NAVAL CONFERENCE BRITAIN'S NAVAL
TO RESUME.
PARTIAL AGREEMENT ON SUBMARINE ISSUE.
MR. STIMSON OPTIMISTIC.
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LONDON, March 5, The naval experts who have been considering the abolition, the humanisation and the limitation of the submarine, have dropped the question of abolition, as it is a matter of policy solely for the beads of the delegations. They have reached an agreement in principle, ⚫ however, regarding the humanisa tion, which will be drafted by the jurists, and have postponed the consideration of limitation. It is understood that the Japanese are. insiting on a 2,000 tons minimum, as a lighter submarine would be useless on their rough northern
coat.
U.S. Delegates Statement, Mr. H. L. Stimson, the chief U.S. delegate, in a statement on the re- sults of the Naval Conference, which seem to be within reach up to-date, says: "The plan which in essentials appears acceptable to America and Great Britain, pro- vides for a net reduction of ton- nago of the American feet in capital ships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines (built or being built or appropriated for) of over 2,000 tons and an even larger re- duction of the British Beet. If the vessel authorised. but not on menced, are included in the exit ing fleets, the amount of reduction will be much greater." He adds that these reductions are, of course,
ESTIMATES.
BIG REDUCTION SHOWN,
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LONDON, March 6. A saving of £4,000,000, compared with 1929 is shown in the Navy Estimates which total £51,739,000. This is mainly due, according to the First Lord of the Admiralty to the cutting down, of shipbuilding programmes during 1928-99; other increased by £1,000,000. wise the estimates would have been
The Government has decided not to formulate any shipbuilding pro- posals till the results of the Naval Conference are known. The per sonnel is being reduced to 97,000 in 1930, and 91,000 in 1931 compared with 20,800 last year.
AUSTRALIAN ADMIRAL'S.
APPOINTMENT.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1930.
An interesting appointmeat is mentioned in connection with the interchange of personnel and the co-operation, especially for training purposes, between the Royal Navy Rear-Admira Hyde of the Aus and the Dominions' Navies, namely, tralia Navy to command the Third Battle Squadron, Admiral Hyde is at present Australian adviser to the Naval Conference as regards the Singapore Base.
OVER 300 PERISH. WORLD COMMUNIST
MOVEMENT.
PERRIBLE TOLL' OF FRENCH
FLOODS.
DEMONSTRATIONS IN EUROPE
SCENES OF DESOLATION.
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AND AMERICA.
POLICE PRECAUTIONS.
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ATHENS, March 5. Communist agents have distri
PARIS, March 5. It is now feared that at least the floods. Scores of bodies are buried three hundred perished in
in the ruins in collapsed buildings,buted manifestoes inviting work which number well over a thousand. men to assemble in the Town Hall
tilled in the to-morrow Over 150 village of Montauban, alone.
(International Unem Rescue parties, aided by nero ployment Day) to demand higher planes, are working heroically to
were
save those who are still marooned.
Appalling Scenes.
TOULOUSE, March 3. Seventy coffins have been order- ed by the Prefect of Tarnot Garoz- ne, a grim circumstance of the ter rible flood disaster.
The waters are now subaiding rapidly, revealing scenes of appal- of ling
desolation. Hundreds houses which were entirely submerg- ed have been completely ruined, compelling the people to return to improvised shelters
The town of Villemur is one mass of heaped masonry, the devastation being more complete than wis seen in many of the towns in the war zone during the Great, Wär..
The town of Reynes is, almost totally destroyed, and fourteen peo-
states that although no new ex-ple lost their lives here.
The First Lord of the Admiralty
penses are being incurred, it is necessary to provide £220,000 more than was voted for in 1929 as it is found to be uneconomical to retard the work contracted for.
contingent on some of the reduc PRINCE'S RAPID RECOVERY tions of the fleets of the other Power's.
M. Tardien Sendi. Greetings.
Ruosr, March 5. M. Tardivü, the French Premier, has addressed the following" tele- gram to Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald "On reassuming the leadership of the French Govern ment. I desire to express to you my cordial good wishes and also to bur colleagues of the Americas, British, Italian and Japanese dele. gations, and to assure you of the pleasure I shall feel in again påt- ticipating in our joint efforts for the success of the conference."
