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LANCASHIRE VICTORY.
Ernest Tyldesley 225
Not Out.
ALL-INDIA XI BEAT THE MINOR COUNTIES.
South Americans Draw.
the
London, Yesterday. Heavy scoring was feature of the matches con- cluded to-day. At Worcester Lancashire scored 428 for the loss of only two wickets, Ernest Tyldesley registering a brilliant undefeated double century, whilst Iddon rattled up 100 not out. Worcester's defeat by the large margin of an innings and 105
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GERMANY'S
EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1932.
REFUSAL
MINIMIZED
NOT EXPECTED TO HINDER CONFERENCE
DEBT CANCELLATION STILL REGARDED AS DISTANT.
MR. MACDONALD'S SPEECH FOR WORLD CO-OPERATION
(Reuter's Special Service.)
Lausanne, To-day.
It is believed here that the statement, on June 13, of Herr N. Von Papen, the present head of the German Cabinet, regarding the Reparations Con- ference, will not constitute an out and out refusal to pay reparations.
That action would naturally antagonize cer- dain countries and might hinder the success of the N. D. Marshall, the Bombay Conference but his statement will explain Ger- batsman, was in great form against the Minor Counties and many's position, adding that the wiping out of scored 148 out of 424 for 7 to reparations would effect a recovery. give the All-India X1 an easy The impression emerging from Premier Ram- victory. K. S. Limbdi added a useful contribution of 100 runs say MacDonald's speech is that any agreement for
cancellation of the debts is still a long way off.
before he retired.
HOME CRICKET SCOREBOARD.
County Championship. Lancashire beat Worcester- shire by an innings and 105 runs at Worcester.
Lancashire: 428 for 2 dec. (Tyldesley (E.) 225 not out, Iddon 100 not out),
Worcester: 97 and 226,
Friendites.
The All-India XL defeated the Minor Counties by an inn-
ings and 129 rung.
SIR DONALD
(Continued on Page 6.)",
GERMAN DISPUTE OVER
NAZI UNIFORMS: Expected Clash Has Materialized.
Berlin, To-day. Baden and Bavaria have de- clared that they do not-in- tend to over President Hin- denburg's decree permitting Nazis to wear their military uniforms.
Thus the expected clash between the Central Govern- ment and the Southern States has materialised es Herr N. Von Papen, the present head of the Cabinet, is ada- mant that all States must obey the order of the Cen- ctral Government. Reuter.
DRAMATIC FIRE IN
LONDON.
In Offices of Prudential Assurance Co.
4,000 EMPLOYEES ESCAPE.
All Documents Are
:Saved
London, Yesterday.
were saved and no
ANNAMITE REVOLUTIONIST JAILED.
Sovereign, Note Altered.
Court
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
HOOVER GETS NOMINATION.
Republicans Choose Presidential Candidate.
*VICE-PRESIDENT. CURT IS
RE-NOMINATED.
Unroarious Scenes as Convention Closes.
Chicago, To-day.
The Republican Convention here nominated President Zerbert
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A CHANCE OF A LIFE- TIME IS BEFORE US?
MR. BALDWIN'S STIRRING SPEECH ON OTTAWA CONFERENCE
GOVERNMENT'S POLICY OF FREER TRADE WITHIN EMPIRE,
Hoover as their candidate in the RISE IN WHOLESALE PRICES WANTED
coming Presidential
elections.
Chicago, Later.
The Republican Convention here closed to-day amid uproari-
London, To-day.
The most important pronouncement. made ous scenes after having nominat- hitherto, regarding the scope for the Ottawa Con- ed Vice-President Charles Curtis ference was made by Mr. Stanley Baldwin during as their candidate for that office in the coming elections, Reuter, an hour's earnest speech in the House of Commons
Re-Nomination Expected. late last night. The nomination of Herbert
Clark Hoover by the Republican He party was not unexpected. has been President of the United States since 1929, and the tradi- any President is entitled to a try
tion American that
The agenda was tremendous and there was hardly a subject not included, he declared.
It might take 3 years to accomplish the great task, but it was hoped to make a promising start at Ottawa, concentrating, firstly, on whatever subject had the most direct effect on trade revival.
Distress and disaster had followed the efforts to exclude other countries' goods, and live in a state of isolation, one example being the present condition of the United States.
