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CHANGES.

SOVIET LEADERS. MR. T. V. SOONG MAY RESIGN

SWIFT ACTION BY THE DICTATOR.

GENERAL BLUCHER-GALEN AMONG ARRESTED.

FINANCE MINISTRY.

LIKELY SUCCESSOR.

Shanghal, Nov. 18 Important changes in the pegs ronal of the National Government, including the resignation of the Finance Minister. Mr. T, V. Soun and the suggested apmintment of Me. 11. B. Kung, the Minister of Ilustry and Labour? as new Finance Minister, are under con- sideration by Marshat Chiang Kai- A series of sensational ar- reets has been made in Masrowshark at tieneral Chang Heuch

SYRZOF'S MISTAKE.

following the unearthing of n plot to effect the downfall of M. Stalin.

the Noviet Dictator. Some of the lending members of the Red Government, are now in enstodiy, including General Blucher Galen, whose activities in Canton arui China in con- nexion with the Flest Northern Expedition will be well remem bered.

Berin, Nov. 18.

It reported from Moscow that follow me the recent arrest of M. Syrtcu. Due former Premier of the Sovi↑ Republic, as a result of 10 hifter leh made by him on M.

Stalin, a widespread conspirnes

against M. Stalin has been envered

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A National Hero

Trading A

Coun- number

arrested, munists were suddenly those now in enstody Including M. Andreyeff, who is a member of thef Supreme Military Council, and General V. Blucher-Galen, who un til recently has been fgtest as a tional hero for his victory over the Chine in the Chinese Eastern Railwae conflict in Manchuria.

ARegest Leader.

M Apof the People's Cam

cowd. The propre, alleged to the bendrat companies, flawed up to the pore

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A pupobed Loading Bastian mditary affleurs new anther arred are la torlieved for an involvy) in the plot

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contemplated ettings arie

connexion with The elaborate prostratume of Marshal Chinng to reorganise the National Governant.

With the anneal of the posedlale appointment of Mr. H. B. Kung it seems that the uriginal Mancheria proposal for the appointment of a Manchuria21 final. Mr. Hi Secho, as Pinnen Minister, has been ruled out.

mission to

Chinese telegrams say that M. T. V. Suntig will be appointed to Grid an important Europe representing the Nation- list Government with a view to farthering the industrind develop- ment of thin. The exset "nature

mission has not of this Revealed. At interests to note

by that

of his marriage to the siter of Marshal Chinna

Kai-shek's second wie, Mr. H. H. Kanr is related to the President and to his predecessor in the Floatero Mialetry,

At the augtigestion of General Chany Beach-linng the Nanking Governme 1 will probably shortly announce the appolutment of Mr. Wang Shu-kati, a Manelarian Government official, as Minister for Home Anair it is under. stood that other Mancharbin Aprinte

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FEDERATED INDIAN LABOUR LEADERS SHANGHAI CENSUS A MURDER TRIAL

STATES.

IDEA SWEEPS THROUGH

CONFERENCE.

UNANIMOUS SUPPORT OF PLAN

EXHIBITED SO FAR.

LORD PEEL'S SUPPORT.

COME SORT of Federal Union between the Indian States and the Provinces would probably be so fruitful that it would be a misfortune if the Hound Table Conference did not lay down the foundations of a Federal system,

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CHALLENGED.

FREE VOTE OF HOUSE ON TARIFFS.

COUNCIL OF INDUSTRY'S MANIFESTO.

PROBLEMS IGNORED.

FIGURES.

SETTLEMENT POPULATION

OVER MILLION.

36,491

FOREIGNERS,

Shanghai, Nov. 19. Detalls of the Census recently taken in the International Settle. ment here disclose the fact that

PROBLEM.

USE OF HER EVIDENCE AGAINST GIRL,.

GIVEN EARLIER AS CROWN WITNESS.

the total population is 1,007,888, DEFENCE OBJECTIONS. mude up of 971,397 Chinese and 36.191 foreigners.

The foreign population includes the following totals;

Japanese British

Russlan Indian

American Portuguese German

18,478, 6,221.

3,487,

1,842.

1,608.

1,332.

833.

London, Nov. 18. The National Council of in- dustry and Commerce which was formed at the end of September af a private meeting of 200 resentative industrialist aut business men "to promote a polley of protection of home in- dustries by the imuestion of At the last Census, taken in tariffs against 1925. the total population was

comprising † appropriate

844.226. imports from forsign nations, respective of party politics." gave its first indiention of lit. to day.

motor-car hairman.

A statement to this effect was the most important con-

The Executive Committee of the tribution to yesterday's discussion at the Conference as it came National Councit of industry and from Lord Peel, former Conservative Secretary of State for Commerce, of which Sir William

the India, and the principal Conservative member of the British Morri

famous 1:+ the delegation. Earlier on, he had counselled against precipitancy,manufacturer. and thought that it would satisfy present conditions if the issued a statement expressing their at the failure tif the Provinces were granted full autonomy, as contemplated by the dismay Simon Commission, the Central Government to be left unchang-grotumie side of the Imperial Fon- ed while the Provinces were settling down.