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Mr. MacDonald has replied. "In the name of all our colleagues I send you our warmest greetings and thanks for your telegram. We look forward with pleasure to the renewal of our collaboration with you in the work of the conferenes, Before you cross the Channel I ax tend to you the hand of friend ship."
U.S. DELEGATION'S EXPENSES.
[LETTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE],
WASHINGTON, March 6. President Hoover has asked Con- gress to grant 8150,000 to meet the expanses of the Naval Delegation in London, in addition to the 2200,000 originally voted.“
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ACCIDENT TO DELEGATION TYPIST.
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LONDON, March 5. Mrs. Pearl Demaret, aged 30, a tamist attached to the American Naval Delegation, fell from a win- dow of the Mayfair Hotel early this morning.
HUNTING TRIP RESUMED,
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RUGBY, March 5. Messages from Nairobi, Kenya, state that it is understood that no further bulletins regarding the Prince of Wales will be issued. It is anticipated that he will be com- pletely fit again in a few days, Hig. rapid recovery indicates the mild- ness of the attack of malaria, and he has decided to carry on with his plans.
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The Prince himself and all East Africans are concerned for the re- putation of Kenya, which may have. suffered through the reporta" of his illness. The highlands of Kenya form one of the healthiest and most promising parts of the Empire in Africa.
The Prince expects to leave for Uganda on Sunday. He will travel by a special train to Tororo and tbence by motor car to Entebbe. After a day's stay at Government
House there, he will on Wednesday Lake Albert. motor to Butiaba, where he will board the lake stea" mer. The steamer will be used as A base for hunting around the lake. It is expected that the Prince will reach Khartum on the homeward journey towards the middle of April.
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BRITAIN'S COMMERCIAL AIR BASE.
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The torrents loosed in the Car- area scooped out the cemeteries and carried the coffins down the river.
The foods have been the worst experienced in a century.
CHILD SLAVERY IN CEYLON.
ALLEGATIONS WITHOUT
FOUNDATION.
STATEMENT IN HOUSE OF LORDS.
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LONDON, March 5. In the House of Lords to-day Lord Templeton asked what steps the Government were taking to stop the alleged child-slavery in Ceylon.
Lord Pasafield replied that there was no foundation for the sugges tion that any system of child slavery existed in Ceylon.
Lord Passfield added that the traditional practice of well-to-do Cingalese adopting poor children was formerly unobjectionable, but latterly it had been used as a means of obtaining domestic servants gratis.
The Ceylon Government were spontaneously introducing a Bill of Legislature with a view to stop ping the abuses, and a Child Pro- tection Society has recently been formed in Colombo.
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Lord Passfield added that abuses were found to exist on plantations. The Colonial Office intended to watch the matter.
Replying to Lord Olivier, Lard Passfield promised to enquire whe ther a similar system existed in other colonies.
THE SARAWAK. FRONTIER. NEW DUTCH LEGISLATION.
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A NEW PROPOSAL.
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Rucay, March 5. Mr. F. Montague, Under-Scere- tory for Air, was asked in the House of Commons whether be had
THE HAGUE, March-5. She was seriously injured and considered any scheme for a central sent to hospital, where her con- aerodrome for Loadon nearer the ed a Bill for the adhesion of the The Second Chamber to-day pasi- dition is critical.
heart of the city than Croydon. LONDON, March 6. He replied that the matter had Netherlands to sections I. and IV. Mrs. Demaret has died. She was been considered by the Civil Avis of the general Act in regard to the pacific regulation of international Mr. Stimson's stenographer, and tion Board. On their recommenda- disputes, as established by the was sharing a bedroom with another tion, Croydon Aerodromo w Ninth Assembly of the League of woman. Both were about to retire tained as the London terminal.aero Nations on September 8, 1928, and when her companion left the room drome and enlarged and improved.
also the Bill approving the British inomentarily, and when she reture His department was giving careful
and Dutch treaty concluded at The ed she found Mrs. Demaret had dis consideration to this
Hague on February 28, 1928, defin- appeared through a window which problem.
ing the part of the frontier between Dutch Borneo and Sarawak,
was open.
Mrs. Demaret was due to sail for New York to-day. It is presumed she examining a bunch of floweri, sent her by Mrs. Stimson, before her departure. Her husband is a Government employer in Washing
ton.
INDIAN COTTON TARIFF.
