LEAGUE DEADLOCK APPROACHING SERIOUS CRISIS
CONCILIATION COMPLETELY DOOMED TO FAILURE
JAPAN WILL NOT ALTER ATTITUDE REGARDING PROPOSALS
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCY}
GENEVA, Jan. 20.
As both the Chinese and Japanese į are not antislel with the results of the meeting of the Committee of Nineteen and the new move it has taken, the League deadlock is now destined to again, approach a seri- ous crisis, which was postponed as a result of the decision of the Com-
mittee to make Japan an offer to drop the invitation to the United States and Soviet Russin
The situation, as it stands, is ex- tremely difficult and confused, and conciliation is completely doomed
to failure.
GENERAL MANG IN TUNGNING
THROUGH BEITER'S AGENCY]
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1933.
WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
PREPARATORY COMMITTEES
I
REPORT
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY, I
GENEVA, Jan. 10. THE retablishment of normal inter Exchange of Commodities, general agreement for pro gressive relaxation and earliest Abrogation of the emergency rea- trictions on trade and an agree
and went for the modification stabilization of thrill policies in fatare is urged in the report of the preparatory committee of experts. for the World Economie Conter-
ence.
The Report emphasises the neves- sity of an early settlement of the PEPING, Jan. 20,
debts question and urges the re- According to Chinese information,storation of an effective inter representative of General Mang national standard to which coun Ten Lin, leader of the Kirin tries which have abandoned the Volunteers, arrived from Kirin fast gold standard can
Adhere. Each
night and denied the Japanese re-Government, however, must be free port that General Wang ha en to decide when and how they could tered Soviet territory. He assert- apply such a standard. ed that General Wang Teb Lin is
The fall in commodity prices
of wheat.
CAPT. HOPE AND OBSERVER SAFE
SEARCH FOR HINKLER CONTINUES.
[TERODO RICTER'S AGENOT.}
LAUSANNE, Jan. 20
CAPT. HOPE and his observer are safe. It appears they came down in the Simplon Valley and continued their search for Hinkler on foot,
LADY BAILEY SAFE
"
FOUND 20 MILES S.W. OF
TAHOUA
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
EXP
MT.
HUGH RUTTLEDGE AND PARTY LEAVE FOR INDIATM
[BRITISH WIRELESS HERVICE.]
RUGBY, Jan. 19.
MR. HUGH RUTTLEDGE, load-
er, and four other members of the British expedition which is to of attempt to reach the summit Mount Everest will leave England for India to-day.
THE INDUSTRIAL FUTURE OF INDIA
SIR ALFRED WATSON PLEADS FOR LARGE-SCALE INDUSTRIALISM
NECESSARY TO ABSORB GROWING
POPULATION
(Special Air-Mail Service) LONDON, Jan. 5. more." The mili-owners are for All 14 members will meet at
Sir Alfred Watson, editor of the ever on the door step of the Tariff Darjeeling carly in March and in the middle of that month the whole Calcutta Statesman addressing Bourdi. Yet they are beaten in expedition, including about 80 por- a luncheon of the Royal Empire their own markets by Japanese ters and transport column of Society in London do Ju 3 said: products made from Indian cotton baggage faden, ynka, donkoys and "Industrially India is a land of which have paid a double freight mules, will set out on, the five missed opportunities and the main and then climbed the tariff wall. the blame for that reste heavily upon One might despair altogether of wecke trek across Thibet to
I know it is the the Indian cotton industry were base camp situated about 12 miles British. from Mount Evercat, at altitude fashion, to be lyrical about the it not for the more modera and of nearly 1,000 feet higher than the achievements of Britishers in In far more modem and far more.
mills dia. To mabody do I yield in re efficiently managed Bummit of Mount Blanc. PARIS, Jan. 19.
The attack on the mountain fa cognition of what has been accom Ahmedabeit. LADY Bailey, the aviatrix, has timed to take place before the plished, but I measure the achieve-
Cotton and Steel. middle of June when the monsoon ment against the possibilities and the gap is appalling. For some-
For Lancashire I can hoki, out thing like two hundred years we
little hope, even in days of improve have been in India and for the, ed prosperity in India, because the greater part of that time we have India manufacturer, who must been supreme in India. Yet India wield great influence in the Gov* is to-day one of the backward naernments of the future, is hunt tions of the world economically and dred per cent tariff man who will very backward in industry.
T
been found safe and well 20 miles south-west of Tahoua,
Niger. She had to make a foresday probably break. landing owing to shortage of, petrol.
A French plane which was search. ports the French Air Ministry.
