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POUNDED IN #0 W+ZABA# WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1932.
NO 11.662
廿五十月三
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JAPAN REJECTS IDEA OF NEUTRAL DECISION.
CANNOT
ACCEPT
CLEAR TOKYO STATEMENT
Tokyo, Apr. 20, 1.54 p.m. IT IS STATED AUTHOR- ITATIVELY THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR JAPAN TO AGREE TO THE RE- SOLUTION PASSED AT GENEVA LEAVING THE MIXED COMMISSION IN SHANGHAI TO FIX A DATE FOR THE WITH- DRAWAL OF JAPANESE TROOPS FROM SHANG- HAI-Reuter.
Geneva, Apr. 19. The Assembly Committee of Nineteen, after an hour's deliberation, unanimously adopted a resolution provid- ing, notably, that the Mixed Commission in Shangbai shall have competence to de- cide by a majority vote when conditions have returned to normal and when the Japan. forces can withdraw with safety-Reuter.
est
IMPROVEMENT IN CONDITIONS
JAPANESE RESIDENTS
RETURNING.
* (Special to "Telegraph”)
Mr. Neville Chamberlain.
DAILY MAIL WINS
VERDICT CAUSES MRS. MORRIS
TO GO INTO TRANCE!
A CHARWOMAN'S STORY
(Reuter's Special Service).
London, Apr. 19.
Shanghai, Apr. 20. Judgment was delivered in
MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S MINUTE OF RUSSO-
BUDGET
RELIEFLESS EPILOGUE TO SNOWDENIA
DEMAND FOR PATIENCE
London, April 20.
MADNESS JAPANESE
HAWAIIAN HONOUR SLAYING TRIAL CLOSING
TENSION
I.L.P. TIRADE
Honolulu. Apr. 19.
London, April 19, The so-called "Honour Slying" Anxiety regarding the grave' trial is drawing to a close after development in Russo-Japanese re- lations arising from the situation days of evidence packed within Markhuria, is expressed by the National Council of the Indepen- drama.
The doctor who operated for dent Labour Party in a statement the assault upon Mrs, Masale issued to-day. tive evidence to the effect that The statement nceuses the Ja she was bruised all over her body.panese Government of provocative
AUSTERE, CAUTIOUS, SOUND, BLEAK, GRIM, while her jaw was broken to such statements and acts against
up for five weeks.
HONEST, COURAGEOUS, are some of the editor-ins ial adjectives employed this morning in comments upon the Budget introduced by Mr. Neville Chamberlain yes- terday afternoon.
extent that it had to be laced Socialist government in Soviet Russia and alleges that powerful Two mental specialists testi-Capitalistic interests in Britain Red that Lieutenan! Massie was jand other European countries are definitely insane when he shot openly supporting Japan's Im- and killed Bahnbawel.
perialistic policy in Manchuria While all the morning papers do not conceal their
The defence is seeking to dia-and its aggressive policy towards! disappointment, dubbing the Budget a reliefless epilogue count the premeditation ense built Russia.
EMBARGO URGED, to Lord Snowden's dramatic predecessor, they never-by the prosecution by showing theless interpret it as an impressive proof to the world that in the excitement caused by of Britain's ironclad determination to consolidate her the forcing of a confession from Kahahawel, Lieut. Massie became financial armour and to ask her people to be patient a little longer until the economie blizzard blows itself out.
The Times says the Budget is "hard but sound," while the Labour organ, the Daily Herald, laconically remarks: "A nothing budget."-Reuter.
COLD DOUCHE FOR EVERYBODY
THE CHANCELLOR'S
LITTLE JOKE.
London, Apr. 19.
"We are deeply disappointed, init
DEFICIT EXPECTED ON THE FIRST BUDGET
NEW PROPOSALS MAY PROVIDE REMEDY.
his made
Lt. and
mental
The statement urges workers of Britain to cooperate with the workers of Europe to prevent the threatened attack on Russin by demanding an embargo on credit supplies and the export of war material to Jupan.
