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NO. 23,302 Я WAIXWT FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1931.

C. E, WARREN & CO, LTD.

FOUNDED 18:1

TESTING TIME FOR

TRADE DISPUTES ACT DEBATE.

LIBERALS DECIDE TO ABSTAIN.

LABOUR.

KAYE DON BEATS

A RECORD.

HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR IN MOTOR-BOAT

"RIGHT TO STRIKE MUST BE MISS ENGLAND'S FEAT.

MAINTAINED."

London, Jan. 22.

The famous British racing mo Torket, Kaye Don, today nehleved ACUTE CONTROVERSY, spel of 1981 miles an hour in the

London, Jan. 22.

mator-boat "Miss England 14" in the course of a speed trial at Bangh Neath, in Northern Ireland.

CABINET SECRET SUBMARINE

LEAKAGE

LEADS TO DEFEAT.

POLITICAL CRISIS IN FRANCE.

THE STEEG COVERNMENT RESIGNS.

MONTH IN OFFICE.

Paris, Jan. 22. Five short wooks, most of

COLLISION.

PANDORA OFFICER

to

SENTENCED.

DISMISSED SHIP.

while

Gibraltar, Jan. 22.

the

+ BINDLA COPE 10 ORNI

$36 PER ANNUM

JOURNALS EVADE CENSORSHIP.

LOCAL NEWSPAPERS SUMMONED.

ARTICLES ON THE RECENT GAOL STRIKE.

FREEDOM OF PRESS.

NOUNCEMI

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An entirely now base has been laid on the 'MIDGET · GOLF COURSE

in the Front Lounge of LANE, CRAWFORD'S RESTAURANT. Patrons are now assured of. TRUE PUTTING.

THE NEW DUNLOP GOLF. BALL (with Maxmarking)

is being used exclusively on this Course

The Dunlop Rubber Co., (China) Ltd..

Pedder Building.

Telephone 28554,

TRAIN OVER STIMULATING

EMBANKMENT.

CANTON RAILWAY

COLLISION.

SERIOUS MISHAP.

Canton, Jan. 22.

Ten passengers were seriously

SIGNS OF PEACE IN INDIA.

CONGRESS' MOOD. SOFTENS.

VICEROY CONSIDERING GANDHI'S RLEASE.

Of much importance to the and about twenty slightly in- vernacular newspapers of the jured this afternoon when two TENSION RELAXED. Colony were Police Court pro-trains on the Kwangtung section ceedings before Mr. Lindsell this of the Canton-Hankow Railway morning, instituted against the came into collision.

passengers

A distinct relaxation of tension in India, an improve-

ment in the attitude of the adherents of the Indian Con- gress, are encouraging re- sults of Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald's declaration of the Government's policy

ing the future constitard

A mistake was made in an- nouncing that Lieut. Commander 1. B. A. Majendie, the com- mander, and the Watch Officer. of the Submarine Proteus were be tried by court-martial which has been taken up by the day in connexion with the collision in the Straits between The Labour Government fix this beat the world record | Christmas Recess, sees the end the Proteus and the Pandora. editors, printers and publishers A third-class coach on one of the entered upon the bitterest

of 98.7 m.p.h. song by the late of 31. Sterg's Government, which The accident occurred about 80 of four Chinese journals, name trains was derailed as a result of struggle of its existence to-

Fir Henry Serrave in the same bene www defeated in the Cranber miles from the Straits, the Pan-y, the Wah Kin, the Namthe collision, and as it crashed day, when the debate on the

Windermere last year.to-day on an agricultural vote, dora's bows were damaged, a big Chung, the Nam Keung and the down the embankment into a field second reading of the Trade

wapen drauling an obstruction. the Disputes and Trades Unions

The defeat gollowed a somewhat hole being torn below the water-Chong Hwa, who were charged there was a panic amongst the three from bottom was wrenched away

Sensational allegation azalost the | Hine.

Chinese hundred Profeus was with publishing matter, other aboard the train. many of whom (Amendment) Bill was open- The boat, which

Major Sir

Minhter l Agriculture in cons| darned aft. It is obvious there-than a bona-fide trade advertise-were women. ed in the House of Commons. nry Segrave and a compattionexion with a plan for supporting fore, that the Pandora struck the ment. which had not been

howing their River,

First-aid treatment was accorded The Bill, which is designed "to

made Wheat prices in France for the

stern of the Proteus. No-one was previously submitted to To-day's run which W208

the on the spot to those most badly in- ammend the Law relating to trade

injured.

