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三井醇 MERITA WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1930.

STORMCLOUD TO THE RESCUE. DOLLAR DECLINE

SHIP WRECKED ON NAVAL MISSION TO

PRATAS REEF.

TOTAL LOSS: CREW IN PERIL.

MOUNTAINOUS SEAS RAGING IN VICINITY.

RADIO MESSAGES.

With mountainous SCRA gradually breaking up their small craft, 14 people on the motor-abip Hedvig, are in a perilous position. They are ashore in three feet of water on the treacherous Protas reef, and are sending out argent distress signals, while H.M.S. Stormcloud and the steamer Hinsang, are rush. ing to their assistance.

CHINA.

CAPTAIN BAILLIE-GROHMAN

TO BE FIRST HEAD.

LEAVING EARLY 1931.

Naval

with

Government in the projected re- orgnisation and modernisation of The Chinese Navy.

Harold Baillie-Grab- Captain man, 1.5.0.. 0.3.E., who has been Twenty-seven years in the Rayal Navy, and who was recently pros maled to his present rank, his been selected as first beak of the

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GOVERNMENT HOOVER RETAINS FAIR SEX CUTTING AUSTRALIA'S OWN

DEFEATED.

BUT ONLY IN HOUSE OF LORDS.

MANY VOTES ASKED FROM IMPERIAL TRADE.

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

It.

OPTIMISM.

ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.

FAITH IN SECURITY OF ECONOMIC LIFE.

DEFICIT IN BUDGET.

DOWN ON SILK. ·

OVER 20,000,000 UNOCCUPIED PAIRS OF STOCKINGS.

INDUSTRY ALARMED.

VICEREGENT.

RESULT OF IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

SIR ISAAC ISAACS AS NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

BRILLIANT CAREER.

London, Dec, 2.

Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, Chief Justice of Australia, has been appointed to succeed Lord Stone- haven as Governor-General of the Australian Commonwealth.

The appointment of an

AuH- tralian-born luminary as Gover nor-General marks an important

tions between Great Britain and the Dominions,

New York, Doc. 2. A wave of femininu economy in London, Dec. 2.

the matter of silk lingeries, dresses The Government was defeated

and silk stockings, is reported to in the House of Lords by 74 TO-MORROW'S ITEMS.

be responsible for a crisis in the Landon, Dec. 2.

votes to 10, the House carrying

real and artificial allk industries, The Admirity nunounces that

a motion by Lord Hallsħam de-

and it is learned that the leading America's equivalent of the silk and rayon producers in Europe Sixteen votes totalling $195,-ploring the Government's refusal in Recordame

Hince-Britlab Jauval agreement signed at Nan-431 are to come before to respond to the Dominions' King's Speech, the President's and the United States are taking king in June last year, a Betish Finance Committee of the Legis fiscal advances at the Imperial Message to Congress, which was co-operative stops to stabilize the

Mission to proceed fative Council to-morrow after-Conference.

released for publication in ifong-industry, A China to advise and arist the noon. several being necessitated The defeat is purely techolcal

In order to cope with the problem Navy Ministry of the Nationalist owing to the fall in the exchange and without political signia kong shortly after two o'clock which developed through over-pro- value of the dollar. Amongst The present position regarding this morning, gives considerable duction, representatives of the ray- the votes are the following. the development of reciprocal pre attention to the unemployment on industry in the United States $4,206. University Examinationferences with the Dominions was problem in the United States are now on their way to Europe to Grants, Entrance fees for Univer. reviewed by the Secretary sity Local Examination. Provision Dominion

for and declares that the number of confer with their European con-constitutional change in the relu- affairs, Mr.

Freres. made in Estimates, $25,000,

Thomas. In answer to a series of distressed families represents The sharp decline in the price Com-only ten or twenty per cent. of of silk recently noted has resultad It is explained that these fees | questions in the House of

the total number calculated as

in the real article directly com have hitherto been paid in advances.

No offer refuting to the an'e nf

peting with the artificial. by puplis in Grant Schools, the toy

unemployed.

