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Britain To Aid Newfoundland TO HELP BRITISH THE IRISH WILL
MR. CHAMBERLAIN REVIEWS
SITUATION
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London, December 7... The Chancellor of the Exche- quer. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in the Commona to-day, moved money resolution on which a Bill will be founded to carry out the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Newfoundland.
That Bill, the Chancellor men tioned would raise a number of extremely interesting and import ant questions affecting not only
wider questions of Imperial rela- tions.
were advised would produce a par nominal value equivalent to the
value of the stock.
SEAMEN Proposals by Chamber
of Shipping
Landon, December 8. The Chamber of Shipping re- commendations · for & shipping subsidy as cabled by Reuter yes- terday include an operating sub, sidy of ten shillings per gross ton
EFFECT OF PROPOSALS The effect of the proposals was that the annual interest burden would be reduced by £350,000ạ year, and the debt, would amount to £2,000,000 of trust securities or in ballast.
£17,000,000 of and about- stock. The new stock
annually on each British tramp steamer genuinely seeking cargo and engaged in international trade on a daily pro rata basis for each voyage, whether the vessel is laden
new The subsidy should be paid from would the day of signing on to the day
than five years bence. The burd- en of that sinking fund would be a year, an additional £170,000 but they might hope that before that began, the financial condi- tion of Newfoundland would be so much improved that the bur- den would not prove to be exces." give.
the employment of British seamen
Independent Always
New York, December a "Mr. Thomas shirked the issue of my statement of November 14" said Mr. De Valers, responding, to a request by the Associated Press for a statement, "when he tried to persuade the world to believe that the Irish people were anxious to enjoy the privileges of member- ship of the British Commonwealth, implying that we were free to leave
if we so chose.
DECEMBER 9, 1933.
A PREHISTORIC
MONSTER
Roaming The Land In Invernesshire
London, Dec. 8. Public sentiment has been greatly relieved by an 20. nouncement by the Secret
"We have since stated plainly ary of State for Scotland that that the will of the Irish people he has written to the Chief of to-day, as always, will be free Constable of Invernesshire re- and independant.”).
Mr. De Valera stated that they questing that due, precautions have asked Mr. Thomas to say be taken that the monster that straightforwardly that an Irish
with
the people of Newfoundland but carry a sinking fund of one per of signing off as this will promote, severance from the Commonwealth is alleged to be inhabiting
cent.. which would start no more
would not lead to war or other Lochness is not to be trapped, of whom forty thousand are at aggressive action by the British shot or molested in any way present in the ranks of the un-Government. Mr. Thomas, refused
Several persons of known to answer, knowing that the plea- employed.
The Chamber also propose
sant relationship
Britain sobriety assert having seen the five-shilling per
ton "laying-up would not last & day if the Trish monster in recent weeks which subsidy for a minimum period of peopls were free to end it. thirty days. The Chamber urge
ie variously estimated to be up that preferential empire produced
Though Mr. Thomas attempted to a hundred feet in length to deny the 1921 Treaty forced on and is said to be a cross be Ireland under threat of immediate war, there was conclusive evidence tween a whale and an Ichthyo that # threat was made, Mr. saurus. Thomas's latest despatch being proof that the British Government
must
Nevertheless, be thought they, assume that it would be necessary for some years for Bri tain to come to the assistance of Newfoundland and make up the defict in her Budget,,, «
The Chancellor referred to the andings of the Royal Commission. which showed that Newfoundland had been the victim of a vicious political system.. and that if its financial position was to be re- stored. there should be a rest, for a time. from party politics. The Chancellor said it was only right to add that the present Govern- ment of Newfoundland had made most strenuous and praiseworthy efforts to bring about 盘 better state of affairs. It was, therefore. all the more significant that the Government had endorsed the recommendations. of the Royal Commission. and had entirely approved their proposals. DEBT FIGURE The Chancellor said the sent public debt of Newfoundland amounted to £17 millions ster- ling, plus 9,000,000 Canadian dol lars about 19 million At the present rate of
on exchange, which the yearly interest was about one million sterling, repre- senting 65 per cent of Newfound- land's total revenue. The efforts of Its present Government to bring expenditure in line withing its revenue had been beaten by the economic depression and the disastrous" fall in price of codfish and wood pulp.
The British Government pro- posed that whatever advances were necessary should, up to end of 1934, betree gifts from Bri- tain, and that afterwards they might be by loan, or gift, as de cided later. He estimated that. £550,000 which preincluding the
Britain had already found during twelve months, and the last which was a free gift. Britain's total liability by the end of 1936 would amount to from €1.500.000 to £2.000.000-British Wireless.
BRITIAN TO THE RESCUE
London, December 8.
