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MR. CHURCHILL UNREPENTANT.
ANOTHER ATTACK BRITAIN DEMANDS
ON INDIA
URGES. TELLING OF THE TRUTH!
"DIE-HARD SPEECH BY SIR MICHAEL O'DWYER.
DISARMAMENT.
POWERFUL SPEECH BY MR. HENDERSON:
ANXIETY, FEAR, WAR.
London, Jan. 20.
Mr.
Arthur Henderson, in the
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BOXER INDEMNITY LUCIA TRIAL VERDICT IN FELIX SMUGGLING SOUTH AFRICA
SCIFEME:
COMMONS DEBATE.
SURPRISING LIBERAL
CRITICISM.
EDUCATION PLUS FIVE PER CENT. "SMIRCH."
The British Foreign Secretary. READ A SECOND TIME. PREMIER REPLIES. Jpening publie
London, Jan. 20. League Council at Geneva to-day.
In consequence of the recent strongly arged that the League letter by Mr. Stanley Baldwin should lead the males in bold insisting on better attendances, Japproach to the disarmament pro- there
full practically a Was Ident
House of Coninions when Parlia- Dharamanent by collective agreement reassembled to-day. the ment The most important Conservatives being unusually question of the preseal day in well represented. International politics, and a list of every nation's loyalty to the ideals, The min and the purposes of the Lague
The successful outcome of the Indian Round Table Con- ference funds Mr. Winston Churchill quite unrepentant for his recent outburst, mis- chicvously attacking ito work. He has given an in- terview to a London paper in which he apparently, again seeks to damage pro-
·spects of goodwill towards the scheme in India.
news-
WILA
a not
EVIDENCE.
HINT OF OFFICER'S AGGRAVATION.
A. B. SENTENCED.
The first man to take trial was
"Both Watches for Exercise" and
VILLAS CRIME.
FORMER “BOY” FOUND
NOT GUILTY.
ELOQUENT PLEADING BY HIS
COUNSEL
BENEFIT OF DOUBT.
SHIP SEIZED.
CREW JAILED WITHOUT
OPTION.
VETERAN SAVES THE GAME:
LUCKY TO DRAW IN THIRD TEST.
·
ENGLAND'S FINE EFFORT TO` SNATCH VICTORY.
BIG OPIUM HAUL. There was a Poilce Court sequel to the acizure by Revenue Officera yesterday of over 1,200 taels of contraband opium on the steam- launch Chi Kwong.
crew with jolat possession of the
Charging three members of the ELOQUENT FIGURES. drug, before Mr. Lindsell at the Central Police Court to-day Revenue Officer Grimmitt referred to a long watch kept on smugglers, who, he alleged, wero using the launch, an ocean-going vessel of 18 tons, specifically for the pur- pose of bringing opium into the
The Chi Kwong was at one time registered at Canton, but trans- ferred its part of registry to long- December 15 last, kong when it arrived here on
com~
Durban, Jan. 20. The Third Test between England and South Africa was drawn, though Arthur Chapman's men were pletely masters of the situa- tion, their brilliant effort to force a victory almost de- serving better success. The figures themselves speak far more eloquently in praise of the England team than mere words. Suffice it to point out that with eight wickets down in their second innings, South Africa were only 99
runs on.
London, Jan. 20. The court-martial opened at Devonport to-day to try the [aboard the submarine-tender. at the Criminal Sessions closed
the ringleiders in
incident
The Felix Villas murder trial H.M.S. Lucia on January 4, when this morning, the jury, after re- some thirty seamen refused to tiring for one minute, finding the obey orders,
accused "Not Guilty." The ver- Abledeaman T. Gratton, who was diet followed an eloquent appeal charged with disobeying a command by counsel for the defence, to fail in on Sunday as part of stressing the improbability that a murder would be carried out in is with disobeying a command extension of a quarrel occurring to fall in on the quarter-deck,
two and a half months before. Colony. Three other Able-Seamen will
Prisoner, Leiling his story from One of the first items on the appear before the court-martial the witness box, said that he was Order Paper concerned the recent later on, while twenty-six others 20 years of age and was a native agreement
China and are still delained in barracks and for Shanghai. He was between Great Britain for the disposal of will be dealt with after the decina house coolie at No. 3, Felix employed the British Boxer Indemnity, and sions of the court-martial have been Villas, for three or four months, An effective scheme of armament after Liberal opposition, the China promulgated.
