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LONDON CONFERENCE STRICTLY CONFINED TO ECONOMIC CRISIS.

DR. BRUENING'S PROMISE OF CO-OPERATION TO SETTLE DIFFERENCES AND ORGANISE PEACE.

FRANCO-GERMAN OUTLOOK NOW MORE FAVOURABLE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY AND BRITISH WIRELESS.1

PARIS, July 19. Dr. Bruening and Curtius arriv- ed, this afternoon and were rousing- ly welcomed by a crowd of about ten thousand...

Before embarking on the con- versations Dr. Bruening made a statement promising sincere offorts and loyal co-operation to settle the Franco-Germas differences and to organise pence

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General Dawes Ordered to:

England. WASHINGTON, July 17. President Hoever Has requested General Dawes, the American Ambasendor to Britain, who is at present in Chicago on special leave of absence, dealing with his duties at chairman of the finance committee cf the World Fair, to return to England as quickly as

The French and German dele. · possible, gales conferred for over two hours Tho President desires Gonerál and are resuming to-morrow after Daws to assist Mr. H. L. Stim- son, the Secretary of State, and The atmosphere is distinctly more Mr. Andrew Mellon, the Federal favourable.

Treasurer, at the London Confer ence, which is apparently expected to bo protracted and in which America is taking a livelier in-

Sunday tranquility in the region of the Ministry of the Interior was disturbed at ten this morning by

an endless stream of high-powered terest in view of the new French cars bringing over a score of dele- | proposal. gates from the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Japan, Italy and Belgium to a conference which is regarded as a dress re-day next. . :' hearsal for tomorrow's London

General Dawgs will sail by the Mauretanis on July 22, Wednes

Conference, which the French insist i Mr. Stimson kept the trans-Atlan-

must be confined to the economic tie telephone busy to-day in con- crisis and not to deal with prob-versations with President Hoover lems like disarmament or..the and Mr. Castle, the Under-Secre- Young Plan.

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It is strongly intimated that if tho prenot French attitude fellowed up in London, it will be opposed by the United States..

The London Conference is to batary of State.. strictly limited to the examination" of the financial and economic crisis in Germany. This was the outcome of a big conference this morning at the conclusion of which the smiling delegates were photographed to gether.

Prospects of a better Franeo.

ferman understanding are at pre-

Bent very bright,

Unsuccessful Meeting.

After a visit of Dr. Bruening, Dr. Curtius and Von Hoesch to Mr. Stimson and Mr. Mellon at the United States Embassy, last night, it was, reported the meeting was

successful, not

the Americans thinking that the mere continuation of the short-term credits was sul ficient, while Dr. Bruening urgently pleaded for a long-term Joan.

Mr. Stimann and Mr. Mellon, are leaving for London as 4 p.m.

Press Dubious,

Banking Restrictions,

BERLIN, July 17.

A new emergency decree issued by the Government to-day provides

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that from Monday to Thursday next, saving banks may pay, out twenty marks caly each day to each customer, and marks daily may be withdrawn from current banking accounts,

Transfers of funds inay be made up to fifteen thousand marke

All persona baving deposits and holdings abroad must declare the

amount.,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1931.

BOYCOTT SOCIETY.

SERIOUS RIOTING BISLEY SHOOTING. DAVIS CUP TENNIS. JAPANESE GOODS

IN INDIA.

SERGEANT WINS KING'S PRIZE.

HUGHES AND PERRY..

BEATEN.

HEAVY DEATH-ROLL: MANY INJURED.

(THROUGH-REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BoBay, July 19.

A recrudescence of rioting, result ing in considerable bloodshed, in reported from various parts of India, notably Bangalore where

there was a riotous demonstration over labour grievances, the police opened fire and dye were killed and over a hundred injured.

Another serious disturbance oc- curred at Veraval Junagarh where at least six Hindus were killed during factional rioting.

A third incident took place at Cawnpore where the revolutionarice shot dead a Hindu..

CAGED WHITES FOR

JUNGLE SWAMP.

HUMAN ZOO TO CAPTURE

ANIMAL TALKIES.

A "Zoo" of caged white men and a white woman is on its way to Central Africa, where it will tour 1,000 miles of jungle swamp..

These humans will be kept behind the "bars, and wild beasts will be the curious spectators,

At least, so it is hoped, for this human zoo" is, in fact, a sound- film unit. Under the leadership of the famous German-African explor aer, Hans Schomburgk, and his wife, it will try to capture talkią "close up," of the jungle animals,.

