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10 7 1927 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MONDAY XOYEMBER OBITUARY ARTS THEATRE A QUIET FIFTH" MOSUL OILFIELDS EX-CLOWN'S SUICIDE FOREIGNERS STOPPED IN THE STREETS OF PEKING craaseci coai of production increased prees and nireased cost of living The is to negative tn large measure the benefits that might be expected to accrue from the process of rationalise ton which German business and industry have succeeded carrying cut since the stabilisation the currency Tne tendency toward higher prees already exists partly as a result of the nigh customs duties on imports of many staple products and it would be greatly stimulated if as now seems probable tne Government salary proposals should lead on the one hand to de minds for similar increase in general business and industry and on the ether to increased railroad tariffs and the like Manifestly all these development tend to raise the costs of produc tibn and thus to diminish the capacity of the German economy to compete for export CONCLUDING ADMON ITIONS have attempted to bring together in the foie goag page tne accumuii rig evidences of oe spending and over-borrowing on the part of the German public authorities and some of the indications of art fi ai st mutation and over-expan son that are already manifest ng theinsese These tendencies it allowed to contnue unchecked are almost certain on the one hand to lead to severe economic reaction and depression and are ikelv on the other to encourage tne impression that Germany is not acting wtn due regard to her reparation obligations Internally it is evident that an economic eriss would have most discouraging conse queaces for the German people and that it would mean a serious set-back to the reconstruction of tier man economic life It is now nearly four years since the first stab ii sat ion of the currency and over three years since the adoption of the Experts' Plan Dunrg th period Germany has made remarkable progress She has reestablished her credit at home and abroad her industries have been reorganised and her productive capacity largely restored her supplies of raw-materials and to some extent her working captal have been replenished and the general standard of livng has greatly improved This has been achieved pnmariy through the industry and energy of the German people but the people of other countries have also co-operated by making their sav ngs available liberal measure for the rebuilding of the German economy It would be deplorable if what has been accomplished should bow he mperilled by short-sighted and unsound internal policies From the standpoint of the Experts' Plan it is only natural as I have said for the creditors of Germany to feel that reasonable prudence iu the management of the public finance is a recessary element of good-will and it would not be surprsng if outside observers should draw the conclusion that the financial policies followed in the past year have not been in the interest of Germany's reparat obligations under the Plan The payment of the stipulated annuities to the Agent General for Reparation Payments at the Keichsbank constitutes it true the definitive act of the German Government in meeting its financial obligations under the Plan and the payment of these sums is amply secured by th ass gned revenues aid other specific securities But the responsibilities of the German Government do Dot end with the internal payments GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSIBILITY 1 he Experts' Plan though it put the transfer of reparation pavnients in the hands of the Transfer Committee recognised clearly that the problem of transfer would depend in large measure upon conditions outside the control of the Committee It placed a very definite responsibility upon the German Government by provid ng that The German Government and tbe Bank shall undertake to facilitate in every reasonable way within their power the work of the Committee in making transfers of funds including such steps as will aid in the control of foreign The Experts also emphasised in the strongest possible language the dependence of the stablitv of the German exchange upon Germany's balance of payments and in the long run upon the course of Germau imports and exports To the extent that German exports are hindered by obstacles interposed from without other countries must bear the responsibility but upon tbe German Government itself must rest tbe responsibility for actions of its own which tend artificially by over-stimulating imports and hindering exports to restrict the possibilities of transfer All these considerations 1 am endeavouring to point out in good season in the hope that their importance will commend them to the attention of the German Government and that in the interest of the German economy itself as well as of the discharge of Germany's international obligations the German Government will take prompt and effective measures to meet the situation Fortunately as stated at the outset the situation has not yet become critical and the German Government still has it within its power if it will act irr time to check the dangers which Dow threaten and to bring the German economy back again to a sound condition PEACEFUL THIEF" By At DREY Lrcs Jennifer Gray Kerr Captain Dick Kossiter Claud Graham Phyllis Hope i Jean Webster Brough Arthur chard Goo den John Enter A Clarke-bmith Martin Grav Harold Scott A Lady Clare Greet Hugh Kirby Patrick Ludiow Sylvia Brandon Kathleen Grace Vivian Daunt Illy Bun James Fenaick James Whale Constable Douglas Jeltenea The Play Produced by Molli Kerr In the three acts of this neat little comedy Miss Lucas sets forth a parable of the results ot being too over -casual Martin Gray loved and married Jennifer and for a time all was well Then like the King in the opera he allowed his attention to wander Among other manifestations of an extravagant and erring he could not let a pretty woman place her face near his own without kissing it Women