THE FIVE-POWER NAVAL 'CONFERENCE.
MAKING PREPARATIONS. IN LONDON.
PREMIER AND BRITISH POLICY.
BATTLESHIP--BUILDING "HOLIDAY.”
(THRODON BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
Loxdos, Jan. 15. "
The elaborate plans and preparations made in connection with the assembling of the historie fire-Power Naval Conference on January 21 are practically completed. The opening ceremony will be "staged in the inagnificent Royal Gallery in the House of Lords, where at eleven o'clock in, the morning His Majesty will take his eat on the Throne, brought from Buckingham Palace. The King. who will be attired in morning dress, (which all the delegates will habitually wear), will be attended by his Royal suite," and will deliver a speech in the presence of a brilliant gathering of dele- gates, diplomats, Cabinet members, and other distinguished visitors, and immediately afterwards withdraw, and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, as President of, the Conference, will open discus sions, to be followed by the delegations in the English alphabetical order.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1930.
with news and the rumour of news and talk of what may or may not become news at some future date.--
A Press View,
The real home of the conference, however, where future deliberations will be held, will be the State apart ments in St. James' Palace. Here all thought, money and time are able to achieve has been done in Last month Pressmen of all the adapting the stately rooms to the
nations, for whom St. James's exceptional requirements, Price.
Palace will be a workshop for less pictures and gleaming armour. on the walls will add to the dignity a tour of the place and, to note weeks on end, were invited to make of the surroundings. In Queen the excellent arrangements that Anne's drawing-room a large table have been nude for their conveni- will accommodate the delegates for, ence. Intrusions of the appliances the principal and larger meetings of hustle into these solemn salons Nearly all the smaller salons have are such as might almost startle been set aside for the use of the the Royal portraits from the ex- Becretariat. Unprecedented
pression of grave dignity. rangements have been made for the benefit of the Press, of which there which the soldiers on guard used room at the top of the staircase, will be hundreds of representatives to inhabit-according to tradition from all over the world-
Charles the First spent his last night there.--is to be filled up with telephone boxes, into which agitat- ed journalists bursting with "scoops" will rush to impart them to their offices.
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British Policy.
ar-
'The
The walls bristle
with daggers and swords, which (ns was lightly suggested) may come in handy in the event of heated disputes natural to a peace confer.
L:Dce.
AUSTRALIAN COAL
JARDINE STEAMER
BOARDED.
COMMUNISTS ACTIVE IN GERMANY.
AN OUTRAGE NEAR- CHINKIANG,
STRIKE.
11
POLICE CHARGE WITH BATONS.
MILITARY MINERS.
FAKE
'WATER POLICE,"
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY!}
SYDNEY, Jan. 10. Disturbing reports are
te hand from the Northern coalfields, where the miners have struck owing to the State Government's attempt to rum the collieries with volunteer labour.
[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Jan. 16. While en route to Shanghai from up-river the Jardine steamer Tuck
"INJUSTICE" TO FELLOW STRIKERS.
MANY ARRESTS MADE.
(TEROVOH XEUTER'S AGENCY.]
BERLIN, JA 13. Three demonstrators were killed and fifteen injured, in addition to
SPEED LIMIT IN
LONDON.
RETENTION STRONGLY
URGED.
A CORONER'S VIEW.
[BRITISH WIRELESS 580VICE}
Buasy, Jan. 15. The conference on London street Accidents decided by 72 votes to 40 in favour of retaining the speed wo was hoarded by gangsters when three policemen being injured, dur-limit of motor vehicles in both in- she slowed down to take paseening a collision between the police her and outer London. The pro- gers near Chinklang last night.
posal to retain the limit was made and Communists in the neighbour-by Mr. Ingleby Oddie, a Lon- Safety men and their deputies Coming in two launches, from hood of Hartsmansdorf, in Saxony, don Cornner, whose duty it is to have been withdrawn, and some of which machine, gua and rife fre
to-day.
hold inquests in cases of fatal ac was directed at the Tuckwo, the
cidents. He said that Coroners the pits are likely to be permanent-
Thousands of workmen, tein-viewed any prospect of abolishing ly ruined.
desperadors came alongside, a few forced by numbers of unemployed the limit with dismay, The police, in a baton charge, boarding the steamer
from Chemnitz and elsewhere. de-
Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, Partia nonstrated outside a factory as a
mentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, anid that the sperd limit protest against the alleged injustice was not put in the new road traffic indicted by the Law Courts to
ill because it was thought advis able to get a different psychologi striking fellow-workers.
eal attitude on the part of the mo Fresh troubles are occurring intorist, who should not be allowed Germany as the result of Commun- to feel he was driving safely sim- ply because his speedometer told ist activity,
him he was within the speed limit, bus should give more careful atten.
scattered two thousand miners, ac- companied by women, who had marched from Cessnock to the gates of the Abermain Colliery at Karaley.
