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NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST.

SIR HUGH TRENCHARD'S PEERAGE.

HAICHING OFFICERS' REWARD. MR. A. H. CROOK GETS O.B.E..

THE HONG KONG DAILY

The New Year Honour List contains nothing, in any way, of a "sesational" nature. All Parties are very overly represented, And there has been no attempt to create a number of Labour peere, as had been anticipated in some quarters.

Local recipients of honours include the Ilaiching officers, and Mr. A. H. Crook, hendmaster of Queen's College. The full list is given below:

Peerages have been granted to the following:

Major Dudley Leigh Aman, who was Labour candidate at Faver sham at the last General Election, when he was beaten by the Conser- vative candidate in a three-corner ed fight. In 1924 he unsucessfully contested the Isle of Thanet Divi sion. Ho is well-known in Hamps-

DREADFUL FIRE IN

PAISLEY.

TINY TOTS TRAMPLED TO DEATH.

A SAD. NEW YEAR,

(THROUGH LEUTER'A AGENCY.].

Lossos, Dec. 31.

Over sixty, probably" nearer eighty, children, some of them thuy tots, were burned to death or died an the result of terrible injuries re- ceived when a fire broke out at the Glen Cinema, Paisley; during a matizce.

first tank. He received the Dis. tinguished Service Medal of U.S.A. for services rendered to the U.S. Navy during the Great War, and the Has several times, received thanks of the British Government for success in design and constructerium. tion of ships and tanks.

New Knights.

The performance was proceeding when dames shot out From the operator's box and filled the audi

PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1930.

BRITISH VIEWS ON EXTRALITY.

GENERAL SMUTS IN U.S.A.

"BRITISH EMPIRE WON'T BREAK UP."

NO PROPAGANDA!

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}

New York, Jan. 1. The quietude of the Woodrow Wilson library was disturbed by the arrival of General Smuts, fol. lowed by batteries of talkie ma- chines, and a battalion of repor tera bombarding the general with questions of international tenden- cica,

General Smuts vigorously denied that he had come to propagandise for the League of Nations, and said that the League for the past decade had been responsible for enormous changes in Europe, but "I don't say the League suits

ferent."

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There was a wild scramble for the exis, which were quickly jam- med with struggling boys and girls.

Police and civiliana, who hastily led as many as possible to safety He emphatically negatived from the tangled mass while agonis-query whether the British Empire ed mothers looked on.

On the con- would ever break up. trary, he said that the recrganisa tion of the Empire ranked second only to the League as the most im-

Mr. Granville Bantock, the well- the Committee set up to investigate fessor of Music at the Birmingham hire, where he was a member of known musical composer, and Pro- donned improvised gasmasks, pul America, whose traditions are dif the agricultural problemi.

University. He was the winner of the Macfarren Scholarship at the

Firemen erected ladders against Royal Academy of Music, and his works include a setting to "Omar the windows at the top of the build- Khaya," an well as "Fifine at the ing and handed down children they

His were able to rescue by this means. Fair" and "Gethsemane."

In all over one hundred and fifty Hebridean Symphony was produc

children were rushed off in tram ed in 1917.

cars to the Infirmary

Sir Willoughby Dickinson, K.B.E., P.C., a prominent Liberal. He was called to the Bar in 1884 and was Chairman of the L.C.C. in 100 as a Liberal for North St. Pancras from 1908 to 1918. Has served on serveral Com missions, and was one of the ori ginators of the League of Nations. He is Hon, Secretary of the World Alliance for the promotion of in ternational friendship through the churches and is prominently na80- ciated with various philanthropic enterprises.

Sir William Joseph Nonel, ex- President of the Chamber of Shin ping of the United Kingdom. is Hon. President of the Baltie and International Maritime Conference and shipping representative on the Advisory Sub-Committee of the Ministry of Transport. He is Chairman of the Cairn Line 8.8. 'Co., Ltd..

·Sir Hugh Trenchard, C.B..

Mr. Fred Joseph Wall, the well- known Secretary of the English Football Association.

Companion of Honour.

ال

LATER.