OUTLINED."
Trade, Currency: und
Included.
London, To-day.
The subjects for discussion at the Ottawa Conference' were outlined by Mr. J..H. Thomes in the House of Commons as tradé "`questions including "the" tariffs of Imperial; preference, `·. imperial rationalisation of in- dustry, monetary and Anancial questions including, the whole
currency;
'and question of
The United Kingdom Govern- ment", advocate' the" establish»« ment of machinery represent- ing the Dominions, to keep them in daily contact with Lon- don without having to wait 8
for a second term.
This year on account of the de pression the Democrats are con- ceded a better chance for success than at any time since the elec- In Holborn to-day great crowds tion of the late President Wood- At Lord's the South Ameri-i
watched a strong force of fireman row Wilson. Although they have can touring eleven forced a draw
No More Reparations.. The economic crisis was such engaged from the tops of water not yet held their convention, with the M.C.C. XI. When On June 13 it was stated that that no country could expect to towers and escapes, inning the the New York Governor, Franklin arly free from the most damag- While the Empire was singu- stumps were drawn they were Herr Von Papen intended at the be immune from its effect. It outbreak of fire at the tofices D. Roosevelt, is the leading can ing forms of trade restrictions, 168 runs in arrears with seven Lausanne Conference to make it was a world crisis and none could of the Prudential Assurance Com-didate for the nomination, X wickets in hand. Reuter. perfectly clear that Germany stay out of the work of reatora-pany.
there was a marked tendency in A large part of the office
Mining Engineer. cannot pay reparations any long- tion and reconstruction.
recent years to heighten the bar- They staff of 4,000 were fetched" within er. It was said at the time that were to considér
President Hoover was born in riers of the Dominions both one of the two minutes of the alarm, : any German Government which causes of their distress the The fire originated in a part of West Branch, Iowa, 57 years ago. against each other and against adopted any other attitude ould financial inheritance of the war the building undergoing reconstruc- He was educated as a mining en Britain. We should ask the be swept out of existence.
and an agreement must be tion. Practically all the documents gineer at Stanford University. Statesmen at Ottawa to const- Chairman's Opening Address. reached regarding it.
one was hurt. His success in that work was der whether, in their own inter- London, Yesterday.
He cited the report of the Only slight damage was done to the phenomenal and took him into all est as well as ours, they might During his opening address as Basle experts which insisted that building.-British Wireles Service. parts of the world. He became a not have gone a little too far Chairman to the delegates of the inter-governmental debts must
partner in a firm of British Min- and too fast in, the industrial de eighteen nations assembled at be adjusted and declared that the
ing Engineers and lived for many velopment, because we are un- the Reparations: Conference at urgency of their appeal had been
years in London.
able to buy what we should like Lausanne to-day Premier Pain-underlined by all that had hap
Until the war he was unknown without exporting to them suf- say Macdonald stressed the ex-pened since that report was
to the American public but dur-ficient goods to pay for it. treme gravity and urgency of issued.
British Keynote. ing that struggle he became pro- the problem confronting them.
minent through his work as head The Government's policy at of the Belgium Relief Commis Ottawa is to be a general objec-migration. sion. After the war he returned tive for freer trade or reciprocal to the United States to live and free trade within the Empire or when President. Harding was the nearest practical approach elected, Mr. Hoover was appoint thereto.
The keynote of the British at- ed Secretary of Commerce, which post be held from 1921 to 1928, titude was the Import Duties
In 1928 he was nominated for Act designed to lead up to Otta-years for the Imperial Confer
ence-Beuter. Had the Government con- to succeed
Calvin Wa. 'Mai Van Vui (27), in Annamite President who was scheduled for banishment Coolidge. In the election his opsidered British interests alone, from the Colony in 1980, and in ponent was Governor Smith of the duties therein would be Canada, like Great Britain, is volutionist, appeared before Mr. vote.
