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GRAVE UNEMPLOYED DE VALERA
DISTURBANCES
LONDON POLICE SHOW GREAT RESTRAINT
[REUTER AND HAITISH WIRELESS.)
EXPLAIN'S TO
THE DAIL
· BRITAIN NOT PREPARED
TO CONCEDE SIMPLE JUSTICE"
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
LONDON, Oct. 19. Sir Jaba Gilmour, the newly- appointed Home Secretary, re plying to Mr. George Lansbury,
LONDON, Out 10. informed the House of Commons I HAVE come to the conclusion tonight that the grave unemployed! that the present British Goy- disturbances in Loudon last night orment, pressed forward by cer- were organised by the National tain anti-Irish feeling in Britain Unemployed Workers movement, and supported by the-wititude of a well-known Communist organisa-minority in the Free State, is not tion.
pepared to examine the position on its merits or vickd to claims of simple justice."
The demonstrators numbered over tes thousand. The police succeeded in diverting the processions balore! Thus Mr. Easton! do Valera, they reached the County Hall, West | President of the Free State Coun- minster, but one of the unemployed ¦ eil, in the vintrse of a statement on englingents tried to force a polica the abortive London negotiations Cordon.
|lusfore a crowded Dail this evening.
From, this stage, there was con-} "It is possible," he said, "that siderable disorder.
had we gone to them in the role of The situation was completely out | beggars, "hats in hand, asking for uf Irant temporarily. Stones, crusideration and charity, there bricks, in ruilings were throwa | might have been a disposition to at the police who were compelled wake minor modifications and some mitigation of our claims, but sim- ple justice they were not prepared to concede.
Lu make numerous arrests,
E
Ile said that as the negotiations were entered upon to see if it was
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1932.
UNFAITHFUL CIVIL SERVANTS
FINANCE OFFICER GETS TWELVE MONTHS'
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)'
ERNEST THOMS, a ânance officer in the New Zealand High Commissioner's Office, London, wis sentenced to twelve months in the second division for stealing money telonging to the New Zealand Government amouriting to £1,800.
'Arnold Hore, an audit dork, re- ceiving à sentence of nine months.
MAIL BAG ROBERRY
MOTOR BANDITS' COUP AT EUSTON
TinovGH REUTER'A ADENOY.}
LONDON, Oct 90. ' MOTOR baudits accomplished one of the most daring mailbag robberies of recent years at Euston Stution lust night.
Sir John Gilmour added that the disorder was clearly premeditated, is many of the men arrested were
The outrage was committed' in found to have stones and pieces of
full view of the station throng). iron in their pockets.
possible to arrive at comprehen- The bandits, who were awaiting Over forty of the men
sive settlement, the members of the the mail's arrival, failed the post ware to be seharged with wilful Irish Free State delegation sub- man and seized the registered mail·
arrested
BANDITS RELEASE BRITISH CAPTIVES
Mrs. Pawley and Corkran Leave Bandits' Lair
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)-
MRS.
Mexpen, Oct. 20,
AND
PAWLEY
MR. CORKRAN HAVE BEEN
RELEASED,
HONG KONG AIR MAIL?
LINK WITH ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, Oct. 19.
HONG KONG may have its direct
FAULTY AMERICAN FINANCING
FIERCE ATTACK
ON HOOVER
ADMINISTRATION
MANUFACTURE OF ARMS
SPLIT BETWEEN POWERS AT GENEVA
(THROUGH ARUTEN'S AGENOT.]
(THROUGH REUTER'S' AGENCY.]
Üleseva, Oct. 19.
PITTSBURO, Oct. 20.
A
SPLIT has occurred between the
air link with the Imperial A FURTHER colossal deficit on Airways Croydan-India service in the course of next year.
The Hong Kong service will be an offshoot of an England-Austra
in service.
Colonel Shalmerdine, the Director of Civil Aviation, made these re- velations to-day, in the course of statement regarding the proposed air route between London and Aus tralia via Karachi and Singapore.
He stated that it was hoped to innagurate the service in 1933, and added that negotiations were al
Tokyo, Oct. 20. A message from Mukden states that members of the Selgidan Japanese Patriotic Organization effected the rescue of Mrs. Pawley and Mr. Corkers whom they hand. ed over to the Japanese authorities at Panshan, north of Newchwang,
NEWCHWANG, Oct. 20. Mrs. Pawley and Mr. Corkran are returning to Nowchwang to-ready in hand for extending the Indian route from Karachi to Singapore. SHANOHAL, Oct. 20.
at 9 a..
night,
It is learned to day. that there are prospects of the release within two days of Mr. Charles Corkran and Mrs. Muriel Pawley, who have
It was hoped that the section from Singapore to Australia would he undertaken by Australian in- terests. He then mentioned the possibility of linking Hong Kong and Rangoon in French Inda
leading Powers who are deli- the Budget › auoanting to at berating on the question of the re- lenst G$1,800,000,000 Was foregulation of the manufacture of shadowed by Mr. Franklin Roose arms and ammunition and the velt, the Democratic candidate for trade in arms. the Presidency, in a speech here to-day.
