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WAR DEBTS QUESTION STILL UNANSWERED
BRITISH POLICY ON MANCHURIA
FULL-DRESS DEBATE IN LORDS
JAPAN'S LYTTON INCONSISTENCY
London, Nov. 29.
The British Government was again urged to throw its weight] on the side of those supporting the Lytton Report- findings durs ing a debate in the House of Lords on the Sino-Japanese dise pute to-day.
The issue was raised by Viscount!
Cecil of Cholwood and Lord Hall-
sham assured him that the Govern
The wild weather round Britain of late is vividly illustrated in this remarkable picture showing the . St. Ola attempting to enter Aberdeen Harbour in a welter of foam and spray, during a heavy galo.
The whole of the Scottish coast received a severe battering during the weak end.
MCKENNA
MYSTERY
FOR PARIS
ment would seek a solution satis- WAS IT HIS DOUBLE WHO GAVE AN
factory to the League and the Powera most Interested in the Far East,
Inviting the Goverment to make statemout of polley on Maachu- rin, Lord Cecil quoted, with ap proval, the Japanese Government's declaration of support for the Lengue.
JAPAN AND COMMISSION.
If Japan Intends to support the League. he sald, it will make a grent difference in the seriouanése of the crisis developing as a result of events in the Far East.
The question before the parties, in his opinion, was whether they were prepared to accept the Lytton Report as a basis of settlement of the dispute and he drew atten- tion to the fact that Japan ac quiesced in the appointment of the League Commission on Man- churin, in the terms of reference and in the choice of its member ship.
He urged the British Gov- ernment to use its utmost in- fluence in support of the Lytton Commission.
the
Lord Ponsonby, Leader of Opposition in the House of Lords, said he did not expect the Govern- ment to say anything about the Sino-Japanese dispute nt this stage.
IMPORTANCE OF FINDINGS.
The Earl of Reading paid a warm tribute to the work of the Lytton Commission and stressed the im-, portance of its findings. Its in- partiality and the manner In which the Commission had dis-
charged its duties warranted warm
congratulation.
He said that the Commission's findings were generally approved. This did not, of course, mean that all should be accepted, but it did mean that none could be dis. regarded excopt in the face of very powerful arguments and fnete.
Lord Lothian suggested that the Powers collectively should help to create a modern and efjelent government in China.
GOVERNMENT REPLY,
IMPORTANT INTERVIEW?
WAR DEBTS AND A VISIT TO CONTINENT
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT),
(By Telegraph. Copright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1804: Received, November 30, 9.53 0.m.)
London, Nov. 30.
MR. REGINALD McKenna, the Chairman of the Midland Bank, or someone so amazingly like him that he deceived a well-known Parisian journalist, has creat- ed a mild sensation in Paris.
The Paris newspaper world is mystified over the whole business, as some-one who must have been the
Mr. McKeank.
CAN WE PAY AMERICA?
COMMITMENT OF LAUSANNE
CABINET STILL DEBATING
PREMIER CALLED TO PALACE
London, Nov. 29. The Premier and his prin- PREMIER GOING TO ❘cipal Ministers were in close contact most of to-day and to-night when practically all| the members of the Cabinet |met for further consideration
GENEVA
IMPORTANT MEETING
ON FRIDAY
Mr.
London, Nov. 30. It is understod that Ramsay MacDonald and Sir John Simon will leave London to-morrow for Genova.
It is now hoped that informal conversations between Britain, Germany. France, Italy and the United States on disarmament problemy will take place al Geneva on Friday. Reuter.
M. Zinoviesf, one of the Stalin
in opposition leaders Russia, whose death has been reported but is semi-officially denied in Moscow.
JUNK ADVENTURE DISASTER
CAPT BISSCHOP
WRECKED
JAPANESE SHIP TO RESCUE
Shanghai, Nov. 30. A wireless messago recoived in t Shanghai announces
that dis aster has overtaken Captain Eric do Bisschop in his adventurous jattempt to tour the work in a
Chinese junk.,
Tho gally-painted "craft, which Captain Bisschop had named "Fou Po" and which flew the French ing, appears to have run into foul weather off the const | Formoss have sunk.
of
of the war debts questions SECRECY AT Forman find to hoy bud with him
The Prime Minister was Te- ceived in audience by the King| at Buckingham Palace later in! the evening.
It is not yet possible to 'state
GENEVA
four companions, ono French and three Russian, all of whom were i picked up by a Japanese steamer. Beyond the fact that all the ad- venturors are safe no further.
able at the moment.
|DISARMAMENT BUREAU details of the mishap are avail-
when the new Note to Washington | PROCEEDINGS
will be despatched, although the Gnal examination of the draft is
START FROM HANKOW.
The enterprise which has ended so suddenly hogan at Hankow wome
OPERATIONTANELSIZ ANIKE AIR expected to be completed within OPEN DISCUSSION four weeks ago. The "Fout Po"
EXCHANGE BOOMERANG
ATTACK ON POUND HITS BACK
WHEAT PRICES INDICATION
London, Nov. 29. The fact that American wheat
a
the next day or two.