A financial resolution concern
Newfoundland Was carried through the Committee stage in the House of Commons last night by 227 votes to 38, the Opposition and "Liberals supporting the Ger- The British Government had ernment. The Chancellor of the no hesitation in going to the aid. Exchequer in outlining the finan- of Newfoundland, as recommend
cial proposals whereby the "Erit- Ish Government will come to the ed by the Royal Commission, and
assist hoped they might help the island aid of Newfoundland and to return to self supporting that Dominion to remain in
He proposed in regard to self supporting position: said that the defcit on the Newfounland the Newfoundland debt, that the bulk of the creditors would not budget would be met at least fol the first three years by a free gift be paid in cash, but would receive
from Great stock of equal face value, backed
total by the Government of the United amount of which might be. as Kingdom, with interest at 3 per much as £2,000,000-British Wire-
Government i less.
basis.
cent..
which
£
the
INDIAN COTTON
INDUSTRY
!!
Britain,
the
INSTALLATION
OF LORD IRWIN
Liaison Officers To As, Chancellor Of
Be Appointed
London, Dec. 8. Two Cotton Commissioners who have not yet been appointed will go to India early in the new year as liaison officers in the hope of increasing the use of Indian raw cotton by Lancashire, according to the Manchester Daily Despatch.
The decision was based on the recommendation from the British Textile Mission to India and was announced by Sir Richard Jack son, chairman of the Indian Cot ton Enquiry Committee who left for Bombay on December 1, lash to meet the Indian Central Cot- ton Committee.
Å further recommendation
of
Oxford
a
London, Dec. 7. Lord Irwin was this afternoon installed as Chancellor of Oxford University, with traditional cere- monial.
Heads of the House, doctors, proctors and the Public Orator met the new Chancellor at the great gates of the old schools and escorted him to Sheldonian, where, after
usual Ladin formulae, and a speech by the Public Orator: Lord Irwin was nd- mitted as Chancellor, British Wireless.
the
goods should be confined to goods imported on British ships, while a discriminatory Customs Duties should be levied on cargoes import- ed on foreign ships.-Reuter...
DEFEND BRITISH SHIPPING
Lardon, December 8. The Council of the Chamber of
Threat of War.
While the threat remains, and
!
DUTCH EAST INDIES AND
་་
RUBBER RESTRICTION
No Fixed Price Wanted For Five Years
FAIR CHANCE FOR THE NATIVE PRODUCER
Batavia, Dec. 8. sidering making a protest, not The Dutch East Indies Gov-only in the interests of growers ernment intend to communi. but also the consumers whose week-end its standpoint in re- cate telegraphically before the needs require a lower basis.
than sixty cents per kilogram, gard to rubber. restriction, to the Dutch Government.
These views were formulat. ed at an extraordinary meeting of the Supreme Council yes- terday.
The paper, "Javabode" ad valorem proposal. The summarising the position after Dutch East Indies are disin- yesterday's meeting points out clined to hand over their in- that all depends on whether terests to some future Interna- the European representatives Lional Rubber Council, but
The Dutch East Indies do not want a fixed price basis for five years. A compromise on the Native Rubber Ques- tion many eventually be pos sible on
1 basis of
an
is not yet willing to withdraw it Shipping having considered the the relations of the two countries report of the special committee of are based on force, there can be the Chamber on tramp cargo no real understanding and no real ships, passed by 85 votes to 3, re- friendship.
Pointing out that the Irish de solutions recommending that the Government be advised that, when not meddie with British affairs to the effect that he has post- It stresses the fact that rub-ducer. The paper does not ex- De Valera added that the ed policemen around Lochness ber restriction has both its pects the Colonial Minister to any section of the British Mer-j Mr. cantile Marine can show that a Irish, wished to be allowed to
subsidy is temporary
necessary manage their own affairs in the and that all possible precau-nancial and economic sides, materially alter the conditions and will ensure its preservation way which seemed best to them- tions will be taken to protect and the Dutch East Indies laid down by the Dutch East for the time being. The Govern- selves and on which only a basis the monster.-Reuter.
Government are at last con-
Indies. Reuter.
The Zoological authorities, however, were sceptical even when confronted with photo graphs of the monster.
at the conference are willing want something economical The Chief Constable has re-accept the Dutch East Indies' that guarantees a fair chance for the native rubber pro- plied to the Secretary of State conditions.
ment, should. favourably consider "the granting of such a temporary
subsidy.
of lasting peace is possible.
It is significant that the British Government who are professing Inter- ardent championship of national Peace to accept this as a basis for relations with the neigh- bouring small nation-Reuter.
