COMMONS DEBATE ON UNEMPLOYMENT
L.. GEORGE'S RÁCK TÓ LAND POLICY
[BEXTER AND BRITISH WIRELESS.}
LONDON, Nov. 7.
AGRICULTURE, like other indus. at use the facil pro- tection afforded to work out its own salvation, declared Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, during tesday's debate on unemployment,
The Government, he said, intends to increase the efficiency of British work and to open markala,
Subsequent speakers showed the existence of an incipient revolt among the Conservatives, who urged- preferential treatment for agricul
ture.
Mr. Lloyd George, adventing small holdings, said that it imme per cent, of labourers in Britain owned any land.. Two hundred million pounds would saffice for a
scheme of small holdings, while the present system of the dels would require four hundred millions
The debate on unemployment, in which all parties are pooling their ideas in 11
Heath for remedies, is expected to Fast for three days,
CONTATTATAZI
Mr. Hamsay MacDonald, making his crebribution, negod that the
untry aust excerntrate upon the atimulation of trade in order to creade Л national demand Jabour.
Absorbing Labour.
for
The whole of the economie posar- bilities must be surveyed and the information applied with a view to absorbing labour.
The real trouble in Britain was that it was part of a world struck by n economic blizzard. Until that was over, until the markets of the world bad, been opeord and the production of the world hil been egularised, employmes, which was fundamentally an internation- al problem must remain.
He laced great reliance and great hopes on the International Economic Conference to which Lausaune had her the necessary introduction.
There was very little hope of real healthy and astaral trade until accommodations were reached for the exchange of goals. Catil that was done there could be no retuwa. of prosperity to Any European
state.
He was convinced that the land must play a greater part than it had hitherto done in schemes for assisting the unemployment prob- lein.
Expert Advisers.
The Government were now devis ing ways to assist agriculture, but
HANNINGTON GETS THREE MONTHS'
W.
FOR INCITING MUTINY
(THROUGH AECTER'S AGENCY]
LONDON, Nov. 8.
A. L. HANNINGTON, the leader of the Hunger Mar chers, was to-day sentenced to three Bow Street months in prison at Police Court.
TRAFFIC STRIKE IN BERLIN
CALLED OFF BY THE RADICALS
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.
BERLIN, NO, 7.
THE Radical Strike Committee has enlled off the traffie strike, which caused considerable inom venience during the election,
A full service is being resumed to morrow (Tuesday).
CHURCHES ATTACK
NEW BOOK
•UNCHRISTIAN" WORK
FOR CHILDREN
"DESTRUCTION OF THE'
FAMILY"
The unprecedented step of de nouncing a book written as an outline of knowledge for children and their parents has been taken by---
The Archbishop of York. The Bishops of Durham and
Guildford.
The President of the Methodist Conference (Dr. Scott. Lidgett)
The Moderator of the Church of Scotland (Dr. H. R. Mackin
tosh).
The Rev. Archbald Fleming (Minister of Pont-street Scottish Presbyterian Church).
The Rev. Hubert Simpson (Minister of Westminster Chapel). The Headmasters of Eton and Flarrow, and
The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Runciman)..
Text of the Letter.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1932.
NEW ALL-EMPIRE BROADCASTS.
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN AMERICA
RELIGIOUS BELIEF OF CHINESE
JAPANESE CONSUL | CHINA MERCHANTS
DETAILS OF TRANSMISSION TIMES
[DRITISH WIRD ESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, Nov. 7.
THE British Broadcasting Cor: poration has now. completed arrangements for the scheme for supplying all parts of the British Empire with a wireless service from December 10 ext.
from On short
length WAYO Daventry two-hour programmes will be, transmitted at the following timea:-Australian Zone, 0.30 to 11.30 0.m.; Indian Zone, 2.30 to 4.30 pm; African Zone, & to p.m.; West African Zone, 8.30 to 10.30 p.m.; Canadian Zone, 1 to 3
a.m.
