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CONFERENCE TRAFFIC IN OPIUM.

BREAKS DOWN.

SIR GEORGE SYMES. AIR DISPLAY FOR THE BRIGHTEST PAGE IN COAL

APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF

TANGANYIKA.

RESIDENT of aden.

ARGENTINE.

HISTORY. }

British Fighting 'Planes Happy Consumation to Wages Reduction the

to "Do Their Stuff." a Long Struggle.

Stumbling Block.

THE PRINCE'S VISIT.

ONLY A FEW BLOWS.

STOPPAGE TO CONTINUE.

Rugby, Yesterday.

London, Yesterday.

PLAN FOR LIMITATION OF

MANUFACTURE.

DRUGS NOT EXCLUDED.

Telephone 21054.

LIMEHOUSE THE

ELITE

Ascension in the Social Scale.

PAST AND PRESENT.

London, Dec. 1. 2

London, Yesterday.

Geneva, Yesterday, It is officially announced that

The League of Nations ad- Lt.-Col. Sir George Stewart Symes,

visory committee on the traffic in Rugby, Yesterday. K.EE, GM.G., D.S.O., Resident

London, Yesterday.

opium opened its fourteenth ges- Presiding over the Defence and Commander-in-Chief of Aden Preparations for the depar- Sir Srinavasi Sastri, RC- The Cardiff conference be-sion to-day with Signor Vascon- Limehouse, once the bad boy of Sub-Committee of the Round since

1928, has been appointed ture next week of the Prince of knowledging the confermant of tween coal owners and miners, cellos (Portugal) as Chairman. London, has gone to church. Only Table Conference to-day, Mr. Governor of Tanganyika in succes Wales to the Argentine, where he the Freedom of Edinburgh at arranged following Government The committee decided to take as the crooked little streets and the J. II. Thomas, referring to the sion to Sir Donald Cameron-Reu will perform the opening cere-Usher Hall, said that he was di-intervention, has broken down. the basis of discussion the draft low, ramshackle buildings remain Indianisation of the Indian Armyter.

mony of the British Empire In-vulging no premature confidence Wages Reduction.

convention submitted by Sir as the crumbling skeleton of a vici. and the catablishment in India of

dustries Fair at Buenos Aires in when he said that they yesterday The Cardiff coal parleys broke Malcolm Delivingne, embodying ous underworld haunt. & Military College, said that if all Sir George was born in 1882, his March, are nearing completion. had heard the chairman (Sankey) down because the miners declined the plan limiting the manufacture On the famous Pennyfield street,

nother being the Hon, recruitment of British

Emily Officers Catherine Shore,

sister of the fifth In view of the nature of the main of

one of the most important to agree that the independent drafted by the advisory committee Chinese still stand mute and ex censed on the day of output from Baron Teignmouth. He entered the function in which he will take part | Round Table sub-committees, say chairman of the new conciliation last year, and modified by the preesfonless in the doorways of an Indian Sandhurst, and if its Army in 1900 and served in the Buer the Prince and his Secretariat that at the next plenary session board should decide the question London Conference in November, their tiny shops. But the opium output was calculated to meet nor-War, and took part in the Blue Nile have had a series of interviews of the Conference Mr. Ramsay of wages reduction, and insisted. It is understood, however, that den in the rear of just around the mal wastage, it would be about 35xpedition in the Soudan in 1908. He with British commercial men en- MacDonald would make a state that the matter should be settled the question of extending the pro-corner is more The oriental to-

served throughout the Great War ani years before the last British Off-later was appointed Assistant Direc.gaged in Argentine trade and ment which would go far to satisfy between the parties.

posed draft convention to drugs day, if he is lucky, is able to smug- cer was eliminated from the In-tor of Intelligence to the Soudan Gov. have taken every precaution to be the aspirations and desires of the Both miners and owners accept was not covered by the Geneva gle in only enough of the drug for dian Army. If in accordance with crament, and Private Secretary to fully informed as possible on local Indian people. (Loud applause). ed the invitation of the President Opium Convention, but is by no a quiet, private pipe. At night the views expressed it was not de- the Sirdar and Governor-General of conditions.

