BRITISH BOXER INDEMNITY.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPOINTED.
İTUROCON REUTEN'S ADEKOY.)
NANKING, Mar. '97. The Chinese and British mem- bors of the Board of Trustees of the British Boxer Indemnity. Re- fund have been appointed.
The British members are:-Mr. R, Calder Marshall, Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai Mr. Kenneth Cantlie (son of the late. Sir James Cantlic, who was a close friend of Sun Yat Sen); Mr. N. S. Brown, manager of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, Shanghai; Bir, W. W. Hornell, Vice-Chancellor of the Hong Kong University; and Mr, W. H. Donald, advisor to Chang Hauch Liang.
There are 10 Chinese members, including Chu Chin Hua, Chan- eellor of the Central University, Nanking, who will bet
as chair- man; and Mr. T. I. Soong, who is a brother of Mr. T. V. Soong,
Minister of Finance.
KIANGSI ANTI-RED
CAMPAIGN.
(Wah Tar Tot Pan)
N. Y.K. O.S.K. AGREEMENT.
MINIMISING COMPETITION. ON OVERSEAS ROUTES.
(Turovon Reuter's AOKNOY.)
DRAKA, Mar. 27.
Two of the largest Japanese ship ping companies, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Osaka Shoson Kaisha, controlling more than 200 steamers aggregating almost 1,600,000 tons, have issued a state. ment announcing that they have jointly entored into an agreement with the object of minimising oom. polition on overseas trade routes.
DUMPING OF DEAD BODIES
IN SHANGHAI,
THIRTY-FOUR THOUSAND INFANTS ANNUALLY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENDY.]·
SHANGHAI, Mar:, 27.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1931.
ALL-INDIA
CONGRESS.
IRWIN-GANDHI PACT
CONFIRMED.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Kanac, Mar. 27.
The Working Committee of the
'GANDHISM WILL NOT DIET":
THOUSANDS SPELLBOUND.. AT KARACHI.
(TUROCOM REUTER'S AGENTS,)
KARACHI, Mor, 20. The Mahatma Gandhi held tena Congress passed a resolution con- of thousands pellbound for nearly Arming the Irwin-Gandhi pact, an hour to-day in an address de reaffirming the goal of indepen-livered in the grounds of the All- donce, domand for complete con- Indin Congress. trol of the army and foreign affairs, Anance, fiscal policy, and appoint ing Gandhi head of the Congress delegation to the Round Table
Conforence.
No-one can harm me," he said, adding, "As long as God wills, I shall servo India. Gandhism, which
yesterday, will not die with my young friends shouted down Other resolutions urged the re- death, or the death of its believers." Referring to the black-cloth lease of all political prisonera and conceded Burma's right to self-ower presented to him yesterday of his arrival at Malir," he said that if the youth who gave it cama and confessed the error of his ways, he would return it,
dotermination.
OBITUARY.
Gandhi Stakes His-Qarsse on Congress Vote.
It appears that Gandhi is ready to stake his career on the Congress
| MR. ALBERT BELLAMY, M.P. vote on the constitutional isauno.
IBITION WIRELE SERVICE]
RUGBY, Mar, 20.
Sitting before his spinning-wheel in his hut in the Congress camp, the Mahatma toid a group of journalists that if Congress rejecte the Delhi "Irwin-Gandhi " sottle-
GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE.
WON BY GRAKLE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
..... 1.
LONDON, Mar. 27. The race for the Grand National Steeplechase, 4 miles and 856. yards, ran at Aintree this afternoon, re sulted as follows:-
Grakle Grogalach ecotoca 9 Annandale There were 43 runners. The win. nor won by one and a half lengths,
third tea lengths saparating second and
3
The betting was:-100 to @ agat. Grakle, 25 to 1 agst Gregalach, and 100 to 1 agst. Annandale.
AUSTRO - GERMAN CUSTOMS PLAN.
BRITAIN MAY HAVE TO CONSIDER SITUATION.
(THROUGH 'hauren's JDENCY.]
PARIB, Mar. 2.
Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Minister, told British Pressmen to- day that if the Austrian and Ger- man Governments declined to sul mit the Customs plan to the League of Nations he would have to on. sider the situation, but he could hot imagine this to be their final
attitude.
Conservative Opinion. (BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)
RUGBY, Mar. 20. Next year's World Disarmament Conference was mentioned in the House of Commons to-day by Sir isDonald Maclean.
The runners were identical with those already published.
The ticket in the Trish Hospital Sweepstake which drew Grakle held by Isola," Battersea Park, London. He is the owner of an
Italian coffee shop, and all of his 40 relatives have a share.
Bale of 'Bir Lindsay Ticket in Sweep.
