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珏 二拜禮 號七十月三英港香 TUNDAY. MARCH

17. 1931.

IN TORY

IMPUDENT CHALLENGE. RECRIMINATIONS

MR. BALDWIN AND EDWARDS SUIT. INDIA COMMITTEE.

ROTHERMERE.

PUBLIC DEBATE ON LEADERSHIP!

ELECTION ZEST.

London, Mar. 16.

counter-

Challenge and challenge, with Mr. Baldwin and Lord Rothermere as the principal figures, have given added zest to the bye-election at St. George's, Westminster, where a bitter fight is being waged between the Conser- vative leader's friends and enemies.

.

PLAINTIFF'S PLEA

SUPPORTED.

|JUDGMENT RESERVED.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai. Mar. 17, Before the Court of Consuls,

THE "VOLTE-FACE” COMMUNIQUE.-

MR. BALDWIN'S POLICY IS GIVEN APPROVAL.

PRINCES AND FUTURE.

London, Mar. 16. Another private meeting of day afternoon in which Mr. S. the India Committee of the M. Edwards, former Secretary

the case was continued yester--

statement that the Council's Lon

it

636 PER ANNUM

BE GLS COPT 10 DENTS

DUNLOP

"Extra"

Construct

Overseas

Motoring

Conditions.

FURT, MOTOR CYCLE TYRES

LOCAL BRANCH.

Fadder B1).

BUS CRIME BUS CRIME | MORTGAGE CASE | DOLLAR'S RISE.

ARRESTS.

MEN DENOUNCED BY FRIENDS.

..

NAZIS SHOCKED.

Hamburg, Mar. 16.

It is disclosed that the three murderers of the Muni- cipal Councillor, who was shot dead in cold blood in a crowded bus on Saturday night, were denounced to the police, by the local headquar- ters of the Nazis.

The lenders of the

Fascist In Hamburg expressed was abhorrence

nt the terrible

satisfaction with Mr. Baldwin's

CONCLUDES.

MR. POTTER ENDS HIS ADDRESS.

SAYS DEFENCE IS INGENIOUS AFTER-THOUGHT.

reserved in

DECISION RESERVED.

Judgment WILS the mortgage case, which con- cluded at the Supreme Court this morning, before Mr. Justice

BOOST IN SILVER VALUES.

DIRE PERIL

OF CREW OF SEALER.

FUTURE UNCERTAIN. | TWENTY KILLED IN

An advance of 3/8th of a penny In the sterling value of the Hong- kong dollar was recorded when the opening exchange rate nounced this morning. This made the rato 18.0%d., the highest since January 5th Inst.

was

IL-

The rise was due to silver going

EXPLOSION.

SURVIVORS TAKE TO

ICE-FLOES.

the London quotation being NOW MAROONED.. 142. spot and 14.7/16d. forward, rise of 7/16th 'compared with Saturday's price.

of

Wood, after Mr. Eldon Potter,

A Reuter's message from New K.C., had made his closing ad- York states for the Municipal Council, iConservative Party was held at

that an important dress on behalf of the plaintiff. development on the market yester- claiming £5,000 as damages for the House of Commons to-day, Parts alleged breach of agreement,and on this occassion,

Plaintif Mrs. Chu Shuk. No. day was the strength silver, plus pay to the end of his agree-officially disclosed, a resolution outrage, while Herr Hitler, the 121, Calne Rond, who alleges that which advanced 1% conta per ounce ment, which expires in Septera was passed by a large majority national leader, has issued a state- fully sold her property which she

the Banque Franco-Chinois wrong- to 31% cents.

The exchange market opened i ment from Munich, der suncing expressing

Arm Lord Rothermere to-day issner, 1932, and passage money.

The Chief of the Fire Brigade, agreement

in Hongkong this the crime, expelling the murderers had mortgaged for the purpose of very ed IL

statement declining the Chief Sanitation Chemist and statement of the Party's India from the Party. bat promising to obtaining banking facilities for morning. Inter-bank business was challenge that he appear at St. Mr. W. T. Falmon gave evidence policy made at Newton Abbot trial as he is convinced that they claims $42,000 damages from the here sold at 16. 1d.

