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U. S. AND LAUSANNE AGREEMENT

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"WILL NOT BE PRESSED INTO ANY LINE OF ACTION"

PRESIDENT HOOVER'S LATEST STATEMENT

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)

Ruday, July 14.

DEBT ISSUES

A statement issued by the Prime į The White Paper also contains

Minister night denies the re

identic, letter from the Chancellor ports published that yesterday's of Exchequer, Mr. Chamberlain, to Anglo-French declaration of co-the French and Italian Finance operation applies to the question of Ministers, stating that the British

British debts to the United Stater.

The statement says that the use in the declaration of the words "European regime expressly ex efades from its purview any quta tions affecting non-European coun tries.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1932.

ANGLO-IRISH QUARREL

SUDDEN DRAMATIC TURN IN SITUATION

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, July 15. THE Anglo-Irish situation has taken a sudden dramatic torn which it is hoped will be for the better.

Mr. de Valera has accepted an invitation by Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald to visit London to-day, the question being therefore, brought once again within the realm of negotiation.

Mr. Horton's Effort. On his arrival in London yester

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RECOGNITION

MUST COME

STILL ON HUNGER STRIKE

COUNT UCHIDA AND THE LYTTON COMMISSION

ĮTARŠUON BRUTER'S AGEHOY,)

LONDON, July 15, COUNT UCHIDA'S statement at the final meeting with the Lytton Comunsion 'in Tokyo to the etect that once Japan recognises Manchukuo, she will decline to negotiate abroad regarding the new state is widely publishod in Britain nád läs aroused much discussion as to whether the Japanese tactics have hot, after all, side-tracked and defeated the large body of international diplomacy which was vocal in recent League Assembly meetings.

MAY BE FORCIBLY ·FED: IN HOSPITAL

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]

CHIANG AND THE COMMUNISTS

PRICE PLACED ON THEIR HEADS

ĮTHROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.)

SINO-TIBETAN HOSTILITIES

CHINESE CAPTURE PAILL

OVER 1,4040- CHINESE

· CASUALTIES

(THROUGH REUTEN'S AGENCY.) NANEINO, July 1D.

HANKOW, July 1

NANKING, July 18. NOULENS and his wife are being MARSHAL Chiang Kai Shek has.

offered the following rewards NE of the most severe engage sent to hospital where they will for the Arrest of Communist

ments in the Sino-Tetan be forcibly fed if they persist in leaders Army Commanders, hostilities have just concluded with their hunger strike.

divisional commandars, the capture by the Chinese forces

brigade commanders, of Paili

ANOTHER APPEAL

SHANGHAI, July 18. Maduzue Sun, Teni Yuan Pei and Yong Chien are sending another appeal to the Court in Nanking for arranging hail for the Nouleni,

yer, and Chen Ying are going to Fisher, the Noulena' foreign law. Nanking to night with the appeal.

$30,000

820,000; |$5,000,

SURPRISE ATTACK ON GEN, MA CHAN SHAN

NARROWLY, ESCAPES

CAPTURE

[THROUGH EKUTER'S AGENCY.]

HARDIN, July 15 JAPANESE reports state that General Mo Chan Shan, when encamped with a thousand body

The brighter outlook is largely due to the intervention and efforts of Mr. Norton, the leader of the Labour Party in the Irish Free State, in collaboration with mom- bers of the Labour Party in the holding command but authoritativo Oficial circles in London are with Government would have been very, House of Commons.

Views gathered by ficuters agree lad it it had been possible for

that any Power recognising Man- them to cancel the war debts of

chukuo before it becomes clear that Manchuria has secured, permanent- France and Italy as a part of the day, Mr. Norton told corresponly, a stable Government, would lay

of all round cancellation of war debts dents that he believed a basis in itself open to the charge of breaking MAIL TRAIN LOOTED guards in the vicinity of Mulan,

His the Nine-Power Treaty. Consequent and reparations. In the actul tended to try and secure it. circumstances they regret they can-first steps were consultations withly, while it is felt that Japanese re- the leaders of the British Labour Party, which finally resulted in a conference at No. 10, Downing Street.

not enter into any definite commil monta modifying the existing war debt funding agreement.

