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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1935
Government Reply To Criticism HIS EXCELLENCY'S 78 BOMBS DROPPED ON
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Government Policy Defended
UTILISATION OF SURPLUS BALANCES
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BRITAIN'S INTEREST.
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(Continued from Page 9.). permit. Mr. C. F. Strickland's
report, to which the Honour eral Chamber of Commerce,able Member makes reference. as. commercial under-thought it does not refer spe- which.
morrow morning. The British standing is of prime importance, cifically to those two activities.
London: All the British Minis-member, Mr. Eden, is already on is even more a move in the right is closely concerned with them.
ter are holding themselves in his way to Geneva and it is ex readiness... lest direction and merits all possi-At the present moment Govern
an emergency pected that the French Premier, ble aid and encouragement from ment is engaged in exploring
Cabinet is necessary to-morrow M. Laval, will proceed there after the Government.
the possibility of obtaining lo
His Excellency the Officer Ad-after the League meeting. Should the meeting of the French Coun
to-day. It is The Honourable Member's ally an expert of the type re ministering the Government. Mr the questions of sanctions become cil of Ministers suggestion regarding procedure quired, an instance of the type, L. Smith, said:
ja "practical issue Parliament will also stated that the Italian mem- on the presentation of future of economy which I am con- It is. I hope, unnecessary for be summoned specially to approve ber, Baron Aloisi, has signified
me to crave again for your indul whatever measures are budgets deserves full considera fident will meet with the appro-L
recom-his intention to be present at the
Council. tion, and the helpful spirit inval of all Honourable Members.
gence as I did when I introduced mended by the Cabinet. which it is offered is highly ap Economy Necessity
the Budret three weeks ago.
◊ PROCEDURE -DISCUSSED
The decision to call the Cour "The Honourable Mr. Pater-)
Paris: The agenda for the Council was taken after the receipt preciated.
Opium In The Colony son has rightly called attention Everyone in this room is aware of
cirem-cil meeting to-morrow was disby the Secretariat of a note from The contradiction in the to the extent to which Hong the further, lamentable Budget speech to which the Hon- Kong's difficulties are not of its stances which have led to my cussed by Mr. Eden and M. Laval the Italian Government, explain- ourable Mr. J. P-Braga draws own making, and Government cupation today of this seat, and for an hour and a quarter in a ing the reasons which had led it earnest hope that we conversation at the Quai d'Orsay."to authorise the High Command. attention in his opening para- is fully alive, as has been made it is our graphs is apparent rather than abundently clear, to the neces shall see the early return to duty A communique states that the in Eritrea to take the necessary both of: Sir Thomas Sauthor and Ministers reviewed the various measures of advance,” and of a real The opening. on the sity for economy.
kinds of procedure that might be telegram from the Emperor of Secretary of State's instruc "Shipping, as the ultimate of Mr. Tratman.
I should like. if I may be followed, and would continue to Abyssinia asserting that Italian military aeroplanes had bombard- tions, of seven more opium basis of the Colony's wealth shops does not imply that the and of Government's revenue, allowed, to express on behalf of collaborate at Geneva-Reater.
ed Adowa and Adigrat and claim- Colony will thereby increase is naturally a constant concern; the Council our great admiration
London Following the out-ling that these attacks constituted even its
from and I am advised that the for the fortitude with which Sir! gross revenue
in break of hostilities on the borders a violation of the Empire fron- the sale of opium, or even that charges for dues and services in Thom although obviously it aims to do so. Rather it is Hong Kong are based on the considerable physical pain at our of Abyssinia, the League Comeil tier and a breach of the Covenant
The Italian Ambassador to be interpreted as a further Board of Trade rates, and com- last meeting and only a few hours has been summoned to meet toby Italian aggression.”
that i are London. Signor Grandi," called at; attempt to secure stricter con- pare very favourably with those before undergoing his operation,
too
deeply upon the Foreign Office, where he was trol of a traffic recognised as of competing ports in the Far remained in this chair until the ton thinks Reference might also end of a meeting of more than encroaching
reserves while the seen by the Permanent Under-Se undesirable, with a view to its East. ultimate extinction; the shops be made to the fuller answer ordinary length.
