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No. 10813
五拜禮 號十月五英港香:
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935."
日八月四
URGED TO RETAIN
PHILIPPINES
U.S. DEPARTURE MAY UPSET FAR EAST
ANGLO-JAPANESE PACT MIGHT BE RESULT
Washington, May 9.
Fear that the abandonment by the United States of its role of guardian of the Philippine Islands might bring Great Britain and Japan face to face in that section of the Pacific, and thus disturb the whole Far Eastern situation, was expressed by Senator Ernest W. Gibson, of Vermont, to-day, when presenting to the Senate with an individual report on conditions in the East.
This picture was taken at the opening of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Association's new head- quarters at Tai Hang Road, Causeway Bay, yesterday, the ceremony being performed by His Ex-
cellency the Governor. (Photo: A. Fong).
This is the second report of individual members of Royal Family
the Tydings Investigation Committee which visited the Philippine Island last winter.
Senator Gibson strongly recommended that the Filipinos should ask Congress to withdraw its grant of sovereignty.
"Japan," he charged, "is moving in as we
moving out."
In the event of the final and com- plete withdrawal of the United States, Senator Gibson warned, Great Britain would be faced with a delicate problem. She would not, In Senator Gibson's bellef, suffer any other nation than the United States.to be left undisturb ed or unchallenged in a position from which it could block Empire trade routes. Great Britain would never tolerate the endangering of ker free passage to Australia from her many points of Interest on the Far East.
Senator Gibson did not predict anything so startling us a war be tween Japan and Britain, but did see the possibility of something equally, if not more distasteful, to America.
A
are
SENATE SUPPORTS BIG NAVY
APPROPRIATION CUT RESTORED
1
U.S. BUILDING:
PROGRAMME
Washington, May 9.
Greeted With
Wild Acclaim
THOUSANDS WATCH BANQUET GUESTS
GREAT NIGHT FOR CHILDREN
London, May 9,
The appearance of the whole of
PACIFIC STRIKE MENACE
TANKERS' CREWS CAUSE TROUBLE
MINERS TIE
UP INDUSTRY
San Francisco, May 9. The Pacific coast is threatened
the Royal Family on the balconies with a new general maritime strike
Offers Huge
Amount For
DUNLOP
provides the greatest possible
TYRE
BICOLE COFT & CENTS ECONOMY
SINGLE 10
416,50 PER ANNUM
PLANNING FRESH EMPIRE TALKS
BRITISH PREMIERS DISCUSS DATES ·
PROBE INTERNATIONAL DISHARMONIES
1894.
(Dy Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance,
Rreeired, May 10, 8.50 a.m.)
London, May 9. The international situation was again discusserl for two hours at a meeting of British Government leaders and the Prime Ministers and High Commis- sioners of the Empire now in London. The con- ference was held in Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's room. in the House of Commons..
At the beginning of the meeting, the British. Prime Minister, Mr. MacDonald, made reference to yesterday's impressive ceremonies at St. James' Palace. All of the Ministers present agreed that the ceremonies expressed to them a uniqueness of charac
Work Of Art ter and a high significance.
MELLON REFUSES
£150,000
LORD DUVEEN IN MARKET
New York, May 9.
A sensational offer of £150,000
**
The offer made by Lord Duveen would represent a profit of £50,- 000 for Mr. Mellon, who paid only
100,600 for the picture.
gum, smilingly rejected the offer. in the front seat in Court chewing Mr. Mellon, who was slouching
He declared that the picture was worth a million dollars.
of Buckingham Palace to-night, den sympathy with the 20,000 oil for Jan Van Eyck's Picture of the lighted the huge crowd which had tanker men who have already watched the arrival of guests for struck, demanding preferantini Annunciation was made in Court the State Banquet and had waited hiring through their union.
to-day to Mr. Andrew Melion by In the hope of seeing Their Majesties.
Mr. Harry Lundberg, President Lord Duveen, the famous British lof the newly-formed Maritime art At 10.30 o'clock the King, accom Federation of the Pacific Coast, evidence
expert, who was giving panied by the Prime Minister, Mr. states that the tanker seamen's charges of evasion of Income Tax in connection with Ramsay MacDonald, appeared on committee has demanded a vote against Mr. Mellon, the balcony. They were followed by the Fedoration on the general by the Queen and the Princess strike question within 72 hours tout collection of pictures as the "The altention created by our
The Senate Appropriations Com-Royal. On an adjoining balcony Reuter
Lord Duveen described the Mel- withdrawal from the Philippines mittee has reported the Naval Ap. the Prince of Wales: the Duke of may bring Great Britain and the propriations Bill to the Senate, after York and Duke of Kent took their
INTERIOR TROUBLES
greatest privately-owned group of United States face to face in the restoring to it the full $23,380,000-stand
old masters in the world. Philippines, with
Joplin, Mo, May 1, common for new construction which the problem for solution, and may House of Representatives halved.
