Wed, 13-UKA B
BRITAIN MUST PAY HER DEBT
OR HER CREDIT WILL BE RUINED
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LONDON, Nov. 20
DAYLONG ministerial conferences
ou the war debts issue donełud- ed last night with a two-hour Cabinet meeting; after which the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Noville Chamberlain, had audiene of the King.
Apart from the fact that all the Ministers are resolved, in malto the Freund Nota to the United States irresistible in argument, there is strong reason to belinya that not only the terms of the actual Note is being drafted, but the whole Government war del policy is being anxiously discussed."
It is now considered unlikely that the British Note will be des patcher before Wednesday.
Opinion within the Cabinet is divided, but it is probable that the differences will ultimately he shely. ed until the United States has replied, aye, or nay, to the second British request for postponement of the December instalment.
A Divided Cabinet,
The London Morning Port rangu Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. Stan ley Baldwin and Mr. J. H. Thomas on one hand, declaring that the hond of Britain must be honoured, and without discussion, and Mr. Neville Chamberlain' and Sir John Simon on the other hand, declar. ing that the prime consideration is the Lausune Pact, hence French representations must be considered, even to the point of default.
Banker's Advico.
Mr. Montagu Normam, called at the Treasury at the request of the Chancellor, and according to City circles, he advised that default would be disastrous to British credit.
Parliamentary opinion strongly favours payment.
It is considered that the laited Stales is practically certain to ac eep an offer of the payment of the interest, amounting to £13,500,000, which would, most probably, he reuitted in gold, thus saving the difference between the par valite ing valuen
The Government will have a huge reckoning day on December 1 when over three hundred million sterling is to be disbursed, £105,000,000 Lo
OIL CONCESSION NULLIFIED
PERSIAN GOVERNMENT NOTIFIES A.-P. CO.
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TEHERAN, Nov. 23. THE Persing Government has off
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1932.
SHANGHAI BOMB OUTRAGE
DEATH SENTENCE ON KOREAN
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SHANGHAI, Nov. 28,
NEWS has been received in Shang.
hai that the Osaka Court has cially notified the Anglo Per sian Oil Compatiy of the auled sentence, of death on the ment of the D'Arcy Concession, Korean, Im Fung Kee, who threw adding that it is willing to con- the bomb in Hongkow Park on April.
20 last which killed General Shira sider fresh terms.
kawa and wounded Admiral Nomura and Mr. Shigemitsu,
It is learned in London that the Company has informed the Persian Government that the Concession does not provide for cancellation and they cannot accept the govern ment's notifiention.
"VERY DELICATE ·
NEGOTIATIONS
LONDON, Nov. 20. Negotiations, which are depersh. ed as very delicate," are pro ceeding between the Anglo Persian
THIBET HOSPICE PROPOSAL
ACCEPTED BY MONKS OF
ST. BERNARDS
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BERNE, Nov. 28.
of St. Bernard's to-day decid- A CONGREGATION of the Monky Oil Company and the Persianed to create a hospice for travellers Government in
in Thibet, to be constructed at a height of twelve thousand feet in a mounain pass open all the year round.
regard to
the latter's cancellation of the D'Arcy Concession covering half a million Aquare miles.
The differences concern the future conditions and the methods of calculation of royalty which they have been discussing for some years.
Angio-Persian shares fell 14/32 to 1 15/10 on the opening of the Exchange, The Stock dividend on ordinary shares has heen postponed.
interim
STERLING MAKES SLIGHT
RECOVERY
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Roosy, Nov. 28.
AFTER touching a new low
cord at 3.17), the sterling rate on New York recovered to 3,18.7/32; to-day.
Thibet to make the necessary ar Three monks are travelling to rangemons in January.
ENGLISHMEN NOW
HEALTHIER
OPINION OF US. CONSUL
IN LONDON
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London. The Englishman of to
and day is healthier, happier 'beiter dressed than he was about fifty years ago, according to Mr. American Albert Halstead, the Consul-General in London, who is retiring now that he has reached the age limit of 05.
