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GENEVA CONFESSES TO LITTLE PROGRESS. Britain Denies Report of Chinese Appeal for Military Aid.
BRIAND'S EFFORTS
ABORTIVE.
“THIS IS A LONG BUSINESS.”
DR. SZE AND JAPAN'S FIVE POINTS.
LIFFORTS to find a solution of the Manchuria dispute are being continued at Geneva "in a hopeful atmosphere" but M. Briand, who is taking on the burden of the task of satisfying both parties, admits that progress is very slow.
Considerable excitement was caused by the publica- tion in London yesterday of a report that the British Government had been asked by China to send troops to Manchuria. The War Office later issued a cate. gorical denial that any such request had been made.
China's anti Japanese boycott activities appair to be one of the biggest`obatacles to a very tlement of the Manchuria disputs. Photo above shows a mass meeting of Japanese residents of Shanghai when a resolution was passed arging Tokys to iske "strong and affective measures."
“HISTORIC RIGHTS IN MANCHURIA." | DUBLIN “REBEL" What Are the INDIA FINANCE
Tokyo, Oct. 21.
It is fearned that Viscount Ishii (Minister for Foreign Affairs 1915-16, Ambassador in Paris, 1920-27) is prepar- ing a statement for publica- tion in the Axalti criticising the League's handling of the Sino-Japanese dispute, but strongly emphasising that Japan has no intention of wrecking the League. On the contrary, Japan will do her utmost to strengthen the League by constructive criti- cism-Router.
Japan's Five Points.
Japan, he said, has an historie!
ARSENAL.
Duties
FORMULA.
right, to her position in Manchuri STARTLING FIND of the Kausing? Agreement Now in
as
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defence against possible
Kiin aggression. which ex. perience has shown · China in Pu capable of resisting.--Renter.
America Invokes Puit.
Washington, Det 20: The United States Government has joined Britain and other Imembers of the League Council ¦in reminding the Chinese and Japanese their obligations
under the Kellogg Pact. Identical Notes were despatched to China and Japan 19-day by Mr. II. L. Stimson, the Secretary of State.
Bouter's American Service. Women Apply Pressure.
London. Oct. 21,
IN A CAVE.
MILITARY LAW.
Dublin, Oct. 20.
The Irish Free State Gov- ernment has formally gazet- ted the Public Safety Act which was rushed through the Dail Eirreann in the lat ter part of last week, and the drive against the ter- torists will begin immediate-
ly.
Some of the alleged offenders re- cently arrested
alleged stro been concerned have
with
in the Dablin Mountains.
the seriousness of the ogibreak of lawlessness,
HON. MR. SHENTON'S CLOSE INTEREST.
of
Sing" patrol?
Legislative
section'a.
Sight.
Practica! Unanimity.
short
LOCAL BRANCH.
BRITAIN EMERGING FROM THE RUT.
TARIFF PROSPECT AND INDUSTRY.
POUND RISING: FEWER PEOPLE WORKLESS.
RUSH OF NEW ORDERS.
THE GROWING
conviction
London, Oct. 21. that the National Government will be returned to power and that Britain is on the verge of tariff impositions has led to remarkable improvements in British trade and British trade prospects. The pound sterling is rising rapidly on all foreign exchanges and the re-establishment is expected to continue; foreign firms are searching for factory sites in Great Britain; unemployment has dropped 58,000 in a fortnight.
The general opinion in the City a month ago was that a general election would not merely be a false move as regards the better atmosphere created by the Na- tional Government-it would be a fatal one. The predictions of a further flight from the pound and dis- organisation of industry have, however, been falsified and the outlook to-day is exceedingly bright.
The Rt. Hon. Mr. J. H. Thomas, in the course of a speech last night at Derby, which he is fighting as a National Labour candidate, made the most of these developments as “bull” points for the National Government.
In a few weeks, aaid Mr. Thomas, unemployment has decreased to a gratifying extent.
One hundred and fifty foreign firms had definitely applied for factory sites in Great Britain, hoping to start production (incidentally providing work for many British workura) as soon as import duties are imposed. Most of the applications have come from the United States, but there are many from Continental. countries, including Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Norway and Czecho-Slovakia.
Most of the British textile in-
experienced a considerable business spurt, involving orders for 16,000,- 000 yards of cotton material by one
firm alone..
to-
London, Oct. 20. The funnelul aspects of the Federation of India were again considered to-day in the Federal Searching questions by the Structure Committee of the Found Hon. Mr. W.. E. L. Shenton on Table Conference and a the part played by the rescue-adjournment was arranged to en- tug Kausing during the typhoonable a formula to be produced on of September 2nd., when the behalf of His Majesty's Govern- lives of mary junk people were ment which, it is believed, will lost and numerous craft sunk, reconcile the minor differences Geneva, Oct. 20.
are to be asked at to-morrow's expressed by the dolegates of dustries. Mr. Thomae went on, have States, British India and the other
SILVER DECLINE meeting
the "This is a long
business. There!
