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No. 13760
IĦD WAŁAWF FRIDAY, JULY 8,
1932.
日五月六
$30.00 PER ANNUM
SINGLE COFY 13 CENTS
FRENCH SUBMARINE DISASTER
OVER 60 TRAPPED IN
SUNKEN CRAFT
DRAMATIC ESCAPE OF OFFICER
AND SIX MEN
RESCUE WORK VERY DIFFICULT
·Cherbourg, July 7:
ONE of France's most modern submarines came
to
grief to-day when she sank during surface trials.
150 RUSSIANS REPULSE 4,000 "RED SPEARS"
GRIM FIGHT TO SAVE CITY
BATTLE RAGES
12 HOURS
Harbin, July 8. A grim stand by 150 Russian defenders who for 12 hours. re-i pulsed continues attacks by 4,000! anti-Manchukuns, suggests" some thing of the glory of war. and stands out Hoove the Kourilla warfare which has so tentured the
bsturbaners in Manchukun
Jabe
Armed with but one canton and tree machine guns, in addition to ļ Falles, C Kallunt Kassin du-i
Lought Tenders of Hengtaoltze, for 12 hours the fury 01 thou
eventually they were forced
Of sevenly-three officers and men on board, so far only and of the "Red Spears," seven have been saved.
but to
The ill-fated craft was the first-class submarine retreat and Heng nolize fell in
to the hamis of they anti-Man- Promethee (picture above) and, at the time of the chukues, disaster, she was carrying out trials seven miles to thej north of Cape Levil.
Those who went down with *
the vessel were a crew of forty-.
nine, with seventeen engineer ABOLITION
and workmen. The craft sank
in 150 feet of water.
the
There arc fears that disaster may mean heavy loss of life, as so far only seven of the! erew have been ved,
RESCUE WORK DIFFICULT. Strong currents are prevailing
ut!
at the apt where the submarino I
these are wrat down, and present impeding rescue opera tions.
has
3
OF TAEL
ENDEAVOURS
SUBSTITUTE DOLLAR
Trallic between lumenpo and Hailan was interrupted by The alfray and the railway track de stroyed at several points, Kontra.j
HOIHOW BATTLE
TO ADMIRAL CHAN CHAK
LOSES A BOAT
DESTROYED BY AEROPLANES
درا
Mr. Raminy MacDonald and M. Herriot, photographed recently in Paris on the eve of their departure for Lausanne,
NOULENS'
HUNGER
FORT
DUNLOP
The Tyra of Rugged Strength
"Bouth China Morning Post Bldg." Tol 24554.
BRITAIN & HOOVER PLAN
LAUSANNE
HOPES AND FEARS
DELEGATES ROUSED
FROM BED
MIDNIGHT PARLEY
Lausanne, July 7.
A formula for settling the war guilt question is reported to have been agreed to by the French and German delegates, and the com- promise on this point is believed to have been matched by agree- ment on the other vital outstand- ing question, namely, the final "composition" payment.
This sum is said to have been fixed at just under Mks. 3,000,000- 000.
Later.
recent
4
In accordance with customs, nightfall brought selback to the day's promising negotiations. The big obstacles mentioned earlier still defy settlement.
While experts are putting the finishing touches to the details of
STRIKE the mechanism of the proposed
FEARS FOR LIVES
OF ALLEGED "RED" WORKERS
REFUSE EVEN WATER
(Spacial to "Tolagraph")
AS EXCHANGE MEDIUM ¦
The Canton Government's de- Ti Promether, which
Shanghai, July 8. termined attacks on Admiral
Nanking. July 8. displacement of 1,879 tons, was
The Chim Press learna tint de-Chan Chak's marines in nihow! launched at Cherbourg in October,}
Fears for the life of Mr. and 1930. She is one of a group of finite steps for the abolition of the on Wednesday, and the sinking
the Chinese destroyer Mrs. Noulens, who have been in the Redoubtable ael and the retention of the dollar of Twenty-five of
Aeroplane hom- class, all of which have proved as a medium for exchange in China Feiying
prison since last August on charges were taken at a meeting yesterday bardment resulting in heavy most successful in their trials.
