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BATTLESHIPS SENT GERMAN BUDGET COLONIAL SERVICE| HOW TOR EXPERIMENTS ON CHIEF JUSTICE OF

TO EGYPT.

MENACE TO FOREIGN RESIDENTS.

SIDKY PASHA TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE.

BRITAIN NEUTRAL.

London, July 16.

In the House of Commons to-day the Prime Minister was asked by the leader of the Opposition if he could make a statement regarding Egypt. He said, "As early as June 4, when the present

con-

stitutional crisis in Egypt Arst showed signs of developing, His Majesty's Government instructed the High Commissioner that his attitude must be one of strict neutrality, though consistently with that position it was left to bis discretion to remind both

QUARREL.

PROGRAMME DECLARED LAW BY PRESIDENT.

REICHSTAG DEFIED.

UNIFICATION."

CONFERENCE SCHEME

ADOPTED.

COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO CARRY IT OUT.

IMMEDIATE ACTION.

Berlin, July 16. President Hindenburg has won the battle over the Steel Helme On the receipt of a promise from members of the Nationalist Steel Helmet Association not to carry out military exercises in the Rhine- Jand, the Prussian Ministry of the

London, July 16. Interior has decided to cancel the Lord Passfield, Secretary of decree dissolving the organisation State for the Colonies, in a in the Rhineland. President speech at a Corona Club dinner Hindenburg will now participate attended by all the delegates to in the evacuation colebrations.

caused a sensation in German political circles, not to participate was made because the Steel Helmets is a prohibited organisa- tion in the Rhineland.

His previous decision, which

He informed Doctor Braun, the Socialist Premier of Prussia, who was mainly responsible for the parties to the dispute that we at order auppressing the Steel this end were doing all in our Helmets, that he always consider power to maintain the good atmos-ed the suppression unwarranted phere in which the treaty negotia- and illegal. tions had terminated.

Sir Percy Loraine made state- ments in this connexion both to King Fuad and to Nahas Pasha who expressed their gratification. Since the formation of the present Government, Sir Percy Loraine hns

Meanwhile there has been a further development in the quarrel over the finance bill. The Chancellor, Herr Bruening, to-day abandoned in disgust the debate on the Government's finan- clal policy after the Reichstag had rejected the first two articles of it.

the Colonial Conference, states that he had taken immediate steps to establish a Committee to carry out the proposals of the Conference for the unification of

vice.

LOST MONEY,

HOTEL JOBS WHICH WERE NOT PAID FOR.

-

ASTOR HOUSE ECHO.

An explanation that he had be- come insolvent, because he had done work-but had not been paid for it was given by Cheng Man-po,| contractor, when he was publicly. examined in the Bankruptcy Court this morning before Mr. Justice Wood,

Debtor, who fled his

own

A BODY.

DR. THOMAS GIVES

EVIDENCE.

HUNG TAK BANK MURDER TRIAL CONTINUES.

THE INSANITY ISSUE,

CEYLON.

SIR PHILIP MACDONNELL APPOINTED.

PALESTINE POST,

and

Pedder Bidp

VOTE OF CENSURE DEFEATED.

TORIES STILL WANT PROTECTION.

BALDWIN OPENS DEBATE ON FISCAL POLICY.

London, July 16 H.ML. the King has approved the appointment of Sir Philip Mac- donell, Chief Justice of Trinidad, aa Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, in succession to

CONFERENCE ISSUE. Somewhat gruesome state Sir Stanley Fisher, on the latter's ments were made at the Crimi- retirement-British Wirelcas. A vote of censure arising out

petition, was questioned by the the murder trial of Li Man-pun, Clifton College and Oxford, where Labour had a majority of 71.

nal Sessions this morning, when

[The now Chief Justice of of the Government's fiscal policy Dr. Thomas, giving evidence at Ceylon has held a similar post in was easily defeated in the House Trinidad since 1927. Educated at of Commons last night when Official. Receiver (Mr. E. P. H. described how he carried out ex- Lang), who applied for adjudica periments on a dead body with Public Prosecutor in the Transvaal guarding, but the Chancellor of he won honours, he was appointed Mr. Baldwin advocated safe- tion which was granted.

a chopper similar to that found in 1906, became Legal Adviser and the Exchequer again made it making money until five years ago, result of which he "made a beau- Rhodesia in 1908

Debtor stated that he had been in possession of defendant, as a Public Prosecutor in North West clear

that the Government the Colonial Service.

but he suffered when the Astor tiful wound twenty times, with appointed to like positions for taxes on raw material or protec

Was would be no party to food taxes, mittee to consider the principles cause they owed him a little over

There would be a Central Com-House Hotel went bankrupt be out a jagged edge."

