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China Mail

No. 27,706

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1846

HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1931

DEBATE ON PESHAWAR GUARDS MR. THEODORE GOES

INDIA

PREMIER SUMS UP

THE POSITION.

GREAT CHANGES

STILL A LONG WAY TO GO.

THE FRONTIER.

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Metalled Roads & Posts Constructed.

REDUCTION OF TROOPS

BACK TO CABINET.

Labour Caucus Adjourns For Three Weeks.

FINANCIAL POLICY.

New Delhi, Yesterday.

Canberra, Yesterday. After the troubles at Peshawar The Labour caucus has ratified inst year the Government hes Mr. Theodore's re-admission into sanctioned the construction of the Cabinet. The caucus agreed. sts linked by metalled roads to adjourn for three weeks in through the Khajuri and Akakhel order to give Mr. Theodore and Rugby. Yesterday. plains, with the object of prevent- Mr. Scullin time to prepare a For the first time since its con- ing hostile concentrations from financial policy and obtain the clusion the work of the Round, threatening Peshawar.

Cabinet's approval thereof.

Table Conference was discussed Experimental borings have Mr. Theodore will not resume in the House of Commons to-day, found water and the Posts are the Treasureship immediately, when the Premier, Mr. Ramsay being constructed, also a bridge and it is not yet known what will MaeDonald, who presided at the built across the Bara River. be the attitude of the Opposition, conference, made a statement. Operations have reached a stage but there is a possibility of their The Viceroy-elect of India, Lord permitting of a material reduc refusing to recognise him.

Reuter. Willingdon, listened in the gallery jtion of troops-Reuter,

to the speeches.

The Premier emphasised that ceed with it to a complete con- the present position of the Indian clusion."

consequences

India's Debt.

British Rights.

must be ΠΟ unfair economic or cominercial discrimina-

Earlier NewN.

Canberra, Yesterday. The Federal Cabinet, by a jourity, has decided to re-appoint

CHINA'S DEFAULT.

Demand For Payment Of Railway Debt.

London, Yesterday.

ma-

In the House of Commons to-day, replying to Mr. A. M. Samuel in regard to the Chinese default in respect of railway bonds, including the Hukuang, Tientsin - Pukow, Lung Tsingu Hai, and the Canton Kowloon Railways, Dr. Hugh Dalton stated that 'the proposals aimed at the general liquidation of out- standing debts which China submitted to the Nanking Conference in November, and was now considering.

problem was the result of evolu- Sir Samuel Hoare, one of the Mr. Theodore as Treasurer. tion and had been reached step Conservative delegates at by step, each with its inevitable conference.

the This is subject to ratification by emphasised that the Labour caucus, which Mr. of steps

later many vital questions remained Scullin will demand to-night. He specially reminded Mr. for future settlement and again Winston Churchill, who was sedefined the Conservative attitude. critical of the present policy, that While they recognised that great it was a sequel to statements changes were taking place in the made and stages reached when East, there were certain solemn other Governments, of which Mr. obligations which could not be Churchill had been a member. abandoned. Indian defence still were in power.

rested on Britain, foreign affairs) and international obligations should be controlled by the Crown The Premier paid a tribute to and, in the interests of India, no the Indian delegates who came in less than of Britain, internal se the conference at a grave incon-curity and financial stability must venience, loss and risk to their re-be effectively safeguarded. The putations. He said that the raw protection of minorities was also material of the conference was a solemn obligation. the Simon Report, for which India owed a debt which in future she would be better able to appreciate.. There

What they meant to do and tion against British traders, and what they had done was to agree the rights of services recruited by in advance upon the principles the Secretary of State must be ob- which should be applied to the served. Indian Government and made the

constitution might foundation of any constitution ul emerge then must have a sure and timately drafted. Everything stable foundation. was provisional and the stability mate demands were satisfied and if If those legiti- | and success of the work done

a constitution for all-India WAR depended on how the structure as framed with effective safeguards, it whole was to be built. He be-a system of Government had a rea- lieved most sincerely that struc-sonable chance of working. Con- ture could be built. But the first servatives would not quibble over stage was to remove Indian pro the minor details. blems from the field of suspicion, tering on a new phase of British- They were en- to get Indians to accept candour Indian relations in which partner- and goodwill and to get them to ship must be made the moving prin see exposed in all its naked weak-cipic and co-operation the basis of ress the policy of so-called pass-action. ive resistance which was only a sort of moral cloak for lawless- ness.

