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*HOUSE OF COMMONS

REASSEMBLES.

MR. THOMAS BESIEGED

› WITH QUERIES.

PREMIER QUESTIONED ON THE FIVE-POWER PACT.

[TEROCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

WIRELESS

TELEPHONY.

SERVICE BETWEEN BRITAIN

AND AUSTRALIA,

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

OPENED BY TALK BETWEEN RESPECTIVE PREMIERS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S ́AGENCY.]

LONDON, April 9.

LONDON, April 30. In the House of Commons, re The wireless telephone service assembled after the Easter recess, between Britain and Australia was Mr. J. H. Thomas was immediately | officially opened by a talk between besieged with questions in regard Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. from No. to unemployment plans. He re- plied impertusbably, generally re- ferring to previous anawers. Asked how he was faring in "internal Cabinet disputes" and unemploy- ment, he replied "I looking fairly well." He mentioned that the British steel industry had already beneated by the railways ordering 24,000 tons of steel sleepers during the past year.

Mr. Lees Smith, the Postmaster General told a questioner that the charge for the new telephone ser vice to Australia would be £2 minute. The service would be in augurated by a conversation be tween Mr. J. Scullio and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald at 8.30a.m. tomorrow.

Mr. MacDonald told a questioner that the Channel Tunnel was the biggest piece of national policy be fore the Government at the mo- ment, and there would be no delay in dealing with the matter.

Premier Questioned. [BRITISH WIRELESS RERVICE}

RUGBY, April 59. The Premier was asked whether could now make any further statement in connection with the present position of disarmament arising from the recent conference,

THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1930.

AMERICANS REACH INDIAN SITUATION.

KUOMINTANG AND LABOUR DAY.

SCHOOLS MUST KEEP OPEN.

HOME.

DELEGATES SATISFIED WITH THE NAVAL TREATY,

QUESTIONS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.

DELHI PAPER CEASES PUBLICATION.

[THROUGH EETTER'S AGENCY.]

(THROUGH REUTER'S

AGENCY.].

WELCOMED BY SILENT CROWDS.

(REDTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEW YORK, April 28. The American delegates from the London Nayal Conference drove

MEETINGS PROHIBITED.

SHANGHAI, April 30. DELHI, April 29.

While Chinese authorities have In view of the demand for 50,000 declared Labour Day & labour holi- rupees security under the PreAS

have notified

BOUNDARY DISPUTE.

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST ·

MACAO GOVERNMENT.

NANKING'S MANY QUESTIONS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT:]

CANTON, April 30

BUREAU STORMED. BY ANGRY MOB.

EVICTION AT PINGLO

1. CAUSES RIOT.

EDUCATION

COMMISSIONER HAS NARROW SHAVE.

Hundreds of incensed residents,

The age-old dispute over the including many women and child. exact boundary separating the ren, last week. stormed the Burean Ordinance the committee represent-day. The local Kuomintang bead leased territory of Macao from the of Education in Pinglo, and the in motor cars forming a processioning the Delhi newspapers has de-quarters

school | mainland has again cropped up. Education Commissioner would to the City Hall, proceeding via cided to suspend publication in-authorities that no holidays are to The Government of Macao i have been killed by the mob had Broadway. The streets were lin- definitely and produce a common be allowed in any local school in alleged to have encroached upon he not fled in time." The riot fol 10, Downing Street, and Mr. Sculed with interested, but compara- skeleton sheet.

Shanghai for the commemoration of Ha, who was in a private room in tively silent crowds and there was

the various anniversaries in May Chinese territory when it recently lowed the de sion of the Bureau te the House of Parliament at Can- * noticeable absence of paper

and leave of absence for students established police stations in a recover the Government land which herra. The voices were most cleat

may only be granted upon produc- Miu Heh, Taat Yu Wan, and Tsat tion of satisfactory reasons.

Sha Wan and set up a Government was leased to the people to-live on, school at Ten Yu Wan, The Portu

It will be remembered, says the and there was an entire freedom

guese are also charged with trying from atmospherics during the 1

a large portion of local Chinese Press, that Pingio to reclaim marshes in Chingchow, Three minutes' talk between the Premiers who congratulated each other on

places, according to the Chinese, City was swept by a very destrues are Chinese territory, and the active fire a few weeks ago, when over of the Portuguese constitutes a annihilating time and space.

two hundred buildings were razed violation of the agreement between China and Portugal respecting to the ground, rendering many Macao. Another charge laid to the homeless. Part of the fire zone was Portuguese Colony is its collection

Mr. MacDonald hoped that be- fore the end of the year the tele- phone service would be extended so as to enable Australia to speak vid London with the greater part of Europe and the whole of America.

