PEACE CONFERENCE DEADLOCK
JAPANESE REFUSE CHINESE DEMAND
THAT JAPANESE FORCES WITHDRAW
TO SETTLEMENT
THROUGH REUTER'S. AGÈNCE.).
SHANGHAI, March 33. A REFUSAL BY THE JAPANESE TO AGREE" TO THE CHINESE DEMAND THAT A TIME LIMIT BE FIXED FOR THE WITHDRAWAL OF JAPANESE FORCES TO THE SETTLEMENT HAS "BLOCKED ALL PROGRESS OF THE SINO JAPANESE PEACE CONFERENCE, WHICH
ELD ITS NINTH SESSION THIS MORNING.
THE CONFERENCE HAS YET TO DECIDE POINTS TO WHICH THE JAPANESE FORCES SHOULD WITH-", DRAW, PRIOR TO A TOTAL EVACUATION OF THE OCCUPIED TERRITORY.
JAPANESE PLANES BUSY
NEW REGIME IN
MANCHURIA
CHINESE MARITIME
CUSTOMS
[TEROVOM REGTEN'S AGENCY. |
CANTON BOMB
OUTRACE
ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A JUNK.
(Trom. Qur Own Correspondant.).
BALANCING THE US BUDGET
HEAVY TAXATION
APPROVED
THROUGH REUTER AGENCY.)
MINIMUM HEIGHT: FOR" INFANTRY 5FT. SINS.
(Renter's Spediat Service.)
LONDON, Mar.
IRISH FREE STATES 1
NOT YET PREPARED
DUBLIN
Army recruiting Inet Augat will Free State's reply
The restrictions imposed on It is officially stated tha be removed on April. At annonces Note concerning
(Alegiance, and Land reopened for all branches of the Army, minimum height standard to be despatched till this arso of 50. gins, for infantry recruite will be reintre
Eat the now. regime in conection attempted to blow up tony boat passing oroino lavion yesterday, the the War Ofee: Recruiting: will be ob you prepared, and in mobil
MUXDEN, Mar. 31. The Japanese Press to-day ismod a statement regarding the altitude.
with the Chinese Maritime Our toms in Manchuria...
Firstly, all Customs Houses and revenues, collected in them at pre- sent belong to the new Govern
m'ent.
Secondly, because Mariticas Cue töma revenues are hypotheented for foreign loads und indemnities the Manchowkuo authorities are prepared to leave the Customs. Houses in Magchuria under the control of the Inspector-General of Customs, on the condition that changes in staff; tariff and Custome regulations are notified to the now,
(Reuter's Special Service.) The result of to-morrow's pro- | Government.
ceedings in Shanghai äre awaited Thirdly, the Manchowkus Gov SHANGHAI, Mar. 31, Japanese heroplanes were busily anxiously. Meanwhile, Mr. Yen hasonment will meet a share of the photographing strategic points drawn attention to the attitude of payments due in connection with Along tho Shanghai Hangehow, the Japanese delegates at these foreign loans and indemnity pay.. Railway to-day.
negotiations.
Two appeared to be taking ex- tensive photographs of the Ka- shing aren, and then disappeared towards Shanghai.
GENEVA ANXIOUS
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]
GENEVA, Mar. 30, The Chinese delegation, is nwnit- ing further developments in the Shanghai negotiations with some They consider that the progress so far achieved is very disappointing,
SHANGHAI DRUG,
CASE
CRAWLEY RELEASED ON
$10,000 BAIL
(From Our Own Correspondant.)
SHANGHAI, Mar. 31. After detention in the American
LEAGUE MISSION
ITINERARY
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
SHANGHA, Mar. 33.
The members of the Lytton Com- mission, who are leaving for Ha kow on April 1 or 2, are staying, in Hankow for only one and a bald days and are returning to Nanking on the return journey but will pro deed direct by special train
to Peiping,
SHANGHAI STOCK EXCHANGE
RE-OPENING TO-DAY
1/
1)
ments accured
venues.
оп
Customs re-
PLOT TO OVERTHROW **PU YI'S GOVT.
NOT REGARDED SERIOUSLŸ
BY TOKYO
TOKYO, Mar, 31. The recently unearthed plot to verthrow the new Government in Manchuria is not regarded seri ously, as it appears it had been nipped in the bud:
A total of sixty-six suspects have been rounded up as
a result of
CARTON, Mar.
WARRINGTON, March, Gor Another outrage was enacted in After providing approximately Canton yesterday afternoon, short- 100,000,000 towards the balane ly after 2 o'clock, whom bandita ing of the budget programme, by No. I belonging to the Kwong Sun House of Representatives to-day Ferry Company The desperadoes voted in favour of additional taxes secretly placed a bomb in the storm yielding a further G293,000,000 of the ferry while it was being re This sum will be derived mainly A few minutes later & terrifio ex-Corporation Tax, increased postal paired, and hurriedly disappeared from increases in the Surtax and plosion occurred. Two members of ruten and taxes on telegraph_and the crew and ticket inspector of telephone messages, except Press the Company who wore in the boat monger. as the time were injured, more or lens seriouslys volt ma
The outrage was the outcome of the refusal of the Company "to some through in the matter of protection feek" demanded by the bandits.
