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No. 28,255

HONG KONG,

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1932.

BRITAIN SEEKS UNITY OF THE POWERS

INTERPORT

CRICKETER

MARRIED

Mr. Alan Reid Weds Sydney Girl.

CATHEDRAL CEREMONY.

Mr. Alan Reid. the popular Inter- port crketer, and member of the Hong Kong Cricket Club, was mar- ried to Miss Gwendolyn Frances Berrie, cklest daughter of Mr. and Mr. C. II. Berrie, of Sydney, Australia. in St. John's Cathedral, this afternoon. The Dean, the Very Rev. A. Swann officiated at the ceremony.

The bridegroom is the younger Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Reid, and is on the staff of the Chartered Bank of India, Australiu asd China. The bride, who Was Riven away by Mr. A. I. Fergu- Bon, look-

ALAN REID,

ed pretty in à

satin,

bridal veil being trim- mod with

with

Grange blossom She carried

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TUSCB and Honolulu creeper.

Mi-Jose Welland, in attendance as maid of honour, wore a dress of creams;

"THE FLYING FAMILY" Mr. and Mrs. George Hutchinson and their daughters, Kathryn and Janet, in London. It will be remembered that the flying-boat in which, the Hutchinson family and crew were emmying to cross the Atlantic, was wreck- ed off the coast of Greenland, the survivors being rescued by the trawler "Lord Talbot."

ARGENTINE WILL RETURN -PRINCE'S FRIENDLY CALL.

Vice-President and Party To Pay Visit To Britain.

Landon, To-day, Through the British. Ambassa- dor at Buenos Aires, the British Government has expressed to the

georgette and carried a bouquet ofArgentine the gratification with buttercup gladioli.

Mrs. C. A. Stafford-Smith, as -Matron of Honour, attended in

dress of forul silk volle.

ย

Mr. Erie M. Bryden, C. A., dis- charged the duties of best-man.

Subsequently, a reception was held at the Hong Kong Hotel, and was largely uttended. The happy couple later left for their honey- moon, the bride's travelling dress being a beige costume with hat and shoes to tone.

Mr. Reid has been a stalwart of) the Club first eleven for several} scasons, and has played for Hong Kong in Interport matches three timea, 1929 and 1931 in Hong Kong, and 1930 at Shanghai. He is one of the very few left hand spin bowlers in the Colony, and is also

hard hitting batsman.

UNEMPLOYED

PREPARE TO

QUIT LONDON

Means Test Petition Seized By Police.

LEADERS ARE BITTER.

which it has learned of the AT- gentine Government's intention despatch to, London a special mis- sion, headed by the Vice-President of the Republic, Dr. Hoca, pri- marily to return the Prince of Wales visit to Buenos Aires last year.

The date of the visit is not yet fixed. British Wireless Service,

Labour Plan Rejected

Commons Defeats Move To Alter Tariffs.

London, To-day.

The House of Commons by a

FATE OF JAPANESE PARTY.

Women And Children Safe.

CONVERSION:

GRATIFIES

FINANCIERS

Stock Exchange Sees Sharp Advances.

DEMAND FOR STERLING.

London,, Today.

Est. 1845.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

A tyre of unitque

construction built for

Ha those who prefer superlative quality--

FORT

Fort DUNLOP

The Tyre Incomparable

ON MANCHURIAN

ISSUE

POLICY ANNOUNCED BAD LOANS

BY GOVERNMENT

LORDS URGE FIRMNESS TO ENFORCE PEACE

The announcement of the Gov- ernment's £300,000,000 3 per cent. conversion loan issue which is the last of a series of conversion oper- ations without parallel in volume

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS DECLARED ITSELF in this or any other country, was received with enthusiasm by the WITH RESPECT TO THE PROBLEM OF THE SINO-JAPANESE city.