SILVER MARKET
(From Our Special Correspondent)
U.S. AND BRITISH
LIQUOR
No Agreement Yet Signed
That the Government be asked to intensify its efforts to promote the trade group of nations willing to trade on reciprocal basis of equality of treatment and with this object a bilateral or multi- lateral trade agreement may be made with as many nations as possible, one of terms of which that they would no should be longer discriminate against British ships either directly or by grant of uneconomic subsidies. That in
London, December 8.-
London, December 7. calculating the trade balance the
Following are the Silver Quota-
Answering a Commons question, services of British ships shall be tions on the London market to- remembered
the Under Secretary for Foreign ал important day:-
Dec. 8 Dec. 7 national export and that buying
Affairs, Mr. Anthony Eden. said power of the United Kingdom wil
18.9/16 18.11/18 no Equor marketing agreement be consistently and Armly used.
18.11/16 between the United States 181
and wherever possible to defend British
Britain was in existence. The London on New York cross shipping against uneconomic ship-
£=U.S. to-day closed at rate ping practices. That the Govern-
5.124. ment be used to take immediate steps to ensure the recognition in every part of the Empire of the gravity of the situation and the Jeopardy in which their trade and communications" will be placed if the present tendencies continue.
11 "EYE FOR EYE.”
It is anticipated that the Pre- sident of the Board of Trade will be in the House of Commons on Wednesday, to state the Govern ment's view on the shipping ques- tion. The "Times" to-day states that Governments other than the British Government Sure now spending about £30,000,000 yearly on shipping subsidies as results of which the total mercantile ship- ping of the world has increased by 21 million tons, whereas the volume of freight to smaller.
Spot Forward
IRISH NOT SLAVES
De Valera Still Defiant
to &
Dubin, Dec. 7, The Senate to-night approved the recommendations of the, Im- perial Comittee on economic con- sultation and co-operation
Mr. de Valera, replying taunt that the Free State "could carry is no walk into the Britich Com- monwealth with one leg and out of it with another," said that co- operation was based upon abso- lute freedom of choice to enter and to leave.
It says that just as Britain was driven after a long reluctance to meet tariffs by tariffs in order to put British industries од same level as their foreign .competitors, Referring to the moral and Con 30 it may now be driven to meet stitutional right to Becede, Mr. subsidies with subsidies to proteck those branches of shipping which de Valera said that the purpose are most hardly hit by foreign of his last despatch to the British subsidies competition in whatever Government was to get the posi form the policy of self-defence action clearly defined, but they ran He expressed the hope that the ther it is calculated to induce in
encouraging the off take of Indian TO REMAIN ONted, the rest of it will be whe- away from it.
ade-
Colton by arranging that quate stocks be held in Liverpool
or Manchester resulted in a satis-
factory meeting with the Liverpool Cotton Association,
Sir Richard foreshadowed
边
early display in London, of Lan- cashire goods manufactured from ex-Indian Cotton.-Reuter,
MUTINY ON CONVICT SHIP Report Of Fight Denied
Paris. Dec. 8.
A sensational report from Algiers station that a mutiny had occurred on board a French con- vict ship which was bound for Guiana, and that forty convicts! were reported to have been killed in a desperate fight with their gaolers, is partially denied by French semi-official quarters.
GOLD STANDARD
French Government's Statement
Paris, Dec. 7,
PEACE SYSTEM IN
·DANGER
1
other maritime nations the will- British Government would under-
ingness hitherto lacking to dis- stand that the Irish people were cuas in practical terms the res- not going to be a slave people and
British Wireless.
have any dictation-Reuter.
toration of mere equal conditions that they would not be content to
PROPOSED LEAGUE AIR-FORCE
Condemned by Lord Londonderry
TO STABILISE PETROL PRICES Scheme Submitted To Mr. Ickes
A
REBELLION IN FUKIEN
Northern Officials Seek Peace
of
Washingoen, Dec. 7.
Shanghai, December 8.
political scheme to stabilise petrol. The prospects
of the Fukien revolt prices by using an equalisation solution
current price have been brightened by an 20- fund to keep the from depressing by keeping sup-nouncement that the punitive ex- been pedition against the rebels has piles off the market had submitted to Mr. Ickes, Secretary been suspended, pending the plen- of the Interior, by sections of the ary session of the C.E.C. oil indusry.
The effective total quota fol the United Kingdom had not yet The scheme. It is understood; been determined. He understood proposes that members of the in- that certain proposals covering dustry should contribute funds for the transitional period from 8th the purchase of a million barrels, December to 31st January nex
which would be marketed slowly were DOW -under consideration, and in such a way as not to dis and that it was possible that. dur-turb prices.-Reuter. ing that period a quantity equi-' valent to four months' supplies of the minium annual quotas would be admitted at once in any event, but conversations oa the subject were still proceding with the United States Government, and it was not at present possible to give gurea-British Wireless
DISSENSION IN US. "ADMINISTRATION
Washington, December 7. " Efforts were made to-day, with personal intervention of President Roosevelt, to bridge over the gaps which appeared over-night in the ranks of leading Administrations official
Both in the Department of Agriculture and in the Treasury Department there has been mark- ed dissension.
