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L# MITAEXRF FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1932.

日八月二十

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FIRST-CLASS AMERICAN POLITICAL SCANDAL. BRUTAL PIRATE

MR. MELLON & COLOMBIA OIL CONCESSION.

CHIANG KAI-SHEK Drastic

WAITING.

Diseases;

YOUNG MARSHAL Drastic

TO GO?

GRAVE ALLEGATION BEFORE SENATE AN APPEAL TO

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

A POLITICAL SCANDAL of the first rank appears to be brewing in Washington as the result of serious allegations before the Senate Finance Committee regarding the inner history of a recent loan to the Govern- ment of Colombia with which is coupled an an American important oil concession to concern in which Mr. Andrew Mellon has considerable interest.

The charges are the culmination of a bitter campaign against the bend of the United States Treasury Department, one of America's wealthiest men. The increasing intensity of the attack was first brought to public attention a few days ago when a resolution

the introduced into

Senate demanding the impeachment of Mr. Mellon.

Was

The State Department is also vitally concerned in the "scandal." Following the revelation, cited by Senator Glass that the Bolivian Loan, now in default, was approved by the State Department over the objec tions of the Department of Commerce, it is now alleged that the concession to the Mellon oil company in Colum- bia was obtained as a result of the State Department's interest in pushing the Government loan through.

STATE DEPARTMENT INVOLVED.

Washington, das. 14.

in the United States and the

Mr. Andrew Mellon, again the subject of a bitter cam- paign in U. S. political circles.

Hawaiian

Whether the allegations before Í foreign bonde sult to American in- Islands

the Seante Finance Comanittee 10-vestors,

day are pursued further and justi!

fied or disproved, it will be difficult!

to prevent a first-class randal.

Impeachment Resolution.

I was on the same day. amid

It was stated that the State Be-¡much tension, thuti a resolution im-

Inquiry.

partment brought pressure upon peaching Mr. Mellon wast Intro- UNITED STATES the National City Company last dured in the House of Representa- ! rear to complete a 1.590,000,000)es by Mr. Wright Patman (Team.

in the Colombian Government and Texas,

CANTON

(Our Own Correspondent).

Shanghai, Jan. 15.

The movement on foot in Nan-

Remedies.

Sir Sam. Hoare on India.

London; Jan. 14.

king Government circles to secure As long as we are respon-

the dismissal from all poste ofsible for India we intend to Marshal Chong Hauch-lang be-

case of his fathire to take any govern.

steps to prevent Japanese encroach- For the moment, a battle ment in Manchuria is gaining is being thrust upon us.

If strength, but apparently Chiang

does not wish to be connected with we fight, of course we shall such action.

win, but I regard such methods as out of date.

It is rumoured that after Chang Hsuch-llang's dismissal. he will return to Nanking.

Thus Sir Samuel Hoare, the Secretary of State for India, addressing journalists special India Office interview fo- day.

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It is further expected that Mr. Chang Chi will proceed to Hong- kung in a day or two to endeavour to persuade Mr. Hu Han-min to Sir Samuel added that the mea- join Nanking and the Cantonsures taken to deal with the situa- Party members to cancel the semi-tion in India and been successful, [but the Government wish to Ree indejendance movement.

internal peace and would be de- Highted to renew goodwill ast co-operation with all sections of Indian opinion.

Chiang Myattäge,

IA

Meanwhile, Chiang Kai-shek careful to conceal his real inten tions. In an interview yesterday, he stated that he wished to give the Canton faction n free rein in Nanking.

The emergency measures would not be continued a day longer than пессение), but as long as there are threats and attempts to break up

the the Government,

mensures would remain in operation.

By staying away, he may open the way to the reunion of the dif If the threats are removed and ferent Kuomintang factions. He sympathy and co-operation substi promises, however, to give the tated, the British Government will Government hie assistance, if it not be slow to respond to the new! is required, and plans to stay at spirit. Hanchow for some time. Fenghun being too much nut of the centre | for things.

MR. YU YU-JEN'S ARRIVAL.

TAKE ACTION. MR. HU HAN-MIN IN

DEMAND.

Washington, Jan. 15.

that a few days before the Com- "On my rwn responsibility Lim-1 The attorney-General of the

pany consented. Colombia granted peach Andres Mellon for high) an important oil concession to the Gulf Oil Company, which is con- trolled by the Mellon family.

It was further alleged that the probability of the granting of this cuaression was held up to the Bank a the reason for accommodating the Colombian Government. State Department's Attitude,

Statute of 1789.

Committee's Departure,

Sir Samuel Hoare, photo. graphed outside the India Office.

CALL FOR

NAVAL

TRUCE.

OUTRAGE NEAR SHANGHAI.

ONE SHOT DEAD: 4 WOUNDED.

CHINESE SHIP RANSACKED.

MOB OF CALLOUS RUFFIANS.

(Our Own Correspondent).

Shanghai, Jan. 15. Callous brutality and mer- ciless violence marked a suc- cessful piratical coup carried out aboard the Chinese coRB- tal steamer, Pao Foong, on Wednesday night.

two

The outrage occurred hours after the vessel had left Shanghai for Helmun, scarcely out of sight of Woosung, and the sea-robbers made a rich haul from about four hundred deck passengers who were returning to the country.