For the past four year Mr. Business on the London Stock Ralatead has been Consul-General Exchange, was at a low ebb, pend-in London, although he first came ing definite news of the war debt
to England in 1886, Comparing situation.
the times of almost half a century ago with them ha=aid: “The people of London are batter dress: ed to-day than they were when I Ета came here. They look Healthier, there is not so much drunkenness, and there appears to be more happiness,
British fanda clowed above the worst, with War Loan Assented 05.15/16.
STRIKE
now-converters of the Five Per Cent. WHITE PYTHON'S HUNGER War Lonn and £140,000,000 tỷ hal- ders of Treasury Bonds. The slightly Treasury is receiving sinaller sum or the same day on recont of new loans at much lower rates of interest,
CABINET MINISTERS DISCUSS NEW NOTE
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Ruany, Nov. 29. Important consultations between Cabinet Ministers and financial experts concerning the draft of the second British war debts Note took place to-day.
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. Mastaga Norman, visited the Chancellor of the Ex-. chequer this morning and several] Ministers discussed the matter further an aceting in the House of Commone to-night.
It is anticipated that the Note will be despatched to Washington within the next few days and It is expected to contain a cogen, pre- sentation of the reasons which led Britain to propose na extension of the moratorium pending an ex- change of views on the whole ques- tion of international war indebted-
nem.
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London. The white python at the Zoo has been on a hunger strike for four months, and at last he has been forcibly fed,
Apart from the fact that he is more slim than he should be, the python is apparently in the best of health. But he has persistently refused even the most tempting and varied food.
At last, two eggs were boaten up with milk and a little glucose, and the python was scientifically fed with a stomach pump.
He still refuses to take food voluntarily.
HONG KONG HOTEL ROOF : GARDEN
CHINESE RESTAURANT DINNER DANCE TO-NIGHT.
The managemont of the Hang Kong Hotel advises that arrange The Financial Secretary to the ments have been made for the Treasury was naked in the House of opening of the Roof Garden Chinesa Commons what amount of the debt Restaurant, and the event, which is due to the United States from to, take place to-morrow, December Britain in December represented 1, will "ho marked by s Special interest and what amount con- Chinese Dinner Dance which will be stituted the repayment of capital kept up until 1 am. expressed in gold pounds and whether under the existing agree- mont Britain had the right to post pone paynient of the latter until a future date.
Amount Due.
!
Mr. Hore-Belisha stated, in reply, that the instahunent due in Decera her was G830,000,000, in respect of capital and 0863,550,000 in respect
*Certainly the natural courage of the Londoners has not decreas ed. ar not a pessimist in any BOOKS $8 to the future of the people of England. They have faced their problems with courage. and confidence, oven if they have some mistakes." ~~
Mr. Halstead said he had only seen one John Bull and that was during the war. He was on a shin entering an English harbour which was met by a little fishing boat.
"In the prow," he said, "stood a man of massive proportions. He was about 56 round the chest, his legs were big and sturdy, and in a voice that echoed across the waters he roared to us, Go slow. The plot ship in front of you WAS blown up by a German mine just about where you are, and 14 men were killed. Go cautiously!!
"He himself was not a whit perturbed by the thought of the mines. He stood there calm and used, and he seemed to me to typify the spirit of stubborn deter- mination that is characteristic of the English race,”.
BARONET-POLICEMAN
DEAD
SERGEANT OF THE ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY,
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LAND SPEED RECORD
SIR M. CAMPBELL HOPES TO BREAK OWN TIME
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LONDON, Nov. 28,
SIR Malcolm Campbell expects to attempt to break his own world land speed record of 253.9 miles per hour next February.
His old racing car, Blue Bird ans been rebuilt and strengthened and fitted with a 2,500 H.P. Rolls Royce engine of the type used in the Super Marine seaplane with which Flight-Lieutenant Stainforth set up a world air record of 407.8
niles an hour.
