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New York, Oct. 2. Every reference to the British Empire and to the British Labour | Government was greetud with boos:| and catrulls at a noisy meeting of

VICTIM'S. CONDITION Protest against the British Govern-

ment's statement of policy regard- ing Palestine. fully outlined two

In the United

PROBLEMS.

|SOUTH AFRICAN HINTS

AT FAILURE.

REVOLUTION EXPECTED OF BRITAIN.

DIFFICULTIES SEEN.

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MOSCOW CONFERENCE

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SOVIET INSISTING ON THE KHARBAROVSK PACT,

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INQUIRY INTO LOSS

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SIR JOHN SIMON ACCEPTS DIFFICULT TASK.

TWO ASSESSORS TO SIT.

7

CHINA'S DEFAULT IN LOAN

OBLIGATIONS.

CREDITORS' MEETING TO BE HELD.

INTERESTING STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT.

FINANCIAL REFORMS,

NOT IN PARLIAMENT.

London, Oct. 22

London, Oct. 22. The Hon. Richard Stafford

It was announced from No. 10, Cripps, K.C.. youngest son of Lord

Downing Street to-night that it is the desire of the Government and Farmoor, the Labour Peer, has

the Air Ministry that the enquiry been appointed Solicitor-General

into the loss of the British in succession to Sir John Melville.

dirigible, R-101, should be a public London, Oct. 22, K.C. who recently tendered his

Shanghai, Oct. 22, inquiry carried out by an indepen The South African Premier, resignation owing to ill-health. Fears of a complete break-dent Court with full powers to General Hertzog, broadcasting

The appointment is more than down of the Sino-Soviet Confer-

take evidence on oath.

A lengthy statement issued to to-night on the work of the Im Hon. R. S. Cripps is not a Member the Soviet insistence on discus- K.C., of Indian Statutory Com- that China has fought her last usually interesting because the ence at Moscow, consequent on ingly approached Sir John Simon, Kai-shek, expressing the belief The Government have accord- the Press by Marshal Chiang perial Conference said that al- though the work being done in at Winchester and University Col. from the settlement of the

He was educated sing outstanding problems, apart mission fame, and he has consent-civil war, and outlining the ma- the field of economic co-opera-lege, London, being called to the CE.R. entanglement, are enter-Brabazon, who used to sit in the

ed to conduct the investigation. jor tasks to be tackled imme- diately by the National Govern- other work of the very greatest During the War he

ment, including the rehabilita- Assistant Superintendent of II. M. circles following the receipt of a Division of Rochester, losing his finances and the establishment

tive Member for the Chatham Factory. Queen's Ferry.

telegram from General Mo Teh-seat to Air. F. Markham (Labour) of a budget system, has been For some years he has acted as hui, the chief Chinese delegate, at the 3920 election who was one followed by an announcement Hon. Treasurer of the World suggesting that he should return of the first Englishmen to fly, and that a meeting of all creditors Alliance for Promoting Inter to China.

who always took a great interest of the Chinese Government is in air matters, being the pioneer to be held on November 15. national Friendship. through the

on Church and Clergy.

of Parliament.

In addition. Colonel Moore

provided in an official report of known to be closely associated with tion was attracting much notice, Bar at the Middle Temple in 191tained by Nanking Government House of Commons us Conservation of the national currency and

A possible motive for the days ago, murderous attack on Acting The principal speaker was Dr. Principal Warder Plumb at Vie-John Haynes Holmes, the Pastor of toria Gaol (exclusively reported Community Church, New York, who is well-known for his anti-British in the Telegraph yesterday) is writing and sermons, and who is the incident, revealing that the Italian extremists convict assailant had been It is significant that he aroused punished for breaches of dis-enthusiasm when he urged the cipline recently and was about Arabs of Palestine t follow to be examined regarding his Gandhi's example and to follow a campaign of passive resistance fitness to receive'a whipping.

against the British. The duty of infieling the whip-

States.

The New York Times,

whose

importance and significance was also being accomplished and the problems resolved.