Failing these steps, the state- ment declares, the first act of war by Japan against Russlu should be met by Trade Union action 10 prevent the manufacture and despatch of war material to Japan. --Renter,
TROOP TRAIN DISASTER
DETECTIVE CHIEF
ARRESTED
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, ¦
Mrs. Massie. not disheartened-it is inconelu Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in the
of Commons to-day, Muddenly crazed and usted" in a sive, but in some respects is hope-House
first Budget state- moment of red rage. This view ful."
This view of Mr. Neville Cham- Iment in financial conditions was supported by the
first Budget was ex-far happler than those which specialists, The Japanese Consul-General, the trance medium action, Mrs.berlain's
his predecessor,
Lt. Massie's Story. Mr. Mural, issued a statement to-Meurig Morris's suit for bel pressed to-night by a prominent confronted
and itLord Snowden, a year ago. At
Lieut. Massie. In his evidence,
Harbin, Apr. 20. day indicating that more than four against the Daily Mail, to-day, industrial Conservative
Japanese gendarmes have ar thousand of the twelve thousand the jury, after an absence of to represent the majority that time, the country was horrow-
opinion.
ing one million pounds weekly to took his narrative of the outrage Japanese residents of Shanghai
Chilly Tones.
finance the Unemployment Insur-on his wife to the point where he rested Mr. Kao Chang-chun, the stood before Kahahuwei with a Detective Bureau of the Chinese who left for Japan during the more than three hours, giving a
The Budget will probably evoke ance Fund, and Lord Snowden wa pistol on January 8 and threaten- Eastern Railway, who is believed recent troubles have now returned verdict for the defendants, the! to the International Settlement, Daily Mail, with costs.
an extra measure of disappoint. confronted with a large prospected to shoot him unless he con- to be the principal culprit in the dynamiting of the Japanese troop following the improvement
- Mrs. Morris went into a truncement owing to the chilly tones of live deficit.
Hard facts were faced and dras- conditions.
inevitability in which Mr. Cham-
Suddenly,
said: train last week.-Renter, Kahahawel remedies applied by Lords, we done it." on hearing the verdict..
berlain spoke.
Connexion with Soviet Snowden In his interim Budget last Mr. Justice McCardie ordered | Here and there he produced a
"That's all I remember," declar- September, with the result that Mr. that she be carried out despite smile, even a laugh came een-Chamberinin was to-day able to ed Lieut. Massie. ume hundred Japanese tourists the warnings of her friems that it sionally. In most cases, however, face a crowded House with the witness in the sensational case, Mrs. Massic will be the next was dangerous to touch her in it was a very hollow laugh, as, knowledge that the Budget had not which will probably go to the jury are expected shortly to make tour of the fighting areas inithat state.
for instance, when he joked about disser beer. declared it WIN overtaxed only been balanced, but had even Shanghai and Manchuria. Other Mr. Justice McCardig
achieved a small surplum, and that on Friday.-Reuter. being organised by tated at considerable length re-and then gave up relief.
ju quarter of a million more workers) business mon desiring to study urding spiritualism.
than a year ago had found commercial conditions.--Reuter.
ployment.
of;
Every steamer. from Japan in bringing them back in inercasing numbers.
tours
re
Prosaic Messages,
He was anxious, he said, not to show that he was too sceptical, FAMOUS SURGEON but said he did not see why this tiny world should receive messages from the spirit world regarding such prosnie things as:
DEAD
SIR W. WATSON
CHEYNE
Lonion, Apr. 20.
"I have got a new tunth."
"I am enjoying a good eigar" "I am taking whisky sedas." Keyhole Evidence.
He inid emphasis on the fact The death occurred last night of Sir William Watson Cheyne, the thot Lawrence Cowen, Mrs. Mor world-famous surgeon, popularly is's collaborator, had not been known by his colleagues and put into the witness hox, and he urther stressed the evidence of a pupils as "Watch-and-chain."
He was in his eightieth year charwoman who, listening at a keyhole, said she thought Mrs. and was remarkably well pre served, his ruddy features suggest-Morris and Cowen were rehears- ing anything but that he had spent in a play.
Her evidence looked bad for the
must of his life in hospital wards, Morris trance talks, be declared. operating threatres and lecture-
---Reuter,, rooms. His air of easy compe- tence and bland smile robbed the operating table of its terror for many a patient.
