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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1932. PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

DUNLOP

Fort

is unequalled by any other Tyre

in the world.

HOOVER FAVOURS WAR DEBT TALK AND WIDER USE OF SILVER

UNEMPLOYED

MARCH UPON

WESTMINSTER

Crowds Dispersed Without Trouble.

PREMIERS PLEA TO NATION,

London, To-day.

While Premier MacDonald was broadcasting an appeal for the extending of voluntary service to aid unemployment, und the House of Commons was debating the supplementary es- thuate of £19,000,000 for unemployed relief fund, crowde of unemployed marched upon Parliament Square last night.

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A deputation headed by Saklatuvalu, former Communist Commoner, entered the House and uttempted to see the Parliamentary Secretary to the Labour, but were apply in writing left.

Ministry of told they must whereupon they

Meanwhile, the demonstrators converging on the house were dis-1 persed peacefully by police, and without any conflict.

A formal Labour amendment an protest against the Government's unemployment policy was defeated by 216 to 31-Reuter.

RAINFALL

NO AID TO

A RESERVOIR

Water Supply Not Much Affected.

WASH-OUTS REPORTED.

In spite of nearly two inches of rainfall since Sunday, the Increase to the storage, of water in the Colony's reser- voirs is comparatively small. This is due to the absorption by the parched-ground.----- During November only 01 inch of rainfall was registered by the Royal Observatory and the figures for October show only alightly more than one inch of fall.

The Maintenance Engineer of! the Waterworks Department in- formed the China Mail this morn- ing that the benefit reaped by the break in the weather was negli gible. The increase in storage im pounded in Hong Kong amounted to 22,000,000, gallons and while the Kowloon figures were not yet to hand, he anticipated that they would be about the same as those on the Island.

cember were 4.55 inches. The

a.m. to-day, was 3.87.

A Six-Foot Guard for the Prince of Wales.-The Royal Ulster Constabulary Guard for H.R.H. the Prince of Wales dur- ing his visit to Belfast, on November 16, to open the new Par- liamentary and Administrative Buildings at Stormont.-The guard present arms.-(S. & G.)

BIG SUBSIDY FOR CANTON

MILITARY EXPENSES.

Central Government Assists Through Shanghai Banks.

[From Our Own Correspondent,]

Canton, To-day. A Central Government subsidy of $400,000, made through two well-known Chineso

in banks Shanghai, has been received by the Canton Government The money is to be used for the up- keep of the military units.

The banks responsible for the subsidy are the Kug Ho and the Kuo Hua Banks, Dench of which remitted $300,000.

EUROPEANS

SUFFERING

FREE STATE

CONGRESS URGED TO CONSIDER PARLEY SAYS BRITAIN'S REQUEST MUST BE HONOURED

WORLD CO - OPERATION SOUGHT

WASHINGTON, TO-DAY.

PRESIDENT HOOVER HAS DELIVERED HIS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. IT AMOUNTS TO A REPLY TO THE BRITISH_AC- CEPTANCE OF WAR DEBT RESPONSIBILITY AND HER RE- QUEST FOR AN IMMEDIATE CONFERENCE. THE PRE- SIDENT HAS BACKED THE BRITISH VIEW, URGING UPON HIS COUNTRY THE NECESSITY OF AN EXAMINATION OF DEBTS, THE STABILIZATION OF CURRENCIES; THE WIDER AND MORE UNIVERSAL USE OF SILVER AND A CLUSER INTER- NATIONAL CO-OPERATION.

War debts and disarmament should be considered together, and in the relation of each to the other, the President declares. He does not desire to see debtor nations allowed freedom from their obliga-

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The new German Ambassa- dor, Herr Von Hoesch, after he had presented his creden- tials to H.M. King George at Buckingham Palace.~~(8. & G.)

WILL REPAY

ITS U.S. LOAN tions, when the gold they save by avoiding their debts will be spent "RACKETS ”

G$5,000,000 Borrowed In New York Market.

LEGISLATION PENDING.

:

New, York, To-day.

upon armaments and materials of war.

But above all, the President stresses the need for ú stabilization| of currencies. In this, the wider use of silver as a supplementary currency was urged as a matter worthy of consideration."

Appointment of a delegation,, ám representing the Republican and Democratic parties, to attend

The Irish Free State has decid- the Disarmament Conference, HOOVER'S

ed to pay back the balance due empowered to negotiate at the

on its Irish Republican loans of same time on war debts, is re- commended in President Hoover's 1918 and 1920, aggregating]

lateat message to Congress. G$5,000,000, according to the

Cancellation of war. debta Dublin correspondent of the is not envisaged, but for any re New York "Herald Tribune." ductions President Hoover clear- It is stated that the necessary ly indicates that the debtor na-

IN SHANGHAI legislation will be introduced tions must give some. "quid pro

Out-of-Work Have

Slept In Street.

