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FOUNDED 1891 NO. 23.106
GOVERNMENT AND THE DOLLAR.
WAITING FOR REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
WILL SEEK EXPERT ADVICE IF RECOMMENDED.
SEND DATÀ HOME.
In view of the demand made in many quarters that the time has arrived for some Govern- ment action in regard to the dollar crisis, a Telegraph repre- sentative this morning in- terviewed a prominent official at the Colonial Secretariat, with a view to ascertaining official opin- ion on the matter. He was in
formed that the Government would take no action until the Currency Committee had report- ed, but if the Committee thought that expert advice from Home were necessary, steps would be taken to secure it.
To Await Report.
FRENCH RAILWAY
DISASTER.
CRASH ATTRIBUTED TO
FOUL PLAY.
WOMAN'S ORDEAL.
are
Montereau, June 1. Hitherto eight persons known to be killed and 13 in- jured in the derailment of an express from Paris to Marseilles, which collided with a trolley on the track. Reuter.
Monterenu, June 1.
to
-AN WAT MONDAY," JUNE 2, 1930.
MANILA MUST BE ENGLAND'S CRICKET
HELD.
AMERICAN VIEWS ON NAVAL TREATY.
ADMIRALS DISCUSS WAR IN THE PACIFIC.
RATIOS ASSAILED.
Washington, May 27. The Philippine Islands and their defence in case of war on The railway authorities attri- the Pacific figured prominently bute the express disaster
at the continuation of the hear foul play, by the deliberate
ings on the London naval limita- placing of a gangers truck сп the line. but the suggestion
tions treaty before the Senate Committee on foreign relations, headed by Senator William E. Borah, Republican of Idaho.
that it was an attempt on the life of M. Tardieu, the Premier, is dismissed, as M. Tardieu left for Dijon four hours earlier.
Three Englishmen were amongst the injured.
Mention of the Philippines
CAPTAIN.
A.P.F. CHAPMAN TO LEAD THE TEST TEAM.
HONOURED AGAIN. -
Bohidon, June 1.
It is announced that Mr. A. P. F. Chapman will captain England in the first Test Match against the Australians to be played at Not- tingham on Juné 13–Reuter,
Champman has previously cap- tained England in Test matches and playing for the . C. C. thia year has shown good batting form. That the question of the Test captain has been exciting more than usual interest at Home is revealed by Mr. W. W. Bouchier in the Daily Chronicle. He anys.
came when high officers of the At the moment some of the United States navy, testifying createur critics are getting all hot A Frenchwoman who had her before the committee, continued fard bathered over the question foot crushed was trapped for three to train their guns on the London of who shall skipper our team. hours in a hermetically-sealed pact, concentrating their attacks
her on the Japanese ratio..
closed carriage, holding in arms the lifeless body of her bro- Rear Admiral Henry A. Wiley ther, aged nine years, and sur-opened his testimony by saying rounded by dead bodies.
that, in his opinion, the conces Her father, mother, another slons granted Japan by the brother and she herself were Washington treaty were excessive, finally rescued by another pas- but now comes the London treaty to the same Bearing in mind that the special senger, a plumber, who had a blow-with concessions
are “absolutely Committee appointed to make ex-pipe with him and who, after two country which
hours' work, succeeded in boring a wicked." haustive enquiries into the pro-hole through the roof of the coach. blem is shortly expected to submit An up-train, which was preceed- our reing at full speed, was only warned its report and findings, presentative asked:-"Is the Gov- of the accident in time to enable the driver to put on the brakes and ernment contemplating taking any
pull up within a bare hundred action with regard to the further yards of the wreckage.-Reuter. decline of the dollar, prior to the issuing of the Committee's re- port?"
The answer given was:-"So far as I am aware, the Government will take no action before the Com-!
MR. BALDWIN AND THE REFERENDUM.
J
Inferior Category. The treaty, Admiral Wiley con- tinued, "puts the United States in
Japan." He then went on to dis- category 'inferior to that of
cuss the possibilities of a war on the Pacific. He told the com- mittee that, in the event of war, the first thing that the United States would have to do would be to hold Manila at all cost, The second step would be to estabish a fleet, there. The third step
'mittee's report is presented, but WHY ́CONSERVATIVES URGE would be to begin operations.
will await that report."
Enlarging on this, our inform- ant expressed the opinion that he failed to see what action could be taken to anticipate the Commitice's findings.
Watching the Situation.
"I need hardly tell you" he said, "that the Government is watching the situation very carefully, and will certainly take any action that will be useful." He added:
"Whilst appreciating the views of the various correspondents in the local Press, it appears to me that they treat the subject purely from the manner in which it affects them. If there are local experts who have failed to find a solution,
I cannot see how anyone can ex- pect the layman to discover the remedy."