FURTHER PROTESTS FROM JAPAN.
difficult
DEATH OF VISCOUNT GLADSTONE.
A LONG, AND USEFUL CAREER.
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LONDON, March 6. The death bas occurred of Vis count Gladstone.
NATIVE RIOTS IN CAPETOWN.'
ATTACK ON, MINISTER OF
JUSTICE.
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The Inte Viscount Gladstone,
CAPETOWN, March 5. who was the youngest son of, the
Several police and natives were (TEXOCON RECTER'S LOKKOY.) late Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the injured in a conflict outside the Lamous Liberal statesman, was House of Parliament on the oc TOKYO, March, 5, born in 1834 He was educated at casion of a native demonetration Although the Government does Eton and graduated at University in protest against the Riotous not appear to contemplate a formal College, Oxford: From 1877 to Assemblies Bill, introduced by Mr. protest, it is reliably learned that 1880 he was History Lecturer at Pirow, Minister of Justice, on the Mr. Matsudaira has been instruct Keble College. In 1860 be contest ground, that drastic powers were ed to make representations to Lon-ed Middlesex County, and in the necessary, owing to the great in don concerning the proposed rais same year, became Private Secre- crease of Bolshevist propaganda ing of the cotton tariff in India, tory to his father, which post he among the natives." pointing out, inter alin, that India held till 1881. He was appointed A large crowd of the public took 48 per cent of Japan's cotton Financial Secretary to the War gathered" to see the fun," and the textile exports Inst year, while Office 1880; Under Secretary to the natives attempted to force an en- Japan for the past 20 years took Home Office 1802-1804; First Com-trance into the Assembly to inter one third of India's raw cotton ¦ missioner of Works 1904-1905 view General Hertzog, Mr. Justice exports. It is feared, therefore, Secretary for Home Affairs 1905 Pirow reggived a volley of bottles, that the tariff, if imposed, will 1919. He was the first Governor atones and pieces of wood, and the strike a serious blow to Japan's General and High Commissioner of police charged with their batons cotten rade, and eat the same time, South Africa, to which post he was Police reinforcements then swarmed serve to impair the friendly rela-appointed in 1910 and held till 1914. out from the basement of the tions between Britain and Japan. He leaves no heir.]
Assembly and ended the affair;
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wages, and to endeavour to estab. Hah a Labour Government,
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Berlin Police Ready,
BERLIN, March 5. The whole of "the "police force has been mobilised to deal with possible. disturbances ta-morrow international fighting day the against unemployment and hunger." The Rosefahne publishes a pre- clamation by Communist executives in Russia, Germany and Great Britain, summoning the workers to demonstrate.
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Invitation to Archbishop,
MANILA STUDENT
RIOTS.
WORLD'S SUGAR PRODUCTION.
AUTHORITIES HELPLESS.
REBELLION.
BIG DECREASE REVEALED.
PARENTS OF PUPILS JOIN SERIOUS SITUATION FOR
BRITISH GROWERS.
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MANILA, March 8. The police force, school oficials and the insular authorities were quite unable to check the very strange school rebellion, details of which were reported yesterday.
The situation grow steadily worse. In the course of the day, the,, parents of the 6,300 striking High School pupils joined their sons and daughters and the mem- bers of the City Council in decid- ing to appeal to Governor-General Davis and Manuel Quezon, the President of the Senate, to grant
their demands.
They are asking for, the dis missal of Alejandro Albert, the act ing Secretary of Public Instruc- Lion, of Dr. Luther Bewley, the Director of Education, and of one of the Eigh School principala. They are also demanding the re- instatement of the four pubila ex-
STOCKHOLM, March 5. A remarkable feature of the Compelled by Dr. Luther Bewley. munist demonstrations to-morrow is that the anti-Moscow section has invited the Archbishop of Upsala to attend the meeting and discuss the anti-religious policy of the Sovieta. The police have authoris ed three open-air meetings for Communista, but bave Moscow prohibited demonstrations in the
street.
Meetings Banned in Paris.
Fan18, March 5. M. Tardieu has instructed the police to ensure peace at to-mor row's Communist demonstrations. Street meetings have been banned, and taxi-drivers may forfeit their licences if they carry
out their threat to strike.