"It has since been ascertained that none of the victims of the disaster were actually burned to death, Those who lost their lives and the bulk of those injured were either trampled upon or suffocated.

Tragic Hogmanay.

The Right Hou. V, S: Srinivasa Sastri. President of the Servants of India Society, and Agent of the Government of India to South Africa from 1997 to 1929. He was formerly n schoolmaster, but has latterly been prominently associat ed with Indian polities. He was a member of the Madras Legislative Council in 1913 and of the Viceroy's Legislative Council from 1918 to 1920, and was elected to the

The youngsters had gathered for Council of State under the Newa special Hogmanay show and had

visited England on numerous 00

was run over in a street accident.

There has never been a more ghastly Hogmanay in Scotland than the Paisley cinema disaster, which was by far the most terrible of its kind ever experienced in the British Isles.

D.S.O., Marshal of the Royal Air Reform Regime in 1920. He has just seen a film in which a child

Timitation

of

Force, and Chief of the Air Staffcasions, being Indian representa Then, following splutterings and He entered the Army in 1893 at the tive to the Imperial Conference in

dense smoke from the operator's age of 20, became Sir Marshal. int

1021, to the League of Nations As-on, there was sudden darkness, 1019, Air Chief Marshal in 1922,

sembly and to the Conference of a spool of film had taken are and and Marshall of the Royal Air

Armaments at Fares in 1923. He served in South Washington. In 1024 he visited Africa from 1809 to 1002, being dan England on behalf of the National gerously wounded, and with the Liberal Federation in India to West African Frontier Force from 1994 to 1900. In the European Press for constitutional reforms. War, he was mentioned in deannt. ches eight times, promoted Major. General and given the K.C.B. de coration.

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the operator tried to carry cut the burning film, but the children, frightened by the andden shutting off of the light, had by this time taken panic and had rushed to- wards the rear entrance.

Here there were ten steps lead ing down. The leaders of the crowd of kiddies fell in their hurry and were trampled upon by those who came rushing after.

portant change in the modern world. The question as to whether another world war was coming evoked a slow and thoughful re- sponse. "Even the Boer War," he said, in which I had so great in terest, would be impossible to-day Naturally there will still be strife and contention, such as in China, but no man alive to-day would see what we have, seen in a "World War.

BRITAIN'S BUDGET.

A BIG DEFICIT DISCLOSED.

ĮTHROUGH REUTEE'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Dec. 31...

It is disclosed, that the Exeche quer returns for the nine months ended to-night show a deficit of early £170,000,000. Large amounts, however, are due to come in during the last quarter of the financial

year."

boy in a corner with bodies piled high above his waist.

He was still gesticulating wild- ly as if he thought he was still fighting for his life in the awful crush,

The disaster is now stated to be that the opera. due to the fact tor was unable to open the side door as he was bravely rushing

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Mr. Harry Halton Fox, C.M.G! becomes a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Educated at Dulwich College, he O Magnate Honoured. was appointed a student interpre-

Most of the casualties were caus- Sir Charles Wakefield, Govern.ter to China in 1800, and later be

cams Consul at Ichang, 1005; Con- ed in this way and, indeed, accord.away with a burning film. ing Director of Messrs. C. N.

Children's Stainpede. Wakefield and Co., Ltd., oil manu- sul-General at Chengtu, 1013; off-ing to the Master of the Paisley

Many of the children were so After serving

ciating Consul-General at Hankow, Fire Brigade, not a single child facturers.

He was appointed Comperished by, fire.

disfigured in the stampede that Sheriff, he became Lord Mayor of 1914-15.

Terrible Scales.

they could only be identified by London in 1015-18, and was creat-mercial Attache to China in 1917. da Baronet in 1017. As Presi and Commercial Counsellor to the

The news of the tragic, affair their clothes. dent or Treasurer, he is associat-Legation in Peking in 1918. He is

spread like wildfire to the cotton Volunteer workers from various nursing establishments have offer fought the firemen and the policed 'to prepare the bodies for burial, in an attempt to enter the cinema.