There have, suys an official state- ment, obviously been many aspects of the debt situation requiring thei fullest and most careful considera- ition.
INCONTROVERTIBLE.
URGED
London, Nov. 29.
Bailed down the Yangtsze to Shunghat and there went into dock for a thorough overhaul and refitting for the long sen journeys contemplated."
L
the
An informal discussion between The party left Woosung ou representatives of Britain, Ger« November 22, making direct for many, France, Italy and the Manila. The next visit would Although it is expected that the United States is likely in the next have been to Australia, then to nate will be confined to setting out | the reason for the proposal briefly few days, with a view to finding America and then across made in the original British com-a basis for Germany's return to Atlantic to Europe. munication that inter-Govern- the Disarmament Conference. mental debts should be re- examined and the payment due on
The main object of the tour in December 15th in the meanwhile ment was made in the House of the junk, which was of about fifty suspended-it is recessary that Lords this afternoon is the course charting of several islands in the tous burden, was to have been the these reasons should be stated in!
CAN WE PAY?
This rather dramatic announce-i
A MASTERPIECE.
two
of
double of Mr. Reginald McKenna, and was yesterday priced at 28s. 94, of incontrovertible. accuracy.
some detall and supported by facts of a debate on Britain's disarma- South Seas.
ment policy, which was the subjectĮ
Captain do Bisschop had on who held himself out to be Mr. McKen-quarter is cited by the Times as
board enough water for five According to the London news-[of some criticism. indicating the effect on United
months and provisions for na gave an interview to the French States produce of exelange move papers, the examination of the In making the announcement, montha. Additional supplies were being undertaken by Lord Hallsham indicated that the to have been taken on at Manila, journalist referred to on the war debts ments minking the dollar dear In situation
relation to sterling.
Cabinet Ministers Includes also the Five-Power Conference Was question and financial matters general-
not as the trip was expected to lust Argentine whent at
assessment of the effects of evory absolutely settled but negotiations eighteen months. 24/- ly and then vanished into thin air. The Australian at 25/6 and Canadian acthod of payment, whether by had proceeded for and it was hoped The junk was a masterpiece of natural outcome of "Mr. McKenna's" at 20/- were all considerably gold, in sterling, or in dollars, and that a meeting for informal con-nautical compactness, being fitted surprise visit to Paris was the circula-cheaper than United States wheat, upon these and a hundred other versations would take place before with everything in the way.
instruments and equipment rang- tion of rumours that he was in Paris apt the fact that the United questions, a mass of technical into the end of the week.
States is only 3,000 miles distant has been produced.
ing from a radio set to TREATY REVISION. for the purpose of seeing M. Herriot, compared with Argentina 6,000
auxiliary engine. the French Premier, on the war debtsmiles and Australia 11,000 miles,
Lord Cecil described the disarmina- The Times points out that the Among many* other considera- question.
to be borne in nent position as being more hopeful influence of exchange must also be ions which have
principles shown in the right of all other mind is the likely effect upon the expressed approval of the imples commodities in which the United Lausanne agreements, in States competes with various pro-words, some doubt is felt whether upon which the proposals of the Britain's payments could concely-British Government were hased, but ably be continued without re-open-declared that any policy of terri- torial arrangement for revision of ing the questions on which a settle the Versailles Treaty, as suggested ment was then reached and whe- Sterling on New York to-day re-ther Britain could go on paying the Mr. Winston Churchill, would be covered at the opening to 3.19% United States without receiving
Viscount Cecil criticised the pro-i but fell later to 3.144, closing at anything from, those countries. 3.15%. Despite the pound's weak- which owe her money.
cedure at Geneva and urged ness, British funds finished the day strongly, under the lead of 000,000 more to the United States
Britain has already paid £200,-rovorting to open discussion. War Loan Assented, which rose than she has
PEACE SECRET DIPLOMACY, over one point to 97%-British debtors, although the amount due received from her
Paris, Nov. 29. He was joined in this criticism Wireless.
to her was more than the amount by Lord Ponsonby, who, advocat A Pact of Non-Aggres- due from her to the United States.
ing open discussion, said that work sion was signed between behind the scenes sometimes help-
It was generally supposed that Mr. McKenna was acting as the unofficial envoy.of the British Government seeking French views on the war debt policy to beducing countries. adopted, especially in relation to Lausanne, Mr. McKen- na, besides being a prominent banker, having been at one time a Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Additional colour was lent to enquiries all over Paris revealed the story of Mr. McKenna's that he had not registered at any presence in Paris by revelations hotel. that the banker was seen leaving Victoria Station in London for the Continent on Sunday,
WENT TO BRUSSELS,
Mr. McKenna is, in fact, in Lon- don at the moment. He did not go
It was this information which led to Paris at all. The presumption
to a to watch being kept. for him in that he was going to Paris was
Lord Hallsham, replying for the Paris and to the subsequent "Inter-anticipatory, but it was wrong. Mr. Government, said it was impos- sible for the Government to make view".