TIENTSIN, Mar. 27. The holders of the Sir Lindsay
In the debate many members om- Phasised the great importance of reviewing the agreement and assur- ed the Government of Bupport. in au active policy to enable them to reach autocess,
FRANCO ITALIAN NAVAL AGREEMENT.
AMERICAN "BLESSING
BEING WITHHELD.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICEL).
WASHINGTON, Mar. 27. Mr. Stimson has cancelled his plan to broadenst his address to morrow blessing the Franco-Italian Naval Agreement.
He now declares that he will withheld comment until the Pact is completed and the full text avail
Mr. Stimson sàỶ tho Ambassador yonterday, able.
SPANISH STUDENTS
DISTURBANCE...
URGE WORKERS TO JOIN IN GENERAL STRIKE.
[TRROUGH REUTER'S AGENÒY,1,
BARCELONA, Mar. 20. The studenta barricaded then-
masks.
selves in the University and ap peared at the windows wearing They telephoned to the factories
a general strike.
Easels were thrown out of the
tions/
A bye-election is rendered peces. More than 33,000 dead bodiessary by the death to-night of Mr.ment, the only course öpen to him ticket in the Irish Grand National Union and the welcome gesture urging the workers to join them in.
in Shanghai's Albert Bellamy, C.B.E., the Labour will be for him to retire tempor. were picked up
member for Ashton-under-Lyne, arily from polition life, as its than 34,000 were infants, slates anand Parliamentary Private Secre- rejection would be a vote of non- tain, have sold a half-share in the taken to and discussed in a friend-windows bearing republican inscrip streets during 1030, of which; more
confidence in himself.
official report.
Every day collectors are sent out to bring in these unclaimed bodies, NANKING, Mar. 27, which are usually cast away An official communiqué states secluded streets and alleyways, and that further succes has been to bury them before they constitute achieved by the anti-Red expiedi-n menace to public health. tion in Kiangai. Yungyang, Hsing chow and Shuikiang are claimed to have been captured by Government troops.
NANKING-BERLIN AIR LINE.
RECENT TRIAL FLIGHTS CON. SIDERED SATISFACTORY.
(Wah Tax Fat Pao)
NARKING, Mar. 27. The Nanking-Berlin Air Line will be inaugurated on April 4.
According to the opinion of the authorities of the Nanking-Berlin Air Line Company, the trial flights made recently have proved quite satisfactory, and arrangements for the regular service have been com- pleted.
In the China section of the line, stopping stations are to include Tsinnn, Tiantsin, Peiping and Man- chuli, and six planes are to be em ployed, while in the international rection Moscow: is assigned as a stopping place, whence the flight will be made direct to Berlin,
FENG YU HSIANG GOING TO JAPAN.
(Wah Tas Fat Pao.)
PEIPINO, Mar. 27 Feng Yu Hsiang is still living in retirement at Wa Tai, a city in Northern Shansi,
It is learned that he intends to leave for Japan in the near future. Te is reported to have wired Yen Hsi Shan expressing his wish to
do so,
These Egures cover the Interna- tional Settlemant, the French Con cession and the Chinese city, the total population of which is esti mated at 3,000,000,
MILITARY OFFICERS' PAY
IN HONG KONG.
MAJORITY IN STERLING AND SOME AT EXCHANGE RATE.
THROUGH REUTER': 'AGENCY.}
LONDON, Mar, 26. Mr. W. L. Everard' (C.) naked Mr. T, Shaw, Minister for War, whether military officers in Hong Kong recruited on a sterling basis were now paid on the basis of half at the true rate of exchange and half at an artificial exchange.
Mr. Show denied that officers were thus paid, and said that the majority were paid in sterling, but some preferred to draw their pay from the command paymaster, and, they were paid in dollara at the official rate of exchange.
CROYDON-SHANGHAI FLIGHT.
BRITON ARRIVES AT BELGRADE,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BELGRADE, Mar. 27, The British airman Ford; en route to Shanghai in & Gypsy Moth aeroplane, arrived and pro ccaded to Skoplja.
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tary to the Minister of Pensions,
Mr. Bellamy won Ashton-under- y election in 1928 and has since Lyne from the Conservatives at a represented the division. A rail- way engine-driver, he was educated at an elementary board school in Manchester. He was President of the Stockport Trades Council for 1 years, President of the Amal: gainated Society of Railway Ser vants from 1911 to 1913, and First President of the National Union of Railwaymen from 1913 to 1017.
Mr. Bellamy was also a member of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Pen- sion Appeal Tribunal, Chairman of the Employees' Side,, Londos and NW. Railway Loro, Dapt. Con- ciliation Board, and a J.P. of the County Borough of Stockport.
