JAPAN'S FRIENDSHIP
WITH CHINA
Cemented By Basis Of
Equality
Tokyo, Feb. 27,
manifest
more
her pro-Japaness attitude clearly. He added that the Sino- Japanese" situation had taken a decided turn for the better.
THRUST AT CRITICS
the attitude
la-
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1935.
RUBBER QUOTA
DECISION
Mixed Reception
-In London
London, Feb. 27.
And
INDIA REFORM BILL
DIFFICULTIES
Questions That Could Be Easily Adjusted
London, Feb. 25.
38.
A mixed reception has been ac- corded to the decision of the In- ternational Rubber Committer.
had no reason to suppose that Market disappointment at the The Sécretary for India, sir the Princes had altered their con- While nothing concrete was dis-
Tokyo, Feb. 27..
Committee's failure to fix a 30 per Samuel Hoare, made a statement ception of what the All-India cussed in his talks with Da., Wang Japanese concern at the possi- cent. cut for the second quarter in the House of Commons to-night Federation should be," but if they Chung Hul, the Foreign Minister billty real or supposed, of a Nine is tempered by the announcement with regard to & resolution adopt-had done so the sooner everybody announced that the Diet had ex- Power conference called to discuss } of a severer cut for the third ed In Bombay yesterday by the knew the position, the better it pressed its hearty approval of developments in the Far East was quarter. The Committee's modexa- conference of Princes, to the would be for all parties concern- Dr. Wang's suggestions that the voiced officially by a Foreign ton is praised.
effect that the Goverment gred. bonds of ...Sino-Japanese friend-Office spokesman in a statement
First the announcement of India Bil and the instrument, of" The Government was just ship should be tightened through hitting strongly at
quotas for six months removes accession could not in their pre-determined as always to make it peaceful diplomacy on basis of of "some foreign critics" towards uncertainty and secondly the consent form, be regarded as accept-clear in a most solemn manner. equality backed up by the hearty the projected Sino-Japanese rap. sumption reaches the peak during able to the Indian States
that it regarded the treatles be- co-operation of the Chinese and prochement,
the second. quarter and seasonal When the House resumed con-
tween the Crown and the Indian · Japanese governments. and their The spokesman expressed sus-falling off during the third quar-sideration of the Bill in commit states as Inviolate. So far as he peoples.
picion that the critics who" ad- ter. It is pointed out that in ad- tee this afternoon. Mr. Winston could Judge none of the painte vocated intervention of the West-justing production Mr. Hirota said that Japan had
seasonal Churchill, who
has throughout I raised seemed questions of prin- em Powers under the Nine Power fluctuations in consumption the vigorously opposed the measure;ciple, but all seemed questions of asked China 'to stop all anti-Treaty for protection of the
Committee manifested S Japanese agitation and
moved to report progress in view detail that could be very well, and desire tegrity of China were really de-for stability in price.
of the Princes' resolution which in some cases, easily be adjusted. sirous of bringing about a new On a production basis of 75 per he said had created a new politi--British. Wireles. estrangement between China and cent. for the year shipments should cal tuation so far as the Bill's PROPOSAL DEFEATED Japan.
not exceed 800.000 tons, whereas
future was concerned. The
London, Feb. 27. spokesman characterised consumption will be around 1,000,-
After long discussion, the House of Commons last night rejected charge made in Europe that Japan expected to show a sharp reduc- is trying to persuade China
tion at the end of the year. There
by Mr. Winston Churchill that the withdraw from the League, expel is no doubt that the Commitee is
resolution of the Princes neces- European and American advisers aiming at a higher price, but ob-.
sitated postponement of further. and participate in an Astatic blocviously the with is to achieve the
progress with the Government of in return for financial assistance. object slowly and surely with vio-
Sir Samuel Hoare, who was India BUL warmly cheered, at once rose to The "Times" referring to
the remove, he said, various misunder-question to-day standings. It was not surprising apprehensions, of
considers that the Princes such misunderstandings arise in dealing with such com- founded must be removed and plex questions when the prin- their views as cipals were 6,000 miles apart. He certain passages in the Bill must to redrafting of refused to accept the suggestion be carefully stated before it takes that the Government had gone final shape. It is, however, quite back on agreements made with unnecessary, says the "Times," to representatives of the Princes.
