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GRAVE DIVERGENCE OF OPINION
UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF the opinion that the crisis has
STUMBLING BLOCK?
TRADE
UNION OBJECTS
ECONOMY RATHER THAN NEW
TAXATION.
CONSERVATIVES'
VIEW
London. Yesterday.
While the utmost reticence is being observed in quarters quainted with the nature of the economy proposals, it is evident that a grave divergence of opinion has arisen between the Trade Union General Council und Government.
-
arisen owing to excessive expendi-
ture.
Sir Samuel added that discus- slons between representatives of the three parties at Downing Street though informal covered the widest | field, but they had not yet reached
MYSTERY ON LINER
THROWN OVER- BOARD?
a stage where it was possible to say FUGIMURA'S FATE
whether the Conservatiyes were 'satisfied or not...
The Cabinet Economy Committee continued Ita sitting after the de-. parture of the Trade Union Delega- tion, finally rising at 11.15 p.m. It is presumed the Delegation's objec- tions to Government's proposals were discussed.
until 10-a.m. to-morrow.
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KWONGSANG'S DASH FOR SHELTER
SEEN ANCHORED IN LEE OF AN ISLAND
"GONE IN THE MORNING"
MYSTERY OF EUROPEAN SURVIVOR
Further messages, recelyed this morning_from_the_Commander_
After hearing reports made by board and are confident that fur-ernment in regard to the quanti of H.M.S. Sepoy, whilst shedding considerable light upon the tragic Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. ther clues will be obtained when ty of wheat available on credit, wreck of the s.o. Kwongsang, contain no confirmation of the pre- Phillip Snowden of to-day's events the liner Belgenland returns from that the Grain Stabilisation Covious report that a European ship's officer escaped from the ty- the Cabinet adjourned at 9.30 p.m. her cruise to-morrow. The crew poration will gladly negotiate a
will be questioned and the wire-sale of 15.000,000 bushels of phoon's havoc. After the adjournment the Trade less operator will be required to wheat for the relief of the flood. Union Congress Deputation confer-produce copies of messages sent victims.
The question of payment has It is understood that this relates mainly to one of the prin-red with the Cabinet Economy Com- to and received by Fugimura.-
not yet been considered, but Mr. cipal proposals namely, modification of some sort in the unemploy.mittee for an hour, and conveyed Reuter's American Service.
Congress's views on the Com-
Stone, the chairman, assumes ment rélief system. Modification is not very likely to be a cut in mittee's proposals.
that it will be on the basis of direct obligation on the part of the scale of benefits, but increased contributions.
the Chinese Government.
The Deputation will report to a meeting of the Trade Union Con- (General Council) to-morrow morning-Reuter..
Miss Mildred Harris, former wife of Charlie Chaplin, la among the witnesses deing questioned at There is now reason to believe that the proposals did not include
the enquiry into the disappearance Fujimara, aboard the Belgenland, tariffs and, therefore, it is significant that four of the five Trade
of the Japanese alik merchant, Mr. says a Reuter message. Apart Union delegationists to the Cabinet Committee have, on previous
The Conservative and Liberal from the Federal enquiry, the occasions, spoken in favour of tariffs and, probably, to-day express-political leaders discussed the Japanese and British Consula Gen- economic situation with Mr.eral are also investigating the mat- ed a preference for tariffs instead of cuts-
MacDonald and Mr. Snowden atter, and the president. of Mr. Downing Street for nearly two Fujimara's corporation has offer- **Iron Chancellor." Mr. briefly reviewed the national fin-hours, to-day, and the conversa ed a reward of $5,000 for Im- Snowden is, however uncom-ancial emergency and indicated tions are to be resumed to-morrow, portant evidence. Mr. Fujimara's promisingly opposing tarius.in broad terme the principle. A question discussed was the seven year old daughter was accom- It is understood that the propo underlying the proposals which proposed ten per cent. revenue panied by a governess, Misa Reisner,. sals also include restriction of Government have under con-tariff, to which it is known the
a former actress, who states - ske the so-called transitional bene-sideration with a view to balanc-Liborals are entirely opposed.
spent many hours of the "fatal Bt for unemployed who have ing the Budget. At the conclu- The Conqultative Committee of night with Miss Mildred Harris. exceeded the statutory insursion of the joint meeting the the Parliamentary Labour Party There is also an unknown man in ance period.
