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DENOUNCE TREATY!
Action Against Japan
Urged By Home Body
LONDON, May 7 (Reuter),-- The first China Association committee are convinced that reprisals in the form, to begin with, of a denunciation of our commercial treaty with Japan would be the most suitable method of putting a stop to the indignities suffered by British subjects in Tientsin.
This was announced by the Chair- man of the committee, Mr. Warren Swire, at the annual meeting to-day.
Disturbed
The China Assoclatim, he con tinued, was somewhat disturbed by a report that there is an Anglo- Japanese agreement under whicht part of the Chinese silver, which up to now have been in safe ke: pink in the British Concession, will be the distress employed to relieve
caused by floods.
Part of the silver will be de posited in a neutral bank
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May Compel Taxpayers To Lend Money.
LONDON, May 7 (UP).— The British Government will not hesitate to adopt compul- sory lending along the lines of the plan suggested by Mr. J. M. Keynes if the voluntary system threatens to fall.
This wisertion was made by Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer at a luncheon in the House of Commons to-day when he gave a speech National Savings.
on
alguifleance to the general curriney position,"
******* Chinese
re-
Not Genuine Re-Opening le sud that the promised opening of the Yangtze and Nanking, though better than nothing, would. mean very little.
The committee, he said, routinial- ly pressed for a full and genuine re- opening to trade above the Nanking. "There is ample evidence that neress to this place is allowed to Japanese traders," le continued.
of
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AUDACIOUS BURGLAR
Pays "Social Call” On
Kowloon House
WHILE SIX-YEAR-OLD Andrew Sinton slept peacefully In his nursery at 15, Grampian Road, Kowloon, in the early! hours of this morning, an auda- cious burglar was sitting calmly besides his cot, drinking lemonade and smoking cigaret tes.
The burglar smoked two cigarettes before departing, snubbing the stubs on the floor.
He displayed an intimate knowledge of the house, residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Sinton: of the Urban Council, and is believed to have effected entry before the family re-
red for the night.
Police Search
Polles wish to interrogate a man, formerly employed by Mr. and Mrs. Sinton, who was released from prison He served a sentence three days ago.
his employers. for robbing
Mr. Shton told a Telegraph" reporter this morning:
"The man came into our bed room after we'd gone to sleep and broke open our boy's money-box. ite then rifled Mrs, Sinton's purse. Laking $25 in nates and the ring af keys.
"Ife removed the house keys from the ring and thus epened Andrew's nursery, where he made himself comfortable with my cigarettes and rome bottles of lemonade.
Referring to the Wang Ching-wei "The approval of this plan by the Chinese and American fiavernments regime, he said: The creation in essential," he said, "as we are these puppet administrations has been convinced that the agreement, which interpreted throughout free China as
reached without
fall an acknowledgment by Japan that their approval, will be deplored as . whole she can no longer hope to gain her by the British community in China cds in the Aslate continent by, her
own military and navel power, and condemned by publle opinion in
ap- "When he departed it was American ability to Impose "The this country.
an embargo on the export of war parently raining, because he took my "No one.
montrat, could materials to Japan is a fact which mackintosh." fol accept the view that the relief of the Japanese dare not ignore, nor distress In North
the largely by the Japanese, had no meanwhile they economic signifleaner or that the expenditure of part of the silver on that object, and the immobilisation
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address In Prince Edward Road. succeeds Mr. Swire as Chairman.
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́MR. GEORGE LANSBURY, England's best-loved politician, is dead. While holding ministerial office he went out of his way to provide better recreation facilities for the poorer class of London children, for whom he had a tremendous affection. This picture showing the late Mr. Lansbury surrounded by youngsters is n typical illustration of his love for their company.
Death Of Mr. George Lansbury GREAT POLITICIAN, & ARDENT PACIFIST
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Units not normally bused in the Hawaiian area will carry out "al next sortie from Pearl Harbour month" for further training from the Labaina area," an official communi- que announced yesterday,
was put an end to by the fall of the Labour Government in August. On leaving the Office of Works Lansbury said his time there had been the best two years of his life as he felt that he was doing something for London. He had received generous help with bis plans.
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ZBW, 355 metres (845 kc.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Hal Lorenzo and Toby Gray From the Studio
Broadenst by Programme Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 845 k.c's.. and on Short Wave froin 1-2.15 p.m. and -11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's. per second.
Radlo
"6.00TM Tchaikowsky-Symphony No.- Gin Minor, Op. 74 (The "Patho-
que Symphony),
Boston Symphony Orchestra con- ducted by Serie Koussevitsky.
