KING ALFONSO VISITING ENGLAND.
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SPECIAL POLICE PRECAU- TIONS IN LONDON.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, April 21. Extraordinary precautions are heing taken to guard the King of Spain on his arrival in London to-night.
SUNDAY CINEMA
BILL..
ATTEMPT TO COMMERCIAL- ISE THE SABBATH.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.].
LONDON, April 20.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1931.'
MINORITIES IN
INDIA.
FIXED POLICY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
[DRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]
Ruony, April 20
MADEIRA
IN STATE OF REVOLT.
EXPEDITIONARY FORCES MAY ATTACK ISLAND,
[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE]
RUGBY, April 90. Answering questions in the HousG of Commons regarding the present situation in Madeira, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur Handerson, stated that rebel forces continue in upation of the island and the
NICARAGUAN REBELLION.
TWO BRITISH WEST INDIAN SUBJECTS KILLED,
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGEŅOV.]
LONDON, April 20
In the House of Commons, Mr. Arthur Henderson stated that His Majesty's Charge d'Affaires had cabled reporting that the Nicara guan rebels were retreating in and, after being attacked by the National Guard, whose officers state the situation
Mr. Henderson regretted that in Indian subjects were killed.
British cruiser London remained introlled.
13 now con-
In the House of Commone to-day One thousand opponents of the Sunday Cinema Bill legalising the the attention of the Secretary for Sunday opening of places of amuse-India, Mr. Wedgwood-Benn, was A force of 50 detectives wellment, but leaving local authorities called to the resolution passed at acquainted with the personalities to decide whether the opening in the All-India Moslem Conference and methods of political fanatics will be On Und at Victoria their area was expedient, gathered this month, and he was asked what Station, and paly the posseRENTA outside the House of Commons action was being taken to assure minorities in India could always As the time for division approach-rely on British protection. ed, a group of white-haired old mon knelt on the pavement praying for the defeat of the Bill and "a visitation on the iniquitous, who defended it."
of signed passes will be permitted while the Bill was being debated Moslems that they and all other the poft of Funchal for the proted the disturbances two British West
on the platform.
The precaution's follow threats which are reported to have been received by the King in Paris.
PARIB, April 51. King Alfonso is motoring to Calais en route to England,
His departure from his hotel at ten o'clock this morning was almost unnoticed.
Infante Juan to Enter Naval College.
fast night.
Groups of supporters and oppon- ents of the Bill engaged in fierce argument in which the police had to. Intervene,
the crowd.
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PARIS, April 20. King Alfonso leaving for Lon-
An attempt was made to enter "don to-morrow, to arrange for the.
entry into Dartmouth Naval Col-the House itself, but was frustrated lege of his third son, the Infante by the police, who finally dispersed Tan, who arrived at Naples' from Gibraltar and is going to London.
King Alfonso will visit Their Majesties at Windsor Castle and spend only a few days in London.
Queen Ena and her children are going to Fontainebleau to stay in the Hotel Savoy.
King Alfonso will join them there when he returns from London,
The Prince of the Asturias has recovered from his indisposition.
Belgium Recognises Spanish Republic.
Mr. Benn, in reply, referred the questioners to the Prime Minister's statement of policy at the conclud ing meeting of the Round Table Conference
In the first paragraph of that declaration it was not out that the new Constitution must contain such guarantees as were required by the minorities to protect their political rights.
The policy of the Government in this matter was referred to by him on March 12 in the House of Com mons, when he made it clear that 'such guarantees must be provided in order that the new Constitutión should start with the goodwill and confidence of all communities con
tion of British subjects and pro.
perty.
(BEITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Ruany, April 20. Mr. Arthur Henderson, in the' An Expeditionary Force recently sent from Portugal was diverted to deal with the outbreak in the House of Commons to day, stated from the British Chargé d'Affaires Azores, and it now reported that that according to a cable received the insurgents there have surren-
in Nicaragua, bandits have been dered unconditionally.
Portuguese men-of-war are cruis-active on the Eastern Coast of the ing in the vicinity of Madeira to Republic but have been checked by enforce the decree prohibiting the the National Guard and are now He regretted that in these dis- use by foreign ships of ports of reported to be retreating inland. the island except for the evacua
turbances two British West Indian tion of foreign nationals.
subjects from Jamaica are report
U.S. Warships Despatched to eu to have lost their lives.
Scene.
MAYOR WALKER OF
NEW YORK.
REPLY TO CITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE.
[REUTEN'S AMEILIGAN SERVICE}
ALBANY, April 21.
