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DRAMATIC YAUMATI PARITY DOCTRINE SAFETY OF BRITISH THE CONFERENCE SMALL-POX AMONG CITY TRANSPORT

FIRE RESCUES.

TWO KILLED IN SERIOUS

OUTBREAK TO-DAY.

ANOMALY.

DEBATE ON THE NAVY

ESTIMATES.

AMERICAN PERSONNEL 20,000 MORE THAN BRITAIN'S

RESIDENTS.

TIENTSIN DEPLORES LOSS OF HIGHLANDERS.

COMMONS QUESTIONS.

London, Mar. 17. The say of British residents in China w the subject of ques- tions in House of Commons to-day. Mr. A. A. Somerville asked whether Mr.Henderson was satis

PROBLEMS.

PROGRESS FURTHER

RESTRICTED.

M. TARDIEU'S ABSENCE THE CAUSE OF DELAY.

GANDHI PARTY.

DISOBEDIENT "VOLUNTEERS ALL CONTACTS.

THE MARCH TO GO ON.

WOMAN DIES IN EFFORT TO SAVE BRITISH REDUCTIONS. fed that the safety of British A CONFLICT OF VIEWS. through the salt district is not

YOUNG SON.

STAIRCASE COLLAPSE.

Shanghai Street, Yaumati, was the scene this morning of the second fatal fire to occur in the Colony in less than a week. Two deaths occurred, and, as in the case of the Kennedy Town disaster, a wooden staircase was the primary cause. The blaze was featured by events both poignant and dramatic,

A woman and two children were marooned on the roof of the blazing building, their escape cut off. Mr. J. W. Wollard, the officer in charge of the Mongkok Sub- Station, effected a spectacular rescue under peculiarly difficult circumstances.

nationals was assured in all Treaty Ports in China.

PROPOSAL

TRAM COMPANY AND HOTEL BUSES.

NEGOTIATIONS FOR PURCHASE NOW IN PROGRESS.

Bombay, Mar. 17. Gandhi is experiencing trouble with his volunteer clyfl dis- obedients. At present, the party is at Anand, resting, and the march being resumed until tomorrow.

COMPETITION FELT! One of his volunteers has been stricken with small-pox, and all the others must be regarded as commenced for the acquisition Preliminary negotiations have contacts,

by the Hongkong Tramways, Gandhi has directed that the Ltd., of the Hongkong Hotel sick man shall stay in Anand, He motor garage business, and it is ais "not to return to Ahmedabad proposed at an early date, to

whatever happens."

Another of his followers sought first-named concern a full state- place before shareholders of the

This

London, Mar. 17.

London, Mar. 17. "The reduction of over £4,000,-. Mr. Somerville's question had The anxious discussions at the 000 inadequately expresses the special-reference to the recent or London Naval Conference during magnitude of the Admiralty's der for the transfer of the Argyli the week-end have undoubtedly efforts to economise," declared and Sutherland Highlanders from

Tientsin to Hongkong.

left a much more hopeful at- Mr. A. V. Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty, introduc-retary, replying, said he had re-

Mr. Henderson, the Foreign Sec-mosphere, though there is

conflict of view as to the result ing the Navy Estimates in the colved the text of a resolution pass- of the Anglo-French conversa- House of Commons to-day, ed at a meeting of British subjects tions. On one hand it is stated He quoted figures proving that in Tientsin, in the course of which that political issues were exclud. Great Britain was spending less it was stated that the withdrawal ed. Elsewhere, it is suggested. of a British battalion from the that Britain has advanced a on her Navy to-day than in 1914.

The Estimates, said Mr. Alexan-town was inopportune at the pre-scheme whereby

the British command of the Straits of Gibraltar will be accepted as holding a balance in the Mediterranean.

der,

were

amount to £51,739,000 as against £55,865,000 last year, showing a reduction of £1,126,000.

The estimates.

within £190,000 of the figure submitted for 1914, which were the last pre- war estimates, but in order to get a true comparison with 1914, al- lowance must be made for the

The victims of the disaster were a woman and her young son, residents of the first floor of No. 196, Shanghai Street. Their presence in the building was unknown to the Brigade.higher costs and prices of to-day. Their partially incinerated bodies were discovered when the, flamea were under control. -

It appears that the deceased woman fled in terror from the building at the outset, but suddenly realising that her young son was not with her, dashed back into the blaze and was trapped by the collapse of the staircase. She was found dead with her boy in her arms.

Four houses were affected, Nos. 192, 194, 196, and 198. No. 196, where the fire originated, was gutted, No. 198, which was scryed by a common staircase, was severely damaged, and, the others suffered to a much lesser extent.

THREE MAROONED ON THE ROOF.

The victims of

the disaster

• were:

Li Nam-ku (4).

