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THURSDAY,
APRIL 17, 1930.
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BUDGET DEBATED | FORMER CEYLON WELL OVER $5,000 NAVY AGREEMENT RANGERS WIN THE WOUNDED TROOPS
GOVERNOR.
IN COMMONS.
BASIS OF TRADE TREATY.
TORIES SUGGEST TRADE WILL 'BE HANDICAPPED.
BRITISH AND RUSSIAN AGREEMENT.
CAN BE EXTENDED TO THE COLONIES.
SIGNED BY PARTIES.
CAPITALIST SYSTEM.
London. Apr. 16. The debate in the House of Com- mons on Mr. Snowden's Budget, which was introduced on Monday, was noteworthy for the fact that while the Conservatives, led by Mr. Winston Churchill, attacked the Budget as handicapping trade and industry, the Left Wing of the Labour Party, led by Mr. Maxion, criticised it as being too capitati
istin.
Country
London, Apr. 16. Mr. Arthur Henderson, the British Foreign Secretary, and M. Sokolnikoff, the Russian
Mr. Lloyd George, the Libera Ambassador. this afternoon Leader, praised the Budget as an signed in the Cabinet room of honest one making the the Foreign Office a temporary face its responsibilities.
The Chancellor's Socialism zan.t commercial agreement between the British and Russian Govern-to the surface when he replied the expressed the profound convic: ments. The agreement is to serve as a modus rivende pend-chemie had saved
their unemployment the country ing the conclusion of a full from revolution. Treaty.
He regretted that a capital lesy Under the agreement the high,į was not applied when the moment contracting parties accord nat was favourable, but he was favoured nation
medying that by taxation of the treatment subjects, citizens, jurídical per
war-time profiteering fortants sons, national profiter und manu- which were now coming into estade factures of och other. The duties. lowing are the exceptions.
tion that
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DEATH OF SIR WEST
RIDGEWAY.
DISTINGUISHED ARMY AND CIVIL CAREER.
SERVICE IN INDIA.
London, Apr. 16.
The death is announced of the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph West Ridge-. way, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., formerly Governor and Commander in Chief of Ceylon, at the age of He was a sou of the late 86.
Rev. Joseph Ridgeway of Tun- bridge Wells and had a distin guished military and diplomatie career. Reuter.
MARK.
LATEST DONATIONS TO THE
"SEPOY?" FUND.
|NAVY LEAGUE APPEAL
Contributions Thce yesterday to the Navy League's "Sepoy" Disaster Fund total $470, mostly received from foreign firms and including a sum of $150 from the Hongkong Excavation, Pile Driv- ing and Construllion Co., Ltd.
The total lo dute, including the Fourth List, of which details are given below, is $5,481 and £52 10s. The Fifth List will be issued on Tuesday, and, the Navy League appeals to intending contributors to send in their donations without delay.
Fourth List.
SUMMARISED.
POSITION EXPLAINED IN WHITE PAPER.
FURTHER NEGOTIATION TO
TAKE PLACE.
POLITICAL EFFECTS.
London, Apr. 16,
SCOTTISH CUP.
PARTICK DEFEATED BY TWO GOALS TO ONE.
FINAL REPLAYED.
London, Apr. 16,
The final match in the Scottish Cup competition was replayed at Hampden Park, Glasgow, to-day when the Rangers beat Partick Thistle by two goals to one.
The Rangers thus again.secure possession of the trophy after being robbed of it last year by Kilmarnock. Rangers held the Cup in the previous season.
FROM FRONT.
OVER THREE HUNDRED REACH HANKOW.
THE KUOMINCHUN, AIM AT TAKING HUPEH.
FIGHTING CONTINUES.
'Shanghai, Apr, 16. A Memorandum on the results
The arrival of over 300 wound- of the Naval Conference to date,
ed Nationalist soldiers at the in the form of a White Paper, On Saturday, in the final match, Hankow Railway Station last; Commons this evening. It sur- was laid before the House of Rangers and Partick Thistle play evening from the Honan-Hupeh ed a goalless game, giving an in-border confirms the report that veys the main achievements of dication that, the teams were actual fighting between the the Conference and explains the evenly matched. To-day was the Nationalist and Kuominchua
second occasion in the course of forces has resultant position, thus express the competion on which the Ran-lessitas broken out in Honan, ing in official form facts whichgers have been forced to replay. 25 have already been published,
In the first round of the com- side has made any formal de- Precedence is given to the competition on January 18 they beat claration for war.
