DISARMAMENT
DEBATE OPENS ·
يدة
AT GENEVA
(Continued from Page 1).
Germany was absent, and some method had to be found to keep her in touch in the hope of bringing her back within the ambit of discussion and negotiation with a view to ulti- mate agreement.
An
international agreement about armaments necessarily in- volved, amongst other things, that + Germany should be a party to it.
The French Government, in a memorandum on March 19, ex- pressed concurrence with the phrase in the previous United Kingdom memorandum, that re- conciliation of the points of view: of France and Germany was an es- sential condition of A agreement.
general
ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE? What he asked. were the ef- sential differences which divided these two points of view as they emerged from he documents changed between the various Powers?
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In its statement of views of April 16, the German Government deßned re-armament for which it stipulated in the proposed conven-
declaring i tion. at the same time that it would agree to a postpone ment of the reduction of arma ments of other Powers until the end of the fifth year of the years' convention.
ed.
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURS DAY, MAY 31, 1934.'
Premier Mussolini's Two Little Duces
A charming study of the two small children of near Rome. The driver is Romano, aged siz, and the Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy in their toy auto-passenger in his sister, Anna Maria, four. They are mobile as they played in the grounds of their home the pride of the stera Fascist leader's beast.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
One case of small-pox and three cases of meningitis were reported in
the Colony during the 24 hours end- ing May 29.
a
The 1st Bn. South Wales Bor- derers Ladies' Club vill hold Whist Drive and Tombola at Murray Barracks on Saturday, June 9, com- mencing at 8 p.m.
Aviation and Motoring
DEFENDING LONDON
400 Men Needed To Man Searchlights.
London.
BOMBAY-CALCUTTA AIR MAIL
Early Inauguration Anticipated.
HIGHEST-TAXED MOTORING
France's New Duty On Petrol.
"ONE-MAKE" TOURS ABROAD
London.
Paris motorists make no bones Jabout ventilating their wrath when hit by special taxation. Some of the recent excitements there have been caused by the new Budget which shifted the previous tax on horse-power and weight on to fuel.
There had in the past been a good deal of agitation in France (as in England) for the abolition lof all motor taxes other than that
on fuel, but now that they have got It the commercial interests, and particularly the taxi drivers, have discovered that the fairest and most logical form of tax in theory can be unbearable in practice. when it makes petrol or petrol. alcohol the equivalent of 28. 3d. to 2s. 9d. per gallon.
our
Thus the Parisians are not pro-
ACCIDENTS PIPPERMINT
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Home 25%
Pedestrian Mishapa 17%
Automobiles
19%
Recreation 49%
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The above percentages abow that you are in more danger of an accident in your own home or on the sports field-than on the street.
SICKNESS also comes most un- expectedly and suddenly-
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At that figure, representing from about 18. 6d. to 28. a gallon tax, the French motorist can now claim the unenviable distinction of HITCH ABOUT EXTENDING
being the most heavily taxed in SERVICE TO CEYLON
the world. Our h.p. and other {taxes (not fuel) yield the Trea Bombay. If London were suddenly mem-
sury about £29,000,000 a year; at) It is understood that, as the] ared by attack from the air, it result of an important confer the present rate of consumption an would be almost as vulnerable as ence between representatives of
[additional 6%. per gallon on If, therefore, an internationa?
Chau Wong, a painter, was dit was at the beginning of the Messrs. Tata Sons, Ltd., and the
petrol would bring in the same agreement was to be
reached, mitted to the Kowloon Hospital war so far as ground defence is Government of India in Delhi re- French, compound for all
amount, so that we might, like the either their claim must be modified yesterday, suffering from a fras concerned. or conceded. If they really desir-tured skull, sustained from a fall
cently terms and conditions ac troublesome special taxes at the ed to do business in the Confer while painting a steamer,
The important duty of man- ceptable to the Government for ning anti-aircraft guns and ence, it was essential that this is-
the purpose of inaugurating the price of 2a. petrol. searchlights is in the gole projected Bombay-Calcutta Air What British Motorists. Pay sue should be faced and dealt with
Sentence of four months' hard charge of Territorial units, but Mail Service were discussed and| now by those principally concern Jabour was imposed on Tam Shing, even if there were enough guna Messrs. Tata Sons, Ltd., are now testing without reason.