Mr. Roosevelt launched a force attack on the financial policy of the Hoover Administration aud the "wild estimates" of the Unit- ed States Treasury,
He declared that if the present rate of Governmental receipts and expenditure were maintained to the end of the present fiscal year, the deficit must bo upwards of $1,600,000,000
It was revealed to-day that the special committee appointed to re- port on this question is divided into two sharply opposing groups. The committee has been obliged to adjourn the discussion sine ille as a result of the cleavage.
France, Spain, Denmark and Poland strongly advocated tho sup- pression of the private manufac
ture of arms.
Britain, Italy, Japan and the Governmental borrowing had, he United States upheld the rights of declared been necessitated by the heavy deficits on the budget in the the private manufacturer,
The sub-committee agreed upon a last two years and this borrowing had been absorbing credit which questionnaire to be submitted to. the interested governments though. belonged to industry. Our banks," he added, “ure the Japanese representative said financing these stupendous deficits, frankly that his government was
resources."
damage and larceny (arising trommitted claims that sh muld be sub-ing intended for dispatch by the been in the hands of bandita since china with the main route from which is n burden absorbing their | not likely to reply.
the dealing) and with assaulting the police.
Severnl demonstrators and many police were injured, the numbers being uncertain for the moment.
mitted when ever there was a ques-trish mail train.
tion of what might be called an One bandit tripped up the post ultimate financial settlement be.
man by dropping a suitcase at his tween the two countries.
feet. Another then threw a black cloth over his hend, while a third knocked him senseless with a blunt weapon..
Mr. de Valera stated that the British Government, however, took their stand on the inviolability of the "seeret "documents of 1923 and 1928 and refused to bulge from
He was, however, convinced that the police behaved with admirable restraint, despite great provocation, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, after Sir John Gilmour's statement, ac, that position.. eeded to Mr. Lansbury's request for a debate on the adjournment of the House.
"Britain Plays Part of Blylock." While the British Government Mr. Lansbury's Plan.
was playing the part of Shylock to When the discussion was resume Irish Free State and that of later in the evening, Mr. Lady Bountiful to the Continent, George Lansbury made an impas they were petitioning the United sioned speech dealing with the cir❘ States
for release from debts
cumstances of the unemployed in morally and legally due.
The whole world recognised that Britain.
"Thousands of unemployed," he if there was to be a restoration of said, converging upon Lon the economic life of the world, the Jon. Welcome them with the pruge juter-government debts must nise that the Menns Test will cease,
ba revoked and that every man will be given a chance of a decent existence.
"We are not prepared to hind
our people to a burden imposed
upon them in the past.
"We believe that the British.
Mr. Lansbury urged that all the recent unemployed disturbances in demands are neither legally nor the British Isles were due to dis morally due and we are prepared satisfaction with provisions for to defend our rights."
All escaped in a waiting motor- vah within a few minutes.
Flying Squad ears patrolling the area were given a wireless descrip- tion of the van, for which they are scouring the district,
DEMELKER TRIAL DRAMA
WOMAN'S STORY OF
BEDSIDE SCENE
TYRROUGH REUŢen's Adexm.j
Johannesburg, Ool. 19.
September 7, and for whose safety | England to Australia. much concern has been felt.
Capt. Wutsumi Heads Rescue. Party.
NEWCHWANG, Oct 90. Mrs. Pawley and Mr. Corkran are commencing their eighth week
captivity today.
A rescue party, headed by Capt. Kawabito Wutsumi, left to-day for Tapan, where it is expected final negotiations will be held for the release of the captives who, yester. day, were reportgl to be well and in good spirits.
DRAMATIC evidence was given to in Hong Kong
day during the trial of Mrs.
It is alleged by the prosecution Daisy Louise Demolker for murder, that she poisoned her two previous husbands, William Alfred Cowle and Robert Sproat, with stryeb nine, and her twenty-year-old son, Rhodes Cecil Sproat with arsenin.
Mrs. Stricker, giving evidence, said that while Mrs. Demelker's MP- result in the cond husband was dying, the ac long run they would be relieved cused drew up a will in. her own from the position of dangerous favour and insisted upon her hus dependence upon the British maar band signing it while she supported kets.
him in bed.
livelihood. The Meaus Test was the
Tarif War to Continue. source of great grievance.