W. M. Pittendrigh. provide their lexul defence at the Mr.

She done at iss. 1d., while speculators George's to state his case before corroboration of Mr. Edwards and confirmed in his

Whilst the market at the moment brilliant acted in a moment of madness, Banque the electors against Mr. Bal-

speech in the

in very steady, the future is still Commons on infuriated by Communist propa- win's leadership.

Thursday.

ganda against the Nazis. It is understood that there was Residents of Hamburg are very lively discussion regarding the nervous owing to a fear of repri

Inst procedure followed

week nie by the Communists, who have which occasioned all the specula-announced a number of protest tion and misunderstanding in meetings. The police are taking regard to the circumstances under every precaution against lawless which Mr. Baldwin decided that|neRK, the Conservatives could not part- cipate in a Round Table Cónfer- ence in India at present.

He proposed Instead that he meet Mr. Baldwin in open debate at a public hall at any time after next week-end, half the seating accom- modation to be at Mr. Baldwin's tiisposition and half at Lord Rother- merc's disposition, with a neutral chairman.

Suggested Subject. Lor Rtothermere demanded that the subject of the debate bo "The polley, lendership and record of the Conservative Party in eight years."

the lat

"To give Mr. Baldwin every ad- vantage," writes Lard Rothermere, "I agree to speak first and to con esde him the right of reply..

"My sole purpose is to do all i the Conservative can to rebuild Party that, wound on India economy and tariffs, it may be an effective remedy against Socialism and Bolshevism."

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Mr. Baldwin's Answer.

Later,

Mr. Baldwin declined to necepti the Rothermere challenge.

He famed a statement to-day na follows:

Impudent Iden,

remotest

JOBREXIT:DERBAKJENDITURICS MENONTIE SATTRENINGOVORENIETER

SWATOW MUTINY

FORESTALLED.

WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS ON SATURDAY.

CANTON DISCLOSURES.

Canton, Mar. 18. Sensational disclosures were made to-day to the effect that following the dis- covery of a Communist plot to stir up a mutiny among

Government troops at Swa- tow, seventy-three officers“ and men were executed on Saturday.

A hundred other "con- spirators" are awaiting sen- tence.

Those executed apparent.

·ly agreed to revolt and were persuading their comrades to mutiny when the plot was discovered and nipped

in the bud.--Reuter.

Nazis Fired On.

It is reported that two Nazis It will be recalled that in the were fired upon to-day at Altona House of Commons Mr. Baldwin as they emerged from a canfe. made charges that there was al Fifteen shots were fired in a channel of communication between bus. Two women and u com-

Mr. Potter, together with Mr. II. G. Sheldon, is for plaintiff while

Mr. F. C. Jenkin in defending.

Written Consent.

In continuing his final address, !

which he commenced yesterday afternoon, Mr. Potter dealt with

the question of written consent or would authorities and said he assume that, for the purpose of argument, Mr. Jenkin's submis sions on the point were correct. that plaintiff had expressly agreed in the deed to guarantee Mr.

that case, he said, there must have been written consent. His sub-

certain members.of the India Companion of the victim were wound. Pittendrigh's overdraft. Even in

mittee and hostile newspapers.

ed. The free assailants were

arrested separately. One mission would be that there was ex-policeman and the second lan

no written consent or authority, clerk.

and Mr. Jenkin's argument wna founded upon the law of implied request, in the case of a drawing a cheque against account which had no funds,

14,000 Releases in India. Answering a question by Mr. Graham Pole, In the House The Socialists moved a resolu- to-day-Mr. Wedgwood Benn. tion in the fteichstag demanding Secretary of State for

India, more effective measures against said that 13,927 male prisoners incitement to political murders and 408-women civil disobedience and severer laws in regard to the prisoners in various provinces had | carrying

weapons. been released up to March 13, as Router. result of the agreement for the cessation of the civil disobedience

Jethal of

movement renched recently be THE GOVERNMENT

tween the Viceroy and eerisin political lenders at New Delhi,

Princes and Federation.

