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BRITAIN AND HER WAR DEBTS
MORE DISCUSSION
.MR. SNOWDEN'S COMMENT CAUSES A STIR
M.P.'S SPEECHES
London. Yesterday." In the course of the debate on the Budget, Sir Laming Worthington
Evans (Secretary for War replied to the attack matle yesterday by Mr. Philip Snowden, who was Chan cellor of the Exchequer in the
Marging Diracja
China Mail
No. 27-156
DISARMAMENT
SOME SWEEPING CHANGES ADVOCATED
WHAT THE TURKS WANT
Geneva, Yesterday. At the Disarmament Committee meeting Tewfik Rushdi Bey, the Turkish Foreign Minister, urged the examination of the Turkish plan on the basis of for disarmament equality with other schemes.
Hussein Khanala, the Persian
Minister to Paris. emphasised the importance that Persia attached to the reduction of Armaments.
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TROUBLE THREATENS GERMANY'S NAVY BIG AIR TRANSPORT "THE BEST PEOPLE”
FOREIGNERS
ت
ANOTHER OUTBREAK
TUG MANNED BY ROYAL NAVY FOR CHANGTEH RELIEF
PERFORMANCE OF "POCKET
BATTLESHIP"
FASTEST AFLOAT
new
New York, Yesterday. The
Gorman cruiser "Ersatz Preussen" may neces- sitate a revision of the Washing- ton Treaty rules governing ship design.
DEAL
A LINKING-UP
TWO LARGEST COMPANIES NEGOTIATE
$3,000,000 INVOLVED
New York, Të
of the
Aircraft
BANVARD COMPANY SCORE ANOTHER SUCCESS
"UPROARIOUS MIRTH"
mirth.
SOLDIERS "OLD GAME"
SENT TO JAIL
THEFT OF JADE FROM A CHINESE SHOP
REGIMENT LET DOWN
The Banvard Co. scored another success last night at the Star Theatre and played "The Best People" to a full house. The joint HOPES OF RISE IN RIVER
authors are David Grey and
William Avery Hopwood, and they have.
Hayne and William Changsha, Yesterday.
provided a dialogue full of wit Macdonald, both. Privates of the This is stated in a bulletin is- A deal linking up two
and satire which was thoroughly 1st Battalion, Somerset Light In- Foreigners in Changteh (in the north of Hunan province, on the sued by the United States Navy largest Air Transportation Com-appreciated by an audience who fantry were this morning charg Yuan River, a tributary of the Department, drawing attention to panies in America, concluded yes were "remarkably quick on the up-ed before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at
believed to have the performance of this so-called
take" and showed it by uproarious the Central Magistracy, with un- Yangtsze) are
lawfully and feloniously breaking been threatened by trouble again. "pocket-battleship," which, it is terday when the United M. Litvinoff then outlined the A shallow draft tug, manned by declared, has a fighting strength and Transporting Company acquir
The play concerns the very real and entering No. 48, Queen's-road Labour Government, upon the. allied Soviet Disarmament Scheme, pro-ja party from the gunboat, H.M.S.greatly superior to the Treaty classed 50,000 shares in Aviation Cor- problem of "What to do with our Central yesterday, and stealing a
viding, inter alia, for the abolition "Widgeon," accompanied by the 10,000-ton cruisers.
theporation of the Americas with re- Bright Young People," and having box containing two pieces of jade debt settlements.
It is pointed out that
seen this problem from all angles and a string of jade beads, worth Regarding the figures quoted by of bombing aeroplares and diri. British Consul at Changsha, is en-
for- "Ersatz Preussen" has a fuel presentation on the latter's Board. the authors proceed to solve it in $920.
A Captain from the Regiment Mr. Snowden, purporting to showgibles, and destruction of all bombs deavouring to evacuate the
involved. a manner as unsatisfactory as it are that the United States had extract- which can be dropped from the air, eigners in Changteh. It is hoped capacity for a continuous voyage
By this we mean sat on the bench with the Magis- ed from France and Italy better the manufacture of which would be that the rise in the water will al-
Both accused entered straight- terms than Great Britain had, Sir prohibited. The scheme also pro-low the tug to reach Changteb in which is beyond the possibilities L. Worthington Evans pointed out vides for the prohibition of chemical two days.-British Naval Wireless. of any other vessel afloat. She is Pacific Air Transport Company parents. The Young People them
(Mr. Gabb of the A.P.C. was faster than any existing battleship, while the latter
the Pau-selves (in spite of their heart-forward pleads of "guilty," and in wounded, robbed and captured, and that these were merely lump sums-warfare and destruction of poison
The bulletin adds, "It is difficult | American Airways and all the im- aches and quick, despairs) seem to reply to the Magistrate said that escaped. The Roman Catholic Mis-
how any vessel except a portant operating companies con- get pretty much what they need they had nothing to say before sen- gas factories.
sion was looted. Gunboats of the to see
tence was passed on them. Royal Navy cannot reach Changteh battle-cruiser could deal with such trolling the many thousand miles out of life in the end.
