HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1933.
INDIA AND THE WORLD CONFERENCE ABREAK IN WUKING
PREPARED TO JOIN IN REDUCING CUSTOMS TARIFFS
Importance Of Shaping Tariff Policy
Stressed
BRITISH PREMIER CONFIDENT OF
SUCCESS OF CONFERENCE
TitovGH REUTER'S AGENCY]
LONDON, June 25. INDIA will be prepared to join in any declaration adopted by the Conference emphasising the desirability of reducing Cus toms tarifs, states a memorandum issued by the Indian Delega. tion to the World Economic Conference, for practical reasons of a financial kind the date and extent of reduction must be left to the decision of Governments concerned.
With reference to the future, the delegation would welcome a declaration from the Conference stressing the importance of shap. ing a tariff policy in such a way that protection would not be accorded to industries.
With reference to the exercise of powers to meet special emergencies by tariff enhancements, the delegation will be pre- pared to agree, when possible. to negotiation between countries concerned in the hope of devising means whereby the difficulties might be overcome without recourse the tariff weapon. LULL IN PROCEEDINGS
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, June 24.
NO MEETINGS were held to-day of sub-commissions of the World Conference, but the detailed examination of work be fore the delegates, which have been broadly surveyed during the
: past fortnight, will be continued on Monday.
During the lull in the proceedings several delegates includ- ing the French Finance Minister, Dr. Colijn, and Monsieur Bon- net, the French Finance Minister returned to their capitals yes-, terday, but will be back in London on Monday.
Dr. Benes is also spending the week end in Paris.
WHEAT NEGOTIATIONS REPORTED
SUCCESSFUL
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ference altogether, Mr. MacDonald continued, but he hoped that the Press would steadily resist that eort of influence. All who had ex- perience in previous international conferences, knew they were alow working machines, and that the end of the second week was always the time when, perhaps, pessimism be- gan to show itself, as language and other difficulties had, by that time, made themselves felt.
LOCK
-FURTHER RISE AT
HANKOW EXPECTED
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[THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENOY]
Haskow, June 25, The water is beginning to seep He had not, at this Conference, through Waking Lock. near Wa felt as depressed as he was on cer chang despite feverish efforts peo tain daya when the Lausanne Con-ple are making to prevent a break. trembling in the A statement issued by the Yang balance. Next wook would be onetize Conservancy - Commission of co-ordination, and committees shows that the situation in the would acquire some of the bigness upper Yangtsze has improved but a of work on which they were engag-further rise in the river level at ed. Those committees were now in
Hankow is predicted. full working order.
ference
WELL
UNANIMITY NOT ESSENTIAL
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LONDON, June 23.
SIR M. LAMPSON
AT PEIPING
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RETURNS FROM VISIT TO Sir Herbert Samuel, the Liberal
UPPER YANGTSZE Party Leader, speaking at Man- cheater, yesterday afternoon, re-
(THROUGH REUTER'S AQENCY). ferring to the progress at the World Economic Conference, said that
PEIFING, June 25. with this Conference, unlike the Disarmament Conference, unanim-SIR Miles Lampson returned this ity was not essantial, though it was desirable.
If a group of countries agreed to lower the obtacles to their mutual trade, that would be an important step in the advance,
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THE STABILISATION CRISIS
U.S. ALLEGE THREAT TO DISSOLVE CONFERENCE
LONDON, June 21.
We publish from an American source, the Manila Bulletin the fol lowing account of the earlier stages of last week's descussions stabilisation at the Economic Con- ference.
on
Persistent pressure to dissolve the world economic conference until the dollar i stabilized with other leading currencies was exerted to day by the European gold bloc, determined to end exchange fluctus.
ference headquarters this morning Most of the delegates betook them
Lord's cricketions. selves either to Roosy, June 24.
. A resolution calling for adjourn- Negotiations which have been ground to watch the Test match proceeding privately in London against the West Indies, at which ment pending an agreement was wheat producing His Majesty was an interested perpared by the French delegation between great countries are reported to be near spectator, or to Hendon to witness hut, Georges Bonnet, the French the thrilling performances. at the finance minister, failed to present ing a successful conclusion.
it to the steering committee, as A substantial reduction in acre-Royal Air Force pageant.
anticipated. age under wheat amounting to 15 per cent., as proposed by America, is stated to have the approval of Canada and the Argentina. The Australian approval is confidently awaited.
