Paris, Jan. 19.

been M. Edouard Daladier has elected to succood M. Herriot as Pre- sident of the Radical Socialista.

after M. This stop was taken Herriott insisted that he was not to be considered as a candidate.-outer. Special

M. Dalaler has long been as: Boclated in politica with M. Herriot. He entered the Chamber in 1910 as a Radical Socialist and accompanied M. Herriot on his famous visit 'to Russia to study conditions there. In 1024, M. Herriot made him Colonial Minister in his Cabinet and has since several times held ministerial posts. In 1930, in the midst of a violent public agitation, M. Daladier assumed] the Premiership. In tho Chamber subsequently, he secured three votes of confidence in the Chamber, on a declaration that there would be ruth- Icas punishment for those concerned in the Stavisky affair. Later, How- over, he was forced to resight; al- though he again beld office for

time.

LOCAL DOLLAR

UNCHANGED

MARKET FAIRLY

STEADY

A

un.

The Hongkong dollar changed on opening this morning, the Bank's oficial rate boing 18: 3d.

Inter-bank rates wero 18. 3.5/8d. Kollers and · 18. 3.11/18d. buyers. The market was fairly steady, al- though not much business was pass Ing.

VETERAN PASSES ·

San Antonio, Jan. 19. Major-General John Biddle, rotired, died here to-day llo was one of the most distinguished of the American Army engineer oficer and had served zinos 1881, having been placed on the retired list In 1920-Router.

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Latost bulletins regarding fajesty the King are rather more hopeful, Picture shotes in Majesty receiving an address expressing pratitudo for his restoration to health

after his illness in 1929.

NEW AIR LINKS TO FAR EAST

HONGKONG SERVICE SOON TO START

PLANES NOW ORDERED

Arrangements for the inaugurat'on of a regular air-mail and passenger service between Singapore and long- have now kong, it is understood,

bren completed, and it is expected that Imperial Airways will announce the cemencing' date within a week or

62.

This link will be only one of many planned to bring the "far flung out- posts of the Empire almost to Bri- tain's "front doorstep."

Under plans already laid by Im- perial. Airways for the future, the Empire services are to greatly ex- tended is frequency and speed.

Before very long there will be four) or Ave services a week to India, three) to Singapore, two to Australia-and two to the Cape.

It is proposed that Hongkong will

CHILDREN WAIT AT PALACE GATE

Three Little Girls Sing "God Save The King"

London, Jan. 19. Hundreds walt through- out the day at the gates of Buckingham Palace for bul- letins

His Majesty's health. There has been snow and the weather is bitterly cold.

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Among the crowd near the gates to-day were three little girls. For a long time the people had been silent or talking only in whispers, so that when these three little ones started singing their volces carried clearly, and a reverential hush continued.

They sang "God Save the King."Reuter,

LORD DAWSON FEARS

FOR POWER TO RALLY

ALARM INTENSIFIED AS CRISIS FOR PATIENT RAPIDLY APPROACHES

MONARCH TALKS WITH PRINCE:

MONARCH

QUEEN'S SLEEPLESS VIGIL

(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH”)

(By Telegraph. Copyright Telographic Messages

Ordinance. 1901. Recaived, Jan. 20, 12.05 pan.) SANDRINGHAM, JANUARY 20. Lord Dawson of Penn, one, of the three physicians constantly attending His Majesty the King, has informed a personal friend that he expects King George "to ast throughout Sunday night," but seriously doubts His Majesty's rallying powers. It is believed the King was gradually weakening as he entered the fourth day of his illness. The last bulletin statement said his condition was unchanged, and this is interpreted as meaning that the gradual weakening of the patient's heart con- tinues.

It is learned that His Majesty has taken no solid food for three days. He has been nourished with warm liquids only, Including barley water, arrowroot, lemon juice, milk and beef tea, administered frequently in small quantities in order to conserve his strength.

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Physicians say the most extreme care must be taken against the slightest di- gestive upset in order to avoid any added strain upon the heart.

Two complete sets of screens surround the sick-bed, forming a double wall of protec- tion against draughts.

Her Majesty the Queen has slept for only five hours since Friday and is almost con- stantly at the King's bedside, snatching brief rests in an adjoining room.

WORLD AWAITS "NEWS

EMPIRE PRAYS FOR-KING

SHADOW OVER GENEVA

George continues

London, Jan. 10.

His Majesty conversed with his family briefly on Sunday. He seemed cheerful, say reports from those in the confidence of the Royal Family,

It is understood that the Prince of

Wales rema

In His Majesty's

room after the rest of the family had departed and that he talked with This father alone for a few minules,

The King will preside over to-day"ı emergency inceling of the Privy Counell from his, bed.