Dary. Escape Used.

Immense Reduction. Calculated on pre-war rates, the provisions covered by the present estimates would not have more than £31,000.000, or a re- duction, of 31 per cent.

Cost

The provision this year, how- ever, covered a much larger pro- portion of non-effective charges than in 1914.

To-day the non-effective charges amounted to eight and a half millions compared with three millions in 1914, so if one com- pares the actual effective services of the Navy, the present net estimates were forty-three millions as compared with £18,500,000 in 1914.

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Reducing the present estimates A Davy fire-escape with a steel to pre-war values, there was cable and pulley block arrange; reduction of no less than forty- ments) was hauled up. Wong Kui-lam (9), her son,

A con-six per cent. vincing demonstration was then "I beg the House to remember," A hurid glow suffusing the sky, given of the utility of this device said Mr. Alexander, "that no other indicating the intensity of the in an emergency such as this. naval power in the world has outbreak was noticed coincidently There was nothing on the roof to voluntarily made a reduction

which the line could be attached. with the receipt, at 3.52 a.m. of a

compared with pre-war." call sent from the fire signal box Mr. Woollard ordered the firemen at Gascoigne Street,

to lay flat on the roof, and to brace The fire was located at No. 196. the woman as she passed down to themselves against the weight of Shanghai Street, 11 three-storey safety. building with the usual native)

Meanwhile, flames were beleh- arrangement of a shop on

the

Road to Peace. With regard to the reduction in shipbuilding, Mr. Alexander said:

SALARIES COMMISSION PROPOSALS.

The Government Recommends Adoption.

MATTER REFERRED HOME.

Rumoura were current in the Colony yesterday to the effect that the Government- had decided to put into effect, as from January 1st last, the recommendations of the Sal- aries Comilīsalón.

On enquiry in official circles this morning, we were inform- ed that this is not the case. It is true that the Goverment has recommended to the Sec- retary of State that the Com- mission's proposals be adopt- ed as from the date named, thut up to the present. the Home Government's decision has not been made known,

sent time.

It is understood, says Reuter, that the Conference is considering the scheme which embodies 好门 understanding that France will keep only a specified number of ships in the Mediterranean.

I

No Relaxation.

It is, nevertheless, clear that so far there has been no relaxation of the Franco-Italian deadlock, and no progress in this direction is at present anticipated. "

The work of the Conference is likely to be restricted this week to informal interviews between the members of the different dele- gatióna.

No plenary session is in pro- spect and the problem of adjust- ing the tonnage figures of the five Powers, within the categories_pre pared for them by the First Com- mittee of the Conference is the chief immediate problem.

Five-Power Pact.

The Conference is still deter- mined to achieve, if possible, a uam five-power pact,

Mr. Henderson added that one battalion of British troops was still stationed in Tientsin and would be kept there for the time boing.

The strength of the British "It is with great. satisfaction military forces in China was in ac-

Matters are well advanced to this end as between Britain and the United States, Japan and the United States and Britain and Japan.

No agreements have been reach ed but the ground has been thoroughly prepared. presented by the differences

The European situation, as re-

be

permission to go home to Baroda. ment of the position, together the promised to rejoin the party with certain proposals. this evening. demanded, Gandhi, refusing to B. D. F. Beith, presiding at the "How can we go home now!" fact was made public by Mr..

annual meeting of shareholders of the Tramway Company to- day.

HATRY'S SENTENCE IS UPHELD.

Court Refuses Plea for Leave to Appeal.

"NOT A DAY TOO LONG.".

London, Mar. 17.

The Court of Criminal Ap- peal has refused leave to Clar- ence Hatry to appeal against the sentence of 14 years' penal servitude passed upon him by Mr. Justice Avory,

Lord Hewart, who presided, sald the Court endorsed the Judge's opinion that the frauds of which Hàtry was convicted were the most. appalling that had ever dis figured the commercial reputa- tion of this country. They considered the sentence not a day too long.

Sentence will begin ns from to-day. Hatry was convicted January 25th-British Wireless.

on

grant the required permission.

It is learned that the headman of Anand and seven of the village tax assessors have resigned their

It was further disclosed at the mecting that, largely by reason of, motor bus competition, the traffle receipts for last year were less by nearly three lakhs than for 1928.

Lengthy references were made by the Chairman to the general -question of motor buses v. tram- cars, and the suggestion made in some quarters that buses should be substituted for tramcars was described as a fallacy pregnant with alarming possibilities: In this connexion It was pointed out. that if the 27,000,000 passengers carried by the Tramway Co. last ycar had been carried by buses Instead of tramcars, at the same fares, the Company would not have made enough profit to pay. any dividend,

A further statement made by the Chairman was that the receipts from the Kai Tack Com-- pany venture had not proved an aatisfactory as anticipated.

