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Evening Star, Issue 18717, 20 August 1924, Page 8

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Press Association—By Telegraph— CopyrgU, CHINESE FLOOD RELIEF. PEKING, August ID. (Received August 20, at 11.15 a.m.) The American Bed Cross Society haa donated 100,000 gold dollars to flood relief.—Reuter. CANTON STRIKE ENDED, PEKING, August 19. (Received August 20, at 11.15 a.m.) The Shanieen strike has ended. The men are returning to work.—Reuter. [Car;ton messages last month reported that a strike of Chinese domestics in the Shameen foreign quarter was assuming a serious aspect, since twenty-six labor unions had allied themselves with the strikers in an endeavor to have repealed the British consular restrictions upon the entry and departure of servants in the .Shamecn sections. The restrictions require all Chinese to have passes and photographs if they wish to leave the quarter after 9 o’clock at night.] EXCHANGE FLUCTUATIONS. NEW YORK, August 19. (Received August 20, at 1.30 p.m.) Sterling has reached 4.50, representing a decline within a week of 51, ; cents. The •Continental currencies dropped sympathetically. Prominent bankers, in explaining the setback, assert that the bulk of the sales of sterling were probably executed by speculators, who sold heavily on the London market.—A. and N.Z. Cable. FRENCH POLITICAL SENSATION. LONDON, August 19. (Received August 20, at 12.40 p.m.) The ‘Daily Herald’ says; “A political scandal of the first magnitude has arisen in France in consequence of a declaration by M. Fevrier (a member of the Chamber of Deputies) that Baron Maurice Do Rothschild, who was recently Fleeted to tha Chamber, had no politics, but simply represented money, and had literally bought voters at so much per capita throughout the constituency. Near the Swiss border men, women, and children, with open hands, flocked round Baron De Rothschild, while free drinks weer available for everyone on polling day. An information arising from M. Fevrier’a charges has been laid at the law courts.— A. and N.Z. Cable THE WHEAT .MARKET. LONDON, August 19. {Received August 20, at 12.40 p.m.) Cargoes weakened in sympathy with. America and Canada together selling under pressure, and they declined from 6d to 9d. Parcels are in poor demand and show; a similar drop.—A. and N.Z. Cable.