North Rhodesla in 1911, being made with sub-committees to frame a $12,000. Bad luck started from to a question by Mr. Leo d'Almada, He was Chairman of the Native pposed

He made this statement in reply Judge of the High Court in 1918, tive duties. The Liberals also the Conservative scheme for branches of the ser- that point, as he had performed jun., defendening counsel, in Reserves Commissions in 1925, at motion.

work but had not received full which he asked if the

East Luangwa, and for the Rail- ragged The Central Committee would be payments. The contract price for edges of the chopper would not

London, July 16. way Districts in 1927. He acted l under Secretary of State for the Colonies

the chairmanship of the the work at the hotel, he stated, have cut into the flesh and pulled as Times correspondent in the vote of censure on the Government Mr. Stanley Baldwin moved a WAS $25,000 and he was paid a It.

South African War.] and would consist of Sir Warren certain amount which left the

in the House of Commons. this Fisher, G.C.B.. G.C.V.O., Brigadier balance of $12,000 odd outstand-tive, emphasising that the cut The doctor replied in the nega-

London, July 16.evening. The Motion declared General Sir Samuel Wilson C.M.G., ing.

The Colonial Office has an- that the House, belleving a return K.C.B., K.B.E and Mr. G. J. F. He went on to say that the year

would have to be done quickly, nounced that Mr. Mark Young, to prosperity could best be Tomlinson, C.B.E. It was also before last he lost $3,000 over work

Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone, prompted by safeguarding the Judge's Question proposed to co-opt Sir Ransford performed at the Empress Roof

has been appointed Chief Secretary home marketa against unfair com Slater, Sir William Gowers and Garden (operated by a company Kemp) addressed the witness and

The Chief Justice (Sir Joseph to the Government of Palestine petition, and by expanding export Mr. George Hemmant-Reuter.

British Wireless. not connected with the manage-said: When you appeared in the

by reciprocal trade the Empire [Mr. Mark A. Young has been agreements with ment of the Empress Hotel). The box before, you said the wound on Colonial Secretary for Sirra

Overseas, regretted the Govern total price for that work was the accused's throat inferred that Leone since 1928. Educated at ment had reversed the policy of Sir Warren Fisher has beer $7,000 and he was paid a little it was probably done by one stroke, Eton and Cambridge, he Permament Secretary of H.M. over $4,000. That money he paid and that if other strokes

was safeguarding Instead of extending The President Instructed the Treasury and Head of H.M. Civil to his sub-contractors. The com-made, they would not make any Civil Service in 1900, and the frem consideration the imposition were appointed a Cadet in the Ceylon it and had arbitrarily excluded No other attitude was possible the Reichstag did not adept the service since 1919. He entered pany operating the roof garden impression. I asked you if it was greater part of his service has of duties on foreign foodstuffs consistent with the declared in- Government's finance proposals, the Inland Revenue Department had ceased to exist.

obtain equivalent tention of His Majesty's Govern Article 48 empowers the President by open competition in 1903 and

not possible that It might have been spent in that Colony, his last devised to ment in 1922, and we shall con- to "take necessary measures to in 1912 and 1913 was seconded for another contract for $4,400 in deeper cuts in the same place, and cipal Assistant Colonial Secretary tuges and agriculture in British Continuing, debtor sild he had been primarily cut, followed by position there being that of Prin advantages for British manufac- tinue to maintain it to an extent maintain public security when it service with the National Health connexion with a Chinese restaur-you said it was a possibility. You and Clerk of the

Such Insurance Commission. From 1914 ant in Wellington Street. The gave your own impression as being Council.]

markets and elsewhere.. Executive comparable with our international is seriously endangered." responsibilities.

