AUSTRALIAN
ELECTIONS
LANG PARTY DEFEATED
(noccн RUTER'S AGENCY.].
SYDNEY, June 11,
THE Lang Party was crushingly
detented in the elections.
So far the resulta aro :-
United Australia Party
Labour
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The new Premier, Mr. Stevens, says the verliet vindicates New South Wales in the eyes of the world,
The Queensland olections, also: held to-day, reusited in a swing to Labour and a defeat of the Govern
mone.
ANGLO-IRISH
CONFERENCE
PROLONGED DISCUSSION
FAILS
(BRITISH WIRELESS VICE]
Rrasy, June 11,
TD.
CONSULTATIONS, between
presentatives of the British and Irish Free State Government, which were begun in Dublin on Tuesday, ao concluded in London to-day, failed to solve the diffeul" ties which have arisen pygarding negotiations connected with the Duwa Economic Conference.
A communiqué which was issued after the Conference had dispersed at about 5 o'clock was follows:
A meeting took place between the President and vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, Me, do Valera and Mr. Sean O'Kelly, and the Prime Minia 1er, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Lord President of Council. 31. Stanley Baldwin, the Home Seeres tary. Sir Herbert Samuet, the Dominions Secretary, Mr. J. H. Thomas, and the Minister of War Lord Hailsham, at No., 10, Downing Street at 11.00 170,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1932.
PROSPECTS OF LAUSANNE CONFERENCE Cancellation Of Reparations And War Debts Probable
FRANCE MAY ACCEPT
BRITAIN'S POLICY
EQUAL CONCESSIONS FROM U.S. A. EXPECTED
Hope That Germany Will
Fall Into Line.
PR
(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, June 12. OROSPECTS OF THE LAUSANNE CONFERENCE, WHICH IS, OPENING ON THURSDAY, ARE GIVEN PROMIN. ENCE IN THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS.
IT IS AGREED, THAT AFTER A PERIOD OF GLOOM. HOPES AT LAUSANNE HAVE SUDDENLY BRIGHTENED IN VIEW OF THE BELIEF THAT FRANCE MAY
READY DE
TO ACCEPT THE BRITISH POLICY
PRINCIPLE
SOON
ΤΟ
CON.
COMPLETE THE CANCELLATION OF REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS, PROVIDED THE TRACTS ARE UPHELD AND THAT ANY CONCESSIONS MADE IN
BY EUROPE ARE MATCHED
EQUAL CON. CESSIONS ON THE PART OF AMERICA.
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IT IS UNDERSTOOD -THAT MR. RAMSAY MAC- DONALD WILL ATTEMPT TO RECONCILE THE ANGLO. FRENCH VIEWS BY PROPOSING A FURTHER MORA. TORIUM OF SIX MONTHS
AND FOR REPARATIONS DERTS, AND THE HANDLING OVER OF THE GERMAN RAILWAY BONDS IN FINAL SETTLEMENT OF GERMANY'S OBLIGATIONS FOR HER REPARATIONS TO HER CREDITors.
WAR
POSITION
IT IS HOPED THAT THE NEW GERMAN GOVERN. MENT MIGHT SWALLOW THIS PILL FOR THE SAKE OF DEFINITE SETTLEMENT, BUT, MEANWHILE, THE OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT IS SAID
TO
ΤΟ BE
MON. PRECARIOUS, "OWING
GERMAIN MON, PAL- MARTIN, THE FINANCE MINISTER, AND
ΤΟ THREATENING MADE," THE BUDGET MINISTER, RESIGN
GOVERNMENT ADOPTS THEIR UNLESS THE
REDUCTIONS IN PUBLIC PROGRAMME OF 'DRASTIC. EXPENDITURE INCLUDING AN ALL-ROUND CUT IN SALARIES
CIVIL AGAINST WHICH
SERVANTS ARE
MOBILISING.
The meeting was adjourned" at | A SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCE 1.30 p.48. and resumed, que hour later. w
There was prolonged discussion of the points at issue, but it was not found possible to reach un agreement."