QUARREL IN MANCHURIA. THE GOVERNMENT, ACCORD-

DIPLOMACY'S OPPORTUNITY

The success of the operations

mony

is regarded as an eloquent testi-ING TO AN ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY A SPOKESMAN IN to the work of financial THE HOUSE OF LORDS YESTERDAY, WILL ENDEAVOUR TO and economic rehabilitation car- LEAD THE GREAT POWERS OF THE WORLD INTO A UNITED ried out during the past year en POLICY WITH REGARD TO THE MANCHURIAN ISSUE. abling the British Government

to take the fullest advantage of

While declining to discuss the Government's attitude towards

the conditions of monetary ease the Lytton Report, Lord Hailsham praised that document. Lord prevailing.

CHARGED TO

REPUBLICANS

Mr. Stimson Answers Democrat Attack.

CAMPAIGN CHIEFS REST..

New York, To-day. While leaders in the American electoral fight have

temporarily retired behind the lines and are re- cuperating for a final as- Bault, their chief lieutenants, maintain a persistent snip- ing. Following vigorous exchanges between. Scnator Carter Glass and Mr. Ogden Mills, Mr. Henry L. Stimson took up the running, and castigated the former's alle- gation that the Republicans were responsible for the flotation of "an Immobile junk" form of foreign issues. Mr. Stimson denied that the

State Department ever recom

Great activity developed in Lytton himself made the most significant announcement of the day. the gilt edged market on the He expressed the hope that Sir John Simon, who is Great Britain's mended the merits of any foreign London Stock Exchange and al-chief delegate at Geneva, would use the Commission's Report as his though earlier sharp advances

were not fully maintained, quo- brief. tations remained

considerably

higher on balance. War Loan Other members of the House assented, closed at 10414, well of Lords offered their comments) under best,

on the Manchurian situation, re- The increased demand for ferring to the gravity and men- aterling and an all-round-improve-ace of the situation, and urging| ment in rates were recorded on a firm handling of the weapons the London Foreign Exchange of the world which had Market. - British Wireless Ser forged to preserve peace,

Harbin, To-day. The reports that many of the Japanese women

and children vice. caught in Manchull had escaped when Su Ping-wen's troops turned

the city over to the Chinese Volun- BRITAIN'S has been definitely established WAR UNITS

teers are now confirmed, and it

that they are on their way to Japan. The reports state that many of them were enabled to evacuate to Matzievsky, in Soviet territory, from where they are now travelling by the Amur Railway to Vladivostok.

DEFENDED

London, To-day.

been

The attitude of the British Government towards the findings of the Lytton Report were sought by Lord Ponsonby, lead er of the Opposition in the open-

ing debate on Manchuria. in the

House of Lords yesterday. Lord

Ponsonby, in a soberly worded

speech, highly eulogized the re- port, especially considering the difficult circumstances surround-

In view of the; re-assembly of ing the investigation. the Disarmament Conference It was clear the question could This sets at rest the fears long the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay not be solved by the mere restora-į entertained for their safety, but MacDonald, was asked in the tion of the "status quo ante,”

Iknown.

LYTTON REPORT PARLEY SET FOR-NOVEMBER 21,

Utmost Limit of Delay Has Been Reached.

Geneva, To-day. The Council of the League of Nations has fixed "November 21 to open discussion of the Lytton

··Report: This is the last limit of delay allowable by the decision of: the Council on September 24.

The decision, was taken follow- receipt a letter from Mr. ing

Nagaka stating that Mr. Yoshida, Japanese delegate, expected to rench Geneva on Novembèr 18 and that Japan's observations, and voluminous technical preparation, would take several days.—Reuter.

Otherwise there!

loan by the United States citi- loans. He advised against any

zens to countries or for purposes contrary to the national interest. He mentioned that after the war the State Department had ad- vised against loans to countries which had not a funded war debt to the United States.

The Fire thus concentrated on, Senator Glass was drawn, off by Mr. Newton Boker, war time War Secretary, who attacket the President's "sudden conversion" to the Hawley-Smoot tariff as the greatest danger confronting the country at the present mo- ment. He said the President was never in favour of the polley until tho present campaign had commenced.