measures, however, must

be to 1918 he was Deputy Chairman original proprietors, however, one cut... Before news of the deplorable Annulled if the Reichstag demands of the Board of Inland Revenue never started business but sold it events in Alexandria had reached it.-Reuter.

and Chairman in the following to another man and debtor had was that the first cut was an effec- Dr. Thomas:-My impression London, the High Commissioner.

year. He was a member of the been unable to find the original tive cut, and severed the issues, so had been instructed to make it

Royal Commission on the Income proprietors to get his money.

had been unable to find any of the

that any subsequent cuts would Tax in 1919 and chairman of the

In all such cases, he said, he not make much impression..

His Lordship:-That was your 1028,

partners and although he had first cut on the throat was effective view at the time-that the made efforts to do ao and get his and that any subsequent cuts would money, he had been unsuccessful, not substantially affect it?—Yes. He had filed his petition because he could not pay his debts and had no way of paying them.

made it clear that His Majesty's Government intended to adhere to their attitude of neutrality and non-intervention in what appeared to them to be a purely internal issue for Egyptians themselves to decide.,

Deplorable Events.

Subsequently an official com- munique announced that by virtue of Article 48 of the Constitution, the President declared the finan- cial programme law,

Chancellor to take this action if

quite plain that His Majesty's DETAILED EXTRALITY

Government did not intend to be used as an Instrument for an attack on the Egyptian constitu. tion:

•

In consequence they could be no party to alteration to the electoral Jaw and were precluded by their: declaration in 1922 from actuali intervention in an internal issue of this nature. In view of yester day's events Sir Percy Loraine has been instructed to inform Sidky Pasha that we must hold him responsible for the protection of foreign lives and property in Egypt.

PROPOSALS.

SOON TO BE SUBMITTED BY GREAT BRITAIN.

London, July 16. Questioned in the House of Commons to-day with regard to the situation in China, Mr. Arthur Henderson said that efforts reach a compromise in regard to the Customs at Tientsin appeared to have failed.

to

Committee Members,

Industrial Transference board in

Brigadier General Sir Samuel Herbert Wilson has been Perma- ment Under-Secretary of State for the Colonfes since 1925. After extensive military service he be came principal assistant secretary to the Committee of Imperial De fence, secretary to the Overscas Defence Committee and of the He was Governor of Trinidad and Home Ports Defence Committee. Tobago from 1921 to 1924 and Captain-General and Governor in Chief of Jamaica in 1924 and 1925.

The examination was closed.

STEAMER STILL MISSING.

ANXIETY FELT FOR THE "CHEONG ON."

I

Position of Assailant.

Cross-examined by. Mr. d'Almada, witness said that in his opinion Ching Cho-wuf's wound probably began at the nose and finished at the shoulder.

Will you take it from me that Ching was asleep in a deck chair, He hoped the situation would

and that he was lying on his back with his face towards the left hand Two Warships Sent.

permit detailed proposals with re- Mr. G. J. F. Tomlinson is a re-

wall? Judging from that, could gard to extrality being com- tired Civil Servant and lecturer-in He has also been told to inform municated to the Chinese Govern- Hausa, School of Oriental Studies,

you indicate the position of his Nuhas

assailant when he cut him?-If Pasha that internal

ment before long. Egyptian difficulties

that is so, his assailant must have must

London

No news whatever has been re-been on the victim's right side and Univeralty. He was in Asked whether all the solved without

endangering tries concerned were prepared to ment from 1903 to 1904 and in the Chinese steamer Cheung On, which

coun- the Transvaal Education Depart-ceived in the Colony regarding the bending over him. foreign lives and interests and participate, Mr. Henderson said Nigerian Administrative that we shall hold him equally he could not say that all were. for twenty years from 1907. He She left Bangkok for Hongkong would it not be more consistent If the two wounds were caused service is now overdue about a week. by the one alash, as you inferred. responsible with Government if Negotiations were going on with was seconded to the Gold Coast ag foreign lives and interests are

the United States and other coun- Director of Education in 1910 and teenth day out.

on July 3, this being her four that the assailant was standing be- endangered.

tries-Reuter.

tween the two deck chairs?—Yes. was acting Secretary for Native Affairs in Nigeria' from 1925 to 1927.

be

In the meantime, in view of the menace.to foreign life and proper- ty in Alexandria, His Majesty's Government have ordered two ships to proceed towards that purt."

