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SUB-COMMITTEE OF NINE APPOINTED AT GENEVA

TO DRAFT FORMULAE OF REPORT ON SINO-JAPANESE DISPUTE

REPORT THAT BRITISH ATTITUDE IS

CHANGING

*THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUY, ]

GENEVA, January 23. THE Commities of Nineteen has appointed a sub-Commitee of mine under the presidency of Germany to co-ordinate the draft formulae of the report on the Sino-Japanese dispute under Paragraph IV. of Article XV., which was circulated to members of the committee for private consideration yesterday,

"

Besides Germany, the sub. Committee consists of Britain, France. Belglum, Italy, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Spain.

WELLINGTON KOO COMMENTS ON UCHIDA SPEECH

GRNEVA, Jan. 93. Commenting on Count Uchida's speech at the Japanese Diet laat Friday, which was distributed wide. ly here, Dr. Wellington Koe, the Chinese delegate, noouses Japan of having created the Manchukie out of Manchuria. On the one hand she signed a treaty with the Man: elukuo and on the other, she now naka the world to be prepared for the next step in her programme of expansion in the mainland, namely the invasion and occupation of Johol, Uchida, he says, has given the whole cass away when he piends for the elasticity of the operation of the League Covenant, thereby virtually admitting that judged by the Covenant as under- stood by other member states, Japan has flagrantly violated its provisions. Uchida's contentions raise the serious question of Japan's qualifications for enntini- ing to hold the membership of the League of Nations.

BRITISH ATTITUDE TOWARDS JAPAN?'

LONDON, Jan. 22,

MILITARY LEADERS AT NANKING

IMPORTANT CONFERENCES

I is believed that friendly pres zure from the United States inny have lind something to do with this hardening of the British Govern- ment's attitude, but it is said also that the reports, which the Britisi lovernment received from the Fr. East, have not been without in fuence

These reports, it is said, are to the effect that British trade with China will suffer owing to the re- rentiment on the part of the Chi- nese at the apparent partiality of the British Government towards Japan and partly to the effect,

that trade will suffer otherwise Japan acquires too preponderat ing influence upon the Axintic con-

tinent,

DISTRUST OF THE

LEAGUE

MANIFESTO BY SALVATION UNIONS

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1933.

CUSTOMS REVENUE

FOR 1932

Decrease 45 Million Hk. TIs.

EFFECT OF MANCHUKUO

COUP

JAPAN'S POLICY IN MANCHURIA

Severely Criticised In Diet

FOREIGN OFFICE ACCUSED OF QUIBBLING AT GENEVA

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

TOKYO, Jan. 23.

Naaking, Jan. 18.-Mr. T V Soong, Minister of Finance, to-day mado publie the following data of Customs revenue collection in 1932, submitted to him by Sir Frederick, UNUSUALLY blunt questioning of diplomatic affair marked the W. Maze, Inspector-General of' alternoon's interpellations la the Cristoins:-

Diet by the Salyukai spokesman, Mr. Ashida.

"The Maritime Customs revenite for 1872 monted in round figures to Hk. Tls. 200,239,000. This com pares with Hk. Thi. 249,087,000 col lected in 1931, and represents a decrease of Hk. Tia. 45,848,000.

**The revenue contributed in 1932, by ench category of duties to make n this total is as follows:-

Import duties

lk. Tis. 165,301,000 (=CGU136,849,000)

Export duties ...... 19,008,000 Interport duties Tonnage dura

13,191,000

· 2,739,000

900,230,000

Of the total import duty col- lection nasessed in terms of CGU and amounting to CGU130,610,000, the amount of CGU105.004,000 was collected in gold and the balance hier according to ruling ex change rates.

"Owing to the seizure of the Customs at Harbin, Lungchingtaun, Antung. Dairen and Newchwang by the so-called Manchukuo régime, the above statement does mot in- clude figures for the Customs col- loction at these porta subsequent to the month of June, 183 This seizure, which obtained throughout more than half of the year, 'roduced 1002 collections by about Hk. Tha 13,000,000, and not even funds for

loan service have been remitted out of subsequent collections.

The Principal Ports. "The following table shows in round figures the collection for 1932 at the principal ports and the increase or decrease as compared with the figures. for 1833:

Demanding categorical replies from both the Foreign Minister and War Minister whether Japan has a definite foreign policy or whother the Foreign Office is simp ly following dictation by the Army, Mr. Ashida asserted that Japan is heing dragged blindly into uncharted pitch dark abyas not knowing in what direction she is being guided.

