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JAPAN'S MILITARIST "TRY-ON" IN MANCHURIA
THE NEXT WAR
MR. BALDWIN CAUSES A
SENSATION
THINKS HE WILL
SEE IT
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London, Nov. 10. Mr. Stanley "Baldwin caused a sensation in the House of Com- mons to-night, on the eve of Armistice Day, by confessing his belief that he has not yet seen the last great war.
Mr. Baldwin is sixty-five years of age.
"I do not think I have seen the! last war, though I do not think another will come just yet," he said.
Mr. Baldwin was speaking on lisarmament and "devoted himself) exclusively to air disarmament.
He urged the world tu conai-1 der whether civil aviation could so be controlled us to make the abolition of all military air forces the fensiblo. The nations of
world with air forces and air sense should ponder the matter, he said, for civil machines were potential bombing plaines In time
of war.
CONTROL OF AVIATION.
British Government Belaboured for
2010
The VTUKI ceremony London Cenotaph
viewed Whiteball window.
through
in
ARMISTICE
DAY
OBSERVANCES IN
HONGKONG,
CEREMONY AT THE CENOTAPH
In common with all parts of the Empire, Hongkong is to-day
Dlourmament hung on the air, he declared, and us long as observing Armistice
Day, forces existed we should not get memories being carried back to rid of that fear which in the
that fateful day fourteen years parent of many troubles.
ago when the greatest war in history came to an end.
The speech is interpreted as a further indication of the British inter- Intention to strive for the national control of aviation. Reuter.
STOP PRESS
LEAGUE AUTHORITY AT STAKE
|LABOUR URGE LYTTON REPORT
AS BRITAIN'S BRIEF
Weakness of Policy
BRITISH NOTE ON WAR DEBTS.
HANDED TO MR. H. L. STIMSON.
Landon, Nov, 10.
A British Note on the subject of war debts was handed to the Unkel Mates Secretary of Blate, Mr. H. L. Stimson, in Washington to-day. No details are available. -Kriter
SIMON REFUSES TO PASS HURRICANE
JUDGMENT
LONDON, NOV. 10. THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF MANCHURIA WAS MERELY A MILITARIST TRY-ON. IF BRITAIN HAD GIVEN A BOLD LEAD TO THE LEAGUE, THE TRY-ON WOULD HAVE FIZZLED OUT, DECLARED MAJOR C. R. ATTLEE, BE- LABOURING THE GOVERNMENT FOR ALLEGED WEAKNESS IN THE SINO-JAPANESE DISPUTE.
HITS CUBA
HIGH DEATHROLL REPORTED
200 M.P.H. WIND
1
The Premier Buya Hi. Poppy.
BRITAIN'S OFFER ΤΟ GERMANY
RECOGNITION OF CLAIM TO EQUALITY
A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
London, Nov. 10.
Sir John Simon to-night an. nounced that the British Govern- ment concedes Germany's claim to equality of armaments and the supersession of the articles of Part Five of the Versailles Treaty by a General Convention limiting Germany's armaments in a man- ner similar to other Powers.
FRANCO-ITALIAN This important announcement
FRIENDSHIP
TWO CITIES GET FULL FORCE
(Our Own Correspondent),
London, Nov. 10. Cuba has again been visited by a devastating hurricane and wide- spread damage has been caused.
Two towns have been practical-IL
Major Attlee, who was Postmaster-General in the last Labour Government, was initiating a debate on a Labour resolution urging the Government (1) to sup- port an immediate universal substantial reduction of armaments on the basis on the equality of status of all nations and (2) to maintain the principles of the League Covenant by supporting the findings of the Lytton Com-y razed to the ground. The wind mission on Manchuria.
Pack of
THE ACID TEST FOR GENEVA ··
with
Moving the resolution, Major Lytton Report too highly. The Locally, the observances follow-
boot written ed traditional lines. The main Attlee mild that the country hadReport had function took place at the Ceno-been gravely disappointed by the striking moderation and with a taph, an impressive and brillant disarmament conference, adding statesmanship and a real sense of progress at the world, real sense of ymathy, true Later, spectacle.
R somewhat similar ceremony was held at the Chinese Memorial Arch in the Botanical Gardens.
Church services, marked by inspiring addresses, were held at
on
St. John's Cathedral and S. BRU Joseph's Church, while the sale of carly puppies went on from an hour. any willing helpers both sides of the harbour giving their services in accuring funds for the British Leglun Fund. To- night Ex-Servicemen are holding the annual Armistice Night dinner at the Peninsula Hotel..
before
the disarmament perspective.
The Report was the more digüi. the opinion that feant because besides being
the Manchuria dis-
at tinies reached a velocity of two hundred miles an hour, which in believed to constitute a world re- corn!
The hurricane was accom- panied by turrential rain which added to the terror and the confusion. Swirling waters rushing through the streets assisted the terrific wind gusts in bringing build- ings to the ground,
ENORMOUS' HAVOC.
HOPES FOR EARLY RAPPROCHEMENT
DUCE'S THREE CONDITIONS
(Our Own Correspondent).
was made in the House of Com- mon during the debate on inter- nutional affaire. He said that in dealing with the German claim to equality of rights in armaments, it was necessary to insist that the main purpose of disarmament was to ensure Insting peace.