There are now, it is computed, tad surus su pakt being refunded to Canadian whent in Britain on a

Washington, Dec. 1. It has basis of reciprocal preference huri,

over 20,400,000 pairs of silk stock- each school by Government. Iza

President Hoover's schools said, been made since the fud-

Annual ings in the United States above the Radio messages telling of theses the rank of Canadore been found that in some ship's plight were first received in Navy and with fear these fees have, with the approval ings of the Imperial Conference Message to Congress reflects the normal requirements of the country

for China early in 1901 to arrange of the pupile parents, not been e-

had been published. The next trade depression, announcing a and it is estimated that it will take Hongkong at 8.40 p.m. preliminaries for the est paid to them. This does not ap

of G8180,000,000 at least three months to dispose of stage was an investigation, which budget deficit yesterday when the U.S. Gun-15.hment of the Minion with

contrasted with an estimated the surplus, –– Renter's American boot Helena, in port here, picked | Vice-Admiral Chen. the Vice-war an entirely satisfactory prac

surplus of G$123,000,000, anet Service. loss of revenue of Over up from the U.S.S. Mindanao-Minister of the Navy at Nanking, tire and in future Government WB

2MENUNTUTESNENITIE The remaining

and pay the fres direct to the Univer ollicera

$300,000,000. aity. ratings of the Mission, the com-

COAL DISPUTE. The fees in respect of 1929 were Position of which has not yet been refunded by Government this year. definitely decided, will Captain Baillie-Grohman in China The total sum now required in re- when the necessary arrangementspect of the 1930 examinations la have been completed. -Render.

זון

"3.0.8. calis on 42 metres

by steamer Headway ashore

in fat.

off Pratas Shoul 20.42; long. 116.50.** No vessel of the name appears in Lloyds, but while Harbour and Naval authorities ensleavoured to confirm the Information, H.M.S. Storm cloud was ordered to have, for the shoals immediately.

Amateurs Pick Up S.0.S.

Au the MORANIZER from the

Missiote

Captain Railie Grošman will

juin

PLEA FOR RETURN TO SILVER.

striken ahip were being broudcast REMONETISATION URGED AT on 42 metres, no direct communi- ration has been received here oficially.

although several

38,183 and the funds available un- der the relevant sub-head amount only to $3,977,

·

Governor's Motor Cars.

$1,040. His Excellency the Gay- ernor. upkeep of motor cars. Pro- vision made in Estimates, $1,040.

In consequence of the adoption of the Salaries Repert, one more mo- tor car is provided for Government House and is maintained and run at Government expense,

2% PER OZ.

London, Deer B amateurs claimed to have pleked A strong plea for the romanėlisu.

pita algnals on the short wave,

tion of silver, at a price fixed at Several vessels, including the hut two shillings an ounce, was Hollar liner President Mckinley-Imate by Lord Bradbourne, prosi-ink-pin terning and grinding

$1,577. Kowloon-Canton Rail- way, special expenditure, portable

it was to Manila, report ding at the annual meeting of the machine. Having picked up calls, and thre

unsolidated Goldfields of South ship relayed them to Manila, from

Atrica. where they were transmitted to to Hongkung.

At 4.25 a.m. to-day the President McKinley picked up the following message from the Hedvig

"Ashore ou

In the Estimates for 1929 a vum of $5.000 was provided under Rail- Lord Bradbungne said the world's way Department, special expendis present gold production of £83,000, ture for the purchase of 12) a 6" 000 to £85,300,000 (whereof South vertical shaping machine; and thy Africa accounts for about one-half) a portable crank-pin trening and will have probably Callen in ten grinding machine; and these were north-cust part years to th5,000,000, and in an ordered from the Crown Agents in of shoals, Total laws in three other five years the South Afrirán March, 1920, The second of these feet of water. Henry seas, production will not exreed £1-1wo machines could not be delivered north-east wind. Crew 14 in | 000,000,

in 1929 and the sum of $3,085 on danger. Require

It is noteworthy that gold yester this vuto lapsed. No provision was day reached the highest price on the made in Estimates for 1980 which Landon bullion market sincs Bri-had to be prepared before it was itain returned to the gold standard

grave

sistance."

Heavy Weather.