Sir Hubert Carr, speaking for the Europeans in British India, favoured the Federal idea, but warned against too rapid changes,

ferenze.

Fallure Inevitable.

When the Au Tau murder case was continued before Mr. Justice Wood at the Criminal Sessions this morning, argument ensued over. the admissibility or other- wlae of evidence given by accuR- ed against Tang Yung, the widow of the dead man, at Taipo Police Court, which wi referred to as a confession. Mr. 810,279 Le D'Almuda, junior, counsel Chinese and 29,947 foreigners. for Pun Chiu-ling, the accused There has thus been an inerenze | girl, contended that the evidence in five years of 187,662, to which was not admissible because it the Chinese have contributed

had been given in consequence 161.118 and foreigners 6.544.of a threat of imprisonment if Our Own Currespondent,

it were not given.

Acrazed is charged with murder of hor father-in-law, Cheung Pak-yau, at Sheung Tse village. Au Tau, on September 1. The case for the Crown is belay condacted by Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, while Mr. Leo D'Almada, junior, instructed by Mr. W. D. Owen, of Moara. Hastings, Dennys and Howley, is defonding.

PRINCE'S TRIP TO S. AMERICA.

LEAVING ENGLAND IN JANUARY.

London, Sav. FR. officially announced that

Made Before Arrest

the

Mr. Somerset Fitzroy offered the evidence given by accused ai Taipo Police Court against Tang Yung, widow of the murdered man, who is also charged with the mur der und whose case will probably to-morrow morning.

Th Committor declare that the failure was inevitable because the Yesterday was the day of the Conservatives. The Mahara-Goverment subordinated econòmics It is jah of Rowa said that the States did not desire Federation if to pulities, actually ruling out is IL.B.II. the Prince of Wales, necom- alvance, certain lines of progresspanied by Prince George, will travel it meant the destruction of all that the States stood for.

The delegations are now selecting their representatives for|in fiscal discussion.

by the steamship Oropesa, which the Federal Relations Committee, of which Mr. Wedgwood Benn mitter, is entirely ignoring the out- for South America.

The Government, anga the Cani- fenver Liverpool on January 15th will be the chairman.

standing problems of unemployment The Prince will spend January and trade recovery.

27th at Dermuda, January 31st at The Statement goes on to urge Havann. February 3rd at Kingston. Į rommenee the Government to deal with the Jamaica, and will reach Buenos Counsel. Explained that the evid Equestions of unemployment and | Aires about April 5th. He will ence was given when accused was a taxation immediately on a strictly open the British Trade Exhibition Crown witness, and before she be

on Apr 14th. | wn-party hasde, Seavine Parliament,

came un accused. en vermenting the people, to

view

independent of rivers

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Lundio, Nov Beammate penebas mari vol the The flicke proseng tion of the general diara

taen- sion at ;) - Round Table Clearan Marly vara ene

NEW PRESIDENT OF BAITI.

OPPOSED TO ‘AMERICAN OCCUPATION.

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ded bone it the

Alinha Perjerutan.

100

their

Appeal to Bectorale, The delement turther unos the mad Shanti cloned British people at one to force their

th Maharajalesaws on

BIKINA 5102- and Alway that the In-1 and to demand that Govern note it quite clear that the indian ja hates are willing to enter inment and Parliament definitely put Ito an All-india Federation. He apside all thought of offer and party States sought na new territori er powers, but a practical apphlet au the British delegation to and act-Reuter.

Th Minozaki ! Alway visunlined "United States "Italia" within the Empice, and

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measurable distance

Dangers of Short Cuts,

He felt certain that not only

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Mr. Leo D'Almada contended ¦ Chile -av. the frineg en Wadecano

that the evidence was not admis- Prince Georg are expected to ille and proceeded to support his rive at Autofagasta" on Febrycontention by argument. He first 21st, and will proceed to Santiago all dedt with the general prin-

by nin the same days --Kestor.

EX-KING HUSSEIN.

REPORT OF DEATH DENIED OFFICIALLY.

London, Nov. 18.

viple, to the effect that if there was the slightest doubt whatsoever thala confession..was..not volut tary, and was induced by Tenv promise, or threst, then such a confession was not admissible.

Replying to his Lordship, coun- sel said he intended to put accus ed into the witness box on the

to whether the evl question An offieind telegram from Cyrpus,dence she gave at Talpo was ad- missible or not. · He would call where ex-King Hussein is lying ill, does the report

from Baghdad her merely for that point. that he is deat. The message states that his condition โล เวร- champal,

fly

His Lordship-In the meantime you are making statements of facts to which she will depogo7---- Yes.