The car will be shipped to Day- taun Beach, Florida, in January.
OBITUARY
M, ZINOVIEFF
'(TRUQUOH RAUTER'S AGENOT.]
Moscow, Nov. 28.
THE death occurred to-day of M.
Zinovicft.
A Denial,
Moscow, Nov. 20.
1. Zinoviel's death is serni- officially denied.
It will be recalled that the "Zinovieff Letter" WILS respon sible for the fall of the first Labour Government in Britain,};
In Hong Kong To-Day
FAIR
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKS, ISBUKO BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT 5.35 P.M., STATED ; —
THE ANTI-CYCLONE REMAINS STATIONARY OVER N. CHINA, THR TYPITOON APPEARS TO BS PILLING UP, TO THE NORTH-EAST OF THE, BALINTANG CHANNEL. FRESH TO STRONG MONSOON WILL PREVAIL THE CHINA COANT, AND ALONG OVER THE NORTHERN CHINA SEA
LOCAL FORECAST:N.E. WINDS, FRESH; PAIR.
GOLD ON THE ENGLISH COAST?
FINE PROSPECT FOR WESTCLIFF
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JAPANESE EMBASSY NEW UNIFORM FOR
AT CHANGCHUN
ARMY?
OFFICIAL OPENING
TO-DAY
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TOKYO, Nov. 20. GEN. MUTO will be gazetted
ambassador to Manchukuo te Borrow, when, it is officially ar- 'nounced, the Japanese Erabasay
at Changchun will be opened.
It is expected he will shortly Fresunt his credentials to Mr. Pu Yi.
JAPAN'S RECORD BUDGET
TO MEET BIG ARMY OUTLAY
Tokyo, Nov. 25. The cabinet to-day approved the largest budget in the history of Japan, totalling 2,230,000,000 yea, in the face of persistent warnings of influential financiera.
PUTTEES GIVE WAY TO
LEGGINGS
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RUGBY, Nov. 28. NEW uniform and equipment,
which, if finally adopted, will considerably alter the appearance of the British Army, were officially shown for the first time in Landon to-day.
Striking features are a light waterproof has of the deer stalked pattern, which, can be folded into the pocket, an open necked tanio and shirt, dull bronze buttons and | badges.
The decision is not final regard ing the trousers but those shown to-day were similar to the Guards pattern, with short web leggings.
The purpose of the new uniform in to reduce weight, increase com- fort, and generally' hygienic.
De
Bore
Lighter Equipment. The new equipment which is about seven pounds lighter than the old, discards the waterbottle and the haversack, reduces the size of the bayemet, has a new pattern entrenching tool, and contains an easily detachable pouch which has already been issued to two batta- lions as an experiment
Much of the increase is to meet the increased outlays and estimates of the army, engaged in pushing the current Manchurian campaign, and of the navy, estimates of the two SEA CRUISES DURING services being granted in largo men
sures.
ד'
BRITISH
WINTER SHIPS TO FOLLOW THE SUN"
The budget for last year was ap proximately 1,430,000 yen and there is a heavy current deficit, expected to be increased to more than a billion yen as a result of the now budget. Comparisons of the two years is difficult however because of the depreciation of the yen, now at only about half its provious | value in terms of the gold standard,
which was abandoned last Decem-from acute depression, are not to at a time when they were suffering
ber.
Army and Navy `Demands, The army's demands were about 850,000,000 yen and the navy's always as much. Of this figure 180,000,000 yen in round figures was for twelve more months of the army's Manchurian campaign and 170,000,000 for new arms and am munition for the army.
Anxiety.
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London. The summer ses cruises, which have proved so popular with British holiday-markers And A windfall for the shipping companies
cease with the approach of autumn, but are to continne right through the winter.