Secretary for Chinese Affairs. jured, the serious cases being The voting was as follows:

The court-martial which opened disputes and Trade Unions; and choppy water with the throttleene of the French farmer,

Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith appeared rushed back to Canton and admitted For the Governmen

283 this morning concerns the Com- Against

293 mander of the Pandora, Ideut. for the Crown, Mr P. H. Loseby to hospital.

of Mears. Ruos & Co., for the The train which became derailed political prisoners have | Commander A. L. Bosant, and the

Wah Kin, and Mr. J. T. Prior, of was proceeding to Shiukwan from ready been released. 19 Watch Omeer of the Pandora, Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist, for the Canton at the time of the mishap

Lieut. Turnball.

other three newspapers, The and had just got beyond Sun Kul

train bound for Canton, with the

The life was cleared Inter in the evening, and normal communication is expected to be resumed morrow.

of the craft only half-open, was othe for purposes connected with the of a series of trials preliminary to matters aforesaid,” has been the official attempts on Str

Helry subject of the most acute con-Segrave's record, which Kaye Dan troversy for months past, a num-Iwill make in the presence of the her of Liberals being among its Prince of Wales at Buenos Aires

in March. keenest antagonists.

The final preliminary trint, when It aims at modifying the Tracte

spred of 110 miles an hour is Disputes Act carrled through the House of Commons in 1927 after expected, will be made to-morrow, Kage Don's frat is not officially the general atrike of 1926 which

recognised. His attempt on the disrupted the country for sexorai

record will be made officially days, and opposition

Buenos Aires. Renter and British aroused to many of

prwireless. posals, notably the articles that dral

Jevy with the

by the the Trade Unions for political par-i

bern has the

poses, the illegality of general “BORAILER” MAKES

strikes, the position of civil ser- vants as members of a Tradeni Uniom, and the definition of intitus. dation,

Political Levy.

ITS DEBUT.

TRIAL RUN OF BRITISH ROAD TRAIN.

Regarding the political levy, the

London, Jat, 21. Bill proposes to restore the powers

A demonstration run of a road of the Trade Unions regarding con- tracting-out, for which the recent train built by the London, Midland Art substituted contracting-in. The and Scottish Railway, to coordinate is that road and rail transport, was con- meaning of the efuse members of Trades Unions will be durfed to-day.

"The new vehicles, upon which de- subject to a levy for Labour Party funds unless they formally refuse, signers have been secretly engaged The existing Act makes it illegal for two years, are equipped for ter impuse a levy unless the offer use un the road with pneumatic-

Hyred wheels running outside voluntary.

Banged iron wheels for Use milway lines. The

vehicles Arc fitted with buffers, but otherwise have the appearance of ordinary motor buses and motor waggons.

Liberal Decision.

This and other features were criticised last night at a meeting of The Parliamentary Liberal Party at the conclusion of which it was de vided by a majority that

Wireless,

of

The engines develop 120 horse- ¡power and n the ralls the "Rorai- lee" has the speed of an express

The vehicles, which rr L the Liberals will abstain from train. voting n. the second reading readily be transferred from road and will press for amendments to rail, have been designed primari. when the Bill reaches the cam-ly for branch line traffic. British mittee stage, Moving the second reading of the Bill, upon which a division will

the WORLD UNEMPLOYED The taken

Tuesday,

Williams Attorney-General, Sir Jowitt, said that strikes and lock- outs were barbarous methods of setting, industrin disputes, since they were liable to inflict wide: spread loss and suffering.

on

The Right to Strike.

But, he said, na society was organised, collective bargaining and the right to strike mast be main

tained.

Ife refute the allegation of the' Opposition that the Bill legalised general atrike. He said that the Government proposed to place the Trade Unions in the same position; as they were before the passage of the 1937 Act.

Sir William Jowitt insisted that

*far from legalising a general strike,

ESTIMATES.

DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF A

Minority

The case of Lieut. Turnbull was

status of India. A definite move is reported to be afoot to respond to Sir Tej Sapru's appeal for the release of pali- tical prisoners.

At Nagpur, a large number of al-

New Delhi. Jan. 22.

The Prime Minister's declara-.

taken first and after the hearing, lion, Mr. A. E. Wood, Secretary for station when it was run into by,tion at the close of the Round

M. Steeg announced that the Government would resign. It was later learned that M. Sleeg envisaged the Cabinet's collective: resignation, but M. Boret, TANÁRAZIN Minister of Agriculture, and M. Leon Meyer. the Under-Secretary

Commerce

National of

individual

Economy, resignation,

and

proposed

Parliament to Decide.

At the Cabinet meeting subse quently held it was decided to ask Parliament to decide the poin— Havas.

Paris, Jan. 22.

In the Chamber to-day, the Government was defeated on a debaty arising from an inter- Pellation on this wheat policy, M. Steeg derided to resign.

Later.

President Doumergue las ne- cepted the resignation of the Steeg Cabinel.

The Government's defent was the result of on open disagreement between M. Leon Meyer, the Under-Secretary of Commerce and National Economy, with the policy announced by the Minister of Agriculture, M. Boret, last night,

MR. SNOWDEN WILL

NOT ASSIST.

SUGGESTED SILVER CRISIS AMELIORATION.

BRITISH COINAGE.

London, Jan. 22. Mr. Philip Snowden replied in the negative to questions by air Hammersley regarding silver, as to whether he would consider the re-introduction of silver coinage of pre-war fineness, and whether he was aware that it was estimated that 70,000,000 ounces were thrown on the market owing to the lower silver content of the present coinage.

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Mr. Snowden also said he was not considering the shuli- tion of ten shilling notes with view to stimulating 3 greater

silver demand for which

coinage. Reuter almed at raising wheat prices in the interests of the farmers.

JEZIDEKIACINIAZATAREJENAN227001 ASTALIMENTACI

Chinese Affairs, was present.

A plea of "Not Guilty" was re-results stated. turned by both solicitors on behalf of their respective clients.

Authority Cited.

Whyte-Smith:-1

under-

"BIG, HULKING BRUTE."

to-

Table Conference is regarded in Now Dalhi as greatly altering the situation.

Political Problem,

Particular attention has been

in paid to the Invitation

the concluding paragraph; to Indians who have held aloof hitherto to participate in the further negotia- tions necessary, and to his sym- pathetic reply to Sir Tej Sapru's appeal.

Mr. stand that my friend, Mr. Loseby, is going to defend on a point of law, and so perhaps I may men-i tion the Section of the Ordinance and the Regulations under which these summonses are brought. I have no doubt your Worship · is familiar with them, also. very

The Seotion of the Ordinance ia

"A big. hulking brute" was how Section No 2. Sub-Section 1, of Revenue, Officer Grimmitt describtical

Ordinance No. 5, of 1922.

This

TOBACCO SMUGGLER WHO OUGHT TO WORK.

merely is an enabling Ordinance ed a Chinese whom he charged without prejudice to the generality before Mr. Williams at the Cen- of the provisions of Sub-Section 1. tral Magistracy this morning with Mr. Whyte-Smith referred to the possession of a quantity of duli- general wording contained in the able tobacco.

Ordinnace providing for "the cen- The nian, it was stated, was ar sorship, and the control and suprested early this morning on the pression of publications," and to waterfront, following the dis- the direct application of this Seccovery of tobacco in a shoe-box tion to newspapers as elaborated a further quality tied to his in the websequent Emergency Re-girdle. gulations, (Section 2, Sub-Section 1) as follows:

or

distribute

work."

R. O. Grimmitt:-There is no thing known about him, except that "No person shall print, publish I would like to add that a big any newspaper, hulking brute like him should not containing any matter in the Chinese language (other than ao about smuggling, but do some bone-fide trade advertisement) the Court announced that the which has not

A fine of $25, or three weeks charges had been found proved.

been previously submitted to and passed by the imprisonment was inflicted. Lieutenant Turnbull was sen- Seerdtury for Chinese Affairs." tenced to be dismissed his ship and severely reprimanded for neglecting his duties

Watch 18 Oficer on December 16.---Reuter.