Nineteen ArrEKIS... Nineteen students have been ar rested so far, the charges ranging from disturbing the peace to re sting arrest and carrying con- cealed weapons.
Another student has been knifed, bab not seriously. One young girl was maltreated in front of the High School where she was attempting to attend her classes. She WAS kissed, hugged and slapped.
Several other students wero
bruised in a general melee with the police in front of the Manila West High School.
The Communists have "dropped out of public sight, apparently frightened by the publicity given to their activities in the news- Precautions in New York.
papers, sciting cut in much detail their propaganda activities. New York, March 1. Governor Whalen has warned women and children to avoid Com- He will munist demonstrations. himself take charge of the police arrangements.
Chicago Bans Demonstration.
New York March 6. The police, like the Communists, have made the most extensive pre- parations for the unemployment demonstration in which 60,000 are expected to participate here. The police of Philadelphia are also per mitting the
demonstration but Chicago has banned it as the paraders were told to bring knives and black jacks with which to at. tack the police,
The Communists in St. Louis are boasting that the city will long remember to-day's gathering.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA.
The authorities are silent, but they are seeking a means of stem- ming the disgraceful tide of juvenile sentiment.
THE RED WAR ON RELIGION.
STRANGE ACTION BY LABOUR
GOVERNMENT.
AMBASSADOR'S REPORT NOT
TO. BE PUBLISHED...
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LONDON, March 5. In the House of Commons at question time, Mr. Arthur Hender- son replied that he had decided not to "publish the report of the British Ambassador in connection religious persecution in Rustin, as the publication would THREE MILLION JOBLESS.create an undesirable precedent and would not be in the interests of the
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public service. He would, however, publish a translation of the Soviet decree regulating the practice of re- ligion in Russia.
WASHINGTON, March 5 The White House denies reports that President Hoover is calling an unemployment conference. It is stated that every department of the Government is doing its utmost to speed up construction and relieve unemployment. It is felt that Congress is largely blameworby if the 3,000,000 unemployed remain jobless.
It transpires that President" Hoover agrees with the statement of Mr. Davis, Secretary of Labour, that the delay in passing the tariff legislation is more responsible for the creation of unemployment than any other factor, while the House of Representatives have taken no action in regard to public building. schemes which President Hoover expects will provide employment for many of the workless."
GENERAL SHOT BY SENTRY.
TRAGIC SEQUEL TO FALSE ALARM.
Replying to a further question, he said that he had received from the Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance particulars regarding ele ven Russian Baptists reported - ta be exiled or imprisoned in the Soviet Union. He was at present making inquiries into this matter.
WIRELESS TELEPHONE.
"MAJESTIC" SERVICE TO BE RESUMED.
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LONDON. March 5. The Postmaster General AD- nounces that wireless telephone communication to and from the liner Majestic will again be avail- able on her voyage this week, be- ginning at ten o'clock to-morrow morning and somewhat later pn qubsequent day and continuing each day for about ten hours,
RUBBER RESTRICTION. DUTCH PRODUCERS ASK FOR POSTPONEMENT.
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HIGA, March 5." General Tirvand, chief of the Esthonian General Staff, was se- verely wounded, and his aide-de- camp, Major Ibrut, killed by an
AMSTERDAM, March 6. over-zealous sentry, named Reral,
No further meetings of interna- whose challenge they disregarded. tional rubber interests are expected. The whole town was roused in the Soms Dutch producers have asked early hours by sirena, church bells for a postponement to date from and apparently rifle fire in the March 6, whereby the approval or centre of the town. The panic was disapproval of the proposal to sus- increased by the fact that nobody pond tapping in May may be notifi was able to discover the cause, as ed by those who were absent or un- all telephones were out of action.able to vote at the meeting on Within ten minutes of the alarm February 19, every street corner: #08 occupied The British Committee agreed to by members of the Defence Force. apostponement to March 29. It It transpired that the alarmı | was decided that a joint British were merely intended to test their and Dutch communique should be efficiency. The gentry who fired on published then. It is learned that General Tirvand and Major Ibrat, Every large majority of producers apparently had not been warned, has agreed to the decisions minde and took the alarm seriously. on February 19.
HAYANA, March, &.
It is officially stated that up to the present 1,751,000 tons of sugar have been ground, a decrease of 74,000 tons as compared with the corresponding period of last year.
