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THE CHIM

WHAT MR. HOOVER'S THIEF FIRES AT

PLAN MEANS.

PROPOSED ONE-THIRD CUT IN ARMAMENTS

HOW IT WOULD EFFECT ALL THE NATIONS.

SAVING TO THE WORLD

The Disarmament proposals which President Hoover has, with dramatic suddenness, caused to be laid before the Geneva Confer: ence have been submitted to it at a moment when most of those GENERAL NOTICES. | engaged in its work had made up their minds that it would be wound

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CONSTABLE.

Alleged Attempt To Resist Arrest.

· POLICE COURT HEARING.

Before Mr. E. 1, Wynne-Jones in the Central Police Court yesterday | afternoon, Lam Iu appeared of charges of breaking and entering |« Chinese printing shop at 11, La}| On lane, and of shooting at Police eustable J. Harris with intent to uvade apprehension,

At the outset, Mr. R. E. Lindsel (Asalatant Attorney General) for| the Crown, proposed that the two charges should be heard separate-

ty.

The prosecutor said that" on the night of July 2, the accused al legedly broke open a back window up without achieving anything of serious importance, writes E. Cat the printing shop, and stole a Bentley.

quantity of clothing from a basket! For six years the Preparatory Commission had been occupied belonging to one of the fokis, nam ed Lo Cheung. Just after fout with the attempt to work out an outline of Disarmament proposals o'clock, accused was met by P.C. which the Conference itself could All in after discussion, and ultin Harris in Des Voeux Road West, near French Street.. The con ately adopt by agreement.

atable became suspicious of him, The history of the Commission was one of continual disagree-owing to the fact that his person appeared to be extraordinary ment. Most of the work which it was expected to do, by way of

bulky. clearing the way for broad decisions by the Conference, was left for the Conference to contend with.

Mr. Lindsell outlined the case. Breaks from Arrest.. He took the prisoner into cus tady. Reductions on a Large Scale. the nation's armies, and a reduc.

When near 292, Des Voeux Road The Conference mel in Febru-on of the numbers and the size West it appeared that the ground THE REGISTER OF SHARES ary. Various proposals were put of ships of war. For air forces was rather slippery and the con of the Corporation will be CLOS forward by the principal Powers, Mr. Hoover proposes simply the stable stumbled. The accused ED from MONDAY, 26th July, to again revealing wide disagree abolition of all bombing 'planes, then struggled and they both foll SATURDAY, 6th August (both ment; and committees of experts and the prohibition of bombard-to the ground with the accused be days inclusive), during which were appointed to study the techmont, from the air.

ncath. The first thing the con- period no transfer of Shares cannical details of certain of those A one-third "cut," then, is the stable knew was that two shots

proposala. But a number of imprinciple of the quantitative pro-were fired very close by him, portant ideas had been thus pui posals. before the Conference.

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But how could this be

The constable grabbed the hand fairly applied all round to all

of the accused, finding it to be The American programme now nations, with theis vastly different holding a revolver. He wrested put forward brings together into needs in the way of military force? one scheme what the American The answer to this is found in an the weapon from the accused, who Government regards as the more American suggestion, already made then ran.

Harris fired at the man, who was promising of those various pro at the Conference, that all land

stopped by an Indian guard and posals made for bringing about armies have two clearly separate uter taken to the Station. It was large-scale reductions of fighting duties.

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there that it was found that the pre holster of the officer's revolver had home

been torn owing to the stitching with when being defective or rotten, so it was quite possible that the revolver had slipped out during the strug

Inves- with the accused's hand. tigations. revealed that one bullet had actually passed through the constable's tunic.