They agree, however, that the suspension provided for by the

It was announced in the early hours of this morning that Mr. de Valora would he leaving Dublin declaration of June 19 should op-cDonald's invitation to London. early today in response to Mr. ply to the annuities due under the

Downing Street Talks.

cognition is bound to come, Japan will move cautiously leat she incur charge which might be fraught with unpleasant international com- plications,

LORD LYTTON LEAVES

TOKYO, July 15. Lord Lytton sailed at doon to-day from Yokohama оп the of the Commission are joining him is Kobe on Sunday (July 17)...

The Nippon Yuson Kaisha have agreed to let the ship call at Tsing- to where the Commission will disembark,

On the whole question, the Prime Minister explained the position authoritatively in his speech in the Commons on Tuesday evening when he said: In view of the grievous results likely to follow upon any representations made, either here or in America, that at Lausanne)

war debt funding agreement and; The movements which had beens.. Chichibu Maru, The remainder Europe has combined to present under Annex One of the Hague going on behind the scenes were something in the nature of an ulti-

It appears that Agreement of August 31, 1929, until later disclosed. matum to the United States, I want the coming into force of Lausanne' there was a conference at No. 10, to make it absoltuely clear that all agreement or until it has been de. Downing Street, late last night, that Lausanne did was to straigh-cided not to ratify that agreement. between Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, In event of non-ratification, the Lord Sankey, and Sir Thomas ten out the internal difficulties of legal position between all the Gov- Inskip on the one side and the Europe, which, in all conscience, ernments concerned would revert to Irish labour leader. Mr. Norton: were many and difficult and agree that which existed under the Hague acompanied by Mr. George Lane Agreement of January, 20 1030, Lury, Sir Stafford Cripps, Mr.. to proposals which the nations thore and the war debt funding agree Arthur Greenwood and Major.

Attles, on the other. represented believe are both essen-menta. tial and possible."

Misunderstanding.

In that case, the British, French After a long discussion, it was and Italian Governments would' announced that the Prime Minister. have to examine together the de would be most happy to see Mr. facto situation which would be do Valera in London to-day to discuss the situation with a view created."

EUROPE'S POLICY OF CO-OPERATION

A further statement issued at No. 10, Downing Street deals with has the misunderstanding which occurred abroad regarding the re- ference made by the Chancellor of

RUGBY, July 14. The Italian and Belgian Govern. Exchequer, Mr. Chamberlain, in a

menta have to-day notified the Br Commons speech on Monday, to the tish Foreign Office of their adhe conversations held at Lausanne with sion to yesterday's joint declaration

The of the British and French Govern American representatives cellor did not suggest, and had no intention of suggesting, that the representatives of the United States had approved, either tacitly or ex plicitly, what was done at Lausan-

SIR SAMUEL HOARE

TO DEPUTISE" FOR SIR CUNLIFFE-LISTER

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{THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, July 13.

to a settlement, after which Mr.IT was announced to-day that Sir Norton telephoned to Mr. de Valera

Samuel Hosre will be deputising who accepted the invitation.

for Bir Cunliffe-Lister while the lat- ter is away in Ottawa. It was also stated that Mr. Ormsby-Gore will acting for Mr. Gilmour during his absence.

statement, points out that the Chan: mouts as to the method of co to the move on the ground that it In Hong Kong

operation in regard to the treat ment of European problems.

Race to Avold Duties, Mr. de Valers was in any event threatened with serious difficulty in securing authority for the tariff reprisals which he contemplated, the Irish Labour Party being hostile would involve Ireland in increase in the cost of living.

