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WAR DEBTS PARLEY
U.S. INVITATION TO BRITAIN
EARLY IN MARCH
AN IMPORTANT PROJECT
Washington, Jan. 20. As foreshadowed yester- day, an important advance has beco made in the war debt situation as between Great Britain and the United States.
President Hoover and Mr.
Picture shows Shanbaikwan Raliway Station the scene of much activity at present, with the arrival of fresh Japanese reinforcements and the return of some of the refugees. (Photo By Mr. Victor Mussik),
Franklin Roosevelt to-day azred MUTINY ON
that negotiations with Britain, be opened without undue delay and Mr. H. L. Stimson was in- structed to initiate, discussione immediately with the British Am. bassador for the purpose of ar ranglag for a debt conference with representatives of Great Britain early in March, after the change of Administration.
OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE
An official communique issued from the White House this after- пооп statcs:"The conference this morning between President
FRONT
MANCHUKUO REGT. DISARMED
CLASH WITH THE JAPANESE
Poking, Jan. 21. The mutiny of a Manchukuo re-f Hoover and the President-Elect, giment under Ching Kuo-jui, Mr. Roosevelt, was devoted main-which was stationed in the Chiu- ly to a canvass of the foreign menkow Pass occurred on Thurs
day morning before dawn. situation.
The Manchukuo soldiers clashed with The following statement agreed upon: The British Govern casualties on both sides and the Was the Japanese resulting in thirty ment has asked for a discussion disarmament of the muntineers,
BRAUNA DESTINASITESNESKATORIEMAS RIENS 239 RELATE BIKE VÕI KERTAS ARRAZOTO
CHINESE RETURNING TO SHANHAIKWAN
SHOPS RE-OPENING IN THE CITY,
BM
(Special to "Telograph")
Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphie Hereopta indinaser, 1885, Reisterd, January
1.3.12 a.m.3
Peking. Jan. 21.
According to Japanese Interma- tion, meat of the people who left Shanhaikwan during the recent fighting have returned and busi- ness is being resumed.
Peace and order is helig main- tained by Pence Preservation Committee.--Reuter.
on her war debt. The incoming according to Chinese dispatches YOKOHAMA
administration. will be glad to refrem Shinho, the main Chinese ceive their representative early in defensive line. Merch for the purpose.
Apart from extensive troop
"It is, of course, necessary to movements at Hulutao, Chinchow discuss at the same time the world and Shanhaikwan. where
the economic problems in which the Japanese defenders have been United States and Britain are mu-greatly reinforced during the past tually interested and, therefore, fow daya, a lull prevails on the that representatives should also be front. sent to discuss woys and means of improving the world situation.
The Nanking Government has. telegraphed tu Marshal Chang "It was settled that these ar to deal with the North China Hauck-liang giving him full power rangements will be taken up by situation and to exercise his au the Secretary of State with the thority as Chairman of the Mill British Government."-Reuter and (tary Council at Peking-
Britisk Wirelesa,
FARM RELIEF MEASURE
ROOSEVELT WANTS ACTION
(Our Own Correspondent).
(By Teisgraph, Ceperight, Zeleprepkis Masası Ormanos, 1974. Received, Jawnary
London, Jan. 20.
RIOT
SINGER COMPANY
DISPUTE
JAPANESE POLICE
ATTITUDE
Yokohama, Jan. 21. Despite the serious riot on the; The former Chinese Premier, premises of the Singer Sewing Mr. Tuan Chi-jui, who is well Machine Company on Wednes known for his pra-Japanese utti-
WHITE SLAVE
TRAFFICKER
GETS SIX MONTH TERM
i
It is now said that the Japanese have no intention of giving ans, further protection than is being given to Japanese firma.
ATLANTIC S.O.S.
FIRM
BRITISH VESSEL SINKING
ATTITUDE EXHIBITED
WOULD
GALE RAGING
FOUR MEN SWEPT OVERBOARD
London, Jan: 20. Another drama of the seas is being enacted in mid-Atlantic, where the British freighter, Exeter City, is in distress, in peril of sinking.