"The Constitutional

questions bequeathed by the 1926 Imperia! Conference were being dealt with

was

of aerial photography in Britain,

one of two Assessors,

ping would probably have fallen owner is the pillar of American in a manner and a spirit which Churches, while he edited Cripps says that he believes a deadlock is will sit with Sir John Simon as originally planned for the first of

☛ to A.P.W. Plunib, who is the pull-Jewry, has adopted a sympathetic entitled the delegates to feel con-

He hangman in addition to his or-tone towards Great Britain in con-dent that the present Imperial

nexion with its statement of policy. Conference dinary prison duties.

The journal asserts that the claims

The victim's condition is grave though the fact that he walked from the scene of the outrage to the Prison Hospital gave a first impression that his injuries were not very serious.

The Official Report.

The oficial report made yester day and released this morning to: the Press, states: -

A1 10.15

am. while Acting Principal Warden No. 63 Bert Plumb was mustering 26 prisoners for sick parade and punishment parade, in the main hall at Victoria Gaol, Prisoner No. 1614 Chun Sui- chung who had fallen in for medi cal inspection as to his fitness for * receiving a whipping. drew a file dagger and stabbed him from by hind:

once in the back behind the left shoulder blaule, and once in the right shoulder near the collar bone.

"Prisoner No. 1614 returned to his cell, No. 34 in F. 2 Ward, near by, where he was found by A.P.P.0. Cressey immediately after the con- currence. On opening the cell, A.P.P.O. Cressey was hunded the

ment for breaches of prison dis-

would, in

every

of British Zionism were always in-pert, remain true to the spiriti admissible and justice could never inf its predecessor and attain a no tolerate the imposition of Jewish less happy result for the future. ascendancy in Palestine by high pressure methods,

Ver

The Herald-Tributar

that says Britain is now reaping an บท pleasant harvest of her generous promises' during the war.

-Renter's American Service.

RATIFYING NAVAL

TREATY.

BROADCAST SPEECHES FOR NEXT MONDAY.

Wireless,

London, Oct. 22.

Naval Treaty

Fiscal Policies.

Whereas at the previous Con- ference the constitutional needs. of the Commonwealth demanded a readjustment of the constitutional -principle to the constitútional. development, at the present Con- ference it was a readjustment of the economic basis of Great Britain's fiscal volicy in harmony with the economic needs or the

He became King's Counsel three years ago,

Sir James Melville; the retiring Minister. is at present on a sea voyage on medical advice- Reuter and British Wireless.

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THE ALSDORF MINE DISASTER.

DEATH-ROLL EXPECTED TO

EXCEED 250, |

Berlin. Oct. 22. Two hundred and thirty live various Member States. herself bodies have now been recovered from the Wilhelm Mine ut Alsdorf, included, that was involved.

Twenty-one miners are still miss The new problem was certainlying and it is feared that they are nr less ditheult of solution.

14.

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In his telegram, General Mo

inevitable on account of the Soviet attitude to act according to the

The other member of the Court strict terms Protocol, which he finds it very Applied Mechanism at Cambridge of the Kharbarovsk will be Professor C. Inglis, Professor of Mechanism and difficult to comply with. The Chi- University since 1913, who will nese delegate states that it will be also assist Sir John with practical wise for the Chinese representa, and technical knowledge during

the enquiry.

The first sitting will probably be next week and the Court may compel the production of any evidence bearing on the subject-- Renter and British Wireless.

tives to return to China instead of wasting their time any further.

Soviet Blamed.

Nanking circles say that the breakdown of the negotiations will be attributable to the Soviet's luck of sincerity.

That the Chinese delegates are tired of the monotony of aimless discussions at the so-called preti- minary meetings in evidenced by the fact that General Mo and some of his Chinese assistants are known to be visiting Leningrad,

arrest

HEAVY FINE ON A YOUNG WOMAN,

ARRESTED IN POSSESSION OF OPIUM.

...

Such a creditors' meeting was

because of the civil war situation October but it could not be held

China.