America and
After reading the accused's re- of airways in North
So parents, let us advise you to on account of the river being shallow
a ship." at this time of the year. The tug
Central America.-Reuter's Amer-go and see this play (but leave cords presented by the Officer, his will not be the first vessel manned
ican Service.
your off-spring at home if you can Worship said that he supposed by the Royal Navy for evacuating
they know quite enough already) that the accused's action was the foreigners from this art of China.
Co.'s The Indo-Chino S.N.
and then, when your turn comes "old game" by which they hoped "Kiawo" was manned by the Ro al
one day perhaps you'll manage to to get out of the service. Navy in the Wanhsien epie.]
view the problem in a similar light-hearted manner! SMALL-POX SCARE
a total of all the annual payments to be made year by year over a period of 62 years without any regard for the time of payment.
no
Viscount Salo thought that the Soviet scheme went beyond the! framework of the Committee, whilst Count Bernstorff urged the Coin-
M. Massigni (France), contended that the Soviet plan was imprac- ticable.
An Acute Stage
3.8.
THE FRENCH REGULATIONS
SUSPENDED
PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES
Paris, Yesterday. The French Government's small- pox regulations have been pended until further notice.
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Sir L. Worthington Evans committee to take into account the use- tinued: "Now I come to the most ful Russian suggestions. Snowden's serious aspect of Mr. speech, and I want to be very care ful to pick my words. We were all greatly surprised and startled yes-
Soviet Proposals terday by the, statement which Mr. The Soviet Disarmament pro- Snowden made that he and his party posals also provide મ complete would, if returned to power, hold abolition of tanks and beavy artil- themselves free to repudiate the lery, the suppression of aircraft fundamental principle of the Bal-carriers, the gradual replacement of four Note, namely, that Great Bri-battleships by vessels of 10,000 tain should take more from tons within a period of 13 years Europe by way of debt and repara- and a limitation tonnage and the tions than she requires to pay her number of submarines. own obligations to the United States. That principle has been for seven
Geneva, Yesterday. A decision provisionally to aus- years the foundation of treatment
An acute stage has been reachpend the order was reached by the of the European debt problems by ed as to whether the Soviet Dis. Cabinet this morning after consi-
Government that has held armament proposals should be dis-deration of the British Note. every office. It would surely be a wartor eussed instead of the Preparatory M. Loucheur, Minister of und reckless act, in no way called Disarmament Committee's own Health, explained the position to for by anything that has occurred draft convention adopted In 1927. the Cabinet, and admitted that for Mr. Snowden and his party now M. Litvinoff yesterday argued local Port Authorities had applied to threaten to repudiate the prin- that security could be obtained by to the International Sanitary Con- He asked for anvention without referring to him. eiple upon which every forward step disarmament.
whether his
French and British health au- towards European reconstruction unequivocal reply
thorities will confer as to precau and peace has been taken. If such draft was acceptable or not. a declaration were persisted in and
tionary measures. Furope were led to believe that the policy aimed al was to obtain larger payments of debts and reparations than were required for our payments vote be taken on the pivot of the
The Chairman, M. Loudon, said that M. Litvinoff could submit amendments to the 1927 draft,
M. Litvinoff then insisted that a
London Outbreak
London. Yesterday. There are now 202 cases of to the United States the utmost in- Soviet draft, namely, the principle small-pox in London, also il "sus- jury would be done not only to Bri- of reduction hut not limitation of pects" under observation. tish interests but the wider armaments; secondly, the principle'
to
The
There are no further victims | interests of world peace." He be- of proportional reduction; and from the Tuscania, the number of lieved that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald thirdly, the principle of co-eff-which cases remains at 12.
He de Tuscania cases are virulent was speaking later in debate, and he cients of armed forces. asked him formally whether he ac-
cepted and endorsed the declaration
of Mr. Snowden and if it constituted the official polley of the Labour Party.
clared that if the Committee re most of the others are of a mild- ected these principles the Soviet er type. drafl convention would fall through.
