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FUTURE STATUS OF COMMONS DEBATE ALLEGED FORGED FRESH THREAT TO PREMIER'S VISIT TO
BRITISH INDIA.
RECENT PROCLAMATION
CRITICISED.
LORD PARMOOR DEFENDS POLICY
OF THE GOVERNMENT.
ON RUSSIA.
HENDERSON ACCUSED OF SURRENDER.
TAXPAYERS' CREDIT NOT TO BE PLEDGED.
BANKNOTES.
COOLIE ACCUSED OF UTTERING
SIX $300 BILLS
OF CHARTERED BANK?
The arrest of a Chinese has been effected by the police in connexion with the seizure of what appear to be forgeries of notes of the
NANKING.
KUOMINCHUN BESIEGE
YUHSIEN.
COMMUNIST UPRISING FEW MILES FROM HANKOW.
JAPANESE WARNING.
A STRIKING MAJORITY, Chartered Bank.
On Tuesday, the police were call- London, Nov. 5. ed to the Shia On-wing, a well- The keenly awaited debate in known Nam Pak Hong firm, at the House of Commons on the Winglok Street, to investigate the case of a man who it is alleged, conciliatory attitude adopted by had handed in six forged banknotes, the Labour Government towards in the course of a transaction.. On Soviet Russia proved compara-examination, it was found that the authorities at Hankow requesting
Shanghai, Nov. 6. Router's Hankow correspondent cables that the Japanese com- munity at Hwang-hsih-kang have telegraphed to the Japanese
AMERICA.
GRACEFUL. TRIBUTE BY
'MR. BALDWIN.
BRITAIN'S REPRESENTATIVE AND NOT A PARTY LEADER.
UPPER CHAMBER DEBATE tively uneventful. The Liberals notes were for the denomination assistance and stating that a DESIRE TO CO-OPERATE.
Criticism of the recent declaration by the Viceroy of India regarding Dominion Status for India was.voiced in the House of Lords yesterday, with the object of clarifying the situation.
- Lord Reading objected to the Government authorising the Viceroy's proclamation without consulting the Simon Commis- sion. He declared that he did not object to Dominion status. as an ideal, but the use of the term "in this formal manner would, he said, affect the prestige and authority of the Com- .mission.
Falling to give a satisfactory explanation, the man who is alleged to have handed the notes in, a shop- coolie by the name of Cheung Ching-shan, was taken into custody by the polce.
gave their full support to the of $100 each. Government, whose resolution was passed by a majority of 125. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the lender of the Opposition, accused the Government of va most humiliating surrender, and
Produced before Mr. A.W.G.H. Grantham at the Central Police
Communist uprising is brewing The city is on the Yangtse mid- way between Kiukiang and Han kow.
has left for the area with instruc- The Japanese gunboat "Takaka" tions to make all possible speed as the Japanese interests in the vicinity of Tayeh and Hwang-hath-
Sir Austen Chamberlain.com Court this morning, on charges of kang are moat extensive..
plained that the pledge regard-
INTERPORT. CRICKET WASH-OUT.
ing propaganda was inadequate. | amponcz Submitting the Government Lord Parmoor, replying on behalf of the Government, said motion which invited the House to the Viceroy's pronouncement was made in view of the atmos-approve the Government's proce phere in India and to dispel mistrust regarding British policy. He denied that the pronouncement in any way undermined the authority of the Simon Commission.
dure regarding the resumption of Anglo-Soviet diplomatic relations and the proposed procedure to that end, Mr.Arthur Henderson, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, made it clear at the outset that the Government had no inton-
any Soviet
SIMON COMMISSION NOT UNDERMINED. tion of pledging the credit of the
British taxpayer to Government loan..
No Propaganda.
London, Nov. 6. regarding Dominion Status. On "With the object of clarifying October 27th, he wrote to the
He also declared that Soviet | the obscure Indian situation." the Secretary for India expressing his propaganda in Great Britain, and Marquis
Dominions would not be of Reading, à former grave regret at the proposal of the the Viceroy of India, in the House of Government and Viceroy to make tolerated in any form at any time. Lords to-day, called attention to the pronouncement. The state-
He had communicated with the the recent statement issued by the ment, unless it were corrected. Dominions, he said, and not one Viceroy of India regarding the would be heralded throughout of them had ventured opposition to "attainment by India of Dominion India as a promise to give at once the policy he had pursued and all
Status.