The race of Free State exporters The British Government's satis- fuction at this speedy extension to avoid the new British duties waI For example, of the principles enunciated in the partly successful.

about six thousand head of cattle, The proceedings there were, declaration was expressed te-night sheep and pigs, and two hundred throughout, on the basis that the by the Parliamentary Under Secre tons of butter, cream and eggs from right course was to seek a Eurotary for Foreign Affairs, Captain the Free State, were landed in pean solution of reparations with Eden, in a speech at Warwick.

Captain Eden said that Britain Liverpool to-day, but several boats out inoviving the United States in the discussions

and France merely sought to give from other Free State porta were the lead in this policy of co-opera- too late as the Customs at Liver: tion and wished it to be speedily pool closed at 4.p.m. followed by other Governments.

IMPORTANT BRITISH

WHITE PAPER

RUGBY, July 14.

A White Paper issued by the For eign Office, contains further docu mente relating to the Lausann Settlement, including the text of the so-called "Gentlemen's Agree ment," which is in the form of a proces verbal, initialled on behalf of Britain, France, Italy and Bel gium.

They believed that in this way

the nations of Europe would best

High Hopes for Settlement.

LONDON, July 13,

be able to meet together the shock Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's in- of the present economic depression vitation to Mr. de Valera was not and to prepare for the world econo, known until midnight, when it mic conference.

The proposals were in strict ac cord with the spirit of the Conven ant and the League's machinery would be needed in the work.

AMERICA'S ATTITUDE

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

Following is the extent: "The Lausanne Agreement will not come into final affect until after the rati fications as provided for in the agreement. So far as the creditor Governments, on whose behalf this

WARRINGTON, July 16. proces verbal is initialled are con

President Herbert Hoover in & cerned, the ratifications, will not letter to Senator William Borah be effected until a satisfactory settle to-day says that he is assured the ment has been reached between them recent European agreement was not and their own creditors. It will be for the purpose of combined action open to them to explain the posi- by America's debtors. But, he adds, tion to their respective Parliaments, if this is intended, he does not but no specific reference to it will propose that the American people appear in the text of the agreement shall be pressed into any line of with Germany,

action."

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Subsequently, if a satisfactory The United States' was not con- settlement about their own debts salted with regard to the Lausanne is reached, the aforesaid creditor Agreement and is in no way com- Governments will ratify and the mitted thereto, the President added. agreement with Germany will come no such into full effect. But if settlement

the can be obtained.

agreement with Germany will not DISARMAMENT ·

be ratified. A new situation will have arisen and the Government interested will-have-to-consult-to- gether an, to what should be done.

"In that event, the legal posi- tion as between all the Governments would revert to that which existed

AIR-BOMBING

ABOLITION

before the Hoover Moratorium. The URGED BY SMALL NATIONS

German Government will be notified

-of this arrangement.

created a sensation. High hopes are entertained that an economic war between Britain and Ireland will now be avoided.

Mr. Norton advocates a tribunal of four inembers-two nominated by the British Government and two by the Free State-who will report to both

This Governments.

plan avoida difficulties regarding the ap pointment of an independent Chair-

man.

SPEED

WATER

RECORD

ENCOURAGING TRIAL RUN

ĮTAROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, July 14. AFTER successful trial rana in the motorboat, Miss England 111. on Loch Lomond to-day, Mr. Kaye Don notified his intention of attacking the water speed record to-morrow. He had a run to-day st 109.52 miles in bour which is only a trifle below Gar Wood's record.

PRINCE AND RUBBER PLANTERS

HOPES BETTER TIMES ARE AHEAD.

{THROUGH NECTER'S AGENCY).

LONDON, July 14.

To-Day

FAIR TO SHOWERY

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YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT,

FORECAST AND REMARES, ISBUED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT 5.40.

P.M., STATED *****.

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THE

DEPEERSIONS REMAIN TO NORTH-WEST OF BEANTUNG AND TO THE SOUTH OF HAINAN.

LOCAL PURECAST:--EAST WINDS, MODERATE; PALE TO BOWERY,

MANCHUKUO.