It is understood that the Posgi. ernment was defeated was moved don and Perseus are proceeding to

T was subsequently dis- cavered that M. Boret's pinn was disclosed in trade paper as far back as December, and that coincidentally with the publica- tion of the plan, there was heavy speculation in wheat.

The motion on which the Gov-

Mr.

Gaol Strike Articles.

Whyte-Smith:-1 under- stand, only on the facts, that the Theso position is simply this:

M

FRANCO-ITALIAN NAVAL ISSUE.

It is felt that this entails a re- examination of the question of the

prisoners. Government attitude toward poli-

The Viceroy, Lord Irwin, Is reported to be impressed by the general desire in India for peaceTM and the pacific temper of the Congress, as lilustrated by their compliance with the request of Sir Tej Sapru, Mr. Srinivasa Sastri, and Mr. Jayakar.

The Committee met at Allahabad yesterday "to consider the-situs-- fon arising from Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald's declaration and advise the country thereon." The Com- mittec arrived at unanimous, decision, but the publication of their views was postponed pending the arrival in India of the three leading delogates to the Round Table Conference, who cabled re- questing postponement.

Gandhi's Release Asked,

Indian legislators express the opinion that a decisive result in favour of advance by constitu- tional means will only be obtain-

by M. Buynt, a member of the Hongkong without their sister newspapers, one on the 18th and INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS ARE able by the release of Gandhi and

Franklin Bouillon group, who re- gretted the speculative mian-

craft.

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by the Minister of STORM DISASTER IN Agriculture.-Reuter,

YEAR AGO.

| oeuvres due to a premature de-i

claration Geneva, Jan. 22. There are over cleven million un- employed persons in Europe, more than double the amount noted a your ago that is to say, according to the estimates of the International Labour Office.

The world total of unemployed is placed by the Labour Ofice at twenty millions or, more.--Reuter.

GERMAN SHIPPING

DEPRESSION.

the Bill legallaed nothing that was SIXTY-SEVEN SHIPS IDLE IN

Illegal in 1926, and it had been contended that a general atrike was illegal in 1926.

PORT OF HAMBURG.

Hamburg, Jun 22,

constitutes

The early failure of the Steeg Cabinet comes as no surprise. On facing the Chamber for the first. time on December 18th last, a vote of non-confidence was rejected by a margin of seven votes only.

SILVER LOAN RUMOURS.

MR. HU SAYS CHINA MAY NEGOTIATE.

of

record. a

gested annexion with the sux-

·BLACK SEA.

FIFTY DROWNED IN LOSS OF STEAMER.

Bucharest, Jan. 22.

PROCEEDING.

.

[

the other on the 19th, published

a dozen other Congress leaders to articles which had not been sub-

enable them to confer on the new mitted for censorship to the

London, Jan. 21..

situation. Secretary for Chinese Affairs. I

Replying in the House of Com- may say that it is not alleged that

They hold that the question of there is anything particularly ob-mons to a question regarding the

a general amnesty to political jectionable about these articles, negotiations between France and prisonera can very well be con- Similar articles were published in Italy upon their respective naval sidered later. otker

sub-

newspapers and these construction programmes, the The Viceroy's Executive Council articles and been censored.. But Prime Minister said informal dis-held an emergency meeting to-day what is really an objectionable fea-cussions on naval queations were and it is believed that the ture about Ignoring these re-otill continuing, and he was not just under discussion was the re- guiations and publishing these able to make any statement at pre-lease of Gandhi and his leading articles without having them cen-sent.-British Wireless.

lieutenants.

A violent storm in the Buck Sen has caused havoc among shipsored is that these newspapers, ping, the most serious consequence being the loss of the Russian sten- mer Zuvaslivia.

Disaster overtook the vessel which sank with appalling rapidity, fourteen passengers and thirty- six members of the crew being drowned.