Over $3,000,000
of 10,000 miles at twenty knots. The former Company controls the is convincing.
unsatisfactory for the unfortunate trate.
The "Konigsberg" Wilhelmshaven, Yesterday, The new cruiser "Konigsbery." has been commissioned by her Com- mander, Captain von Rotha who, in a stirring address to the crew, re- called the deeds of her two predeces- Bors during war time-Reuter.
FINE!
To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory stated:
The anticyclone is still in- dicated to the east of the Boning. Another has develop- ed over North China and South Manchuria.
Pressure; is relatively low over Japan and the China Sea. Forecast Kasterly or vari- able winds, light to moderate; fine.
CRUEL FARMER
QUESTION OF FLOGGING TO BE REVIEWED
A SUSPENSION
Pretoria, Yesterday.
The flogging penalty in the case but of Jack Nafte, the white farmer, convicted of manslaughter of a na- tive has again been suspended, an official application having been British Embassy Note The British Embassy. banded granted by the Supreme Court to The committee were placed in the French Foreign Office a Note defer, the lashing until this even- an embarrassing position and ad- this morning urging the suspen-ing, to enable an application to be No Apology: No Withdrawal
journed to enable the delegates to sion of the vaccination regula-made to Justice Solomon to review Mr. Snowden, rising, said he was consider the extraordinary situations, pending further considera- the matter.
Application Refused tion of the matter, and consulta- surprised that any observations of ticn.
Justice Solomon has refused the his should be the subject of The silence of Lord Cuskerdun tion between the two Governments.
application to review the sentence of Cabinet discussion and a Cabinet and Mr. Hugh Gibson caused a-Reuter.
ten lashes imposed on Nafte. It is No Evidence in England memorandum presented to that surprise.-Reuter.
In the House of Commons, Sir understood that a further appeal Austen Chamberlain (Secretary of will now be made to the Appellate State of Foreign Affairs) said that Division at Bloemfontein-Reuter.
House. He added: "I decline to make any apology for what I said yesterday. I don't intend to with- draw a single word of it. I must express my surprise at the promin
that has been ence and attention given to my remarks, for it was by i
no means the first time that I have
BIAS BAY
WARNING AGAINST COMING PIRACY
500 MEN ARMED
made that statement in the House The Police have received
of Commons. He continued that formation as follows:
the policy of the Labour Party re-
one of the communications made by His Majesty's Government to the French Government referred to the restricted character of small-pox în England. There was nothing in the in-nature of an epidemic.-Reuter.
IN PORTUGAL
A former military commander
garding the debt. settlement had has established himself
at Bias
GOVERNMENT
SUSPECTS RELEASED
U.S. REFORM
-
IN FARM RELIEF AND TARIFF
PRESIDENT HOOVER'S VIEWS
Washington, Yesterday.
OWNS
TRAGIC DEATH MAJ.-GENERAL SIR W.
BIRKBECK KILLED
FALLS OVER CLIFFS
London, Yesterday. Major-General Sir William Birk beck, Director of Remounts at Army Headquarters from 1912 to 1920,
wexe
He pointed out to the accused, however, that, in behaving as they did they had not only let down their Regiment, but they also let down the white man in this Colony. Sentence of three months' hard
The Father Reginald Tippet played the de- lightful part of the father with just the right touch of humour and sympathy--and left us feeling labour each was passed.
No Compensation that although few mothers are
Inspector Murphy raised the quite as devastating as Valentine
of compensation to the has been killed at Saint Brine Clemow's "Mrs. Lennox" It would question
be well if all fathers
as complainant, remarking that dam- near Dinard.
age done to the window was to the He lost his footing on the top of charming as this one. the cliffs and fell over 100 feet to Kathleen Vaughan was delight-extent of $50.
His Worship said that he did the rocks below-British Wireless fully natural aa the high-spirited Service.
Marion, and made the part most not think that he could do any- [Maj. Gen. Sir William Henry attractive; while Elana Aherne was thing for the complainant in that He thought that the the direction Birkbeck, K.C.B., C.B., C.M.G., Ordiligent and appealing in offence had been sufficiently met. der of the Rising Sun, 3rd rather colourless part of Alice. Class; 1st Dragoon Guards; was It is doubtful if any chorus girls by the sentence of three months" born in 1863; son of the late Joseph are quite so meek as Alice, or so hard labour passed on the two ne- Birkbeck of Settle, Yorks; married blatant as Millie, but it is quite
His Worship added that the Re- in 1905, Mabel, daughter of Alexan- certain that Josephine Kilfoyle
cused.
be
-00
der D. Shaw and widow of G. L. made a real hit in the latter part, giment might do something in the Myers; They had three sons, which she plays in true Tallulah matter of compensation, but
She infused an could not make any order. Maj.-General Birkbeck entered Bankhead style!