after which he went to No. 9, as being used for the smuggling of A hint was given that she was London, Jan. 20. reduction was essential to the Eu- Indemnity Application Bill was The Prosecutor stated that anehouseboy. He worked there until "Die-hard" views on the Con-ture welfare of the people of the given a second reading without a | Able-Scaman obeyed the command,
the end of September, 1930, when was thereafter kept on the move- oplum, and a strict surveilance ference were contained in work. Doubtless they would he division.
he was discharged,
After de- speech at Cheltenhum by Sir told that the present was
The second reading was moved | mchumminSERDIENCE IN VITÁLIS SZERINT NEUMATICINOSAL
ments of the vessel. He explained that deceased was tailing how, on one pecasion, it Michael
The veteran Taylor stood be. O'Dwyer, former good time for reduction, that thereby Mr. Hugh Dalton, the Under-
recommended by the cank for the eluded attention, the Officer stated tween England and Governor of the Punjab, who was anxiety, unrest, fear and even who declared that its provisions
Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
FRANCE ADAMANT ON position of coolle and he prison that the Chi Kwong was intercept Playing his fiftieth Test Match victory: was connected with the Armorit-talk of war. That might be truc. constituted a great programme of
er) introduced him to the mastered yesterday off Castle Peak, on WAR LOAN. sar incidents, approving General but he asked in how great a mer mutual benefit to
On his dismissal, Britain and
decensed suc-Its return to the Colony from innings, Taylor refused to be Dyer's action, for which he was sure this unrest was simply
ceeded him ng houseboy. China.
Macao. The opium was located in tempted by the wiles of White the engine-rødm,
and Allom, treafed Hammond, brought before the Hunter Com-of the armaments that now existed mittee. He subsequently won a and how far it was the result of fibel action against the author of uncertainly as to whether war could "Gandhi and Anarchy which prevented. accused him of atrocities.
If there were any real danger in China, the present situation, It was, he material "The Dying Lion,”
believed, not the risk of war in theby helping her to build up a Immediate future. it was rather grent transport system worthy To-day, Sir Michael declared that through failure to carry out of her natural resources and of that the Conference sum palley of disarmament they might her
Was
modern state, thirdly. moned to "divide the skin of the drift into the situation which exist-iner
increased purchasing power and dying British lion."
ed before the lale war.
productivity to China, as a result It was significant as marking Some people. sald that nations of which the Chinese market would the willingness of the
present were falling into the old system increase in value, which would bene- Government to abandon British of allinnees war ke ends. fit British trade, and Instly. rule and British responsibility In On behalf of the British Govern would bring increased orders and Tudia.
ment, he would say without hesita employment to the workers in the Mr. Winston Churchill, interview-tien that he knew of no alliance British heavy Industries ed, declared that "the eloquent and um could know of none, except gineering trades.
Mr. Godfrey Locker-Lampson. well meant speeches at the dose of that of the Covenant itself, the great
and who held Mr. Dalton's office in the the Conference do not represent a world alliance against very large body of British opin-against the armament by which Conservative Government, express- ed the hope that the House readia- jan."
war was prepared and carried on.
for
WL
result
Scheme's Value,
It would bring, firstly, increased educational opportunities to Recondly, increased prosperity to China
it
and en-
1.
He was of opinion that a stranger) For the British Government anded the magnitude of the gift Bri- would care to the conclusion that people, he asserted that those only tain was making to Chinn. the British were anxious to wind were their friends who would look up their ennexion with ladis as with them to carry that course to soon as possible.
victory. --British, Wireler,
"Britain's Day Set."
1 do not believe that that is MEHLHORN BREAKS what the British nation wishes or means. If so, then the day of its power and greatness in the world) is set for ever."