A

FLYING DUCHESS' BAD

LUCK.

FORCED LANDING IN BULGARIA.

(TAKOOGH PROTER'S AGENCY.]

1

streamers from sky-scrapers which usually characterise big American

demonstrations.

After an official welcome at the City Hall, Mr. Stimson said, on behalf of the delegates, that their welcome was taken as an indica- tion of American sympathy in the cause of international goodwill and

peace.

#

CALCUTTA, April 29, Sengupta, now serving six months' rigorous imprisonment for elected Mayor of Calcutta for the

sedition, Eas been unanimeualy re-

fith time.

[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICZ.]

RUGBY, April 29, In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Wedgwood Bena, the Secretary for India, was asked by Mr. Bald- win, the Conservative leader, whe- ther he could make a statement re- "We met fairness and goodwillgarding the position in India. from all the other delegations," Mr. Wedgwood Benn replied a continued Mr. Stimson, "and the that in respect of up-to-date dervė spirit of the conference was onelopments of the civil disobedienen of its finest attributes for its most campaign, he could add little to the full and wholly accurate reports hopeful results."

which had appeared in the Press, As reported in the Press ʼn serious disturbance had occurred at Kara- chi, when, during the trial of six of the principal leaders of the movement in Sind, a disorderly crowd broke into the Magistrate's Court. The police were forced to fire before the crowd could be

tion

"It is a good Treaty for the United States and a step forward in the movement towards world peace," declared Mr. Dwight Mor row on the arrival, of the Ameri- can delegates from the London

Conference.

Mrs. Stimson said "I am glad to be back, for it has been a most trying time, Our husbands work ed" so hard that we feel we ought to be re-introduced to them"

SHOULD LEAGUE HAVE AIRCRAFT?

GERMAN DELEGATE AGAINST

な

PROPOSAL.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE).

Rucar, April 29.

brought under control. The situa- however, restored the

Wal,

same day.

Two Serious Cutbreaks. Siner the House rose on April 17, there had been two particularly serious outbreaks of disorder, the firat at Chittagong, on the 18th, and the other at Peshawar on the 23rd. That at Chittagong was the work of Bengal Anarchical Associations, The immediate reactions were dealt with by the promulaation next day, April 19, of an Ordinance renewing the provisions of the Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Act. which had been repealed on April 1.

Special precautionary measures are being taken jointly by Chinese and Settlement authorities against any untoward incident to-morrow. All factories in the Chinese area will be closed in commemoration of Labour Day, but public meetings will not be permitted.

POLICE ACTIVE IN

--- SHANGHAI. COMMUNISTS AND STRIKERS

ARRESTED.

(Wah Tit Tat Pao.)

SHANGHAI, April 30. the Club of the Electricity Plant The police arrested 16 workers at workers, who threatened to strike in support of the tramcar strikers. The police also arrested 27 alleged Communists elsewhere.

of taxes in Tsat Tu Wan, Ha Yong Government and which was leased and vicinity.

to the people. The rentals, being devoted to educational purposes. were collected by the Educational Bureau.

After the are, the Bureau decided to take back the ground and lease it to other people at higher rents. The Are victims protested and ap pealed to the Bureau to rescind Education Commissioner, a certain the decision Up to last week, the Mr. Liu, unde no reply but dis.. patched men to force the tenants to remove.

The matter was brought to the attention of the Chungahan District Magistracy which made representa- tions to the Macao Government, requesting it to abolish its recently established police stations and the school in these places. The District Magistracy then referred the matter in turn referred it to the Ministry to the Provincial Government which of Foreign Affairs in Nanking, ask- ing for instruction. The Foreign Ministry, in its reply, stated that

The latter, were greatly enraged, these disputed places did not ap. Many arrests were also made in

pear in the old map of Macao as and hundreds of them soon gather Chinese territory. Three workers, fag for instructions. The Foreigned, and angrily marched to the were arrested at the printing house Ministry asked that a new map of premises of the Bureau, The of the Commercial Press, 31 work-Maena showing in detail the places crowd, including women and child- ers the Chang Fa Ki Teashop in dispute be drawn and sent to rea, forced an entrance into the and a student at the Chung Kuo Nanking to enable the Central premises and shouted Kill Com College. They also raided a Com-

Authorities better to understand missioner, Itu!" "Down with Liü, munist den, where two men were the situation. The Foreign Minis- the oppressor of the people!" ete. arrested and large quantities of try asked also for a more detailed They leaked for the Commissioner Communist literature seized.

report as to these police stations in vain, as he had already fed.

