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FAMOUS EDITOR

DROWNED.

CAPSIZED. DINGHY.

THE GUARDIAN'S LOSS.

E. T. Scott In Windermere Fatality.

London, Yesterday, Mr. E. T. Scott, Editor of the Manchester Guardian has been found drowned in Lake Winder mere.

Mr. Scott, accompanied by his son, boarded a dinghy to go out to his yacht. In midstream the dinghy capsized, but both occup anis managed to get clear. The boy reached the up-turned keel and clung on, whilst the father, who swam to wards the shore in order to get as xistance. The last thing the boy

was a strong swimmer,

saw of his father was the tip of his head as he suddenly sank be neath the waters of the lake. Reuter.

Brilliant Career.

Mr. Edward Taylor Scott, B.Sc. Econ, has occupied the editorial chair of the Manchester Guardian

since 1929. lie was born in 1883 and died at the age of 49. He is

survived by a wife, two sons and

two daughters,

Educated at Rugby, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and later

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EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION

No. 28,089

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1932.

8 AMERICAN UNDER- GRADUATES EXPELLED

SEQUEL TO RAID ON RADCLIFFE WOMEN'S

COLLEGE

STUDENTS

SERENADE GIRLS

POLICE DISPERSE CROWD WITH TEAR GAS. BOMBS.

New York, To-day.

At Cambridge, Massachusetts, eight under- graduates have been expelled as the result of a raid by scores of shouting young men on the dormitories of the Radcliffe Women's College. A riot ensued, and the police had to use tear gas bombs to disperse the students.

The trouble started when undergraduates be- gan serenading the girls as they were going to bed. Later the students broke into the dining-room and removed the gong as a trophy.

ROCKFELLER COMPANY LOSES $4,000,000. Socony Oil Lass For 1931.

New York, To-day.

A loss of $4,000,000. (gold) was shown in the 1931 report of the Socony-Vacuum Corpora- tion. The gross earnings were $61,000,000 (gold), ~Beater's American Service.

[The Socony Corporation is. the main company of John D. Rockfeller's vast oil interests.]

SHANGHAI PEACE CONFERENCE.

Immediate Hopes

Blasted.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

1888- DUNLOP the Ploneer

1932 DUNLOP still the Leader

SHANGHAI VENDELTA INDIAN WOMAN

MURDER

COMMUNISTS KILL DETECTIVE

IN HEART OF CITY

RUSSIAN AGENT COMMITS SUICIDE.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, To-day.

ARRESTED.

DEFIES THE POLICE.

GOING TO DELHI.

Mme. Sarojini Naidu The Acting President.

Bombay, Yesterday. Madame Sarojini Naidu has been arrested for defying the police order which prohibited her from leaving here for Delhi in order to

National Congress, of which she

A grim vendetta broke out to-day when Com-attend the session of the Indian munist agents, in the presence of scores of specta is the acting President.Reuter. tors, shot dead Wong Ping, a military detective of the Lunghua Force, the implacable foe of the local Reds..

Lecturer and Writer: [Madame Naidu has spent a ¡year on the Continent during which time she published three The affray occurred in the very heart of the French Town. volumes of poetry in England. been translated During the shooting a ricsha coolie was seriously wounded, and a These have now

all the Indian vernaculára, five-year-old boy was slightly wounded by a stray bullet.

Police ascribe the murder to reactionaries' revenge, following and some into other European lan- DEPARTURE OF LAMPSON AND successive raids by Wong, who proved a regular scourge to Cort guages, and some have also been

QUO TAI-CHI.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

munistic elements.

into

set to music.

She has delivered lectures and RUSSIAN AGENT'S SUICIDE.

addresses in all the chief cities of Niskovolosoff, the Russian Commercial Agent was discovered India on questions of social, rell- dead in his home in the French Town following gas asphyxiation.glous and educational and national Shanghai, To-day.

He was a victim of neurasthenia. Following financial difficulties,

She was decorated by progress. Peace conference his wife recently returned to her father's house with their chi'd King Edward with the Gold Kaiser- pany wherein he apologised for causing the Company loss by waste relief work in Hyderabad. She is by the departure of Sir of gas.

(Continued on Page 14.), Miles Lampson and Mr. Quo Tai-chi to Nanking,

They were demonstrating outside the dormi-opes have been blasted after a violent quarrel. The suicide left a letter to the Gas Comi-Hind medal for organising food

tories when the police arrived. can Service.