are not like he said men are Consequently Jennifer also became a little unstable and finally having caught Martin the very act of kissing one Phyllis Hope fled to the flat of Dick Rossiter and challenged Martin to divorce her But the trouble was that Jennifer really care a straw for Rossiter precisely as Martin care a halfpenny for Phyllis while Martin and Jennifer simply worshipped each other still And as Rossi teri s' flat contained a spare room and Rossiter's servants were an exemplary couple Mrs night in the flat had really-been edification itself In the end of course the husband and wife are reunited with the help of an affable policeman and a box of chocolates It is all on the small side of life but tt is so amusingly written and so neatly composed that it carnes" the spectators along most agreeably There is a scene at the end of the middle act in which an ineffable critic seeking to please Jennifer by punishing Martin only succeeds in throwing the young wife back into her husband arms which is as amusing as it is adroit Indeed it is so good that the mflder processes of the third act suffer a little by comparison But Miss Lucas has done a highly creditable piece of work and de served the ovation which attended her appearance at the close of the evening The play was also capitally acted notablv by Mr Harold Scott as the husband Miss Molly Kerr as the wife and Mr Claud Graham who at short notice impersonated Rossiter and gave an impression of sincerity to the part which was of great help to the plav The minor parts were also in good hands and the whole production reflected credit on all concerned CONCERTS AND CINEMAS PUBLICITY THE SECRET OF SUCCESS Mr Maurice Elvev opening a debate at a meeting of the OP Club at the Hotel Cecil last night on The fundamental similarity of entertainments with particular regard to the reason why concert receipts are falling whilst cinema re ceipts are said It is no crime that because the cinema provides comfort and warmth people avail themselves of those things and the cinema is a success It is a crime that you cannot get comfort if you want to hear Mr James Glover said The reason why the concert business is going down is that the people in it do not know their business The cinema business is the best advertised and best managed species of entertainment in this country If we had the same zeal and enterprise in concerts and opera they would succeed Sir Edward Elgar is to conduct Land of Hope and Glory at a West-end cinema You should see the portrait of him and road what the advertisements say about him If he was going to conduct the Dream of Gerontius at the Queen's Hall they would not tell anybody about it In fact they would take great pains for fear anyone should know anything about it I do not see any hope for concerts in this country The people who run them will not advertise their wares and until they do advertise they will never compete with the cinema or with any form of entertainment whose organisers do their business in the right MAY FAIR HOTEL CONCERT There is much to be said both from the point of view of the artist and that of the audience for the Sunday musical evenings now being given at the May Fair Hotel The audience dines first in the gastronomic luxury that a first-class restaurant affords and then at ten ad journs to the ball-room where listens to music made by a master-musician Backhaus was the artist and he chose last night the Italian Concerto to begin with and then without more ado turned to Chopin Backhaus si able to give a silkiness to Chopin and Liszt that is thoroughly in keeping with these masters of the romantic' school and with the May Fair Hotel And we emerge into Berkelev-street thinking that we have never heard him to greater advantage and sure that we have passed a thoroughly pleasant evening Dr Hogarth Anhmoleas Mcsecr Dr David George Hogarth Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum since 1909 and a -guished explorer and archaeologist died a Oxford on Saturday night Born a- Bar Humber on May 2o ioo2 he was tbe eldest of the Rev George Hogarth the vicar and educated at Winchester and Magdalen Oxford He was appointed Craven leloa 1886 and in the same year he became a tutor -f Magdalen After givng up that tutorsb became in 1897 of the Bi tish at Athens and from that base he explored A Minor and Syria and conducted expi-dit Cyprus Egjpt Syria and Greece for the Museum While Dr Hogarth was tutor Magdalen Colonel Lawrence was an under graduate there and had already lived tr -desert as an Arab and had been robbed and i for dead there In later years Lawrence up Dr excavation work at a- Jr nnsh which had been interrupted by the Tu: war The two were to meet again when dur rg the war Dr Hogarth bv that time a Comma in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve who served on the Intelligence Staff in Egypt becaBie Director of the Arab Bureau Cairo Me: to all of us was wrote Lawrence wards our father confessor and adviser brought us the parallels and lessons of hi-'crc and moderation and courage To the outsiders he was peacemaker (I was all claws and teeth and had a devil) and made ns favoured a listened to for his weighty judgment He would present clearly to us the forces hidden behind the rags and festering skins which knew as The late Miss Gertrude Bell was another who paid tribute to Dr Hoga th work and inspiration Dr Hogarth was a statutory commissi -r under the Oxford and Cambridge Universj Act a Fellow of the British Academy and nf the Society of Antiquaries and in 1917 the cipient of the gold medal of the R- al Geographical Soeietv His decorations incluii-1 the Order of the Nile third class and the Orner of Nahda (Hejaz) second class and in 1918 he was created a CMG He was Sohwvich las turer in 1924 and also served as vice-pres den-of the Hellenic Society His books included Modem and Ancient Roads in Eastern Asia A Wandering Scholar in the Tile Penetration of Ionia and the Carchemish Hittite and He became official historian of the Royal Air