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FRIDAY, NOVEME

1929.

MINING PROPOSALS

SERIOUS ING

EFFECT

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. —The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/8 11/1

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No. 27,325 HONG KONG,

DOMINION STATUS

OF INDIA

BRITAIN

RELATIONS BETWEEN

AND NATIVE STATES

THE OLIVE BRANCH

"INDIA SHOULD ENJOY EQUAL PARTNERSHIP"

Rugby, Yesterday. Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, has made a statement which is published in India to-day regarding the extension of the scope of inquiry of the Indian Statutory Commission to include relations between India and the Indian States.

REPORTED

OWNERS WORRIED BY THEIR KUOMINCHUN TROOPS SAID TO

GRAVITY

OFFICIAL STÁTEMENT

BE ADVANCING

CHIANG KAI-SHEK ALARMED

PRICE $3.00 Per Month

TRAFFIC IN OPIUM

SEIZURES REVEAL HEAVY TRADE

IN SHANGHAI

London, Yesterday.

Shanghai, Yesterday. The miners and mine owners are Reliable reports from Hanan meeting separately to-day tu con- state that serious, fighting ia rag- sider the Government's proposals, ing over a wide-front. in connection with which an official hastened from Hankow

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek $50,000 IN RAW DRUGS statement is promised in the House chow on October 81, as the altua-

to Hau- TAKEN SINCE JAN. 1. of Commons to-night, but Mr. Philip tion yesterday was reported to be Snowden, in reply to a question, de serious, owing to the Kuominchun clared that a statement was not yet Tengfeng. Later reports. how-

progressing in the vicinity possible, as negotiations were un-ever. indicate that the situation finished.

has improved for the Government, The coalowners stated that the a fresh Natal troops have proposals are so grave that they are been despatchel to danger points and are holding their positions.--- unable to comment on them at pre-Reuter sent.

of

"LEAVE SMUGGLING ALONE"

on with

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AZARU

Hang Sung's Onlyg kropean Cuticlan.

13. Augen's Ela, Centra

Telepons Mr. Copper C. 2268 fer ippointment.

APPEAL TO EMPEROR REDUCTION OF BANK

OF JAPAN

REACTIONARY BREAKS FROM THE CROWDS

SCENE AT ROYAL VISIT

Tokyo, Yesterday.

RATE AURPRISE

EXCITING MOUEMENTS IN NEW YORK' STOCKS

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PACE TOO HOT TO LAST

London, Yesterday, While the Emperor was proceed- Even the bankers were taken ing to the Meiji Shrine stadium unawares by the reduction in the

Reuter,

for the purpose of attending an bank rate, which was immediately athletic meeting for the first time followed by an influx of orders. since his accession to the throne, The Stock Exchange welcomed a youth belonging to a reaction-the relief, and both financial and Shanghai, Yesterday, Evidence of the existence of crowd and attempted to make a reduction was probably the out- ary organisation jumped from the industrial circles thought that the unusual heavy trafficking in direct appeal, but was opium was revealed in statistics before reaching the Imperial car. York.

arrested come of co-operation with New released to-day at the local The Police are

It is anticipated that the Maritime Customs offices. More matter, but the nature of the ap-shortly follow suit-Reuter,

examining the New York Federal Bank will than 10 tons of the raw drug.peal has not yet been revealed. worth approximately $500,000,

Spectacular Scenes have been seized by the Customs DRIVEN TO STEAL BY To-day's delayed opening in the

New York, Yesterday.

Stock Market was one of the meat spectacular ever witnessed. Scores of stocks opened from five to 20 points up; 2,780,000 shares. changed hands in the first half hour, but the pace was too hat to last, and within half an hour stocks had lost half their gaina.

authorlifes since the first of the current year up to October 1 according to the figures, and this amount will probably reach a million before the year is over If the large seizures made from June to October are to be ac cepted as criterions.

POVERTY

CHINESE WHO COMMITTED LARCENY BY A TRICK

Cold Reception The Government's coal mining He says that Sir John Simon, Chairman of the Statutory Commis-proposals have had a cold reception. sion, has pointed out in his correspondence with the Premier that he The conlowners criticise them' for and his colleagues have been greatly impressed in considering the the effect they would have on Home ADVISED TO STICK TO SEAMAN. future constitutional development of India with the importance of export trude, while it is understood bearing in mind the relations which may develop between British India that the miners' Executive, in the and the Indian States, and that in Sir John Simon's judgment it is course of a three hour conference essential that the methods whereby this future relationship between with the Cabinet Coal Committee these two constituent parts of greater India may be adjusted should yesterday, criticised the absence of day charged before Mr. E. W. be fully examined.