The crowd surged and cheered
A thousand workers in two large force thein into a sceret, or open,
deafeningly for a full five minutes,
zinc mills at Cardin, Oklahoma, The Navy Department announced white His Majesty and the Princes walked out to-day, demanding treaty to delimit the spheres of a programme of expansion last year
waved back and smiled in obvious
shorter working the influence of each, the territory which would make the United States delight at the tremendous ovation, living wage."
week and " of their control and trade in the the world, numerically. The ap- for the banquet, the crowd had strike during the sixty-five year
naval forces the most powerful in Islands.
Earlier, as the guests arrived This is the first local general Senator Gibson expressed the propriations
this year
are the stood wide-eyed as cars rolled up history of the lead and zinc field. firm belief that the Filipines would largest in the country's peace-time to the Palace bearing white-gown- situated in Missouri, Kansas und be far better off if they were tolstory and will make possible the ed ladies in magnificent ermine Oklahoma. have some form of independence expansion of the Navy to such an wraps; under
their American sovereignty extent that it will be built up to fuil sparkling in the flood-light.
diamond Reuter.
Treaty limits by the end of 1940.
The Naval appropriations, if up-in the West End to-night was the A feature of the packed streets
MUCH CONCERN proved by the Senate, and that la presence of numbers of fathers virtually certain, will allow for the and mothers with their families,
Washington, Alay 9. commencement of construction of hundreds of children, to see the many parts of the country as the Labour troubles have arisen in twenty-four new fighting ships im-sights. It was a crowd very much several current strikes medlately, the Improvement and ex-
in contrast to the boisterous, wing-signs of abatement and new walk- tension of fortified bases and the ing and dancing throngs of cuts are threatened. development of harbour facilities previous evenings. Many children here and there--Reuter.
It is reported from the Pacifie became separated from their Coast and the North-West that parents, however, and there were 8,000 lumber workers and long- frantic searches made. Always shoremen are striking, with many they ended when some breathless of the regions of the huge Jumber: mother found her "Arry" clutching industry paralysed. the hand of a smiling policeman. -Reuter.
ILLINOIS HUNGER
MARCH
OVER MILLION IN GREAT WANT
RELIEF FUND CUT OFF
Springfield, May 9.
HELPING HAND TO INDUSTRY
RELIEF FROM HIGH TARIFF CHARGES
Shanghai, May 10.
on
now
Reuter.
All mines and factories are tiaras
being picketed.-Reuter.
of
show nu
Cotton Prices Improved
"HIGH SPOT BASIS" OBJECTIONABLE
It was exclusively learned by Reuter that the date of the next Imperial Conference was discussed by the Ministers.
LONDON SILVER RISES
PRICES SHOULD BE STEADY
It was first suggested, that an.- Imperial Conference should per- haps be held in 1937, but as this may conflict with some of the ove:- BCAS plans, and especially the general election in Great Britain. the desirability of holding it some time in 1936 will be discussed t future meetings of the Empire's representatives,
It is quite likely that no definite or satisfied conclusions. will he recorded at the end of the present. Imperial talks in London, as they are of a purely exploratory nature. touching upon questions of in- ternational and Inter-regional
concern.
London, May 9. Messrs. Mocatia and Goldsmid
features being profit-taking by tatives, in view of the rumours report that the tendency of the has been downward, the chief by the United Kingdom represon- silver market during the past week One point has been made clear American speculators and selling that the Dominions-had-been-ap by China,
proached with a view to discover- India, China and apoculatorsing their reactions with respect to have bought and there have been possible complications 022 some purchases by Amerien, Continent of Europe, or cleowhere, although it is impossible to de-in which Great Britain found her.
bo steady, but a good dent depends to get any of the visitors to Lond termine whether these were on self involved. official account.
upon the American Government to commit themselves to any At this level, the market should made on the United Kingdom sidr No attempt has been or will be
statement which is expected in a j few days.-Reuter.
MARKET FIRM
Shanghai, May 10. The Foreign Exchange Market was firm at 9.45 a.m. to-day.
This is due to the sharp rise in London silver prices after the official fixing.
Exchange rates are unchanged. -United Press.
AERO ENGINE PROGRESS
the
definite form of action in some hypothetical contingency. It is officially stated-Reuter.
Trains Crash Head-On
FOUR KILLED AND MANY INJURED
Harbin, May 10.
The express was
and which is said to mark a re-wrecked. It was remarkable that
-Reater..