Force five years ago In 1894 he married Laura daughter of Mr Charles of Barrow Hall His sister is the wife of Dr Courtney Mr Ernest Mayer The death was announced on Saturday bv a Reuter message from Berlin of Mr Ernest Mayer the London theatrical producer and dire tor of the International Copyright Bureau Mr Mayer who was 50 years of ag had gone Berlin to visit his wife who was reported to be ill in a nursing home He was knocked doanhv a tramcar recently and died his injuries Though he had spent the greater part of his life in England where he was naturalised Mr Mayor was a German by birth and his intniale knowledge of the needs of the London stage coupled with his long acquaintance with tlie theatres in his native countrv and in Central Europe had made him one of the most successful ageuts for Continental authors during the last two decades He provided West-end theatre with many memorable successes especially in musical comedy Among the pieces he hirouglc to England were The Merry Gip- Love" "The Dollar Pi Girl i the The Count of The Blue Train" The Blue Mazurka" Battbnj Betty" Kat a the Lady of the The Last Tbe Lilac Lilac Time" Pompadour" My Son and Mr Maver was engaged in negotiations for St John a new musical play which is to l-produced at a London theatre Tlie original rights of The a successful Grtnu play which Mr Matheson Lang is preparing produce in London were also neld by him Canadian Judge Tlie Hon Jerentie Decarie chief justice i the Montreal Criminal Court died on Naturda states a Reuter message from Montreal Hi was leaving his house for the court when he collapsed from heart failure Kandauar Veteran Mr Fowler formerly a gunner in the Rival Artillery who took part in Earl famous march from Kabul to Kandahar in tho Afghanistan War iu 1878 80 bos died at Portsmouth There are now two survivors iu Portsmouth of that famous military episode Oldest Workman in Britain Mr John Hughes aged 91 who died at West Bromwich on Saturday had been employed eighty-two years by Messrs George Salter and Co and was said to have been the oldest work man in Britain He rose from an errand boy to general works manager and carried on duties until September last Diamonds 50 Diamoud C40 Diamonds £12 umoods £14 14 and design of the rings priced from as low as £4 4 0 You need not disturb your bank balance Any of these rings can be supplied under System of Monthly Payments A £20 ring for example can be yours for £1 down the balance being payable in nineteen monthly instalments of £1 No interest is charged Full particulars will be forwarded with the special llustrated ring list for which the coupon below should be sent at once You may purchase any of famous watches and chains clocks rings jewellery plate etc under their System of Monthly Payments Fill and post the coupon for free catalogue or call or write stating your requirements and mentioning 7-11-27 EXAMPLE FOLLOWED FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT NEW YORK Sunday Marcelline America's famous little Hippodrome clown lonely forgotten and practically penniless took his life yesterday in his hotel bedroom in New York by firing a bullet into his bram He was found with a revolver clutched in his hand and kneeling as if in prayer before his bed upon which were laid notices testifving to his past successes Behind him spread out upon a worn trunk were Ins favourite costumes There was no word of explanation no line of farewell In the pockets were found a few dollar bills and a pawnticket for a diamond ring Even at the height of his popularity Marcelline off the stage was a retiring quiet serious little man and in recent years when forced to earn a meagre living by occasional appearances at small entertainments he kept more and more to himself Once a fun-maker for millions Marcelline was a victim of the cinema age in which antics of the theatrical clown are not in demand He and his partner retired from the stage fifteen years ago and shortlv afterwards Silvers committed suicide Marcelline opened a restaurant in New York which soon failed and it is believed he lost most of his fortune in that venture He was born in Spain fiftv-five vears ago and his real name was Marcelline Orbes He came to this country first in 1905 after playing for five years at the London Hippodrome GERMAN MYSTERY HUSBAND ACQUITTED FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BERLIN Sunday Night At the conclusion of the evidence in the case of Herr von Heydebrand und der Lasa who was put on trial at Breslau for the murder of his wife the prosecuting counsel withdrew the charge and defendant was then formally-acquitted Both the medical and the gunnery-experts admitted the possibility that the woman met her death as described by him though nearlv all said that the circumstances were unusual in cases of suicide Herr von Heydebrand's story was that after they had retired to rest his wife wished to discuss money matters but that he refused and turning over on his side went to sleep He awoke just in time to notice her reach out across his bed to the table on the other side of it As he thought she wanted a glass of water which also stood on the table he did not interfere with her but then he heard a shot and found that she had fired a bullet into her head RETIRED OFFICER AND WIFE 0 ALLEGED DESERTION At Marlborough-street on Saturday Cecil Huntley Nicholson of the Junior Naval and Military Club Piccadilly appeared before Mr McKenna to answer a complaint of his wife Florence Martha Nicholson of East Chapel street who summoned him for deserting ner on March 31 last Colonel Meyler for the wife stated that the defendant was a retired Amy officer The couple were married in December 1923 Differences arose and they parted In February be wrote her saying £hall make up and Jcrget a'! the past I miss you and I hope you miiw me This i sincere I have nothing to gam or lose I want you only a tbe pal you used to be wben you fibbed and shot with me Shall we forget all tbe past on both aide If you ttwnk too badly Yours ever