DISARMAMENT PARLEY
ADJOURNMENT
Prompt Denial Of News. Agency Report
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright,))"
Berlin, May 16.
The report from Geneva by a foreign news agency that 'the' Powers had agreed on principle to adjourn the arms confererice Indefinitely has created a sen" sation here which, however," was shortlived since the official quar- tere in London us well as Paris' have hastened to deny the report.
A London despatch states that nothing is known" there of the al- leged adjournment while Paris summary brands the report as Incorrect.
SUPPORTING THE LEAGUE
Sir John Simon's Statement
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY, “18,
STRANDED ARMY KING'S JUBILEE
AVIATORS
Bold Rescue Attempt
[Special to the “Hong Kong Dails
~.. Press” (Copyright/)
Paris, May 18,
CELEBRATION
Invitation to Colonies
London, May 17. It is understood that a formal message has been sent 10. the Dominions and Colonial Govern- ments drawing attention to the
Accession and hinting that the perseas Premiers might wish to participate.
1934.
LOSS OF THE NANTUCKET
Enquiry to be Held
New York, May 17.
An enquiry by the Department of Commerce has been ordered to collision between investigate the the White Star liner Olymple and the Nantucket lightship.
The Government agents' - and officials of the Steamboat Inspec- board for
preliminary enquiries immediately the Olympic, docked, but a full enquiry will not be held at pre- sent.
The crew of the French army 1935 celebrations of the King'stian Service went on plane which was forced down into the Channel on Tuesday evening spent a storm tossed night in company with five German sailors as a result of a bold but unsuccess- ful attempt by the crew of the North German Lloyd steamer "Dresden" to rescue them in rough
seas. London. May 18 The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, in addressing the Federa- tion of Women's Institutes. in London, described It as a very distressing and serious fact that no International agreement on dis- armament had yet
German political circles opineed. that while the arms conference is undoubtedly on the rocks, the Powers would probably be loathe to bluntly admit defeat without
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A lifeboat was skilfully launched and succeeded in taking off the drifting French filers aboard but was balked 'time' and again by the storm from resuming contact with the big mothership.
Shortly after mid-night, the been reach-French tug "Pingonia”, from Bou- logue love in sight and" after a grim battle against the elements which lasted few hours, five Ger- man seimen, one French officer and three non-commissioned off- ders were lassooed and hauled on board the tug:
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He shared the keen disappoint- so widely-left, but he did not share the view of those who said that because two years had passed
offering FOLL sort of alibi.without achieving an agreement
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FRENCH MINISTER'S
DENIAL
therefore the whole enterprise was hopeless and should be abandoned.
Remarking that the hoped soon
Geneva, May 16, to attend the next meeting of the The Arms Conference's main Conference, Sir John Simon said: committee have been convened 'for "Speaking on behalf of the Bri- May 30, according to a statementtish Government I say that we issued on
Wednesday evening shall do the very best that can
agreement
which says that the convening was be done to bring ar decided upon by Prasident Hender-out of the tangled and complicat
son to conform with the resolutioned situation. passed by the conference's 'bureau on April 10.-Transocean Kuo Miri,
COMMITTEE MEETING
ARRANGED
"Rome, May 16, Mussolini's 17-year old second son, Vittorio passed his final pilot's examinationis on the Motecellio flying field on Wednesday thereby becoming Italy's youngest licensed avlator, a fact which was proudly featured by the Italian Press.-- Transocean Kuo Min.....
CONFERENCE MIGHT FAIL
Geneva, May 17.
A report that it has already been decided to adjourn the Disarma ment Conference has been prompt- ly denied in League of Nations cir- cles,
The French Foreign Minister, M. Marthou, was particularly em- phatic. He is still hopeful, but admitted. however, that the con- ference might fail and that there was a possiblity of the discussed general, disarmament commission reporting back to the League Council.
""I shall go to Geneva full of confidence because I am profound- ly convinced that the hearts and hapes of the British people are most deeply pledged on this. issue. "There is no effort too great, or persuasion that "could be super- fluous; for the purpose of bringing about an agreement. If an agree- ment is not reached. the League of Nations is going to suffer а sharp blow.
"The British policy stands for the support and maintainance of the League of Nations. To sub- stitute for this new world a me- thod of international co-operation. the old world method of one coun- try arming. Itself against another, will not do."