TROOPS MUTINY

·MANY PASSENGERS REPORTED KILLED

(THROUGH - REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, July 15. ACCORDING to a Japanese re- port a passenger train ett route to Europe from Harbin was attacred about 9 am, when up. preaching the Hsingan Mountains. The train was thoroughly looted and "mahy passengers are report cd killed or wounded.”

FROM CHINESE NEWSPAPERS.

Dr. C. T. Wang, former Foreign Minister, has been appointed by the National Government, Nanking, to undertake the task of reforming friendship with Russia," He sile for Moscow shortly.

歸

The

affeer commanding the operations achita Chinese losses of 370 killed and 1,000 wounded,

Most of the esqualties · occurred in a Chinese counter-attack which broke the ranks of the Tibetans. Chatuen has now fallen into Chinese hands and they are now advancing on Tachin Monastery which is being employed by the Tibetans as their base.

„T. V. SOONG'S CURRENCY

POLICY..

NEW BANK NOTES TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL

STRINGENCY.

on the Sungari River, narrowly escaped capture, with two hundred of his guards, when Japanese troops launched a surprise attack.

The Japanese forces seized Gas- eral Ma Chan Shan's radio station,

Nanking-Announcing the Nan, with which he has been communicat-king Government's decision to: ing with points outside Manchuria.

establish a special finance adminis tration for the purpose of issuing Government bank mötes to take thờ place of the silver coinage as a

means to relieve the chaotic finan.... vial condition of the country, Mr. "T" V. Boong, the Finance Minister, made a statement to Chinese newe-

"A BOURGEOIS COURT,"

SHARP DISPUTE BETWEEN JUDGE AND COUNSEL.

JAPANESE COMMUNIST

TRIAL.

paper correspondents. Mr. Soong's statement indicates that the Nan- | king. Government is about, to issus new.banknotes which will be dir culated in all the provinces, taking the place of the existing Provincial Bank notes.

The trial of the accused involv- od in the Japan Communist Party

Finance Conference, case, on which the prosecution made

These now banks notes will have trenchant speeches and asked for the backing of the Nationa severo poralties for the accused, has Government and officials believe been marked by a bitter passage of that this may solve the difficult fin arms between the Court and Coun-ancial state existing in Nanking sel for the defence."

and the provinces to-day. The

The trial was held in the Tokyo amount of notes to be issued, to Chilo Saibansho, Judge, Miyagi gether with the procedure of the presiding, and the dafence was issue will be discussed and decided According to atologram from taken up by Mr. Fusé, a Tokyo at the coming Finance and Econo- Hankow two aviators were killed barrister, and others.

mie Conference summoned by Nan near the city. They were to go and Mr. Fusé, vehemently denounced king. attempt to bomb the Reds. Time-the prosecution. He said that the diately after an inspection of the planca by some military officers, four bombs suddenly exploded. Seventeen others besides the avia- tors were killed,

General Chan Tuai Tong intende to inspect the northern garrisons of Kwangtung before his troops start for another anti-Red cam paign. It is reported that over eighty thousand troops are gather ing in the north. He will be accom- panied by General Li Yang King during the tour of inspection.

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AIR RAIDS ON HOIHOW.

GUNBOAT SUNK IN THE

HARBOUR.

Mr. Soong emphasises that the sentences asked for by the Procura- Government must find means to tor in charge were cruelly heavy. bring about financial unity in the The Frocurator's speech was both Country before taking the bold step. empty and ambiguous. The attilowards the abolition of the tael," tuds of the Court was equally im- proper. The Court he said, claim ed that it adhered to the principle of publicity in the examination of the accused, but it was hardly to its credit that all the argumente advanced by the defence to vindicate the innocence of the accused were met by threats to close the hear ings to the public. He proceeded

HEAVY CASUALTY LIST. to denounce the legal proceedings as a bourgeois trial under bour

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Mr. Ho Lok, the Commissioner of geoia law by judges whose dreisinos Folice in Canton, is to be succeeded are dogmatic and feudalistic, be!