A heavy gale is raging and the freighter has been badly battered. Great sens are sweeping her decks! and the Captain and three nem-1 bers of the crew have been swept overboard and drowned.
The American liner; American Merchant, which raced to the as- sistence of the doomed steamer on picking up her S.O.S. signals is standing by and hopes, are enter- tained that the remainder of the crew will be rescued although in the heavy weather, the gale is still al its height apparently, it is im- possible to launch small bonts,
LINER STANDING BY,
The America Merchant wire- lesses that she is doing everything ren aboard the Exeter City and possible to effect the rescue of the probably it will be found possible
to throw out a lifeline.
The Exeter City belongs to the Bristol City Line of Steamships, Limited, for which Messrs. C. H and Sons, are the managers. She is a vessel of 2,959 tona, built in 1908 at South Shields.
An old ship, only, 321 feet lung and drawing only 14 feet of water, nhe was unable to stand up to the battering of heavy seas in the gale. -British Wireless,
NOT DISCUSS JAPANESE COUNTER-PROPOSAL
REPORT SUB-COMMITTEE ALREADY. APPOINTED
General Smuts.
GENEVA, JAN. 20. SOUTH AFRICA
OF NINETEEN THIS
CRISIS
THE COMMITTEE AFTERNOON DECIDED TO GIVE JAPAN WHAT IS VIRTUALLY A TWENTY-FOUR HOURS' ULTI- MATUM TO ACCEPT OR REJECT THE COMMIT- TEE'S PROPOSAL SUBMITTED ON WEDNESDAY, GEN. SMUTS DEMANDS
The Committee regarded the Japanese attitude as unsatisfactory. The Japanese delegation had been given two days in which to consult their government on the Committee's proposal, which offered to drop the suggestion of an invitation to Russia and the United States provided Japan accepted the remainder of the December resolution as it stood.
RESIGNATION
MINISTERIAL LAUGHTER
(Special to "Tolsgraph".)
(Up Inlegraph, Copyright, Teleprozkła Messages Ordinance, 1884. Raselvad, January
London, Jan. 21.
The Japanese delegation did not reply directly to d the proposal but submitted minor modifications to the resolution, which the Committee of Nineteen did not derisive Ministerial laughter, Amid opposition cheers anıl even discuss! It was instead unanimously decided to General Smuts announced at give Japan e further twenty-four hours in which to ac- yesterday's opening of the South cept or reject the proposal.
LYTTON REPORT ENDORSEMENT.
African Parliament that on Tuesday, he will move that the Government should resign forth. with and accord an opportunity for the formation of a National
The Finance Minister, Mr. Havenga, announced the impend
The Committee then considered what course they would adopt in the event of an unfavourable reply from Government. Japan and it is understood that on the euggestion of Captain Anthony Eden, the British Under-Secretary ing introduction of a Bill to abolish for Foreign Affairs, a Sub-Committee was appointed to the surtax which was imposed in consider the question of a Draft Report under Para graph Four, Article Fifteen of the Covenant. It was gathered that the Report would be based upon an endorsement of the Lytton Report.-Reuter.
MR. DE VALERA'S acasion of the Assembly's Com
PROGRAMME
ABOLITION OF THE
SENATE
Dublin, Jan, 21.
M. Hymans presided at to-day's
mittee of Ninteen to hear the Jai panese reply to the Committee's enquiry, which in full, was
Whether, if the Japanese demand for the exclusion from the Con- ciliation Commienion of two non-f
(1)
concerted,
L
DEFENCE OF PEKING
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE TO TROOPS
order to protect South African in- dustries following the depreciation_
of sterling and other currencies.
Although it is evident that there is strong feeling in the country against the Hertzog Government, they still
command Iarge majority in the House and give no Indication of any
Intention to resign..
