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WAR MATERIAL FOR CHINA.

A DISCLAIMER FROM GERMANY.

"NO MATERIALS SENT."

THROUGH BUTER'S JGENOT.]

BERLIN, Jan. 12.

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that

In connection with article, in a Shanghai newspaper with regard to German" officers in China and shipments of war material to China from Germany, it is semi-officially stated Chiang Kai Shek himself brought officers from Germany. The Ger- man Government, opposed the prin ciple of participation of Germans in civil wars in foreign countries, sony German participating in

JAPAN AND GOLD

EMBARGO.

MESSAGE DISPELS

FEARS.

PUBLIC AT EASE.

(THROUGH SETTER'S AGENCY.}

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1930.

UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM.

'MR. THOMAS OUTLINES "HIS MEASURES.

THE EXPORT PROBLEM.

(SITION WIRELESS SÏRVICE]

RUGBY, Jan. 10.

announcement

Tokyo, Jan. 11.

An important The Finance Minister's statement regarding raising the gold ban on concerning steps to cope with un- January 11 gives reasons for dis employment through the reorgani- peling fears to those who consideration of industry and the re- equipment of factories was made adverse effects likely,

by Mr. J.H: Thomas at Manches ter Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Mr. Thomas reiterated his de- finite and positive opposition to a mere outpouring of Government money to assist industries that would not help themselves and to

It points out that the Govern meat has taken adequate measures to prevent their fears from being

realized.

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Press Comment.

Tokyo, Jan. 11. The release of the gold ban occu-

warfare in foreign land does so at Pies the centre of attention in the bolster up ineficiency. He refer-

his own risk.

The German Government has nothing to do regarding despatch of war material to China, but like

other Governments since the aboli. tion of the law prohibiting the introduction of weapons into China it cannot do anything to prevent shipping war material to China.

It is known that other" coun- tries have dispatched such war materials and that German ships have been used for this purpose but no German war materials have been

sent.

CHINA AND THE C.E.R

QUESTION RE SOVIET PRISONERS.

(THROUGH BRUTER'S 'AGENCY.]

TOKYO, Jan. 11.. According to an official Japanese despatches from Harbin strong suspicion exists locally that China's failure to release thirty Soviet pri-) soners on the occasion of the gen-3 eral release was due to the fact that some died under circumstances which the Chinese are unwilling to explain.

veranchlars. The general public are hailing and expressing confidence in the Government's careful pre- parations to ensure that the advérne effects will be reduced to the barest

minimum.

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A small undercurrent of hostility is also noticeable but this is mainly confined to the politicians eccking to minimise the popularity the Government has achieved by lifting The embargo.

Strict precautions are being taken to prevent political and other wire- pullers with axes to grind from spreading rumours calculated to rouse unfounded fears.

number

The police last night sized

of disquieting handbills which apparently were being dis- tributed for this purpose.

BRITISH CRUISER

STRENGTH.

PRONOUNCEMENT BY "FIRST LORD."

REDUCTION URGED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AQENUT.)

EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.

EDICT FROM · VATICAN CITY.

"SEX EDUCATION,”

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

VATICAN CITY, Jan. 12. The sharp controversy between the Vatican and Signor Mussolini

SHEARER SHOWN

UP.

A NERVE SPECIALIST

EXPLAINS.

AN AMUSING" STORY.

́(REUTEN'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

Telegrams in Brief.

Miss Mary Browne, an ex-national champion of America who was de- prived of amateur status by the Golf Amociation for competing in the tennis tournament under "Mr. Pyle's auspices, has been rein- stated.

The Public Health Service at Washington has received a wireless message from the American steame: Golden Sun, stating that she has forty cases of small-pox aboard and is bound for, Honolulu. She asks for medical assistance.

The Colonial Secretary has ap

Drummond Shields, pointed Dr. Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies, to succeed Mr.. William Larn as Chairiman of the Advisory Council of Agriculture "and Animal Health and of the Colonial Medical Rosearch Com- mittee.

LONDON, Jah. 10.

NEW YORK, Jan. 12. The British delegation at the

The Senate Naval Affairs Sub- Naval Conference, with the full

Committee's investigation into the consent of the Admiralty, will make proposals involving a reduction of as regards the education of child. motivities of Mr. William B. Shearer at the Geneva Naval Conference British cruiser strength from seventyren, which arose in June shortly

was abruptly and comically ended vessels to fifty, said Mr. A. V. after the signing of the Lateran by Dr. William Maloney, its author, "British Alexander, the First Lord of the Treaty is re-echoed in a Papal En describing the famous

secret document" to which Mr. Admiralty, in the course of cyclical, which for the first time in Shearer attached so much import- speech at Sheffield, ?·

history is published in Italian in-ance.

