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WATHS+ A✯ THURSDAY,

LABOUR LEFT WING'S REVOLT. MR. BALDWIN ON

ABSTAIN ON VITAL SOVIETS AND BANK

DIVISION.

"GOVT.'S MAJORITY

GOVT.'S

DOWN TO SIX.

COMMONS IN CONFLICT WITH

WITH LORDS,

DYESTUFFES ACT.

The Government's IBA jority in the House of Com- mon dropped to six yester. day, when a division taken on the Lord's amend. ment to the Expiring Laws BUL Contrary to expecta-

Was

tions, the Government asked the Commons to disagree with the amendment.

The figures were: For Governmen! Against

Majority

244

238

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The matter would be of little interest but for the fact that the narrowness of the majority was due to a revolt by the Labour Left Wing. They did not vote against the Govern- ment, but declined to go into the division lobbies.

Government's Decision.

London, Dec. 17. Mr. William Graham. Prosisest the Board of Trade, aratonmeed in the House of Commons that the Government world esk the House amendment to tangree with the

the Homa of Lords prolonging the operation of the vetuits Act.

The Act is dus for l ast month at ha beeli

OF KOREA.

VLADIVOSTOCK BRANCH IS CLOSED DOWN.

ARRESTS REPORTED.

Tokyo, De. 17. Jecordine to sensationd reports Fren Harkin, published this mor

in in the Lenks and the Nichy- Niche, Soviet vials issued order- for the Vladivodek branch of the Bank of Korea to the closed top yes

endas reitermn

Following the clostire order, it in Pepted, Soviet ofBelais forced their way into the bank premier. and arested the manager and three

The head olive of the Bank of Koren in Tokyo has been unable to

firm the reports, but an oflein! th concern admitted the nu- Niets was telt regard the mat

PROTECTION.

TORY POSITION MADE QUITE CLEAR,

TARIFFS TO BE EMPLOYED AS, A WEAPON.

930 PER ANNUM

DECEMBER 18. 1930. 11 LAP† sialk com 10 VENTH

GAOL STRIKE

CONTINUES.

RINGLEADERS-ON SHORT RATIONS.

NOW SEGREGATED||

NO DEAL WITH RIVALS. refusal to retur

London. Dec. 17. Another very clear statement of Conservative intentions if restored to power was given to night by Mr. Stanley Baktivin. in an address to members of the Constitutional Club,

The Finservative leader skid putting the country de from t basis was the unly re- the existing depression. He was aware, he went us, that ij, tapi terfered with basin

PITIFUL SCENE IN COURT.

YOUNG LAD ON TRIAL

FOR MURDER.

WEEPS COPIOUSLY AS LED INTO DOCK.

VILLAGE TRAGEDY.

The third day of the general strike at Victorin Gaol finds the faltuation practically unchanged,

to daly parently being! HRAJTORM, The lament chorus of the prisoners also Sobbing unrestrainedly, with chatinnes, though rests are taken tears running down his cheeks, and the intervals between are ben 16-year-old Chinese boy. Tang To-fat, stood in the dock at the is extraordinary. Criminal Sessions this morning coming increasingly wide.

The situation

Far

remarkable to answer a charge of having fatures of the passive resistance murdered a fellow-foki. Cheung

being the

Chui-on, at Shek Wo Hui Village. near Sheung Shut. New Terri- tories, on the night of October 16-17 this year. He is alleged; to have attacked the foki with a chopper and half severed his head from his body.

pho

เ

most

(vamajamisen (strength of the support.

certain We understand that n apon a Pra-

mother of the prisoners, those of paticularly marked disposition to unruly, have been isolated from pemainder and are being kept in case confinement and fed in dis

ciplinary ralions.

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ter as the Soviets had presonly direction of imperial remontas, a rifle a stringent in

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threatened Vindlynstock branch.

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the

The Bank offivial considers, how- Lever, that the reported arrests gl the monager at three assistant's

likely in be true.

not

Inter

REVOLUTION IN GUATEMALA.

PRESIDENT IN OFFICE FOR FIVE DAYS.