Homnow, Juno ‘9. by Mr. Tang Yin Wah, who helding prompted by class sentiment.

For sometime rumours have been the position two years ago,

This condemnation was more than current of a proposed air raid on the Presiding Judge could stand. the gunboate at Hoihow. These He worked himself up, into a great plans materialized en the early General Tesi Ting Kat has a state of excitement, and, interrupt-morning of July 5 when the droning ounced in the Taun Wan Yat Poing Counsel, challenged him to ox of 'plance was distinctly heard near- his departure for Fukien. He explain what he meant by bourgeois ing Hoihow from the lower penin presses thanks to friends and retrial and bourgeois law..

Isula of Luichow. The nearest point latives in Hongkong for the wel-

Mr. Fusé replied that the term from the mainland to Hoihow is come they gave him..

"class trial" is now legal jargon about fifteen miles. On the 5th, in common use. When the Court is five different raids were made on the It was announced by the Can-obsessed by class preposacasions and Feiying in the harbour, each time. Tam Khi Shau had been ordered to plied. What bourgeois law and. During the last raid a bomb tonese Government that General prejudgement, it may well be ap a number of bombs being dropped,`r leave for Hoihow to take charge bourgeois trial rocans was clear struck, the deck near the stern/of of the former defecting ships under from the statements mands by the the ship and a large dash of fire JAPANESE LOSE 5 KILLED, Admiral Chen Chak, and bring accused in court during the past was witnessed by the spectators at

them back to Canton. It is now re- 10 WOUNDED

Haihow. It was soon learned that ported that the northern borders of Not satisfied with this explanathe Feiring had been seriously Kwangtung province are over-run tion, the Presiding Judge demanded damaged. Five men were killed {THROUGH KRUTER'S AGENCY.) with Reds and therefore the orders fuller explanation. The terms may and fifteen others wounded.

to General Tam have been cancelled be in, common use among Counsel HARUIN, July 15.

Presa

The For Ou quickly came to the THE Japancie

states

and he will go direct to the north and his fellow barristers, he said, rasene and removed the entire crew that two hundred Manchukuo of the province.

but they were now to him. He de including the wounded. While cavalry in the vicinity of Yushu

clared that the terms may be 10 planes were still flying overhoad mutinied and attacked the Japan- Mr. Chu Hing Lan, a representa terpreted as implying the negation was noticed that a white fing eso garrison at Yushu. They wore tive of the "Chinese Anti-Internal of the provisions of the Constitu was flying from the mast of thể dispersed after fifty or sixty were War Association, sailed for Can- tion.

ship after which no more hamb killed or taken prisoners. The tos from Hongkong by the 5.8. Mr. Fusé replied that there was were dropped and before long the Japanese losses were 5 killed and Taishan. Mr. Chu will he no question of repudiating the planes returned to Luichow. Bomp 10 wounded.

received by various clubs and asso Constitution. The expressions us of the members, of the crew came As a sequal, all Manchukuo garciations ne well as by the Governed were merely critical language risons in the vicinity have been ment officials in Canton. He pro- Nabeyama, one of the accused, of narrow escapes.

ashore and gave thrilling details disarmed by the Japanese. poses to stay there for a couple of interposed, and said that as the Flying Sinks in Holbow Harbons

days, and then return to Shanghai Counsel is to defend them against On the afternoon of the 5th thes via Hongkong...

heavy penalties pronounced by the Court on the accused, it is quite harbour, manned by five dead men

Feiying was left at anchor in thes No less than 3,000 troops have natural that he should not act 1 The following morning it was po been ordered to leave Waichow die-speak as the Court desires.-There trict for Nambung, on the border of would be no end to the trial it toed that she was gradually settling down and at about 2 p.m. she sank Kwangtung, to attack the Reds, every difference were taken up with to the bottom A high tide her who have been" concentrating there. such warmth:

front mast extends, twenty-six foor Trains, buses and junks have been Mr. Omori, who was also for the out of the water. In her presente commandeered for the troops. defenca, came to the aid of Mrleention she is a menace to navigas

Fusé, and declared that as the lawtion but the custome authorities i was made by the bourgeoisie it is

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SOVIET TROOPS NEAR MANCHULI

MERELY ON MANŒŒUVRES

(THROUGH BEUTER’A- AGENOT.].

