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FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1933,

THE CHINA MAIL,

EMPIRE DELEGATES SHOCKING CRUELTY

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OTTAWA PRINCIPLES

ENDORSED

AN ULTIMATE INTERNATIONAL GOLD STANDARD

LONDON, TO-DAY.

TO A CHILD

Foster-Mother Sentenced

To Hard Labour.

GIRL BURNT ABOUT THE BODY

Tsang Yung, a married woman,

TO-Day's Short Story,

RUSSIA'S RED DAWN

By R. H. Bruce POWELL'S

Lockhart.

W TAR had gripped half the whose every instinct was opposed was charged at the Central Magis- world for tracy this morning, with cruelty to found myself in charge of the actually, never did meet any of the

the

a whole year to revolution. Until the revolution when, early in August 1915, I came he always refused to meet and, her foster-daughter, Wong Wu Ying. aged 5.

British Consulate-General in men who were responsible for the The woman pleaded guilty and Moscow. It was one of the most overthrow of Tsardom, nor did be was sentenced to three months' hard important of all the consulates, either personally or through his sub- THE BRITISH EMPIRE DELEGATES TO THE WORLD labour.

and I was not yet twenty-eight.ordinates give any encouragement to ECONOMIC CONFERENCE, INCLUDING THE DELEGATES OF, Sub-Inspector Fraser, prosecut- It was only a few weeks be their ambitions. GREAT BRITAIN YESTERDAY ISSUED A STATEMENT ing, said that a complaint was made fore this that, unwillingly, I had Naturally he would have been SIGNED BY ALL EXCEPT THE IRISH FREE STATE DELE by the child's father yesterday. who taken the step which was to lead lacking in perspicacity if he had GATE, WHO REFERRED THE MATTER TO DUBLIN.

said that the defendant, as foster-me to adventure and peril, to failed to foresee the catastrophe The declaration expresses satisfaction at the results of the mother of the child, bad ill-treated prison and almost to death that was approaching, and in his Ottawa Agreements up to the present, and re-states the principle his daughter by burning her about itself.

duty if he had been afraid to warn of the Ottawa Agreement concerning the raising, of wholesale the body. There was a bruise on I had been left temporarily in the Russian autocracy of the dan- prices, which policy it considers the Commonwealth should pur-the right temple, one bruise on the charge in Moscow, and at a time gers which he saw threatening it. sue (within the limits of sound finance) until evidence of equi-thign, four bruises on

atmosphere was un-This difßeulf task he undertook in a the inner when the librium is re-established. The position could then be stabilised. right leg, and two small scars on the bealthy. Confidence in Bussian memorable conversation with the

inner left leg and two on

arms had given way to a conviction Emperor. I saw him just before he The declaration reaffirms the Ottawa policy of ultimately re-stomach, all alleged to have been of German invincibility. In every went to see the Taar. He informed establishing an international gold standard and expresses the opinion caused by burns."

section of the Moscow population me that if the Emperor received that any

further sessions of the World Economic Conference must give It was stated that the child had ruled bitter resentment against the him sitting down all would be well. prominence to this.

been given to the defendant at the alleged pro-German policy of the The Tsar received him standing.

I was back in Moscow again when Meanwhile, the delegation recognises the importance of seeking age of three years, as its mother Russian Government. The famous

fell-the was not in a position to look after Russian steamrolier, which English Warsaw

culminating stability between Empire exchange rates, in the interests of trade. it. The girl's father was a widower imagination had invented, had tragedy of Russia's disastrous Bum- Reuter.

with a family of six daughters and broken down.

mer campaign of 1915. But worse a son. He was only able to visit the

There were bread riots in Mos-things were to happen than the fall Full Details Of Empire "Since then the policy of the girl occasionally owing to his work cow. The Assistant-Prefect was of Warsaw.

