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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1932.
BRITISH IDEAS ON DISARMAMENT.
BRILLIANT SPEECH BY SIR J. SIMON.
THE ILLUSION OF "SECURITY."
London, Feb. 8.
The main feature of Britain's disarmament proposals. were an- nounced at a plenary session of the Geneva Conference by the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, tu-day, embody the abolition of sub- marines, of gas and chemical fare, a reduction in the size of warships and of their gun
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calibre. the prohibition of land gune over a certain calibre and the limita- tion of conscription by agreement. In reference to submarines, Sir John Simon said: "The skill and gallantry in this dangerous æer- vice in Britain to-day we mouru the loss of a submarine crew of sixty men, engulfed in time peace--are no Justification for its Continuance,”
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"I will not disguise the fact that the abolition of the submarine would!
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be in the interests of our country, bat in saying this I absolutely deny дву that we regard its abolition
The exclusive interest of abolition of submarines would be n Fontribution to disarmament which the citizens of every country could understand. Our proposal in in the interests of humanity and sinble and permanent peace."
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Our photo shows Japanese civilians loading and from the Municipal dumpa at the Szechuan Road Bridga with Japanese marines affording them protection. The Chinese Post Office is in the
background.
INDIAN OUTLOOK
TRAFFIC LIGHTS
BETTER.
ANOMALY.
NEW YEAR AT WUCHOW.
"FRONTIER DAY" VERY NO LEGAL OFFENCE TO OLD STYLE STILL OBSERVED.
QUIET.
DISREGARD THEM.
Bournemouth, Jan. 9. The question of the legality of road traße light signals has
New
Last
year
Wurhow, Feb. 6. Although the Gregorian calen- Landon, Feb. 8.
dar la the one officially recognised, The intest reports from India
it is very apparent that the people Mitun- indicate that the general tion has improved and is regard-a
intend to celeberate the Chinese Year season aa designated est as satisfactory in the Forth teen raised again by the decision ie the Lunar reckoning.
took of the Bournemouth magistrates.!
the officials West Frontier Province.
The observance u! "Frontier
sum drastic steps to prevent the from celebrating the Day" on February 5th passud of who to-day dismissed two
the wil without incident and
Im-es against motorists whai People
Chinese New Year, but this year previously reported
{were charged with failing to stop they are evidently being more provenient has been maintained.
This year the schools that their cars when the traille signal lenient.
are closed but last, children were Pro- lights were against them.
compelled to attend by the threat of being expelled if they failed to be present during the season.
Underlying Principle. Regarding the principle derlying the proposals. Sir John "Since our cummon Simon said: object is to diminish the sum total armaments and the expenditure upon them, it follows that we must direct special attention to auch prolallition or limitation weaken altack and so remove the temptation for aggression."
Many pace conferences bad been held before thle and the con- hund sequences of their failure been written in blood in the his. tory of the workl
Failure Means Calumity. "Failure now, would mean noth ing short of an immeasurable
alamity",
He reminded
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the Conference that the intention was both plicit and implicit la the Versailles Treaty that nations, who
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were still suffering from the sreurge of four years of warfare should reduce the means of con-
let through reduction
Inter national
by armaments national agreement. They must do this while the lessons of war werb atli fresh in the peoples' miride.
There are definite signin the agitation in the United vinces is on the wane and there, has been a definite decline in ac tivity in the Bombay Presidency,
The situation in other provinces!
ense for anxiety gives British Wireless
A
NEW BABY CAR RECORD.
117% M.P.H. IN 7 H.P. M.G. CAR.
The gratind of dismissal in both the Road enses was that under
Traflic Act, 1930, the signals were not lawfully erected.
by
of
NIZA,
For the defence it was urged Mr. W. D'Angibas, un behalf the Automobile Association, thal under the Road Traffic Act it was provided that these signals must be of a "prescribed colour. and type," and the Act forbade the erection of any traffic signal not in accordance with this provision As the Minister of Transport had hot issued any regulations under On the Pendine Sands, Corn-the Act "prescribing" the colour, wall, to-day. Mr. Grorsze Eyston. Size, and type of signals to be used, the well-known rarity motorist, the signals in question did
British legally exist. in Haven horse-zowan M.G. car established a fresh "baby"
Evidence was called by Polies Lear record with an average speed | Superintendent Deacon, of Bourne-
over two one-mile runs, i hundred and seventeen and Traff miles an hour.
