XMAS EVE TRAGEDY
SIX SMALL CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH
THROWNIJI: REUTER'S AGENCY.
BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 24.
MR. N. DAVIS VISITS
MR. ROOSEVELT
CONFERENCE MAY PAVE WAY TO DEBT TANGLE
ศ.
{THROUGH BEUTEE'S AGENCY,】
terday,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. FESTIVE preparations for Christ. MR. Norman Davis, chief United
maa Eve were saddened by a
tates delegate to the Disarma- ghastly fire in which six small ment Conference, left for Albany children were burnt to death early to see Mr. Theodore Roosevelt yes yesterday morning.
His departure follows a A policeinan patrolling in Price protracted conference between Fres. Street at four in the morning heard floover nd M. H. L. Stimson con- screams for help from behind cerning the economic and, Disarma pall of smoke emerging from Num- ment, Conferences. her 40, a dwelling occupied by Luke Weft, an unemployed ex-service man, crippled, his wife and seven children ranging from four months to thirteen years of age.
The father and mother and baby were sleeping downstairs and were rescued, badly burned. But the
Alamies defied the frantic efforts of firemen to penetrate the interior. The six children were upstairs, and all perished.
Three Aremen and two policemen were cut and burned and taken to hospital, after heroic efforts to re Beue the children.
CRIPPLED FATHER'S
HELPLESSNESS
LATER.
Observers atate that the errand may pave the way for a new ap- proach to the war debt tangle.
BLOW TO BRITISH
INDUSTRIES
FREE STATE REDUCES BRITISH PREFERENCES
་་,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
་་
DUBLIN, Dec. 23.
A NEW tariff order was issued by the Free State Government yesterday, the effect of which is the The scene of the tragedy was a withdrawal of the preference hither two roomed house in Birming to given to British boots and shoes ham's poorest quarter, where a men's and boys' clothing, certain family of nine was normally sleep-iron and steel articles. ing in four beds in an upper room, but last-night-one child-was-sleep- ing with friends. The father and the mother and the baby slept in a downstairs room which was de
corated for Xmas.
The father was awakened by the smoke and carried the baby, fol- lowed by the mother, into the street, screaming for amistance, which, in-view-of-the fierceness of the fire was ineffectual.
Flames poured from the windows of the house, which collapsed within a few minutes.
Firemen, with much dificulty prevented the spread of the flames which would have caused a serious holocaust among the closely packed houses.
Weir's struggles against the ad- versity of unemployment and in- capacitation, and, the "mother's
courageous efforts to keep her family well and comfortable, have for a long time evoked the sympathy of neighbours who provided a Christ- mas tree with little dainties, and watched with streaming eyes, the removal of the little charred bodies. WORLD'S SUGAR TRADE
“BATAVIA'S SELLING SCHEME APPROVED
(THROUGH REUTERʼN AGENCY)
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER
1932
INDIA ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE
GEN. SU STILL IN SOVIET CAMP
SENSATION IN DRESDEN
XMAS AT HOME
HIRD SERIES OF MEETINGS ENDED
İBRITISH KIRKLEEN SARVICE
Ruasy, Dec. 23.
AS the result of the rapid pro gress made during the past few days, the tasks before the Indian Round Table Conference are now practically completed. day evening the Committens had flushed their work of examining various aspects of the complicated questions at issue and the reports of the Committees had been noted by the Conference....
JAPANESE RUMOURS
CONTRADICTED
[THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY]
Moscow, Dec. 27.
WEN,
GERMAN FINANCERS
ARRESTED
【THROUGH REUTER'A 'AGENCY.].
DRKSTEN, Dec. 24. P.
THE arrest of the brothers Karl
SHOPS CROWDED; RLYS, BUSY
[BRITISH WIRELENA KIEVICE.]
