CHINA'S "GREATER JAPAN'S FOREIGN
PART."
NANKING NOT YET IN CONTROL.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENDY }
LONDON, April 1.
TRADE RETURNS.
REDUCTION IN ADVERSE BALANCE.
[TAROVON AKUTEN'S AGENOT.]
The
TOKYO, April 2. continued depression in Japan is reflected in the foreign
the year.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1931.
BRITISH WARSHIP IN DOG RACING AT
COLLISION.
H.M.S. GLORIOUS DAMAGES FRENCH LINER.
[THROUGH REUZEN'S AUKTOY.]
LONDON, April 1 HIM.S. nireraft carrier Glorious
SHANGHAI.
ASSOCIATION DEFYING S.M.C. CLOSURE ORDER.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
SMANOHAL, April 2. Interesting developments are ex Park, where the Greyhound Racing Association intends to hold dog races, notwithstanding the Muni cipal Council's prohibitory doeree, which was to take effect at the end of March.
ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN FLIGHTS.
SUBSIDISED BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
[THROUGH REUTER B LOKNOT.1
LONDON, April 2. Two experimental air flights in Australin were announced by Mr. Montague in the House of Com mons.
MANAGUA 'QUAKE HORRORS.
IRISH HOSPITAL SWEEP.
DISPUTE OVER FIRST PRIZE TICKET,
INJURED INHABITANTS PINNED UNDER DEBRIS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,1 [URITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
LONDON, April '1. RucsY, April 1.
ecreation bas Something of a Unofficial estimates of the casual-been caused by the development of
reply to questions Mr. Henderson, i trade figures for the first quarter of collided with and severely damaged pected on Saturday night at Lina each direction between England and ties from yesterday's earthquake, la dispute regarding the ownership
In the House of Commons in
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that there was no material change in conditions in China since his statement on the
oth inat
Exports were Yen 203,000,000,
compared with Yen 400,000,000 last year, and imports Yen 330,000,000, compared with last year's figures,
Yon $25,000,000,
Mr. Godfrey Locker. Lampson The only comfort to be derived asked if the Nanking Government from the above is the reduction in the adverse trade balance, which now controlled the greater part of China and Mr. Henderson replied:is Yen 37,000,000, compared with
No,
"I am afraid it does not."
last year's figures, Yen 194,000,001.
LÁDY MISSIONARY'S ESTATE.
[KRITION WIRELESS BENVICE.]'.
Ruday, April 1. Miss Lilias Catherine Graham, formerly of the English Presby terian Mission at Chingchow, who died in England recently, left es tate valued at £101,000.
CIVIL STRIFE IN SZECHUAN.
ALARMING RECRUDESCENCE OF TROUBLE.
(Chun Wan Yat Pao.)
CHUNGKING, April Civil strife in Szechuan is again alarming dimensions. assuming The fact that the rebels, including Tang Sik Kuo and Tan Chung Yao. are still incorrigible and working actively against Nanking has com- pelled the pro-Nanking faction to Take great efforts to suppress them.
Acting under the orders of the Nanking Government, General Liu Wen Fei has issued a punitive order and is launching a general. offensive in three directions.
The war zone is conned to the central part of the province, and heavy fighting is reported to have ocentred at a point some distance to the north of Chungking.
For a
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SINO-SOVIET CONFERENCE. CHINESE CHEF DELEGATE OPTIMISTIC..
(Chun Wan Fat Pao.}
NANKINO, April 2 Moh Teh Hui, the Chinese chief: delegate to the Sino-Soviet Confer l'ence, has wired to the Nanking Government stating that since his arrival at Moscow, he has held preliminary discussions with the Russian diplomatie authorities and decision has been taken that the plenary session he resumed on April
Q
Moh Teh Hui is quite optimistic regarding the future of the Confor coco as a result of his interviews with the Soviet Government lenders,
WARFARE ON TIBETAN BORDER.
FURTHER ACTIVITY
REPORTED.
(Wah Taz Yat Pao.)