JINA

Heavy weather in retarding the in 1925-Reuter. progress of the destroyer Storm-! cloud. Naval authorities received

a message at about 10 am. saying that it had maintained the highest speed possible in the circum- stances, 17 knots, until this morn- Ing, when high sens and a strong northeast wind had reduced it to? 15 knots.

The destroyer left Hongkong at il p.m. yesterday and expected to reach Pratas ut 11 am. to-day, but in view of the boisterous weather, does not anticipate sighting the is

lands until this afternoon.

On its way from Sandakan, the,

BYE-ELECTION AT BRISTOL,

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DEATH OF THE LABOUR MEMBER.

London, Dec. 2.

Iardino steamer Hinsung plcked YET ANOTHER PRIEST

CAPTURED.

A

certain that the second machine could not be delivered h 1929,

After certain tests approval was given to modify the origiani

in design

order To improve the general efficiency of the machine, and the original ex- timate had to be increased to a figure which with freight and other home charges amounts, at the pre- sent rate of exchange, to $4,577, for which a vote is now requested.

$20,000 Due to Exchange.

Oplum Costs. *

STOPPAGE IN SCOTLAND CONTINUES.

Nevertheless, says the Presi dent, the fundamental security of the nation's economic life remains animpaired.

Unemployed Fund.

He declures that the number of wholly unemployed persuna in the States WAR accurately determined during the census in

NEWCASTLE VERDICT. United

London, Dec. 2.

CINEMA SHOWS ON TROOPSHIPS.

www.

NEVASA EXPERIMENT MAY BE EXTENDED.

London, Dec. 2.

It represents the frst practical result of the decision made at the 1980 Imperial Conference (follow- ing the historic déclaration of eiually of status made in 1926) that Governor-General should be appointed by His Majesty the King on the advice of the Domi«. nion and not of the Home Govern- ment.

Sir Isane baacs is n septun- genarian, and has been Chief Justice of the High Court for a trifle under twelve months. He Is the first Australian to oc- cupy the post of Governor-Gen- eral.

Stormy Controversy,

His recommendation by Mr. Scullin in March Inst raised

in regard to whe

In the House of Commons to-stormy controversy in the Com- April as about 2,600,000, though day at question-time, Mr. Tommonwealth Conl negotiations, upart the Labour Department's index of Shaw, Secretary of State for War, ther the Government was on- from temporary arrangements the larger traden showed some stated that if the experiment of titled to alter the traditional permitting continuance

increase since. of

installing cinemon on the trans- procedure in respect of vicoregal work in districts. where agreements yet exist. are largely in suspense until after the the meeting of the Miners Pederation on Thursday.

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In Scotland Lo-day, he c- commodation was reached be- tween the uwhere' and the Ming workers, but ciforts con tinne to end the partial stop- page which affects about" Ali- 090 Art. The Miners" Con- ference at Glasgow decided to-day to continue the stop- page.

Ayrshire where most of the its are working, is the ex ception to the general stoje

page.

The Council of the Northum- berland Minera Association at Newcastle, while opposing the suggested sprendover of hours, has decided to oppone any national stoppage for the present--Reuter and Britisk Wireless.

BROADIANANAA|CHINADAL

airendy has been Initialled by the Goverment into the methods whereby it could be necomplished.

Coal & Canada,

Appropriation of between a hun-China, was successful, both fppointments without reference to Emergency Port Nevasa, now on her way to people,

Be asks for 201

ared and a hundred and fifty the

viawpoint of the military

The new Governor-General was born at Melbourne In 185h of poor

million dollars to accelerate con-Passengers and of the Aim com-wish parents, but he won a sorles

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Ife added that a frequent change of programme was arranged and the charge for each entertainment was reasonable.---Router.

struction work and to increase pany, the question of ita extension employment in the next six months, to other troop transports would of scholarships and was educated at

be considered.

Beechworth Grammar School ands bul, expresses the view that rots-

was at the Melbourne University, where he had mitment beyond that

Mr. Show said it are LIT)-

request of the Army Council that brillant career and graduated as arrunte:h-

the Board of Trade granted a 4 Sekolar in Law with first cines President Hoover estimates the

Budget expenditure At Cinema Grm facilities to instalonours...

