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LONG SPEECH ENDED
Paris, Yesterday.
M. Poincare spoke for two more hours at the Tribune of the Cham- ber to-day. When he finished his long speech on Debt Agreements, which he began on the 11th inst., be exhorted the Chamber not to expose itself to provoking further demands from Great Britain but to ratify the Agreements as other Powers had done.
He concluded, amid an ovation from the Right and Centre, "if you will be prudent and frank as to reservations then you will empower the Government to go confidently and defend, at the forthcoming International Confer- ence, the cause of France and peace, which are inseparable."
M. Poincare previously, in ap- proving of the Owen Young Plan, declared that France would refuse to agree to a further reduction of Germany's debts to her.
The Chamber then proceeded to the debate on the question.-Reu- ter.
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Motion Rejected
After explanations by M. Poin- 33 to the need for the ratification of the War Debts Agreements the Chamber, following the wish of the Govern- ment, rejected by 304 votes to 239, the motion of M. Dubois to post pone ratification. Havas.
Further Details
Paris, Yesterday. The first division on the debate on the debt agreements was on the motion of M. Louis Dubois, Chairman of the Reparations Com mission, to postpone the ratifica- tion of the American agreement with a view to revision.
The Government and its sup-
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929.
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ASSISTANT TO ATTORNEY- GENERAL
KING'S COLLEGE EQUIPMENT Finance Committee of the legis lative Council at its meeting to- morrow afternoon will consider the supplementary expenditure set out below:-
Estimates, 1929
-Public Works, Extraordinary-
PROHIBITION CRIME COMMISSION
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CLOSE SALOONS AND THE "SPEAK-EASIES”
THE LIQUOR LAW
New York, Yesterday. The first intimation as to the at- Hong Kong, Miscellaneous, Addi-titude of the Hoover Crime Com
prohibition is tional storey to quarters, cookhouse, mission towards
given in a letter by the Chairman Victoria Gaol $1,600.
.
Provision made in Estimates of the Commission, Mr. G. W
Wickersham, to the conference of $2,500.
State Governors now sitting in New London, Connecticut.
this
The amount provided in year's Estimates is for adding one storey to the existing cookhouse (a one storey building).
This cookhouse however, is very old, dilapidated, too small, il ven- tilated and has urinals on each side,
It cannot be satisfactorily re- modelled and it is therefore propos-
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Mr. Wickersham suggests that the Federal Government should at- tend to the prevention of the im- portation and manufacture of
liquor, while the State Governments should prevent its sale and close the saloons and "Speak Easies."- Reuter's American Service."
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ed to demolish it and to construct a new cookhouse with quarters over. The cost will be increased by $1,500 and a Supplementary Vote for this amount is requested.
It was announced toward the end of May that President Hoover had completed one of his most difficult tasks, the selection of his special Committee of Inquiry which is to investigate "the crime wave" in America and, in particular, the vir tual breakdown of Prohibition `on- forcement. This question is such a hornet's nest that he had great dif ficulty in persuading distinguished men of the required calibre to serve.
The Commission is headed by Mr.) George W. Wickersham, who was At- torney-General in the Taft Adminis- tration and is a distinguished law- yer of New York City. Other mem- The above is to be met from bers are Mr. Newton D. Baker, savings under Sai Ying Pun New Secretary for War for Fresident!
Wilson, Mr. Roscoe Pound, who is Attorney General:--Personal Em-Dean of the Harvard University Law oluments, Assistant to Attorney School, and Miss Ada Comstock, pre- General $12,000,
sident of Radcliffe College.
Market.
Fanatical Outlook
The office of Assistant to the Attorney General is normally held
New Haven, Conn., July 11, by a cadet officer (barrister) and
Asserting that the prohibition the pay is charged to Head 2, Cadet question has been so blinded by Service. There is no cadet officer partisanship as to have thrown ra- available for this office at present, tionality completely overboard for and provision has been made by the exaggeration and fanaticism, George porters rejected it by 304 votes to temporary appointment of a pracw. Wickersham, head of President tising barrister at $1,000 per month. Hoover's new law enforcement com-
Typewriters
mission, in an interview here added Other Charges, Special Expenditure, sion
Works Department:-that it is the duty of the commis- Purchase of six Typewriters for plete impartiality and to discover study the question with com- W/T. Office $1,500...
where the truth lies.
289.
M. Franklin Bouillon next mov- ed the postponement until the Young plan had been adopted but. after the Government opposition, he withdrew it-Reuter.
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Provision is made in this year's He said he was doubtful of the effi- Estimates for Six Short Wave
ciency of the solution of the prohibi-{
SALVAGE POSSIBLE? Receivers and they have been order- tion problem set forth by Judge F. C.
LATEST NEWS OF THE "LOK SUN"
REMOVAL OF CARGO
With calm weather, the prospects of salvaging the s.s. "Lok Sun" will increase daily.
Thus Mr. T. H. C. Brayfield in- timated this morning to a "China Mai" representative who called at the offices of Messrs. Carmichael & Clarke, managers of the Fei Lun Steamship Co., who are the owners of the wrecked vessel.
It is also learned that two lighters,
Hoyt of New York, winner of the
ed from England..
It will be necessary to obtain six $25,000 Hearst temperance prize. typewriters for use in conjunction Judge Hoyt suggested a repeal of the with the receivers as one machine Volstead Act, the legalisation of fer- is required to cope with the trafflemented malt and brewed beverages of each important W/T. service such and the continued prohibition of dis- as Canton, Swatow, Manila, etc., or tilled liquor. for each group of small services
"The trouble is "Wickersham (ie., Yunnanfu, Siam, British North said, "that before prohibition was Borneo, Taihoku).
King's College Education Department:- Equip ment of King's College $5,400,
Provision made in Estimates $3,100,
tried even moderate measures to sup- the liquor men cannot be trusted. press the liquor evil were tried. But
"I am quite sure that prohibition adherents may have gone too far. They have become so obsessed with This equipment was provided for the one idea of enforcing the pro- in 1928 Estimates.
hibition law, they have exaggerated
fully loaded with Chinese general Owing to late delivery of equip-its importance in their own minds merchandise, were brought yester- ment $5,998.44 of last year's Ea-out of all prohibition to its actual day into port. The cargo was re- timates was unapent. A revote of
significance. moved from the fore hole of the $5,300 is now needed as the equip "Lok Sun" and two scaworthy tugs ment has arrived, org were chartered to tow the lighters
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A salvage boat, after spending most of the day at the scene of the disaster (Samun Islands), returned
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"The drug traffic will be another problem for us. A great many peo ple say, and with considerable au- thority that the use of drugs has shown a marked increase as a result of prohibition." A
Lamenting the lost power of the Borderers, who sia alleged to have to port yesterday, returning there deserted on Saturday, was arrested by church over the people, Mr. Wickers- this morning to continue operations the Folice in town yesterday and hand-ham asserted that the sacerdotal All the 750 pasengers have beened over to the Military authort-office can no longer impose or im- removed and most of the cargo.
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The Duke of Connaught, this afternoon said the Royal Family were very satisfied with His dajesty's progress. British Wire- less Service.
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