Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-01
Bank Of England Suspends Their Sale
for Ten Weeks.
BY ORDER OF SECRETARY OF STATE
Suggestion That the Government
Intends to Establish Gold Standard.
PUNITIVE COLUMN READY

LONDON, September 1.-The following
notice was posted on the Bank of England
today:
THE secretary of state for India, in
couneil, gives notice that the sale of bills
OF exchange on Calcutta, Bombay and
Madras has been suspended for a period of
not less than ten weeks"
The government has very little money in
India to draw on, owing 70 the famine and
the plague having rendered the collection
OF taxes slow. The present time may be
opportune to accustom the Indians to the
use of gold instead of silver, though it
would not have been attempted had not
the scarcity of money arisen.
The Daily Telegraph, anticipating the
action of the Indian council, said today:
The council may refuse to draw alto
gether, thus sending exchange up to gold
point and render possible the establish
nent Of the gold standard in India"
Punitive Expedition Getting Ready.
BOMBAY, September Military move
ments are reported from many places. and
rapid progress is made in the organization
Oh the punitive expeditions being sent
against the insurgent tribesmen
Col. Gordon's column of troops from
Peshawur has arrived safely at Kohat,
without having met any opposition on the
part OF the insurgents
The Afridis, according to the latest re-
ports, have apparently left the Khyber
pass.
The British posts at Gazarbund, Beluchis-
tan, which was held by native levies was
attacked Sunday night last by a number of
Brahuis, who murdered and robbed the
levies and some travellers who had sought
refuge there.
Many new signs of disaffection are re-
tod. frnrr ions ,,N;r, al
dian harDor.
Afghan Sheik HonOred.
CONSTANTINOPLE, September 1.-The
Afghan sheik Seid Yahia, who has been on
a visit to this city, has been loaded with
presents by the Sultan of Turkey, and
takes back with him a number of valuable
gifts ard an autograph letter addressed by
the sultan to the Ameer of Afghanistan.
outbreak in Malubar.
MADRAS, September IAN outbreak is
reported among the Moplahs, or fanatical
Mahommedans. of the Malabar coast. 1t
has not yet assumed serious proportions.
Malabar is a district of India in the Ma
dras presidency, and on the west coast of
India but the term Malabar coast is also
applied to the west coast of India in gen.
eral.
Secretary Gage said this afternoon that
it would be hard matter to draw an in
ference from the suspension of the sale of
bills of exchange. He caid there might be
many reasons for this. and until he could
hear more of the matter he preferred not
to discuss the question.
Director of the Mint Preston and other
treasury officials Who keep up with the
situation in India preferred not TO dis
cuss the question at this time. They, too,
thought that many reasons might be al
the bottom of the suspension. One rea-
son advanced by several treasury officials
is that the Suspension might have been
ordered to avoid the threatened export of
geld from London to India.
There was a general belief however
that India will Eot be long in going to the
gold standard. She is virtually on a gold
standard now, it was said.