unemployed, by Mr. E. W. Hamil-and men to fire them, only about preparing to make a further ap-ders, however, what they would do Germany claimed
that the con ton at the Central Magistracy this one-third of the effective search-plication to the Government of if, like us, they found themselves vention, if it followed the general morning, for soliciting for an im-light establishment could be put india for operation of the new subacribing to the State more than Hines already approved by the vote moral purposes last night.
into operation at once because of route. of the General Commission, should
£60,000,000 a year over and above! the lack of recruits,
The hope is expressed in com-their other contributions (income- accept the level of German arma-
Cheung Shing, a P. W. D. coolie, Without searchlights to illu-mercial circles that no obstacles tax, rates, etc.), of which sum, in Read Office ments higher than that provided was sent to the Kowloon Hospital minate their targets and men to will be placed in the way of an spite of specific promises, barely 17 the Bund, in the peace treaties to the extent yesterday, suffering from body in-locate enemy aircraft and track early inauguration of this use one-third indicated in the document of April juries after being knocked down their course with special appara ful and much-needed service, ment and maintenance.
goes to road improve by lorry No. 2189 in Tam Keung tus, the gunners would be nearly which is urgently required and On the other hand, it appeared Road, Kowloon City.
Since 1926, according to the cal- useless,
which will be of great value to culations of from the documents that France
an engineer One of the units which is the two leading business centrespondent of The Daily Telegraph, would desire to stand fast by the For the theft of a cotton singlet working hard to be ready for of India. limits suggested at the meeting of from Li Hing-ho, Wong Hau, possible assault from the air is
motorists have paid £290,000,000 | The Tata Air Mail Service be- the Bureau on October 14 last, former 19th Route Army soldier. the 27th (London) Anti-Aircraft
in special taxes. Less than half with the modification contained in was sentenced to one month's hard Battalion,
tween Karachi Bombay and Royal Engineers, Madras has demonstrated that, Road Fund for its legitimate pur that sum has been taken from the the French memorandum of Jan- labour by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at whose headquarters иге in with efficient management, re-
the Central Magistracy this morn-Rochester-row. S.W.
But it is gularity can be maintained in air poses, so that now we are suffering The suggestions of October were ing.
nearly 400 men short.
Iriem narrow roads, skiddy ronds, propounded on a basis which would!
transport. Several nights a week these
-lit roads, roads with blind As regards extension of the have admitted no immediate re-
Charged with attempting to pro- Territorials are in training at Karachi-Madras Air Mail Service corners, unbanked bends, lacking armament of Germany, other than cure $1.00 from L/C Henry Griffin, headquarters or in various spots to Colombo, enquiries show that in caution signs. Accidents in- an increase in the quantities, proof the Lincolnshire Regiment. in in London appointed as war sta-nothing is known beyond the erase, which, we are told, in en portionate to the gradual trans-Queen's Rond, Contral, on Tues-tions.
that representatives of tirely our fault, formation of the Reichswehr, of
day. Yu Chiu, unemployed. Was They have a first-class social Messrs. Tata Sons, Ltd., visited some of the blame should go to the arms which she was, by treaty, sentenced to six months' hard - club, } gymnasium, frequent Colombo in November, 1933, with diversion of so much of the motor- titled to possess.
bour by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at dances, concerts, and sports, and
a view of advising the Ceylon tax revenue to extraneous objects,) men are asked only to train 20 Government on the selection of a such as the de-rating of the rail- evenings during the first year suitable site for an aerodrome waya. and 10 in subsequent years, in and that, so far, no official in-
16.
uary 1.
CONTRAST OBVIOUS
Germany had rejected that sug-the Central Magistracy this morn-
gestion and the contrast between that proposal and the formulated requirements of Germany of April 16, was obvious.
Were those suggestions, in the present circumstances, possible as
a basis ment?
of international agree
these crucial points beneath mere-
ly general observations. The only
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fact
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whereas at least
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DRIVER'S 20 HOURS AT THE WHEEL.