Regime of Goodwill,

Whatever

Two Great Things.

Sir John Simon said that the conference and accomplished two great things. The Indian Pria-

Sir Miles Lampson, the Ambassador, had circularis- ed all British creditors with a view to obtaining a full list of their claims.

Sir William Davison asked Dr. Dalton to see that the £3,000,000 of the Boxer In- demnity was not parted with until these Chinese obliga- tions were fulfilled.

Dr. Dalton replied that he did not remember that that point had been advanced on behalf of Conservatives in the recent Boxer Indemnity debate. Reuter.

STOP PRESS

Peking, To-day.

The Apostolic Delegation this morning received à tele- gram from Monsignor Bal- coni, dated January 17, stating that Father Mazzoll had been released. The mes- sage states that he was cap- tured on October 12, hence the news thereof took more than a month to reach Pek- ing.

A Peking cable of Novem- ber 17 stated:The Apostolic Deelgation here has received a telegram from Bishop Balconi of Hanchungfu, Shen- si, stating that the Catholic. mission at Kulupa, Shens!, where there is also a semin- ary and orphanage, has been pillaged by bandits, who car- ried off Fathers Mazzoli and Filia and a Chinese priest named Achang.]

OPIUM

SEIZURE

: BRITISH SHIP.

ON

$120,000 Worth Hidden

in Hollow Mast.

CREW MOSTLY CHINESE.

New York, Yesterday. Six hundred half-pound tins of opium, valued at over $120,000, were seized by Customs officials to-day during an inspection of the British motor ship Raby. Castle, from Port Sald..

The opium was concealed in the base of a hollow steel mast. No arrests have been made, but the crew, consisting mostly of Chinese, are being kept under sur- veillance.

The owners of the ship are liable to a fine equal to the value of the opium if it is proved that they were aware of the shipment. -Reuter's American Service.

[The motor ship Raby Castle is ja vessel of 4,996 tons, and is owned by the Lancashire Ship- Iping Co., Ltd. (J. Chambers and [Co., Managera). She was built in 1925 by the Caledonian Shipbuild- ing Co.. her port of registry be- {ing Liverpool.]

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

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

A SECRET?

An Irish Motorist thinks that the Dunlop Rubber Company possess d valuable secret. Read what he says:

from practical experience

I have been long slace convinced that Dunlop covers and tubes are the best made for CATH, motor cycles and cycles. I say this from long experience."

"The Dunlop Company. I think, la like Guinness & Co. It has a manufacturing secret, undiscovered by its competitors."

The Dunlop Rubber Co., (China) Ltd. Pedder Building.

Telephone 24554.

NATIVE REVOLT IN CHINA NEONLITE CO. FATE OF MR.

LIBYA.

SUED.

BROPHY

་---

Italian Troops Complete Canvasser's Claim for NO NEWS OF PILOT'S

Their Occupation.

FIGHTING CONCLUDES,

Commissions.

A SHARP DISCUSSION.

ARRIVAL.

FEARED LOST

-Rome, Yesterday. A sharp discussion as to the Italian troops completed their right of a defendant to enter a NO SAFETY DEVICES [occupation of Libyn дз aderial of partnership in a firm at result of the capture of any time in the course of a case Kufra after 24 days' fighting over was heard this morning in the u. 12-mile front. A hundred Supreme Court (before Mr natives were killed and a number Justice Jacks),

CARRIED.

Manila, Yesterday. Considerable anxiety is felt in

taken prisoner, whilst a quantity The case was one in which Mr. of munitions was captured. The J. M. Xavier, of Granville Road, Italians lost two officers and two Kowloon, sued the China Neonlite regard to the fate of Mr. G. W. native soldiers. Sixteen of their Company, of 24A, Des Voeux Brophy, Manager and Pilst of the men were wounded.-Reuter. Road, Central, and Ip Lan-chin, L. E. Gale Aviation Co., who took