The tariff war, which is bound Replying. Sir John Gilmour atto go on will impose considerable tributed the riots mainly to Comhardships upon residents of the punist, organisers, who. themselves, Irish Free State, he admitted, but ho said, were not hearing the brunt he believed that as of the economic battle.
He then showed how the techni- que of street fighting, as advocated by the Communist International, was busing considerably developed in Enginud.
Trip wires were being fastened across the streets about a foot from the ground.
Lamps in the vicinity were ex tinguished.
Replying to questions, Mr. de Valern said that the claims of the Irish Free State delegates were advanced just as seriously as those of Britain that the Free State should bear a portion of her debt.
He said he did not raise the ques- The covers of man-luules were retion of a United Irish Republic no Muved.
|a revelant issue in the negotiations, The police handled the crowds, The Free State Government as la declares, without auch difficulty. sumed office as one of the States They tried to avoid clashes, There of the British Commonwealth and were only thirteen civilians known was bound by pledges precluding to have her injured last night, secession without an express man but thirty-seven policemen received date from the electorate, he de injuries.
clared. Mr.
The debate then closed. nounced that the Government would shortly make a statement regarding the Means Test and. the matter was dropped.
Raasay MacDonald
BRITISH PUBLIC
OPINION
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ON WORLD ARMAMENT REDUCTION
tion.
An-
BRITISH TARIFF
PARLEYS
TORITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, Oct. 10. THE tariff conversations in im mediate prospect, with certain foreign Governments represent the counterpart of the agreements with
ence.
new
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CRUEL DECEPTION
WOMAN DEPORTEES
DEFRAUDED.
Charges of obtaining money, jewellery and other personal efferkä from two female deportens from Singapore, under the pretext that he was a boarding-house runuer, were brought against a who appeared before Mr. Wynne. Jones at the Central Police Court yesterday. The defendant admitted both counts.
Chinese
In explaining the case, Dotective D. Fitches said that the complain- ants were deporters who arrived in Hong Kong by the s.8. Santhia_but
To-Day
FAIR
YESTERDAY'S WRATHER REFGET,
FORECAST AND BENARES, ISSUED BY
THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, STATED: THE ANTI-CYCLONE REMAINA OVER
YANGTEZE THE LOWER VALLEY, MODERATE MONBOON WILL PREVAIL ALONG THE CHINA COAST AND OVER THE NORTHERN · CHINA SEA.
LOCAL. FORECAST N.E. WINDS, FRESH FAIR.
· MANCHUKUO - FOREIGN MINISTER AT. TOKYO
(Woh Te Yat Pa.)
Shanghai, Out. 20.~According to
NAVAL ATTACHE
TO EAST
CAPT: J. G. P. VIVIAN
APPOINTED
{CHROUGH REUTER'S AQRNCY.}
LONDON, Oct 19. HM the King has approved of
the, appointment of Captain J. G. P. Vivian to be Naval At- taché to His Majesty's Mission in Japan and Chinn, with headquar- ters at Tokyo, from January 8, 1953, Captain Vivian was appointed in 16 to the command of II.M.S. Dauntless on the America and West Indies Station.
URUGUAY SEEKS TARIFF PACT
FOREIGN OFFICE
STATEMENT
(THROUGH ARUTER 'N AGENCY.)
LONDON, Oct. 20. RUGUAY is the Intest country to join the queue desiring to
for negotiate
tariff agreements with Britain.
It is learned at the Foreign Office that the British Government has received proposals for tariff ariangements from raguny which are being considered.
CLERK DISCHARGED
BOUGHT STOLEN MOTOR- CYCLE PART.
"
Mr. Roosevelt attributed
the
industrial slunin in the United MILLIONARIES OUT
States to the C.S. Republican Government's mistaken tariff policies.
ANTS WITH HUMAN BRAINS
THEY- MILK COWS GO TO WAR
KEEP "DOGS" GROW
MUSHROOMS
THE INVENTORS OF CENTRAL HEATING.
A traveller just back from Yaca- tan, says he is prepared to hack the brains of the termites, or white ants, against those of any living thing save "mon.
"These white ants," he said, had a knowledge of central heating sya. tema hundrede, thousands, of years before man got the idea." "
He told me how they gathered leaves, decaying matter and, wood- dust which they packed together in the centre of the ant hill. This mans, gradually fermenting, gave forth a continuous heat transmitted to the other quarters of the citadel by means of tiny galleries and cor- ridors.
