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六拜禮 號十月六英港香
SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1933.
日八十月五
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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ON FOUR-POWER PACT
BRITAIN TO SEND WAR DEBT NOTE
NO FINAL DECISION REACHED
London, June 9.
The Cabinet mot this afternoon and, it is under- stood, falled to finally dis- pose of the war debts ques- tion.
It is expected that a Note embodying the Covern-
ment's views on the subject. of the June instalment will be sent to America during the week-end.—Router,
MATTERN AT BELOYE
STILL HOPEFUL OF RECORD
A DAY BEHIND
(Special to "Telegraph”)
(By Telegraph, Copyright., Telegraphic Massage Ordinance, 1895. Received Jung 20, 3,50 am;}
Moscow, June 10.
James Mattern, the famous flier, American long-distance
still intends to make an effort to
Good Augury for World Economic Conference E. J. DILLON JAPAN TO BOYCOTT
DALADIER MAKES
STATEMENT
NO FURTHER QUESTION OF REARMAMENT
OF GERMANY
(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH”)."
(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, June 10, 8. 40 a.m.)
: WASHINGTON, JUNE 9. THE INITIALLING OF THE FOUR-POWER PACT HAS BEEN WELL RECEIVED IN THE
UNITED STATES.
President Roosevelt declared that the agreemen was a good augury for the future, adding that the pact among the Western Powers to cooperate for the pre- servation of peace should give renewed courage to all
M. Daladier, who is destined to play an important part at the World Economic. Conference, as the chief delegats of the one big Power remaining on the gold standard, is shown above at the Jenn
d'Arc celebrations in Paris.
who are striving for the success of the Geneva Disarma EUGENE CHEN SOLVES
ment and the London Economic Conferences,--Reuter.
FRENCH POLICY IN LONDON
beat the round-the-world record Currency Stabilisation:
set up by Post and Gatty, al- though the delay caused by his mishap near Novosirbitsk has thrown him a day. behind their schedule.
40-Hour Week
FRENCH RETALIATION RUMOURS
|
Tariff Changes Tabled in Chamber
'Paris, June 9,
Paris, June 9. France's 'determination to every. As a prelude to the tariff dis- thing possible to make the World cussions at the world economic He landed to-day at Beloye, Economic Conference'a succèss was conference, the Government has some forty-four miles to the expressed by the Premier, M. tabled Bills in the Chamber, west of Irkutsk at 1.45 p.m. B.S.T. Daladier, addressing the Assembly authorising and leaves to-morrow at dawn for to-night. Habarovsk, on the Soviet-Man- M. Daladier said that France, in churian border.
(1) Customs surtaxes แย
ARAKI ON THE TRUCE
NEGOTIATIONS CO
ON SMOOTHLY
POLICING OF LUAN HO AREA
her policy regarding the conference, reprisal to measures by foreign (Dy Telegraph, Copyright.
Up to his arrival at Omsk, Mat- did not consider that the manipula- governments Injurious to French tern was hours in front of the tion of gold would solve the world's trade.
----(2) New tariffs for-goods which Post-Gatty schedule. He intended currency problems, and that-coun- to push on to Habarovsk to-day, tries off the gold standard must have hitherto been subject to
quota system. The quota will be but owing to lack of sleep was first agree upon stabilisation. compelled to rest.
He still hopes to get inside the record by n spectacular inish, though the odds at the moment appear against him.-Reuter.
CONCERTED PRODUCTION.
removed or modified.
RETALIATIONT
a
Received
"MYSTERY'
DEAD
NOTED LINGUIST.
AND AUTHOR
FAMOUS COUPS IN JOURNALISM.
Barcelona, June 9. Emile Joseph Dillon, the noted linguist, author and internation- al journalist, who had been re-| siding in Spain for some time owing to failing health, died to- day in Barcelona...
A famous publieist, he was born jin Dublin in 1864 of an Irish father and an English' mother. It was Intonded to make him a Catholic [priest, but, objecting to this, he went to Paris” when a youth and [attended the College de France.