PROVINCIAL BANK OF
KWANGTUNG.
FAILURE OF PEACE PAHLEY
BLAMED FOR “NUN."
(From Our Own Correspondant.):
CANTON, Mar. 31. Anchor slight run on the Provincial Bank of Kwangtung. started yesterday and is continui
17.
he run," the finance authori ties asert, is the result of recent heavy speculations in Government banknotes, wild rumours of the break-up of the Sino-Japanese pesos parlay "at Shanghai and the conséquent renewal of hostilities on a large scale.
TRANS-PACIFIC FLIGHT
ATTEMPT SHORTLY
(Reuter's Special Servies.)
The House has also approved the proposed tax of ten per cent, on the prices of admission to places of amusement. The Amuacient. Tax is estimated to produce G.$40,000,000 annually
OBITUARY
SIR WILLIAM PRYKE
FORMER LORD MAYOR
·OP. LONDON
{THROUGH ABUTER 8 ADENCY.J.
LONDON, Mar. hit of London in 1025-0, died to-day, Sir William Pryke, Lord Mayor
aged 88,. mėt
Optimiste hope that by the end of the work, the House of Repre sentatives will have approved ad ditional revenue-producing suros sufficient to provide the re- mainder of the G.80.241,000, which is needed for balancing the budget.
WABBINGTON, Mar, 3 Taxes on soft drinks and capital issues of bonds and stocks, which are expected to provido sloven and thirteen million dollars annually, respectively, were voted by the Howe Representatives. Inst night.
A total taxation of #744,000,000 has now been provided for.
of
ITALIAN BUDGET
+1
"TO BE COVERED BY BOND
ISSUE
1
(THROUGH RELTER'S AGENCY.
ROME, March 30.. Figures Issued to-day by the Italian Ministry of Financs show a budget dofieit of 1,894,000,000 liro (approximately £17,000,000).
It is expected, however, that the deficit will be considerably more than covered by a new issue of nine-year five per cent Treasury Bonds at 17. The issue authorised is one millard, lira,
CHINA'S PAYMENTS TO LEAGUE
FURTHER ARREARS
suspicions in a series of cases of YOUNG JAPANESE TO MAKE incendiarism and sabotage difco March 4, which are all part of a glot to embarrass the authorities.
Another plot is reported to have been unearthed yesterday, at An-
LONDON Mar. 31. (From "Our Own Correspondent), tung where the postmaster was
A specially designed flying-bant found in collusion with mallcontents in which a young Japanese avia- for the purpose of calising anti-tur, Mr. Yoshyharn, will attempt Japanese uprisings undermining to fly from San Francisco to Tokyo was carried aboard the White Etan the new Government of Manchuria,
Similar plots are expected sporsliner Olympic which lefs Southamp
Mr. dically till the new, Government is ton for New York to-day.
GENEVA, March 30 fumly criablished, but the authori Yoshybarn will follow the machine
The Chinese Government paid ties appear to be satisfied that across the Atlantic after ten days, into the League Treasury to-day, eventualities and are not seriously or Jane and to completo the dia-China's annual instalment on ac of 803,000 representing worried.
tance in eleven days.
He holds the record, which he tributions to the League. set up two months ago, for, a flight from Berlin to Tokyo,
SHANGHAI, Mar, 31. The stock exchange is re-open ing on Friday, after a suspension of nearly two months. It is under
beitig will be confined to cash
Gaol for three months, Pant Crawstood that business for the time they are able to cope with nlf and hopes to start his flight in May
ley, the Shanghai Ico Creach "King" has been released on $10,000 bal; He is charged with exporting opium to San Francisco, by the American transport Chau mons, valued at $20,000.
Witnesses have arrived at Shang- hai from America, *
The trial will probably start in the frat week in April, at which aensational revelations are antici. pated;
Crawley a brother some years ago was sentenced to a year's imprison muent arising from charges of de frauding General Yang Ben, of Szechuan, over a deal involving munitions and bullet-proof veste.
SCENT FACTORY AT
BRENTFORD
COTY TO ERECT BUILDING
[Router's Special Service.)
LONDON, Mar. 30.
The construction at Brentford of
a perfumery factory at a cost of
at least £50,000, to produce the fragranoce associated with the
transactions only. Although the bond market is "not re-opening, there is brisk business mofficially. in domestic bonds, buyers pre- dominating.
Conditions are gradually return- ing to normal.
