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BETX FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1932.

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GERMANY HEEDS LAUSANNE DANGER SIGNAL

LONDON FIRE DRAMA

OUTBREAK IN HUGE INSURANCE CO. OFFICES

London, June 16.

I Holborn to-day, great crowds watched a strong force of firemen engaged from the tops of water towers and escapes, in sub. duing an outbreak of fire nt. the huge offices of the Pru- dential Assurance Company.

A large part of the office staff; of 4,000 were fetched out of the building within two minutes of the! alarm.

The fire originated in a part of the building undergoing recon- struction. Practically all docu- meats were saved and none was hurt.

Only slight damage Was done to the buillir, British Wireless.

AMATEUR PHOTO!

COMPETITION

KODAK COMPANY ADD TO PRIZES

Thanks to the generosity of the Esatman Kodak Company, we are; able to announce to-day a further! addition to the prizes being offered

EARLY DISASTER

AVERTED.

NO DECLARED POLICY OF REPUDIATIONS

PREMIER GIVES LEAD TO

THE

REVISION

LAUSANNE, JUNE 16. HE FEAR THAT GERMANY MIGHT TORPEDO THE REPARATIONS CONFERENCE AT THE OUTSET BY DECLARING UNCOMPROMISINGLY THAT THE REICH DID NOT PROPOSE TO RE- SUME THE PAYMENT OF REPARATIONS HAS BEEN DISSIPATED,

The discussions will be opened to-morrow by the German Chancellor, Herr von Papen, with a statement! on Germany's economic situation. There is excellent reason to believe that his declaration will not constitute an out-and-out refusal to pay reparations, which would naturally antagonise certain countries and would cer- tainly hinder the success of the conference, but will ex- plain Germany's position, adding that the wiping off of reparations would bring an economic recovery.

The impression that has emerged from Mr. Ram- say MacDonald's cloquent opening address, is that any agreement for the cancellation of war debts is still a long way off.

During his address, as Chair- :

in connexion with the Telegraph's man, to the delegaton of the

- Summer Photo Competition.

antions assembled #t

President Hoover, who has been re-nominated by the Republican.. snapped while walking with hi

Haval A.D.C.

HOOVER

PAX BRITANNICA

AGENDA FOR CHANCE OF A

OTTAWA

EMPIRE ECONOMIC QUESTIONS

-:་

THE WIDER VIEW

Tariffs.

London, June 16.

Imperial Preference. Imperial Rationalisation of

Industry. Monetary and Financial Questions, including the whole question of rency. Migration.

GLOOM YEAR There will be

RE-NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENCY

BUT

DISASTER FEARED

Chiengo, June 16. The Republican Convention to-day re-nominated Mr. Herbert

the Hoover for Presidency. Several anti-louver, movements! Intanifested themselves, gro-i

Lausanne, Mr. Tanny Macdon CHALLENGE dually faded out, his control of

Besides the cash awards total-stressed the extreme gravity and ling $150. a new model Kodak urgency of the problem confront- camera will be given away. This, ing them.

It

ΤΟ

VON PAPEN

in accordance with the wish of The economic crisis was such the donors, will be awarded the that no country could expect to competitor sending in what is be immune from its effects. adjudged the best story-telling was a world crisis and none could picture. In this way, it is possible stay out of the work of restora- SOUTHERN STATES for the camera to be won by ation and reconstruction. photograph nol figuring amongst

the other winners, although, of

course, it may go to one of the winning pictures,

WAR INHERITANCE.

They had met to consider one

the

REFUSE TO OBEY

NAZI DECREE

cur.

LIFETIME

EARNEST PLEA BY MR. BALDWIN

OPPORTUNITY OF

The

OTTAWA

London, June 17.

most important pro- nouncement hitherto made re- garding the scope of the Ottawa, Conference was delivered by Mr. Baldwin in the course of an hour's earnest speech in the House of Commons late last night.

The agenda WOM the principal:

tremendums, subjects for discussion at the not included, he declared,

and there was hardly a subject Imperial Economic Conference might take three years to aeroni- They to be held at Otinwa next month. plish the great task. but ther were outlined by the hoped to make a promising start Dominions Secretary. Mr. J. H. at Ottawa by concentrating. inj Thomas during a debate in the the first place, on whatever sub- House of Commons to-day.

jeet would have the most dieet ieffect on a trade revival.

General satisfaction WHEN pressed at the all-embracing ture of the questions for study,

Mr. J. I. Thomas alas informned, the House that the United King dom Government wouhl advoente the establishment of machinery representing the Dominions to keep them in daily contact with out having to wait three years for the periodical Imperial Fference.

The distress and disaster which had followed efforts to exclude other countries' goods and to live in a state of Isola- tion were seen by the example of the present condition of the United States.

While the Empire was free from the most damaging forms of trade ('on-

restrictions, there had been n marked tendency, in recent year to heighten the barriers in the Dominions both against ench

MORE AND FREER TRADE,

moje

However,

The Government's policy ni Ottawa would be a general objective towards freer trade. or reciprocni Free Trade within! The Empire, or the nearest.prac-| tical approach thereto.

the party machinery being such The Dominions Secretary said if that none of the dissenters could would be the duty of the Ministers other and against Britain.

