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HISTORIC SPEECH ON FRENCH BOURSE TAX SHIPPERS' PROTEST
INDIA
MAY GO.
Scheme to Transform
HOUSE CHEERS MR. BALDWIN
Budget Deficit.
TO PREMIER.
Suez Canal Dues A Burden on Britain.
TORY LEADER STRESSES NEED OF UNITY OF ALL PARTIES.
GANDHI GOING TO
LONDON?
Cheers from the crowded galleries in the House of Commons greeted Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Conservative leader, who opened the debate on India yesterday with a brilliant and historic speech,
Referring to the difficulties confronting many Conservatives, Mr. Baldwin declared that if those who faced the subject of India in a niggling and grudging spirit were the majority of the Party, in God's name let them choose another leader.
If they were in the minority let them ceuse throwing difficulties in the way of those who had undertaken an almost superhuman task, on the successful performance of which depended the prosperity, the well-being, the duration of the British Empire.
"VICTORY OF COMMONSENSE”
London, Yesterday.
have
surrendered
to
↓
WOULD GIVE SURPLUS.
MERCHANTS' RESOLUTION.
London, Yesterday,
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR The closing rate of the dollaron demand, to-day was 11.
Local Brunch. Fedder Bldg. Tel. 24554.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
WHAT THE ALLIES OWE BRITAIN
DRIVER'S DIFFICULT
CHOICE.
OPERATION ON MR.
SNOWDEN.
May Return to Duties After Easter.
SPECIALIST'S DECISION.
Our Position in Regard ("Left Hand Side" Mere
to War Debts.
GERMANY PAYS UP,
London, Yesterday.
Convenience.
WHAT WAS HIS DUTY?
19, at
Paris, Yesterday,
London, Yesterday. The Finance Committee of the The Council of the Mercantile The Harley Street surgeon, Sir
Holding that the defendant's ear The position of Great Britain in should never have been where it was Chamber have adopted amend Marine Service Association (the John Thompson Walker, lengthily regard to War debts was outlined in Chater Road Mr. Schofield at the ments providing for a two per senior representative body of examined Mr. Snowden to-day by Mr. F. W. Pethick-Lawrence Central Magistracy this morning cent. reduction in sections of the British ship masters and officers) and decided to perform a minor (Financial Secretary to the Trea imposed a dealing with "material and build- MacDonald supporting the, Ship-at one time feared that a major House of Commons.
Alue of $5 on Lo Wing- estimates of the War Marine has sent a letter to Mr. Ramsay operation on March 16. It was sury) in reply to a question in the sun, the driver of a public car, who ing," also the abolition of a reping Merchants' resolution in re-operation might be necessary. that the amount to be received drive on the left hand side of He said was summoned for having failed to duction tax on long term Bourse gard to the Suez Canal ducs. It is hoped that Mr. during the financial year from Chater Read on February operations, which have been en-Reuter.
Snowden will be able to return to Germany in reparations nnnuities 10.45 a.m. forced since Inst April. If Par-
[An earlier message stated: the the House of Commons after was £10,300,000, and from Allied liament votes on the amendments Shipping Merchants Committee of Easter-Reuter.
Mr. Horace Lo appeared for the debts £17,700,000, making a defendant. transformed into a surplus of merce passed a resolution express- the deficit in the Budget will be the Manchester Chamber of Com-
[Mr. Philip Snowden. the total of £34,000,000 against It will be recalled that there was Chancellor of the Exche- £38,000,000 to be paid during the a slight collision between a com- 21.000,000 francs.-Reuter.
bination motor cycle driven by Traffic Sergeant Guild, and the de- fendant's car. Referring to the accident, Mr. T. H. G. Brayfield, who was a passenger in the car, in evidence, stated that in his opinion the motor cycle swept too wide into Chater Road from Ice House Street, and was going a little too fast. For the driver of the car to back the whale way to Statue Square would obviously be dangerous.
an
ing the opinion that the high dues quer, has been ill for charged by the Suez Canal Com several days, suffering from in- Baldwin declared that if those vantage to British trade and
pany are proving a serious disnd-fluenza. His doctors called in the eminent consulting surgeon. Sir who faced the subject of India in advantage to inter-Asian and other John Thomson Walker, on March a niggling and grudging spirit competitive trades which are free?. were the majority in the Party from the heavy burden of dues.
in God's name let them choose, The Committee urges that His another leader; if they were the Majesty's Government, as the minority let them cease throw-largest individual shareholder in ing difficulties in the way of those the Canal Company, should use its who had undertaken an almost influence to secure a reduction to superhuman task, on whose suc-five gold francs per ton in respect The galleries in the House of Churchill.
