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No. 141
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WAR DEBT NEGOTIATIONS UNCERTAINTY
FOUR-PAGE ART SUPPLEMENT
To Be Introduced
To-Morrow
The Telegraph is reverting to-morrow to the four-page Pictorial Supplement, including a special feature page and a full- page Fashion. Plate,
lacal pictures cover Navy Day. -- racing, the Feast of the Regality of Our Lord, prize-winning pic- tures in the 11.K. University's recent photographle exhibition, and a number'al successful com
petitors in the Trinity College of
Music examinations.
STRIKE CALLED OFF
EÁSIER SITUATION IN PALESTINE
7
CASUALTY LIST
Jerusalem, Nov. 3.
The Arab Executive yes- terday informed the High Commissioner of a decision to call off the general strike
MANSION HOUSE to-day.
TRAGEDY
ABANDONMENT OF RECEPTION
LADY HEWART'S SUDDEN DEATH
London, Nov. 3.
A tragedy caused the abandon. ment of a farewell reception which was to have been given at the Mansion House last night by the retiring Lady Mayoress, Lady Greenfield.
Tansion still exists throughout Palestine, although it hna lessen- ed. It is hoped that the termina- tion of the strike will lead to still
the further Improvement In Rituution,.
The casualties in the recent dls.. turbances in Jaffa, Haifa and elsc- where are now known to have been:
KILLED.
One native policoman. 28 civilian rioters.
WOUNDED, IN HOSPITAL.
Twenty-novon British and native policemen,
127 civilian rioters. Scores more were less severely injured.
PRECAUTIONS.
THE MALTA CRISIS
BRITISH OFFICIAL
STATEMENT
MINISTERIAL POLICY
SWIMMING BULLOCK.
TALK OF
A bullock which had apparently TERMINATION
escaped while being taken to the
abatoir, was yesterday found RUMOURS AND REPORTS swimming in the harbour off Ken.
nedy Town, and was taken by, a boatwoman to the district Police
Station.
London, Nov. 2. Jamaica The political crisis in Malta, following the dis-
Gale
inclination of the Nationalist Disaster
H.E. the Governor (Sir William Peal) photographed with the H.E.Ministry to work in harmony the Governor of Mucus (Col. Miranda), during his 'official visit to the Portugunes colony. (Photor Pa Man Las).
MORE C.E.R. TROUBLE
RIVAL
OFFICIALS CLASH
ALL PAYMENTS STOPPED
Harbin, Nov. 8. It is difficult to see how the present friction between the Precautions against further dis- Manchukuo and Sovlet officials turbances are still maintained. of the Chinese Dastorn Railway
13
re-flare-up.
SECRECY IN GOLD PURCHASES
THE AMERICAN PROGRAMME
BUYING TO BEGIN Washington, Nov. 2/
It is announced that foreign gold will be purchas. ed both here and abroad.
with British policy, is the STORM RAGES FOR subject of an official state- menf.-.
TWO DAYS
..
London, Nov. 2. The Governor of Jamaica reports
OF BRITISH OFFERS
25 PER CENT. PAYMENT
The result of the war debt talks between the British repre- sentatives and President Rooso- valt on Wednesday evening are not known, but there had been rumours of a possible, sus- pension of negotiations which the conference for the time be-
ing dispelled.
The New York Times corres- pondent reported that Britain had offered to make a 25 per cent. payment, and that the United States were demanding. 75 per cent.
The Colonial Ofer has issued the following: "The Governor of Malta has found it necessary to dismiss the Minister, and the that a serious hurricane struck the Secretary of State for the Colonies west of Jamaica during 28th and being antisfied that a grave (20th October. emergency has rison within the
Reports of the havoc caused by meaning of section 41 of Malta the gale are mengre but there is indirectly by the British represen
Malta.
The Herald-Tribune stated that an informal offer of 10 per cent. of the total war debt-payable in annultics was niado on Monday
The paper said that the offer was turned down.
A
It is denied, however, that an is stated that the negotiations are Impasse has been reached and it likely to continue.
constitution and the Letters Patent, the Governor has assumed no doubt that hundreds have been tatives who are in the United rendered homeless and ten deaths States discussing the British war the powers which in that event are
debt. re reported. vested in him by the constitution.
