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PESSIMISM AS BRITAIN'S
Mr. Neville Chamberlain.
DAILY MAIL WINS
VERDICT CAUSES MRS. MORRIS
TO GO INTO TRANCE
A CHARWOMAN'S STORY
(Reuter's Special Service).
KEYNOTE!
MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S BUDGET
DEEP DISAPPOINTMENT FAIRLY GENERAL
FORCED HUMOUR
EV
"VEN THOSE IN CLOSE TOUCH with Mr. Neville Chamberlain scarcely suspected a Budget in which pessimism would be set as the dominant keynote, and the keenest disappointment is felt in many quarters at the absence of tax relief of any kind in the statement which the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered! before a packed House of Commons yesterday after-
noon.
The Conservatives are as surprised as the Opposi- tion, while declaring that they are not disheartened.
DEFICIT EXPECTED ON THE FIRST BUDGET
COLD DOUCHE FOR EVERYBODY
THE CHANCELLOR'S LITTLE JOKE.
London, Apr. 19.
a year
tigo.
Lord Willingdon,
chatting
lo
Indian fenders. On his way to the ceremony at Peshawar in attempt was made to wreck, his "train.
N.
W. FRONTIER PROVINCE
NEW STATUS CONFERRED
Peshawar, Apr. 19. Pleturesque scenes marked the inauguration by Lord Willingdon, the Viceroy, at "The Gateway of India," of the North-West Fron- tier Province Legislative Council. His Majesty the King sent message declaring that an peace and good government in the North-West Frontier. Province depended, to a great measure, the security of India,
Profound Impresion.
NEW PROPOSALS MAY PROVIDE REMEDY. "We are deeply disappointed, but The Chnacellor of the Exchequer, not disheartened it is inconrin-Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in the
of Commons to-day,) sive, but in some respects is hop. House
made his first
stale. Budget | ful."
financial conditions in
The Earl of WÜllagon creutod This view of Mr. Neville Chummment London. Apr. 19.
profound Impression by -- an- berinin's
was ex-far happier than those which a firat Budget
his predecessor.nouncing the suspension for a year Judgment was delivered in pressed in-night by a prominent confronted
industrial
and tord Snowden, Comervative
At of the operation of the Frontier the trance medium action. Mrs.;
to represent the majority that time, the country was borrow-Crimes Regulation for the trial of ing one million pounds weekly to criminal cases by reference to the Meurig Morris's suit for libel opinion.
finance the Unemployment Insur-Council of Elders. against the Daily Mail, to-day,
Chilly Tones.
ance Fund, and Lord Snowden was The Viceroy also foreshadowed the jury, after an absence of,
The Budget will probably evoke confronted with a large prisper other modiflentions of the regala- more than three hours, giving ajan extra measure of disappoints tive deficit.
tion, but uttered a solenia warning verdict for the defendants, the ment owing to the chilly tones of
Hard fnets were fuced and dras-ef the consequences of a continu inevitability in which Mr. Chan- the remedies applied by Lordance of the intimidation of Daily Mail, with costs,
berlain spoke.
Snowden in his interim Budget last electors-Reuter. Here and there be produced a September, with the result that Mr. smile, even a laugh came occu-Chamberlain was to-day able to Mr. Justice McCardio vederei gionally. In most cases, however. face a crowded House with the that she be carried out despite it was a very hollow laugh, as,knowledge that the Budget had not the warnings of her friends that it for instance, when he joked about only been balanced, but had even was dangerous to touch her in beer, declared it that state.
Mrs. Morris went into a trance.
on hearing the verdict.
disser- Mr. Justice Mel'ardie tated at considerable length re- Larding spiritualism.
Prosaic Messages,
He was anxious, he said. not to show that he was too sceptical. bat said he did not see why this tiny world should receive messages from the spirit world regarding such prosaic things as:
"I have got a new tooth."
am enjoying a good cigar
"I am taking whisky sed." Keyhole Evidence.