[Italian Libya lies along the In Tai-kwong, and J. E. Malarchy. off at 8.15 a.m. on Thursday last in north coast of Africa between partners therein, for payment of a Waco plane, alming at a non- Tunis on the west and Egypt on commission alleged to be due in stop flight to Canton, en route to the east. The territory in effec-consideration of the introduction Manila. Itive operation was greatly ex- to defendants of clients who purs for an elaborate reception of the "Eleventh hour preparations here tended southwards early in 1928, elesed Neonlite signs. and by the occupation and linking Plaintiff further asked for airman have

1

accordingly

been

up of the coasts of Gialo, Augila, statement of accounts in connec- dampened by the fact that that no Marada, Zella, and Socna, and the tion with purchases made by the news of his arrival in Canton has linking of Gialo to Jaraboob, the firms introduced, named in his been received. temporary southern frontier was claim as the Asiatic Petroleum are uneasy as the flier had not been Those sponsoring the reception extended. According to an ar-Company (South China), Ltd.,

the Standard Oil Company of heard of by three o'clock this morn- New York, and the Hong Kong ing. and enquiries to Canton have and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

elecited no reply.-Reuter."

CHINA AND DRUG EVIL. League Refers To Hong Kong Seizure.

Geneva, Yesterday. The Opium Committee be- gan an examination to-day of the list of seizures of drugs between November, 1929, and June, 1930. Sir Malcolm Delevingne drew attention

to the large seizure of Persian opium in Hong Kong in September, and emphasised the value of information obtained from China in regard to consign- ments of drugs, and said that this would be enhanced if the Chinese authorities with- out delay sent particulars of such cases to the Govern- menta of countries from which the drugs had been dispatched."

Doctor Woo Kai-seng (China) undertook to com- municate Sir Malcolm Delevingne's observations to the Chinese Government and added that the Chinese authorities would do their utmost in the matter. Reuter.

Mr. T. I. Prior said he appear-

A Trial Flight.

ed for defendants named as the Mr. Brophy's attempt was in the first, third, and fourth. Mr. nature of a trial light, with the Horace Lo, who

establishing a was in Court, object of later said that he appeared for a second Shanghai-Manila air mail and pas-· defendant, Ip Lan-chun, who, senger service. The distance from however, denied being a partner.660 miles, a flight which Mr. Canton to Manila is approximately

Hard to Find!

unless strong

Mr. D. L. Strellett, for plaintiff, Brophy had hoped to complete in said there had been the utmost six or seven hours, difficulty in tracing Mr. Lo's head winds were encountered. The client. The writ had been issued cockpit of his 'plane, the Phoenix, on December 17, but was not had been specially altered to allow served until January 10. The de for the installation of an extra fuel fendant had not appeared in Court tank holding 50 gallons of petrol, previously, and therefore he thus giving a total fuel capacity of With the added fuel

He claimed

(counsel) was entitled to assume 82 gallons. that he had not specifically denied tank, the biplane thus had a flying partnership. Now Mr. Lo came range of almost 1,000 miles. along at very short notice, and, No Emergency Devices. entered this plea.

The aeroplane is a light Waco that second defendant had ample trading biplane, powered with 125 time to deny partnership before. horse power Warner motor, a much hand. Under the circumstances, smaller power plant than is usually he had not gone into the evidence used for long distance flying. Mr. as to that issue.

Brophy, however, is placing com-

Was

Mr. Lo replied that his client plete confidence in the motor, and a man of repute in the is not carrying with him any of Colony, and was not the sort of the emergency safety devices often man to evade service. He had no carried by over-water fliers. need to do so. As to notice of de- Mr. Brophy has had a long and nial of partnership, he had tele varied experience in the field of phoned to Mr. Strellett on Satur-aviation. Some years ago he main- Phoenix. day morning to that effect, and tained a flying school written him also. He thought Arizona. Later he served As ári there had been sufficient time to Instructor In the Mexican air force. go into the matter between Satur- and as a pilot for the Mexico- day and the present date.

Guatemala air mall company. Bo- "Jumped-Up Denial." fore coming out to the Far East, hò Mr. Strellett replied that Mr. Lo was director of aviation in the At this moment, said the Pre- ces had been brought into the dis-

OPIUM OFFENCE. mier, the Indian representatives cussion

rang him up about 11 a.m. on Central American country of San not only with British

rangement with France (1919) as Saturday, The case which led to the pre-

He received a are on their way home,

chit Salvador. sworn statesmen but with their

a result of the Treaty of 1915, the later, and at once wrote his client. com vious resignation is still pending.

Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the western frontier extends in a curve Nothing could be done before coast and across the 650 miles of This flight down the south Chind. champions of the work which has patriots in British-India. That-Reuter.

Central Magistracy this morning, from west of Ghadames to south Monday, and it was then very late open sea that stretch between Can- been done, convinced of our ain- was a tremendous achievement. He

a Chinese was charged with the of Tummo including Ghat. cerity, advocates of the cessation and his colleagues of the Statutory [It was reported from Sydney on unlawful possession of 60 taels of the Egyptian frontier Italy has ship issue.. "I contend that sepine Islands was planned in all On to prepare a case on the partner-ton and the capital of the Philip- of strife, and sworn to do their Commission had for two years care-July & that the Federal Treasurer, raw opium. He pleaded guilty. best to inaugurate a regime of fully considered the recommendathe Rt. Hon. Mr. Edward Grenville

Revenue Officer Grimmitt sald After a quarrel between Italy and in an appearance before, and spe- cability of an air and passenger ser obtained Jaraboob from Britain. cond defendant should have put effort to demonstrate the practi- goodwill and co-operation in find- tions and had reached the conclu- Theodore, had resigned, following that defendant had apparently ing solutions of the various pro- sion now generally accepted that it the announcement of the findings come down here on the Kong So, Turkey in 1911, the former occu-cifically denied the partnership," vice between the mainland and the blems which presented themselves was quite impossible to visualise a of the Queensland Royal Commis-and that he had previous convice army there. The war continued]wis entitled to assume it was ad-!

ried Tripoli and established an said counsel. "Not doing so, I Islands. at St. James's Paince. The Gov-satisfactory, constitution for India Bion of Enquiry into the circum-tions under the ernment was now considering how unless it. brought the Indian stances attending the purchase of Oplum Ordinances.

Tobacco and until 1912, when an armistice mitted. The denial cannot be de-ence, pointing out the good pros the work was to be carried on. Princes within the circle. ·

Mungana (Chillagoe) Mines by the Mr. Lindsell imposed a fine of

declared, followed by the layed until he puts in his defence. pects of the canvassing appoint- He already had

Government, Another great achievement was Queensland Labour Reen the

$1,500 with the alternative of six signing of the Treaty of Ouchy.] He must make it on his appear.ment As a result, plaintiff attend- Viceroy-Elect and he hoped to ap- to a remarkable degree of suspicion

that the conference had got rid when Mr. Theodore was Premier.

ance. By not appearing before ed at the Company' office, and after proach the lenders of other

The Commission found that Mr.

NEW GOVERNOR. and now entering this plea, he is further conversation, agreed to parties, since he felt that it would and misunderstanding. Never-Theodore and another Labour ex-

actually to gain by non-compliance become a canvasser. Tha terms be a great calamity if the admirtheless, they had only travelled a Premier, Mr. W. McCormack, also

SIR T. A. CUBITT APPOINTED with the order of the Court. were that five per cent. of the pur- able co-operation between them very small part of the way to be Mr. Goddard, who was Mines

"It is only out here that the chase price was to be paid hím op which was conducted on indepen-covered before a constitution could Manager of Chillagoe, were guilty

· TO BERMUDA.

denial of partnership is jumped completion of the buying contract, dent and non-political lines dur-be framed and four conclusions be of fraud and dishonesty in procur-

up at any time in this matter. and a further five per cont, mak- ing the conference, was broken is reached.

ing the State to purchase the mines

LONG ARMY CAREER. Mr. Strellett added, with some ing ten per cent. In all, when the further stages of the negotiations. He rejoiced at the success of the for £40,000. Mr. Theodore, inter-

warmth. "The donial of partner- Neonlite sign was finally delivered- Dealing with the work of the con- conference in securing the 'adhesion viewed, hotly denied the charges,

London, Yesterday. ship seems to he put in here any and hung up, at which time the pur- ference the Premier emphasised of the Princes to the general idea which, he declared, were the work

time In a case. It is a rarity In chasers paid the balance due on the H.M. the King has approved England. I apologise for taking contract. that the safeguards, contained in p an. All-India Federation, of his. political enemies. the proposed constitution were Secondly, It was inevitable in the Theodore made it clear that his re

the appointment of Major-up so much of Your Lordship's time, Influencing Buyers. not the result of distrust and time available that the conference signation would only operate until.