In 1924, the Conservatives held the scat by a majority of 239, but in the 1928 bye-election Mr. Bel Jamy got in with a majority of 2,406. At the last General Elec tion. Mr. Bollamy retained the seat in a three-cornered contest by a majority of 3,407 over his nearest rival, the Conservative nominee.
If the agreement is ratified, he would not nocent an open mandate from the Congress to the Round Table Conference, but will ask for a restricted mandate, defining the terms of independence and safe- guarda.
HEAVY CASUALTIES AT CAWNPORE.
(THROUGH REVIEr's agency.}
CAWNPORE, Mar. 20. The latest casualty figures show that 100 were killed and 300 are in hospital..
INDIA'S. FINANCE BILL.
THROWN OUT BY LEGISLA-
TIVE ASSEMBLY.
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
NEW DELHI, Mar. 27. The Legislative Assembly, by 60 vots to 6, rejected the Finance BANK OF PORTUGAL NOTE Bill, which the Governor-General
FRAUD.
JUDGMENT REDUCED TO ' £300,000,
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY-]
LONDON, Mar. 20.
in a message to the President re- cammended should he passed.
The members objected to an in- creased income-tax and· Kaper-tax;
and, despite the Finance Mem berg's offer to reduce the amount to be collected by a crore of rupeen, the Assembly threw out the Bill.
Tomorrow is the last day for The Court of Appeal to-day re-sending the Bill to the Council of duced judgment against Messrs. State. Waterlow & Sons to £300,000.
"A stay of exceution pending an appeal to the House of Lorde was granted.
[Mr. Justice Wright gave judg- ment in the King's Bench Division on December 22 in favour of the Bank of Portugal for £331,651 against Messrs. Waterlow & Sons, printers, of whom Sir Willinoi Waterlow, ex-Lord Mayor of Lon- donis Director.
The case was a sequel to the amazingly bold coup by a swind- ler, in fraudulently obtaining over £1,000,000 worth of bank notes direct from Waterlows on forged orders, The Bank of Portugal rued Waterlows for £1,115,813, alleging,, alternatively, breaches of contract, negligence, or conversion
RAILWAY PEACE IN BRITAIN.
ASSURED FOR AT LEAST
·A·YEAR.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.] '
LosDos, Mar. 20, ↑ Railway peace is assured in Great Britain for at least a year As a result of the decision of the National Union of Railwaymen to-day in accepting the award of the National Wages Board for a reduction of wages,
in connection with the printing of SLAVERY IN HONG the Portuguese bank notes,
Plaintiffs' Counsel asserted that an international swindler named Marang called at Waterlows in 1924, bearing a forged letter from the Governor of the Bank of Portugal, and ordered notes which were duly supplied and circulated.]
SPAIN AND MEXICO STABILISE CURRENCY,
CREDITS ARRANGED FOR
BOTH COUNTRIES.
[REUTER'S AMERIGAN BERVICE).....
New Yoak, Mar. 20.
J. P. Morgan & Co. have arrang od an 18 months' revolving credit of 0.838,000,000 for the Spanish Government.
KONG.
Sweepstake, which was originally bought by Mrs."A. Morris of Tion ticket to n London. syndicate for £7,500, with an agreement for an extra £4,000 should the horse be placed second, or £3,000 should it he placed third. Should the horse win or be unplaced, the £7,500 only stands.
"SUNDAY OBSERVANCE
AT HOME.
BILL BEING PREPARED BY
GOVERNMENT.
{TAKOVAN REUTEN'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, Mar. 20. In the House of Commons Mr. Clynes, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, announced that the Government were introducing a Bill legalising the Sunday opening of places of amusement, but leaving local authorities to decide whether the opening in their area expedient.
|
Sir Donald Maclean first referred to the proposal of Germany and Austria to enter into a Customs made by the Foreign Secretary in Paris that the matter should be
ly spirit by the League of Nations. He hoped that we might see the
A portrait of the King, was slash- beginning of a cessation of the ed io bons and three Com- devastating war in tariffs between munists within the University fired nations, which was more produc-on the police till their ammunition tive of competition than arma- ments, than the whole range of
was exhausted and then escaped with the students. national antipathies put together.
Trade Revival and Mitigation of Unemployment,
in all parties in the need for a glad to notles the growing feeling check to the continual increasing of armaments, The Government, could go forward in the knowledge that all parties were behind them.
On disarmament, Sir Donald Maclean said that a revival of trade and the mitigation of unem- ployment depended very largely on getting rid of competitive arma ments. A tremendous task was
Want of Diplomatic Tact, imposed on next year's Conference,
Sir Austin Chamberlain, after. and he believed the whole country would be behind the British dele- saying that Conservatives fully gates. If the Conference failed shared the hope for the success. humanity would be placed on a of the Disarmament Conference, desconding scale lending to the referred to the Austrian-German destruction of civilisation.
