BRITISH POLICY IN-INDIA.
PROGRESS COMBINED
WITH FIRMNESS.
BETTER OUTLOOK.
Landon, Jan. 2R. The latest reports from India confirm those received earlier. The Extremist movement is much less active than might have been ex- pected, and
and there is
general almenen of trouble in the rural ures, except in
In the North West Frontier Province, and even there the Red-shirt movement seems to be thoroughly shaken.
THE WAR DEBTS.
ELIMINATION NOT A
SOLUTION,
London, Jan. 28. A warning against the belief that the elimination of War Debts and Reparations would create a new heaven upon earth, has been attered by the Hon. Rupert Bec- kelt. Chairman of the Westmins ter Bank.
He said that it was misleading to suppose that such a develop ment would enable all nations to start from scratch, and added "There are some which, in the coming negotiations, have all to gain and nothing to lose. Great Britain occupies a position be- tween these extremes."
If War Debits and Reparations In Bombay and Ahmedabne, two
are eliminated, Britain's colossal centres of picketing, the support internal debit and burdensome behind Congress
to be taxation will remain, while some faltering. in the United Proof her commercial and industrial vinees the rentre of the no-rent creditors will secure relief from campaign, the situation is settling their already comparatively light down, rents and
revenuer are obligations--Reuter. steadily coming in, and coax World Co-Operation Only Remedy. life is resuming its' normal
The
above, sald Sir Samuel Hesare, in * broadcast talk to-
London. Jan. 28. Reviewing the world economic
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1932.
THE
HONGKONG
BOGUS HEIR.
GOLD SHIPMENT TO LONDON.
ENGAGES
Valets,
YOUTH
Secretaries
Rent Collectors
TWO BULLION SHIPS AT PLYMOUTH.
(Reuter's Special Service).
Gold worth more than £6,000,000
A young man who posed as theched Plymouth to-day, sole beneficiary Onder the will of alleged millénaire, and had only 18. In his possession when arrested, North London was sentenced at recently to four months*
The P. and O. liner Mantua
Sabour.
hard
The stefendant was a 20-year-old
clerk
named John Down, of Merxcv- roud, Walthamstow.
from Mrs. Allee Kenny, of He pleaded guilty to obtaining
London Fields, E., by false pro- tenges.
A detective said that. Down wis employed as a messenger from 1927 ; to 1929 by a journalist. In thei middle of iso he went to his par- people and had been completely ents, who were very respectable taken in by him, and said that his ate employer and died (which was
brought bullion valued at £1,288,- 600 from India for London, whilst the ss. President Hating carrie gold from New York worth G$16,000,000.
Of £1,000,000 worth is for London, consignment. and the reminder, for France.
latter the
SHANGHAI BECOMES
BATTLEFIELD.
·
Continued from Page 155 hers this morning.
directing operations have issues The Japanese military officera
night, represents the present state | Lendencies at the annual meeting i untrue) and that he had left him mitification requesting the citi-
of shareholders, the chairman of
the whole of his fortune, which the Westminster Bank. Mr. Rupert ¦ amenanted to over a million pounds
Beckett, expressed the view that
cut of the Great War came, no!
affairs almost in The actual words of the reports he was re ceiving. He expressed antislar- Hon that Lord Irwin, +% Viceroy, agreed with the present Viceroy only inevitabir poverty and Ir- Lord Willingdon,
20 † deris, fat the even more formid- thai for the Government to pushable spirit and policy of narrowe on the work of the Conference, but also it is not less vital for the antionalism, begotten of the war Government
Mafeguard, the
is set
fever.
THE "TELEGRAPH” ART SUPPLEMENT.
forces of how and order,
The result was the creation of ¦ Many Sports Pictures Po-morrow. believed there wonit be the vast inter-Government debts, general agreement that the every
requiring a transference of huge measures they were forced to in- sure from nation to nation, with- Be in the ther of threats to civ. at any relation to the tracte pass- Bad government had been erriding between them, and the erec- nut with common sense, maleration Al the some time of trade
1keun word Impartiality, ford barriers, which effectively-impand- Irwin's speech completely disposed that very flow of commerce al of the charge that there through which alone such a huge
a sudden reversal of Goverment polley.
