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HONG KONG, -WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1931.

GERMANS CHARMED BY RECEPTION.

British Ministers to Go to-Berlin.

WARM HOSPITAL.

SUEZ CANAL DUES CONTROVERSY.

British Government Has No Responsibility.

MATTER FOR SHIPOWNERS.

...

MOUNTAIN VIGIL OF LONDON BOY.

Waiting For Help That Came Too Late.

BESIDE DYING' UNCLE.

Rugby, Yesterday.

Rugby, Yesterday, The story of a London school- Before he embarked from Replying to a Parliamentary boy's vigil оп Southampton on his return to question to-day the President of

the top of| Germany Dr. Bruening to-day the Board of Trade, Mr. W. Helvellyn, the Lake district sent a telegram to the Premier, Graham, said that the British mountain, waiting for the arri Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, thank Government had from time to val of a rescue party which did ing him for "the most charming time supported with general inter-not come in time to save the life hospitality extended to Dr. est the proposals for reasonable Curtius and myself," and ex-reductions in the Suez Canal and, of his uncle, has been told at pressing gratitude for the warm in particular, had lent their sup-Morecambe. The boy is Jack reception accorded them by the port to proposals for a reduction Kitchen, aged 15, the son of Mr. British Government and people. in the present level of dues.

Dr. Curtius also telegraphed a

Fred Kitchen. He lives in Mount Regarding the precise pro Nod Road, Streatham, S.W, and similar message to the Foreign visions of the 1883 Suez Canal is a pupil at the Streatham Gram- Secretary.

agreement which, as a ques-mar School. tioner stated, provided for the The dead man was Mr. Arthur reduction of dues to five gold Wilson Waterfall, aged 68, pro- france when the Canal dividend prietor of the Hotel Metropole, reached 25 per cent. Mr. Morecambe. Graham pointed out

With him on the that the climbing expedition were his son agreement appeared to have Maurice and Jack Kitchen. When been concluded between the asso-they reached the summit of Hel- ciation of steamship owners yellyn after lunch, Mr. Water- trading with the East on the one fall began to feel the strain of hand, and the Suez Canal Com the climb. His son decided to pany on the other. The British seek help while Jack Kitchen Government were not a party to stayed with Mr. Waterfall. the agreement and any question of securing compliance with its terms would seem a matter for the shipowners concerned.-Bri tish. Wireless Service.

Appropriate replies were sent by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Arthur Henderson, who, sa stated in an earlier message, have both accepted the invitation to pay a return visit to Berlin on o date which is to be fixed later. -British Wireless Service...

Of Helpful Nature...

The

London, Yesterday. memorable visit of Dr. Bruening and Dr. Curtius to Bri- tain has terminated with their de parture from Southampton in the destroyer Winchester, which con- veyed them to their liner lying, in

Cowes Roada. “

Before leaving, they expressed the opinion that their

conversa

tions here with Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald and other Ministers would do much to help international, co- operation.

Messrs. MacDonald and Arthur

Henderson accepted an invitation to pay a return visit to Germany,

but no date has been fixed-Reu-. ter.

AUSTRALIA'S DEBT.

SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION IN

EXPENDITURE.

NATIONAL APPEAL.

Melbourne, Yesterday.

POWDER TINS MADE

INTO BOMBS.

to

Sent Through Post Prominent Australians.

“CLUMSY ATTEMPT.”

Lost in the Mist.

fall lost

In the mist young Mr. Water- his way, eventually He reaching 'a lowland road. had to go 30 miles back in a

car. Then he met his cousin

Jack, who had become anxious about the delay.

Together they, returned to the top of Helvellyn, with a carrying

party to help Mr. Waterfall. When they reached him he was dead. It was then 6.30 p.m. The descent with the dead man took nearly five hours,

Young Jack Kitchen, who is now waiting for the inquest, told of his anxious wait by the side of his uncle. He said:

Clumsy bombs, innall boxes, de- livered by post, have reached the Chief Justice Sir Adrian Knox),

"My cousin went for help and Mr. Davidson, the manager of the Bank of New South Wales, Mr.I stayed on. I waited what seem Warwick Fairfax, proprietor of the ed to be an endless time, but no Sydney Herald, Sir Samuel Hor-rescue. party came. It was hard dern, president of the Royal Agri- to decide what to do. Uncle was The voluntary conversion of Aus-cultural Society of New South very ill, and I became so anxi traila's internal debt in order to Wales, and Sir Alfred Meeks, mem-ous that I went down to fetch help: On the way I met my avert the risk of default, contem- ber of the Legislative Council of myself,

cousin, who had been lost; in the plated in the Premiers' Conference, New South Wales.

E report of which is supported by the Opposition Parties, emphasises that a substantial reduction in ex- penditure is an essential -pre- liminary to the restoration of pros perity.

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SERVANT PROBLEM.

A man called at the Herald office. mist." to warn Mr. Fairfax not to open a parcel which was coming by mail. He agreed to accompany a repre- sentative of the Herald to the police station, where he told a sensational

It outlines for thla purpose atory of an international secret 80- conversion plan involving the ciety. He said that he became en- Saving of 22 per cent, in the tangled with it in Egypt, and alleged debt services, and appeals to all that the society had blackmailed him to share in the sacrifice in the in- and tried to force him to deliver the tercets of the country.

bombe. When he threatened to'ŝn- The Conference proposes

form the police they assaulted the

him.... appointment of a national appeal executive, consisting of the Pre- mier "Mr. Scullin), the lender of

the Opposition (Mr. Lyons) and the chairman of the Common- to direct the conversion campaign.

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HOME BY-ELECTION.

GATESHEAD RETAINED BY

LABOUR.

SMALLER MAJORITY.

London, Yesterday. The by-election at Gateshead, owing to the death of the Labour member, Sir James Melville, re- aulted as follows:

Major Evans (Lab.) ... 23,898. Colonel Headlam (Con.) 21;501.

Labour Majority 1,892.

Matches and Glue,

COMMISSION TO ENQUIRE INTO CONDITIONS.

STATUS OF OCCUPATION.

Rugby, Yesterday,

The House of Commons to day granted a private member leave to introduce a Domestic Ser- Detectives recolved the boxes on Vice Bill with the object of set- their delivery and found inside ting up a Commission of five taleum tins, containing two ounces and two others would be women, members, of whom the Chairman of ordinary smokeless gunpowder to review comprehensively the The ignition points consisted of wax conditions of employment of vestas stuck on paper with glue and domestic servants and improve surrounded by loose powder..

Chief Detective Inspector Mackay the status of their occupation.

It was 'claimed that the mea- regards the affairs -conceived and clumsy.

He says that sure would be in the interests of ignition had occurred while opening that the Commission could draw servants and their mistresses and the parcel it might have caused up a charter making general such blindness and other personal injury standard of work and wages as but not death. He discredits the existed among good employers. secret society story”......

British Wireless Service.

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RECORD FLIGHT.

SCOTT CONGRATULATED BY THE KING.

Rugby, Yesterday.

congratulatory message to Capt. W. A. Scott on breaking the re cord by his flight from Australia to Britain..

His Majesty sent a similar message-to: Scott; when he reach- HM the King has sented Australia" in record flying Reuter. through the Secretary for Air a time-British Wireless Service.

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