FURTHER STUDENT RIOTS AT NANKING
Manchester Guardian's Forecast, of China's Future
Difficulty in Forming Manchurian Commission
WILL CHIANG HEAD WAR COUNCIL?
́{THROUGH MEDTER'S ́ AGENCY.).
NANKING, Dec. 17. HOUNTING "Down with the Kuomintang," 3,000 students agala stormed the Central Party Headquarters this afternoon doing considerable damago, but they dis persed when troops arrived ou the
село,
WAK
The students then proceeded to the Central Daily News two-storey building which
completely wrecked.
Troops and police dispersed the rioters after effecting thirty
arrests.
CANTON DELEGATES ARRIVE AT NANKING
Thousands
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1931.
IMPORTANCE OF COMMERCIAL DEBTS
BRITISH REPLY TO FRENCH
MEMORANDUM...
(THROGON REUTER'S AGENCY.)
PARS, Dec, 17. A British Note preparatory to the forthcoming Reparations Con- The Manchester Guardian wotterance has been presented in reply ders how the now situation wil to the French Memorandum refuz- affeot questions like extrality. bating priority of commercial debts. purforce is prepared to await the revelation of the policies of those who brought about Chiang'a re signation."
MANCHURIAN: COMMISSION
Patis, Dec. 17.
It is learned to-day that the com- position of the Manchurian Com- mission will not be known before the week-end at the earliest.
Difficulties arise in finding mon with three fold requisitios:
(1)-Youthfulncan and vigorous.
health to stand the climate; (2)-Sufficient sparetime;
· (3)-Adequate authority, Meanwhile the names mentioned as possible nominees include:
NANKING, Dod. 17. of people; nanong whom wore prominent members of Franice, Generala Degoutto, Soriz the Government and Chung Kainy, Claudel and Admiral Herr, who Shek's representative, welcomed is at present commasiding in Chi- the Cantonese delegates "on their nene waters. arrival here this alternoon.
Students had planned a hostile demonstration but it did not
materialise.
Sun Fo, C. C. Wu, Eugene Chen, Li, Wen Fan, Chou Lu, Chen Kung Poh, and Mrs. Wing Ching Woi and twenty ether members of the O. E. C. together, with a ataff of eight, left for Nanking this morning, A notable absentes was Mr. Wang Ching Wei, who is at present in hospital suffering from diabetes,
PROPOSED NEW CABINET
(Wah Tez Tai Pau)
SHANGHAI, Doc. 17
Gormany, General Von Beckt, ex- Ambassador Saif and Herr Schnee.
Italy, Signor Schanzer,
United States, ex-Under Seere- tary Mr. Norman Davis. Britain. Mr. McMillan,
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THE BEGINNING OF DEMOCRACY!
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
CANTON: Dec. 13.
of commercial debts to Britain but Tho Note stresses the importance it does not discuss details, pending the report of the Basio Committuo on Germany's solvency,
Discussions are proceeding as 10- gards the venue of the conferences but so far no decision has bern renched, though The Hague and mid-January are mentioned.
Sir Frederick Ross' Goes to Paris,
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICK.}
RUGBT, Dec. 16, Sir Frederick Leith Ross, of the British Treasury, is leaving to marrow for Paris "where he will exchange views with representa- tives of the French Government, in azicipation of an international conference on reparations, which will be held after the Report has been received from the Special Advisory Committee under Young Plan, now sitting is Basic. have not yet been fixed. The date and place of the meeting
LONDON'S NEW
OMIBUSES
the
DESIGNED TO CARRY SIXTY-THREE PASSENGERS
(Reuter's Special Service.)
LONDON, Dec. 17. The Canton Government attaches designed for dealing with London's Mammoth omnibuses specially the greatest significance to the re-traffic problems are to be introdue Mr. Wang Ching Wei and Merignation of Marshal Chiang Kai ed in London; next year, shal Chiang Kai Shek are reported to have come to a prolianinary arrangement through the mediation of Goniral Chen Ming. Shu respect- ing the formation of a unidention government.. The Cabinet, subject to modification, is as follows:
Chairman of the Central Govern-
ment Council,
Mr. Tang Shao Yi.