"I desire at the outset to thank Honourable Dr. Kotewall holds cretary, Sir Robert Vansittart, to be opened are to take the given by the Colonial Secre
licensed re-tary in connection with the the Unoffial members for their the view that we should use more and communicated the reasons of his Government for making the place of thirteen tailers. whose licences will be 1935 Budget, as recorded on careful and generally kindly of them.
The fixing of the round advance.
RESORT TO WAR? simultaneously terminated. It page 80 of Hansard 1934 criticism of the Budget for 1936 25
The Council will have to must be obvious that the ter-Every care is taken to ensure regards both the details and the figure of - $10,000,000 Gentlemen, mination of the monopoly that competitive advantages larger principles. The acting was no doubt to some extent
sort to war In violation of the would, so long as a demand ex-shall not operate to the detri-Colonial Secretary, whom I ven- arbitrary; but once that figure is tide whether there has been a re- ture to congratulate on the very/fixed the principles are simplyCovenant. As the procedure an ists, have the effect merely of ment of Hong Kong.
Postal Charges
those upon which any ordinary able maiden speech which you
der Article XV has not been com- handing over the trade entirely to illegitimate dealers, who al "Turning now to the suggested have just heard, has covered most business would be prudently completed, the breach, if it is ready present a sufficiently for-review of postal charges, it must of the points at issue and it only dacted. The recurrent services of ablished, will be under Article be remembered that three fifths remains for me at this final stage Government, including Military XII, under which the parties midable problem.
"The reduction in the Medica of the outpayments in respect of at the debate to touch upon a few contribution.
in local questions which have not been met by the recurrent revenue that submitted to enquiry by the Coun- Department's European staff-carriage of mails are
comes by way of taxation If one nursing sister is in concurrency and are unaffected by ex-covered already. sonance with Government's de change. The remaining two fifths "On the principle of swallowing this shows a proft and taxes are until three months after the re- clared policy of utilising the are paid not in sterling but in first what is the most unpalatable reasonably light the balance can port by the Council.
Resort to war by a League services of Asiatics wherever international gold francs the of the doses, I should like to say properly be used for non-recur- possible.
Hong Kong dollar has not during that I am very sorry to think that rent, expenditure, particularly the member in disregard of its Co- **The Honourable Member's the past three years appreciated Sir Henry Pollock. whose long more important items of Public venants under Article XII" brings claim for further expenditure much in terms of this currency service on this, Council and intim- Works Extraordinary, Land Sales, into operation Article XVI.
the Railway frontage in of the domestic expenditure of ate knowledge of procedure give if I may use an analogy familiar is recalled in this connection that! Kowloon has already been dealt the department in wages and very great weight to any consider to many, are the equivalent of the the application of Article XVI a social club, was the subject of 19 interpre- with in the introductory salaries only one fifth is based on ed judgment which he may ex- Entrance Fees in
direct to Capital|tive resolutions approved by the speech on the first reading (un sterling. The remainder is in local press here, should apply the term and should go
1922, and it is der the head of the "Botanical
jcurrency unaffected by exchange unconstitutional" to any action Account (so to speak) and not to Assembly in and Forestry Department) and The denominations of stamps on the part of the Government Worlding Account; but apart from thought likely that the League seems to call for no further used for the Empire and the leading up to the speech which I these it is simply a question of would be partly guided by these or expansion, in-in considering further procedure: comment
Foreign letter rates. namely 10 delivered three weeks ago in in-retrenchment
It is believed that the Assembly "The erection of shelters out-
cents and 20 cents are specially troducing the Budget I should crease or decrease of taxation as side the Kowloon Hospital is a matter rather for the Bus Com-designed Jubilee stamps. Through doubt whether the whole Colonial each seems proper to the Govern- may be re-convoked for the ter
The ginning of next week. out the Empire it has been decid-service contains any Administra- ment and to this Council
jealous of the fact that in the past many years than the Government, and it is in any case to be ed to use these issues until Detor who is more
traffic cember 31 of this year and any rights of the Legislative Council, the Colony has been able to
large doubted whether
local alteration of rates would in- and particularly of the Unofficial nance would justify the expense. volve a departure from this animembers of that Council. than Sir schemes from income has perhaps tended to cloud the above gen- Lighting And Draining The reduction in expenform policy. The 5 cent rate to Thomas Southern, whose absence ture on street lighting is not to China which is also served by a to-day we so deeply deplore. Ineral principles.