ALARM INTENSIFIED.

Alarm has been intensified as the King rapidly approaches the crisia of his suckten illness, The next few hours particularly the early morning hours when human resistance is at lity lowest "ebb-may decide whether His Majesty recovers or starts on a decline.

PROBABLE COUNCIL

OF STATE

PRIVY COUNCIL TO BE ASSEMBLED

WITH KING'S COGNISANCE

This information came from sou?CER close to the Royal Hound.

The last official bulletins saying the The neRs of His Majesty King King had "had some sleep" and the

evoke world-fact that not to

one word is 120ed wide interest and sympathy, while regarding his actual special prayers for his recovery have construed as being most alarning

The Prince of Wales and the Duke been offered in churches throughout three physicians attending the royal of York are in London to-day and although in the early evening the patient all his condition was un-

the British Empire.

Prass.

condition,

are

to-morrow.

London, Jan. 19.

The King of Italy has requested his changed after a quiet day-United will not return to Sandringham untif Ambassador, Signor Grandi, to minkel direct inquiry, and to convey |Italian Royal Household's wishes for

a speedy

His recovery through Majesty's Government.

The Emperor of Japan and thoị Kings of Bulgaria and Belgium have Isent similar messages.

GENEVA CONCERNED The shadow of the King's illness 11, has fallen heavily over Genova where

ba linked with the Singapore-England it is pointed out that the King's in and Singapore-Australia services once terest in the League of Nations has

a week for a start, increased fre always been sincere, and sympathetic. quency being brought into operation

the demand warrants.

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Meanwhile the welcome nows that]

restioas It is the hope of Imperial-Airways although the King had that by the end of next year, all night he maintained his strength, first-class Empire mall will be carried was followed hy more encouraging by air from England to India, Malays, reports that he had had several African Colonies, North and South hours sleep during the day.

Union of Rhodosin, Nyasaland, South Africa, Singapore and Hong-

kong..

BIG FLYING BOATS

Hundreds of people waited in the snow for hours outside Buckingham | Palace-to-read, the statement on Hle Malpaty's condition which was posted at noon. Others waited at the gaten

It

LATEST BULLETIN

Sandringham, Jan, 20.

A bulletin userd at 3 and to-day states that is Majesty's condition continues very grave,

** PASSED ONE CRISIS

this was revealed early morning that His Majesty has already overcome опе crisis, Saturday night, when his at- tendants had almost despaired for him due to the difficulty he was experiencing in breathing, despite repeated administering of oxygen-United Press.

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His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who was called to Sandring hum when his father was taken ill and who hail an hour's conference with the Prime Minister yesterday.

SEEKING

BILLIONS 1. IN IDLE

BULLION

`SHOULD BE PUT TO WORK

THOMAS GIVES ADVICE

(Special to "Teisgraph”)

to

Washington, Jan. 10. Billions of dollars worth of idio gold and silver stocks in the United States Treasury should be put work paying the soldiers' bonus and relieving farm debts, according to Senator Elmer Themas, Dernocrat, of Oklahoma.

the

arguments deacloned motives behind a strong, section of Congress which wants to issue many millions moro currency in an at

Few of Lempt to hasten recovery.

B.S them characterise their plans

OLD PRICE inflationary, but they are so regarded

LEVELS

FARMERS URGING CURRENCY CONTROL

WANT OUTLETS FOR CROPS

by a wide section of opinion.

"The national debt burden to-day is about $250,000,000,000 and the national tax burden about $15,000- 000,000," Mr. Thomas sald. “At the same time wo have in the Treasury about $5,500,000,000 more gold and silver than We have

in money

circulation. That means it is idle,

useless and buried."

"The prices of whent, cotton and other products of the farm are still

below normal, so that a farmor is cents д having to pay off in 95 bushol whent debts which he contract- ed when it was worth $1,50 or $1.75 per bushel. Cotten is solling at around. 12 cents per pound but the farmer has to try and pay doots with that which he contracted when it was worth 20 or 30 cents per pound Naturally it takes more wheat cotton now to repay the loan, than it did when borrowed"

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(Special to "Tolagraph")

Washington, Jan. 19. The hands of the National Grange Farm Bureau Federation, the National Co-operative Council of Farmers and the National Grain Corporation, con-

AID FOR FARMER sequent upon many conferences on the question of agricultural aid, to-day

"President Roosevelt has done made the following recommendations:

something to remedy the farmers Firstly, the establishment of a plight by devaluating the dollar monetary authority to stabilise domes-He brought it down from the costly tic purchasing power through"re unit worth $1.07 as measured in farm pricing gold, regulating the value of goods to one worth only $1.23 at the dollar regulating the issuance present. But we must bring it all and volume of the currency, and such the way back to an "honest dollar other monetary credit powers that worth only $1.00 in goods." Congress sees fit to give," in order to

"The only way to do it is to raise mengamersson · prices. And that means isauo, może

money."