Renan's lectures there aroused in him an enthusiasm for Oriental- languages and literature and he | studied Sanskrit, Arabic and He- |brew at Innsbruck and Poratan at Leipzig and Tubingon. After a visit to Russia to learn other tongues he went to Louvain and took the degree of Doctor of Orlen- tal languages and literature.
ARMENIAN ATROCITIES..
Return to Russia he secured similar degrees at Petrograd and Kharkoff, where he became a pro- fessor. He also contributed to
NOT GOING TO newspapers and periodicals.
JAPAN
"MILITARY GANGSTER"
REGIME®
Appointed in 1887 correspondent In Russia of the Loudon Daily | Telegraph, he was associated with It for over 40 years. In 1894 when
INDIA
TRADERS SUPPORT COTTON SPINNERS
Tokyo, June 10. The conference of cotton traders has decided to sup- port the spinners in the pre- posed boycott of India.
This is the sequel to the now tariff against japanese cotton imports Into India. which has caused threats of a tariff war against the British Empire.--Heuter..
GT. BRITAIN IN SEMI-FINAL
EASY DAVIS CUP VICTORY
JAPAN TWO UP ON GERMANY.
London, June 9. Great Britain has reached the semi-final of the European Zone in the Davis Cup and will meet Czecho-Slovakia.
Japan is well on the way to
Terminate the urme of tron qualifying for the last four in the Armenians, Dillon the same zone, leading Germany' want to find out the truth,
TRUTH ABOUT SPAIN.
EASY FOR SATOH
Jiro Satoh drow frat blood for Japan against Germany in Berlin to-day, when he eliminated Von Cramm in four sets.
Writing for his paper a series on the first day's play, by two of articles describing the horrors rubbers to love, and it is odds he witnessed, he stirred up the on them meeting Australia for THAT U.S. LOAN entire Christian world to inter right of playing in, the final.
vention. After acting as war cor- It did not take Porry and respondent during the Spanish Hughes very long to dispose of Canton, June. 9. American conflict, Dillon came to Rado and Carolli the Italian doub (Special to "Telegraph") -
Every person having a whit of China in 1900 with the interno les team and so to clinch Britain's common sense will
арровс the tional force organised to crush the third round tie with Italy, Telegraphie U.S.$60,000,000 wheat and cotton Boxer Rebellion.
The Englishmen won in three loan from the United States, de- Messages Ordinamos, fath
Ιπ 1906, during the Dreyfus acts, and were only, seriously ex- clared a high Canton official in trial at Rennes Tokyo, June 10.
he telegraphed tended in the third, when they An important meeting of the un-interview-with-the-Central vivid reports of the proceedings were taken to sixteen games. The
Press to-day.
often running to 5 or 6 columns first was won at 6-1,, and the acc-. Cabinet was held last night when
He said it would be difficult for! developments in China and the China to raise even C.$20,000,000 for several years he wrote brilliant a remarkable feat. Afterwards
ond at 6-4. tariff dispute with Great Bri- or $100,000,000 Chinese currency articles on international questions.
to reply, the loan in this time of as they arose. As regards the movement to raise
taln were discussed. world commodity prices, ho sald
It was suggested to-night that; It is understood that the North trade depression and exhaustion of France would defend the interest France intends to retaliate against Chinn altuation was explained to the Chinese people. of French farmers by advocating the German transfer moratorium, the Cabinet by General Araki, the "The story of Mr. Eugene Chen's Dillon was on intimate terms a policy of concerted production affecting the Dawes and Young War Minister, who said that visit to Japan, reported in the with some of the greatest states- between the producers of all coun- reparations loans, by raising her negotiations for detailed regala press, is absolutely unfounded," men of his time. He was with Venizcios in Crete when he was tions of the Sino-Japanese armis be Intter asserted.
"Mr. Chen is a member of the proscribed by the Turks and was M. Dandier dealt at Home Following Interpellations ontice agreement are progressing
Southwest Political Council and in the confidence of Count Witte length with the problem created France's foreign policy, a resolu-very smoothly.