Part Five
The limitations contained in or the Treaty of Versailles were imposed as means of securing, in the clrcum- stances then prevailing, the peace of Europe. It is undoubtedly true that these limitations were intended to be, and expressed to be, the precursor of the general Imitation of armaments regarding Strong hopes for a com-their country, which, has, in re- plete
becent years, effected immonse re- rapprochement
ductions. tween France and Italy are being held out.
London, Nov. 10.
Bui
TRANQUILLITY OF EUROPE.
now, he said, whon an The prospect of a renewal of happy relations has been brought agreement between the nations of Party had linked He emphasized, however,. the
to the forefront of European poli-the world for the reduction and that the Labour anxiety shown in the Report to j The extent of the casualties can- ties by the very friendly refer-limitation of armaments was being and the Manchur-present the ease burly from both not at present be ascertained but ences made to Italy by M. Herriot negotiated, Germany claimed that inn questions besides.
a New York report from the Cuban recently, and new Signor Munao-the methods of limitation applied feause they were of
her should No town of Neuvitas states that the fini has had something to say onto
longer be death roll there is believed to be the subject.
different from those applied to twenty-five, while in Havana
Three moral conditions to other nations.. newspaper estimated that three Franco-Italian rapprochement The United Kingdom Govern- hundred people perished in the are laid down by Signor Mussolini, ment had throughout been ready storm at Camaguey City..
in the course of an interview with and anxious to join with Neuvitas received the full fury the newspaper Midi, namely, Governments represented of the storm and all frame build- (a) Italy should become better Geneva, including Germany, in ings in the city were demollahed.
known. Camaguey suffered similarly, and stories of widespread havoc to Įbuildings and crops are streaming Into Havana from all districts in
the path of the hurricane.
BRITAIN'S NEXT MINISTER
THE IMPORTANCE OF CHINA POST.
London, Nov. 18. In the House of Commonu to- day. Mr. G.. lo_Mander (Lib, Wolverhampton East) expressed the hope that when Sir Milles Lampson retired from the post of Minister to China, the Govern ment would appoint some one of the Hame outstanding personality and
merits to succeed
Lacred him.
Washington,, Nov. B.
pute was the acid No official confirmation is ob
test of the League of Nations 18 4 tainable of the report that
guarantee against British Note, on
has war debts
attack. been handed to Mr. Stimson, but
Il c C. J. Attlee
strongly criticised the the British Embassy's silence is
| Government for its handling of the regarded as tantamount to en ad-!
AT THE CENOTAPH Manchurian question and ́added pilsalon of the truth of the report.
that unless it was satisfactorily Striking Ceremony of
settled, the League would lose its Senator Borah, Chairman of the
Remembrance -
moral authority and the world Foreign Relations Committer of The Senato, by which any agree-
Heads uncovered and bowed, would revert to the old system of the individual armaments and sec- Hongkong stood ment submitted to the present
Cenotaph in silent remembrance tional alliances for military pur Congress must be approved, in the this morning.
LEAGUE OPPORTUNITY. statement said any. Brilliant sunshine bathed the course of a programme of mere cancellation assembly
After paying a tribute to the Obelisk of Remembrance, which, services rendered to the world and dobta
impossible, WAS
Hanked with drooping Colours, the Lengue by the members of the would not relieve Europe and stood out in bold relief against the Lytton Commission, Major Attlee would not help Amerien's economie azure blue of the harbour and the expressed the opinion that the conditions. But if a programme more sombre hues of the distant japanese occupation of Manchuria were presented which would re- mainlaud mountains,
was a militarist try-on and that if store world markets, abolish the The warships of the Royal Navy, Britain had given a hold lend, the devastating burden of armaments, at peaceful rest in the harbour, try-on" would have fizzled out, wennĽKOZNAKE and again normalise monetary formed a natural splash of gleam. The Japanese masses would not, systems, the situation would be ing white in the background, and he fell assured, have supported the
of war
different.
gathered before the
poses.
not a few remembered that it was movement.
Mr. Mander suggested that the post be given to some-one of the same type as Lord Irwin or Lord D'Abernon.
He also proposed the moving
of the British Legation to Nan- king or Shanghai-Reuter.
BURMA'S GENERAL
ELECTION
DIVIDED VIEWS ON SEPARATION
Rangoon, Nov. 10. The principal issue in the General Election for membership | of the Burma Legislature has been whether Buring shall endorse the scheme outlined by Mr. Romany MacDonald at the meeting of the
January.
h) It should be realised that the Fascist regime exists and will last.
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(Continued on Page 7.)
other in
(c) No Machiavellism should be LOCAL AUTONOMY
used with the Italiana.
IDIOTIC.
Signor Mussolini then turned to hia favourite topic, declaring that Ito toll the nationa that there
should be no more war was idlotle.{ Nations, said II Duco, ended by. belloving it and by going to sleep. He said he had no interest in war. It would disturb Italy's recovery.
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MISSION SHIP WRECKED
animous it was signed by the re- Burma Round-Table Conference in TWENTY-TWO ABOARD presentatives of five nations, including the United Stater.
