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SIX China Mail

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IN THE HOUSE

PREMIER ON TASKS.

AN OUTBURST

LANSBURY. IN BITTER MOOD.

London, Yesterday.

No. 27,951.

CHINA & JAPAN

ALLEGATIONS BY BOTH SIDES.

CHINA'S THREAT

GENERAL DAWES TO ATTEND MEETING.

Japan has

ESTABLISHED 1845.

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1931.

YESTERDAY'S

DOLLAR-

The closing rate of the dollar on demand, yesterday was 1/5 1/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

HONG KONG FORGETS NOT THE GREAT BODY OF

GLORIOUS

DEAD

IMPRESSIVE TRIBUTE PAID AT THE LOCAL CENOTAPH

GOVERNOR ATTENDS MEMORIAL SERVICE

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CEREMONY AT THE CHINESE WAR MEMORIAL

IN THE BOTANICAL · GARDENS,

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19 TORIES

PREMIER'S SON IN DOMINIONS' OFFICE.

London, Yesterday.

The following appointments

of the Hong Kong Under Secretary Air, The north east corner

SIGNOR GRANDI

̈ PRECAUTIONS IN

NEW YORK.

NO RECEPTION

ANTI-FASCIST DEMONSTRATIONS.

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New York, Yesterday. Geneva, Yesterday.

Owing to fear of anti-Fascist The duty of moving and se-

counter-attacked

of Ministers were announced to-demonstrations endangering the conding the address in reply to Chinese publicity with two com-

day:-

life of the Italian Foreign Minis- the King's speech in the House munications to the League sta-

Ministers Not in the Cabinet. ter Signor Grandi when he ar- of Commone this afternoon was tistically summarising the move-

Under Secretary Foreign Affairs, rives on Monday to confer with entrusted to the Conservativements of Chinese troops in the

Captain Eden. President Hoover, he will be met Commoner, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, neighbourhood of Anganchi,

Under Secretary Dominions, at the pier by a heavily armed who had a bumper majority of showing that about 20,000 men

Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. guard and.rushed in a closed car 14,000 votes in the General Elec- and 31 guns had been quartered

to Pennsylvania station where he tion, and to the National Labour-lopposite the Japanese in an ad- To-day, on the 18th anniver-sound of the bugles died away, fed to the cast by the Royal Air Under Secretary Colonies,

Force and Indian Officers.

Sir Robert Hamilton. will entrain for Washington ite, Mr. Flint, who only scraped vanced position of the Nonni sary of Armistice Day, the ob- the troops stood at ease.

The Band of the South Wales Under Secretary India,

without the customary civic re- in with two votes.

Bridge, and showing that further servance of the Two Minutes" Following the "Reveille" the

Reuter's American Marquis of Lothian. ception. Mr. Lloyd chiefly concerned reinforcements were 'en route. Silence in memory of the Glori- Bleasing was given by Bishop H. Borderers was in the entrance:

Service. himself with the economic situa The Japanese Note earnestly ous Dead, and the laying of Valtorta, who was accompanied lobby

Sir Phillip Sassoon. tion drawing attention to the draws attention to the position, wreaths at the Cenotaph were by the Military Chaplain, Rov. [Club

was occupied by Royal Naval Minister Overseas Trade, present large imports of foreign and says that if the numerical again observed with all solemn-Fr. J. J. O'Brien, C.F. goods in anticipation of the ex-superiority, roughly 10 to 1,ity. The scene at the Cenotaph | Then the Band of the jat Bat- Officers, the Royal Marines' Old

Major Colville. Under Secretary War,

Earl Stanhope. pected protective tariffs, and de-tempts the Chinese to acts of was impressive, and of such a talion, The South Wales Border- Comrades' Association, The Royal Attorney General,

Sir William Jowiti. Financial Secretary War Office, clared that Government would war, a dangerous situation may nature that, assuredly, it willers, played the National Anthem. Engineers' Old Comrades' As60-

Mr. Duff Cooper. have overwhelming support if arise.

linger long in the memory of

ciation, the Guard's Association, Solicitor General, Placing of Wreaths. decided to take measures to deal

Sir Thomas Inskip. Financial Secretary Treasury, The Chinese communique, those who beheld and took part His Excellency the Governor the British Legion, and the Royal

Mr. Walter Elliot. with the position.