Story of the Incident army in 1888: Captain. 1890; Major, amazing amount of life and energy
The ground floor of No. 48, 1897; Lt-Cel 1900; served Hazara, into the part of Millie and "brought Queen's-road Central, where the
and the house down whenever she ap 1888 (despatches, medal
was committed was offence clasp); Chin Lnshai, 1889-90 (des-peared, "getting away" with the patches, clasp); South Africa, 1899-most outrageous remarks by the cupied by the Loong Shing firm of
jewellers. 1902 (despatches twice, brevet Lt. careless abandon with which she
A show-window in this shop was Col. and C.B., two medals and uttered them.
smashed by one of the two accus- Others in the Cast clasps); attached to Japanese 3rd
ed at 7.40 p.m., and the jades ex- Bardy Russell as Lord Kochmere, tracted by them. A fok of the Army in Manchuria, 1905 Com- mandant of the Cavalry School at T. W. Sleigh as Bertie and Annie shop, who saw the theft, immedi Netheravon. 1906-11; Director of Chippendale as Miss Tale were all ately gave the alarm and chased Remounts at Army Headquarters extremely good.
the two soldiers. After a short run 1912-20; retired pay. 1920.]
Ormiston Miller gave a very they were both apprehended by the manly and unforced presentation Folice and taken to Police. Head- of the part of "Henry and Henry quarters. J. Corner was perfectly delightful
MR. MELLON
POSITION
CONTINUES IN OFFICE
The stolen jades, which were re- SENATE'S DECISION AS TO HIS throughout all his scenes as the covered intact, were produced in
unfortunate Uncle.
Court togther with two "swagger" "The Best People" is B
very sticks belonging to the accused. clever and amusing play, and it is One of these had its knob heavily. to be hoped that the Banvard Comaded with lead and bore a dent. was the pany will find time to give it It is believed that this Washington, Yesterday.
of the two The Judiciary Committee of the again, so that those who were too weapon used by one Senate, enquiring into Mr. Mellon's late in applying for seats last men to break the glass in the show- position have decided that Mr. night may have another chance of window. Mellon might continue in office in seeing it. the Hoover Cabinet without re- nomination. Reuter's American Service.
Judiciary Committee Adjourns The Judiciary Committee has adjourned till April 19 to consider the question as to whether Mr. Mellon's business connections bar
President Hoover's message to him from holding a seat in the Congress expressed agreement with Cabinet-Reuter's American Ser the Congressional leaders' views vice..
still continued to
ness.]
Acwo.
PUBLIC BATHS
ANOTHER ADDED AND MORE TO BE BUILT
"WAITING FOR WATER"
TRAFFIC OFFENCES
PORTUGUESE WHO LACKED A LICENCE
A CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP
A Portuguese named A. Graca was yesterday afternoon summoned be The scheme for providing free fore Major C. Willson, O.B.E., at the baths to the coolie class by the Central Magistracy, for driving a
engage in busi-been completed at a cost of $80,000. the change of ownership of the
It is a two-storey building, and on machine.
that the session should be limited [Mr. Mellon, by some, was believ- Government is progressing. One motor cycle without a licence, and to the consideration of Farm Reed to be ineligible for office as he bath-house at Laichikok-road has for failing to notify the Police of Lisbon, Yesterday.
lief measures, and limited changes in the Tariff rates. The release has been ordered of
The exceptions would include the persons arrested for alleged the enactment of Bills for taking
Reuter..
