THE CHINA MAIL: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1935
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ITALY SUSPENDS JUDGMENT
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Moreover it was officially stated the Cabinet, but unofficial reports. that it is not known here whether from Paris purporting to describe the proposals, after being passed the Anglo-French negotiations are by the British Government would treated with scepticism in Par-! be made known direct to the Ita-liamentary circles
lian Government at Rome
or be
It is announced that Mr. handed over to the italian Ambas Anthony Eden is proceeding to sador at Paris.
NEWSPAPER EMBARGO
Genevs to-morrow, thus disposing of the rumour that he intended to resign in consequence of the de Rome: The import of all British cision of the Cabinet to supporti newspapers into Italy, with a few the undertaking reached by M exceptions. is. deinitely forbidden Laval and Sir Samuel Hoare in
of defence against Paris-Reuter
as a measure
OPPOSITION QUESTION
London: The week-end discus-
sanctions. Among those papers exempted from the embargo arej the Daily Mail. Morning. Pust.!
sions in Paris between the For- Observer and Delly Espress.
eign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare. an oficial. which, according to statement, have always, until now and the French Prime Minister, shown a certaine appreciation of
Italy's position. Service.
Trans-Ocean
Italy Suspends Judgment
RESERVE MAINTAINED IN POLITICAL QUARTERS
Laval and the formulas of the
Proposed basis for a negotiated, v settlement of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute approved by the two states-
Abyssinian troops resting during their advance ou Harrar, in the neigbourhood of waith a great counter- offensive was expected until the Negus unexpectedly demilitarised Harrar.
HORTICULTURE IN HONG KONG LOCAL SOCIETY'S REPORT
men for submission to the inter- The annual general meeting of ested parties were the subject of athe Hong Kong Horticultural So question by the leader of the Op-ciety will be held in the Board position. Major Attlee. in the Room of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- House of Commons yesterday Son and Co., Ltd, at 5.15 pm on afternoon.
Tuesday next
in their
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BLAZING CAR GIVES OWN-
ALARM WITH HORN
-Serious Garage Fire Prevented
-
A motorwar which caught fire a lock-up garage opposize the Kentish Town F. Station, Wi: ow-walk. N.W, gave its own alar
The flames bawat through the wiring of the horn and set it in
The noise attracted a nasser-by-who ran into the fre
action.
duty. station and told the office
-Firemen ran out with hand ex- tinguishers and quickly extin waished the fames.
CORRESPONDENCE
STREET SLEEPERS
LEAVE TO APPEAL GRANTED
Estate Duty On Sir Paul Chater's Property
CONVERSION
& Continued from Pads (7)
WO
CASE
should be rovered. Each of the
has no
received from Pui Chee mark and SZEɣestions which I have quoted mumber and steamer's name in is to my mind so unscrupulous as order to sell the lot to the inter- to disentitle the person who makes ested party. We cannot with any one of them to the slightest hold the steamer's name from credibility in anything, he says them. Besides they know it alwhich directly touches his own ready and only asked for it again.pocket. We have great doubts if ther *I am convinced beyond required this (sic) data for the doubt that the defendants' story of reason given by them." If the the substituted agreement of Jan- defendants", story is true why uary 21,
foundation in write in such a strain as this? It fact. If at this point I had any is meaningless except
the lingering shadow of doubt it would assumption that the fact and man-be dispelled by this passage from ner of shipment had been con-Bodiker's letter of March 19, wait- cealed from the plaintiffs as long ten after the receipt of the letters !as possible.
from Messrs. Hastings & Company. Realising these people being so Correspondence “Lastly, I deem it my duty to obstinate that the old agreement make reference to certain pass cannot be mended we are now ar ages in the defendant company's riving at a new one.” departmental
Sufficient Tender correspondence
**I then noW which, though they have no very
to the plaintif'"'s direct bearing on the facts of the allegation of sufficient tender on siderable importance when I come
to me to be of con- March 20, 1935.