British Commonwealth Statement.

has been The defendant was the mother of stoned. The wounded did not like Moscow adopted the slogan that directed to raising prices. The a family of five boys, and her hus- going back. The peasants object-the war could not be won unless the London, To-day.

undersigned delegation note with band was a fitter in the Royal Navaled to their sons being taken away dark influences in the' capital were The following announcement satisfacttion that this policy has Dockyard.

from the fields.

eliminated. From this moment was made yesterday evening on been attended with an encouraging

Obviously the situation called for dates the first of the many resolut behalf of the British Empire De measure of success.

The woman said that she used a lighted paper to frighten the child action. I sat down and wrote two tions demanding a ministry of na- legation attending the World

"For some moths indeed it had because of its persistent uncleanly reports to the Ambassador inftional defence or of public con- Economic Conference. ·

{St. obstacles arising habits.

Petersburg, Sir George [fidence. "Now that the World Economic from the constinuance of a down-

at the pro- The Magistrate ordered the child Buchanan. I hinted and Monetary Conference has ad- ward trend of gold prices and dur-to be handed over to the Po Leung bability of serious riots in the im- journed, the undersigned delegation ing that period results achieved uk, us the father was apparently mediate future. to the British Commonwealth con- were in the form of raising prices not in a position to look after the. sider it appropriate to put on re Empire currencies relatively to child, he said, cord their views on some of the gold prices. more important matters of financial and monetary policy-which-were raised but not decided at the Con- ference..

to encounter

Cheap Money.

With some trepidation I sent off the reports. I received a personal letter of thanks with a request that. political reports should became re-

SUICIDE ATTEMPT gular feature of my work.

FROM FERRY. Fireman's Fine Rescue.

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Surprise Item," by Caroline Travers.

My prediction of trouble received

At first these demands. were) startling confirmation within a fort- night. On June 10, 1915, vast anti-nough. Moscow was prepared to German riots broke out in Mos who had no connection with the accept legitimate Taarist Ministera,

the hands of the mob.

For three days the City was political parties in the Duma. It would at this stage have been simple

cow.

"During part of the Conference.

"In the last few months the per- they have had an opportunity of sistent adherence of the United consulting together and reviewing in Kingdom to a policy of cheap and

A Chinese woman, Li Mui, at-jin the light of present day conditions, plentiful money has been increasing tempted to commit suicide yesterday. the conclusions arrived at at their ly effective under the more favour-by jumping off the Shum Shui Po 1 Meet The Ambassador. meeting at Ottawa, in so far as they fable conditions that have been creat ferryboat "Man Fat," while cross-a request to go to St. Petersburg to

As a result of this riot I received enough for the Tsar to have formed had reference to the issues before ed for the time by the change offing from Hong Kong to Shum Shui see the Ambassador. I went, and going outside the usual circle from a new Ministry, which would have - the Conference.

policy of the United States and by a Po.

satisfied public opinion. without "The undersigned delegation certi-fall of gold prices," the statement

for an hour talked to Sir George which he chose his advisers. By fies that the Ottawa

She was rescued by a fireman Buchanan of my fears and anxieties agree. continuca, ments have already had beneficial "Taking the whole period from effects on many branches of integ: June 29, 1932, just before the as was taken to the Government Civil naganda against war, the growing disillusioned country was to take by from the ferryboat "Man Sheung." about the situation, the snortage of giving in time the six inches of re which was passing at the time, and munitions, the subterranean pro might have saved the yards which a form, which were necessary, he Imperial trade, and that this process sembly of the Ottawa Conference, a is likely to continue as the purchas-rise in sterling wholesale prices has ing power of the various countries taken place of 12 per cent, accord-

class, the force afterwards. Those murmurs against the throne itself. him, however, saw the matter in an concerned increases.