Called to the Bar in 1880, he be | 654,054,000,000 and the revenue at the apparatus on the Nevash with

etme Queen's Counsel in 1899. $4,085,000,000, if the income tax put charge on public funds. reduction is continued.

Early Parliamentarian. He was elected to the Victorian Parliament as member far Bogong in 1892, was Solicitor-General in 1803 and Attorney-General in 1894 and 1900. In the following year he was returned to the Commonwealth Parliament,. becoming Attorney- General in the Deakin Government 1906. He had been a member of the Australian Federal Covention which framed the Commonwealth Constitution in 1897, and of the Royal Commission on Parliamen tary Procedure.

Not a Gloomy Picture.

The picture painted by Presi. dent Hoover, however, was by no means gloomy. He traced the substantial progress achieved in last year in national peace and security, noted that the fundumen- tal security of the nation's econo- mie 1e was unimpaired, educa. Ition and

scientifie discovery

had made advances,

while

"the major forces of the deprés-

WILL

FIRE IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

INFANT CHILD BURNED TO

DEATH.

For

Shut

over an hour yesterday

FRENCH WAR LOAN DISPUTE.

In 1900 he was appointed a Judge of the Commonwealth High Court.

Capacity for Work,

Labour Party Favour.

He found considerable favour with the Labour Party in Australia- early this year when in the appont to the Commonwealth High Court agalist an award of Justicù Boeby In the Arbitration Court which was very favourable to the New South Wales minota on strike, he differed · from his four brother. judges who upset the award.

slon le outside the United States are raged at Pak Tin vallage, Kap and our recuperation is retarded Shick Ml, in the New Territories, by an unwarranted fear and ap-destroying three wooden shacks loss of a life and causing the prehenalon created thereby."

He declared that the United before it was extinguished.

In one of the huts, pig feed States had retained from 85 per cent. of its normal activi. Apparently, a spark communicated for work that seems

80 to was being prepared over a chetty.

Sir, Isaac Isanes has a capacity tios and incomes, while the major the fire to the roof, and within a limit and when he applies. himself to know no A Parliamentary bye-election-in

Anancial institutions had In the case of whent, the aby-thered

wea-few minutes, the hut was a mass of Bristol East is made necessary by

the storm unimpaired.tamos.

to a subject he appears never to the death to-day of Mr. W. dinary Hongkong Waterworks, in regarding coal, which he endea approximately stable, a number of structures, in one of which the

$1,125.-Public Works Extraorous reciprocal agreement would be Commodity prices had remained

dismiss it from his mind whether The fire spread to two adjoining awake or asleep. Baker, the Labour member for the stallation of tarbines and pump at youred to effect 15 months ago. Industries were showing signs of three-months old son of Cheung of the Judicial Committee of the The position of the Hedvig was division-British Wireless.

-In-1924 he was made a member- wirelessed to the lighthouse at

The late Mr. Baker was hend flowen Road filter beds, to complete Coal, however, was also produced increasing demand and the world Provision In Canada, which felt it necessary at large was re-adjusting itself to

a field labourer, was left Privy Council, and was knighted Prafas this morning, and the

Hoft coal.

He was burnt to death four years later. [stone. of the Research Department of the the cost of the wark, keeper there reported at 11 a.m.

the situation. Regarding Australia, made by Supplementary Vote, 36,

Mr. that nothing could be seen from Union of Post Offier Workers. He made in Estimate, 36.000: Provision to put a tariff on

before a rescue could be elected. Thomas recalled the speech at the

The Unemployment Figures,

three shacks became a the islands. The position given by had sat for East Bristol aince 1923. 145: total, $11.145.

total loss, the damage boing the Hedvig was six miles to the At the last election he had

This work has now been com-Conference in which the Premier,

The problem of the relief of fontimated at over $750. uns of the light and the vessel majority of 11,621 over the Liberal pleted at a cost of $21.124.64 The Mr. J. . Scullin, said that Austra

he added, of unemployment. excess over the estimate ($20,000) would be willing as a part of somewhat less than the published should be visible

from the light candidate in a straight fight. house.

