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1,500,000 HOLDINGS ARE CONVERTED

PREMIER'S CONFIDENCE WAR LOAN SCHEME

SAVING OF £23,000,000 A YEAR

CHINATOWN MOURNS CHARLEY BROWN.

LYING-IN-STATE AMONG PRICELESS TREASURES.

London, June 20.

In the heart of London's China- town, sailors, stokers, longshore- men who paver set a foot upon the sea were preparing to bid farewell to Charley Brown, the tavern-

nearly every port on all the Seven Seas.

ALL POLITICAL PARTIES COMMEND GREAT keeper whose name was known at

GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL. '

Around him were the remark- able and valuable curios which were the pride of Charley Brown.

Charley Brown died in mail week. London, To-day. Trade Unions and employers' asso- He lay-in state in his tavern, which The Prime Minister in a broad-ciations were agreed that the Gov-bears the prosaic name of The cast speech last night sald that by ernment proposals were both wiss Railway Tavern, of the West Indis means of a war loan conversion and courageous, bringing instant Dock Road. To all his patrona, scheme the Government were con- and welcome relief to the national from Mayfair and Whitechapel, it tinuing the work begun at Lau-Budget, being pregnant with the was known as "Charley Brown's.” sanne and which was to be further hope of new chances for trade, and proceeded with at the Economic | yet making for a business offer to Conference later in the year. This the investor. work was directed to the removal In the course of his political life Writing recently of his tavern, of some of the causes of existing Mr. Ramsay Macdonald remembered Charley Brown said: poverty and unemployment.

no great

Government proposal The success of the conversion which received such unanimous scheme would mean a net annual | support, - saving of 523,000,000, which would be a tremendous help in keeping British credit at its proper level. British industry and commerce would as a result be able to get the cheapest capital and that should benefit trade.

All political parties were united in commending the scheme.

Bankers, insurance companies, leaders of industry and commerce, friends of enterprise, members of

TYPHOON GOING.

(Continued from Page 1.)

"In one small room I have five | Ming vases, 2,500 years old, an Chinese ebony "We are now in the middle of 800-year-old the third week of the scheme, and cabinet, a magnificent Florentine 1,500,000 holdings, (more than 50 cabinet inlaid with ivory, and many In every room per cent. of the whole), have alother objets d'art. ready been put at our disposal. for there are similar objects of value. conversion, and we are continuing

Kings And Ladies.

to receive others at a fast rate."

The Premier concluded by saying, "Practically every person of note There is no longer any room for has come to see Chinatown, from doubt that the conversion scheme Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair- will be a success."-British Wire-banke to kings, princes, lords and less Service.

LIMITATIONS IN GUN CALIBRES,

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ladies. The other week the Crown Prince of Sweden and his wife visited me, and Anna May Wong recently came to mix with her fel- low-countrymen.”

But Charley Brown died with one fond wish unfulfilled-"the Prince of Wales has not been."

"I have yet to

meet a Chinese

sturdy steam launches and motor-in the absence of Sir John Simon,

Charlie Brown laughed at stories boats were still to be seen at 10.30 who had returned to London.

of "sinister Chinamen” lurking “in- a.m. plying between shore and

The agreement regarding Heavy dark alleys, of opium ders and ship,

Land artillery, accepts the principle drinking wells. The Ashing junks which anchor that it should be limited as to at the Western Anchorage, were calibre in accordance with a con- among the first to leave, taking vention to be considered later. The who is really sinister," he wrote. heed of the lesson they learned agreement provides maximum limits "Chinamen hate being stared at by last year, when many of them de- for coastal guns, fortress guns and tourists. To them these rubber- layed their departure and were mobile. land guns. Terms of the necks are barbarians." caught, and badly damaged, by the resolution surveys all agreements

There is a common idea that the squall.

made for the limitation of land,

ls, long fellow, like myself, al- The warships, including those naval and air armaments.

ways has an advantage when it under repair, and two submarines, Regarding air disarmament it comes to distance off the tee, but were taken from the sea wall to provides for absolute prohibition of Bobby Jones and Sarazen have the buoys last night.

air attacks against civil popula-shown that the short, stocky player The majority of the river ateam- tions and for agreement, as be can hit them every bit as far.- ers were still berthed at the tween themselves, of contracting Archie Compston. wharves at 11 am, and the Can-parties for abolition of air bombard- ton and Macau sailings observed ment The latter provision is sub- their schedule.

The Hong Kong jets to agreement regarding mea and trade in implements of war. Canton and Macau S.B. Co.'s steam-ject to agreement for securing ob- Chemical, bacterial and incendiary er Lung Sban- left for shelter at servance of this, rule. the back of Stonecutter's Island at

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warfare, are prohibited. ........

'Regarding the strict limitation 8.30, and enquiries at the wharf These measures will include

land: reduction, of the real effective office, confirmed the fact that the limitation of numbers and restric armaments, the committee is naked Kinshan, left for Canton as usual. tion of characteristics of military to examine and report on Mr. The larger ships at the buoys aircraft and regulations and other Hoover's proposals, consideration were under steam in case of the measures of civil aircraft, to pre-being given to requirements of na storms breaking here.

vent misuse. The resolution also tional defence. Regarding naval

The B. & 8, steamer Kweiyang provides for a Budgetal Committee disarmament, parties to the Naval cleared and left the harbour short to continue its studies on limitation Treaties of Washington and London ly after 10 am., and the Bremer en armamenta expenditure and the are to confer and report to the haven, which is at present along. Standing Committee of the Confer General Commission, if possible be- side the Kowloon Wharf has clear-ence will draft proposals based upon fore, resumption of work of confer ed and is expected to leave at noon its reports.

ence, as to further measures feasible for Rabaul. The O.S.K. steamer, Another special committee set up as part of, a general, disarmament Lyons Maru, is also expected to under résolution will submit pro programe. -British Wireless Ser- leave at 1 p.m.

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