Jan
NEW UNITY OF BRITISH EMPIRE
OTTAWA CONFERENCE HAILED AS
A SUCCESS
TWELVE EMPIRE AGREEMENTS
SIGNED
(REUTER AND BRITISH WIERLESS.]
OTTAWA, August 90.
TWELVE Empire Agreements in all were signed to-day.
Nevers by the United Kingdom, while the other agreements are be tweon Canada and South Afries; Canada and the Free-Slate; Canada and Rhodesia; South Africa and Now Zoalaud and Sonib Afries and the Free- State.
The Anglo-Indian trade agreement provides that Indian goods will receivo a preference of 10 per cent, and lodia will give a 71 per cent. preference on cortain mator vehicles, and on other articles covered by the Agreement the preference will be 10 per cent, kuhject to certain, exemptions, and reser.
vations.
The den per cent, preference will be Ister extended to caiton and reni wilk goods with certain exceptions.
It has been arranged that the Colonies and Protectorates will generally extend to India the full benefit of their preferential tariff, and Indie will grant a preference to the staple oxports from the Colonia! Empire, excluding augar.
HIS MAJESTY'S REPLY TO LOYAL MESSAGE
At the conclusion of Mr. Bennett's speech, His Majesty's reply to the Conference's Loyal mennage wan read. Then Mr. Benneti declared the his- toric conference of the British Empire -closed, and, after brief farewells, the Chamber quickly emptied.
Most of the Britlah und Indian delegatos hurried to catch the special train for Quebec, from where they are sailing for Home.
RAPID SURVEY OF AGREEMENTS
OTTAWA, Aug. 21.
A rapid survey of the Ottawn agreements show that they pro vido for a continuance of freo entry into the United King:lom after ́ November 15, 1932, of all Empire goods now free, subject to certain exceptions. The United Kingdom Government undertakes that the present general ád valorem duty on foreign goods shall not he re- dused without the consent of some of the Dorninions Governments. The most important agreements are the Anglo-Canadian and Anglo-South African. Provision, being made to remove the duty on erinin foreign goods if Empire producers are unable or unwilling to meet the United Kingdum requirements at prices not exceeding
world prices.
THE CANADIAN TREATY
The Canadian treaty provides that protection by tariff shall be afforded against United Kingdom products only to Cuna- dian industries which are rensually assured with sound op- portunities of success. Canada undertakes to create a tariff board at which United Kingdom producers will have full rights of nudieues. Canada will abolish all existing surcharges on imports from the United Kingdom immediately the finances of Cannda will allow. The treaty runs for five years.
A number of schedules are attached to the Agreement detailing the amount of preferences accorded to Canada, One schedule
to
to be published later will contain 220 items showing the new or increased Canadian preferences the United Kingdom. The revisions in textiles relate chiefly to linens and major clas- Hification of cotton and woollen fabrics.
OPTIMISM PREVAILS
not be considered an entity apart from the rest of the world and that success should be sought in the direction of reducing rather than
RUORY, Aug. 20. This success of the Ottawa Con- ference is now an accomplished fact: Trade agreement have been reach ed between Great Britain und, raising tariffa. all the Duminious with the excep tion of the Irish Free State, and the last of them, namely that be- tween the United Kingdom and Canada, was initialled in the early hours this morning.
The agreements are being formal- ly approved at to-day's Plmary
Session in the Canadian Parlia
A COMPLETE SUCCESS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, August 20, The Ottawa Imperial Conference is generally hailed in London
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1932.
CURBING THE FLIGHT
OF CREDIT
U.S. MAY PUT MATTER TO ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.}
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.
GOUGOULOFF APPEAL FAILS
DEATH SENTENCE TO BE CARRIED OUT
[TOROUGH KRUTNA'S KOENOY.)
PARIS, Aug. 20. SINCE the gold drain from the THE appeal by Gougoutoff United States has apparently against sentence of death, for stopped, the Administration An- the assassination of President thorities are considering the avail-Douwer, was rejected by the court ability of the forthcoming Economic of Cassation. Conference as a source of interna tional stops to curb the huge flight of credits.
- The
oggregate credita with drawn from the United States are placed by President Hoover at over 82,400,000, of which 81,000,000,000.is gold,
word of farewell and congratulation from His Excellency the Governor- General, Lord Boesborough, MR. THOMAS' WIRELESS TALK
(ORITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Riasy, August 19. The. Dominions Secretary, Mr. J.
