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BRITISH SHIPS IN CHINA.
STATEMENT BY FIRST
· LORD.
SUBMARINES AGAIN!
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Lovnox, Dec. 24.
In the House of Commons, Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the
Admiralty, replied to a qucation concerning British naval strength
in the Far East.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
BORAH ATTACKS "DRYS."
FRIDAY,
DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE.
CHRISTMAS IN THE COMMONS.
SPIRIT OF GOODWILL PREDOMINATES,
SAD HEARTS REJOICE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, Dec. 21,
It is not with a very Christmassy feeling with which the members of the House of Commons will ad journ for the Recess.
They meet to-day (which is the first Christmas Eve parliamentary He stated that there were at pre- sent 31 British naval vessels of all sitting for forty years) in an at- clames in Chinese waters, as com-mosphere of active hostility and not | pared with 60 in February, 1897, goodwill. They are indignant that
ad 07 in February, 1928.
Mr. Alexander added that it was anticipated that the submarine depot shop Medway and four "C" class submarines would leave' for China in February next, and that two more "C" class submarines would follow later in the year.
C.ER. DISCUSSIONS.
NEAR A SETTLEMENT ↑
(THROUGH RESTER'S AGENOT.]
Moscow, Dec. 26." Tani Yun. Shen and Li Sano Gen Jeft on a special train for Harbin with M. Simanovsky (who is seting as Consul-General at Harbin pend ing the return of M. Melnikov). The party included M. Rudy, man ager of the Chindee Eastern Rail way, M. Denissov, his assistant, and M. Ismalov, a member of the railway management.
they have not been given an op- portunity before the Recess for a general debate on momentous ques tions like finance Egypt and the Sinwapore Base.
The Opposition had declared their willingness to sit on Christ- mas Eve to obtain their rights and the Government took them at their word, and now the Opposition, really not wishing to sit in Christ- inas Week, have hit back by put ting down questions for nearly every Minister.
Mr.
Long-Awaited Debate. The plum of the proceedings is expected to be the debate between the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Philip Snowden, and Winston Churchill, as the latter will reply to Mr. Snowden's recent slushing attack on his finance when he was Chancellor the Exchequer.
The statement by Mr. William Graham last evening on the Gov
PROHIBITION OFFICIALS
QUIZZED,
A QUESTION OF LAW.
[KEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)
NEW YORK, Dec. 23. Sanator Borah, who is a prominent "dry," to-day bitterly attacked the administration of the Prohibition Department. He declared that the Government should appoint honest officials if it really desires to en- force the law. The present per- ronnel would never do so.
WHITE HOUSE ON FIRE.
ÉXECUTIVE OFFICES
BURNT OUT."
MR. HOOVER'S PRIVATE
PAPERS SAVED."
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.
CONSERVATIVE PLEA FOR SINGAPORE BASE.
LABOUR'S CAUTIOUS
REPLY.
(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENOT.]
LONDON, Dec, 24. Firstly, the Conservativo conten. tion that Japan is situated as far from Singapore as America is from England, and therefore the Base cannot be a menace to Japan; - |condly the Liberal argument that the Base could only be a protection against the Japanese, yet, in the event of an Anglo-Japanese war, no base could enable our commerce. to pass from the East to the West, and therefore the Government would be wise to drop the project altogether.
These were the principal argu- ments during a debate on the Singapore Base in the House of Commons to-day.
Mr. I M. S. Amery, Dominions Secretary in Mr. Baldwin's ad. ninistration, argued that whatever
degree of disarmament was achiev-
DECEMBER 27, 1929.
XMAS DAY IN RUSSIA.
DISCORDANT NOTE STRUCK
POSSIBLY EASIER.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)
LONDON, Dec. 95.
9:
TROUBLOUS TIMES Telegrams in Brief.
IN INDIA.
FATEFUL CONGRESS
DECISIONS.
"SWARAJ" DEFINED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
The Committee work has already
LAHORE, Dec. 20. A discordant note in the Christ-
Fateful decisions for the future mas festivities has been struck by British Commonwealth, are expect of India, and its position in the a report from the Tass officialed at the annual Indian National agency from Moscow claiming that Congress opening on Sunday. in parance of the Soviet anti- religious campaign, Christmas Day in Moscow was spent for the Erst time in bistory in Russia as all ordinary week-day, working in accordance with the five-day production week, and one. fifth are resting as usual.