"After the part payment of to decide how much credibility $56,000 on March S, the outstand- should repose in the word of the ing balance of loan due to defen- defendant Bodiker.
- was. $41,440.00, to which "The passages to which I parti-should be added interest and stor- cularly refer are as follows:-- age charges, bringing the total up
Canton produce No. 184-5.255. | to $41,830.93.
"The plaintiffs had taken legal "Describe the exchange as unfavourable as
on March 19, Messrs. possible al-advice and though at present it is going Hastings and Company wrote to in our favour."
the defendants in Canton a letter
case, seem
An application for leave to ap- peal against the decision of His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, who held that estate duty was payable on the (estate of Lady Chater as weil es
on Sir Paul Chater's property, i was this morning made and al-j lowed before His Honour the Chief Justice, by Mr. H. C. Mac! namara, on the instructions of Sir letter: William Shenton, of Messrs. Dea-j sons.
The Prime Minister. Mr. Stanley! The Committee state Rome: Italy is suspending juda-aldwin. in reply referred to the report that the annual show of statement issued at the close of Bowers and vegetables took place ment on the Hoare-Laval agree
the conversations, to the effect at the Volunteer Headquarters, on ment until the terms are known.
that there could be no question of February 28, and was a great suc of exhibits, The number cess They are expected to be commun
publishing the terms of the pre- icated to the Italian Governments, which had yet to be ap-however, fell off considerably, and to-day. Absolute reserve is main- tained in political quarters, but armored by the British Govern- they hope to see an improvement
In making the application Mr.j Macnamara stated that he made, authoritative spokesman admitterent, and said that the documents next year.
the appeal on behalf of Sir Wil- that there were signs of goodwill drawn up in Paris had reached During the year the local So- London early yesterday and were ciety has been affiliated to the Royal Horticultural Society in
liam Shenton and Mr. M. E. Tur on all sides.
receiving prent consideration.
London. Among the privileges
ner, who are the trustees of the Peuter was informed that the He would prefer not to make any
involved is that application cani 1To The Editor. “China Mail";
will of the late Sir Paní Chater. proposals will be studied if they further statement at present.
be made for the grant of one Sir, I would esteem it a favour His Lordship gave judgment can be made to approximate rea-i Earlier yesterday the Prime Banksian silver medal annual-if you would be so and as to pu- last June on the question which sonably
to Italy's minimum de Minister had a consultation
ly. this medal to be the premier|blish this letter in order that is the subject of the appeal manda.
No. 10. Downing Street, with the award in the show. - ABYSSINIA STIFFENING Minister for League Affairs. Mr. Addis Ababa: The Emperor will Eden. and Mr. Maurice Peterson, refuse to
cede acy
terr-head of the Abyssinian Depart tory, according to a statement of the Foreign Office, who ment in Government circles. Com returned from Paris overnight. menting oz the reported agrer and last evening Cabinet members ment between. Sir Samuel Hoare met in the House of Commons to and M. Laval, it is believed that consider the proposals in detail- Signor Mussolini will accept the British Weless Service. agreement and thereafter the force!
of the sanctions will gradually diminish.
The Ethiopians think it unrea- sonable that they should be expect- ed to cede territory, and declare that the Italian successes hitherto are negligible.
London Cabinet Meeting
Formulae Devised For Settlement
COMMUNICATED TO THOSE
the Public may be made aware of
The Committee appeal once he existence of the St. Francis again to all members to make an Home for Street Sleepers, which endeavour to induce as many of is situated at No. 49. Shek Kep". their friends as possible who are Mei Street, Ground floor. Sham- interested in gardening to join shaipo- the Society.
ceded to Italy by Abyssinia;
(3) Italy obtains full sover eignty over the province of Ogaden and Danakil;
The
The shelter was started on
very modest scale by the Brothers
a pa-
dants
And the postscript to the same containing the following para-
**Our clients will take this let-
gram
graph:
to your office "to-
"If Hamburg's reply (to cablegram offering firm 20 tons ter with them 36/- March) arrived to-morrow,morrow and formally tender to and when sending us the tee you the sum of $41,440.00, being translation, please ar-the balance of the loan, together range a forriger la fortune and with interest and storage charges. write about 1- less. The tele-to date."