Dr. Maloney described the docu- Consent to this reduced proletead of Latin and which will be

ment as a satire on British 'pro- "Contingent shortly translated into other lan-paganda in America on behalf of gramme, however,

the League of Nations. Dr. Maloney upos adequate limitation by the

13 an Edinburgh University gradu." other Fowers to be represented at

ate and served in the British Army, the Conference.

He was wounded in Gallipoli, and is now flourishing as he wrote the pamphlet upon which EMOTION AND ECONOMICS. specialiet in New York. He said

Mr. Shearer based the document, an a joke. Hall & million copies were distributed, the chief purchasers being Irish societies, who for their own purposes preferred to regard the document as authentic..

red again to the opportunity and need of the development of the Em-

Mr. Alexander said that the pire. There, was, he said, hardly Government recognised that there anything that any people required were difficulties ahead, but was that potentially could not be ob-highly hopeful of compieta success. tained within the British. Empire. As the late Colonial Secretary, re had decided to give encouragement in that direction, but he did not expect to be called upon every few days to answer questions as to how many people were employed as a result of developments in East Africa or Nigeria.

No Dead Capital.

guages.

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new

The edict stresses the necessity of harmonising the pedagogie theories with Christian ideale. The Pope declares that the Church has a divine mandate for the education cf, youth, which is the province of the church and the family before the State.

题 nervo

HIDDEN IN PIPES.

He pointed out that the British policy of the One-Power standard was simply expressed at the Wash-

The State, he added, must avoid ington Conference in the matter of excesses where physical and mili battleships as parity with the great-tary education is concerned with temporal power, and must not con- eat other naval Power.

Lu the matter of cruisers, how-flict with the spiritanl.

The Encycileal strongly oppos ever, the application of this pris-pedagogic naturalism” especially British docks, railways, and bar-ciple was not quite so simple. sex education and co-education," bours could be improved and cheap Alter the Washington Confer- and declares that the State must electricity provided. To every.

ence, the Admiralty fixed the num-avoid the harm caused by lay thing that in itself would be re

or neutral schools, so less than that A curious example of smugglers' productive he was prepared to give ber of cruisers necessary to the caused by mixed schools in coun-methods was discovered at Singa all the encouragement possible. The Royal Navy at eventy, based upon tries where different religions exist pure a fortnight, ago, when the 6.8. only thing he barred

Scistan arrived from Swatow and dead the needs for the defence of our together, was capital.

world-wide and vital lines of com-

Hong Kong. muncation.

There still remained the problem of export trade. If the matter were left to the Government, he

SNOWDEN SHINES AGAIN. said, frankly he would have

WANTS ACTION, AND GETS IT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S "ACENCY.]

THE HAGUE, Jan. 12.

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The Minimum, We, therefore, stood out for seventy cruisers as a minimum at Geneva.

Since then a new situation had arisen through the signature of the Kellogg Pact outlawing war by all the major naval Powers.

hope. All that the Government could do was infinitesimal compar- ed with what business could do for itself. The Government could direct foreign policy to show that the peace mind was better for com-

With such powerful support for The merce than the war mind. government could make it unmistak-peace. the British Admiralty felt ably clear that the development of justified in anticipating a period in the Empire was not the prerogative which armed conflicta need not be of any party or class, but was out- side party politics and was the ac cepted policy of every Government was good, but why not trade diplo macy as well?

expected.

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'COUNT `KAROLYI IN AMERICA.

CRYPTIC REMARK ABOUT

HUNGARY.

New York, Jan. 6-When the 8.8. George Washington, on which the American Naval Limitation Confer ence delegation is to sail for Eng. land, arrived from Europe to-day it brought the much-discussed Count Michael Karolyi whose entry int

was recently the United States

CHANDU SMUGGLERS' AT

AT SINGAPORE.

Supervisor Clark and a party of revenue officers boarded the vessel, which anchored in the roads. There the B.P.M. launch came alongside pump oil fuel, and three Malay pilers utcoupled the oil feed pipe in the starboard alleyway. When the pipe was removed four paper packages were seen.

The Malays were examining the packages, not knowing the contents, when two Chinese who were stand-

ran away. The ing nearby grabbed three of the packages and Maleys informed the Preventive Service party, who found the three missing packets in empty cabins

in all.