DESTITUTE WOMEN,

. [From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, To-day.

There is a gloom in the city which even the spirit of Christmas cannot dispel. It is cast by the spectre of star- vation and misery, which stalks abroad.

At night there are Euro- peans, men and women, who walk the streets, cold and hungry with no place to rest.

when the Dail reassembles on February 1.

At that session, too, the 'Dail Government will have the pro- problem of its differences with Great Britain to settle. A par- ticularly busy period is anticipat- ed. Reuter.

Daventry

Talks To

Empire

London, To-day,

quo.

He is seeking the co-opera- tion of President-elect Roosevelt to insure a con- tinuity of polley, adding that the situation is so ur- gent that "we require na- tional solidarity for our na-. tional welfare, and to meet the forces which are now threatening the very foun dations of civilisation."

Larger Use of Silver.

COURAGE

ADMIRED

British Press Full Of Praise And Hope.

ANTICIPATES CONFERENCE.

London, To-day, President Hoover's message to. Congress is generally welcomed here.

"

COULD PAY

CHINA CHARGES

LEAGUE ACTION

PRO- JAPANESE

Nanking Spokesman's Outspoken Views..

NO WAY OF SETTLEMENT.

Nanking, To-day.

A spokesman for the Central Government to-day charged the League of Nations with pro-Japon- ese leanings. ́ ́·

He added that unless the League changed its attitude towards the Manchurian situation, no settle- ment of the issue could possibly be reached. '

No reaction has yet been felt here from Geneva. There has not. been time for comment from any direction.

The Foreign Ofce spokesman - declared that the Chinese Govern- ment was unable to accept the re- solution drawn up by the Commit- tee of Five in its present form.- Reuter.

Angry With Britain.

The Chinese press, generally, has been passionately declamatory over Sir John Simon's announce-

WAR'S COST monts at Geneva. They have open-

America's Bill For Lawlessness.

A STAGGERING TOTAL.

(Reuter's Special Service.)

ly accused the British Foreign Secretary and the chief represen- tative of the nation at League. Councils, of a leaning towards the Japanese point of view.

The popular feeling has been most noticable in the north, at Pel- ping and Nanking, and the daily papera at Shanghai have added their darts. to the shrieking verbal Washington, To-day.attack. upon, the Foreign Minister. The annual crime bill of

The expression of the Nanking the United States is greater spokesman, however, is looked upon to-day than the annual cost as far more significant and some- to the nation of carrying on

thing not easily ignored. Coming the World War, according to as it does during the session of Gordon L. Hofstetter, execu- the Central Exectitive.. Council, tive director of the Employ- where the policies of the Kuomin ers Association of Chicago. tang are being decided upon, it Speaking before the National may be an indication of a new Conference of Government, he spirit of antagonism to Japan and said that racketeering cost Chia more stubborn insistence upon cago yearly extortion toll equal China's rights in Manchuria. to the cost of the entire Govern ment of the city.

"Multiply that cost to one the cities of America and you city," said Mr. Hofstetter, "in

have an appalling total as well as

N.Y. EXCHANGE TURNS HEAVY.

Resulting From Steel Weakness.

This morning's "Daily Tele graph" says: "It is welcome in a country like our own, which paid what was due in the hope of securing reconsideration and the best terms attainable”

a subject demanding national The Daily Herald says: "Here at thought as well as action.". Mr. Hoover believed the first last is a basis whereon Eritain at and most fundamental point of least can begin a discussion with a conspiracy to control an industry A racket be described as "a

New York, To-day, attack was to re-establish the real hope of a fruitful result.”

The New York Market has turn- or a line of trade and to commit stability of currencies and for The News Chronicle adds: "His extortion by intimidation, force, ed heavy on the weakness of stes!, eign exchange, and that there announcement, whatever Congress violence, blackmail, erson, mur- with many tradera reversing their must therefore, be concerted in- says, 1s courageous, and deserves der, kidnapping, bombing and positions from buying to selling ternational action. The gold gratitude even admiration," Reu- other forms of coercion." standard had worked badly since ter.

the the war, but it was still only a

Never before has Shanghai known such a condition of affairs: Authorities are not aware

of The first transmission to The rainfall figures for last De- the precise number of unemployed Empire from the new B.B.C. Broad practical basis of International rainfall since Sunday until 6.30 Europeans in the Foreign Settle casting Station at Daventry was settlements and the larger use of ment, nor of the proportion of made yesterday when speeches were allver as a supplementary cur these who are destitute, starving delivered by the Chairman of the rency would aid stability in many

But they ars Corporation, the Right Honourable quarters of the world. The rain has had a most bene- and desperate.