The sub-commission of the World Conference which is considering the question of co-ordination, produc- tion and marketing will have before itsting on Monday a report of its drafting committee in which the broad principles to which any such agreements should conform are to be set out.
PRINCIPLES OF AGREEMENTS
These are as follows; commodity must be one of world importance in which there is such excess of production or stecke as to call for
The Soviet Conference circles have confirmed the report that a strong Note of protest against cer Soviet Russia tain references to contained in Herr Hugenberg's memorandum has been despatched from Moscow to Germany,
BRITISH PREMIER'S VIEW
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, June 23. The Six sub-committees of the Economic and Monetary Commis- sions of the World Economic Con- ference sat privately yesterday, for a detailed consideration of the vari- ous matters referred to them.
afternoon by air from Hankow accompanied by Mr. Ti Che Man and also Madame Wilden, who has Yangtase, been visiting the upper the party landing at Nanyuan Aerodrome.
SILVER MARKET
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
LONDON, June 94. FOLLOWING ARE THE SILVEN QUOTATIONS OX THE LONDON MARKET TO-DAY:
SPOT
FORWARD
June 24 June 23 18.7/18 18+ 10.9/16 191
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LITVINOFF TO MEET SIR JOHN SIMON
TO EXPLORE STRAINED TRADE RELATIONS THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
LONDON, June 24. M LITVINOFF the Soviet For- Instead the lobby campaign for a
eign Commissar, has agreed to recess was intensified, as Washing-meet the British Foreign Minister, ton turned, thumbs down again on Sir John Simon, at the Foreign
Office, on Monday, plans for immediate stabilization.
Await Development, Bonnet, appearing before the temporary monetary subcommittee, again demanded a currency agree ment, but pledged "France'a full support toward the success of the conference.
No such agreement in the imme- diate future in foreseen by the United States, said word from Washington. The belief of the Roosevelt administration was pressed through the Treasury that the time has not arrived to consider such a move and that settlement of the question depends on develop-
The British Premier, Mr.ments. Ramsay MacDonald, as President
Ex.
Improvement of conditions in the
of the League of Nations Monetary United States is proceeding safis
They will doubtless explore the strained Anglo-Soviet trade rela- tions brought on by the imprison ment of the two British engineers of metropolitan Vickers, Messrs. W. Thornton and W. H. Macdonald.
LIMIT
RUBBER
PRODUCTION TWO OPPONENTS JOIN
COMMITTEE.
THROUGH REUTER'S" AGENCY].
AMSTERDAM, June 24.
FENG'S LATEST MOVE
INTENDS TO CAPTURE - DOLONOR
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PEIFING, June 24.
HEIR PRESUMPTIVE TO SPANISH THRONE
EX KING'S THIRD SON
* NAMED
ĮTRROUGH REUTER'N AQRNEY.}
PARIN, June 24.
M. V. ARAMIS STRIKES A ROCK
VESSEL IN NO DANGER OF SINKING
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SHANGBAT, June 24.
appears there still remains con- IT IS OFFICIALLY stated that ASSISTANCE has reached the siderable doubt as to Marshal Don Juan, third son of eK. Messageries Maritimes liner, Feng Yu Haiang's real intentions. King Alfonso of Spain, haa bean my. Aramis, which struck a aub- A delegate from General Sungnamed the heir presumptive to merged rock on Thursday night during a dense fog, when 310 miles Cheh Yuan returned here from & the Spanish throne.
Don Juan, who is a midshipman from Shanghai. visit to the Christian General in Kalgan bearing a letter to General in the British Navy, has two elder Sung in which Marshal Feng states brothers, Dan Alfonso, ex-Prince that he would welcome the return of Asturias and Don Jaime, both of General Sung to Kalgan to re- of whom have renounced the title The marriage u Don Alfonso," sume the Chairmanship of Charhar, but regrets that he cannot abolish eldest son of ex-King Alfonso of his title of Commander-in-Chief of Spain, and a Cuban girl, Senorita the People's Anti-Japanese Allied de San Pedro, took place last week. Army and that he proposes to send
Ex-King Alfonso refused permis- forces shortly to effect the capture sion for the marriage on the of Dolonor from the Manchukuo grounds that the. bride is a cem
moner, also on account of his son's
forecs.