LONDON, Deo. 23,
for celebrating what promises
ALL over the country preparation
GERMAN LOAN. REPAID
BALANCE DUE
33 OF 1908
THROUGH BRUTER/
LONDON, Dec 9
PHROUGH the Ministry of Rail
and Sigmund Bergmanu, own Chinese hero in the Bino GENERAL SUPING
ers of a large cigarette firm bear to be an unusually mild Christmas the Tientsin Pukow NEE Japanese fighting in Manchuria, is still interned in Tomsk, Soviet tering their name, has caused a seas are nearing completion. The tem- way managemen have embled By yester-ritory, with his officers and mention here, for the name is known perature in London for several days £28,125 to the Deutsche Assistische
relates to the alleged illegal dispos April, and according to a report circulated by in every household. The charge has been at the normal level for Back, London, being the unpaid the Tasa News Agency, official oral. of currency which arose in conspell will last over the week-end,
is hoped that the fine balance, on Coupon, a of the Ger man portion of the 1908 loan, which became due on October 10, 1924. London's streets present the usual gan of the Soviets,
aspect of bustle, and the shops are crowded. The holiday rush on the railways has begun, and the Fly ing Scotsman, the Cornish Riviera Express and other long distance trains left London yesterday in duplicate. Two hundred extra trains were being run to-day and yesterday on the London, Midland
pany.
The report contradicts, the recontection with the reported acquisi Japanese allegation that General Sution of shares in the Bergman
concern a few days ago by the will shortly proceed to Europe and
British-American Tobacco Com Late last night the Conference, that at present he is in Moscow which had had two sessions earlier where he has received an order from in the day, was summoned to meet General Chang Hsueh Liang to ex- for a general discussion on the co-pedite his return to Peiping to clusions reached, and this morning participate in military operations at a final session the third Indian against the Japanese. Round Table Conference will be formally brought to an end.
PROTECTION OF INDIA'S CURRENCY URGED
:
General Su, it will be remember- ed retreated into Soviet Russia following povere reverses buffered at the hands of the Japanese for- cea. Almost immediately following his entry into the Soviet territory, a`rumour was spread by the Japan- ese that General Bu, together with (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.) his officers and men, had been hand- ed over by the Soviet authorities to the Japanese military authori- LONDON, Dec. 27.
ties at Manchuli. The Soviet Gov- the earliest ernment subsequently issued a state- THE creation at
possible moment of a reservement denying the report that the bank in India to be entrusted to Soviet authorities had handed the management of the Currency General Su to the Japanese and Exchange, also the vesting of the declaring that the Soviet Govern- Governor-General with powers to ment would not interfere with prevent serious danger, to the General Su's movements and that stability and of the Credit of the he would be permitted to proceed Federation emerges from the Com- to Europe.
The motor car duty rate is reduc ed to the preferential rate.
Many articles of Iron and steel are exempted from duty, such as mittee's final report from the In sewing, printing, hosiery, boot-dian Hound Table Conference which making and agricultural machin- sat until 1.05 am. to-day.
Gry.
The order is another step in the Free State campaign against Great Britain's trade. The reduction of motor car duties will open. the Trish market to cheap American cars, it is expected.
FLAX RESEARCH AT HOME
EXPERIMENTS ON KING'S ESTATE
[BRITISH WINKLESS SERVICE.]
·ROGBY, Dec. 23, THE experimental growing of
STIRRING SPEECHES.
LONDON, Dec. 25.
The Indian Round Table Con- with a message from the King and ference was concluded yesterday stirring speeches from Sir Samuel Hoare and Lord Bankay. His Majesty was confident that the labours had fortified a partnership whose strength and endurance was of much consequence to bis people.
Sir Samuel promised full con- [sideration for the appeal for the release of Gandhi and political prisoners, and said the Conference. clearly had limited the field where on a constitution was to be built, sad had created an esprit de corpt, among all the delegates, who were determined to see the building completed at the earliest possible
moment.
pedigree flax on H,M. the Lord Sankey regretted the absten- King Sandringham estate, under tion of British Labourites and the supervision of the Linen Re-Indian Congremites. He would search Association, and the Depart say to them "Brothers, we are ment of Scientific and Industrial labouring for pence, do not make Research; is believed to have proved yourselves ready for battle.". very successful.
A deputation from the Linen Research Association was received by their Majesties the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace this week, and their Majesties inspected a variety of linen goods manufac tured from the flax grown at Sand BATAVIA, Dec. 24ringham. THE scheme for creating a central sugar lling organisation, to be supervised by the Government, has been approved but in a con- siderably amended form at a special meeting of the People's Council.
