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CHAMBERLAIN ADMITS BRITAIN IS

SELECTIONS FOR

A

KWANTI

(By AJAX).

GOOD day's sport is pro- mised for the second meet- ing of the Fanling Hunt and Race Club, which is to be held

the at

Kwanti Course

to- morrow. A' programme of seven events has been arranged, three w of which are unofficial races. The fields are good, and with the turf in excellent condi- tion, racegoers can depend on seeing one 01 two thrilling) finishes.

The Ladies' Mile will be one of the most interesting races on the card, and Miss Scott Haraton will be watched closely. If she rides as well as she did when she romped home a winner at Macao last week, I confidently expect her to win. She has en- tered her own horse, Imperial! Hall, but the pony may run in; either the Kwangtung Handicap or the Kwanti Handicap.. The Hall pony howevet, will most likely be her mount. Miss Fearson will be another owner-rider, on Festival Eve.

Mr. Bob Charles has two good entries in Cupid and Rooslan, and since Cupid is the better jumper of the two, he will prob- ably be ridden in the Unofficial

the Machine Gun Troop race, Hurdle Race. If he is, I expect him to win, in spite of his 170 Ibs.

HONG KONG NOT TO RELAY INTERPORT BROADCAST.. Experiments Prove Futility Of Attempt.

The Post-Master General in Hong Kang bas informed the Itong Kong Football Association that they are unable to relay the broadcast of Capt. Reed's running commentary on the Interport soc cer game between Hong Kong and Shanghal to-day.

Experiments were made, but it was found that between the wave length of 49-50 metres, at which Kuok Station in broadcasting, there were, too many interrup- tions, and under these circum. alances It would be absolutely futile to attempt to relay.

SHANGHAI

J. T. COLLINS

GUILTY IN KENT MURDER

But Jury Find Soldier Insane.

SHOT THREE WOMEN.

London, To-day. James Thomas Collins, private serving in a regiment stationed at Shorncliffe, near Folkeatone, who was charged recently with triple murder, was found guilty but insane". at Maidstone Assizes yester- day, and sentenced to be de tained at His Majesty's pleasure.

The murders were discovered on June 13, when a bus conductor saw a woman's body protruding from the undergrowth at Kingswood, aj

FAVOURED IN

INTERPORT popular picole spot near Ashford,

Issue Depends On Hong Kong Chinese.

HEAVY CONDITIONS FACED

BY COLONY TEAM.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, To-day.

The rain encountered by the Colony soccer team in Shanghai will prove a great handicap to the visitors, and the heavy conditions at the Canidrome, strongly fa- you the chances of the

Northern- team.

Optimism trans

higher, and Shanghai certainly look as if they are going to guard

even

their unbeaten home record against the invaders.

This is the sixth Interport game to be played on. Northern

The M.G.T. Hurdle Race is the oil, Shanghai having won the first item and has encouraged nine entries, first five games with a goal tally

on the programme, j

Whether riding Cupid or Roos of 20 to 7.

lan, Mr. "Bob" Charles should

win, with Mr. G. P. Ferguson · a close second

on White Stara.

They are the two beat riders in (Continued on Page 5.)

EUROPEANS

TOSS DRIVER

FROM MOTOR

Escapade Reported

To Police.

GIRL IN THE CASE:

·A." HOWE

Having thrown the driver into (centre, forward)

The Southerners

-are crest-fallen at tum of the the turn wenther, but are still confident of: bringing off the unexpected. They realise that they are the lighter sitle and that to- day's heavy going will further han dicap them. Tho grounds in Shang- hai are much slower than those in Hong Kong, but to-day's game should introduce the Colony teaza to a ground en

tirely foreign to them.

the street while driving along (Continued on Page 14.)

Des Voeux Road Central last

Kent. This discovery led to the finding of the bodies of another They ware woman and a girl. later identified as the bodies of Mrs. Janie Swift, (65), of Ye Olde

Sportsman's Inn, Whitstable, Mrs.

Jennie Stamp (35) and Miss Peggy

Stemp (18). All were shot.

The murderer was captured on June 16 after a thrilling purault and an exchange of revolver shots.

Mr. Samuel Insull, the ex- Chicago millionaire, who is wanted on churges of fraud and embezzlement,

Mr. Insull, 'in Athens, hiding his face with his hat to avoid the photographers, us he was being taken to the station (S. & G.)

JAPAN BLOCKS

LEAGUE PLANS

ON MANCHURIA

The police, had, with the aid of China Accepts Special

scoured the dis-

for two days, and soon trict

on June 16,2 after daybreak a policeman noticed a man carry- ing a gun. After, a chase, the constable Bnally covered the fugi- and engaged tive with his revolver and his attention while another con- stable crept up at his back and failed him--Router.

THREE SEAMEN

OFF C.P. LINER

Assembly Reference.

BUT MATSUOKA OBJECTS.