London. Feb. A.
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A large temple, with all the Rods, was destroyed last year as a means of impressing on the minds of the people that the old method of things was passing.
of Wuchow The streets thronged with people preparing for the holidays. Dealers in dour, gods and New Year legends are doing a brisk trade, as are the Flower vendors poultry shops,
stalls along the have erected street, peddling Inds and bulbs for the season. Our Quy Carres. pompient.
HONGKONG SHARE
MARKET.
Means To An End. Disarmament was a means to an end. Terrible as was the economic burden of armament and enormous as would be the relief to the tax- payors if it were lifted, that was not the primary purpose for which they pursued it. Disarmament was pursued as the most effective method of promoting peace and of limiting the risk of sudden and devastating war by a restriction cealed one handred and twenty tion that the Minister's authority morning's session, but at this level of armaments to what was strictly miles an hour. Bnd visibility to erect was sufficient.
This
exercis the
previous recurs, held by Lord Ridley, by twelve and a hatt miles an hour.
At one time, Mr. Eyston
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necessary for defence and for owing to fog made the exploit international obligations, and by very hazardous.British
comparison ant ea-operations.
Among themselves to discredit extravagant, and fantastic claims," and to fill the maximum in each ense at the lowest figure possible. High levels of armaments were 110 substitute for security. At best, they only created an illusion of security in ore quarter while at the same time aggravating the Heure of Insecurity in another.
Security for all depended on armu ments reduction. Armaments were a symptom of a pathological condi tion. It was an attempt to rid one- self of a plague by infecting one's neighbours.
At the conclusion of Sir John Simon's speech there wha en- thusiastic applause and the dele gates af many countries shook him by the band and warmly congratu- lated him.
Striking Figures.
M. Tardieu, who followed, an- plified the French scheme already outlined, and declared that France was ready to make contractual
MAN'S CLOTHING ON FIRE.
SEQUEL TO CLEANING WITH PETROL
mouth, that the signals were put ap under authorisation of the Min- ister of Transport although not | authorised actually under the Hond¦ Traffic Act.
I was suggested by the
OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY STOCK EXCHANGE.
As will be seen below, there was prosecu-considerable reduction in rates at this any buyers were in vidence, und a few tats changed hands,
Mr. D'Angibnu replied that anli!! a certain type of signal was "pre- serhed" by the Minister's regula tlons according to the Act they could not have authorination of al signal of another character.
The ghairman, Mr. G. Guest, in; announcing the Court's decision. said: "The legal points raised are similar to those dealt with by the stipendiary at Huddersfield.
146 of the "We have reption Suffering from burns to both legs. Bournemouth Corporation Act of a man named Tang Pai-yin was re-1980, which gives the Corporation moved to the Government Civil power to erect, fix, and maintain But spital yesterday morning, the traffic signalling apparatus. injuries being caused through his section 12 of the Road Traille Act, 1930, although it rereived the Royal clothing catching fire.
the
In a report to the police, Tang. Assent on the same day as who gave his age as 29 years, Bournemouth Corporation Act, ap- | stated that he was cleaning some parently repeats this power, and we clothing with pelrol when a small dismiss the cases." quantity was spilt on his tron- sers. Whilst ironing the cloth- ing, his awa garments caught fire and burned his legs.
engagements to limit armament MONEY TO BURGLAR. during a fixed period and would favourably examine reductions
which might be suggested, supple-
mentary to those within the frame-
work of the draft convention.
WOMAN PAYS $2 AND
KEEPS CLOCK.
A report of a peculiar form of
INFATUATED GOLFER.
WOMAN'S LIFE MADE "PERFECT HELL."
The infatuation of a man of 23 des-
He summarised the heritage of robbery was made to the Police for a woman aged 35 was the last war in the following strik-last night. It appears that a burg-cribed at Birmingham when Eric
George Oldham, of ine milion lives sacrificed.
figurea!
lar was induced not to steal
Sales.
Hongkong Bank $1370, Union Insurance $400, Benguets $114.