The death-roll is officially stated The firemen did not wait for

Lo be seventy. their smoke helmets but dashed into the building over a mound of prone children and, seizing as many as they could, rushed them "out. into the fresh air.

ed with numerous charitable in the holder of the Coronation Me-mills and half-demented parents stitutions, and has been a generous dal of 1911.

helper in civil aviation. His pub: lications include a book on Future

Trade in the Far East.

Arthur

The Right Hon. Mr. Ponsonby, Labour M.P. for Bright- side since 1992. He is Under-Se cretary for the Dominione. in the Government, and in the first Lah our Administration was Under-Se-, He cretary for Foreign Altairs. was originally a Liberal, having Ent for Stirling Burghs from 1903 to 1818, and was Private Secretary to the late Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman from 1905 to 1008... At one time, he was in the diplomatic service.

Viscount Costhen, Governor of Madras since 1994. He is the se- cond holder of the title, which was created in 1000. He was formerly private secretary to the Governor of New South Wales and to his father at the Admiralty. He sat ns a. Conservative for East Grinstead from 1805 to 1905, and waa Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture in 1918,

Baronetcies.

Mr. Louis Baron, son of the late Mr. Bernhard Baron, chairman of Carreras, Ltd.

BARON TRENCHARD'S

HONOUR.

AIR FORCE CHANGES.

(THROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Lospos, Jan. 1. The Barony conferred on Sir Hugh Trenchard, who was the first Marshall of the Royal Air Force'> is generally applauded. He was an Army major in 1914 and he gained such fame in the War that he was known as "Fach of the Air."

Among fying men, however, he as always nick-named "Boom.""

Inside the building they found some children quite unharmed, but absolutely still, unable to move through sheer terror.

The injured were conveyed to the tramcars, private Infirmary. in ears, lorries, indeed anything, and everything the Police could com mandeer.

Little mites were lying in the Infirmary's corridors owing to the fact that every bed was occupied, but urgent messages brought. doc- tors from all over the town.

LATER.

The Home Office Chief Inspector of Explosives is going to Paisley to investigate the disaster.

The Lord Advocatë is considering the ordering of a public enquiry."

Their Majesties the King and Queen have sent a message to the Provost of Paisley expressing their great distress at the appalling loss of children's lives and conveying their heart felt sympathy with the

relatives in their overwhelming gor- row. Their Majesties desire to be kept informed of the progress of the injured.

A Fatal Panic.

LONDON, Jan. 1. “ He has spent the last ten years

Doctor Gray, of the Paisley In- The basement of the Infirmary firmary, has dismissed the theory in building up the Royal Air Force to its present state of efficiency and was converted into a mortuary.

that the victims died from carbon Many women collapsed on iden-monoxide poisoning from the his relinquishment of the leader.

fumes of the burning film. ship of the Service has been gazet-tifying the bodies of their little ones. Altogether, the bodies of ted simultaneously with the an nouncement of his peerage.

sixty-nine children have been re-

The cinema's capacity was seven

Sir John Salmond, who is nick-covered. named "Tails- Up' succeeds Sir Hugh Trenchard as Marahal of the Royal Air Fore

Air Vice-Marshal Halahan has Sir Georgory Foster, Provost of retired at his own request "to ac celerate promotion" and as a re- the, University College, Londonsult of these changes, Air Commo- and Lecuturer in English Language dare Ludlow Hewitt, Air Commo- and Literature. He was formerly dore Longmore and Air Commodore an assistant master, and became Newall become Air Vice Marshals. "Vice-Chancellor of the London University in 1928. He was a mem ber of the Moseley Education Com- -mittee which visited the United

States in 1903.

Sir William Middlebrook, solici- tor; and prominent Liberal or gandiser. He was Hon. Secretary of the Spen Valley Liboral Associa tion from 1880 to 1805, and sat Liberal M.P. for South Leeds from 1908 to 1922 Was Lord Ma- yor of Leeds from 1901 to 1921, and was Treasurer Wesleyan Methodist General Chapel Committee and of the Local Legislation Committee of the House of Commons from 1913

AMERICAN BUSINESS IN 1930.