Mr. cessful performance depended the of loaded ships, and two and a half. Communs were crowded to-lay, has been no surrender; there has the duration of the British Em-accordance with the
(Laughter). There well-being, the prosperity, and is respect of ships in ballast, in with Lords Peel and Lloyd in the been no victory, but there has pire, (Cheers).
arrangement Peers Gallery and a number of been a victory of common sense."
made in 1883 between British ship- Indians in the Dominions' Gallery,
owners and the Canal Company.] when the debate on India began on the Civil Estimates vote.
JAPANESE ROYAL INFANT NAMED.
Mr. Baldwin.concluded by pay- ing a tribute to Lord Irwin, and
Historic Speech.
saying that such a conclusion as for India, said that after Mr. Mr. Wedgwood Benn, Secretary Mr. Winston Churchill from had been reached could have been Baldwin's historic speech there the outset sought a ruling as re-reached by no other Briton. gards the permissible scope of the debate. The chairman ruled
Mr. S. Baldwin.
Princess of Honesty and Obedience.
ANCIENT COURT RITES?
was really nothing to add from Need for Unity.
the point of view of the Indian Mr. Baldwin, in stating that situation. He was certain that whatever happened in India, the Mr. Baldwin's words would be! area of goodwill and co-operation read with relief and dolight by all had been definitely enlarged, sections of opinion in India. No quoted, amid laughter, the words one would be more encouraged in of Mr. Churchill in 1920 in refer- his task than the Viceroy. ence to Egypt, emphasising that If Mr. Baldwin stood by the de- the "British way of doing things claration which Lord Peel made In accordance with the ancient implied a close and perpetual co- on January 26-and it was so. Court ritea, the naming ceremony. operation with the peoples of the Mr. Benn declared-the work on for the new born Imperial child country, and this has been no-which they all had been engaged was carried out in the Royal where so successful as in India." would go forward, and with suc- Palace this morning.
Mr. Baldwin said that there cess. (Cheers). could be no better summing up
of the situation than that speech.
Tokyo, Yesterday.
MUI TSAI CONTROL.
Orders For lospection Carried Oat,
London, Yesterday.
In the House of Com- mong at question time Mr. E. T. Campbell (Conservative, Bromley, Kent) asked why the Orders contained in the Secretary of State's despatch on August 22, 1929, Instruct- ing that steps should be taken forthwith to establish machinery for the inspection, control and remuneration of Mui Teal in Hong Kong had not been carried out.
Dr. Drummond Shiels re- plied that Mr. Campbell was mistaken in thinking that the instructions were not carried out-Reuter.
Mr. Pethick-Lawrence.
Mr. Lo submitted that no offence had heen committed. The rule that "a driver shall keep to the left hand side of the road" was not im- perative, applying only to cars when going along a road, and was not in- cluded when the driver of a car manoeuvred the vehicle to get it Into position. He quoted two cases, and submitted that the authorities went to show that the "loft hand alde" was a mere convenience.
His Warahlo decided against Mr. Lo, and held that if the driver want- ed to go forward.it was his place to same period to the United States send someone to see if the cross- in respect of British War debts, road was clear of traffic. He was The receipts from the Domin-willing to take the error of judg- ions during the same period ment on the part of the driver, and amounted to £7,632,000, which was quite prepared to admit to Mr. represented the repayment of L that the défendant had had а moneys borrowed in Britain on difficult choice. He would be fined behalf of the Dominions and ] $5. which could not be reckoned as a
payments.-Router.
The infant Princess was named WILL AMERICA SIGN set off against the American debt Mr. Wedgwood. Benn said that roughly be translated as "Princess NAVAL PACT?
Delegation to India.
Atsuko Yorinomiya, which may
Obedience."
beforehand that, there
Lady
:{
Views Similar to Those of Japan.
ernment is very similar.
The
THOSE PIGS !
A YOUNG SCOUNDREL.
Described by Mr. E. W. Hamilton Mr. Baldwin stressed the need the Government had carefully con-of Honesty and
In the Kowloon Court this morning. for unity among all parties on sidered sending a Parliamentary Reuter.