Paradoxical Position inerpreted that Government Jubilee stamp cannot be altered saying this I have no desire to
"The Reserve Account, or Sur
Balancez, as plus contemplates cutting down the without reference to the Chinese shirk my amount of light, but merely Administration as the rate which sponsibility, as I was acting as that it has secured more fa- is the same in both directions has Colonial Secretary at the time should thus never be reduced to approved by the overwhelming vourable terms. In point of been fixed by mutual agreement when the action now criticised a dangerous level; but on
other hand it should be an im- Air Mails
was decided upon.
the full approval and support of fact, experiments are. I am
**While these considerations "What happened was this. When proper sacrifice of the present the Liberal Party in Parliament advised, at present in progress. street lighting at very little ad- tion asked for, I would invite the timates were available it became
desirable public works remain deliberate and scornful attempt ditional cost
Honourable Member's attention to clear that a deficit must be anti- The drainage of the Yauma- the concession already granted cipated at the agreed exchange undone could be reduced; and we to bring the League of Nations ti and Homuntin areas has long this year in respect of air mail rate of 1/8. It then became im- thus arrive at the position, which into futility and contempt," he to decide may sound paradoxical at first asked if it was the duty of the been a recognised desideratum, charges, a concession made at the mediately necessary but has, like more desirable pro- cost of direct loss to Government whether or not a salary cut should sight. that to possess large sur League to intervene effectively in jects, been postponed for better inasmuch as the stamp revenue re be forthwith recommended as plus balances on the year's work the dispute between Italy and eminently desirable Abyssinia or another State, and times. It involves works of covered falls to cover the direct from January 1, 1936, and the Esing is an
(Continued from Page 1) considerable magnitude and it expense of transit charges. It is timates of Expenditure revised thing; but to budget for such is replied: "There can be no possi-
The troop transports are still is not considered that the num- proposed, nevertheless, that the and reprinted on that basis; and generally improper.
Fixing Exchange
be in the affirmative. The League being hindered by the new rain- ber of persons likely to derive question shall be brought up for it was finally decided that a sum-
"The third question, which has and Britain, as a League me fal, which, however, it is pointed benefit from such a project jus-farther consideration early in
situation of the whole mary
net been touched upon in to-ber. raust see the matter out, is not a disadvantage as
#INVESTIGATIONS MADE OVER tifies such expense at the pre 1936 in the light of the exchange should be reported by telegraph
Com to the Secretary of State and his day's speeches, is the desirability through."-British Wireless Ser-enables the Abyssinians to
TWELVE MONTHS sent.
situation as then existing
of fixing exchange to cover the vice.
plete their defensïve measures "The Hon. Member will also The question of the mainten sanction requested for mention
Government's sterling commit have noted that a sum has been ance of an independent Govern- to be made in the introductory
which are mainly directed to A very full and complete. ex- ments. I suppose that every busi- Mr. A. Brostedt, Asiatic Trafficwards the defence of the railway amination of question of Muxtasi allocated for anti-malarial work ment telephone exchange was fully speech of the possible necessity on the Mainland, and an effort discussed in 1932 by the Retrench of such a salary revision in cerness man in the Colony must have Manager of the Canadian Na will be made to secure to Homent Commission, and I would ftain contingencies. ActionCon
thought, on hearing that the 1936 tional Railways, returned to the CONCENTRATION ON RAILWAY in the Colony has been made by the Committee appointed by the could Budget muntin its due share of attenvite the Honourable Member's these lines was in due course ap balanced at a 1/10 dollar, that Straits Settlements and Java by vanced into Somaliland, it is said subject, and a series of appen- probably bey Colony from a business trip to the The Italian troops · have ad-] Government to inquire into the n. In addition, the atten-attention to pages 7 and 36 of the proved by the Secretary of State tion of the Head of the Sani- Commission's Report The post-who added, however, that the here was a single way of ineur- the P. and 0. Finer Cathay on here, confirming the expectations dices is also annexed to their re-
port, just issued, tary Department will be direct tion has not altered since then possibility of additional taxation, ing against loss. The subject is Wednesday, accompanied by Mts that the Italians will attempt to
reach the railway line by Čufarch The Committee, consisting of ed to the problem; my informa and the peculiar situation of the on the principle of equalising not an easy one to discuss in Brostedt.