PROMISE MADE.'
IN CANTON
NEW LEGISLATIVE BODY MEETS
Canton, Nov. 10.
formed Municipal Council will Beginning to-day, the newly-
hold its first regular meeting, for three days, at the Chung-shan (Sun Yat-sen) Memorial Hall to draw up. an agenda for the plenary session and to elect a secretary general and officials of the Council.
body participated in by elected
The Council is a legislative
representatives of this city. Be sides being vested with legislative duties, the Council has advisory power over all municipal affairs.
Senator Borah expressed the sisters to these stately ships that The Lytton Report, he went on,
WASHED ASHORE opinion that Mr. Stimson, beforej made Pence possible fourteen gave a great opportunity to vindi-
This scheme provides for the minking any statement on the mat-years ago to-day.
eate the League's authority and
separation of Burma from India.
Suva, Fiji, Nov. 10. ter, would submit the British Noto
So far, out of the eighty. Boats Fourteen years.... Few who the Labour Party wanted to know It was not, however, fair or
The now mission-ship Southern to President Hoover, who will ar: stood in silent reverie before the whether the Government intended right, after a promise had been to be filled, sixteen Separationists Cross VI has been wreeked in a The forming of this Council is a rive at Washington in the next Cenotaph this morning did not adopting the Report as the basis given to listen to the observations and a like number of Anti-storm off the island of Anityum in first stop toward local autonomy few days. He added that Preal recall the breathless hush of of their policy.
of Japan, to pronounce judgment Separationists have been returned, the New Hebrides.
as envisaged by the South-West dent Hoover had repeatedly
while six others are neutral. The ex expectancy na England awaited
Four officers, three engineers bofore studying them. pressed the view that America the news,
SENSE OF PERSPECTIVE,
He recalled that Mr. de Valera, remaining results are still out-and fiftoen Solemon Islanders, authoritles.-Central Press.
standing-Router. would not demand payment be
Four years
members of the crew, are reported Sir John Simon, the Foreign acting with complete impartiality, and
to have been washed ashore from yond the capacity of her debtors.
anguish for the whole world, until Secretary, replying, said that I decided that the League Council
the wreck, though most of them (Continued on Page 7) would be dimeult to praise the should meet on November 21 after the documents had been studied.
were seriously injured as a result of a battle with the waves on the coral roofs.-Router,
Meanwhile, the Treasury states that the payment of $444,000 of war debt dus to-day from Greece has
beon recaivad, while not Hungary has notified that she has not the foreign exchange neces- sary to pay the $40,720 due Decomber 16th.-Reuter.
THE TYPHOON.
on
of torturo
COASTER HITS BRITISH WARSHIP
ANSHING'S BOWS SMASHED AND CRUMPLED: H.M.S. CORNWALL'S STERN DENTED
(Special to "Telegraph")
HARBIN'S. LOST MAILS
Sir John Simon declared that the Government were determined not to pass judgment until they had heard the Japanese obsér.
NONE VIA SIBERIA vations. The Government would continue loyally cooperat-
FOR 62 DAYS ing with the League. No. Food
Horbin, Nov. 11. could be done by Individual preliminary declarations: which! Owing to the mutiny of General would only prejudice the matter: Su Ping-wen at Manchuli, Harbin has been without Siberian malla The Government, he said, meant for sixty-two days it is not
to act for the League as a whole. known where the mails have been
NED TARLETON DEFEATED
FEATHERWEIGHT TITLE LOST
London, Nov. 10.
were badly smashed and crumpled, but after drawing off she was able The Royal Observatory reports:
Shanghai, Nov. 11. to proceed unassisted to the An- that pressure is highest over Japan, The Antung. Steamship Com-tung Company's wharf.
In a fifteen rounds, contest for and a weak anticyclonic area la pany's 8.8. Anshing, steaming up- H.M.B. Cornwall was left with They had the farther ground for detoured
Following representations from the British featherweight cham- indicated ovor North China. The river yesterday afternoon collided a largo dent in her, stern while satisfaction (though the situation typhoon is situated about 100 miles at fairly high spood with LMS. the paintwork was scraped off hor was anxlous' the unsatisfactory) the Consular Corps, the Japanese plonship at Liverpool to-night, north-east of Manila, moving north-Cornwall, which was lying moored port alde. There were no casual- because they had been able Vice-Consul is taking up the Seaman Watson (Newcastle) do- In mid-river at one of the bouys. ties on sither vessel as a result of throughout to act in the closest question of non-receipt with the feated the holder. Ned Tarleton (Continued on Paga 11.) The bows of the Chinese, ship the collisionRouter.
Post Office.Reuters
(Liverpool) on points-Reuter..
TELEGRAPHIC CODES
IMPORTANT MADRID-
DECISION
Madrid, Nov. 10. In the teeth of British” and American-opposition, the plonary meeting of the Radio-Telegraph Conference to-day passed a resolu- tlon to adopt the five-letter codo Instead of the existing ten-letter code.-Reuter.
Local Weather Forecast:-- N.E. winds, moderate to fresh, fair.