In definite assurance that the reduc- Hamilton with the unlawful posses-000 worth of morphia, opium pills Inspector E. Hoare at the Kowloon

MEASURE

OF AGREEMENT

F

tion of hours would not be ac-1 companied by a reduction.in wages, and the omission of any reference to pensions for aged miners, or a new minimum wage act as an al-

the deferment of the first instalment of hours reduction until April- Reuter.

Sir John Simon has suggested procedure such as Sir John Simon ternative to national agreement and that after the Statutory Commission has outlined. and the Indian Central Committee have made their reports, the Bri- tish Government shall meet repre- sentatives both of British India and the Indian States for the purpose of seeking the greatest possible men

sure of agreement for the final pro- paaals which the British Govern-

SETTLING THE PROBLEMS "When, therefore, the Commis- sion and the Indian Central Com- mittee have submitted their reports and these have been published, and when His Majesty's Government

A TOOTHSOME TALE

Remarking that the accused had ro-

bave been able, in consultation with versed the order of things in that, the Government of India, to consi-instead of having his teeth taken out ment will later submit to Parlin-dor these matters in, the light of all by the dentist, he had taken teeth from material then available, they will the dentist, Mr. E. W. Hamilton to- propose to invite the representatives day sentenced a Chinese to six months' of different parties and interests hard labour for breaking into the pre- in British India and representatives mises of Mr. Li Yuk-chi, dentist, on the first floor of 263, Queen's-road

ment.

Lord frwin proceeds, "With these views I understand His Majesty's Government are in complete accord. The goal of British policy was stated in the declaration of August 1917 to be that of providing for the stances may demand, for the pur,creaking of the door and chased the

gradual development of self-govern- ing institutions, with a view to the progressive realisation of a respon. sible Government in India as an integral part of the British Empire. EQUAL PARTNERSHIP "My own instrument of instruc- tions from the King Emperor ex- preasly states that is His Majes-

ty's will and pleasure that the plan laid by Parliament in 1919 should be the means whereby Bri- tish India may attain its due place among His Dominions, The Ministers of the Crown, moreover, have more than once publicly de- clared that it is the desire of the British Government that India

of the Indian States to meet them West, and stealing 25 gold teeth worth separately or together, as circum- $100.

The dentist was awakened by the

TO-DAY'S FEATURES.

Dominion Status

Opium Traffic ̈

1

1

Moscow Protest

1

Serious Fighting The Bank Rate

1

ร

3

Alleged Forgery

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accused, who was stopped by an lu- dian constable. He then dropped a amall packet which was found to con- tain the gold teeth.

gress is the attainment of Dominion status-Reuter.

FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES

Bombay. Yesterday.

A meeting of leaders of all shades of political opinion made a state- ment to the effect that the Viceroy's declaration in regard to Dominion atatua was satisfactory. and ex- pressing appreciation of the funda

LIKE DUTIES

MAGISTRATE'S HOMILY

When a Chinese woman was to

MOSCOW PROTEST

Yen 1,400,000 Paid To White Russians

Tokyo.

The Foreign Office in Mos- cow has delivered a formal protest to the Japanese, Am- bassador, Mr. Tanaka, in Moz cow regarding the payment of sum amounting, to about Yen 1,400,000 by the Yokohama Specie Bank in Yokohama to representatives of Michael Pod- tingin, for Crapist, milt ary-attache Toyo, and Ataman Semeno, the White Russian leader, it was under. stood at the Russian Embassy here to-day.

The Foreign Office requested the Ambassador to transmit the protest to Tokyo for the consi- deration of the Japanese For- eign Office.

No other action, It was under- stood, has been taken in the case. The Embassy claims -the-money-belonged to the Gov- ernment of the U.S.S.R., a it was Russian State funda. The sum was deposited in the bank by Podtíagin as an agent of the former White Russian regime In Siberia,

Ataman Semenoff, it was re- ported, still was at his resid. ence in Yokohama.-Special News Service.

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mental change of procedure, where- sion of 30 taels, of prepared non- by representatives of India were to Government oplum, which

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SIX GOLD WATCHES

How a Chinese committed This figure does not include $16,-larceny by a trick

was tald by

and smoking paraphernalia seized Magistracy this morning, when an up to the first of the present month with the attempted larceny of sh unemployed Chinese was charged

Federal Reserve Bank

New York, Later. The Federal Reserve Bank rate

it include 149 kilos of gold watches, valued at $54 the has been reduced to five-Reu-

nor doca morphine and 8,600 pounds of oplum seized alnce the first of the month and now being held by the Custores authorities.

property of a shop keeper of 88. Queen's Road West.

had driven him to steal.

The defendant stated that poverty

ter's American Service.

+

London, Yesterday. The Bank of England discount

is six per cent-Reuter.

