JAPAN'S STUDY OF BRITAIN'S WAR DEBT
LONDON PACT.
QUESTIONING OF MINISTERS COMPLETED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
Tokyo, Sept. 15.
TO AMERICA.
REVIVAL OF EFFORT TO OBTAIN REDUCTION.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. Upon the adjournment to-day of A political sensation has sud- the eleventh meeting of the Privy denly arisen owing to the fact that Council's Examination Committee Sir Warren Fisher and Mr. charged with a preliminary study Thomas Jones, the Deputy Secre- of the London Treaty, it is under-tary to the British Cabicet, have stood that the Committee coin been conferring for several days pleted their questioning of Mr. with State Department officials Hamaguchi, Baron Shidehaza · and Admiral Takarabe concerning the Naval Pact.
The Committee meets again on the 17th inst., presumably to draft the recommendations for the entire Council
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1930.
CESSATION OF AMERICA CUP RACE. CITY OF TACOMA'S
TARIFF WARFARE.
INTERNATIONAL NOTE IN ECONOMIC RELATIONS.
[BRITISH WIRELESS BARVICE.]
Ruony, Sept. 14. Addressing the League Assembly at Geneva yesterday Mr. William Graham, President of the Board of Trade, referred to the tariff con- ference held early this year;
The Convention suggested by the conference pledges its " signatories The belief is prevalent in Gov-against any increase of tariffs be ernment circles that Great Britain is about to inaugurate an intensive European drive for the wholesale reduction of war debts, and that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is seeking to acquire political prestige at home, in attempting to do what previous British Governments have failed to accomplish, namely, to secure a reduction of the British debt to the United States.
Throughout the series of meet ings, which began on August 18, the., Committee's "grilling" of the members of the Cabinet has fre- quently evoked, bitter controversy, the Ministers defending and the
The story goes that Sir Warren members of the Committee attack Fisher and Mr. Jones have been ing the Treaty.
in New York for several weeks an The questioning has covered the guests of Mr. Houghton, the wide range, but the thorniest point former U.S. Ambassador to Lon- has been the constitutional question
don, where they discussed debt whether the Cabinet possesses the
reduction secretly with the prin- right to make decisions affecting
cipal bankers. the navy's peace strength without the consent of the Navy Genera! Staff.
Although rumours that the Com- mittee would recommend the rejec tion of the Treaty or that the Cabinet's downfall was impending over the Treaty issue. have fre- quently been published in the news- papers, these are discounted in authoritative quarters, where it is "believed that the Council eventually
will advise the Emperor to ratify the Treaty possibly before October.
PRESIDENT OF SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY. »
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).
Merely a Private Visit.
LONDON, Sept. 15.
It is authoritatively declared in London that Sir Warren Fisher's visit to the United States is of a purely private nature.
American Report Emphatically Denied.
fore April, 1901, and Mr. Graham announced that the British Govern- ment had decided to ratify it, and he urged other nations to do the same before November, when nego- tiations between the States for further tariff reductions would begin.
Eighteen countries have signed the Convention, and 23 have signed
the protocol for further negotia
tions.
Mr. Graham urged upon. the Assembly the need for economic disarmament and the cessation of tariff warfare. We have to sound an international note in economic relations," he said, „
World-wide Trade Depression, Referring to world-wide trade depression, Mr. Graham said that the danger of the moment was that all
nations in these economic straits turned forthwith to the pro- tection of their own industries as a remedy. The lessons of the world conference of 1927, which WIE called not indeed for Free Trade but for freer trade, were forgot
ten.
Politicians yielded to the insistent demands of "industry and
GENEVA, Sept. 15. British delegation circles em Phatically deny the American report commerce for protection. Though that the British Government is en-a tariff truce conference was held deavouring to secure a revision of the Debt Agreement...
U.S. PRESS AND PUBLIC. REGRET DEFEAT.
FEEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
NEWPORT (R.L), Sept. 14. The Enterprise is now a 5 to 1 favourite as the result of her first victory, but American yachting circles, besides the Press and pub lic are deeply disappointed with Saturday's race, as the weather afforded no fair trial of the respec- tive merits of the challenger and defender.