The case was adjourned to to- morrow afternoon,

OLD SEAMEN LOSE THEIR MASCOT,

forces by land, sea, and alı One is the duty of throughout the world

order in serving

the This programme includes both country, acting together of the two main methods which the police forces that is, have been pressed upon the Con-"the troops

called out" ference.. These are known as to suppress riotous disorder or the qualitative and the quantita-armed rising against the Govern-gle and had come into contact tive methods..

ment. The number of troops need By qualitative disarmament ised for this, urpose is called the meant an agreement by all nations"police component" of the army. to Abolish altogether certain And how is the proper strength classes of weapons-namely, these of this part of the army to be fix weapons which are needed for the od? It seems a dificult question; the purpose of attack in modern war-and so it would be found if

Conference decided to attempt to fare.

If these were to be abolished, it find an agreed answer. But the ía argued, an attack upon onel American answer is simple enough. nation by another would be made it points out that, after the war, a hopeless undertaking, or would the armies allowed by the Peace at least have so small a chance of Treaties to the defeated countries succeeding that it would be worth were of a strength suficient for no nation's while to attempt it. the police duties and for no more. Royal Albert Home for Aged Mer-. For while the weapons of aggres-| Germany, for instance, with 65,- chant Seamen at Belvedere, Kent, alon were abolished, it would still 900,000 of population, was allowed was run over and Killed while out be open to any nation to continue an army of 100,000 troops. Mr. for a stroll on June 14. strengthening its frontier fortifica loover proposes, then, that each Two of the inmates were walking tions and its schemes for defence nation should have its "police com-beside the bird as he hopped along in general.

pement" fixed in the same way, the road when a car suddenly swung according to the numbers of popula from behind another vehicle and Increased Power of Defence.

additional This method of disarmamenttion. An

allowance struck the bird. It was killed in was never heard of in the Pre- would be made for nations having stantly. paratory Commission. It was pro-colonial possessions in which or

There were many sad faces when posed in the Conference itself, ori der has to be kept.

the news of Cocky's death was an The remaining strength of the uounced at the home. The bird had THE Undersigned, have by the British delegation.

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Mr. Hoover proposes the making of vigoriously at the window with his large body of support.

It is pointed out that it wouldn one-third cut..

Cutting Down The Ships! be a continuous check, operating

beak when shut out of the building.

"Cocky was nearly human," the house governor said.

all the time; not a mere rule of This would be taking all the warfare, coming into force only nations army strengths as they when war had begun, and more stand at present; and to some of. (Continued from previous Column.)

them the proposal would mean no likely than not to be broken.

Saving to The Nations

Eut so far no prospect has ap reduction at all, because they are of which should be of more than peared of its receiving that unready at the bare police strength 1,200 tons. animous support neaded for deci and no more. alons binding upon every nation.

The Hoover programme adopts this method of increasing the comparative power of defence through the decreasing power attack." It, therefore, auggests

of

This is the case with the Brit And as France and Italy ish-Army, it is barely strong were not parties, to the Lon- enough for the meeting of police don Treaty, which dealt with needs at home and throughout cruisers and destroyers, it is asked of them that they should the Empire. It lathe case, also, with

the agree to their strength in those

the abolition of "all tanks, all American army; and, of course, classes being calculated as if they chemical warfare, and all large with the armies of all the nations had been parties to that Treaty. calibre guns." These are general defeated in the war.

Such are, in substance, the Hoo- There is little doubt that this pre-terms, on the exact definition of For the rest, it is an immense ver proposals. They are, as l eminent position is occupied by Dr. Williams Pink Pill, the blood and which the expert committees have proposal. Some, Italy among them, claimed for them, simple and direct nerve tonic which has been waking been disagreeing Agreement approve It, strongly. Others, and comprehensive. sick people well in nearly every comm could be reached, if all the Gov France in particular, have already try in the world over a period of half ernments wished its raised the strongest objection to a century. A

People who have tried Dr, Williams

"Land Armies' Separate Duties. It

Pink Pilis know their wonderful effi. But Mr. Hoover is not satisfied

retion what

It in reckoned by Mr. Hoover that they would mean a saving for nations, during the next tex years, of from £2,000,000,000 to £3,000,000,000 sterling,

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ans over military expenses.

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