Mr. Ogden Mills returned to the attack, reflecting upon the sincerity of the Democrats' un- qualified pledge to repeal pro- hibition. He said it was not ful- fillable without protracted delay. the fate of the Japanese men who House of Commons for an assur- he said, and emphasised great armly handled.

Mr.. Mills added that the South- remained in Manchull is still un-ance that the Government would importance to Geneva of the deli- would be chans and long warfare in and that they would never agree ern States control the Democrats not commit themselves to any berations in Britain. Britain, he the Far East. At the time Su Ping-wen rebel- such proposals as those being said, would give the lead in the

to a straight repeal, "though they The war temper in Japan was led against the Manchukuo there advanced for the total abolition solution of the question.

rising, many of her best friends are willing to play that dead dog were nearly three hundred Japan-of Military and Naval Aviation ese residents in Manchuli-Reu- coupled with International con-acted as promptly as some desir-difficulties might divert her from

The League had not always apprehended, and her formidable until after the election." Wall Street Calm.

ter.

strongly in trol of Civil Aviation and fored, but had scored a very great, the sagacious policy that raised her

Betting continues abolition of warships of. over though unspectacular triumph, to a first class power in a

favour of Mr. Roosevelt and Wall genera- Street apparently has recovered vote of 268 to 57 rejected the H.M.S. CUMBERLAND LEAVES 10,000 tons without first afford-in averting a war in the Fartion.

from its alarm at the prospect of ing Parliament an opportunity East and getting the parties to Labour clause of Ottawa Prefer

FOR HOME.

The war temper was also rising his election and is convinced his for discussion.

the council table. ential Bill providing that there

in China, where the younger gen-alleged radicalism is mainly a H.M.S. Cumberland, one of the

He said it was not intended should be nothing in the bill to

cruisers of the to make any departure from theThings in Japan were moving eration might be turned away from "pose" to win the votes of Western prevent the Government from "County" class

development and he had reason to believe there costitutional

along Progressives. reducing the general advalorem China Station, left Hong Kong for normal practice when Govern-was no

very enthusiastic sup- western lines, towards a long pre- Mr. Roosevelt has been touring in She is ments were engaged in import-j

Island duty of 10 per cent. imposed by Home at 9.30 a.m. to-day.

Connecticut, Rhode

and⋅ the Import Duties Act of 1992. expected to return to Hong Kong ant negotiations. Replying to port for these outbursts of Jap-paration for revenge.

anese military feeling. Without

Southern Massachusetts while Mr. Mr. Hore Belisha, (Conserva- early next year, after being re-com-the question in which reference violent language, without mak-

Hoover has been concentrating on tive), declared there was nothing missioned and re-fitted for service.

ing any nation wear a white

plans for a final tour of the Middle sheet, he was confident the Great

West in an effort to ward off the Powers could jointly solve the

danger from discontented farmern question in Manchuria,

It is expected his trip will finish in California, where Mr. Hoover and his wife are registered votera.

Mr.

in the Bill to prevent Parliament

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legally reducing any tax. There Fourteen Navy Planes Stranded

was sanctioning the agreements for five-year

London, To-day. period, Abandoning the project of liament

either since Par- remained supreme,

forcing Parliament to receive a though the ministers who signed

Reuter.

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In Mid-Air; Autos Aid Rescue

Threat To Empire.

Unless the canker in Man- churia was cut out, Lord Lothian foresaw the tearing up of the Washington Settle- ment, and thereafter the pact of limitation of naval armaments abandoned.

"Then what will happen

to disarmament and the Kel-

Hoover in a speech "at" Washington reaffirmed his attitude Jon prohibition, namely guarantees logg Pact? What will hap-for those states wishing to remain dry and the total prohibition of the saloon.Reuter.

pen to the outlying portions

of the British-Empire in the Pacific?" he asked.