After the clash, the police com- mandeered motor lorries and raced to Kurri, where three thousand miners were drilling in the streets, but the latter dispersed when re-
drilling. quested. Ex-soldiers undertook the
warning that a stage, may soon The Minister of Mines has issued be reached when an appeal will be made to the community to oppose the violence of drilled mobs of law-
breakers.
New South Wales' coal require only being half met, and the Gov- ment from the unaffected arens are erament contemplate
reimposing restrictions in the use of gas
EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTH CALIFORNIA.
NO SERIOUS DAMAGE.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
ميل
NEW YORK, Jan. 16, South California has heen shaken
Mr. MacDonald received British and foreign journalists to-day, and -detailed the British naval policy, which is based on increased secur- ity, due to the recent, perce agree ments. Therefore, a real advance in naval-disarmament - should be possible. The strength of the navy, anny and air forces should be pro- The hub of the Conference will portionate to the risks in war, and be the drawing-room designed by it should be decreased when the Wren and floridly decorated by risks decreased, "If we fail to Kent in the middle of theby an earthquake which lasted for agree now, it will mean another eighteenth century, its walls cover, twenty years of competitive builded with crimson silk and bright ing."
If an international, equili with portraits of kings and queens, brium of building in numbers and
by Lely, Kneller, and Reynolds, tonnage were secured, the reduc
The Throne room beyond. where tions would not endanger national the King stands under a canopy sccurity.
when he receives, is to be used as a committec-room. The most pro minent thing here is the huge Law- renco picture of George the Fourth spreading his. resplendent robes to cover a period of years, pro-ike the wings of a tropical bird. bably to 1938.
"We do not enter the conference hound hand and foot. We only move if the nations move córres pondingly" Agreement would have
Exit Battleships.
urge bat
Thr Government would the disappearance of the
leship. As regards cruisers, the question relatex largely to the distribution of tonnage with- in the category of the cruiser. Great Britain favoured the rosa- plete abolition of submarines or the reduction to a minimum. The fate of destroyers depended on Sui marinea.
NEW DIPLOMACY IN AN OLD SETTING.
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BATTLESHIP-BUILDING "HOLIDAY."
BRITISH PRESS CHORUS
APPROVAL. TH
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.}
Rugar, Jan. 18. A reliable intimation that the British Government at the Naval For two or three months, St. Conference will make a proposal. James's Palace will be a centre of equivalent to an extension of the world interest the meeting Washington "Holiday," in battle- place of the Naval Disarmament, ship building is widely approved Conference. The public sessions at in newspaper comments here. It is the opening and at the close and understood that the Government perhaps in between, as was the case will suggest that replacement be at the Washington Conference avoided by extending the life of will be held on the Royal Gallery existing battleships. Such 进口 in the House of Lords, where tha agreement would run possibly un- Prince of Wales entertained V.C.stil 1936. If after that it is felt that recently. The staterooms at St. replacement is necessary, then the James's Palace will be used for the new vessels should be of lower ton daily business, a purpose for which nage and lower gun calibre. their quiet and seclusion admirab ly fits them.
The Court of St. James.
ago
thirty seconds. A message from Los Angeles says that the telephone service has been disrupted, but the damage is not serious..
RUBBER IN SUMATRA.
19,000 ACRES CONCESSION
SOLD.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
SUMATRA, Jan. 10. The Tozen Company has bought concessions covering 12,000 acres from the Dansk Catindiek. Planta. Resciskab for the Cultivation rubber and oil palms.
of
The estimated cost of preparation is £250,000...
CUBAN SUGAR CROP.
GRINDING SEASON
STARTS.
(THROUGH XEUTER'S AGENCY.j
HAVANA. Jan. 15.
A hundred and fifty-six sugar mills, including several which are among the largest in the world, at midnight began the grinding of the 1029/30 aeason crop, estimated at four and a half million tons raw. The grinding will go on con- tinuously for four monthe, work. ing day and night.