Dominion Status. He wanted the (with the exception of one whose Lord Reading asked the Govern-Government, to make it clear, views had not yet been received) ment, firstly, to state the reasons without any ambiguity, through-had requested that the guarantee of the extraordinary course of out India that the language used regarding propaganda should be making this pronouncement with by the Government in the pro- made applicable to them. out having consulted the Statutory nouncement was only an interpre- Mr. Henderson went on to say: Commission upon it and before the tation of the ultimate goal to that an agreement as regards pro- Commission had reported: second-which India might attain when patganda had already been reached. ly, whether the conditions contain various obstacles were surmount. The formula would be practically the same as in the 1924 treaty and a guarantee of no-propaganda. must be exchanged. not. later than the day on which the Ambassador presents his credentials.
ed in the declaration of 1917 ander. the preamble to the Goverment of
the India Act of 1910 remain of full
Lord Parmoor Replies, force and effect and applicable to Dominion Status; and, thirdly,1
Lord Parmoor, replying for the whether this statement implies Government, said he could find ne any change in policy hitherto de ambiguity clared or in the time when this ment status may be attained.
in the
pronounce-
Tory Amendment.
Rain Prevents Resumption of Match.
HOUR'S PLAY POSSIBLE.
Heavy
rainstorms this morning put a resumption of the Interport cricket match between Malaya and SEanghai out of the question.
There seemed a chance of a few hours play when the rain "held off for about an hour during the morning and the standing water began to dia- appear, but a further down. pour shortly after noon ended. the hopes of play immediately after tiffin.
At two o'clock this after- noon, although the rain had stopped for some little time, it was exceedingly' doubtful if the teams would turn out at all to-day. There is a just a bare prospect that things have cleared up sufficiently at about four o'clock to permit 'an hour's play.
It is significant that to-day's weather report forecasts further rain..
On the Honan Front.
The position at the battle-front does not appear to have undergone. any great change, though it is significant that an order has been Issued to the Nationalist forces to remain purely on the defensive,
Telegrams from Chengchow advise that it is not safe for foreigners to travel on the Peking- Hankow Railway at present, though no reasons are given.- Reuter.
Yuhsien Danger.
Shanghai, Nov. 6.
Mr. Ramsay. MacDonald received a most encouraging ovation from all sides of the House of Commons yesterday when he reported upon the results of his visits to the United States and Canada. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the ex-Premier paid his successor a graceful tribute, saying that he had carned the gratitude of all parties.
The Prime Minister said that during his conversations with President Hoover difficult questions were raised which might easily have aroused old prejudices, but he found nothing but thoughtfulness and a desire to place facts before the country.
He also expressed great appreciation of the welcome he had received in Canada, where he discussed with Mr. Mackenzie King matters which had arisen in Washington of special interest to Canada, and political and economic subjects of mutual
concern..
OLD PREJUDICES DISPERSED.
It is learned from reliable
London, Nov, G. 1. Above and beyond the definite sources that the Kuominchun are
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald report subject of naval agreement, said: besieging Yulisten. The Nandnging on his visit to the United Mr. MacDonald, there was a leaders are rushing all available States admitted that what desire to make it clear to every reinforcements to Yuhalen as its success had been achieved body that in our mutual relations
It is also learned that both Tengfeng and Linyue are in the occupation of the Kuominchun despite the fact that for several daye the Government troops have been endeavouring to recover the lost ground.
:
Peace Declaration.
fall would throw the fate of was largely owing to the hearty the Paris Peace Pact was a reality, Chengchow immediately into the support of all parties. He went and
so in a joint, statement a balance.
to the United States not as a party declaration to that effect was leader but as a national represen made for the first time officially tative."
by representatives of the two. He took the opportunity of nations speaking together. thanking President Hoover and his Cabinet and both the Senate und the House of Representatives for
That declaration stated, "Both the welcome they gave him and
Governments resolve to the honour paid to him as the re- gur Feng's Statement,
accept the Peace Pact not only as Eresentative of Great Britain. Shanghai, Nov. 8.