Mr. Churchill complained that the British enge was never stated int the Conference.
"All the unpalatable truths about. safeguards were left unspoken, or
RECORD.
DOES MANILA COURSE IN SIXTY-SIX.
Maniu, Jan. 21. "Whd Hill" Melthorn and Bobby
were touched upon lightly as neceCruickshank, the U. S. professional sary evils, appropriate to a perialelfers, won the first 18-hole match from Larry Montes and R. Gon-
of transition.
Mohlhorn gave an outstanding
"If the safeguards are real andates, the Filipino prou, by 55 and 4. effective, then Dominion Status and responsible government are not terms to apply to the Constitution Performance by going round in GG, that has been outlined."
Winston's Consolation."
thus breaking the course record of
67, made by Griswold, the Paci-
Be Const golfer, in 1920.
No Concession to British Subscribers.
ARBITRATION RULED OUT.
Paris, Jan. 20.
In reply to the British Note regarding War Loan payments, the French Government states that it cannot agree to pay the British subscribers in gold france while other subscribers Are paid in paper.
intimated that It is also France cannot accept the Bri- tish suggestion to refer the case to arbitration, since this amounts to a proposal to place a fresh burden on the French Treasury, and the support of the French Legislature could
obtained thereto. not be
Reuter
INICIONEKANA
Fight Denied.
Speaking of his relationships with the other servants at No. 9, prisoner stated that during two years he had had rows with the cook on two or three occasions but his reiations with deceased were friendly.
The craft could not be confia-Voce and Tate with the utmost eated on account of its tonnage, respect, yet never allowing a but R. O. Grimmitt said they were loose ball to go unpunished, was holding on, to it. In the event of undefeated at the close with 64 the owners coming forward to runs to his credit. claim it.
But for hia effort, South Africa
Lai Sam-80, who was alleged to would have collapsed utterly, have charge of the craft, was sen- | Only Mitchell and Catterall of the Mr. D'Almada :-You heard it
tenced to a year's hard labour, and remaining batsmen managed to given in evidence yesterday that
Chau Ngau and Chan Kam-shing rench double figures, Hammond you had had a fight with him al
to ten months' hard labour. The clean bowling Catterall to break No. 9. Is that so7-It is true.
Was that the only row you had on of a fine was withheld in up the most dangerous partnership
had with him?—That was the only fight, but we had had two or three quarrels previous to that,
Prisoner explained that deceas ed's wife often visited the house and she was nuisy. He once told her not to come and because of that she quarrelled with him.
He continued that after he left No. 9 he was out of work for 20 days and stayed, during that time, with a friend at No. 7. Teak Road. | was of the opinion that the Bil
Subsequently he was engaged as a should stipulate that Britain be represented on the Board of Trus-The others remained in the Mess, temporary substitute at No. 2 fres which would deal with a por- with the hatch secured from below. Kennedy Road, and surveeded in tion of the money.
Lieut. Commander Hoskyns gave obtaining a permanent post there vidence that it was essential foras houseboy. Decensed's wife was the men to work on Sunday to get then living at No. 28 but she had
on Thursday.
She had done so at the invitation of another boy. Once or twice a week he reproached her for making unojne. He said that he visited No. 9, Felix Villas two or three times a month to see his former colleagues.
Liberal Critic.
all three cases.
U.S. PROHIBITION FINDINGS.
MODIFICATION OF LAW ADVOCA 'ED.
of the afternoon.
England's Superiority, In this match, England were dominant every department. They scored 223 for 1 wicket; South Africa made 322 for 181 The South African bowling had no tor- rors for Hammond and Leyland, the Gloucester pinyer continuing his bright inninga to-day as if there New York, Jan. 20, his century just before Wyatt fell had been no Interval. He reached
Twenty months of research a victim to Steidle at 64, the score into the question af Prohibition board then showing 100 runs, Ham- enforcement has resulted in extra-mond having obtained 104. Wyatt ordinarily inconclusive findings scored his runs in 170 minutes and in the report of the Wickersham hit three fours. Commission.