Queen's Park by the only goal of the game. In the second round on their own ground by Cowden- they were held to a two goal draw beath. but in the replay the Rangers won by three goals to nil
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He joined the Indian Army in 1861 and was appointed by Lord Mayo as a Magistrate in Ajmere, | S. F. C. where in dealing with the great Royal Suciety of St George, famine the earned the special Canton thanks of the Government. Lord The Barun
Wullie Northbrook appointed him assis. A.
It was arrunt nonsense, he said, Firaly, special provisions o
Ito talk of overthrowing the cap lating to trade contained in the talist system. He aimed at trans-tant Foreign Secretary, where he Hon. Mr. W. F. L. Shenton treaties concluded by the Soviet farming the system by placing served until the Afghan war of W. B. Jr. Union with States which in under public ownership and con-
1878. when Lord Lytton appointed T. Young August 1914 formed an integaaltrol not declining industries bat him to the political staff of the AC part of the former Russian Enture Koing concerns Labour cheers)
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H. A. Pearson J. E. Joseph
Secondly, rights accorded to any third country forming part of the Cartoma Union With the Soviet Union to border Klates with respect to the local trade between inhabitants of the frontier zones,
Deleggin Function
British Government ages.
GERMANY TO BUILD
NEW CRUISER.
SECOND OF MUCH DISCUSSED DESIGN.
Berlin, Apr. 16. The Reichsrat, dealing with the the Budget of the Reich for 19
in view of the State monopoly of Forsign trade in Russin, to accord te the Soviet Government right to establish in Great Britain inserted
late Lord Roberts.
He was present at all the actions during the march to Candahar, was mentioned in des- patches, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and after wards to that of full Colonel for distinguished services.
Service in India. **·
In 1884 Ridgeway, as he was then, was selected by Lord Ripon to command the Indian Section of the Afghan Boundary Commission and proceeded to Hernt to jois Sir Peter Lumsden. When the advance of the Russians took) The the same type as the much discuss-place, Sir Peter Ramsden was
an appropriation
a trade delegation consisting of a 2,000,000 marks as the first instala
le representative and his twment for the new cruiser " deputiens
orming Soviet Embassy.
part of
of
be
ed Erantz Pronssen, now ben constructed.
Herr Moldenhauer, the Finance
These three persons are to accorded af diplomatic privileges}
ordered to fall back on Herat and Colonel Ridgeway WAS left in Penjdeh with only tw other
the hands of the Russians that befel the Afghans occurred after) Colonel Ridgeway's retall to Herat.
an immunity and similar immud. Minister, said the Government had British officers. The defeat all ty shall attach to the offices taken over the Budget from the occupied by the trade delegation farmer Mueller Cabinet, which and used exclusively for its com had decided against the cruise The Government did no mercial functions, which shall tre "B," to facilitate and encourage the desire to influence the decision of development of trade between the the Reichsrat and would define its two countries and to represent the attitude later. interests of the Soviet Union 1 The Cabinet approved
appropriation Tor the all that pertains to trade.
The delegation shall be respon-armoured cruiser, --Renters
sible for all transactions conclud-
ed by the trade representative and
persons authorised by him, but not
for the acts of State economic organisations, except when such responsibility has been clearly
LESS MONEY FOR DEFENCE.
new
For these services be WJS
created K.C.S.I. and was appoint
erl
as British Commissioner for the demarcation of the Russo- Afghan frontier.
was
The manner in which he dis charged this duty for two years warmly acknowledged by Lord Dufferin in a despatch which was presented to Parliament in which Lord Dufferin said "You
accepted by the trade representa- AUSTRALIAN SERVICEMEN TO have throughout acquitted your
tive.
National Treatment,
The numes
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100plete agreement between all five Powers not to lay down any of 20 during the years 1931 to 1936 in the 35,000-ton replacement ships 10 elusive.