In view of the attitude adopted by Mr. de lern and his Ministers an the Oath of Allegiance Bill, now before the Free State Legislature, the failure of the Conference has raused very little surpris in poli- 1icir circles here.
The Dominions Secretary was pre- rent at Easton Station, Inter, when Mr. do Valern left on his return to Dublin.
Mr. Thomas told the Fress that the Conference had passed off quietly and the questions before them discussed with excellent good humour.
NEWFOUNDLAND ELECTIONS
OPPOSITION VICTORY
INDICATED
(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]
Sr. John's, June 12.
THE preliminary retures of the General Election indiente a victory for the Opposition led by Mr. F. C. Allerdice.
The election is a sequel to poli- tical disturbances last April.
LONDON
UNDERGROUND COLLISION
1:
PARIS, June 12.
MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD, SIR JOHN SIMON, M. HERRIOT AND M. GERMAIN MARTIN, THE MINISTER OF FINANCE, WERE IN CONFERENCE FROM 10 AM. UNTIL 1.30 P.M., AFTER WHICH THE FOLLOWING
ISSUED: COMMUNIQUE WAS
**FRIENDLY AND IN FORMAL
CONVERSATIONS.
DEMONSTRATED
.AUGURS JUST
A COMMUNITY VIEW WHICH
ΤΟ SOLUTIONS EFFICACIOUS LAUSANNE CONFERENCE AS WELL AS STRENGTHEN. ING CONFIDENCE AND THE MAINTENANCE OF TERNATIONAL PEACE."
THE
IN.
لوم
THE LENGTH OF THE · CONFERENCE AND THE OPTIMISTIC TONE OF THE COMMUNIQUE INDICATE A THOROUGH EXPLORATION, AND IT IS EXPECTED PRACTICAL RESULTS WILL BE ACHIEVED.
BRITISH IN
MINISTERS PARIS
[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]
LONDON, June IT.
THE Prime Minister, Mr. Ram-
Bay MacDonald, accompanied by the Foreign Sceretury, Sir John Simon, left London this morning
for Paris.
They will be the guests of the French Premier, M. Herrict dinner this evening, when discus- sions, which will be continued to- morrow, questions awaiting con
thats taken the better is the pro- spect of a useful settlement.
"Complete and immediate can- cellation may be neither practicable nor, in eyes of many, morally just ;- or commercially desirable.
Britain Gan Give Bold Tend.. On "other hand, 'nobody in this country really expects that way further payments will be made from Germany to Grent Britain, and the Prime Minister should
British
In Hong Kong To-Day
7,
·RAIN.
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, PORECART AND REMARXB, 1390AD EY THE ROYAL QNSERVATORY AT 51.45 P.M., STATED :-
A MODERATE ANTI-CYCLONE IN HITUATED TO THE NORTH-EAST OF Tokyo. THE DEPRESSION OVER S. CHINA HAS DETENED. ΤΗΕ TYPHOON APPEARS, TO BE ABOUT 250 MILES TO THE EAST OF N. FORMOSA NEARLY STATIONARY,
LOCAL FORECASTS.W., WINDS, MODERATE; OVERCART, RAIN.
TYPHOON WARNINGS.
CHOLERA IN CANTON.
20 DEATHS IN LAST FEW DAYS
"
(From Our Own Correspondent.]
"
CANTON June 19.
CHOLERA epidemic appears to A
Canton, be sweeping. over During the last few daya no leau than 20 people have succumbed to the dissuar, The more prominent victims of the epidemic include Mr. Chu Shu Sing, eldest son of Dr. Chu Chao Hai Mr. Chen Chung Leung, Secretary to Dr. Chu Cano Hin in the Canton Foreign Oleo; and Mr. Mod Tang Ming, Secretary of the Canton Y.M.C.A.
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The following typhoon warn- ings have been received from the Manila Observatory :——
Manila, June 12, 9.10 a.m. -- Typhoon in about 127deg. Long, E. and 24deg. Lat. N., recury- ing north-eastward.
Manila, June 12, 4.15 p.m.- Typhoon in about 127deg. Long. E and Sideg. Lat. N., almost stationary.
WEEK-END RAIN.
ABOUT ONE AND A HALF
INCHES ONLY.
