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ROOSEVELT LEADS

NEW BRITISH

GESTURE FOR ·

DISARMAMENT

International Control Of

Aircraft.

FOREIGN SECRETARY DISAGREES WITH CABINET.

London. To-day.

A big British disarmament- gesture having a far-reach- ing effect on the world's Air Forces is forecasted by the Daily Mail which says:-

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"The foundations of the gesture are understood to be the total abolition, the severe curtailment, of world-wide bombing and fighting geroplanes, group- ing all commercial, air lines under one international body, and a limitation of the nur- her of privately-owned aero-

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HOOVER 3 TO 2 IN FINAL STRAW VOTE

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planes by a quota system | BRitish governmeNT STOCKS

operative in each country.

The Daily Mail under- stands that at present there is not complete agreement among the Cabinet on these proposals, owing to Sir John Simon's objections, but sup- porters of the plan are hopeful.

The possibility of the Bri- tish Government advocating international control and re- striction of aviation 'Is' also suggested by the New's: Chronick which paper says announcement of which Sir John Simon is expected to make at Geneva next week. It will be "very definite" In character.

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Optimism prevails at the possibility of a real step to- wards, Disarmament being taken. — Reuter.

Japanese Secrecy.

Tokyo, To-day. Strict secrecy is being main- tained regarding the nature of the new Naval Disarmament pro-

posals just formulated by Japan.

I is not even clear whether it will comprise a complete and eleur-cut plan, like the Hoover Plan, or whether it will simply amount to detailed instructions

for the guidance of the Japanese delegates at Genevo.

It seems certain that they will turn down the Hoover Plan and also Britain's Dis. armament Plan.

This is certain and seems clear. from a remark by a Government spokesman who, asked about this, replied, "Japan would not make a fresh proposal if she thought|| either the British or the Ameri- can Plan offered a basis for com- promise."-Reuter.

U.S.S. Black Hawk one-time commercial steamer and a veter-

SHOW WEAKER TENDENCY,

New York Market Holds To Yesterday's Level.

London, To-day. British Government stocks open. ed with a weaker tendency to-day. after the substantial rises which followed the announcement of the new Conversion Loan. There was a rally when the lists were clos- ed, but pro-taking accounted for later falls, War Loan assent- ed closed at 99%, Conzols 26 per cont. at 77, and Console 4 per ceni. at 188

The New York market was steady yesterday, fails holding close to their former level, indus- trini wavering and utilities un- changed.

Messrs. E. A. Pierce and Co., financial house, advise caution- British Wireless Service.

GERMAN QUOTA

EXAMINED.

ARREST AGAIN

THREATENING SAMUEL INSULL

Greek Public To Be Asked To Act.

EXTRADITION PENDING.

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IRISH TROOPS ORDERED TO STAND BY AFTER THEFT.

Rumoured Theft of 10,000 Rounds of Ammunition.

Dublin, To-day: Fallowing the rumour, which was officially denied, that 16,000 rounds of ammunition' were stolen from

store the barrack's

in Dublin a report was freely cir culated that troops have been ordered to stand by at Curragh and other military centres.

No action has apparently been taken by the Ministry of Defence, and the order is belloved to have been given by an individual officer. of the National Army-Reuter.

Britain Will

Provide Work

Mr. Baldwin Hints At Unemployment Cure.

London, To-day.

M.C.C. OPEN

THIRD MATCH

OF TOUR

93 Runs For No Wicket,

At Adelaide.

Adelaide, To-day.

The M.C.C. touring cricket team | fopened their third match of the! tour here to-day against an Aus- tralian eleven. The weather was fine and the wicket in good order.

Before a crowd of 6,000, D. R. Jardine, the English skipper, won the toss and decided to take advant-) age of the fine batting wicket.