Geneva, To-day.

The anticipated proposal of the Council of the League of Nations, that the Lyfton Report and iri Manchurian issue should be referred to a special meeting of the League Assembly, was im mediately accepted by

HELD IN JAPAN China's delegates yesterday

Arrests Followed Fatal Accident.

BO'SUN LOST AT SEA.

Three Japanese coal coolias were killed when a life boat fell from the deck of the

when it was laid before them. Japan's spokesman, Mr. Matsuoka, however, blocked the 'move."

1932 DUNLOP still the Leader

TRAPPED BY U.S. DEMANDS

Mr. Matsuoka, desired, he said, to consult Tokyo. He wish. ed to refer the whole matter to his Government.

The discussion which has been

HOPEFUL IN

AMERICA'S ATTITUDE MACDONALD

SURPRISES LONDON

STIMSON DIVORCES DEBT

FROM REPARATIONS

DIVERGENCE OF POLICIES

LONDON, TO-DAY.

BY SURRENDERING HER CLAIMS UPON EUROPEAN DEBTORS AND BY HER CONTINUED POLICY OF SACRIFICE! AND GENEROSITY, GREAT BRITAIN HAS LEFT BERSECT EXPOSED TO INJURY AT THE HANDS OF HER ONE GREAT CREDITOR, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. · RT. HON. MR. NEVILLE, CHAMBERLAIN, CHANCELLOR OF THE EX- CHEQUER, ADMITTED. THIS FACT YESTERDAY WHEN HE WAS DISCUSSING THE WAR DEBT SITUATION AND THE WASHINGTON REPLY TO THE BRITISH REQUEST FOR A CONTINUED MORATORIUM.

DEBT CRISIS

Confident America Will Be Reasonable.

BRITAIN'S GREAT BURDEN.

London, To-day.

"I do not believe at the moment that if à real effort is made by the nations to- gether, if both sides put themselves in each other's shoes, a solution cannot be found to enable · December 15 to be passed and the 'future" examined and new agreements made between m of goodwill who under- stand what the present un- fortunate financial situation means to the world," de- clared ~ Premier ... Ramsay MacDonald in a speech at Retford, referring to the war debts situation.

He painted out Great Bri- The Washington note was made public to-day, The Secretary tain's loans to the Allies were of State, Mr. Henry L. Stimson, reasserts the American policy almost exactly the same as the that war debts must be completely divorced from reparations. The loans made by the United States. Britain had written off mere fact that Great Britain chooses to treat her European debtors 60 per cent. of those debts due with generosity does not necessitate American sacritice, and must her and had paid America £200,000,000 more than she re-

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not presuppose a surrender of Washington's claims, Mr. Stimson ceived from Europe.

He emphasised that Britain In effect.

had not asked for the cancella- The United States note is re-tion, but Congress in the past tion or reduction of the debt but ceiving the most careful con- has itself provided the machinery merely a postponement of the sideration of the British Govern in the shape of the World War date of payment. ment.

Foreign Debt Commission for

The Anglo-American debt dia The subject was referred to at investigation of facts and for cussions were arousing ne bad Birmingham this afternoon by making recommendations uponings between the two ne the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which such action might be taken. tions, he said, Reuter Rt. Hon. Mr. Neville Chamber. The executive might recom

lain,

mend, but the facts and eviden

The decision which must be ce were submitted to and the de New Chief Of

made, said Mr. Chamberlain, was cision made by Congress, acting che of the most difficult and the through this machinery. most delicate which it. had ever been the lot of the Government to contemplate."

Great Britain had laid it down in her policles that. war debla and reparations had best be wiped out. At Lausanne the British dele gates agreed that all repara. fons payments, should be

Suggestion Surprises

U.S. Congress.

Your present suggestion of a general review goes far beyond any

General Staff

Adjutant-General

Promoted.

London, To-day. thing contemplated or proposed at General Sir Archibald Mont- any time in the past either by Pregomery-Massingberd, K.C.B., sident Hoover or by this Govern-K.C.M.G., has been appointed Chief ment, and even the suggestion quet of the Imperial General Staff, In led in your note was not adopted by succession to Field Marshall Sir proceeding under the chairman-

the Congress of the United States George Milne, who had filled the C.P.S. liner, Empress of Rusship of Mr. Eamon de Valera "We never contemplated a In view of these facts and in the post since 1928. ** sia, at Nagasaki harbour. in the Council of the League, has state of affairs in which we light of the historic position of the Consequently been adjourned might be asked to make pay, United States, that reparations are until November 28.

ments equal to another shilling solely a European question in which

suspended. Great Britain had made the heaviest sa crifices, he said...