GOUGOULOFF IN PRISON
STRANGE BEHAVIOUR BUT
NO REPENTANCE,
A Hamo paper gives the follow- ing picture of Gougüptoff's, days in prison :-
Paris-A fair-sized
room, its walla whitewashed and bare. Light| streaming through the windows re- | veals a wash-basin on one side, n small bed covered with a rug on the other; and at a plain deal table in the centre of the room a big,
heavily built man, his curly hair coming to a point in the middle of
WEAVERS TO STRIKE
ON AUGUST 27
| ALL LABOUR TO BE WITH- DRAWN FROM MILLS
(THROUGH KRUTER'S AGENCY.]
ANTI-JAPANESE BOYCOTT.
FEDERATION OF SOCIETIES IN CANTON
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
CANTON, August 20.
WANG'S LATEST
DECISION
AGREES TO REMAIN ON EXECUTIVE YUAN
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, Aug. 21. LONDON, Aug. 91,
The Canton Anti-Japanese So- WANG CHING WEI and others have returned from Kuling. THE General Council of theciety is supporting a movement for It is understood that Wang Ching Weavers'. Amalgamation dis- the inity of the country's haycott Wei has virtually agreed to eussed, in Manchester, the ques-activities by the formation of a
Chiang Kai Shek's suggestion that tion of an immediate strike, but National Federation
he remain on the Executive Yuan Anti-until the third plenary session of eventually endorsed the decision of Japanese Societies. A preparatory the C.E.C. of the Kuomintang, the Northern Federation to with-meeting for this purpose has been draw labour from all mills August 27.
MISSING AIRMEN
SEARCH PARTY'S BAD LUCK
[THROVOK REUTER'S AGENCY.]
on
RANGOON, Aug. 20. THE Raynham, search party was miles north of Akyab, it is believ forced down and landed fifty owing to engine trouble.
[A mesange dated August 18,
of
WANG'S DECISION
CONFIRMED
convened in Shanghai for the 28th instant and three delegates from
LATER. Canton will attend the conference.
Wang Ching Wei, when inter- Meantime the local pickets have viewed, confirmed he had agreed to been extremely active in watch-remain temporarily as president ing for smugglers. The other of the Executive Yunn, pending the selection of his successor by day, they seized a big quantity of the plenary session of the C.E.C.
Dairen beans said to amount' to about $10,000 in value. There are also reports that the smugglers are
CHIANG TO TAKE using Shameen as the base for their OVER CHANG'S POST
operations, and accordingly extra number of pickets have been placed outside the foreign settle- ment to keep a good look-out for goods brought out into the city.
A special department for the dis- play of Japanese goods for purposes of discrimination will be kept at stated that Mr. Raynham, mana-
the Canton Native Goods Exhibit ging director of the India Air House, which occupies the site of Survey Company will be leaving the former Shing Wong Temple and for Rangoon to-morrow en route to
is to be formally opened on Na Bangkok in his search for the tional Independencee Day, October missing fliers, Salt and Taylor.]
H. Thomas, who slipped away for a few minutes from the final nego tiations at the Imperial Conference to speak from his room in Parlin-is forehead, intent upon his tasked mont House, Ottawa, to listeners writing, writing, writing. at the Radio Exhibition, Olympia,
Nothing disturbs him, not even London, 4,000 miles distant, mada during his romarks, cheerful refer the occasional slow step in the cor- enco to the progress to the Confer¦ridor outside, and the irrgutar ap. pearance of a face at the square peephole in the solitary door. He goes on and on writing.
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He said: "Today, with colleagues from other parts of the Empire, we are taking decisions, and to-morrow we shall be signing agreements which we hope and be
The scene is a coll in the Santé lieve will bind Grent Britain still Prison, and the man so absorbed in more closely with our Dominions his writing is Paul Gougoulof, the
Russian assassin of During
President these hours we are setting a seal
Doumer. He sits there awaiting his trial before the Paris Assizes, and the almost inevitable sentence of death.
und Colonies
oversens,
on the success of our Conference which I will now say in certain, That I know, will be good news to every citizen of the old country,"
Mr. Thomas said that the one ideal of all the delegates from all parts of the Empire had been to help all parts of it out of the in- dustrial turmoil and economic dif Giculties of the moment. In so do- ing they had never lost gight of the world position. They realised that the Empire, important as it is, could not be and had no intention of being outside the sphere of world influence.