Effects on Budget
"Can you give any indication how the fall of the dollar win a rect the preparation of the Pad get?" was the next question, and in reply our representative wat informed that it must undoubtedly affect the Budget, but to what extent our informant, could not say.
"It will, of course," he added, "be subject, to a certain extent, to the Committee's report. We are expecting that to be placed before the Government very shortly, al- though I cannot give you the exact date. It will, however, be in our hands before the Budget is pre- pared, but until then, I cannot give any idea whatever as to how it will be affected."
DC-
Remembering the recent sugges- tion made by a correspondent that a pétition be dispatched from the community to the Government in England, informing it of the urgent need for official tion with regard to the problem of effecting a recovery in the value of the dollar, or, alternatively, of its stabilisation, our representative | enquired for the official's view on this matter.
Expert Advice...
It was given in these words: "I cannot see what good that can
ITS USE.
against the enemy, with Manila as the base.
"Chapman most lead!" "ories one. "What about "Jupp?" asks another. "Cary for Merrie Eng- land!" urges a third. but not one
Admiral Wiley further told the London, June 1. Speaking at Leeds yesterday, committee, that despite the fact appears to recognise the extreme Mr. Stanley Baldwin ex-Premier, that Manila is unfortified, the futility and unwisdom of the busi- made reference to the Referen. United States could hold that cityness. dum which he had stated would be
against the
sub- enemy with
The man to lead England is the taken in the event of a further marines and aeroplanes pending man who has proved himself in Conservative Government propos- ing to tax foreign foodstuffs
in order to give preference to Imperial foodstuffs.
Mr. Baldwin said the Referen- dum was required so that the voice of the people would not be mis taken, and it would enable Government to act so that further Government
the
any
following would not feel it necessary to cancel any agreement of a fiscal nature that had been entered upon.
the arrival of the fleet.
leading county sides, knows, how to get the best out of his team, and, at the same time, is himself in tip-top form.
but
Submarine Parity. Rear Admiral Ridley McLean assailed the treaty provisión which gives Japan submarine parity with that Japan has a naval base 300 under." I should like to see him Chapman led the team that the United States. He pointed out
beat the Australians "down miles north of the Philippines, skippering our side again, while the nearest American base, only if his form is-good enough.' according to him, is 6,000 miles) from the Islands.
A bit ruthless? Perhaps so, treaty to-day, all placing special to be ruthless, to addle the team Other Admirals also assailed the but these Australians are going The McKenna duties had been emphasis on the Japanese ratio.
allow sentiment to approved and instituted by the
Senator leaders are in general they put in the field with some- Conservative Government, which had a mandate from the people tice that he would call a special weight.
agreement that the President's no-one who is not pulling his full and a majority of over 200, yet session of the Senate to dispose of now they saw a minority Labour the treaty if it is not acted Government attempting to sweep before adjournment means that ar them away.-British Wireless.
early decision either for or against the pact will be reached.
NIGHT RACING AT SHANGHAI
NOT LIKELY TO TAKE ON WITH PUBLIC.
Shanghai, June 2. Over 4.000 people attended the opening of the night dirt track at the Stadium last night.
There were plenty of thrills and a few spills.
It is conceded by even the foes of the treaty that it has enough supporters in the senate to assure its ratification...
Every man in the Australian side will have to play for his place. England will be the stronger if the same thing applies.
Test matches are not going to be won by reputations. We shall need men who are doing big deeds to-day to beat these "Aussles." Therefore, let us show a trifle of Meanwhile, the Department of wisdom in waiting until these State has initiated discussions for men emerge from our county an exchange of notes between thegames. United States, Great Britain and This is only sane poliéy. To plead Japan to clarify the controverted the cause of any individual before ship replacement clause. Wit-waiting until he has justified him. messes before the sepate commit-self in actual play is to invite a. tees which are studying the treaty rebuff when selection time comes have acknowledged that under the round.. clause Great Britain might be con- strued as able to replace her six-
There was no betting. The inch gun cruisers with eight-inch THE KING'S HEALTH. opinion is that this form of racing guns cruisers when the former will not take on with the public. come of age.
Our Own Correspondent.
THE DAVIS CUP.
HOLLAND ELIMINATED BY CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.
Scheveningen, June 1. Czecho-Slovakia has eliminated Holland from the Davis Cup winning three matches and losing two-Reuter.
possibly do. If you sent for an ex- pert to come from England, he could not deal with the matter bet- doesn't need to be on the spot to etr than our local experts, and in deal with this sort of thing. in addition, we should have to pay
President's Notice.