PLAN FOR NEW NILE DAM
£20,000,000 SCHEMES
WHOLE COUNTY SITTING UP FOR ELECTION RESULTS
(TAROVUN REUTER'A ADENCY.}
NEW YORK, Nov. 8.
dawn on November 9 to await ALL Amerien is staying up till the result of the elections. The usual 3 a.m., curfew in dance halls and cabarets has been extended to
$ 4.m.
A survey of foreign language periodicals in the United States reveals that the sympathies of the major foreign elements are equally divided, but of the smaller com- munities, the Czechs favour Mr.
loosevelt,
while Sweden, Nor. wegians and Finns Mr. Hoover.
DECREE TO APPEASE MOHAMMEDANS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)
NANKING, Nov. 8.
ILL-TREATED.
CRUELTY ALLEGED BY WOMEN REFUGEES
(THROLOR REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TOKYO, Nov. 8.
chuli who fell into the hands
NAVIGATION CO.
TO BECOME A STATE ENTERPRISE
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
NANKING, Nov. 8.
to turn the China Merchants' an order reiterating the free- THE Executive Yunu has issued THE Japanese residents at Man- THE Executive Yuan has decided dom of religious belief as one of of the Manchukuo mutineers, the Navigation Co. into a State enter the principal rights of Chinese troops of General Su Ping Wen, prise to be operated by a merean- and ment. Detailed measures have not people, and recalling the promin-appear to be safe for the present, tile group on behalf of the Govern ent part sono Mohammedans play according to refugee women ed in the history of the Republic, children who were permitted to yet been disclosed,
cross the border into Russin.. this is expected to appease Moham. medans who took offence at a recent article in a Shanghai magazine.
RETURNING FROM BANISHMENT
FOR TRIAL
6 PRIOR CONVICTIONS EACH
An immediate audience of miners at Shepherds heard Mr. Horver's final broadcast appeal from Elko, Ono innovation is the provision Nevada, following a broadcast from TWO CHINESE COMMITTED of a list of programmes, recorded ex-President Coolidge who declared that if five Americans were neleet- on gramophone dises, for tratamis- sion from local stations throughouted to devise remedies for the pre- sent conditions, Mr. Hoover would the Empire.
hend the fist, and if ten inter national figures were chosen for Chung Tak Fong and Wong the sume reason, Mr. Hoover would Hing, each of whom admitted six previous convictions, appeared be be among them..
Mr. Roosevelt who made an elec-fore Mr. Butters at the Kowloon tion-eve speech at the Knights Magistracy yesterday on individual of Columbus Hall, New York, where charges of unlawfully returning he has spoken on election-eve for from banishment.
In the case of the former, evi- many years, promised, the electors
deen was submitted that on Octo it he was successful that hey "with humility would, seek to mend theber 27 defendant was arrested, at the house of Mr. H. S. Rouse, No. fabric of our common life,"
Chatham Road, and was sub- sequently found guilty of stealing a pair of trousers and a vest. For this offence he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment. Inspector E. A. Vincent, officer in charge of criminal records, gave evidence of identification of each of the defen- dant's finger prints, and produced the banishment warrenta, Both de fondants had been sentenced to period of ten banishment for a years as from December 2, 1931.
Wong Hing was arrested in Port.. land Street near Mongkok Road by Shek Tui, a Chinese detective, on November 4 last.
TWO CROPS A YEAR INSTEAD OF ONE
The Egyptian Parliament some months ago approved the scheme to build a huge dam neross the White Nile at Jebel Aulin, a point about fifty miles south of Khartum. This will form a tremendous re- sorvoir which will allow the flow of water in the lower reaches of the Nile to be no regulated as to main- tain irrigation along its banks even in the dry, months, and, if the high- est hopes are fulfilled, may result in the production of two crops year instead of one. The dam is to have a capacity of 4,000,000,000 cabie yards, and the cost is estimat
el at about £10,000,000.
Ibrahim Fahmy Pasha. Egyptian Minister of Public Works, was recently in London in connection with the final details of this scheme. "We are proposing to follow the construction of this dam with two further acctions of work." he said in an interview. First of all there is a scheme by which we shall
POLLING DAY OPENS IN
FINE WEATHER
•
LATER. When the spells opened this morn- ing, good election weather was reported from most districts. Con- ditions were eltudy in the East with sunshine in a great part of the Weat, and there is nothing to prevent farmers going to the polls.
