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CEMENT COMPANY UNDERWORLD KING ECONOMIC ISSUES BRITAIN'S NEW AIR NANKING FOREIGN POLISH BOMB PLOT PROFESSIONALISM
CAPITAL.
REDUCTION · SCHEME
HELD UP..
VICKERS-ARMSTRONG MAKE
RESERVATIONS.
NOT ACCEPTABLE.
SINKING.
POLICE NO NEARER ARREST OF ATTACKERS.
VARIETY OF THEORIES.
OF EMPIRE.
DISCUSSIONS STILL PROCEEDING,
CONFERENCE MAY LAST FOR WEEKS.
FRESH COMMITTEES.
MINISTER.
LORD AMULREE JOINS. THE CABINET.
FAMOUS ARBITRATOR.
London, Oct. 14.
It is officially announced that Lord Amulree has been appointed Secretary of State for Air, suc- ceeding the late Lord Thomson, who died in the R.101 disaster. -Reuter,
The new member of the Labour Cabinet is the most famous in- adustrial arbitrator of the day. Formerly Sir William Warrender Mackenzie, he was born at Scone. Scotland, in 1860.
London, Oct. 14..
gations to-day entered into
The Imperial Conference dele- more detailed discussion of one of the suggestions of improving yesterday, namely, the applic- inter-imperial trade submitted
ability of the quota system to the export and import of Empire wheat.
New York, Oct. 14. Jack Diamond, the King of New York's underworld, who was shot during the week-end, is reported to be sinking. A Roman Catholic priest was summoned from Aera, Owing to Messrs. Vickers-New York, where Diamond's resi- Armstrong, Ltd., the Company's dence is situated. The priest was principal creditors. having insist-into the lek-room in the strictest taken to the hospital and ushered 'ed on certain reservations to which the Directors of the Green withdrawing outside the door.
secrecy. The watching detectives Island Cement Co., Ltd., do not Meanwhile feel justified in agreeing, the re-nearer discovering the identity of the police are no organisation of the capital of the the two men who shot Diamond, Green Island Cement Co., Ltd.. or the real motive of the attack, has been abandoned for the time but Police Commissioner Mul. being.
Tooner expressed the opinion that Shareholders were informed of the assailants were disgruntled This was referred to a specia! this, at an extraordinary general members of Diamond's own gang,committee.
He thinks that Diamond did not meeting this morning, when the resolutions dealing with the re-expect them to shoot him. They organisation were withrawn but came to discuss business but an alterations in the draft Memoran-argument became heated and the dum of Association, with regard shooting followed. to the objects of the Company. Charles Entratta, an ex-convict, The police are hunting for were approved.
who last year was acquitted with Diamond on a charge of complicity in a double murder at a New York
con-
night club.
The police are also investigat: ing the mysterious disappearance of Leonard Steinberg, the reputed Brooklyn "Rum Baron". It is known that Jack Diamond
Wes
his
His father, a farmer, sent NO: at great self-sacrifice to Edinburgh University where he won the Lord Rector's Prize 1883. Going to London, he tended University College and studied law at Lincoln's Inn
at-
In
POLICY.
FIRM ON EXTRALITY QUESTION.
EXTENSIVE TREATY REVISION DESIRED
MOSCOW DEADLOCK.
Shanghai, Oct. 14. The future foreign policy of the Nhiking Government was
ALLEGED.
MARSHAL PILSUDSKI'S LIFE THREATENED.
SOCIALIST RESPONSE.
Warsaw, Oct. 14. Five Socialist deputies have been arrested, and it is alleged that the action was taken in consequence of the discovery of a plot to assassin- até Marshal Pilsudski, the virtual Dictator of Poland.---Reuter,
Warsaw; Later.
.
IN SOCCER.
LAST NIGHT'S MEETING OF H.K.F.A.
"LIFER" ON TWO CHINESE CONFIRMED."
NEW DEVELOPMENT.
A prospect of signal import- ance emerged from last night's meeting of the Council of the Hongkong Football Association when, arising out of the appeal of Chan Kwong-ul and Tso Kwai- aing against the forfeiture of
The news of the alleged Bomb announced at the weekly session plot against Marshal Pilsudski, in at the Foreign Ministry yester-connexion with which eight of day by Dr. C. T. Wang, the the Socialist oppositionists have Foreign Minister, who reiterated now been arrested, has created a the determination of the Govern great sensation throughout the their amateur status, Mr. R. K. ment to proceed with the aboli-country.
