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FUTURE.

Spirited Attack by

Mr. Lansbury.

London, Nov. 10.

The duty of moving and second- ing the Address in Reply to the King'a Speech in the House of Commons this afternoon, was en- trusted to the Conversative mem- her, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, who had a bumper majority of 14,000 vales at the General Election, and the number, Mr. who only seraped in by two

votes.

Mr. Lloyd chiefly concerned him- self with the economic alluntion, drawing attention to the present large imports of foreigns goods In anticipation of the excepted pro- tective lariffs.

He said that the Government would have overwhelming support if it decided to take mensures to

deal with the position.

Bitter Attack.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

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# -+- | ★ WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1931 BSVAT SUOLE COPF 15 SKRYS

MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS.

NINETEEN CONSERVATIVES IN LIST OF SECONDARY POSTS.

London, Nov. 10. ; Thirty-two appointments of Ministers not in the Cabinet and Under-Secretaries were announced from No. 10, Downing Street this evening. The list, which includes nineteen Conservatives, eight Liberals and five National Labour members, includes the following:

Minister for Overseas Trade Attorney-General

Solicitor-General

Chancellor Duchy of Lancaster Secretary for Mines.

Under-Secretaries:-

Foreign

Dominions Colonies

India Air War

Major J. D. Colville. Sir William Jowitt. Sir Thomas Inskip. ..Col. J. C. C. Davidson,

Mr. Isaac Foot.

Captain Anthony Eden. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. Sir Robt. Hamilton. Marquis of Lothian. Sir Philip Sassoon. Earl Stanhope.

Financial Secretary, Admiralty..Lord Stanley, Financial Secretary, War Office..Capt. A. Duff Cooper. Financial Secretary, Treasury Chief Government Whip

TYPHOON "BLOW"

NOW

Mr. George Lansbury, taking his ALMOST CERTAIN

debut as leader of the Opposition. and as the only ex-Cabinet Minis- the oppositions side, was ter on observed with a certain Irentcal interest from the Government benches,

He bitterly declared that this was no National Government, hat one

NO. 5 SIGNAL HOISTED.

which had won office by chicanery HEADING DIRECT

fesad, abuse of broadcasting, and raising panie, for which they knew there was no justification,

The opposition, he said, would submit proposals for dealing with the crisis.

Mr. Lansbury rided that the nation could then judge between the actual proposals and the mis- representation of them during the

lection campaign.

Premier's Speech,

FOR COLONY.

was

Hongkong may experience severe "blow within the next twenty four hours, ac. cording to the Royal Obser- vatory, which, at 10-40 this morning reported that the now typhoon which formed yesterday between Aparri and Manila

heading Mr. Ramany MacDonald, at the straight for the Colony, outset, said the work of the Gov-

As a result, the No. typhoon ernment would follow precisely the signal was hoisted, succeeding the lines of its manifesto, upon which No. 1 signal which had been show they had won the election, The ing for three days. Government would deal with the currency problem, credits problem balance of trade problem, and the balance of the budget problem.

It remained true that the Chancellor of the Ex. choquer and he were in the happy position of being able to declare that the budget had been balanced, and we were no longer living on our capital alone, or borrowing

money.

V

..Major Walter Elliott.

. Capt. II. D. Margcsson..

-Reuter.

Sir Phillp Sassoon (left) and Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Included in the list of Under-Secretariss.

SHOCK FOR PRES.

HOOVER.

BROTHER-IN-LAW, ON LIQUOR CHARGE.

New York, Nov. 10, President Hoover's bro- ther-in-law, Mr. C. Vanness Leavitt, was arrested in Santa Monica, California, as he was leaving a grocery shop to-day, and is to be charged with being in pos- Acssion of 19 pints of alcoholic liquor.—Router.

GERMAN CIVIL

WAR FEARS.

NAZIS MASSING AT BRESLAU.

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ARMISTICE DAY IN

HONGKONG.

Cenotaph Ceremony in Heavy Downpour.

POPPY SELLERS UNDAUNTED.

Is Germany on the eve of a great political upheaval? Startling stories are in culation regarding Communist plans to stage a coup d'etat, and the Nazis (the German Fascist organisation) are alleged to be mobilising in opposition.

There are circumstantial reporta of a mysterious masaing of Hitler's storm troops.