The brightest chapter in the his- of the Board of Trade to meet him means to be excluded.--Reuter. ernor of the Northern Distric

bridge lights flood the paths where Sir George was toy. the Soudan.

The Prince's own Moth aero-tory of Britain was being written and Mr. Shinwell, Minister of

once menacing figures slunk along Palestine from 1920-25, and Cate plane, in which his

Europe to Blame? Highness to-day at St. James's Palace, Mines, in London on Monday:

in protective darkness. Secretary to the Government of Pars hopes to undertake some of his wherein would be recorded for the therefore the stoppage in the

Nanking. Yesterday.

Limehouse Causeway: The set. tine from 1925-28.7

travelling in South America, has benefit of succeeding generations South Wales coalfields will con-

ting of hundreds of lurid tales of Foreign Powers and nationals fiction. Here, one fa told, that not been sent to Gibraltar where it the story of how a long struggle tinue for at least another week, will visit Buenos Aires in connec-came to a happy consummation for even if the terms are agreed are held to balme for most of the so many years ago human life' was tion with the Exhibition, with no more than a few imprison- to in London, they must be ap. evils of the oplum and narcotic held as cheaply as a pint of ale. An official statement The Thames daily gave up bloated In addition to her normal equipments and a few lathi blows. proved by the delegates from all tradic, in

Reuter.

lodges before work can be resumesued to-day by the Foreign Office, victims. A slit tongue, an amputat-- ment, including a flight of Fairey

ed.-Reuter,

which is manifesting considerable led hand told of sharp knives in Flycatheers, the flight of Fairey

[An earlier message stated:-interest in the Opium Suppression kimana alcoves. three T'S., and the flight of Black-

The President of the Board of Conference at Geneva.

Thieves' Kitchen. burn Torpedo Bombers, the Eagle

Trade, Mr. William Graham, and

Drunken sailors from all ports in will carry a Hawker Nimrod Aero-

China during the past two years, the Secretary for Mines, Mr. it is claimed, has been exerting the world brawled in safety. It plane, which has been selected as!

Shinwell, to-day received a de- great efforts to suppress the traffic was the frying pan of Thieves Kit a successor to the Flycatcher and

putation from the South Wales Many new regulations have been chen, too tough for the toughest Miners' Federation, who desire promulgated, the effect of which police, On their rare visits to this world, capable of a speed of 200

the Government to induce the miles hourly. An improved Fairey Three F. will also be on hoard,-

owners in South Wales to accept British Wireless Service.

sired that the British Officer Re- cruitment should cease immediate- ly, then the period would be 35 years after the last British Officer is recruited.

Not Necessary.

APPOINTMENTS,

Franz

ษ

Winkler

But a complete Indianisation of the Army was not preliminary The King's Exequateur em- necessary to the full attainment 1owering Herr of responsible Government. Thus. (Shanghai) to act as honorary all the Dominions still depended Austrian Consul-General in Hong on the British Navy for protec-Kong has received His Majesty's tion. Those who were soldiers signature. with War experience would realise His Excellency the Governor has that an entirely new creation of appointed Mr. Quentin Allison the Officer Class was not simply Ashby Macfadyen to be an Assis-

a question of calculation alone. tant to the Secretary for Chinese is the fastest fleet fighter in the: The question of defence was too Affairs with effect from January 3. vital to take chances and that as It is notified that Mr. Edward pect must weigh with Indians Lewis Agassiz has resumed duty as more when they became respon- Official Receiver in Bankruptcy and sible for their country.

Registrar of Trade Marks and Letters Patent.

The question to be examined was what was a safe and wise rate

His Excellency the Governor haa

PRINCESS ROYAL.

FUNERAL.

PARTY CANCELLED.

of substituting Indian for British appointed Mr. Ernest Philip Henry KING AND QUEEN RETURN FOR Officers in the Indian Army, and Lang to act as Registrar of the whether it was desirable to eli-Supreme Court: Official · Admini- minate British Officer at the strator and Registrar of Companies. carliest period, assuming there) His Excellency the Govenor bas was a common object in view, appointed Mr. Lancelot Ruggles namely, the protection and defence Andrewes to act as Deputy Re- of India.

gistrar of the Supreme Court.

