New York, Apr. 26.
The silver policy of the" United States Government is bitterly denounced in a striking article to-day in the "New York Journal of: Com. merce."
The paper slashes the "farcical silver-buying programme of the United States "Treasury," which, It states, "is now entering its more cute and mischievous phase."
The paper goes on to emphasize the aimeulties of China and Mexico, and points out that even India may suffer an epidemic of melting rupees if the price of silver should rise above $1.05 an ounce—Reuter.
Bombay Unofficially Suspends Rea ome Ste Sora sao See American domestic price has been Bombay, Apr. 26.
Fear that a crisis may be precipitated by the sharp rise in the price of the white metal led to the unoffic suspension of business on the Bom: bay silver market to-day.
Brokers are now confining them-solves to the squaring up of old accounts—Reuter.
Bombay, Apr. 27.
'This morning silver prices rose by 46 to 48 annas but, following easiness: in the Shanghai market, the market turned weak and prices' tumbled by '64 to 67 annas.—Reuter,
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