Welcome Surprise

Rugby, Yesterday.

According to Customs officials, opium smuggling on the Yangtze River during the past few months has shown a large increase in com- shop with him to Shamshuipe he land to reduce the bank rate parison with the early months of would obtain the money for his from six and a half to six 1929. From December 19 to March purchase.

per cent. came as a welcome sur- 19, approximately 2,800 pounds of

Parcel Changes Hands

prise to financial circles,, where the raw drug were taken and con- Forry and half away across the rate would fall for some little They both got on the Shamshuipo it had not been expected that the fiscated; while during the second harbour, defendant (who had a time yet. quarter, March 19 to June 19, the parcel with him) asked the When the rate incrassed by one * amount confiscated Was nearly he could let him carry the watches per cent, on September 28 it was double being a matter of approxi-while he held the so-called valuable explained that this was due to mately 5000 pounde

the continued withdrawals of gold from the Bank of England. In fifteen weeks the Bank had lost more than £30,000,000 in gold to the Continent and America.

Obviously, the raising of the rate has had had the intended effect of stopping-the-flight-of- gold.

Copying "Dapper Dan" Inspector Hoare said that the defendant went into the shop and keeper that if he sent a fokl of the tors ordered the watches, telling the shop. The decision of the Direc-

of the Bank of Eng

2

parcel..

FINE TO.DAY

To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states:

The anti-cyclone has extend- ed North-eastward to S. Man- churia.

The biggest seizures of the year. A passenger saw the parcela ac- have been made during the past tually change hands and the defen- two months. During July, August and the first half September, more than 15.000 pounds were confiscated. The seizure of 8,900 pounds during the present quarter indientes that the figures for the preceding period will be greatly exceeded unless a Budden decline occurs in the oplum smuggling business up the river.

MANY METHODS USED The methods of packing and bringing oplum into the city,are" many, according to the Customs officiels although the majority of smugglers follow one general system of transportation. In most cases, the drug is brought to points on the Yangtze River just outside the and there dumped into junks or pocket. jurisdiction the harbour police dant put the watches in his sampana. The smaller vessels, which

On arrival at their destination

A depression is situated to the East of Hokkaido.

Fresh monsoon will prevail along the China Coast and over the N. China Sea.

Forecast: N. winds; fresh and fine.

Another factor that made 窳 lower bank rate possible was the slump in New York. This has sent much gold back to England.

When the decision

became known there was a general mark- ing up of prices, particularly of British Government securities. British Wireless Service.

Stocks Steady

should in the fullness of time take in regard both to British-India and trusting that the representatives in- that it had been given to her to have a better chance of entering the defendant took the foki for an most closed below, the day's high-

pose of a conference and discussion be invited to the conference, and found tied round her waist she said

ber place in the Empire in equal partnership with the Dominions, But, In view of doubts which have been expressed both in Great Britain and India regarding the interpreta- tion be placed on the intentions

New York, Later. Despite the violence of the day's movements, stocks hald fair. ly well all day long, although their earnest hope that by this mand the confidence of the people crew of the s.s. "Wing'On."

Selling was well ab- means it may subsequently prove of India-Reuter

oplum the rest of the way to Shang- until they reached a shipyard, where sorbed and the atmosphere at the possible on these grave issues to

Revenue Officer Grimmitt, who

bai and deliver it into the hands of the defendant sald he would find the close was bullish. which may command. a measure of submit proposals to Parliament

prosecuted, told the Magistrate that local dealers. As a usual thing, man who had promised him the

Ballish Factor London, To-day.

that was the same statement which the drug, when it reaches Shanghai, money. But no such man appear- Besides the decrease in the It is generally believed that Sir the woman had made to him. She packed in small, flat parcela ed, and suspicion overcame

the bank rate, another bullish factor John Simon does not approve of the did not know the man's name but weighing about three pounds each. foki, who, on seeing an Indian was the stock market weekly re- record

Service.

DOMINION STATUS ASKED

of the British Government in en general, assent-British Wireless acting the statute of 1919, I am authorised on behalf of His Majea-i ty's Government to state clearly that, in their judgment, it is im- plicit in the declaration of 1917 that the natural issue of India's consti- tutional progress as there contem- plated in the attalement of Dominion status.