Hongkong Wharves $154/8153, Providents (old) $5. Hotels (old) $13.90. Lands $784/70, Hongkong Electrics $75%/76. Telephones $284. Cements (comb.) $17.40. Constructions (old) $5.10. Constructions (new) $1%%.
Buyers.
Dougluacs $25.
Hongkong & Kowloon Wharves $153. Hotels (old) $134. Hongkong Lands 177. Humphreys $18.
China Estates $90. Hongkong Trams #21.10. Sar Ferriva $99. Yaumati Ferries $27. Hongkong Electrics $75. Telephones $22. Dairy Farms $28. Amusements $18. Constructions (new) $1.70.
BeBera.
Benquets $11. Cements (comb.) $17.00. Hongkong Ropes $10.
Ombersley shopping departments, and way- Eight thousand million pounds clock on being paid the sum of 32 road, Camp Hill, was bound over laid her morning, noon and night. by a woman inmate of the boung for 12 months for threatening to
ahoot Miss Betty tiley, he entered!
worth of distruction.
Eight hundred and eighty million
British Wireless.
He had tried to commit suicido (said Mr. Williaan) by jumping About seven o'clock yesterday) Mr. Willison said Miss Riloy met before a car, and once he tried to pounds of military expenditure.-evening, a young married woman Oldham when they were playing jump out of a train, but Miss
named Sung Sin-ling was along on in a foursome on a municipal Riley pulled him back. the ground floor of No. 341, Hen- course, and since then the woman's Oldham (continued the solici- Bassey Road, when she heard someone breaking in through the fe had been a perfect hell.
UNEMPLOYMENT
INCREASES.
218,000 MORE OUT
OF WORK.
London, Feb. 9.
tor) had also threatened her, and
back door. Immediately after- She had discouraged him from said he intended to shoot every. wards she kaw Chinese atanding the first, said the solicitor, but he body he saw her with.
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on the floor with her clock in his had written shoals of letters. He One letter produced, and which handa. Sho asked him not to steal also sent Mina Riley numerous pre- was said to have been sent by Old- the clock anying she would give sents, all of which were returned. ham, abounded with Shakespearean
When she sont a golf bag back he quotation him $2 if he would not take it.
The burglar apparently decided said that the fact her little hands
Oldham denied any threats. Ho January make unpleasant reading to take the money, because he re- had touched it would be a memory | said that he had no revolver and
The unemployment returns for
he thought too much of Misa Riloy They reveal an Increase of placed the clock, pocketed the to him. 218,000, compared with December.money and went away by the back
He pursued her (sald the solici- to do her any harm. He promised door. He had the appearance of a
not to molest her in futuro. tor) into trains, into
This
In another to seasonal shop foki, statos the woman.
fluctuation-Renter
women'
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THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.
SUBMARINE ABOLITION
URGED.
Geneva, Feb, B. The abolition of aubmarines, abolition of gas and chemical war- fare, and of conscription, also the reduction in the size of warships, reduction of maximum gun call-
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bre. prohibition of land
guna above
and certain calibre, establishment of
permanent Dia- Commission, are the Arauament chief points of the British Dis- Armament programme presented by Sir John Simon on the opening of the general debate at the Dis- armament Conference.
He and Britain was of opinion thint the conference abould Trame a general convention, based on the continued operation of the Washington and London treaties.
Britain accepted as a basis of discussion the general acheme of the draft disarmament convention, and the methods of limitation by reference to establishment of the maximum
Sir John Simed therein.
stressed the necesalty for international agree ment in order affectively to en aure that limitations were not overcome, by making known cases of transgression with a view to bringing effective world pressure on the wrongdoer.
French Promise,
M. Tardiou said France was convinced that peace cannot be assured
18 until the League atrengthened, therefore proposes to endow the Covenant with the necessary forces. France-like- wise is ready to pledge herself un- conditionally to a reduction of armaments for a limited period: and proponos that the League dia-
of three categories of forces; arst
and
accond aerial, third mill- tory and naval, the air forces to be furnished by contributions from the participating sintes,
"Our one exception Is In the event of legitimate defoneo whore a flagrant attack is évident."- Router.
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