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HOOVER OPPOSES SUSPENSION OF VAST WAR
HITLER WANTS
DICTATORSHIP
FOR GERMANY
Suggests Presidential Cabinet Be Formed.
CAN'T FIND MAJORITY.
Berlin. To-day.
Herr Adolf Hitler is ask- ing for a virtual dictatorship of Germany, either for him. self or for some member of the Nazi party.
Herr Hitler has made his reply to President von Hindenburg'a invitation to form a Govern ment. In view of the Prosi- dent's conditions, the Nazi chief finds it impossible to form a Gov- ernment with a Parliamentary majority, he says,
He follows this announcement with a suggestion, which com- mentators forecasted as inevit- able, namely: that a presiden- tial cabinet be formed with him- self or another Nazi as Chancel- lor, succeeding Herr von Papen. This office, he adds, should be in- vested with dictatoriul powers ao that the Chancellor can dissolve the Reichstag if it becomes ob- streperous, rule without a Par-
Hument when necessary and dis- solve the Constitution..
A recent photograph of Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty. (S. & G.)
Sharp Fighting In The North
Japanese Repair Railroad.
FIRST CHINA
JURY TRIAL
IN KIANGSU
Six Men Chosen. For Posts.
A SECRET TRIAL,
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, To-day.
For the first time in the history of Chinese jurls- prudence, trial by jury was instituted in the Third Kiangsu High Court in con- nection with a case, the na- ture of which was kept a secret.
The jury was appointed
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LYTTON COMMISSION ASKED WASHINGTON DENIES
TO RECONSIDER REPORT.
League Council Hears Further Discussion.
Genova, To-day. The League of Nuttons Council resumed its consideration of the
Lytton Report here yesterday
afternoon.
After hearing further state- ments by Mr. Matsuoka for Japan and Dr. Wellington Koo for China, the Council decided that the Lytton Manchuria Commission should meet to decide whether, in the light of the speeches, they de sired to modify this Report.--Bri- tish Wireless Service.
by the court's request HUGE CREDIT
through the local Kuomin- tang headquarters.
The base is believed to involve several suspected Communists. Twenty-four jurors were nominated of whom six were chosen to serve on the first jury.
CONFLICTING
EVIDENCE IN
WALLER CASE
Defence Witnesses Contradict Crown.
CASE NEARING FINISH.
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Sterling Drops Under Pessimist Wave.
SPECULATORS THREATEN.
New York, To-day. As a result of President
BRITAIN RELIEF
AMERICA WILLING TO BARGAIN FOR TRADE
BUT LOANS MUST BE REPAID
ROOSEVELT'S
ASSURANCES
OF COURTESY America Should Listen To Any Debtor.
ADVISES INDIVIDUAL MOVE.
New York, To-day.
The best means of dealing with debts is by some diplomatic action by the individual debtor, in the opinion of President-elect AMERICA HAS REFUSED TO CONSIDER ANY FURTHER Roosevelt, who was interviewed SUSPENSION OF WAR DEBTS, AND THE BRITISH PAYMENT aboard his train en route to At-
lanta. DUE DECEMBER 15 MUST BE MET. PRESIDENT. HOOVER AN- He declared any single debtor NOUNCED HIS UNCOMPROMISING STAND, BUT SUGGESTED nation should be assured of a THAT. AMÈRICA WAS WILLING TO BARGAIN FOR TRADE thoughtful consideration to be courteous and sympathetic and
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given to any new. conditions or At the same time he said that in his view the preservation of facts adduced by the debtor
affecting any phase its indebted peace and the economic recovery of the world depended upon "hon- ness. In the meantime, the im- est friendship, mutual confidence and proper co-operation among mediate questions raised by the Franco-British notes was the res- nations,"
ponsibility of the present Legis- Rt. Hon. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, lative Executive authorities. stated that he could not understand why America felt that the recon-committal as to his reactions Mr. Roosevelt was completely quest for suspension was not justifiable. He recalled Britain's sacrito Mr. Hoover's attitude. The fices to aid her debtors.
only interpretation which can be placed upon his words, it Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson has sent America's reply seems, is that he will listen to
to the Anglo-French notes to the European capitals.
Washington, To-day.