I
He laid emphasis on the fact that Lawrence Cowen, Mrs. Mor- ris's collaborator, had not been! put into the witness box, and he urther stressed the evidence of a charwoman who, listening at a keyholt, said she thought Mrs. Morris and Cowen were rehears- ing a piny.
Her ovidence iouked had for thei Morris trance talks. he declared
-Reuter.
SILVER SLIGHTLY
DOWN
The Hongkong dollar
1
WAS
and then gave no relief.
overtaxed achieved a small surplus, and that a quarter of a million more workers than a year ago had found ployment.
A "Deceiver," Similarly, in two cases he aje peared to be leading up to sonic new action and then instead of announcing a decision indicated that a new committee would be appointed to study the question in each ease.
In consequence of his manner of presenting a far from encourag ing statement, he sat down
Ministers what prominent seribed as
tmosphere gloom.
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des of
em.
H. R. H. the Prince of Wales was among the many distinguished peo- ple present in the galleries of the House.
Hope of Surplus.
The Chancellor spoke for an hour
azul threequarters. Last year's natimal accounts, published on March 31st. showed that the re- venue amounted to £770,963,001 and expenditure to £770.599,000, Mr. Chamberlain this afternoon disclosed that the estimated expen- Special interests are natural diture for the year ending March ly indignant at the Budget. 31st, 1933, amounts to £76-4,300,000 Beer-drinkers, brewers and in-a defciency of £1,700,000. With come-tax payers (the latter hud his various new proposals been expecting either a real estimates a Budget surplus at the relief or some special rebates end of the year of £795,000. for married men) are especially. The changes in taxation were displeased at the entire absence, pritter numerous nor large. of relief.
The iron and steel industry has not, however, given up hope. The industry pins its trust in the new Treasury Order under the Import Duties Act which is ex- pected at the and of next week.
Small Mercies.
ha
They
includes no refer for the income tax payer and no reduction in the beer tas, "Although we are begie- ning to see light between the trees, we have far to go before we emerge tnto casier ways", he said.
! He anid that augar concessions would cost £1,100,000 in the present continu- year, and announced the
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THE FIRST SUCCESS
A DISARMAMENT RESOLUTION
Geneva, Apr, 19. The Disarmament Conference
Committee to-day passed a resolu tion modifying Árliule One of the Draft Convention.
The resolution declares that the
re-
reduction of armaments provided for in Article Eight of the League Convenant can be achieved progressively by successive visions when the present Con ference has accomplished the first stage of general reduction to a minimum level.
The solution is acclaimed as the first success of the Conferonco.
euter.
DEATH OF NOTED CHINESE
FORMER MINISTER IN BURMA On the whole, Liberal opinion ance of the concession of 12/- per
Rangoon, Apr. 19. is favourable to the Budget. Mr: The revival of the duty on foreign | hundredweight on home boot sugar.
Sir Lee Ah Yain, former Minis- died at of Forests, who LOCAL MARKET VERY Gwylim Lloyd George described
it as one of the worst budgets tea of id. a pound, and the duty ter QUIET
pound, Maymyo, was buried in the Chin- in recent years.
On the other on Empire ten of 2d. hand, other Free Trade Liberals would, it was anticipated, produce cae cemetery here to-day, with im-
pressive Masonic ceremonial. requins are thankful for small mercies £3,000,000 per annum.
The Governor of Burma and the unchanged to-day at 1. 2d. and commend Mr. Chamberlain's
Motor Cycle Tax Reduced.
Government were represented at The market is on the easy side, impartiality in relieving nobody
Mr. Chamberlain also announe. the funeral. with very little business passing because he could not ameliorate
The decansad, who was born in Silver is down 1/8th in London, the conditions of the unemployed ed a reduction from next January
1874, was educated at Rangoon to an motor cyclos
Univer- spot and forward. The fall
15/- 30 and £3, according to College and Cambridge chiefly due to absence of buyers. There is no special feature, nndi after the official fixing the market ruled idle.
Isl
New York reports, a decline of 1/8th, with the market dull.