Leyland was as enterprising as Commission op- Hammond and in little over half an However, the pose the repeal of Prohibition, hour before lunch, he hit 81 runa though individual Commissioners not out, while Hammond recommend considerable modifiea-his score to 186 not out.
Chapman then declared the in- tion.
Three of the Commissionera nings closed. Hammond batted for favour enforcement with more twenty minutes under four hours eficient machinery, two require a for his 136 runs, and hit six fours. The Night of the Murder.
more extended test, and another Vincent's wicket cost him 66 rune, Answering another question, pri- demands a Referendum, but all and all the South African bowlers oner said that he last saw deceased agree that there is a lack of ade were severely punished, at the Kowloon ferry wharf on unte enforcement, public enforce The Court retired to consider December & or G, and he did not ment and public observance of again go to No. 9 after that date. Prohibition.-Reuter's American their finding, and returning an- When he left he did not take any | Service. nounced that Gratton had been con-keys with him and he did not take victed. The sentence of the court any keys at any other time,
that he be imprisoned WAS
of the night of the Speaking Service.sald that he went to bed between
The Liberal, Mr. George Lambert, the ship ready to proceed to Lisbon not gone there at his invitation. moved the rejection of the BIR.
He considered that the Govern mezt was taking the most eir. eritous route of securing increased education in China. Ile polnted out that the Americans had dealt with their share of the Indemnity in a vastly different way.
Mr. Lambert declared that the Bill would "smirch Britain's fair name in China. It represented education plus five per cent."
He did not abject, he said. To a profit, hut to hypocrisy.
Quiet Iteminder.
Denial of Aggravation.
He denied that he had been aggra- He admitted that valing the men. H.M.S. Lucia had been a happy ship till the last few months, but, declared that the change was not connected with him.
A. B. Gratton's "defender" in- timated that he was not putting Gration into the witness box nor calling evidence.
for
DA CUNHA.
Captain Eden (Con.) polated out Montes returned a score of 70. to Mr. Lambert that the body on three months with hard labour and murder, December 12-13, prisoner STORES FOR TRISTAN Mr. Churchill found une consolt-Cruickshank 74, and Gonzales 80. whose recommendation the Bill dismisses from the tion: is not yet too late. ............. Mehlhorn and Cruickshank leave was hased included Chinese repre-"} Reater, by the time another Cauference as- sembles, whether here or in India. for Hongkong on Friday-Reutersentatives, while the agreement
the British nation will know where
it stands It must have the courage! and the windum, in the words of the inte Lord Birkenhead, to tell India the truth"
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in broadcast address on the Confer ence, refuted the iden that it was fa sign of weakness on the part of the British authorities here and in) India and that the Conference was called
owing to civil disorders in
US. IMMIGRATION DECISION.
was made in Nanking between Sir Miles Lampson and Dr. C. T. Wang, the Chinese Foreign Minister, with the utmost cordiality on both sides. Mr. William Graham, President of the Board of Trade, declared that the whole object of the Bill was to cement friendly relations between China and Britain in the most practical way, by linking up provision for education with rail- Washington, Jan. 20. The Immigration Sub-Commit-way development. toe of the House of Representa-
TWO YEARS RESTRICTION
APPROVED.
BANK FAILURES IN AMERICA.
TOTAL OF OVER 1,300 LAST YEAR,
BRITISH STEAMER TO
MAKE CALI.
London, Jan. 20.
carried
South Africa Up Against It. When South Africa went in they, were up against it from the start. Siedle was given out leg before wle- ket before a run had been scored, and a second wicket went down at 27, Hammond catching Curnow. The third went at 47, and then came the partnership which did most to save Catter- South Africa from defeat.
nine o'clock and half past in the room which he shared with two other men. He was awakened at
all and Taylor carried the total to about midnight to purtake of some
77
by tea-time, and after the re- sandwiches, after which he went
sumption, by careful batting, the to bed again with the others. [In
score was further advanced to 106, |when-Chapnian's quick changes-did- did not get up again until about half past six when he went to the The Government has arranged the trick, Catterall being complete- lavatory. He wore a shirt, a pair that the steamship Serings, whichly beaten by Hammond.