U.S. Tarla Increased. [REUTER'A AMERICAN SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, March 5. The Senate has increased the tariff on Cuban raw sugar to two cents per lb., and has rejected the proposal of a direct bounty to domestic sugar growers and manu
facturers,
The House of Representatives has already voted for an increase on the tariff on Cuban sugar of 2,4 cents.
that
The difference between and the two cents voted by the Senate will be worked out by the committee,
WEST INDIES HARD HIT..
A GRAVE SITUATION.
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Rocay, March 5.. in the House of Lords, urged the Visiourt Elibank, Conservative,
publication of the report of the Commission which inquired into the condition of the West Indies sugar industry. He complained that the Chancellor of the Exche- quer would not state his policy on this question.
BANK RATE REDUCED.
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LONDON, March &
The Bank of England discount rate has been reduced to 4 per cent.
THE KUOMINTANG IN MALAYA.
QUESTIONS IN COMMONS.
SIR CECIL CLEMENTI'S."
ACTION QUERIED.
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LONDON, March 5" In the House of Commons to-day Commander Kenworthy (Lab.) ask ed why the Kuomintang had been proscribed in British territories in Malaya, seeing that His Majesty's Government, in their diplomatic re- lationship with the Government of China, supported the Kuomintang in China, and whether other non- British residents of Malaya would be prevented from engaging in political activities connected, with the parties in their own countries.
Dr. Drummond Shiels replied that the Kuomintang had not been accorded registration or other re- cognition as a lawful society in Malaya, but it had not been found necessary to take active steps for State was telegraphically corres its suppression. The Secretary' of
ponding with the Governor, Bir Cecil Clementi, in regard to his reasons recently for taking such stops.
Commander Kenworthy pointed out that the 300,000 Chinese citizens in Malaya were the most valuable Lord Passfield. Secretary for the section of the community. Dr. Colonies, said that he was unable Shiels replied; "that is recognis to reveal the secrets of the Chan- | ed."
cellor's budget. He could say noth- ing about the policy of the Gov crnment on this question, save to repeat the assurance that so long as the tax on sugar remained, there. would be no abolition of the pre- ference. He yielded to none in his. estimate of the gravity of the situa tion in all the sugar producing colonies.
CHINESE HEALTH PROBLEMS.
REPORT BY LEAGUE MISSION.
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overproduction of Bugar
GENEVA, March 5. throughout the world amounted to
The Health Committee of the between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 tons. League of Nations discussed the The difficulties of the West Indian question of collaboration between, planters were, therefore, not only the Chinese Government and the due to apprehension about British health organisation of the League. preference being withdrawn when The Directorate of Health section the Chancellor made his budget submitted the results of a three- statement on April 4 The posi- months' mission in China to the tion was such that it might not end of 1999, at the request of the be within the power of the Gov- Chinese Government to investigate the sanitation of ports and mari- ernment to find a remedy..
time quarantine.
There was no hope of persuading the Chancellor to bridge the enorm- ous gap between the world price
Dr. Woo Kai-Sew returned thanks on behalf of the Chinese Alicinter
of sugar and the cost of production of Health, regretting his inability in the West Indies and Mauritius. to participate in the session of the The Government was not only ready Committee.
but eager to give any assistance The Committee appointed a sub- which might be practicable to en- committee to examine the proposals able the West Indian planters to of the Chinese Government with a to collaboration with the reduce the costs of production, but view there seemed to be little possibility health organisation of the League.. of reducing costs so as to enable them to produce at the world price at the present time. Until the Gov-DEATH ernment had come to a decision as to what they were going to do, they would not publish the report of the Commission.
PRICE OF TIN FALLS.
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OF ADMIRAL VON
TIRPITZ.
IN COMMAND OF GERMAN NAVY. DURING THE WAR.
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MUNICH, March 6. The death is announced of Ad- miral Yon Tirpitz.
RUGBY, March 5. The price of tin to-day fell to £182-18-3 per ton, which is the Admiral Von Tirpitz was in lowest price since September, 1922. supreme command of the German The increase in visible supplies of Grand Fleet throughout the war. the total recorded at the end of A close sasociate of the ex-Kaiser. February and the curtailment of he was reputed to be the instigator producion is responsible for the of the submarine war on merchant continuous decline
steamers.
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FAMILY ASSORTED
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