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LONDON
SILVER 'RISING
INDIA BUYING ON WAR FEAR
MARKET ALL ONE WAY
London, Mar. 3.
This afternoon's sharp rise in London silver is attributed to large buying by Indians who interpret the recent rises of war risk Insurance, applied by Lloyds to Mediterranean shipping, as indicating the greater
conflict armed possibility of Europe.
In
THURSDAY,
MARCH
4.
1937.
ECONOMIC TELLS OF
LEAGUE MEETING
SEEK TO LIMIT TARIFFS
SMALL NATIONS. IN COMPACT
The Hague, March 3. An economic league of small nations has opened a conference here, which will last for several days, and which aims at laying the foundations of economic appeasement.
FIRE FRAUDS
CONVICT RECALLS PART IN SWINDLE
LARGE SUMS INVOLVED
London, Mar. 3. Leopold Harris, who is undergoing his connection with a series of fires in London, was
prison term for brought from Maidstone Gael to-day and gave stariling evidence in actions in the King's Bench Division of the of the High Court arising from fires on the The conference consists signatories of the Oslo Convention premises of the late Mr. Willie Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Clarkson, theatrical costumiers, Finland, Belgium and Luxemburg. A number of Lloyds underwriters These fears are
Dr. H. Colijn, the Dutch Premier, claimed the return of £25,000 pald by not shared
ressed the opened the conference and London brokers, who consider
Wardour Street premisen In 1931. advance of war risk Insurance rates the hope tha: the Great Powers would in connection with fires at Clarkson's merely the result of the presence of support the aims of the conference. Clarkson's administrators denied the dusting mines in the Mediterranean, He said new hope had dawned with allegations made and counter-claimed a number of which have caused the currency agreement between Bri- for £30,000 which the insurers re-
the tain, France and the United States. fused lo following a damate to shipping, including
It is hoped that trade quotas will store in Ramilles Place in 1923. British liner, Llandovery Casile,
be replaced by limited tariffs, and it Harris testified that the Wardour This afternoon's market was all one may be necessary to contemplate a Street fire was due to arson by the of the most-so-called "tray and taper" method. dealings were only new Interpretation way, hence carried
out
the greatest favoured-nation clause, which at pre- He added that after the fire, Clark- dificulty. Many buying orders are sent hinders the removal of trade son and his (Harris') manager look
barriers. Router.
undamaged stil unfulfilled.
stuf aquantity of upstairs to be burned and wetted and thus spollt.
The whole of the damage in that fire, sald Harris, was about £5,000, but the insured received £25,000, of which lie (Harris) got £750 and his manager £100.-Reuter,
with
Brokers point out, however, that the rise, if based on the assumption that the war risk 15 greater, unjustified.--Router.
is
"Dole" Reform
Proposed
HEALTHY STATE OF FUND
London, March 3,
In moving the adoption of a re- solution approving of a draft order dealing with the reduction from six to three days of the benent is paid, waiting period before unemployment and an additional day's lengthening of the period of benet cajoyed by men who have worked regularly dur ing the past five years while drawing relatively little in benefit, the Minis- ter of Labour, Mr. Ernest Brown, in the House of Commons, said the re- ceipts of the fund for 1030 amounted to £85,707,238, being £1,000,000 more than the previous year, despite the fact that from July 7 there had been a reduction of one penny ench from the contributions of employers, workers and the State.
Payments
hand, the other on amounted to £0,045,000 less than in 1933. This was due to an in- crease of employment and a decrease of unemployment. The Advisory Committee reported surplus of £17- 537,470, so that the accumulated balance at the end of the year was nearly £30,000,000, or £8,700,000 more than the Committee had estimated in their previous report.
There was no opposition to the motion, but some Labour criticisi that the concession should, in view of the state of the fund, be more generous. British Wireless.
COLLIERY SCHEME
London, March 3. Negotiations have been carried out resulting in an agreement between the Nuffield Trustees and the Special Areas Reconstruction Association. Limited, for the Whitehaven Colliery, Limited, to be nequired by the Colt- ness Iran Company, which will take over and work the Whitehaven caillery and coking plant.
As the colliery is in a distressed area of Cumberland, employment will be available for a large number of workers at present unemployed. British Wireless.
Canton Leader Coming
ON VISIT TO SIR A. CALDECOTT
His Excellency General Yu Hon- mau, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Fourth Route Army and Pacification Commissioner, Canton, will pay a visit to His Excellency the Governor on Monday, March B, at. o'clock in the forenoon on his way back from Nanking. He will be ro celved at Government House with a Guard of Honour and will be similar- ly received on his visits, later in the morning, to Flagstaff House and H.M.S. Tamar. A salute of 17 guns will be fired on his departure from the ship..
At 1 p.m. a' luncheon party in his honour will be given at Government House, to which, the following guests have been invited-His Excellency General Yu Hon-mou, Madame Yu and Officers of His Excellency's Staff, General Omeer His Excellency the Commanding the Troops and Mrs. Bartholomew, His Honour the Chief the Justice, and Lady MacGregor,
of Hi: Rear-Admiral in charge Majesty's
and
Mrs. Dockyard Sedgwick, the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. the Secretary for Chinese Aftales and Mrs. North, the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., the
TO TOUR BALTIC
Stockholm, Mar. 3. The Foreign Minister, Dr. Sandler, who recently discussed the possibility of extending the Oslo Convention to Switzerland and the Baltic States, proposes shortly to make a tour of the three Baltic capitals-Reuter.
Southampton Takes Place
Of Croydon
London, Mar. 3. Croydon will cease to be au Empire air terminus to-morrow, when all services to and from the Empire will arrive and depart from Imperial Airways'
base at Hythe
new
This move is in pursuance of the polley of operating all Empire services to and from this country entirely by flying-boats instead of air linera
Eight services weekly-two in each direction between England and South Africa, and two in each direction be- tween England, India, the Far East and Australia-are involved in the change.Reuter.
pay
fire in
Destroyers Return
PAID BRIEF CALL
AT MANILA
Beven
ייכני
0
The arrival in Hongkong this morning of
Cloak destroyers from Manila heralded the return of the China Fleet preparatory to the combined operations which begin on March 15. Other units of the fleet will continue to arrive daily throughout the coming week. By Sunday week the number of men-o' war in port will be greater than at any time since the beginning of the winter.
Ships which returned to-day were the Duncan, Duchess, Doring.
Decoy,
Defender and Delight, Diamond. After taking part in the off Singapore last manoeuvres month they paid a visit to Manila. H.MS. Dainty, from Foochew, also arrived this morning.
REORGANISING BRITAIN'S POWER DISTRIBUTION
London, Mar. 3.
A national scheme for the distribution of electricity through- out Great Britain was announced by Mr. Hore-Belishs, Minister of Transport, in the House of Commons to-day.
The proposals are based upon the the lowering and levelling of tariffs, of systems and recommendations of the MacGowan the standardisation
voltages, and the extension of facili Committee for the reorganisation of lies Including suppiles to rural areas, the electricity supply, and will be as well as a reduction in costa. contained in a Bill to be presented at The report also revealed that there a Inter session of the House.
were 027 separate authorities operat- The Committee, which presented Ing 643 electrielty undertakings.- its report last May, recommended Reuter Special,
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