H.K. YACHT CLUB AND -
SHAMROCK V.
INTERCHANGE OF TELEGRAMS WITH SIR T. LIPTON.
Chab:-
4
PACIFIC FLIGHT.
BATTLING WITH ADVERSE CONDITIONS.
【THROUGH REUSER'S AGENCY.]
Toxro, Sept. 13.. Mr. Harold Bromley, the airman, and his partner, Mr. Gatty, who yesterday get out on an attempt to cross the Pacific, have turned back and landed at the village of Shiri- tsuka, near Cape Shiriya.
Lands Fifty Miles from Starting Point.
な
The point where they landed is 50 miles north of Samishiro, whence they started out on their trans-Pacific attempt yesterday morning,
The fliers are reported to be un hurt.
Although very meagre details are available in Tokyo, it appears that the 'plane the City of Taco-
The following telegram was sent to Sir Thomas Lipton on Saturday by the Royal Hong Kong Yachtma, turned back late on Sunday afternoon after passing Cape Lo Best wishes-Commodore and Patka, the aviators being convinced members Royal Hong Kong that, it would be futile to make Yacht Club.
the attempt in a battle with fogs, The following reply has been rain and adverse winds. received:
Newport, RI.-Warmest thanks good wishes-Lipton.
PANIC AT POLISH POLITICAL MEETING.
POLICE DRAW SWORDS ON
CROWD.
{THROUGH AKCTER': AGENOT.] ;
WARSAW, Sept. 14. As a political meeting of about 1,500 adherents of the Left and Centre parties was leaving the early this year the agreement that gardens, where the meeting WAS resulted from it fell far short of the held, a hand grenade was thrown hopes of those who had advocated and revolvers were fired, as a re- The Debt Funding Commission the conference most warmly. Never-sult of which two persons were fixed the total British debt repay-theless, the Convention pledging the killed and 11 wounded, including able to America at G.84,604,128,085, signatories against any increase of £ve, policemen, CANTON, Sept. 15. of which G.84,128,085 was to be their tariffs before April, 1931, had Dr. Tai Chi The, President of the repaid at once in cash and the Sun Yat Sen University in Canton, balance funded at 3 per cent. for tendered his resignation to Nan 10 years, and 34 per cent. there- king, declaring that he is too busy after, until redeemed by the opera with other affairs, and his resignation of an accumulativa sinking tian has been accepted, and Mr. fund of per cent. in 62 years. Chu Chin Hus, Vice-President of Interest is payable on June 15 and the University, has been promoted December 18 each year, at the rate to the post..
Mr. Chu left Shanghai last Satur- of 3 per cent. for the first ten day for Canton to assume his new years, and 4 per cent thereafter, post.
to include the sinking fund.
KWANGSI LEADERS
SURRENDER,
PROVIDED "TRAVELLING EXPENSES" FURNISHED.
A Wuchow report states that rumours are current there that Li Tsung Jen, Wong Shiu Hung and Pei Chung Hai, the leaders of the Kwangsi troops, have offered to surrender. The Kwangsi troops are said to be no longer willing to fight due to their wages not having been paid and to the shortage of an munition.
AUSTRALIAN AIRMAN ÄT
SINGAPORE.
LANDS IN SWAMP NEAR
SINGAPORE AERODROME..
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SINGAPORE, Sept/ 14, The Australian airman Cunning ham, who left Wyndham,, West Australia, on August 6 on a flight to England, and was reported a month ago se baving had trouble in landing in the Dutch East Indies, has resumed his effort.
Realizing the futility of holding out. against the Cantonese troops which are in a much better posi- tion in point of finance and, nu-
After experiencing imagneta munition, the Kwangs leaders are trouble, he again took off from said to have dispatched a delegate Batavis, but was forced to land in to interview. General Chen Tea "swamp within easy reach of the Tong, offering to surrender. They Royal Air Force aerodrome here. promised to hand over their troops Ee had previously discovered a and then go abroad, provided the petrol leak, but kept on until the Canton Government gives them & engine stopped. certain sum of money for their
The machine was damaged, but "travelling expenses.”