Xici After receiving that letter the complainant agreed that they should live together again and they stayed on yacht But differences arose there and they again parted On March 31 last he called on her and said I am going abroad on my yacht and you can do as you like I am not going to keep In April he wrote enclosing an hotel bill showing it was alleged that two people calling themselves Major and Mrs Nicholson had stayed a( an hotel As to means added Colonel Meyler the husband between September 1921 and November 1923 had received cheques to the value of £2873 from his wife income was £1000 a year from the Public Trustee and he also received large sums from some property Mrs Nicholson gave evidence Colonel Meyler i How did you come to leave the yacht? Complainant i One day I had to come up to town on business and when I returned found that some of my dothes were stolen I then discovered my husband had bad a woman on board Witness said sbe did not see the woman She (witness) had lent the defendant roughly between £9 000 and £10000 Defending Counsel i Your conduct has not been very exemplary has it? Complainant No because I have retaliated when my husband has done things against me Is it not a fact that ever 6ince you lived together you have made nothing but trouble nothing but perpetual rows? That is not true Witness added that she wa6 the fourth woman the defendant had married Counsel said that the defendant was most anxious to go into the witness-box to refute the allegations Tne hearing was adjourned sine die THE SHRINE OF EMPIRE To the Editor or Ths Daily There is I venture to think an alternative to tha three schemes regarding Westminster Abbey enumerated by tbe Commissioners which does not seem obnoxious to tbe same criticisms The scheme which I am about to suggest could be made to fulfil the requirements of the proposed Mausoleum with the minimum of damage to the structure of the Abbey Church and without any interference at all with its external appearance It is this To form a crypt under the open space on the north side of the church to be approached by two staircases from the north aisle The surface of the ground would remain in turf as at present the only indication of tbe existence of a subterranean building being such unobtrusive contrivances of sunken masonry as might be necessary for the admission of light A parallel difficulty on a smaller scale was solved in this way by Sir Thomas Jackson in his underground book-store for the Radclyffe Library at Oxford It is hardly necessary to insist that in capable hands a crypt can be made one of the most interesting and mysterous buildings imaginable Yours Ac EDEN FSA FRIB A 2 Bedford-square WC 1 To the Editor of The Daily Sir To put it mildlv is it not a little crude to suggest the extension of Westminster Abbey in order that it may the better become a natonal advertiser? The Abbey was not intended to be a mausoleum In the old days temples were built for the glory of God no the glorification of British men and women YMurs 4c Reading Nov 4 MASON MAN AND WIFE DEAD DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT CAMBERWELL The police were called late on Saturdav night to a house in Dane lie-road Denmark-h: Cam berwell SE and on the floor of a downstairs room they found the body of Dorothy Mary Hiies aged about 30 She was dead and had apparently staggered with wounds in her throat from her bed in an adjoining room Her husband Alexander Hies aged about 30 a bus conductor was found dead on the bed He also had throat wounds The couple had been married about four years They had been visiting relatives during the evening SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL The Obterrer in a note on the announcement last week of handsome contributions to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Fund says Restoration and endowment of the theatre at Stratford-on Avon are now within sight of being secured A munificent donation of £100000 from Mr John Rockefeller Jun has left no doubt of the relatively small balance required being in the hands of the promoters at an early date Very sincere thanks are due to The Daily Telegraph for its initiative this matter and also to the Birmingham Daily Poet which is now engaged in bringing the fund to Mrs Tucker of Skdmore-street Mle-end gave birth to triplets all girls at the East end Mothers' Home Commercial-road on Saturday All four were reported to be going on Mrs Tucker is the wife of a wharf labourer NO UNIYERSTTY RIOTING AN OXFORD DENIAL FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT OxroRD Sunday A denial of a report of undergraduate rioting at Oxford on Saturday night was issued to-day in a statement by the Chief Constable of Oxford with the concurrence of the University authorities The statement as follows The stories of rioting at Oxford on Saturday evening are entirely unfounded The escort of police so far from being unprecedented is usual on these occasions of crowded streets in order to make way for the proctors There was no collision between police and undergraduates and no overturning of cars In spite of it being a Saturday night when tbe Oxford streets are full of citizens and undergraduates the police escort was smaller than on previous occasions There was in fact no organised disturbance or rag of any kind and the City of Oxford authorities found no difficulty in deal ng with the usual crowds in the streets and the lighting of fireworks of the smaller kind which is usual on Guy Fawkes Although a number of undergraduates 11 appear before the authorities to-morrow chiefly for such minor offences as being without academic gowns good temper was maintained on both sides tnroughout the encounters which continued in Ccrnmarket-street until towards midnight A number of cars were stopped and boarded by undergraduates and in one case the driver of a car was made to dismount and the car driven away When a line of police formed across tbe street to stop approaching cars tbe undergraduate driver of one of these