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OF WORK
MARTIN INSULL LIVING IN
BOARDING. HOUSE
Orillia (Ontario), Sept. 18-Like his famous brother Samuel, Mr. Martin J. Insull, ex-president" of Middlewest Utilities, admitted to- day that he was "just another re- eruit for the army of the unem- ployer."
Auditors in the Chicago Federal Court yesterday revealed the true defloit resulting from the crnal of Liabilities Insul interests. the
are stated to be £51,000,705, and assets £6,308,500,
Mr. Martin Insull has just come to a 4-a-week boarding house hero,. with his wife, Cinving left their pa latial home, on Chicago's "Gold Chast."
Only recently he was rated as one of the wealthiest of America's business men. Now he possess just cough to provide a singls room and meals for himself and. Mrs.. insull.
He has not been as fortunate as his brother, who has been able at least to save a pension from the de- bacle. Mr. Samuel Insali is- rów living in decent comfort in Paris.
But for Martiu Inmlktherë”arej
It would be note the London Zoo trying to exhibit termites in glass case, iike ordinary ants and bees. Termites do not like being only long, empty days ahead. I and soon glaze glass isn't all I've been used to," he told watched,
“but I am getting threẻ covers with some kind of formic me, paste that obliterates their doings square meals day, and they're from sight. ".
pretty good meals, too."
The Sentries,
Any British schoolboy naturalist
will be able, however, to show you a neat of ants, and if you are pa- tient you may see their sentries at, work, watch them milking their "cows"the aphis or green Ay sco them bury their dead; watch their military forces engage in fornys.
HUSBAND OF HEIRESS A
VAN DRIVER -
HIS ONLY MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD
at
But the termite, I agree with, my friend from Yucatan, is á won- Alfred Cecil Durban, the Folkė der. The queen lays thousands of tone newsboy who married an eggs a day, and can keep it up for American heiress, appeared months.
Hythe Police Churt, and stated that his only means of livelihood was driving a motor-van to dis tribute newspapers.
RUSSIAN BEGGAR
EXPULSION ORDER MADE BY MAGISTRATE.
He was fined £10 for recklessly. driving the van, and the magla- before them again on a timer trates warned him that if he camin mummons he would be sent to pri Son He was allowed twenty-eight days to pay the fine,
Durban's address was given, 68, Enbrook Manor, Cheriton, the pa latial house at which his wife was living with her mother when the two first met;
Marriage Romance
Durban delivered papers, ab' they door, and they were married whils the bride's mother was away in Switzerland
before they were taken to the Cen. A message from Tokyo, Mr. Tac tral Police Station the defendant Kai Shih, Manchukuo Foreign had introduced himself to the two Minister, who recently arrived
In the central heating chamber runner of the
Tai Wing Fai alius William Toi. complainants as Tung Nam Boarding House, Hehore, was received in audience by appeared before Mr. A., W. G. the termites often grow mushrooms, produced a pamphlet bearing the the Empress of Japan yesterday Grantham at the Kowloon Magisa tiny species of fungi. Their sol- the Dominions reached at Citawa, House of Singapore.
a charge of diers at ime go into action armed name of the Tong Nam Boarding moming at the Imperial Palace, tracy yesterday on
with syringes. and, together, these mark
being in unlawful possession of a Mr. Tse tendered a letter from Mr. motorcycle fitting belonging to family pets, Lon; small mites that There are ants that have their departure in British trade policy plainants hand over their valu
He suggested that the two com Pu Ti to the Emperor, which is attracting much attention.ables and other property to him is calling on various Japanese poli
The Manchukua Foreign Minister Mr. GA. Bond.. [HRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Invitations have already been
Traffic Sergeant Clarke said the go about with them and are patted RUGBY, Oct. 19. issued to the Argentine, Danish, for safe custody, and he would re-tical leaders and cabinet members, cumplainant left his motor-eyes on the head like favourite dogs. THE NATIONAL memorial on
Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish turn them when they were leaving His discussions with them are beat the Kowloon motor-car park in the Colony. From a woman ha lieved to be preliminary to, a joint Salisbury Road ou October 6 and the disarmament situation Govermenta.
Close trading relations between received $29 in Singapore money, conference between Manchukuo, when he returned for it later ha which has been sent to the Prime Minister on behalf of over 200 Britain and the Scandinavian and five big boxes of luggage con Japanese and Russian representa found that the push-button fixing signatories representative of many countries have existed for cen-taining hor personal effects to the lives. The purpose of the coming to his horn was missing from bis conference in officially announced as cycle. He accordingly made a spheres of national life, assures him turies. The Treaty with Denmark total value of 8300..