}
scheme of international obliga- tions might conceivably have been carried out. The past your events bad served definitely to demoneamt- rate the need for a spirit of co -ting mel public and who within a few operation, to be extended
If further evidence were needed,
for Tudi ost
it reald Town its the departure
Than
of
avould be mentinery th werk the Roped Table Forte Feddings Ho that The Indian on the fons tere new desdrott, and Musy
have as their colleague
The most
parholic men.
Pepresentati
anjel
Buda
The Government woakt med oeflected from their or use by eval Emohading we mischievous threats
Its policy was simple, straighte forward and sympathetic podley al progress combined with fir
British Wirele
STOKE FAILS TO
WIN AT HOME.
F.A. CUP REPLAY.
London, Jan 1998. Stuke and Sunderland. lave Lo Byht again to decide the right to met Bury in the next riff the F. A. Cap. In their replay Stake Today, they were unable to rezch a decision although fire was played The Boat scope
was 1-1.
at
extra
אן
In the Lager, the resulta
matches played to lay
Tablew
Third Divising (South))
Northampton
2 -Reading
1
Queen's P.B.
2 Palara
22
Conventry
Third
Brentford Futuro Crystal Pal Exeter Watford
Reading..
Southend Norwich
Brighton
t Brentford
Division (South).
P. W. L. D. P. A. Ps. 24 15 5 1 462 4 25 145 669 42 34 252 70 51 87 31 25 13 5 751 40 31 25 13 4 2 54 40 30 26 12 6 8 31 40 30
225 177 46 36
21 1077 37
24 11 & 8 40 33
Queen's P. H. 25 N 850 43 38
Coventry.
25 10 6 G 64 26
3 11 46 48
................ 26 11
Bournemouth 25
Mansfeld 26
6 11 42 49 28 7 11 48 62
Bristol it. 25 7 6 12 45 54 22
Swindon.
favelit Gillingham
Torquay
24 7 6 11 40 42
24
8412 41
24 H 1 12 27
26 0 7 12 33
Clapton ... 24 8 Northampton 255
This
7 11 42 50 19
5 16 28 19 16 7 15 29 58 15
21 YEARS AGO.
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE
TELEGRAPH” FILES.
T
wider international sphere. }[+ Tooper she statesmen wanti sule- Curdinate their national prejudirem. In the greater issue or world pres
British Wisbee,
The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended Jan. 23th, 1911.
HONGKONG
SHARE
MARKET.
OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY
STOCK EXCHANGE.
The morning suun opened very quiet lite a few instances we have to poor sightly lower rates.
Su
Electries, $77. Roaties, $11,9% Lands, SSP.
Con pretion text, $2
Buyers.
D. K. Steinboats, $23. Venezuelan Goldfields, $2. Shanghai Cotton. Th. SUN. Yununti Perries, 327
Conton fee, $5
Sinceres,
Benpunch, $0.
Chinese Estates, $16 Rention, $11,da,
Singapore Træetions, i
Dairy Farms, 82,
H. K. Government
Sellers,
Indo-China, (Prof), 8 B.
Loan.
Indo-China, (1-6), $32. Hotel ult), sta.10, Cements Crovskinod), $20.0 Entertainments, full), 8164. Hanks, $39,
Kadans, 07-
Malabon Sugars. $38. Dairy Farms, $24. Enterprises, SIA,
SHANGHAI BANKS
CLOSED.
EXCHANGE BUSINESS AT STANDSTILL,
Telegrams have been recurved in the Colony to the effect that the Rative banks and gold bar market in Shanghai have closed down, in consequence of the crisis caused by Japan's action.