President of the Executive Yuan,
Mr. Sun Fo.
President of the Legistative Yuan,
» Mr. Hu Hon Hin. President of the War Council and Commander of National De
fence,
Shek. It marked the end of dicta- torship and the beginning of demo. cracy in China; according to Mr. Shino Fat Shing, a member of the National Council.
Details of the scheme were an propose to launch a test oI GWO nounced to-day. The L.G.O.C. hundred and fifty six-wheeler omnibuses on the streets of London
next year.
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They will provide seating commodation for sixty-three pa sengers and will carry, at the front showing their destination, while and the back, illuminated screens) similar screens on the sides will show well-known points en route.:
All the members of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuo- mintang, except Messrs. Tang Chak Yi, Shian Fat Shing, Generals Chen Taai Tang and Li Tsung Jen, fieft Canton for Nanking today to Participate in the deliberationa leading to the formation of a new HUGE MOTOR-COACH unified National Government. Mr.
Marshal Chiang Kai Shek. Chairman of the Central Exequ-Hu Han Min, by far the moat pro-
tive Committee of the Kuomin- j tang Party,
minent figure of the Canton faction. Mr. Wang Ching Wei, since the death of Mr. Koo Ying The first plenary meeting of the Fun, and a member of the C.E.C.. C.I.C. and C.SC. members of the is still recuperating in Hong Kong Kuomintang elected by Nanking and will not be able to make the and Canton will be held on 21s trip. inst, on which the settlement of all outstanding national problems de- pends,
JAPANESE TROOPS FOR MANCHURIA
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
TOKYO, Dec. 17.
TERMINUS
NOW BEING ERECTED IN LONDON
[ARITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, Dec. 17.
ment will cease to function the day The Canton National Govers the new Unified National Govern
A large motor-coach station, with ment is inaugurated in Nanking.
accommodation for parking and Students in Canton staged anlading over seventy, coaches, is other demonstration this morning, being erected near Victoria Bail Led by the students of Lingnan Way Station and will be completed University, thay marched ea bine by the end of February.
The thirty companies engaged in
to Government House to demand
en route.
last year.
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BRITAIN'S NAVAL PROGRAMME
DAILY! HERALD'S STORY
SHEER BUNK"
(THROUGH REUTER'■« AGENCY,}
JYHE" Daily Herali. Naval story
bas ovoked an authoritative categorical denial, and is pictures quely described as "sheer bunk,"
The Cablact has so far only been
little doubt that disarmament is able to touch on the fringe of the disarmament question, "but there is one of the subjects referred to the Cabinet sub-committee, but even outlines of the plan have not yet been formulated," je
Daily Herald's "' Story. the suspension of the whole of the The Government is considering British naval building programme, with the exception of submarines, necording to this morning'a Daily Herald.
The journal says that the ques tion is now being considered by a special sub-committee of the Cabi
not..
I decided upon, the suspensioN upon the progress of the Disarma will be temporary and contingent ment Conference February,
will give the British delogation It is hoped that the suspension
European naval and military re A strong weapon in pressing for ductions. If the Conference results suspension would be made porman in a satisfactory agreement, the ont.
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A Saving of Several Millions
Sterling... It is recalled that Mr. C. B. Alexander, introducing the Navel Estimates in Mrach; declared that if further progress in agreed redue- tions were made at the Disarma- ment Conference, the Government would be able to cancel, postpone. or vary different items.
Apart from the effect of the Dis- armament Conference, Naval sus- pension will mean a anving prob ably of several niillions sterling.