Around the Cenotaph were are apparently converging upon gathered the troops, choir, repro Breslau, using all manner of consentative bodies and clergy, while veyances. Those who are unable every balcony in the vicinity was to secure transport. facilities are crowded. A few minutes before setting out for the rendezvous on 11 o'clock, His Excellency the Flanders poppy sellers, and, ne

Under weeping skles, Hongkong stood bareheaded and silent for two minutes this morning in official remembrance of those who fell before the Armistice that ended world turmoil 18 years ago. Despite the inclemency of the weather, the gathering in Statue Square was dense, and the simple ceremony at the Cenotaph traditionally impressive.

foot.

Reichsbanner Preparing."

CHINESE MASSING AT reted the Republicans,

ANGANCHI.

They

On the streets, the army of Flanders Poppy sellers met with an encouraging response.

THE POPPY SELLERS.

Undaunted By Wet Weather.

Rain did not daunt the army of

Governor, Sir William Peel,

coueual on these occasions, pha- arrived, escorted by the Volunteer lances of the Colony's most charm- Defence Corps motor cycle section, ing girls again advanced, srmed to According to the Socialist organ and took up his position with the the teeth with their bright red Rheinische Zeitung, which gives Officers Commanding the Army button-holes, and

Navy and Air Force, on the south great prominence to these reports,

brought | barrage to bear on the populace on the developments have immensely side of the Cenotaph.

both sides of the harbour with whose Reichsbanner fighting organisa-

The Ceremony.

almost, one might say, the same determination with which their tlon is stated to be preparing for The wailing lament "Flowers of fathers and brothers marched emergencies, in view of the appre- the Forest" by the pipers of the against a loss genial "foe" 13 henelons recently expressed by the Argyll and Sutherland High- Nazia that a Communist putsch islanders broke out over the aquare, years ago,

"Groat business," was the report Impending-Reuter,

and scarcely had its last note dind from all fronte, and at noon the

when the "Last Post," away

by a squad of South Wales Bordorers my retired with freak battle

honours. buglers spread silence over the Mrs. G. D. Black convened the throng. Bising and falling, the helpers on the island with Mr. long sustained notes echood

hocd Maunder In charge of operations. between the baildings and while on

tall

the Kowloon ~side the earried away over the harbour.

A boom from

sellers, convened by Mrs. J. H. the Berwick marked the hour of silence, and Hunt were in charge of Mr. C. M.

Manners. DEMONSTRATIONS. for two minutee the assembly stood hushed with bowed heads.

Kowloon Helpers. Another boom and the buglers| New York, Nov. 10.

Those who helped were:- to life with the sprightly- The Japanese Ambassador de- Owing to the fear of anti-

Mesdames Court, Landsdowne, clares that his Government will not Fascist demonstrations endanger "Reveille.

This was followed by bonedic-(C. Carruthers, Lloyd-Jones, J. W. Insist on the final concreto adjusting the life of Signor Grandi, the ment of the 300 outstanding Italian Foreign Minister, when he tion by Bishop Valtorta nad "God Baldwin, Easterbrook, M. Tetley, differences between China and arrives in New York on Monday Save the King."

M. Costello, Cornellus, Silkstone, Japan, but insists upon China to confer with President Hoover,

C. M. Manners, Boas, Lyall respecting previous treaties relating he will be met at the pier by a

Rondali, Lieb, Price, Moodie to the troubled areas.

JAPANESE APPREHENSIVE OF

HOSTILE MOVE........

LEAGUE GIVEN WARNING

Geneva, Nov. 10.

"If, unhappily, the bul- warks of peace like the League Convenant and the Kellogg Pact crumble, China will gretfully be compelled to put before all other national tasks, the building up of na- tional defences strong enoubh to secure respect, preserve her territorial integrity and political independance against external aggression". This is the stinging

Indications that developments of this nature were anticipated by the Chinese fishing folk were to be the letter of Dr. Alfred Sze to

tail to

PROTECTION FOR SIG. GRANDI.

FEARED ANTI-FASCIST

Wreaths Laid.

Taylor,

heavily armed guard, and will be His Excellency the Governor Fowkes, Crofton, Dann, Tinson, A Chinese communique, dealing rushed to a closed-car to the was the drat to lay a wreath on Hourihan, Misses E. Taylor, M.