General Chen Tai Tong is con- Cunningham was not injured sidering their request and has wired the Nanking Government asking for instructions:
* It is understood that a new pro- |
INDIAN PEACE PROPOSALS.
A panic ensued, many persons its value and the British Government being trampled upon, particularly had decided to ratify it. More im.when mounted police charged the portant, however, were the coming crowd with drawn swords. negotiations aiming at general tariff' reductions, which would begin in the early autumn" and would, it was hoped, yield results early next year!
Problem of World Restoration. All this, Mr. Graham maintained, was part of the dominating' prob blem of world restoration. He re- fused to believe that any contrību- tion toward that restoration could be made by restrictive tariffs which, while they might, give tem- porary stimulus to certain indus- tries, could in the long run only retard recovery.
NATIONAL RAILWAY WEEK
IN ENGLAND.
GENERAL DAWES TRIBUTES
BRITISH GENIUS.
American
DUTCH SOCIALISTS'
DEMONSTRATION.
PROTEST AGAINST NAVAL BILL.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENDY.]
AMSTERDAM Sept. 14. Notwithstanding rain, and thun der, the Dutch Socialist Party
demonstrations held huge
in
GREAT WEST ROAD HIGHWAYMAN.
SUSPECT DETAINED IN SOUTHAMPTON,
Following three robberies by an armed motorist from premises on the Great West Road, incidents have occurred which resulted in a man being detained by the South. ampton police,
At Hounslow a motorist was bail-
· FASCISTS' FANTASTIC ELECTORAL SUCCESSES.
TREMENDOUS SENSATION THROUGHOUT GERMANY.
TEUTON NEWSPAPERS STAGGERED.
(THROUGH RIUTER'S ACIENOT.
Both the Fascists and Com munists have proclaimed their con- tempt for Parliamentarism, and the new Reichstag is likely to re in a stalemata or in violence.
BERLIN, Sept. 14. The end of the election campaignsult was marked by rioting in the capital and provinces. Bl
.....
The most, serious encounter oc- curred in Berlin yesterday evening, when large crowds of Communists assembled at their headquarters in Bulow Square.
Communists Fire Upon
Rise of the Fascists. The amazing thing about the rise of the Fascists is that it has been achieved in the teeth of the hostility of practically the catire Press of the country, for the Fascista possess only fow papers of their own, but the partyla' active propaganda among the masses and its slogan of Dawa with everything Republican" gal- vanised the working classes and the middle classes.
Nationalists. Several lorries containing Nation al-Socialists passed and were fired upon by the Communists, one Hitlerite being killed and several wounded.
The police with the greatest di Mussolini lines. culty cleared the square,
The Fascists do not favoura Monarchy, but & Dictatorship on
Distribution of Seats.
BERLIN, Sept. 13.
A dozen Hitlerites were seriously injured in other parts of the city. The distribution of seats in the by bottles of hydrochloric acid; new Reichstag, according to the harfed as them.
There was a total of 200 arrests in all parts of Berlin.
As a result of similar clashes, five persons were wounded at Munster, six at Hansu, and seven at Aix-la-Chapelle- Fresident Hindenburg Votes Early.
President von Hindenburg was one of the earliest voters in the general election.
The German delegation to Geneva journeyed to Loernach to vote..
latest calculation, is as follows
Socialists
Fasciste
Communists"
Centrists
German Nationals People's Party
State Party (which ab-
sorbed the
crats)
Demo-
Economic Party Bavarian People's Party Landvolk Business Party Landbund
Others
ན སུཎཱ ཏཝ
143
107
76
952858
20
19
គន្លង២២៩
German Press Staggered.
The newspapers to-day admit that they are staggered by the They consider
Special polling stations were Fascist pocesses.
nurses.
Urns into which the patients cropped their voting papers were carried along the wards.