accelerated and charged them scattering the police on either side of the road The Oxford police however are well used to such man festatiens of exuberance on Nov 5 and remained good-tempered and indulgent Cambridge had the quietest Guy Fawkes night since the war This was in some measure due to the rain which came on heavily at the conclusion of the college dinners and continued during the evening The police report that only two charges were preferred one for assault and the other for discharging a firework in the highway At eleven the market place usually the scene of a large assembly of undergraduates was deserted MR TOUR INTER-EMPIRE CO-OPERATION FROM OUR OWN C0RRE8P0N0ENT Sydney Sunday The New South Wales Government to-day entertained the Right Hon Amery Minister for the Dominions at a large and representative gathering with Mr Bavin the Premier presiding and Mr Badde-ley the former Minister of Mines and Mr Mostyn Lord Mayor of Sydcev representing the Labour party joining in the enthusiastic welcome Mr Amery developed the theme of inter-Empire oo-operation which has been the keynote of most of his speeches Ip the co-operating in the task of peopling a large yet largely empty he said we are not merely trying to solve our own unemployment problem or shirking our own domestic responsibilities Great unemployment problem is for Great Britain to solve She will do nothing to solve it has no right to attempt to solve bv endeavouring to create an unemployment difficulty in Australia or by endeavouring to thrust from herself her own responsibility and thrust it upon Australia Our conception is that the growth of population which you need is one in which we can help you without loss to ourselves The gain we anticipate is in our belief that your prosperity is our prosperity The growth of population wealth employment and standard of living canDot fail to contribute to Great trade and the security of the whole Empire From that point of view- we wish to co-operate on practical and fruitful lines not ignoring difficulties nor overlooking the complexity of the problem realising that the problem is not merely the handi ng of goods ad thf transfer of the homes lives and fortunes of men and women but the belief that by working together we do something to offer liappness to thousands of individuals help Australia solve some of her most urgent problems and at the same time contribute to the prosperity and strength of the Mother Country By the pooling of resources and building around the individual home market a wider home market we use our eoonomic strength in such a wav that trade returns to us reinvigorated instead of being dissipated in tbe outside FRENCH HONORARY DEGREES TWO BRITISH RECIPIENTS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT Paris Sunday Two British savants were among the seven distinguished foreigners on whom the University of Paris yesterday conferred honorary degrees at the reopening ceremony held at the Sorbonne under the presidency of Herriot The degree of Doctor of Letters was conferred upon Sir Frederic Kenyon of the British Museum in recognition of a' lifetime's devotion to the study of Greex antiquities Brunot Dean of the Faculty of Letters described him as chief of the admiv able school of Hellenists which includes such brilliant names as Grenfeld Smylv and The degree of Doctor of Science was conferred upon Professor Townsend of Oxford Univer sitv who has distinguished himself the field of electrical research and whose contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy were of inestimable value to the Allies during the war Other savants similarly honoured were Pro fessors of Copenhagen: Henri Jean of Liege Jespersen of Copenhagen Naber of Utrecht and James Brown Scott of the University of Columbia DAILY TELEGRAPH' CHOIR At Stationers' Hall on Saturday evening (by kind permission of the Company) The Daily Telegraph Male Voice Choir gave a concert and dance on original and promising lines Started last year under the of Mr Eric A Choat it has developed a group of choralists equal to furnishing a capable choir six members for each of the -ur voice parts and rendering unaccompanied part-songs with good tone The Rhapsody from Biahnts's Choral rendered with Mis nda Seymour in the solo part and an effect ve on he tial accompaniment is an ambitious piece of or ng for a young choir of amateure but it was ven with understanding and spir Coimnmiy choruses violoncello solos by Miss Muriel strer and marionette effect and monologues from Mr Harry Speller lent variety to an exce lent pro gramme Mr Partridge ably assisted as accompanist The audience included Lieut Colonel Lawson and Mrs Lawson (vice-president) the Right Hon Bowernian the Rev Arthur Taylor (vicar of St Bridei Mr Stevens and Mr Caine LONDON'S 0LDFST CAB DRIVER London's oldest horse-cab driver Joseph Rogers who boasted that he had had among his fares King Edward and the late Lord Rothschild was buried at the Jewish Cemeteiv Golders-green yesterday He 99 Old as he was known among frends plied for hire with his growler for sixty vears After retiring from the cab business Mr g-rs became a messenger and when he grew too old for this work he was given a life pension by Lord Rothschild Tne funeral took place from the home in Merchant -road Bow of Mrs Martha Jacobs Mr zers BORSTAL BOY RECAPTURED Arthur James Anderson one of the two boys who escaped last Tuesday from Wormwood Scrubbs Prison where they were undergoing Borstal treatment was recaptured yesterday at Bnxton The other boy Arthur Carrutaers was still at large last night OLD BAILEY TRIALS One of the first official duties of tbe new Lord Mavor Sir Charles Batho will be the opening of tite November Sessons of the Central Crimnal Court on Thursday Theoldsessons will probably continue until to-mor-cw when the Communist libel trial is expected to finish Tne sessions have already lasted for nearly a month So far over forty cases have been committed for trial at the November sittings What was claimed to be the largest