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BRITAIN'S REPLY TO

AMERICA

CABINET MEET TO DISCUSS TEXT

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Nov. 27.

LEAGUE 'AND LYTTON REPORT

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1932.

“STAGE" SET" FOR REVIVAL

CAMPAIGN AGAINST SU PING WEN

CIVIL WAR IN KWEICHOW?

DECISION TO REFER IT TO LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

SPECIAL ASSEMBLY

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LONDON, Nov. 23.

RECOGNISING at the British N the House of Commons to-day,

Government's inimedate concern is to end the uncertainty about the payment of the war deht instalment without delay and. to present America with a masoned case to induce her to agree to the auspon sion of the December instalment, ment, landing members of the Cabinet met ni No. 10, Downing Stret to-night to, consider the un ture of the reply to the United States Note that should be recom- mended to the fall mosting of the Cabinet to-morrow (Monday).

The Note will be despatched as expeditiously as possible and upoń America's Reply to this wrennd overture, depends Britain's attitude on whether payment should be made.

At present, it is the view of the British Government that America has not finally rejected the request for suspension.

Sir John Simon announced that the League Council's decision to refer the Lytton Report to the Special Ansemily was taken with full concurrence }} delente.

He added

the British that the

Sperint Assembly, which had a ready met, will be resummoned.

PEACE-LOVING JAPAN

ANGRY. PROTEST AT. GENEVA

Nov.

Cisteva,

The charge that Japan has embarked on a fourse of conquest in Asin was

reiterated and denied today as the High officials in Washington se-

League of Nations council resurn; eeeding to the New York Timesed its consideration of the Lytton

report on the Sino-Japanese an churian dispute

are of the opinion that the new British statement zaust present n very convincing argument if the present hostile · Congressional titude is to be modified.

at

Washington Officials Worried. Washington officials are at a loss to explain the apparently growing optimism in London that the Decem-.

OPTIMISM

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London-The view that "if re-

viral has not yet definitely begun the stage has been set," is developed Prices, and Fri- by a writer on

Westminster sparity" in the Bauk Review."

LARGE JAPANESE FORCES AT TSITSIHAR ·

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Hann, Nov. 28.

THERE are indications that the long-expected Japanese offensive against Su Ping Wen will be launched in. fow days as the Japanese have completed the con This writer says that : "The Stock Exchange, the most ventration of large forces at Taitei

Meanwhile, sositive of all barometers of nahar and Fuliardi, tional feeling, has begun to think thousands of "Volunteers" once more in terms of future re masing in the vicinity of Anta. vival.

"This movement may well con- tinue for some weeks, even if manu- facturing industry, which moves Inte rather than early in the ne quence of depression and recovery, ahows no decided upturn until the autumn is well advanced,

"The example of Germany shows that other nations must copy America's policy of deliberate in- tervention to check defintionary for-

cea

In short, the world's innate virility in the face of the wordf depression, has shown more than the first signs of determinedly re asserting itself.

"Progress will be dependent up in the willingness of these concerned

It is believed in some quarters that Su Ting Wen will at the eleventh hour agree to negotiate.

THE PORT OF RASHIN

SURVEY OF NEW VENTURE

COMPLETED,

FALL OF CAPITAL AFTER FIGHTING

[TAROVON RECTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, Nov. 28:

THE voraacular press contain

JAPAN'S POPULA- TION PROBLEM

PERMANENT COMMISSION TO START STUDY

Tokyo, Nov. 2-The establish. (nient of a', new · organ of inquiry into the, population probleen has been decided upon,

vivid reports of an outbreak

Some time ago, the Government. of civil war in Kweichow, to the set up a Commission.on Population north of Kwangri.

The reports state that the forces and Food, which subsequently sub- of Mao Kwang Heinig, former mitted recommendations to

thr chairman of the Kweichow provi-Government Inasmuch, however,

Bical government, have captured the are

provincial capital, Kweiyang, drivs the population problem is ad- ing out the present emirman, Gen. } mittodly of a very complex nature, Wang Chia Lich.

it was found impossible to work The fall of the capital followed out a fundamental plan of solution fierce fighting, in which the pro in a short period. In the mean vincial troops suflared severe casual-{ time, social conditions have grown tios.

worse, with the surplus population steadily on the increnae.