6.45 Closing Local Stock Quotu-
for 6.47 Tartini-Sonata
Violin
Yehudi Menuhin (Violin) with Arthur
(Soprano) in a
and Piano ("Devil's Trill"). Piano accompaniment by
Dalsam.
7.03 Ins Boucz
7.30 London Kelay-The News. 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
In Oct, 1932, he became the leader WHOLESALE & GENERAL OFFICE 22338 of the Labour party, not only in the Commons, but in the country, Arthur Henderson having resigned the post after his defeat at the polls. His attitude to religion was exempli- fed in 1931 when he was taken to Lusk by Lord Brentford for mixing politics and Christianity. He replied and lite that, if politics, business generally were so rotten that Chris- lanity could have no part in them, there must be something terribly wrong with one or the other.
In May,
1930 Lansbury and his wife devoled member of the Church of
celebrated their
wedding. golden England.
"My marriage", he said, "was the His Carcer
"Ginger, Group"
most blessed thing that ever happened
a real Lansbury was one of the "ginger to me. My wife has been British group who in Dec. 1925, demanded Mrs. Lansbury died in March 1933, George Lansbury, Socialist, was born in February 1839, that the Labour party should hold up the age of 72. in Oct. the freedom
Suffolk-where-his-father-was-Government-business-until-un-of-West-Ilum was conferred.on. engaged on a railway contract. Apart employment had been adequately Lansbury. While on his way frem a year that he spent as a settler dealt with.
address & meeting at Gainsborough In 1028 he was president of the on Dec. 9, he had a bad fall and broke in Queensland with his wife and young family he lived in the east of Labour party. When Labour took his thigh. London where he built up a business office in June, 1929. he
Was made as a timber merchant. In Poplar he First Commissioner of Works. He
In reply to Sir H. Samuel's sug- heki every local office-gurdian, lost no time in evolving schemes to
councillor, mayne and county
Mon Laustury said the Liberals were tions. counciller. He was the founder of make the parks more attractive, estion for Liberal-Labour co-opera- the first poor law latour colony a specially for children in whom anti-Socialist and there could be no
a great interest. His plans in- Laindon, Essex, and of the Hollestes cluded play-shelters and more sund-question of an alliance with them. Bay colony and the children's hospits and swings, mixed bathing at all By June 1934, he land recovered from his accident and resumed his political if the Poplar Guardians. He signed he minority rèpert of the Poor Law ours in the Serpenting and other; aCO
lakes, sun-balls for Hyde Park,
the Labour party decided to Commission in 1995.
Keenly interested in politics from Regent's Park and Greenwich, where
Radle, he wished to have a Thames-side support military sanctions against
Italy as a sequel to her invasion of Light Concert. "Lido."
and courts tennis more boyhond, he was at first
Lansbury, who
wi but later joined the independent flowers and the pulling down of the Abyssinia,
strongly opposed to the use of force 1910 he Labour party.
he by the League, or anyone else, re- teeted as Labour M.P. for Bow andlings round the parks,
practical sentimentalist,
8.03 Stadio Two Plano Jazz Re- Bromley. A stormy petrel, he made wanted the children to have a good signed the leadership of the party in by seene In the House in June. 1912 ene and get a fair start for a healthy October 1935, being succeeded
eltal by Hat Lorenzo and Toby Gray. striding across the floor to shout at
life. One problem was provide Major Attlee. He had shown him-
11. Medley of old Favourites, Intro: Asquith that he ought to be ashamed money for these schemes, but he soon self to be a reasonable and practical Talk of the town; I'll see you in my or himself for his treatment of the
£6,000, atatesman and was esteemed for his
dreams; My gol Sal, Hal Lorenzo; 2. A Lansbury then began a campaign Vilin: One day when we were young, Waltz Medley, Intro: After the ball; was suspended. Disagreeing wills his the Government putting down
arty on the suffrage question, he similar amount. At the Ofice of to bring about a world conference
Hal Lorenzo; 3. Plano Duet Swing- resigned in the same year and stood Works, although his advent meant for the removal of the causes of war,
Minuet in G. Hal Lorenzo and as an Independent, but was not buster days, he was as popular as in In the course of this he visited elected. An Albert Hall speech on his conditueney where
everyone the heads of the Governments of the Toby Gray; 4. Medley, Intro: My
United States, Germany, France,
prayer; My heart belongs to daddy; the same tople landed him in prison called him George. His sympathy
South of the border, Hal Lorenzo; 6. in 1913, but as the result of a hunger-with the idea of instituting a rutional Belgium, Norway, Sweden und Den-
J'ai deux amours, Hal Lorenzo; 0. strike he was soon set free.