The two vessels detailed for this duty are the battleships Queen Elizabeth." Aying the Rag of Admiral Sir A. E. Chatfleld, Com- mander-in-Chief of the Mediter- ranean Fleet and the Ramillies.) They left Skiathos, Greece to-day. Alexandria is 600 miles distant.- British Wireless..

Alexandria Riots.

"

MUI TSAI QUESTION IN COMMONS.

WHITE PAPER TO GO TO THE LEAGUE.

No Ragged Marks.

Waglan and all other statione have been asked to communicate with the Harbour Master on re-

If you were to draw that chopper ceiving any information about the across your neck, would steamer, but, so far, it is under-ragged marks?—No,

you get stood, no message has yet come through

You don't think the ragged edges would cut into the flesh and pull it?--Not, if it was done quickly.

The Co-opted Members. Sir Alexander Ransford Slater, K.C.M.G., has been Governor of the Gold Coast since 1927., He entered the service in Ceylon as the safety of this vessel.

The gravest anxiety is felt for a Cadet in 1898 and during a lengthy period in that Colony he London, July 16. held various posts, also being a House of Commons to-day; the salaries in the Public Service, He In reply to questions in the joint commissioner to report on. Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur was appointed Colonial Secretary Henderson, said he was quite pre- at the Gold Coast in 1914, was on pared to submit to the. League of special duty in Togoland in 1915, Nations the White Paper in which and was appointed Governor of dealing with the mui tsai system the difficulty was emphasised of Sierra Leone in 1922.

Sir William Gowers has been

AUSTRALIANS AT EDINBURGH.

.

REDS

DEMONSTRATE IN SHANGHAT.

POLICE HAVE SITUATION WELL IN HAND.

markets

Mr. Baldwin said the motion had been put down mainly because it was almost the last chance of a ference. debate before the Imperial Con-.

Economic Council.

Mr. Baldwin advocated the creation of a permament Economic Council of the Empire, represen tative of all parts of the Empire, Shanghai, July 17. to sit in London, without. Inter- Communist students, in defiance ruption and to be financed by all of warnings and despite their the countries participating. He knowledge of the police pre-also suggested that there should cautions, attempted to demon- be a wide extension of safeguard- strate in the heart of the ing and preference in every case International Settlement yes for the Dominions.“ terday morning.

He outlined the policy he would After stoning a tramear and advance at the Imperial Conference breaking the windows, smashing and invited Mr. Snowden to state the windscreen of a motor car the policy the Government intend driven by a foreign lady, a section to follow. of the crowd proceeded to the Bund where a further demonstration was held in the vicinity of the British Consulate. The police ar- the Government would be no party Mr. Snowden replying sald rested 24 demonstators, two being to food taxes, taxes on raw material released later. The others are on protective duties. They would being charged to-day-Reuter.

enter the Imperial Conference bar- ring no questions from discussion, but it would be made abundantly clear that they would approve no final conclusion which involved this country in a food taxation policy or a general protectionist policy,

YOUTHFUL FLYER DIES

FOLLOWING INJURIES IN PLANE CRASH.

Bennington, July 16:

No Safeguarding.

Outside that there were plenty of questions of great importance which the Imperial Conference could discuss.

Frank Goldsborough, who crashclared the opposition could not As regards safeguarding he de

the motion was indicated by Mr. The Liberial Party opposition to

attitude taken by the Government. Lloyd George who supported the The motion of censure was re- and British Wireless. Hejected by 312 votes to 241-Reuter

Dr. Thomas added that he had ed in an aeroplane in the Vermont point in any of the safeguarding in- been carrying out experimenta on mountains, has died without redustries to any market effect which

consciousness. He was the flesh. It made a beautiful pied underneath the wreckage position of the trade. wound." although he tried twenty after wandering for hours, arrived of the plane. and his companion, times to make a jagged edge.