On the subject of radio, Mr. Thomas emphasised its importance in maintaining contact between dis tant parts of the Empire. He said that British Radio was admired throughout the world not only for its broadcasting system, but also for its high technique of manufac-
Gougouloff to-day is not the bat tered and toru figure he was on that fateful afternoon last month when he shot down President Doum-
er.
Then he was cut and bruised and knocked almost senseless by the blows of the infuriated mob. To day all that has disappeared, and he is just a big, heavy-featured man with deep-set eyes and trace of brutality about his mouth.
When he was first put into his coll, still under the influence of that fanaticism which had prompted him to perpetrate his deed, he neemed to have lost all scuse of his surroundings.
ture employed in the construction In Hong Kong
of British Radio Receivers.
ANGLO-IRISH
CONTROVERSY
"AN AGREEMENT TO AGREE"
OTTAWA, August 19. Conversations between the Right Hop. Mr. Thomas and Mr. O'Kelly, Minister of Local Gov- ernment in the Irish Freo State Cabinet, and Delegates of the United Kingdom, have been directed towards what is termed
an agreement to agree," accord ing to a statement from Irish quar- Iters to-day. The attitude of dele-
gates sceps to be most hopeful,
They intimate that an under- standing is sought by which it will be possible to immediately remove both the United Kingdom and Free
State militant customs tariffs.
as "a complete success," in news- paper comment this morning. The Following the elimination of these initialling of the Anglo-Canadian tradel restrictions, the two Govern Trade Agreement yesterday after-
away
To-Day
FAIR.
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKS, ISSUED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, AT 6. F. H., ' STATED :--
PRESBUKE 18 HONEST VER NORTH CHINA; DEPRESSIONS RE- MAIN TO THE NORTH OF HOKKAI- DO, AND BETWEEN THE LOUCHOON AND THE BONINS.
LOCAL FONECAST: 8. W. OR VARIABLE WINDS, MODERATE; FAIR.
Russia Glorified.
He would stand before one of the chanting, and crossing himself in the manner of the Orthodox Church.
He would continue' like this for
HEAVY FALL IN MIGRATION
UNFAVOURABLE EFFECT OF DEPRESSION
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
10.
ANTI-"RED" WARFARE.
CORDON ROUND COM- MUNIST DISTRICTS.
{From Our Own Correspondent,)
[TRUOUGH REUTER'S AQRNOY.}
NANKING, August 20. THE Government by mandate has
appointed Marshal Chiang Kai Shck to the post of Chairman of the Peiping Branch of the Military supercedes tho Council, which office of Pacification Commissioner for North China, until recently held by the Young Marshal, Chang Hsueh Liang.
WILL AMERICA INTERVENE
IN MANCHURIAN CONTROVERSY?
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, Aug. 9.
IN a leading article this morning the Central Daily News highly pays tribute to America's stand sa regarda Manchuria, as reflected. in the recent Stimson-Hoover speeches.
LONDON, Aug. 19. N view of the uncertainty of the present position and the pending
CANTON, August. 20. deliberations of the Ottawa Confer- The local military authorities ence, the Annual Report of the Over have decided to place a cordon seas Settlement Committee now is round the Communist lairs in makes no attempt to predict the out an effective general blockade on sued by the Dominions' Office Eastern Kinngsi in order to carry
future of migration. Last year the area. The Cantonese forces now was a bad one for migration and in Kiangai and on the north-eastern The journal also draws attention the first time recorded the outward borders of the province, the 19th to the Baltimore Sun report to the Bow of persons proceeding from the Ronte Army from Western Fukien, offect that the United States de- United Kingdom to settle perman- and the Nanking units in northern mands an assurance of British sip ently, overseas, fell short of the in- Kiungsi will form the various imits port in Manchuria as the price for ward flow of persons intending to required for the proposed cordon. naval reduction, declaring the re- remain in the United Kingdom. These troops will move gradually port, if true, shows America is The inward balance however is from their positions and force the nearing the end of her patience in
to retreat to their respect to Sino-Japanesc affairs. not due to any appreciable increase Communists
Overseas,
in the number returning, but to strongholds at Suichin, Ningtu The paper goes on to point out the heavy fall in numbers going and districts. The latter will then that the present situation in Main that the churia not only adversely affects be completely isolated, "Reds" are expected to exhaust American commercial interests, but their supplies in about two months also tends to compromise hor when the task of annihilating them prestige as a sponsor of the Nine Power Treaty and the Kellogg will be enay.