The Chinese explanation, accord- ing to frees despatches, is that criminal offices committed prior to ring to somebody else," declared of the day. Political diplomac as the minimum needs of the Eri-made possible by act of Col. Henry They contained 110 tahils of chandu they have been retained owing to

imprisonment.

B. & S. GODOWN BURNT DOWN?

A REPORT FROM SHANGHAI,

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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

SHANGHAI, Jan. 11. Messrs. Butterfield & Swires No,

evening.

"The plenipotentiaries ought to settle things without always refer Mr. Snowden, in rebuking the Ger- mans the second time within a week for dilly-dallying.

Mr. Curtis thereupon undertook to submit concrete proposals to night on the various proposals dis

Dr. Schacht is arriving cussed. to-morrow, and the Germans are uneasy regarding his attitude upon the various matters,

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As a result of Mr. Snowden's codown was burnt down this end rebuke to the Germans, the Fatter within two hours submitted a memorandum containing their proposals on the three points still at issue, namely, the date of pay ment of the security assigned to revenues, and the conditions of the moratorium.

INTERNATIONAL TRAINS. TRAFFIC TO BE OPENED *AGAIN."

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.].

ELARBIN, Jan. 11.

A cable to Rengo states that it has been decided to re-open the railway traffic between Harbin and Moscow on January 22.

COLLAPSE OF TANG SENG

CHI.

A Naval Wireless message states that it is reported that Yen Hei Shan has taken over Tang's troops.

As a result of the discussion which followed, practically all the obstaclen in the way of settlement of German reparations have been removed.

„EGYPT'S AIMS.

STATEMENT BY KING FUAD.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

the

CAIRO, Jan. 11.. King Fuad opened and restored Egyptian Parliament amid enthusiastic and popular applause. The Premier, Nahas Pasha, read the speech from the "throne, whereia

Commercial Posts..

The Government, therefore, were prepared to agree to fifty cruisers Pire until the next date for inter- national conference and revision, which might be expected to be held

"round about 1036.

The Government was going to The Government were hoping that revive commercial diplomatic posts a further agreement in 1938 would in Colombia, Persin, Switzeriand, confirm or even extend the agree- Brazil and Argentina. It was go meat which they anticipated would ing to create new posts in Finland be reached at the forthcoming and strengthen the existing diplo London Conference, but if, unhap- matie commercial representation in oily, the infernational horizon in China, Canada, Souththe future should becomes less Egypt, Africa Enet Africa, and West In- clouded in, the Board of the Ad- dies. In view of the success of the miralty. may have to review the Economic Commission to South America, magnificently led by Lord 'Abernon, there would be similar missions to other countries.

A GREAT ADVENTURE.

GENERAL SMUTS AND THE LEAGUE.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.]

position.

Mr. Alexander concluded that the proposed reduction in British cruiser strength would necessarily depend upon an agreement at the forthcoming conference on adequate limitation by the other Powers.

Capital Ships.

Mr. Alexander went on to say that Britain would like to ace capital ships less expensive to build. "The extent to which a substantial reduction of destroyers could be achieved depended upon the met- sure of success regarding the reduc- tion of submarines.

Powers to tonsent to the complete It was difficult to persuade other abolition of the submarines. but it ought to be possible to have some measure of reduction.

L. Stinson, Secretary of State, who overruled his predecessor's refusa? to permit a visa to be affixed to the Count's passport.

Count Karolyi was provisional President of Hungary in 1918, after the abdication of King Charles and ivet before the setting-up of Bela Kun's Bolshevik government.

There was no demonstration when the Count landed to-day.

He pressed only a slight interest in the impending dispute in Hun. gary between Socialists and Com- munists, and his lecture sponsors declined to discuss American domes the affairs.

Regarding Hungary, Count Karol yi remarkedly smilingly:

"All is not quiet on the Eastern troat."

Treaty bringing the maximum be low 300,800 tons, which will be reached if the fifteen cruiser pro, gramme is completed.

It is believed that a substantial cut in the number of destroyers and submarines is also agreeable to the United States Government.

Henderson and the League.

