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HONG KONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1931.
ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE.
Indians Sail for London..
ALI'S DECLARATION.
Bombay,, Saturday. "God willing I will bring back peace and freedom," declared Mr. Shankat Ali before leaving to-day by the P. & O. B.8. Mooltan
for London. -
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M. BRIAND UNWELL
Doctor Vetoes Visit
To Berlin.
MAY GO IN SEPTEMBER,
M.
Paris, Saturday.
ELECTRIFYING BRITAIN.
Scheme Adopted for
South Scotland..
GRID SYSTEM
Rugby, Saturday, The Central Electricity Board has announced the adoption of Scheme prepared by the Electri- the South Scotland Electricity city Commissioners. This is the ninth of ten area schemes under the 1926 Act to provide, under the grid system, a cheap electri- city supply to towns and villages estimated cost of £20,000,000. all over Great Britain at a total Only the North of Scotland re- M.mains to be surveyed.
that they are unable to go to Ber- M. Laval and M. Briand regret lin in August owing to M. Briand's health. It is understood He attends the Round Table that this was M. Laval's reply to Conference as a Moslem repre- the official German invitation to sentative.
Twenty-six other distinguish-visit Berlin on August 26 and 27. ed Indians attending the Round to the German Ambassador that Laval has communicated Table Conference also sailed by the famous specialist, Professor the ss. Mooltan. They included
Vaques, had forbidden the Maharaja of Bikanir and Mr. Briand to go to Berlin at present. Tej Bahadur Sapru.
Consequently the visit must be postponed until after the meet- ing of the Geneva Assembly in September:
Situation Unaffected.
Ahmedabad, Saturday. Interviewed by a Reuter re presentative Mahatma Gandhi said, the situation had been an affected by the interviews Sir Tej -Bahadur-Sapru-and-Mr.-Jayakar
bad had with him. ›
No Hope of London Visit. Asked if there was any hope of his going to London, if no arbi- tration board was appointed, but if the Viceroy and the Governor of Bombay assured him that they would examine serious cases of alleged breaches of the Irwin Gandhi Pact, Matahma Gandhi expressed the opinion that such hope was not warranted.Reu-
ter:
London Visit Doubtful,
Rugby, Saturday. Publication of the correspon- dence between the Viceroy and Mr. Gandhi and other officials gives an opportunity for a review of the causes of Mr. Gandhi's decision not to attend the Round Table Con- ference,
The Manchester Guardian says: "The only thing that emerges with complete clearness is that nothing has happened which really ought to prevent the Congress from send- ing representatives."
alarming but he has been order- M. Briand's condition is not ed a month's rest at his country- home before the Geneva meeting.
M.
Anxious to Continue.
Bruening in Berlin this evening Laval telephoned to Dr. regretting that the health of M. Briand would not allow the Ber- in visit to be paid on the origin- al date. Ile added that he was most desirous of resuming as early as possible the conversations started in Paris in July-Reuter.
gresa representative would be the continuation of the Irwin-Gandhi agreement is not involved.
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The electricity supplies are to be derived from great water will be chiefly utilised in the power resources in Galloway and
neighbouring areas of Central land for which schemes have Scotland and North West Eng been already approved--British Wireless Service."
PRAYA STRUGGLE.
Man Who Died in Bed Identified.
SHỚT BY REVENUE MAN.
In connection with the Praya shooting drama, reported in Fri- day's lasue of the China Mail, Lat Kiu (40), who was convicted on a A Personal Letter.
charge of the possession of about three hundred taels of illicit opium Before leaving Bombay last and fined $30,000, with the alter- night Gandhi wrote personal
native of one year's hard labour, letter to the Viceroy explaining the appeared again before. Mr. Schofield implications of the resolution re in the Central Police Court
Con- Saturday. The garding the withdrawal of
original sen- the conference. Ho tence was confirmed. greas from made it clear that Congress would continue to honour the Delhi pact, and asked whether the Government would do the sama
on
Texts of letters and telegrama are held to confirm the opinion that while the immediate occasion of Congress decision was the fact that the operation of the ordinary law which the Government must maintain was regarded by-Con- gress as a breach of the Irwin- Gandhi agreement, the more fun- damental causé was the tendency of a section of Congress to inter- has been undertaken by Mr. floor of 144 Connaught Road West, pret the Delhi pact is giving Con- Jayaker and Sir T. Sapry, who greas. a special-status-amounting--conferred-with-Gandhi_yesterday almost to setting up of a dual sys- It is much hoped that moderate opinion in India and at Home will make itself felt-British Wireless
It will be recalled that defendant was arrested by a Chinese Revenue officer, near the Tal Ping Wharf, in the early hours of Friday morning. So far as the Government is con- The man shouted for help, when cerned there is no doubt that it three others, who had been in hid- will continue to implement the ing under a verandah, came out and agreement and, consistent with full a struggle ensued. In self-defence, maintenance of its responsibilities, whilst trying to keep his culprit in it will do everything possible to custody, the Revenue Officer drew. faster the spirit of conciliation his revolver and fired three shota, and will welcome any steps taken One man who was shot in the groin, to increase 'co-operation such a managed to crawl home to the third
tem of Government.
Government's Attitude,
Thousands of Words..
In a letter to Gandhi of July 4 Service. . p Mr. Emerson, Home Secretary, Government of India, referring to: the proposals for a Board of Ar- bitration to Interpret the Delhi
pact, pointed out that the Govern- ment could not restrict its freedom of action in this way without ab rogating its fundamental respon sibilities for the maintenance of
law and order,
Simia, Saturday.
where he died in bed.
Later-in-the-day, Mr.T.-Murphy (Assistant Director of Criminal Intelligence) brought Lal Kiu be- fore Mr. Schofield, when he related the facts: A short remand was granted.
GERMANY'S DEBTS.
It was stated that the ob- Correspondence was published ject of the remand had been to-day, running into thousands achieved, in that the prisoner had Identified the deceased at the of words between Mahatma
Mortuary. Gandhi and the Viceroy and his officials, in which Gandhi alleges breaches of the Irwin-Gandhi agreement (particularly as re- The disappointment felt general. gards the coercive collection of ly at Gandhi's decision was well rents) which allegations the expressed by the Viceroy. Lord Viceroy and officials emphatically Willingdon, in his telegram to deny. Gandhi of August 18 in which ha Gandhi sees in the replies to said he could have hoped that "you his complaints, a "complete in- would not allow disputes over dication that he must not sail present details to prevent you serv. for London.!! Ing India by participating in a momentous discussion of the future Constitution which may determina the destiny of India beyond your
time and mine.”:
It is realised, however, that, re- grettable as the absence of a Cón-
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The Indian Government's at- titude in the matter was that it was impossible to agree upon an arrangement involving a suspen sion of ordinary law, or of the regular machinery, of administra- tion-Reuter.:
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Stupendous Short Term
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Bale, Switzerland, Yesterday. Germany's short-term debts reach the stupendous total of £360,000,000, according to in formation in the hands of the International Bankers' meeting being held hero to investigate the financial position of Ger- many-Reuter.
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