The maddened crowd then des- and the school. It wants to know when they were established, the troyed everything in sight, after number of police in each station, which they dispersed, declaring whether or not the wear uniforms they would return to take Liu's and carry arms, and the number of life. The latter has resigned in Chinese, if any, in such a service. consequence of the trouble. Similar questions are asked in regard to the alleged filegal taxa. tion by the Macao Government.

INCREASE-IN-PRICE OF RICE.

LONDON, April 29. The Duchess of Bedford was fore and whether any further negotia-ed to land at Dragoman, on the tion, had taken place with the ob ject of concluding a Five Power Bulgarian frontier, through agreement, Mr. Macdonald repli- broken oil pipe. She hopes to pro- ed, "Regarding the first part of ceed to-inorrow. She was flying on the question I can any nothing useful within the necessarily re- non-stop journey to Croydon stricted limits of question and front Sofia on the return flight to

As regards the second Englad

RUGBY, "April 29. part the answer is in the negative.

Bad Jack bas befallen The Channel Tunnel,

Duchess of Bedford who with Cap The Premier was asked whether thin Barnard is on her homeward ar had yet reached a decision re-flight from Capetown. If she can garding the construction of a

price. reach Croydon to-night she will

answer.

the

Channel tunnel, or if he can now create a new world's record by fix any date when he hoped to be flying 9,000 miles from England to able to announce the decision of the Cape and back in 10 and n the Committee of Imperial Defence half days. But to-day as her 'plane was crossing Bulgaria an on the subject.

oil pipe broke and the machine was forced down as a village about 20 miles from Sofia. A Bulgarian acroplane has flown to assist, but it is doubtfull whether, the Duchess will be able to complete the fight to-day.-British Wireless Serpice.

He replied that the report of the special committee which had examined the project was in the hands of two or three various au- thorities who must consider it.

This matter could not be settled in day. It was the biggest echeme of rational policy before the Government at the present time.

SINGAPORE BASE. GOVERNMENT TO CONSIDER

ITS FUTURE.

[THROCOH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, April 29. The Daily Telegraph's political

Anglo-Egyptian Negotiations. Replying to a question regard. ing the Anglo-Egyptian negotia tions, Mr. Henderson, the Foreign Secretary, said that on the resump- tion of negotiations this morning the Egyptian delegation stated that a courier whom they sent to Egypt immediately after the ud- journment on April 17 had not correspondent arrived. In these circumstanoce the Government is soon to consider they requested the negotiations be the future of the Singapore Base. adjourned until Monday next. If the courier arrived meanwhile negotiations could be resumed be fore then.

understanda

that

In view of the agreement reach-

The League of Nations Commit tee an Arbitration and Security to-day discussed the question of facilities to be granted to aircraft used by the League to ensure swift communication in the event of a threat of war,

The German delegate, Herr Goeppert, remarked that the

League should not have its own aircraft but should use machines placed at its disposal by the vari- oug Governments

A

The Peshawar outbreak was corollary to the arrest of cleven local Congress leaders.

It was to-day reported that a disturbance" took place on Sunday in Madras City, where the police were forced to fire on the crowd. General promulgated as an emer

On April 27, the Governor-

gency measure an Ordinance. re- The general discussion, was ad-enacting with some modifications 1929. He concurred journed to enable the British dele-heres Act of 1010 which was gation to prepare a Draft Conven-repealed in tien in which the British Gavern- with this action. meat's viewpoints will be explain-could make at present no further Mr. Wedgwood Benn declared he

ed.

SOVIET EMBASSY BOMB A HOAX.

MOSCOW PROTESTS.

THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY.]

WARSAW, April 29. The Polish authorities who are investigating the affair declare that the bomb in the Soviet Embassy was a ramshackle and practically hazinless contraption. The news papers profess to suspect a hoax, Moscow, April 29. Meetings of protest were held at other ed at the Naval Conference not to Moscow, Leningrad and replace battleship tonnage until cities. 1008, Government circles are in- clined to the view that Singapore Anglo-Russian Affairs.

as a battleship base is no longer Questioned about the Anglo necessary, and consequently a plan Russian negotiations, Mr. Hender-will be considered for adapting the soa said the temporary commer-work already done to a depot for cial agreement between the British airships and seaplanes in the and the Soviet Governments Scheme for inter-Imperial com-

gned on April 18. Negotiations munications.

ere at present proceeding for The Dominions which contribut- he conclusion of a temporary ed to the ouflay on the Base will agreement for the regulation of consulted before a decision is certain fishery questions.