B 4 young scoundrel, Cheung the au ject of India. He was delegation to India forthwith to
Shing. 16, a returned banishee, was convinced that such writings as reconstitute the Round Table at noon a long drawn shriek of a A message of March 7 stated:] appear in papers like the Daily Conference with the addition of afren announced the birth of an
ordered to receive 16 strokes of the LEAD TO $100 FINE ON A birch and go Mail do more to lose India than representatives of Congress, but Imperial infant. It had been ar
to jail for threa RATIFICATION BY SENATE,
SKIPPER. anything. Mr. Baldwin said that the advantages of this plan were ranged
months. He said that he came back to get ten dollars and that he had many people were blind to the outweighed by important practi-would be one blast for a daughter,
no intention of staying in Hong alarming rapidity with which the cal considerations, including the and two for a son. widow,
Washington, Yesterday. Captain Larter, of the s.8. Kiung-Kong. East was changing, and declared exigency of the Parliamentary
Several Informal conferences chow, this morning pleaded "guilty" he was cautioned once, and whipped In his crowded young life that the ultimate result in India situation here and the necessity whole of Tokyo ceased work and and Italian
When the siren Beunded the regarding the British, French before the Hon. Comdr. G. F. Hole, twice, and had committed burglary (and he again referred to the of much preliminary work in listened expectantly.
naval agreement R.N., (retired), to a charge of hay- and assault. massage by Mr. Churchill, which India by Indians,
have been held between the ing arrived in the Colony on March The quoted) depended not on force
Three times previously during Japanese Ambassador and officials 11 with pigs in crates on board the that there could be a general debut goodwill, sympathy, and gates, including the representa- of an Imperial child was expected, is believed that the attitude of accordance with regulations.
Immediately the Indian dele- the past six years, when the birth of the State Department, and it ship, the pigs not being stowed in
TOO TALKATIVE ! bate on administration but the understanding between India and tives of Congress, were prepared simliar arrangements were made the Japanese and American Gov- future legislation could not be dis-Great Britain.
Major F. R. Roche-Kelly, cussed.
to resume, the discussions the
in passing R.A.V.C., was summoned before Mr. Magistrate, Lord Irwin's great work was Government proposed to invite
to indicate the sex.
sentence of a fine of $100 or two Schofield at the Central Magistracy Grave Difficulties. that he bridged the gulf and his them to come to London and re-day after the first blast but the tary of State, stated on behalf of this kind of offence must
Intense excitement prevailed to- Mr. Castle, Assistant Secre- months' jail in default, said that this morning for having left his Mr. Stanley Baldwin, who open-
sume the work of the Federal Resecond never followed and there Mr. Stimson that the incorpora-The regulation under which
cease. motor car unattended in Des Voeux ed the debate, said that the Con-
lations Committee. They hoped was obvious disappointment that tion of the agreement in a new summons was taken out had been
the Road Central on February 25, at servative Party stood exactly
the whole problem would be ready where it stood in his speech at
for a final discussion early in the prayers for a son and heir to the five-Power Treaty would involve in force since last September and Newton Abbot, in which he said.
throne remain unanswered.] Autumn.
ratification by the Senate-yet people did not seem to take any that the main objective was an
Reuter's American Service.
notice of it. All-India Federation, but there were, many grave difficulties and the Conservative Party was not committed
every one was not committed-because it was im- possible to pronounce a definite opinion until a definite plan bad been submitted. They must judge how far it was possible to achieve the federal idea without surrend ering the essential safeguards, and added that in spite of what they might have read or heard, the Party co-operation which existed in this country since the appointment of the Simon Com mission had not been broken and remained exactly where it was.
No Surrender.
Mr. Baldwin said that there had beeh recently much excite ment about nothing. The Govern ment, after the, conference, made a suggestion involving the send ing of delegates to Indla. He himself and the colleagues he con- sulted, Including four members of the Round Table Conference, unanimously felt that it was the business of the Government of the day to take the matter in hand. He told the Government and now he told the House that Conservatives were willing at all times to be consulted.
Lord Irwin.
Mr. Churchill Pessimistic, Mr. Winston Churchill declared that the developments of the past) six weeks might be a subject for congratulation among those agreed upon the establishment of an All-Indian Federation with a responsible Government as the precursor of full Dominion státus;
TORY VICTORY,
RESULT OF SALISBURY BY-ELECTION.
London, Yesterday. The Salisbury by-election, due to but less enthusiasm was pardon- the resignation of Mr. Hugh able in those who thought that Morrison (Conservativo)
has re- these processes
were premature sulted as follows:-
FAIR RETURN ON INVESTMENT.
Legal Argument in Mortgage Case.