4

Take the le conorage into both hands. General Blucher-Galen,

cation

Sir William Morris, in the courag It India was satisfied, he de-of his speech at the formation of alliance. General Blacher-tiden,

clared, then all imperial problems the Council said: " is an astoural- Extra .rights, outside

the-defence, trade and unemploying state of affairs that a country claims to be a direct dlesendant of

treaties, should be frankt antment-would be solved within a such as ones, with such brains and the famous Marshal Bucher, of

openly discussed and decided Waterinn days, was a memlag of

of time. New York, Nov. 18. by mutual consent.

workmen na we have, should have The Maharajah of Rowa, ru-continued its suicidal polley so long aseret revolutionary surpunisations

A message from Port au Prince in Russia long before the war.

As rewarda British India. there presenting the Conservative cle- it is, I think I can say truth states that Stegio. Vincent, ex- Were Iwo alternatives, thement among the India States, said rally that during the past 25 to Bon-comunis-

30 Though he became a

President of the Senate of Haiti. "Eastern" or the "Western" con- that a new nation soned officer in the Tsarist Army

wax belug has y elected President of ception. By

days of Joseph The Arst. British brought to birth.

years since the

The Baghdad report nuw refuted, during the early part of the cam

Haiti.

India might again he formed into

Chamberlain-we have been finnne- patern.

Thu

President is a India States and that would bin.

ing the whole world with our sai suggested that King Feisal of Irak After the revolutiva, he proved member

Detective's. Threat. who, on hearing of his father's cri of the extreme Op-|Swaraj considerably nearer and

ridal policy. (Hege, hear.) himself a brilliant cavalry leader,

"I think it can he said that thitical illness, bad planned to

Mr. D'Almachas continted that position Party. and {.'

perpetunte Lha link with the

to Travel In and was sent by the Soviet Govern opponent of the American occupa

among the millions who fill the country is the dumping gront of to Port Said, and

necased was taken to Au Crown.

Tag a picked in. Je is the first President to men to Dreuburg with

Police Station where she soil in India, but among all sober the world: and it is quite time weCyrus by British warship. hauck

Wax, force to drive out the White Rus-be regularly deter sine" the con-

"It would be the shortest, ned minded politicians and statesmen, did away

with

that dumping given up the journey in conquestioned at some length by a of the report of ex-King Hussein's Chinese detective. She could not sian, General Dutow.

clusion the Treaty with the

quickest way Lo

Dominion there must be a large measure grad. Hear, hear 3 Status."

of sympathy for the legitimate It must be try a widerici death.---Krutv.

remember exactly what the date of aspirations of the lenidors of country to have withstood so well

that occurrence was, but she made nations thought in British India. But it the dumping of foreign

certain statement to hlai which, was necessary to bear in mind the for so long.

he told her, she must subsequently- danger of precipitous and short.

make as a witness against Tang cuts.

Yung, to the Magistrate at Taipo Police Court. The detective fur- ther emphasised that she must re- pent to the Magistrate shint she had told him, saying that if she did not do so she would have to go to prison for a number of years.

'That constituted a threat, said

tho

In 1921 he fought in the cam- United States in 19152- Renta a la paign against General von Ungern-American Series. Sternberg and Admiral Koltehnk, later being entrusted with a task of reorganising the Red Army.

Career In Chin».

He turned up in China in 1926 andor the name of General Golens, as military adviser to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, and the Rureparer of the Nationalist army at that time are ascribed to hini.

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The planned the 'operations which led to the fall of Tsingtao and Kai Fong and brought the Southern Chineso to the gaten of Peking.

The new institution, which the After relations between moscow and the Nationallat Government President of Liberia has designated were broken off in 1927, he re-us the Republie's official bank, will turned to Moscow, via Mongolia, be part of the United States Trnd- coming to the tore again in 1929 Company, subsidiary DM Commander-in-Chief Red Army in the Far East.

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THE UNREST IN SPAIN.

BARCELONA SITUATION NOW IMPROVING.

Madrid, Nov. 18. After a two-days' general strike, in which four people were killed and 12 injured, the situation in Barco- Iona la improving. Shop are re- opening, and the trans are run ning.

The strike movement la, however, spreading in Alicante, where the palice are guarding public build- 'ings, and where no newspapers are being published-Router,

of the

Firestone Company, which owns a million eres of land in Liberia for rubbor development. Renter's (Amiviona „Ser ein,

MURDER OF AFGHAN CONSUL.

ASSASSINATED IN SOVIET TERRITORY.

Moscow, Nov. 19.

"Sleeping Sickness."

tive.

The Crucial Question,

BRITISH INTERESTS IN CHINA.