的
The British Commonwealth, the 50 United States, and Japan begin at 10 once a reduction of their capital
10
20
On February 15 they met
ships to 14, 15 and 9 respectively. Motherwell on the latter's ground
20 while France and Italy only re- 30 serve their right of constructing additional ships from replacement 25 tonnage available to them since 100 the signature of the Washington
50 Treaty until to-day.
50
10
100 10
500
Safeguarding Clause.
Details are given of tonnages 100 under the agreement between the 100 British Commonwealth, the United States and Japan, and it is men- tioned that this section of the Treaty. will contain a clause safe- guarding the British position in relation to the building programme of other Powers. It is also noted that the agreed figures of 150,000 tena of destroyers for the British Commonwealth must be condition-
£52 10s. & $5,011
W. A. DOWLEY,
Hon. Treasure, Alexandra Buildings, 17th April, 1930,
TIN CURTAILMENT JUSTIFIED,
ALL PRODUCING COUNTRIES GIVE SUPPORT.
London, Apr. 16. A meeting in London of the Tin
Producers' Association unanimous-
of regulating in production to not ly passed a resolution in favour
capacity of the plant. more than eighty per cent. of the
Sir Cunliffe Lister expressed the opinion in a speech that it might now be said confidently that the decision last November to adopt a policy for the regulation of the industry had been fully justified. scheme now in operation would not Production in 1930 under the
BE DISCHARGED.
self in such a manner as to be 191,000 tons but would be 164,- deserve the unqualified approval 000 tons. Melbourne, Apr. 16.
of the Government of India.... the of
trade It is officially stated that the It is mainly owing to the tenacity, with the Dutch tin interests, Sir Referring to the discussions representative and the persoas Government has ordered a redug skill and straightforwardness with Cunliffe Lister said-"We empowered to represent bition of half a million sterling in which you have carried out the say confidently that our policy miny shall be periodically published the Defence estimates. Half of in the Board of Trade Journal. this reduction will apply to the Afghanistan has at last obtained measure
duty entrusted to you that may be assured a preponderating Any question arising from com Navy and half to the Army and
of support in all the mercial transactions entered into Air Force.
a definite and recognised boun- countries where tin is produced." in this country by the trade dele-
discharge of five hundred ratings. able to render is of the highest
The reduction will involve they and his Excellency feels that Reuter.
the service which you have been
gation shall be settled by British
courts.
National treatment is accorded in the agreement to vessels, cargoes and passengers of each country, and most favoured nation treatment as regards the coasting trade, sub- ject to a reservation of right of cabotage as regards trade between two ports on the same const. cluded from these provisions are fishing rights, immigrants and pil grims and ships' cargoes and pas sengers registered in British self- governing Dominions.
Ex-
Kenter,
AMERICAN DUTIES
APPROVED..
value."
Governor of Ceylon.
Reports brought back by the wounded soldiers showed that the
the heart of Honan, captured the Kuominchun forces, after a severe, but brief-attack on Yenchang, id city, causing the Nationalist forces to treat rapidly to the frontier. Battles Raging.
and won by five goals to two. Titeir Hostilities between the Nation- next victims were Montrose who (alist and Kuominichun fòrees are were defeated by three clear goals understood to be raging between on March 1. The Rangers met Yenchow
and
Lohchow, in Hearts in the semi-final match on
Northern Hupeh, both sides suffer- March 22 and won by four goals ing about the same number of to one, thus qualifying to meet casualties. Partick Thistle in the final.-- Reuter.
DISPUTED CLAUSE.
PUT BACK.
COMMONS' CONFLICT WITH HOUSE OF LORDS.
London, Apr. 16.
The encounters are purely pre- liminary skirmishes, but they show the determination of the Kuominchun forces to take. Hupeh, thus permitting the Shansi Army, their allies, to attack the Nationalist troops along the. Tientsin-Pukow. Railway.
General Ho Ching-chun. the Nationalist Officer Commanding. the defence of Hupeh, departed on an aeroplane this morning from Hankow for Hsiangyang to inspect fortifications. -
Planes Active.