If by mischance there had been or elucidation's will make
suppose that these modifications failure in drafting the Bill to fundamental change in the struc- carry out those undertakings, he
ture and intention of the Bill- would see they were fulfilled. He British Wirelen.
Mr. Churchill said the question of accession of the Princes was
The spokesman announced that the entirely baseless and absurd" 000 tons. Consequently stocks are the foundation of the whole policy by 283 votes to 89 the proposal
the Foreign Office had instructed Mr. Ariyoshi to seek an under- standing with Nanking in connec- tlo with the opposition of the Chinese Delegation in Oslo to holding the "1940 Olympic Games
Reuter,
HOOD-RENOWN COLLISION
Capt. Sawbridge On Trial
London, Feb. 27. The Court Martial of Captain Sawbridge of H. M. S. Renown opened at Portsmouth this morn- ing. Rear Admiral Ramsays presiding while Rear-Admiral 3. A. Troup, the Navigation Expert, is again prosecutor. Captain Tower of HM.S. Hood and Rear-Admiral Balley were among those summon- ed to attend.- Reuters
“OBJECTION SUSTAINED"
Captain Sawbridge who was de- fended by Captain Roderick Miles of HMS Vernon and Paymaster Commander Wethey 'of the Renown, pleaded not guilty to the charge of "negligently or by de- fault hazarding" the Renown on January 1.
-Beuter.'"
to
CHINA AND THE
LEAGUE
To Take Japan's Place?
lent fluctuations. Reuter:..
SILVER MARKET ..
(From Our Own Correspondenti
London, Feb. 27, London Silver prices to-day were up 1/16 as follow:-
Feb. 26
Feb. 27 Spot.... .25-9/16 25-5/8 Forward.....25-11/16 25-3/4 London on New York-cross rate Geneva, Feb, 27,
at 2 pm to-day was 4.8606 com- The question of China, being re-pared with 4.8637 at closing yester- elected to the Council of the Lea- day. gue of Nations, following the va- cation of the seat by Japan on March 3, will be discussed by the
League Assembly in September. JAPANESE NAVY
China's chances are considered to be distinctly favourable.
There can be no question of her succession to 2 permanent seat as though it were a seat In the French Academy but there is a strong feeling that the full be made up either by the creation complement of the Council should of a new permanent seat or even a non-permanent
seat which
REPLACEMENTS
Position Without. Any Treaty
Federal scheme was dead. and expressed the view that the
MISUNDERSTANDINGS
Gordon's
SPECIAL
OLD TOM
NO COLOURING MATTER
NO INJURIOUS INGREDIENTS
WHITEST
PUREST
&BEST
The Largest Gin Distillers in the World should wherever they prove to be well- DEPARTURE OF
SINGAPORE'S GIFT
For Defence Of The Empire
London, Feb. 27.
SAFETY AT LAST!
Missionaries At Fenghsiang
any
Peking, Feb. 27. It is now known that five mis sionarles and two children, all of whom are British, have
arrived
STATESMEN
Schuschnigg Visit Results
(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press") "By Telegraph, Copyright, Tela graphic Mourages Ordinance. 1801 Received, February 27, 4.30 p.m.)
FREIGHTER IN
DISTRESS
Vessels Search In Heavy Seas
London, Feb. 27. The situation is desperate with no steering gear and the hold full of water," was the last wire- less message received from the British freighter Blair Gowrie
which was sent out" thousand
miles from Brest.
London, Feb. 26. Before leaving London on Tues- day evening with the foreign- minister, Berger-Waldenegg, Chan-
The Uner Europa and two"other" cellor Schuschnigg gave a recep- steamers have reached the spot tion to the English and foreign indicated at night time and report press representatives at the Aus-winds of hurricane force and trian Embassy.
mountainous seas. They have not
yet found any trace of the vessel, which is reported to have 26 per- Bons aboard.