Recognising in

circum- stances the urgent necessity of making full inquiries through the notivity of a permanent organ to fud an apposite plan of solution, the Social Bureau of the Home Office has for some timo been dia- cassing the matter with those Government circles who are inter-

Tokyo, November 23.—In conneo- tion with construction of the, port Rashin, the terminal port of North Korea, it is understood surveyors of the South Manchuria Railway Com- pany, have recently complated ac tual survey of the locality, and it is now reported arrangements have

A BISHOP AND HIS SLUM SCHOOL

LILLIPUT LAND

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London. The Right Rev. W. F.

suck

cated in the subject. The plan has now materialised, and it has been decided that a new Society for the Study of the Population Problem

Burean. The committee of sh teen has been appointed under the chairmanship of Count Yana- gisawa.

U.S.-AUSTRALIA TEST TENNIS

AMERICA WIN FIRST ENCOUNTER BY 9 TO.I

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BOSANE, Nov. 28.

the first tenis test, America Two matches being unfinished. beat Australia by matches to

In today's games, McGrath boat (jed Hill 6-2, 8-8.

Vines bent Hopinass 725, 9,11, 03. Allison and Van Ryn beat Moon and Sproule 4-3, 3-6, 6-4, 0.3.

Vines and Gled. Hill beat Hop-. ments and McGrath-9-7, 9-7, 6-3.

WOODFULL TO LEAD AUSTRALIANS

IN FIRST TEXT MATCH AGAINST M.C.C.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY).

ADELAIDE, Nov. 28..

FOR the first Test at Sydney on Victorian player and

Friday, W., M. Woodfull, the victorious Australian skipper, has been chosen to lead the Australian team. The

cided.

to allow the fullest freedom to the been made by the Company to start Brown, the Roman Catholic Bishop should be placed in the Social vice-captain has not yet been do

The Japanese representative, Yo suke Matmunka, told the council it need not be frightened at the

forces recovery. charge, saying that for 2,500 years

"The blunt; fact must be realised work on a big seale in Arril nex: at ап estimated cost of Japan has remained in ite islands that if present trade restrictions, year without attempts at expansion exchange controls, and anti-commerY.40,0200,000 spread over a period cial measures are maintained, or

of 15 years, despite ample opportunities

It is expected construction work efforts' are made to restart the mes Love of Peace. "This testifies to the innate lovechanisation of uneconomic interna- will be completed in 1948. On com- ber payment will be passed in colof peace of our race," he said, ad. tional debt payments, the present pletion the wharf will cover an area ling that other countries had had recovery will be brought to a halt, of 1,000,000 tsubo and will have their Napoleans but un great war-

sooner rather than later. The pre. seven docks with capacity for ac Rent opportunity, the most promis- commodation of 50 steamera (8,000 rior had sucregled in Japan because of the peaceable instincts at the ing sier depression began, is far tony cach) large enough to bandle.

too precious to be icat for want of 9,000,000 tons of goods at a time. propic.

When finished it will be one of the courageous collective action."{

finest ports in the Orient It is also reported that the South Man churia Railway Company has decid

that

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sequence of some new arrangement says the N.Y. Herald-Tribune, which, however, reports the possibility

settlement a broad front, even ing the policy hitherto adopted by the United States in dealing with; individual nations, is being dis cused by unofficial circles,

01:

revers-

It is envisaged that Britain will request America to waive the ninety-day notice requirement and agree to a postponement of the nayment of the principal, amount- bug to 0830,000,000.

Meanwhile, it seems more than probable that the French decision depends upon that of Great Britain. Her difficulty is not One of transfer, but in finding the money while facing a heavy budget deficit. The Note which Frame is likely to send to America, probably in the middle of this week, will. It is anticipated, emphasise that if pay nent is made it must not be con- sidered to create & precedent. and that it is made pending an entirely

new settlement.

THE WAY TO PAY THE DERT!

Dr. Wellington Koo, taking up the argument for China later, demand- ed at the outset of his sprech

Who holds Formosa, Korea and "Who holda the Luchú islanda 1-

Manchuria ? How about Mongolia ? How about Jchol"

Boycott Debatad. Much of the debate was devoted nson Monding to the Chinese boy cout of Japanese goods.

Matsuoka referred to the domu- ment published abroad some time ago and described as a memoraue in of plans for Japanese domina tion of the Pacife prepared in 1997 by Premier Tanaka for the en- pesor. He declared this was for-

gery

issued by Chineas propaganda purpuses.

for

Ko said if the document at-

tributed to Tanaka was a forgery it must have been forged by Japan use for no Chinese "could possibly have described so exactly what has come to pass,”

FOREIGN STUDENTS

IN LONDON

PROBLEM OF LONELINESS

(REUTER'S SPECIAL, MAIL SERVICE.]

London." If you want to bo lonely-come to London," .said Canon George Russell Bullock- Webster, one of the most famous of the City clergy, upon his retirement from the Church of St. Michael, Paternoster Royal where he has beer Rector for the past 22 years.