The Redoubtable and the Ven-between the uative Bankers' Guild, casualties among the officers and of Communist intrigue are enter- atory tained in some quarters, as it is geur made a cruise to the West the Chinese Bankers Associationmarines are features of a
concerning a sharp engagement now seven days since the couple, Indies in 1930 without mishap, and Mr. T. V. Soong.` being able to make 19 knots with The decision, adds the China between the Canton Army and as a protest to the refusal of the Navy in Hoihow during the last Nanking Court to transfer the trial out being pressed.-Reuter.
ed in the immediate future.
two days.
to Shanghai, began 21 hunger Speakers at the meeting alleged
The first news of the fighting atrike. that native bankers always fought near Hoihow was conveyed to
hanges which would do away with Hongkong on Wednesday evening They are taking neither food nor thuetuating differences between the by the s.8. Bintang which
gave water. Had they been taking ael and the dollar, as their profits imeagre information of bombs water- sich great anxiety, board were derived therefrom.
being dropped on Hoihow and of not have been felt as there The recent decline in the dollar the sinking of a Chinese destroyer.jmany cases where hunger strikera thein relation to the tael is reported IL has now been established byjnave managed Lo subsist upon Promethee, to have adversely affected certain further messages that the des-water alone for 1 comparatively Lieut. Dupestil, was on the duckiesingsses here recently,—Renter.troyer in question was the Peiy-long perfod, of the vessel with Nix stamen
HOW SEVEN ESCAPED.
Cherbourg, July 8.
NO
A night-long search has far failed to locate the sunken submarine. How seven of those on manages to escape is now
closed. It transpfres Pommarder of the
that
when the disaster occurred,
dis-
All seven were thrown into the
Press, is expected to be implement
ing which.deserted the Govern-
Wond
are
ment and joined Admiral Chan! The case of Noulens and his wife en when the vessel sank, and the RAISING VALUE Chak at the commencement of the is attracting considerable attention
naval dispute.
both in China and abroad.
Rept swimming for an hour bef
fore being rescued.
They were
later picked up by a fishing boat!
OF SILVER
TO TAKE PLACE
AT OTTAWA
The remaining sixty-three, who, UNOFFICIAL TALKS it is feared, are trapped in the Submarine, are Renter.
still missing. --
British Trade on Yangtsze
DISABLED BY
IRREGULAR
TAXATION
DIFFICULT POSITION
Washington, July 8.
NAVAL BOAT BOMBARDED.
It will be recalled that last year number of noted writers signed petition requesting the release of
Renter.
A few Canton aeroplanes joined in the bombardment of the vessed on Westnesday, which resulted in | Mr. one officer, and about twenty! marines being killed and others wounded. The vessel pletely crippled as
Mr. Andrew Somers; Chairman, hit the boat direct.
A
com- Was two bomba For time
of the House Coinage Committee, pandemonium prevailed on board will act as unofficial observer at and it was not until the arrival the Oltawa Conference,
of another gunboat under the
It is reparted that he intends Admiral that other members on the to confer unofficially with re- Peiying were saved. On the same presentatives of the British and evening the gunbout was sunk, Dominion Governments with a
Although considerable damage view to action to raise the value was caused to property at Hol of silver at least in the Western how, details are lacking. hemisphere-Router's Special Ser-buildings are reported to have Ivice.
been destroyed, but Holhow is now again very quiet awaiting the outcome of the peace negotiations which are proceeding in Hong- Long between the Admiral and the Canton Government's representa- tives.
FORMER INDIAN
SOLDIER
FINED FOR BEING DRUNK
Described as an ex-soldier draw-
and Mrs. Noulens.-
Commons
To Debate
Economy
AT REQUEST OF THE OPPOSITION
London, July 8. At the request of the Labour
will Opposition, there
bo an economy debato in the House of Commons on Monday noxt, in which it is hoped Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who fant WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE present at Lausanne, will be able
to participato.