To Avert Threat Of Mass Civil Disobedience

London, Yesterday,

SIR JOHN ANGRY

Government's action in making Baid that he was known on board The present Mielt sale value of Police Sergeant, had the defen- port which showed &

declaration before the Statutory the ship as "Mok Kwa Chal" (Little raw opium is about $29 per pounddant arrested and taken Commission report. Also, it la Papaya).

when it reaches Shanghai. After station. understood that Conservative lead- He found that there were two the refining process, in which the ers as well as Liberals, disapprove brothers working on board both saw drug is converted into smoking of the Government action lu making known by the nickname of "Mok oplum, the price per pound doubles. a statement at present-Reuter. Kwa Chalone was the pilot and the other a quartermaster. He had arested both

PRESS COMMENT

It remains to be soon whether the FINDING THEIR PLACE Government's "olive branch" to "In full realisation of this policy India will avert the threat of the

London, To-day. It is evidently important that the Nationalist Congress to Indulge in

Lord Irwin's declaration in re Indian States should be afforded op mass civil disobedience and proclaim gard to the Dominion status of portunity of finding their place and, independence on Nov. 1, in the in all the newspapers, whose com- India has been given prominence even if we cannot at present exact event of Dominion status not being ments are varied, while the ly foresee on what lines this deve granted this year. lopment may be shaped, it is from Members of the Indian Central reveals no change of policy,

"Times" says that the statement | every point of view desirable that Committees Interviewed by. Reuter whatever can be done should be on their departure to India, expresa bewilderment, and the "Dally done to ensure that the action takened satisfaction at the latest develop: Telegraph' feels that reference to The "Morning Post" professeN now is not inconsistent with the ment. Dr. Parempre, Liberal mem-the ultimate aim of British policy attainment of the ultimate purpose ber of the India Council, who do is by no means unnecessary. which those, whether in British clined to co-operate with the Simon India or the States, who look for Commission, Interviewed by Beuter Baldwin in ylow, M

man be charged.

The Magistrate directed that both When the case resumed, the two

to the decrease of over a billion dollars in

brokers' loans--Reuter's American, Service.

Only a Box Mr. Whyte-Smith remarked that although it was the defendant's first offence, it was rather a serious, ono and he would therefore sentence him ed him if he was going to allow his to six weeks' hard labour. wife to go to jail, the man merely shrugged his shoulder and said: trate that the "valuablo" parcel was Inspector Hoare told the Magia- "It is her business, let her go to only a square wooden box, shaped jall." It looked as if they were all like a cigar box with two small nails

in the "game.

Ples Accepted

The Magistrate said that as the

in it!

woman had undertaken all reapon- BRITAIN & SOVIET sibility he had no option but to ac-

"OF GENTLE BIRTH”*

"I love my baby but cannot earn enough to keep him. He is of gentle birth."

case which lay beside a baby boy

This noto was in a brown attache

about a month old who was found In a rallway carriage at Victoria Station, recently. The train had come from Sutton, Barrey

The baby is now at St. Stephen's

tept her ples, and he could not do Resumption of Diplo-Hospital, Fulham, SW.

Jess than to pass the full penalty

matic Relations

1929 rainfall

Average

Deficit

68.03 Inches.

.80.56 inches

12.63 inches

on her a fine of $3,600, or, in de fault, 12 months' hard labour,

Addressing the two men,

Rugby, Yesterday.

bis

Worship said that ho

did

Mr. Philip, Snowden, acting not know to what ex leader of the House of Commons,

In view TWO OBJECTS

the

the

Some newspapers assert that Mr. men appeared to dock with the

firstly approved statement largely meets the Liberal drew his approval under pree- Saj (quartermaster).

women. Their names were given

ward to some unity of all India have in London said that the Viceroy declaration, but afterwards with as Chan Wing pliot), and Chan tent they were concerned in stated to-day that it had been

"His Majesty's Government con- sider that both these objects, name. ly, that of finding the best approach to the British-Indian side of the problem and secondly, esturing

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viewpoint.y

New Delhi, Yesterday.

sure of his colleagues. It also stated that all the Simon Com

"Doubtful!"

The Viceroy, in his proclamation, missioners opposed the declaration, Mr. F. X-Almada, fun, who ap foreshadows a general Indian con- but the ruinour that Sir John Simon peared for the woman, said that he and states that he lau- is contemplating resignin", is an had been instructed to plead on behalf of His Maje thoritatively deniedrige Kjelly on her behalf,

state cisarly that

smuggling of this opium, and as arranged that the Premier should the woman had undertaken respon make a statement on his visit to

the men to stick to their seaman statement had been disposed of sibility, they must be discharged. the United States, and. Canada next However, Mr. Hamilton advised Tuesday.. After the Premier's like duties la future and leave the House would consider the mo smuggling alone. No doubt the tion in the name of the Foreign It is declared that there is every Mr. Grummitt expressed himself Revenue Department would keep Secretary concerning the resump prospect that the difficulties #1ll be as “doubtful. The woman was the ther eyes on them now and they tion of normal diplomatid relations adjusted and the Commission con- wife of the boatswain and when he would soon be brought to book ff with the Soviet Government-Bri rday, and make they persisted

Etish Wireless Bervice.

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