There will be a big array at sports pictures in tomorrow's issue the Triegraph Pic- torial Supplement.
Interport sportemen will be sewn in tents, screen nud Rugby events, whilst pictures will also appear of the Valun- Teer and the Indian School sports. Hockey team repre- senting the Fourth Submarine Flotilla an the
Khab will also be seen in t pic- group. Paling Races tares will also appear.
The annual inspection of the Ambulance Brigade by 11. £ the Governor and the play- opening of the ELC 37
ras to continues with their routine work.
Chinese City Defences.
The Chinese Maniripal Govern ment has mobilised all the police in the Chinese city for the preser valion of peace. Soldiers of the Nineteenth Route Command are patrolling the streets, following an appeal by the leading firms in the Chinese City for protection.
General Tsai Tlug-kai, the ofBeer Lennumanding, is supervising the Chinese defenen. Pedestrians rai
the streets are subjected to rigid interrogation this morning while all the hotels and boarding houses in the Chinese City have refused to adarit visitors.- - Renosha,
Demonstration Stupped.
who
A monster Chinese meeting in a protest Deutscher
against the Japanese "threat" to Shanghai was planned yesterday, but the meeting was stopped by Chinese Police prevented Them from entering the Public Recreation Ground, the proposed scene the demonstra- Fion. The Government has also Enken over all the seized Japanese) goods stored at the headquarters 狱 the Anti-Japanese Boycott Society. ---Krusha,
germund at Wanchai, equipped
by the Rotary Club, will alme be Bustrated.
Amongst many other illus- Urations will las several. pic- tures taken at the inaugura- tion of the garden suburb scheme, whilst a group talıyıs at the dinner of the Armoured Car Section of the Defence Corps will also be given,
NO 119300 C35019: NESSE SINISTREONITE ZAKONNASTRICH
inmaley ani alocks, and several Chousand houses in various ports. of the country,
From that time he had been gel- Ung money on the representation that he was coming into this for- TRAY.
It had engnged various persons jas valets, rent collectors, secre-
Barica, ete,
£5,000 a Year Post.
An administrator of in estate at
fanghoarne was to be engaged at £3,000 a year and Mr. Kenny, the Husband of the prosecutrix, was to be a "travelling companion" at £50
a year.
Down. adtied the detective, hud
obtained altogether £175 from Mrs, Rony, practically the whole of her savings. A Mr. Douglas, of Walthamstow, gave him 240, but
tid not wish to clurge him.
In passing sentence the magis trate commented on the stupidity of peuple în giving their ilfe sav fs to a young man without any credentials who told them that he had been left a million.
BRITISH EMPIRE
TITLE.
LARRY GAINS BEATS MCCORKINDALE.
As a result exchange business fought n
London, Jan. 28.
At the Albert Hall to-night, in a Afteen rounds contest for the heavyweight chatapionship of the British Empire, Larry Gaine, the coloured Canadian champion,
draw with Don Me In at sinndstill. There were ex- Corkindale. the South African pections of a rise in exchange, but indications are that conditions are ensy. In Hongkong, the market is quietly stendy, with rates in- changed.
The rate of the dollar on de- LEAGUE TO MAKE mand was is. 9.11/168.
The death occurred of Mr. G. G. Catchick, of Messrs. E. D. Shannon and Co., at the age of 29 years. He was a keen Volunteer.
The China Navigation Cons- pany's s.. Tean Inaugurated a service between Hongkong and constal ports of the Philippines.
Much interest was taken in the arrival in Hongkong of "Bud" Mars, an American aviator, with three biplanes for the purposes of giving displays locally.
DECLARATION.
PRIVATE MEETING OF COUNCIL.
I
or
Geneva, Jan. 28. The League Council mot at 5.30 p.m. without the Japaneso Chinese representatives, and dis- cussed in private the declaration regarding Manchuria which M. Paul Boncour, the President, will make at the next public meeting, --Router.
champion.-Renter.