Lady Bailey, who was attempting to establish a new record for the England-Cape fight, has been miss ing since Sunday night, when she left Oran, Algeria.
While there are indications that at present still iu Tungning and might be counterneted by a gen- ing for the flyer, located bér, re is making preparations for a couneral policy for easy money to pro- Japan will not, despite the League's
mote the healthy offer to abandon the idea of invitter-attack against the Japanese.
extension of General Wang's representative ex- ing non-member States to participresand the opinion that the Japan-business and the regulation of ex- piraluction, especially pate in the sub-Committee to find
C80 report arose Over General Ports, OT a solution to the Sino-Japanese di Wang's orders to his officers to send pute, alter her attitate regarding their families into Soviet terpitory.
The abolition of the mELAUTES of exchange control is an essen- the other proposals bontained in;
tial condition to world recovery, the draft resolution adopted by the Committee, of Nineteen on Decem-
but the abolition is possible only ber 20, 1938, China is also opposed
if there is a Insting balance in the to the feebleness of the latest ne
Budgetary system of all Govern- tion taken by the League.
ments concerned.
DISAPPOINTING MEETING
Chinese quarters at Geneva hold that Wednesday's meeting was very disappointing, as it did nothing to satisfy the Chinese demands to intensify the Resolution, there ha ing no condemnation of the Japan ese action and no definite refusal to recognise Manchukuo, Although
GENERAL MA'S MOVEMENTS
WILL RESIST JAPAN TO
LAST MAN
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]
SHANGHAI, Jan. 20.
General Ma Chan Shan's
The Report emphasises that do commitment of any kind is entered into by British delegates with re- gard to returning to the gold stan dard.
The Conference is not likely to meet before May at the earliest.
Although silver figures on the agenda of the committee no great
the decision is alleged to be final, presentative in Shanghai gave significance is attached to its role)
the Chinese feel there is nothing to show that if Japan should make fresh proposals, they will not be
entertained.
Independent quarters, judging the proceedings dispassionately, point. out that in any case, yesterday's meeting constitutes a big concession to Japan. They do not regard the; situation as entirely prossimistic And feel that there is still hope, for negotiations.
An eminent Japanese spokesman declared to-day: "We are here for agreement and not disagreement. It is unthinkable that the Committee of Nineteen should rule out the
in the monetary problems of the
world.
reception to the Chinese press yea tarday, when a report was issued to Soviet territory. He said Gen- regarding General Ma's evacuation
It is felt that silver will benefit eral Ma's troops had met several with other low-priced commodities serious defents in Heilungkinng as from any action which will raise a result of attacks by Mongol ban- commodity prices in relation to dita, nécessitating General Ma's gold. forces retreating to Johol.
Genoral Ma, it was revealed; -OUTSPOKEN-REMARKS-ON- originally intended to proceed to Geneva, but has now determined
WAR DEBTS to give up the trip and will return to Chins shortly.
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]).
·Ruday, Jan, 19, were made by Mr. F. C. Gooden- Outspoken remarks on war debts
General Ma's representative added that the Heilungkiang tronps al rendy in Johol had a total strength
of 40,000 while these remaining in ough, Chairman of Barclays Bank,
SILVER MARKET
LONDON PRICES
Landin [From Our Own Correspondent.)
LONDON, Jan. 20. CLOSING SILVER PRICES IN LONDON TO-DAY WERE!— SPOT .........
16.18716 10.15/10
FORWARD ......
CANTON NOTES
Chinese Maritime Customs Affairs
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR.
OFFICE
TO EXAMINE FORTY-HOUR-
WEEK
BRISH WIRELESS SERVICE.J
Ruany, Jan. 20, THE International Labour Office
Conference on
the 40-hour week yesterday rejected by 31 voter to 21, there being 17 abatentions, the motion by Mr. Ernest Bevin, of the British Transport and General Workers Union, which asked that the introduction of the 40 hour week should not involve reduction in weekly wages,
A resolution supported by Gov. erament delegates, asking for con- Linuerl examination of the different aspects and methods of working on the 40-hour week, was carried by 4 votes to 21 with 7 abstentions.