"I have adequately and consist- catly done my duty, and I ask that the charges be dismissed. They are unwarranted, false and reck- lessly. mudo," said Mayor Walker of New York in a 15,000 word reply to the Report of the City Affairs Committee.
BRITAIN AND EXTRALITY.
GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSIBI LITY AT THE RIGHT TIME.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
LONDON, April 20. In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Wardlaw Milne asked whether the British Minister in China had instructions to sign any agreement with China.
The importance which the, Bri.
Mr. Henderson replied that Sir tish Government attach to the
Miles Lampson was now negotiat- safeguarding of British interests in Madeira has been strongly impress-
Three United States warshipsing on the question of extra-terri- ed upon the Portuguese Govern- ment by Sir Francis Lindley, the have been despatched to the East toriality. No instructions had been British Ambassador in Lisbon, and Coast ports with authority, he sont to him to sign, as no agree- sul at Funchal. No British sub..
parties should the necessity arise. jects are reported to have been the view of the Officer Com moleated nor any British property manding the National Guard, the damaged.
Inside the House the removal of the party whips brought the drama tie tenseness of the clash of indivi. cerned. That was the fixed' policy upon the rebela by the British Con understood, to disembark armed ment had been reached.
dual opinions and convictions.
Mr. J. R. Clynes, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, moving the second reading, said that it was the duty of the House to modify the law in accordance with present | day conditions, or to enforce it. The latter course would mean the BRUSSELS, April 20. enforcement of the houry Act" of Belgium has recognised the new-1780, which would stop every en
tertainment in village institutes Spanish Government,
and concert halls. Clearly condi- tions in 1760 were not comparable with, those of 1931.
Women in Spanish Politics,
MADRID, April 21. The Prisons' Administration Offices here иеге
decked with sweet-scented flowers to-day when Senorita Kent, the new Director, took charge.
This evidence of women's per meation of Spanish politics will be taken a step further when the Con- stituent Assembly is convcked, for proposals will be submitted to it
Mr. McPherson, a Scottish mem ber, whose native land is unaffected by the Bill, moved the rejection of the Bill in an impassioned speech, describing the Bill as an attempt to commercialise Sunday.
The turning point in the debate was a speech by Sir John Simon in support of the measure, in which he drew a striking picture Riving women the vote and the of Sunday night spent by a family right to sit in Parliament.
in a single room with no alterna-,
The attitude of the new Govern.tive but to go into the wat streets. ment to birth control is still not clear. The question has never been seriously raised in Spain.
A prominent member of the Supreme Feminist Council declared that there is really no demand for birth control in Spain, but a re- form which the Government will certainly underlake was the stipula- tion of medical inspection before marriage.
Demand for King Alfonso's Trial
Sir Thomas Inskip, opposing the Bill, likened the commercialisation of the Sabbath to "sticking an ad- vertisement on the Cenotaph."
Vote for Second Reading. The voting was as follows:-
For
.....258 Against
210
Majority
28 [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE:]
Ruany, April 20. A demand for the trial of King]. Alfonso on political and criminal; The House of Commons to-night charges is made in a manifesto debated the Sunday Ferformance issued by the Republican and Regulation Bill, which empowers Socialist organisation urging, inter local authorities to licence the Sun- alia, the disarming of the forces day opening of cinemas. of the old régime and arming the
The Home Secretary, Mr. J. R. forces of the Republic, the punish- ment of those connected with the Clynes, noving the second reading, old régime, including King Alfonso, said that the Government thought "to whom attaches the grave sus the problem of declaring the Sun- picion of having committed not only
of the Government.
LOW PRICE' RECORD OF RUBBER.
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SCARCITY OF BUYERS.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, April 20. Rubber reached a new low record yesterday when it touched two and seven-eighth pence and cloned at two fifteen-sixteenths.
At one time difficulty was found in aelling owing to the scarcity of buyers."
One of the contributory causes of yesterday's weakness was the an. nouncement of the Port of London figures, showing an addition, of 2,773 tous to the stocks of last week.
TURKEY'S DRUG MONOPOLY.
ELOQUENT FIGURES
PUBLISHED,
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}·
CAIRO, April 20. In view of the announced inten tion of the Turkish Government to establish a monopoly for the menu. facture of drugs and take over three existing factories in Constantinople from September next, the opium figures published by the Turkish
Government are eloquent.
The Turkish opium erup is esti- mated at 480,000 kilos annually, of If the whole crop were convert- which 400,000 kilos are exported. day opening of places of entertained into morphine this would repre- sent 50 tons of morphine annually, quirements according to the League whereas the legitimate world re. of Nations experts are only 10 tons annually.
a series of political offences, batment illegal under the 18th Century many misdemeanours in connection Act was one for solution by the col with illegal transactions during his lective, wisdom of the House. reign, especially under eaver of the three last dictatorships."
