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EMPIRE TRADE.

GOVERNMENT'S PLANS.

PREFERENCE PROPOSALS.

Not The Thin Edge Of The Wedge To Tax Food.

Schemes for developing Empire trade representing "new and untried ways" were mentioned by the Premier in the House of Commons yesterday.

Liberal Censure,”

(Reuter's Service.) (

He roundly condemned the safe guarding of industries announce ment as not a straightforward way of introducing a general tariff and the "transformation of the fiscal system. He declared it was the gravest he had ever heard from a British Prime, Minister.

London, December 17. In the House of Commons, during the debate on the Address-in-Reply, Capt, Wedgwood Benn moved an Mr. Winston Churchill, Chan- official Liberal amendment regret-cellor of the Exchequer, said the Ling that the King's Speech made proposed expenditure on Empire no mention of constructive pro- posals for dealing with unemploy ment but foreshadowed the intro- duction of tariffs for preference which would increase taxation. ralse prices. increase the cost of iving. hamper industry and re- dace employment.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, replying for the Government, attached great importance to the constitu- tion of the Imperial Economic Committee and made, specific re

ference to the committee on which the Dominions had been invited to nominate members, It was "to consider the possibility of improving methods of preparing for market and marketing within the United Kingdom of food pro- Educts from overseas parts of the Empire with a view to increasing the consumption thereof in the United Kingdom. preferably to imports from foreign enuntries, and to promote the interest of | both producers and consumers.”

Mr. Baldwin said the Govern- ment intended again to submit to the House all the resolutions of the las "economic conference which involved reductions of duty.

Election Pledge,

He adhered to the pledge, made in an election speech at Gravesend, that preference would not be used Fas-the-thin edge of the wedge-to

tax food.

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Mr. Baldwin hoped to secure an increase in trable with the Domin- ions by a proposal that the full ¦ money@equivalent of the advart- | taxes that would have been con- ferred on the Empire in respect. of any duties which were not retained should be devoted tu schemes of developing the trade of the Empire and firstly to fschemes of marketing..

He hoped to allocate £1.000.000 annually to this purpose.

Mr. Baldwin thought that with the contemplated economic rom, mittee on which the British! Dominions, and experts would he represented and with the afore- mentioned terms of reference it might be possible to open entirely

objects instead of foot duties would be on not dissimilar lines from, the Imperial Conference proposals of 1907 for improved eommunications and marketing and popularising of improved Empire products. Great care would have to be taken not to Be injustice to our own agricultural producers. ̧*

The Liberal amendment was defeated by 389 votes to 131 and the Address-in-Reply was agreed

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ICE HOUSE STREET ROUGH.

NINE MONTHS' JAIL ON TWO CHARGES.

Lo Cheok, who descrbed himself as a pastry cook in a tenhause at No. 17. Pákhoi Street; "Yaumáti; was charged before Mr. N. L Smith at the Central Magistracy this morning with highway robbery from two Portu- attempted guese ladies, Mrs. Daisy Mendes and her daughter Nora. Mendes, and with assaulting the elder lady by clutching her throat in an endeavour to obtain possession of

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CRIMINAL

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TWO YEARS A MINUTE.

Teashop

Murder Trial Begins.

The law is not long in taking its course when a prisoner pleada guilty at the Criminal Sessions. This morning seven men in twenty- five minutes were sentenced to terms of imprisonment totalling 50 year

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"One of the men who appeared man pushed the woman from the for so"brier" a space before Mr. Praya at Wanchai. She was a morning described himself as a merly lived and on whom he had Justice H. H. J. Gompertz this woman with. whom he had for Lance corporal in the Yunanese made a previous assault. army. The charge against him medical pronouncement on him as was that he was in unlawful posa result of examination had been session or a Mauser pistol.

that he was normal on most-mat- His defence was that he had tera but was a dangerous man in brought the weapon down from regard to his obsession" to kill Kiangsu with the intention of this woman selling it when he arrived in "I hope when you come out you Hongkong in order that he might will be in a different frame of defray the cost of travelling. He mind," remarked His Lordship in did not know that this was sentencing him to 15 years' hard against the regulations.

labour.

Seven years.