"Four-fifths of the workers aro
By the initiative of the workers and the masses Xmas Day was pro- claimed a second Industrialisation Day. Workers in the majority of the big factories contributed one day's wages to the Industrialisation Fund."
noon.
LONDON, Dec. 25. Broadcast Christmas greetings were exchanged between Britain and the United States this after
A programme
of dance music and songs was relayed by the B.E.O. from Schenectady, near New York, while in the evening the National Broadcasting Company of America relayed & programme from
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begun, nearly 3,000 delegates having gathered from all over India.
The state of the Egyptian poli- tical parties is The Wafdista 186, the others 23. "A 'second ballot will have to be held in eighteen con- stituencies.
General Smuts has sailed from England for New York. He is to speak at Ottawa, New York, Bos". tan, Yale University, and possibly at Cincinnatti, Chicago and Phila- delphia. He will spend three days At Washington, returang to Eng- land in January, en route to the Cape.
GLUCOSE CURE FOR ASTHMA.
BUCCESSFUL "TESTS IN
HOSPITAL
The main discussions will revolve upon resolutions drafted by Gandhi and Motital Nehru. There ean- A great advance in the treatment demn the bombing of the Viceroy's of asthma has been achieved with train on Xmas Eve. Also, they the use of glucose-a form of sugar withdraw Congress from commit-by the special clinic at Guy's ment to the Nehru Report of fast Hospital, London, which is work- year (which embodied a draft coning under the auspices of the stitution for India on Dominion Asthma Research Council and the status lines, and evoked great hos Medical Research Council. tility, particularly among the This treatment derives from the Indian Moslems),
successful administration of glucose The resolutions go on to define to nervous children who suffer from Swaraj as the complete indepen-cyclical (or recurrent) bilious at dence of India, and to request all tacks. Congressmen to withdraw from, matical children had these attacks, It was found that many asth- and boycott, the Legislature,
It is also asked that the All- and the experiment was made of India
Congress
be treating asthmatical children gen- Committee authorised to launch a campaign erally with glucose. for non-payment of taxes, and to empower civil disobedience, where and when such action is deemed
necessary.
The result was eminently gratify ing in the cases where asthma is allied with eczema and bilious sick-
mess, and with the knowledge that
Exciting scenes occurred at the cd at the forthcoming Conference, The American programme was also reversion to an earlier one is like hope of discovering a cure for this
White House to-day when a serious fire broke out in the Presidential
Executive Offices attached to the
the Navy would still require bases in order to be mobile and as long as the Empire remained geographic ally as at present.
Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Adminiralty, replying, dwelt
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blazed for two hours before the residence of the President and
strenuous efforts of the full re-
the Dominions aspect of the sources of the Washington Fire Base. He said nothing would be. Brigade put an end to the danger. allowed to arise at the Naval Con- The Executive Offices were comference which would deny the rights of constituent parts of the British
own interests.
Both relays were most successful. relayed to Holland, and announced with Christmas wishes in both English and Dutch.
LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
[United Fress.]
Moscow, Dec. 26. been abolished in the reorganiza- The Christmas holidays having
tion of the Soviet calendar & few
This programme means that has been gained there is definite
position of members of the Legis ly to be adopted, despite the op-mest baffling of human diseases.
The main function of the glucose, lature, and the fact might lead which is taken through the mouth. to further secessions from Congress for example, in orange juice or of those who favour participation milk is to remedy the deficiency of in the Legislative Council debates sugar in the nervous child's body.
Path of Frogtogs. for the purposes of offering obstruc- tion.
It has been established that "asth- The position of Mr. Patel, Presi-matics have a fundamental chemical dent of the Legislative Assembly, abnormality, and the path of pro- have to resign that post. would be most critical, as he wouldgress towards a cure lies in the direction of an ability to bring Gandhi on the other hand, is back the chemistry of the body to
which the younger programme, section of Congress are urging, though be yields to their demands by asking Congress to define Swaraj
lined the suggestion of the United crnment's intentions as regards the Pletely destroyed and the damage Commonwealth to look after their months ago, work, trade, and averse to adopting any militant a normal condition,
The Persian Viewpoint.
TEHERAN, Dec. 24. The Persian Government has de-
States Government, that as a signa- tory to the Kellogg Pact, it should make representation to the Russian and Chinese Governments in view of bringing about a peaceful con clusion of the Russo-Chinese dis pute.