It is understood that the intend ed arms for 150,000 workers in Madrid will be stored against emergency.
The Government is also said to propose the release of workers and warrant officers. in the army from payment of income tax regardless
of the size of their income.
Fight of Capital from Spain Continues.
MADRID, April. 20.. The flight of capital continuer. The banks are overwhelmed with applications for the transfer of stocks and shares and mortgaging property.
The Minister of Finance has ap- pealed to the banks to advise their clients to "go slow," and he threatens 'sovere penaltica shortly."
Several serious bankruptcies are reported from Barcelona.
By the Bill Sunday opening would be decided by Local Option and the authorities, could allow the types of entertainment commonly given in recent years.
...
One ton of heroin is calculated Seven kilos of Turkish opium cost to equal 100,000,000 doses. The Bill abolished the right of £10 and produce one kilo of mor private persons to sue as common phine, the sale price of which is informers for penalties under the about £30. Constantinople factories Sunday Observance Act, and in last month reported total stocks of future proceedings must be in- 1,903 kilos of herein and 500 kilos stituted hy the local authority. of morphine., Unless the problem was solved there would be widespread irrita- tion.
Rejection of the BB! was moved by Mr. McPherson (Liberal), who claimed that the mass of opinjon outside, Loudon and trade interests were against the Bill.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, sup- porting the Bill, said that the view among social workers was that the provision of decent and reasonable amusement kept young people from undesirable temptation.
SUEZ CANAL DUES.
יד
NO REPRESENTATION FROM
BRITISH GOVERNMENT,
(THROUGH REUTER'E AGENCY.]
A Lisbon Press telegram reports that the Commander of the Portu- guese Expeditionary Force has sent an ultimatura to the Madeira rebels, threatening a concentration of naval, military and air forces on the island unless the rebellion is terminated immediately.
Collapse of Azores Revolt, (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
HORTA, April 20.
The revolt at Horta ended when the Government troops were land- ed on the island of Terceira.
The landing was made on the 88th instant, and no opposition was exepuntered.
Three Government 'planes flying over the town were even cheered
by the populace.
Political exiles on the island of St. Michael, learning, of the sur render of the rebels at Terceira, left in a Portuguese merchant ship.
ALL-CHINA AVIATION
CONFERENCE.
INAUGURAL SPEECH BY 'CHIANG RAI SHEK.
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
situation was now under control,
BRITISH COAL MINERS' WAGES.
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JACK THE RIPPER" TRIAL.
ACCUSED A DUAL PERSONALITY.
(THROUGH NEUTER'E AGENCY.)
DUSSELDORF, April 20.
A verdict is expected to-morrow in the prolonged trial, notable for its gruesome and filthy detalls, of Petor Kuerten.
The defence called a large num- her of witacases, evidently in an. attempt to prove the defendant insane.
The Judge, who presided over the court of investigation, testified "that Kuerten appeared to bo sano, but how could a sane man commit such crimes
He expressed the opinion that Kuerten had a dual personality--on the one hand hereditarily and criminally inclined, and on the other handa antural lover of beauty and clean, morala."
AMERICAN CITIES SHAKEN BY EARTHQUAKE.
SHOCKS CAUSE BUILDINGS TO TREMBLE.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
BUFFALO, April 20.
when 1,500
A number of cities in the Eastern He could not promise Mr. Ward-States wore shaken by a slight law Milne that no agreement could earthquake to-day, be signed until the House of Com buildings trembled, dishes rattled, mona considered the terms, be- and people rushed torror-stricken cause at the right time the Govern. into the streets. ment would have to take the responsibility.
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FRANCO-ITALIAN NAVAL AGREEMENT.
MINES MINISTER RECEIVES A DEPUTATION.
DRAFTING COMMITTEE PRE- [DRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
PARING DECLARATION. RUGBY, April 20. Mr. T. Shinwell, Mines Secre
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] tary, to-day mét a joint deputation of the Miners' Federation and
Ruaux, April 20. miners' Members of Parliament,
Questioned in the House of Com who laid proposals before him on the legislation relating to a mini-mons as to the present position of the negotiations between France mum wage for the mining indus and Italy concerning the Naval try.
Agreement Mr. Henderson said that the drafting committee were engaged in preparing the declara- tion which was to give cifeel to the basis of the agreement. Cer- tain dificulties which had arisen were under consideration between the thres Governments represented on the committee.