National Executive resumed its subsequently conferred with the the case, whom Mr. Fujimara is be- It is understood that Con-own session and gave considera- Premier and Chancellor of the lieved to have feared. servatives are also dissatisfied tion to the situation as presented Exchequer for ab hour.' on the ground that the econg-hy the Ministers to a joint meet- mies proposed are adequate ing. After amendment by the
was absent,
Labour Party Meeting? to meet the grave situation. Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur! At this morning's conference
Today will be another fate-Henderson, and the Home Secre- Mr. Stanley Baldwin ful day. A Cabinet meeting tary, Mr. Clynes, it was agreed and the Conservatives. were repre- takes place at 10 am, and then to leave the posilon with Govern-sented by Mr. Neville Chamberlain another. Three-Party Meeting ment."
and Sir Samuel Hoare. The is to follow further negotia- Government's statement was Liberals present were Sir Herbert tions with Trade. Unionists also considered later by the Gen. Samuel and Sir Donald Maclean. eral Council of Trades Union Con. It was anticipated that this three- gress. The views of the Council party conference would conclude are being communicated to the in time to permit the Prime Minis Cabinet to-night.
Reuter.
Rugby, Yesterday.. The Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer at tended a scries of conferences to- day at which the broad outlines
Conservatives Views.
..
ter to meet the Consultative Com- mittes of the Parliamentary Labour Party at eleven, but it of the Cabinet's proposals for Referring to this morning's was not until noon that the Op- conference, Sir position party leaders left Down- balancing the Budget were dis- inter-party closed first to Leaders of Opposi Samuel Hoare, in an interview, ing Street. tion Parties in Parliament and said they had a prelimin- The Consultative Committee was later to prominent supporters of ary interchange of opinion formed to serve as a link in ses- the Labour Party.
In a frank, free informal talk.sion between the Cabinet and the
Proposals Considered.
con-
DUKE OF GLOUCESTER INDISPOSED.
Enters London Nursing Home.
APPENDICITIS VICTIM.
London, Yesterday, The Duke of Gloucester is in- disposed. He has entered a Lon-
A message yesterday said that three survivors were seen alive eight days ago in the hands of armed pirates in the bay between Feilon Island and Good Ridge point. One of them was said to be a European.
It is now stated that three Tientsin Chloese, names unknown, were washed up alive from the wreck, at a village to the south-west. The sale price will be the mar- ket price on the day of shipment, of Feilon Island. They appear to have proceeded overland to a place and Mr. Stone said that probably called Santu on August 17 (Monday last). The fact that these it would be stipulated that the wheat should be only used to re- men were Northern Chinese of tall stature, with an accent unintel- lieve victims of the flood-ligible to the local inhabitants, appears to have led to the rumour Reuter's American Service.
that one of them may have been a foreigner, says the message, AGREEMENT FOR ZINC
TERRIFIC
STORM
· CONTROL.
It is known that the Kwong- The wind and current probably Adapt Production to
sang was carrying race ponics carried the bodies and wreckage Consumption. from Shanghai, scheduled to take over the south aide.. Conceivably, part in the Macao Meeting. It also, the wind changed during the PRODUCERS' OBJECTS. is open to conjecture that these night of Sunday, August 9, thus three men were mafoos. accom-minimising the benefit of the shaj- Paris, Yesterday, panying the ponies.
ter obtained from the island. An account by an eye-witness, It seems to be established quite At a meeting of representa- tives of a group, comprising the considered to be quite unassail definitely, however, that the mas international cartel of zinc pro-able, and contained in a second iter of the Kwongsang took shelter ducers, it was reported, that the mossage, describes the sinking of from the typhoon. agreement which had been reach- the vessel in most graphic man-
Text. of Messages..." ed at Ostend on June 11, had ner. It says that a red-funnelled The text of the messages from been ratified by all the participat-hip answering to the descrip the Commander of H.M.S. Sepoy, ing countries and had been oper- tion of the Kwongsang anchored to the Naval Authorities, issued ated from August 1.