Ihna no spare time to visit Japan and Count Achrenthal, by the development of labour-tion involving a question of con- He added that the maintenance at the present moment.
Illness compelled him to cease saving devices, and said that fidence was put by M. Herriot. of peace and order in the demill-I wish to emphasize that Mr. work for some years during which France would adhere to a forty.
tarised zone will be undertaken Eugene Chon, is urgently needed he lived in Spain. In May, 1932, hour week if all the great
by a special Chinese constabulary Powers followed suit.
An amendment to the effect force, consisting of five thousand in the Southwest in connexion however, his name reappeared in munists and the Japancac invad-of articles on "The Truth about that the Government should not regular Chinese troops and five with the plans vis-a-vis the, Com the press as the author of a series THE
ers. That he has gone to Japan Spain." He wrote a number of aign a Pact in which the Little thousand security police. Entente and Belgium and Poland Details of the discussion regard-is the mid-summer night droam works of linguistic and theological The attention of entrants in our were not participants was rejecting the British tariff action of some imaginative journalist.-Interest, stories in Russian, trans-jamatour photographic Competi- ed by 347 votes to 245, which against Japan and the suggested Central Press. Mr. Wood, who was born Aberdeen in 1865, was educated M. Daladier stoutly defended the figures are taken to indicate the reprisals have not been disclosed. at Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and Four-Power Pact as advantageous support which M. Daladier in-Renter.. later entered the Civil Service, Įboth to France and to the cause of likely to receive when he asks for He came to the Colony in April, pence. He paid a warm tribute to support for his general polley- 1891, na chief accountant to the Signor Mussolini on his conduct of express. P. W. D. and remained with that the negotiations, and
DEATH OF MR. DAVID WOOD
THIRTY-THREE. YEARS IN P.W.D.
We regret to record the death
in London recently of Mr. David Woad, formerly of
tries.
Pubilc the
France would support the policy Works Department in Hongkong, of big programmes of public works
He retired in 1924 after thirty-as a remedy for unemployment. three years service.
at
TRIBUTE TO MUSSOLINI.
department till his retirement ed' satisfaction that the Pact thus completing 33 years service would end the misunderstandings which had so long separated the two great Latin nations.
here.
Mr. Wood on several occasions acted as Assessor of Rates, whilst in 1000 he was Director of the! Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund.
In 1894, he was Secretary of the Commission on the Housing of Chinese, whilst from 1000 to 1903 he was Hon. Secretary and Hon. Treasurer of the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilea Committee.
Socially, Mr. Wood lived rather retiring lifo, but some years ngo he was Hon. Secretary of the St. Andrew's Society, and always took a keen interest in the activi tics of that body..
Ho added that there was no longer any question of Ger- many's re-armament,-Reuter,
ANOTHER RECORD IN Ú.S. GOLF
JACK
GOODMAN DOES A SIXTY-SIX
tariff, walls.
Reuter,
GOOD MAJORITY.
PREPARATIONS WELL AHEAD
London, June 10. Preparations are well advanced for the opening of the World Economic Conference at the Royal Geological Museum in South Ken- |sington, although the premises are not yet out of the bullders' hands.
The roprosentatives of nearly seventy nations from all the ends of the earth are now assembling In London.
LY
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Japan's leading player took an
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AMATEUR PHOTO COMPETITION
SPECIAL CAMERA
·PRIZES
lations from various languages tion, for which prizes totalling and a blography of Maxim Gorky. $250 are being offered, is drawn to "MILITARY GANGSTERS."