JH, Whitley, Director General Sir ficial effect on the local sports

The gravity of the situation John Reith, and others. grounds, in particular the C. B. A. ground at King's Park, where the was brought home forcefully last All speeches emphasised that the activities of the Kowloon Rugby week when a Russian, named service was of an experimental Club have been curtalled owing to Vladimir, former officer of the character, both technically and as the hardness of the field.

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Sports Fields Benefit.

(Continued on Page 7.)

numerous.

Imperial Guard at Petrograd, at to programmes, and that develop tempted to commit suicide by ment would be naslated by the Cor leaping into the Whangpoo. Ho poration from overseas.

Exaggerated Effect

The President said he balley. ed in the Importance of war. debts due the United States, re- lative to other world economie depression forces had been exaggerated,!

Out of a total of $125,000,000 was picked up by a junk-man. Ho From to-day programmes will be due in December, only G899,000,000 told a tragic and pathetic story broadcast regularly to all parts of had been paid. Except In one

Boncour's

Cabinet

Fixes Policy

reports Messrs. E. A. Pierce & Co.

The only thing to which a The technical position, at the mo racket can be compared accurate ment, looks less encouraging. ly," added Mr. Hofstetter, "isThey would, therefore, withhold that equally revolting and deady buying, and they do not expect, thing a cancer. It is eating however, any major downward re- its way into the tissues of our action. industrial and commercial life." Industrials, rails and utilities. The true racket, Mrs. Hofstet showed a downward trend, while ter told the conference, is com bonds showed an upward trend. prised of four elements

Business done was on a small First. The business man, acale, only 920,000 shares changing No Change Except On business group or association of

handa. Reuter. Debts Issue.

| business men,***

Paris, To-day.

Russia Buying to police. He could not provide Empire between 5 p.m. and mid-country, the taxation required for M. Faul Boncour and his

Steamships

Thirteen Vessels From

Germany.

for his young wife and two small night, local time, British Wireless the payment of debts owing to the children, aril he had not the cour-Service. **

age to face them. He has been assisted.com

Continued on Page 7.)

But there are many others. Law Against Totalisators

among them women. Some of

these are utterly, destitute, and

Berlin, To-day, they have walked the streets at

The Soviet Government has puright, hungry, cold, jostled by

Second The leaders of organ ised labour, en dangeredžio, Third-The criminal world. Fourth. The politician.

Qualifies Charge. newly-appointed Cabinet held their first meeting to discuss He said he was not indicating their programme and poller the whole field of either business which will be read to Parliament on Thursday":

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nnouncing the general

Hon of Me Herriot's Sir John Simon

On Dog Tracks Is Sound polley, with the exception of the

Dalast

debts stand, the Government London, To day. [would be illegal for totalisatora on

|munt} 050 some means for chased thifteen old steamers of a coolies, figures of unutterable Replying to several questions in greyhound tracks and in cluba to

raising oney in the new year total tonnage 54,000, tong from the wo

continue opération, and before de-

by monthly vote accounts. North German Lloyd Line, with Authorities are taking what the House of Commons, on the

eiding whether legisintion Was, ne- three years' credit. The sale price steps are possible to help them situation arising from

cessary dos to await the find-The ings of a Ro

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the

The totalisator pray repres

Is estimated at roughly - 1,600,000 Empty houses are being turned week's judgment on the legality

pat yaềng into refuges and those who are the totalleators on

The Russiana have pledged them heedy are welcomed there.

ves not to compete with German The large proportion of the

European unemployed in Shang

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operate not alged, considerable ber of Britis

fers who are in the same plight::

and

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feet her hla

INDUSTRIAL PLANS IN KWANGSI.

General Lee Urged To Lend Help.

At the instance of General Lee Chung-yan, Commander-in-Chief of the Fourth Group Army of Kwang-

Measts, Wong, Shun-chi and

Chang Yam-man came to Hong Kong'

Ill At Homeesterday to request General Leo

Simon, who was ding the

ably

two

who is now in the Colony,

to proceed to Kwangel to particl Date

Internal development

of the delegaten? certain, but Gan-

he will

as to

Health.