The Prime Minister spoke elo.a declaration of good intentions. A Japanego report from Peking quently of the candour with which but as a positive obligation to says that Feng Yu-hsiang has difficult questions were raised and direct "our national policy in made a statement from his Head- discussed and said though some accordance with its pledges"
In the light of such a declara- quarters in Shansi that the pre- of the matters he had to deal with sent activities of the north-wes might easily have aroused the old tion a solution of the old problems tern armies started only after he prejudices from beginning to end, had become possible in ways had consulted Yen Hsi-shan, and he found nothing but thoughtful satisfactory to both countries. that consequently both Yen Hai-ness and a desire to co-operate in The United States," continued shan and he were responsible for placing the facts and the positions Mr. MacDonald, "pursues with
justly before the country.
vigilant jealousy its historical In case of victory over the Na- No Government could have open-policy of keeping free from all would be held before and not after Nothing could be clearer in Lae condemning the resumption of
fore not in the League of Nations. Yen Hai-shan will hold a confer- hearts wider. the Government had formulated pronouncement of the Viceroy than relations until the preliminary possession and of uttering forged once to discuss the establishment
The purpose of his visit was We are in the League of Nations. its proposals, was very important that the reservations in the de- conditions had been satisfied. He welcomed it and hoped it would claration of 1919 were
notes, the prisoner was formally of a provisional government, its to try by personal contact to estab- We have contracted obligations. remanded for a week. help to satisfy Indian opinion.without alteration and without Government of a most humiliating
new relationship between and we shall remain loyal to Mr. Baldwin accused
personnel, and the location of its blish
· The remand was asked for on the National capital.
two peoples based on mutual un⚫ them." The other parties approved it..
He said that on neither side. exception. Though Dominion
Manifestos against Chiang Kai-derstanding not only of the com- Status was the ultimate goal, the urrender to Russia and said it ground that the police wished to
Was a mistake to single out make further enquiries,
shek were published after on-mon objects to be pursued but of was any attempt made to change.. Government and the Viceroy drew Russia for exceptional treatment
these facts. dorsement by both Yen Hai-shan the national differences to be res But, said Lord Reading, when a distinction between the purpose as regards the diplomatic privilege.
and Feng Yu-hsiang."
pected.
Historical Issues. the Secretary for India made the and the means whereby that goal further proposal that reference might be reached.
Fire of Revolution: should be made to the future of The purpose remained unaltered India in the language or something and unchanged. The question of cluded, were determined to set the The Russian leaders, he con- approaching the language used in policy with respect to the time in fire of revolution Faging not only the Viceroy's statement, he at once which Dominion Status might be in Western Europe but in India took objection. "Let me make it attained could not be considered and China.
were
Mr. Stanley Baldwin moved an amendment to the resolution deploring the Government'a failure to maintain the conditions' laid
The scores stand as follows:
Malaya: 233.
The Viceroy issued it in order that Indian opinion might be ascertain- Lord Reading said to his minded and that Indians who the change of procedure, whereby doubtful before would now have down by the Prime Minister" and a conference of politicians re-full assurance as regarded their Foreign Secretary for the resump presenting all parties in India political and constitutional future. tion of diplomatic relations and ROMANONGENSWANANtionalists, Feng Yu-hsiang and ed the doors of their minds and world entanglements and is there-
Objection to Term.
retained
the
Shanghai: 79 for 2.
KOWLOON VICARAGE
BURGLED.
PREMISESENTERED ON MONDAY MORNING.
it.
in
He declared that he did not go| to the United States with a In the course of his conversa- agreement in his mind or in his tions, President Hoover, raised pocket, but to try to establish a some major historical issues of new relationship based on mutual Anglo-American differences like understanding.
belligerent rights and the so to called fortified bases, etc. and he as agreed with the President to mutually examine these issues in the hope of reaching an under- standing.
He muat leave the result fructify in policy and action time goes on.
The report adds that Yen Shi- has assumed the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Kuo- mihchun, with Feng Yu-hsiang as Vice-Commander, and concludes by emphasising that he is not op- posed to the policies of the Kuo- plain that neither I nor my party) and ought not to be considered Mr. Lloyd George, the Liberal object to Dominion Status being until the Statutory Commission leader, definitely ranged himself
mintang but to the manner regarded as the ideal which we and the Indian Central Committee on the side of the Goverment and on the first floor, a burglar entered ting policies into practice.--Reu- After breaking a window pane which the existing regime is put eventually hope to reach in rela- had submitted their reports, and spoke in support of Mr. Hender-the Vicarage of St. Andrew's tion to the Government of India," the Government of India had conson's motion. He objected to the use of the sidered those, matters in the light
Church, Kowloon between, the term because it had never appear of the material available, and. Foreign Secretary in the late day, and stole a small blue enamel Bir Austen Chamberlain, hours of 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Mon- ed before in any document and furthermore, until after the meet-Government, complained that the eight-day clock valued at $60, a because it would be impossible to ing of the conference which it was pledge regarding propaganda was small Ivory Buddha valued at 84. continues unchanged, with the America and Great Britain would
make a statement of this character intended to summon. without the assent of the Simon Commission..