Council. ie purhaps a little progress, but it
Lord Sankey. presiding, said
SETS IN. is very alow," said M. Briand, the:
The questions, ten in number, the discussions indicted accep- Wizard of the League, to-day after
Coal Demand. tance, subject to certain exceptions. toare as follows: further conversations with the Wenen are becoming active in
1. How many craft were during of the underlying principles of
EXPECTED TO GO The coal quota had been In- Chinese and Japanese delegates. the interests of peace in Man-
in enormous illegal arneval in a cave the 2nd September last towed to the finance sub-committee's report,
the Midland and M. Briand has been given full cheria, following the receipt by
LOWER STILL The safety by "Kau Sing" from: (a) as those upon which that part of creased powers to act on behalf of the the International Women's Suf- Council, but up to the present he frage Alliance of a message from
place was fuil of arms of all sorts West end of Harbour? (b) East the conatitution should be drafted. Northumberland Districts, and the
end of Harbourf
Consideration was then begun of shipments from South Wales alone
Gencrut selling of silver, has not succeeded in finding a way three women'a . organisations in; when police discos red it, revealing. 2. How far west did the "Kau the proposal for establishing at the rose Inst week by fifteen per cent.
decided improve- towards a speedy settlement. Chim. arging that all weight be||
Federal Court, exhaustive mem- The iron and steel and the boot gether with a
ment in the London-New York applied to secure a restoration of
cross-rate, has caused aliver to the status quo
3. How many requests were oranda prepared by Lord Sankey, and shoe industries were also be-
ginning to hum once again.
drer d. in London, both for Five International women's or Five high Army officers have received by Harbour Ofce for being the basis of discussion. It is curious that while Japan's
Mr. Thomas attributed the atrik-reals and forward, whilst the de communicated co-ganisations with headquarters at treen appointed "Give points,"
*N ก Military assistance? Were they passed on
ing improvement in the industrial eline in New York is 3/8the. Both fidentially to af. Briand, Sir Eric Geneva have sent messages to the Tribunal to hold secret trials of to the "Kau Singi? If so, is there
Sir Muhammed Shaf, opening situation to the existence and pre-markets are dull.
The effect was seen in a drop of Drummond and Mr, II. L. Stimson, President of the Assembly and also
the log be produced?
the debate, sald there was now mised continuation of a National
half-penny in the Hongkong have been published in most to the Council stating that their terrorists. The penalties allowed any record of action taken? Can
4. Details of craft refusing as practical unanimity among all Government.
dollar this morning. the offelal newspapers, the Chinese delegates forty million members demand that to the Court are not restricted in
They may order flog-sistance?
'schools of political thought in
Tariff Dispute.
rate at Geneva deny all knowledge of the conflict be settled peacefully.juny way.
being 1s. 2d. There favour of the early establishment gings or even pass sentences of
Anchored in Bay?
Meanwhile, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, buyera at 1a. 2.15/16d., but the of a Supreme Court which was an drath.
fenture of all Federa-speaking at Leeds, endeavoured to markot is weak, and lower rates Probably the first persons to be 5. Is it a fact that the "Kau essential
The Reigning Princes undo the damage caused by Mr. are likely to be seen.
In Shanghai, the market is also tried by this Tribunal will be Sing" was anchored in Kowloon tiens.
nervousness about Neville Chamberlain's full-blooded ahaut a dozen prisoners now in Bay during the afternoon of 2nd showed some
Protection speech at Birmingham, weak, Jews selling. Mountjoy Prison, some of whem September when craft were sunk their position, but he thought their and to clarify the issue over which 18. 77/16d. Speculators who have
in various parts of the Harbour? confidence would be accured when
Mr. Philip Snowden and Mr. heavily oversold are now covering (Our Own Correspondent.) were concerned with the cave
what hours and the constitution was at work. I so, between
Chamberlain are at loggerheads. by buying steriing. and there is a orsenal.
why?
The Court, consisting of a Chief, Swatow, Oct. 17.
Mr. Baldwin made no claim for a prospect of a further decline.
All the cross-raten
have elines to comment upon the Five A big gathering of the Chinese!
6. Much as Naval assistance is Justice, with five or seven judges,
Protection. On the contrary, appreciated, was it necessary for should be given jurisdiction or mandato for a general system of
he materially improved in favour of Points, but admit that negotia-Christian community of Swatow tions are proceeding on such lines was held on Sunday to protest An official proclamation also M.S. "Stormcloud" to carry out ginal and appelate in regard not again urged that tariffs were London. and are likely to go Japanese Five Per between Mr. Yoshizawa and Magainst the Japanese encroach-issued to-day declares twelve or the rescues of fisherfolk on Lamma only to constitutional matters, but necessary, but they should be higher still. Briand.--Reuter.
ment in Munchurin.