The two ladies stated in their evidence that they were proceeding along Ice House Street at about 9 o'clock last night, and when nearly apposite Messrs. Moxon & attempted to snatch from both of Taylor's office the defendant

them the bags they were trying. A man who was stated to have The elder lady resisted the thiet, been obsessed with a desire, to who grabbed her by the throat, kill the woman, or a charge of Just at this moment a police whose attempted murder he was whistle was blown and the man arraigned, also put in a brief ap ran away towards Queen's Road.pearance and pleaded guilty. Finding his means of escape closed Mr. T. 5. Whyte-Smith, Assist-taken up

[Three of five other men whose " sentences made up the total of fifty years were charged with pos session of arms and two

with robbery.]

TEASHOP MURDER TRIAL. All available sitting space was when proceedings

by an Indian constable in plainant Crown Solicitor, said that the opened this morning in the "tea

THOUSANDS FLEE FROM · HUGE

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JERSEY CITY FIRE REFUGEE FROM FRAME

Thousantis or persons were driven from their homes by a tire which raged through

several blocks in the Jersey City water front. New York he apparatus and fire boats were called upon to aid in temmbit the conflagration.

IN THE DARK.

ANXIETY AMONG CANTON

BUSINESSMEN.

CHAN THE PUZZLE,

new and untried ways of develop From Our Own Corresponent.) ing Imperial trade. He hoped these would be of far. greater benefit to the Dominions than the two or three small taxes proposed

What little news has trickied

Canton, December 17: through to Canton concerning the

at the last economic confere doings in the rival camp beyond He said the first things to be the East River has been of little, remitted by the economics com- mittee were meat and fruit Itse to the public.

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clothes who brandished a stick, the man ran back to Des Voeux Road. The chase was taken, up by another Indian constable.and others and the man was brought to a halt inside the Jane between Powell's and the new "Exchange" Building. A violent struggle, in the course of which the man showed extraordinary strength, is said to have taken place before he was finally overpowered and taken to the Police Station.

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INSPECTOR MURPHY.

"SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT. BUT STILL SERIOUS."

chest murder" case "in which the shop joki of an old Chinese tea merchant who carried on business at No. 145, Connaught Road Central, is charged with the mur der of his master.

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Mr. Τ. M. Hazlerigg, [Assistant- Crown Solicitor, prosecuted and said that the motive seemed to have been ore of personal gain: there was a particular reason why the prisoner should be desirous of OK obtaining the money.

At the beginning of August he had lent his employer $1,500 which had been paid back to him on September 7. On the night of i September 22 he reported to the Police that he had lost "$1,000. To shop coolie, earning $5 a month, the loss would be stupen- dous and it could be understood that he was willing, almost, to do anything to replace the "sum.

Outlining the alleged 'circum- stances of the "crime. Mr. Hazlerigg emphasised that pri- soner sent the cook out on an errand, and it was during the cook's absence that the murder had taken place and that the body had been secreted in the tea- cheat. The shop personnel con. sisted only of the deceased who was master, his son who was away in the country at the time, prisoner and the cook,

In a statement to the Police, prisoner admitted having gone, to the Bank of Canton the next day and presented for payment a de- On inquiry at the Government posif receipt for $1,000 which Civil Hospitala the China Mail amount was paid to him; also James Murphy of the Central ment of another amount at the learns that Detective Sub-Inspector that he had been refused pay Detective Office, has shown slight Oriental and Commercial Bank improvement but is still in a serious owing to a discrepancy in the condition.

photographs. The missing $1,000 Inspector Murphy, it will be re- had been found in the possession The defendant pleaded that hef Central Station, into the com. Two days after the murder the

called, fell from, the second floor of the prisoner's paramour. Most of the business-com-

was in a hurry to catch the tram, pound, in the small hours of body was discovered in a tea- was impossible to touch meat and fruit by taxes, but he needs munity are in the dark as to what and as he did not know why the Tuesday morning while, it is chest on the shop verandah. devise a scheme that would some is being planned in Canton but constable threatened him with a believed, walking in his sleep.

stick he tried to get away by run- what alter the course of trade for persistent reports have соте the benefit of the Empire and the through of General Chan Kwinging, He claimed to be in a posi- tion to produce the mister of the benefit of our own people without ming's alleged intention: 10

ten House to give evidence for him. taxing food:

assume the post, of Commander- Divisional Inspector Cashman, in-Chief of the, Cantonese Army who prosecuted, stated that Yau