Wa chinetrin. Det. 17. The Guatemalatı 31211 metatheil de Veited States Govern- That that the news President, Ban- di Palam, why nonte took atlig Prutas La 1 week, g

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Conejore .1 tive proped in n Contatton to extend it for a further live year was rejected by a marrin of this

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House Agrees,

In the House ol karls on Mon #lay, on the motion of ford Hails dum, a resolution was passed by 87 votes to 14, to ensure that the Act remain in

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volving the present conflict the Commons, though generally anticipated that

mendment would be accepted

by the Government under praful. After some discussion, the Com- wons decided by 244 votes to 338 to disagree with the Lord', amend.

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Returned Tu Lords,

FACILITIES.

ADDITIONAL CIRCUITS NOW

PROVIDED.

but when firent Britain has adopted a tarif, and had negotiat

d with its own Dominions to the

unit, hourld then be in a posi Conta do deal the way in negotiating To a posuctim of hostile tariff's Rejects National tavernment. Mr. Baldwin rejected the idea. put forward several times of Late.

da National Gowerameat.

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is at the Conservative Party was the only national party and it was impossible for it to ru- fer inte any arrangement with aty

barty withart herifi-ing fiat principles.

Liberal-Labour Rumours,

As regards the efforts to ojant the Laboung Bucks from allice, he

was not alarmed be te rejare al-Labar arrangements. because the electorate. The bim- self, disliked such tarties,

The Conservative leader added 1 when a minh cane who was able tonite the Liberal Party, then would be the time ir the Con servatives to make a deal with the

the uter Labernd

Emergency Tarif

The mech is in Ham och Mr. Baldwin's Just huport aut a bites before the Central Centai at the National fair est Conservative and Unionist Assarial ions, whe he said:

The first stop that we shall have to take when we come it will be,

also stafad that disciplinary chareste, are being supplied to the

indep of the prisoners. But the strike continues, and it is quedicalls hinted that Communist elements in the not are behind the elivayani cation of routine,

RATINGS ON CHINA

SUBMARINES.

'TROPICAL, ALLOWANCES MAY

whether

BE GRANTED.

Landon, Der, 17.

ratings in the

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PORT

FORT DUNLOP

Lasty vissanteed by Na bető termé

Local Branch.

Pedder Building. Tel. 24554

THE WORLD CREDIT MENACE.

WARNING.

STEAMER ASHORE FAMOUS BANKER'S ·

LAST NIGHT.

KUTSANG GETS OFF AFTER HALF AN HOUR.

FUTAUMUN MISHAP

URGENT PROBLEM OF COLLAPSE.

CONSEQUENCES OF CORNER IN GOLD.

The Jardine steamer Kutsung, ol 3,643 tons nett, met with an ac- eldent outside Lyemun yesterday evening when she was shot to enter the harbour from Cafentta SYSTEM ON VERGE via Singapore.

A message was picked up from the steamer at about 8.50 p.m. tu the effect that she bul gene around at Fatommun.

About half an hour later, an- was intercepted. other message this time conveying the news that she had refloated and was on her way to Kowloon Bay.

The Kutsang came into bartsour early this morning and went along- Arcusruf was in tours when he side Kowloon Whart. She had 2 hourd 1,481 tons of general cargo continued until after the jury, had other ports. Capt. V. MeC, Liddell appeared in the dick and his set for Hongkong and 2.368 Cars for been picked when his Lordship

is in command with a crew of 10 Mr. Justice Wood's addressed im British olleers. and 12 Chine as follows: want you to kerp: She had seven European pass ge quiet while the triat is going uti You may sit down."

Acense's antward expTEDİ.

of distres, erased immediately and he continued to romain quiet.

was en-

The following jury palled: Messrs A. B. Ruworth

foreman), M. B. "Mathews, J. G. Sentt, Il. 1'. Alloud, Wong Un-tong. | Ewan Sit-kwan and Atalul Karim Minu.

The Crown Case.

