1936-05-13 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY ́ 13, · 1935,

Secret Gold Insure Against

Britain

Building Up

130

Millions

To

NEST-EGG

HAUPTMANN'S LAST VISITOR

The Rev. John Matthieson, spiritual adviser of Bruno Haupt- mant, surrounded by newspapermen after he had visited the con demned man a few hours before he has executed for the mitrder of the Lindbergh baby. He was the lant nian to see Hauptmann privately before the excution.

EXTRADITED AFTER 14-YEAR HUNT

Southampton, May 1.

AMERICAN detective George McGee, after a fourteen- year hunt, "got his man" early to-day, and sailed off. with him in the United States liner Manhattan.

The man was

alfa

Sam Brickner-:

1922 Jacob linger. In

Detective McGee

arrested him,

with two other men. in America

on charge of swindling a furrier

out of £600.

Brickner "jumped" his bail,

Dionnes Are To

fled the country. is angerprints Be Filmed

were sent all over the world.

Thirteen years passed...

In 1935, Brickner as Jacob Klinger, was jailed in England for shoplifting. McGee applied for extradition, granted at Bow-struct on March 13 last, sailed for Eng- -fand with a colleague.

SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S "GHOST" DEAD

"Where Are My Children?" To Be Title of Universal Picture

disclose

FOR

INDUSTRY

ASTUTE MOVE GUARDS

OUR CREDITS

THE Bank of England is building up a huge secret gold reserve which has already reached £130,000,000, and which will provido Britain with a gilt-edged insurance against the repetition of a crisis such as that of 1931.

The "insurance cover" is even fuller than that. No matter whether France goes off gold, or Germany crashes, or whatever international difficulties arise, Britain will not be affected.

The Bank's gold reserve insures the country against

almost any crisis, national Story of Attempt

or international.

During the past fortnight the Bank has bought £500,000 worth of gold bars in the open market. These have been stored away in its vaults.

This week it is expected that

another £1,000,000 worth or more will be bought. This policy will be continued indefinitely.

To Put

Child in Oven

HOW ut man attempted to puti

his six-year-old daughter in described at a gas oven, was Wealdstone Juvenile Court last month.

The police brought the girl before the court as being in need of care and protection.

Reserves: Crisis

NEW U. S. WARSHIPS MAY SURPRISE WORLD

DEFENCE AGAINST

AIR ATTACK

Washington, May 10. Now and radical naval designs, particularly in the field of de- fence against air attacks, may give the world some distinct sur- prises when the United States builds the two battleships now in contemplation.

Profiting by 13 years of intense study since the United States complet ed Its Inst capital ship. the West Virginia, in 1924, American naval de- signers have blue-prints incorporating sped, submarine defence, and anti- aircraft guns far superior to anything now aflont under the American flag.

re-

Naval ofcors naturally aro fuctant to discuss technieni retails of the new ships in too concrete terms, particularly the aircraft defences. It is known, however, that

FOR A RAINY DAY

the navy These purchases are being made.

ordnance bureau has been working for so that the volume of money in

same years on napid-fire anti- circulation can be expanded, in

A police officer said the parents had aircraft gan which will train itself suring that adequate money and been married for eight years. About automatically on An approaching credit will be available for finine months ago the wife left her target by means of sound waves. janelng the considerable industrial husband taking the child with hor. [expansion expected during the The father fetched her back to live

The two ships being planned are to al resale which will bo hace co [ with him.

don Naval It was alleged, said the officer, ono over-age when the firs morning he took the child downstairs Treaty expires at the end of this year. and attempted to put her in the gas They have not yet been authorised but oven. This attempt was frustrated Admirai William H. Sandles, chief of by other people in the house who dis-anval operations, is hopeful that Con covered the place full of gas. Shortlygress will not only authorize them but after that the child was again taken provide $10,000,000 to lay their keels away by her mother but the father before the end of the present session. once more took possession of the child.

venr,

But there is something more'in the purchases than this,

The Bank is building up without saying anything abotit it in public. a huge hidden reserve which will be available as a nest-egg for a day when it may he needed.

This is how the reserve come about:

ASTUTE BANK

On that evening another incident line

was reported to the police, with the result that officers took charge of the elia.

32,000 TONS

Under the terms of the recent Lon.

don Naval Treaty the two vessels

must be limited to 35,000 tons. Naval oflicors expect that they will be nearer

The Chairman, Mr. .. E. Figgis, All the go the Bank buys said the court had come to the con- that maximum than any of the ships and it has bought £65,000,000 elusion that it was not in the interests now afloat. The largest battleshijs worth since Britain went off the of the child that she should be with now in the navy are the New Mexico

in its either parent. She would be placed and Idaho, each 39,400 tons. Gold Standard--it enters

books at the old standard price of in a suitable home. [84s. 10%. on ounce.

But actually gold is to-day worth 140s. 6d, an ounce in the market.

Thus, while the Bank shows in its returns that it has just over £200,000,000 worth of gold in the vaults, that gold is actually worth £330,000,000.

SCIENTIST

moment's

Australian `Blacks Nurse Government Commis

sioner Until Well

MEMORIAL 20,000 PIGEONS

=

Speed also will be increased. The fastest battleship in the navy now is the California, rated at 21.16 knots.

TO The new vessels are expected to have

a spoed of at least 25 knots,

of pigeons, ready to risk their a achoof of thought in the Navy which favours the 14-inch gun oven though lives in carrying out their task, America is at liberty to use the larger

weapon. rising above her head.