"The plaintifs, Chan Ham-05. gram confirmation has to bear. your Hong Kong stamp.”
Cheong Wai-chuen and Hon Yun- "Mm Soltau-on January 31 in han. have sworn that after sending his letter Produce 962 writes in a this letter to the defendants they raised the sum of HK. $32,000.00 similar strain
"It will be better if we ship from three banks in Canton and this STIM together with the 50 tons; through this we will took
own to Mr. Protest Overruled
on March 20 when the "Mr. Jenkin opened his speech conversation to which I have al for the defence by deprecating Mr.ready referred took place.
"In confirmation of their story Potter's use of the word "dishonest
SALTED" ROADS get a better hold over the dealer: $10,000.00 of their
IN CANADA
Experimental Surfaces Being Laid
Halifax
short
Bodiker
to describe such sentiments and they have produced their cash the conduct of Bodiker and Soltan book, slips and counterfoils showing generally. Dishonesty is a frailty the borrowings from the Banks.-
Visit Denied For which there ате
"For 'the defence Bodiker, Chan
FILMS
of the Congregation of the Third Order of St. Francis, a society of lay people, and has as patron His Excellency Bishop H Valtorta, who wholeheartedly supports the
The speed attained by Sir Mal- synonyms and I shall say no more Congregation in its efforts to parcolm Campbell on the salt dats than that persons who so openly Pui-chi and Lo, all of whom work. (4) Italy receives for colonisa-icipate in the good work that is Utah has drawn attention to and unctuously put on paper ex-in the Canton Office, have stated tion territory on which 1,500,000 already being done in the Colony research work that has been car-pressions which show a callous dis- categorically that no representa CONCERNED
Italians can be settled. This ter- help these unfortunate being ried on by a resident of New regard of business morality are tive of the plaintia firm visited ritory is to be delineated in the A member of the Congregation Glasgow (Nova Scotia).
guided by ethical standards which them that day. Paris. earlier: Sir Samuel Hoare north by the 8th degree of Lafi-is in attendance between 10 p.m
“If that is so why did they not left Paris for St. Moritz at 10 tude, in the west by the 36th de to 6 am everyday at the shelter
Seeking a solution to the dust in my view are very far from those Jo'clock on Sunday evening while gree of Longitude and in the to supervise theyinmates, and problem on Nova Scotia's high-by which commercial transactions so instruct their solicitors, Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, who in their Chambers of New the Foreign office expert in Abys-south by the British Kenya and should
letter of March 20 to Messrs. anyone he interested in ways, Mr. the work he will be welcome to Glasgow has constructed
Hastings and Company, while ak- London: The special meeting ofisinian affairs, Mr. Maurice Peter Sudan.
stretches of roadway at Truro The Negus is to be advised to visit the Home.
NOVEL TONE OF nowledging the letter of March 19, the Cabinet called to consider the on started for London shortly
2.5
Įsay not a word about the plaintiff's' Anglo-French peace proposals met afterwards in order to submit to place the Amharic part of Abys- In conclusion the Congregation and Elmsdale using salt
stabilizing chemical in the clay in the Prime Minister's room at Mr. Stanley Baldwin the formulas sinia under the League of Nations has decided not to launch
}failure to call upon the defendants the House of Commons at 6 pm for the settler Wat of the Italo-protectorate
directorate blic appeal for funds (in view of gravel surface.
in order to tender the money. and dispersed at 7.15 p.m. yester-Abyssinian conflict, which had would take the form of technical many existing appeals for deser
been elaborated by M. Laval and advisers appointed to assist in the ving causes), but it hopes that [administration of Abyssinia, as- £nancial support will be forth- A Geneva message states that Sir Samuel Hoare.