It is announced from New Delhi that an informal meeting of the| Princes attending the annual ses- sion of the, Chamber of Princes,

DEFEATED.

LIBERALS TURN DIVISION ON LIBERAL BILL!

UNIVERSITY SEATS.

man

结婚

If a person wanted to authorhe in writing an overdraft, all that person had to do was to write to the bank and state plainly that he wished to authorise or consent to an advance, loan, overdraft or nything desired. That was the ordinary way in which It would be authorised. It would never enter the brain of an ordinary business man to make such authorisation by drawing cheques,

New York, Mar. 16. The lives of over a hundred men, including a noted film director and a famous ex- plorer, are imperilled as the result of a terrific explosion which occurred yesterday aboard an old wooden sealer engaged in operations off the northern coast of Newfound. land.

Twenty members of the crew are reported to have been killed by the terriffe blast, DOCSERIOZICONEREZIONAREINUMEREMAI

but al- though the vessel, which 18 named the Viking, is only a small ship, there were over 120 |others aboard her, most of whom

are in grave danger,

PREMIER'S HOME INVADED.

JAPANESE LABOUR PARTY IMPATIENT.

POLICE THRUST ASIDE.

Tokyo, Mar, 17.

A remarkable demonstra- tion occurred at the re- sidence of the Prime Minia- ter last evening when three hundred and fifty members of the Right Wing of the Japanese labour Party, des- pite police efforts to prevent them, forced their way into the presence uf Mr. Hamaguchi.

The leaders handed Mr. Hamaguchi a resolution de- manding the dissolution of this "Bourgeois-Diet"--and then left quictly.-Renter.

Catasant

considered to be uncertain. Much depends on Shanghai speculators. Should they begin to cover, a slight reaction may take place.

Later.

Were Cheques Requests?

As between a customer and banker, if the customer drew a

At one o'clock, the dollar quota- cheque on an account in which

no money, the WAN

Talon had dropped 14th. to Is. promise to pay thei

"Lord Rothermere addressed the numeraton EA CERERINGCORRELATIARIORUŽJAUNADGETS challenge not to me but to his own newspapers. That fact alone must don agents, Messrs: Pooks, stated throw a doubt upon its sincerity. that the service is n

decided to move a resolution in permanent It in obvious that the challenge one and that the agreements are p

open session of the Chamber ap- would never have been Issued if renewed automatically.

proving the principles of All- there had been the

The defence called no witnesses, Indin Federation embodied in the

London, Mar, 16. prospect of acceptance.

relying on the Land Regulations broad framework of the new con

The Government to-day were there as the basis of their ease. They stitution as drawn up at the Round: deny that their agents gave any Table Conference, with safeguards defeated in the House of Commons implied a The idea that any member of warranty of permanency of ser

for internal autoany and the on Clause Four of the Represen-money to the bank. The bank, of the Conservative Party, to any vice, and claim that it was ultra financial and economic rights of tation of the People Bill, which course, could either dishonour the Hought to abolish University re-cheque or pay it, and if they did or their the States. nothing of the present leader, vires for the Council

clause WAS should publicly debate the question agents to do so.

The resolution will empower presentation. The of the party leadership with a Peer, At the first hearing, Mr. Ed- the Princes delegates to continue rejected by four votes, the division implied promise that the customer who so far as he is anything is a wards alluded to Mr. Fessenden, negotiations with the British India resulting professing Liberul, a too impu- the Director-General of the Muni- delegates to the Round Table Con. dont to deserve a moment's con- cipality (who is absorbing the posi. ference..

tion of Secretary) as being bitter- ly hostile to him.

xideration.

"The question is not to be settled by any individual outside the

Party, however rich and influential,

but by the whole body of Conser vative members."

Rothermere's Hctori.

Later. "Mr. Baldwin bus funked the insite, naserta Lord Rothermere.