Some four thousand men and ganisatious including the "Irish laland, after the typhoon? Could also for other matters, civil and scientifically adjusted and removed Cent. Sterlin Loan in London han from politics into the hands of a jumped four points, from 69% to the not this have been done by the criminal. and women Catholic and Protestant, Republican
"Kau Sing"7
The only other speaker Permanent non-political Commis-17314. 7. What are the duties of the was Sir Tej Sapru, who speech sion-Reuter. "Kau Sing" durlug the presence of was not concluded when the meet- a typhoon in the Colony
Ing adjourned.-British Wireless. 8. Is the "Kau Sing" worked
"How do you expect me to believe| under the
of the Instructions
White chasing a suspect at 2.30 this that?" asked Mr. Fraser, at the Harbour Master or doen the morning at Hok Un, Hunghom, near Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Master act on his initiative? the Cement Works, Lane Bergt. T. II. when a Chinese barber charged with 9. Is the "Kau Sing" only Loughlin missed his footing and picking the pocket of another man in intended to help large vessels or rolled down the hillside, receiving a Taumat, stated that he ran for more any size of craft requiring nealet-severy cut on his chin as well as than a block of houses to return the
them.
They say that the points have not yet been submitted to them, either officially, or in the course of their informal talks with Briand.
Negotiations Proceeding.
The Japanese delegation de
London, Oct. 20.
Renter.
SWATOW ANTI-JAPANESE
AGITATION,
Huge Gathering of the Christians
12 Organisations Prescribed.
Army"
A sensational report to the effect met in a patriotic demonstration "Friends of Soviet Russia" to be that the Chinese Government had requented the French and British in the open air. After a meeting, illegal bodies.-Reuter Governments to despatch troops to at which a number of speeches Manchuria. was telegraphed from were made and patriotic hymna Genera (not by Reuter) in the sung, the gathering pledged itself
London newspapers to-day.
Omcial British circles later issued a statement denying that
to the anti-Japanese boycott, and determined to send out messages to Christians the world over.
One
community in China,
ány such request had bean made Christian addressed to the}
to the British Government.
Japan's Rights in Manchuria.
urging alt to
unite in the move- ment; one to fellow-Christians in arving them to bring pres- in their own country for a who was a member of the dopata Just solution of the present pro- tion of the Royal Institute for blems; and one to the Christians the world enlisting their International Affairs which visit of
Meanwhile, Mr. Hugh Hyndham,
ed the Far East sono two years interest in seeing fair-play.
ago under the leadership of Lord
Hailsham, the Conservative leader,
has given an interview to Reuter
"And a Little Child Shall
Read!.....
in which he outlines his views on A feature of the meeting was the necessary preliminary under-the putting up of a little child of standing in Manchuria if a settle-four years of age to lisp a speech, ment is to be reached.
Russian Danger.
SPANISH CRISIS ANTICIPATION.
CORTES RUSHES A DEFENCE BILL.
Madrid, Oct. 20. A single sitting of the Cortes to-day rushed through a com- prehensive measure for the de- fence of the Republic, as the re- sult of the foars of a civli out- break following the conflict with the Church.
ance?
abrasions on the hands and legs. The wallet to the complainant. His Wor- man he was chasing, was however, ship said that as it was the defendant's
a
arc
The rate le
WELCOME DROP IN UNEMPLOYED.
57,000 LESS IN A FORTNIGHT.
London, Oct. 20 Following a diminution of over
10. What acts of assistance did caught by a constable, and is now first offence, he would not be too hard 83,000 in the number of unom- the "Kau Sing" perform during the being held at the Hunghom Station on him. Defendant was sentenced to ployed recorded last week, the
alx weeks' hard labour. typhoon of the 2nd September?
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Borila After the speeches, songs and ties drastically to suppress disturb. slogans, the company formed ing elementa ilke incitors to vio-
Washington, Oct. 20.
Amsterdam huge procession, marching in lenco, lightning, strikers, food pro- Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, Romo
of Al
the Goneva Capono, Mr. Hyndham said that no orderly manner to the Bund, where teera and also insufficiently zeal brother
ous officials.
notorious gangster, who was son- Oslo settlement of the Manchurian they sang again patriotic songs.
The authorities evidently have tenced many months ago to three problem could bo satisfactory if it
good reason to fear that Catholle Mecure to Japan the did not
violations, is still free, thanks economic rights in that country
It is noticeable, in view of the officials will take no real steps in Years Imprisonment for Income which
as demands of other anti-Japanese support of the State's decrees, to the activities of his lawyers bo can
regarded
Against the Church. Reuter. Reuter' American Service. -lagitimately theirs.--
(Continued on Page 18.)
Sound of the Cannon.
Stockholm
Labour of Ministry
Agurno published to-day show a further On October decline of 24,000. 12th, the pumbers on the registers of the unemployment exchanges were 2,120,000 unemployed, 531,- 000 temporarily out, and 116,000 normally in casual employment, making a total of 2,700,000,-Br tish Wireless.
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Stated to be an ex-constable of the Hongkong Police Force, a Chinese described as street coolle, wa sentenced to four wooks' hard labour by Mr. Williams at the Central Follen Court this morning for stealing two
All present values represent a considerable improvement on the low mirrors which he had been" angaged Vienna..
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