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"Bubber Stamp for War Ofce,”

Accusing the Foreign Office of being little more than a rubber for the War-Office, Mr. Ashida asserted that the army holda virtual monopoly of all important posts in Manchuria and, *although" _uniformity and co ordination in Japan's Manchurian policy is the main raison d'être for the existence of the National

Cabinet, the impression imbedded

in the public mind is that the responsibility for leading Manchurig is shouldered exclusively by the

ATMY,

Lack of Fundamental Policy. Other points on which Mr. Ashida took the government to task included:-

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scrimonious attitude at Geneva (1) The unnecessarily irascible

and quibbling over trifles.

(9) The lack of a fundaments policy toward both the Leagué and Manchuria

'BUS DRIVERS ON STRIKE

WEST END. ALMOST DESERTED

(THROUGH REUTER'S --ROENCY."]

CHARGE - AGAINST MR. DE VALERA

SETTLEMENT WITH BRITAIN REJECTED

(THROUGH RAUTKE'S AGENOT.)

NAZI-COMMUNIST CLASH

SERIOUS SITUATION IN BERLIN

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)

DUBLIN, Jan. 22.

BERLIN, Jan. 22. LONDON, Jan. 29. THE allegation that President BERLIN came through a day of Eamon De Valera has reject riotous political antagonism, SEVENTY per cent. of London's

buses are affected by the striked the settlement with Britain aroused by the great Nasi rally in stoppage, due to the men's objec- reached, at the Ottawa Conference, Buelow Square, with a toll of tion to the speeding-up schedule. has been made by Mr. Devitt, one thirty-five serious casualties. The West End was almost deserted of the Cosgrave Nationalist can- Fire brigades were kept extreme- in the absence of traffic last night. didates for the forthcoming Irishly busy in the east end of the city.

where the Communist gangs setem No settlement had been reached at general election. midnight.

During a stirring speech at afire to mattresses and built up Meath, Mr. Dovitt stated that Mr huge and dangerous bonfires by De Valera was concealing the set-piling on dustbins and barrels and tlement? He is afraid of men with other infiammable articles, with, the guns," the speaker said.

object of impeding the march of **The Irish, dolagates brought the Nazis. with them from Ottawa, a dratt settlement with the British ropre sentatives, which Mr. De Valera turned down," Mr. Devitt charged.

FINGERPRINTS BY TELEGRAM

Yard Uses New

System

PUBLIC'S CHRISTMAS

GREETINGS

London, Dec. 29. Considerable use has been made by Scotland Yard recently of the Post Office's picture telegram service.

By its means it is now possible for police headquarters in many parts of Europe to compare finger- prints and photographs of wanted or suspected men in a remarkably brome

Blot at Election Meeting.

DUBLIN, Jan. 23. Fifty persons were injured as the result of a fight at a meeting at Tralee, held by supporters of Mr. WES one of the Cosgrave, who

speakers.

Motor-cars were stoned and the police used batons to clear the

street,

The outbreak followed consider.

able heckling of Mr. Cosgrave When the fight broke out, seventy Civil Guards threw a cordon round the streets and restored quiet. Mr. Cosgrave was not injured.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

SUFFERING FROM ACUTE ANAEMIA

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]

LONDON, Jan. 22.

Where the situation threatened to get beyond their control as it did on several occasions, the police gave up their attempts to disperse the crowds with baton charges and used their firearms against" menac ing Communist moha.

Four Police Stabbed, Four policemen were stabbed in the course of the day..

Several Nazis were waylald and badly mauled by Communist hoeli- gans who worked the side streets in

gangs.

Over a hundred arrests were re-

ported by the evening by the police, who were still actively engaged this evening..

Further trouble is to be antici pated this week, The Communists announce that they are staging prð- test demonstrations to last for a week. The demonstrations will be inaugurated at a great maar meet- ing to ba bald on Tuesday outsidė the former Imperial Palace, pro- vided police permission can be ob tained.

March to Cemetery,

A representative of The London Daily Telegraph visited the Gener paratus which is used for the des al Post Office and inspected the ap- licate work. It only takes about twenty minutes for a facsimile of a small subject, such as a anger. print, to be transmitted to, for ex ample, Vienna,, with the result, that Scotland Yard can ascertain within whether or not the Austrian police MR. JOHN GALSWORTH, the an hour of starting their inquiry

Ten thousand, Nazi assembled in have any record of the person in noted British novelist and Buelow Square in a showstorm DE- quired about.

who was recently fore the march to the metery where Nor is this by any means the only awarded the Nobel Prize for Herr Hitler unveiled the memorial use of the service, which has now Literature, is seriously ill at his to the murdered Nasi, Herr Wossel been available to the general public home in Hampstead. Mr. Gals The programme was for the past eighteen months. At worthy is suffering from anaemia, through in spite of the Communist the present season a number of peo- following a chill. ple are taking advantage of if in order to sand Christmas greetings to friends on the Continent.

playwright,

(3) Failure to take any concrete steps to establish friendship and co-operation between Japan, China and Manchukuo, despite Count Uchida's emphasis of the

ers reaction to Nazi provocation importance thereof, "Stressing the necessity of im- The procedure is simple, and uni.and not incited by Communist proving relations with both America que in that there is no need to leaders.