Sutcliffe and Leyland, the two Yorkshire batamen again opened jand it appears that they will be the opening pair in the big matches of the tour. Scoring was slow before lunch, both players treating the ball with respect. Sutcliffe batted with restraint, but once he settled down, Leyland produced many attractive Scoring strokes. The left harder was

batting brilliantly when lunch time

came and appeared well on the way to a century.

Luncheon score:—

In a speech before the Consti-I tutional Club in London yester- M.C.C. 1ST. INNINGS. day. Mr. Stanley Baldwin fore-H. Sutcliffe, not out. shadowed a Government scheme M. Leyland, not out

to deal with the whole problem of able-bodied unemployed.

The Government hopes to en- Washington, To-day. act it by next Summer or earlier, The United States representa- he said, and added that plans tive at Athens has been instruct were not yet completed.

ed to ask the Greek authorities It might be possible to make

to arrest Samuel Insul, pending some further announcement in extradition proceedings.

this regard in the King's Speech

mense

Insull, formerly an associate of November 22, Mr. Baldwin of the late Mr. Thomas A. Edison declared. The scheme "could be and one

of the leaders of big nearer maturity by then-Reu- business at America, was the ter. controlling personality in the im- Mr. Baldwin said he hoped all Ingall enterprises, in parties would help to. evolve a which millions of public honey just scheme, capable of standing were invested.

any test for the next quarter or His son has already been ar-half century. In the meantime, rested.

the Means Test must stay, though Insull fled from police in the anomalies and hardships of Paris, escaped arrest in Italy, the legislation would be modified. and has taken refuge in Greece Reuter.

Britain Suspects Trade where, up to now, no extradi

Pact Violation.

London, To-day.

The British Government will send

a delegation to Berlin within the next four or five weeks to discuss coal quota questions and also dis- cover whether certain import duties constitute a violation of the Anglo- Germani Commercial treaty of 1926. The composition of the delegation is not yet settled.-British Wireless Service.

DOLLAR FIRM AS POUND SLIPS.

tion treaty operates. Reuter.

ENORMOUS

CONVERSION

LOAN FILLED

Over-Subscribed In Three Hours.

£300,000,000 INVOLVED.

KING'S SON TO HUNT BIG GAME.

Duke of Gloucester Plans Safari.

London, To-day. H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester, the King's third son, will leave England shortly after Christmas, for a shooting trip to the Sudan.

He will be away from England for two or three months.

London, To-day. Subscription lists for the new The Duke is a Captain in the £300,000,000 three Per Cent. 10th Hussars and the trip will be Conversion Loan, which opened) taken during his normal period of at one o'clock yesterday morning, leave. He has made two earlier were closed three and a quarter hunting expeditions to Africa. In hours later.

1928 he accompanied H.R.H. the

Silver Gains Slightly In Sympathy.

It is understood that the loan Prince of Wales on a Safari in The dollar remains unchanged has been largely oversubscribed. East and South Africa, when the since yesterday at 1/4%.

Was Although the lists had been expedition interrupted on Silver prices gained a fraction, closed, investors were still able account of HM the King's Illness.

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The latest photograph of the Rt. Hon. Lloyd George, M.P. The Liberal leader is shown In characteristic pose while addressing Surrey farmers.

PREMIER

ORDERED

TO REST

DEMOCRATS

CONFIDENT,

BUT CAUTIOUS

Hoover Starts Desperate. Effort In Mid-West.

AMERICAN ECONOMIC POLICY CRITICISED.

New York, To-day. The confidence of the De- mocrats that 鐘 grent majority of the country is on their side is expected to be reflected by a policy of cau- tion in the final days of the election campaign,

Political circles believe that their immediate care will be not so much to win new adherents: as to endeavour to avoid allenat- ing any section of their support-

ers.,

It is noteworthy that Mr. Roosevelt in his speech at the London, Tolay. Opera House, opening his final Premier MacDonald will not at-drive to secure New York State, tend the Lord Mayor's banquetinaisted essentially on the pa on November 9, because his doc- tional character of his pro- tor advises against it and because gramme, and while appealing for 26 the daily pressure of work, which support of discontented Republi-- on leaves

him no time for fune- cans, declared that his watch- word was the inter-dependence. tions.