Finance has now called a meeting, through the foreign Ministers to Mr. T. V. Soong, the Minister of

China whose nationals hold Chin- ese bonds, asking the Ministers to send representatives to Nanking on November 15. It will be their purpose, says Mr., Soong, to dis- cuss China's defaulted obligations.

No Plan Yet.

The plan of the Nationalist Gov- ernment to meet these obligations has not yet, been disclosed. The

pcan war.

ex-

the

government avas warned last week by Mr. Soong, however, that it was necessary to retrench penses in order to balance budget and repay foreign loans. This has led to the impression Charged with being in posses-plating extensive refunding opera- that the government ia contem- It is understood that ratifirazion H. therefore, the present Con- The worst effects of the explo

sion of 60 taels of raw opium on in respect of the London Naval ference should eventually provesinn were experienced in the lowest

Hunan Government.

the water-front yesterday, a young

tions. Treaty will be deposited at the less fruitful in its economic la workings, fifteen hundred feet

The exact sum which the Chin- The Nanking Government has before Mr. Lindsell at the Central foreign creditors is unknown but

Chinese woman, who appeared Foreign Office next Monday by bours than individual require-underground, where 89 were killed.

ese government has defaulted to.. of all presentatives

His ments had led them to hope. it Members of the industrial council, announced the intention to effect Magistracy this morning, Was Majesty's Governments, with the should not be forgotten that what meeting in a room at the pithead a thorough reorganisation of the fined $1.000, with the alternativet amounts to a large figure which possible exception of the Irish was expected from Great Britain at the time of the disaster, were | Hunan Provincial Government of three months' imprisonment. "Acting Principal Warider Plumb Free State, whose ratification may in order to meet the Dominion re-all killed.

has extended over a period of more than ten years. The largest following the arrest and dismissal

The defendant admitted' posses-portion includes British, Ameri- went direct to the Gaul Hospitale delayed slightly by technicalquirements, and also her own, was

Later. of General Ho Chien, the chairman slon, but said the opium had been can and Japanese loans which from where he was removed to the difficulties, and' of the United hardly less than a revolution, in i

States and the Japanese Govern- fiscal practice.

The latest figure of those serious-of Hunan Provincial Government given to her to deliver to a woman Government Civil Hospital.

no less than inly injured in the Alsdorf mine is

in Hongkong. She was paid $1 during and following the Euro- were advanced to China before, ment,

economic theory.

98.

since April, 1929. The

for the troublé. In the afternoon, Bover. Mr. Hamaguchi (Prime President

No Complaints.

Rescuers found the dynamite of General Ho Chien has evoked Revenue Officer Grimmitt 'in- stores intact, and indications now considerable comment in North formed his Worship that, when Minister of Japan) and Mr. Ram-

Urgent Problems. Should she, therefore, tell them suggest that the explosion occurred China newspapers, being cited as arrested, the defendant told the say Mar Donald will broadcast that a change involving

President Chiang Kai-shek's such in the pit itself. Many of the showing how public opinion can officers that she had been given statement to the Press began with speeches on the file dagger by the prisoner, who had which it is hoped will be audible fundamental national issues could dead were gassed or drowned, ow-effect the removal of the highest the opium by a woman in Canton

a declaration that his chief mis- to deliver. to another woman at

sion now was the consolidation of been confined to his cell as a punish all three countries--British not be decided till after close and ing to the ventilating plant being

Tai Pak Lo. Not knowing the way. national unity. The most urgent mature consideration, South Afri-put out of action by the concussion. officia! in a Province. ca would have no reason to com-Renter.

With a continued retreat of the the defendant had engaged a coolie problems to be faced were the sup- plain.