Another
French
naval planë
which cropped into the Channel on Wednesday during the present manouevres is regarded to be in a less critical situation, due to the, slackening of the sea. despite the
fact that radio messages from the
crew have been discontinued. Tugs
and, despatch cutters have been rushed out from Cherbourg to the. waters off the heights of Calvados. where the plane's hulk. Is reported ta be drifting.--Transocean Kuo *Min.
REACTIONARIES IN GERMANY
More Trouble Brewing.
Berlin. May 17. The possibility of a new revolu- tionary wave in Germany against "Reactionaries," generally Jews, is particularly suggested ja recent developments.
While be believed that valuable results would fallow if the general, level of armaments were reduced, Sir John Simon said that the real difficulty which faced the Con- ference was not a tecnical ques- tion as to how many arms of a particular kind particular na-ly
on should have. Armaments were only an indica- tion of the disease of rear. and unless something could be done to strike at the roots of this terrible disease, the best technical experts in the world would not be able to produce an agreement for inter- national Disarmament. "British
Competent quarters belleve that when the General Commission mects on May 29, it will be difficult to keep it alive for more than a fortnight. Many believe that the best and healthiesst solution would Wireless. be a long interval, trusting the a economic situation, to afford a bet-
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The National campaign present- waging against "carpers and critics" whom Minister Goebbels denounced in a recent speech wherein he declared that if the crisis became serious the Jews in Germany will not be allowed to depart unhindered. the hatred, fury and desperation of the Ger- man people will then turn against those who are reachable in the country."
Along with the anti-Jewish
ter prospect of settlement-Reuter. LONDON PRESS on fomented by the revival
AMERICAN" ATTITUDE
- מגב
Washington, May 17. President Roosevelt has nounced that he is preparing a full exposition of the American attitude, on Disarmament which will be delivered at Geneva by the American delegate, Mr. Norman Davis.
ALARMED
Fear of Failure
It is belleved, however, that the Message contained no suggestion of
Olympic, leaves for England to- any form of an Imperial Confer-morrow in accordance with sche- cnce. Reuter.
dule. The enquiry may be held In New York when she returns,
In the meanwhile the Nantucket
STEFFTEN
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SILVER MARKET ·
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ton.
ARMS FOR BOLIVIA AND PARAGUAY
Embargo Proposal Before League Council
Geneva, May 17. The dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay was discussed by the
League Counci! at which Captain Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal, on behalf of Britain, proposed an im- mediate, embargo on the supply of arins to both countries.
Captain Eden made an eloquent appeal to the Council to do its ritmost to stop the bloodshed and rnisery prevailing in Gran Chace
survivors have been taken to Bos-n the past two years. He, sug- gested that the Council approach the seventeen governments whose co-operation was necessary to en- autre whether they agreed to an arms embargo.
The Olymple arrived flying her flag at half mast. She was prac- tically undamaged.
Commander Binks, wo has been On the bridge since 4 a.m. ch Mon- day, in an interview with Reuter said that it was the weight and
(From Our Own Correspondent)
London, May 17. London silver prices to-day were up 9/16ths for both "spot" and "forward' quotations, as follows:
not the speed that cut the Nan- May 16 May 17
Sucket in two. It was foggy in Spot
19 19 11/16 patches and the vessel was travell- Forward
191 19-1116ing between two and three knots The London on New York cross- rate at 2.00
p.m. to-day was 5.10-15/16, compared with 511 at yesterday's closing...
STRANGE CASETM IN GREENWICH
King of Siam's Credits
Two letters of credit for £1,600 on the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank belonging to the King. of Slam strangely figured in a Police Court case
at Greenwich when Oliver Edwards, bookmaker, living in a lodging house at Deptford was charged with being in possession of them. It being reasonably sus- pected they were stolen or unlaw fully obtained.
and reduced speed eight minutes before the crash, when the light- ship's fog signals were heard.
The passengers, paid a warm tribute to the launching of the Olympic's lifeboats.-Reuter.
GEN. TSAI TING ΚΑΙ Visit to Italy
Rome, May 17. General - Tsal Ting Kal, com- mander of the Nineteenth Route Army in China, Reuter has been intormed. will be visiting Italy to study first hand Fascist institutions at work with Signor Mussolini, who exercises a powerful attraction In China-Reuter.
General Taal Ting Kai is the hero of the undeclared war in Shanghai when his forces offered such stout resistance to the Japan- ese. Later he was connected with the rebellion in Fukien, which was suppressed by the Nanking Govern-
Edwards, when arrested, said he had found them on "the Strand. He was remanded on ball-Reuter.ment.