However, the artificial light of all groups and all economic. 98 and smoke at banquets and such interests.

He criticised President Hoover gatherings are harmful to his eyesight, the Premier has been for excessive attention to parti warned.

cular interests and derided his' general claim of having savet the health is good but after his re- United States from chaos.

The Democratic candidate ed, to rest at least until the opined that he, Roosevelt, would end of the year. — Reuter. secure a better, co-operation from

Congress if he were ratomer), quoting his own record as Gay-- fernor of New York State, with a' | Republican majority, in the State

Legislature.

Mr. MacDonald's

GREAT BRITAIN

COMMITTED TO

OTTAWA PACT cent eye operation he was order-

Two Years' Continuity Of Policy Assured.

TARIFF BILL PASSES

London, To-day,

By a vote of 416 to 68 the House of Commons gave third reading to the Ottawa Agreements Bill yesterday. The debate followed the lines of Hackneyed arguments for and against protection.

The Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, Mr. Neville Cham- berlain stressed the necessity for continuity of policy and argued it was not a breach of the Constitution that a new Government wishing to change the Ottawa Agree- ments should have to wait two years or so for their ex- piration.

The Empire could rightly rely on the continuity of a policy which must be main- tained if Great Britain was to retain the respect of the world and although Parlia ment was entitled to alter duties, it was extremely un- likely that it would do so. — Reuter.

TRADE DELEGATION FROM SWEDEN.

Visiting In London Next Week.

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Londen, To-day.

TROOP SHIP

TAKES SCOTS

TO SHANGHAI

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Maj. Gen. Sandilands On Same Vessel.

COLOURFUL DEPARTURE.

Her decks crowded with Khaki-clad figures, and played.

Policy Criticised, Mr. Owen Young, introducing. [Governor Roosevelt dwelt on America's need for a Liberal Gov- ernment.

He criticised the American international economic policy since the War and said the Unit- ed States had chosen neither isolation nor internationalism,

out by three bands, the troop had lent freely abroad, had en- ship Neuralin left the harbour at couraged industrial and agricul 10 a.m. this morning en route to tural expansion, and then had Shanghai with a battalion of the proceeded to erect unnecessary Argyll and Sutherland Highland-barriers to international-trade ers and a number of details. His Excellency, the General Officer Commanding, Major General J. W. Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., was on board the ship, en route to the North to pay a short visit.

"We shall have to reduce - our competitive barriers to preserve the world's sanity. It is time the Liberal parties came into power to save the Conservatives from their own _destruction," he said.

Roosevelt's Lead.

His Excellency, accompanied Meanwhile President Hoover by is A.D.C.'s, Captain D. R. M. left for the mid-west in a last Cameron and Lieut. Baskervyle effort to prevent the farmers from Glegg. arrived at the quay-side

about half an hour before the deserting the Republicans.

In contrast to the Democrats' ship sailed, and after exchanging efforts to dig in and consolidate greetings with A large number

their gains, the Republicans all of officers, went on board..

over the country are expected to (Continued on Page 6.) '. make a desperate attack to recover as much as possible the ground' which they admit they have lost in recent years

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PRINCESS INGRID FLYING HOME.

Travelling By Way Of Brussels.

London, To-day.

MANY ATHLETES

WITH AMERICAN

SQUADRON HERE

spot silver rising from 18 1/18 to

to subscribe through the Post In 1980, after representing HM. Meeting British Naval 18%, while forward allver also Offices. Such applications were, the King at the Coronation of King

gained 1/16 to rise to 18.

The final return in the straw Men In Contests.