DEATH AFTER DIS- OBEYING DOCTOR.
TOLD FAIRY TALE DESPITE PAIN.
Barely a week after declaring at a prize distribution that she was disobeying her doctor's orders by being out, the Hon. Mrs. Davey, wife of Colonel the Hon. H. S Davey, of Somerset Place, Bath. died recently from a stroke.
WALKERS AND THE ROADS.
"MORE DANGER.”
That in the
present
year the roads have become for the walking public at lenst ten per cent, more dangerous, is a statement made by the Pedestrians' Association, in a return on the number of accidenta in the Metropolitan 'Police area during the first sine months of the year.
The Association also states:
"There is no evidence that the roads have become any sufer for users as a whole. On the contrary,
they may have become more dan-
gerous.
"The roads have income more dangerous for the walking public. "So far o motorists have at all
banged their standards of care in driving it is much for the worse no regards the walking publice.
ía added. During the year, it there had leen it very considerable.
decrease in rond traffic.
"The abolition of the speed limit,"
says the Association, "is proved, so far as the walking public are concerned--by far the most numerous class of victim--nothing less then a lisaster,"
Pedestrians under five years of Age killed this year numbered, anya the return, 50, agulast 38 last
year.
Immediate action is urged.
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
The following cable at the close the sugar market yesterday Pontrealh und Co.
been received by Messrs.
of โมเม
London Terminals. March 6/91⁄4 up 1⁄4d. May 6/11% up 4d. August 7/11⁄2 up 3⁄41⁄4d. December 7/44 up 14d. Buyers at above prices, sellers. asking d-4d more.
New York Terminals. March 1.02 no change. May 1.05 up 1 pt. July 1.11 no change. September 116 up 1 pt. December 1.21 no change.. Sourabaya (28/1/32).-Trust Mills sold Whites 18,000 tons at 16.50-buyers and price not closed.
dia-
A 2-year-old Chinese infant, found abandoned yesterday in Po Yuen Street, a narrow thorougfare near the
Mr. Davey had been giving prizes at the Bath Junior Techni- cal School and despite her pain told the children a falry story.
She collapsed when she reached Tang Wah Hospital, was admitted to home and was three days.
unconscious for
the institution where it died, the vic- tim apparently of small-pox.
RADIO BROADCAST
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME OF
RECORD MUSIC.
Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a wave- length of 355 metres.
5.00.7.00 p.m. Chinese Progtamme, 7.00-10.30 p.m. European Pro-
gramme of Columbia Recoŕda.
7.00 p.m.
Stock Quotations, Mall Notice, etc.
7.05-8.00 p.m. Variety.
Orchestral-Menn to Me.
Ted Wallace and His Campus Boys Orchestral-Sweet Music,
Paul Specht and His Orchestra. 6455, Humerous Song-He's Tali, Dark and
Handsome.
thumorous Song-Virginia (There's a
Bine Ridge in my Heart).
Sophie Tucker. 4042, Organ Solo-Little Pal, Orjan Sala.P's in Seventh Heaven.
Terance Casey. 6025. Humorous Monologue-Thu Picnic.
Wiliam McCulloch. 5570. Piano Sulo-Jasmine. Piano Salo-Sweet Nothings.
Billy Mayert, · 5673. Vocal Duet-On the Top of the
Work, Alane. Vocal Duet-Throught
Layton and Johnstone. 680, Saxophone Solo-The Sweetest Kins
of All. Saxophone Solo-Sax Serene.
POWELL'S WINTER
SALE
Now Proceeding.
'
335% discount
off Raincoats. Overcoats, Dressing Gowns, Travelling Rugs. Pullovers, Sweaters, Cardigans, Waistcoats, Gloves, also many bargains that should not be missed in Socks, Golf Hose, Hats, Bools and Shoes, Pocket Wallets, etc.
A
4237.
Rudy Woldoelt. Vocal Dust-Mon Coeur, Maurice Chevaller and Yvonne Vallee, Song-de Ne Dis Pas Nen.