ITALY'S YOUNGEST
AVIATOR
(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
Press" (Copyright).] |
Geneva, May 16. -Rumours of an alleged adjourn- ment of the arma conference were, denied here by the French Foreign Minister, M. Barthou, as a "pure Invention."
According to despatches from London, Mr. Arthur Henderson stated to Pressmen that the reports of his resignation as President of the Arms Conference were un-
of "Ritual Murder" allegations of friction between Nazis and "Stahl-founded, he having not the slight- helm is growing..
est intention to resign and would proceed to Geneva"on" Friday next week-Transocean Kuo Min.
London, May 17. Feelings bordering on alarm are to-day betrayed in the London Fress at the possiblity of the Dis- armament Conference heaglagter an angry American
an imminent shipwreck,
The President did not indicate
in any change
the policy.-Reuter.
MR. HENDERSON HAS NOT.
*RESIGNED
니
"LEAGUE FOR HUMAN
RIGHTS
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright.)]
Paris, May 16.
A statement by Von Schirach the Nazi youth leader, that the coming generation alone could ful- 1 the Nazi mission.. elicited a caustic reply from the Stahlhelm. organ that it is a privilege of youth to overestimate itself. This drew reply from the Nazi organ and an order to Captain of Staff. Broun The Archbishop of Canterbury, Roehm, Chier on behalf of the leaders of the Army complaining "against the Christian Churches, states in a Storm "detachment attitude."
M. Herriot who only last Bunday manifesto that the failure of the Stahlhelm and the instructing scored a notable triumph when the Conference, will inexcusably betray Brown Army fully support the Radical-Socialist party congress the hopes and desires of mulu-Kytthaeuserbund 'sivel ex-ser-upheld his policy of supporting the tudes.
vicers' organisation, whore mem- National Union Government, did The Foreign Secretary, Sir John bers are merging in the Storm not fare so well with the local Simons,, in a speech in London an- Troops reserve.
chapter of the "League for Human nounced that he was going to Friction culminated in the arrest Rights" at his native city, Lyons, Tuesday, Geneva to do his very best to of one of the foremost leaders, which has decided to oust him May 29, and was determined to do bring an agreement out of "this Stahlhelm Goernemann, who, how from membership on the grounds everything in his power to in-tangled and complicated situa- sver, was released last night. that "Herriot as, a member of the
Reuter.
Doumergue Cabinet is responsible for the number of legislative mea- sures which have caused wide pub- lic indignation."
London, May 16. Mr. Arthur Henderson yesterday- day denied the report that he had resigned the Presidency of the Disarmament Conference.
He said that he was making the necessary arrangements for work to be resumed
fluence the conference to carry through its original task-British Wireless.
ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS
Washington, May 16. June 5 has been tentatively fixed for the adjournment of the United States Congress following a con- ference between President Rose- velt and the Congressional leaders. Before the adjournment, it will be necessary to pass Bills dealing with communications "control" in surance of bank deposits, and loans to industry, but there is every in dication that the disputed unem- ployment insurance bills and the controversial labour legislation will be set aside--Reuter
tion."
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This is interpreted mean that though the hopes of a com- prehensive convention are dead, Great Britain is" determined to get either a skeleton convention, like the banning of chemical and bacteriological warfare, or. "The Times" hints, an European agreement to outlaw bombing from the air and to abolish large, aggressive, weapons.
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The "Newa Chronicle" learnia that Britain is considering details of an air convention prohibiting air bombing and obliging signa- torlee jointly to bomb any country which broke the pledge. to refrain from aerial warfare.
THE SUNGARI INCIDENT
Soviet Version
AL
Moscow, May 17, The Soviet account of the recent firing on the Manchukuo-owned steamer in the River Amur states that a party aboard were making a In the even of such efforts photographic survey of the Soviet breaking dont, the Disarmament share, and ignored requests to Conference is expected to hand resist, whereupon the frontier over the task to the League Coun-guards fired a few blank-shots, and cl plus Germany, Russia and the then several rifle shots high above United States Reuter.
the steamer's funnel-Reuter.
HARUNA MARU AGROUND Mishap in Fog
Tokyo.. May 17. " Maru, with the textile conference The N.TK steamer Haruna
delegates aboard returning to Japan, was stranded at the en- trance to the Shimonoseki Strafts during dense fog at midnight, läst night, according to a message re- ceived here from Shimonoseid to-day.