ing around French Somaliland: Mr. F. H. Loseby (Chairman), Mr. tion is to the effect that the Government system, with its con- sacrifices, should in his opinion open debate, but I would only say that the proposal was given the only recent complaint of mos stant Intercommunication requir be foreshadowed in the same quito nuisance in Homuntin was traced to breeding on the ling something in the nature of a speech. I trust that Honourable earnest consideration of the Gov-ised by the Women's Guild of the way bridge at Hulini, which and Miss Dorothy Brazier, was which again illustrates the need connecting wires, render it such prior reference of a matter that such a course, to which there held on Saturday, October 5, at 3 frontier, is particularly threatened lism Peel, primarily to consider: premises of one of the residents, sub-exchange, and its very long Members will agree with me that ernment before it was decid of co-operation on the part of tremely unlikely that the proof principle to the Secretary of are certain objections: at any pm. There will be a whist drive as the bridge, which so faz, is still and report upon sigrestions",
easily made by Sir George Maxwell in a posals to abandon the independent State is in no way either a usur-time would be particularly un-st. 8.45 pm, the price of aduie inadequately, prote the public. KONEE
be reached by Italian aviators draft memorandum onumulisal. pation or an abridgement of the desirable at the present momentsion being 50 cents: "The schedules for bus ser-system would be economic
"I would conclude by once more
from Moussa All
which he prepared for the Fer Demand for Economy constitutional powers of this vices are drawn up by the In-
thanking both the Official and were confirmed, and the Oath of According to a rep received manent Slavery Commission of Council. spector General of Police in The dominant note of the
Unofficial Mem Having said this it is clearly Unofficial Members of this Coun Allegiance was taken by the Hon here 200 motor tracks from Bri the League of Nations. It was consultation with the Com-speeches of the panies concerned, and as the bers has been the demand for eco impossible for me to attempt to cil for their tolerance and for Mr. B. A D. Forrest, Actingtain and the United States are now divided into three parts, dealing on their was? Harraz — Trama with Malaya, Hong Kong and Honourable Member has been pray and although ample evidence foretell the principle upon which their valuable assistance.
"It has been proposed and Two Bills intituled “An Or- Ocean Se
China, respectively, and the sec good enough to draw Governor Government's concurrence in any system of salary cuts, if such
tion on this Colony was ment's attention to the incon- this, wish was given in the speech become necessary, may have to be seconded that a Bill intituled "An dinance to amend the Defence
Ordinence to apply a sum not.exe Contribution Ordinance, 1901” Convicted on a charge of keep by the Committee in pas venience caused in this respect with which the Budget was intro based.
"million and "An Ordinance to provide for ling a gaming house
their report, now iss and the -- Prevention of Cruelty to Lee contracto
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LIBERAL VIEWPOINT Sir Herbert Samuel, leader of the Liberal Party, speaking at a luncheon in London yesterday, said that the Foreign Secretary,
Sir Samuel Hoare, had made an admirable speech at Geneva on September 11 in the League As sembly. That speech had been
majority of the nation. The po licy there declared would have
and it is hoped to improve affect the possibility of the reduc the final figures for the 1936 Es-taxpayer to posterity to build up and in the constituencies.
excessive balances when either Describing Italy's policy Eɛ Z
tion
to Homantin residents, the In-duced, and although I have replied spector General of Police will in that sense to specific criticlams be instructed to investigate the in the speeches of question
Members with
"It is the intention of Gover. It seems,
ment to proceed with the
scheme, or rather with the
schemes for errs
and
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Territories as and when
Honourable
I have dealt,
to.
Surplus Balances
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alancing
this point:
some
ceeding
ble doubt that the answer must
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