It is understood that Mr. Neville Chamberlain is strongly supporting provided in the programme an the idea. The ships concerned were nounced last March and would normally have been commenced in February. They comprise two 7,000 and one 8,000-ton armoured cruisers, ono flotilla leader, light destroyers, four sloops, one zuu-boat, and two auxiliary vessels,
WASHINGTON, Dea: 17.
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The Virginian Senator, Mr. Swanson. has been chosen as one
of the United States' delegates to
the Disarmament Conferenec.
CABINET SURVEY, CURRENT PROBLEMS.
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(BRITISH WIRELESS ́SEUVICE.)}
RUGBY, Dec. 16. The Prime Minister presided to- day at two meetings of the Cabinet when the survey of current pro- blems, begun ist monday, completed.
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Many difficult points requiring a more prolonged consideration have been referred to committees, which will sit during the recess, report- ing not later than January 12, when the members of the Cabinet will reassemble in London.
The Prime Minister leaves London to-morrow night for Lossiemouth where he will spend Christmas, "TALKIES" AND EDUCATION
"
CREAT BENEFIT TO DULL
CHILDREN
(BRITISH WIRELESS QERVICE:]
RUGBY, Dec. 10- The report on an experiment by the Middlesex educational authori-
a hearing. Slogans were.shouted running road services over the The Cabinet has sanctioned the
Every school in the city the station, which will be unrivallÀ
whois at the British Isles will use despatch of an additional mixed
was represented in the demonstrhed in the facilities it offers. brigado to Manchuria
tion and parade. The number of pocted the brigade which was sented as over 2000. At Government the station which will replace the
It is ex-students participating was estimat.
About £300,000 is being spent on from Korea on Oct. 19 will be House they presented a petition to 0,000,000 passengers were dealt with withdrawn.
temporary one, where about the authorities asking, among other things, that the Government take steps to recover Manchuria from the hands of the Japanese troopa and that the Canton delegates LONDON. Dee. 17. should proceed to Nanking and A resumption of the away of the work together with the Nanking tiresome intrigues of warlords and authorities for the welfare of the unscrupulous politicians is thenation as a whole, A military ex- Manchester Guardian's forecast of pedition should be China's future, as a result of the clurin 10 drive out the Japanese sent to Man- removal of Chiang Kai Shek and not later than January 1 of next two of his "most able ministers,"
A RESUMPTION OF INTRIGUES?
your,.
SOLDIER'S ESCAPADE AT BROOKLANDS
(Reuter's Special Service.)
LONDON, Dec. 17.
FELT HE HAD TO ties in fifteen schools, 'on the use of special sound films as an aid FLY"
to teaching, states that the com mittee find that the films arouse and mainain interest, "help to us velop originality encourge the children to read more widely, eurich. personal experience and correlate the work of the clearcom with the life of the world outside
"Talk Alms," it is stated, bring A young soldier's escapade at the children,
the greatest benefit to the dullest GIRLS AS PROFESSIONAL
dent to look after the girls. They when, with no expérience whateverness than has been achieved by any Brooklands Flying School last week awakening of intellectual conscious Achieving 11 greater DANCE PARTNERS.
had to depend on what was given of flying, he jumped into an aero other means. them by the men with whom they plane and took her aloft, later INVESTIGATION BY L.C.C...
danced or Hut out."
bringing her to earth without Mr. P. J. Richardson, chairman when Trooper Hale appeared in
meeting with disaster, had a sequel CARBONISATION OF COAL An official of the London County of the official Board of Ballroom the police court to-day.
NEW LOW TEMPERATURE Council has stated that the con- Dancing, stated yesterdzy. "Con- ditions under which" dance hos ditions such as were described are, Lesses” work in Lendon were being most exceptional, but they do un-airman.
ĮBRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.) investigated.
doubtedly exist in London, and the He is only nineteen years of age.