Chairman's Speech,

Addressing the meeting. the Chairman said:-Gentlemen,--They report of the Directors and the statement of accounts for the year. 1929 are in your possession and I will, with your permission. take them as read.

In my speech a year ago I called attention to the decline in the traf of 1928 and after explaining the causes I said "should these adverse fic receipts during the last quarter-

factors continue, shareholders. will Gandhi announced on Sunday realise that the tramway receipts in. that he would observe Monday as a respect of the present year will be

offices.

ing through the windows of the that the Government have found.cordance with the recommendatween France and Italy, is the day of silence, but circumstances less than during the year under re-

All Get Free.

ground floor, and tenements above. intervening floors and threatening The outbreak originated in the to cut off the escape of the fire ground floor occupied by a joss-mer and the two children. paper firm carrying fire-crackers as part of its stock. To this latter fact is ascribed the inten- sity of the fire which endangered a big block of property situated in a thickly populated district.

Brigade Call,

A jet thrown vertically into the air, was so directed that the water fell as a mass of spray over the ladder, cooling it and guarding it from the flames while the rescue was in progress.

Bodies Discovered.

on

the general trend of world affairs, and the general outlook for peace, justification for pro- cpeding still further along the road already to some extent mark- ed out by the last Government of slowing down the rates of naval construction, and giving a proof of our sincerity in the cause of all-round reductions in arma- ments.

our

in the last two annual programmes "The reductions we have made of the five years programme

tions

Reuter.

of

military advisers.

SHANGHAI

MOTORIST ENDS TOUR.

THREE REVOLUTIONS IN TWO YEARS.

London, Mar. 17. Mr. Allen Isaacson, who started

main preoccupation of the delega- tions, and until this is resolved, little progress can be made with the major project.

The difficulties have been enhan- ced by the discovery by France that there is little likelihood of political guarantees being forthcoming in exchange for a scaling down of her tonnage figures, and by the insistence of Italy on parity with. the largest continena) naval Power.

Prolonged Discussion.

appear to have been too much for view." him-Reuter,

FIVE CHARGES OF ARSON.

YOUNG STUDENT IN DOCK AT KOWLOON.

It is my unpleasant duty to in form you that those adverse factors. have continued with a result that our traffic receipts for the year 1929 are less by nearly three lakhs than for the year 1928,

not remunerative, It - providès 2

Efforts were made during the All available appliances were)

year to obtain the necessary- Au- rushed to the scene, and a call was the group isolated on the roof Shortly after this, a fireman in

thority to run our buses on less un- sent to Hongkong, Superintendent found that access could be secured

remiunérative routes of the Colony Brooks with reinforcements arriv-into an adjoining building by way of the last Government have out from Shanghai in March, 1928,

but I regret to say without mecting, There was a sequel, before Mr. with much success. We have, how- ing in response with a fire-float.

While the firemen were circling mest storey.

of the front verandah of its upper been made in the same spirit as on a honeymoon motor tour of the

Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magiever, commenced a new motor bus round with jets of water, a woman children were lowered to safety, the reduction they themselves

In this way, the actuated the late Government in world, has arrived in London.

The fact that the Anglo-stracy this morning to the five Taikoo East Gate via Queen's Road

service between Blake Pier and. and two children wore seen stand-Sub-Officer Woollard

French week-end discussions ex- und his ing on the roof of the building, party later making their escape programmes, but I would say they China and, one in Afghanistan. by France that the adjustments day morning, by the appearance be much felt need and affords great made in certain of their annual mixed up in two revolutions in purview, is taken as a recognition on Saturday night, and early Sun- although this service in itself is In the course of the tour, he get cluded political issues from their fires which broke out in the Colony East and Leighton Hill Road and now completely wrapped in flames, down the staircase of that adjoin have been made with a greater Reuter. their forms silhouetted against the jing house,

must be on a basis of figures. It fore the Court of a young student facilities for our patrons living in glow.

Control over the fire was gained courage and a stronger determina- To reach the spot it was neces-within less than an hour, a matter tion for the end in view and have

is anticipated that discussions ou on charges of arson in respect of the outlying districts of Quarry sary to get into a narrow scaveng- for official gratification.

this subject, will be prolonged. been made accordingly very much

each outbreak. ing lane at the rear of the build-

While it is improbable that any

Bay which can now been reached more drastic.

The defendant, described as Lf by bus in very much quicker time marked advance will this week, it is regarded as Waterloo Road, was alleged to have

be made Yau-chuen, aged 13, residing at 19 than by tram. certain that the Conference will maliciously set fire to 80, Stanley

Reclamation Street, 286. Shanghai warring the year 10 more var not break down before M. Tardisu Street, 58 d' Aguilar Street, 179, the week.