One of the

passengers was shot dead--he attempted to give the alarm. Four wore wounded, with knives or pistol shots, and two of them are in a serious condi- tion.

Cost of a Protest,

When the ship returned to

was discovered that one of the wounded passengers, who had been severely alashed with knives. for venturing a protest when his London, Jan. 14.

belongings were added to the Britain would welcome the general loot, was suffering from completion of the London Naval|ñdvanced smallpox.

BRITISH APPEAL Woosung yesterday afternoon, it

TO EUROPE.

The Prime Minister. Mr. Bald-Treaty by an agreement be- All aboard, officera, crew and win, and many other members of tween France, Italy and her-passengers had to be vaccinated the Cabinet were among the large self. said Captain Eden, the before they were allowed to go amber of well-wishers present at Under Secretary for Foreign shorty Victoria to-day, at the departure Affaire, in an important speech

of the members of the three com-

mittees who are proceeding to In

Idia to continue work in connexion

with the proposed now Indian Con-

the Mansion House to-day.

"It is a source of regret to us,”

"1

tion of naval armaments."

Clear Conscience.

Death Shot Signal.

The man killed shouted a warn

The shot which drilled him through the head was the signal for the attack and within few

moments, the gang was in complete control of the situation.

hours, For the next eighteen

was granted in return for the Doing and banking family and long anexion with the serious outruges said he was representing the Cen-he believed, the time those emertion could approach the conference cash alone, but it has

becn

the value of

he added, "that that. hope has not ing to the bridge when the stitution.

yet been realised, and it would be pirates, said to have been about During the press interview to a helpful sendolf to the Disarma-thirty in number, ruffians of the day, Sir Samuel Hoare said it ment Conference were it able to wordt tpye, were taking up post- might be thought incongruous thut record in its early stages the con- tions for rushing the officers. these committees were being senteurrence of the two largest naval crimes and misdemeanors," said United States has ordered addi-

Mr. Yu Yu-jen, the President of to begin a new chapter of co-opera-powers in Europe after ourselves, Neul to the Nanking Control Yuan, ne-tion at a time when severe adminis. in the terms of this latest limita Mr. Patman, while the members of tioun officials to re

companied by his secretary, ar-trative measures were being en-

Captain Eden was speaking at af the House, controlled by the De-Honolulu immediately.

They have been instructed to rived in Hongkong this morning forced in India. But without law meerats. sat tense and stilt.

earry ant sweeping Federal asatorad the President Jefferson, to jand order there could be un con- meeting convened by the Lord Mayor of London on behalf of with Mr.

Hu Han-min, stitutional advance. well as territorial investigations confer

League of Nations Union, and they ordered the Chiness skipper. urging him to proceed to Nanking

Drastic Steps. Mr. Patman based his charges on into crime on the islands.

attended by civic representatives of the

to keep the vessel on her course, the Statute of 1789 forbidding thei They will also make a special to assume his post as one

from all parts of Britain to consi-while a party proceeded to ran- members of the Central Faced with the situation that der disarnument. head of the treasury Department inquiry into the administration three

had arisen, the Government had

Back the ahip. from engaging in commerce. He of the courts, the police, the jury Politicnt Council.

Interviewed by a representative taken the only possible action and

The deck passengers and officers The State Department refutes said that Mr. Mellon, head of a system and the Parole Hoard.

The order is, of course, in con-of the Telegraph, Mr. Yu Yu-Jen took it drastically. By so doing, the allegations that the concession powerial Pittsburgh manufactur

He said that the British delega. report the loss of over $30,000 Hegency operations would remain In partment's "good offices" to secure power in Repablican councils, owns against women, culminating in tral Executive Committee.

existence would be shorter than if with a clear conscience that Bri-impossible to assess

the large amount of baggage tain had, in all fields of arnia- which was confiscated. the completion of the loan, but says voting stock in 300 corporations the murder charges against Mrs. might visit Canton.

Commenting on the formation they had acted in gradual stages. Reuter, has flatly refused to accede with combined assets of $3,000,- Fortescue and Lieut.

So far the result had been suc ments, since the war continuously of the South-western China Politi-

Escape in Junk. cal Council, Mr. Yu said that it cessful. In the North-West Fron-striven to give the lead in disar- would have no serious effect on tier Province, for instance, law and

"Deliberately, and because of The carefulness of the prepara- . the China situation on the whole, order was being maintained on the our belief that excessive arma- tions for the attack was He had no news of the Nine-Pro-whole remarkably well, and many

ments are not an insurance of phasised when the pirates vince Military Conference.

who had joined the Red Shirt world security but a menace to it, reached their destination, 1 spot He declined to discuss the Man-Shirts and admitted the movement reduction of armaments by the large trading junk was found to movement had now given up Red we have urged the nations to a few miles off the coast. A churian situation. the operation of

was a mistake. Miss Fu Muk-inn, daughter of Mr. Ilu Hun-min, went on board to attempts had been made to start In the United Provinces, where extend her father's warm welcome an Agrarian revolution, with a no- Nanking Government rent programme, rents were coming The granting of tax refunds Lo concerna of which Mr. Mellon Northampton to-day, Northump envoy. Mr. Yu Yu-ion will meet in better than for many months. owns shares of stock was alsofton Town defeated Darlington by Mr. Hu Han-min this evening. criticized.