TROOPS SUFFICIENT FOR PROTECTION.

tüne

counsel, and he submitted that that was sufficient to make evidence inadmissfold; The dif

prezent ference between the and those he bad quoted was that in the latter the prisoner was in- volved worse at the time because he was under arrest, while in the present case,' accused when she gave evidence, was not under ar- real and had no iden that she would subsequently be taken into castonly..

As regards the Wastern concup tion of responsible self-govern ment, the Maharajah said that the

wattl "franchise" alon originated Communal friction. There were some aspecta of Win several occasions at DAY If created complexities in adjust India's problem in regard to whicenivetings," he prog.fed, "we bear in the future relations of men of conservative doneratie Bulls with the ladian would obstinately, though

principles a much from the Pria Trader about not exchanges. With a wealth of statis- blindly, resist all change.

tical support, but I jus usk one fle taught that India should ar

London, Nov. 18, rive at a situation of fully blossom. They will resist any sign af

Can goods producer by question:

In the House of Commons to-day ed Dominion Status

arly as failing in loyalty to the Crown, foreign country employ British possible and his aim in saving so

workmen? any attempt to sever: India's des | Wormul

(Hear, hear.) Now, at question-time, at the conclusion was that the larger Empire alg stinies from the British Empire, we are getting down to ordinary of an enumeration of British find a grateful india co-operating

common or garden facts. The Free forces h China, Mr. Tom Shaw, To this extent, however, he beTrader sits down and works out the Secretary of State for War, wholeheartedly du midinit the Em- pire to which they were proud to lieved that every member of the things on paper,

We get miles of repeated that there are sufficient belong something even trenter.

present Conference was conserva-statistics. We are told that with-British troops in China to protect British intereats, particularly out Free Trade this country must One of the most difficult aspects come to an end. But I ask you once British Ives-Reiter.

Can an article produced of the problem was the variety of again: Sir Muhammad Shafi, « Punjabi interests to be reconciled. A very a foreign country employ Bel-

sines Lord large measure of mutual

righ labour? (Crienf. "No.") We Mesten said that | Mataulay's-vizion ju 1899, of India, filone vena novegames.

are dealing not with theory, but of the future demanding Kampgan. The Indian states wigheid to sufe- with facts. In-iffution the British Parlin and their individual existence antways led me and that t

"There is another polut which ment had crumbed to sleeping bed for guarantees that his country has always made u

Need for Care, HOW ITALY TACKLES A sickness and a turdy measures ang changes would leave them free.

BUDGET DEFICIT.

Counsel pointed out that the faw long intervals, instead of satie- to pursue their own dden in the point of taxing practicilly every-

was very strict'om the matter 'In. When we fying, gave a further impetus to mannes of their heritage and thing it cannot produce.

Ruma, Nov. 18, India mipirations..

tradition, and that their position look to the other site it seem if

Faced with a budgetary deficit regard to persona who had already He was of the opinion that if a would not be modified without we can produce anything we then of 720 million lire during the first had some warning, that' whatever solution catisfying to the legitimate their own consent.

say to the forelmer Send it in free four months of the financial year, they might say might be aspirations of Indir was not reach- They did not desire Federation we like it. Hour, Jar, and the Government has decided to against them, and submitted that

ed, there would be grave dangers. if It involved

gradual dislaughter.) tremble to think what the silun- appearance of all the Stafas had fund trieil to convineu our Govern- five ver cont, according tô grade, - | Kreal a degree of care was neces

"It is time we came to our senses reduce the anlories of all State in such a case where, perhaps.

bmployees from twelve to thirty man and been arrested, where so Bon would be," he said.

stood for in the past..

ment, or Governmenta, that that po. Ranter, ད, ༔

sury, there should, in the present British Tory Views.

case, be a much greater degree of Hey will not do any longer. (Hear, Lord Dool, the principle Tory hear.)

care, In vleg of the fact that no- The usual weakly whist drive at cused had no suspicion, when she member of the British delegation and the first of that delegation to.

the Police Recreation Olub is not made the statement at the Police speak, said that whatever might do

being held to-morrow on account Station or when she gave her the constitutioniki insties, thay falt

of the Boxing Tournament between oviduice at the most-deonly, the contributions thi

tid Pollen and

It is felally reported that the Afghan Consul at Tashkent, Shold- mir Khansim Khan, has been rob- bed and killed in Soviet territory They wanted India to attain Do- while returning from Persin to minion Status as an equal partnar Askabad. His assass! was ar In the British Commonwealth of reated.

Nations.

The

He declared that the position of the Moslems

*Imple. Was very

The Soviet has conveyed its con- delence to the Afghan Ambas sador-Reuter:

Federal system, kovernmenting they tak

con-

:

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Burden of Taxation. Then we come to a point on toh, I think, most of you will with 20; And INRE 18 taxation

CUT IN GOVERNMENT SALARIES.

he would,

NACH

Court that