Notice that with
NOT TO ATTEND TROOPING OF THE COLOUR, the support of the leaders in the Senate he
London, June 1. would call a special session of the
Although His Majesty the King Senate if the London naval treaty is making a satisfactory recovery was disposed of during the pre-from his attack of rheumatism, it sent session was given by Presiis announced he will not attend dent Hoover on Friday.
the ceremony of the Trooping of "It is my understanding," the the Celour on the Horse Guards President said in a statement is- Parade on Tuesday. advocates of the naval treaty salute will be taken by Field sued at the White House, "that the
By command of His Majesty, the in the Renate have striven Marshal the Duke of Connaught, earnestly for action during Senior Colonel of the Brigade of the present Session. If it Guards. should prove to be impossible
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OWNER'S INTENTION.
The junk "Maskee," in which Mr. Stevenson and three companions recently set out on a world voyage but had to return, is now offered, for sale, an advertisement on Page 4 of to-day's Telegraph inviting offers for the litle craft.
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Peking, June 1.
the
PASSES IN SPAIN.
Manila, May 28. Father Jose Algue, inventor of Seen by a Telegraph representa- A communique from the barociclonometer and Directive, Mr. Stevenson said he had Military Headquarters at Cheng- been reluctly compelled to give chow states that as a result of a tor of the Manila Observatory up the idea or tempting the world general offensive on the night of from 1898 to 1925, died early voyage, owing to his inability to May 30th, the Nanking troops. yesterday morning at the Tor- get any seafaring men to accom- tosa College, residence of tha pany him. He also realised that it were forced to fall back to the was now very late in the season to east in disorder, and the Kuo- Jesuit Fathers in charge of the start out.
minchun-Shansi Allies advanced Boro Observatory, Spain, accord-
twenty miles on all fronts.. ing to a cable message received late last night by Father Miguel Selga, director of the weather bureau. He was 74 years old.
The name of Father Algue will never be forgotten, due to his in- vention of the barociclonometer, an instrument which locates and points out the direction of a ty phoon, and which combined with Father Faura's barometer, became the two best known contributions of the Philippines to climatologists and seismologists.
"I may, however, make another attempt in three and a half years
It is further stated that a dae." He explained that under off from the main force and dis- time," he said, "when my leave is Nanking mixed regiment was cut normal conditions his leave WAS armed near Ningling, whilst an not really due until then, but that infantry regiment was captured when he applied some time back for a year's special leave for the pur- pose of making the world attempt, his employers kindly granted it. Now that the attempt had had to be abandoned, he would naturally revert to his job.
that
Mr. Stevenson added even if he gets for the "Maskee" what it cost him, he would still be some $1,500 out of pocket, "but," he remarked smilingly, "it might have been worse. I might have struck a coral reef and lost everything."
Mr. Stevenson still thinks that
near Kweiteh.
The total prisoners taken num- bered 3,500.
Air Unit Captured. General Cheng Ta-chang, Com- mander of the Second (roup of Kuominchun Cavalry, after a fev days' scouting in the neighbour- hood of Tangshan, discovered that the enemy bad changed his Alr Depot from Tangshan to a place one mile south-east of Mamutsi, and was apparently preparing an
General Cheng Tacbang per sonally led a surprise attack during the night of May 30th and captured a whole unit of twelve planes, with fifty pilots and mechanics. A battalion of infan- try and a company of cavalry are now guarding the Depot.
Knew World Fame. Since his invention of this int strument, which was first an- a world voyage by a boat like their raid on a large scale. nounced to the world in 1904, his "Maskee" is possible, and, despite fame as a scientist has become the ill-fortune which has attended known all over the world. The his first venture, he is no means first official recognition of the averse to trying again, provided value of his invention was given he can get experienced volunteers by the United States Navy. which to accompany him.
his adopted
barocíclonometer, without any changes, as part of the ship steering apparatus. Father Faura's barometer has also been adopted by the U.S. Navy and is in general use throughout the Orient.
Father Algue had been reported dead once before, the last time un November from a heavy attack of pneumonia. Ha was brought to the Tortosa College after his ili ness and was reported to be re- gaining his health
Early Career.
Born in the town of Manresa, Spain on December 28, 1856, Father Jose Algue's first studies were at Barcelona, and he later went to France, where he joined the Society of Jesus, becoming a Jesuit father on July 17, 1871.
RECENT ATTACK AT
A BANK.
A BOY DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL.
Other Victories. General Shih
Yu-shan also clalms a sweeping victory on the. night of May 30th, reporting that. General Tiao-yuan's bodyguard was defeated and disarmed near Tsaohsien.
General Fan Chung-hsiu reports
Ching Chau-wui, the son of the sub-manager of the Hung Tak Bank, No. 165, Queen's Road Cen- that a Nanking Brigade attempted tral, who was wounded by a man to cut his rear, but was enveloped who ran amok with a chopper on at Yehhsien, the whole Brigade May. 24 last on the premises of being disarmed.-Reuter. the Bank, was yesterday discharg- ed from the Government Civil Hos-. pital as having recovered from his injuries.
Tsingcheng Captured.