Behind Bars.

The expedition consists of six

white men and one white woman. They travel in motor cages, operat ing from behind the bars, so that they can approach the wild beasts

in comparative anfety.

They carry a miniature gramo- phone record factory and photo- graphic Inboratory, so that the sound discs can be manufactured on the spot, and the films can be treated as soon as they have been exposed.

The penalty for a false declara: imprisonment and loss of civil tion regarding foreign holdinge 18-

The whole equipment is contain. rights. These yoluntarily declared in four trucks, and includes ing their foreign holdings will bo microphones which are both insect- Ruany, July 18. given relief in the form of a

proof and water-proof, so that they Although any indications that moratorium as regards their debts,

can be left standing in the jungle France is prepared to cooperate Another emergency deeree com- without danger of damage. in giving financial assistance to puls all newspapers to publish all Germany in the present crisis are Government manifestoes and ecrdially welcomed here, the Bri-clamations gratis. tish Press continues rather dubi- Any newspaper attacking the as to the efficiency of the Government is forbidden to com- French proposal for a 8500,000,000 ment upon the Government's re- guaranteed loan.

ply to the attack in the same issuo One paper says: "Apart altoge-in which the Government's reply ther from political conditions there appears.

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As soon as good recordings of the pro-mysterious jungle voices are secur ed, 50 copies of each will be made on the spot.

are certain bread, economie facta Dr. Bruening, the Chancelier, to be remembered. The present to-day issued a statement to the crisis is due almost entirely to the nation declaring that he and Dr. loss of confidence on the part of Curtius are going to Paris with a

The sounds will be exnchronised to the moving pictures, which will be taken with special long-distance cameras, enabling" close-up "shots. to be taken from a distance of 3,000 feet.

- Bootstraps for Trucks, The motor trucks. are equipped

Germany's creditors in her ability firza will to open up a mutual ex-with "bootstraps, which prevent to meet her existing commitments change of views, which it is hoped under the Young Plan. In order will prepare the way to compern- to delay reparations she has bvention and provide a "visible" means forced to borrow abroad, and she of international solidarity, a has already borrowed too much, It In Paris, the visit of Dr. Bruen- is, therefore, difficult to see how the addition of another £100,000,000 to the burden of her external debt would help matters,

ing and "Dr. Curtins is regarded, semi-officially, as a new step to wards a Franco-German repercche- ment. There will be antisfaction It ie announced at the Foreign if the first contact merely clearu Mr. A. Henderson, will take part the air, for better mutual under- on Sunday morning in a converen-standing. tion at the Presidence de Conseil Dr. Bruening will be expected to and has accepted the invitation of state precisely the nature and the the Fronch Promier, M. Laval, to extent of the help that Germany luncheon. Afterward he will Icave accks, from France..

by the afternoon train. for London The French and Germans will

sentatives.

Feeling of Optimism.

their sinking in the, awamps.

Collapsible boats and cycles are also carried, the former for explor- ing lakca, and the latter to find suit. able routes for the trucks...

Herr Schomburgk, who is 49 years of age, served as a British officer during the Boer War. In the Euro penn War he fought on the German side,

The expedition is adequately pro- tected against wild animals, but it will be faced with the menace of jungle fever.

frein French sources that £100,000,000 International Lgan, secured upon the German Customs, should be made to Germany.............

It is obvious that such a propcaal... would require careful examination in all its implications

[Innovaa azuhik's forscy.)

LONDON, July 18. Sergeant Fulton, late deen's Westminsters, won the King's Prize with a score of 945. This is the third time Sergeant Fulton has won...

Dr. Kelly, University of London Training Corps, was second with & score of 280..

Northcote, late 6th Manchesters, was placed third though, be had a Bcore of 280 also,”

(THROUGH-ACUTER #AGENOT.]

PARIS, July 18. Lott and Van Ryn bent Hughes and Perry 6-1, 6-3, 4-8, 63,

REGULATIONS ADOPTED: THREE PRINCIPLE POINTS,

(Wah Tei Tat Pao.)"

SHANGHAI, July 10. The Japanese boycott movement is coming to a head. A not of

LAWYERS VISIT LONDON.regulations was adopted by the Japanese Goods Boycott Society

WILL CHEN MING SHU REJOIN CANTON?