London, May 3. Automobilo strikers iu the "Better late than never" is the Middle Wost appeared to be more circles here regarding the an consensus of oplulon in cotton
Four persons are dead. and WESTMINSTER CEREMONY
determined than meyer, after re
twenty-one seriously Injured, whlt: jection of the offered compromiso, ouncement of polley made by Air, London, May 9.
and the Government concllators of the United States Commodity
another sixty-three are suffering Oscar Johnston, Vice-President REMARKABLE TYPE To-day's ceremony at Weat have begun new conferences with Credit Corporation. Liverpool dis-
from less painful and dangerous. EVOLVED
wounds, following a head-on colll- Hunger-urchers representing
minster Hall, when the King and a view to averting a major strike|
slon between the Moscow-Vladivoa- 1,200,000 people of Illinois have that, the Chinese Ministry of Carriage without a military escort,
It is learned in financial circles | Queen drove there in an in the automobile industry.
tant futures immediately respond- open For the first time in. 66 years,
tok Express and a freight train out London, May 0.. ed with higher prices. started to converge on the State Finance has virtually completed a along a route lined not by troops workers in the lead and zinc fields
Aircraft constructors are display of Harbin. House, this being the latest de draft plan for the abolition of but by great crowds of their of three States, Missouri, Kansas action is to level out the consider of British Pegasus engine, which speed, 140 miles east of Harbin, velopment in the situation
The trains mot, travelling at higit It is believed that the A.A.A.ing much interest in the latest type which 200,000 men, women and reduction of customs rates
in transit duties and the abolition or cheering people, was marked by and Oklahoma have walked out, able disparity between spot and yielde over 100 horse power for children are facing starvation certain kinds of exports, for the city. It was memorable, too, for Maritime strike throughout the achieved thus rendering, hedging markable advance in aero engine, oven more persons were not killed. quiet dignity and moving simpli- while there are throats of a new futures, which will be gradually every cylinder 920. H.P. In all-overy coach in It was completely
darailed an following the closing down of the purpose of stimulating home in a remarkable speech by the King. entire Pacific Coast in support of operations again possible. Such design relief dopots,
dustries and the export trade, The marchers are headed by
опе ранние in which was an oil-tanker men who are on strike. operations recently have been Mr. Edward Morgan, Stato Pre-ly desires to put this plan into Empire as `a
The Chinese Government carriest- eloquent vindication of British Router.
exceedingly dimelt and sident of the laois Workers' force on next June 1 so that all peace.
The engine has the same volume have Commonwealth
been atimulating Amerlean cotton the Jupiter type; still in uso in and practically the same weight as Alliance, and they threaten to preparations have to be completed camp in front of the State House before this date.
"In these days," sald the King, until the relief stations
"when fear and preparation
Importers have complained more maximum output of 525 HP. It many military craft, which has a opened.-Routar
It is further learned that the war aro ngnin antir in the world,
about the "high spot basis" than has just passed the 100 hours typo The Inois Legislature is faced the tariff Committee
new tariff it just drawn up by let us be thankful that quiet Gov
the high price; therefore, while test of the Air Ministry and will bo with a
a difficult problem. Having Ministry of Finance. With a view large a part of the earth's surface of the ernment and peses provali aver so
the removal of the disparity is in full production next your.- refused to contribute to
expected to be only gradual, it is British Wirclean. federal relief plan, the Federal ed objectives providos for some so many million.. sat the day
the to carrying out the above-mention- and that under our flag of freedom STAY OF EXECUTION
anticipated that it will be wholly Government closed down its relief rules whereby Chinese exporters bread in far distant lands
favourable.-Reutor.. dopote. Now, in order to re or manufacturers, those
REFUSED. establish the relief organisation, which are financed by Chinese afraid."
firms climates with nono to make the.n the Leglalature is faced with the capital
Huntsville, Texas, May 9. necessity of passing two bills by material.
and produce Chinese The King's voice at nne mo- Enemy No. 1, will be electrocuted Raymond Hmilton. Public two-thirds majority, making tion or reduction
can apply for aboli- ment only showed a tendency to shortly after midnight for the possible an increase in the sales duties on their exports on pleas of wards the Queen who sat at his
of Customs fall. It was when half turn nga-murder of a State prison guard,
London, May 9. The Republican forces in the market, necessity of market ex-
keen competition in the world alde, he said:
The Criminal Court of Appeal
The Prime Minister announced "I have been blessed in all my habeas corpus, and the Governor in the Commons to-day that the
hey refused to adm't a writeof Legislature flatly refuse to allow pansion or other difficult circum- work in having beside me my dear of the State has, refused, to stay debate on defence has been fixed the bills passage.
(Continued on Page 7.) the execution-Reuter.
for May 22.-British Wireless. sured.
#
tax.
are re-
stances Central News,
for
PUBLIC ENEMY MUST DIE
and
exports,
DEFENCE DEBATE
WANCHAI FIRE
EXCHANGE OF AMBASSADORS
CHINA TO ANSWER JAPAN GESTURE
Fire broke out at 4.40 a.m. to-I
Nanking, May 10. day in the ground floor of 209 Hen- ready to make any dofinite an-
Government circles, although u nessy Road, Wanchai, pccupied by a nouncement. admit that they are- shoornker's firm, and resulted in contemplating an exchange of Am extensive damage to the stock, hossadors between Japan valued at $4,000. Fire appliances China,
and subdued the blaze within fifteen minutes and the building itself was forward step in welding into a more little affected. The stock is In-friendly relationship the peoples of This is looked unon as a great,
the two countries --Reuter,