General Sung is at present in Peiping and there is no sign of his imminent departure for Kalgan.
He is still conferring with Gen, Huang Fu and General Ho Ying Ching and it is unlikely that he will proceed to Kalgan until Mar- shal Feng abolishes his self-given title,
illshealth.
The Prince, by the marriage,
renounced his right to the throne. PRINCE OF ASTURIAS WEDS
CUBAN GIRL MONARCHISTS SEND REGRETS
No Further Concessions.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 21. (TEROUGH RESTER'S AGENCT.1
SHANGHAI, June 24.
In a brief civil ceremony, the IN an interview with press repre- Spanish Prince" of Asturias, eldest sentatives, Mr. Sun Fo to-day son of former King Alfonso, and not be willing to make further conter of a wealthy Cuban merchant, said that the Government would Srta. Edelmira San Pedro, daugh- cessions to "General Feng Fu were married here to-day.
Neither Hsiang unless he agreed to leave
Alfonso nor former Kalgan, as his presence there ren- Queen Victoria was present and the dered General Sung Cheh Yuan's shadow of the family's disapproval return to Chahar impossible. Mr. dimmed the brilliance of the event. Sun Fo alleged that General Feng Fearing Alfonen's disapproval, Yu Heiang's recent activities were
many outstanding Spanish monarch definitely connected with the South-ista sent their regrets. The former Western leaders, who he said are anxious to establish an indepen- dent Government at Canton.
The Government, Mr. Sun said, has not yet received any report from General Huang Shao Hsiung, who is still in Hongkong as Nan king's special envoy to explain to the South-West leaders the North China truce,
were
Most of the passengers have been transferred to tenders which left Shanghai immediately on receipt of news of the mishap. Mensageries Maritimes motership Aramis is actually off the rocks which she struck two nights ago.
It is uncertain whether
the
The Shanghai tug Sampaon yès terday supplied the disabled liner with two pumps, while the tender Alexandra. left at 8 o'clock this morning with about 100 passengerm for Shanghai,
The French cruiser Primaguet and the sloop Algol left Shanghai yesterday to assist the Aramis.
It was earlier reported that the Aramis No. 4 hold was badly holed. bub that the vessel was in no dan ger of sinking. The mishap occur red in a deep. fog approximately five miles north of Steep Island.
INDIA AIR ROUTE
EXTENSION, TO CALCUTTA ON JULY 1
The India air mail, which leaves London, on July 1, will end its
Karachi as at present. After that. queen sent word, however, her heart journey at Calcutta and not at was" with the couple. At the wedding
Swiss Imperial Airways liners will ply guards, who had been stationed at weekly between London and Cal- the prince's hotel since the receipt cutta. This is the first stage in the Australia. On October I there will of anonymous warnings, one saying extension of the service towards "the prince faces great danger.'
The general understanding in ad- be a further extension to Rangvon, vance, was that the..prince signed a and it is expected that the Christ-
Prince Tells Father of Plans.
sible in the Australia service.
In regard to the question of the formal renunciation of claims to the mas mail will be carried through to Manchukuo irregulars in the Luan- Spanish throne upon his determina-Singapore to open the final link tung (East Luan) region. Mr. Suntion to marry, his bride being a for which Great Britain is respon- declared that their activities were commoner. instigated by the Japanese, who are attempting to establish an other puppet Government inside
LAUSANNE, June 20. the Great Wall. He added that
The Prince of Asturias, son of the Government had given the former King Alfonso of Spain, in
Council Peiping Military
formed his father to-day that he Powers
to handle the situation.
V.C.'S DETORT TO TAX DEMAND
WILL DECLINE PENSION,
full
A well-known V.C., who recently received notification of an nesess- ment of £8 for income tax on his V.O grant, has, it is understood, replied to the inspector of taxes as follows:-
"If your insist on payment I must give you notice that I de cline the pension altogether. This will help to balance the Budget." The V.O. annuity, although it may be increased by increments up to 250 a year where the holder is un- able to obtain a livelihood, is in most cases £10, and there are V.C. heroes who have to return a pro- portion up to one-quarter of the they receive from the State.
will bo wed to-morrow..
The sections east of Karachi wil be operated by big monoplanes of the Atalanta type, which are ex- pected to cruise at nearly 130 miles an hour. The extension to Gal
for
cutta will add only one day
existing schedule to the He conveyed the best wishes of his the journey to Karachi. Liners arriving at Karachi in the eatly fance, Edelmira San Pedro, the afternoon will go straight on to daughter of a Cuban merchant.