Four Hundred Arrests in Berlin,
LATER.
ed by a well-dressed man, who ask- ed for a lift on 'the pretext that bis car had broken down. His re-established in the hospitals for quest had scarcely been granted the benefit of the doctors and before he produced a revolver and ordered the motorist to get out. As he drove away the alleged thief said, "Good-bye, you will find your car at Southampton this morning." The motorist told the police, who
the result that the car was recover Two persons were killed and a telephoned to Southampton, with ed and a man detained on suspicion. Scotland Yard officers left for number injured in Berlin in the Southampton to question the man. course of small outbreaks, but the Earlier in the day Mr. Stephen police were able to cope with the West, proprietor of a garage at North Warnborough, zear Odiham, had an exciting adventure with a motorist, who, after being supplied with petrol and oil, pointed a terested in Berlin last night and to wolver at him. Mr. West closed day, but most were released later. with the man and succeeded in wrenching the revolver from his grasp. He then ordered the man
disturbances.
Altogether 400 persons were ar:
Extremists Gain. Ground,
Gut of the garage and telephoned An accurate survey of the voting to the local police, but before help situation is unlikely before mid- arrived the strenger had driven night.. away. Mr. West gave & description
of age and also the number of the election have produced a general
PARIS FASHIONS.
AMERICANS ACCUSED OF
impression that the National- Socialists" (Hitler's extremists) are gaining ground, as large increases of their supporters are recorded in several constituencies.
of the man, who was about 25 years However, the first results of the
car. The revolver had eight cham- Amsterdam and Rotterdam; "in bers and contained seven live which deputations from all over cartridges. the country participated, as a pro- Government's teat against the Naval Bill, which provides for a construction programme extending over ten years, and involving an expenditure of £10,000,000.
The demonstrators also edo cated State pensions, eight hours' work &
day, pay during bolidays and insurance of workers.
REBEL PROPAGANDA IN
NORTH ANNAM.
MOB ATTACKS NAVAL MEN AND MILITIA
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUZ.]
PLAGIARISM.
Acting upon the demand of the "Association pour la Defense des Arts Plastiques" a police raid was made upon the premises occupied. by Mrs, Davis and Mrs. Oliver, both Americans, who are alleged to have been engaged in the business of supplying American dressmak ing houses with copies and sketches of new models brought out by the leading French firms. The associa vion, to which all these firms be long. declares that the practice fraudulent and is an infringement of copy-right.EN
were
that the only possible check to the onslaught of the reactionaries is by the Middle Parties combining with the Socialists, and thus give a combination majority of 321 against the 924 Fascists, Com mmists and German Nationals.
"Fascists' Fantastic Successes Create Senaation:
LATER
The almost fantastic electorul successes of the Fascist have caused a tremendous sensation throughout Germany. "The fact that the official party estimate of seats in the Reichstag has beer.
so overwhelmingly exceeded. is due to the popularity of the party's quasi, programme, including i Fascist Dictatorship, purging Ger- many from foreign and racial
in+ Auences, particularly Jewish, and the suppression of landlordism as practised by the big German land-
Cowpers......
In spite of the deadly hostility of the Communists towards the Fas cists, it is expected that the Com munists will throw in their weight Almost all the other, parties are with the Fascists in the event of losing; the Bocial-Democrats only the Social Democrats forming a
lightly, and the Communista hold- Government, ng their own, while the Centrists are gaining slightly.
The
Oficial circles emphasize that such a coalition would guarantee LATER adherence to the Bruening Govern extremists, namely, the ment's foreign policy. National-Socialists (Fascists) and Communists have awept the board at the elections.
Eighty-five per cent of the else tors polled, and every 60,000 polled means one scat in the Reichstag.
The state of the Parties, with the possibility of only slight changes, is as follows Social Democrats National Socialiste
The Hitlerites have already and pounced their willingness to join the Government on condition that. they get the portfolios of Defence and Interior, and also that the Prussian Diet be dissolved, and that new Prussian elections be held; after which National-Socialists
(BEITISH WIXELESS SERVICE,]
Sept. 14. Speaking at the opening in Liverpool yesterday of the Na- tional Railway Week, held to cele... brate the centenary of the first passenger railway in the world, which ran between Liverpool and
Both ladies protest that they only
should be appointed Prussian purchased sketches which Manchester, General Dawes, the
Ambassador, said:
openly on sale, but a fashion artist whose fat was also raided is said
Minister of the Interior and Police- "Great as have been the beneficial
FARIS, Sept. 14. to have declared that she habitually
President of Berlin. These condi changes in the life of Great Bri
A detachment of the Foreign accompanied Mrs. Davie to dress-
tions, which it regarded as un- tain which the railroad has
making establishments, and surrep Legion has been despatched to the sitiously took notes, on cards con-
acceptable, would mean the giving wrought, the debt of distant court Thanhhuone region, in North sled in her bag, of dresses
to the Fascists control of the army tries to this achievement of STLA, Sept. 14.