Fulham, who are ocruying The resolution was referred to the judiciary committee without second position in the Southern

to the demand of Senator Hiram Johnson (pie- tured on right) that the Depart- ment's corros- pondence cover- ing the negotia- the tinns with Colombian Gov- ernment be sub-

mitted to the

Finance Com-

mittee of the Senator.

Moral Responsibilitý.

Massle.-

000,000.

| Reuter's American Servier, Rep. McClintick declared that Mr. Mellon, contrary to law, was

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"personally interested in the im; LAST OF F.A. portation of goods, wares and merchandise in large amounts."

REPLAYS. SEVERE SHOCK FOR FULHAM.

He charged that Mr. Mellon violated other laws by being interested in steamships.

Tax Refunds.

London, Jan. 14.

In their Cup-lie replay at to

{two goals to one.

on

Senator Carter Glass (Dem.

a. reply from either the Republi- Section of the Third Division, were Virginia), former Secretary of the can or Democratic sides of the eliminated from the Cup in as- Treasury, recently declared in the House.

tonishing manner to-day. Wal- Senate that the State Department

Charges that the elderly seereford failed to win at home was morally responsible for every tary, called by admirers at Saturday, but they proved much dollar lost by Americnu Investors various times "the greatest Secre- too good for their London rivala in foreign bonds,

fary of the Treasury since to-day, scoring three goals with- Senator Glass, the "father" of Alexander Hamilton nd violat out reply, on the Fulham ground. the Federal Reserve System, anid

In the fourth round, Watford ed federal laws because of his

at home to Bristol C. the State Department had passed, without the authority of law, private financial Intereats, have are foreign hond issues floated in the been made at previous ocasiona Northampton have to visit Brad-

of Congress, but proposals for ford. impeuchment have never been formally made.

· United States and therefore should be held morally responsible by American Investors.

Under Fire Before, The case of the Bolivian loan, re- cently defaulted, was cited by Mr. Mellon was under fire at a Senator Glass. He pointed out that previous Hagelon of Congress

the loan was approved by the State when Senator James Couzens of Department over the objections of the United States Department of Michigan attacked him because of the tax refunds made by ha Commeren.

and

the

CABINET'S BUSY TIME.

IMPORTANT ISSUES TO THE FORE.

London, Jan, 14, With the approach of the Ro- parations and Disarmament Con- In Division II (North) to-day. Parliament early next month the ferences and the reassembly of Hfull, at home, lost to Crowe, who Hored four gonia to two Reuter, Cabinet is faced with pressure of

business.

BRITISH INDUSTRIES

Reviving Confidence. In Bengal, there was reviving confidence in trade and industry.

The battle had been thrust upon the Government and they were bound to nocopt it. But the math- ods were out of date. They would be delighted when the time camo for good will and co-operation and when there would be no empty chairs at any future Round Tablo Conference.

-Reuter an! Bration Wirelessi.

LEAGUE'S INQUIRY IN MANCHURIA..

COMMISSION NOW CONSTITUTED.

Genova, Jan. 14.

mament.

mest

in effective means power by example.

en- had

our be waiting for them. The loot dia- wae pilad in and the gang appeared into the darkness, first, under force of arms, ordering the steamer to proceed at full speed.

Clear For all to See. "Almost alone among the great Powers, we have not increased expenditure on armaments We during the past five years. have dono even more than this, (Continued on Page 7.)

our

The Royal Observatory reports that a fresh anticyclone is forming over N.E. China.

Sweden Ravaged by Fierce Gale.

Enormous Damage to Vast Forests.

(Router's Special Service).

Stockholm, Jan. 14. but the hurricane which is stil Sweden has been ravaged by raging in the northern regions has

swept away. a two-storied rest one of the worst storms' in his house which was under construc

Important statements of policy on International and domestic issues will be made soon after the FAIR.

house moets, and Ministers have

M. Briand, together with the tory, a gale of record fury hav- tion, and the valuable forests London, Jan. 14. arranged to hold numerous Cabinet

of Nations Secretary ing swept over the greater part source of Sweden's enormous H.R.H. the Prince of Wales has meetings during the next few Langua department to firms in which he had made known his intention of visit day's Cabinet sub-committed deal on the Commission of Inquiry toll of destruction in its wake. On the island of Gotland

General, have formally set the seal of the country, leaving a heavy Industry, have suffered incalo

damage. The comments he made were an interest.

ing the Birmingham section of the The based on the revelations of the Assailed as the representative British Industries Fair, which ing with disarmament questions being sent to Manchuria, which, Senate committee which investigat of big business, Mellon, nearly 78 opens on February 22nd-British again met this afternoon-British as forecast, has now been anally No really big disaster has oc- it in extinted that des

cured as a result of the visitation, thosanud trew have ben constituted-Reuter. ed'International banking operations

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