ing to "The Economist" index. The

I was introduced to "While

Lady there has not yet been rise in the sterling price of primary

Georgina, the Ambassador's wife. other light. They told him that any sufficient time to give full effect to products during such period bes For failing to register an

the She was a woman of strong likes Concession now. would be regarded various agreements made they are been much more substantial, being manifest 200 boxes of Mosquito land dislikes, which she made little as a fatal weakness and that the convinced that the general principles in the neighbourhood of 20 per cent. coils on the ss, Sul An. Chau Kam- attempt to conceal. She showed me appetite of the reformers would only

"The undersigned delegations are chui, the owner, was this morning nothing but kindness. To of opinion that the views they ex-fined $7 and had his goods confis-George she was everything that nressed at Ottawa as to the neces- 'cated..

a wife should be. sity of a rise in prices still hold

agreed upon are sound.

The undersigned delegation reaffirm their conviction that the lowering or removal of barriers between the countries of the Empire provided for in the Ottawa agreement will not only facilitate the flow of goods between them but will stimulate and Increase trade of world.

Hospital

News In Brief.

1

are

discontent of every

be whetted.

Sir

-nearest

The Tsar's Reply. This was an argument which That is no place in which to give never failed to convince the Em- good and that is of the greatest] Mr. F. W. Ambrose of Alex Rossan account of Sir George Fess, and in consequence the Tsar's! importance that this rise which and Co. (China) Ltd., was this Buchanan's work in Russia, but I reply to those who were working has begun should continue. morning fined $3 by Mr. Schofield at should like to pay my tribute to the hardest for Russia's victory was to "As to the ultimate level to be the Traffic Court for riding his man himself. Sir George Buchanan's dissolve the Duma, to relieve the aimed at they do not consider it motor-cycle No. 191, without a rear name has not escaped the calumina Grand Duke Nicholas of him com- practicable to state this in precise light on the night of July 13, tors either in England or in Russia.mand, and to dismiss the three terms. Any price level would be

Sir George Buchanan was a man most popular in Moscow,

Ministers who at the moment were

The dissolution of the Duma provoked the usual strikes and pro- tests. But the assumption of the Supreme Command by the Tsar himself was the first milestone on the way to Golgotha. It was the most fatal of the many blunders of the unfortunate Nicholas IL, for sonally responsible in the eyes of Commander-in-chief he became per-

Three Chinese dockyard coolies, of defeats which, owing to Bussia's the people for the long succession Hung Kam, Chan Hoa and Hung technical deficiences, were now in- Shek, were remanded for 24 hours evitable.

The dismissal of two of the three

"The delegation now desire to satisfactory which restores the nor- 1. M. Submarines Olympus, -draw attention to the principles of mal activity of industry and em- Parthian and Perseus, which

the principles of the monetary and ployment which ensures an econo nearing completion of refit at the financial policles which have mic return to producers of primary Naval Dockyard, are expected to -emerged from the work of both commodities and which harmonises leave for Wei-hai-wei in the first

the Ottawa and World Conferences the burden of debt and fixed charges week of August. and which are of the utmost in with economic capacity.

"It is important that the rise

A Chinese child, Leung Lau, aged in prices should not be carried 5, received serious scalda on the to such a pitch as to produce an inflated scale of

face and body yesterday when a profits and threaten a disturbance of equili

kettle of boiling water was accident, brium in the opposite direction.

ly poured over her. She was taken "They therefore consider that the to the Kwong Wah Hospital. Governments of the British Com-1

ALLEGED ARMED THIEVES.

Sequel To Shaukiwan Robbery.

DOCKYARD COOLIES CHARGED

portance for countries within the: British Commonwealth to follow and embody their views as to the principles of policy which they consider desirable for their coun- tries.