"In London students from Japan or China or India, suffer terribly

from this loneliness. They think

We

shoulder, but they do not realise are showing them the cold from the Church of St. Michael, feels exactly the same.

"It is not that, we are unfriendly people; it is simply the way we Here you do not are situated. necessarily know your nearest neigh- bour. The man next door may be a professional hurglar for all you are aware of it.

Worse Than War, Matsuoka asserted that China's boycott was

worse than military warfare and quoted from American SPECIAL TAX ON U.S. GOODS official correspondence characteriz

SUGGESTED

ing a Chiarse boycott of Americam goods as illegal, a form of black mail and a hostile act.

"My City marish is a strange one. Washington, he said, stopped that During the day its population runs boycott by

a threat of naval force, into tens of thousands-it is teem- Matsuoka nid that China hnding with life and activity. But at the week-end when the offices have reason to be grateful to

He parish is about 130"

LONDON, Nov. 23, Mr. L. S. Amery former Colonia! Secretary, anggested in the Houac of Commona to-day that Britain pay her next three annual install: ments on war debts to the United States, and then impose special tariffs on American imports to obtain future payments, if the United States cannot be induced

to revise war debts meanwhile.

He proposed to use part of the Bank of England's gold reserve to pay the installment due month.

TEA

next

RESTRICTION SCHEME

FINAL AGREEMENT REPORTED

NEW VATICAN ART GALLERY

;

overy

The church of St. Michael is the

Japan for saving the Chinese reemptied, the population of the public in times of distress. said if Japan had known of Li Hung Chang's secret alliance with third erected on this site. One was Russia at the time of the Tussy built by Sir Richard Whittington- Japanese war of three decades ago

"Dick Whittington-who, WEE "there wouldn't be any Maurhurin born in 1350 and was four times today, or any Manchurian ques-Lord Mayor of London,

tion."

Apparently he was implying that Japan would have annexed" Man- chiria then.

Referred to Committes,

Dr. Koo, speaking after Mat suoka had finished his argament, launched immediately into his at- tack on the claim that Japan's policies were only peaceable.

Koo said that if 'n boycott were worse than a military attack then "China would much prefer that Japan boycott her goods rather than invade ber territory with ATME."

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JAPANESE FARMERS'

MOVEMENT

IBARAKI ASSOCIATION AND AGRICULTURAL WELFARE

Tokyo, November 23.-A move- ment is afoot for the reconstruc tion of the Aikyo-juku (Love Native Place School), a former principal of which was involved in the May. 14 affair, in Ibaraki Prefecturs

ed to construct early next spring a railway between Yaki and Rashin, 18.3 kilometres in length, at an esti- mated cost of Y.4,400,000, the work on it being expected to be coni pleted in 1938,

of Pella, has built up a school be. youd his back garden bat is overy child's dream.

In this school, which stands be- hind the Bishop's palace in Upper Kinnington-Lane, S.E., every child does as he pleases. There are no assigned lessons, no school hours, no punishments.

And not one of the 200 children, who come from the slum districte of Vauxhall and Kennington to this deal school, pays for his education,

"I believe that every child is as grown-up mentally as you or ine, according to the limit of his ex

perience and knowledge," remark- ed the Bishop as he conducted visi- tors through his school. "Child. ren ought to be treated like grown. ups on a small scale. Here I have created a Lilliput Land, where the child is in his element and the grown-up is out of place."

In Hong Kong tables, mininture cupboards and

To-Day

FINE

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKA, 185CED BY THE Rover OSKEVATORY AT 5.25

P.M., STATED : --

THE ANTI-CYCLONE OVER N. CHINA HAS INCREASED SLIGHTLY IN INTENSITY. A DEPRESSION, 18 SITUATED TO THE NORTH OF TOKYO, MOVING EASTWARD. THE TYPHOON

OR DEPRESSION IS PROBABLY SITU-

ATED ABOUT 200 MILES- NORTH-EAST OF MANILA, MOVING NORTHWARD. FRESH MONGODY WILL CONTINUE

ALONG THE CHINA COAST AND OVER THE NORTHERN CHINA SEA. LOCAL FORECAST:-N.E, winDS, FRESH, FINE.

HOW TO SAVE AND HOW TO SPEND

GEN. SEELY'S ADVICE

TO CITIZENS

Major-General JE B. Seely, addressing a regional conference of the National Savings Movement at controversial question to spend or Guildhall gave his advice on the

to save.

In Lilliput Land all of the pro- portions are reduced to a child's scale. There are tiny chairs and

hook-shelves, just above the floor None of the furniture is more than two feet hight and lighta hang low from the ceilings.