Reuter
The from
TERRIBLE WEATHER
Regarding the real purposes of In the House of Commons to-
Chancellor said nothing but a this visit to London, the Austrian day, the Rt. Hon Earl Winterton
formed the Pressmen that he had requested information regarding Tokyo, Feb. 27. the gift from the Straits Settle-safely in Fenghsiang. Their namestion on many difficult problems met with sympathetic considera- might advantageously be attribut-ther the Japanese Navy feel that Empire defence.
The House of Peers asked whe-ments of half a million dollars for are not known but undoubtedly such as the conversion of the
London Feb. 27 ed to China,
they include Mr. and Mra Strange League of Nations loan.
Terrible weather reported the 54,000 tons Japan would have With the withdrawal of Japan to build annually for replacements that "the Governor informed me
Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister repiled and their children and it is be-Chancellor spoke at length on the Auxiliary steamer Serbol
mid-Atlantic. Th Meet Sawbridge cbjected to all the no truly Asiatic Power is repre- in 1936 onwards made by Admiral that the resolation was adopted by Betteridge and
lleved the others are the Misses political and economic conditions at Gibraltar to-day 36 hours late, arrived officers who sat at the Court seated on the Counell as Turkey Osumi to the Diet on February 7 the unofficial members of the Mr. Ament but this needs Silversides Martial yesterday being included has always asserted her claim to would be sufficient to
and of Austria, painting a very op having encountered mountainous In the Court to-day and they were be considered as a European coun- non-treaty situation.
meet a Council This gift is
c07-timistic picture of the economic seas on the way from, England. a further firmation replaced by other officers, Al try. South America, including
contribution from the Colony to- General Su Wel-ju, Commander
prospects awaiting Austria.
She is stated to have picked up "circumstantial letter signed by Mexico, occupies three seats and it was impossible to
The Navy Minister replied that wards the cost of the defence of of the 20th. Army in Sherst, has versation with the Italian Aming the voyage and reports that Bchuschnigg also held a con no less than 14 distress calls "dür- Rear-Admiral Troup
the greatest continent in the Old Navy's needs in new construction the four million dollars which the define the the Empire and was additional to
been instructed to stating that it appeared Sawbridge World is only half-represented by assuming there is no treaty after Straits Settlements agreed to pay
make
everybassador shortly before proceed-one endeavour to rescue
Italian steamer foundered the was to blame for the collision in one. League quarters deplore this the expiry of
Fren- ing to the railway station where near Cape Fenisterre, and another chams and also to afford protec- elaborate that he continued to steer the lack of balance and are studying
the Washington yearly towards the expenses of the tion, and if necessary arrange for safety were taken by the police.ritish Wirelen.
precautions for
his vessel was abandoned course ordered until the risk of a ways and means to remedy the
pact,
Colony.
the evacution of all reissionaries Transocean Kno Min, ✡ collision was
Replying to the suggestion that present and defect-
It is the second gift, following from all Communist threatened that he subsequently falled to Reuter.
the Navy should strengthen its similar-payment a year ago and areas- take effective action to prevent
forces in Formosa similarly to the the "thanks of the Government the collision.
Army, the Navy. Minister promis- have already been expressed to. ed to study the matter, but he the Council. Sir Philip said that pointed out the prohibitions of he was sure he was voicing the opinion of the whole House when he said that this generous gift was welcome, not only for our Own
read, vas
-HOOD MAINTAINS COURSE
The report of Sawbridge to the Rear Admiral two days after the collision
was read, showing that he had expected the Hood to turn but the Hood" maintained her course and speed, so despite the Renown stopping her engines and turning her wheel to the star- board side and going astern, the collision was unavoidable.
Lieut. Commander G. M. Stitt gave evidence to the effect that Squadron Navigating Officer, #5. V. Lees told him on January 19, that the Hood would turn. He report- ed this to Sawbridge and subse- quently a signal was received
which they accepted as a con- Armation. Lees said he told: Stitt that he proposed the Hood should
turn! There was some doubt in regard to which of the two posi- tions the Renown might go, eight of which would be perfectly cor rect in his opinion. Reuter,...
