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FRANCE SUGGESTS NEW LEAGUE WEAPON TO SAFEGUARD PEACE
RACE SELECTIONS
FOR TO-DAY'
Large fields figure in to-day's race meeting, the second day of tile 11th Extra Meeting, and some good. exciting racing should
be seen.
ARMAMEMTS "POOL
SURE SECURITY
ANGLO-FRENCH MEETING IN LONDON CALLED
PARLEY BROUGHT NEARER
GENEVA, TU-DAY,
PREMIER HERRIOT OF FRANCE HAS ACCEPTED THE INVITATION OF MR. RAMSAY, MacDONALD TO MEET THE BRITISH PREMIER IN LONDON ON WEDNESDAY OR THURS- First-class ponies will take the DAY TO DISCUSS THE FORTHCOMING FIVE-POWER DIS- field for the first event, the Kwangsi Handicap, and judging ARMAMENT CONFERENCE, WHICH IT IS NOW CONFIDENT- from Saturday's form. White LY EXPECTED WILL MATERIALISE. Jade Stag and The Tiger should
be well, in the running, although;
it is
Sensational developments followed the announcement of the
rather doubtful whether acceptance of France of the invitation to London. The new French" either are good enough to beat plan for disarmament was whispered abroad; a plan which in- Don Stands out a mile as the cludes the suggestion of a gigantle “poor" of war equipment, to be winner of the Han Handicap, placed at the disposal of the League of nations
Wild Life..
especially after the disappoint weapon against war.
ment of Racing Boy on Saturday.!
The latter, however, should man.
age
a place. The Kwantung Handicap for "D". class ponies has
a very open field and The
Rainstorm appears to be a poten- tial winner. Mon Talisman, who was only beaten by a length and a half by Chiu Quan on Saturday will also be a pony to watch" in this event and should provide certain place money.
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WOMBAT'S SELECTIONS.
IST RACE
Wild Life.
White Jade Stag.
Tiger.
2ND RACE
Don.
Workable Stag. Racing Boy.
3RD RACE
The Rainstorm. Cebu.
Mon Talisman.
4TH RACE
Bag & Baggage. Cyclamen Bay. Pride of Tsingtao.
5TH RACE
Pocahontas. Empy. Valley Hall. 6TH RACE
Manna.
Lucy Glitters, Mermaid.
7TH RACE.
Helter Skelter. Chia Quân. Mistletoe.
8TH RACE
Champagne Bay. Indiain Deveron.
CHINESE SHIP.
ARRIVES HERE
ON OCEAN RUN
M. S. Jutlandia First Across Pacific.
INAUGURATES SERVICE.
M. S. Jutlandia, trim passenger- carrying and cargo ship of the new- ly organised Chinese American Shipping Company, has completed its inaugural Pacific crossing for the company and has menced
ice between San Hong Kong with
Mr. Baldwin,
SOVIET PLANS
TO ENCOURAGE
WORLD REVOLT
Sees Britain As Fertile Field..
WOULD BREAK EMPIRE,
the world's
The centre of interest with re- gard to disarmament has momen- tarily shifted to London from Geneva. Rt. Hon. Arthur Hen- derson returned to London this morning. The prospect of the Five-Power Conference is now bright. M. Herriot and Mr. MacDonald will meet to discuss the general situation, and their meeting is regarded here as a sequel to Germany's mistaken policy in delaying acceptance of the invitation to the Five-Power parley.
The new French plan for dis armament is said to be based roughly along the old lines, bat with some startling suggestions
Holiday
SEAWEED HARVESTING Many uses are found for seaweed left by the tide on the seashore and gathering the weed is considered a pleasant past me by the majority of bathers. makers at Cliftonville, Kent, are seen piling the seaweed on a cart.
CHINA MARKS Tec INDEPENDENCE
ANNIVERSARY
Celebrations Of met
Nature Here.
CANTON'S PROGRAMME.
Chinese throughout, the coun for development of the ideas con- try are to-day celebrating the tained in
earlier agreements.
CHINA ACCEPTS REPORT AS BASIS OF DISCUSSION.
Dr. Wellington Koo Announces
's Attitude.
Geneva, To-day. The Chinese position with re- gard to the Lytton Commission Report, was explained by. Dr. Wellington Koo in a press re- ception to-day, when he said. that China would accept the Re- port as a basis for discussion, but only subject to the right of submitting comments and con- siderations.
Security will form a counterpoise 21st. anniversary of the Chinggal?
to disarmament, and the means Revolution, which brought to an of ensuring this security will be end the power of the Manchu based firstly on a system of Dynasty, China's National Day. guarantees and second in the
placing of a "pool" of armaments better known as the "Double, at the disposal of the League of Tenth," is one of the biggest Nations. Thirdly, there will be festivals in China, but owing to a special provision which will the present unsettled state of enable the Council of the Lengue
of Nations to declare which na-affairs in the North, the celebra-
tion is the aggressor in any dis-tion will be greatly curtailed. pute amongst the powers.