Banana creps in St. James have For some time past, His been completely wiped out and are Majesty's Government have viewed at least 80 per cent, down in ather with increasing concern the policy western parishes. All food crops pursued by the Ministers in are also badly-damaged.
Extensive damage has been done It will bo recollected that the to roads, bridges, télegraphs and restoration of responsible Govern. railways. ment in the summer of 1932 was The rest of the faland was less made subject to certain defalte affected by the wind but suffered provisions with regard to the from heavy rain. British Wire The foreign purchases will pro: language-question and particular-lose, bably be made by the foreign ly to the teaching of languages branches of Federal Reserva Mem- ber Banks, payment being made by the Federal Reserve Bank of New em-York in Reconstruction Finanec
Corporation Notes.
is
it
The amounts bought and the prices paid will be held secret al- though the aggregate dealings will
The ballroom of Mansion House was filled with a thousand cheer. It appears that the riots other can continue much longer with-be announced periodically. ful guests, presenting a brilliant than those at Jaffa were not pre-out causing a much more serious spectacle, and dancing had actual-meditated, but they came
The latest cause of dispute ly begun when Lady Hewart, wife percussione following the Jaffa riots, which had more serious con- of the Lord Chief Justice, suddenly sequences than had been anti-connected with salaries and
looks possible that all C.E.R. cipated by the Arab Executive.
ployees will soon be working with collapsed.
One of the most serious
out wagca. incidenta occurred at Nablus where rioters stormed the prison and released a number of political prisoners.
Laly Hewart, was carried in a semi-conscious condition into an ante-room and died, within a few minutes.
It is believed that death was due Serious disturbances have been to heart failure.-Reuter,
SILK DRESSES FROM
SHANGHAI
Found in Trunk at Victoria
absent since Sunday, although minor clashes between police and Arabs have occurred nearly every day in several centres.-Reuter.
FASCISM REARS HEAD IN SPAIN
LITTLE APPARENT
said that Mrs. Pym arrived at Rivera who was given an ovation, Victoria from Shanghai, and asserted that the Fascists had when asked if she had anything raised their banner over Spain to declare produced a number of and are willing to defend it with amail articles on which she paid their lives." duty amounting to twelve shill- The Fascist movement has made little apparent progress in Spain A soarch among the rest of the despite the troubles of the second contents of the trunk, revealed a republic, but has raised its head. quantly of apparently now under- since the recent parliamentary clothing, two slik dresses, and acrisia resulting in the dissolution of cotton dress.
tho Cortes.
Inga.
The dispute has arisen from the refusal of the Manchukuo
Chief Comptroller of the Rail-
In the schools,
- BRITISH ATTITUDE.
These provisions had the full approval of both. Houses of Bank is entrusted with all the de Parilament. It was the essence
The New York Federal Reserva
talls of the foreign purchasza It was also announced
of these provisions that the langu- to-daynges to be used in the public
ITALIAN CHAMBER
The discussions have now. rar- rowed down to the question of whether there shall be a tempor- aty arrangement such as a fur- ther token payment, like the small silver payment made in June, In- stead of the December instalment. ELEMENT OF UNCERTAINTY.
The British authorities are now reported to feel that the present time le not propitious for a pór manent settlement of the quen- tion, owing to the uncertainty provailing at present concerning the future of the dollar and also
tariff-walls-may-have-to-ba-raised.
that the R.F.C. up to last night elementary schools should be EARLY CHANGE OF the possibility that American way to sanction the payment of had purchased. 66,000 ounces of Malloso and English only. the salaries of M. Kalian, M,new United States gold costing adequate provision being madu Lavroff, M. Kublei and M. Abloli, | $2,100,000.--Reuter,
the C.E.K. employees who were arrested on September 24,
SILVER RUMOURS,
for the tenching of Italian in the Secondary schools,
It has become increasing appar- New York, Nov. 2. ent that since their accession to Upon this refusal, M. Rudy, the.