The Working Committed recently has been considering the advisability of establishing a central sugar sell- ing organisation, and submitted to the Government of Java ita final proposals, including the incw 'iden of the introduction of compulsory. contributions by sugar sellers and sugar employees to a fund for the uneruployed in the sugar industry,
-BOLIVIA SEIZES GOLD DEPOSITS
IN INTEREST OF NATIONAL DEFENCE
|THROUGH · · REUTER'S AGENUT.)
La Paz, Dec. 24: ADEGREE of the Bolivia Govern man announces the appropria tion of all foreign gold deposits in the Central National and Mercan tile Bank in the interest of public utility and national defence.
The Government agrees to pay for this gold in paper money at an exchange rate fixed by the Central Bank for meeting foreign billes
FRENCH SCHOOL OF ART
WORD FOR CUBISM
Mr. Anthony Bertram concluded his series of six lectures at the City Art Gallery, Manchester, on
Newspapers suggest that large areas of the Royal Estate may be devoted to fax growing next year as a lead to the home production of as important raw material. Mean time, the research is continuing.
NEW ZEALAND'S OFFER REFUSED
[DRITION WIRELESS 'SERVICE.]=
-1
for an ideal but to accept a practi
He advised the Indians to strive cable instalment.
1 "We blazed a trail for federa
tion. There is much more agree. ment at the Conference than dis agreement.
Finally he pleaded with the prin- ces not to delay in deciding their attitude to the Central Legislature
AMERICAN FORGERS IN BUDAPEST
PLAN TO FLOOD EUROPE WITH £S NOTES
Budapest-Two Italians, Gior AUCKLAND, Dec. 23. gia Guomua and Willy Franchi THE New Zealand Ministar of Dante, citizens of the United Finance, Hon. Mr. W. Downie. States, recently had a "bight out" Stewart, stated yesterday that the at a night club in Budapest, where British Government, while express they consumed large quantities of ing warm appreciation of the gen champagne, and danced with two erous feeling which prompted New pretty partners. On leaving they Zealand's offer to regume her re-gave the generous tip of a five sponsibility for her war debt pay pound note to each of the girle, but when they presented the notes at a bank they were told that the notes were forged.
ments, had not accepted the offer.
reports, the remnants of General According to the latest Chinese Su's forces are still fighting the Japanese on the. Hulan-Halin line, having recaptured Wankusi and are now endeavouring to re-occupy other points on the rallway.
SILVER MARKET
LONDON PRICES
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
LONDON, Dec. 24. THE SPOT PRICE OF BILYER HERE - DECLINED' ONE-QUÂÄRTER TO-
•DAY, FORWARD SHOWING, A-DROP *OF THREE-SIXTAENTRS, 48 · FOL-
LOWA
SPOT
FORWARD
Dec, 23, Dec. 24. 10.13/16 16.9/16 16.13/16 16
LONDON'S PLAYING FIELDS
DISAPPEARING AT BATE OF 1,700 ACRES YEARLY
num.
The brothers contend that far from disposing of the currency they actually brought it into the country. The sum involved is said
to be 730,000 marks.
The brothers have been released on bail.
MR. HENRY PU YI CENSORED
PRINCESS ATTACKS
EX-EMPEROR
CTAROCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, Dec. 24.
THE Chinese. Press this morning published a report that the Government had received a lengthy letter from Princess Der Ling; bit-
participating in the Manchukuo tarly censating Heary Fu Yi for movement, and submitting proposals for the recovery of Manchuria.
The letter, 10,000 words in length comes from the world wide famous authores of The Forbidden City" which depicts Princess Der Ling's life in the old Manchu Imperial Palace with the Empress Dowager.
The report also states that the Princess Der Ling has written to Henry Pu Yi urging the ex- Manchu Emperor Bob to support the independence movement,
CRIME INCREASE IN
HARBIN
TWO OUTRAGES COMMIT TED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
and Scottish Line and 97 on the Southern Railway.
RAIN SPOILS CRICKET
FARCICAL MATCH, AT HOBART
ITEROUĢA REUTER'S JORNOY.