NANKING, April 2 Further information is reached Nanking that armed Tibetan tribes
active are again
On the Sikang border, and have made repeated invasions of Sikang.
General Liu Wen Fei, the head of the Szechuan Provincial Gov- vernment, requested the Nanking Government, in his recent tele graphic message, to order the Dalai Lama to stop the trouble.
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the French 0,000 ton liner Florida. off Gibraltar.
All the Florida's passengers were safely transferred to the Glorious, which is towing the Florida.
Several of the latter's crew were loft aboard dead.
Cruisers and destroyers standing by.
are
Collision in Dense Fog.
LATER "H.M.S. Glorious collided with the Florida in dense fog at 6 p.m.
The Florida was boled on her port side in the fore part,
H.M.8. Glorious has taken 500 Pengera off the Florida aboard and is now towing the Florida stern first to Malaga.
Afroraft Land at Malaga. Seventeen aireraft attached to the Glorious, which were flying at the time of the collision and were unable to return to her, have ar-
The Council han just dispatched A letter to the Association deelin- ing to consider their offer to nego-. tiate on the basis of compenention, and adhering to its original atli- tude of unconditional closure.
There are persistent rumours that the Council intends barricading the roads giving access to Luna Park and withdrawing police protection. Chinese lending "the meeting will probably be arrested.
The atmosphere is tense, and. extraordinary public interest is being manifested.
LOW-PRICED RUBBER FOR ROADS.
RECOMMENDATION TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
rived safely at Malaga aerodrome,
LONDON, April 1. where the Spanish authorities, gavė them permission to land,
In the House of Commons to-day, asked the Mr. Graham White Fourth Warship Collision in Four. Minister of Transport, in view of the low price of rubber, to recom- Weeks.
mend that roadways near urban hospitals should be covered with a rubber surface.
H.M.S. Glorious collision is the fourth warship collision within about a month.
The battleship Nelson collided with the Cardiff steamer West Wales in a fog on Sunday off Cape Vilano, Spain, the Nelson being alightly damaged,
·
The Walrus and Whitley were damaged at Gibraltar during Fleet exercises in March, and the Sham- rock and Tourmaline collided in picking up their moorings at Gibral
tar.
Twenty-three Emigrant Passengers
Missing.
LONDON, April 9. "The Admiralty have received a message from H.M.S. Glorious re porting that 23 emigrant passengers who were on board the Florida are missing, and that one Byrina is dead on board the Glorious,
H.M.S. Glorious Arrives at Malaga,
Matada, Aptil 2. The aircraft carrier Glorious ar rived at 6 o'clock bearing 500 pas. sengers from the Florida..
It is now feared that about 36 passengers from the Florida were
killed, including 11 Halians and
One Spaniard.
The other victims presumably are French and Portuguese.
Mr. Herbert Morrison replied that the cost of rubber paviog- blocks was still relatively high.
He expressed the opinion that the local authorities wore the best judges in the matter.
New Low Rubber Record. [BRITISH WILKLESS SERVICE]
ROBY, April 1. Rubber fell to-day to d. n pound on the London Exchange:
This is a low record. The average price last year was 5.8/164, per pound, and for 1029 it was 101,
Excessive stocks, the absence of sufficient demand and continued depression in New York are the principal causes of the further fall. To-day's drop was id.
EMPIRE TEA PRODUCTION.
PRINCIPLE OF PREFERENCE DUTY.
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
The first is from London on April 4, due at Port Darwin on April 10.- The second in from London on April 25, due at Port Darwin on May 10.
The Imperial Airways are endea vouring to provide an onward con- nection to Queensland and New
South Wales towns.