Cameron of white trousers with stripes, and sails from Leith for South Georgia
back was. sont bis shoes, but he did not wear at the end of this month, shall call ten runa later, Deano and
at Tristan da Cunha with malls Taylor put socks.
on 20, McMillan After going to the lavatory, he and stores. British Wireless,
was brilliantly taken by Chapman said that he went into the yard in [Tristan Cunha is the largest off White, but time for stumps was order to estimate the time by of a group of islands of volcanic fast approaching and the game He declared that, on the contrary tives, has approved the Adminis
means of the light. He saw the formation in the South Atlantic.was saved.
At 145 Vincent fell a victim to the civil disorders placed dimeultration's proposal to restrict all
He said the Government had $42 in 1929-Reuter's American coolie and said "Good morning" to These islands were first discover-
him.
ed by a Portugese navigater, from White, and Bell Joined Taylor and ties in the way of summoning the inmigration for two years to ten been, advised that there was
Mr.. D'Almada:-Were you able whom they take their name. They played out time with no addition Conference.
to judge what the time was from were annexed by the British into the total. the light? Yes, I fudged it bo-1816.] tween half past six and seyon o'clock.
·India,”
1
per vent, of the existing quptas.- "Router's American Service.
BOMB EXPLOSION IN HAVANA.
50 Years' Promise,
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald pointed nut that for over half a century' Indin had been assured that the main purpose of our presence has been to give to India gradually in-i creasing powers of self-government. If wu changed that, policy of rea- son and justice becnuso countered obstruction and trration- ality, he declared, the immediato re- ault would be an increase of law-| lessness.
A bomb explosion, bolfeved to be The Premier declared that the due to the work of anarchists, in Conference had been able to come the main waterway, has deprived to a closer agreement than anyone the city of Ita water supply
(Continued on Page 7.)
Router's American Service.
We
En-
CITY DEPRIVED OF WATER SUPPLY,
Havana, Jan, 20.
Purchases in England,'
Washington, Jan. 20. It is announced that no fewer than, 1,326 banks falled In the United States Inat year.
This compares with a total of
Service.
MR. WANG'S ILLNESS.
Peking, Jan, 20, The illness of Mr. C. T. Wang
nothing in the Washington Agree- ment which did not entitle them to arrange that the railway material; should be purchased in Britain.
Ho hnd no doubt, he said, that the Purchasing Commission would has prevented him from having in- be enabled to see that they were terviews with the Legation officials fully safeguarded in connexion and also from leaving Peking to with prices.
dny He has been admitted to the Union Medical Hospital for
treatment.
Debts in China.
As regards the debts due to British firms in China in rospect'
SIR CHARLES OUST PASSES AWAY,
AN OLD FRIEND OF KING GEORGE.
A
Taylor's Great Effort.
Taylor's innloge was a model of Murder Denied,
correctness. Ho was sent up. many tempting balls in the hope "Continuing, prisoner said that
that he would present a catch, but when he left the room he switched
refused to respond. His 64 runs the light on and loft it burning.
were obtained in 2 hours and 18 After ascertaining the time, he
minutes, and he hit four fours. returned to the bedroom, switched
Hammond took 2 wickets for. 9 off the light and wont to bed
runs, and White $ for 88. Tho again. Shortly after that the
Somerset skipper had 'an analysis police arrived. A constable, on noticing the other two men in the
The death bas occurred in Lon-of 6 for 57 for the match, and Voce, room, asked them if he (prisoner) don of Captain Sir Charles Oust, took 6 for 72.
The detalled scores, as tabled had gone out during the night and an old friend of King George, was they replied in the negativo. whose equerry he was for thirty- by Reuter, follow:
(Continues on Page 18.). (Continued on Page 4.), elght years-British. Wireless.
of railway development, Mr. programme of railway rehabilita Graham quetod the Chinese tion would include the early settio- Foreign Minister's statement to ment of such debts. the British Foreign Secretary last The motion for rejection Tyear in which ho promised that the 1 negatived.—Reuter,
London, Jan, 20.-