Hobart, Dec. 241)
TASMANIA resumed batting an
wicket which was completely
Fifteen thousand seats have been) booked on the Great Western trains and sleeping car reservations on night trains for. Scotland are ex-saturated by heavy rain overnight, pected to equal last year's figure
of 2,600...
Once again the growing popular ity of air travel has set up a real card. At Croydon, all available nir liners are in service and those leaving yesterday were full to capacity.
Unusually large numbers are this year spending Christmas at sea on numerous winter pleasure cruisie arranged by leading shipping firms,
POPE DECLARES A
HOLY YEAR
TO CELEBRATE 19TH CEN TÈNARY OF CRUCIFIXION
[1HROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]^-
ROME, Dec. 24. POPE Fids Christmas address was broadcast last night. For the first time His Holiness · pro-
claimed & Holy Year from Match 2.1933, to celebrate the nineteenth centenary of the Crucifixion.
Details were announced for the New Year when he addressed a picturesque gathering of 150 car. dinals and prelates in the Consis
tory Hall,
OBITUARY
ber
Though xain fell throughout the day's play Tasmania added 30 runs for the loss of three wickets after a disastrous start on Friday, wher they lost their first two wickets for 13 runs. With half the side out for 10s the Tasmanian skipper des clared the innings closed, Paynter, the Lancashire left-handed bats- man, being the most successful bowler with 3 for 40 to his credit,
The M.C.C. scored 50, without loss before further rain caused con- ditions to become too farcical and play was abandoned for the day."
· D, R. Jardins did not make use of his regular bowlers preferring to protect them from slipping on the: wet turf and thus injuring them selves on the eve of the second Test at Melbourne
MATCH DRAWN.
HOBART, Dea 93. THE second game between Tas
'mamid and, the M.0.C. Tourists was drawn.anadienn
M.C.0. declared at 330 for seven Tasmania: 69 for 4 (Bowen 4 for
19).
HOME RUGBY
MATCH
RESULTS IN SECOND GAME OF SERIES
TIROGON EKUTER'S JACKNEY
MELBOURNE, Dec. S
→ SATURDAY'S RESULTS
[THROUGH XRUTER'S AGESCY.] His Holiness drew attention to PEIFING Dec. 17. the iniquitous treatment of religion
LONDON, Doo 24 Rugby: matches played át. Home A further epidemic of violent and the faithful in Spain, and crime appears to have broken out Mexico and Russia, and added on Saturday resulted so followe in Harbin after a more or less that equally grievous are the dif- Bedford 13: Leicester 10 quiet period, according to messages ferences among the peoples and Bristol 9; London Welsh received here from Manchuria. The nationa
Coventry Blackheath 3. new epidemic of lawlessness came Besides the horrors of war, civil Harlequins & Richmond 9. to a head last Tuesday, when two war was continuing, if not worsen Northampton 8 Gloucester 16 outrages were committed with iming, the financial and economic OMT. 7; London Scottish 6.-
crisis which was without a prece Plymouth Albion Exeter 0. punity in broad daylight Sir Lawrence Chubb, secretary of The more daring of these two dent. However, the world was not the National Playing Fields Asso outrages was carried out within a without its consolations. One was LAWN TENNIS TEST ciation, speaking at the Public few yards of police headquarters the triumphant auccess of the Health Congress at the Royal Just before five o'clock in the even- Eucharistic Congress in Dublin; Agricultural Hall, said, "the maing. Entering a house in this another was the suspension of hos jority of private sports grounds locality, two armed Chinese held tilities in Bolivia and Faraguay, are held only under precarious up the inmates, one of whom an during the Christmas truce. tenancy agreements, and such engineer, they shot dead before grounds near London are shrinking leaving. The desperadoes made off at the rate of 1,700 acres per an- with booty worth $2,000 in a car
they had stolen for the purpose o It is appalling to contemplate the crime. that since the Great War the read. Earlier the same day a shooting casualties in this country have ex incident took place in one of the ceeded -1,750,000, and that many streets in the residential quarter young lives would bave been spar- of the New Town, Chinese police ed if the children had had some had stopped a horse carriage con where to play,
taining three Chinese in order to The rainona prices now paid to search the occupants for arms, when
bean Commanding Offoer- of secure threatened areas in and one man suddenly pulled "put a near town would never have been revolver, killed one, constable, se- the United States Marines in necessary had our fathers posses-verely wounded a second and slight Shanghai, since October, 1930, "died ly wounded a third. The despers of heart failure at his residence, at se foresight.