Shanghai, June 1.- The capture by the Shansi-' The alleged assailant is being kept in a special ward at the Hoa-Kuominchun allies of Taingcheng, pital and receiving attention for a on the bank of the. Yellow River. wound in his throat.
to the north-east of Tainanfu, and the subsequent Nationalist re- treat towards Tsinanfu marked the latest development in the
He then spent several years in the little Republic of Andorra, where he studied philosophy. He QUIET AFTER RAID AT northern war during the week-end
he
WADALA.
INJURED.
came to the Philippines in 1894.. After staying two years in Manila, he left for Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., where studied astronomy and meteoro- MANY VOLUNTEERS SLIGHTLY logy. He returned to the Islands in 1898, and on Father Faura's death that year, he was appointed Director of the Manila Observa- tory, now known as the weather bureau, a post which he held for 27 years, from 1898 to 1920 when he left for Spain. His departure from the Philippines at the age of 69 years was due to failing health and to cataract of the eyes, mode
Data on Typhoons. During his stay in the Islands as Director of the Manila Obser- vatory, he added to the prestige of the observatory, gained after Father Faura's invention of the
The whole 4th Shansi Army was engaged in the attacks against the Nationalists simultaneously at various positions in Shantung Pro- vince.
Nanking Defence.
Adopting a defensive plan, the Nationaliat troops are massing at Wuting, and Yucheng, which is near Tainanfu, along the Tientsin- Pukow Railway.
Bombay, June 1. The situation at Wadala is now quiet, following the "final" salt raid yesterday when fifteen thous and volunteers rushed the Police cordon. The military pickets have now been withdrawn. Leaders of
The 4th, Shansi Army which the raid estimate that 150 raiders captured Tsingcheng engaged the were alightly injured,
Nationalist troops in a battle near Tributes are paid to the restraint Wuting yesterday. The Nation- exercised by the Police. All the alist Commanders at Tsinanfu are the incident have now been re-against the Shansi-Kuomihchun women who were arrested during planning a gigantle counter-attack
leased. Reuter,
CHAMPIONSHIPS.
barometer, by improving this in- THE FRENCH TENNIS vention by his own invention of the barocicloñometer and by the participation of the observatory.at the St. Louis International Fair, held in 1904-1905.
COCHET BEATS TILDEN;" WIN",
FOR MRS. MOODY, In 1900, Father Algue gave to the world the first complete and
Paris, June 1. reliable data on weather and typ: In the final of the French men's hoons in the Philippines, in his tennis championship, Cochet baat two-volume book "El Archipielago | Tilden 3-6, 8-6, 6-3, 6-1.. Filipino. In 1904 he headed the In the final of the Indies delegation of the weather bureau championship, Mrs. Helen Wills to the St. Louis Fair and in 1905 Moody beat Miss Helen Jacobs 6-2, he represented the Philippines at 6-1-Reuter. the international conference: at Innsbruck, Austria, `.
In 1925, when old age was mak- ing it impossible for him to con- tinue with his work, he retired,
to complete it at the regulation taken by the King on medical ad- session, I shall call a special ses-
leaving his post to Father Miguel "Nevertheless, I can say that ion of the senate immediately fol- vice. It is considered that while a large salary. As a matter of should the Committee advise the lowing the regular session to do any vestige of the rheumatic fact, an expert in England "could assistance of an expert from with the question. The leaders advisable for him to bear the trouble remains, it, would not be deal with the problem just as well England, the Government would of the senate have been consulted strain of sitting on a horse for by staying there and being certainly put the suggestion into and are in agreement with this nearly two hours-British Wire- supplied with all the data. A man effect."
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rebela:..
: General Han Fu-chu of the Na- tionalist Army returned to Tsinan tu from the front. expressing
confidence in the Nationalist Army's ability to recapture Tsing- cheng.
Despite the heavy fighting along parts of the Teinanfu-Klaochow Railway and at. Teingchong, com- munication on the line was not in- terrupted during the week-end.
The latest messages from Tsin-- anfu state that the Shana! troops have been besieging Taingcheng since this morning and have suc ceeded in disarming two regiments" of Shani forces in the suburbs at Taingcheng. Large scale fighting in eastern Shantung is expected to break out at any moment.
Foreigners Perturbed.
The Royal Observatory reports In view of the serious situation Selga, and left for Spain. His that a depression is still shown over in Shantung and the war prepara- death yesterday morning was deep Tongking. The typhoon is about tions on both sides, the foreigners ly felt by the Jesult fathers at the 200 miles N. E. of Nagasaki, mov-residing at Teinanfu held a meet Manila Observatory who had but ing N. E. The local forecast ising on Saturday to discuss means recently received news of his im Southerly or variable winde, mo- and ways to ensure their own safe. proved health.
derate; fine to showery.
(Continued on Page 12.)