is due to the drop in exchange. a definite policy of Imperial econo

mic co-operation, to consult with estimates of the numbers would

The number of dis the representatives of British indicate. $145,000.-—Imports and Exports | of

manufacturers as to the possibility tressed families represented only a greater degree of from ten to twenty per cent. of Provision made in Estimates, $660, without sacrificing any important ploved. Office, purchase of raw opiuni, etc. preference to certain industries the calculated number

Australian Interests, and of con The subject of national defunée,

In the spring of this year, tilere This vote is required owing to sidering the representations of he dismissed in a few words with the fall in exchange, to meet the manufacturers for getting full ad reference to the London Naval Asked in the House of Commons Australian-born Governor-Generat fore, when the demand for an cost of Indian oplum. The aniount vantage of the existine prefer Treaty, which had established whether he rroposed to refer to showed itself in Labour ranks, his of opium purchased from India has

United States' parlly with the the Worfil Court the claims of name was immediately coupled strongest foreign Powers

and British investors in the French with the proposal-Router and not been increased for this year.

New Zealand Dairy Produce, brought important economics, in war loan, the Chancellor of the B.S. The amount of the vote is $600,000 while the total approximate cost of

the conduct of the Navy. No exchange of views on the pas-

Exchequer, Mr. Snowden, stated Indian.opium for this year is $645,-

As regards the future, the Pre that the whole question was still

All sink after 24 hours. Plense| Reuter

preferences with New Zealand had below 18. 3d.

sidor legislation to facilitate rall leas taken place alice the Conference $915-Education, medical ex-closed, and as to whether any way consolidation, the revision of MALTA penses. This is required to moet think could be done to take ad the immigration laws, and the

doctors' and opticians' bill-incurred *** know the Pratas, the Hedvig la inwater, and would be invisiblospection of schools. Medical fees the possibilities of the quota were allons.-Reuter's American Serchandise. manufactured in Russia.

According to seafaring men who reefs that are visible only at low to connexion with the medical e vantage of the New Zealand Pre-strengthening of deportation lawa

mier'a offer, he stated, that when to rid the country of criminal completo- embargo a perilous poaltion, and even if except for a line of breakers with collected, which cover the above being examined. an inquiry would rice. sighted, there wil great difficulty a heavy on running. No vassel um, have been paid into "Foce of start with wheat, which applied In appronchini near enough to of any depth could possibly Court or Offco, Public School mainly to Canada, and Australia, take off the crow,

approach it.

Fara," **“I do not think that the Hedyfg

and would then consider " what Perilous Waters.^

can be in the position she has No provision was made in the particular quota was applicable:in Two interestlog Bills have The seas in the vicinity are soat. declared one hautient man Estimates for 1980 as these transac case of batter and cheese in which introduced to Come Department of National studded with coral knollaand (Continued on Page 7.)

up the distress signals early this| morning, and, immediately put on extra speed far the islands.

Hedvig's Appeal For Ungry.

ITALIAN. PATHER SEIZED BY COMMUNISTS..

The Inst megange received from the Hedvig contained an urgent S.O.S. and an appeal to, hurry.

„Bankow; Det. 2. The Catholic Mission here re Received in Hongkong at 10.411

.m. it had been picked up by theceived telegram to-night from President McKinley.

relayed wanchow-fu stating that Father Augustin de Guspor), of the itallas Franciscan Mission, has всел

through Manila and rend:

non,

encer.

of unem THE POSITION OF BRITISH

INVESTORS

London, Dec. 2.

"We are breaking up now.red by us at Sincho, 000 provided exchange does not falliblity of developing, reciprocal sideat commended Congress to con-under consideration, British Wire-

tell Hongkong send their enti- ing anon."

tions were formerly affected by a New!

SUGAR PROTECTION IN BELGIUM.

ENCOURAGING THE 'HOME-

BERT GROWER.

on all mer-

Mr. Williamson, the chairman of the Expenditure Committee of Anti-Russia Emburgo Bill the House of Representative, has

submitted a measure recommend- * The Minister of Washington, Dec. 2.

ing the establishment of De-Introduced a B

Defence, toms/ duty, FAIF francs per ! or placing the Army Navy and

ing the pas