Tientsin, with

the Pennsylvania Station, where he the Cenotaph, and he was followed accusey

Mitchell, Spencelagh, Japanese authorities with suborn-will entrain for Washington with-by-II.E. the G.O.C., the Commo- Branch, Robinson, Dalziel, Win- Miller, Butler, ing the dregs of the population to cut the customary civic reception. dore, the Senior Air Force Officer, ters, Wosen

un anti-Chinese

representatives of the Royal Laurenson, Bennington, Scott, J. Merchant Navy, foreign navies Smalley, M. Smalley, Fowler," and armies, British Legion. Old Booth, Stokes, Lang, Whitham, Association and Hopwar, Nish, Blackmore, A. E.

Steel, Belt. 3. Dalziel, Witchell.

Three Hundred Differences.

of

-Reuter.

Japan has reiterated to the THE UNEMPLOYED. Comradoa seen early in the harbour this morn-the League, replying to the pro- inzistence that the security

United States Government, her ing, when the fleets of junks and posals for a year's armaments Japanese lives and property must sampans, which had only just come

, begun to beat a retreat the alters.

to

on

- Japan Counter Attack.

To-day, Japan counter-attacked Chinese publicity with two com- munications to the League, statis- tleally summarising the move-

The Japanese Ambassador declares that his Government will not Insist on the final concrete adjustment of the 300 outstanding China and differences between

проп China Japan, but insleta respecting previous treaties relat

NUMBERS STEADILY

FALLING.

London, Nov. 10. Ministry of Labour figures pub- lished to-night show a further decline in the numbers of the un- employed · of over 16,000.-- British Wirelcan.

of

was

D

Cars were loaned by Mre, F. C. Bondall and Mr. C. M. Manners.

CATHEDRAL SERVICE.

Work of the League gfNations.

civilian bodies.

His Excellency the Governor left at 11.17 and with the dispersing trace. The letter agrees to the be assured, and normal relations

the troops, the general public proposals, but asserts that the between the Chinese and Japanese

began its pilgrimage to the Cono-

monument taph, leaving the The first report of the new typroposal, like the Disarmament Governments restored before she

mass of wreaths, phoon was made at 10.50 a.m, yea- Conference, depends the can withdraw her troops from terday, when it was stated that it issue in the Manchurian con-Manchuria,

Chinese Memorial Ceremony. His Excellency the Governor, was travelling W.N.W., and would fliet. probably take the same track as

Following the ceremony at the and Lady Peel, accompanied by Cenotaph another impressive scene Capt. T. A. H. Coltman, A. D. G., the previous typhoon, which, ac

enacted at the Botanical and Mr.. G. W. A. Tufton, were Monday cording to reports on The industrial position was show-moved along u W.N.W. path.

Gardens, where the Chinese War among those who attended an Im- Memorial in honour of those pressive Armistice ing the most hopeful aigns of im-

Day Com- Laat evening it was reported that provement, and effective

The following telegrama has been Chiness who fell in the service of memoration service at St. John's received by the Vacuum Oil Com- the Alles formed the background Cathedral this morning, which would be taken to check alt signs be filling up over Hein le awetghbourhood of Angazchi, show me that Sonni Bridge was Mobiluit perfect. Many thanks for His Excellency the Governor hended gregation, clergy, and choir to

steps this western typhoon appeared toents of Chinese troops in thing to the troubled areas,

The Ambassador informed Mr.pany:-Arrived Darwin 4.22 Monday for solemn military and civic ritual. finished in time to enable the con- and that the typhoon which is nowing that about 20,000 mon threatening the Colony was about thirty one guns are quartered firmly held by the Japanese troops, your enteric to make to the offleial cortege which went reach the Cenotaph before eleven 200 miles SE. of Pratus.

opposite the Japanese. These but they will not advance north-inents which helped me to make re- this morning At 10.40

cord trip. Engine and machine in direct from the Cenotaph the Chinese-excellent order-Arthur Butler,

consisting Klo

At the conclusion of the service position of the typhoon was given Chinese troops have advanced to ward nor menace

and Eastern Railway.

the General Officer as Lat. 21 N. Long, 116 E. The position at Nonni Bridge

the choir proceeded by way of the further reinforcements

(Major-General League Hopes.