Shansi forces into southern Shansi, to carry her crate of chickens in pression of communism and ban- the Honan warfronts are exwhich was cleverly concealed the ditry, the rehabilitation of fin- contained in the hollow up-rights and honest administration, indus- from the fact that Northern Honun of the bamboo crate. has been occupied by General

trial development, and the develop- As a result of the informationment of national and local au Shih-Yu-shan. General Shih's divulged by the defendant the tonomy, thus paving the way for suggestion to form an alliance officers went to Tui Pak Lo and true democracy. with the Manchurian Government found that the occupanta had

He said that the government, in absconded, there having apparent seeking to consolidate unity and has, more or less, been confirmedy been another person with the preserve peace, desired the peo by report that he is shortly to defendant who Herr Braun, the Prussian Prime visit Mukden to interview General warned the would-be-receivers of in the nation's affaire, changing had instantly ple to assume a greater interest Minister, has answered Hitler's de- Chang Hsueh-liang, head of the her arrest. themselves disappointed, would

and that he sweep the Prussian Manchurian Government.

their apathy to constructive cri- Government, free of Socialism, by

ticism. He promised that all appointing Dr. Severing aa Mini-

Kalgan Occupied.

views not contrary to the Kuomin- ster of the Interior.

tang party platform, as outlined In what way the convict who The United States policy in re

by the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, would The Shansi forces at Kalgan, Dr. Severing is not only a So-the leading city in western Chihli Many of the numerous subjects cialist but a strong defender of the Province near the Shansi frontier,

receive consideration from and be mude the murderous attack onference to Brazil, still in the throes Warder Plumb had managed to of civil war, is being very closely on the agenda of the Imperial Republic and it is expected that he has been evacuated by the army

acted upon by the government. obtain the weapon and, conceal it followed by Latin-American counConference are now being dealt will give short thrift in trouble- about him is now the subject of tries, where it is believed that the with, by Committees formed to some Nazis (Fascists) official investigation. The instru- United States is making a definite examine them ment had been fashioned from bid for the Brazilian trade in com- scraping file, said to be similar to petition with Great Britain-Re- those used in the prison work-ter's American Service. shops.

cipline since the 15th instant.

"The Medical Officer in charge

of the Government Civil Hospital U.S. POLICY IN BRAZIL body that once more the conflict PREMIER REFUSES TOperiencing a complete lull, apart 6 tails doiven the us being ances, the creation of an efficient

reports the condition of Acting Principal Warder Plumb as very serious."

"Holding His Own."

ROUSES COMMENT.

While it must be clear to every-

between Free Trade and Proter-l tion for Great Britain had to be decided, and that upon the de- cision taken must to a large ex- TRADE BELIEVED TO BE

tent depend the economic policy MAIN INFLUENCE.

which in future would obtain with- Since then, Acting Principal

in the Commonwealth, they in the Washington, Oat. 22. Warder Plumb, who is suffering from extensive internal hae- At the request of the Brazilian Dominions, whatever that decision. morrhage, is reported from the Government, President Hoover has might be, and however much they Hospital as "holding his own." is placed an embargo on the shipment might thereby eventually feel condition has taken a slight turn of war munitions and equipment to have no ground to quarrel with for the better, although it was in- Brazil, except under special licence dicated this morning it has not pro- to be issued by the State Depart-anybody. gressed beyond the critical stage. ment.

Man to Be Charged.

on.

OPIUM SMUGGLERS CAUGHT.

TWO ARRESTS ON TRAIN FROM CANTON,

Committee Work.

BE BULLIED.

HERR BRAUN'S RETORT TO

HITLER DEMAND.

Berlin, Oct. 22.

detail. The next munists-Reuter. meeting of the heads of the dele- gations will be held when reports are available for their considera- tion and this is unlikely to be the case before next week.

or Com-

CHIANG KAI-SHEK IN SHANGHAL

*

under Marshal. Yen Hsi-shan. The Kalgan Chinese Chamber of Commerce has formed a Public Safety Committee for the preserva- tion of order in the city. The Manchurian Army expects to enter the city some time to-morrow.

The 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th and 7th, Shansi armies are retreating to Southern Shansi.

Railway Chief Resigns.

MR. MAZE ARRIVES IN HONGKONG,

TO TAKE UP SMUGGLING QUESTION.

Attack on Milltarists. Chiang asked for the nation's collective effort in maintaining? anity and peace and in achievin reconstruction...

