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CONSTITUTION OF GERMANY AGREES TO HAS RUSSIA BROKEN
INDIA.
Need for Safeguards Urged.
FINANCIAL CREDIT.
Rugby, Yesterday. Answering a series of ques- tions directed to elicit informa tion as to the acceptance of the necessity of safeguards in the In- dinn constitution by Mr. Gandhi the Secretary for India, Mr. Wedgwood-Benn, said that the published result of the conversa- tion between Lord Irwin and Mr. Gandhi showed that the consti- tutional discussions were to be resumed on the scheme outlined by the Round Table Conference, and that it was explicity recog. nised that just as Federation and Indian responsibility were an essential part of the scheme, so also were reservations or safe guards in the interest of India for such matters as defence, external affairs, minorities, and the financial credit of India. "
Replying to other questions, Mr. Benn stated that he hoped soon to be in a position to announce the decisions reached as a result of the consultations of the Viceroy as to the date of the re- sumed session of the Federal Structure Committee.
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In the meantime, informal dis- cussions on the subject of con- stitutional reform in all its as- pects were taking place all over india, but it was not at present proposed to set up any mittees or other bodies in India to deal solely with provincial as- pects, except in the case of the special problems of the North- West Frontier Provinces of Sind and Orissa. British Wireless Service.
TAILOR ROBBED,
ASSISTANT SENT TO
PRISON.
Mui Chi-yuem, a tailor's assist
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was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with fraud- ulently converting 37 yards of silk, of which he was bailee, to his own use, and with illegally pawn- ing it at No. 2. Canton Road, with- out being authorised to do so.
Detective Sergeant Robertson said that the silk was the property of Bader Din, an Indian tailor, of Kowloon Hotel Building, and the defendant, who was in the service for another tailor. Leung Hol Fong, Wing Sing Street, was instructed to collect the silk from the complain- ant and take to his master for the purpose of making shirts.
SUSPEND PACT.
Customs Union To Go Before World Court.
BRITISH RESOLUTION,
Rugby, Yesterday,
HER PLEDGES?
Tory Minister Attacks Labour's Apathy.
PREMIER'S SPIRITED REPLY.
Rugby, Yesterday. At the League of Nations" When Sir Austen Chamber-1 Council at Geneva to-day the Bri-lain raised the question of Russia' tish Foreign Secretary, Mr. in the House of Commons to- Arthur Henderson. proposed that the question of the legality of the much discussed German- Austrian Customs Union, under the existing treaties, should be referred to the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, and that advisory opinion would be requested.
Under Mr. Henderson's resolu- tion the point to be decided by the World Council will be: "Would the proposed Customs Union be- tween Germany and Austria be compatible with Article 88 of the St. Germain Treaty and with the Austrian Protocol signed in Geneva in 1922?
The vote on the resolution will be taken to-morrow, but to-day it was supported by Austria, Germany, France and Italy. The two first named countries agreed to suspend for the time being their negotiations regarding the Customs Union.-British Wire- less Service.
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Geneva, Yesterday. On the ground that the juridi- cal aspect of the affair was one which particularly concerned the Council at present,. Mr. Arthur Henderson, opening the League Council, moved that the protocol for the establishment of Austro-German Customs union should be referred to the Per- manent Court of International Justice, for an advisory opinion as to whether a regime establish- ed between Germany and Aus- tria on the basis and within the limits of the principles of the protocol of March 19, 1931, would be compatible with Arti- cle 88 of the Treaty of St. Ger- main, and Article 1 of the Proto- col of Geneva of October 4, 1922. The Court will be asked to treat the matter as urgent.
night, he charged the Labour Government with having allowed the Soviet Government to ignore the soleman warning given them when diplomatic relations were renewed, and with having there- by broken the pledge given to the House of Commons on that occasion,
He asked why Russia had been given specially favoured treatment under the exports cre- dit scheme at a time when Rus- sin continued to break her pro- mises?
The Prime Minister, Mr. Ram- say MacDonald, in reply, cited. speeches made by Sir Austen Chamberlain when Foreign Secretary, and suggested that the latter had then urged the in- advisibility of taking view regarding the breach of the Anglo-Russian Agreement.
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So far as Soviet influence in this country was concerned, the Prime Minister said that the same
reasons present in Sir Austen Chamberlain's mind in 1926 were still present in the mind of the Labour Government and led them to the sound con- clusion that the Trade Agree- ment need not be broken.
He admitted that the trade re- turns from Russia, were dis-i appointing, but he denied that anything was to be gained by breaking off relations with that country, or that any of the pro- blems they had faced in India, China, or at Home would there- by be simplified.-British Wire- less Service.
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Dr. Schober, the Austrian! Vice-Chancellor, speaking in Eng-| lish, unreservedly supported Mr.i Henderson's
while proposal, strongly maintaining the legality tra of Austria's action.
Mr. Henderson's proposal.
M. Briand (France) supported Replying to a question by Mr. Henderson Dr. Schober gave an assurance that Austria would not proceed with the proposed union. until the Court decided and the
sion. League had discussed the deci-
Dr. Curtius (Germany) and Signor Grandi (Italy) strongly supported Mr. Henderson's pro- posal.
He pawned the silk, which was worth $25, for $14 on May 14 and the theft was discovered when the The meeting then adjourned Chinese tailor called on the Indian until 10 a.m. on May 19, when the for payment of an account.
proposal will be voted Six weeks' imprisonment was in-, Reuter. posed on each charge, the terms to i run concurrently.
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An Advisory Opinion.
Rugby, Yesterday.
At the Council of the League
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PICKING UP "FAG ENDS."
Wong Sze-yuen was at the Cen-
Magistracy this morning charged before Mr. W. Schofield with loitering in Main Street, last night, without being able to give a. satisfactory account of himself. Defendant stated that he had gone there to pick up cigarette ends.
Prosecuting, Det.-Sergt. Kennedy said that at 8.45 o'clock last night he saw the defendant standing near an electric sub-station in
Suiwanho, and on returning three- quarters of an hour later, he found the defendant meddling with a window, He added that two years ago à pane of glass broken at the sub-station' and a number of electric fans wero stolen. There was nothing known of the defendant.
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The Magistrate remarked that as there was nothing known of
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SENTENCED TO FOURTEEN
DAYS: JAIL,
Fourteen days" imprisonment was imposed on Wong Yee at the Kowloon Police Court this morning for the larceny of three water pipes from a building under construction at Ashley Road, the property of the Hop Yick Contractors.
The case had to be held over for some time owing to the nan-atten- dance of the complainant who, on arrival, aald that he had slept late.
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held in public this morning at to aign a bond for $50 Geneva, after deliberating for to be of good behaviour for A half an hour in private, when the year. If he failed to do that, he British Foreign-Secretary, Mr. would have to go to jail for two Arthur Henderson, moved that months without hard labour. the Council of the League request the Permanent Court of Inter- national Justice to give an ad- said the issue raised important visory opinion in accordance with economic and even political ques- Artir le 14 of the Covenant on the tions, but the aspect of the case proposed Austro-German Cus- with which they as a Council toms union, he suggested that were concerned was essentially the Secretary-General be author- one of a juridical nature, and it ised to give any assistance in any was, therefore, mainly one on way in the examination of the which it would be destrable for: question, and if necessary to the Council to request advisory take steps to be represented be- opinion--British Wireless Scr- fore the Court. Mr. Henderson vice
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