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SAVELI LITVINOFF
IN THE DOCK."
SOVIET CHARGES OF DRAFT SWINDLE.
ACTED UNDER ORDERS.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1930.
LORDS EXPRESS THE RECENT R.A.F.
· DISPLEASURE.
GOVERNMENT · TWICE" DEFEATED..
UNEMPLOYMENT DOLE BILL.
DISCUSSION.
DISASTER.
NO FAILURE OF ENGINE OR MACHINE.
SHEER MISFORTUNE.
Londoh, Jan. 21. How Squadron-Leader Jones Williams and Flight-Lieutenant Jenkins met with fatal disaster in:
record Tunis while attempting a nonstop flight, from England to
Paris, Jan. 21.
·Saveli Litvinoff, the brother of The Soviet Commisaar for Foreign Affairs, and two alleged accom- plices, Joffe and Ledorius, wore brought up for trial at Seine Assizes to-day on charges brought PARLIAMENT AT WORK. Capetown, is the subject of the fol
by the Soviet Government, involv ing allegations of swindling and forgory.
The Soviet Government alleges that Litvineff drew and attempted to negotiate in Paris, £200,000 in sterling bills on account of the Soviet Commercial Mission In Ber- lin, to which he was attached as an official.
It is alleged that he obtained the bills by fraud and forged the signature of the Soviet Commer- cini Agent.
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London, Jan. 21. Mr. Philip Snowden, the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, who will lead the House of Commons in the absence of the Prime Minister, now fully occupied by the Naval Conference, returned to London from the Hague Reparations Con- ference to-day, and was present for the ceremony of reopening of Parliament.
The Chancellor said he was Litvonoff maintains that he net highly satisfied with the results of ed throughout entirely unen the the conference. They had exceed orders of his superior, M. Touroff, ed all his expectations. A settle who was killed in Moscow in 1928, ment on all outstanding points The principal accused also de- has been reached, which would, he clares that the proceeds of the believed, put the question of draft ware used for Soylet pro-reparations on a workable footing. paganda work.-¬Reuter,
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ABREAST OF. PÜBLIC OPINION.
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peace. It bega us to give public opinion a chance and to lift our problem out of the narrower scrutiny of the technical expert and to put it on to the broader field of the creative statesman.
At the same time, if the confer- ence and its work are to be justly judged, some appreciation must be shown of the nature of its risks.
Since 1919, the securing of peace has occupied much of the attention of nations, and very considerable progress has been made. The
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lowing statement by the Air Minis- try,"
Evidence gained by the oflolala who went out to Tunis to investi- gate the tragedy, shows conclusive. ly that there was no failure of the It is also certain from the log- engine or the aircraft. book, which has been recovered, that the occupants of the plane had kept exactly on their course and knew their position.
The cause of the disaster is be lieved to have been that owing to some unexplained circumstances, which may include the failure of the aneroid," the pilot had reason to think his monoplane was soveral hundred feet higher than it in fact, was,
down-
There was a severa local storm in the area where the machine Parliament Resumes Work. crashed, and it is believed the pilot only saw the hill at the last The House of Commone plunged moment and, in an endeavour to into business immediately on re-clear it, the machine lost flying Basembly, which was conducted speed and dived into the ground without formality.
just over the brow, an additional The Government were faced factor being, possibly, a with numorous questions, chiefly draught caused by the prevailing
plating to the unemployment wind.
The accident occurred on the problem, the Opposition making i grimt-deal of the recent further evening of December 17 and both officers were killed instantly.— increasek.
Mr. J. Thomas and Mr. British Wireless. William Graham replied to the unemployment questions.
FOR POULTRY.
Meanwhile, House of Lords, NO. WATER PROVIDED which also ried its work to- | day," was al seussing un- employment Unemployment Insurance Ring before them in the Committee Stage.
The Government was twice de- feated.
League of Nations steadily builda The first defeat was a motion by up its authority, and in the various clauses of its Covenant provides martial security to the well-doers and menaces to the evil-doers
amongst nations.
Mighty Moral Bulwark,'
The Peace Pact, signed at Paris in 1928, which, though lucking in machinery, except that which the Covenant supplies for the Members of the Langue is nevertheless. a mighty moral bulwarkt against war and we must never underestimate the effectiveness of morni bulwarks; with no bayonet nor bludgeon be-
hind them.
Lord Salisbury, the Conservative leader, to postpone consideration of the first nineteen clauses of the B until after consideration of Clause 20. This was carried by 107 votes to 18..
Another Defcat.
STAI HOLDER, FINED AT KOWLOON.
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Mr. P. O'Brien, Inspector of the SP. C. A., prosecuted a stall- holder of the Tsimshatsui Market, before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, an a summons for falling to pro- vide drinking water to two erates of chickens and geese.
crates, and, as soon as the officer was seen, they were placed Inside for the fowls.
It was stated by the complainant that when he visited the stall the Another motion by Lord-Salle-water containers were outside the bury, limiting the operating of the Bill to March 31, 1981 in order to ensure thorough reconsideration of the Bill twelve-months hence," was agreed to without a division.