20,000 OFFICE HOLDERS MAY LOSE THEIR JOBS
the
After formal evidence had been given, relative to the departure of cach of the nceused in August this Washington, Oct. 31.-If Democrats win at the polls Novem-year, the Magistrate committed both ber 8, some 20,000 Republicans defendants to prison until the next will probably be added to the ranks criminal sessions when they will of the unemployed.
stand their trial.
It seems, however, that they are not having an easy time and the story of how the Japanese Consul- General. Mr. Yamasaki, was, beaten by Su Ping Wen's troops, formis n feature of a graphic account of the Maachuli situation related by the refugees to a special correspondent
Nichi-Nichi of the Tokyo Matzevskaya.
at
On the morning of September 2, when General Su Ping Wen's rail- way guards turned against the Manchukuo Government, M. Yamasaki was summoned to tho headquarters of the local command er and was badly maltreated by the soldiers,
He was kicked, his glasses were knocked off and he was injured in the right eye.
Later the troops detained him at the Japanese Consulate, which the mutineers have guard.
upon met
n
Fifty-four children and 7 wo. nien were permitted to go to Matzevskaya, where they are stay ing temporarily.
BRITISH GIRL AND AFRICAN TRIBE
MARRIED COUPLES ARE VERY MODERN THREE
ADVENTRUE IN UGANDA Misa Lucy Mair, a young lecturer at the London School of Economics, of which her mother is the scere thry, has spent the past nire months among the natives of Ugan da, living in native grass huts, eating native food, making friende with the men and the women of
the Baganda tribe, and meeting "magic men."
A corresponding number of De- mocrate will go on to the federal DANCE FOR 5 GIRLS she said. "I went from, Kampala payroll
;
AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE
It was my first visit to Africa,"
alone, and my first stay was at a villago called Ngogwe. They thought I was a missionary, and difficult time I had trying to be nice to native priests and school
speets. I found the "people very friendly.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT
COURT
QUESTION RAISED IN COMMONS
(TynovGH RECTER'S ADENCỶ,]'
LONDON, Nov. 7. IN THE House of Commons to-
day, Mr. J. S. Wardlaw-Milne asked the Foreiga Secretary whe ther any, and if so, what steps have heen taken by the Government to provide for the revision of the agreement expiring on April 4 - tween the Chinese Government and the Puwers representing the later- antional Settlement relating to the Special District Court of Shanghai,
Sir John Simon, replying, said that no notice had been given to terminate the agreement.
The Foreign Secretary added that the proper measures to remedy the existing abuses of the system were under consideration and had been discussed between the British Chargo D'Affaires and the Chinese authorities.
Mr. Wardlaw Milne expressed the view that it was desirable to give notice if we were to get real re forms. He suggested that if the Government decided to give notice, they should endeavour to ascertain that the Municipal Council i Shanghai be fully consulted regard. ing necessary changes and be reprc- sented, if necessary, on any body established to consider them.
Sir John Simon said. ho would
like time to consider the suggestion.' RAILWAYS AND THE F.B.I.
OBJECTIONS TO PROPOSED ROAD RESTRICTIONS.
The Grand Conncil of the Federa tion of British Industries approved the recommendations of the Special Committee which was set up at the
port to submit its views on the report of the Conference on Road, "From Ngogwe I went by native and Rail Transport.
1 driven lorry to Kisimula, where I stayed three months, and really got to know the people.
short-circuit the Nile in its upper In Hong Kong|| the Government and Mrs. Southern masters who came to pay their re-invitation of the Minister of Trans.
renches.There is a vast swampy
They are the signatories of a letaren of hundreds of millions of
text of which is as follows:
tha industry must prove that iter sent to the fritis Press, the was using the tariffa to advance ita efficiency in marketing and in other directions.
The Government was also in con tact with expert advisers as to how to promete and how effect could be given to suri schemes as hydro generation, housing and slum clear-
aner.