"NO. WARRANT FOR PESSIMISM?

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE-]

Washington, Jan. 2.

hundred and fifty and it was crowd. ed with children of working-class parents. They ranged from sixteen months old to fourteen years.

One father lost three children in. the disaster.

LATER Thirty-nine children were so se

verely injuried that they have been

detained in hospital at Paisley.

It was a pathetic coincidence that the film being exhibited at the time of the disaster was entitled "The Crowd."

A police guard had to be mount. ed at the hospital to keep back distracted parents.

A Towd In Mourning.

LONDON, Jun. 1.

pitiful Under relentless rain, group of mothers and fathers waited all through the night in the Mr. Mellon predicts steady busi-vicinity of the Mortuary and the ness prospecte in the United States Infirmary at Paisley to identify during 1930. The Secretary of Com the dend or to obtain news of their merce forecasts continuance of pros injured children.. Bir Eustace Tennyson-d'Eyn-perity and progress. court, Diretor of Naval Construc The American Federation of

to 1922.

cautious..

Out of the thirty-seven injured kiddies detained in the Infirmary

tion and Chief Technical Adviser Labour is also optimistic, though twelve are in a most critical con to the Admiralty from 1912 to 1923. more

It predicts.dition and it is feared that some will not survive. Ho terved his apprenticeship at"fairly good business year."

Mr. Mellon declares ample credit A medical authority is of the Elswick, went to Fairfield as naval Architect, the returned to Elswick will be available, and interest rates opinion that in most cases, death in the same capacity where he re- will rule at an attractively low was mercifully rapid. mained until appointed to the Ad-figure. He says the Government is miralty. Managing Director, to in a position to do its part to help Messra Armstrong Whitworth the country, solve the problems and Company's shipyards at New-ahead Ho concludes by emphasis alty Committee which produced the pessimism.

A fireman, describing the scene inside the cinema, said he doubt ed if some of the children would ever recover from the horror of

It appears to be established that had there been no panie there would have been no casualties, for the burning film, though it filled the out of the cinema on to some waste auditorium with smoke, was thrown

ground within a few seconds.

In the words of one official: "The children were killed trying to escape from a danger which did not exist." But the cryf fire,

had already gone up and it was

too late to avert a panic.

SIR MILES LAMPSON'S MISSION,

INTRICATE QUESTIONS.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

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"DAILY HERALD" Telegrams in Brief.

AND INDIA.

APPEAL ADDRESSED TO GANDHI.

"ACADEMIC CHANGES."

[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

LONDON, Jan. 2 Newspapers during the past week were absorbed in events in India The morning papers devote lenders to the happenings at Lahore, and possibilities in the future.

It is now officially denied that H.M.S. Veronica and Laburnum are going to Samoa from New Zealand. The Administrator of Samoa reports that members of the Mou are dispersing. The territory is now quiet.

The Post Office announces that pictures, drawings, and photo- graphs can be telegraphed, direct between London and Berlin from January 7. The charge will be id. · per square centimetre, with minimum of one pound sterling

It

PEPING, Jan. 1. Sir Miles Lamprou, the British Minister to Chinn, is leaving Peping to-morrow and is sailing from Ticatsin on Friday on his

The arrest of three Italian anti- Fascists, Sardell, an ex-Deputy, way to Nanking, and unofficially

The Daily Herald describes "con Tarchiani, ex-Editor of the Car it is said that the object of his plete independence as the goal of Fiere Del Lanera, and Cianco a trip is to discuss the question of the all-India Congress, instead of prominent journalist, following the the abolition of extra-territoriality. Dominion status as an academic discovery of huge quantity of Officially, no statement has been change, involving no immediate high explosive at their home has made, but it is understood on good consequruces," but appeals to caused a sensation in Paris. authority that his mission is ex- Gandhi to co-operate with the is believed the discovery will lead trality and that he goes in accor Government. The paper points out to the disclosure of a vast anti- dance with Britain's declared po- that nothing can be achieved by a Fascist plot. licy, as set down in the last Note

mere we will not play" attitude. to the Chinese Government, in The Time is encouraged by the which it was stated that Britain attitude of the Idian Liberals and was willing to enter into conver

Moderates. It welcomes the pros- sations with the object of discover- peet of for the first time, an or ing a possible means for the gradu-ganised force emerging in Indian al relinquishment of British rights. politics with a sense of realities, It is believed that Sia Miles and a determination to face them.' Lampson will proceed with the Conservative organs generally de- discussions as if the Nanking man plore the activities of Gandhi and date abolishing extra-territoriality his followers. had never been issued.