LABOUR AND HERTZOG.
In the country. the tide con-
es to run against General Hertzog, and in response to Gen- eral Smuts's Invitation, the South African Labour Party recently decided to co-operate with the South African Party. The intan- sive racialism of the Dutch N. telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphis tionalists has made this inevitable. Alcampen Ordinance. 111. Resolved, Seaver The formal Nationalist-Labour
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tude during his long administra-day, the authorities have no in- tion as Premier in Peking, arrived tention of giving special police here quietly last evening to inter-protection to the firm, according view. Government leaders on the to Japanese information.
lanchurian problem. His arrival It will be recalled that a mob at- at this time is considered sign-tacked the premises and destroyed The abolition of the Senate as at member States. Russia and the ficunt.
nearly all movable proporty includ-present constituted or a reduction United States, avere Ing important records. The Ameri-by a considerable number of its can Ambassador called upon Count members is proposed in an election Japan would accept the other Uchida requesting an immediate in manifesto issued by. Mr. de Valera clauses including declarations vestigation and adequate police proto-day. tection for American life and pro- Mr. de Valera also intends, he THREE DECLARATIONS.
Peking, Jan. 21. Coalition was dissolved at the last perty in the future.
says, to effect substantial reduction
Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang gave election, and General Hertzog, in the numbers of Deputies in the Covenant of the League, the representatives of various public solute majority in the House, can that the provisions of the reception to more than a hundred whose own party commands an ab- Dail after the next general election. Kellogg Pact and the Nine-Power bodies yesterday afternoon, when face with equanimity the transfer
His third step will be the intro-Treaty must be respected; duction of a Bill in the next session
views were exchanged regarding of the eight Labour votes. But in providing for the unified control mission should be set up
(2) that a Conciliation Com-the problems of the defence of the country the loss of Labour of railway and road transport.-
to Peking, the equipment of the troops aupport is a serious matter-the conduct, in conjunction with the for the bitterly cold weather, and more so because the loaders have Reuter.
parties to the dispute, negotiations the maintenance of peace and order only taken the course set for them for a settlement on the basis of in the Poking-Tientsin area.
by their rank and file at the Chapter Nine of the Lytton Report preciation of the support rendered the principles Inid down in Marshal Chang expressed his ap- Germiston by election. and having regard to the sugges-to his troops by the public during tions contained in Chapter Ten. the last few days and Informed
(8) that neither a more return of a
those present of the catablishment to status quo ante in Manchuria. Branch of the Military Council to committee in the Peking. nor the maintenance and recogni-co-operato with various putside tion of the presont regime there organisations regarding the distri- would provide a durable solution. bution of comforts to the troops.-
Reuter, JAPANESE COUNTER.
COMPULSORY MEDIATION
Washington reports sinte that Provident-Elect Franklin D. Roose-¦ The story of how a “white-slave"/ volt, in the course of his confer-trafficker, in utilising a well-known enco with President Hoover to- method of the trade, over-reached In view, however, of the clash day, asked for the enactment, herself and was in her turn tricked in the company's headquarters, before March 4th, of the Farm by two intended victims, was re-which the Japanese say was be Relief Bill and the projected lated to the Police Magistrate, Mir. tween strikers and strike breakers. legislation rovising the bankruptcy Wynne-Jones, this morning, when the police have decided to make 'la wa so as to enable debtors to ar- the
Cheng woman,
Yee, was compulsory medlation in the Com- range a rettlement with the charged with bringing two women pany's labour dispute. majority of their creditors.
into the Colony for the purpose of The clerks and salemen .of the March 4th is the date on which prostitution.
Singer Company, totalling over a Mr. Roosevelt takes over the Ad-
Natives of Hongkong, the two thousand, have been on strike for ministration.
girls, Lau Fong and Leung Nui, six monts.----Reuter. were starving when they were) picked up up-country in Toyalian, by Cheng Yee, a notorious eurees, who, taking'unscrupulous advantage of theft unfortunate situation, bound them to her by n written contract.