Reuter's Ameri-

The cable does not state to and is generally considered the at the London School of Economica, what University the students be- premier University in America, Mr. Scott was appointed Private longed. Cambridge is an Eng- the equivalent of Oxford Univer Secretary and A.D.C. to Sir Sydney lish-appearing city adjoining Bos-sity in England. Olivier, Governor of Jamaica, from ton, and is the seat of Harvard Radcliffe Women's College is 1907-9. He entered into financial University. It is probable that in Cambridge, and is one of the journalism from 1909-11 until he the undergraduates were Har- most exclusive Institutions in the joined the Manchester Guardian-vard students, but there is a pos- United States. Close-and friend- During the Great War he served sibility that they may be students ly relations usually exist between with the R.F.A. His chief recrea of Boston University which is the students of Radcliffe and of tion was golf.]

only a mile away from Harvard Harvard, although cases of trou-

ble have been rare,

HAPPY VALLEY RACING

DISARMAMENT PROGRESS.

Geneva Agrees to British Plan.

Geneva, Yesterday.

believe

although some quarters GOVERNOR OF CEYLON optimistically that a compromise for mula may be found, en- abling an early resump- tion of the Conference

SIR JOHN SIMON ON

QUALITATIVE DISARMAMENT.

Makes Amendment to

His Resolution.

CRITICISED.

Explanation in Commons,

EXTENT OF POWER,

London, Yesterday.

Various Labour complaints syg- gesting the Governor of Ceylon's misuse of his powers in overriding the State Council were answered by Sir G. Hamilton, Under-Score- tary for the Colonies, during a debate on the Colonial Estimates in

BRITISH COLONIAL

EMPIRE

POSITION REVIEWED IN THE

HOUSE OF COMMONSLE

MUI TSAIS IN HONG KONG

COLONIES SUFFERING HEAVILY OWING TO THE WORLD DEPRESSION.

r

Rugby, festerday. |that In spite of every effort during the House of Commons. He point The position of the Colonial Em- the recent negotiations it was im- an effective ed out that the Governor had cer-pire, which is suffering heavily possible to frame. tain duties, including the gafe- lowing to the world depression, was acheme of control, but he thought guarding of the Services, and any reviewed in the House of Commons that the right course had been taken which he considered of to-day by the Colonial Secretary. in examining the matter at once' and qualitative resolution for the pro- MacDonald, had further conferences paramount importance. These

It was then learned that several announcing the result plainly and were only used in four Colonies had only been able to carry unequivocably.

on with the agistance of grants in

Iraq Mandate.

has agreed to Sir John Simon's

GOOD CLASS PONIES AND The Disarmament Conference

BIG FIELDS EXPECTED

EXCELLENT

PROSPECTS

(By Wombat.)

The Fourth Extra Race Meet-, cially in the races set aside for ment to placate French opinion, ing of the Hong Kong Jockey Club first class ponies.

making the last sentence of the

matter

powers

instances.

ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY.

Wreath - Laying Ceremony at Cenotaph.

Aid or loans from the British The period of Mandate in Iraq Treasury. A number of other was drawing to a close and the Colonies would have been in the Council of the League Nations had same position, but for the fact that recommended Iraq's entry to full in more prosperous times they ac-membership. What had once been cumulated reserves on which they a kackward and impoverished pro were able to draw.

vince had now become a prosperous. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister said state with stable and competent ad- that the Colonial Office was con-ministration.

During the debate which follow- tinuing the practice of helping ad-

in"

A NEW PROPOSAL.

Ragby, Yesterday, The Prime Minister Mr. Ramsay hibition of certain classes of arma- with leading atatesmen at Geneva ments of the more aggressive type,|

the 'although its original form has been to-day, and at luncheon was

guest of Dr. Bruening. Others slightly amended.

The resolution was carried un-Dr. W. W. Yen (China), Mr. present included Monaleur Tardieu, animously with great applause after Sir John had expressed his Matsudaira (Japan), and Senor willingness to accept the amend- Madariaga (Spain).

During the morning Mr. Mac- Donald attended a meeting of the of the Dis- at Happy Valley this afternoon A great deal of interest will be resolution read: "The possession General Commission

armament Conference. (Sir John promises fairly well. The pro- centred in the race for Austra- and use of certain types of arma- gramme includes the St. George's lian "A" Class ponies as Seasonment should be prohibited to any

Simon explained that his resolution" the qualitative dis- Plate over a distance of one mile Ticket and Wisdom Stag aach State, or internationalised through favouring

The ceremony of laying a wreath ministrations, by means of financialled other Colonial questions were armament was and a quarter and this classic has a win to their credit. This an international convention."

never intended to at the Cenotaph by the St. George's missions to frame their budgets and raised.

The Under Secretary, replying, consideration

The Colonial event looks like providing most afternoon's display should satisfy

of Society took place at 11 o'clock this to effect economies. M. Tardieu, the French Premier, preclude the

French proposals for internationalis morning.