Duncan, the chairman of the intion of extra-territoriality.
The leader of the alleged plot committee responsible for the The Foreign Minister said that is said to be an old revolutionary original decision, repudiated the despite the civil wars, the Govern leader, Peter Jagodzinski, who, old policy of hush-hush regard. ment had not changed its policy however, denies that he ever con- ing the rumours of profession- and it hoped that within the next templated the
alism in the ranks of certain three years all the foreign treaties with China would be revised on a
The Executive Committee
local teams, broke clean away the Socialist Party have issued a from the last remnants of laissez basis of equality..
statement alleging that the police faire, and gave it clearly as his have invented the story of the plot opinion that the tinge of profes- in order to bolster up the weaken-sionalism, if proved to exist, ing Dictatorship.-Reuter.
would have to be cleaned up, or the Council would have to face the issue of altering its con- stitution and rules to embrace professionalism.
The Conference later adjourned. until October 16 when the dele-1885 he took his M.A. degree at Edinburgh aud next year was gates will probably discuss bulk called to the Bar and joined the purchase which may also be Northern Circuit. referred to a Committee.
Idea of Quota.
London, Oct. 14.. The heads of the delegations to
to
Pilsudski,
assassination of
of
FREE RUBBER FOR ROADS.
SUGGESTION BY GROWERS ASSOCIATION.
that the colossal work on
He soon became an authority An official observer points out on various branches of the law,
China's Aspirations. economic side of the Conference is including "Prati and Mackenzie's the rublishing a number of works,
The Foreign Minister added Chairman's Speech.
likely to involve weeks of discus-Law of Highways," which ran to a that it has never been the inter- The Chairman (Mr. J. Scott
sion without actual decisions by large number of editions. The tion of the Nanking Government the heads of the delegations. Elementary Education Acts," Harston) in his speech
said:
Reuter..
prolong any of the existing This meeting has been
"Overseers' Handbook" and "Poor Treaties which have found to be for vened
the
of purpose
Law Guardian." He was also one antiquated and unsuitable considering, and, if thought lit
of the editors of Lord Halsbury's | present conditions in China..
Mr. Duncan, writes "Wanderer," passing resolutions for reducing
"Laws of England."
On the other land, the Govern
did not commit himself to the sug- the Company's capital from anxious to "cut in on the liquor
In 1914 he was made t K.C.mont would not fail to impress on
gested change of policy, but he $6,000,000.00 to $4,000,000.00 and racket" in Brooklyn, and it is the Imperial Conference con- and three years later his know the foreign Powers the aspirations
hinted that the case of Tao Kwal- returning to the holders of all thought that he may have hadtinuing their exchange of views ledge of industrial matters led of the Nationalist Government
sing and Chan Kwong-ui might fully paid shares paid up capital, Steinberg "taken for a ride" and on the suggestions for improving to his being appointed chairman and all its people in connexion
London, Oct. 15.
bring matters to a head. If the. with their unanimous desire for
clubs subject The Rubber Growers' Associaton the change, it was up to them to suspicion desired revision of all treaties. He hoped hus circularised its members sug-come out into the open, and to ask the Powers would show a sym-gesting that a percentage of their for it. It was a big issue, but it pathetic attitude. towards the output be given free to the Rubber was just possible that the Council Nationalist aspirations and per-Roadways Company, and a further might come to it. haps express their willingness, in part at a fixed price for five years. the not distant future, to agree to an immediate revision of their Treaties with China. even if such Treaties had not yet expired.
inter-imperial trade, referred cer-
to the extent of $2.50 per share, has been shot himself by Stein-tain matters to a Committee which and also for the purpose of con-fberg's friends in sidering, and, if thought it up" | Reiter's American Service.
proving the draft new Memoran- dum of Association with regard to the objects of the company. All these resolutions were proposed by your Board of Directors.