at 6.30 in the evening of August through Messrs. Jardins, Matheson
The object of the agreement is 9. (Sunday) in a position in Lat. & Company, follows. Angle Is to regulate production so that 26.57 North, Long. 120.19 East, present stocks be speedily ab-visible from Sugar Loaf Island. land, mentioned in the second mes- sorbed and adapt future produc- At 8 o'clock that night the ship sage, is one of the numerous small islands lying off the north-east tion to consumption.
was still anchored there, with all The production capacity of the her lights burning brightly. Dur point of Funing Bay, and is a few miles to the S.W. of Fuyan Island. countries in cartel, which amounts ing the middle watch the typhoon Three Chinese men from Tien- to 1,123,000 tons annually, reached its height, and when the tein whose names are unknown represents 97 per cent. of the visibility cleared at about eight were washed up alive from wreck capacity of European and other o'clock the next morning the ship at village to S.W. of Feilon Island. producers, excluding the United was gone.
They appear to have, proceeded States. Reuter,
Might Have Sunk in the Bay. I overland to Santu on the 17th, It has been learned that there.
OUTRAGE BY C CUBAN
AEROPLANE.
Danish Ship Machine- Gunned.
L
ALSO BOMBED.
"The fact that these men were are numerous horses, sheep, and Northern Chinese of tall stature, human bodies on the south shore and unintelligible to the local in- of Funing Bay, and as the wind!
at the time was in the north-habitants appears to have led to east, it appears possible that the the rumour that one may have been
a foreigner. Kwongsang sank in the entrance
“I. much regret that I have as to the bay. (The Kwongsang was known to be carrying eyet no further news of any further
survivors, stock" as part of the cargo).
"Am anchoring Sansha for the The Commander of. H.M.S.
night." Sepoy concludes by stating that he intends to search the shore.
Eye Witness's Story."
The Conference with represen- They had before them figures sub-rank and file of the party. As the tatives of the Conservative and mitted by Government and although committee has had no opportunity Liberal Parties had been arrang-they surveyed a very wide field the of meeting the full party since the ed last week, when in preliminary survey had not yet been compre-publication of the economy report, Labour The solution of the crisis it ie auggested that a conservations the nature of the hensive. emergency was explained to demanded economy which presupFarty meeting may be called as a Party Leaders who were given posed sacrifices by all classes. Sir result of to-day's conference.
the Budget; Samuel added, that since the assurances that
The General" Council of the would be balanced and that the ference he and Mr. Nevilla Cham-Trades Union Congress has been principle of equality of sacrifices berlain had been in communication summoned for two o'clock, to be would guide Government in the with their Party Leader Mr followed one hour later by a joint measures it adopted.
Stanley Baldwin, who is at Aix-les-meeting between the Council and Bains, and they had consulted with the National Executive of the
Washington, Yesterday. Conserva Labour Party.
don nursing home after medical In the interval a special their other colleagues.
The Danish steamer Fred-He was anchored last night at The following is an account to co- Cabinet Economy Committee has tives were most anxious
Members of the Cabinet will at examination. The nature of his
ericksborg has wirelessed to the Sansha.
¿from a man who was marooned on made an exhaustive examination operate in the national emergency tend this joint meeting, which, it illness is not stated.
Navy Department saying that a
Ran for Shelter.
Angle Island by a typhoon on the There is to be a further Interis expected, will complete its busi
Appendicitis. of the situation and at meetings
Conference to-morrowness at a further meeting to-mor
According to the Daily Mail Cuban aeroplane-dropped a bomb
One fact that seems to emerge night of August 9 and 10: A red of a full Cabinet yesterday pro-Party
the Duke of Gloucester's illness near her and machine-gunned from these massages is that the funnelled ship, answering to the posals advanced for meeting the British Wireless Service and Reu- row
captain of the Kwongsang, clear-Kwofigsang's description anchored. A Cabinet meeting has been has been diagnosed as appendici- her. emergency were fully considered, ter
summoned for 8.30 to-night. The tis. An operation may be neces- No other details of the incidently realising his danger, ran beat about 6.30 p.m. on August 9, in Inter-Party Conference.
