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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1933.

COLONIAL EXPERT WANTS EMPIRE NAVAL REVOLT London Air-Mail Letter

CUSTOMS UNION

Failure Of Present Policy

Sir Eyre Hutson,,, who, after 40; years of distinguished. Colonial service, was Governor of Fiji from 1925 to 1929, writes to the Editor "of the Evening Standard:

Sir-I join with Mr. H. G. Williams, MP, in welcoming the confession by Lord Snowden, in the Evening Standard of Sept. 12, that he had discovered. at last, the British Colonial Empire-and its real trade value to the British Commonwealth of Nations.

One can, however, only depore Lord Snowden's statement that. at the time of Mr. Neville Cham- berlain's visit to Ottawa, "the Im- perial sentiment had worn so thin that he could hardly dis- cover it."

The policy of adopting a high protective customs tariff was, I claim, forced on the self-govern- ing Dominions by the Free Trade policy followed by Great Britain.

So far as the Colonies (Crown

force at the present date?

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Startling Disclosures

At Court Martial

Fro-

The

Protection by a Customs tari.

The trial- of Zeven provided it be a general traim to vlnchen hay be in force for a definite period president of the court-martial,

commenced,

of years, is required, and not an Lieut-Colonel C. J. O Dorren, in indeЯnite piecemeal effort his opening speech said that with adopted so far by the Nationalist the mutiny on the Zeven Provin- Government.

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There should be imposed in Great Britain a general.customs tarif an ad valorem and speciae basis on all goods import- ed into the country, except those specifled in a free list, whether they be imported from a British Possession or Protectorate ог from foreign countries.

cien, the shame of the disobedience movement had been completed. The slur which had been thrown upon one of Her Majesty's vessels had aroused great indignation throughout Netherlands India and throughout Holland.

A substantial increase of this customs duty should be imposed "on all goods imported from for

eign. countries. The Exce list would apply also to foreign im-worthy. portations, except where other- wise specified....

foundation and means for raising revenue. assisted by the special tarif imposed on foreign goods.

Protection and British preferen- ce would thus be assured. The or otherwise) and Protectorates | general tariff would provide the are concerned the Secretary or the Colonies' appealed to them, on behalf of the Government tum wards the end of the War, to take steps, by amending their customs tarif, to grant a preference to British articles Imported. so as to support mainly, British home in- dustries. Every Crown Colony adopted that recommendation loyally and without hesitation.

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It would also provide the means. for entering into agreements with some foreign countries, granting: concessions on British exports."

"Quotas" are embarrassing and unnecessary, and should be abo- alihed.

The above was as I understand, the policy.advocated by Mr. Nev- ille Chamberlain, and other mem- In reply to Mr. H. G. Williams, bers of the Conservative Party. M.P. I ask: Is the Tariff protec- before the last General Election, tion. so far granted. by Great "but unfortunately abandoned by Britain in respect to rubber, tea, the present National Government, coffee, sugar, copra, sisal, cocoa, The present policy fails to give and her primary products. of that confidence which is necessa- the Colonies and Protectorates, ry in business undertakings. It in his opinion, sufficient to war- is apparently that of the Nation- rant those dependencies offering alist Government. Is it, or should more substantial British pre-it be that of the Conservative ference than that which is in Party?

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Monarchist Plans Far- Advanced

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Japanese over the question of a understanding:

Meanwhile the Government is consideding the future form of the Constitution-whether a sovereign shall be installed under a contin-

Chinese dynasty or under a form of constitutional Government like those of Britain and Japan. Both methods have been specially studied,

London, Nov. 1. I learn that proceedings have gone far towards establishing a Monarchy in Manchukuo. It is expected to be proclaimed early in the spring, writes a correspondent,

Mr. Pu Yi, who was the "boyuation of the style of the old Emperor of Chiria until the for- mation of the Republic in 1912, and was made Regent of Manchukuo on the formation of that State in 1932, has expressed his willingness to become the first monarch,

Although Manchurian and Japan. ese officials are extremely reserved on the subject, I understand that the Manchukuo Government has definitely reached the decision after receiving informal indications of friendly interest from the Japanese Embassy,

The project was discussed by the Premier, Cheng Hsiao-hsu, and Gen. Hishikari for the purpose of seeking an understanding whether the move would affect the relations between Manchnquo and Japan.