Raw Materials of All Kinds.
of
he cantons with nothing less than the total exclusion of competing products. So with steel, the spoil; All the conditions for a gented darling of the Indian govern industrial country India possesses ment India should be able to maker in abundance. Raw materials of the cheapest steel in the world. every kind are to be found in and
With its marvellous deposits of under her soil. She has an im mense population skilled in fine iron, situated not far from ample craftmanship and capable of turn- soal it can make the cheapest pig- ing from the home industries in iron and undersell the world in which they have learned their art that product In spite of bounties to the control and direction of and of now ever-increasing tariffe machines. Buried away India has, the India steel industry halte. If had capital in abundance for every must do so if the pig-iron manu development, could that capital facturers of India continue to ez- have been persuaded from its hid-port their surplus at half the in- iternal price, supply with it' the ing places
Before I go any further I do steel manufacturers of the Con- not wish to be misunderstood: tinent and so enable them to: practically the greater part of undersell the local product in the whatever industrial advance there India market. has been in India has been born of
In these conditions India is British capital and British brains. The jute industry, the planting of committed to a mad building up tea, the opening out of the coal of tariff walls which are breached and iron fields, the impulse to are designed to afford protection. by the very people to whom they
·wardin better, agriculture and Yet if India is to have adequate of the smaller industries industries of its own they must be
many
HOME BYE-ELECTION CONSERVATIVES RETAIN."
SEAT
THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY) '
LONDON, Jan, 20.
have afl boeni started by Britoris.. THE hye election in the Exchange in the lator advances the creation built up behind tariff walls or with aid. She Division, Liverpool, owing of the great cotton industry, the government financial the death of Sir James Reynolds, steel industry and the utilization comes late into the industrial field the National Conservative member, of hydro-electric power-we have and starts with that initial handi-- resulted in a victory for Colonel J.
of the muddle-mindedness with railways were made originally by which we have faced the reality (From Our Own Correspondent) J. Shute, (National Conservative), beets outpaced by the Indian The. It is perhaps characteristic
The final poll figures were →→
British capital. The redemption Col J. J. Shute (National Canton, January 19.
Chnservative) .. The disputo over the Hong Kong
The National Conservative ma- now settled, temporarily at least, hjority at the last polling was the Customs Commissioner hero has
19,144. ments of the Canton authorities. agreed to conform to the require-
MORE RAILWAY PROJECTS
P
15,199
possibility of direct Sine-Japanca Hoilungkinng also numbered 40.000 Ltd., at the shareholders' meeting Special Consular Invoice Officer is Mr. Silverman (Labour) 12,412 India has been the work of Govern ernment should have imposed.
Agreement by making. the dispute ane between the Langue and Japan, We are in no way without hope of averting such a misfortune."
GENERAL HUANG TO VISIT CANTON
frHROUGH REUTER'S...ADENCY]– ..
SHANGHAI, Jan. 20. General Huang Bhao Hsiung Minister of Home Affairs, in lear ing for Canton on January 21 on his way to Kwangsi.
General Chang Chun is leaving for Szochpen after the Chinese New Year to attend to rehabilitation Aairs in that Province.
JAPANESE NOW CONTROL BRAGA
They will renew operations against yesterday. the Japanese forces after General Ma's return to China.
General Ma, he concluded, is de- termined to fight to the last man.
CHINESE STEAMER
PIRATED
PASSENGERS ROBBED OF ALL CASH AND JEWELS
. He declared that there must be some finality on the question which Ho vitally affected the present and future conditions of the whole world. The payinone of further sums in gold might be dismissed as impracticable. -If America wished to receive payment she must receive it in goods. America would sooner or later have to choose between adjust ing her economic policy and fore going the whole or some part of
the debt due to her..
SALESMAN'S LAPSE
THEFT FROM SINCERE-
COMPANY
and irregation of areas of land that India raust develop industries that carry a fifth of the crops off India is to live, that the Gov-
troduce improved methods of agri-alone industries can come into exis ment, as has been the effort to indaty on the machinery, by which
culture that will add to the yield of the earth.
tence.