APPOINTED COMMANDER OF SECOND ARMY CORPS,

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

CANTON, July 19. **

It is learned that the National Government. in Canton has appoint od General Chen Ming Shu, former Governor of Kwangtung, Com- the Second Army Corps against Chiang Kai Shek.

The appointment was the outcome of a conference between

PARTY OF 8 AMERICANS TO Yesterday and its three principal mander-in-Chief of

pointa are as follows:-

(1) Any orders placed

with Japanese Arms by Chinese mer

STAY A WEEK.

Londen, July 13.-A body of chants must be cancelled if no

pecuniary loss is involved.

(2) Any Japanese goods which are expected to be shipped to China should be stopped,

well-known American lawyers are now on a visit

to London and the Council of the English Bar is arranging a busy programme for

A NEW TORY SCHEME,

CHANGE IN FISCAL SYSTEM.their stay of a week,

"Britain is going to change her fiscal system shortly by the general assent of the nation," declared Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Conservative loader, in a speech at Hull.to night,

The visitors are headed by the Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims, Judge Fenton W

Booth. Other prominent men in the party are Dr. Ellery Stowell, a professor of international law, and Mr. W. R. Vallance, President of

America the Federal Bar Association of

representative of the two "crack”? divisions under General Oben in

Kings and the military authori- ties here. The representative,

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whose name has not been divulged, (3) Any Japanese goods which has been in Canton for some time are in godowns should not be clear-confering with General Chen Tani ed if not already paid for.

(4) Any merchant, who has already bought. Japanese goods, must register same with the Society otherwise he will be fined.

Tong and other high officials of the southern revolutionary regime,

Whether General Chen Ming Shu will accept auch an appointment or not from the Canton Government According to information clicited remains to be seen. It will be re- from commercial circles, the im-membered he left Canton in a most portation of Japanese goods to unexpected manner, going to Nàn China has suddenly increased in king to confer with Marshal Chiang and was appointed anticipation of the spreading of the Kai Shek, Japanese boycott movement in commander of the Right Sector of China, Japanese woollen goods and the drive against the Communists sugar are being dumped on the and bandits in Kiangsi. Shanghai market.

The most interesting feature of the, speech, however, was the out lining of a now plan by the Tories for applying their tariff proposals. way to deal with tariffs was to Mr. Baldwin said that the best

create a Permanent Tariff Com

"The visitors declare they are on mission, non-political in character, would be subject only to whose recommendations on tariffsa study pilgrimage to the sources assent of Parliament.

the of international common law and civil law. Their programme here includes a reception by Sir Ernest Wild; Recorder of London, a reomp MR. LACEY SITES' RETURN. tion at the London County Hall, and a reception at the Law „So. ciety's Hall."

TRIBUTE TO BYRON,

GREEK PREMIER ATTENDS CEREMONY.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

They will visit the Old Bailey", Scotland Yard, and the Guildhall: The Master of the Rolls, Lord Han worth, will receive them later the week, and they will listen to

DETAILS OF RESCUE,

[THROJGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

Foocnow. July 17.

the release of Lacey Sites,

No rassom has been paid for

a talk at the famous Lincoln's Innremarkable example of the value Details of his rescue furnish a

RUGBY, July 17. Vencelos, yesterday took part in The Greek Prime Minister, M.

ceremonies at Newstead Abbey, which has been shifted to the City of the English Bar Council. the ancestral home of Lord Byron, by Sir Thomas Hughes, chairman of Nottingham to be maintained

in perpetuity for the enjoyment of

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.53 p.m., stated:---

The northern depression is central near Vladivostook, mov. ing east. The Tongking de pression is stationary and an other in forming over N.E. China.

Local Forecast:-S.Wör variable winds, moderate to light; fair to showery.

the public and in memory of the poet.

the memory of: Byron the deep M.. Venczelos said he brought to and sincere homage, gratitude and remembrance of the whole Greek nation. Modern Greek history had been enriched with the magic of the great English poet and, nobody could think of free Greek without thinking at the same time of Byron and his faith for the freedom of Greece."

DUKE AND DUCHESS OF

YORK...

PAY VISIT TO FRENCH COLONIAL EXHIBITION.

(ORATION WIKELESS SERVICE)

ACTRESS CLAIMS

ANNUITY.

UNUSUAL CASE HEARD IN

LONDON COURT.