The Government had no ob- jection to a declaration favouring Indianisation and carrying with it

Rugby, Yesterday. Their Majesties the King and Queen, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of York and the Duke of Gloucester, returned to-day to Buckingham Palace for the funeral

to-morrow.

was

LOAN TO CHINA.

U.S. Bankers Interested In The Proposal. New York, Yesterday. The possibility of the States joining other coun- tries in order to extend a large silver loan to China has greatly interested bankers and financiers, as they believe that not only China but the United States will benefit therefrom, since China is a potential consumer of the wheat surplus in the United States and Canada. Bankers emphasise, however, that they have publicly offered the Chinese a loan completely and question whether it will have to take the form of Interna- tional or Government credit. -Reuter.

SPANISH AIR FORCE TO BE ABOLISHED.-

a definite recommendation for the along such lines that a solution of the Princess Royal at Windsor establishment of a Military Col-would be found,

The Conservative delegates, Sir at the Palace for the delegates of lege in india, but such establish-

The afternoon party ment need not involve a discon- Samuel Hoare and Lord Peel, have the Round Table Conference was tiruance of the existing practice made guarded but nevertheless cancelled on account of the Court of a limited number of Indian sympathetic contributions, em- students attending the Sandhurst phasising the unquestionable dif- one of the functions which College in England, which had ob-ficulties inherent in the task of mourning, but the King and Queen vious advantages.

constitution building, and desir-ill receive the Indian Delegates "So-Called Martial Races,” ing to see more of the details fill honoured to-day when Edinburgh Sir Tej Sapru urged the speed-ed in before expressing approval conferred the Freedom of City on ing up of Indianisation. Sir. Phroze of the picture.

the Nawab of Bhopal and Sir To Become A Section of Sethna pointed out that Indian Doubtless the Prime Minister's Military ability was not confined statement of Government Policy,

the War Ministry. to the so-called martial races. which he will make after a care- Mr. Moonje thought that all re-ful study of all the reports of the cruitment in India should be committees in a week or ten days, among Indians and that the In-will give a clear indication of the dian Government should recruit final proposals. in Britain any British Officers they required. Sir Mirza Ismail

Business Committee.

directs the

Srinivasa Sastri.-British Wireless Service.

KOWLOON BURGLAR

ARRESTED AFTER A BRIEF

--CHASE.

·SEQUEL TO REVOLT.

Earlier NewE,

Rugby, Yesterday.

-

has been most encouraging.

.

section the officers went in pairs. Few arrests ever were made. The Chinese with typical stoicist knew nothing.

the National Industrial Board's The statement continues to de frecommendation on the present clare that the evils of opium and the

dispute.]

Imperative.necessity for exterminat-

To-day, a game of fan-tan' isn't ing the scourge are continually even allowed and a tipsy sailor on stressed at public gatherings dur the warpath finds himself in the The hope that the South Wales ing the "Anti-Oplum Week," and at custody of a stalwart policeman In mine stoppage will be settled to the weekly memorial services, In the "jig time. A kindly police ser- day is strengthened by the an-daily press, magazines and other geant listened with tolerant amuse- nouncement that the miner's lead-periodicals. Many public bodies and gent at this corespondent's tale, of era have agreed upon the terms Government departments are also the Limehouse ufe olden days · and which, if all has gone well at the putting their shoulder to the wheel.(sold: meeting with the owners at Cardiff to-day, they will send to the men for confirmation.

Publicity and Control,

"Yes, it was a tough spot. But

it is ever so tame now, you know, The National Anti-Opour Aaso- Hawther depressing, tough. No Provisional ateps have been ciation of Shanghai, with branches trade, no money, no work and little taken for a resumption of work to-in various parts of the country, is spirit. Marders? No, me lad, day-British Wireless Service.

T

very active in conducting publicity there's more of, that kind of stuff as to a Infractions of the regula-among the posh these days than". RUHR COAL STRIKE. tions; while the Customs has been down hero."

always alert in the detection of A Chinese ambled by and waved: contraband smuggling,

at the officer.

"Look at that," the sergeant add-“” Arrangements have also been made for the control of the national ed." most law-abiding race in the We have no world, the Chinese. trade in oplum, while the importa trouble at all with them." tion and sale on narcotic drugs will

One thing the "Chinese section be undertaken by National

&

DISPUTE EXPECTED TO CONCLUDE SOON.