DRAMATIC CONCLUSION
Clause 3. Reuter
the League in PILOT DIES OF sake, but also as a striking mani-
QUO TAI CHI INTERVIEWED
London, Feb 27. Mr. Que Tai-chi, when inter viewed by Reuter, said that "these arguments were the same as those that I pressed; as one of the sen◄ lor, delegates to September immediately following China's failure to be re-elected. I understand that the Executive Council of the League of Nations Union is strongly pressing Geneva to the Connell."- that China should be reinstated Rester.
PARLEY IN TOKYO
China's Banking Situation
INJURIES
Sequel To Mail Plane Crash
Hankow, Feb. 27. Mr. Kableberg, the pilot of the Hankow-Canton mail plane which crashed near Chenchow on Fr day, 22nd inst., died here this morning from the effects of a broken leg Beuterda
It will be recalled that the plane which was flying from Han- kow to Canton crashed and was demolished on Friday near Chen- chow In Hunan, p
The plot, Mr. Kahleberg, was Dramatic scenes marked the Mr. Chen Fo-pan, representing sent to hospital in Hankow, while conclusion of the Court Martial the Chinese bankers of Shanghai, the co-pilot was not hurt.
arrived here this morning and thoroughly discussed the situn-
London, Feb. 27.
at Portsmouth of Rear Admiral Balley who was charged with "negligently or by default suffer- ing the battleships Renown and Hood to be hasarded.”
Tokyo, Feb. 27.
tion with Dr. Wang Chun-hui U.S. GOVERNMENT SUIT. after which the latter left for Miyanoshita. ↑
The president of the Court, Mr. Chen states that be wit Vice-Admiral EA Astley Rushton engage in. series of consultations.
Hended back Bailey's with the Japanese hich was given up at the cerning the ing of the Court Martial after China but refused ich a number of fellow officers opinion
with Balley and Uity of
Co-oper
Router
DISMISSED
The Federal Ju Gover
Reuter
Stop, Feb. 27.
has dismissed
festation of goodwill in which the Colony approaches, the problems of common interest to the Empire as a whole. Reuter.
"GOOD WINE LOST IN
THE SEA
Wanton Waste. Followed By Looting
(Special to the “Hong Kong
Daily Press") (By| Telegraph. Copyright, Tela. graphic Messages Ordinance, 1995 Leceived, February 17, 4:30 pm.)
Reuter.
BANK GUARD SHOT
Early Morning Sensation
London, Feb. 27. There was a sensation in the Bank of England when Guards- man Baker of the Welsh Guards was found shot dead early this morning. He was one of the military guard which has been provided to the Bank of England for a period of over one hundred and fifty years.
--- A shot was heard at 4.30 am, and the guard rushed to the spot 2nd found the sentry, Baker, aged nineteen, lying on the ground with a gunshot wound in his head. The bullet was discharged from his rifle and the police who Two thousand dockers purposely wers Informed removed him to allowed tens of thousands of the hospital where he was found gallons of wins to pour into the to be dead
Paris, February 26,
sea when they boarded the tank Reuter
ship in Algiers harbour on Tues-
dayby cutting her adrift and
CERTIFICATES
then opened the outlet tape NEW NATIONAL SAVINGS This was their protest against tankers being employed for ship- ping wine thus dispensing with | their labour,
Meanwall
si
crowds of Arabs broke into the dockside wares houses
atees involving:
but the
plynde the con- authorities had to can rison-to-deal with the
$20
CHANCELLOR'S STATEMENT elusion of his London visit m
London, Feb. 27.
remark was a pendant to the de "Reconstruction by no means 'claration "We shall achieve A leads to dietatorship, asserted tria's-reconstruction in denance Dr. Schuschnigg, the Austrian of all difficulties."- Chancellor, to Reuter on the con- Beuter.
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