If Mr Baldwin, as political quar-serts Madame Tabonis, who adds coming from all sympathisers. vened for December 17. ostensibly rs here anticipate, accepts the that the Italians waté also bet Donations may be sent and en- to discuss the questions of the formulae, Mr. Peterson will leave eligible for these advisory posts. quiries directed to the Brother settlement of the Assyrians in London again to-day and return-to-Frans-Ocean Service.
Secretary, Mr. L. A Barton, No. FRENCH PRESS COMMENT 993. Waterloo Road (Top floor), Iraq, but it is pointed out there Paris late this evening. The Per-
Paris: Exxceptional importance Kowloon Tong- that the principal meaning of the manent Under-Secretary for For-
the agreement
F. J. SODEN League statement is that the mem eign Affairs, Sir Robert Vansit- is attached to
President. T.US.F. bers will be on hand to deal with tart, it is added, will remain in reached by M. Laval and Sir Samuel Hoare, in all the papers any fresh
turn the Italo-Abys Paris for a number of days.
The French Foreign Ministry here, which stress the significance sinian war may take.
close late on Monday night issued the of
co-operation between following statement: "Sir Samuel France and Britain, not only in Hoare and M. Laval have not view of a peaceful settlement of made' public the formulae for the the Italo-Abyssinian confict, but settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian also in connection with other in- dispute as a basis for an amicable ternational problems. settlement, because mulae bave
day.
the Leagte Council has been con-
British Policy: Unchanged PARIS PROPOSALS BELIEVED ENDORSED
Cabinet last evening to consider the Hoare-Laval agreement official confirmation or denial was obtainable with regard to the ac curacy or otherwise of the report ed terms of the agreement. It was emphasised that the policy of
PASSING ON THE LEFT
Public Car Drivér Fined
Great Bravery
Mr. Chambers experiment has Deen so notable that it has at- tracted the attention of highway experts in the State of Michigan to Nova Scotia, inspected Mr. Chambers" (USA). They came
roads and returned to Michigan to conduct experiments of a simi-¡ lar nature there.
New Catholic Move In Spain
“ASSOCIATION OF PATERFAMILIAS”.
"Here again, I, without diffical- ty, arrive at the conclusion that tender was made All parties. knew that in the circumstances. tender was a mere formality, and Fesnnot imagine the plaintiffs, in the face of the advice given them, raising the requisite money and Madrid Any good Spanish then failing to tender it. Catholic with a family who
Guilty Of Conversion wishes to know the general tone “In my judgment defendants are of a film shown at a cinema clearly guilty of conversion of 50 As a result an entirely new before seeing it may now apply tons of wolfram ore, which they type of road surfacing is being at an office run by the "Cath shipped to Hamburg, and the plain- developed, known as "soil-con- crete. Reuter.
POPULAR SONGS NO LONGER POPULAR
Average Life Only Three Weeks
lic Association of Paterfami-
tiffs are entitled to damages for such conversion.
The defendants at or about the
lias.
This association has felt for some time that the public is date of shipment vained the ore in unprotected by any reputable question at $68,500.00, a figure warning against questionable which though high is not extra-
nesses.
taste on the screen -
vagantly higher than the quota- Responsible persons especttions given by independent wit ally parents--are therefore in- vited to communicate with the feel that I cannot do better office by personal visit or by in these circumstances than take jtelephone call and ascertain the defendants* own" contempor- the "moral grade of the per-aneous assessment of the value
their for- Folitical circles hope that Signer not. yet been Mussolini who has already been
Yeung Po, driver, of public car brought to the notice of the Gov-informed, semi-officially, of the No. 421, was this morning fined London: After a meeting of the eraments concerned. All the re-contents of the Franco-British pro- $15 by Mr. W. Schofield at the
ports published in this connection posals will manifest this readi- therefore must be regarded as ness to negotiate, but in a con- Central Magistracy for passing a mere speculation."
moving vehicle on the left in Con- trary event the proclamation of, an PROPOSALS OUTLINED IN
embargo on oil by the Sanctions2ught Boad Central on November
125. Committee at Geneva is generally The Foreign Editor of "Oeuvre,
Chief Inspector B. Marks, the
Hollywood--A survey by the formance-Beuter.