The London on New York cross however, limited to £1,000 each of Abyssinia, he spent some Lime

vote carried out by the Literary but they were assured of the full hunting in that country. rate, quoted yesterday at

Digest in which over 8,000,000- STAYING TILL NOVEMBER 9. G$3.31% dropped two points. to allotment, provided they were present trip will be.of an unofficial

votes were registered, shows that: nature, unaccompanied by cere

Roosevelt leads in "41 States with: Approximately 2,000 sailors G$8.294, while the New York on lodged some time yesterday.

The success of yesterday's monial. He will probably pay a are with the largest American London rate which was quoted

a vote of approximately 3 to 2. short private visit to Khartoum, as destroyer squadron ever to visit yesterday at G$3.804 dropped a issue completes a remarkable the guest of Sir John Maffey, coming London, for tariff and The Swedish delegation which is

over Hoover, giving Roosevelt 474. financing

which 'Hong Kong. The depot vessel, point to -G$3.29%.

Princess Ingrid of Sweden left electoral collega votes, and Hoover started a little over four months Governor-General of the Sudan.

Captain Brook, a well known big trade conversations, is expected to Croydon by air for Stockholm, via 57.

The Socialist, Mr. Thomas, gets The Princess has been visiting re-28 per cent. of the popular votes Beginning with the £2,000,-game hunter and an Extra Equerry arrive about the middle of next Brussels, yesterday.

will accompany Duke-British week.

En the House of Commons to-day, latives in England and the Royal but no electorals—Router. 1000,000 of the five per cent. war Wireiosa Service.

She and Prince George London, To-day loan, Britain's internal indebted-

the President of the Board of Trade, Family. ous sporting lines and, until The Prime Minister Mr. Ramsay ness has been cleared of all issues, THANKSGIVING AT Mr. Walter Runciman said yester- attended a cinema together on one they leave on November 9, the MacDonald, announced yesterday carrying interest at an excessive- are matched every that the House of Commons debatejly high rate under existing con-

'CATHEDRAL. Americans day in all sorts of competitions.jon international affairs would take ditions.

Interviewed on board, the place.next Thursday-British Wire- In the House of Commons yes-

London, To-day, Black Hawk, one of the officers less Service.

terday afternoon, the Chancellor, H.B.H. The Duke and Duchess of stated that few of the men hadi

of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville York yesterday attended the thanks duty on salted herrings had been been in Hong Kong before. But Lady Kelly, wife of Admiral Sir Chamberlain, in reply to a ques-giving service in Lincoln Cathedral, discussed between they all likes it immensely. W A. H. Kelly, K.C.B. C.M.Gtion, stated that the estimated to mark the successful termination interests of the two countries and The Chancellor of the Exchequer,

Throughout yesterday the men of M.V.O., arrived in the Colony saving due to the conversion of eleven years of work in restor-it was hoped that proposals for Mr. Neville Chamberlain, yesterday that Gola was driving his car at a the Argyll regiment were busy em- from the North on board the ss. operations was something over ing the cathedral's ancient fabric, mutual concessions of a satisfactory announced that December 27 would terrific speed, and he (Mr. King) barking on the Neuralis. There Rajputana this morning. She is £88,000,000 annually in a full Work was carried out at a coat of nature might result-British Wire-bé proclaimed n public holiday had to brake very sharply to avoid.

British" Wireless Service,

a serious accident. (Continued on Page 7.) jaccompanied by her daughter. year. British Wireless Service, $180,000-British Wireless Service (less Service.

.DEBATE ON WORLD AFFAIRS,

Aboard this fleet are

an in service, is with the 11 des- troyers.

some excellent athletes in vari-

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day he did not anticipate any gen-afternoon British Wireless Ser eral negotiations with the German vice. Government on tariff matters would begin for aotne little time. The recently Increased

the

German

fishing

DECEMBER 27 SET FOR HOLIDAY.

London, To-day.

EUROPEAN FINED $40 *FOR SPEEDING.

Mr. W. L. Cole was fined 840 at the Central Magletracy this morn- ing for driving his car dangerously In Lower Albert Road at 9.05, 0.m. on October 14

Prosecuting, Mr. T. H. King said