The work is considered so in-
They claimed that they were Water Police. in, search of two well-known malcontents, and said they wanted to search the vessel. The captain had no alternative hut to ngree. While the discussion was. going on a fusillade burst forth from the launches, with the result that one passenger was shot in the hectic time to-night in dealing with neck, and fatally wounded, while riotous Communists, after a meet-
The police of the capital had a
tian to traffic on the road.
Telegrams in Brief.
Mr. Chichester, the young New Zealand airman, has arrived at Karachi, and left again for Cal- cutta, in his plane.
President Hoover has asked the Senate to approve the appointment of Mr. John Motley Morehead, a New York enginer, as Minister to Sweden.
Mr.
Viscount Cecil (Britain), Adatchi (Japan) and Mr. Woo Kai Seng (China) are among the eleven members of the Committee to deal with the proposed amend- appointed by the League. Council
order to bring it into line with the ment of the League Covenant in Kellogg Pact
The question of the employment of sanctions in case of Germany's wilful default under the Young Plan has been settled. Belgium, Britain, France, Italy and Japan have decided, and Germany has agreed, that if the International Court of Justice finds Germany guilty of default, the creditor Po- wers will resume full liberty of a tien.
per
Lista for A пок five cent. loan for the Government of Ceylon opened in the morn- ing and, closed in the after- noon, the issue being over-subscrib- ed. The entire amount of the issue was £1,250,000, of which, however,
in accordance with the terms of the prospectus, applications being in- vited for the balance of £900,000 a the price of 95.
another, in his cabin, was shoting which had been held in mera-limit being now included in the bill 350,000 had already been placed
through the lungs. Seizing 400
ory of the Communist "martyrs pounds of opinn the desperadoes Karl Liebknecht, and Rosa Luxem
then made oft,
The Chinese Secretary to the British Legation, Mr. Teichman,
was, aboard, “and acted
inter
preter. It is noteworthy that Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China, was to have travelled on the Tuckwo, but postponed his depar- ture at the last moment.
BIG OPIUM HAUL.
FOUR TONS ON BRITISH ∙SHIP,
(Van Chung Pao.)
SHANGHAI, Jan. 16. The Customs authorities have discovered four tons of Szechuan opium, valued at over $125,000 on Foard the as. Tai Tang (Butter- field & Swire) which arrived from Hackow yesterday.
THE END OF "LIKIN"?
(Nam Chung Tan
It is reported that the Centrul Government has decided to abolish likin in February.
AMERICA AND WORLD
COURT,
NO ADHERENCE AS YET.
[FRUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)
burg.
Disturbances broke out in several districts, the rioters using knuckle- dusters and the police wielding. truncheons.
There were numerous minor casualties, and many arrests were mude,
LATER.
'One hundred arrests, ineluding two members of the Reichstag,
have been made in connection with the Communist disturbances.
The conference's recommendation niny, however, result in the speed
seeing that the conference was specially convened by the Minister of Transport.
DEBTOR WHO WAS
** INFATUATED."
STORY OF MICHAEL DENNIS CORRIGAN.
کریم
"This is one of the most extraor dinary cases that has come before ano in all my legal career,"
This statement was made in the London Bankruptcy Court by Mr. Registrar Mellor when he suspend rd for three years the discharge of
WORKMEN ON BOARD OF | Angus Brodie Shaw, of Creed-lane, E.C., a company director and pub- fisher, who was adjudicated bank rupt in July last,
DIRECTORS.
COMPANY CONGRATULATED
BY HOME SECRETARY.
The annual Smithfield dinner to agricultural "salesmen Riven by Mesars, R. A. Lister & Co., of Dursley, was held in Londor Inst month at the Hotel Victoria. Mr. Perey Lister was in the chair. The guests of honour were the Home Secretary and Sir Horace Wilson, Permanent Secretary of the Minis-
try of Labour.
Barriers Between Employers and Employed.
The Official Receiver said that
there were no assets, and the un-
MONEYLENDER'S CLAIM FAILS.
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P.W.D. LORRY-DRIVER'S AFFAIRS.
A claim for money lent by Hakam Singh, No. 68, Village Road, Hung, forry driver of the P.W.D., Wongneichong, against Cheng failed in the Summary Court yes terday, when Mr.
for
Justice Wood Plaintiff claimed 880 principal and gave judgment
defendant, $2.40 interest for two months under a promissory note.