Nanking, Jan. 22. It is also reported that numerous Denying that the Nanking Goy-fishing vessels are missing. with The trade depression is serious-ernment had opened negeflations their crews-Reuter The real safeguard against 19 affecting shipping The ton with the United States Govern violent

and revolutionary

ment in changes, he said, lay in British ge how lying in the port

Hamburg workmen's deep-rooted belief in consisting of sixty-seven steamers Chairman of Legislative Council, Joan, the Nanking justice and equity all round, of various sizes, aggregating rough- Mr. Hu Han-min, told nowapaper the new Bill. and they three hundred thousand tons,correspondents this morning that Under

that Attorney General, a political strike, Reuter.

or a strike with any object other

than furthering

became illegal.

a trade dispute PETROLEUM IMPORTS

NOT WANTED.

+

No Compromise Declaration,

the prevailing

rumoura

Messra, T.

T. V. Soo

Soong, Sun Fo and

C. T. Wang had signed an agred-

mont

for

a silver loan were entire- ly without foundation.

Mr. HD admitted, however, that

tho Nanking Government needed a

· ILLNESS OF MR. C. T. WANG.

A SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT

on

CHINESE AVIATION

DEVELOPMENT.

Nagpur "Amnesty."

are able to steal a march on other newspapera-getting their in-

Nagpur, Jan. 22. formation to the public sooner.

One hundred and sixty-three In reply to the Magistrate, Mr.

out political prisoners, marchod Whyte-Smith further said:The

con. of Nagpur Gaol to-day, In articles were with regard to the so-called strike at the Prison. BIG CONFERENCE SUGGESTED soquence of a local Government

order to reloase all men convicted'. Quito long articles appeared

BY NÁNKING.

This before November 80. lost. the subject, and they were very.

"amnesty" did not apply to those" similar.

Nanking, Jan. 22. the

prisoners arrested under the so- Handing these articles to

The Nanking Aviation Depart called "Security" Section-Reuter. Mr. Whyte-Smith re- magietrate Coursey tests an- ment has suggested an All-Chirin

Premier Complimented. ather point-these publishers and Conference on development of printers were not to know that such military and civil aviation in the

London, Jan. 22. articles would be passed if they Provinces.

Sir Akbar Hydarfe, at . dinner The Government is considering given by the Hyderabad delegation has been submitted to the Censor. It is apt to have a bad effect be the agenda to be discussed at the to the Prime Minister last night, theae publishera who keep Conference, the date of which will paid a warm tribute to the work the regulations and have all their be announced soon. articles censured may feel that it

caus

a not fair that others are publish

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Conser-ISENATOR INTRODUCES BILLilver and a gold loan from foreign one from Marshal Chiang Kai-ing articles without being centar.

vative leader, moving the rejection

FOR RESTRICTION.

Washington, Jan. 22.

ed and that they themselves aro losing by being law-abiding.

Editors and Printers.

FINE WEATHER.

REPORTED.

of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald at the Conference,' particularly upon the Peking, Jan. 22.

Intimate knowledge ho displayed. Over thirty telegrams, including

of the problems of India.

Sir Akbar added that thoir de- Powers in order to develop her shek and one from General Chang of the Bill, said that no compromise

railway and mines as well na to Hauch-lang, have been received by

The Royal Observeratory re-hievements were most remarkable, was possible. The Bill was a dan-

Mr. C. T. Wang, Foreign Minister,

ports that an'anticyclone has form. Even If a final settlement was not xer to individual liberty and, in A. Bill has been introduced into reform her monetary system.

He added that a sliver loan was who is now lylig ill. at the Union

ed over North China and a depres roached, a better feeling and certain circumstances, to the State. the Senate designed to limit the offered to China by the U.S. Gov. Hospital, enquiring as to condition. Mr. Lindsoll:There is one stan over the Sea of Japan. The understanding would azist.

imports of crude petroleum during

Mr. Wang a throat trouble has point. In the case of the Wah Kiu, monsoon will freshen along the

The results of the Indian' Round the next three years to sixteen ernment and consequently Nan-

of China. The local Table Conferenco are to be debated January 27--Reuter and British million barrels annually-Reuter king might contemplate opening shown a very slight improvement. I see you will be summoning both 3.0, con

negotiations soon. Those, it held, His wife is at the hospital, assisting the editor and the printer?

forecast is: N.E. winds, moder- in the House of Commons⠀⠀: ôn |American Service.

(Continued on Page 12.)

MondayBritish" Wirelesa. would be conducted at Washington, in the care of the patient.

Later.

The debate was adjourned until

Wirela.

ate; fine.