guy ever burnt was the centra! figure of a firework display at Beckenham on Saturday night Its construction took four men practically a week to complete and its incineration was witnessed by nearly 2000 persons of whom many arrived in motor-cars Over three tons in weight it was constructed chiefly of wood and was stuffed with a load of straw and a large quantity of pea bough The burning occupied nearly an hour AMERICAN INTERESTS AGREEMENT ANNOUNCED NEW Y'ORK Saturday Following hot upon the heels of the announcement cf an American engineering firm's coup in securing a concession from the Abyssinian Government to construct a dam across the Blue Nile near Lake Tsana comes the news that five leading American oil companies have acquired an important interest in a scheme for the development of the vast oil resources in the Mosul region of Iiak After months of negotiation during which difficulties threatened to prevent the participation of American interests in tbe project the Standard Oil Companv of New Jersey the Standard Oil Company of New York the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company the Atlantic Refining Company and the Gulf Oil Corporation have agreed to cooperate with groups in Great Fritain France and Holland under the direction of the Turkish Petroleum Company in the development of the area in question The final legal details are being arranged Under the agreement reached a 25 per cent interest in the development work is granted respectively to a Dutch group represented by the Royal Dutch Shell interests a British group represented by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and a French group represented by a separate company while a company is to be formed in the near future -o hold a 25 per cent stock interest on behalf of the five American concerns mentioned It is planned in connection with this scheme to construct a pipeline 400 to 500 miles long from Mosul througn Syria to the Mediterranean The negotiations were complicated by differences that recently arose between Sir Henri Deterding and the Standard Oil Company of New York over tbe purchase of Russian oil but these difficulties have apparently now been smoothed out The development rights in the Mosul field were obtained from the Irak Government by the Turkish Petroleum Comoany originally formed bv an Armenian canitalist who now-holds a 5 per cent over-riding royalty interest in whatever oil may be produced This company holds exclusive rights to exploit the oil resources of twentv-four plots of land four square miles in extent during the next five years Reuter MEANING OF NEW MOVE ACTIVE CO-OPERATION FROM OUR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT There is really little that is new in the announcement that a group consisting of five American oil companies is to co-operate to the extent of a 25 per cent share with the British Dutch ana French interests which now constitute the Turkish Petroleum Co in the development jf the Mosul oilfields in Irak It may be recalled that the claim of American interests to such a share in Irak oil developments was conceded to Washington several years back as the outcome of a protracted exchange of Notes between the late Marquis Curzon and Mr Secretary Hughes Actual and active co-operation however between the American and the other foreign interests had been delayed chiefly owing to the difficulties encountered bv the latter in buying out the 5 per cent private share owned by an American millionaire Mr Gul-benkian in order to offer the American companies the requisite peicentage There was also in America considerable scepticism as to the practical value of the Mosul oilfields until the recent discovery of a remarkable gusher near Kirkuk This dis-coverv would appear tc have given impetus to the hitherto latent enterprise of the American companies and to have induced them to participate more actively in future developments than had been originally intended CONVICTED SENTENCE OF DEATH Winnipeg Saturday After an hour's de liberation the jure- found Earle Nelson a United States citizen of many aliases guilty of the murder of Mrs Patterson of Winnipeg which was committed on June 10 under the most revolting circumstances He was sentenced to death and the judge ordered the execution for Jan 30 Since his arrest last June the police of Canada and United States have charged Nelson as the murderer and violator of eighteen or more women and girls in the United States cities ranging from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast A similar charge of murder in the instance rf the 14-year -old girl Lola Cowan of Winnipeg in June last was not tried In sqmming up the case for the jury Justice Dvsart briefly urged them to consider the case upon the facts adduced telling them it was their duty to disregard the plea of insanity brought forward by the defence unless they were satisfied that the accused was irrational at the time of the commission of the crime Earle Nelson heard the verdict impassively In response to the judge's forma! question as to whether the accused had anyth ng to say there came the nonchalant reply No not that I know There was no disturbance of any kind while the sentence was being pronounced in spite of the rowdy scenes that had taken place on previous davs of the trial while hundreds were fighting gain admittance Nelson then returned to the death cell of tbe Winnipeg gaol which he has occupied since June last after eseaDing from the country gaol shortly after Ins first arrest Reuter MYSTERY GIRL MONTH WITHOUT MEMORY A young girl lies in University College Hospital unable to tell who she is or where she came from and the doctors cannot diagnose her condition She collapsed in a tea-shop in Totten-ham-court-road on Oct 7 and has been in the hospital ever since When she entered the tea-shop the only thing that attracted attention to her was the variety of colours in her attire Later waitresses saw her seated at a table in a state of complete collapse She is suffering from some form