PRESIDENT'S ACTION.

Berlin, Yesterday. President Von Hindenburg has Agency, which is being formed by has not lost is the peculiar smell of exercised his special constitution- the Ministry of the Interior. al authority in vesting the Gov-

headed by Major Franco, the air compromise the employers and drugs.

the Orient.

Anna May, Wong. famous movie star, once guided her ernment arbitrator in the Rubri The amount of such narcoties to party that bad become lost, to Lime coalfields dispute with greater be imported will be determined an house.

"I could tell it simply from the power. It is expected that the nually by the State Council. Madrid, Yesterday.

dispute will conclude to-mor-

smell," she explained. Pharmacies will be designated as Following the recent insurrecrow

On the path of its reformation, by

Bix per tion of the Spanish air force, reduction in wages, which will

cent agencies for the distribution of Limehouse cast away ita doss

houses, questionable havens of hu Ports of entry Into China will be man derelicta from whose associa limited, to Shanghai,

tion came new criminals and more crime. In their stead have sprung up clean, comfortable hotels own- Unfortunately, says the oficialed by the Salvation Army and simi-

lar institutions. statement, the illeit traffic still pre- vails, and it is being carried on largely by "foreigners.

OWNERS ADVISED, TO CLOSE THEIR MILLS.

LOCK-OUT INVOLVED.

London, Yesterday.

JAIL SENTENCES. thought the elimination of Bri- One phase is indicated by the

force at Cadres has been dis-workers viewpoints.--Reuter. tish Officers undesirable, even if establishment, by the Business

solved. The officers will be re- practicable, and that there should Committee, which

Appearing before Mr. Buiters at admitted after their applications; he at first a fixed percentage of studies of the conference, and the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-have been examined. The existing COTTON CRISIS. Indian Officers which would be in-over which the Secretary for In-1ng, Detective Inspector Fallen administration will be abolished creased in the light of experience. dia, Mr. Wedgwood Benn, pre-charged two Chinese, Chan Shiu-fal and the air force will become a

Mr. Jennah declared that india sides, of a sub-committee under and Kwan Hing, with breaking into Reuter.

section of the War Ministry. was capable of making good the Lord Russel's chairmanship to No. 4 Parkes Street on January 9 wastage without further recruit-deal with the question of consti-between midnight and 4.45 a.m. ment of British students, who tuting Sind as part of a province. and stealing, 11 pieces of clothing, should also be encouraged to en-This has been a community pro- the property of Chan Ful, a shop ter the Indian Sandhurst. Mr. blem on which Hindus and foki. Thomas is drafting a series of re- Moslems have failed to reach an solutions focussing the issues agreement.

Defendants were atated to be Their conversations walking along Parkes Street. raised in the discussion.-British are still continuing, and yesterday sighting a Chinese detective the Wireless Service. -

Dr. Moonje expressed Hindu ap second, defendant, who was carry- Vital Issues.

proval of the idea of referring the Ing a bundle, dropped it and ran. The completion of the work of questions to an arbitration, sug- Both men were arrested and taken the Federal Structure sub-com-gesting the names of Professor to the Police Station, where they mittee, which had under examing- Gilbert Murray and Gandhi, as admitted their offence tion some of the most intricate men whose arbitrament he was

On

and vital issues before the dele prepared to accept. House breaking Implements were gates, marks a definite and ex- Meanwhile, the Prime Minister found on first defendant, including tremely important stage in the is drafting a summary of the piece of wire used for hooking Round Table Conference. The arguments put forward In the articles through windows. progress made, and consistently Minorities sub-committee, in the Sentence of four months", impri- sympathetic reception of the form of a report on which the dis- sonment was imposed. claims put forward by the Indian cussions will be resumed next delegates throughout the proceed week

AIR MAILS.

ings has impressed event the most In British circles, there is a sceptical critics of the conference strong desire that this age-long SERVICE BETWEEN WUCHOW in India itself

problem be resolved, since it is ob-|-~. The importance of Lord Head-viously one of the fundamental ing's acceptance of the principle: Issues a solution of which is essen-

GALES.