As a result of the accident. three members of the Chinese crew were detained by the It was anticipated that Japan in the pound on our income tax, the United States are not involved, Nagasaki Police, but accord- would strenuously object to the while at the same time we re- I am sure no inference can be intend ing to a message received by summoning of the Assembly or ceive nothing from our debtors, ed that the settlement of the German the local C.P.S. office this Commission of Nineteen, for That, alike from the point of reparations at Lausanne was made morning, the men have now the reason that on these bodies view of justice, and the possibili in reliance upon any commitments been released.

it would be probable that the ty of maintaining our industries, given by this Government.

(Continued on Page 4) According to the crew of the smaller nations represented would be absolutely Insufferable." ship, the matter is said to have would unqualifiedly support the

London, To-day. preyed on the mind of the No. 1 cause of China. They would en- The reply of the United States POUND PLUNGES beaun, Leung Ying, to such a ter the discussion, with minds al-Secretary of State to the British

night, two Europeans, in com- CAPT. EDEN GOES TO degree that he jumped overboard ready made up, and condemn note on war debts, is issued SENSATIONALLY

pany with a young Chinese woman, eluded the police pur sult, it is revealed to-day in re ports at headquarters.

GENEVA

Sir John Simon On Way To London.

Yam Hof, the driver, reported to the Police at about 10.30 p.m. last night, that his car was engaged by two Europeans and a The Chinese girl at Garden Road Aalender Secretary for Foreign

London, To-day,

He drove them to Belchers Street, this morning for Geneva to take

during the voyage from Shang Japan on principle, Tokyo fears. for publication as follows hai to Hong Kong: Three mem- The argument over League "I fully appreciate the import- bera of the Chinese crew were procedure is expected, to be pro-ance of the proposal contained detained by the Water Police tracted. It is admitted that the in your note of November 10 and here yesterday, in order that en present is a critical stage in the the seriousness of the situation quiries might be made into the proceedings. Reuter.

upon which it is predi- cated. death of the bo'sun.

The mere fact that Government suggests your the cessity of a review of the iter-Governmental - finan-

Captain A. J. Hoskin, master

of the liner, in his report to the Canadian Loan

Police here, stated that at about

190pm on Movember, when Over-Subscribed cial obligations presents a cir-

West Point district, and on arri charge of the British delegation dur the ship was in Lat. 27.55 N., val at their destination the Euro-ing the absence of Sir John Simon, (Continued on Page 14.), peans refused to pay the fare. who is returning London for a brief One of them, the driver alleges, period.

D GENERAL LIUS ARMY HURRIES

struck him a blow. The driver It is believed Sir John's presence was seized and pushed into the is required in connection with the car, one of the Europeans hold War debt problem which the Cabinet ing, hirns; down while the other is considering British Wireless drove.

While travelling along Des Voeux Road Central, near the

Service.

World Theatre, the driver was LOWREY TO RIDE SCARDROY, thrown out of the vehicle which

was driven in an eas

direc

London, To-day,

tion. The driver hurried to the Lowrey, will ride Seardroy Instead Central Police Station where he of Sam Wragg in the Manch mado a report

Police were sent out and the (A Wragg

car was found near the

Ferry Wharf & The Eu

and the girl had vanished

November Handicap,

quoted.

EVACUATION OF CHEFOO.

Provincial Government Now Near

SATO Normalcy.

Chefoo, Today,

If is now expected that all Gen- Feral Lia Chen-nlen's forces will

aft Chefco prior to Decem-

“General Lin himself

At Exichowfu, while mos

nigy supplien

being loaded at

G$80,000,000 Largely For Relief.

Ottawa, To-day,

1,000

Intern

publ

winter

IN NEW YORK

Chinese Currency

Also Affected.

SILVER'S LOW RECORD

Sir George Milne General - Montgomery - Massing- berd has been Adjutant General to the Forces since 1931, besides be- New York, To-day,,|ing an A.D.C. to HAI, the King, The pound plunged sensation- Son of the late the Rt. Hon. Hugh cumstance which must be given ally on Wall Street yesterday and de F. Montgomery, he assumed the the most serious consideration, reached a new low record, clos- name of Montgomery-Maasingberd In a matter of such importance ing at $8.207% after a hectic In 1926.

He served in the Bouth African there must be allowed no oppor. day tunity for misunderstanding or Wall Street was the scene of a War between 1899-02 and was failure to reach conclusions storm in the exchange. Traders mentioned in despatches satisfactory to both Govern in sterling were worried by the Medal with our clasps). menth and peoples.

fluctuations and the spi stled in thesEuropedia. Var be at

despa With this end in view you tack on the pound was irresisti- mentioned:

rmit me to recall very ble.

times. He the essential conThe pound touched $820% at Ch

oral Staf served unt lítions, and itations which one stage, and thereafter staa would control, on the part of this and recovered a fract Government. ↑

might affect)

Is there res

G55,000,000

ment

ultimate:

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the cord low level

re: Not only December adve

India'

and

on General In 1930.

new appointment is that

Earl of Cavan, M.GG.C.V.O

has been raja Field Marshall: the late Lord

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