Rumours regarding the re-office, the Maltese Ministers have Sov. General Manager, retariat-monetisation of silver were again embarked upon
measures the ed by instructing the cashier
toheard and the price of silver re-object of which is, in effect, stop all payments.
sponded with a 34 point risc. deliberately to evade this policy,
Business has found great. di-
A further source of anxiety to supervision of the government
"AGITATOR" CASE
Meanwhile, M. Slavatsky, the
TO LEAVE REQUESTED
IN 48 HOURS
INDUSTRY'S OPENING.
this.
HITLER CABINET
SHAKE-UP
The New York Times says the British delegation sticks to its iden of offering a forfeit payment amounting to 25 per cent. of the total of the British debt, while the Americans demand that the for- felt payment should amount to 75 por cont of the total. It is generally believed in. Washington that on December 15, Great {Britain will effect an "amicable” ~ payment to show that she re
SYSTEM
it order to provont foreign im- ports produced at lower labour Coats undercutting American RESTRICTION OF
manufacturers. It is pointed out VOTERS
that. the costs to the latter have. increased through the Recovery codes shorter Administration Rome, Nov, 2.
higher wages. The dissolution of the present hours and Italian Chamber and the elec- Reuters American Service. Mealty In operating under the His Majesty's Government is the ion of a new legislative body Haves says that it la expected that the President will adjourn the Soviet Consul.Generai has protest with the NRA, Higher operating manner in which the finances of under a new system is expected discussion on the debt problem, for
an undetermined period. PROGRESS
ed to the Foreign Ministry and de. Costs and restricted competition the island have been administered, to be ordered by Signor Mussolini
It is clear that these finances, shortly.
The new Chamber will bo en-1 POSTPONEMENT TALK. manded the recase of the "agita have tended to cut profits rather Mrs. Madelino Emily Pym,
Madrid, Oct. 30.
tory" arrested on October 25. The materially.. Labour, above any which were taken over in a.sound
Well-informed quarters believe described as of Oakwood Court,
President Only members of trade unions that
Roosevelt 18 Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, men in custody, five in number, other single group, has been favour. condition in 1932, have already tirely upon an occupational basis. Kensington, W., mas summoned
and employers, organisations will resolved to postpone the debt before Mr. Cairns at Westminster son of the former dictator, ad- were arrested by C.E.R. pouce and ed by the Administration in its bean gravely prejudiced.,
attempts to bring America out of
WARNING ISSUED,
have the right to vote, and they negotiations until the fate of the. Police Court for it was alleged, dressing. a small crowd in Madrid are abeged to be members of
the depression. Whereas attempting to evade the payment yesterday declared that the Fas- Communist cell.
nction did tend to incrense general In these circumstances, the Go-will be represented by dolegates, national recovery programme be of customs duties on a silk dress, cists were determined to triumph Their release his been refused.purchasing power it most car-vernor was authorised to warn not of their own choice, but choson comes more certain and the ques- underwear, etc.; at Victoria Station. in Spain, even with violence if The Foreign Ollico representative tainly did cut industrial earnings. the Ministers that the policy which by the Fascist Grand Council. tion of Russian debts is "dis-
Mr. M. G. Whittome, prosecuting, necessary.
saya that they are to be charged In former times-profits came they were deliberately pursuing The voters will merely be given cussed with M. Máxim· Litvinoff, with treason. Reuter,
first then wages-now the position was contrary to the spirit of the privilege of accepting or re-Sovlet Foreign Commissar. is reversed.
constitution and gravely detri- jecting the list submitted for their mental to the interests of Malta approval.-Reuter. and to make plain to them the General Johnson's statement consequences, which must inevit- that the government intended to ably follow unless their policy were give industry, its head rather than radically altered, to seek to further control it He subsequently presented them would seem to be an admission. with a detailed list of the mea- one that the Administration can-pures adopted by them since their not clamp down harder without up-accession to office which he regard- Botting that apple cart and two-ed as objectionable and which that Labour has grabbed the bit in its teeth and must be slowed both in the interests of sound administration and as a, proof of "The fooling about this statement their compliance with the policy ance, but no Hitler nor Mussolin respondent of the Daily Telegraph, is rather uncertain. Some fool of his Majesty's Government ho cabinet shortly in an attempt to further consolidate the Rofch Counsel for Mrs. Pym stated has shown up.