4402.
Maurice Chevalier. 8.00 p.m. Local Time and Wea- ther Report.
8.05-8.40 p.m.
Orchestral. Pelsuner of Love (Razaf-Waller). Handsonic Gigoin (Chrucef), Albert Sandler and His Orch. DB39. Chnason Hohenstenne (Boidi-
Nussbaum).
The Clock is Playing (1ław), Jean Lenson and Bis Orch. The Language of the Nightingale
(Gennin).
4711.
The Jally Whistlers (Gennia).
The Bournemouth Municipal Dreh. with Plecoles, DB178. Fantome (Danider) Serenade Passionec (Ses).
Jeau Jensen and His Orch. DB26. Second Serenade '(Tosolli arr, Gechi). Chanson Hindue (Rimsky-Korsakaw
arr, Kreisler).
Jean Lensen and His Orch. 3019. 8,409,43 p.m. A Concert. Sung-The Chocolate Soldier My Hero
(Stange and Strauss). Song-The Merry Widow.Vilin
(Rong-Lehar),
Virginia. Perry with Chorus. 184. Organ Solo-Devation (Keteilvy). Organ Solo-Pleading (Haydn Wood). Terance Casey. GR84 Sung- Love the Moon (Rubens). Song-The Little Green Balcony
(MeDermal-Coates).
Hubert Elsdell (Tenor). 4811. Instrumental" Kashmiri Song" and
Till I Wake" from "The Four Indiny Love Lyries" (Amy Wood- forde-Finden}.
Jacques Jacob's Ensemble. 3963. Chorus-Island Shelling Song
(Hebridean Song).
Chorus-(a) Blow, My Bully Boys,
Blaw (b) Billy Boy (arr. Sir R. Terry)
Greenock Male Voice Choir. 1523. Piano Solo-Wagneria (Doucet), Piano Solo-Chopinata (Doucet).
Glement Doucet, 1898, Negro Spiritual:-Run, Mary, Run
(Arr. Guion). Negri Spiritual-Nobody Knows de
Trouble I Sees (arr. Gulon),
Edna Thomas (Soprano). 6194. Octet-Melody (Dawes). Octet-Moonbeams and Shows
(Squire).
J. I. Squiro Celeste Octet. 5639. Song-Sittin' Thinkin' (Tempest and
Fisher).
Song-You Along O' Me (O'Reilly.
Sanderson).
Malcolm McEachern (Bass), 4865. 9.43-10.11 p.m. Musical Comedy and Talkie Tunes. Mr. Cindera-Spread a Little
Happiness.
Dinnie Hale (Supruno). Mr. Cindern-I'm a One-Man Girl.
Binnie Hale (Soprano) and Bobby Howes. 334. Bitter Sweet-If Love Were All. Bitter Sweet-Bitter Sweet.
Jack Payne and Hix B, B. C. Dancu Orchestru. 6443. Nippy-The Toy Town Party. Nippy-Nippy.
Binnie File (Sopranoi with Debroy Sumera Band. DBH40, Whoopee-Film Songs Medley.
By Catton and His Band. D982.
10.11-10.27 p.m. Operatic.
La Tosca-Prelude Act 3 (Puccini).
Milan Symphony Orchestra. 6394. Aidn-Grand March (Verdi).
Milan Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. 0006. (This Record in by Special Re quest).
10.27 p.m. Rugby Mid-Day Press News.
10.30 p.m. Close Down.
All recorda in the above European programmes are kindly supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music Co.
U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT.
AMERICA FACING VERY, SERIOUS CRISIS.
New York, Jan. 28. Mr. William Green, President of the American Federation pl Labour, estimates that the number of unemployed in the United Staton now roaches 8,000,000. He says that city relief is collapsing and private charity is falling, and that the country is facing an un- procedented unemployment crisia.
Renter's American Service.
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eaturing prize rivalry
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