Motor Firm' Fined
BRITISH CARS OVERSEAS
Why Not Branch Factories In Canada?
Kindly grant me a little space to
Mr. John Russell. Presidential addition to the yearly camp formation has been received re- Agent for Chinn of the Theosophi-which is held by the seaside two garding the intentions of the One result of dear petrol in France will be to compel French cal Society, will give a public lec-out of every three years,
Ceylon Government regarding ture this evening in the Lodge Room Recruits need no technicall of the Manuk Lodge of the Society. training, and the recruiting age neighbourhood of Colombo,
provision for an aerodrome in the makers to concentrate on economy of running in their cars; our pre- 17, Queen's Road, Centrai. His sub-is between 17 and 50.
It is believed that Messrs. Tata sent supremacy in light cars doing. jeet will be "The Known and the The conference would make no Unknown." and the meeting
Sons, Ltd., are in a position to many miles to the gallon is likely progress by avoiding or burying commence at 6 pm.
extend their service from Madras to be challenged.
Statements that a motor transport It wil also, of course, make a to Colombo at short notice as soon as an aerodrome at Colom-difference to the cost of touring in company caused a driver to be con-... bo is provided.
France, but at least we are now tinuously at the wheel from 7 o'clock. In case the extension scheme rid of that irritating ten frames one morning until 3 the next mora-air a healthy indignation at the re-
luctance materialises, it is probable that per day laisser passer tax-irritating were made when the Tresham manufacturers to open branch fac of English automobile was a possible bridge to be built by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen-
Trichinopoly will be made an in-ling because apparently so inhospit- Transport Co., Ltd., High-street, tores in Canada. I would like a between the conflicting points of iral Police Court this morning,
able, which the French are cer-London, were summoned On ten view and what was the contribu for being in possession of 48 teele vate owner, costing only £156,
Light acroplanes for the pri-termediate halting station.
tainly not. French and other foreign counts. tion they must respectively make of prepared oplum, at the Hing fully equipped, are about to be
motorists coming to our shores get. It was alleged that they caused question. to construct that bridge.
ninety days' tax-free motoring, ex-one of their employees, John Swait, several English. manufacturers cept, of course, for the petrol tax. to drive a motor vehicle for a con- this subject, and have always re- Now at lest we are on the same tinuous period of more than eleven ceived the same weak, discouraging footing in France—or, at any rate, (hours in twenty-four hours, and
will FRENCH LIGHT 'PLANE
FOR £156
Premiums For Pilots.
Paris,
A fine of $5,000, in default 12. thing that mattered now was an months' hard labour, was imposed agreement to find out if there on Tam Kwai, a Chinese
BRIDGE BUILDERS
His Majesty's Government had
dane their very best to be the bridge builders. By the end of
Kea Wharf, yesterday.
Personal Par
woman.
this general debate they ought to Mrs. J. 11. Taggart, wife of the see more clearly where the founda-managing-director
tions for such A bridge must be Jaid if the gap was to be closed.
They could see already how overwhelmingly
the grave
consequences must be laid if after all this effort and these prolonged debates, no bridge could be bulls..
In the opinion of the British
"Government, the draft convention
of the Hong
put on the French market.
Owner-pilots will receive pre- |miums from the Air Ministry provided they fulfil certain fly- ing qualifications.
'PLANE ALMOST FLIES ITSELF.
Slower Than A Horse.
London.
well-informed answer to this vital
I have written time after time to
on
we do not, as we used to, pay extra caused him to drive a motor vehicle answer, such as "we are investigal- in taxes because The £156 machine has a 40-h.p.
we are visitors (without allowing him the statutory {ing,” but nothing ever happens.