London, July 13. Mrs. Daisy Annio Moss, a well-known actress, nged forty, has established a claim in the Supreme Court to an annu- ity of £500 against Mr. Francis Reginald Huggie, formerly $ Guards, officer and one-time master. of the North Staffordshire hounds.

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Plaintiff said that payment of thie annuity, was premised under an agreement on condition that sho Mr. Haggie instead of going to remained in England to look after

America to secure theatrical eng

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of Christion teaching."

At a recent missionary meeting addressed by Bites the young ban- dit leader, who was present, in dicated his dosizo to change his mode of life. Subsequently, on hearing of Sites' capture he and a hundred followers' scoured the hilla for four days. They found Sites, surrounded the house, recued him, and brought him back to Kutien in a sedan chair |

-NORTHERN : LEADERS DENOUNCE CHIANG.

[CENTRAL PRESS WIRELESS.]

TIENTSIN, July 18.

A manifesto denouncing Chiang Kai Shek and demanding his re signation was signed today by Feng Yu Hsiang, Yen Hai Shan; Shih. Yu San, Han Yu Chu, Soong :

Chih Yunn, Liu Chien Nion, Ma Heiung Kwei, Lu Chung Lun, and other military leaders in the north. The full text of the manifesto will bo published to-morrow,

GREY "GENERALS

MOBILISING?"

[CENTRAL PRESS WIRELESS.

TIENTBIN, July 17. The troops under Generals Han A Peiping message of July 14 Fu Chu and Shih Yu San aro stated:An American missionary ready to march down along the Nr. Lacey Sites, of the Methodist Episcopal Mission, was captured Lunghai and Tientsin-Pekow Rail- by bandita on July 8 in the Kutien ways with Hauchow as their Arat district, north. Fukien:]

objective, according to nows from a reliable source. It is said that ́ mobilization, will start within the next few days.

GUARDED AGAINST

ASSASSINATION.

fu anti-Nanking cirálca, it is claimed that in the event of n POLICE PROTECT OHINESE AT general mobilisation on Kinzgau;

·SAN, FRANCISCO,

Marshal Chang Hsueh Liang wilkin maintain a neutral attitude. In San Francisco, July 11-Captain view of the recent massacre in '8.' ~0. ↑ Liang, described as 11

described as an exceedingly rich officer in China's National Army Koren, Marshal Chang has to look

and loyal to General Chiang Kai after his own territory. Government, to-day was heavily Shek, the Chairman of the Nanking guarded by federal secret service operatives and detectives of the San Francisco police force when be boarded the steamship Taiyo Maru preparatory to the start of a home- ward journey to China.

It was alleged that plaintiff agre ed to remain his mistress, and that the agreement was made for an illegal consideration..

After both parties had given evidence and submitted to uncom- fortable cross-examination by Coun

el, during which plaintiff, wept, the Judge made a declaration that there was a binding and subsisting agreement.

THE HOUSE OF THE

FUTURE.

BUILT AND FURNISHED WITH CHEMICALS.

with a view to reporting cn Sun-confor alone to-morrow (Saturday). So far the British Government day night to the Prime Minister They will be joined on Bunday by have not received any official de in anticipation of the Cabinet the British and American repro-tails of the suggestion put forward

nocting on Monday morning: to consider the business of the con- ference which is due to meet at six o'clock on the same evening,

Ruggy, July 19

RUGBY, July 17 Mr. Henderson called on M The feeling of optimism regard-

The Duke and Duchess of York Laval this morning to report bising the outcome of the financial

tavelled to Paris to-day on a short arrangement, after which be visit crisis has strengthened somewhat

visit in connection with British ed Mr. H. L. Stimson, the Ameri-throughout the day. This has buon This, and any other schema that Week at the French Colonial Ex- can State Secretary.

reflected in the, markets and in may be evolved in the course of bibition. Preliminary Conversation.