There are teachers in the ideal school, but they do not teach. They only help their pubils to enjoy! themselves.

ENGULFED BEFORE ALTAR

ACCIDENT TO WEDDING PARTY IN WARSAW,

The items of study by the new Society are:-

1.-Scientific study of the populn-

tion problem.

2.- Inquiry into the settlement of

people at home and abroad. 3.-Collection and adjustment of materials relating to popula..

tion.

4:-Co-operation and the ex- change of materials with the various organisations

similar kind abroad. 5.Publication of the results

inquiry.

FIGHTING SQUIRE'S DIAMOND WEDDING

of

of

SIR CLAUDE CHAMPION DE

CRESPIGNY AT 65.

[REUTER'S SPECIAL MAIL SERVICE)

London-Sir_Claude Champion. de Crespigny, the famous "Fight- ing Squire," has just celebrated his diamond wedding.

Sir Clande is now 85, and it is said that during his life of adven. ture nearly every bone in his body has been firoken at some time.

scull-

George Hele, the veteran South Australian, and Borwick, will, ba the umpires.

BRADMAN AND OLDFIELD

INDISPOSED

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t

SYDNEY, Nov. 28, DON Bradman, Australia's finest batsman, has been ordered to bed by his doctor suffering from a be available for the First Test, on- chill and sore throat. He hopes to

Friday,

W.A. Oldfield, Australia's wicket keeper, is reported to be progrowing and also hopes to be fit for the Test

SHORTS IN A

CATHEDRAL

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London. Hikers, ramblers, and cyclists, all wearing their open-air zarb of "shorts" and open-necked shirts formed the congregation at a special service at Ripan Cathe- dral. Altogether 2,000 wern. pre- sent.

It was an annual Wayfarers' fer- vice inaugurated by the Bishop of Ripon, and the Dean welcomed them as they trooped in from the

highways and by ways."

RUSSIA, POLAND SIGN TREATY OF CONCILIATION

WARSAW, Nov. 21. He has been a soldier, sailor, war An amazing accident here to-day correspondent, and balloonial, and engulfed an entire wedding party.

An enthusiast for all forms of The ceremony was in full progress sport-hunting, swimming, when the door gave way and pre-ing, and boxing. cipitated 12 people, including bride,

Once, when a young man, he groom and priest, into a vault un fought a waterman with his bare derneath the front of the altar.

fiets for an hour and a half. Then The panty dropped about 12 feet the police intervened. and when they were extricated all

The fight had not been going on were injured, one of them seriously. long when Sir Claude broke a fiable settlement of any dispute that The ceremony had to be postponed. | ger." But he insisted on continu.

Moscow, November 23-Ån official announcement that Maxim Litvinov, Commissar of Foreign Affairs, and Ambassador Patck of Poland had signed a conciliation treaty between Russia and Poland was made to-day, The treaty provides for the peace-

It is surmised that the floor gava ing. Since then, he has on more may arise between the two coun- way because of excavations that had than one occasion sought to settle trics. It was provided for in the been made preparatory to installing disputes by a challenge to per- non-aggression pact signed by Po central heating.

sonal combat with sword or pistol. land and Soviet Russia in July.

INVITED TO HOUSE AND KILLED

A NEGRO AND HIS PRE- DESTINED THEORY,

The self-styled King of a weird religious cult that demanded human sacrifices has been arrested here,

Hia arrest took place when he confessed of his own accord that he had invited the first stranger he had met into his house and killed him on an altar he had erected thero.

In every cage, however, the matter was settled without recourse to auch means.

Even to-day Sir Claude 18kes an Botive interest in all sports, and on bis eighty-fifth birthday ho put on boxing-gloves and hit a punch ball. Last year he bathed every morning at Cowes. The Royal Yacht Squad- ron had passed a law forbidding bathing from its steps. Sir Claude had always huthed from those steps and protested! The Committee passed an amendment, except for members over eighty years of ngo."

Crossing the North Son in a balloon, an escape from a python, and a leap into a river to save a man's life are other episodes in Sir Claude's career.

FILM SHOWN TO A JURY

(THADUGN AKOTEK'S AGENCY.)

The Aikyo-kai, the instituta which gave financial support to the LONDON, Nov. 28.