Persia declares that as she has no diplomatic relations with China, and the dispute is already hearing a peaceful eettlement, it does not! think it advisable to intervene.
WHO'D BE A WHALE?
COUD DAYS IN THE ANTARCTIC.
Coal Mining Bill are going a long way to meet the Liberal, demands. in that connection, especially his declaration that the Government will see that the public are pro- tected against a rise in the price of coal."
This, however, has not entirely healed the Liberal-Labour breach, as expected, but on the contrary authoritative Liberals have con.- demned the statement as vague, which shows that the Liberals de not intend to abandon their stif attitude against the Bill. Hence, when Parliament reassembles a keen political battle may be expected.
is estimated at. $60,000.
President Hoover's private pa pera were rescued from the fames, but many important records wore destroyed. The White House pro- per, to which the Chief Executive's offices are attached by a passage way, were not." "damaged in any way, the Brigade isolating the fire without great difficulty.
The Offices burned furiously for two hours before the flames were overcome.
At the moment, ne statement has been made regarding the possible origin of the blaze."
#Gib" and Malta Garrisons.
LONDON, Dec. 24. Recent reports of important re- ductions in the British overseas garriscus werc question in the House of Commens the subject of a to-day.
as usual.
GR
complete independence."
POLICE TIPPING NOT ALWAYS A CRIME.
JUDGE ON THE LAD OF
BRIBERY.
aged
Extraordinary improvement-in- deed, temporary immunity-results in 99 per cent. of cases from taking the asthmatical sufferer to Switzer land, where, at altitudes between 2,500 feet and 5,000 feet, the disease is arrested. One case is quoted of an nathmatic, samples of whose blood showed an abnormality in England. The same person's blood in Switzerland was quite normal. He came back to England, and the abnormality returned, and with it bis asthma.
Mr. Alexander further pointedmusement will be carried on to-day out that all Dominionis concerned would be directly represented at
The principal sign of the Christ- mas spirit here is & more than the Conference, He regretted usually vigorous anti-religious cam- that on the eve of Christmas, when paign which began last night and all should be praying for peace will continue throughout the holi- unnecessary references to warlike here were crowded with worship- and goodwill, they had so many day week. Many of the churches subjects.
pers last night, despite the strenu- ous effort to obliterate this occasion. In past years. December 25 and 20 were recognized by the Soviet Government as legal holidays. With the introduction of the five-sixty-one, a bookmaker's clerk was thus directed to the discovery of
John Arthur Watkins,
Research work in this clinic is
week, however, all religious holi- Assizes to six months in the second effect on an asthmatic as a journey. day week and the unbroken work-last month sentenced at Liverpool mething that will have the same days were cancelled.
division for attempting to bribe to the right altitude in Switzer Police Constable Gardner.
land, and it is not too much to say It was stated that Watkins went that these engaged on this great to the constable's house by he back great task-for there are 250,000 door, made a suggestion to him, sufferers from asthma in Great and later sent him two envelopes, Britain-are confident of ultimate each containing a ten ahilling note, victory as an inducement not to watch pre- betting was carried on or to report has been launched. It is that of mises where it was thought illegal
A new Paris fashion for women
Gardner reported the matter to A young actress who has the part painting the finger-nails in silver. his superiors, and Watking was arof Leda in Jean Giraudour's bril rested
at Harringay Park grey-liant new play Amphytrion" ap hound racing track.
police force should not be subject
Mr. Justice Humphreys said it peared on the first night with sil- was essential that members of the seems to have caught.
vered finger-nails, and the vogue
to bribery. The statute under
A private company has completed which proceedings were taken did plans for improving the facilities not extend to those little tips which at Reading aerodrome and convert-
The Government resents the Con- servative obstruction and is annoy- PIRANDELLO'S NEW PLAYS. or Gibraltar were contemplated.
REDTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}.
WASHINGTON, N.Z., Dec. 28" ed with the Liberals, while the Commander Byrd's supply ship, latter are angry that their offers the Eleanor Bolling "at present into co-operate behind the scenes has Dunedin has received a wireless been rejected. stating that two chasers operating with the whaling fleets in the Antarctic were crushed in the ice, and foundered. The crews were rescued.
LATER.