GENEVA, Jan. 14. Mr. Arthur Henderson has re-

NEW YORK, Jan. 12. General Smuts speaking at a banguet in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the League of Nations referred to the departure of the American delega tion to the London Naval Confer ence as marking the return of the

A Foreign Office communiquequested the Secretary-General of United States to its policy of eleven years ago, when President says that in the course of further the League of Nations to inform conversations at No. 10, Downing ment section of the League Secre- M. Colban, chief of the Disarma Wilson, and his delegates, sailed to

street between the Prime Minister Paris for the poace conference,

the League of and the Japanese delegation to the tarty, that in view of the import Referring to

bearing which the London con. joy was expressed that the session Nations as "America's baby left Nayal Conference, progress was ference is likely to have upon the

Europe s

doorstep," General made in the discussion of would permit of the opening of a declared that the world various questions of special in-work of the League Preparatory new era of understanding and fruit- Smuts

terest to Japan and Great Britain, ful friendship between Britain of the would never fail to give America which will came before the Naratish Government think it would be

crédit for founding that organisa

Conference. A coal conference, consisting of Egyptian Government.

greatest adve representatives of nine of the prin Parliament the proposals presented ture in history,"

Egypt would gladly submit to tion which is the cipal European coal producing countries, to-day had & discussion by Britain, which had been dictated un labour conditions, and adopted by a spirit of friendship. an important proposition submitted by the International Labour Office regarding the formula to apply to duration of work in mines.

MINERS' HOURS. CONFERENCE IN GENEVA. [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

GENEVA, Jan. 12.

This lays down that a shift starts from the moment a miner enters a cage for descent, until his return to the surface. The same rule applics where entrances atd exits are effected by galleries.

ENFORCING LAW IN AMERICA.

When an agreement was reached, it would be submitted for Parlia mentary ratification, after which the Government would pass it in the same sound spirit in which it was negotiated.

The speech from the Throne alko states that particular care' will be. bestowed on the cotton problem, nad the discovery of new varieties.

on

1.

DISEASE FROM PARROTS. MYSTERIOUS ILLNESSES

IN AMERICA..

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Several outbreaks of a mysterious tropical disease called Psittacosis, believed to have contracted from parrots, is reported from four dif America. The

The Government proposes to intro duce a law forbidding the mixing of cotton in ports, and the firing offerent places in degree of humidity.

United States' Public Health Ser vices have warned all owners of parrots to handle their pets very cautiously.

An

London Press Comment,

the

Disarmament Committee, the Bri

very useful if M. Colban would attend the conference as an ob- server, not participating in the

deliberationa

** LONDON, Jan, 11. entirely futile and meaning-

Watchful Washington. less gesture" is the Daily Tele-

WASHINGTON, Jan, 19. graph's characterisation of the Government's conditional proposal negotiation for a separate Mediter In response to suggestions that to reduce British cruiser strength.

The Times says that if it is safenean pact might be undertaken in

order to effect to base our naval programme on scoord, it is stated at the White the conviction that any danger of war may be ruled out, then surely is is beginning at the wrong end to cut down cruisers, instead of dealing first with battleships.

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American Ideas.

House that any discussion of en. larging the agenda of the London Conference must await the arrival of the American delegation.

No arrests were made.-Straits

Times.

THE OLD SURREY.”"

FAMOUS THEATRE TO BE OFFERED FOR SALE.

The famous" "Old Surrey " Theatre in the Blackfriars Road, London, was recently advertised for public tender with the object if possible of finding a purchaser who will maintain the present historic building and carry it on

theatre.

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MR. MACDONALD ON SOCIALIST DOCTRINE.

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The Prime Minister presided at the annual dinner of the 1917 Club held at the Quadrant Restaurant, Regent Street, London, W., last month. He said that it would be a great pity if the club were ever forgotten.

In 1917," he said, "there was A small company of us who had never lifted our finger against national interests, who had never opened our mouths against our country's interests, but who had a glimmering of 1922, 1923, and 1929. We were quite convinced that the problem which England and the

whole of Europe would have to face within ten years of the closing of the war was to be the biggest pro- blem which either this country or Europe ever had to face.

And in 1917 we were told, as we are told now, that the country which has great problems to face should face them with its head and with its heart.. Emotion is very good, but no good for constructive purposes, and we were profoundly convinced in 1917 that the best ser- vice that anybody could give to this country was to begin and try and think for this country. That was why the club was founded."

They believed in democracy, slow, cumberous, often fickle democracy, But then, as now, they saw no other alternative for building up a per manent progress on changing | foundations of tentalities and habits except by the very often heart-breaking process of demogra tic Government by public opinion.

What Socialism Means..