The Nationalist Oreed. "A Routine Visit."

LAHORE, Jan. 3. Peping, Jan. 2.

.." Puran Swaraj" (complete ing

Sir Mila Lampson left this morn- Home Rule), the new Nationalist

for Nanking. He was creed, accompanied by Mr.

will be emblazoned on Tiechman, banners throughout the country at a Chinese secretary and Mr. Stern-demonstration arranged for Jaru- dale Bennett, the second secretary. Kry 36.

It is understood that the visit is It is understood that the new a routine and periodic one paid Congress Working Committee hast by the Minister, which should have decided to authorise the President token place early in December, the to call on all Congressmen of the civil disturbances at that time various Legislatures to resign im preventing it.

mediately; but it has been decided to It was thought that Nanking's delay civil disobedience, and ace extrality mandate might have stop whether future repressive action by ped the visit, but the British policy the Government can be made an of is unchanged by the mandate. Sircasion for such policy. Miles Lampaon is going to nego- tiate for a gradual relinquish- ment in accordance with the last British Note on the subject, to which negotiations it is understood Nanking are agreeable despite the mandate.

Mr. Henderson's Review.

LONDON, Dec. 31, The text has been published of the aide memoires recently ex changed between Mr. Henderson, the Foreign Minister, and Mr. Alfred Sze, the Chinese Miniater in London, on the subject of the proposed abolition of exterritori- ality in China.

Mr. Henderson reviews the his- tory of the discussions which were impeded owing to the outbreak of civil war, thus preventing Sir Miles Lampson from proceeding to Nanking.

He declares that the intricate re- adjustinents involved in the gradu-

al and progressive solution of the problem can only be effected as n result of negotiations conducted in

friendly and unprejudiced at- mosphere. It would be a grave misfortune if anything occurred to prevent negotiations from being initiated or satisfactorily conclud ed.

"The Chinese Government will realise that any attack on the legal rights of British subjects or, the interests they have built up with benefit to China as well as to them- selves in the course of nearly a hundred years of faith on solemn Treaty stipulations would confront His Majesty's Government with serious responsibility, as such an attack would prejudice the pros pects of negotiating a friendly Rolution."

British Sympathy. Mr. Henderson emphasises the British Government's desire to do the latinost to create a favourable atmosphere and expresses its wil lingness to agree to the date January 1, being treated as the date from which the process of gradual abolition of extra-territori- ality should be regarded as having commenced in principle, and ex- presses readiness to enter into de- tailed negotiations us soon as po- litical conditions in China render it possible.

The Chinese Reply appreciates the liberal and sympathetic spirit in which Britain is prepared to negotiate and adds that the Chin- ese Government regard as most timely and conducive to the pro- Some of them leapt from a bal-motion of friendly feelings the Bri cony on to the heads of those be- neath.

Most of the children died from suffocation in the crush.

was

Premier's Message. The Premier, telephoning to the Provost, and speaking for his coun- trymen and countrywomen, sent a He said message of sympathy. that such a tragedy at any time would have moved the country to sorrow, but happening on Now Year's Eve, when everyone happy with children, and was plon- ning feasts and gaieties for them, deep indeed was the gloom which this devastation had cast upon them. "Everyone blessed by having their children around them under- stands in the most intimate way the torturing sorrow which is in the hearts of so many of your citizens."

The Town Council at a special meeting to-day decided to head the relief fund with a grant of p. thousand guineas and, to defray the funeral expenses of the victims.

la palla astane little là, public, fuperat service will, he

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Theld on Friday,

tish Government's statement that the process of extra-territoriality should be regarded as having com- menced in principle as from Janu- ury 1, 1930.