Jealing with Tientsin, accuses the in it.

then proceeded to lay a wreath Antedeluvian Order of Buffaloes. Chancellor of the Duchy

At the south-west corner were of Lancaster,

Chlef Government Whip, Lansbury's Denunciation. Japanese authorities of suborn- In spite of the rain the scene at the foot of the Cenotaph, and

Mr. 3. C. C. Davidson.j

Captain Margesson, Mr. George Lansbury's debut ing the dregs of the population was colourful with the mingling was followed by His Excellency ex-Naval and Military Nurses,

Of the 32 appointments, 19 are as Leader of the Opposition and to foment a revolt against the of Service uniformis, the the G.O.C, the Commodore, the ex-Service men, the Volunteer Financial Secretory Admiralty.

Lord Stanley, filled by Conservatives, 8 by only ex-Cabinet Minister on the Chinese

red, purple, blue and black Senior Air Force Officer, the Corps, and a detachment of the

Liberals, and 5 by National La Opposition side, was observed China and Disarmament Truce. robes and white

surplices Royal Marchant Navy, repre- Royal Air Force, with the Army Secretary Mines,

facing Chater

Mr. Isane Foot, bourites-Reuter, with certain Ironical interest "If unhappily the bulwarks of of the Bishops, Clergy and sentatives of foreign Navies and detachments from Government benches as he peace, like the Covenant and Choir, the glittering medals of Armics, and Members of the Road. bitterly declared that this was Kellogg Pact, crumble, China will the Officers and troops and Executive and Legislative Coun- no National Government but one regretfully be compelled to put some of the prieste, the brilliant cils. which won office by chicanory, before all other national tasks, uniforms and orders of the mem- Wreaths were next laid by corner, also facing Chater Road, fraud, abuse of broadcasting and the building up of national de-bers of the Consular Body and members of the Royal Navy, the and here positiona were also raising of a panic for which they fences strong enough to secure the sombre black of the morning Military, the Royal Air Force, allotted to representatives of knew there was no justification. respect and preserve her territor-suits of the members of the Exe- the British Legion, Old. Com foreign Armies and. Navies, the The Opposition, he said. would ial integrity and political indepen-cutive and Legislative Councila rades Associations, the Hong Consular Body, and the Royal submit proposals for dealing with dence against external aggres- and the Judges. The whole Kong General Chamber of Com- Merchant Navy, the crisis.

sion." This is the stinging tail dominated by the vivid crimson merce, the Rotary Club, and China War Memorial, Premier on Government's Tasks. of Dr. Sze's letter to the of the Flanders poppies in button- civilian bodies..

At 11.45 a.m, another. cere Mr. MacDonald at the outset League in replying to the propo-holes and on helmet and caps of His Excellency the Governor mony took place at the Chinese said that the work of the Gov-aal of a year's armament truce, the troops.

departed at 11.17 a.m., followed War Memorial in the Botanical ernment would follow precisely agreeing thereto, but asserting

by H.E. the G.O.C., the Com-Garden. the lines of the manifesto on that a proposal, like the Disarma His Excellency the Governor modore, Members of the Councils

His Excellency the Governor, which it had won the Election, ment Conference itself depends (Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., and the Judges, and the Clergy with His Excellency the G.0.C., namely, deal with the currency on the issue of the Manchurian K.B.E.) arrived at 10.56 a.m., and Choir. The troops marched the Commodore, and the Senior problem, the problems of credits. conflict.

his car being escorted from Gov- off at 11.20, after which indivi- Air Force Officer were met at It remained true what the

Sir John Simon.