Aby west treatment of the does escaped
1.15 p.m. to-day after spending the playing fields problem is not trus The following day, about 10 morning doing his Christmas shop economy, but a source of eventual o'clock in the morning, two armed ping
Chinese entered a shop in one of Colonel Hooker's long service witn heavy expen
the main streets of Harbin, Tak the United States Marine Corps haz ing the inmates by surprise they been marked by signal merit. He atole 81,000 in money at the point was an action during the Great of the revolver. Before steps could War and saw active service in be taken to detain them, they made various areas, where the mariner good their sscape in a motor-car were called to protect lives and which, as in the first-case, had been property. He was an able omcer, previously stolen for the purpose highly regarded, by his governm of the robbery
‚and field in almost touching.
by his men.
Investigations by scientists and metallurgists into the causes of and remedies for burst water pipes in frosty weather were mentioned by Mr. G. L. Bailey of the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research A sociation, when the Conference dis cussed water supply problems.
D.E.J. SUGAR INDUSTRY-
IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT
PROPOSALS
designed to serve not the whole of
The police were then informed sobiety but a limited, aristocratic and the names of the men were dis- section of society It had a charm dosed, but they had left their and an exquisitences which perhaps hotel in a hurry. The Budapest no other art in the world possess police, however, succeeded in tra- eth It was sincere because it cing the culprits to Hanover, where faithfully mirrored contemporary they were arrested, and, on being lifer
extradited, were brought back to When modern people employed Budapest to be tried for forgery
of eighteenth-century: During the trial the men plead- the style French art to decorate theatres anded guilty, and stated that, with a
Medan, Dec 5-Widespread satis public-houses the result was Toth Confederate, a printer, they Kad come, because it was not true to manufactured large quantities of faction has been created fy the present-day life. The work of Wat five-pound Bank of England note, Governor General's attitude in tonu, although he was Flemish by which they were selling at a dol- the sugar negotiations, which are birth, was definitely French, but itlar and a half spiece. They soon now the tople of the day in the had a depth and sensitiveness not found a backer, they said, who in D.EL. The object of these nego sugar pro found in the work of his contem vested 1,600 dollars in the propositiations is to regul poraties. Work of the school of top, and with this money they duction under sup Fragonard was disliked by home fravelled to Europe to flood the Government and the Governor people because they associated it Continent with their clever forge. General with designs on chocolate boxes, rien. They landed in France- whereas actual Fragonard had had no luck there as the charm wit, and superb technique, not dispose of a single ab
After touching briefly on the In Italy the men were more fuc
the history of art in various coun- work Van Gogh the speaker racessful, and from there
tries with a lecture on Theferred to subim, which he said was to Budapest:
French gschool.6.
~Referring to the
of French art
the Latin
be
people derived
tribe but their Ger
zabmi
TESXing fration but a
setar movement. The one fact that
and: true the whole tradition
was tost of change, and
was stupid:76
Harbin newspapers print alarm ing stories of orima in Harbin and in the neighbourhood of the town, stating that armed brigande infest the ares dear the railway boundar at Harbin and are roaming the country in the vicinity of other towns not far distanta
GEN, CHIANG VISITS. ANCESTRAL, TOMBS
AGENCY. 13
COL. R. S. HOOKER
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}-
SHANGHAI, Dec. 24,7
COLONEL R. 9. Hooker who has
Col Hooker was always ing athletics, and it wasi through his efforts that U SAMOJE Wonksuch
me for itself in
mazines dažng the recen troubl
"MISS HARRIET JAY
here to
PN the second lawn tennis.
between Australia and America Hopman buat Vines 64, 1866
Crawford, bent: Allison 63, 64 Gled Hill beat Sprouls 6-3, 36, Allison and Van Ryn beat. Sproule and M.K: G. Bath 64, 7-9, 6-4.
NUGGET
BOOT
POLISH