London, July 8. Replying to a question by Mr. W. Num (N. Con., Whiteliaven) in the House of Commons to-day in re- gard to irregular taxation on the Upper Yangleze and the disability it Imposed on British trade with the ing a pension of twelve rupees a province of Szechuan, Captain month, Nika Singh, unemployed, FRENCH SENATE SAYS "NO" which time it is hoped Mr. Ramsay Anthony Eden said in view of the appeared before Mr. Wynne-Jones resent conditions in the Upper at the Central Police Court this The manifestly difficult morning, charged with being drunk
Director re
are e congratulatessell place as one of the most thorough Do no actions of the sea-
Do not fill to see it.
prough-
for
TO MEASURE
Paris, July 7.... in Wellington th numerous and and disorderly
The Senato to-day rejected by Street yesterday, that the difficul-
Sub-Inspector J. R. McWalter in. 253 votes to 40 n measure eted British trade formed his Worship that defen- Women's Suffrage-Router. hat is Majesty's dant had been shouting and hit-
children in China
Wellington at all ting
Street. Ho stops as wore pos-
An ex-soldier hat Britisiz trade drawing a pension and each time ly treated, and that he was paid he got drunk,
His Worship nod the defendant $3 and bound-him-ovor
uld be continued.
in
WAS
On Tuesday and Wednesday, by MacDonald will have returned to London, there will be discussions on the Reparations and Disarma- ment Conferences.-Renter's Sprei- al Service,
Captain T. F. Owens, mastor of the 8.5. Toishan, was charged before the at the Marine The Royal Observatory reporte Hon. Comdr, Hole, that pressure is highost ovor the Court this morning, with having on Pacific to the cast of Japan and low July G allowed his chip to be so loaded aver Chind generally. Local foro- to submerge tho contro of the the cast:-8.W. winds, moderais; fair disc in water. On admitting generally with local showers.
charge, a fine of $250 was imposed,
Treaty and annexes, M. Herriot hay demanded to see the complete draft before he enters into the ens of figna..
Foreign Minister, who is taking
NO ARMY REDUCTION
POSSIBLE
Proposed Limitation in Size of Capital Ships & Cruisers
AERIAL BOMBING BAN
DRITAIN'S RESPONSE TO THE HOOVER DIS.
HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTERDAY BY MR. BALDWIN, WHO PUT FORWARD THE LINES ON WHICH BRITAIN WAS PREPARED TO PROCEED FURTHER IN THE DIRECTION OF NAVAL RE- STRICTION.
Whilst welcoming President Hoover's declaration, Mr. Baldwin indicated that no further reduction of the Army was possible, and it was not practicable to re- duce the number of naval units below a certain point.
Mr. Baldwin, however, suggested the possibility of reduction of naval armaments by other means, and the reduc- tion of gun calibres by one-third.
This would reduce new capital ships to 25,000 tons with 11-inch guns, and cruisers of 10,000 tons to 7,000
tons with six-inch guns.
A reduction of aircraft carriers to 22,000 tons with a large reduction in destroyer tonnage was also sug- gested.
Britain also urged the abolition of submarines, the prohibition of aerial bombing, and a limitation in the weight and numbers of military aircraft.
AMERICA WELCOMES NEW GESTURE
London, July 7.
desiring that specifically offensive and had An important declaration of weapons be prohibited, Britain's disarmament policy was advocated the abolition of tanks made by the Acting Premier, Mr over twenty tons, which type were Baldwin, in the House of Commona especially adaptable for offensive to-day. He profaced specific pro- employment. Lighter tanks how- prosals by pointing out that the ever, echild not be regarded as Baldwin, depended on general offensivo weapons and constituted comed the Hoover declaration, be- an essential compensation for cause it called for a really sub-lack of numbers in a small stantial measure of disarmament voluntarily-enlisted Army..
As far as Britain was con- and sought to apply the
prohibition qualitative principles of
and cerned, any general
would require an increase in terma and would thus said Mr. of man-power
Hoover defeat its own cilds as a measurė forward of disarmament.