ernment House to as far as the dual wreaths were laid at the the foot of the Garden steps (the Chancellor of the Exchequer had There is unfeigned joy in junction of Des Voeux and Jack Cenotaph.

entrance to the east of Govern-¡ said and he was in the happy League circles that Sir Johnson Roads by the Motor Cycle The Army and Q.A.LM.N.S., ment House) by the Chinese

of the position to be able to declare that Simon will be attending the Section of the Armoured Car the St. John Ambulance Brigade, members

Legislative the Budget had been balanced Council meeting with the pres- Company of the Hong Kong the Girl Guides, the Boy Scouts, Council, who escorted them up and we no longer wore living on tige of the National Government Volunteer Defence Corps. and the Philharmonic Choir were the steps to the Memorial. our capital alone or borrowing. behind him. His brilliant legal On His Excellency's arrival in position at the north-west cor- Here a large gathering waited, The industrial position was show-skill is encouraging hopes that the troops stood to attention. ner of the Cenotaph area, flank- including the Judges, the Mem- ing the most hopeful signs of im- he and M. Briand will contribute The troops, choir and represen- provement, and effective steps powerfully to the silence of the tative bodies were already in will be taken to check any signs tocsins prematurely sounded in position, by 10.45 am, and pre- of profiteering.

Unnatural Economic

Adjustment.

General Dawes.

At the Cenotaph.

NEWS TABLOIDS.

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the past few days.

vious to the Governor's arrival the Commodore, (Captain A. H. America has notified the Walker, O.B.E.) arrived. Ho Mr. MacDonald referred to the League that at the meeting on was followed soon after by His unnatural economic adjustments November 16 that their idea is Excellency the G.O.C. (Major- Japan's G.OM. of business, Vis through the transfer of blocks of that General Dawes may attend General J. W. Sandilands, C.B., count Elichi Shibusawa, is dying. gold from one nation to another the meeting in the absence of the C.M.G., D.S.O.). without regard to circumstances. Amrican Ambassador in Paris, This eventually would lead to but In any case Mr. Prentles impoverishment of both. It Gilbert is sure to attend. was necessary to immediately get Japan's 'Very Definite Reply into contact and this already. was in hand with the nations

primarily concerned so as to

Petty Officer Willis, Poseidon Then came the Bishops and Clergy, who took up position at hero, has been invalided out of the

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The Royal Navy detachment was stationed at the south-east

bers of the Councils, the Direc tors of the Tung Wah, and Po Leung Kuk, members of the Kwong Wah Hospitals, and the District Watch Committee, re- Chinese presentatives of the

the Compradores' Association, General Chamber of Commerce, the Sugar Merchants' Associa tion, other Chinese Bodieą, and' the British Legion.

The "Last Post" was sounded! Navy. the western approach to the

by Buglers of the Argyll and Cenotaph. They robed in the

Sutherland Highlanders, a short Mr. J. H. Thomas, it is under Silence was observed, and then Law Courts.

The Pipers of the 2nd Batta-atood, will visit South Africa. New the "Reveillo" was sounded by Japan has reiterated to the lion, Argyll

Zealand and Canada early in 1932. the Buglers. and Sutherland

to U.S.

Washington, Yesterday.

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His visits will be in connection

His Excellency the Governor

make arrangements to extricate United States Government in- Highlanders then played the with the proposed Dominions then laid a wreath, and was fol ourselves from an absurd econo- sistence that the security of lament, "Flowers of the For mic entanglement, but great care Japanest lives

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and property est," from the verandah of Economic Conference,

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A Requiem Mass for the re- pose of the souls of those who (Continued on Page 5.)

BER

THE TYPHOON.

lowed by H.E. the G.O.C., the

Our Mecca of Broken Hearts, was necessary to obtain success, shall be assured, and normal re- the Hong Kong Club, after

Commodore; the Senior Air He attached the very highest lations between Chinese and

Mr. Lloyd George is soon to Force Officer, the Chinese Mem- which the Buglers of the importance to M. Laval's visit to Japanese restored before she can lat

leave on a health trip to Ceylon.bers of the Council, Chinese re-| Battalion, The South the United States and hoped that withdraw her troops from Man-Wales Borderers sounded the

presentatives on the Sanitary while, uniformed members of the St. Joseph's Church where a it would first lead to a Franco-churia.