While the question of a monarchy is a domestic one, it is inextricably connected with the defence pro- blem. Hence the concern of the

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The idea of the senior statesmen is to create Mr. Pu Yi the first sovereign of a new Manchurian dynasty, concurrently with holding a "spiritual sovereignty" over the constitutional Independents fear that Mr. Fu Yi, under his old title, might jeopardise the integrity of the State without intending to do

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When I had an interview with Mr. Fu YI in 1832, Immediately executiveship of Manchukuo, he after he had accepted the chief said that he intended to establish peace in Manchuria before turning. to China. Some of his advisery declare that it is possible to hald the sovereignty of the two coun- tries concurrently.

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A GREAT-GRANDSON OF GEORGE THE THIRD

London, Nov. 1.

The death of Sir Augustus Fitz-

The time had come to pass judg- George, great-grandson of George ment upon those who had been the Third, closes a chapter in Eng involved in the mutiny, but the Hish social history, for there is not court had also to judge, the merits likely again to be a morganstic of the cases of those who, by rea- marriage in England. His father. son of their rank and superior re-the last Duke of Cambridge, mar- sponsibility. were also blame-ried without the consent of the

Sovereign, and so It was a The facts in their possession ganatic marriage under the Royal

mor pointed to an undermining of dis-Settlement Act of 1773, cipline both in the navy and in Victoria

Queen alluded to Mrs. the army. The spirit of the peo- Fitz-George or recognised her un- ple was reflected in the defence til the day after her death, when forces, and unless they were to be she wrote to the Duke a letter degraded and underrated, discip- with some sympathetic expression line and morale were vital.·

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From the written statement of House, an ancient, gloomy man- The Duke lived in Gloucester the Commander of the Zeven Pro- ton of Piccadilly that gave place! vinclen. Captain Elkenboom, they to flats early in the century, but were informed that the Navy Com-his wife lived in a house in Queen mander

before the departure of Street, near by. She left it to Co- the vessel had ordered all facers

Fitz-George. to carry loaded revolvers because three sons of the marriage, and Bir There were the feeling on the Zeven Provin- Augustus was the last survivor, clen was considered strained. Cap- when King Edward came to the tain Fikenboom held a different Throne the Duke of Cambridge opinion and falled to obey the or- asked that his three sons should e given the rank of younger sons of peers. but King Edward would not do so; he made them knights. Two of the sons had children, so there are people in London to-day of royal blood without title or without being conspicuous in any social way. Sir Augustus equerry to his father, and spent thirty years in the array, mainly in

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The Captain of the Aldebaran, the vessel which pursued the Zeven Provincien, had stated that one of her officers came aboard his ship in such a state of excitement that it was deemed advisable to relleve him of his revolver lest he should attempt to commit suicide.

Other witnesses alleged that, the

acts of some of the mutineers were committed under compulsion by the

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the Hussars. In his youth he saw the famous pride fight between

ringleaders one of whom was kill-Heenan and Sayers.

ed by the bomb dropped upon the rebel ship.

The defence cited the statement of & Tavy chaplain' who said he had warned the authorities of Im- pending trouble. It was also re- vealed that the Navy Commander had warned Captain Elkenboom against a certain corporal who worked as liaison officer between the European and matineers. He

native was reported to have declared that he was pre- pared to Are the frat shot on Sourabaya,

COUNTERFEIT NOTES

Shanghai, Nov, 16. Counterfeit banknotes, falsely representing the issue of Chinese banks, are reported to be in circu- lation in Shanghai, Tientsin and Tsingtao. Japanese police "in Dalren and Osaka. raided térfelters' den and arrested some 30 people. The forged notes were or five dollars and ten dollars de- nominations, and several unscru- pulous Chinese merchants in Tlen- tsin and Tsingtao have opened banks in order to dispose of the Central Press, forged notes at face value.-

MR. S. SASSOON!!

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nounce shortly of Mr. Siegfried

The engagement is to be. Sassoon, the poet and author, and Miss Hester Gatty daughter of the late Str. Stephen Gatty and his second wife, Lady Gatty, of Low des-square, S.W.

Regarded as one of the finest of modern poets, Mr. Sassoon is a member of the famous financial family and a cousin of Sir Philip Bassoon, M.P. He was educated at Marlborough and Clare College, Cambridge, and during the war

held a commission in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, serving in France

and Palestine.

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His amazing feats of reckless daring at the front earned him the

nickname of "Mad Jack" These experiences left in lasting impres sion on liim, and it is as a war poet that he is best known.