According to plaintiff's story, the transaction took place at his house on October 22, 1929, when he
advanced $30 to defendant who signed the note in the presence of Tahil Singh, who wrote the note.
secured indebtedness, including the wife's claim of £26.500, amounted
Defendant denied he had ever re- to £38,484
Shaw had stated that until with-mitted he signed the note: He said ceived money from plaintiff but ad- in a few days of his bankruptcy that he borrowed money from Teja he was the managing director of Singh, & waterworks' watchanan,
P.W.D.. em-
company publishing religious the note being signed in that man's pictures. He attributed hia failure quarters at Wanchai in June or and insolvency to his association July. He signed a blank piece of with Michael Dennis Corrigan, paper and there was no-one dis whom he had financed and guarante- present excepting himself and Teja ed to the amount of £43,252 in Singh. Defendant added that Teja connection with alleged oil, silver. Singh had a lot of promissory notes. and gold concessions in Mexico. Mr. Cyries, proposing the toast
for money lent to Shaw admitted that he took no of British industry, ascribed much
ployees. steps to ascertain if the concessions of the difficulty experienced to a did in fact exist and that the ven
His Lordship remarked, that the condition of unenlighteninent in-
note bore plaintiff's address, but ture was a speculation on his part. credible to those who had to settle "It was plain," added Mr. Redifferent from that in the body of i was clear the handwriting was the differences of employers and gistrar Mellor, "that,Shaw swal- the note. Judgment would be given workmen. Workmen," he said, loved almost wholesale every story for defendant. "have
too often been
related Corrigan told him about these con intimately, and only, to their
cerns, and that he beenme infatunt, machines. They have known nothing ed with Corrigan." of the labours of salesmen or of those who represent their firma commercially abroad. Employers
are often disappointed when efforts DIET TESTS AT HOSPITAL. are made to introduce new schemes
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. President and Mrs. Hoover. to- day entertained General Smuts to luncheon, the guests including they the barriers between workmen
and masters." Secretaries for War and Commerce, General Smuts' visit has natural-
Having paid a tribute to the ap ly stimulated interest in political pointinent by the firm of Lister of six werknien to sit with other direc- circles regarding the question of the adherence of the United States to
tors at board meetings, Mr. Clynca went on: the World Court. There appears
"Our great need is for little likelihood, however, that Pre-markets. In spite of the efforts sident Hoover will ask the Senate being made by the Government, I to ratify adherence in the current fear that the unemployed masses in come of our industries may so con- session of Congress.
Three in tinue for some time. rarticular-coal and cotton an shipbuilding-must secure more orders, from abroad. The low pur- chasing power of other landa muke this trade difficult to recapture. We must strive for the efficiency of working systems and the produc- tion of commodities at prices which other countries can afford." -
If that is the case, the Govern- ment will not be in a position to participate in the election of Judges of the Court, including the
appointment of a
successor
to
portant that a Presidential decree has been issued banning all politi-Senator Hughes, "when the Council cal meetings and festivities.
of the League meets at Geneva in September to hold the elections.
Those in close tough with Mr. Hoover say that the President is very keen on having the Protocol ratified, but in view of the absence of Mr. H. L. Stimson, the Seere- tary of State, and the Senate lenders, Mr. Reed and Mr. Robin- son, as well as the crowded pro- grainme of the Sennte, which is still enmeshed in the tariff morass, the
regarded as much less complex than seme of the other problems to be dealt with at the Conference.
The Morning Foxt points out that, "If the standard set at Wush- ington were to be greatly reduced, Britain would still have at very World Court issue will probably much less cost the same ratio of not be brought up for several strength, and the same measure of months..
The Daily Herald says "The Washington Treaty provided that The Palace has been the scene of nu new battleships should be built international diplomacy on several until after 1936. But it permitted Occasions. The pence conference each Power during that period to after the Balkan War met there, replace battleships which have be- Daily Telegraph approve the gen not long before the Great War, and come obsolete, the test of obsolete.eral lines of the Government's ap- in 1919 the Council of the Leaguences being attainment of the Age proach to this question, which is of Nations held its sittings in of 20 years. Now under this ar- British Empire Queen Anne's Drawing-room, where rangement the the Naval Conference will meet in would iny down two battleships plenary session.
next year for completion in 1934 when the Iron Dukes" become obsolete, two more in 1939, one St. James's Palace was from the more in 1933, two more in 1934, onc time of its builder, Henry the more in 1933, and two more in 1930, Eighth, to the days of Buckingham Within the Washington period, Palace a century or so the that is to say, we should have com King's Court par excellence, but manced to build ten of these mon- is now disused except when the ster craft of dubious value. And King very occasionally, holds
cost of each monster Levee in the Throne-room.