The forthcoming weddings are an nounced between Mr. Thomas Suthor- Innd, Marino Superintendent, of Pen- ang, and Miss Margaret Eva Finch, of Tientsin; and of Mr. John Hodd Mof-
Bhanghai branch
and other sufferers,
In the tax
In short, the House of Commons, whether the engine had a capacity eity. A barrister-at-law and on behalf of the taxpayer, set its not oxceeding 160 C.C. or 260 C.C. Fellow of Rangoon University, he teeth and tried to look pleasant, or exceeded. the latter figure, was knighted in 1920.-Reuter. hoping for the best, possibly in This change was to give deuigners
the Second Budget resulting from a freer hand.
now logislation which Mr. Cham-i berlain said would be necessary
The Chancellor's most import
after the Lausanne and Ottawa ant announcement related to n Conferences,
Labour Reserves Opinion,
(Continued on Page 7.)
ready been made clear thint
the
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
CLYDE TOO GOOD FOR MORTON
London, Apr. 19.
NEW HARBIN DEVELOPMENT
WITHDRAWAL FROM RUSSO-
SHANGHAI.
MIXED COMMISSION
TO DECIDE.
Geneva, Apr. 19. The Assembly Committee of Nineteen, after an hour's deliberation, unanimously adopted a resolution provid- ing, notably, that the Mixed Commission .in Shanghai shall have competence to de- cide by a majority vote when conditions have returned to normal and when the Japan- esé forces can withdraw with safety-Reuter.
JAPANESE TENSION
I.L.P. TIRADE
London, April 19, Anxiety regarding the grave) development in Russo-Japanese re- lations arising from the situation in Markhuria, is expressed by the National Council of the Indepen- | dent Labour Party in a statement Issued to-day.
The statement accuses the Já- panose Governmént of provocative | statements and acts against the Socialist government in Soviet Stussis and alleges that powerful Capitalistic interests in Britain and other European countries are
MINUTE OF openly supporting Japan's In-
MADNESS
HAWAIIAN HONOUR! SLAYING TRIAL CLOSING
Honolulu, Apr. 19. The so-called "Honour Slaying" trial ia drawing to a close after Gays
of evidence packed with
drama.
perialistic polley in Manchuria. and its aggressive policy towards Russia.
EMBARGO URGED.
The statement urges workers, of i Britain to cooperate with thef workers of Europe to prevent the! threatened attack on Russin by demanding an embargo on credit supplies and the export of war material to Japan...
Failing these steps, the state-)
The doctor who operated for ment declares, the first act of war: the
FANTASTIC RUMOUR
KREUGER ALIVE IN HIDING!
(Renter'a Special Service),
Stockholm, Apr. 19.
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A fantastic rumour has been in circulation regarding Mr. Ivar Kreuger; déclaring his Paris suicide was "inked,” that he is still alive and in hiding in Sumatra.
leur Krauger.
Assault upon Mrs. Massie by Japan against Russia should be, No-one in authority is paying gave evidence to the effect that met by Trade Union action to attention to the rumour. In any she was bruised all over her body.
manufacture and case, it has already been disproved
hile her jaw was broken to much prevent the
as extent that it had to be Inced despatch of war material to Japan. by the finding, among the docu up for five weeks.
Two mental specialists testi- fed that Lieutenant Masste was definitely insane when he shot and killed Kahahawei.
The defence is seeking to dis-j count the premeditation ease built mn by the prosecution hy,showing that in the excitement caused by the foreing of a confession from: Kahubawei, Lieut. Mussie became;
Lt. Masale's Story,
---Renter
TROOP TRAIN DISASTER
DETECTIVE CHIEF ARRESTED
ments regarding the financieri. death, of a paper signed by the Mayor of the. Eighth Arrondisse ment
In Paris, certifying Kreugers Gench
There is also, of course, the account of the Swedish Consul. In Paris to the Foreign Offico, de claring that he is convinced that Kreuger committed suicide.
KREUGER CRASH SEQUEL
Harbin, Apr. 20. Japanese gendarmes.. have .... ar- rested MF, Kho Chung-chul, thoi Detective Bureau of the Chinese AMERICAN MATCH CO: | Eastern Railway, who is believed i to be the principal culprit in the! dynamiting of the Japanese troop train last week.--Reuter.