Questions for All. Over 100 questions were on the order paper of the Commons to- day, and not a single Minister was omitted by the enquirers. Hence,
A PROBLEM OF PATERNITY,
Mr. T. Shaw, Secretary for War,
The vast majority of Greek in replying said that no reductions Orthodox believers are not especial- in the military garrisona at Maltay affected by the change. To them December, 23 has always been a work-day, because the church off cially is still run on the Julian calendar, under which Christanas WOMEN TRY TO MOB BOY comes 13 days later on January 7
under the Gregorian time reckon STAR.
ing. The real Christmas celebra- tion, especially among the millions
that date.
"Pirandella's new play, “O di Una o di Nessuno" (To One or to No One"), was given for the first time VIOLINIST IN ALBERT. HALL in the village, will take place on at Turin recently and won an im mediate success The plot deals The ice is the heaviest for many
with one of those startling pro- years, and pack ice covers an area the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay blems, half-physiological.
half-
of nearly 200 miles wider than last MacDonald, and two of his col-psychological, in which Pirandel
year:
As part of the campagn to erase Christmas, the winter holidays for Education to the week of January schools and universities have been postponed by the Commissariat of
co them.
SCENE.
hands of twelve-year-old Yehudi The magnetism of a violin in the
bert Hall last month that, at the cad. some hundreds of the vast audience were drawn towards the £4,000,000 ART SENSATION. were sometimes given to policemen. ing it into one of the best is Eng little player!
Whalers are having a most dim.leagues were temporarily crowded lo delights because. according to Menuhin was so great at the Al-
him, they represent life as it really
cult time forcing a passage through
out of the Front Bench.
The questions ranged from the the ice but whales are plentiful out-habits of the grey seal to the brand side the pack ice, and good catches of eggs served to Members. have been made.
The replies were generally un- important and evoked a stream of bantering supplementary questions | DR. SUN YAT SEN'S WILL. from Members of the House, who
were in holiday mood,
A debate on the Singapore Base followed.
PUBLIC READING ONLY AS ORDERED BY C.E.C.
Nanking. By a mandate of the State Council the reading of the Will of the late Party Leader Dr. Sun Yat Sen, in public places is henceforth, to be restricted in ac
A Good Match.
is.
"In this case we have two friends, Carlo Sanna and Tito Morena, who set up house with one woman- quiet, good-tempered, economical, and apparently equally devoted to both. Suddenly she discovers that she is about to become a mother, and the situation changes. Whose in the child? According to law, a
or to no one,” and Carlo and Tito
child must belong either "to-one
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TURNER PICTURES SAID TO
BE FADING AWAY.
cause
"I mention that," he aded, "beland. Extra hangars are being in- some people seem to think stalled, together with a first-class it is an extravagant and ridicul- hotel and club accommodation. ous Act, and makes it a criminal Fares for flying taxis will be as offence to give a small tip to a cheap as one shilling a mile Two policeman or any other agent who hundred 'planes will eventually be has done some courteous act. you do that you
If available, and passenger services offending against the police regula Reading an air port. The Prince are probably will go to all parts, thus making
a criminal offence under the Pre- the aerodrome when the extensions vention of Corruption Act." are complete.
Few hones were broken in the decide, after much discussion, that shouting crowd; but Ychudi's re- ten or it may be fifty-the- tions, but you are not guilty of of Wales has been invited to open
recess.
first Christmas" under a Socialist Government and there were rising prices, declining wages, increasing unemployment and financial un- easiness.
Fun For All,
It was a psychological moment of some intensity, a mixture of hero- worship and a mob-desire to ex- amine at closer quarters the musi cal phenomenon of the century. The wonderful, delicate water- Only the very young or the very colours painted by J. M. W. old seem to inspire auch feeling, Tarner, and now worth probably for many have seen Fachmann the £4,000,000, are declared to be fad centre of the same jostling and ing. In a few years-it may be ception was much wilder,
according to experte, have entirely It was the kind of scene which disappeared, unless a method of novelists describe and musicians preservation is discovered. the possession of the child with a
dream about; a "storming" which The Tate Gallery, which has grim determination which threa-only the sudden appearance of two 20.000 Turner paintings, water- Finally the question is settled by attack, for already excited women tens to destroy their friendship, firemen saved from becoming an colours, and drawings, denies that the water-colours are fading. But were scrambling down the orche- the offer of a neighbour, who has
most of them are stored in dark- stra tiers and climbing on the platness in the cellare, and of the out- just lost her own baby, to adopt
form.... that of Meline.
standing remainder that are on exhibition many are kept in glass cases provided with dark blinds, which the visitor raises to inspect When the visitor Passes on the blind automatically springs back over the treasure it guarde
Ories of "Bravo," Yehudi-who had played for two and a quarter hours with the most absurd perfection-just lifted his bow to play an encore and the hall was instantly hushed.