In the course of an active life he could claim that few men had done more to reduce the sum of heman auffering. His publications wore text-books on their subjects, his seven-volume "Manual of Surgical Treatment," being a sort of Bible for the young doctor.
He sat in the House of Com- nons for about five years, but was compelled to give it up on account of a heart affection. He was Pre-
Renter.
THE FIRST SUCCESS
A DISARMAMENT RESOLUTION
|
|
A "Deceiver."
Similarly in two cases he ap-i
H. R. II. the Prince of Wales was | peared to be leading up to some j new action and then instead of among the many distinguished peo- announcing a decision indicated ple present in the galleries of the that a new, committee would be House. appointed to study the question in
ruch case.
Hope of Surplus.
fessed.
DEATH OF NOTED CHINESE
FORMER MINISTER IN BURMA
FANTASTIC RUMOUR
KREUGER ALIVE IN HIDING!
(Reuter's Special Service).
Stockholm, Apr. 19.
A fantastic rumour bus been in circulation regarding Mr. Ivar Kreuger, declaring his Paris suicide was "faked," that he is still alive and in hiding in Sumatra.
[var Kreuger, i
No-one in authority in paying- attention to the rumour. In any case, it has already been disproved by the finding, among the docu- monts regarding the financler's death; of a paper signed by the Mayor of the Eighth Arrondisse- Imont In Paris, certifying
Kreuger's death,
There is also, of course, the account of the Swedish Consul in Paris to the Foreign Office, de- claring that he is convinced that Kreuger committed suleide.
KREUGER CRASH SEQUEL
AMERICAN MATCH CO. FILES PETITION
Later. examination of suspects arrested A Rengo message declares that' following the troop train disaster
New York, Apr. 19. A repercussion of the Kreuger revealed that Kao Chang-chan was crash and the sensational fall in the ringleader. It is alleged that the price of Kreuger shares an a Ko Chang-chun, who is a graduate result of recent revelations, the a Soviet military school, has been International March Corporation" has filed a voluntáry petition in Soviet employees of the C. E. R. bankruptcy.-Reuter.
These allegations are, calcunted
in secret communication with
to revive Japanese suspicious of the Soviet-Renter
NO C.E.R. STRIKE
THREAT FALLS TO MATERIALISE
Harbin, Apr, 20. The general strike of employees or the Chinese Eastern Railway which was reported to be start-
Tory Feud at Marylebone
RIVAL
ELECTION. CANDIDATES
The Chancellor spoke for an hour In consequenre of his manner and threequarters. Last year's
Rangoon, Apr. 19. of presenting a far from encourag-national accounts, published un
down in March 31st, showed that the re- Sir Lee Ah Yain, former Minis-! ing statement, he sat what prominent Ministers de-venue amounted to £770,963,000 tor of Forests, who died at seribed as an atmosphere of and expenditure to £770,599,000. Maymyo, was buried in the Chin- gloom.
Mr. Chamberlain this afternoon ese cemetery here to-day, with Ini-{ Special interests are natural disclosed that the estimated expen-pressive fusonic ceremonial. ly indignent at the Budget. diture for the year ending March | The Governor of Burma and the Beer-drinkers, brewers and in- 31st. 1933, amounts to £764,300,000 | Government were represented at come-tax payers (the latter had deficiency of £1,700,000, With the funeral. been expecting either u real his varlous new proposals, he The deceased, who was born in ing to-day failed to materialise,
London, Apr. 19. - relief or some special rebates estimates a Budget surplus at the 1874, was educated at Rangoon according to a despatch to the Sir Basil Blackett, the wall- for married ment are especially end of the year of £796,000,
College and Cambridge Univer- Rengo News Agency.
known finance expert, has resign- displeased at the entire absence The changes in taxation were sity. A barrister-nt-law
Everything appears to be normal fed the chairmanship of Imperial of rellef,
neither numerous nor large. They Fellow of Rangoon University, he and General Tamun's division ou-and International Communicatione The iron and steel industry has included no relief for the income was knighted in 1929.-Renter. trained for the south in accordance Limited and his directorship of
with schedule-Reuter, not, however, given up hope. tnx payer and no reduction in the
Cables and Wireless Limited. The industry pins its trust in the beer tax. "Although we are begin- newTreasury Order under the ning to see light betweon the trees, Import Dutics Act which is ex-we have far to go before we emerge pected at the end of next week, into easier ways", he said.