HERR von Neurath, the German quantitative limitation. at Genova, Success
the agreement, and proposals were put
contribution
an active part in the discussions at Lausanne.
FRANCE BLAMED.
11
11
WO
an
to.
The
agreed general progranime.
A German semi-official state- British proposals should also be mout issued to-night blames regarded as a contribution to n French "intractability" for disap-general agreement. Britain fur- pointment of the German hope other agreed with President Hoover |
three treating the reparations question that the
problems of
1נ1
the wider framework of military, naval and air disarma- European reconstruction and the ment were interconnected. restoration of mutual confidence by the removal of the discrimina- tory clauses of the Peace Treaty.
Britain had on land already put into practice a measure of disarmament which more than conformed to the standards pro- posed by Mr. Hoover.
Coming to the naval proposals, Mr. Baldwin said it was essential that the proposals intended to be adopted by general agreement NEW OFFER.
should make due provision for Britain, like the United States, varying circumstances. Having The statement adds that "it is found her strongest arm in the regard to the widely scattored of the British therefore necessary to find a solu- tion on the narrow basis of re-avy, and although unval contri- responsibilities
butions to disarmament on the Navy, it was not practicable for parations only, and further dis-
been Britain to cut down the number cussions will be undertaken there largest scale had already
mado in advance of the present of units beyond a certain point. conference, the British Govern- Occasions might arise calling for FRESH HOPES.
ment now offered a further con-
the presence of ships simul- tribution as part of a world settle taneously in parts of the world
far removed from one another.
on."
ference.
:
BIG REDUCTIONS MADE.
Later. Once again the outlook is ment. brighter. Hopes that an after- Dealing with land disarmament, dinner talk following Mr. Noville Mr. Baldwin said the British Chamberlain's dinner to M. Her- Government found themselves
It was essential to bear in mind riot and M. Germain Martin might very largely in accord with Presid- the very large reduction in the lend to some agreement seem to ant Hoover's proposala. British number of ships of all categories be strengthened by the fact that troops in Britain, her Colonies and which had already been effected. Immediately after the dinner Herr India had been reduced as com- If comparison was made with the von Papen and Herr von Neurathpared with the year before the war year before the war, it would be arrived at the Hotel Beaurivage from 269,000 to 207,000, this being found that capital ships had been for a midnight conference with affected by the disbandment of reduced from 69 to 10, cruisers Mr. Ramsay MacDonald.
many units.
from 108 to 52, destroyers from All three statesmen were roused America had proposed the divi-285 to 147 and submarines from 74 from their bėda for this con-alon of land forces in a police com- to 52.
ponent and a defence component Nu norical reduction in the and upon that basis the British British Navy had therefore nirendy EARLY MORNING EFFORTS.
land forces had already been been applied on a
very large Lausanne, July 8.
reduced much below the number sente, and, indead, the cruiser Horr von Papen and Herr Von recognised as necessary for the numbers would require special Nourath who left the British de- maintenance of internal order, consideration hereafter. Mr. Bald- legation at ten minutes past one, without making allowance for win thought while there was a said progress was being made to-[forces needed on the linca of limit to numerical reduction, It
communication with the Empire.
was perfectly possible and in the As evidence that the British Britain had already joined in highest degree desirable to secure were sparing no efforts to affect rejecting chemical and bacterio-by other means a large diminution a settlement as quickly as pological warfare, and, in regard to in naval armaments. sible, Mr. Neville Chamberlain land guns, had proposed the aboll- and Sir John Simon immediately tion of all mobile guns above 155 left in a car to meet the Frenchm.m. calibro. delegation at the Palace Hotel, to clauso rofor the draft of the dealing with the political issue to (Continued on Page 7.)
wards a settlement.
THE TANK PROBLEM. Regarding tanke, the Govern- | mont agroad with Mr. Hoover in
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The present Treaty limits of size and gun calibre were far too high, and the British Government considered that very largo" ro-" ductions amounting to about one- third both in the case of capital (Continued on Page 7.) -
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