His prose book, "Memoirs of an Infantry coun-

Officer," regarded by many as the outstanding book of the war, was published serially in **The Daily Telegraph" in 1930. In. the previous year Mr. Bassoon's "Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man" won him the Hawthornden Prize. The book was published anony- mously and its authorship was for a long time kept secret.

AUTHORS ARE BOOMING

Eugene O'Neill's Success

"In 1931 Mr. Bassoon, won the silver medal of the Royal Society of Literature; **

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CHRISTMAS DAY MESSAGE

China Inland Mission, and for five years she has worked in the treaty port of Chefoo. In 1929 Mr. Proc- tor-Beauchamp went out as medi cat missionary to the same station; They were married at St. Peter's and the two became colleagues." Church, Chefoo by the British Chaplain

Mr. Proctor-Beauchamp's father, Bir Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp, was one of the famous group of athlete-missionaries known as the bers included an ex-captain of the "Cambridge Seven," whose mem-

Cambridge cricket eleven, two Cambridge cricketers, and a Com was also a University bridge rowing Blue. Sir Montagu Montagu worked in the mission- oar: Str fields for forty years.

FEMINA VIE HEUREUSE COMMITTEE

London, Nov. 2. The Femina Vie Heureuse and elected. Miss Rebecca West. Northclide Prizes Committee have their president for the coming year.

The

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three English books from which committee is, to choose the French committee will choose one for the Femina Vie Heureuse. award. This committee, sttting: ing on its complementary task of in Paris, will meanwhile be carry-

selecting four French books to be recommended · to committee

the English Prize, now being given

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WROTE WAR-TIME SONGS..

Mr. Maurice Scott, the compo- ser of the song "Oh, It's a Lovely War," died on Saturday night at the Metropolitan, Hospital, Lon- bad also don, E. 9, at the age of 82% He

been associated with his brother, the late Mr. Bennett

Scott, in composing other famous war-time songs, including "Take Their work also included "Rings Me Back to Dear Old Blighty.'

in Your Fingers and Bells on den Wall." Your Toes" and "Over the Gar

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There is reason to hope that the King will broadcast a message to the nation on Christmas Day. While Hollywood "stars" and

LORD SANKEY'S LOBS executives are worrying about their will be the second message.spoken This broadcast, if carried out, salaries, due to the indiscreet in- by Majesty on the wireless direct

The Loft Chancellor (Viscount quiries from "National Recovery to the nation, The-Arst, it will be Sankey) has lost one of his grea Act officials, Hollywood authors recalled, was on last Christmas test friends by the death of Mr. appear to be on the crest of a boom. Day, when he spoke from a small William Phillips Edginton, his I hear that between £15,000 and room on the ground floor of Sanarat and only clerk, who followed £20,000 is being offered to Eugene dringham House, in which B.B.C. his fortunes from the time he O'Neill for the screen rights of his engineers had installed special ap- was a humble junior barrister to Theatre Guild production, "Ah, paratua.“

the day He betame Lord Chan- Wilderness." Another recent film The King broadcast last year cellor. Mr. Edglaton, who was offer was £7000 for Anthony Ad-formed the climax of a special 85, died on Saturday at his home verse," the huge American novel Empire programme which started in Richmond-road, B.W. which has recently become a best at 2 p.m. Through the Sandring- seller.

I do not know what I will do

A story is told, too, that when Mr. George S. Kaufman was offered £10,000 for the rights of Dinner at Eight," he wired back to the company offering to purchase their entire studios and theatre circuit for the same price. He was paid just over 220,000-by another com pany.

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ham House telephone exchange without him," Lord Sankey said the microphones in his Majesty's to representative of The Daily room were connected with land Telegraph last night. "He was a lines specially allocated to carry life-long trend of mine, and I the speech to Broadcasting-House have been greatly upset by hiz In-London From there, after am death. Per placation, the signals were distri-"Mr. Edginton was my first and buted through the network of spe- only clerk. He joined me in 1901 clal BBC. lines to all the trans-and was, with me when I was a mitting stations throughout the junior kcal barrister and follow- country, as well as to the two ed me when I became successively, short-wave, Empire transmitters at KC., a judge, Lord Justice, and Daventry. Relays for local listen-then Lord Chancellor. ers were carried out in Canada, end he was also

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· Lady: - Proctor-Beauchamp, * was great shock married on September 30 to Miss Only last Tuesday Mr. Edgin, Caroline Muriel Densham, daughton was on duty at the House ter of Mr and Mrs Frank Den of Lords. sharof Stonergate, Leicester.

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