Asturias is renouncing his pre. Jodhpur for the night and will com rogatives as heir to the Spanish plete their fight to Calcutta the In the reverse following day. throne to wed the commoner.
direction they will leave Calcutta every Tuesday and the mails, will arrive in London on the following Monday.'
Prince Threatened, Well Guarded,
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LONDON, June 20.
The new air liners are now being The Exchange Telegraph's Lau flown to India, in readiness for the sanno correspondent reported to extension. Major H. G. Brackley, day that Swiss authorities were guarding the Prince of Asturias, superintendent of Imperial Air- who is scheduled to wed a Cubanys, left Croydon in the Astraea on Monday and reached Rome the girl to-morrow, because of the ze same night. He left yesterday for ceipt of threatening and insulting Brindi, Athens, and Cairo, and letters.
It
Ex-Infante Juan.
he proposes to take the big aere plane over the whole of the route to Australia in order to survey: it and report on the conditions of landing grounds and service ar rangements.
The extension due on July 1 will add 1,500 miles to the rates of Imperial Airways and will bring Calcutta within seven days of Lon- don.-The Times.
MADRID, June 90. The ex-Infaate Don Juan of Bourbon and Battenberg, now a summidshipman in the British Navy, to-day celebrated his 20th birthday is said that he is now the MODERN ROMANCE beir apparent" to the Spanish
throne. special concerted action. Agree and Economic Conference, declared | factorily, it was said, and without (THE participation of two oppon- |
The fifth child (third son) of ex ente of forced rubber restric-
PROPOSAL NURING PLANE- ment should be comprehensive as
FLIGHT.
King Alfonso XIIL and Queen regards commodities to be regulat in an address to the Press yesterday stabilization and by waiting until
Victoria Eugenia was born in the do, near Cadiz, so that when the ed. It should be comprehensive as third week of the Conference with true worth of the dollar, pound bets of the International Commit- afternoon, that he was meeting the conditions are nearer normal the tion, Mr. D. Bolderhey and M. Van Leeuwen Boomkamp" as mem-
New York. A proposal in an summer palace at San Ildelfonso de Republic was proclaimed, Don Juan regards commodities to be regulat-
a very buoyant and hopeful heart sterling, frane and other currencies
tee to inquire into the rubber ed. It should be comprehensive as gards producers
He was not discouraged by the in terms of each other can be de restriction, created here on June aeroplane led to the surprise mar. la Granja ion June 29, 1913. Don was separated from the rest of the themselves.
the royal children, and many motoring to Gibraltar and thero Where necessary, or desirable, for United States attitude towards the termined.
proposals for temporary stabilisa- While the French position is that 1 at the meeting of the Interna ringe of two well-known New York Juan is one of the most popular of family, and he went into exile by tional Association of Rubber society figures, one of them a Monarchists who blame Alfonso embarking for Italy, and then re- the success of the plan it should tion of currencies, which he had no real progress can be made on rowers and other Dutch East nephew of Viscountess Astor The XIII. for the loss of the throne, joining his family in France. From provide for cooperation of non- described as a little setback, adding the projecte for which the conferirdise cultivators, is regarded as bridegroom is Mr. Reginald Lang hope that it will be regained there he went to The British Nave Academy at Dartmouth was pro- exporting countries whose produc- that he had never felt there was ence was summoned until stabiliza a hopeful siga.
Borne Brooks, whose mother Mrs.. through Juan. tion is considerable. It should be
tion is achieved, Washington reiter! It is construed that they have Reginald Brooks, was formerly Miss Juan was given an excellent moted to midshipman and assigned fair to both producers and consum- American conditions were for theated that the dollar should find its at least modified their opposition Phyllis Longhorno, of Virginia, & education, and kept out of the to duty in India, where he was this ers, designed to secure ar main moment very dificult in zela.ion own level for the present.