Pack
Since the Manchurian trouble, America has not surpassed her sincere intention to holp bring about a settlement, but not being
Outward figures fell from 136,777 in 1021 to 27,151 in 1831. On the other hand the number who return ed in 1031 was 63,101 whilst the
The South West Government has corresponding figure in 1021 was practically identical, namely 52,347. denied reports of its intention to The report makes a comparison enlarge the local government man. of the economic conditions in the chinery, and the inauguration of a last sixty years which indicates that military commission, following the the rise and fall of migration cor- recent political upheaval, and is a responds closely with the degree of therefore apparently waiting for prosperity or depression through further developments in the nation- out the world generally. When a situation. The conference pro economic conditions are favour- posed for the military leaders has able, migration is stimulated. Uunocordingly been postponed, and favourable economic conditions are General Yu Hon Mau and other reflected in a falling off in migra military commanders who have re tion.
turned to Canton for the meeting are therefore to return to their posts immediately.
General Wong Shiu Hung, Mini- merely as a gesture and a protest.
And so he has never" repentedter of the Interior, who arrived at of his deed. Although he has ex days ago, is
Hong Kong unexpectedly a few reported to have pressed sorrow at having to kill brought with him a message from is forfeit-unless he can be proved Cantonese leaders to answer to the the Fresident," he knows his life Mr. Wang Ching Wei asking the
call of national unity, and to urge Gemorals Chan Chai Tong and Ļi Tsung Jan to saume the director-
Never in the Dark,
every Wong.
member of the League and geographically far removed from the scone of the conflicty ahe naturally is anxious to seek con- certed action and support from.
France and Britain."
The journal deplores that due tó the varying national interests, such support should not readily be forthcoming, thereby encouraging Japan in her ordinate ambitions.
AMBASSADOR HOPES FOR JAPAN-U.S. FRIENDSHIP
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, THE Japanese Ambassador to Washington, Mr. Debuchi, who
is
recul a desire to set settled only
expressed
differences between Japan
and
America with respect to the former, nation's Manchurian policies,
for eight or ten hours at a time, but now that phase has passed, and in his treatment. He is moderately General Li Taung Jen has gone He has nothing to complain of ship of the Pacification Bureaus at Canton and Nanning respectively. passive, he remains mostly silent and im well fed, and is allowed to spend down to Hong Kong to see General
writing letters, poenis some franca on "extras" whose sense it is almost impossible day, although he has little money to discover, and prose, in which he except for the few hundred franes glorifies Russia and shows how all supplied by his wife. the nations of Europe have deserted her, letting her fall into a bottom-disturb bim. Not for one moment There is only one thing that can less abyas.
of the twenty-four hours a day is Gougouloff is like most of the he allowed to be in darkness, for SENTATION AWARD majority in the Punjab, in effect political assassins in history, in it is a rule in France that no State that he insists he did not wish to prisoner should remain unobserved.
sƐlemtinued on next GatuANCA.)
ment House and most of delegates of the United Kingdom will leave for home to-day. It is possible, in order to avoid forestalling, that noon, following the inter-Dominionments will then proceed to work blank walls, muttering, praying, insane--and is content, the detailed terms of the agreements and Conolial agreements, is regard. out in an improved atmosphere the will not be published until such ed with the utmost satisfaction in one of a tribunal to consider the question of Land Annuities, all quarters. time as they are ratified,
bver which the wbelo Anglo-Irish The Times says that success is he controversy of recent date has It is understood that cach bilateral treaty will contain a complished by the fact that the raged
The Annuities, it will be recalled, clause, signifying the intention of settlement of trade problems was
are fixed by treaty between the the United Kingdom to maintain based along the lines suggested by all round Empire preference after the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and Free State and Britain, and are the Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett, Cana- annual payments made by Free November 15, which was the date
dinn Primo Minister, in their open-State farmers into a fund for the mentioned in the Import Duties Acting speeches at Ottawa. The settle ropayments of the British loans for its expimtion unless subsequent ments, it adds, obtain the general which allowed them to secure land legislation for its continuance was objective desired, they expansion of of their
break own and passed:
Empire trade by the lowering of the from the old system of tenure. Mr. It is also believed that each inter-Commonwealth trade barriers. Eamon de Valera recently withheld treaty will include an indication of The newspaper observes that the theme Annuities, maintaining that what ench Dominion concerned is remarkable achievement has stop this present Free State Government prepared to do for the Colonies and ped, in less than a month, the un- was not bound by treaties signed what the Colonies are prepared to mistakably apparent drift towards by predecessors in office and that, do in return.