Mr. Andhar Greenwood, Labour, who followed, declared that what was required for the restoration of the basic industries was essential.
Mr. Lloyd George strongly ad- vocated the development of the small holding which employed n large amount of labour and pro- vided training for later agricul tural employinent. At least a million workers should be placed netutally on the sail or in ancillary Occupations.
Government's Reply. Replying to the dehnte. Major Walter Ellinit
announced that River Plate importers had agreed to a cut of twenty per cent, in sup plies of mutton and lamb and of ton per cent, in supplica of chilled beef for a few weeks and twenty per cent. if prices did not improvė.
Australian and New Zealand re- presentatives, were anxious to co- operate. They were communicating with their governments forthwith.- expressed the Major Elliolt opinion that there would be a reduction of shipments of mutton and Innb by ten per cent, in tha next two months, which would create an entirely now situation for British livestock
DECREASE IN UNEMPLOYED
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE,]
Roony, Nov. 7.
A SUBSTANTIAL diminution in the number of unemployed was shown in the return issued to night by the Ministry of Labour.
The return shows that on October 21 there were approximately 9,387,000-insured personi, aged six- teen to sixty-four, in omployment in Great Britain. This was 246,000. more than the month before, but 61,000 less than the year before.
We are impelled to address you because of the concerted attack which is being made upon institu- tions we bell to be of essential importance in the life of oor nation by a group of able acienti fie men who have renounced the Christian religion.
seres known as the Sudd District. Here the Nile lies out in shallow pools, exposed to the equatorial sun, and is, as a result, wasted through evaporation and by seepage till three-quarters of the volume which issues from the north of Lake Albert is lost.
Twenty Years to Completo. We are particularly influenced
This we shall cut completely out in doing so by the fact that a volume bas just appeared which of the Nile course by the construe gives an outline of bistory, civi. tion of waterways, bringing the lisation and art for boys and river down to a point where it can girls and their parents," which is flow in undiminished volume to the Kharum Dam. It was meant years commended by well-known men
of exploration and survey work, but who are representatives of differ
we have at last got a workille ont Christian churches,
scheme evolved. It will cost from
It is necessary, that a protest should be recorded against the commendation by Christian men of a volume which professes to give an outline of history, and mentiona Mohammed, Buddha, and Lenin, but does not mention
character.
£16,000,000 to £20,000,000 and will take twenty years to complete.
This will
To-Day
FAIR
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT,. FOBICAST AND REMARKS, 18SVEN UY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY ar 323 F.M., STATED;→→
THE ANTI-CYCLONE HAS MOVED EASTWARD TO THE AOUTH 07 Konka; THE DEPRESSION 18 AITU- ·
IN THE PACIFIC TO THE NORTH-EAST OF HORKAIDO, AND THE TYPHOON 19 MIDWAY BETWEEN MINDANAO AND YAP, MOVING W.N.W.
LOCAL FORECAST:-N.E, WINDS, MODERATE TO FRESH; YAIR.,
ATED
NATIONAL CONTROL OF
LOCAL FINANCE
NEW REGULATIONS FROM NANKING
Special legislation whereby local finances will be placed under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Finance, is to be instituted in
H.E. the Officer Administering
gave a most enjoyable dance at Government House Inst Monday for the Miesen Gerrard, Alabaster, Shenton, Wolfe and Dowbiggin
Visa Shenton, Miss Gerrard and Miss Dowbiggin were dressed in white and Miss Alabaster was wear- ing a most attractive coloured' dress. The five girls were the first to arrive and Mrs Southern pre- sented them each with a bouquet of white chrysanthemum tied with
silver ribbon.
The Committee has presented a very exhaustive report, and it says, in brief, that "the real present disabilities of the railways and re- producing the cost of transport. Any assistance that industry can afford.
this matter will be most willingly. tendered." The Federation objects to the proposed new restrictions on road transport.