of collapse and complete loss of memorv Papers in the rl's possession lead the police to believe that hei name may be Marie Laroud There also a suggestion that she may be of Irish descent and brought up in South Africa It is thought that at some time she was a nurse in an hospital or infirmary The police have made inquiries at London hospitals without result and have now circulated a description which states that the girl is aged about 20 5ft in height complexion fair hair and eyes brown round face a-id medium build She wore a navy blue ccat green dress mauve jumper red velour hat flesh-coloured stock ngs and black shoes CITY BROKER CHARGED At the Mansion House on Saturday before the Lord Mayor Sydney Herbert Elliott 38 of ndmill-road Clapham Common nsurance broker was charged with converting to his own use a cheque for £1291 entrusted to him for the payment of one-third part of a premium of insurance on behalf of Messrs A Harvey and Co Ltd Mr Bayiev appeared for the prosecution Detective-inspector Burgess said that on the previous evening he called on the defendant and read the warrant to him He made no reply Subsequent iv he w-as formally charged at Cloak-lane Police-station ajtd again made no reply Defendant was remanded CONTRACTS TUXPEBg tkc To-dar i Traders concern tbe lollreing (Page One): BEXLLY URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL requeet tenders lor the rig'at of Boa-Ung a- by the 23rd Tho An assistant in the shop of Mr Hinds watchmaker and jewjeller Rye-lane Peckham SE on go ng to a case in the window for some jewellery to show to a customer noticed that a pad of diamond rings valued at between £300 and £400 was missing from another case A description of a man who had previously been in the shop but left without making a purchase has been circulated The second of a series of illustrated lectures on Great Personalities in Egyptian History will be given at 830 pm on Wednesday in the meeting room of the Royal Society Burlington House by Mr Glanville whose theme will be Amenophis Tickets may be obtained from tiie Se retary Egvpt Exploration Socirty 13 Tavistock -square WC ILLEGAL TAXES LEYIED From COL St SMALLWOOD PEKING Sunday Tbe local military situation remains unchanged The fall of Choc how although stated to haxe taken place days ago is now declared to be The peace negotiations between Marshal Chang Tso-l and General Yen Hsi-shan appear to have broken down each leader insisting on the elinuna-ton of the other Yen is issuing declarations by wireless from Taiyuanfu claiming successes against tlie Ankuochvn forces who simultaneously announce defeats of the Shansi troops Tientsin yesterday was placarded with what 1 appeared to be official statements to the effect that China intends to take over the Tientsin tramways which are owned by a Belgian company No valuation is made nor is any sug-i gestion of compensation forthcoming Foreigners in the streets of Peking are i now liable to be stopped and requested to show the contents of any packages they may be carrying in case these should contain tobacco or liquors A refusal to comply results in a request to go to the police-station Illegal taxes have been paid in many cases to avoid unpleasantness but incidents resulting from this unwarrantable interference with the freedom of foreigners! are to be expected OUTRAGE AT SHANGHAI BRITISH WOMAN MURDERED SHANGHAI Sunday Mrs Forestier the wife of the assistant resident engineer of the Asiatic Petroleum Company died this afternoon without regaining const lousness Mrs Forestier was found in the kitchen of her bungalow on Wednesday (ireadfuilv injured by blows with a chopper The assailant is quite unknown and no arrest has been made Reuter SHANGHAI DISASTER 1 35 PERSONS KILLED SHANGHAI Saturday A meeting of 500 Chinese women textile workers held at a picture palace in the Chapei quarter of Shanghai this afternoon for the purpose of inaugurating a new Labour union had a disastrous termination the building collapsing as the audience stood up to applaud the election of officers A hundred and thirty-five women and children were killed and some 200 seriously-injured The entire third floor on Which the meeting was being held collapsed and fell on to the second floor which in turn gave wav followed by the walls burying the entire crowd in the debris of brick plaster tiles and splintered timbers As far as is at present known the only man killed was Yen-hsin a local Labour leadei who was present at the gathering Rrnlrr NEW FRENCH LOAN TO REDEEM BOND ISSUE New York Saturday- The French Govern ment has agreed to sell to the Swedish Match Company an issue of $75000000 of forty-year bonds 5 per cent The proceeds of this loan to be issued in dollars will be used to redeem the issue of French Government Eight per Cent bonds on March 13 next The amount of this issue was $74184700 Fifty million dollars of the new bond issue will be purchased by the International Match Corporation an American concern controlled by the Swedish Match Company The International Match Corporation will pro bably make an offering next week of its own rive per Cent Debentures in the neighbourhood of par through a local banking syndicate The remaining $25000000 will be left in the Treasury of the Swedish Match Company Under an agreement which the company made with the French State Match Monopoly three organisations will cooperate in the match industry Renter A Paris Sunday With reference to the report published in New York that the French Government has agreed to sell to the Swedish Match Company an issue of bonds amounting to $75000000 it is stated in well-informed circles that there is no question of the sale or lease of the match monopoly the new agreeement beng purely a conversion operation In 1920 the French Government contracted a loan of $100000000 of twenty -five year bonds at 8 per cent with the American banks Of this loan $70000000 has not yet been redeemed and the present transaction will have the effect of converting it into a loan of $75000000 of