With "Follow the sun" aa their slogan, the steamship companies are arranging cruises to Palestine, the Mediterranean, the West Indies and other parts of the world, up to Christmas and in some cases even until Easter. The experience of the summer suggests that they will be well-patronised and that this year quite a number of English poople While the budget was under.con- I will eat their, Christmas dinner ou sideration a number of Japanese the high seas." leaders and the Press expressed The popularity of ses cruises in anxiety concerning the size of the place of jaunts to Switzerland and appropriations asked by the mili- France is attributed in part to the tary services for the new fecal year. high charges which British visitors One high authority said that if to the Continent and themselves the deficit is to continue to increase called upon to pay owing to the at the present rate, it will not be depreciation in the sterling ex- long before the entire taxation re- change, venue of the empire, which has not greatly exceeded 700,000,000 yen, will be required to pay interest on the national bonds.
· London.--Gald may lie under The present national debt totals sands of the beach at Westcliff about seven billions. On April 30, where crowds on holiday take their 1830. it totalled 5,939,000,000 yen, summer sea-bathing. At least a of which the foreign debt, all fund- London firm of metallists believes od, was 1,447,000,000 yen. there is.
They have written to the Southend Pier Committee for permission_to prospect for gold on the beach. The Committee do not intend to act on the offer, but they have recom- mended that a stretch of the shore
VILLAGES TERRORISED BY A COW
HANDICAPS OF THE ONLY CHILD
HEADMASTER'S UNFAVOUR. ABLE VIEWS
(REUTER'S SPECIAL MAIL SERVICE] London. The only child tends to
M.C.C.'S FOURTH VICTORY
N.SW. DEFEATED BY INNINGS 'AND 44 RUNS
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SYDNEY, Nov. 28. SMALL crowd was presont when the hoae side continued batting yesterday and at lunch the score-board road 200 for 6, J. Cum- mine being undefeated for 71 and Don Bradman 23.
Was
Omnino failed to, add to his score after the interval and distressed for 73 scored in 77 minutes. Included in his ininnga Owing were twelve boundaries. to, the attack of influenza which seized him on Saturday, W. A. Oldfield, the Australian stamper, was unable to bat.
Voce, the Notts bowler, followed up his innings of 40 by returning the following bowling figares:
0.
R. M.
W. 18 1
數 85
G. O. Allen, the Middlesex fast howler, took 2 for 52, and F. R. Brown, the Surrey all-rounded, took 2 for 10.
Don Bradman by scoring a die polled all doubts as to his being unable to play in the first Test which commences on Friday. With the New South Wales match con- cluding a day earlier than was ex- pected, Bradman will be able to get in three days' complete rest and thus hopes to be perfectly fit for Friday.
Scores as cabled by "Reuter "*. follow:-
N.8.W.: 23 (D. G. Bradman 18,
J. H. Fingleton 119 not out
5. McCabe 07, G. O. Allen 5 for 69, Tate 4 for 53). M.O.C.: 530 (Butcliffe 188, R.E.8. Wyatt 72, Nawab of Pataudi 61, Ames 00. Voce 46, 8. Hird. 6 for 153, W. J. O'Reilly 4 for 89).
N.S.W. 23 (J. Camins 71, D.
G. Bradman 23, Fooo 5 for 86, G. O. Allen 2 for. 82, F. R. Brown & for 19).
U.S.-AUSTRALIA
TEST TENNIS
CORRECTED SCORES
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BRISBANE, Nov. 29. IN the U.S.-Australian Tennis Test Match, Moon and Sproule beat Allison and Van Ryn 3/0, 6/3, 6/4, Amerien thus, won by 8-2 0/3. and not 9-3 as stated in our issue of Tuesday.
NOT MUCH OF A WATCH DOG
STORY OF A STOLEN CHOW!
At the Kowloon Magistracy yes- terday when a coolie was charged, beforo Mr. Butters, with stealing. a dog, Borgh. Madgwick, who prose- cuted, said, there have been several
be purchased, just in case it might PURSUERS DEFIED AND PUT Rotary Club on the subject of the a last resource, he went to Kuw prove valuable.
Reporting to the town council,. the Committee, who control the whole of the Southend sea front, said:
TO FLIGHT.