The establishment of a regular mail service will, depend whether the Government concerned will financially assist,
which caused the total destruction of the ticket for first prize in the Irish Hospitale Sweep on the of Managua, the Nicaraguan capi-Urand National, which note the tal. place the deaths at over 1,000 owner over £340,000. and injured at 3,000,
apparently
Mr. Justice Meredith, sitting in the Dublin High Court to-day, The damage WAB
granted an application for an in- localised to Managua, where the junction restraining the Irish are caused by burst gas mains Hospital Trust from paying the
prize-money in the Sweep added to the terrifying situation. Emilio Seals, the Italian owner of
Fire is still raging this afternoon, Official information received in London from the British Consul in Managan stated that fire in threat The Treasury will subsidise theeoening the British Legation," but it two flights.
is believed that there are no ensun). tics mang the British Colony.
Assistance is being rushed to the district by aeroplanes and ships. (REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE] Revised Estimates of Casualties and Damage.
SOLO FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.
ATTEMPT TO LOWER RECORD.
ARITISH WIRELESS SERVICE].
RUGDY, April 1.
MANAQUA, April 2. The revised estimates of the loss of life and destruction of`property show lower figures than previously.
The United States Marine Corps estimate the victims at 1,000 dead and 1,000 injured, many seriously.
President Moncada places the material losses at £3,000,000,
Mr. Anderson Scott, who left England to-day on a solo flight to Australia and hopes to · beat | Kingsford Smith's remankable ten- Thirty thousand refugees are en- days record, is using a 120 hp camped outside the city, some Gipsy Moth fitted with extra tanks. scantily attired in bedclothes."
He was previously in the Royal
Compulsory vaccination is being Air Force, and is taking the follow-enforced in view of the bad hygienic ing route-Sofia, Aleppo, Bushire, conditions due to the prolonged Karachi, Rangoon, Singapore, exposure of the
corpses and a breakdown in the sanitary arrange- Bima and Port Darwin.
ENGLAND-SOUTH AFRICA FLIGHT.
ARRIVAL AT CAIRO IN RECORD TIME.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Ruany, April 1. Commander Glen Kidston, the millionaire sportsman, who loft England yesterday on a record- breaking fight to South Africa, is already in Cairo.
ments.
The American Minister, Mr. Hanna, has taken charge of the situation.
CARRIBBEAN CROWN COLONY FEDERATION.
COMMISSION TO BE APPOINTED.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
Ruany, April 1.
In a despatch to the Governors His first hop took him to Naples, after a brief rest he flew to Malta, of Trinidad, Windward Islands, arriving there this morning, and and Leeward Islands, Lord Pass- then he hopped off for Cairo, ar field, Becretary for the Colonios, riving there this evening, having states that he has been carefully broken all records for the journey,
considering the question of some Commander Glen Kidston is ac- form of closer union between those companied on his flight by Lieut. islande and the many issues which Cathcart Jones and wireless such
A operater named Johnson. His next stop in Nairobi, then Broken Hill and then Capetown, which he is likely to reach in well under the six days he has set himself if he maintains his present rate of pro-
ETRAS.
LONDON, April, 1. The British Empire Producers Organisation has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer re questing the maintenance of the principle of Empire preference in
It is the promoter's desire to any reimposition of the ten duty,"
demonstrate that the air mail ser saying that the removal of prefer-
vice between England and South ence would give a strong impetus Africa can be speeded up immense. to the movement already threaten-y One of the crew of the Gloriousing the position of Empire tea in
No British were killed, Florida Benched Badly Damaged.
LATER.
in reported to have been killed in the collision with the Florida.
The Florida has been beached hero and is badly damaged,
H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth and Chatfield are joining the Glorious, which will be examined by divera.
The damage to the Glorious is not believed to be great.
The report that some of the Glori ous aeroplanes are missing is Categarically denied.
Conflicting Report.
MARSEILLES, April 2 Contrary to previous reports the owners of the Florida state that nobody was killed or injured in the collision.
The Florida was towed in to Malaga
The damage to the Florida is not so serious as was at first thought.
STR. DORSETSHIRE SINKS KETCH.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, April 1. The steamer Dorsetshire collided and sank a ketch in Plymouth Sound.
the United Kingdom market, name.
ly, the development of ten produe.
tion in the Dutch East Indies and PRIME MINISTER FLIES the consequent increase of their proportional import to Britain.