Native Fashions. **There were no other white ple there, but the natiyes sooo ac- cepted me, and built me a square house of elephant grass and bam: boo. Here they visited me and I had my meals. "I stopt in a tont While the rest of the party were "I did not meet the king of the
The Committee considers that the shaking hands with H.E. and Mrs. tribe, but I saw his palace.
structure of the Railways Act of Southor, and the five guests of looked rather like a suburban villa, 1021 should now be reviewed and honour stood close by holding their The king used it only for audien- maintains that the devices of stanel- bouquets.
ces, and lived in a native hut heard revenue for the railways is en-
was very fond of The Hong Kong Hotel Dance hind it. He Band
It
rendered excellent music music, and in the evening would tirely out of harmony with the until the early hours of the morn-have his lage hand of musicians realities of the present position. Hailways' Operating Costs, ing. Government House was pret with native instruments play to
The Railways Act strictly limits tily decorated with colcared lights, him in the royal enclosure.” which looked. a real picturè, againes The Miss Mair, woman-like, the Railway Companies' control of the background of alt the other talked of native fashions, lights of the Peak.
LOCAL ESTATES
Christians' Two Wives,
The
operating costs, and it is impossible Meanwhile we shall be building
men wear a curious half-and-halt for commercial considerations to another barrage, this time at the
dress," she said, "Generally they have sufficient weight with them, north of Lake Albert.
have a European jacket above the unless they have greater liberty of enable us to raise the level of the lake about ten feet and will give
native dress (which looks like action. Operating costs are being Christ.
This book further speaks in an inexhaustible supply of water
In the estate of Mr. Arthur night shirt), and trousers or shorts maintained at a level, which cannot be justified in present conditions. apparent approval of the destrue which we can then regulate so as to
Layman MacGowen, formerly of below.
At present the impossibility of re- Swatow, and late of Roseview, tion of the family by the institu- given regular flow of fresh water
Queen's Road. Cheltenham, Eng "Many of the women still wear ducing operating costs is alleged by tions of Soviet Russia, and says even in the driest months of the that it is the existence of the
year."
dand. Application for scaling of beautiful dresses made of bark- the companies as a full and suffici "Soviet creches and kindergar: whole or in part, have ben under There comprehensive schemes, in
exemplification of probate has been cloth stripped from the trees and ent reason for maintaining rates in was the neighbourhood of 50 per cent. tens and children's organisations"
They love or 60 per cent. above the pre-war Shantoui, on behalf of Mrs. Kath presented with one. which makes it possible to re- consideration and have interested
granted to the Hon. Mr. W. E. L, beaten out by themselves.
residents move the rule that a father and It must be about forty years since Africa for many years.
leon Großstrent MacGowan, widow jewellery, but, so far, no form of figure, whereas the rest of industry
has been compelled by existing cot "Nearly all are Christians now, ditions to reduce its prices in many" mother must go on living to engineering authorities began work- accordance with a resolution of th of the deceased. The local estate cosmetics has reached them." gether."
Application for the resealing of but many of the men have two cases to the pre-war level.
The Federation agrees that the Wo appeal to those who treing on the Sudd Canal achome. The Central Political Council adopted is valued at 34,300
Yetters of administration with the wives-marrying the second accord- teachers of revealed religions to problems that have to be tackled in recently.
The Council also approved a set will annexed in regard to the local ing to native custom after wed-road transport industry should do nothing to assist the wide cir.regard to all these echomes are, of
course, enormous, including the of geveral principles for the culation of works of a distinctly
late of No. 2835, 34th Avenue, San very modern in their frequent se- the roads, but cannot understand why thio conference throw over the atheistic and even anti-atheistic purely technical questions concern- guidance of the Legislative Yuan estate of Mr. Philip Henry Cole, ding the first in church. They are bear its fair share of the costs of
ing the river's flow and content in drafting a new Law governing Francisco, valued at 83,000, hasparations
"For instance, a wife leaves her recommendation of the Royal Com- Government supervision of local been granted, to Mr. D. J. Lewis, and the complicated problems of co-ordination between the authori finances. These principles embody on behalf of the widow, Mia, Emilio husband if he comes home late to mission on Transport on this point. dinner. And the husband turns The recommendation of the Royal tion.concerned. The countries con the important provision that, ex- Cole, cerned in this scheme are Egypt. eep in accordance with law, no.j Mr. Edward Anderson, late of her out if she gives him boiled bana- Commission was:
We recommend that the present the Sudan, Uganda, and-in regard local government shall impose any 07, Partland Court, Great Port- nas plain instead of flavoured with
proportions, shall be reveraod, and to the proposed dam at the end of new taxes, increase the rate of land Street, Middlesex, left local something else,"
that in future onethird of the cost od as was its fore-runner.