WRECK SURVIVORS

SIGHTED

`Stoamer Unable To` Assist Lifeboat

Shanghai, Jan. 20. Anxiety is felt regarding the fate of 34 persons aboard the steamer Tung-

She feng, out of Amoy. has been missing since January 15.

Off the coast of Fukien a lifeboat, with ten persons aboard, was sighted by an unnamed vessel which was unable to rescue Its occu- pants on account of the heavy seas Reuter,

the basic commodity prices adjust either to the 1920 or 1929 level;

Secondly, to extend the Commodity

Privy Council members will attend la meeting at Sandringham to-mOTKOW, They will includo the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham, the Clerk of the Counci, Sir Maurice Hankey, the Loan policy: Lord President of the Council, Mrtrol the machinery of adjustment in Thirdly to permit farmers to con- Ramsay MacDonald, 'Lord Wigram supply and demand;

Fourthly, the expansion of foreign and Lord Dawson, the Archbishop of

outlets for domestic, agricultura. Canterbury, the Prince of Wales, the United Press. Duke of York and the Duke of Kent.

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SUBSTITUTE NEEDED.

Sonator Thomus contended that the United States programme of buying silver in the world market and storing It in the Treasury was "useless un- less the Government issued money for eirculation on the basis of the silver. Senator Thomas himself was the sponsor of the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 which caused the United States to start buying the white metal.

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"The Government has missed the iden entirely," he said, "as long as [it keeps on storing unused silver. My plan was to get the price of silver up that the silver in a dollar was really worth a dollar and it would have genuine monetary value. The plan was to get money into circulation. Sat all the Treasury has done is to buy metal and hourd it. They might as well hoard aluminium or kine." United Pross.

NEW YORK MARKET

LOWER IN ALL SECTIONS

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སྶ པ ས ཝིཡམསྶ ཨུ ཏི ཨི ཨ ཨི

New York, Jan. 18. The New York Stock Exchange was lower in all sections today. Tradors took to the sidelinos awaiting Mon- day's sitting of the Supreme Court when the decision on the constitu The probable Councillors of State

Washington, Jan. 10. tionality of the Tennessee Valley Ad includo Her Blajosty the Quaờn, tha

The Secretary of the United States ministration may possibly be made.

Most of the leaders were dull and Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, Treasury, Mr Henry Morgenthau,

|to-day said that a substitute for the showed fractiomi declines, 4 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr. Agricultural Adjustment Administra Bonds and issues on the Curb Ex- Baldwin, and the Lord Chancellor. tion legislation would be necessary by change

Irregularly lower. February 15, or it cannot be effectivo United Prens. the Council has been,unnioned before the planting season United - The Prince of Wales to-day had a with the King's cognisance and the Prass, Great flying boats and land planes of the Sandringham grounds, second-lengthy interview with the Prime members will be empowered to sign for these widely extended and iming to Reuter's special correspondent Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, at No. proved services have already been and a continuous pilgrimage of 10 Downing Street, The Frined and all state documents on behalf of His ordered by Imperial Airways, motorista, cyclista and pedestrions the Premier, were clogotod. for fifty Majesty.

In addition to those Empire services, continued to file past the King's resi- minutes. Imperial Airways anticipato that adence throughout the day.

Hundreds of telegrams of sympathy While this in itrolf, caused the between rans-Atlantic link Motherland and Canada will bo pro- Meanwhile, the Prince of Wales and public some concem, it was realised and inquiry bavo been roceived at the Duke of York have loft Bandring that the conversation was a necessary Sandringham to-day and Her Majesty vided before the end of 1997.

The Bonnte. then went into recess Franco may place It will then be possible for a Hong-ham for London. They went this machanical move and some reassuran is sending hundreds away. in reply kong passerror to journey around morning, but will return to night, it ce was taken front, the fact that the Reuter.

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WHEAT MARKET

AMENDMENT DEFEATED' · Washington, Jan, 18. By a vote of 64 to 27 the Senate to-day defeated the amendment to the

Chicago, Jan. 18, Bonus Bill made by Senator Elmer The wheat market was steady and Thomas of Oklahoma. providing for listless to-day. Traders ignored the payment of the Veterans Bonus by improvement in the Liverpool market currency expansion.

and also ignorod the rumours that on embargo' on until Monlay without passing the whoat exports due to anticipation of Bonus Bill. United Prais.

| a domestic shortago United. Press.