He adds:-"Mr. Baldwin did not call me a Liberal in 1924, when, thanks to the Zinovicff letter, the Daily Mail, under my direction, secured his return with #record mujority for any. Premier since 1832."--Reuter.

The hearing was concluded this

ed judgment,

favour.

AMERICA'S DOLLAR

MILLIONAIRES.

For the clause... .242

246 Against...

the alter, then there was

would pay. The point, in the was whether the present ease, signature of Dr. Tum, as agent for plaint, made the cheques

writing sufficient to quests in

T

NEW NAVAL ACCORD AGREEMENT.

MEETING IN LONDON ON THURSDAY.

London, Mar. 18.

d.

on

The vessel caught fire immedi- is ately after the explosion and reported to be blazing furlously.

Steamer To Rescue.

A steamer, with doctors, nurses and medical supplies etc. has been despatched to the assistance of the Viking.

crow

First news of the disaster an- nounced by wireless the deathe of twenty members of the In the explosion, which occurred at nine o'clock on Sunday night, and it soon became obvious that the blaze which followed could not be aubdued by those aboard.

Bre

The men, from the vessel therefore endeavouring to walk" ashore by means of the Ice-flous with which the vessel is surround- ed.

Stowaways Aboard.

The mishap occurred off Horse Island, on the north coast of New- foundland, and it is for the island that the survivors of the disaster are attempting to pick their way.

The Viking carries a crow of 138, There were also two stowaways, aboard and the well-known film director, Mr. Vraick Frissell, was a passenger.

The vessel, which is a wooden serow barquentino of 586 tonk gross, was under the command of Captain Abram Kean, tho, noted explorer and member of the Royal Geographical Society.

Adventurous Life?

The Labour Party, Loaders and could you read these cheques as provisional agreement publisher/is visible from the shore with the

2

Later. Beoldes the crew of 188, the two director stowaways and the film mentioned Conservatives Doubtful.

earlier, there Wore For the purpose of considering several cinema photographers on Political consequences are not satisfy the terms of the mortgage the fornt and final drafting of the board the Viking, accompanying Some of the more conservative anticipated, except from the fact deed and bind the property of Anglo-Franco-Italian Naval Agree Mr. Frissell in the making of a afternoon, when the Court deferr-Princes, however, expreset the that the dofent of the Government third party (plaintif) When

Public feeling is in, Mr. Edward's opinion that Federation would was brought about by the decision they came to consider the cases itment, a meeting of diplomatic and Alm showing adventurous

technical experts is being arrang-aboard a sealer. endanger their very existence. of cleven Liberals (including Sir would become quite plain that was to take place in London

vil At the opening of the Chamber John Simon) to vote against the not so.

The wireless station at Horse Thursday. The basis of discus Island reports that the burning ship of Princes gathering, the Viceroy Government.

"By no stretching, of language sion is contained in the recent appealed for a reign of law in the States based on the broad good- | rank and file, are greatly incensed being

sed survivors huddled on the ice, along- consent or authority last week as a White Paper. side. will of the community and equa! over the Liberal action as the in writing to Jonn," Bald

In addition to the British, rights for all. It must be recognis Bill was introduced in February counsel. "If the banker chooses to French and Italian representa-

Men Marooned. ed that there must be efficient (embodying the Alternative Vote) honour the cheque I am not allow-tives, Mr. Dwight Morrow, who police, with a strong and

Some of the survivors hayo al- to the ed to say that he has not made me a was one of the American delegates ready managed to reach Horse petent judiciary,

loan, and I have to meet that loan at last year's London Naval Con Island by crossing the floes, and executive interference,

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's subag or else he can sue mo for it." Mr.ference, and who is now crossing quent announcement that the mat- Potter added that, according to the Atlantle on a holiday, will at they report that their contrades ter would be considered later is one authority it sald "If the tend, together with the Ambasan are marooned on the fee owing to regarded as a warning to Liberals cheque is honoured, the customer dor, Mr. Dawes, on behalf of the the springing up of an offshore of the Government's power to with has borrowed the money. draw the Bill, though this course He went on to say that in the United States, while Japan's re- wind, which makes it extremely

Audaira, her Ambassador in Lon.land. only charge plaintiff's property if don.---British

Wireless. the written consent or authority to the granting to certain bank- ing facilities was forthcoming.