Nevertheless, it was proposed by
Authority Not Undermined.
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inadequate as had been proved by a felt hat and some cigarettes, experience. Moreover, it was im possible to believe that the new
The property was that of Flight pledge would have any more value. Lieut. 7. S. Browne, R.A.F.. who
is residing at the Vicarage. why than the old,
be-
Assurance to House.
HOTEL MANAGER
DIVORCED.
ter.
Unbridged Differences. The conversations he had had rights that no commitment what
He stated as regarda belligerent No Further Move.
earlier with General Dawes had ever had been made beyond the Hankow, Nov. 5.
already removed the fear that the
promise that the matter would be, differences between The situation in N.W. Hupeh unbridged
considered.
Debts Not Discussed. Kuaminchun still in occupation doom an international conference of Yunyang, and some villages to failure. Those conversations he
He had not raised the question directly to the southward, but reviewed with President Hoover
His for the present making no further studying with him ways and of goneral disarmament.
difficulty in preparing for the five-
means of filling in the Barrow
move down the Han River.
Every endeavour la at present gaps still remaining in a building power naval conference in London being made to raise money in programme which would, at the was sufficiently great. It would Wuhan for war expenses, and same time, recognize both parity be time to prepare for the sequel, woll-informed persons state that of strength and variety in the general disarmament, when the five-power naval conference was the Government is endeavouring use of tonnage.
out of the way. to borrow three million dollars Both recognised that the agree Mr. Ramsay MacDonald-mado it' from the local banks and business ment they were seeking was one clear in concluding his address NAGGING GIVEN AS-ONE OF men, which will probably be not merely between themselves that the subject of war debts was
THE GROUNDS,
secured with Government bonds, but one which would have to it not broached with President It is learned that $400,000 was into the wider co-operation and Hoover. sent to Honan yesterday for the final settlement dependent on the payment of the front-line troops. five-power conference. -Reuter,
the Government that a statement the pronouncement inno
Lord Parmoor contended that should be made which must affect undermined the authority of the the prestige, influence and Au-Simon Commission. The Govern thority of the Simon Commissionment were well advised in leaving Mr. Hugh Dalton, the Under- He himself, when Viceroy, had the Commission alone in making a Secretary, replying to the pointe been careful never to use the statement of policy of this kind. rulsed during the debate, said that words "Dominion Status." The It would be wrong if it should be parts of the 1924 Treaty were no very phase conjured up at once a thought in India that in any way longer applicable, but certain position, to some extent at least, special connexion existed
parts of that treaty would form in advance of what might between the Government for the time useful basis for discussion in the "ascertained to be responsible being and the Simon Commission. near future.
Government.
Dealing with the reasons for He gave the House an
San Francisco, Oct. 31. Might be Misunderstood. making the pronouncement with ante that the Treaties which the
Mrs. Walter E. Antrim, wife of out having consulted the Statutory Government hoped to conclude Such a phrase was liable to be Commission, Lord Parmoor said it would be submitted to the Heuse the manager of the Manila Hotel,
for ratification.
was, granted an interlocutory, de-. misunderstood in India and hy was considered by the Govern
The Commons divided, rejecting cree of divorce here to-day, many people in this country. Mr. ment, with the full concurrence of the Baldwin amendment จงเล Mrs. Antrim accused her hus- We are informed by the Nether Lloyd George took exactly the the Viceroy, that in
view of agreeing to Mr. Henderson's band of eruelty, consisting of lande Consul General that Hong same attitude as himself, whilst inviting representatives of British motion by 824, votes to, 199, nagging, calling her names and kour has boon declared plague the Conservative Party had refus- India and the Indian States to Reuter.
refusing to take her to places of free by the authorities of the ed to assent to the staternent] (Continued on Pagi 12.)
entertainment Associated Press, Dutch East Indies.
(Continued on Page 18.)
assur-
Interest of Other Powers. Other Powers would probably have much to say from their own viewpoints on the naval problems they were discussing. Prelimin ary conversations with Powers were now proceeding,
other
Ex-Premier's "Tribute. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, rising at the conclusion, said he had long felt that Anglo-American relations suffered by comparison with Anglo-Continental relatione.
He opened the subject of a British Premier going to the
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