"Last Post," Officers in attend-

H.M. the King, with traditional Board the senior member of Chinese Company of the Police Solemn Service was held at 9 The Japanese Ambassador de-ance coming to the salute. German understanding in which

pomp and ceremony, opened the the District Watch Com- Reserves lined the steps leading a.m. every nation involved must be a clares that his Government will'

new Parliament, yesterday. The Silence.

mittee, the Chairman of the to the Memorial Arch.

" Hong Koni Club. party to the agreement in a final not insist on a final concrete ad-

Precisely at 11 o'clock a gun

Tung Wah Hospital, the Chair- understanding. That was Gov-justment of the three hundred fired by one of His Majesty's from the Throne were-present Chairman of the Chinese Gen-Kong Club was, this morning,

Points treased in the Speech man of the Po Leung Kok, the As in former years, the Hongfell in the War was said by the ernment's policý. ..

outstanding differences between China and Japan, but insists on ships, signalled the start of the financial and economie situation; eral Chamber of Commerce, the open to ladies and friends of - Dumping. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in the China respecting the previous Two Minutes Silence, which was Indian Round Table and Burmese Chinese Co., Police Reserves, the members, and a large number House of Commons said, if Gov- (Continued at foot of next Column.) second round indicated the ter-ences of 1926 and 1980; the forth-Commerce, the British Legion, tunity to watch the ceremony at observed with bowed heads, A Conferences; the Imperial Confer Hong Kong General Chamber of availed themselves of the oppor

The typhoon, which has been of the House at Christmas time, was welcomed by Lord Radnormination of the Silence, where coming Disarmament Conference; the Rotary Club, and other the Censtaph from the Club's

upon the Buglers sounded the and the League of Nations.

threatening the Colony during the verandah, that dumping existed, it would in the House of Lords. In a mov" "Reveille, and, as the Inst

bodiea and individuals. make recommendations and asking address in reply, he said, the

Then His Excellency the Gov- After the ceremony, refresh-past few days, seems to be veering Reports of serious fighting beernor and party departed follow ments were served in, the Club in our direction again. for powers to deal with the mat-League at present was faced with a most difficult problem la its

tween Chinese and Japanese troops ed by the Officials, and finally the lounge, and then an auction sale No. 1 Typhoon Signal was hoist- Manchuria.

efforts to prevent serious trou-treaties relating to the troubled at Nonnl River Birdge are stated

was held in the Club bar of ed early this morning. The Premier did not comment ble in the Far East. He hoped areas. He told Mr. Stimson that to be unfounded. The situation is gathering dispersed.

A body of men from the Chin-aeveral articles collected by At 10.40 this morning, the No. 5 signal (black cone) WRE on the Manchurian situation be that war might be prevented. If the Nonni Bridge was firmly held quiet.

ese portion of the 40th Com-Colonel Robertson. Keen bidding by the Japanese, but the latter

holsted at the Observatory yond offering to give the latest that was, unfortunately, un-

mast. This indicates that a information to-morrow.

achievable they could but hope will not advance northward nor Intermittent firing continued all pany, Royal Engineers, paraded resulted in a tidy sum being

St. Joseph's Church, an League of Nations.

gale may be expected from the tish Officer as also did a detach- the League might be able to limit menace the China Eastern Rail- of Monday night, in Tientsin, but at this ceremony, under a Bri-raised for the Earl Haig Fund.

north-west (North to West), The reference in the King's the evil effects of anything that wayReuter's American Ser- the Chinese are now sald to have ment of District Watchmen The Roman Catholics of Hong speech to the League of Nations might occur.-Reuter.

under Inspector J. Murphy; Kong observed Armistice Day in

ernment found, before the rising

ter.

vice..

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the situation in hand