Replying to a further question,

here and reported the accident. witness said that he was one of the location of the crash but searchers He was unable to give the exact Alexandria, July 16. Thousands of Egyptians stoned

SCOTLAND MAKE 129 FOR medical officers at the Lunatic found Goldsborough alive.

THREE WICKETS. the Government Hospital to-day in Hongkong so long as the buy-Governor of Uganda Protectorate

Asylum, and He had local know-was the holder of the junior trans- as a protest against the Procura- ing and selling of slaves was since

Edinburgh, July 16.

ledge of lunatics. He had given continental flight record, being. tor-General forbidding the re- practised in the neighbouring pro-Colonial Service in 1902 and was match with the Australians which other case regarding lunacy, and Reuter's American Service.

1925. He entered the. Scotland batted first in their evidence before the Court in an- only nineteen years of age, moval for public burial the corpses vinces of China.-Reuter. of the victims in yesterday's

called to the Bar in 1915

opened here to-day, but rain inter- in the course of his practise at the rioting until a post-mortem had

served with the Cameroons Expedi- fered. At the close of play Asylum, he had observed insanity. been held.

tionary Force in 1915 and 1916 Scotland bad made 129 for the Mr. d'Almada:-So that you are and was Lieutenant Governor of loss of three wickets, Alexander Nigeria in 1921.

being top scorer with 51.-Reuter,

The police, commanded by Fitzpatrick Bey, who was injured In yesterday's rioting, restored order. Subsequently, when the formalities had been completed, the bodies of the victims were handed over to the crowd and carried shoulder high through the main streets. There has been no further disorder-Reuter.

European Casualties.

Cairo, July 16,

Two Europeans were killed and 12 wounded in yesterday's riot ing at Alexandria according to the newspaper Al Akram, which (Continued on Page 7.).

AUSTRALIAN LOAN A SUCCESS.

LISTS CLOSED IN THE LONDON MARKET.

Ho

Mr. George Hemmant is Malayan civil servant, He has. held various positions in all parts: of Malays, being appointed a cadet in 1908. He has acted as a magi- strate, district officer and Under. Secretary of the Straits Settle- ments. He was acting Colonial Secretary in 1924,

The Fisher Committee.

CONSOLIDATION OF SHIP LINES.

in a position to Judge, if neces Bary, whether a man shows signs, of insanity? Yes, to the best of my ability.

You have had the defendant un- der your care at the G.C.H., for 18 days? Yes.

London, July 16. The Austrian Government Inter-

Mental Condition. national Joan of $3,000,000 in

PLAN APPROVED BY THE You were principally concerned seven per cent, sterling bonds was

SHIPPING BOARD.

with his wound? Yea offered to-day for subscription in

Did you observe him generally this country at 95 per cent., and The question of the unification. within two hours of the opening, of the Colonial Services was ex- The Shipping Board has cumstances in which he was ad Washington, July 16% also 7 Well, sir, under the cir- the lists were declared closed, haustively dealt with by a Com-approved the consolidation of mitted; I naturally paid extra ob It is understood that the submittee under the chairmanship of seven Government-owned shipping servation as to his mental condi- acriptions 'greatly exceed the Sir Warren Fisher-which was ap-lines now operating from the Gulf tion.. amount offered-British, Wireless. (Continued on Page 7) of Mexico Router.

(Continued on Page 7)

REPRESENTATION OF COLONIES.

LORD PASSFIELD TO ACT AT IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

London, July 16.

ATTEMPT TO SAVE COAL BILL.

GOVERNMENT APPROACHES THE LORDS,

· London, July 16, - Following a meeting with the miners, the Government suggested to the House of Lords that, there. Replying to Mr. Ormsby-Gore In should be a conference regarding the House of Commons to-day the spread-over amendment to the Dr. Drummond Shiels stated that Coal Mines Hill which was insisted: tectorates and mandated terri terday. the interests of the Colonies, Pro upon by the House of Lords-yes- would be represented by the opinion that the reorganisation tories at the Imperial Conference The Government expressed the Secretary of State, who hoped to features in the Coal Mine Bill make some arrangement whereby ought not to be sacrificed if the he would have all necessary standpoint of the House of Lords assistance Reuter.

2 can be reasonably met Bouter