Empire was almost entirely depen-said that he did not think that the interest. Doctor's Mandate won us as to which is best.

cordially thanked him and said:

ing aggressivė his last race in great style and

Armaments, and In the absence of the President, dent upon primary products, and interests of the natives were "The way is now clear as far 20 should again hold his own here.

the next cross roada, which will be amended his resolution accordingly. on leave, the wreath was laid by he was glad to say that there was danger of being overlooked by the He may, however, find, a tough

the prohibition or internationalisa-It was unanimously adopted as was Mr. C. Bulmer Johnson, Vice- now some sign of improvement in Kenya Land Commission which was opponent in Princess Hall and per-i

another resolution which he pro-President, the wreath being carried the commodity prices, giving as in-in the nature of a judicial body.

Referring to the Mui Taat system haps The Lion which is improv-

posed in the following form.

between him and mr. E. Cock, Im-stances coffee, cocoa and malze. ing at every start. The Lion won

"In seeking to apply the prin- mediate Past President of the Increased preference given to the in Hong Kong, he said that they his last race

Colonies had come at an opportune were well on the way to ending it. at the Valley and

ciple of qualitative disarmament, Society. although this event is over a

range of land, sea and air arma- The Society's wreath, circular in time, and they had the security of The number of registered Mai Tais slightly longer distance, I am in-

ments should be examined by shape, consisted of a red Cross of the markets. Colonies were large- was steadily decreasing. No fresh special, committees with a view to St. George on a white ground. ly dependent for their revenue on registrations were permitted and formed the pony will be benefited if anything by the extra distance.

selecting those weapons whose; An all white wreath was also laid tariffa, some of which were fifty since November, 80 the number had character is "most specifically on behalf of His Excellency the per cent, or more, offering scope for decreased from 4,117 to 8,741.

threatening to Governor by Capt. T, A. H. Coltman, agreements between themselves and British Wireless Service. civilians

"most OF

the Dominions as well as Britain. 181 (9264 DE LY LINEN KISAT BERKOOPERATSARGATITJESU efficacious A.D.C. against national defence." Brl Those present at the ceremony The agreement between Canada and

EDGAR WALLACE'S ESTATE. tish Wireless Service.

were the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, the West Indies was a very good K.C, the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shen- model, and opportunities would arise

Receiver To Be Appointed. ton, the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, at Ottawa of carrying, that agree- Mr. W. A. Dowley, Mr. J. D. Danby, ment further, and then it would be Mr. P. S. Cassidy, Mr. F. C. Hall, able to see what development, of Mr. A.Sommerfelt (Secretary), trade between the Colonies and the and Col. T. A. Robertson..

Dominions was possible.

The Clerk of the Course has reported that the track is in won- derful condition and some fast times should be registered, espe~

FAIR GENERALLY.

The weather report issued by, the Royal Observatory this morning states:

AMA

"The antleyclone har passed- into the Pacific to the east of Japan

The depression is situated to the south of

---8. winds, moderë

My selections are:-

1st Race:-

But After That.

Lucy Glitters,

Gold Digger.

2nd Race:-

Bag and Bagzage. Sadko. King's Hounty.

3rd Race:-

Siwash. Christmas Joy. Cabinet Hall

4th Race:

- Blue Heaven.

-Helvellyn. Sunbeau,

5th Race:---

Valorous. Tiana, Nippy

6th Race:

Don. Princess Hall. The LOR 7th Race Bar Gold, Ring

Adam) Gos Chivalrous.

:

tion.

Delegates Restive. Mr. Henry L. Stimson, United) States Secretary of State, and M. Hymans, Belgium, conferred for over an hour on the Chinese-Japan- ese deadlock to-day and there is reason to believe that Mr. Stimson has intimated conditions in which the United States will be able to accord support to the steps taken. by the League.

There is a restiveness among the various delegations over the tardi ness In terminating the current stage of the dispute. Reuter.

8th Race:-

Deveron.

Little Beaver, Imperial Hall

9th Race -

Woodland Stag.

* Polar Star,

Season Ticket. 10th Race

Until Then. Hirwego Firefly

offensive and

ROYALTY VISITS ALDERSHOT.

King Gives Orders by Wireless

Rugby Yesterday.

the King, and

Malia Poller.

He announced that a bill to give effect to the Government policy In aircraft guns, artillery and brid-Malta would be shortly atroduced In words.The Government were zing devices.

His Majesty, himself, gave orders satiated that they were proceeding by wireless to the driver of a with the unanimous approval of the small car which went through a Commons and in the true interest

of revolutio freless Service.

of the people of Ma

Referring to Ma

he regret

London, Yesterday, Mr. Justice Bennett, In the Chancery Division, to-day granted leave to serve a notice of motion next Tuesday for the appointment of receiver. and manager of the estate of the late Mi Edgar Wailsce. A Mr. Wallace, the well-known Journalist and writer, died: California last month