An official of the Royal Ob servatory last night gave the following figures of the rainfall of the last twenty-four hours Lea Daily Proms ropresentative. Between 4.30 p.m. on Satur day and 4.30 p.m. yesterday the rainfall was 0.66 inches, while between 4.30 p.m. yesterday and 9.30 p.m. last night a further 035 inches was registered, Bo that between 4.30 p.m. on Satur day and 9.30 p.m. last night the total rainfall was 1.505 inch.
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DR. KOO AT NANKING
DISCUSSING SITUATION
IN MANCHURIA
THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.
XANKING, June 12. DR. WELLINGTON KOO, the
Chinese assessor to the League Commission, arrived by air. He conferred with Wang Ching Wei!
MISSING YACHT SIGHTED
CHELIDON REPORTED TO BE NEAR NAGASAKI [Takovou" BrR'S AGENCY.}
NADAнAKI, June 12, 2.20 6.11. ACCORDING to a wireless ince- sugo from the Nagasaki Maru which left here on Saturday after- neo a yacht, believed to be the Chelidon, was sighted proceeding to Nagasaki, twenty miles, off Nagu Anki.
It is believed here the yacht will arrive at Nagasaki early this morn- ing passing the night at Tuojima Island, outside the harbour.
WILD RUBBER PLANT
| IMPORTANT
DISCOVERY
IN RUSSIA
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, June 12 OBSERVERS in Moscow state
that the discovery of Tamsagin, wild rubber plant growing in the mountains and Kazakstein, Russian and Central Asia, which is said to contain up to forty per cent. of coagulated rubber in its roots is likely to reduce, if not eliminates, the need for purchases of foreign rubber of which the Soviet import- ed 28.000 tons in 1933.-
It is proposed to establish planta- aine largo factoring to
SHANGHAI, Jane 11. There is considerable anxiety about the yacht Chelidon, which sailed from Shanghai with four young yachtsmen alxard, on a donetions and voyage to Nagasaki. Much inter utilise Tausangis. est was takes in the projected voy nge, and the skipper, Helmut Aust, with his crew of three friends ware'}
given a great seal off.
COUNT UCHIDA
In ordinarily good weather the INVITATION TO BE FOREIGN Chelidon should have renched Nagn- saki on the 9th instant.
MINISTER
(THROYON REUTER'S AGENCY.}
Toxro, June 12,
Friends and relatives of the grew bombarding the newspaper offices with requests for the latest wwws, but up to the time of going to press no intelligence has beenCOUNT UCHIDA, President of reserved.
ATLANTIC FLIER.
"PICKED UP"
and Ie Wen Kan, reporting on the | BELIEVED TO BE HAUSNER work of the League Commission in Manchuria.
CHINESE IRON AND
STEEL WORKS
THROUGH AXUTER'S AGENCY.)
NEW YORK, June 12. THE steamer Cire has picked up a tramAtlantic flier, believed to be Hausner.
A
TO BE ESTABLISHED NEAR tor" from
NANKING..
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, June 12. PLANS for the establishment of iron and steel works at Haia- “SOUVENIR” CAUSES, between Nanking and Yang-
TRAGEDY
BOMB EXPLODES IN CHINESE HOME
THROUGH REINTER'S AÜRNOT.]
ר
SHANGHAI, June 12.
A SIGHTSEEING tour of Chapel ended in a tragedy, when a @hinese returned to his home in the International Settlement, on Saturday evening, with a souvenir in the shape of a bomb which ex- ploded in the midst of his family, three of which were killed and we seriously injured. The souvenir hunter was among the killed.
NEW MOVE BY SEIYUKAL PARTY
MEASURES TO RELIEVE DISTRESS
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THROCOR REUTER'S AGENCY.]
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sideration a the Conferences in therefore be in a positiin to give a tion of currency for readjusting the
taze, are now completed. A aum of £123,000, from the returned British Boser Indemnity, is heing used for the purpose.
A site has already Been choseli and building will coinmence, short- ly, while experts are being sent to Britain to purchase the necessary n.nchinery.
It is hoped the works will be in operation not later than Spring.