The Government met with its second defeat in the Lords on motion by Lord Banbury to omit Clause Four of the Unemploy ment Insurance Bill which moved certain disqualifications for the receipt of benefit." This moton was carried by 94 votes to 14-Reuter and British Wireless,
re-
The entry of the United States Into the Permanent Court of Inter- national Justice, the growing con- fidence in the Court, and the in crease in the number of nations who have signed the Optional Clause, mark definite and, I believe, irrevo- cable steps in the displacement of military power by a judicial pro- cess in the settlement of interna-ferent to the ton used in ships for tional disputes.
another purpose.
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A fine of $16 was imposed, his Worship reprimanding the de- fendant for giving the birds water only when they saw that they would be summoned.
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SETTLING FUKIEN
TROUBLE.
DETAINED COMMITTEE MEN TO BE RELEASED.
Risks on Both Sides.
The second thing to be assumed
Amoy, Jan. 20. Was that although armaments Admiral Chen Kwel-liang, of the Public servants, like we are, will could not be divided into water. Ist Naval Squadron, called a con- fail in our duty if we do not dimi- Light compartments-naval, Innd feronce yesterday on board the nish military power in proportion and air forces--for practical pur- Tao Tung, which was attended by to the increase of this political ровед they must be discussed Admiral Yang Shu-chuang and
security,
On the other hand, no one can yet say that absolute security for pence and justico has yet been
found.
"There are risks on whichever side one leans. A
"But the practical view is that political securities must determine the amount of military prepara- tion; that excessive military pre- paration is not only a wasteful use of national resources but a weaken- ing of political security; and that the military preparation which upy one nation feels to be necessary at any given moment must be de- termined to a considerable degree by the military preparation of other nations, so that no nation is free to pursue a policy of disarma ment beyond certain rightly defined Jimits.
Removing Menaces,
The steps towards disarmament must be international agreements, which must remove the sense of menace from the signatory nations, and these agreements should be subject to review at reasonably frequent intervals so that the poll tical movements towards gecurity may be used progressively to re- duce arms.
remembering members of the Provincial and when coming to conclusions regard-Party Committee. It was decided separately, always ing each arm that it had a relation to settle the present trouble by the ship to the other two.
following pacifċ means;
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A Good Agreement,
If they were willing to make good naval agreement now, when it a few years came to be reviewed hence, their attitude would depend upon what the other Powers had done as regards land and air arma- ments in the meantime.
All nations had not the same in- terent in each arm, but they had interest in the general armed state of the world.
arms
1. General Lu Hsin-peng, of the 2nd Division, to hand over the detained members of the Provin cial Committee to the Naval H. Q. for release.
2. Colonels La Hain-yung and Lin Chung, to be dismissed by the
Central Government..
3. The request the Central Government to transfer Genera} Chang Ching, of the 1st Division, elsewhere.-Canton News Agency.
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"If we can limit and reduce by agreement one of our most power. without diminishing
FAIR WEATHER ful
but indeed national security, strengthen it by our very act, this The Royal Observatory reports. Conference will undoubtedly take that the anticyclone is moving east- its place amongst the great land-ward across central Japan; another marks which tell the events by has developed to the north of the which mankind has advanced in lower Yangtze Valley, Fresh mon- enlightenment."-British Wireless,
son will prevail along the China coast and over the north China Sen. The forecast till noon to-morrow is: -North winds, fresh: fair,
President Rises Early."
Washington, Jan. 21. President foover rose at five o'clock this morning in order to listen to the broadcast of the Stone,
ส doctor and two
This Conference has, therefore, proceedings at the Naval Consecretaries,,
to value the securities now afford- ference. The King's speech was The speeches were heard very ed to nations by these political clearly audible all over tha United clearly.euler
Melbourne, Jan; 21,. guarantees, and agree mutually States.
reduce arms.
Washington, Later. President Hoover was clad in
Router.
upon how far they can, on the message from Ottawa says The efforts of the Australian ""The NIGHT on of continuing peace, that the broadcast reception of broadcasting stations to relay the The Premior suggested that the the conference speeches was or King's Speech proved disappoint- work would be shortened if two ceptionally clear. cxcept towards ing owing to atmospherics. The unintelligible.--| the clone. Reuter's American Address was thinks wore assumed in the dis-
Service. quaatons One was that different
Tokyo, Jan. 21: needs were imposed by geographical
local broadcasting station position, world responsibility, and tin points of attack In the event of the sweater, and old trousers in attempted to re-broadcast, the which he takes his pre-breakfast King's speech at the naval con- exercises when he listened to the ference in London. The words wireless broadcast of the opening were heard indistinctly, but soon Conferences, he said, had broken of the Naval Conference in a base were shut out owing to a musical down through an unwillingness or ment room of the White House at broadcast, apparently from Ha
-barovska TAN the inability to understand this five in the morning, accompanied Certain amateura profess to point, or that the ton used in ships by the Attorney-General, Mr have picked the speech up-fairly for one purpose was totally difMitchell, Supreme Court Judge distinctly Reuter
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