£7,000,000. In the same period the old form is maintained, and am Americans would have laid down bassadors are still accredited to ten, and the French, Italians and Japanese several others. And after The Office of Works has been 1920 new as well as replacement Iusy arranging the solemn and still ships may be built. state-rooms for the purposes of
If the British proposal is accept- busincas conference. They are all ed the whole of this useless and comparatively small and, as it colossal. expenditure, which clouds were, domesticated compared with the financial future of every coun- the spuce and splendour of Buck-try, would be struck off at one blow
are from future Budgets. ingham Palace. The suites likely to be crowded in the days
Tory Comment. when the experts and advisers of
The Conservative five nations, attended by a large
Press international assembly of jour phasises that battleships have nalists, are in possession. The air grown much too large and costly..
In de med started by a womanlydesented times when the King's Court was duction, and the Morning Post and the focus of everything important, (Continued on nezt Column.)
"the Court of St. James."
The
the
em-
ecurity. Heavy ships are by far the biggest item in every Naval Bill, and so this question from the point of view of economy is most important, but the principle of re- ducing size and cost might be car ried through other categories with proportionate results."
The Telegraph, suggests that re- placement ships if and when re- placement becomes necessary, should not exceed 28,000 tons, mounting guns of no greater calibre than 12-
inch,
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INDIAN STUDENT'S FLIGHT.
BAD WEATHER CAUSES ABANDONMENT.
Mr. Clynes spoke of the waste of effort in internal industrial con- ficts, and concluded by referring to relations with Russia. II we could cease to treat it ne a distant and negligible outcast," he said, "we could coufer. great benefits
unan
several of our industries. Whether we like cur remote, neigh- hours or not, we must trade with them and make the best of them."
Industry Not Down and Out. Sir Horace Wilson spoke of the need for greater optinuem.
" We talk too much," he said, "about unemployment, and not
enough about employment. We must dis- courage the idea that Britieh in- Instond dustry is down and out,'
dre
"TRYING IT ON"-THE
MEDICAL STUDENT.
Important discoveries concerning the gastric functions of the body are hoped for as the result of tests being made at Charing Cross Hoa pital on six medical students who have volunteered to take special diet.
[Takovan BEUTER'S AGENCY.] of mentioning constantly the unem- ployment figures we should tell the LONDON, Jan, 15. British public that there Man Mohan Singh, the young 16,500,000 pouple at work. It has Indian student of Bristol Univer- recently been announced in the sity who started from Croydon last House of Commons that nearly a The Manchester Guardian thinks Saturday on an attempt to fly to million more men are at work than it will be all to the good if battle India and win the Aga Khan's before the war. This is the sort ships are tackled seriously, but it prize of £500, offered to the first of thing which should be generally says the post-war battleship con- Indian making such a flight, re-known"
Britain, сегда
American, and turned to Croydon to-day from Le The Chairman, replying to tri- Japan, and that France and Italy Bourget in an ordinary mail Butes from the speakers to his firm's efforts for bettering indus. have none. Therefore, if progress ueroplane. interbancado da Europe, ft with a macion of mishandleitimolations, said they were the b respect. of other classes of ships and his acroplane was badly dam that it must be made.
4 aged in Sunday's gale..
frat firm to play a Rugby football team against the public schools..
They are submitting themselves to various tests to show the effect of different types of food on the human system.
(Continued on heat Column.)
Mart
AFVELW
After a complete, fast of 24 hours they eat a carefully prepared meal and each takes a different kind, of food.
Meals have been chosen. which contain known quantities of albu- men and carbohydrates. The scien- tific investigators are observing how the digestive system reacts to vari- ous meals.
Eggs form the staple diet. for some, and others are given food which consists principally of oat- meal either in the form of porridge or gruel.
After a meal a thorough exami ..nation is made and the results re- corded. There is a possibility that these tests will help medical men when treating serious illnesses. brought about by the weakness of the stomach.
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