No further disturbances are ex- Port. tion, 1838 Increase Decrease and Soviet Russin, Mr. Ashida, con-post early. Besides the Central

Hk. Tia Hk.Tis, Bk. Tls. cluded by declaring it was disgrace Telegraph Office, there are siz offi-pected and the authorities believe Harbin * 1,078,000*

3,311,000 ful that a situation exista which

ces in London from which picture the Communists realise their move Antung 1,917,000* 1,990,000 porsundes many to believe the telegrams can be sent, and if they ment will be suppressed if they Dairen 7,138,000* 5,377,000 army is responsible for the Coun-are handed in at the head offices in report to violence.

try's diplomation pplicy.

Collec-

25,000,000 1,606,000 Kian---

chow 18,503,000 4,000,000- Hankow· 8,201,900 ·

2,004,003

1,370,000

32,088,000

94,000

The Geneva correspondent of the Observer says that there is a very definite impression in Geneva that,

Shanghai, Jan. 18.-The Shang-New- in the course of the past week, hai Federation of National Salva chwang 1,193,000* British attitude towards Japan hastion Unions has issued a Manifesto Tien- hardened,

tein taking strong exception to the so- called Druminand formula in con nection with the draft resolution of the Committee of Nineteen of tha League of Nations.. The Shang- Federation also urges that China hai 02,181,000 withdraw from the League of Na-Amoy 4,209,000 tions, which, it alleges, has violat Swatow 5,723,000 202,000 ed the principles of right and jus- Canton 9,281,000 tice, for which it is supposed to Kowloom 8,587,000 109,000 stand.

* January to June only. The Manifesto complains that Foreign Obligations Met. after more than IL year, the

"All forcimi loan and indemnity League has done absolutely no-obligations secured on the Customs thing to curb the military agres revenue, including the service of NASKING, Jan. 23. sion of the Japanese and the orgy the Reorganization Loan, have been MARSHAL Chang Hauch Liang, of carnage and wanton destruction met in full. The cost of the nocompanied by Marshal Tuan which the Japanese military have service of the above obligations Chi Jni, who was Premier of China] inflicted on Chinese civilians. It was as follows:-G.U.39,816,990.00 in the early days of the Republic, says that with the inability of the (Sh. TI 50,813,506.30) plus Sh. arrived in Nanking yesterday, fly-League to promote peace and jus ing from Peiping,

EXPECTED

[TEROUGH REUTER'S - AGENCY.]

tice, international anarchy has been

་

Sir Eric Drummond,

1,874,000

Tin. 19,746,701.84; or if calculated on an entirely silver basis, Sh. Tis. 70,592,508.14, as compared with Sh. Tis. 118,515,000.00 for 1931.

"Provision was also made in full during the year for the service of

It is leaned that the Young revived. Marshal has come to the capital for the purpose of initiating with Mamhal Chiang Kai Shek and other military leaders, military

Ed political conferences of The Manifesto also criticises Sir all internal loans secured on the Erie Drummond, Secretary-Geuer-Customs revenue. From the month

momentous importanco,

Except to a few high officials, bis arrival in Nauking was, how ever, completely unexpected, completely that it almost escaped

COSSOCKS DRIVEN FROM HOMES

SILVER MARKET

LONDON PRICES

(Fr.m Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, Jan. 23, CLOSING SILVER PRICES IN LONDON TO-DAY÷WERE ¦— STOT

16.15/18

FORWARD

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TOKYO AND THE

SOVIET

Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, or New castle-on-Tyne, they are forwarded by poat to the central office. In London and despatched from there. Within a few minutes of being transmitted, a portrait of the sen- der, suitably autographed, or a letter of considerable length can be accurately reproduced in cities as far away as Oslo, Munich or Rome.

Novel Transmissions,

Press photographs provide most of the work for the operators, but because it make an absolutely i identical reproduction, many firms have taken advantage of the system to transmit pages of complicated accounts and long company pros pectuses. There is only one stipu lation. The size of each page must not be more than ten inches by seven. If larger pictures have to be sent they must be divided into smaller sections.

A surprising variety of things have been "picture talegraphed recently, among them

A marriage certificate:

A film actress's contract; and;

A power of attorney.

