Business Abroad--Swift Survey Of the Week's Developments.

This section offers news briefs on business around the world as of October 1931. It is reported that financial and political tensions in Europe caused by England's abandonment of the gold standard have relaxed. In France, gold shipments arriving from the U.S. and Holland and going out to Belgium and Switzerland have left the Bank of France with net gain but with counterbalancing heavy decrease of foreign deposits. To meet British automatic reduction of real wages, a new wage cut campaign was launched in Germany.