As far as can be made out.mati Police Station had been asked Mr. Baldwin, after paying a Chan himself is not keen to last night to make enquiries at the tribute to Mr. J. H. Thomas's high attach an empty title to his name address given, and there was maintenance of Empire interests, but he may yield to the persun-anybody who wanted to give evi- said a new Safeguarding of Indussion of his senior adherents. At dence he had had sufficient time to tries Bill would be introduced in first, it was stated that he would reach Court. summer and applied in justifiable assume office at Swatow, ́`· When

The Magistrate found defen- He expressed the opinion that date passed, it was said that dant guilty, and sentenced him to that any duty levied thereunder his headquarters would be estab-nine months' hard labour, remark-posed Commercial Treaty with that he arrived in the Colony would be a general, not a dis-lished at Hing Ling, but to-daying that six months was for criminating duty: Preference on a definite announcement has assault and three months for these duties would be given to the reached Canton to the effect that attempted robbery. Dominions.

Hing Ling will not be the capital Replying to Mr. Lloyd George, of his domain.

cases.

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Mr. Baldwin said that such general duty would apply to all countries, even though, unfair competition was only encountered from one,

Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Cabinet, declared that the Empire would apparently have to be kept together by British subvention of £1,000,000 a year to the Dominions,

LATE MR. GOMPERS.

LYING IN-STATE AT ELKS' CLUB

(Reuter's American Service.)

Mr. Lloyd George interpreted Mr. Baldwin's statement regard- NEW YORK, December 2 ing the preference resolution as The remains of the late Mr. meaning that no duties would be Samuel Gompers, home on a gun granted to the Dominions and carriage drawn by six white horses. Colonies on food and any existing were taken from the railway station paference would refer to existing to the Elks Club The coffin wil duties, not the creation of fresh lle in-state there until the funeral

to-morrow.

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MARINERS TO NOTE! ·

HEIYEI MARU SUNE IN INLAND SEA..

A notice posted at the Harbour Office rands as follows . DESPE Dated November 28,6 from the Hydrographic, Departmenti Ministry of Mariges Tokyo

Sanken Ship We have re

US: AND GERMANY.

CONFERENCE WITH HUGHES OVER TREATY (Reuter's American Service:)

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WASHINGTON, December 27.

covered over with blankets and old newspapers. "Prisoner was arrested on a day-boat. for Can- ton just before the steamer's departure. At the time he had on him $134 and a lot of clothing and jewellery,

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Su Shing, another man whom the prisoner had qileged had been connected with the murder, said. Mr. Hazlerigg, would be called as one of the Crown wit- As a consequence of the strong nesses and evidence would be opposition in the Senate Foreign given that he was in the country Relations Committee to the pro- at the time of the murder and Gmany, a sub-committee has after it had occurred. Altogether been delegated to confer with there would be twenty-three wit Secretary of State. Hughes, with a nesses for the prosecution; the view to certain modifications being evidence of a police detective who made in the draft

FRENCH FINANCE

M. CLEMENTEL PLANNING: REDEMPTION SCHEME,

Reuters Servics.).

***** PARIS, December 17,

crived information that the s.-M. Clemente), Minister of Heinci Maru" has sunk at a Finance, to-day Informed the point mile 2 cables SSE of Chamber finance commission that Ryujinjima "Lighthouse at 4he he is preparing a vast consolida southerm entrace of Kurushimation redemption operation. This Chaor el in the Inland Sea

he willundsstake as the beginning Interested master Umariners of the New Year. ** should take note.

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had been shot in the execution of his duty, at the. Shaukiwan water-front; would be read to the Court...

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Wong Wing, son of the deceased, was one of the first witnesses to be called this morn- ing. He bare out Mr. Hazlerigg's opening and was him subjected to a minute cross-examination by MH S. Fitzroy (instructed by Mr.^. M. d'Almeda. Remedios), who appeared to defend.

Replying to Mr.-Fitzroy-wit- mess stated that he actually saw his father pay back, the sum of $1,500 to prisoner and that his father had spoken to him about the repayment.

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