In the House of Commons to... day, at question-time, Sir Bertram

Mr. Somerset Fitzroy is condute t Palle (Com. Portsmouth N.) aking the case for the Crown, while Mr. Bin-Sing Ln. tustructed by Mr. J. M. Hali. is defending,

After explaining maps and pho

sakd that tographs. Mr. Fitzroy to accused and deceased worked in a carpenters' shops, aversed being engaged first and derved a fitte, later,

China Submarine Platilla would re- erite tropiral allowance under the mitinin Articles 1642 of the

or Rendations.

Mr. E. G. Antom, Parliamentary Sethi, in the Almiralty, reply, and that the whole mution of trend „daytime was pl present

Kenter.

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TRAGIC DEATH OF COMPOSER.

BRITISH SONG-WRITER DIES OF GAS POISONING,

London, Dr. 17.

the English Philip Hessel:dus, composes, whose om de plume was

was found "Peier Warlock," conscious in his house in Chelsea In regard tu Imperial poliestely, and subsequently died in there we stand where we stood hospital from gas poisoning.

He was one of the most distin- the moment the Prime Ministers

as quickly as legislation can efect it, an emergency tariff on manufar- tured goods.

of the Dominions, at the instance guished living song-writers,

Delius-Renter.

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and

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gers on board,

Lundon, Dec. 17.

It is the considered opinion of the Directors of the Bank of International Settlement that the world, credit strac- ture is threatened with com- the plete collapse unless central banks devised; in concert, a means of restoring its stability, declared Sir Charles Addis to-day.

Sir Charles Addis, who is n director of the Bank of England and chairman of the London Committee, Hongkong and

Shanghai Banking Corporation. was speaking in London on the

LETTER CABLE TO gold situation.

FAR EAST.

SCHEME HELD UP BY CHINA

TELEGRAPHS

London, Dec 17

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France and America.

He pointed out that the faci [that nourly three-fifths of the world's monetary gold was locked up in the United States and in France was one of the predominant causes of the continuous fall in world commodity prices.

In answer to questions in the House of Commons, Mr. H. B. Lees-Smith, the Postmaster-Gen-

The act that these huge stocka oral, said that the cable companies were "aterile" seriously meet, concerned a traße to the Farthe world credit structura.“ma", East had informed him that ther Renter have heen endeavouring for some time past to

10 introduce A weekly China letter telegram service to hit that hitheria they had heen unable to make the necessary ar-

ANOTHER REBUFF

Wheat Collapse.

Winniper. Dec. 17. Bromber Wheal. to-day touched fifty-uce and a balf cents a bushel. which is the lowest quotation re- Scorded in the history of the Win-

niper Corn Exchange.

The market rallied Inter and closest a fraction below the quola- tion for yesterday--Renter's

Americnu Service,

Silver

in quotations London yesterday rallied to 14 1/16ths.

Catastrophe Fears.

It appeared to be a en ragements with the Chinese an

thorities, Reuter, that the most junior apprentice -- the one last engaged should be responsible for the cooking. when decenstal was engageel,

TO HOOVER. tek over that work from arrused

At the beginning of the year, nevused left to visit his father who

SENATE DELAYS' WORLD Irad become ill and remained with

COURT PROTOCOL.. him until his death, after which he returned to the shop and was

Washington, Dec. 17. there.

this By

The foreign Relations Committee | again engaged

In connexion with Sir Churies could be called such, and he oner means, he lost his seniority, if it of the Senate to-day voted then to

nine) in favour of deferring consi- Addis's speech on the gold crisis. be reculled that Lord duration of the Protocol for adherit may again had to du the cooking.

ence to the Permanent Court of In-D'Abernon, speaking at Liverpool ternational Justice at the Hague recently, declared that inmediate relief in the industrial depression until next December.

would result from a moderate rise in the price of produce or a moderate fall in the price of gold. The corner in gold was the unless International action was taken, the result would be a world- wide catastrophe, both economical and political. The situation could gent International action was taken be righted very quickly if Intel!!- in time. He added that America was making the situation by impeding debt payments by high tariffs.

there that

Arrangement Reached. Counsel continued that

show would be evidence to

The Protocol was forwarded to week ago for the pur of Mr. Bennett of Canada, made was a close friend of the composer, accused did not like doing the the Senate London, Tee, 17.