From the second complainant, to strengthen the relationship of report to the police. of widespread support by informed dates from 1870 sud is the oldest
the three nationa.
On October 12, he had occasion tr public opinion for armainent reduc favoured national Treaty in exist who was only a girl, the accused got two gold banglow and one gold
go to a car-park again and there Denunciation of the existing ring
ho saw a push-button resembling' To-morrow, two influential de
the one be had lost affixed to an A young Russian, V. M. Krasil- putations on the same subject are treaties in not contemplated, as. On Wednesday, as Sergeant Went
iber cycle. There were, he said, nikoff, appeared before Mr. Wynne being met by the Premier. One de modifications within their frame was going round the cells he found the girl crying and the defendant
only two buttons of this descrip- Jouca at the Central Police Court His bride was Miss Vivienne putation, by the Archbishop of work will suffice.
standing at the door of the coll
tion in Hong Kong and he im yesterday on a charge of arriving, Huntington, who belongs to one of Canterbury and including leaders
Enquiries were made and the girl
mediately suspected that this was in the Colony, without valid pans the wealthiest families in America. of the Nonconformist churches will used by the Great Powers to make produced a ring and two bangles
the missing one. He saw Sergeant port.
Since their marriage in March be receiver by Mr. MacDonald and clear in their minds as to how the which were imitation guld Bho
Clark about the matter and the Detective Sergeant Mottram said 1936 they have been in Canada and Sir John Simon in the Locarno desired end is to be achieved. Ger- informed the officer of what bad.
latter took the cycle to the Water the defendant was arrested by 5 America, and a baby was hom áð room at the Foreign Office Lator,many's claim to equality' of status, occurred and remarked that the
Police Station where it was later Russian sergeant in the vicinity of Logansport, Indians, a second deputation of well-known it says, is, to all intents, conceded defendant had brought back the
claimed by the defendant. the Canton wharf. The officer nd Durban was reported to be darni "people representative of the non- already.
jewellery and had informed kør it
Defendant's story was that he recognised him as a man whom being £4 a week and commission as party life of. the nation will also "Of the two conservative alter- was only imitation- gold.
bought it from a youth who re- hɗd known as a luiterer and beggaran electrical fittings salesman ·AF put dair views before the Premier. natives before them--their.own pro The defendant was placed under
sembled a motor-mechanic. Thein Tientsin. The accused was taked Toronto. The desire of the deputations Is_grossivo disarmament to a reasquarrost and later the entire-pro-
horn-of-his-oycle, which he bought if he had-any-passport, and he to demonstrate that the Government.able limit and the progressive perty which had been taken from
RUGBY, Oct. will have the full force of public | rearming of Germany to a point of the two complainanta was found in OWING to illness, Bir Eydney working, and he therefore seized The accused had told the police JEWS WHO PREFER PALES opinion behind them in all mea-renewed competition with her his house. He had changed the Armitage Smith will be unable the opportunity of buying the pusb- that he had never done any work sures designed to overcome the pro- neighbours-they have most definite-829 into Canton and Hong Kong to sail with the Commission on button, paying #1 for it,
but had always begged for a living. sent international deadlock and toly pledged themselves to the former, currency.
closer union on the West Indies,Addressing Sorgeant Clarke, his He had $0.60 in Hong Kong money "achieve drastic Inesoute of die Their choice is dictated not only Owing to the epidemie of similar – which leaves England on November. Warship said he did not think de in his powcasion when arrested,
by the profound revulsion of the larcentes, the police were asking 0.
fendant was the kind of person; and this, he said, he had obtained world from any prospect of another his Worship to take a serious view Arrangerets made for the Com-who would take off the article from by begging in the streets of Hong The Timer, commenting on this, war not only by the moral obliga- of the case.
mission's visit stand without altora the cycle hinwell In discharging Kong subject to day, urges that the in- tions of the Peace Treaty, but by His Worship sentenced the defen- tion. It is not at present possible defendant, his Worship warned himHis Worship find him 850 or one terval before the resumption of the plain common sense and economic dant to six months hard labour on to say when Sir Sydney Smith will not to go about buying such things month's hard labour in default and disarmament discussions should be necessity.”
the two charges.
be able to join the Commissien, from people ho did not know, { minde an expulsion order,
armament...
WEST INDIES UNION
· ILLNESS OF ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS
+
(BRITISH. WIEKLIKS, GERVICE.]
second hand not long ago, was not replied in the negative.
TINE TO US.
15, Oficial Jerusalem, Sept; Agures disdogs that the majority of the 418 Jews who entered-Pales tino" during July were Americans, Formerly the Eastern European countries furnished the bulk of the
settiors.