Street and 2, Portland Street.

bringing the number of cars-80 The defendant was arrested fol- equipped to 64 and orders were lowing the fire in Shanghai Street placed in England or the latest. early on Sunday morning.

type of truck (or chisels) for 28 Detective Inspector, Fallon, of the tramcars so that to-day we are in

of Police and made a formal ap original tramears has been scrap-gre. on behalf of the Inspector General every truck that came out with the plication for a week's remand for ped and replaced by the most up- farther enquiries.

to-date truck obtainable, tirely reconstructed between Hoard The tramway track has been en- Street and the Lee Gardens. This was rendered necessary under the Praya East Reclamation scheme.

ing, where firemen found their

the w38

FRENCH REVENUE INCREASES.

Future Needs,

"We are convinced that

the

provision we are now making is ENCOURAGING FIGURES FOR returns to London at the end of

adequate,

Up-to-date. Tramcars,

movementa hampered through lack Later, the bodies of a Chinese of elbow room.

A resourceful mind resulted in a woman and her 3-yearly on 35-foot telescopic ladder being cinerated, on the verandah of the

FEBRUARY, taken into the lane, and first floor of the house where the must be related not to present "Our replacement programme mounted immediately below the fire originated. This

Paris, Mar. 17, .

Private Talks, group trapped on the roof.

It failed to reach the coping by one being killed. The bodies were What those needs will be cannot be 2,994,000,000, showing an increase To-day before leaving for France, Yaumati Police Station, appeared the happy position.of knowing that

first knowledge obtained of any- strength but to future, noeds.

The revenue returns for the In the interval, there, will be month of February totalled Frs.numerous private conversations. a foot. The woman could not be discovered by Station ON.vr accurately forecast until the

results of the London Conference of Fra. 306,000,000 as compared M. Tardieu saw the Prime drawn to a hand appearing above have been ascertained and duly with the Budget forecast, and Frs. Minister and later he called on

collated."

160,000,000 As compared with the head of the American delega He hoped the feeling of per

February of last year-Havas.

tion. Mr Stimson, Mr. Stimson had simism regarding the Conference

a meeting with Mr. Macdonald, so oftén expressed, would prove to

American delegates, Mr. Hugh who later entertained. two other

Gibson and Mr. Dwight Morrow at luncheon."

induced to make use of it.

Hazardous Task.

Tongues of flames shooting through

the

windows and

the

circling around made. the work

Saunders, whose attention

was

די

the water which was then sub siding.

From subsequent enquiries, it Jadder

appears that the deceased woman be unfounded, and he deprecated HAGEN AND KIRKWOOD rescue made good her caeaps from the any discussion, to-day of a kind extremely building at the outbreak of fire, which would not be of assistance. but disregarding but on missing her young son, she in bringing the conference to a

lying ahead An

hazardous one,

of

all these dangers, a small crew dashed up the stairs in a cour successful fasue, led by Sub-Officer J. W. Wollard, agcous attempt to rescue him. climbed the ladder and joined the Her escape cut off by the collapse much distressed woman'

not

and of the staircase, she got into the

No New Construction!

IN AUSTRALIA.

children

on the roof. could be made of the driven by the flames to the verns, the Government were holding ladder as a means of escape-it andah.

VICTORY OVER PROMINENT MELBOURNE PAIR Use building first involved and was construction programme for 1930, No provision was made for a

Melbourne, Mar. 17. In a four-ball match at the over any decision as to what this Royal Melbourne Golf Club to-day;

remanded until Tuesday morning.

The defendant was accordingly

This afternoon, Mr. Macdonald NEWSPAPER AIRMAN. The new single track along Bow received the chief Italian de legate, Signor Grandi, at the House of 'Commons and to-night he A dining with the members of the French delegation at the French Embas871

Regarding the suggestion that The local branch of the Stan-

EXPECTED IN HONGKONG TO-MORROW.

rington Canal Road East was also completed and tramcars have enter ed Happy Valley via this new track since July 20th last;

Further, since the end of 1929, we have completed the renewal of

with electrically welded joints all Arsenal Street and there is now a magnificent new double track (Continued on Page 7.).

would have been unsafe to rely on An enquiry la being held at the should be. Not only so, but in Walter Hagen and Kirkwood de- the political issues raised should dard Of Co. learns that Mr. Van the rails between Heard Street and its strength to withstand the Central Magistracy this afternoon respect of the 1929 programme, it feated the Australians, Jupp and weight of the rescuer with his in connexion with the other fatal had been thought best, in view of Le Favre by three up and one to

burden.

fire at Kennedy Town.

(Continued on Page 12.)

play-Reuter.

be transferred to Geneva, It is Lear Black expects to hop off" stated that no such proposal has from Hanoi to-morrow, and to ar

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