A number of Nationalist zero-
ed on the agreed destroyer and On a Governament motion the submarine strength of the Euro-House of Commons, by 194 votes to pean Powers at the Conference, | 50, re-instated the clause abolishing and that this will be the subject the death penalty for cowardice and of further negotiations with those desertion in the Army and Airplanes has been commissioned to
Force Bill. On the previous day leave for Northern, Hupeh, the House of Lords carried the re- moval of the clause..
Powers.
Referring to the financial ques- tion, it is stated that Britain would have probably expended £50,000.- Mr. Thurtle, who was responsible 000 on battleship construction by for its original insertion when the 1936, and a further £1,000,000 Bill first came before the House of once the British capital ships to impertinent and astoundingly au- would be saved by reducing at Commons, declared that the action of the House of Lords was arrogant,
fifteen.
Armament Reduction.
As to armament reduction, at the unsuccessful Naval Con- ference at Geneva in 1927, the final British proposal was for a
total comparable
tonnage of marines, including over-age cruisers, destroyers and sub-
sels, of 737,500 tons. The com- parable total agreed upon to-day is 541,700 tons.
ves-
Further expenditure in these 000 has been avoided. classes of ships of at least £15,000,
Sir West Ridgeway was then SENATE AND THE CHAMBER ment may be reached with the sent to St. Petersburg to negotiate
FINALLY AGREE.
Hopes for Future. Considerable as are these re- sults, the Memorandum regards as even more important the mutual improvement of political relations THE FRENCH BUDGET. which they imply, and the hope is expressed that during the next stage of the Conference,, an agree-
French and Italians at levels which a settlement of certain questions:
will permit the incorporation of which were still left open and HIDES, LEATHER AND SHOES there he earned the warm approval
Paris, Apr. 16.
their programmes in the agree-
AFFECTED.
of the Marquis of Salisbury. He shuttlecock between the Senate three other powers.
After a game of battledore and ment already reached between the was then solected for, the post and the Chamber over minor Washington, Apr. 16. Under-Secretary for Ireland, and amandments, the Budget has been A Congressional Committee has he served as Balfour's lieutenant finally passed. approved a duty of ten per cent. during the stormy period of on hides, one of from twelve and a 1887-1892. half to thirty per cent, on leathers The provisions. of the agree and a duty of twenty per cent. on ment may, by mutual agree-boots and shoes, all of which have ment, be extended Lo the been on the free list for years past. British self-governing Dominions Reuter's American Service. by a simple exchange of note and, they may also be extend- ed on conditions of reciprocity to any of the British Colonies, Pos- sessions, Protectorutes and Man- dated territories if the Soviet Gov- ernment are so notified by the Bri- tish Anibassador at Moscow.
May Affect Colonies.
In this event the Soviet trading organisation may Bend thither guanta Sosceptable to the Govern
ned, to carry out con-
THE GRAF ZEPPELIN.
FLIGHT FROM GERMANY TO SPAIN ENDS.
Replacement Plans. Replying to a question in the
dacious-Reuter.
CANTON GOVERNOR
INDISPOSED.
GEN. CHAN MING-SHU GETS FEVER.
Canton, Apr. 16. His Excellency. General Chan Ming-shu, Civil Governor of Kwang tung, who has been indisposed for a few days, is now confined to his bed with an attack of fever.
Mr. Shun Hi-man, Chief Secre tary to the Provincial Govern- ment will be acting in charge until such time as General Chan may be able to resume his duties, whilst Mr. Hsu Hsung-ching will preside at the meetings of the Provincial Council-Our Own Cor- respondent.
AMERICAN · ·ELECTRIC. AMALGAMATION..
Nationalist acroplanes report that after capturing Yonchang the Kuominchun rebels are advancing towards Nanyangfu.
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's chief
is in charge of military affairs in lieutenant, General Ho Ying-ching,
Hankow.
In anticipation of an early de- claration of war, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang has wired from Cheng- chow to Marshal Yen Hal-shan asking for arms and ammunition. His request is understood to have, met with a speedy response.