Mr. Shinwell said that he would bring the representation to the notice of the Cabinet.
COTTON MISSION'S
REPORT.
GOVERNMENT WILLING TO HELP THE INDUSTRY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, April 20. Mr. G. M. Gillett, Parliament- Ary Secretary of Overeens Trade, told a meeting of the joint com. mittee of the Cotton Trade Organ. isation in Manchester, which is An All-Chinn Aviation Confer-considering the Cotton Mission's ence will be formally opened this Report, that he was ready to assist morning by Marshal Chiang Kai the industry by all possible means,
recommendations, Shek, who will deliver the in- and put into effect the Mission's augural speech.
NANKING, April 20.
Peiping-Manchul! Test Fäght,
PEPING, April 20. In connection with the establish. ment of the Peiping-Berlin Aerial Manchuli on a test Bight yesterday. Service, a 'plane left Peiping for
CHANG HSUEH LIANG IN PEIPING.
(Chun Wan Tat Poo.)
PEIPING, April 21. General Chang such Liang has
Vice-Commander-in-Chief of the National Army, Navy and Air Forces, and his headquarters will commence functioning from to-mor- row in Peiping,
declared his assumption of nice as
According to the local vernacu lar newspapers, General Chang Hauch Liang will hereafter spend the major portion of his time at Peiping and will occasionally go to Mukden to attend to Manchurin's political and railitary affairs.
General Chang Hauch Liang is PARIR, April 20.
also reported have declared to The report that the Suez Canal
jection to the draft provisional con A continuation of the debate Company contemplates a reduction local Presmen that he has no ob The Company maintains the atti-stitution which has bean prepared showed that all parties are divided of the Canal dues is untrue, on the Bill, on which there will be tude that reduction is financially by the Nanking leaders for adop tion at the coming, People's Con- The British Government havention,
The drop in exchange is greatly worrying business people, and es-
a free vote, and which was support- unfeasible at present.. terprise is almost at a standstill.
The stabilisation question cuenoted by Sir John Simon, Mr Clearge!
be dealt with until Parliament is Lansbury, First Commissioner for made no representations to the convoked. The Government, there-Works, and Lord Eustace. Percy Company. fore, want to hurry on with the Minister for Education in the Con- general elections before the pos- servative, Government. sibility of an unfavourable political
reaction.
Legal System to be changed, The British legal system will be the model for the new Spanish legal code.
The Minister of Justice yesterday "received the Presidents-of-the Madrid Supreme Court and the Court of Justice and urged the becessity for a thorough revisión of the Spanish legal system on the broad lines of the, British system, 20 far as it was adaptable to Spanish requirements.
CITY OF CAIRO CRASH.
SOUTHERN CROSS PICKS UP
“AUSTRALIAN-MAIL«-
(THROUGH HEUTER'8" AGENCY:]
SYDNEY, April 20. Air Commander Kingsford-Smith is taking the Southern Orces to Kupang to pick up the air mail of the "City of Ctiro."
PARIS-SAIGON FLIGHT.
PRINCE BIBESCO'S PILOT DEAD
(THROUGH, LEUTER'S AGENUÏ.T
PARIR, April 20. Lieut. Bellair, the second pilot of Prince George Bibesco's 'plane, is reported to have died of his gin juries in the Benares Military. Hos pital.
Ho added that there was no foundation for the statement that the British Government were not willing to proceed. at the present time.
VATICAN ANXIETY
ALLAYED.
VISIT OF ARCHBISHOP TO HOLY LAND.
Jerusalem, April 14.-With re-
It is believed that the shocks originated a few hundred yards from Buffalo.
Buildings were also shaken in the vicinity of Albany.
Tremora in Managua,
A report from Managua stales that the rains of Managua wern abaken by another slight earth. quako,
No serious damage was done.
EXCHANGE RATES.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)
Paris
Milan Berlin Stockholm Copenhagen Osla, Vienna
Ruay, April 20.
124.271
New York ...... Brussels
4.557
34.95
'Geneva v dl v
25.221
Amsterdnin
12.00)
09.77
20.41
46.141
18.10)
18.17
34.631
Prague
1041
Helsingfors
193
Madrid
49.75
Lisbon
108.25
Athens
375
817.