President Herbert Hoover has
Hoover's debt decision, the pound slumped. again yes- Harbin, To-day.
terday reaching a new low level According to Japanese informa-
for the year at In other words, the Chancellor tion from Imienpo, the Japanese
$8.24%. would be the dictator, with abso-military are repairing the signal-
According to the Evening declared himself opposed to any lute powera, and the President no ling apparatus at Samohval, which
Post" it is being persistently suspension of the debt payments, rumoured on Wall Street that due December 16, and has re- more than a figure-head, under was damaged in the train wreck the Nazi plan. Whether he were of yesterday. The report also Four witnesses, including one Messrs. J. P. Morgan's have as- commended that Congress creato Chancellor or not, Herr Hitler states that the passenger service of the most influential Chinesejaured London bankers of a sub-an agency for the exchange of would be, so to speak, the power with Hailun is expected to be re-residents of Taipo, gave testi- stantial credit. (estimated at views with the debtor nations on behind the throne. - Reuter. sumed to-morrow.
mony in the Supreme Court this $100,000,000) to be advanced to the international financial obliga- Severe minor engagements morning that on October 2. Act-support sterling if it were found tions. Holland Builds chuan have resulted in
southwest and southeast of Pai-ing Sub-Inspector H. Waller, necessary as a result of the pay- Japanese who is charged with taking a $50 ment of the debt due December and anti-Manchukuo losses. The bribe, did not enter the premises 15. Japanese Tariff Wall
have captured
of the Cheung Chan Medicine It is believed the British bal- hundred shells, wagkas and one Shop, Taipo, where, according ances in New York are adequate automobile Reuter.
to Crown witnesses, the officer to meet the debt, but a substan- was given the money. The wit-tial part of the property is in nesses who gave this evidence London banks, and not in the Bri are the master and fokis of the tish Treasury. shop.
The
The Hague, To-day..
Government's proposal
to raise the customs duties 30 per cent. on only those articles! which cannot be made in Holland, and also proposals to raise the beer exise tax 15 per cent. andį the sugar excise tax 20 per cent., has been approved by the second Chamber,
Holland recently abrogated her trade agreement with Ger. many, her markets having been invaded by cheap manufactures from acros9 the border. The new duties are directed against the world.
MANCHESTER
NOVEMBER
+
three
The accused man, who is an
HANDICAP officer of the Hong Kong Police
Cobequid Favourite At 8 To 1.
RICHARDS RIDING ARENA
AT 100 TO 9.
for the
It is feared the payment of the instalment on Decem- ber 15 would leave the Bri- Force, stationed at Taipo, is
tish balances too small to charged before Sir Joseph Kemp,
protect sterling against the Chief Justice, with taking a
speculative sales. bribe from Ho Kiu, a foki of the Speculators have already play- Po Wa Tong Medicine Shop, ed heavily against the pound and after the latter had been found their raids have brought ther in possession of six taels of raw profits. They drove the price to opium. The opium seizure was $3.25 at the market's opening, made on the premises of the Po and caught two points of profit
the reaction Tuesday.
London, To-day. The following are the final ac Wa Tong, and accused is alleged on It is anticipated that, with the ceptances
Manchester to have instructed a Chinese de-Reuter. restricting levies as a lever, Hol- November Handicap together with tective, Ling Sam, to ask Ho Kiu land will endeavour to make a jockeys and latest betting figures: for $100 or $50.
trade agreement with Great Bri- tain. Reuter.
RICE TAX NOT YET IMPOSED.
Nanking, To-day. Interviewed by Reuter to-day, Mr. T. V. Soong, Minister of Finance, stated that the Government has not yet decided on the question of an import duty on rice. He Bald the problem was not a simple one, because the people of such provinces | as Fukien, Kwangtung and Kwangsi normally import a good deal of rice from abroad, and if there is a' sud-
· den imposition of a Customs duty, the people in those province might Buffer.
As a consequence, before any im- port duty could be considered, ar rangements must be made between southern merchants and merchants
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Waller's Evidence. While being cross-examin- ed by Mr. J. A. Fraser, Waller, in the witness box, said, that when he first saw the accusation, it occurred to him that it had been. framed up on account of his having acquired a certain unpopularity, amount of through his efforts at street cleaning in moving all ob
structions....
LONDON STOCKS
INACTIVE.
Government Bonds Still Firm.
London, To-day. London stock markets yesterday morning were not very active pend-- ing the war debts developments. but the main feature was the renew-
ed firmness of British Government
stocks, with a general advance of %
to in the leading issues.
War Loan assented at 97-1/8 and the New Conversion Loon 1-1/2 dis- count-British Wireless Service.
Silver Castor (Dines) 20-1 Premier Advances New Plans
and d.
Anna (E. Smith) 40--1 t and' o, Isthmus (Nevett) 100-8 t and o.
To Aid British Unemployed
President Hoover declares that no facts have been pre- sented by the debtor Govern- ments justifying a postpone- ment of the payment of debt instalments due next month. His recommendation is for the creation of a commis- sion to receive suggestions on the war debt problem and "io report to Congress such recommendations as it deems desirable."
President Hoover.
President Hoover's statement
Churchill's
Protest
Britain's Sacrifice In War Debts.
London, To-day, Mr. Winston Churchill, In- dependent Conservative, in his first speech in the House of Com mons, since his recent illness, dealt with the war debt question. He deeply regretted that the question had, he was afraid, been largely removed from the high circles of American states-
any suggestions made by debtor nations at any time, but that he disapproves of anything savour- ing of Anglo-French co-opera- tion, as debtor nations, and the forcing of 'America
into a course she might not desire to follow. Reuter.