park was shown by the fact that mark in Berlin he had a long talic
Pinne Duct-I've got Rhythm, Hal Founded Newspaper committee was apointed by the Gov-with Hitler who told him that Ger-
Lorenzo and Toby Gray, ernment to inquire into the question. many would be very willing to
6.30 B. I. C. Recording-Hai! part Before the war he founded the It was proposed that the Forest of attend a conference and take
Variety". advanced Dean should be allotted for this pur-in
catablish united effort to #
Written
Colo and devised by "Daily Herald"
mutual economie co-operation and
Pedrick. Production by Roy Spec. pose. Socialist puper, which was converted from a weekly into a daily, but hind
understanding between the nations
9.00 The Organ, The Dance Band and Mc. to revert to weekly publication for a
By the spring of 1830 the bathing of the world, if President Roosevelt
9.16 London Relay-Newn Sum- time. After the war, however, it again became a daily paper. Lans-pavillon by the Serpentine was ready or the head of another great country
mary. bury himself edited it during its and so great was the rush of bathers would take the lead in calling such
9.30 Talk on "Whal Oll Means To that it had to be supplemented by a conference.
All the other statesmen he had curler days.
Us" recorded by Robert Byron, Atier a long series of defeats he marquees. He decided that the alte
sald Lansbury, appeared to be
D.45 Compositions of Saint-Saens. was re-elected to the Commons in of the Botanic Garden in Regent's in to join in, an effort towards
"Samson and Delilah"--Selection, November, 1922, speaking at Park should be taken over by
De Groot and His Orchestra; The 45, Toscha Birmingham in March, 1928, he urged Government when the Society's lease peace. While in the United States young men not to join the army and expired in 1932 and thrown open to ne male 43 "Corries and I bread Deluge Prelude, Op.
In
Max the
Rabinovitch Cominans le moved a Seldel (Violin) with In April, he put down a motion in the public. His idea was to establish casts. the Commons which, if carried, would an English folk museum there and he resolution in favour of his proposed at the Plano; Softly Awakes My Heart
but Lord Cranborne
(from Samson and Delilah'), Morla huvo meant the abolition of the navy, stated that he had been promised conference,
of the stated that, while the Government
Olszewska (Contralto) with Orches- the proposal being reduce the vote £50,000 towards the cost
tra; Le Cygne, Marcel Mule (Saxo- to £2,000. In July he went on a scheme. The Gardens were greatly was largely in agreement with the
phone) with Marcel Gaveau at the cargo bont le Russia where his son-improved and were a very popular resolution, it felt that the time was
Plano. in-law was working in a college, addition to Regent's Park. In 1933 not ripe for another conference. In
10.00 Studio "The Blagden Los While there he alleged that British open-air performances of plays were May, 1037, Lansbury stated that he proposed to have a talk with Musso-
kend" diplomatists had been assisting the given there.
1931 to link in the summer.
A Play produced by Evelyn Wood: counter-revolutionaries and declared Lansbury's proposal in
In his book "My England" he set Scene: Glogden Castle on Christmas that the Brilsh Government was establish a licensed restaurant in paving the way for a revolution in Kensington Gardens and permit the forth his dreams of reform and des- Eve, 1928: Cast: Colin, Master of England. On his return he painted sale of drink in other Royal parks cribed how he would carry them out. Blagden, C. Jones; Helen, an Ameri
bo can guest, Madeleine Van Metre; An ab- No nonsense, he said, would a rasy pleture of conditions in Russia, aroused strong protests. asserting that remarkable progress stainer himself, he declared that tolemted from the House of Lords, Bruce, another guest, R. Norsworthy; had been made since his previous people would drink and, that being Fascists or bankers. In an article Elizabeth, Colla's Alster, Diana Dun- con Margaret, Colin's flance, Minks visit in 1020 and the children were so, it would be better if they drank published in 1934 he revealed that batter cared for than in England. In decent surroundings. The modern the Labour Government of 1024 had Boas,
10.30 Billy Cotton and His Band Lansbury, who had four sons and "pub" was very demoralising and he a plan to crush the railway strike arid eight daughters, VILA a life-long wanted "to let pure daylight into the that no strikes were to be allowed in Dance Musle.
11.00 Close Down. teofolaler and non-smoker and albar parlour". This scheme, however, under Socialism.
suffragettes with the result that he received cheques totallingonal onburnunity and honesty of purpose.
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very
one for £5,000 being.
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