Since the notices convening the „meeting were sent out to shure- holders, eircumstances have arisen which have induced your Board of - Directors to abandon, for the
time being, the scheme for the re- duction and re-organisation of the company's capital. The circum-1000 stances in question are these:
Negotiations Fail.
revenge,-
COSTLY PERSIAN.
TREASURES.
NOW SAFE IN ROYAL ACADEMY.
met this afternoon and discussed in a general way the various': technical aspects of the quota system with reference to the im-) portation of wheat.
A
PROHIBITION BUREAU SURPRISE.
Newspapers Asked for Views on 18th Amendment.
QUESTIONNAIRE
ISSUED.'
Washington, Oct. 14. The Prohibition Bureau has addressed a questionnaire to three thousand newspapers asking whether they oppose or
neutral adopt
attitude towards the Prohibition Amendment and the Prohibi- tion Laws-Reuter's Ameri. caa Service.
بد
at
on
Moscow Conference. Authentic sources state that difficulties have again developed at the Sino-Sovict Conference Moscow, at which the Soviet plenipotentiary has insisted compliance with the term of the Kharbarovsk Protocol signed' be- tween the Soviet and Manchurian Provincial Governments last year.
The Soviet delegate has also: demunded that the control of the Chinese Eastern Railway should be placed in hands of the Soviet; in other words, the Russians are demanding the same conditions which they made before the out-
Presiding at the annual meeting of Messrs. Harrisons and Cross- field, Mr. Eric Miller suggested that the Governments is rubber-i producing countries might finn- pially assist growers who have de- initely discontinued tapping to enable them to carry on their pro- perties during the crisis on a "care and maintenance basis."-Reuter,
AUSTRALIA FLIERS GOING STRONG.
BOTH AHEAD OF HINLKER SCHEDULE.
•
The issue is perfectly plain and cannot be dodged. The frumours" having been brought
hefore the Council, in open ses- sion, rome move from the clubs or the Council would seem to be
required. If the clubs take no steps, the Council has no alter- native to an Investigation of the
rumours.
No Reinstatement Unless→→
Broadly stated the iden of the quota is to allot to the different soprees from which any commo- dity is produced the proportion. which is to be received. The Committee which considered this matter consisted partly of Landen, Oct. 14. Art treasures valued at £2,000,-
Minister: and partly of officials.
Mr. Graham. President of the were brought to the Royal Board of Trade. preside! to-day Academy to-day from the docks at and among others attending were Rotherhithe, eight miles distant.the British and Australian Minis- in special vans with steel doors,ters for Agriculture, When your Directors decided under armed police escort. The upon the scheme, they entered in-comprised the contribution of the for discussion tough not neces The quota proposal was tabled to negotiations with Messrs. Vie-Shah of Persia to the Persian Artsarily recommended by the United
Mr. Duncan mooted this possible kers-Armstrong Ltd.. who then Exhibition which is being held in Kingdom delegation.
change of constitution because an The Com- were, and still are, the company's London in January.
examination of the rules of the nittee considered it worth a de- only considerable creditors) with
local Association and The Football The treasures were brought to failed and technical examination the object of obtaining their ap- London in the steamer Baharistan, by experts who
Association showed that there' proval of the scheme. At that the crew being unaware until report upon the proposui.
were asked to
exists no power of reinstatement time your Board had no reason to arrival that there was aboard any
of Chun Kwong-ui and Tso Kwai- doubt that fears. Vickers-Arm- thing more precious than a cargo
sing as amateurs eligible for local. Sankey's Committer strong, Ltd.. would approve of the of dates.
football. Having forfeited their flew to-day from Karachi Lord Sankey's Committee which rates and of the inquiry into break of the Sino-Soviet war in Allahabad which he reached in of the Emergency Committee was. scheme, in regard to which their
to amateur status for the decision. consentential. The negotia-conveyed to coast by air, in order is considering certain aspects of industrial unrest in the S.W. dis-Manchuria last year.
to avoid the possibility of banditpleted its examination of the ques
the record time of five and half confirmed by the Council-they The chief Chinese delegate at days from London. He is so far are barred for life, unless special inter-imperial relations to-day com-triet or England.