Defence Contention.

OVER FIVE HUNDRED IN LATEST RETURN.

secure

Viceroy's Advice.

com-

as a direet. concession from Literals.

Washington, Mar. 16. No fewer than 504 persons, in the United States acknowledged in- comes exceeding one million dollars each in 1920, despito the stock Lady Diana Cooper, who is elec-market crash of that year, accord- welfare of the community. He at present is mant unlikely.- present case the Banque could presentative will be Baron Mat- difficult and hazardous to reach

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St. George's Bye-Election.

London, Mar. 16,

tionering most actively on behalf ing to the Income Tax returns

This compares with 496 dollar

Reuter

of her husband in the St. George's |

by clection, has made her debut millionaires in 1928. —

us a public speaker at a meeting American Servico.

In the Marchioness of Hartington's drawing room, at which Matfair domestica who are voters were the honoured guests.

The supporters of Sir Ernuat Petter are confident that Sir Mai-| colm Campbell's support will| bring the chanffours to Sir Ernost

Pettor's aide.

ARMS ABOARD LOST. TRICOLOR.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY OWNERS.

Oslo, Mar. 16.

The Church is also taking ai hand. The Reverand Hugh Chap-1 The owners of the Tricolor which man announced. In the pulpit at sank outside Colombo after an or the Savoy * Chapel that it was a plosion in January last, have issued rellateus work to support Capt an official statement declaring that Dun Cooper, and called on every the only arms carried by the vossel "Christian" clergyman to express on her last voyage were destined News on the deplorable way for the Nanking Government and

tión

He urged the rulers to moderate their personal expenditure so as to allow the utmost rovente for the

counselled religious toleration and Reuter. conciliation, and anggested that some means should be established to maintain contact between the Gov- ernment and the governod.

The sitting concluded with tho unveiling of a fine statue of Lord Reading.

The proceedings will continue & whole week.-Reutor and British Wireless.

WEATHER REPORT.

The Royal Observatory reports that an anticyclone is central over N.E. China and a depression to the east of the Loochoos, Fresh mon- soon, along the BBX Cab of Ohink

AMERICAN TRADE

SLUMP.

JAPANESE AIRSHIP

SETS RECORD...

SIXTY HOURS UP WITHOUT REFUELLING.

Up to the present there is no fa formation as to the fate of Mr. Frissell or of Captain Kean, who In normally the Master of H.M.B. Prospero and a loading Newfound land politician, having at one t1026 been

Minister

of Marine and Fisheries In the Newfoundland Government

· The Viking was built in 1881 aud is one of the oldest winlera still inj service-Reuter'a American Serd vice. MEN

His Lordship pointed out the defence was that the cheque was EXPORTS LOWEST FOR OVER and the Banque, Dr. Tam being a communication between Dr. Tam'

10 YEARS.

authorised by plaintiff to give

Tokyo, Mar, 17, # consent or authority in writing for Washington, Mar. 16..

· Favoured by ideal weather, a choques to be drawn on the over- Exports from the United States draft account. In other words, it Japanese naval semi-rigidi dirl during Febrilary totalled G5228, was a direction to the Banque by rible has broken the previous 000,000, which is the lowest since Dr. Tam in writing to increase endurance record for this type No furtkarinawa has bean, received Novembor, 101ANA

Mr. Fittendriyn's overdraft.

of airship, remaining aloft for by Mossear Hidaka: Company, the The

he imports totalled G$175,000,- | ** Mr. Potter did not agree, saying sixty hours without refuelling local, renin ferithe, Bhind 900 this 1 The the lowest since that the cheques did not show It le claimed to be world which hay September 31

that The consent had to be a record for this type of aircraft Blum The Year document which fom wait face The dirigible sacended at 1137 About

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