Rony, Dec. 16, This is a sequel to Mr. Justice girls have to make themselves pica and is an officer's servant in the Sir Eric Hambro, at a luncheon
Eleventh Hussars, "MoCardio's severe criticisms of the sent to any man who comes in.
in honour of Commendatore Piero He was charged with flying an "At the well-known dance halls.aeroplane belonging to the Brook ceas for low temperature, carboni- Salerni, who has developed a pro- conditions under which a fifteen- year-old dance hostess" was em Thore in a fixed charge for a donc licence.
however, things are very different.lands Flying School without a sation of coal, expressed his.confd ployed at a restaurant in London. ing partner, of which half goes to
ence, in the Salerni system. The incident occurred while the said he had decided himself to Ho It is a state of things which is the management and half to the officers at the school were having shoulder the responsibility for pro discreditable to the City of Lon- girl."
lunch. Hale said he saw the mavition of initial funds for the deve Another dancing authority said chine standing unattended and had lopment of the system, which pro don," declared Mr. Justice Methat it was very rare to find such feeling that he wanted to go mined not only to restore prosperity Cardie, giving judgment in a case young girls employed as profession- for a joyride.
to the British Mining Industry, but. in the King's Bench Division, girls of more than twenty," he him over to be of good behaviour create a Boms supply of oil and al partners. Most of them are The Magistrate decided to bind to rid the country, of smoke, and "There wna no women superinten - 'added........
in future,
The excuse he gave to the magis- bition all his life to become an trate was that it has been his ass.
motor fuels.
PROCESS.
AERIAL SURVEY OF LARGE DECREASE IN SUDAN AND UGANDA
AMERICAN TRADE
TEN YEARS' WORK. COMPLETED IN ONE
(ANITISH. WIRELESS BRAVICK }
BeGuy, Dec. 17. A fleet of two Fairoy land 'planea
and two Puss Moth monoplaats have just completed the photo
began early last year at the instiga- covering 50,000 square kilometres of graphic section of an air survey Sudan and Uganda. The survey tion of the Egyptian Ministry of 100,000 miles and the cameras hayo Public Works. They have flown over taken 28,000 photographs.
$43,000,000 LESS 'IN NOVEMBER
[REUTER'S AMERICAN ABRYICKJ
New York, Dec. 10. million dollars in exports and
A drop of more than a thousand drop of over nine hundred million
twelve months. the figures of the foreign trade of dollars in imports, are revealed in the United States in the past
EMPIRE'S BEST
PUBLICIST
DELIVERS ADDRESS TO TRAVEL ASSOCIATION
FRETER AND WIRELESS }-
LONDON, Dec, 10.-
Empire's best publicist," the Prince Th pursuance of his role as "the delivered a stirring address at the Annual Meeting of the Travel Ass80 eintion of Great Britain and Ire land, declaring that too little was known abroad about what the The balance of trade, however, British Istos had to offer, the charm favour as the purphy of exports was heard of the financial and in- is still considerably in America'suf the country, while far too much. aver imports for the month of dustrial difficulties nflicting Bri- The survey of this difficult ter-
November was 0.33,000,000 and tain equally with the rest of the ritory by the usual ground methods for the first eleven months of the world. would probably have lasted ten
yenr, the surplus of exports his years without revealing the mani-been-about--G, $300,000,000 fold details disclosed in merial photographa.
HEALTH INSURANCE
SOCIETIES
GOVERNMENT ACTUARY'S
REPORT
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.).
Bugur. Dec. 17.
The Government Actuary in his report to the Minister of Health on the third valuation of assets and liabilities of approved societies under the Health Insuranco Acts states-That while the position revealed in one of some complexity, ita predominant feature is the mag- nitude of their members.
PREMIER'S WELL EARNED REST
[RITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
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RUGBY, Dec. 17. The Prime Minister will leave London to-night for Lossiemouth and many of his Cabinet, colleagues
are
Christmas holidays, Departmental also preparing to leave for duties others in London..
will temporarily detain
· U.S. GOLD STOCKS
- INCREASE
[BLUTER' AMERICAN SERVICE.]