Annam, in consequence of persia which were being shown to Mrs.
and police, and enabling them to The Viceroy has sent a letter to British genius is even greater than tent rebel propaganda: Davis. The latter posed as a pros Germany's Political Life Confused. carry out their object of overthrow- Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. that of the British people them. It is officially reported that pective customer, and afterwards Jayakar, regretting the references
rioters attacked the naval men and worked up those notes into cum. The election has brought coming the Republic and establishing to confidential conversations and selves." the publication of notes which That firat railway, he added, had casualties
militia, who fired, causing ten pleted sketches. His Excellency had not. scea or approved of, in connexion with the become a model for world imita attempt to get the Congress leaders tion and had opened
vincial government in wangsi in UNINTENTIONAL ERROR BY expected to be inaugurated in the near future. Yeng Yuan Kung has been appointed acting chairman,
"REDS" IN FLIGHT. CHANGSHA NO LONGER IN DANGER.
In a telegram to the Nanking Central Government dated the 14th instant, General Ho Chien report
PEACEMAKERS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOX.]
a now era for
ed that the Communist troops, to put an end to the civil disobedi-humanity in which both the needs which have been menacing Chang ence movement, which, as reported of mankind and the means of sup- sha have been driven off and that on September 9, was a failure
owing to the impossible demands plying them were immensly divor of the other side,
nified and multiplied..
138
103
Centre
Communists
76 75
German Nationalists... Others
40. 91
Dictatorship.
the Chinese Press last week The Two piracice were reported in Chinese stormer Yung Ning, on the Ningpo-Taichow service, was pirat-
At the fat of Mrs. Davis several plete political confusion into Ger- thousands of these sketches were many's political life. The sweep found, marked with the name of ing victories for the National- EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IN the firms from whose models the Socialists create an unprecedented were taken and during the raid another artist called to deliver hor situation. work. A large number of similar The now Reichstag will have overed at a place known as Shiltong sketches were found at the fint of stat Mrs, Oliver, together with envelopes 900 Deputies representing theat about 1 am last Sunday, when addressed to the American houses National-Socialists, German Nation everything of value on the vessel to which they were being sent, and alists and Communists, and their were kidnapped by the marauders
was taken and 20 of her passenger also a code for secret correspond.
be the Middle and held for ranson. On the same nce and the addresses of a dozen opponents will fashion artists who worked for her. Parties, who will have to form a morning, the tamer Wutang on
It is stated that books spired coalition against the extremists if the Wahu Tatung service,
pirated at Tikong and more than show that this lady made a profit
28,000 worth of property taken
GREECE.
HOUSES IN VILLAGES COLLAPSE.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGETOE.]"
ATHENS, Sept. 14 Several houses in the village of stage ever erected in Britain, Sophike and Almire have col showing the development of trans lapsed owing to an earthquake port from the earliest times
The celebrations, include a ro markable exhibition of the earliest experiments in steam traction and
they have fled to Chentousbih with his troops in pursuit
According to information gather- The Viceroy specifically denies ed by Government aeroplanes from the suggestion that the Government Hankow, the Communists are mov- of India might entertain proposals ing towards Kiangai vid Liling. for a partial repudiation of the
General Ho has ordered six-aero- public debt, but admits that the pageant on the largest open-air planes from Shanghai for the pur-peacemakers made an unintentional pose of suppressing the Communists error in this matter. He generally and bandita,VELURAY
pays a tribute to their services.
shock.
of £400 a month out of the business. Germany is to be saved.