EXPERT EVIDENCE.
and dangerous and likely to lead Mr. Spencer Robartson (Cons.) 15:800 The queation of a fair return on to confusion and disaster. Mr. C. F. G. Masterman (Lib) 9,688 investment in Hong Kong cropped Nevertheless, the fact that Con- Mr. F. R. Hanepek (Lab.) 3.080 up in the Supreme Court this servatives would not be represent- This givea Д Conservative morning,
ed at any Round Table Conference majority of 6,214.--Reuter, in India male amends for much. Moreover, the chances of an agreement that would unite all sections in India and be ratified by the British Parliament were remote, and slight, while the probabilities of a breakdown were enormous.
[The polling at the General Election was:----
Mr. Hugh Morrison (Cons.) 15.872 Mrs: Masterman (Lib.). Mr. Hancock (Lab.)
Test of Honour
The House of Commons agreed
1
The occasion was the continua- tion of the much-disputed case in which plaintiff, Mrs. Chu Shuk, widow, of 121, Caine Road, brought .18 022.
action against the Banque Franco- 4,495
Chinoise pour le "Commerce et 2,650) 'Industrie for damage under an 2. indenture profeti mortgage dated December 6, 1928, made between herself as to the..first part, W. M. The death of a Portuguese child defendants as to third part
Pittendrigh As to second part, and
Conservative majority
"SCALDED IN TUB,
to the vote on account. Mr. Ram under tragic circumstances on the
Lieut. Col. L. G. Bird, of Messrs.
say MacDonald, winding up the de- first floor of 550, Nathan Road, Is Palmer, & Turner, stated that he bate, said that en Invitation had told In the Police reports this made a valuation of the property already gone to the Viceroy to en-morning. deavour to assist an early meeting
RAIN AND FOG.
The Royal Observatory's weather report, to-day, states:
A weak anti-cyclone I central over the Eastern sea. Moderate to light monsoon along the N.E. coast of China and over the N. China Sea.
Forecast-Easterly winds moderate; overcast; some light rain and fog.
Rainfall.
Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10 a.m. to-day-nil. Rainfall since January 1—1.07 inches agalust an average of
·4.04 inches—deficit 207 inches.
Temperature.
The temperature at certain specified centres this morning. at 6 o'clock was:--
Hong Kong
Macao
32. 61
Pratas Island
72
Manila
74
Foothow. Swatow Chefoo Shanghal
50
59.
on April 1, 1980, and valued it at in London of the Federal Struc
Dr. J. T. Emalley, medical officer | $80,000, Be took the value of the ture Committee, and there were in charge of the Kowloon Hospital, land at $30 per square foot, and the hopes that Gandhi would be pre reported that Frederick Ribeiro, value of the building at $8,500. sent
aged two-years and a half, was ad Mr Jonkin suggested that aldwin deprecited most name would stand out in history The
mitted to Hospital on Wednesday, Ht. Caer, Clark had given it as his he use of the words as ole of our greatest Viceroys ference had
kuffering, from severe scalde, and opinion * that the land was worth|tions put to Mr. MacKichan, and surrender are Chose Another Leaders did useful in laying down the pre died soon after admission $45 per square foot consider they did not alter his (witness's)
Referring to the difficulties con- Urinary conditions of a ledurale child sealdentally fell to that to be too high, much too high. opinion at all.
amall bath tub full of boiling been told that I fronting many. Conservatives, Mr.
dhi conversa»
Round
Table Con
been very
(Continued on Fiss 7.)-
Cross-examined by Mr. Sheldon, ⠀⠀⠀ This concluded the dridanos and witness sald he had heard the ques, the hearing was adjourned.
11 a.m.
offence.
Major Roche-Kelly admitted the He explained that that ho went to ace a friend in Jardine's office, and meant to stay for В minute or two. But unfortunately he:got into conversation and stayed a long time in the office.
A fine of $5 was imposed.
STOP PRESS
Cologne, Yesterday, A meeting of the Inter- national Raw Steel Cartel in Dusseldorf.decided to con- tinue the restriction of the normal output. by 80 per cent, during the second quar ter of 1981-Reuter.
of...
London, Yesterday.. Members of the House Commons of all Parties agree that Mr. Baldwin's.. spirited speech was the outstanding. feature of the India debate and one of the most notable in his political career. It is expect ed to have an important effect on India la removing misunder- standings caused by the India Committee's bold if not mis chievous sunouncement: Hi reassertion of the "responsible;j Conservative objective in re gard to Indian constitutional changes in euingised by all, sections of the Fresa, except the Rothermere
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