Thereafter his services were in the conference, General Mo Teh-well ahead of the time made by rules are made to meet their case, raids-British Wireless
Lions of the form of commercial constunt demand as an arbitrator hui, has signified his unwillingness Hinkler on his fifteen and half or unless the Appeals Board to treaties, after which reference was in dispute between employers to accept the Soviet terms. It is days' record fight to Australia. made to the other questions, in- and employed, his mastery of feared that a deadlock will again cluding the system of communica- detall and fairness being
re-develop unless the Soviet Govern- Rangoon for Singapore to-day has. Flight-Lieutenant Hill who left tion and consultation, in relation cognised by both sides. He was ment abandons its demands. to foreign affairs, channels of knighted (K. B. E.) in 1918.
оп improved
Hinkler's communication with foreign coun-
Behedule-British Wireless. tries and the phraseology of official documents,
tions, however, have not been brought to a successful conclu- sion-Messrs. Vickers-Armstrong Ltd, insisting on certain reserva- tions to which your Board do not feel justified in agreeing. For these reasons your Board has do- cided that, for the time being, it will abandon the said scheme of reduction and reorganisation of capital.
Consequently Resolution No. 1
of
In Persia, the treasures were
NEW AIR ROUTES TO BE STUDIED.
JAUFAENANCIAREN DECORAR
of the commission of inquiry into Manchester engineering piece
Among the inquiries over which
London, Oct. 14. Wing-Commdr. Kingsford Smith
also
Silk Trade Failures,
Because of the serious warfare
which the matter is to be carried overrules the Council,
The facts on which the Commit tee reached their findings may be summarised as follows: Both play. ers declared they were in a finans cial position to give up their, poal tions to undertake the tour and
he presided were those into the position of women in industry (1918), into night baking (1919) in North China, which has inter- and (in 1924) into the claims of rupted communication in Central! AMERICAN BUSINESS did not expect any real pecuniary
London police strike of 1919.. policemen dismlased after
CRISIS.
R.A.F. EXPEDITION IN AFRICA.
London, Oet. -14. dealing with the reduction of A Royal Air Force expedition
Prince at Horsham.. capital will not
the China, and because of the adverse Inid left Khartoum to-day on a lour be
The Prince of Wales flew in his
benefit. One of them regarded it before this meeting
exchange conditions resulting in nor. of hitherto unexplored areas in private aeroplane to-day to the
as a cheap holiday. They admit- course, before the confirmatory West Africa.
of On the establishment the higher cost of, freight charges on
ted that before leaving Hongkong Blue cant School at Horsham. He meeting which has been convened New air routes will be Investicircled over the school before and determine trade disputes be- Shunghai to other countries, the Industrial Court in 1919 to hear Chinese silk exported. from
UNPRECEDENTED STEP BY they were given $150 to buy foot- for November 12. Furthermore at xuted during the five weeks' tour, alighting and during a speech to tween employers and workpeople. Chinese silk trade has been hard
PRESIDENT HOOVER. ball gear, a blazer and a dress such confirmatory meeting: Resolu-British Wireless
the boys urged upon them the 28-
sult. They admitted that they re tions (a), (b) and (c) dealog
pecial importance of biology and and during the next 7 years made
he was appointed its president. bit.
Washington, Oct. 14.
ceived $2 per day for expenses, with the re-organisation will not
geography, subjects which would
In Shanghal, it is stated, over The serious condition of business and they gave the Committee no be proceeded with.
himself the most famous arbitra- 106 Chinese wilk BOMBAY POLICE AND would help to equip them to become tor of the day. On his retirement Have closed down announcing to-day at a conference at the white told the Committee that if their filatures in the United States was discussed account of their expenditure. They CONGRESS.
in 1926 he was awarded the G.B. either bankruptcy or inability to House between President Hoover expenses had been higher, their and later published a work on the continue business for the time and Messrs. Richard Whitney and additional outlay would have been Alan Landley, the President and refunded by the manager of the Practice of the Industrial Court."being:
Vice-President respectively of the tear. New York Stock Exchange. recent. The meeting, which is believed to
OFFICE RAIDED AND ARRESTS' MADE.
Bombay, Oct. 14.
lying parts of the Empire.
They are both imperial subjects and they make for the better under- standing of mankind," he said. British Wireless.