Chefoo Conspiracy. Anti-Nanking politicians extremely active in several parts of Shantung, including Chefoo." where the Nationalist Commander, General Liu Chen-nien, yesterday ordered the execution of Ave conspirators who attempted to. create a rebellion in order to overthrow him,
are
In connexion with the appoint- ment by Nanking of General Han Fu-chu as Military Officer Com manding the Shantung defence, it is understood that thousands of his troops have arrived and are stationed along the Tsingtao- Tainanfu Railway.
Tanks For Service,
A fleet of tanks belonging to General Han. Fu-chu also arrived at Klaochow yesterday..S
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is Bending a sperial envoy, Mr. Chang Chung, to Japan on...an
a bearing on the present situation important mission which will have
GENERAL ELECTRIC AND THE
RADIO CORPORATION. .
New York, Apr, 16. It shows a revenue of 50,465,- House of Commons to-day. Mr. 000,000 francs and an estimated A, V. Alexander, First Lord of the of the General Electric Corporation The amalgamation is announced Eater, his services were requir- surplus at the end of the financial Admiralty, stated that under the and the Westinghouse Electric between Nanking and Shansi, ed in Morocco where he was des- year of 66,000,000 francs:
rules for roplacement agreed upon Manufacturing Company with the patched as Special Envoy Extra The total reductions are approxi-at the Naval Conference, two Radio Corporation. The Depart ordinary and Minister Plenipoten-mately equivalent to forty million ships of Hawkins Class will have ment of Justice is investigating the tiary. The mission was success- sterling and will be 'devoted, 'inferreached an age at which they might amalgamation.-Renter's American ful and Sir West Ridgeway again alia, to a seventy-five per cent. re- replaced in 1934. It had been 'Service. earned the thanks of the Govern-duction in the turn over tax on agreed that the remaining two. ment. He was Governor of the fresh food, and a diminution of in- one of which was delayed owing Isle of Man from 1893 to 1895 come' tax, including, from twenty to the conditions following the and Governor and Commander in five to eighteen per cent. tax on in-
Chief of Ceylon for seven years come derived from foreign secur- war, might be replaced in 1936. from 1896 to 1903.,
ities--Beuler,
Seville, Apr. 16, Three years later he was chair- The Graf Zeppelin, which man of the Committee of Con yesterday set. aut fronstitution Enquiry in the Transvaal Friedrichshafen, arrived here and Orange River Colonies. In
with sixteen passengers on board. 1906 he contested the City of
FAIR WEATHER.
TILDEN ON TOP OF
HIS FORM.
KIDNAPPED HIS NEPHEW.
SOLD LAD IN AMOY FOR $50,-
Twelve months' hard labour,“ and twenty stokes of the birch, DEFEATS KARL KOZELUCH AT was the sentence inflicted by Mr.
'BEAULIEU CLUB.
Lindsell on a man, charged at the Central Magistracy this morning - with kidnapping his nephew, aged five yeară, maken van Partne took the boy away from his home It was stated that the defendant
in Shaukiwan - about three weeks
Premier Goes to Lossiemouth. London, Apr. 16. Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Stimson, and Mr. Wakatsuki conferred this morn- fing, after which Mr. MacDorind departed by air for Losalemouth. The King and Queen of Spain London as a Liberal candidate and the the anticyclone is now central to mean that all is well with the The Royal Observatory reports His departure on holiday is taken were among those who welcomed the later became Vice President of the to the S.W. of Tokyo. A depression Naval Conference. most favoured airship which, after staying for Royal Geographical Society and has formed over S.E. Mongolia. The work of drafting the treaty Karl Kozeluh. Both players were ago, and sold him in Amoy for 350.
half an hour, reascended and pro- Honorary Colonel of the Ceylon The local forecast Is-East or is proceeding, and seventy per cent. on top of their form Tilden won fr overseas torritories/ceeded on her flight back to Ger- Planters Rifle Comps.
many-Reuter.
variable winds, moderate; fair of it is already completed-Reiter, 64, 64-Reuter
actions. Such agents diplomatic or "con-
or immunities.
hat if Russian pro,
At in British Domin-
ed on Pogs-18;)
Nice, Apr. 16. There was a scintillating tennis directors of which persuaded Tilden spectacle at the Beaulieu Club, the
to meet the professional. champion,
The child has not been re-
covered.