London, The cheerful tone which the consultations, will doubtless To-night they will witness a Dr. Bruening and Dr. Curtis apparent when the Stock Miar provide material for discussion at display of native dances and to reach Paris this evening and willkets opened, was maintained to the Monday's Conference.

morrow they, will make an officisi, *British funds Meanwhile, in view of the forth tour of inspection, after which see the French Ministers. Accord-close of business,

London, July 12.-The house of in particular wore strong and enming Conference of Ministers, they will lunch with President the future will be built and fur- ing to Paris mosanges this preli- minary conversation will be fol- German bonds also recorded

to-day's meeting of financial 9x4 Doumer. lowed by a more or less informal general improvement.. The im: | perts representing Britain, France, On Siday, the branch of the nished with a mixture of carbolic discussion at which not only the proved atmahere is largely at Italy, Belgium, the United States British Legion will marade in the

acid and disinfectant. British and American representa tributable to the prospect of the and Germany, summoned te consi- grounds of the British Embassy Lives will be pressat but also the International Conference of Minis der the technical details regarding where Their Royal Highnesses are

ters which it is proposed to hold the Hoover scheme, confined itself staging. Italia nand Belgian Ministors.

in London on Monday, and to the mainly to acttling the questions of These contacts are regarded as proliminary to the London-confer.progress of the informal eenvorsas

procedure ence, the opening meeting of which tions which are continuing in

Paris. on Monday night will probably bo

Doctors: Bruening and Curtius held at the Premier's residence, were expected to leave Berlin late No. 10, Downing Street..

The American Stato Secretary, to-night for Paris and will be in Mr. Stimson,, is being joined at contact with the French Ministers, Paris by the American Treasurer. the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Mr. A. Mellon, who during the last few days has been in the south:

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It is considered unlikely that any decisions will be reached prior to the assembly of the full con. ference in London;

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A subcommittee was set up to roport on the outstaring contracts for deliveriei in king and arrange- monts were also made to enable any power not represented, whose in- terests are affected, to put forward any special points, ofther in writ Arthur Henderson and the Amerling, or by personal interview. can State Secretary Mr. Stimson Sir Frederick Leith Ross, who 10-mm row-and-Bundayong da war Jupointed "Chairumu "efan them Arat present arranged. they Committee, is the Deputy Control will crom to London on Monday ler of the Treasury, and was the morning.

· (Continuad on nert Column.).

CHEAPER PETROL,

REDUCED BY ONÉ PENNY PER GALLON,

{THROUGHTM REUTER'S AGENOT.]

LONDON, July 17. The price of petrol has been re- Leading British export at the duced by ons penny, per gallon se Hague Conference of

GHOSTS AT SHEKKI.

THE WHOLE VILLAGE SEES

THEY

The heavy guard was provided for Captain Liang as the result of wide-: spread rumours that he had been

Ghosts having the form and ap- marked for assassination by Is Fearance of domestic animals, cows, political opponents.

goats, etc., recently appeared at As soon as he boarded the ship Shekki according to the evidence of Captain Liang went to his state- room, entered and locked the door. Ho remained locked in seclusion until after the Taiyo Maru had sail ed from this "port.

NORWEGIAN CLAIM TO

GREENLAND,

KING SIGNS DECREE VALIDÄT- ING POSSESSION.

Copenhagen, July 11.The con-

sober and reliable peasants, who, having been warned, of the possible manifestations, had gathered at the spot to see the ghosts. After parading the valley of a hill near the Bai Heung village the phantom visitors are said to have vanished all in a moment,

CANTON'S LETTERS.

The Society of the Chemical In-over the sovereignty of Eastern rent isane Inments the fact that the flict between Denmark and Norway The Canton Daily Sun in a cur- dustry is celebrating its 50th birth Greenland has been aggravated by mail delivery at Canton is far from day by holding an exhibition of report from Oslo, announcing that

King Haakon signed a decree tak satisfactory. The paper avers that chemical plant in London to moring formal possession of the disrenting a post office box, instead row, illustrating extraordinary puted territory after the Nor ways in which chemiztry is allied wegian flag had been hoisted there of being an aid to quick receipt of

recently by a whaling expedition, mail, is often, the reverse, Resi to every day life,

The Cabinet was summoned im dents at Tungshan, which is situ- The material for use in house-mediately for a special meeting toated on the outskirts of the city building is called Bakelite and can consider the position arising from

the Norwegian decree. According receive their mail very often sooner be obtained in all kinds of finishes to the official communiqué it was than people residing in

Tha

1. If in wood, for mak={ decidest not to take any cognisance proximity to the past office ing Boors, ceilings, attinga, dental of the Norwegian effort to establish Daily Sun advocates a system being an accomplished fact but to adhere tried whereby the delivery of malt plates and, innumerable

things.

other

to an earlier decision to submit the from door to door, might be im issue to The Hague Court.

proved.