fifty-year bond at 5 per cent contracted with the International Match Corporation lan American concern controlled by the Swed sh Match Company) A mere glance at the figures it is added is sufficient to show the economy effected by the transaction Renter GLOZEL MYSTERY INTERNATIONAL INQUIRY FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT Pxris Sunday An international commission of six savants appointed by the International Anthropological Congress of Amsterdam began work yesterday on the little farm at Glozel near Vichy where something like 2000 supposed relics of the Stone Age have been discovered in a small valley known as the Champ dea The first discoveries were made about two vears ago by Fradin son of the owner of the farm and from that time researches were continued with the help of a Vichy arc-hseologist Dr Morlet until recently when the scientific world was plunged into a heated controversy by allegations that the Glozel discoveries were simply a great hoax and that the stone implements carved bones and inscribed tablets bad been deliberately The researches are now being continued under th supervision of two Government experts charged by tbe Ministry of Public Instruction to prepare a detailed report on the Glozel deposit The first work of the International Commission brought to light five objects of poseihle scientific interest Four of them irregularly-shaped stones cannot yet be identified but the fifth a small hone dagger partially fossilised is considered to be a piece of some value The importance of the work now in progress lies in the fact that should the Glozel deposit prove to be genuine it will have shown that pre-nistoric man practised the art of writing STABBED AFTER A DANCE FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT Blackburn Sunday A stabbing affair took place last night after a daiee at Gteat Harwood as the result of which Eleanor Pilkington aged 23 of Sprmg-sireet Rshtoc lost her Mi Pilkington was struck in the neck but her screams attracted little attention at first as fire works were being freely let off She collapsed and died shortly after removal A man who is stated to have known tie young woman is reported to have given himself up connection with the affair BRITISH STEAMER ADRIFT According to a Lloyd's message Yalentia Wireless Station yesterday received the following rent from the British steamer Arrano bound from nil and London for Montreal Ar-iano eighty miles west of Fastnet tail end of shaft broken flush With stern tube outside and propeller gone Wind NNW strong heavy A later report stated Drifting due sooth two miles per hour Weather moderate Northerly gale heavy seas Vessel in do immediate The Ariano is a steel screw steamer of 5155 tone owned by the Gulf Line Ltd Mrs O'Sullivan president of the Shamrock Circle writes from Bellevue House Queenstown CO Cork appealing for coal and clothing to be sent across to the peasantry who are suffering from want and prist ion as a result of tbe failure of the potato crop Magnificent Collection of Jewellery broken up diamonds reset in rings of modern design Diamonds £30 Diamond 123 Diamond £23 Diamonds £27 xo YOURS FOR A SMALL FIRST PAYMENT REPLY PAYMENTS NOT ENDANGERED The German reply to Mr Parker memorandum was handed to the Agent-General for Reparations in Berlin on Saturday It is a long document says Berlin correspondent and goes very thoroughly into the problem of Germany's financial position and prospect Referring to the dangers to which Germany's economic life and the execution of the Dawes scheme are exposed by excess of expend-ture and external borrowings by German authorities tne reply says that the German Government realise these dangers and will do its utmost to counteract them The Government cannot agree with Mr bert that the present condition of iermany's economic life is due mainly to the reasons given by the Agent-GeneraL Tbe Government declares that the aim of its economo policy is to develop all the productive forces of the country in order to improve the standard of living of tbe German peope and at I he same time to enable them to fulfil their Reparations obligations The improvement of the economic situation in Germany since stabilisation of the mark tbe reply states is proof of the reasonable utilisation of the funds produced by tn terms! and foreign loans The extent of Germany's foreign indebtedness causes the German Government no anxiety in view of the value of the securities provided and tbe productive use of tbe money Germany since the stabilisation of the mark has been able considerably to increase her exports but this connection developments in some countries which are Germany's customer cause tbe German Government serious anxiety The openng c1 the markets of tile creditor countries for German goods is extremely important in the view of the Government Germany's total war burdens the statement adds amount this vear to more than 3500000000 marks and absorb more than half the entire ordinary and extraordinary revenue It is therefore clear that no budget could be drawn up with ou: taking into consideration the Reparations obligations Dealing with the bills which are the subject of criticism by the Agent-General the reply says that the salaries of State offic als will be increased without recourse being bad to any increase in taxation or in postal or railway rates It adds that the bill for the indemnification of the German nationals for property lost through the war necessitates the expenditure of 1 000000000 marks which will not be provided one budget but spread over several future bndgets With regaid to the proposed Education Act there will be no expenditure for the next three years after which it will be seen how much money will be required to carry it out and tbe MMNBt will depend npoa the financial position of those public todies which have to pay it The German Government is unable to agree with the conclus on of the Agent-General in regard to the consequences 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