Negotiations would also probab ly be begun shortly, for the con clusion of a definitive treaty of commerce and navigation to replace the temporary agreement already submitted: A formal convention of the treaties concluded with the former Imperial Russian Govern- ment had also been communicated to the Soviet Government. Negotin tions regarding debt claims and counterclaims, both inter Govern mental and private, were also be ing pursued.

BRITISH NAVAL OFFICERS TO TEACH CHINESE CADETS.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

reached.

SEQUEL TO FIRE DISASTER AT A PAISLEY THEATRE.

MANAGER ON TRIAL."

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, April '29.

A long queue of people, mostly consiting of women, waited in the rain for hours for the opening of the trial of Charles Derwrad, the manager of the 'Glen Cinema at Paisley, who was charged at Edin burgh with homicide in connexion with the cinema disaster which pc curred on New Year's Eve.

WORLD WIDE COMMUNISM. PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO

. PREVENT DISTURBANCES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S MIENCY.]

ATHENS, April 28. There were wholesale arrests of Communists who were bolding an unauthorised meeting yesterday to discuss plans for the celebration of May Day.

A sequel to-day was that over a hundred Communists were sentenc ed to periods of imprisonment vary ing from ten to sixty days. -

Wholesale ArTOSIS.

RIGA, April 29. a "hurdred Commúnista

Over

have been arrested at Riga and many houses have been searched with the object of forestalling the May Day preparations,

tho

Australia Prepared.

SYDNEY, April 29, Communists have invited workers to come out on strike on May 1. The Government announces Lord Alness, the Lord Justice's that adequate precautions have Clerk, declared that the essence of been taken. the indictment was that it wLE Dorward's duty to keep the exits

Demonstrations Banned.

statement regarding the situation. which was engaging the constant attention of His Majesty's Govern ment and the Government of India.

TWELVE MONTHS FOR DAS

GANDHI..."

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

New DeLat. April 30. ma Gaadhi has been sentenced to

Devi Das Gandhi, son of Mahat a year's rigorous imprisonment or a charge of sedition.

MILL STRIKE CALLED OFF.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

OSAKA, April 30 The strike at the Hyogo Mil belonging to the Kanegafuchi Com- pany has been called off and work- ers are expected to resume work to-morrow.

(Wah The Fat Pan)

SHANGHAI, April 30. "The price of rice has soared up considerably. The current price is quoted at 18 per picul as compared with 819 which is the ordinars

CHIANG. KAI SHEK BACK AT NANKING.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NANKING, April 30, Chiang Kai Shek arrived here at

поод

SHANGHAI "BUS SERVICE AGAIN INTERRUPTED.

(Wah Tiz Fat Pao.)

SHANGHAI, April 30. The 'hus service has been again interrupted as the Russian workers, who were engaged to substitute the the threats of the strikers. strikers, dare not operate due to

The tramcar workers' strike has still not been settled. The era- ployers have promised to pay the rice allowance bat have refused to increase their wages.

SINO-JAPANESE AGREEMENT.

LIKELY TO AFFECT JAPAN'S

TRADE..

[THIQUOR REUTER'S AGENCY.]

וי

THE PRIMROSE PATH.

WUCHOW ARMY OFFICER SUFFERS DISGRACE,

A visit to a house of ill-fame

caused a military ofcer in Wachow

EIGHT HOURS' CONVEN- TION:

IMMEDIATE ACTION BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

THROUGH`REUTER'S AGENCY.)

PARIS, April 20.

That the British Government

to lose his position and to be de- would proceed with the utmost barred from holding any Govern-speed with the steps necessary to

the Wasbington mental post for life, in addition to ratify

Eight one month's imprisonment,

Hours' Convention was promised Gambling and consorting with by Miss Margaret Bondfield, the public woman are strictly prohibit Minister of Labour, at this morn. ed among the Canton troops, acing's session of the Governing Body cording to the Chinese Press. In of the International Labour Office this case, a lesson was administered sitting here. to those who may violate the order.

She said that the passage of the The offender was a military offec: Government's Bill on this question of the Third Canton Independent would depend on the "limitations detective of the Wucbow Military ment's position in the House of Regiment, who was found by a imposed by the Labour Govern- Headquarters to be staying at a Commons, but the measure. would brothel. He was subsequently are among the first of the important rested and takes to Headquarters. Bills to which the Government was On pleading guilty, he tenced as stated above, to serve us a warning to others

WILS Fed

MUTINY IN AMERICAN, PRISON..

CONVICTS REFUSE TO WORK.