eoking, and he approached a pose of immediate ratification and their great offer to this country.

certain witness about the matter. it was stated that the President The Post Office announces that

We are prepared to do everything to meet the growth of telephone

That witness spoke to the man was confident of obtaining the re-greatest menace to the world and traffic between Britain and Gers

We have a national and an Eming partner about it, who, in turn, quisite two-thirds majority. many additional frenita have We want a free hand wd we perial polfey, on which we can all interviewed both accused and de- There is no further ceased, as a result of which it was of us unite.

the arranged that they should do the reason for dissension. and time has now come for the whole cooking between them on alternate

(Continued on Page 10.) ne to advance.

The Expiring Laws Bill now re- beam karotrht into service to Bers turns to the House of Lords, who ¦ Tha und D'ologae. ure expected to consider to-morrow

Twenty-three cirenits now ent whether to insist upon the amend¦neet Brijain with Germany. -Bei-

inent or not.

tish Wireh an. In politient circles, the opinion is expressed that the smallness of the Wlovernment's mujority in likely to #courage the Upper Chamber to insigt.

WI Peers Insist?

If the Lords insist and the House al Commons again diangrees, the whole of the Expiring Laws Bill will be putomatically last. incital- ing the Rent Restriction Kin.

The Liberal Party voted on each side in the House of Commons, The Left Wing of the Labour Party abstained from voting- Rentor

Cabinet Difficulties,

London, Dec. 18, A conspiracy to uyhi a Cabinet. erinin at the present moment is strikingly instanced by the amily- sis of the voting on the Dyestul Act amendment. Thirty Fa itos and a dozen Conservatives. were absent unpaired and the bulk of the latter were believed t favour the Lords' amendment.

The Government's decision to accept the Forda challenge was taken at a Cabinet meeting, which 3r. Philip Snowdon uses from a sick-bed in the country and joug- neyed in thick fog to attend.

It is rumoured that during the debate the Government were pre- pared to lose the whole Bill in pre ference to bowing to the Lorda' dictation, but the result of the division is expected to induce a more conciliatory attituda to-day.

Reuter."/

in our power to work with them ¦ people. for Imperial economic unity,

role thing out, reserving only to ourselves, as all the statesmen in the Empire must, this one thing that we have to consider r own

The action of the Senate Com- mittee comes as a great surprise and appears to be another rebuff for Mr. Hnover-Renter's American

Service,

FIRST PICTURES OF TERRIBLE SHANGHAI AIR DISASTER: THE DEAD PILOT.

The pilot. Captain. Paul Baer: (Inset), 'n Russian lady resident of Hankow, and two Chinese, including the co-pilot, were killed in Shanghai last week when an amphibian plane belonging to the China Airways failed to clear a junk's mast and plunged into the mud bank of the Whangpoo just after taking off from the. Langhwa Aérodrome for Hankow.Picture on left shows clearly the effect of the impact on the cockpit and cabin (the plane is upside down and the whole of the top has been torn away), Right, shows dismantling in progress after the machine had been holated out of the river.

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worse

U.S. Bank Crash Avalanche

New York, Dec. 17. The avalanche of bank closings continues throughout the country. und the total now runs into hun- dreds.

Ten more banka, shut down to- day in Arkansas alone. Eight of these were State Banks

and in

esequence have been placed in. thi

hands of the State Bank Commissioner.

The other two being National Banks are being turned overlo the United Stater Comptroller. Later

Six mure banks have cloned, three of them'in North Carolina. - two in Alabama and one in Missis sippi. Reuter's America Service.

The construction of the new re- servoir at Aberdeen has resulted in un increase in the population in that district and the demand for firewood is therefora greater. Mr. G. B. Two told Mr. Lindsoil at of the Forestry- Department,

the Contral Magistracy this. „mornTM ing when charging a Chinese with having eut pino wood, that..on account, the Department was be ing given considerable trouble by these people. The defendant who had been previously conviet- ed for a similar offence, was ined $50