Connexion with Soviet
Later.
FILES PETITION
New York, Apr. 19 A repercussion of the Kreuger crash and the sensational fall in the price of Kreuger shares as a result of recent revelations, the International March Corporation has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy-Reuter.
Tory
It is alleged that Feud at
A Rongo message declares that Lt. and Mrs. Massin.
examination, of suspects arrested suddenly crazed and noted in a monent of red rage. This view following the troop train disaster was supported by the mental | revended that Kau Chung-chup was specialists.
the ringlender. Kao Chang-chun, who is a graduate Lieut. Massie, in his evidence, of a Soviet military school, has been took his narrative of the outrage
secret communication with on his wife to the point where he stood before Kabahawei with a Soviet employees of the C. E.'R. pistol on January 8 and threaten- These allegations are calcunted : ed to shoot him unless
he coll- fessed.
to revive Japanese suspicions of said: the Soviet.-Reuter,
Suddenly,
Kahahnwei "Yes, we done it."
"That's all I remember," declar- |ed Liout, Massic.
Mrs. Massie will be the next witness in the sensational ense.. which will probably go to the jury o Friday.-Reuter.
YANKEE DOUBLE
HEADER
ANOTHER WIN FOR WASHINGTON
Now York, Apr. 10. Baseball games played to-day suited as follows:
National League.
7 Boaton
New York Brooklyn
"
2 Philadelphin American League.
Boston Boston Philadelphia Detroit Chicago
0 New York
# Now York
4 Washington
8 St. Louis
2 Cleveland
FRAUD CHARGE.
PREFERRED
CHINA DISPENSARY
PROSECUTION
Marylebone
RIVAL ELECTION CANDIDATES
London, Apr. 19. Sir Basil Blackett, the wall known finance expert, has resign- ed the chairmanship of Imperial and International Communications? Limited and his directorship of Cables and Wireless Limited."
Sir Basil explains that he has taken this atop In order to be relioved of executive work and to devote his time to his other public interests. Mr. J. C. Donk Formerly employed at the China son-Pender, the Governor of Dispensary, Pun Chik-man ap- Cables and Wireless Limited will peared before Mr. Wynne Janes, be temporary chairman of Importal at the Central Police Court this Communications.
morning, on a charge of fraud by Sir Basil Blackett is standing omitting to enter certain transac as a Conservative in support of tions in the company's books in the National Government at the re-relation to goods sent to the St. Marylebone bye-election, ing
United Dispensary, Canton.
opposition to Captain A. S. Gun The figures mentioned on the ningham Reid, who was adopted Oficial Conservative warrant under which the defou-as the dant was apprehended were $370,- candidate by the division" ORË 21 (Hongkong currency) andganisations by a majority votek k
Captain Cunningham Reld sat 68383 (Gold).
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Mr. E. S. C. Brooks appeared for for Warrington for several years.
Marylebono election Mesars. Y. C. Wong & Co.(China The
Dispensary) while Mr. Horaco Lo necessitated by the elevation of
Bir Hannell Rodd to the Pourage represented the defendant.
In applying for a webk's formal Router. In a night with another man, Yau remand Mr. Brooke indicated that would possibly be other Wost thore
The Royal Observatory reports that Tung, a coollo, Ilving at 6, Street, was stabbed in, the back, and charges brought against the dea depression cover, Hokkaido And
extends Pot walk to Quilcyclans. The Labour Party `is maintain-Labour group are utterly in dia- In a First Division Scottish was admitted to hospital in # rather fondant. fett, of the Bank of New York, ing, for the moment, an attitude agreement with the ton-tax, Mr. League match today, Clyde descent fled after inflicting the manded for one week on $2,000 tangentot
The defendant, was formally ro- khangha) to the northward and Miss Marianna Elizabeth Carter, of reserve until a meeting of the Maxton declaring that he would feated Greenock Morion by three
bail. 14:
moderate;" clquday, of Repulse Bay Hotel, Hongkong, | Party to-morrow, but it has al-profor an extra boer-tax.
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