WARRINGTON, Dee; 16. The stocks of gold in the United States are actually increasing ar cording to the Agures, issued to day, covering the transaction for the eleven months anded November
30.
r
These show that gold to the value of $592,000,000 was imported. exceed a value of $491,000,000, while the exports of "gold did not
BRITISH TARIFFS
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)
Ruoar. Dec. 10.. Major, D. Colville, the Secre tary to the Department of Over seas Trade, in a speech at Sheffield referring to matures for correct ing the adverse trade balance, said that tariff duties, must not be regarded as unalterable. Their incidence and continuance must be justified by the test of efficient. production for the home and the export markets.
Ottawa Conference, he said the Dealing with the approaching Government would attend with He hoped the opportunity would enger minds and ready hands. be taken to weld the Empire tn- gether or economic lines..
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If the Empire combined on COST OF LIVING AT HOME petition in the export trade, could common trade policy, world com. be faced with confidence, THIRD ANTI-DUMPING ORDER
BRITISH WIRELESS 8BEVICE.] -
RUGBY, Dec. 17.
The Ministry of Labour reporta
ximately 5 per cent, above the level that on December 1 the average Irval, of retail prices was appro of July 1914, as compared with per cent. rne nonth earlier and per cont. cne year earlier.
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 8.17 p.m., stated:-
The anti-cyclone which has weakened further is central to the west of Nagasaki, moving
east.
Local Forecast:-N.E, winds; fresh, fair.
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL STEADILY IMPROVING
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.}
RUGBY, Dec. 14. New York reports that a bulle tin issued regarding Mr. "Winston Churchill records his progesx to be 'most favourable,
The symptoms of pleurisy have improved, the wounds are healing well and Mr. Churchill is suffering urach less pain..
EARTHQUAKE IN S. STATES OF U.S.A.
(BRUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE]
NEW Yons, Dec. 17.
A mild earthquake is reported to have occurred over a large aros ip the..seven southern states.
U.S. CONGRATULATES M. BRIAND
ON SUCCESS OF LEAGUE DELIBERATIONS
[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, Deo. 16. in Paris, Mr. Walter Edge, visited The ited States Ambassado M. Briand today to offer the American Government's congratula Council session... tions upon the success of the League
America to the Lengua in the very greatly valued the support lent by M. Briand replied that they had
delicate Sino-Japanese affair,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Dec. 17.
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"This is the moment." he said, to impress the world that we are alive and mena to go forward ́again.".
lf tomporarily, the British people were being dissuaded from travell Ping abroad for pleasure as apart from business, foreign countries: would realise that this is merely an emergency measure.
As soon as the sibution became stabilised, the British people would the Traval Association hoped that certainly go abroad again, just a people 1 countries overseas would visit Britain.
of travel.
The Prince extolled the virtues
Only by a free exchange of goods, services and visits can the world Eve in comfort, peace and mutual understanding. Travel and trade are international.
"If we always stay at home and try to cite out a livelihood by tak- in each other's washing, it will prove precarious livelihood for the whole world."
He was glad that the Association, in advertising the fact that the British Isles were pleasant, inter- eating and efficient places, were not overlookng the need for showing others that Britain had some very great industries, because the adap tation of the old rhyme was at present very true, namely,
Harly 1 bed and curly to rize, But you'll soon be bust it wou
dan't Advertise-(Cheers and. laughter).
NEW CUNARD LINER
NO NEWS REGARDING RESUMPTION OF WORK
[BRITISH WIRELESS SADVICE}
Rugar. Dec. 16. The Directors of the Canard
dumping order, under the recent sidured in private the recent deci The Board of Trade's third anti-Steamship Company to-day can Abnormal Importations Bill, will sion to suspend work on their giant be issued to-night
liner.
It is reported that it will probab. by include a duty upon foreign cctton goods
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The Chairman reported that ho had received no request to meet the Government, and for the moment there is no fresh news to report.
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