At the end the cries of "Bravo" began all over again.
The boy had inspired this en- thusiasm neither by emotional
It was suggested that the gallery: is blinded by its wealth of Turners into not realising that one day it may have none.
tiling match between Mr. Winston Churchill, an ex-Chanceller, and it shall be handed over to an in- the present Chancellor, Mr. Philipitation as the child of no one. Snowden, with which the Commons The baby is born and the mother were entertained just before the dies. The two men then fight for cordance with instructions from the Mr. Churchill had first "dig" Central Executive Committee. and remarked that the City of It is specified that from now on. London had given Mr. Snowden the only at the beginning of formal Freedom of the City bug it would meetings held at Party Headquar-probably have nothing left to give ..ters of the Kuomintang, Govern him after the Budget. The more
ment organs and public assemblies Mr. Snowden was treated with Another problem play by Piran- will called by the Party Headquarters honour and indulgence the more dello. "Come to mi vuai," shall the will be recited. On no crapulous and dictatorial he be shortly be produced in Turin by other occasions, such as at amunse
the pictures. came. England was celebrating its the Company of Marta Abba, the. ment places or on the occasion of
clever young actress who, after be wedding or funeral services, should
ing leading woman in Pirandello's the last testament of the late party
own company for several years, has leader be used.-Kuo Min.
now entered into management on her own. The idea of “Come tu mi tuoi" ("As you wish me") is taken from the famous Bruneri-Cannella Mr. Snowden congratulated Mr. cause of undecided identity which
*Bound to Fade,” Churchill on his appropriate speech has been puzzling the legal world
"The Turner water-coloure arc A RELIGIOUS ISSUE RAISED.—at this time of pantomime and in Italy for the last three years
gradually disappearing, and unless retorted that if Mr. Churchill had | and still continues to do so.
something is done quickly future New York, Dec. 18.--Advance adopted his (Mr. Snowden's) "Lazarus" which has already Kreisler's recent programmes, generations will never see one, proofs of the Foreign Affairs Quar methods at the Hague in the been performed in England is with their rather trifling items.enid a member of a West End firm terly, released to the Press, state negotiations with France and Italy about to be produced in the Unit pale before the task that Yehudi of art dealers. that the Democratic state executive he might have made more favoured States under the management had set himself.
Sir John Lavery said " The committee at a meeting_at_Montable settlements of the war delta. of Charles Hopkina,
The Cesar Franck sonata is a Turner water-colours are bound to gomery barred Sensor J. Thomas | As regards domestic finance, if Mr. Pirandello is now at work on performance in itself; but he fol- fade. I have always regarded Heflin from candidacy" on the Churchill's budgets had been Com- "Gli Dei della Montagna," his lowed it with Bach's almost im-water-colour as AXI irritating Democratic ticket because he fail-pany balance sheets the ex-Chan- thirty-seventh play, and, be says, possibly difficult Chaconne, Bruch's medium because you cannot guar ed to support ex-Governor Alfred cellor would have found himself in | probably his last. He is also en-lengthy Scotch Fantasy," and antee it will last. Light is fatal to L. Smith for President in the the dock.
anged in revising new and com- five other pieces, including it." national campaign.
Senator Heflin, who is strongly withing his antagonist a merry anti-Catholic and who opposed Christmas and prosperous New Governor Smith on the ground of Year. M his Catholicism, has already an- The House eventually adjourned,
phis condidary...197...the land wi}} Hepublican nomination.
U.S.A. POLITICS
trickery nor by the profundity of his readings. It was the obvious and complete purity of his musical expression that took one's breath
AWBY.
ridiculed the idea that the Turners would eventually fade out of exist- exce
Mr. Snowden closed the match by plete edition of his works, and Wieniawski's tricky “Tarantelle." As officiel of the Tate Gallery
when that is done he intends to re- There is nothing that he cannot tire to some remote country-place do with a sort of susters perfec in Italy to write his novel, "Adam |tion; although, also, not without and Eve," which, being "of vast rather a lot of tuning, which bo
him at least five years to finish, the platform.
"We keep out the light by a
more glass," he said.
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