often been atated. It was that they Bay, with about 500 men, all arm- ALLEGED PLOT AGAINST THE would favour an all-round cancella-ed with modern weapons, for the tion of the debt and reparations. purpose of piracy and robbery. That policy was enunciated in the A large quantity of cloth, stolen concluding sentences of Lord Bal- from an unknown pirated ship, four's memorandum, which he (Mr. was recently sold openly. Snowden) proceeded to quote. It A pirate leader named Lam Tsoi, was not that part of the Balfour age about 48 years, native of Fan Note that he attacked yesterday. It Lo-kong, has established relations plotting against the Government the 10-yearly census and the re-
to the other part. of with the bandit gang mentioned the Note. that if all-round above, and these men will prob-- cancellation could not be secured ably attempt a piracy In the im
should put the burden on mediate future:
was
we
ourselves for the benefit of our con
tinental neighbours that the Labouramisen
Party here opposed, and always had
been opposed. The Labour Party ent. Was there any
man who
apportionment of seats in the [A telegram from Lisbon, dated House of Representatives. Reu- April 17, stated: It is officially an- tex'a American Service. nounced that ex-Premier Antonio Maria Da Silva and a number 'óf. others concerned in a plot against the Government has been arrested.
Ex-Premier Domingos Pereira
had been taunted with being friends thought the debt agreements, which and ex-Minister Daniel Rodrigues
of every country but their own. I had been made, were going to rese "wanted" by the police therean- am sufficient of Englishman, de- main in force without change, with-
ent
clared Mr. Snowden, not to be con- oat modification, for the next sixty Rumours of a Monarchist plot are test to see my country and my years. An Expert Committee were denied, and it is declared that the people bled white for the benefit of sitting in Paris and he contended Army and Navy will support the other countries who are far more they were just as much concerned
Government.3/ prosperous than ourselves."
with question of inter-allied debts as with question of reparations He made his statement of the previous
"Not A Word"
He recalled the words he used night on the spur of the moment. It yesterday and asserted there was was not a considered statement et not a word there about the repudia- all and if he had had time to prepare tion of the debt. As to the circum- a statement he did not think he could stances which were likely to arise have improved on that which he when they would hold themselves had made. Was it not the commen open to repudiate the conditions of practice almost the daily practies
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TRAIN DISASTER
EIGHT KILLED AND 21 INJURED
DRIVER ARRESTED
London, Testerday. injured in a train disaster at Hals, Eight people were killed, and 21
Brabant. The express from Paris came into collision with a goods train
The engine-driver of the express has been arrested. It is stated that he over-rap the signals-Ren- ter.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR
U.S. TARIFF
THE QUESTION OF. READJUSTMENT
SMOOT-HAWLEY BILL
New York, Yesterday,
the first floor there are farty apart- The defendant was stopped by ments, all fitted with hot and cold Traffic Sub-Inspector Nieel in Vic- showers. The ground floor is for toria-road, between Pokfulam and the engines and boiler; quarters for Kennedy Town, and when asked to the bath house attendants
are produce his licence confessed that situated at the rear of the building he did not possess one.
The bath-house will not be open, Defendant said that the cycle did it is understood, until the reservoirs not belong to him He was merely are again filled to overflowing. The looking after it for Mr. May, who
The Washington correspondent of average consumption of water to was absent from the Colony.
the "Herald-Tribune" says that it keep the bath-house open to the His Worship imposed a fine of $5 is reported among the leaders of the public is estimated to be 1,000,000 on the first count and dismissed the House of Representatives that only gallon per month. about 15 per cent. of the rates under
It is stated that similar bath-
the Old Fordney Gumber tariff will houses will be built in Hunghom and Hawley bill, be readjusted by the new Smoot Kowloon City.
The changes are mainly upward revisions in agricultural items Reuter's American Service.
Mr. Bernhard Baron, chairman of Carreras Ltd., has notified the. authorities of the Royal Sussex
other.
Some 250,000 acres of arable land in Greek-Thrace are now under water, which, to a large extent, bas Volcanic activity is reported from become frozen over. Cornfelds the neighbourhood of Vatna Jokull, have been destroyed and cattle have the great ice can in South Eastern perished. Iceland.
A deadlock has been reached in According to the Jugoslav journal the Australian Industrial Pesce
Government Press Conference owing to the uncom
County Hospital, Brighton, that he "Vreme"
is sending them £5,000 towards a Bureau, with a State Secretary at promising attitude of the more
new operating theatre. He recently its head, opened on April 1 as the militant trade unions. The break-
the Balfour Note did the Governor the Foreign Office to enter The P&0. interim dividend to ment think present conditions in re into communication with foreign wit be five per cent tax brec. The closing rate of the dollar on gave $10,000 for a new casualty sole source of news concerning the up of the conference le looked upon gard to international debt and re parations were likely to be perman-I
(Continued on Page 14.)
Keuter.
demand, to-day was 1/11 9/16
department at that hospital
Government's policy and actions, as a foregone conclusion.