Changes are expected Immediately who has been under arrest since that industry may now go ahead called upon them to revoko, Novertheless the Labour papors
moro or less naturally and make
DELIBERATE POLICY. 2 after the elections. *: * that she was returning from China talle a good deal of the Fascist
No formal charge was preferred money, others feel that it is ofter an absence of twelve years.
Captain Goering, It is said, Is against Mr, Panter and it was prelude to a series of new strikes. Examples arò citód as an destined to become the Minister of announced fast night in Berlin
Illustration of the nature and ex- Security, a new post, and, con- COMMODITIES HIGHER, that, after-examining the material
tent of the acts to which His currently, will be made vico SARRAUT PREPARED years under the Consular Service placed before him by the Bavarian Scholarship schome
TO DEFAULT Commodities were all higher in Majesty's Government. took ex-chancellor.. 2 to Master
present vice-chancellor,' Alexander Blackburn, son of Mr. authorities, the Chief Public Pro- to-day's markets and stocks frace coption and the statement pro- The
The Associated Press says that A. D. Blackburn who is His cuter of the Reich found notionally so. On the other hand coeds: "There have, moreover, Captain von Papen, If scheduled to
ground for a formal charge,
all markets did not respond as been in ordinary day to day ad become. Foreign Minister, to sue the Sarraut Government is prepar Majesty's Consul at Shanghai. Master Blackburn is proceeding to
Mr. Panter has, however, been much as had boon expected to the ministration, a number of Incred Baron von Neurath, who is cd to default on the forthcoming Cheltenham College..
requested to leave Germany with stimulus which is usually furnish etances indicating that the Minis likely to return to London ns December 15 war debt payment to |the United States, as Herriott did This scholarship fund was rats. in 48 hours. The whole circum-ed by a weaker dollar, a higher ters had eclected few opportuni- Ambassador to Great Britain.
under Chamber compulsion n'your ed from contributions received stances of Mr. Panter's detention domestic gold price. The now ties, however small, of displaying
con that purchases of foreign gold their defalte disinclination to While the stenmlaunch Jeannette ago and Doladior reponted in June. throughout Chambers of Commerce and rolense are under the and elstwhere, and was founded to sideration of the British Govern were to begin. Immediately had work in harmony with the policy was lying at No. 6. Flor at the Kow. It is stated in Parle semi-official.
little effect: T The Association of British provide financial help to members
Until the present, statements by of His Majesty's Government.
The cumulative effect of these Chambors of Commerce announce of the British Commercial, Dinios,
the Administration have had n that on the advice of their Advisory matte Consular and Trade Com- Committee, consisting
The Management of the Hongkong sizeable offect on the action of the and aimilar acts is unmistakable.stor re-missioner, Services In connection" of
Hotel advises an extended night on market. To-day Retion rather Ministers have been given an prosentatives of the Association with the clucation of their sons. and of the Foreign Offco, they have Master Blackburn will hold the Saturday, 4th November, till 1 a.m. than words fe whint the market oportunity to omend thele: polley
declined to do so and have accord ministration of the island." which $10,154,046 representa unanimously awarded the ninth ninth scholarship under this for the Dinner Dance in the Grill nyarently requiries.
terest Culbertson and Fritz:
ingly been dismissed and the Gov. British Wireless. scholarship of $40 per year for four, schome,
A number of small, ill-organised Mrs. Pym had stated “I thought It was not necessary to declare youth militias which in some re- things I was bringing. home for specta resemble the German storm my presonal use. I thought I had troops, have made their appear. only to declare presents."
Mr. Cairna imposed fine of £50, with 10 guineas coata.
CONSULAR SERVICE SCHOLARSHIP
SHANGHAI YOUTH'S
SUCCESS
menace."
Mr. Panter's Case Under London Consideration
London, Nov. 2.
Mr. Noel Pantor. Munich cor...
October 25th was released today.
mont-British Wireleas.
Room.
up,
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EXPECTED AFTER
ELECTION
1
It is reported that Herr Hitler cognizes the validity of existing
is planning a shake-up of the war debts.
FRENCH DEBT STAND
Icon Godowns anchorage, yesterday, it ly that the question of payment will was run into by a junk, and damage not be raised in the Chamber of to the extent of $50 was caused to her Deputies: S
Under the debt settlement, Ace is due to pay a total of