He said that sugar concessions would cost £1,100,000 in the present On the whole, Liberni opinion year, and announced the continu is favourable to the Budget. Mr.ance of the concession of 12/- per Gwylim Lloyd George'described | hundredweight on home boot sugar. it as one of the worst budgets The revival of the duty on foreign
Small Mercies.
and J
N.Z. RIOT ACT
PASSED BY BOTH HOUSES Wellington, Apr. 20. The Publle Safety Conservation
In recent years. On the other ten of dd. a pound, and the duty Bill, granting emergency powers hand, other Free Trade Liborala on Empire ten of 24. a pound, to deal with such lawlessness ns; are thankful for
SILVER SLIGHTLY
DOWN
LOCAL MARKET VERY QUIET
Sir Basil explains that he has taken this step in order to be relieved of executive work and to
devote his time to his other public interests. Mr. J. C. Deni- son-Pender. the Governor---OTE: Cables and Wireless Limited will be temporary chairman of Imperial Communiyations,
Sir Bal Blackott is standing as a Conservative in support of The Hongkong dollar remning
the National Government at the In small mercles would it was anticipated, produce occurred at Auckland recently, hur unchanged today the clay. 21, St. Marylobe Captain B. Qun-
bye-election, and commend Mr. Chamberlain's £3,000,000 per annum.
been passed by both Houses of The market is on the easy se, opposition to Geneva, Apr. 19.
Parliament.-Router.
with very little business passing.ningham Roid, who was adopted The Disarmament Conference impartiality in relieving nobody.
Motor Cycle Tax Reduced.
Silver is down 1/8th in Londen, tho Official Conservativo sident of the Royal College of Committee to-day passed a resolu- because he could not ameliorate
Mr. Chamberlain also announc
division or«. candidate by the Surgeons from 1914 to 1917-tion modifying Article One of the the conditions of the unemployed
and other sufferers....
[ed a reduction from next January The Royal Observatory reports that pot and forward. The fall is Draft Convention.
In short, the House of Commons, in the tax
a depression covers Hokkaido and a chiofly due to absence of buyers,ganisations by a majority vote. on motor cyclos to
Captain Cunningham Reid eat from There is no special feature, and weak anticyclone "extenda The resolution declares that the reduction of armaments provided on behalf of the taxpayer, set its 16/- 30/- and B3, according to hanghai to the northward of Shan- after the official Axing the market for Warrington for several years The Marylebone election 15 Eight of the teeth and tried to look pleasant, whether the engine had a capacity bung. Local forecast East winds, ruled idle. for in Article
(Continued on Page 7.) moderate; cloudy: occasional rain. Now York reports a decline of necessitated by the elevation of League Convenant can be achieved hoping for the best, possibly in the Second Budget resulting from
1/8th, with the market dull.' Sir Ronnell Rodd to the Peerage.
Reuter. progressively by successive visions when the present Con-new legislation which Mr. Cham-
of reserve until a meeting of the
In a fight with another man, You ference has accomplished the first berlain sald would be
Ottawa Party to-morrow, but it has al-Tung.coolie, living at 6, West Yesterday's health roturn shown after the Lausanne and
We are asked to state that Dr. London, Apr. 19. stage of general reduction to a
Conferences.
ready been made clear that the Street, was stabbed in the back, and five further cases of meningitis, four In a First Division Scottish minimum level.
Labour group are utterly in dis was admitted to hospital in a rather from Kowloon and the other from Badio will, at 8.40 p.m. to-night, were also three give the third clue of the Radio League match to-day, Clyde de- The solution is acclaimed as the
agreement with the top-tax, Mr. serious condition early this morning. Victoria. There
Studio. Fanted Greenock Morton by three first success of the Conference.-
The Labour Party is maintain-Maxton declaring that he would His assailant died after inflicting the cases of small-pox and two of diph-gressure Hunt from the Broadcasting
injury, goals to nil-Router.
Reuter.
ing, for the momont, an attitude prefer an extra beer-tax.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
CLYDE TOO GOOD FOR MORTON,
ro-
necessary
Labour Reserves Opinion.
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