Four villages in the vicinity of "A letter has been received from Alton were terrorised by a mad a London firm of metallista inquir cow, ing whether the committee would be It was one of a herd of 43 on willing to defray the cost of ex-Wivelrod Farm, and turned on a periments to confirm the firm's as herdsman who went to bring it sumption that there is gold in the from a field. In its subsequent ad- beach at Westcliff, and inquiring ventures. what reward or royalty be paid them in the event of their assump- tion being correct,"
BETTER OFF IN CHINA **
ESSEX WOMAN ON WATER
SUPPLY.
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It routed four cowmen armed with prong who cornered it, and found its way into Thedden Wood, where it spent the night,.
It routed a cordon of similarly armed men in the morning and en tered Bentworth Lodge, occupied by Major Bruce, where it broke up the lawn, tossed a bailiff over a six-fest fence, and leapt over the feneo after him.
It was next seen in Bentworth village, where it attacked a milk float and the vicar's maid, Miss hi. Williams, who ran back to the vicarage, and a message was sont children safely inside, to the village school to keep the
be poorly equipped for the battle thefts from a public latrine in-. of life, according to Dr. G. F. Pakhoi Street recently. The com Headmaster of Leeds plainant in this case, who was en- Morton, Modern Boys' School.
ployed as a keeper of this latrine, Ho was addressing the Leeds tried to check the thefts, and, as "difficult" child and said that the loon City where he fought a dog only child often tumed to be over- to keep watch over the latrina He fathered, over-mothered, self-cen- brought this dog-a brown chow~~~ poor out from Kowloon City on Batur tered self-indulgent and competitor in life, which was to-day day afternoon. He kept it tied to his quarters near the latrine, but more keenly competitive than ever.
Dr. Morton held that the difficult on returning to the latrine ho found child
Some of his neighbours, however, coming to school. fore sin ost cases, made be- that the animal had been stolen.
He instanced the child with a saw his dog being led along the jealous step-father or step-mother, street by a strango man, who was a victim, it might be, of unjust questioned and later arrested.
His Worship imposed a fine, of fault anding.
250 or five weeks.
Thore was also the timorous and perhaps perverted child of a mascy. line mother, the rebel or neurotic child of a patriachal father, the child with an inferiority complex. who had been eclipsed by a parent Even grandmothers could exercise a bad influence by molly-codding or gratuitious moralising.
BRITAIN'S CHAMPION!
BLACKSMITH
NEGRO AND HIS GODS
STRANGER INVITED TO HOUSE AND MURDERED, Detroit, Nov. 22. The police bere are investigating a fantastic voodoo cult that has just bear discovered in Detroit and under which a Negro named James Smith apparently wes sacrificed willingly on an altor to strange gods.
The man who made the sacrific is a Negro named Robert Harris who calls himself the King of Islam. He says the gods told him to find a stranger who was willing to be
A woman's declaretion that she had been better off in China, than she was in Britain was made a Messing, near Tiptree, Essex, when
TWELVE MIGHTY COMPETITORS dan and Winstres Rural Council's an inquiry was held into the Lex application for sanction to borrow It followed Miss Williams, tore
[REUTER'S SPECIAL MAIL SERVICE] £10,000 for supplying the Essex up the vicarage lawn, knocked
London:--Amid the roar of furnt village of Layermarney. Messing down hedges, and entered a, pad- Inworth and Layerbreten with dod, which is surrounded by ances and the clang of blows, on the was a sergeant. He was stationed
After officials of the Council had iron fencing with harbed wire on anvil, twelve might men struggled killed and go to hearep to become at Lotterbreen, County Fermangh, and was a popular Agure in the outlined the scheme, which was stat-It put to fight the vicar (the ed to be absolutely necessary, Mrs Rev. J. D. McCready) and his wife district.