3
37 3/10
321
1/5/13/16
1/31
1/-
9/-3/32
13 5/16
Bucharest
Ria
Buenos Aires Montevideo Bombay Bhanghai
Hong Kong
Yokohama
Silver (spot)
Silver (forward)... 13
The joint committee represents ference to the anxiety recently ex- all sections of the Lancashire cot-pressed by the Vatican about the ton industry and is considered to visit to Jerusalem of the Archbi- here to-morrow). the Anglican be the most likely factor to effect shop of Canterbury (who is duo Sir Ernest Thompson and other Bishop here has issued a statement any reduction of production costs. members of the Mission attended declaring that the Anglican com: DOUBLE DEATH SENTENCE, community during its 90 years of the meeting.
in ecclesiasticnl representation Jerusalem has never claimed parti. cular, privileges or special status in the Church of the Holy Sepul chre and that Anglicans, reclesins- ties or laymen, visit the Church as Christian believers for private de- votion.
.
COLORADO DESERT DEVELOPMENT.
μ
LARGEST DAM IN THE WORLD
TO BE BULT.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, April 20. Hundreds of thousands of acres of barren desert will be converted into smiling orchards and farmon by the construction of a giant boulder dam on the Colorado River, for which Senator Wilbur, Secretary of
The statement concludes by say ing that the Anglican authorities do not intend to embark on any act that might seem to make any chango.
TRIBUTE TO NAVAL ASSISTANCE.
END OF SECOND GERMAN "ROUSE" TRIAL.
Berlin, March 25.-In the Saffran murder trial-the second German trin! resembling that of Rouss within a week-there was another dramatic moment after the speeches. for the defence and for the prose aution had been made.
First Baffran got up and said in a voice stifled by crying: "I deeply regret my deed and wish to atono for it." Then his book-keeper, the 20-year-old Ella Augustin, sobbing so that she was scarcely audible, said. "I did everything for love. I
the Interior, signed a $48,000,000 WORK DURING NEW ZEALAND might have hindered a lot, Saffran contact yesterday.
The dam is expected to take ten years to build and will be one of the largest in the world.
TAX ON DANCE HALL
PATRONS.
EARTHQUAKE.
London, April 14.-,In a despatch to the Secretary for the Dominions, Lord Passfield, on the subject of the New Zealand earthquake the Governor-General, Lord Bledialoo, pays tribute to the work of navai officers and men both at the time PEIPING AUTHORITIES'-
of the disaster and subsequently. SCHEME TO RAISE FUNDS. He states that presence and behavi our of the men of the sloop Vero Peiping, April 12-Mantelpatrica, who landed within 15 minutes authorities have decided to impose of the disaster, did much to check SINO-SOVIET CONFERENCE tax of one dollar silver upon panic and greatly helped maintain each party visiting public dance halla in Poiping which have become astonishingly popular in the first months of 1931.
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(Wah Ta Yat Pao.)
the morale of the population, on couraging them to participato in valuable rescue oporations.
In addition to the officers and men of the Veronica, the crows of the cruisers, Dunedin and Diomede porformed indefatigable services of varied descriptions for the benefit of the striken towns
Lord Bledisloe also comments
NANKING, April 21. Sixteen Chinese hotels and re Some progress is reported to staurants now advertise regular ten have been made in the Sino-Russian and dinner dances. Many inform Conferenes nt Moscow, The pre- I patrons that they have "imported" zent-discussions nos centre around fair Chinese dancing partners from the redemption of the Chinese Shanghai and Tientsin.. Eastern Railway by the Chinese Chinese officials and military very highly on a small band of Government, to which the Soviet officers are eagerly learning wes doctors and nureas who helped to delegation has agreed in principle. tern dances, paying by the dancering relief and comfort to an ap in the first hours of the disaster However, the assessment of the for instruction. In some places,parently, endless stream of injured
services as rapidly as possible. railway and its property is a knotty Chinese girls compete with the men problem and requires prolonged for instruction from the paid "part and who reorganized the hospital
discussion.
hers.'
was not a bad man."e
Finally, Kipnik, the shop assist ant, who alone of the principal accused has kept control of his nerve, stated, "I bave already said I am sorry. I wish to atone for my deed, and put, my fate in the hands of the judge. I should like to be able to show once more thas I am a docent man/"
As Kippik spoke these last words: the girl jumped up and said, "But. you are the murderer!"
Kipnik was alenek dumb for moment and then said: "God will show who the murderer is. Per-i haps you, too, will have a victim on your conscienco." To the end Kipnik and Buffran maintained their contradictory stories, each a eusing the other of the actual deed. It was extraordinary to note established reputation what an for respectability all three on- joyed in Rastonburg. One man, who narrowly escaped being murd dored by them. did not tell the polios because he could not believe
Saffran
end the evidence of his sonses that his
Kipnik, It was to preserve that assailants were
started on their carcer of crime”. reputation that the three associates