Salvage tugs are expected to tow the vessel.oft at high tide, at 11 o'clock this morning.--Renter.
CONTROL OF STOCK
EXCHANGES ·
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Washington, May 16.
, President Roosevelt has declared
emphatically for the regulation of stock exchanges, by the Federal Trade Commission, as proposed in the House of Representatives, ver- son of the Control Bill instead of by a new commission as the Senate favoured.
The President likewise informed the members of both Houses in conference, that he destres strin- gent marginal requirements of 45 per cent, as specified in the House Representatives' version of the Bill.----Reuter.
EXPRESS TRAIN DERAILED
The league is en organisation of pronounced paclinet teridencies and ↑ [Special to the “Hong Kong Daily Herriot was, formerly regarded as one of its shining lights.—Trans- otgan Kuo Mini
MINE DISASTER
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Conuright:)]
Brussels, May 16. The death roll in the mine disaster near Mons has risen to 45, all efforts to rescue the miners trapped in the burning: plt, two thousand five hundred feet below the ground, having proved futile.
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«Press” (Uopyright.}]^^&
Berlin, May.16.
Three persons, Including the en- gineer and the fireman, were kill- ed and nine passengers were in- jured, four gravely, when the Bre- men-Dresden Express left the rails owing to excessive speed while passing Langwedel station near Verden. The engine and three cars were overturned, and acety- lene torches had to be used in or der to cut a way to the victims wedged in the wreckage,
The accident would undoubtedly have taken a heavier toll of lives If the train had not been carrying an anusually small number of passengers Transocean Kuo Min.
ATTITUDE OF BRITAIN
Explanation At Commons
London, May 18. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, on behalf of the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon. yesterday replied to a Par- Humentary question calling atten- Captain Eden's proposal was tton to the statemen. In respect, of supported by France, while Baron the League Copmission which nac Aloisi said that Italy would support, been Investigating the Bolivia- an embargo provided it was en-Paraguay dispute, that arms were dorsed by all countries.-Reuter. imported into those countries' from
America and Europe.
As regards the question's sug-
GOLD COVERAGE gestion that, irrespective of action
IN GERMANY A Further Drop
Berlin, May 17. A further drop of twenty-five million marks has reduced the Reichsbank gold coverage to 4.8 per cent
Financial circles express alarm at the continued steady decline and fear, one day the Reichsbank may have to rely for coverage sole. ly on securities which on May 15 amounted to 319,000,000 märks,
A year ago the gold coverage amounted to 8.5 per cent, since when bank-note circulation has
Reuter, increased by 124,000,000 marks—
GOLD IN THE
SOVIET Huge Increase in Production
Moscow, May 16.
$
of foreign armament factories, licences should be withheld for such exports from Britain, Mr. Baldwin "said that he feared no usetul purpose would be served by such a course, since the embargo, to 'le effective, must be enforced at least by the principal arms which had not yet expressed their manufacturing countries, several
readiness to coopefate.
Recapitulating the history of this particular proposal for arms embargo, Mr. Baldwin said" It was on the initiative of the British Government that the ex- change of views originally took place more than a year ago bé- tween the Governments of the United States, France and Italy, with a view to an agreement- be-... tween them to prohibit the ex- port of arms to Bolivia and Para- guay.
Subsequently, the British Gov- 'ernment, with the co-operation of":" the French Government, submitted a memorandum to the League Council on February 25, 1933, ang- gesting that steps be taken under- Article 11 of the Covenant to re- commend the Governments to im- pose this embargo.
A number of the States made. their acceptance subject to the ceptance of the declaration by a special number of other Stater, including the United States..
A draft declaration, to be sign- Sovlet gold production in" 1933
ed by the Eovernments in favou increased by 142 per cent.,
of this step, was considered by the compared with the previous year, Courcil, and was accepted by all according to hitherto jealously the States who were members of guarded figures now announced.
the Council, including the United: Production was. valued at Kingdom. 100,000,000 roubles in 1933 and 41,000,000 roubles in 1932,
Production daring the first
above the quarter of 1934 was 67 per cent same period of last year. Communist Party, M. J. W. Stalin, The General Secretary of the
is of the opinion that the Soviet could get four times as much gold they could get sufficient dredgers and other machinery.such legislation has been passed.' Renter."
British Wireless.
it
country, however, stated that they The Government of the latter
were unable to impose an embargo until the necessary* legislation has been passed by Congress, and no
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