лехи
SERIOUS AFFAIR AT PEIPING
at
LATER.
message from the steamer Cirer, relayed by the Leviathan, says she has picked up an avia
a derelict monoplane, bearing numbers which have been identified here as those on Haus ner's machine, five hundred miles west of Oporto,
POLICE CASE AGAIN
fa
FAILS
Baby Lindbergh Kidnapping Case Deepens
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
the South Manchuria Railway.. arrived in Tokyo to-day."
When he attended at the Pre- mier's residence he was invited to become Foreign Minister, but he requested a few days in which, to consider the matter,
charge of the New Jersey invénti- Ratious" in connection with the Lindbergh kidnapning case, stated that the suicide of the maid tended to show that she had guilty know- edge of the kidnapping. He also Ruapected the dend girl's slator. Edith, who was alleged to have left for England four days after Dr. Condon handed over the 800,000 to ysterious intermediary, whom he now identified na Brinkert, and Scotland Yard has been requested
interview Edith Sharp. believes that both Violet and Editly. Mrs. Morrow, on the other heal.
Sharp are innocent,
Two fon Now in Custody.
Two men are now in custody in connection with the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby-Brinkert and Harry Fleisher, the notorious loader of the Purple Gang," who had been sought for throughout the United States since the beginning of the Lindbergh kidnapping affair.. Ho surendered to the Police at Detroit on Thursday.
The dead maid, Violet Sharp, had not been heard of iconice- tion with the kidnapping until her suicide brought her into promic erep. On the other hand, the Lind berghs own maid, engaged to take care of the kidnapped baby, has heen under suspicion immediately following the disappearance of the child."
New York, June 12. THE POLICE CASE AGAINST THE
VIOLET SHARP HAS, COL LAPSED AS IT 15. LEARNED This maid, Miss Cow, a Scottish THAT SHE WAS NOT MOTOR girl, and her young man," the ING WITH BRINKERT ON THE Lindberghs' chauffeur, were sub. NIGHT OF THE KIDNAPPING, jected to close scrttiny by the STUDENTS STONE POLICE BUT WITH A MAN HAVING Police and eventually exonerated THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME.
FARROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
İTHROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.).
PEPING, June 12 A SERIOUS student agitation is
developing here.
new
LONDON, June 12. The Scotland Yard detectives who interviewed Emily (not Edith) Sharp at her home in Beenham,
Berkshire, declared they are satis Lingbergh case.
The trouble WES started by normal aniversity students refusing to continue their studies, demanded she knew nothing about the ing the appointmens of a Chancellor. They have threatened to proceed in a body to Nanking and plave their demands before the Govcímmel.
The authorities sought to prevent the trouble by sending police to surround the premises and prevent any audent from leaving.
AN ALIBI
NEW YORK. June 12. Brinkert has established an alibl. Dr. Condon now says he does not recognise Brinkert.
lifed a photograph of Brinkert as "that"of the man to whom he had paid $10,000 on behalf of Col. Eind bergh.
AMERICAN RELIEF
WAGNER" $2,300,000,000 BILL. PASSES SENATE
(TUNOUGH BRUTER'A AGENCY.)
WASHINGTON, June 11, THE Sonate has passed the Wagner Relief Bill, sponsored by the Democratic Party, authoria. ing the Reconstruction Tinacee Corporation
lend 10
Up the Stater for
to
WHITE PLAINK, N.Y., June 11. TOKYO, June 11: THE Seyukai Party has agreed to
After the arrest of Ernost Brin- $300,000,000 10 drop the proposal for the de
The kert, the corepanion of the dead relief purposes; and also authoris
advances totalling valorising the yea, but will submittee of than stoned, the police, maid on the night of the kidnap ing further A resolution to the Diet arging the three of whom were seriously injurping of the Lindbergh, Baby the $2,000,000,000 for State productive adoption of measures for relieving ed. The students are also stoning Police report that Dr. Condos idon works, and agriculture and fedora.
permanent improvements distress by facilitating the circula passing motor-cary,
farmers debts and carrying out and Geneva will be bold lead to hasten the process of various public enterprises.
making for ultimate and inevitnila The resolution will demand the cancellation.
calling of another Extraordinary Special points to be raisel by M. Bession of the Diet as Boon na Herriot in the Anglo-French con- possible for the purpose of passing. versations were discussed at yester the accessary Bills and voting the
French appropriations. day's meeting of the Cabinet.