the Frayer, poultry farmer, Newbridge whom they approached it, and all His accommodation at
Hill, Messing, told the officials that the afternoon dafed picked cowmen Letterbreen barracks was -50 re-
sho bad, como to Messing from who, with ropes, tried to lassoo it, stricted that Lady Hoblin had to
Ching. She had no water to wash and is still at large... live in lodgings,
-her clothes and last winter she had to put snow in the kettle for drink-
An amenity long desired in a
London-Bir John Echlin, be congenial atmosphere there is every lieved to be the only barones to reason to believe that the intro-serve in the tanks of a police duction of a Chineso Restaurant in force, has died in Ballymena, one of the most popular hotels in Country Antrim, Ireland, at the the Colony will moet with whole- heartcak support, and the innovation "20 of 42.
Owing to ill-health, Sir John of a dance orchestra during and. after the Chinese dinner will un-retired in April from the Royal doubtedly provide pleasurable even: Ulster Constabulary, in which he inga to the Hong Kong Chinese Payment in respect of the capital younger set and to all patrons of could, under the existing agree: the Hong Kong Hotel. That popu- ments, be postponed for not more lar Dance Orchestra The Rovel
lers will furnish the music. than two years, provided that not loss than ninety days advance notion had been given. Such advance. notice was not given in the pr sont case The United States Trea sury may,inder the agreement, waivo such notice at their disere tiost
of interest.
their estates were gone.
water.
top.
other's strikers,
Sir John was the head of one of The fifth and sixth baroneta were the oldest Boottish families. Two-ing water. She added: "I have sporting opponents noted at each compelled to work as agricultural hundred years ago, the Echlins given up all hope of a bath. I am labourers. The eight baronet, possessed large estates in Scotland, worse off in England than I was Asked whether the House would Sir John's uncle, kept an inn in any well-as-domains in Kildare, in China, where I always hol be consulted befors any further English village. His wife, who Carlow, Dublin, Galway and Mavo, enough water to keep myself clean." payment of the war loan interest died ten years ago, noted as When Eir John retired on pen- Mr. Jonson, of Layerbarney, said was made, the Prime Minister said hostess in the bar.
sion, he was earning about 7 he lived where a public house used weeks,
the but if the customer had whisky, they had no water to put baronets sold land recklessly in in it. (Laughter)
By Jobs's father wasdatation
man mar a pagar a la hotel mange dag var megen nye anatem zajang permirequentadozó, disotna The master in a remote country district The third. fourth and filth.
this matter was made through. usual channels, it would receive careful consideration, but it would
ot be in the public interest to have
a debate at this moment.
in Ireland.
The new baronet, a son of Sir order to raise money, until all No objections were raised to the John, is only six years old. (Continued-on-Preelong Columnacheme, and the inquiry closed
Competitors had to make, fit, and nail on a stamped flat fore shoe for a cart horse, to make a fullore (grooved) hunter hind shoe from 8 inches of mild steel, and to make fullerdi Yatakter fore who from 11 inches of iron. Seventy-five minutes was allowed for the whole operation.
to win a title of supremacy in one the saviour of the world. Ho says of the world's eldeal crafts the he prepared for the orifice with title of Champion Blacksmith of his wife, two children and twelve disciples. He then went on the Great Britain,
Each of these twelve men of street and found James Smith and strength and skill was a champion invited him in. Smith at first was or runner-up in one of the great unwilling to be sacrificed byt as the county-or-national shoeing.com hour of moon approached Smith petitions.
agreod.
into a struggle between the winner! As the hour of noon approached The competition resolved itself Harris told the police today and runner-up at this year's Royal I said to Smith Do you still want Show A, A, Thomas and M. J to be killed because the command
ordered-me-not to kill anybody win- Clarke,
Clarke meant to reverse the result, didn't want to ho killed Smith of the Royal Show contest. He sue added his head.", geeded--but only by a quarter of a Harris, on his own confession,
the hated homemazen volabbed and beathe Best hueson Each competitor had to provide death on the altar prepared. his own striker. and those two the police are now seeking other (Castinued on Previous Colorin, ) Eg Bålples of this fantastio cult