Commodore (Captain Walker), and Memorial Cross, where s wreath

Weat Door to typhoon in of unknown Intensity

the Cathedral and is movin

moving N.W., direct for this route.

the Senior Air Force Officer, rogion. It is altunted roughly 50

Unfeigned jos expressed in The Japanese Nate carnestly miles north west of the Pratas,

draws attention to the position, and Longus circles that Sir John Simon und is within 150 miles of

aaya that

the romerical is attending batay's meeting of Colony.

superiority, which in roughly 10 to 1, the Council, with the prestige of tempts the Chinese to acts of war, the National Government behind a dangerous situation may arise.

(Continued on Page 12.)

of profiteering.

Programme of Business,

Referring to changes in currency values the Premier said the Govern- ment would keep its eye on profiteering and if the powers already taken were inade- quate it would seck more.

the

Mr. MacDonald stated that programme busin- exa for the present scasion in- cluded the Statute Westminister,

which carried in- effect the agree to ment come to with the- Dominiona, the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, and the London Transport Bill.

The Indian Round

Tablo Conference

to

the

the

gold from one nation to another regardless of the circumstances. This, he said, would eventually lead impoverishment of both. It was Decessary immediately to

gain con tact and this was already in hand

the nation primarily con cerned, so as to make arr

arrangements to extricate ourselves

with

absurd economic ente from st..

the

would go on and he hoped sufficient United States, and hoped it would agreement would be reached

to

Great care was necessary in order to obtain success, however, and he attached the very highest impor tance to M. Laval's visit to the

first load result Franco-

tlon Involved must be a party to the agreement in the final under- standing. That was the Govern- ment's policy.

1 BT

enable the Government to produce German understanding. Every na-

iLa

the

Policy

in

legislative form. MacDonald, referring for to the improved industrial position, and Britain was getting a bigger share of the world's trade, but the unsatisfactory side of it was that there was no sign of ex- pansion in world trade.

Gold Movements.

The Prime Minister referred to the unnatural economic adjust ments which“ · were being made through the transfer of blocks of

Later Mr. MacDonald said that if] the Government found before' thei House roue for the Christmas holiday, that dumping_existed, (tį would make recommendations, and ask powers to deal with the matter,

"The Premior mado no comment on, Manchuria beyond offering to

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the

o'clock.

They were met on arrival at the was laid. gate below the Memorial by the Clergy taking part in the ser- Chinese representatives

of the vico were the Bishop of Victoria, Legislative Council and escorted up the Dean, and the Rove. H. V. the steps, lined on either side by a Koop, N. L. Watkins, N. V. Hal- detactment of Chinese Police Revard, H. F. Foley, W. Walton servists and district watchmen. Rogers, E. G. Powell, F. Short and

Tribbeck.

In the course of the servico Wreaths which

were afterwards

*** Floral Tributes. Buglers from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders sounded old at the Cenotaph were dedi- the last Post, followed after a short cated. respectful pause, by the Revelllo. His Excellency the Governor then laid a wreath, followed by the Gen- eral Officer Commanding, the

modore

Public Opinion:

Speaking from the text, Issiah. XI. "They shall not hurt nor des--

and the Senior Air Force troy in all my Holy Mountain " Chinese members of the Council the Dean commended the work be

done by the League of Nations: were the next to doposit their floral

nad urged public opinion to mus tributes, and after them came the tar and support the League, In Chinees Representatives on the this connexion he Sanitary Board, the Senior Member of the District Watch Committee,

of the

restricted membershed to the the Chairman of the Tung Wah Hongkong League of Nations Hospital, the Chairman of the Po Society, saying it should be up- Leung Kok, the Chairman of the ported by all who long for peace. Chinesa General Chamber of Come suggested that regular teach merce, and the Chinese Company should be given in Hongkong.

ing on the subject of the Longus of the Police Reserve,

Those present Included other

members of the

Legislative and

Executive Councils. A body of

True Love of Peace.

Concluding, he said, "Remember

Chinese, from the. Chinese section ing the devastating toll of life and ki of the 40th Company Boyal Engi- Wealth, and morals which the Great ! neers, also paraded under a British War-levied converter " Offcer