When Dr. Koo finished, Ramon do above school, was originally an as- THE Financial Times learns from Valera, president of the Irish Free sociation of farmers, movement its Amsterdam correspondent State and chairman of the council, for realising the economical and that an agreemens has practically suggested to Lord Lytton, chair-spiritual revival of farming villages been reached on the ten restrictions man of the League inquiry com- that have recently been brought to scheme,

mission which went to the Far Enat financial hardships. Owing to an

Clearly, he said, wa ought to go

The man in The Indian, Coylon and Dutch this year, that the commissioners unexpected

Negro Lamed affair involving the

on saving. The people who said Robert Harris, aged 41. In invit Indies Governmente have promised meet and decide whether they want principal of the school, the 1980-

that spending might help to reduce ed another regro named Smith into their co-operation and an official ed to make commenta or a rejoinder ciation has since been oppressed by unemployment must not forget that him home, crushed his skull and cómmunique is expected shortly. to the charges and counter-charges the authorities. But several farm- directly due to the National Sav- then stabbed him on his altar.

of to-day and Monday

ers who are thinking seriously of the inga Movement £50,000,000 a year Harris told the police; It was The Japanese delegato protested plight of farmers of all over the

was being spent to-day. Their in- predestined 1,500 years ago that I that the commission was not com-country, have started a movement vestors were now able to give that must make a human sacrifice to my (REUTER'S SPECIAL MAIL BERVICE] petent to discuss anything in con- for conveying their principles to all amount of help to employment be gods." nection with the dispute. But de agricultural interests in the country, cause they had not at the time frit- OPENED BY THE POPE,

Valera ruled the commission was The police have already begun to tered their money away. competens to continue. its work strictly watch their movements.

Every man and woman should Vatican City-The_new_Vatican. until dissolved and Lord Lytton

Their principles are summarised say, "I cannot dissipate my capital, literally a few yards of them were picture gallery was opened by the said the the members would meet in the three adogans anti-capitalism, because if I do I shall bo nO LO people living in collars in dire need. Pope recently in the presence of to-morrow.

anti-bureaucracy, and anti-urbanism.

That was all wrong the Cardinals resident in Rome,

to my neighbours. I osanot stop Will Sorap Only Airship. The leaders are to launch a nation"

Tepresentatives of the movement the Diplomatic Corpe, and the

Tokyo, Japan's only airship is wide farmers' movement, setting up

my children from saving, because the habit they form is so valuable were the guests of the Lord Mayor The jury saw the start of the Papal Court.

going to the sorap heap.

branches of the association in prin- to the child, nor can I myself stop at luncheon at the Mansion House race-baby cara and gian phra The gallery wili in open, to-tho Naval dirigible Number 7, a tiny cipal parts of the country, and saving altogether"

Viscount Hailsham, proposing the rushing round the Brooklands track public as soon as the new entrance ship which often has cruised over dividing their work into the thres is completed-probably in rather Tokyo, is to be abandoned because sections of politics, ecmonics and pure after acting as he had advised that, while taxation remained at its Jack Dunfee handing over to his

The person who had money to toast of the movement; declared at a terrific proc. They, my Mr less than a month. This entrance of expenses in filling it with hydro education.

ought to spend to the utmost pro present, level, no Government or brother Clive in the pits while the THE will be unique of its kind.

vided he spent the money not upon municipality was justified in spend redid changing of tyres took place, The new gallery, has been built at the and keeping it in repair, the Nary Department announced,

himself, but upon others who had ng money unnecessarily. The in-Then the giant, Bentley, hurdled greater need. He urged the nood dividual citizen ho bado see to it round the track, its number plainly for an orgy of unselfish pending that in spending wisely he gave en visible. Finally, there came the

Money for Foreign Missions, ployment to his fellow-citizens fearini ending, when the cat monat Whether things wore going to got od the bank, at 120 miles an hour, There were many good people who better or worse, he was satisfied turned a somersault along the edge, subscribed large sums of money that for a long time to come there and crashed down the embankinent, to foreign missions, while within would be need for restraint,"

traint sacri-

Ayerdiut of Death by misadvez (Continued on nezt column.)·· fee, courage, and endurance, ture ", was returned.

received from Germany as part of Japan's war reparations, will be Tyócessary in the absence of an

a cost of £100,000 as a more digni- and, the huge Zeppelin shed at the fied and spacious, home for the col- Kasumi gaura naval air station fection previously housed; on the refused.” ground Boor of the Vatican A spokesman for the Navy De- airship, Kusum. To the collection have partment said the Number 7 is The Japanese Navy never has been added many works of art obsolete and would be useless in been able to afford huge airships which had previously huis in war, while the Zeppelin hangar of the type of the United States Churches and palacer.

Continued at foot of next Column) Navy's Los Angeles and Akrun.

.

London- film showing Mr. Clive Dunfee, the moing motorist, crash to his death at 120 miles an hour was shown to the jury at hig inquest.

"In the office or in

the home-at-work- or at play-nest ness counts)

And, by the way. did you "Nugget" your shoes this morning?

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