"Why Italy Went to War" "Our the desirability of indicating on Hongkong, June 10. Iselves and Germany." "The the back of photographs the Sect- JAPAN AND, CANTON,
Interviewed by Router to-day Eclipse of Russin," "Mexico on the ion in which the picture is entered. Tokyo June 10: Mr. Eugeno Chen, who is on a Verge, ," "President Obregon, a In addition to the cash prizes. The Foreign Minister reported visit to Hongkong with Madame World Reformer," "Russia Today two valuable cameras are beitig at last night's Cabinet meeting Chen, categorienlly denied the and Yesterday" and in April, 1992, offered for Section Four, for the that there had developed a favour report that he was being sent on "Leaves from Life."
boat story-telling pictures, the able turn in Japan's" trade with a secret mission to Japan.
frat being a 616 Kodak with K. A. China, which he ascribed to the "Japan is to-day,” he stated, "In
Notice is given that after 4 p.m.4.5.-ins, and the second- a 620 subsidence of anti-Japanese agita.the hands of military gangsters, tion in various parts of China, who are destroying their country on Friday, 30th June, the dropping Kodak with f.6.3. lens. They especially in Canton-Reuter, '.
morally in the eyes of the world.f the Timeball on Signal Hill, Kow-should appeal strongly to the ad-
vanced amateur. And because this is an epoch of loon, will be discontinued.. revolutionary changes, the inevit-
abla day of punishment may come
MANCHESTER CUP sooner than is thought by a
RESULT
FAVOURITE BEATEN INTO 2ND PLACE
(By
(Special to "Telegraph")
Telegraph, Copyright,
| Message Orliqasen, 1911.
His Majesty will open the cons New York, Juno D,
foronce on Monday with a seven- Jack · Goodman, ・ of Omaha, minutes speech, which will be Nebraska provided the thrills of the broadcast throughout the world. United States opon golf champion-
Mr. Ramany MacDonald's pro-18, 1 a.m.) ship at Glenview to-day.
ile returned a second round |sidential address will follow Im Bcore of 66, two botter than mediately-Router. Armour's record-breaking round equalling the
H.E. THE GOVERNOR
WELL AGAIN : RECOVERS FROM ATTACK OF yesterday, and
INFLUENZA.
Telegraphle Naveived June
London, June 0. The Manchester Cup was run at Manchester to-day resulting 'ag follows!
Robber Chief Creme Brulen
lowest score ever made in the and 77, making 151, while Walter. championship..
Isthmus Hagen hand. 78 and 70. The
rani: Ono and h half lengths Eight The leaders aro:—
qualifying score was 156. George 141 Von Elm, with 80 and 78, and the separatod first and second and second
and:(hing. .143 Ryder Cup player, Dudley,with Botting: 15/2 Robber Chief, 11/8 144 81 and 81 failed to qualify Creme Brulge, 10/1-Isthmus Router
And third. of: 74 Reuter, Ky
His Excellency the Governor, Goodman....76..66. who has been suffering from in Armour ..68..75. fluenza with some bronchitis, has Kirkwood.....74. 70.
Gone Sarazon had scores
now recovered..
people who hold to the ancient PRAISES SHOWERED ON MR.
faith in brute force.
"There is no need," he added, "for any Chinese mission of any Hort to go to Japan as long as Japanese toes are dug in oven an inch of Chineno 'sol].”—Renter.
JAPANESE PLANES OVER TIENTSIN
AN OBSERVATION:
EXPEDITION
T. V. SOONG
"SPECTATOR" JOINS THE CHORUS
(Special to "Telágraph”3:
(By
10 mij
construction of Chlïà la net out. Telseropa, vedgricht. Telegraphie at some considerable length, tho
"Received June paper pointing out that under Mr Ordinance, 3111.
London, June 9. Soong's management of tho The Spectator contains a feature national finances, all, expenses article dealing with Mr. T. V. have been down and that a big- Soong, saying that the Chinese cale conversion of Internal loany. Tientsin, June 1. Finance Minister has earned has saved the country a hundred Several Japanese planes flow doservedly high roputation for his million dollars annually. Mangrtale over Tientsin and the surround financial ability, and personal In- Even more has been saved from military expenditure, while it la His visit to Britain, says the a matter of congratulation that inglistricts yesterday afternoon, tegrity, It is assumed that they were carry. Ing out observations to ascertain Spectator, may have important ro- last year's budget was balanced. for the first time without loans, whether the Chinese are observing sults.
Mr. Soong's work for the re-Reuter the armistice understanding.