The last-named came from Ber

in and was sent on from London to New York, its destination, by the Marconi process, se picture telegraphy is not yet possible acros the Atlantic

JAPANESE VERSION OF RECENT NEGOTIATIONS

Tokyo, Jan. 18.-The Foreign al of the League, for crigining to of February, 1832, much provision, Japan. It claims that the so-called in accordance with the terms of the Office expressed displeasure at the Drummond formula, if adopted, Government's Mandate of Febru- alleged non-friendly attitude of the Soviet Government, which announc would mean the complete surrender a 1902, has taken the form of aed yesterday the progress of Russo- of the League to Japanese Imperi fixed monthly payment of $8,000,000 Japanese negotiations for conclu- the vigilance of newspapermen, "

Other documents to be transmit It is understood that, General alism. It declares that no resolu- from Customs revenue to the ac

ted include designs for fashions Feng Yu Hsiang has been invited tion will be acceptable to the Chin count of the National Loans Sinksion of a non-aggression pact be

which have been rushed from the Negotiations were interrupted to join in the conference, which ere nations unless it provides for the ing Fund Administrative Commik-tween the two countries. will undoubtedly deal with the withdrawal of Japanese forces from sion--Kun Min. “

several weeks ago following resump-originator to be reproduced in other critical situation in North China Manchuria, non-recognition and

tion of Sino-Soyict diplomatic re- countries, blue prints, advertise and Jehol,

elimination of the puppet Man-

lations. According to a Foreignments, meteorological reports, and chukuo and the prevention of fur-

Office spokesman, the Soviet Gov-maps.

Finally, in order to show the de thor aggravation of the situation

ernment recently proposed to make by the Japanese military.

public the results of negotiations licacy of the reproduction possible, thus far between Tokyo and Moscow mitted to London, from the Con- a dummy cheque has been trans- and the Japanese Government has tinent. The signature was perfect been studying the form of the an nouncement

gly reproduced, but a Post Office Rostov, Jan. 10. — Every man, The Tokyo Government is to-day official had to admit that he doubt od, whether, without special a woman and child residing in the waiting for the official report from rangements having been made, any Cossack settlements of Poltavskaya, Mr. Kokichi Ohta, new Japanese bank manager would accept it. Medvyedevsky and Umpskaya has Ambassador to Moscow, regarding been exiled and their lands, homes the matter. It is considered the

RAILWAY PURCHASING and personal property have been Soviet announcement was favour- of this able only to Rumia and plans are

SOME COMMITTEES being made to give the Japanese version of the matter to the world. "America's Policy,

CONSCRIPTION FOR CHINA?

In conclusion, the Manifesto (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,}" -

urges that Chine withdraw from NANKING, Jan. 23. the Longue and seek other just and The Minister of the Interior has effective measures for the vindica- requested the co-operation of the tion of the cause of right and jus War Office, General Staff Depart-tice-Kuo Min. ments in the task of drawing up regulations governing the organisa

tion of militias and the training

of recruits.

Road.

LANDS CONFISCATED AFTER

SENT INTO EXILE

NANKING, Jan, 18,

It is reported that the regula days, shortly before 5 p.m. tele confiscated. Disclosure tions will be framed with a view phoned Central Station as the re-edict, one of the most drastic in to the ultimate introduction of a cult of information he had just re. the history of Soviet Russia, came

coved. conscript system.

Appointment of the following Detectives nzmediately to day when newspapers here pub-

rew members of the Purchasing raided 340 Page 100 Kwangelished the formal decree of time local.

Commanist Party on the Meanwhile, the Government pays Commissien of the Ministry of Rail Ocomunist editors cite the delittle attention to the report that ways was announced yesterday: In one small room they found portations as a salutary example Colonel Hmry L. Stimson, U.8. Shen Chang (Chairman), LA FA ten men, and seven women together to other recalcitrant villages and Secretary of State, bas instructed Taan, Chang PRO BY Chang with a girl aged 11 and a small allege that the residents of the all American Ambassadors and Pao HAL : Chane Haison Chi and

pean Kwan fing. Chichin boy "ged two or three. All were Kuban villages maltreated members Ministers to explain to Eu taken to the station, and is watch of the Red Army during the civil Governments the anti-

precognition policy Het on the house,

CHILD MARKET

SHANGHAI

TWENTY-TWO ARRESTS

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City-Passes Quiet Night,

BERLIN, Jan: 23. Except for a few. Nazi-Com- munist clashes in which four people were wounded and 16 arrested, the city passed a quiet night after dis turbances yesterday evening, which were believed to be due to the work- (Continued on F'revious Calumm)

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Children

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Healthy

CHILDREN

need so much

nourishment to re- create the energy they are so prodigal in spending and to build up strong healthy bodies and sound nerves. They need more nourishment than ordinary food provides.

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foods

prepared malt extract, creamy milk and new,

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