Customs proposal and said that, whatever view we took, we and Dr. Dalton Replies.
other nations who, had been on- The Under-Secretary of Foreign gaged in conferences for the pro- Affairs, Dr. Hugh Dalton, replying posed tariff truce or in "converka- for the Government, said that in tions" and conferences which had wasregard to the proposed Austrian- taken place for some closer union German Customs agreement he had among European Stater, had rea- no more information to give. He son to complain when a project of could only say that the Foreign that kind was secretly matured" Secretary, Mr. Henderson, was very while those conversations" were anxious that no movement pro- proceeding and was suddenly mising a reduction to European sprung on other partici. Tariffs should be jeopardised by a
A mistake misunderstanding or They were following & policy which they had always pursued, that any question in which ausceptibilities might be aroused should be con- sidered in a friendly atmosphere by the Council of the Lengue of As to disarmament, he was very
(Continued on nezi Column.)
Bill Left to Free Vote of House.
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, Mar. 20. The Home Secretary, Mr. J. R. Clynes, announced in the House of Commons to-day that in view of the public demand for a review of the problem of Sunday entertainments, the Government would introdues a Bill for the purpose, not of advocat ing a particular policy, but of affording Parliament tunity to discuss the situation which had arisen from the recent deci sions in the. Courts and to find a solution which would approximate more closely. to the wishes of the nation, as a whole.
UP
oppor
As a starting point for discus- sion, the Bill would accordingly provide machinery for regulating the existing practice.
Loenl authorities would be em Sunday opening, subject to such powered to grant permission for conditions as they thought fit, and provision would be made in the Bill for a continuance of the exist ing practice under which the Sun- day opening of cinemas had been subject to the condition that the profits 'should be given to approved charities and that no employees should be worked for seven days in
a week,
It would be for Parliament freely to determine whether the existing Inw as declared by the Court should remain unaltered and whether the
ALLEGATION REFUTED BY Dxisting practice should be legal-
LORD PASSFIELD.
[runovan REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Mar. 20,
In the House of Lords, replying to the Labourite, Earl, Kinnoull, Lord Passfield said that the allega tion that slavery existed in Hong Kong and was condoned by the Government of Hong Kong was absolutely untrue. He could only suppose that it referred to the. system of mu taai and the possiblo abusen · thereof, which, however, were farthest removed from slavery. The recent report on the work- ing of the new regulation showed that the number of mui teas had been reduced to 4,117,
The credit_is_to be devoted to regulating the pesota during the
Offences against the Ordinance period of de facto stabilisation con had been prosecuted and there templated by the Spanish Govern was reason to believe that the nient as a preliminary to the de-system provided against abuse, finite adoption of a gold standard. and would disappear after a few.
It is learned that a European years.
Feradit equivalent to G.$22,000,000 Lord Fassfield emphasised that |{ is also being arranged for the same the anding of corpses and infants
| purpose. I
in the stroats had nothing to do {} This follows the announcement: with muó tani,~-~ two days ago that British and It was impossible to make a French bankers were expected to large population of Chincao bury. participate.
their dead children. The Govern ment; had been striving for years to provent the practice. The fing ing of the corpses of infants in the streets of a big city was not uncommon, and the number found in London was somewhat con- siderable
It is also announced that U.8. Oil Companica operating in Mexico are lending, the Mexican Gavera- ment G.$10,000,000 for the purpose of stabilising the peso through the purchase of silver pesos on the New York market:
ised, or whether that practice should be modified or extended.
The measure, which would be. left to the free vote of the House, would be introduced as soon as possible after Esster,
BYE-ELECTION - AT SUNDERLAND.
CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE
SUCCESSFUL.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)"
London, Mar, 27. The result of the bye-election at Sunderland was as follows:-
Mr. Thompson (Conser-
_vative)"................... 30,407 Mr. Brownlie (Labour): 30,075 Miss Betty Morgen *** (Liberal)
16,004
The result is a Conservative' gain.
HAMMERSTEIN BANKRUPT.
· [REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.]
NEW YORK, Mar. 27, Mr Athur Hammerstein, pro duoer of Rose Marie " and other popular musical-sbows, has filed his petition in bankruptcy:-
Nations.
He could not help, feeling that it's showed a want of diplomatic tact on the part of the two parties not to have taken the other nations earlier into their confidence, He was wholly with the Foreign Secre tary in the course he had decided to take of bringing the matter before the Council of the League" of Nations. He was very glad that Mr. Henderson had done that..
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