All the disputing parties were invited to the White House to- day where President Roosevelt himself took a hand in the affair.. Subsequently, Mr Wallace, the Becretary of Agriculture, stated that they all had the same ob- jective, namely, to get the fariner a fair share of the national" in- come.
In the meantime, Mr. Morgon- acting Secretary of the thet Treasury, has announced that the Secret Bervice will be removed from the control of the Assistant Secretary, Mr. Hewes, because he (Morgenthan)" must have... direct contact with the men in charge of the branches-Reuter
US: LOAN ISSUE OVER- SUBSCRIBED
The Government declares cate- gorically that France "will not abandon the gold standard, said M. Bonnet m the course of the Budget debate in the Chamber
in no sense, a new policy. The to-day.
London, December 7.
adhered to the- interna- Government finance Minister gave an The
The question of the assurance that the frane will be tionalisation of civil and military policy they had put forward at protected from outside pressure al-aviation was raised in the House Geneva. mamely, that of. parity though he stressed the serious of Lords to-night by Lord Allen for the great Powers who at pre- position of "the Treasury Renter of Hurtwood, who urged the Gov-sent possessed air armaments, com- ernment to consider taking a furi bined with their reduction, from ther initiative at the resumed their present strength, both in Disarmament Conference to sec- quantity and quality, pending an ure the total abolition of military examination of, the difficult and and naval aviation on the lines complicated question of the inter- of the British draft convention nationalisation if clé aviation and the Internationalisation of was a view to the abolition of air armaments of every kind, if a civil aviation......
The Air Minister, Lord London- really practicable solution of that It seems to be admitted that
derry, replying on the discussion, problem could be produced. some trouble of a serious nature Foreign Office with Sir John said Britain could not acept com.
LEAGUE AIR FORCE occurred on the convict ship, but simon. Mr. Henderson last night tinuance of her present interior according to semi-official quar- returned from Paris, where he hasity in air and if parity could not Lord Londonderry said the tera no convicts were killed.--
had conversations on disarma- be secured by reductions else- Government did not think that Renter.
where, then the converse propo- the establishment of an interna-
NEW POST OFFERED In an interview he took a grave sition must follow and they tionalised air force at the dispos
MapLater. view of the present situation and would have no option but to be al of the League of Nations was said on the whole, the collective gin to build upwards whilst con either a practicable or B-desir After a conferènce at the peace system was in danger. He finuing their efforts to secure an able policy, and they were con- Agricultural Department which expressed the hope that the ex international agreement in axing vinced that its adoption would, Lasted the better part of the day, culminated in Mr. changes now taking place through parity at the lowest level to by no means, necessarily be fol- the trouble diplomatic channels would make which other nations would sub- lowed by the happy results which Wallace offering Mr. Peek, the its advocates anticipated-Britishchiet agitator, a new post-Reu- an international agreement possi- scribe. “ble—British Wireless.
He emphasised that this was, Wireless,
WING COMDR. WILLOCK
London, December 8. Wing-Commander Willock who was appointed Air Attache to China last September sailed for Shang- hai on the ss. Ranpura to day Renter,
London, December 8. The president of the Disarma- ment Conference, Mr."Arthur Hen- derson, will today confer at the
ment.
Washington, Dec. 7. President Roosevelt announced to-night that the issue of 8950,- 000,000 worth of One-Year Certi- ficates of Indebtedness dated De- cember 15 was over-subscribed. The lists have been closed.
The money is to be devoted to the retirement of loans maturing on December 15-Reuter.
ter.
A TEMPORARY HALT
New York, December 8. A virtual if temporary haltin President Roosevelt's gold pur- chase programme is indicated by Mr Jesse Jones who announced that the domestic purchases to- talled 354,000 ounces, valued at $11,350,000.
The C.EC. is scheduled to meet at Nanking on December 20.
In the meantime, four -peace: delegates from Nanking, Messrs. Chang Chi, Ma Chac)-tsum, Huang Lu-yi and Chen Shao-ying are sailing to-morrow aboard the "
President Pierce.
CONCESSIONS TO SOUTH
The China Press" says the delegates carry a favourable res sponse from Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Wang Ching-wel and other Gov-
in ernment leaders
connection with proposals made by the Bouth-West Political Council for the solving of the Fukien erott and satisfying Southern→ aspire- tions,
The concessions made to Can- ton political feeling are said to include a shortening of the per- iod of political tutelage and the. formation of a Coalition Govern- Mr. Jones added that the fon
are: eign purchases were hardly en- ment including people who ough to make a goid bridgework not members of the Kuomintang fos a false tooth." Reuter
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