public eye as much as possible, until past winter visited by his father tain a fair and remuner.ive price to
In high French quarters it was and are willing to co-operate in sister of Lady Astor,
On June 29 the ex-Infanta Bea Navy, the attempt to arrive at
he entered the Spanish level without discriminating against temporary stabilisation. The Unit said yesterday that the adjourn the new scheme,
The other members of the Com-
Academy in August 1, 1930. The triz celebrates her 24th birthday, any particular country and worked States memorandum showed ment proposal would be brought ed with willing co-operation of clearly what the position was in before the steering committee omittee are M. Enthoven, who has
Academy is located at San Fernan- and on June 29 the ex-Infante Ja
that country.
day unless there were clearer in always favoured restriction, and
M. J. C. Kastelyn Although it was open to question, dications of an agreement. many of the responsible men, earnestly working for the success U.S. SPECIFIC PROGRAMME of the Conference, felt that the final utility of any temporary stabilisa- tion became 'doubtful if it tended to break the upward tendency of prices in the United States.
consuming interests in importing countries, who are equally concern- ed with producers in the mainten ance of regular supplies and fair and stable prices. It should be of adequate duration Dus regard should be bad to the desirability of encouraging efficient production in each country.
SOVIET NOTE IGNORED
ITERUNGE REUTER'S AGENCY.)
very much in it.
The situation left by Thursday's note was not at all cloudy or un-
doing so.
LONDON, June 21. Members of the American delega tion announced to-day that they had a specific and immediate pro gramme of economic action which would be presented at the proper
" CUSTODY OF THE CHILDREN'
CHINESE GIRLS WHO PRE- FERRED THEIR ERRANT MOTHER.
"
Mr. Brooks is a prominent am teur aviator, and, so is his bride, Mies Ahoes Rhonie. She is the daughter of the late Mr. Arthur Hofheimer, of New York, and was formerly married to Mr. Richard Bemberger, well-known broker. After her divorce, three years ago, she adopted, her second Christian name of Rhonie as her siruame.
She said that the marriage was as sudden to herself as to the rest of New York asociety. “We fixed
it up when flying back from the
country club in the afternoon," she aid, and we stopped at the muni- cipal building to be married when we arrived in New York."
TREASURY BILLS TENDERS
certain. It enabled them to go on
Penang, June 14. A heartrending with their work, and they were moment. The American delegates scene was witnessed to-day in the met and discussed Senator Key Supreme Court when, a father at There was a suggestion abroad Pittman's silver resolution which tempted to take away four Chinese that the Conference should adjourn is winning some support before the girls who had been, with their BERLIN, June 93.
He could not imagine ́a more i monetary commission.
mother since birth. The Foreign Office has bluntly foolish suggestion to be made at The delegates also discussed the The father, Liew Siew Cheong, a rejected the Sovite Note protesting this moment. Recalling the efforts wheat question and it is reported planter of Bukit Mertajam, applied. Against Hugenberg's Memorandum of the last 12 months to get the that the United States will pro to the Court for the custody of his Conference convened, be declared pose to restrict its production re that if they were to adjourn now gardless of the notion taken by children since his wife, Chin Thum Moey, had left him and whs now with a view to resuming in the other wheat nations.
The French delegates officially staying with another man. The autumn, the chances were that the situation, instead of being better, denied reports that they proposed mother did not resist the applica would be considerably worse.. to quit the conference because the tion, but asked that she be allowed Nothing could have a worse effect depreciation of the dollar made to see her children twice & month. than such an adjournment upon currency stabilization impossible. Hit Lordship made an order for A TOTAL £69,660,000 was applied for in the tenders for the determination of practically the It is also reported that President the father to have pustody of the 250,000,000 Treasury Bills yester whole of the nations of the world Roosevelt's new instructions, which children, the mother to have access to get some spirit of settlement. are being conveyed to the American
The Conference le going on," delegation through Raymond Mo to them twice a month he declared emphatically.
ley, assistant secretary of state who LONDON, June 24.7 There was practically nothing. There were interests, perhaps, is rushing to London from Washing doing at the World Economie Con- who wanted to destroy the Con-
to the World Economic Conference. in regard to Germany's colonial aims on the ground that the mem- orandum contained nothing to justify such a protest. SOVIET NOTE TO GERMANY
{TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]
(Contiqued on Page 15)
Outside the court the children created a scene, refusing to go with
their father.
day
£45,000,000 ALLOTTED.
[BRITISH WIRELESS BERJOR.]
Rugby, June 23,
The amount allotted in Bills, at
three months, was £45,000,000
the average rate per cent. was 7/10.34d compared with 7/10,190.
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