Madame Tabouis, nevertheless as-
anticipated
American Society of Com- L'Ocuore states that Sir Samuel complainant, stated that he was posers, Authors and Publishers xerts that the following proposals
has disclosed that the most
and Sir Samuel Hoare:
and finally confirmed, the notes 6.15 pm on that day and when (1) The basis of the plan is to
exchanged between the two near the Revenue sheds heard de-popular tunes of the past year BRITISH AWARD TO
GERMAN SAILORS be territorial exchange between Governments concerning French fendant continually hooting behind “Bunciunan” and Lord Monsell italy and Abyssinis.. Abyssinis/Assistance in the Mediterranean him. He drew to the left, but the
the British- Government was have been prepared by M. Lavar Hoare and M Laval discussed driving along Connaught Road at)
changed, and any settlement must be accepted by the three parties Sir Samuel Hoare, ME. Walter
absent from the meeting.
receives the port of the Assab in in the eventuality of Italian aggres defendant passed hier on that side He was chased to the Ferry and London, Later: The Cabinet is) belleved to have endorsed the reridor" which connects this port
Italian Somaliland with a "corsion against Britain.
there a friend of defendant alight- PROGRESSIVE STEP
When questioned, defendant sults of the Paris, conversations with Addis Ababa Should Italy achieved by the conversations stated he was sorry but his friend
According to Excelsior the result(ed.
FRANCE HOPEFUL
refuse to make this concession Paris: Official circles state that the British Government is willing between M. Laval and Sir Samtel had to catch the ferry.
Hoare constitutes a great step
"BOB" CHARLES BITTEN BY DOG
they are hopeful that Signor to cede the port of Zeils to the forward since the proposals now Mussolini will accept the Anglo-Abyssinians. (It will be recalled made to Italy go much further to French peace plan as a basis of that this suggestion was previous writing her demands.
casion. The French author fly made but rejected because the
Le Figaro, kie paluding
ties are convinced that the Duce French port of Djibouti would that no agreement has yet been will not reject what is considered have been adversely afected by
the most advantageous the cession. On Sunday, however,
de to Italy or possible Laval withdrew his previous
the peace proposals endorsed
lobjections)**
(2) The entire province Tigre, with the exception of the sacred city of Aksum, Is
learn that which is satisfyi Charles was badly bit time to Italy, Abyssinis right, hand - whi
Kations, em-his-bull terrier oficial circles her
the GovernmKIN
were:
1-"Love in Bloom."
25 For Lifeboat
Crew
of the are. I therefore give judg- ment for the plaintiffs for the sum of $68,500.00 with interest on that
aumnum from February 12 unti this date, less the sum of $li,- 830.98 which plaintiffs admittedly owe to the defendants -
um at the rate of 8 per cent. per
2 "All I do is dream of
The defendants, must also pay you
the tared costs of the plaintifs.” 3.--"The Carioca.”
When His Lordship had conclud- were 500,000 copies of sheet yacht, a German lifeboat crew C. Jenko rose and stated that be Sales of "Love in Bloom" Berlin For saving a Britished reading the judgment, Mr. F.
music. Twenty years 80 has been rewarded with £26 by had express instructions to ask for Richard Whiting compo a London firm of underwriters a stay of execution, in view of # "Till we meet again. That When the yacht, Bine possible appeal His Lordship Long sold 7,000,000 copies of Shadow, was stranded on the agreed, stating that the dam
sheet music.
Grossvogelsang zandbank On should be paid into com September 23, the German lite with and the be
Richard Krogmain of on demand. Cowhaven, went to the rescue.
In recognition of their ser vices £25 has now been “divid- among her crew while 750 marks (about £65) is being senti to cover the lifeboat's expens
Reiter
imposers blame the bre (Bob) | up of family life and the in the of the wireless for the drop
Fromilies no longer stay
at home to listen to the piano;
the