McKenna anys he was actually going
any statement at this time, be
When, however, other journalists to Brussels in connexion with one yond emphasising that all the sought him out, high and low, ho of the companies of which he is a efforts of the British Government would be directed to the finding was nowhere to be found, and later Director.
of a solution of the Sino-Japanese] —
dispute satisfactory to the League and to the Powers most closely Interested in the problems of the Far East Router.
BRITISH TEXTILE
EXPORTS
LONDON TRANSPORT BILL
UNIFIED CONTROL OF PASSENGER
TRAFFIC
FOUND STILL FALLING.
ARMED ROBBERY
FRUSTRATED
ARREST OF THREE SUSPECTS
U. 5. TARIFF BAR.
disastrous.
PARIS PACT CEREMONY
FRENCH TREATY WITH SOVIET
CONSOLIDATION OF
ed, but led to suspicions. He also France and Soviet Russia It is, however, the economic con- deplored that the British disarma at the Quai D'Orsay to-day,
sequences
ofnient proposals permitted the re-
turn to conscription in Germany. The signatories wère M. Herriot the inter-Gov-
on behalf of the French Govern- Lord Reading congratulated the ment, and M. Dovgalevsky, the ernmental
which Government on its disarmament Russian Ambassador, on behalf of
most scheme but said he doubted whethe Soviet Government.
Layton.
debts receive attention
ther in
the proposals for interna-i tional air control would prove ac-he saluted the peoples of Soviet After signing, M. Herriot eald -British preas.
(Continued on Page 7) The nowa- papers gener- ally take tho | view express- ed to-day in the Now B
LOCAL DOLLAR
DECLINES
Russla, with whom Franco desired increasingly confident relations.
The Treaty, he said, completed the system of Non-Aggression Pacts and ought to contribute to the consolidation of peace.
M. Dovalevsky repiled that the Soviat attached great political and moral value the Pact which. confrmed French and Russian |pacffic aspirations.--Reuter.
:
The police believe they nipped an armed robbery in the bud when they effected the arrest, in Sham. shuipo yesterday, of threo Chinese. The three suspects, Wong Ho (25), Wong Sam (31), and Wong Fat (32), wore solzed by waiting police officers when on the point of going into the street from 107, Chroniclo bý Sir Walter Layton, Salyoungchai Street, in which Wong who, after pointing out the effect Po lived. They appear to have been of the American tariff, ono of MARKET UPSET BY |caught completely by surprise, and the highest in the world upon
UNCERTAINTY London, Nov, 20. throughout the London traffic area; were seized with weapons in pos- the flow of goods, declares:- Secondly, the vesting in the Board session. Wong Ho had a fully"There is, no device known to the When the House of Commons
The local exchange market is the two science of economies or to the art more or less demoralised owing to went into committee on the London of all local passenger transport loaded revolver, while
of financo which will enable B
the slump in sterling.. This morn Passenger Transport Bill to-night, agencies in the area excopt those of others were armed with daggers,
creditor to go on collecting debts ing, the dollar dropped 1/8th to due to it, if it will not receive is. 4d., and the markot tendency British exports of cotton, arti-the Transport Minister, Mr. Pybus, main line railwaya: and Thirdly,
FAIR WEATHER ficial silk and mixed piece goods said the measure was designed to the provision of safeguards and
the goods and the services of its is most uncertain, with an easy Hongkong Fire Brigade is to take The annual drill display of the continue to expand.
co-ordinato, under unified control machinery ensuring contact be.
tendency. The Royal Observatory reports debtors."--British Wireless, and ownership, the passenger traf- tween the Board and public opinion For the first ten months of this no of the greatest urban population regarding the facilities to be pro- that the anticyclone lus extended
In London, silver rose 1/18th. No. 2 Police Station, Wanchal, on place in the compound of the new. vided and the fares charged. 88.284.178
eastwards and now covers North "The wedding will shortly take place but there was very little doing. Tuesday next at 3.30 p.m. of the world.
The Bill also provided for the China and South Japan. Fresh to between. Mr. Joseph Albert Cotton, After the official fixing, the markot square yards, valued at £1,633,782, The Bill provided: an increase of 6.720.215 square
softing up of a joint committee of strong monsoon will continue engineer, of 1, Carnarvon Avenue,
The public are cordially invit yards, Falued at $182.228, over the Firatly, for the establishment of representatives of the Board and of along the China coast and over the Kowloon, and Miss Mario Emilia dos ruled idlo. corresponding period of last year, a Publlo Board charged to provide the main line railways operating Northern China Sea. Local fore-Remedios, 8, Humphreys, Avenue, Now York reports silver down a marine events. In all there will
British Wireless.
adequato travelling facilities suburban lines British Wireless. cast:-N.E. winds, frosh; fair. Kowloon.
I quarter, with the market easy,
MARKED INCREASE
'REPORTED
London, Nov. 29.
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