To-day weather report from the Royal Observatory states: A strong anti-cyclone is now central over" "The lower Yang tare Valley. The depression- has deopened considerably and- moved to the North of Tokyo. Monsoon gales prevail along the S.E. coast of China and over the North China Bes...

Forecast --N.E. gales; N. winde; strong, fine.

NEW GOVERNOR GENERAL.

Alleged Foreign Traffickers.'

+

Here bed and breakfast can often be obtained as cheaply as 15 cents and the lodger is assured he won't

In 1929, the Chinese Maritims be robbed as he sleeps.-United Customs seized more than five thou-Press.

ounces

of

ABANDONED GIRL.

The control committee of the sand ounces of cocaine, approxi- Cotton Spinners Manufacturers? mately ten thousand ounces of mor- Association, Manchester, has phine, three thousand ounces unanimously recommended mem-heroin, six thousand

of In yesterday's lague of the bers of all local associations to opium and ten thousand hypodermic China Mail the following was stat- close their milla on January 17; needles.

ed: unless the dispute is settled in the The drugs were imported by "“A paragraph, bearing a note; meantime. This will involve a Japanese, Australians, Germans, of sympathy was contained in the lock-out of 200,000 workera-Swiss, Russians, Hungarians, Police reports this morning. It Reuter.

French, British and Koreans. |stated that a Chinese"girl, said to te about eight years of age, was found abandoned, in a rattan bask In the South Sea Islands, where, ket, on the roadside, on the Kru Bays the

statement, there are Long Hang bend at Talpo, several mullions of Chinese auffer. The child was extremely weak, ing from the bondage of addiction so much so that she was unable to opium, the problem presents a to speak. She was stated to be totally different aspects

almost a skeleton. The Colonial Governments of the

TRADE WITH CHINA.

DECLINE DUE TO DROP IN VALUE OF SILVER.

BRITAIN'S POWER

Washington, Yesterday.

Colonial Polley Handicap.

She was sent to the Kwong Wah

London, Yesterday.

In connection with the Senate Straits Settlements, the Malay Hospital,"

In connection with the affair, s Inquiry into the causes of the de- States, Hong Kong, Dutch East In The Earl of Clarendon left to line of American trade with China dies, French Indo-China, Macao and farmer, Wong Klu (60), a native According under Instructions will take up the Governor-General-

day for South Africa, where he cabled yesterday, Senator Pitiman Formosa have adopted a Govern- of Shataukok, living in an unnum

AND CANTON,

Eo responsibility at the centre,tial to the building of a new confrom the Director-General of Posts, ship, in succesalon to the Earl of pointed out that it was the result ment Opium Monopoly policybered hut at Kowloon Hang, Tal

which marked a definite advance stitution. In spite of the eet

on the views previously credited backs, hopes are strong that this an air mail service between Canton Athlone Reuter. to him, is reinforced by the spesch will be effected, for In the smile and Wuchow and vice versa has

delegate, who yaste

the view

by Lord Lothian, another Liberal of Lord Sankey, the conference is

contracting a new house of such

kind that Hindus and

Sdrant

been authorised. *

The first air mall fight will bo Inaugurated on Friday, January 15: Yör

aka

and arrangements have been

Yor: Wackow-Hong reach Canton in th

of a similar drop in the value of The greater portion of the repo, has been arrested and detain;

silvor, and China's purchasing power to d

Heshoped Britain would stop the release of silver bullion from India

venue from this source sed for enquiries. necessarily derived from Chinese residents, and the Chinese Govern- TAIPO BURGLARY. mont is helpless to relieve them

In addition to the the considered that silvor would re- "Therefore, it is most difficult Mrs. Clarke,living at "White Pirt to a normal price if intes were for Chins to succeed in the task Cottage," Taipo, has reported to the Bureau are suspended for, three years. It was of oplum suppression until the Police that between 8p.m.

opening merely a matter of persuading Bri luterested. Fowers are prepared to January 8 and 9.30 p.m. on Januar provinces tain that the establishment of the

real sacrifice and 60-17, some person atole from her bod

the fullest room, fewellery and other articles

ved to the total value of 3550, 97

#fano and Kwangal:In the gold ju

India