HARBIN, July 15. SOVIET troops are now manBLIVT-

ing within sight of Manchuli, Four Chinese farmers were sitting

at a table, playing, cards, under, na bourgeois law, and as the trial Heihow have already placed dan within the Sino-Soviet frontier, ne-

the Navy but it is nowible that shac cording to information from rail-rea in a field at Lo Ting district, is conducted; under this law, the Foraigne This is 'n heavy loss to,

Kwangtung, when they were struck rind may well be described as could be brought to the surface The close approach of the tus by lightning, all being killed on the bourgeois trial. If the Court is to salvage operations begin sum, other

veto such expressions, Counsel could wise sand and silt will make operati sian forces to Manchuria's most spot. A latter from the German Chan- THE completo abolition of sir

| northerly city is comparatively un-

Do properly defend the accused in

Lions extremely difficult. B In order to put down piracy, the Court bombing was strongly urged by REPLYING to a telegram from precedented. The last occasion on cellor, Herr Von Papen, acknow

Haid on Shinying Fort Nabayama, again rising in the On the 6th another air raid was s ledging a copy of this proces verbal eight of the smaller European, the Incorporated Society of which Soviet troops operated near Canton Government has directed refers also to the statement-given Powers in an interview-to-day rith Plasters of Malaya thanking him Manchali was during the Sino-General Choi Tane Hai to return dock, asked the Cours to proceed witnessed a Hollo at the plenary session by Mr. Ram Mr. Arthur Henderson, the Chair for encouraging national trade and Russian conflict over the Chinese his post in Bias Bay Two more with the triad, saying that such boxibe were dropped in the vicinite! river gunboats, have been despatch bickerings were very annoying to of Shivging Fort and another falli. Bay MadDonald that in event of man of the Disarmament Confer overseas enterprise III.1. the Eastern Railway in 1929.

Prince of Wales recalls that he saw General Honjo, who has beened by the Government for patrol the accused, any inability to fulfil the agree-ence. ment and ita sanexes, & furthe These Powers are seeking to ex-something of the rubber industry in studying the Japanese vanguard. duties under the command of Gene-In this menacing atmosphere the in an open field back of the mill

tend the scope of Sir John Simon's Malaya in 1929

positions for the last fortnight, ral Chung Chi Ying. resolution, discussion of which has beer postponed from Saturday to a date not yet fixed.

"GERMANY'S POSITION-

Conference will be bold

Herr. Von Paper's letter adds: In these circumstances, I consider myself justified in proceeding on the assumption that the matter has been authoritatively explained in so far as Germany is concerned."

(THEOUGH-REUTER'S AGENCY:)—

GENEVA, July 14.

left for Mukden om Wednesday

Beveral important. Sovint offi.

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Court announced a recess

tary. Headquarters but no damage. was done. A monoplane for org Hoihow yesterday, but no "bomb"

Hit Royal Highness sincerely

Over eighty feet of embankment 10g. The news came as a great re-were dropped. It was reportedia hopes that before-long better times may be in store for those British cials, including M. Kouznetzoff, the in Tientsin have, collapsed under lief to the people and the streets night the peace has now been mad It appears that the Conference planters overseas who have been Vice-President of the Chinese the recent food, the Government have already taken on now life, | between the opposing forced veel will not be, wound up until the end endeavouring to carry on in this Eastern Railway, and his family, has already put repair work in Business and traffic have been co that there would be no more figh

—period of depression..

have left Harbin for Moscow,

the standstill for two weeks, ?

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