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Lauzane opened.
Consultation with the French Government follows upon intianto exchange of views between the British Prime Minister and the new Foreign Minister of Germany.
M. Herriot Boes Good Oman, The conversation muet, in the
Later, according to the correspon- nature of things, be purely predent of the New Chronicle, M. liminary.
Herriot said that he regarded as good omen fact that as British and French viewpoints stand at present there is but very little difference be tween them.
During their Paria visit the Bri- tish Ministers will stay at the Bri- tish Embassy.
The Cabinet has already report- ed that it is tentatively agreed to
call a session early in September.
RECOGNITION OF MANCHUKUO
'FIRST IN TWENTY YEARS
[ITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]'
RUGBY, June 11. THE first passenger tram collision:)
the London for 20 years on: Underground Railways occurred near Hammeremaith Station yester day when two trains running side The Timea says: For reasons by nide converged at the approach which, if disappointing, ary con- to the station, with the result that elusive, the Government of the the front cruches slid into one an- United States are taking no part i other and three carriages were de in the Lausanne Conference and the
Immediate business of the British, railed.
alight and French Governments at the Two persons Haffered
The time of their doparture for shock, but no one wha seriously Paris meeting to-morrow is to dia- injured. Passengers in the rear of cover, as between themselves, what Switzerland is not yet definitely THE Minseite members of the the train were unaware of the munsure of legal cancellation is fixed, but it is anticipated that they Diet have decided to introduce utuse of the stoppage. The elec. possible of the Europeau inter will leave carly next week, visiting a resolution at the present session trie current was automatically cut Governmental debts which in any Geneva on the way to Lauanune, of the Diet,in conjunction with off when the conches left the case are not going to be paid for where the Reparations Conference the Seiyukai regarding the
the present. The larger the view opens on Thursday.
cognition of Manchukuo. metal,
THROUGH RENTER'S AGENCY.]
Tokyo, June 11,
re,
SCHOOL PRESIDENTS GETTING DESPERATE
11
BACK PAY'DEMAND
[TRKOCUM REGTER'S AGENCY, }
NANKING, June 11.
THE educational institutions are in a perilous state owing to Ink of funds,
back salarios.
Arrested on Dead Girl's
Identifcation
The Bill now goes to the House of Representatives which has al- ready passed a 52,300,000,000 Relief Bill in defiance of President Hoover
HUNGER MARCHERS
PACIFIED
[THÈQVAN REDTER'S ACIŃCY.}
WASHINGTON, June 11.
(THOUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.),
ENGLEWOODS, June 10. Ernest Brinkert's-arrest followed the identifiention of his photograph on Thursday by Miss Violet Sharp, the English maid in the employ ment of Mrs. Morrow, widow of A BILL authorising the appro- the lato. Senator Dwight Morrow, priation of $123.000 to pro and mother-in-law-of Col. Lind-vido for the feeding of the Bomur bergh.
Army now encamped upon the banks of the Potomac, has beer. presented in the House of Repre sentatives.
The Presidents of various Pei- ping schools are getting desperate and are considering about coming in a body to Nanking, to demand Violet Sharp caused a sensation by committing suicide by poisoning The Presidents of all the Nan- following the identification of Brin king private Middle Schools bave kert's photograph. She was to When news of the proposed. Bill called as the Executive Yuan re have been further examined by the reached them, a large band of the questing the Government to grant Police on Friday, but in the morn War Veterans marched to funds to their institutions or else in her body was discovered in the Canitol and made a demonstration
pantry by Mrs. Morrow's butler, at Their numbers are increasing... they would have to close down.
They are asking for grants from the Morrow home in Hackensacks, hourly and it is estimated that there are now 15,000 hunger the returned Boxer Indemnities, New Jeracy but the Government not yet, come Col. Schwarzkopf, who is in marchéra in the District of Colum to any decision on this matter.
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