(THROUGH- REUTER'S AGENCY.]

COLUMBUS, OHIO, April 29. A acreaming, howling crowd of CITY AND SUBURBAN.

Toxro, April,, 30.

convicts are racing back to their The Privy Council, at a meeting als before the rattle of machine LUCKY TOR'S WIN

in the presence of the Emperor, guns. This is the latest ugly incid- approved the Sino-Japanese Tarif ent at the penintentiary, which (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

of ferment Agreement, adding that although has been in a state the agreement was likely seriously since the fire, matinous convicts re- LONDON, April 30. The City and Suburban was won in the future, approval was given nounced they must work or starve. to affect Japan's trade with China fusing to work until the Governor

was removed. The Governor an by Lucky Tor, Athford being out of consideration for friendship They planned a general escape last second and Vatout third. Sixteen with China. ran, Lucky Tor won by two lengths and there was three quarters of a length between second and third,

Betting 13/2 Lucky Tor, 8/1 Athford, 10/1 Vatout.

As a result of the Council's ap- night, but met troops with machine proval, Mr. Shigemitsu, acting guns, rifles, tear gas and bombs. Minister to China, will be au Several were wounded. thorised formally to sign the agreement.

TEA PRODUCTION. RESULT OF DUTCH-INDIAN CO-OPERATION.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].

AMSTERDAM, April 20.

pledged.

on the Miss Bondfield dwelt increasing need of an international agreement as regards workers, and said that she hoped the action of: the British.. Government would stimulate and accelerate the estab lishment of International regula- tions.

COAL MINES BILL. DISCUSSED IN HOUSE OF LORDS.

· [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

RUGBY, April 23, Lord Sankey, the Lord Chan cellor, moved in the House of Lorda the accond reading of the Coal Mines Bill, which, as he informed their Lordships, proposed, firstly, to regulate the production and sale

of coal secondly, to facilitate the reorganisation of the industry:: thirdly, to reduce working hours;

and fourthly, to establish a Nation- al Board for the industry.

Lord Sankey, who was Chairman of the Commission which reported on the coal situation of 1026, said. he was persuaded that the Bill wa a step in the right direction and would do something to dispel the cloud hanging over a great indus try and remove the tension and bitterness which too long had dark- ened many, miners homes:

INDIAN STEAMER

RUM-RUNNER'S CREW SENT

DISASTER. TO PRISON;"

NEARLY 200 DROWNED.

(THROUGH XLUTEE'S' ADENOY.]·

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] CHANLESTON, 8. CAROLIAN,

CALCUTTA, April 20. The Marquess of Londonerry, who "April, 29.

The disaster to the river steamer is himself a coal-owner, intimated Four members of the crew of the

Condor in Eastern Bengal which on behalf of the Conservative ma British schooner Dorothy and The Handelsblad learns from a occurred on Sunday afternoon injority in the House, that they HELSINGFrons, April 20.

Audrey, which was captured recent competent source that the result an isolated district was due to a would not reject the Bill on the myAccording to this morning as there were only two. Thuhet que dichorities Here-ve-ban-ly of Georgetown with eight hundr of the co-operating of Dutch and heal

de, as the iron trellis newspapers, the two British Naval failed to

Communist deincastrations ed cases of liquor on board, have indin ten producers who were pro-hundred passengers on board the deavour to modify and amend ite officers whose services the Chinese gate outside one of the exits was which have been arranged for May been sentenced to six month's imducing in 1929 will be that in 1930. steamer at the time and only provisions and return the Bill to Minister in London has secured to padlocked at the tiras of the disas Day...

prisonment each..

production, will remain nearly ten eighteen were saved.

the House of Commons in a less teach at the Government Naval ter.

BUKHAREST, April 26.

million pounds under the 1929 The ship now lies in three dangerous form. He contended that... Academy at Minkiang (Fukien

Many Communists have been or-

figure, Amadeu

fathoms of water. She was built the coal industry required to be. Province), are Engineer Captain

rested here as a preventive mea

It is also expected that the Inin 1887, rebuilt in 1928, and left left to itself, without interference, Kelly and Instructor Captain Al-

sure against disturbances in conmember of the constguard's flest of dian and Ceylon restriction plans Calcutta in March after a through to continue its own methods of re- exander E. Monro, both retired.

nexion with May Day,

will now be carried out.

overhaul.

organisation.

LONDON, April 20.of the cinema open, particularly

Lord, Alness said that if the gate had not been locked the deaths of these children might have been

avoided.".

ed

The schooner has been declarer forfeited to the United States Gov ernment and is: now to become a

rum-chasers.