Civilisation can never outgrow whose frontier lios on the western loop,
Lake Albert the Belgian Congo, existing taxes or issue any public state to the value of 855,200, and
of the highways should fall on the and outlast the family. If in
that two-thirds ratepayer, and The following is a translation of application for realing of exempli MRS. HOLMES ATTACKED fication of probate has been grant- coast of the Inke.
should be borne by the motorist." certain directions the increase of
these general principles:
ed to the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shen. materih resources, has outrun |
1. Unless otherwise provided by ton on behalf of Mrs. Kathleen
Tire Federation strongly recom- moral and spiritual power, tlie | 20
monds that the Minister of Trans- Law, the right of supervision over Anderson. Church as a whole is summoned presentative last night to comment financial administration of the
port should attach more weight to thereby to a deeper devotion to on the letter, said: "Here is a various gradin of local government
the views of the Royal Commission its high mission and not to a hook which, in so far as it is pro shall be vested in the Ministry of
on this point than to those of thà. Conference.” surrender to those who deny the pagandist at all (by far the greater Finauce,
· validity of that mission.
Fart of it a simple exposition of science, art, etc) endeavours to inapira, not merely young people, but people of every age, to shouldor their share of responsibility in the making of & less greedy and acids, & more decent world.
The "New Morality" proclaim ed by a section of the intelligent sin of to-day is a revival of ancient paganism which assuredly be as completely defeat
Praise from “LG."
will
When the "Outline" was pub- Of the increase since September 21 in the numbers of insured per lished it was praised by many dis- sons in employment, approximately tinguished people, among them Mr. one-half is due to resumption of Lloyd Georgo, Sir Jan Humilton
"I call this practical Christianity, work upon the termination of the Sir Charles Trevelynu, Sir J. dispute in the manufacturing soc Crichton Browne, and Dr. Maude and I find it difficult to characterise
Royden,
the state of mind. of those who tion of the cotton industry,
Unemployed on the register on Mr. Gollancz, the publisher, when depounce a book of this tendency October 24 numbered 111,000 less rekod by a "Daily Express because of phrase or two to which than the month previously.. (Continued of foot of next Column), they may object."
IN BOWEN ROAD
PEPPER THROWN IN HER -EYES.
--
Mrs. Holmes, the wife of Mr. H. K. Holmes, Crown Solicitor, of 17, Bowen Road, was the victim of an Do assault, committed without any 50 apparent reason by two men on 25 Monday evening.
POPPY DAY FUND 2. Imposition of new taxen, in Previously acknowledged... 88,048 crense of the rate of existing R.A.O.B. taxes, or the issue of public loans Lt. Col. G. K. Hall-Brutton.... by either provincial or municipal Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin governments under direct jurisdic- Mesars. Bombay Silk Store... tion of the Executiva Yuan must Mr H W. Kew -conform strictly to the laws and or
dinances of the Government,
20
Mre, Holice was waiting for a 10 chair outside 5, Bowan Road, at
about o o'clock when two men ap 84,200proached her and threw a quantity of pepper into her face and over her clothes.
No attempt was made to rob Mrs. Holmes, the two men taking to r-heels after the strange attack.
3 No provincial, municipal, or
Further contributions may be district government may institute
York taxes faking under the provision sent to Messrs. Thomson & Co. mentioned in Article 62 of the (Chartered Accountants): Trovisional Constitution.
Building Chater Road
While recognising the necessity for redistributing taxation a be tween heavy and light vehioles it cannot agree with the suggestion that an impost necessarily equal to the petrol tax should he placed. upon non-petrol_uning_whicle. "Such a propoend may be exceed ingly harmful to British industry by discouraging development of mechanical transport vehicles using home produced fret.