CRISIS FACING
GREAT BRITAIN
IN DEBT TANGLE
Premier Recalls Heavy British Losses.
ADMITS U.S. DIFFICULTY.
London, To-day. Premier Ramsay MacDonald. men, who understood the world made not the slightest criticism positon and all arguments in or complaint of the American at- this matter, and was to a large titude on war debts when he extent in the hands of obdurate learned of President Hoover's newly-elected assemblies, whose answer to the British note. He members had given specific merely warned Great Britain pledges to their constituents. against too hasty judgment of Without attempting to anticipate America, who had her own trou. the British Government's decision bles, pointed out that no one in the face of torturing problem, ho could have foretold that America. believed all were agreed that "If we would take the view she did and alone, among all the combatants of explained the crisis as it really the Great War, victors or vanquish was in Britain.
ed, are to be condemned without re- The amount of the present ceiving anything from our debtors debt 'could only be paid by gold to pay for nearly two generations of or by goods and services. Gold vast overseas Indemnity as punish was scarce save in those locali ment for the exertions we made in ties where. It was quietly and the war, and, as a penalty for our safely accumulating in a hole. good faith afterwards, that would If payments could not be made be a situation which would, indeed, in gold the problem arose of pay-- be Intolerable"-British Wireless ment by goods and services, and Service.
there they were met with world difficulties,Y NA
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reiterates his opposition to the Ho concludes:@"If civilisation cancellation of debta, but, sug: Is to be perpetuated, the great NO HELP
IN
SIGHT
AT GENEVA
Peking, To-day.
gests that the United States causes of world peace and dis could be compensated otherwise armament and economic recovery, than by cash; for example, by must prevail. They cannot pre- the expansion of markets for vail until a path to their attain- United States products and ment is built on honest friend- the development of economic re-ship, mutual confidence and pro- lations which would contribute per co-operation among nations." According to Chinese sources, a to the recovery of prices and of It is learned that President joint message was despatched to trade. He emphasises the con- Hoover also suggests that the three Chinese delegates at ccasions made by the United States as a result of transfers where the immediate transfer of Geneva yesterday, for transmission North Drift (Dowdall) 100-80. MacDonald, in the House of Com-and the allotment schemes and, an-ring the burden from the tax the next debt payment in dollars to the League Assembly, by four
Gemcouragement of homecrafts in rural Payers of other countries to the sides, America would consider kuo forces, including Ma Chan-· Disarmament (A.. N. Other) mons last dight, in referring to
American taxpayer and concludes 28-1 t and on
schemes for the alleviation of un-ful occupations and maintaining by stressing the relationship of the proposal to accept transfera shan, Su Ping-wen, Ting Chao, L
debts and disarmament.
in foreign currencies. Tu and Wang Tel-ling Reuter. employment, has more than once morale, are also among the pro-
Political leaders are most The leaders declared that: "To we mentioned the promotion of the coal posals, a
Plea for Peace. divided in regard to Mr. Hoover's tell the truth we have never suggestion of a debt commission, thought of seeking the assistance President Hoover suggests The position taken by some of the Lengue for the recovery of
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of rice producing provinces, so as to and o ensure their obtaining cheap rice. without interruption: Otherwise,
he stated, large masses of the people would be affected, Router.
RAILWAY OFFICIAL HERE.
London; To-day.subject.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay The extension of land settlement
areas as a means of providing use
would involve losses to both teen lendern of the anti-Manchu-
A stir was caused at Blake Pier hydrogenation process for the Lord Hallstam, Minister for War, yesterday afternoon, when it was die extraction of petrol and other oils aald in the House of Lord last night, covered that a Chinese man had jump- Mr. Lee Sin-kun, the managing ed into the harbour.
a motoring industry and
ed garden allotments and the Gov-agency to be created by Con all possibility of the debt ques prove the proposal for an inter Chuchow Hallway Administration, boat manoeuvred in the vicinity and The newspapers state that many ernment hoped during the coming gress should be completely or tion being
succeeded in pulling the man out, arrived in Hong Kong yesterday The man, Wong Kam, 30, was foard members of the Government are year, that 30,000 additional slot-partially identical with the dele- by the present with the intention of buying rail apparently insane, und sent to the favourably Impressed by the resulta ments would be provi way supplies,
Government Civil Hospital avu of Investigations undertaken on this Wireless Service::
director of the Chinchow and Sergeant Zaman Allan Lance as a means of stimulating the min- that 60,000 unemployed now possen-that the membership of the leaders would virtually eliminate/Manchuria, nor will we ever ape.
British gations to the econoite and dis-
armament Conferences!
considered
national regime in Manchuria, which is entirely Incompatible with, China' territorial integrity." Reuter