But any effort on the part of any particular faction to resort to force tolerated. to maintain its views would not be

Mr. F. W. Maze, the Inspector General of the Chinese Maritime Customs, arrived in the Colony this morning by the Empress of Canada. visit is for the purpose of resum- According to current reports his To-day, the Committee on econo- mie co-operation had a general It is indicated as likely that the

ing negotiations with the Hong- preliminary discussion man will be produced before the

on the work of the Empire Marketing

PLANNING TO VISIT HIS Magistrale, on a charge of inflict-

kong Government regarding "the NATIVE VILLAGE,

establishment of Maritime Customs ing grievous bodily harm

Board with a view to making sug-

stations to check smuggling from Acting Principal Wärder Plumb.

gestions regarding its future de-

The Chief Superintendent of the British Colony into Chinese ter This, of course, is contingent on

Shanghai, Oct. 23. velopment. A Sub-Committee is

the Tientsin-Pukow Railway ritory.” |- the officer's recovery..

engaged.on an examination of President and Madame Chiang has tendered his resignation to The Kuo Min News Agency says Warder Plumb's bed-side de- A fine of $3,150, or, in default. statistics regarding the United Kai-shek arrived in Shanghai this the Nanking Government, stress-that if a satisfactory arrangement positions were taken at the G.C.H.nine months' imprisonment, was Kingdom's whent consumption and morning. It is understood that ing the necessity for the integrity can be made, the illicit traffic from by Mr. Lindsell yesterday. imposed by Mr. Butters, at the wheat production within the Em- Marshal Chiang is planning of control of the Rallway,

visit to Fenghua; his native place.

Hongkong to Canton and other In the afternoon, at 3.30 o'clock, Kowloon Magistracy this morning, pire.

In this connexion, the Ministry of Kwangtung ports, which has deve Mr. L. II. V. Booth, First Assist-on a Chinese, charged by Detec- The Arbitration and Disarma-for a brief reat-Router.

Railways has 'sent a second loped enormous proportions since ant Director of Criminal Intelli.tive Sergeant Kellett, with pos-ment Committee has concluded its

telegram to General Chang Hsueh the introduction of the new tariffs gence, appeared before Mr. Lind-session of 104 taels of raw opium, discussion of the general Act, and

Jang pointing out to the Man- last year, will be eliminated at the sell, then engaged in hearing an

The man was arrested after he although discussion of the actual

churian ruler the necessity of source, thereby securing a cops embezzlement case at the Central had alighted from the Canton train draft convention remains to be

ebolishing the branch office of the derable increase in the legitimate Magistracy, and, said that Warder last night, and the gplum was concluded, the Committee hopes to

Tientsin-Pukow Railway at Tien Customs revenue for the southern Plumab was in a serious condition found tied round his legs.

finish the subjects before it by the

The Royal Observatory reports tain so as to permit the Nanking ports. X. in Hospital. "I have just been, Another Chinese, who came by week-end and to begin the prepara- that an anticyclone is central over appointee to have complete Mr. Maze, was met on ár notified," said Mr. Booth, "that we the same train, was also charged tion of its report,

North Japan. Pressure is re- control. So far, the Manchurian rival by the Customs Commlesión- may not have another opportuni-with possession of 40 taels of raw

The Committee on oversens set-latively low in the extreme south. Government has taken no official er for the Kowloon District. He is ty of taking his depositions if your opium. He was fined $1,200, or tlement held its first sitting. The local forecast is East winds, step towards the closing down of to stay here for two or three days nance depend Worship will not take them now.".six months' imprisonment.

British Wireless.e

moderate; fair

the Tientain office 1.

yes and the ferocted to Canton

FAIR WEATHER.

A threat of force on the part of any faction or militarist to back up any proposals will not be count- enanced," He said. The Nationa list government's entire resources will be thrown against any leader or faction threatening to disrupt national unity by force. Only through the peoples' co-operation in upholding law, and discipline may peace be preserved.

Discussing imminent post-war problems, the generalissimo said, Our campaign against banditry and communism has already begun. It is to be expected that within six months the objective: will be achieved-

Likia Abolition. The rehabilitation