As I see the future of India in- and announced in a notification
dustrially it will become more and Britain's Investment, issued yesterday that goods arriving
more, & self-supporting country: in Canton need no longer be ac-
Great Britain has invested large but in the process, of building up companied by an Invoice issued at
ly in India and today there is its local manufactures there will anxiety about the future of that be a large demand for machinery Hong Kong. The invoice fee of i gold units, of course, has to be
from-the-more-advanced countries.÷ An old employee, who is also a investment. But do not let us paid in Canton, as has been the shareholder of the Sineers Com- pride ourselves too much on what If a new handicap is not to be practico since the inauguration of the invoice system and prior to the Wynne-Jones at the Central Magis There are varying estimates of the machinery must go into the Coun pany, was brought before Mr. we have done in that direction placed upon India industry that appointment on the Hong Kong trucy yesterday charged with hav-extent of our investment in Indin try freely. If we imagine the time officer. The Canton Commissioner's (TUBOVUN KEUTER'S AGENCY.} Mr. Goodenough expressed a beaction will presumably be followed ing taken or carried away a quan ranging from £600,000,000 to when India will import few manu thousand million pounds, but what factures from abroad we are still tity of silk. by his colleagues at other places
Mr. F. C. E. Rendall pleaded ever be the exact figure our India far from solving the problem of lief that the City of London would under the jurisdiction of Canton. guilty on behalf of the defendant; investment is smaller than that ot the ever-increasing population SHANGHAI, Jan. 20. regard it as an unreasonable su It would thus scom that the CELEBRATING their haul in gestion that, pending a satisfac Hong Kong officer will be fully and in asking for leniency stated have made in the Argentine, which Were India to morrow
lavish style, 40 pirates who had tory settlement acceptable to all, relieved of his, duties, in which that the defendant had been in the is not a part of the British Em- provide itself with all that it now hoarded the Chinese steamer debt instalments should continue
cases they may be no longer need employ of the Company as a sales pire. The mischief has been that imports, employment might be man for about 19 years. He won we have never tackled seriously the found for possibly three millions "Tahua" in Shanghai on Tuesday to be paid no matter how long the of the keeping of his office. It is
at present a shareholder of the problem of developing India's un-at present at a wage level far be evening and had pirated the vessel discussions might in prolonged. beyond Woosung, caroused, feasted Great Britain, he said, should not yet known what Nanking has to
Sincere Company to the extent of doubted capacity for, industry, below that which prevails in Europe. 83,000, and his mother-in-law was ing content to confine ourselves to That would absorb barely a year's and smoked opium till early on not pay any further instalment say in the matter.
***** particular corners of the industrial growth in the population. The one Wednesday morning.
also a big shareholder.
He took the pieces of silk.in the field. Porhaps that was natural. solution is to create a greater de Then there is the agitation overbelief that they were remnants, and The British commercial community mand, for both luxuries and neces the increase in the duty on crude
This has apparently been done were later released, however. with the acquioscence of the Mongol
The pirater feast took place in Princes in that aron.,
the first class dining room and last ad over five houre, during which time they kept the ship's stewards busy, serving them with drinks and specially ordered dishes.
· Tokyo Confident,
TOKYO, Jan, 201 It is learned from authoritative sources that the Government cabled the Japanese delegation at Geneva yesterday telling them to continuo to follow their previous instruc- tions.
The Japanese Foreign Office ap- pears to be confident that the League will accept the Japanese modifica tion to the resolution of December 20, 1932.
The "Tahun," which carried 400 passengers, is a ship of 700 tons She has now safely arrived at Hai
men.
BRITISH CABINET
until the whole matter Jind been discussed and an agreement for final settlement reached.
nation mast permit its debtors rea- semable facilities to discharge their liabilities, remained unchanged.
He also expressod a view that it would be impossible for Great Britain to contemplate a return to the gold standard unless and until she could feel sure the conditions were such that she and other coun- tries would not again be forced to suspend it...
便
Duty on Crude Oil.
able to
LATEST REPORT FROM
They then disembarked into wait HARBIN
ing boats acar the Huanlungse Rocks and let the vessel continue Regarding Britain's economic {THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY
her journey to Haimen, a port in policy, Mr. Goodenough said that oil, for the introduction of which no value to the Company. Mr. there were in the main traders sities among the manser of the In return for the agricultural pro-nary to that stage is to raise the PRIPINO, Jan. 29. Chekiang Province.
it had been due to the failure of very senous charges have been endall asked his Worship to bind anxious to sel! British goods in dia population and the prelimi PELIABLE foreign reports from
On receiving a reply from Mr.ducts of India. Their's was not value of the agricultural product. The pirates, who had robbed the other countries to arrest the in levelled by the native, o dig the defendant over.
tillers whose interests are affect Nagel, who represented the Sincere the problem of finding work and Harbin state that the entire passengers of all cash, jewellery crease of their own tariff walls that ed against Mr. T. V. Soong,
azı ever-growing
-Standards of Life. Barga district is now completely and other valuables, took the Cap a change in British policy had both alleged has been Company, that they were not press sustenance for under Japanese control, both civiltain and compradora with them come necessary, but the funda
ing the caso, his Worship fed the population. That was the dilem-
From the economic point of view.
and military.
when they left the vessel. They mental principle, that a creditor bribed by foreign oil trusts for defendant 8100, and bound him in ma of Government. It promises to it is a disaster that the clin
making the increase. The South
be the nightmare of future Govern and the conditions of life in India men. In ten years over thirty-two give the Indian a unique capacity West Folitical Council, to which the sum of 80 for one year. appeals for the cancellation of the
millione have been added to the for doing without that are regard population of India How many ed as the prime necessities of life increase have been sent is appar
of this vast number has been ab- He can live practically without ently a gesture to accede to public learned.