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In 1917 they were also Socialista. Secialiam was not menna of Socialism wEE patching society. not an extension of the Poor Law ot an extension of public or privato charity. Socialism in, the days of Keir Hardie and onwards was a conception of the reconstruction of society. "I don't believe," said Mr. MacDonald, "that by merely distributing money you are going to solve the problems which the Secialists in those days faced." The Old Surrey," beloved for Mr. MacDonald said that, until over a century by thousands of Lon-they got into their mind this con- doners south of the Thames, was ception that all temporary relief. first opened in 1782 under the name must be in accordance with con of the Royal Circus, and continued structive Socialist doctrine, mere to be a theatre until 1919, when it temporary relief wight dọ harm to entered upon a short and unsuccess their people rather than good to | ful career as a cinema. It has been society. We must not allow the vacant for the past four years, Labour party or any other party which accounts for the somewhat to be a mere party of public relief; dilapidated appearance of the out to put that up as a test of loyalty side. The interior, however, is in to any party is enough to make excellent condition, clean, warni the very hones of our early pioneers

who are dead turn in their grave. well lighted, and in good repair.

It seats about 1,500 and has a fine "America and ourselves hope to "

friends, but friends do not say stage. There are two very fine he friends, and I hope, will be Dibdin, who opened the Royal of friendship is not the badge of circles, and the grand circle is ono. of the best in London." Hughes and ditto to each other. The badge Circus in opposition to the elder servitude. American friendship_is Astley's cireus. at Westminster not American subordination. The Bridge, failed to make a success of test of friendship is not that you their enterprise. The interior was

cunnot disagree, but that you can rebuilt in 1703, but the whole disagree and in a friendly way you theatre was burned down in 1905. can discuss your disagreements. It was succeeded in the following When you cannot admit you are year by a new building, which was both right you can admit that each opened on Easter Monday, 1800, is right in relation to his own cir under the name of the Surrey cumstances.” Theatre. Elliston_leased it for a time and Davidge subsequently the place. made a handsome fortune out of

UNITED CIGAR STORES.

AN INVESTIGATION.

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[KEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

The

NEW YORK, Jan. 10. State Attorney-General's

The Duke and Duchess of Kent & Franco-Italian visited the theatre in 1819, after which it was called the Royal It was burned Surrey Theatre. down again and rebuilt as the New Surrey Theatre in 1803 at a cost of £33,000. The façade was rebuilt in In order to keep himself inform 1880, but the interior was not ed of the sentiment in Europe dur. changed. Notable first perform- WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.

ances include that of "Ivanhoe, or ing the progress of the conference. Mr. MacDonald's declaration be Mr. Stinson has summoned the the Jew's Daughter" by an un-office is now investigating the book fore leaving Lossiemouth for Lon-attaches of the American Embaesics known adapter of Scott, which was keeping methods of the United dan on Wednesday, has caused a in Belgium, France, Italy, Germany a great success in 1890.

Cigar Stores Company under its most favourable reaction in offeint and Switzerland to London,

Meyerbeer's" The Huguenots," former management. A group One death is reported from quarters here.

The State Department says that billed as "the only opera in Lon-headed by George E. Morrow, Toledo, three cases in Annapolis, White House circles state that these officials will remain in London don," was performed in 1834. Chairman of Gold Dust Corpora Maryland, three in one family at the American delegation will he only long enough to make arrange. Lurid melodramas and boisterous tion, purchased the control of the Warren, Ohio, and four of the em- prepared to meet such proposals at meats to transmit Freze comment pantomimes beloved on the Surrey Company last August from George and other information to the Ameri-side beyond all things else gave the Whelan. In the interests of the ployees in the Pet Animal Em- least half-way.

While the tentative Anglo-American delegation.

"Old Surrey" of late Victorian firm accountants were employed, sion finds that Prohibition, the All of the accused in the Meerat porium, Baltimore. It is establish-

They will then return to their days its character, which persisted and Morrow now reports the net stealing of motor cars, the white conspiracy-case have been commited that the victims recently purcan preliminary agreement con-

maximum posts. Mr. Stimson will be furnish until the end of the war.

profits of the Company in 1928 were alave traffic, immigration, and ted to the Sessions with the excep chased or handled parrots which templates fixing the

cruiser tonnage. ated with a daily cable, and a sum- The site of the theatre will not only $4,525,000 althugh the, com- other law indiving crime are tion of Dharanvir Singh, a member were ill and soon died. Berlin American

has belonged in the pony linder the management wertaxing the national machinery. Fof the Ligave Caber of the masajes report the fore people imponotraballove bladder will health. The han

profita President Hpover will send his re- United Provinces, who has been Germany have died and is are ill ministration hopes to negotiate a be published in the United States same family since the Battle of Whelan

(Continued on next Columa),

Crécy, discharged.

88,352,000 A relating to the conference. through Paittacosis. port to Congress on Monday.

A SEVERE TAX. [BEDIER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.

The Law Enforcement Commie-

INDIAN UNREST.

THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY.]

Menur, Jan. 11.

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announced