As you have learned from the notices that have appeared in the local papers, your Board of Direc tors has also revoked the call of 34 per share which was made in August last, on those shares upon which only $1 has been paid up: Such resolution became necessary because the only reason for making raided the Bombay Congress Com HIGHER GERMAN DUTY the call was that it was one of the mittee office early this morning" essential steps in the scheme for and arrested the occupants. reduction of capital, and as that The offices of other allled or
A strong force of armed police
ON WHEAT.
scheme has, for the time being, ganisations were similarly raided DESIKE TO PREVENT IMPORTS
is no simultaneously-Reuter.
been abandoned the call
longer necessary, or desirable, since
It was to be utilised in connexion | with the proposed return of capital to shareholders.
New Memorandum. The other purpose for which this meeting has been convened is to obtain the approval of the share- holders of the draft new Memoran- dom of Association. The existing
N.Z. GOVERNMENT DEFEATED.
LAND LAWS AMENDMENT DISCUSSION.
Wellington, NZ. Oct. 14.
FOR TIME BEING.
Geneva, Oct. 14.
In connexion with the European Tariff Truce signed in March, the German Government has: notified the League Secretariat that the German customs duty on wheat. will be increased forthwith from
quintal
Soon after the Labour Govt. came
into power in 1929 he was raised
LARGE SCALE BERLIN STRIKE.
:
Famine Spreading.
evidence of
were
Dr
Trivial Offence, to the peerage and took the title "AD aftermath of the of Baron Amulree. In November Northern strife is indicated in be unprecedented, is being much financial benefit received
There was .no
man of the of that year he was made Chair- messages from Honan and Shan-commented upon in official circles. Ifkely to be received beyond
Government inquiry tung stating that thousands of Reuter's American Service.
ad- these items, which into the working of the liquor war refugees in districts com.
mitted, and while the phrase. licensing laws-Reuter and L.B.S.pletely devastated are on the
ology of The Football Association's verge of starvation.
rules appears to leave little The Nanking Ministry of Civil whole villages have been wiped out loophole for any decision other Affairs has deemed it necessary entirely, while in other instances than that reached, it is impossible to appropriate $100,000 for the clang, of over a hundred members to resist the conclusion that the
have been killed during the offence was most trivial. reller of these unfortunate people.
Nanking-Kuominchun encountera. According to first hand reports
When, one compares their" posi=" from the famine districts, it is. Shrnst Retreat Continues.
tion with that of the Australian' estimated that at least $3,000,000
amateur cricketer who receives will be required for the restora
Peking, Oct. 14. £650 for a tour of England, the tion of conditions in these areas, The Shanel forces continue to payment of all travelling and which cover many hundreds of withdraw to passes on the Pro-living expenses, and a grant of square miles. The Ministry of vincial border. The Manchurians 20z. weekly for taxi allowance, Civil Affairs has appealed to the have now occupied the Raliway as without losing his amateur status, three million dollars.
withdrawal of the last Shanst unit Central and Northern Hunan, famous pass on the Shanal frontier Such more rigid on the Foot
The worst conditions prevail in to occupy Shihchlachuang, the Close To Wind. where, along the Lung-Hai Ral- and it is expected that they will ball Association's rules appear to shortly control as far as the be, it is still rather difficult to way at Kihalen, Lanfeng, Kaifeng, Yellow RiverReuter
(Continued on Page 7)
METAL WORKERS' PROTEST
AGAINST AWARD.
Berlin, Oct. 14. fifteen marks to 18.50 marka per One hundred and forty, thousand members of the Berlin branch of The Government was defeated The Government says that the the Metal Workers' Union have de Memorandum is one which has been to-day by thirty-one votes to increase is imperative owing to clared in favour of a strike as from Nanking Government Council for far as Sin Le, only waiting for the it seems almost absurd. since the present form ever twenty-one during a discussion in the exceptional drop in Wheat October 15, in protest against the
incorporation of company in 1889, and your Direc-sentatives on the settlement clausement "is
the committee of the llouse of Repre- prices, while immediate enforce reduction of wages under the re- tors consider that in order that the in the Land Laws Amendment imports in
necessary to prevent cent arbitration award, Anka (Continued on Page 7)
anticipation of a The strike may aggravate the Bill-Reuter.
change. Reuter.
political situation-Reuter.