COURT GOES TO WINDSOR
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, March 30. The King and Queen will motor from Buckingham Palace, London, to Windsor Castle, Windsor, to
morrow afternoon.
It is expected that the Court, will remain at Windsor Castle for the whole of April.
ATLANTIC LINER COMPETITION
REDUCTION IN PARES
(THROCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, March 30,
TOKYO REPLIES TO NANKING
Tokyo, Mar. 31. The Japanese Gövernment to-day replied to the Chinese Note of March 24 accusing Japan of helping to establish the now Manchurian Government,
The Note states that. Japan is unable to admit the triath of the Chineso charges and recals that its attitude to the Manchurian Clov- ernment was fully explained in a Note answering earlier similar charges that Japan sympathise with the new administration as she considered it bold out hope that Japanese rights and interests in Manchuris would be respected and peace preserved, but denied that ber sympathy entailed active sup- port,
MANCHURIAN REBELLION
HARBIN Mar. 31
AIR LINER IN DESERT
SMASH
ti
LEAGUE EXPERT KILLED
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
BAGDAD, March 30. Caught in a dense sandstorm, the terror of the desert, a French air- liner crashed and was wrecked with the loss of three lives, in the Syrian Desert about two hundred miles from Bagdad to-day,
Commission
The victims included Colonel De Reynier, the President of the League of Nations which was appointed recently to undertake the delimitation of the Irak-Syrian frontier.
Colonal De Reynier was a Swiss The French pilos of the machine and the "mechanic were the "only According to information fromerait and were also filled.
other occupants of the ill-fated: Fengtaohotze, the leaders of the ald Krin military organisation | have "voluntarily destroyed the fortifications which they had "Arected at Kilometre 123 and have also removed, the obatades from the railway track.
Tokyo. Mar. aï The city of Nuogain, south of Changchun, which is at present held by anti-Manchowku troops.
RUMANIAN'S FLIGHT. TO FAR EAST
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ALEPPO, March 30.
रहे 82320
INSTALMENT
count of arrears in the Chinese con-
DRUG TRAFFIC
U.S. SENATE AGREES TO CONVENTION
WASHINGTON, March: 30.-- The Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate has approved the Geneva Convention regulating the distribution of narcotic druge and limiting their manufacture.
KAYE DON'S RECORD BEATEN
THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY.]
W6I
LOS ANGELES, Mar 30, Mr. Kaye Dop's record of 100.00 mph, for four cylinder cara brokken by. Mm. Wilbur Shaw: who: accomplished a speed of 137.98 D.p.b.
THE KREUGER-TOLL APPLICATION
PROLONGATION” OF MORATORIUM
(THROUGH REUDER'S AGENCY.]
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 30.
The Kruger-Toll Combine to-
name of Coty, the French multi. Close on the heals of an announce will be the objective of a combined, to-day on a 'solo flight" today applied to the Government for millionaire, is one of the results of ment by the United States Line of Japanese and Manchowkio offer afternoon and in taking off for order to facilitate the continuation
the British tariff programme.
The first part of the factory which when finally completed will employ about two thousand British workers will be completed by July. Ita devolopments from that time onwards will depond to a very large extent upon the results of the Ottawa Conference.
W
reductions of twenty per cent, in fares on several Transatlantic lin- sive at dawn to-morrow. era, the White Star Line announces immediate substantial reductions in passenger fares on all North Atlan tio vassala.
12
.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
Roory, March 30,
AL CAPONE DENIED
HEARING.
COURT REJECTS PETITION FOR APPEAL.
The Rumanian airman, Ionel Ghien, who left Bucharest at 5.30. Saigon, arrived at 4 o'clock this Bagdad at four o'clock in the morn
Ghica is flying in a Rumanian machine and is undertaking the trip under the patronage of King Carol.
ing.
..
ENGLAND-INDIA AIR
SERVICE -
NEW PORT OF CALL
--ANNOUNCED
for private firms until May a prolongation of the moratorium
in of the enquiry into the Combine's affairs.
BRITAIN'S BUDGET
TEA IMPORTERS WARY
[THROUGH. EXUTER'S AGENCY:]
LONDON, Mary While there has been no special. withdrawal of goods, from ware. "houses" on "the" Tisines. in view of Budget contingencies, there le an exception in the mae of tea
The" manager of General Ware- Rodny. March 30 housee expresses the opinion that The dying boats of the Imperial there is a doar prospect of a tariff Airways England-India service, on ten not produced within the when derating in both directions Empre and says, that importers above the Eastern Mediterranean, have for weshe been making excep. will pay regular weekly calls at the tional withdrawals, for exceeding
-[BRITISH-WIRELESS-SERVICE)-
According to one of the directors A conference of steamship.com- | of the Coty organisation, all Cotyls | panin, twenty lines being repre- business with the British Empire is sented, was opened at. Brussols this done, at the present time, from morning, to consider redutsions in Chicago, March 23.—The Federal Paris, but if the Dominions agree Atlantic pausonger rates. The Bri-Circuit Court of Appeals to-day to give. British manufacturers atish companies favoured the revision denied the famous gangster and begr proference, the businoms will be done ol rates and their representatives, king "Al Capone a hearing on his from the new factory.