War Temper Rising. Lord Lothian speaking, said the San Diego, Calif., Oct. 27. Nayal officials appealed to citi-greatest question underlying the deputation, the hunger marchers at Ottawa had a moral obligation A unique drama of the air was zens by means of a local radio Manchurian dispute was "whether, impenetrable fog station to drive their, automo-In its settlement, we take a further are preparing to return home. to see that they were carried out, played in an

This Act of Parliament could near here early to-night after biles as soon as possible to Camp step towards establishing some The first batch started for, brighton by motor coach yester-be repealed by another Parlia- fourteen Navy aeroplanes had Kearney nearby where there was international system or step back day. Most of the other contin- ment. Therefore no new clause, been caught aloft with dwindling an abandoned field which could towards inevitable war. He recall- be lighted by automobile headed the terms of the Washington

Conference of 1921, the Briand He hoped the Government SCHOLARSHIPS FOR gents hope to raise their train was necessary, he declared. gasoline supplies.

Every aviator involved landed lights. fares.

Kellogg Pact, the Stimson Declara-realised the gravity underlying THE COLONY. without injury but two planes were destroyed in crashes upon) At eight 'o'clock only two tion which provided for an extra the issue. The situation requir

They ordinarlly, powerful weapon in deal-ed wisdom, not an Inflaming of reaching the ground, one was planes remained aloft. burned and several others were circled the city looking for a ing with the question, if wisely and public opinion in the Far East to Government's Promise

reckless action. Firmness in in-

Of "Free Places," overturned and slightly damag break in the fog. They were not equipped with radios and for

sisting upon existing conventions

Mr. G. P. de Martin, chairman, that reason could not be inform-

could effect a settlement.

yesterday Informed: the Board of ed that motorists were driving, to

Lord Allen, National Labour, Education that the Government thought it was, one of the most had agreed, subject to the attain hopeful events, that, whereas the ment of a sufficiently high stan- spark in 1914 had caused a world dard, to grant a limited number of conflagration, the same thing scholarships to be competed for by had not followed the spark in candidates from non-provided 1981. He pressed the Govern- schools sitting, for the annual at North Island field cracked up until it located the two navy

Swindon Town gained two valu- ment to pronounce it could not examination for entrance to the and one was destroyed by fire ships and signalled them to fol

low. The mail plane then led able home points as the result of be content with any agreement upper school of Queen's College or after the fliers had leaped out.

Shortly before eight o'clock six them to the Camp Kearney field a 5-1 win over Brighton and Hove that did not require that all King's College. S

al obligations,

\g | form of "free places" ^ for three ing to the Colony to attend to his were known to have only an cheers of hundreds of motorists. (South) soccer league. Reuter

years at one of the above schools. A.P. hour's supply of fuel.

Leaders complain bitterly that the petition, said to certain a UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES · million signatures, and protest- SHOW BIG DECREASE.. ing against the, Means Test, was)

London, To-day. confiscated by police. It was de- The monthly unemployment ed... posited at Charing Cross Station Agurea which will be issued this in the cloak room during yester week, will show a drop in unemployee planes were engaged in day's excitement.

ment of about 100,000. This is all maneouvres and were returning Camp Kearney to light the field When leaders of the unemploy the more satisfactory because there to their home field upon the there ed called to-day they were in-is usually a seasonal, increase in un approach of darkness when the

Naval officials, however, made formed the police had got the employment in the period of the fog rolled in from the sea. document.

year covered by the return.-British Three planes landed safely but contact with a United Airlines There have been numerous Wireless Service.

the next five attempting to land mail plane which flow around police court cases, and many con, victions, following the disordera Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung and of the past few days. All courts Miss Gio Tung arrived from Earope

"

SWINDON DEFEAT

BRIGHTON.

Valuable Home Points.

London, To-day.

where they are prosecuted are on board the P. & O. liner Comorin

to-day. Sir Robert in proceeding to planes were still in the air and where the trin landed amid the Albion in the Third Division powers respect their internation The scholarships would take the

under heavy guard. — Reuter.

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Macno for a few days before return-

business.

(Sen. League Table on Page 8.).

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