well-known to the Police as a re- New York. He won by a record framed differently and more-
over, the Act gave the Dominions "Regarding currency," he said, London, To-day. delaying the undertaking of the A. W. G. H. Grantham in the Cen- He took office before the col a free entry, and the Dominions the most valuable preliminary Moving tributes to the personal new foreign trade treaties until tral Police Court this morning, lapse of the now famous 1929 could see their way to go, not would be the successful outcome ity of the late Minister for Edu- after the Ottawa Conference charged with the unlawful posses boom and during his past term all the way but a long way in the of the Lausanne Conference, but sion of a genuine half sovereign he has had to confront financial same direction such an action they could have a profitable dis- cation Sir Donald Maclean were Full tariff will be automatically note of the Commonwealth of Aus- and economic problems more seri- would do more, not only to help cussion that might lead to some- addressed in the House of Com-applied reciprocally between tralla, which had been altered to ous than any that faced his pre- themselves and the rest of the thing further.
Fampire, but whole world trade. What was definitely wanted, mons to-day from all parts of the France and Canada in conse purport to be a ten sovereign note, decessors.
Mr Baldwin was sanguine as was a rise in wholesale prices, quence of the breakdown in new
to whether the British spirit without a substantial rise in re would be reciprocated by the tail prices. We had no intention Overseas Delegates."
of ...... returning” to gold as- "A chance of a life time ls be- long as gold behaved it fore us, and if it is thrown away self as at the present it may never return, he said. time. Mr. Baldwin, 'In conclud- ing, hoped that before the pre- Lent Government, lald down their office; they would lay for the gen- eration foundations of a system to Mind the British peoples closer together and re-create prosperi ty.--Reuter
All-India: 424 for 7 dec. (N. D. Marshall 148, K. S. Limbdi 100).
Minor Counties: 122 and
173.
The South American XI. drew with the M.C.C. at Lord's.'
M.C.C.: 888 for 8 dec.; .150 for 8 dec.
South Americans: 270 and
50 for 8.
County Championship Table
on Page 4.
BURKE WINS IRISH
AMATEUR GOLF.
For the Third Year in Succession.
SELECTED FOR WALKER CUP TEAM.
Unknown Outside Ireland.
Portmarnock, Yesterday. John Burke, who, to-d won the Inilah Native Amá Leur Golf Championship for the third year in spcccasion, has been selected to repre- Bent Great Britain in Walker Cup match Fainst America this
In the Hurke
who wille
MACLEAN.
"A Great Personality."
MR. BALDWIN'S TRIBUTE.
House.
CANADA DELAYS TARIFFS.
Wait for Ottawa Conference.
Paris, To-day.
CHASE IN CONNAUGHT ROAD WEST.
Defendant, who was described as ve afie being
LARGE FORCE
Looting Occurs Near Harbin.
Mr. Stanley Baldwin described goliations of a temporary agire bullployed, pleaded not MA ADVANCES WITH Sir Donald as a “Great personal- ment to replace the 1922 Trade Frosecuting, Detective Inspector ity-one of the men who are the Treaty which Canada abrogated. F. W. Shaftain said that it was Ottawa's abrogation also auto-alleged by a foki of a Chinese. very salt and savour of our public matically applies to commercial money changers shop at 48 Con- life."
agreements with 15 other coun- naught Road West that yesterday He added, "When these great tries including. South America, morning, defendant went into the Parliamentary figures are taken Europe and Japan, ——-—---
Router.shop, which carried on business on 4amall scale, and tendered the from us one does not look back BO
genuine currency note. The Loki, much on the external of the man
on examining the note, found that the word half had been obliterat- ed, and had bee word ed for
but to his influence. In Donald STOP PRESS
Maclean I see a soul as cleam as the west wind that blows over - Tires where he was born." British Official Wireless Service.
REVOLUTION PLANS IN CHILE:S
"PRESIDENTIAL" PALACE:
o-day.
Buenos Airës,' ter-revolution
Bains, who Presidential Palace,
BRITISH WARSHIP'S BOWS BATTERED.
Hankow
The defend
When told
TWO CHINESE KILLED.
ten
When a
THE “SHENGKING". OFF ROCKS. Being Towed to Wei-hai-wei,
Shanghai, To-day,
being towed
....
Veikalwe
The Do Them
Currency
Bank Mr Thomas Views, NO The Forthcoming Economie-Com- ferences at Ottawa was, discussed.
Köte Commöna to-day ons Secretary, MENTAH. it would be the duty hen they met fellow men and with them
of the popula
ling, all;
toises