Why is Canada ignored when it with foreign cars. The addition ten hours consecutive rest in twenty- Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., twin-cylinder engine consuming
can be made the largest and richest will be the hostess at a farewell litres (approximately 2 gallons)
to the petrol coat is 6d, a gallon, four hours. In a race between a horse and so that if you use no more than party to be held on June 9 in hon-an hour. Other particulars are:
The company were fined a total natural market for English cars out- Speed, at 2.100 revolutions, an 80-h.p. aeroplane at Han five gallons a day you will be no of £20 for two cases of permitting, side the British Isles, if the cars worth Aerodrome, Feltham, Mid-worse off than under last year's and ordered to pay £5 138. costs, dlan conditions and also to be were made here, to conform to Cana- Run required for taking desex, recently, the horse won! conditions.
our of Mrs. Douglas Jenkins, wife of the American Consul General, who has been transferred to Ber- lin.
crete proposal
GREATER SECURITY His Majesty's Government was
which the Conference had adopted strengthened in that judgment by
851 m.p.h.;
off, 220 ft.;
This was one of several items Distance needed for landing, in a programme demonstrating 105 ft.:
the new British Klemm "Swal- Landing speed, 25 miles per low," claimed to be the safest and easiest aeroplane to fly in hour.
demonstrating the ma
A third-party risk Insurance the world.
as the basis still afforded the best s most Interesting memorandum of £6,000 will be provided for a Rolution. Realising, however, the put forward by the Danish,{premium of 29 a year.
serious consequences of failure to Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish and
of
RACE
London-Melbourne Event.
In
chine, Mr. E. G. Hordern, the test pilot, proved that, the ma- chine can almost fly itself. Ho
climbed rapidly in stcep/spirals,|
T
US. MASS FLIGHT TO ITALY.
Rumours Officially Denied.
Washington.
The other summonses were dismiss ed. No evidence was offered in the case against Swait.
AMERICAN AVIATION NOT BEHIND. Cities Need Not Fear Air Attacks.
Phitadelphia
directly competitive as to price, size, and design, with cars of our own manufacture?
Where is that old British pioneer épfrit? Competition such as "only,
you can give is the one thing the
Industry in this country needs.
Perhaps, had British manufac- turers been present at the great
Canadian National Exhibition to
reach an agreement, they were Swiss delegations, the main con- RECORD PLANE TO took off in an area of 100 yards, determined to formulate the modi-jclusione ́of which seemed to be in fications which "found expression close accord with those of the in the memorandum of January 29. (United Kingdom memorandum. It contained proposals regarded, It was true that the viow not as ideal, but as most likely of those Powers was that security acceptance,
should go beyond the proposals,of The close approximation be-the United Kingdom memorandum. tween that memorandum and the That was a question not of prin- German declaration showed that ciple, but of degree, and he point der acrpolane Postfager, which It is the forerunner of a now The Bureau of Aeronautics, cently said that the American of other nations. In fact he the differences were being narrowed out that part One of the United recently created a new record in "Eagia" model a touring ma- Navy Department, stated that cities need not fear the enemy concluded, we have mer nlanga
Kingdom draft convention dealt the number of fiving hours taken chine with a cabin, which will the trip was too expensive just air force druh
THESE TERMS and licensed pilots in the Tinited The British Government, felt with security along lines on which for the night from Amsterdam have a maximum speed of 180 now and it would be better to “It is a shame" he added to States then Great Britain, that the line, of that memorandum they might hope for the sympathy to Batavia ill take part in the miles an hour, and will be one of spend the money for the con- scare the people. Our aero France, Germany Italy Japan
agreement than any other con- States -British Wireless Service: Iber 30,48
In the world
undertake such a trip/
lare said to be inferior to those gether."
see a little Austin Seyah and a big Ford V8, alde by side, selling at ap- and slowed down to 30 miles an Beports that the Navy was
proximately the same price," "they houra speed at which most contemplating a masa flight of
would have been shocked into action. aeroplanes stall and main-naval planes, to Italy in 1985 to Speaking here before the World—A correspondent in "The Auto- tained height.
...repay the visit. of the Italian War Military Order Association's cir” The machine, which has a top filers under Air Marshal Italo Steering Committee, General The Hague. speed of 112 miles an hour, is an Balbo, were officially denied by Kilbourne, chief of the operations owned by foreign powers. But It is stated here that, the Pan- open two-seater.
the Navy Department to-day, red division of the General Staff, re- our planes now are equal to those
ed.
wewas more likely to produce, an and co-operation of the United London Melbourne race on Octo the fastest machines of its type struction of new planes than planes have been criticised and and Soviet Russia hova toc