THE LAUSANNE SETTLEMENT
NAZI & COMMUNIST OPPOSITION
(Our Own Correspondent),
pro-
This document, exhibited Court, required the victims, in the guise of a loan having been made and received, to go to any port will: ed by the woman and to "reim- burse" her from the proceeds of prostitution.
COMING WORLD
CONFERENCE
COMMITTEE MEETS ON WEDNESDAY.
London, Jan. 20.
SHING MUN "DAM GORGE
TENDERS BEING
INVITED.
The Government is inviting tenders In connexion with the Shing Mun gorge dam scheme. The Japanese delegation, having One tender in for the laying of received fresh instructions from two concrete tracks for lorries Tokyo, did not reply direct to the on the access road from Tsun Wan Committee's enquiry but proceeded Police Station to neapple Pass, to suggest amendments to the re- and another for the supply of solution including propoente: 10,000 four-inch and 18,400 six- inch agricultural drain pipes.
(1) that the Committee of Con- cilliation should consist of Amongst other, tenders Invited
"only from five The Foreign Secretary, Sir John are those for the formation of
to seven members. Simon, will probably return 'to a alte for the now Government The two girls signed the contract, Geneva, on Tuesday and will pre-Hospital; for the development of Merapie Ordinumos, 1896." Received, Jamane but having got the women to bring wide at a meeting of the Organia- Kowloon Tadi (first section), com- them back to Hongkong where they Ing Committue of the World Eco-prising the lovelling of an area to London, Jan, 20. were born, lost very little time in nomic Conference on Wednesday. the east of Waterloo Road; and According to
It will be the duty of this Com-or the removal of silt from the a message from informing the polico authorities. Berlin, a joint Nazi-Communist They were rescued by a police milttee to determine the dates and basin of the Aberdeen lower re resolution was adopted by the party under Detective Sub-Inspec- make other arrangements for the servoir, Reichstag Foreign Affaira Com- tor Elston, from an address in the Conference, for which an anno- mittee to-day condemning the jalum quarter of the city.
tated agenda was completed yos- Lausanne Agreement for a settle-aontoaced to the maximum penalty mittee of Experts-British Wire Rotary Club, the Right Rev. Bishop
The woman, Cheng Yee, was terday by the Preparatory Com At next week's moeting mont of the reparations question.
of alx months" hard Inbour.
Hall will speak of "The Social Survey of the Tyneside.
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(2) that the Committee of Con-
HINKLER SEARCH
ABANDONED
ADVERSE WEATHER
Lausanne, Jan. 20. Captain W. L. Hope, who has been conducting a Search for Squadron Leader Hinkler all this Hymans and from the re-week in the remote hope that he solution.
might still be alive, has decided (4) that non-members of the to. abandon the search owing to League could be invited to the adverse weather conditions. take part in the Committee's making observation almost impos deliberations provided that sible. the first three pointa be ne-: copted.
FURTHER 24 HOURS.
.
Ho returns to London to- marrow-Router.
The fears entertained in some quartere for the safety of Captain ciliation should not inter- The Committee of Nineteen did
Hope and his assistant pilot.. vene directly in the Sino-not discuss these amendments but Heanly, who were making a sourch gave the Japanese delegation a tur- Hinkler, were dispelled when the in the Alps for Squadron Leader Japanese conversations but thor twenty-four hours In which to airmen returned to Voytroux this. simply give their sistance nocept or reject the Committee's afternoon.
when necessary,
first proposal.
They had spent the The Committee | after a long discussion finally ad-night on Diablerets, having made (3) that all reference to the journed til tomorrow (Satur perfect landing in n fold in non-recognition of Man day) afternoon when a reply will be examine an object which from order to proceed on foot to from Japan. British the air was mistaken for a derelict
Aeroplane.-British Wireless.
chukuo be excluded both expected from the speech of M. Wirclesd.