The anniversary, which falls Reuter.
every year on October 10, that date being the day of the start- of the Revolution in Hankow, was only a few years ago récog- nised in Hong Kong as a public
JAPAN PLANS
COTTON MILLS
ON INDIA SOIL holiday.
To Evade Britain's
Tariff Barrier.
London, To-day
まい
Biga, To-day. The encouragement and speeding up of revolutionary: effort abroad, is reported to have been decided upon at ja secret plenary conference of the Executive Committee of the Comintern recently beld In MOSCOW. It is said that the Soviet central organisation foring preference to Lancashire by the propagation of revolution decided that there were several
countries, particularly Great Britain, India, Japan and Ger- many, which had become more vulnerable lately, from the point of view of ridical reactionaries.
The Combitern advocates, it. is understood, agitation in Britain for the complete inde pendence of Ireland and other Dominions, will seek to per Bundle the peasants of India to refuse to pay their taxes, and will organise stilkes in trell Britain, India and elsewhere.
The Comintern also plans, to organise the mRENCE with the view for an ar
the
He added that he hoped it would be possible to reach an honourable settlement.-Reu- ter
SHIP SINKS AFTER COLLISION.
Passengers And Crew Safe On Liner.
London, To-day 5.S. Charente, in Collision with the Blue Star Liner, sa. Afric Star, Residents will remember that on Bank shortly after her passengers this day last year, reports of a big and crew had been transferred to Chinese victory in Shanghai filter-the larger craft.
ed through together with the new She was heavily rammed and that the Japanese had evacuated hold when the bows of the A
through her plates Shanghal after decisive defeat Star
Fallowing the imposition of a The demonstration reached heights, the English Channel, ORI special cotton tariff Japan has of enthusiasm them decided to evade the duties giv-
geness. She ship
Dun
a Norwegian
The usual celebrations held by The Afric Star was bound for erecting cotton mills in India, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Buenos Aires and ber Sos. according to the Sunday Times are not being held in Hong Kong porting the Charente in a sinking Bombay Correspondent, who adds as in previous years.
ter,
THRILLING
RESCUES
FROM LINER
Women and Baby Saved From Death.
THROWN TO RESCUE SHIP BY SWAYING LADDER.
London To-day.
thrilling rescue of women passengers and an eleven- month-old on the baby was told by pas- sengers of the Char- ente on their arrival, on the Afriestar, at Thames.
Women
climbed
up a swaying ladder and were over to the
in the darkness. After the baby was carried up, tied to man's waist.
Nineteen members
suit after the colli-
BEGGARS of the crew followed
CHARGED
and
Twenty-two Chinese men women and two boys, arrested for begging for alms in the Aberdeen district over the week end, were brought before Mr. E. 1. Wynne Jones in the Central Police Court this morning, and presented a most pitiful scene, most of the un- fortunates being blind.
In one case, father, mother and
sion, the Africstar kept wedged to the Charente to prevent · the latter sinking until the recues were carried out. Reuter
son, aged ten years,, were all STOP PRESS
blind.
The first defendant, & cripple, admitted a previous conviction for stealing. Fines ranging from $3. or three days to $10 or two weeks gaol, were imposed. The two boys were cautioned by his, Worship..
MILITARY RULE
CONDEMNED BY
OUTLAWS CLASH WITH POLICE/
12 Killed in Hectic Fight.
Manila, To-day. Twelve members of the Gon-
CHINA LEADER stabulary are reported killed,
Mr. Wang Ching-wei On National Unity.
·PEOPLE-FACING CRISIS.
(From Our Own Correspondent).
Shanghai, To-day..
Mr. Wang Ching-wel, former President of the Executive Yuan and member of the present Cen tral Executive Standings Com mittee in an Independence Day message to-day declared his con- viction that the people of China appreciated that they faced a national crisis and that they condemned the militarist rule in North Chica and declared that it was because of it that the na tion lacked cohesion. The milli tarists should be the servants of ople not their governors,
The shops condition, was the first work the woudld rise to the occasion. He that Calcutta is considered the along Bonham Strand, where the world had of the mishap best centre. Japanese are pro-anniversary is always celebrated posing to exploit the fact that with great zest, are also making ships taking jute to America at qulet observance. Several present will return to India emp-In the Colony are holding ty, thus enabling the Japanese and presenting plays of to import American cotton cheap
nature,
facture of the finer Canton is hold a Prod
for which com- tion, and the Governm
ecter's
reports said the passengers crew of the Charente all were
The Afric Star arrived in London
mid-day her bows badly den ove the water-Hne, and one
boals hanging the
OPULAR COUPLE
two are wounded, and three are missing, following a fight between the police and a band of Moro outlaws in an ambush” near Culiculi, folo Reuter.
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