sorbed into industry So far clothes and almost without shelter. opinion, has now overruled the in-
Registration of Temples. Croase, and orders are issued to the Customs authorities for the old The Canton Bureau of Social Wel- statistics are any guide the growth in tariff to the conformed with in the fare proposes to open a register of in factory workers has been about taxation of this commodity. It is all monasteries and temples in the 20,000 a year while the growth has subsisted on not yet known whether, as in the city, together with their inmates. of population has been at the rate of food. The one grost previous case of the consular in Particulars relating to the age and of three millions à year. Ons in a that is needed in Ind voice, the Customs will carry out other personal descriptions of the hundred of the newly born are beducate the Indian ta the local orders. Meantime, the monks and nuns are to be kept and ing provided for an industry the higher standard of life, unles native oil refiners, upon receipt of it is hoped that they will thus be other ninety-nine are being thrown does that, the standard must the news, celebrated the event with prevented from participation in any upon the already over barieredently fall below the margin a procession round the city, firing of the illegal and improper pracland. Emigration provides no real subsistence
Indian with his expacity for hard crackers and distributing pamphlets tices of which these people are outlet Tew countries want the
sometimes accused, "praising the local authorities,
work upon meagre sustenance, and A single change, DISCUSSED
Canton to Wunhow by Train,
few Indians wish to leave Tidin..
vinice India that it land absorb the sna With reference to the amalgama- There seems no end to those rail- (THROUGH REUTIL'S AGENOY.];
Danger Ahmad.
from animais, instead, and caused the cancellation of tion of the custom houses at win projects. The latest is ope to
Every Improvement that can be ing it into fuel, would Ruary, Jan 18 practically all the outgoing plan Kongmoon and at Shamehai, në gelink up Canton and Wuchow, This
to the Keeble cool indú THE first Cabinet meeting of Now It is understood the Cabinet was tion has yet been taken perhaps be it in explained, will just be ad ex mede in agriculture only
Year was held at 10, Downing mainly engaged on foreign affairs cause of the difficulty at arriving tension of the present Canton-Bam the problem since it reduces the pountry India inay Street yesterday afternoon. With A series of meetings, including at a decision na to which station shui line. The building of such an inbour required for a given chap, equipping herself, with the exception of Lord Londonderry, three next week, will be held prior to retain. The merchants of both extension is deemed to be practical Unless India can provide in the Industrien. Be munt the the Air Minister, who is on an air to the re-assembly of Parliament places have appealed for the retan from the commercial viewpoint coming years wholly unprece multitude of s "Night Club Queen of Lon-tour in the Middle East and Bir next month.
tion of the one in their district, but the route is not very long and deafed industrial development the Some progress ttack Samuel Hoare, the Secretary of
it is learned that the Customs Entho shades various five ports on the level of wibsistence of the country, that dir
Liva Mauntime the Cantone, which is now appallingly low, will years have fort which Endins:
Railway Administration" ja "decline below the starvation point maliza Indust erimenting on the running of Such efforts as have been made by on Indian
bass on the line, similar to the Clovernment to foster industries will be altogy rvices which are reported to by special legislation are not the diss Entorily operated on the exactly happy in their remita: Thors ilwày: Text runs ro Cotton and steel are the outstand tha
out with a dar loaned ing examples. Hornbay cotton has buse terrailway.
become synonym for salding for
OBITUARY
MRS. KATE MEYRICK
LONDON'S NIGHT CLUB
QUEEN
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]:
LONDON, Jan. 20.
MIS KATE MEYRICK,
han died alter-en
influenza.
[For Rany years a central fare in the right life of London, Mr. Meyrick has been the proprietor of several night clubs in the city, of which were closed by the olice, owing to the sale of liquer during prohibited hours. She has emently been gaoled
MEETS
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
| States for India, who 19 abroad, ajit
the Ministers were present.
A Campaign has been inungurat ed by officials of the City Govern ment of Nanking for funds to be used for the purchase of a bombing aeroplane which they intend to present to the Chinese volunteers in Manchuria.
Esport on Tür Es
TONE
The Cabi Bit John Simon, who returned the first tim specially from Geneva, flew from It an Paris to Heston Aerodrome, despite Simon, wha
thick fog which made it impoe just ind sible for any craft to land af. Grove don Airport yesterday afternoon (Continued at foot of neet Column)
di
Kongmoon and Samshij.
Hmall Industries Me
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