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CONSERVATIVE PARTY
ORGANISATION, ́·
MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
SCOTLAND.
an administrative change would involve.
He proposes that a Commission, probably consisting of two or three persons, with very broad terms of reference, should proceed as ECON as possible to the Colonies con cerned to conduct a comprehensive enquiry into the whole question.
Before coming to any decision as to the appointment of the Commis sion, Lord Passfield has asked the Governors whether they concur in principle to the proposal, and ta submit their views at an early date, Lord Passfield's despatch, which TO reviews the whole subject of Federa
GOES NORTH FOR EASTER
HOLIDAYS.
[CRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
DESIGNS.
RUGBY, April 1. The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay [BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.), MacDonald, to-day flow from London to Lossiemouth, North RUGBY, April 1. Scotland, where he is spending The retirement was announced Easter, in an Air Force machine to-night of Mr. Neville Chamber- piloted by Flight Lieutenant lain from the Chairmanship of the | Heslop. Conservative Party Organisation.
Mr. Chamberlain took over this post last June to effect measures of reorganisation, which he has com pleted.
Lord Stonehaven Now Chairman.
Lord Stonehaven, formerly Governor-General of Australia, baz consented to undertake the Chair- raanship of the Party.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain has held several ministerial posts under Mr. Baldwin, these including Minister of Health, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Postmaster General, Paymaster General, and Director General of National Services. Agod years, he is a brother of Bir BRITISH STEAMER STRIKES Austin Chamberlain. He has been
REEF.
MALABAR MAY BECOME A TOTAL LOSS.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BYDNEY, April 2. The 4,500-ton London steamer Malabar, from, Melbourne to Binga- pore, struck a reel during a fog this morning near Port Jackson.
Twenty-seven passengers and the crow managed to reach the shore, and it is expected that the Mala bar will founder and become a total loss"
'JAPANESE AIRCRAFT
·CARRIER LAUNCHED.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY."]
Torvo, April 2. The aircraft carrier Ryujo was successfully launched to-day in the presence of a large gathering of notable personages.*.
FRANCE'S BUDGET.
EASTER RECENS,
closely associated with the civic | PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS FOR life of Birmingham, becoming a member of the City Council in 1011 and being Lord Mayor in 1815, and again in 101G,
Lord Btonehaven, the Chairman of the Party; was Governor-General of Australia from 1925 until Jast year. Aged 65, he is a son of Bir Alex. Baird and was formerly in the diplomatic service. He entered Parliament in 1910 no member for Rugby and asted as privato, seyre- tary to the late Mr. Bonar Law. For a time he was Under-Secretary
[AGENCE HAYAS,]
PAR18, April 1, The Budget for 1931-32 has been doinitely adopted, providing for an expenditure totalling estimated Frs.59,643,093,305, nad reventer of Frs.30,040,5609,352,--.-.-.- The Government is therefore budgetting for a deficit of appro ximately Fra, 2,500,000,
to the Home Office and from 1022 The session was afterwards closed to 1924, was First Commissioner of for the Easter Recess and will re- Works
Open 'on-May 5.
tion in the Carribbean area, ox- presses the view that, at least at present, the proposed inquiry could not usefully be extended to other Colonies.
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COLONIAL OFFICE
APPOINTMENTS.
SIR JOHN RISLEY RETIRES.
[DRITIEF WINKLESS SERVICE.}
Ruany, April 1, Following, the retirerent from the public service of Sir John Nis Joy, Mr. H. Q, Bush has been ap- pointed Legal Adviser to Dominions and Colonial Offices and Mr. H. Duncan Assistant Legal Adviser to both departments.
the
WATER SPEED, RECORD.
ATTEMPT BY KAYE DON AT BUENOS AIRES.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.}
BUENOS AIRES, April 1.. The repairs to the racing mater- bant, Miss England II,, have been compleied,
In spite of the swollen state-of the Parana River, Kaye Don has sanounced that he intends to make & speed test of the bont at eight o'clock to-morrow morning,
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