The monument also commemorates

FORTS CUT OFF

Pinnt decision on armament must Hollywood, May 4.

await word of whether Japan is will- ing to limit its guns to 14 inches. At Indication that the fight of

on recently the United States, Oliva and Elzire Dionne for com-

Great Britain and France agreed to To-day, in great secrecy, Brick-plete custody of their quintuplet

MEMORIAL to the 20,000 that figure as an upper limit provid ner was handed over to McGee by daughters is to be told in pictures

A Scotland-yard detective..

There is a nest-egy of £130,000,-

carrier pigeons that died d other naval powers-meaning pri- Japan was seen to-day in an announce.

marily Japan-co-operated. ment from the Universal Studio. 000, therefore, ready to be placed during the war was unveiled at did not sige the general agreement.

Charles Rogers, who recently at the disposal of the Government Lille last month.

It is anticipated that if Japan will It is a monument showing not agree, the new American ships assumed control of that studio, or of industry at

sturdy pensant woman, re-probably will have 16-hich armament. said he had signed Mr. and Mrs. notice, merely by making a book- Dionne and their five older keeping entry and revaluing the presenting France, with a cloud Tant, however, is not final. There is Paris, May 1.

children for a screen play titled sold at its current value. SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S "ghost" "Where Are My Children?"

died to-day-Sylviane Man- The picture, Rogers said, will be NATIVES HELP SICK cell, a little girl of 11, whose lined here. He did not voice has replaced that of the when the French-Canadian parents of the quintuplets and their older American child-star in all children would arrive from Callan- Shirley's films shown in France. der, Ont., to go before the cameras

Curiously enough Sylvianeany avenues, to regain custody of The Dionnes, have sought, through with her curly hair and bright the five famous bables, now ap- round eyes, bore a striking re-proaching their second birthdays. semblance to Shirley Temple-Oliva revealed last Sunday that he whose lines she had so often had petitioned King Edward in the

matter a CPH

month ago. translated into French without

The quintuplets, wards having seen her in real life. King and watched over by an official But letters had passed he board of guardians; are at present tween the two children. One of making an international hit on the They are appearing in The the last Sylviane received from screen. Shirley, naked her to "cheer up,

Country Doctor."

To Keep Control because you will soon be better,'

Toronto, Apr. 25. Now Sylviane 'has succumbed to Oliva Dionne's letter to King a lingering illness,

Edward VII asking that custody of The exchange of 'Shirley Temple's his quintuplets be restored to him voice for a French girl's is done by has returned to Ontario. It was re- Once Dr. Thompson nearly lost his substituting a different sound-tracks, ceived to-day from Oltawn by Hen. life and was fed by natives when he which synchronises with the action of 11. C. Nixon, Provincial Secretary, lay fever-stricken in their camp. the film so that it appears as If who passed it on to Welfare Minister Provious to reaching it he had had Shirley herself is speaking.

Croll.

to wilk inlay miles over rough coun The letter was received by by wills a sprained ankle. STILL SPEAKING

Majesty and handed over by him to "I limped toward Arnhem Bay," he Ever since she was seven Sylvaine be returned to Canada, The Gov-said, "to find the way barred by had been employed by leading French ernor-General, who received it, turn-big, muddy, fast-moving estuary. Silm companies to supply the "ghost"jed it over to the Secretary of State, sank to my thighs' in mud and swam voice for many well-known American who, in turn, forwarded it to Mr. ncrows with my swag on a log raft - stara,

Nixon.

2

Di the

Omcers of this school argue that I civilians of the occupied, regions who were shot by the enemy for there is little difference in the range having concealed carrier pigeons,

of the two guns, the larger being ad- vantageous primarily because of its Ол superior power of penetration. During the ceremony (saya Reuter) the other hand, a ship either may 15. pigeons were released with mes-mount more of the smaller weapons sages for Verdun, where the pigeons or, as gun for gun they weigh less, played a great part in August, 1010, more tommage may be used for en "It was the toughest, hardest time when the French forts were practic-gines and boilers, thus increasing the 'yo ever had, I am dead tired, but ally cut off by the German bombard- ship's speed-United Press. I've done the job I sot myself," said

One pigeon was awarded the Croix! Dr. Thompson, who is special com- missioner appointed by the Govern de Guerre. Flying from Fort Vaux,

it was badly wounded while carrying) ment to survey aboriginal tribes in one of the focal polnis of the battle, the disturbed areas of Caledon and an important message. Blue Mud Bays.

Dr. Thompson's conclusion is that the area is safe for white men. He had made a pact with Wongor, a powerful chief, to maintain pence.

SPRAINED ANKLE

ment.

It flew on, delivered the message, and then fell, utterly exhausted, Picked up and cared for, it lived to receive its decoration.

MONEY GOES BEGGING

Then I fell on a stick which pierced In Bank That Started With Though she lea dead now her válce Mr. Croll, it is expected, will an- my eye and nearly blinded me. In many cinemas. throughout Franceswer the letter, explaining that the I was almost done, but the natives.

No Capital

Is speaking to tens of thousands of King, who has the Ove babies as his fed me on roots and sugar-bag honey film fans In Shirley Temple's wards, is determined to keep control until I could move-Australian Press FOURTEEN thousand pounds "Daughter of the Rebels”

Bureau

Lof them for the present at least,

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ENSURES PEACEFUL SLEEP

are literally going begging in Australia,

They are divided among nearly 2,000 unclaimed deposits in the Corn- been monwealth Bank which has tying to establish the rightful owners, says Austral News,

The largest unclaimed sum is £638, and others are for £148. 50, and £310 down to a few pounds.

Incidentally, the bank (wolf is one of the most remarkable in existence. It bogan, in 1012, with no capital, hut it received a government loan of £10,000. To-day, it has the manage- ment of more than $315,000,000 of Fedofal and State loans, and fune- tlona as a reserve bank as well as, tó an extent, a trading bank. It now has made an aggregate prost of more than $10,000,000 a year,

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