Rumour of Dissatisfaction. There is a strong rumour that Prime Minister hopes that after a sary. The latest resort says that are given, except that the inci- fore the gale, anchoring in the position approximately This morning Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald and Mr. Philip Snowden the Trade Union Congress's Gen-further meeting of the Cabinet to the Duke is quite comfortable," dent occurred in Cuban waters. lee of Fuyan Island. There he cables 290 degrees from the sum- took what shelter he could. But mit of Sugar Loaf, Island, in Lat./ during the night the typhoon 26.57 north, Long, 120.19 east. were engaged for two hours with eral Council is dissatisfied with the morrow morning, he may be free He was at Sandringham on Arrange-August 11 with HM the King Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Sir Cabinet's economy proposals. This to resume his holiday.
ments have been made, for him to and Queen when he felt unwell POISON GAS SEQUEL. gained in intensity, culminating She was well lit at 8 o'clock on Samuel Hoare, representing the appears to be confirmed by the
in a terrific storm during the that night. The typhoon was at Conservatives, and Sir Henry official announcement that the fly to Losatemouth to-morrow after last: Wednesday and returned to
The dramatic account, states that and when vialbility cleared at 8. Samuel and Sir Donald MacLean Council was sending a delegation noon. Reuter and British Wire- London. After a medical exa Big Fines for Company small hours of Monday morning. Its height in the middle watch mination yesterday he was rush; 1. on behrif of the Liberals. to Downing Street to place its less Service,,
ed to Alfred House, the Countess
at 8 am the ship was gone."am, on August 10 the ship had Later they met the consultative views before the Cabinet to-night. Premier Cheerful,
of Carnarvon's nursing home in
The presumption to thank the gone. The eye witness's account commitee of the Parliamentary It is believed the Council will re- Forther political arrangements Portland Place Reuter
vessel was blown away, ipite was quite unassailable.
Labour Partya M
quest a further interview with the this afternoon comprised a joint A Statement. Cabinet Economy Committee meeting of the Cabinet Economy This afternoon Mr. MacDonald Sir Samuel Hoare, one of the two Committee, the General Council of bers of the conference looked A sequel to the poison gas or south-west and four of his Cabinet colleagues Conservative spokesman, revealed the Trade Union Congress, and cheerful after the meeting attended a joint meeting of the that be and Mr. Neville Chamber- the National Executive of the Mr. Arthur Hayday, the Labour Executive of the Lab Party lain, stressed, the need for economy Labour Party, which was followed M.P., told Reuter that discussions cided rather than new taxation in at by separate sessions of the two between the Premier and the Con ement tempting to find a solution for the latter bodies
issultative Committed of the Parlia financial crisis when they saw the Mr. Arthur Henderson was prementary Labour Party held this and Premier, to-day.
sent at the last-named! meeting. morning, had finally concluded
nem Reuter noervatives are of Mr. MacDonald and other
and General Council Union Con
issued after the meeti that the Prima Minister Chancello
-Reuter.
Directors.
MEUSE WALLEY TRAGEDY.
Brussels, Yesterday,
five-
of her anchors, and was sunk at I have now learned that there a.point a few miles further south are numerous horses, sheep and human bodies on the south shore deaths of 75 persons in the Yesterday's message said that of Funing Bay, and as wind was Meuse Valley last December is the vessel, was seen to sink in the in the North East, it appears, pos- the heavy fines imposed on a neighbourhood of Chupi Pase, usible that the Kwongsang sank in managing director and a director narrow neck to the south-west of the entrance to Funing Bay. It is of n chemical works in the Liege Tuyan feland: The report to-day known that the Kwongsang was district for allowing the escape would indicate that she actually carrying a deck cargo of horses. I of poison gases from their works, went down a few miles further on propose searching this shore to
-Rauter
in the entrance to Faning, Bay, Imorrow; Friday,