economic isolation on the part of the claim of Britain to the right to the various units of the Empire. ich system of collection had no
The state of the various delega- foundation in law.. tions from the Empire nations,
MANY AGREEMENTS worked
night throughout the preparing the reports for the Plenary Session of the Conference Economic Conference is making Otherwise, also, the Imperial in the House of Commons, Ottawa, headway. The United Kingdom this morning. At this gathering of this morning was extremely busy, statesmen, the formal signing of the signing trade and preference agrer trade agrements will be done.
ments with India, South Africa, Newfoundland and preparing for the signature of other agreements with Southern Rhodesia, Australia and New Zealand, which work is practically completed.-
Conversations between the United Kingdom and Canada continue and the agreement was expected to be (Continued at jont of rezs cogumej ! both entisfactory and successful.
Thus, in less than one month the Conference has secured a
Konoral adaption of a policy of Imperial economic co-operation and has on larged tha channels of trade throughout the Empire by means of detailed agreements,
The delegates are understood to be much gratified at the success with which the intricate problems affecting many interests are being There will be some slight cere solved and the terms of agreement, mony in connection with the pro- it is believed, will be found to coin cerdinga. At the end of the session cide with the principles annunciat a silver solver, suitably engraved, ed by the chief of British Delega-will be presented to Premier Ben tion, Mr. Baldwin, at the opening nett by Mr. Baldwin, on behalf of of the Conference. He was then the delegates to the Conference, particularly emphatic that the There will be short addresses and British Empire, great as it is, must (Bolution in next column.)
Y
COMMUNAL REPRE-
kill the individual as such, but electric light fixed high up close to
As soon as evening falls a baro SIKHS RESENT REFORM IN
GOVERNMENT: the ceiling illuminates the blinding white walls of the cell, and so Gou- gouloff must sleep at night in the giare of artificial-fight until the next day dawns.
signed this afternoon.
The Conference, following the session to-day, will bo virtually. com- pleted. Its success is, already es- sured.
CONFERENCE SUCCESS
I am told that this does not dis i turb Gougouloff much, but in the ease of Raoul Villain, who murder- ed the French Socialist leader, Jean Jaurès, in 1014, it almost drove him
Crazy.
İTHROUGH IKUTER'S AURWOY.).
foreshadows the Constitution,
Blight Changes,
On August 17 the British Gov- ernment gave its unanimous deci alon in the matter of the Indian Communal Representation System. While retaining the system in vogue, separate electorates, tho, new SILA, Aug. 20.
plan gave Hindus an absolute ma SIKH dissatisfaction with
jority in Madras, the United Pro- Communal representation award vinces of Biharorises, the Central recently delivered by the British Provinces, and a preponderance in Government, was illustrated by the Bombay and Assam, while the Mos. fact that two Sikh members Ujje!tems receive a majority on the Singh and Sampuran, Singh of the Northwest Frontier and also in the Round Table Committee, have writ-Punjab.
the
RUGBY, August 19. The Ottawa Conference is near.
Villain, incidentally, was defend. ing its final stage and delegates ed. by Me. Henri Géraud, who is were occupied yesterday for most now counsel for Gougouloff.
ten to the Viceroy, Lord Willing- Separate constituencies are ar part in putting the final touches to In order not to risk troubledon resigning their membership. ranged for in every provines where varioue draft agreements,
among the troops during the war. They declare they are unable to voters are mainly Hindus, and The one between the United Villain was kept in his cell until loin any body formed for the pur generally separate electorates for Kingdom and Canada was initial- the armistice was signed. For pose of drawing up a Constitution, Moslems, Sikhs, Indian Chris- Led yesterday and will be signed at four years he never knew darkness, in view of the fact that the Com-tions, Anglo-Indiana and Euro the open session to day. Delegates and towards the end of the time munal award, by giving the pans. The Bikhs are given the describe the Conference-as-being- he was slmost praying for his-trial Moslems an unalterable religious same sort of treatment as any of
(Continued at foot of next column.) the others, it is believed.
in order to escape the light.