General Sir Thomas Astley but I feel very strongly about the Plaintiff, Mr. Strellett em- were not meant for use in ordin-had not been able to produce a these charges were cleared up.]

Cubitt, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., to be matter.".

phasised, had nothing more to do Fary times but only in the event practical solution on so many very

His Lordship, after hearing Mr.than to Influence people to buy tha and Commander-in- Governor

Lo, who claimed that the notice was signs.. That was all. He was on Chief of Bermuda in succession to sufficient, adjourned the fasue, until a pure commission basis of ten per the late Sir Louis Bola, Reuter, after the hearing of the case cent. If sales accrued as the direct [Sir Thomas Cubitt has only that if judgment were given against was entitled to his commissions, against the company. He added result of his representations, a ary 1, 0.28 inch against anonce previously held a Colonial the company, he would then consi- under a verbal agreement with

appointment of this nature, and der the question of defendant's plaintiff.

of emergency.

matters.

Mr.

EXPORT OF GOLD.

difficult and cardinal Thirdly, while recognising how Bonds of Confidence. much satisfaction a formula of There were safeguards in the responsibility with safeguards background in every free State in could give, he could not regard the UNRESTRICTED UP TO VALUE

the world. He asked the House unformulated safeguards on vital

OF $1,000,000. to agree to the Government pur matters as details... How the suing the problem in detail in con- safeguards were to work was really

EGYPT'S DECISION. sultation with the representative the essence of the scheine. Itself. Indians and constitutional experts Lastly, the good work of the con-

Cairo, Yesterday. here.

ference should be recognised as a beginning and not at all as the end. It is understood that the Gov "If you wish to bind India to you British Wireless Service.

ernment has decided to allow the by bonds of confidence and make "tror." And Disaster." unrestricted export of gold up to her happy within your Empire

London Yesterday.

£1,000,000, after which the and Commonwealth, concluded

Mr. MacDonald reviewed the

posi Mr. MacDonald, if you wish to whole labours of the Conference to will be reconsidered,.... It l hear her praise you in gratitude and asked the House to instruct the learned that the Egyptian for and remain with you in pride, Government to complete. Its work eign trade returns for 1980 show then accept the work which has in India, where an alternative to an adverse trade balance of about been done by the conference and Instruct the Government to pro

(Continued on Page 9.),

$12,000,000 Reuter

onthe' hard labour.

DRIZZLE OR MIST.

The Royal Observatory's weather report to-day states: A strong anti-cyclone re- mains contral to the north of the Yangtaze Valley,

Strong monsoon along the S.E. coast of China and over the N. China Sea,,-

Forecast N.. E. winds, strong generally overcsát; drizzle or mist..

Rainfall

Rainfall to 10. a.m. to-day 0.17 Inch, Rainful since Janu~~

average of 1:11.

Temperature.,

The temperature at certain specified contres this morning at G.o'clock wASI

61

Hong Kong

Macao

Pratas Island.

Manila

Foochow

40

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Amoy Swntow

Chefoo Shanglia

Was

Plainilite Claim.

the three purchasers named, al

that was in 1914, when he acted partnership. The question of costs In point of fact, he brought about na Deputy Commissioner of would also be adjourned for the various sales, and was duly pald Somaliland Protectorate. He en-time being.

hia ten per cent. But in respect of tered the Army in '1891. (from the Military Academy at Wool- Mr. Strollett then opened the though he made numerous' calls, wich) and served in West Africa plaintiff's case, which was that he and purchase contracts were eventu- until the European War, when he answered a newspaper advertise ally made, defendants refused commanded a division with the mant by defendants, as a result of payment, in spite of repeated re- rank of Major-General From which he had a conversation with gucate. They also refused to give 1920 to 1924 he was General Mr. Ip Tal-kwong, one of the part him any information as to whether Officer Commanding the Presi-ners. The terms.proposed, commis- purchase contracts had been made, dency and Assam District, and insion only, did not suit bim, and he although, in fact they were. 1928 was appointed to the com- decided not to go on

The further hearing was ́ad- mand of the Second Division. He

Later, Mr. Malarchy, another Joured, after witness had been partner, called at plaintiff's resid-cross-examined by Mr. Prior.

18 60 years of age.]