have for some months been engaged conviction for federal income tax in discussions with representatives; evasion. Thirty days was allowed of foreign lines
for carrying the appeal before the The newspapers, foreshadow an U.S. Supreme Court RV- announcement by the conference of Capone was convicted last year of general reductions of approximate two misdemeanours and three felony ly twenty por cont, Hones are on- charges. And on October 24 he was forthined that the reductions will tenced to 11 years, imprisonment hort of lamssor of the band of the consumption
It is learned that when the plans have been completed, the factory will produse goods valued at £1,000,000 annually,
* The essences for sount and powder produced by the Brantford factory will name from abroad, but sfforts will be made to procura bottles and stimulate trans Atlantic travel dur raw materials for soaps in England, |ing the coming summer soLBON.
( 50,000 fins and payment of court | Cryprus weather permitting, ofter He regards the anxiety to bide
costs
"April Tu
zwny ten as significhut
GOLF COURSE TRAGEDY PLAYER AND CADDIE KILLED
BY LIGHTNING
[BRITISH WIDELESA BERVICE}
Rugay, March 30, An elderly golfer and his enddio were killed by lighting during a sudden thunderstorm which broke over the Maidenhead Golf Course this afternoon.
The golfer's opponent was also Atruck and was removed to hospital suffering from partial paralysis.
ELECTRIC STOCK" ISSUE
LISTS
CLOSED WITHIN TEN. MINUTES
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
RUGBY, March 30, Subscription lists for the issue Stock at 101 by the London and of £1,600,000 of Five Per Cent Homs Countries, Joint Electricity Authority, ware closed within ten minutes this morning, the amount having been oversubscribed.
HELPLESS DEBT PRISONERS.
or to-morroW:
CANADA AND IRELANDS
MALICIOUS RUMOUR
"DENIED".
(THROUGH REUTER 6: AGUNOKA]
"OTTAWA, Mar- Members of the Canadian Cabint interviewed by Houtor in regard
tion at the Ottawa Conferenca State might be refused representa a strange report that the Irish 35
do Valorn abolished the Oath of Allogiance, declared that Dominion Government had nev even considered the question
"In any event, it would be imposs sible for any decision to be reschedu whatever they might feel about the sibustion, until they had learned the outcome of the Anglo-Irisb negotiations...
ORIGINS OF CYCLONES AND
ANTI-CYCLONES
WEATHER CLERKS QUEST
THROUGH REUTER.W AGENOE.
LONDON, Mar.
The origins of cyclones, oyclones and depressions are to Finvestigated by an Internationa
Meteorological Commission which thirteen countries will ticipate, in celebration Jubilee of the first internat Polar Year, 1882/1863, which i basis of present-day deta
The Commission; will spand facts and figures, starting a year in the work off grober August next..
They will carry out their in tigations from a number of station in the polar regions in ordinatad effort to ascertain a data oir currents, températures atmospheric electricity, sta
Britain is sending two exped tions to the northern regions,, one to Tromsoe in Norway and the other.
JUDGE'S ́ ́ FEELING OF to Port Rae, in Canada Cahay
DISQUIET..
It is anticipated that much, nie, ful information will be obtai Mr. Justice Mackinnon declared leading to improveminin, among that it astonished him to learn that other things, wireless munic over 3,000 persons were last year tion... committed in Brixton, for debt. Be Small pilot balloont,with in of disquiet. heard the statement with a feeling struments recording height and tom
perature, will be utilised in the He was speaking at the annual meteorological work. meeting of the Brixton Prison Dis. It is stated that by a new Con- charged Prisoners' Aid Society attinental invention, wireless sota at- the Mansion House. The report of tached to the balloons will announce the society showed that the 3,000 the heights and temperatures auto- imprisonments for debt were under matically, thus overcoming the the following classifications- Married Women's Act'....... Rates
Affiliation Orders
1,072
361
and
..Other
B35
186.
County Court Debts Income Tax
Debts
́difficulty of regaining the instru- menta when the balloons fall to earth.
man is not now imprisoned merely for debt, but for contempt of Court when ordered to pay and contum "I do not think I have ever com-aciously refusing to do so, When mitted anyone to prison for debt," as your report states, they find i MT. Justice Mackinnon maid, physically impossible to pay, an though I happen to be a county not hulp feeling that there must justice in my own county..
something disquietingly about the system which results such a way."
One knows the theory is that Continued on next column)
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