"At the Ottawa Conference the monwealths should persist by all Governments represented their their view that a risc throughout means in their power, whether painter working on a building under Magistracy this morning on a charge Ministers was the indirect sequel of the world in the general level of monetary or economic, within the construction in Luard Road, Wen- that they being armed with an episode of which I myself had wholesale price was in the highest limits of sound finance, in a policy chai, yesterday fell from a plank on dagger, a revolver and a bamboo been a silent, witness. degree desirable and stated that they of furthering a rise in wholesale the second floor, receiving injuries were anxious to co-operate with other prices, until there is evidence that which necessitated bis removal to

any, practicable Incasures Wholesale. They agreed

esale prices,

that

nations in'

for raising:

could

not be

declared

Li Man, aged 16, an apprentice in police custody, at the Central

equilibrium has been re-establish-hospital

a rise in pricez ed; and that thereupon they should effected by monetary take whatever action alone,. since various other

Monetary Policy.

pole, assaulted Lam Pui, Au Man One summer evening I was at and, Sit Man at a hut in Chai Wan Yar, the most luxurious night- village, Shaukiwan, on July 12, haunt of Moscow, with some Eng- measures are pos». Convicted with having taken stealing a sum of $7.50 in money lish visitors. As we watched the factors which combined to bring about sible to stabilise the position thus part in the sale of a child, Ho Shi and a quantity of property and the music-hall performance in the the present depression must also be attained.

and Chan Kam, married women. The defendants were also charged in one of the neighbouring

clothing.

main hall there was a violent fracas modified or removed before a remedy is gssured. -It' was indicated that

were fined $50 each at the Central international action, would be needed "With reference to, the proposal

Magistracy yesterday, Two other with possession of a revolver and "cabineta" (private rooms). Wo

four rounds of ammunition without shrieks of woman, & man's curses, to remove various non-monetary which has been made from time to married women, Lan Ho and Chana license factors which were depressing the time for the expansion of Govern Tang, were also fined $25 each on

broken glass, and the hanging of level of prices,

"In the monetary sphere the ment programmes of capital outlay,

doors, raised a discordant pande primary line of action towards & Hions consider that this is a matter monetary standard were stated per-

WANCHAI ACCIDENT monium. the British Commonwealth delegá-

Head walters, rushed upstairs. creation and maintenance, within the limits of sound finance,

man who was always on duty at such, establishments. But the row and the roaring continued. The

more coming and going of wallers and policemen, and

the same charge,

rise in prices was stated to be the which must be dealt with by each ticularly to be arise in the general Car. Drives On:Without/The manager sent for the police

of

Stopping.

Government In the light of its own level of commodity prices in vari- such conditions as would sanist The Ottawa Conference de-keeping with the level of costs, Lo Ches, a Chinese, was knocked experience and of its own conditions, ous countries to a height more in in the revival of enterprise, and clared that the ultimate aim including the burden of debt and down at the function of Johnsto trade, including low rates of

of monetary policy must be other fixed and semi-axed charges. Street and Hennessy Boad,

restoration of `p antis-" "The undersigned, delegations now at sbout 5.30 pm. yesterday,

F factory International monetary leaffirmed their view that the Alti-motor-car which drove on Wi standard, having in mind not mere mate aim of monetary policy should stopping.

interest and an abundance

short-term money.

Sound Finance.

the

The inflationary creation of ad-ly stable exchange rates between all be the restoration of a satisfactory The Pollos BID ditional means of payment to countries, but the deliberate manage-listernational gold-standard finder trace tha finance public expenditure, was de- ment of the international stand

which international cooperation the car, und will be

precated and an orderly monetary in such a manner as to ensure would be coned and maintainedtouch with any

olicy was demanded," with safe-smooth and effefedt 'work guards to limit the scope of violent ternational trade and mar speculation movements of "com- „mrodities and securities,

Conditions precedent establishment of any im

The problem with which the led the scope world is Laced is to reconcile: stabi-Lo Chen was removed fo the te bly of exchange rates 7 — British ernment Civil rnational "Wireless Service,

ads and hiêjing of

Echino of the dist Rasputin drank) and and neither police/

evict him

onale Inspector, the inspector itoztheĩ, the Préfact, i The Prefect telephone, to Djunkowski, who was Assistant Minister, of the where he Interior and head of all the police.

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