Mr. Alfred Sze adds that any declaration in that light which the Chinese Government may think do sirable will not be objectionable to be British Government.

His Majesty Greets Chlang.

LONDON, Jan. 1. Replying to New Year greetings from Marshal Chiang Kai Shek, His Majesty the King has cabled "It is with much pleasure that I received your message conveying New Year greetings on behalf of the National Government and the people of the Republic of China, and I sincerely reciprocate your good wishes."

A Statement of Policy."

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. State Department_officials have conferred with the Chinese Mini

Continued on nett Volumn).

Liberal Support,

Madras, Jan. 1. The Liberal Federation Confer- ence to-day passed a resolution ex- pressing gratification that promin- ent Indian Princes had accepted the Viceroy's announcernent cognising that suitable guarantees should be provided for the continu. ance of their rights and obligations in any future constitution based on Dominion Status.

re

The Conference ended with stirring speech by the President, Sir Phiroze Sethna.

The Egyptian Nationalist leader, Nahas Pasha, has formed a Cabi net, and takes the Premiership and Ministry of the Interior, and Wasser Pasha Ghali, the Foreign Fund, Nahas says that one of the Ministry. In a letter to King principal objects will be to secure reach an honourable and stable rea! independence for Egypt, and

agreement with Great Britain.

FUTURE OF THE. " CORSAIR."

TO BE USED ON SURVEY WORK.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

Washington, Jan. 2. Mr. J. P.-Morgan has donated his famous yacht Corsair to the Government. After many years cruising on the high seas, the yacht work on the United States coast, re- will be employed in geodetic survey

charting the entire Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico seaboards.

The attitude of Mr. Patel, the President of the Assembly towards the Congress resolution boycotting the legislatures, was indicated at the unveiling of a statue of Lala Lai Patrai, before the Town Hall. Addressing a crowd of thirty thousand, Mr. Pated said that the Child Marriage Prevention. Act, ent credit of the Assembly as it would alone stand to the perman- had done more towards the attain ment of freedom than hundreds of resolutions by conferences and con- gresses.

"We may have had cause," he said, "to doubt the sincerity of the British Government in the past, but we now know that Mr Wedg wood Benn is thoroughly sincere.”

Independence Demand. "England is mighty," he said The Conference marquee resound- in conclusion, "but let her stoop toed with cries of "Bande Matram" conquer India's heart by the immer (Hail Motherland) from fifteen dinte grant of full responsible Govthousand throats at the conclusion ment, in the form of Dominion of the All-India Congress, after & Status."

parting address by Jawahar Lal Nehru.

Mr. Patel Sceptical.

LAHORE, Jan, 1 Motil Nehru, the National Con, gress leader in the Assembly, and Sengupta, the Congress leader in the Bengal Council, have ordered all Congress members of these re- apective bodies to resign in obedi- ence to the Congress Mandate boy cotting the Legisltaures,

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It is understood that C. C. Wu informed the Government that the abolition decree was not addressed

to any interested Powers.

The President stated that India's. ery of independence had already echoed round the world, enabling Indians overseas to hold their beads high.

It is notable, however, that a serious split has arisen between the leaders of the Nationalists during the meeting of the Congress Com mittee appointed to elect a new working committee.

Gandhi," submitting a list of ter, Dr. C. C. Wu, with special re- names, urged that those only should ference to the relinquishment of ex-be elected who entirely sympathised

with the Congress programme, tra-territoriality.

Je The mincrity objected and manded a vote on each individual. The Congress Committee, how. ever, approved Gandhi's list, It was merely a statement of po- whereupon thirty dissentients, in- cluding Srinivasa Aiyengar and icy by the Chinese Government.

They There is, therefore, a tendency in Subash Bose walked out. American official eircles to regard | have formed a "Congress Democra the decree as more in the nature of tie party" but decided to carry out Nationalist face-saving than any the Congress programme in prin- thing else

eiple.

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