TOO FAR AND TOO FAST? drag any important section of the the United Kingdom Govern- vote away from him."

ment when they met their fellow Dominion statesmien and with We should, said Mr. Baldwin, Nevertheless, it is recognised them represent a quarter of the ask the statesnich at Ottawa to that President Hoover is NOW

in population of the world, including consider whether, their own facing the most unpromising taskfall classes, creeds and politics, to interest as for his political career.

well as ours, they see how they could direct their might not have gone a little too

too fast in obtain The Democrats have a work- energies to

and far and

Industrial ing majority in the House of freer trade.

}development, because we were Representatives, and political The difficulty would-be to conjunable to buy what we should like, precedent and tradition in the sider the effect on the various without exporting to them suf- The camera is the latest 1982' of the causes of their distress-

United States are that when the interests. They were,

ficient goods to pay therefor. Berlin, June 16. model Kodak 616, with

the financial inheritance of F.6.31

The Grand Duchy of Baden,,

party in power loses the House, encouraged to hope by the fact! anaatigmat lens. It is the world's) War-and an agreement must be

in the south-west corner of the election,

it loses the next presidential they were meeting representatives | smallest roli-film camera taking reached regarding it.

(of their King with the tremendous pictures as large as 21⁄2 inches X) He eited the report of the Busle Reich, between Alsace-Lorraine)

experts, which insisted that inter-and

Furthermore, the presidential advantage of goodwill on all sides, Wurtemberg. 44 inches.

scene. of selection comes in the midst of the The Competition, which is con- governmental debts must be ad-famous watering-places and the

The first question would be as declared that fined to amuteurs, is now

; worst economic depressión the towns of Karlsruhe, Constance.world's history: hitting the United fully taken between

to the steps which could be use open, Justed, and

urgency of their appeal had been Mannheim and Freiburg. and

the Do- It closes on August 31st.

underlined by all that had hap

States particularly hard.

minions of mutual advantage toị pened since that report was is the Empire, as big as Scotland, Bavaria, the second State of

each other's trade. That

alone

They must remember, in containing a large proportion of [their deliberations and bargain-Catholic residents, as well as Lings, that the world Tooked to Munich, Herr Hitler's head

them, not only in need, but with uarters. impatience, It was essential that they should act speedily. agreeement reached quickly would ) [have effect a hundred times more Bencñcial than one painfully and imperfectly reached in the moment of exhaustion.

LATE SIR - DONALD MACLEAN

MOVING TRIBUTE BY MR. BALDWIN

sued.

REVISION NECESSARY.

armies."

REPUBLICAN HOPES AND

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A remarkable picture taken on Tuesday when as the result of the terrifile downpour, 2.48 inches in an hour, Quson's Road Esst was flooded to a depth of a foot.

MISSION

WORKER'S

PLIGHT

$7,000,000 RANSOM

DEMAND

(Special to "Telograph"},

Shanghai, June 17.

The complete destruction of Government authority in Central China is made mani- fest by the indignities heaped upon the Rev. H. S. Fergu- who was captured by Communists in North Anhui last month,

son,

special despatch

to the

KEYNOTE OF POLICY. The keynote of the British covered a wide range of subjects, attitude was the Import Duties North China Daily News states that including the question of tariffs Act, which was designed to lend up and with it the question of Im- to Ottawa. Had the Government the captive missionary has been perial Preference.

GOODWILL ACTION.

etusidered British interests alone, paraded in public from village fair the duties imposed by the Act to village fair, held up. for ex- would have been framed diferent-hibition, churges being made for. Britain had made a great can-ly. Moreover, the Act gave the

Dominions free entry, If the Finally, it is learned, he has tribution to goodwill - by their

admission.

EXTRAVAGANT DEMANDS. According to Chinese reports, the Communists are making extra- vagant demands for the release of the Rov, Ferguson, including.

FEARS. The result is that the Dune rats enter upon the contest more sanguine than they have been for the last twenty years and the. have definitely challenged the Republicans hayo never been An

authority of the Government of despondent. Never has there the Reich in the matter of the been such an Approach to un-own action in this matter and they Dominions could see their way been taken to the Red stronghold new decree authurising the or-animity in a forecast that London, June 15.

ganisation of "private political President would be voted out of believed that their gesture would not to go all the way, but a long at Kwangshan, at the south-east-

way in the same direction, suchern corner of Honan. (he reciprocated. office.

jaction would do more not only to Moving tributes to the per-

The Repablican hope for a} Regarding secondary industries help themselves and the rest of sonality of the last Minister forj

Both Baden and Bavaria

have business revival or serious Demo- in the Dominions, he suggested the Empire; but world trade as declared that they do not intend Poocation, Sir Donald Mavlčan,¦

cratic mistakes.

that where different manufactures, well. One principle definitely before to obey the Hindenburg deeree per-

But Hoover's loss of popularity, not made in the Dominions, could Mr. Baldwin was sanguine that were addrowned in the Hous

of the conference was that engage:/mitting the Nazis to wear uniform hig political inmplitude and be made better and more cheaply the British spirit would be Commons today from all parts of ments solemnly entered into could

hesitancy and his failure to make in Britain, such gotta should be reciprocated CLASH MATERIALISES. not be satisfied by unilateral re- the House.

fa more convincing impression as subjected to a

process of pudiation.

ra-delegates. that in dender in the Ume of distress tionalisation and agreement Mr. Baldwin described Sir He believed that the principle the clash between the Central have contributed to his predicn-between one Dominion and 24- Donald as "a great personality was pot challenged by any of the Government and the southernment, one of the men who are the very delegates, but it carried with it States of the Reich has materialis- salt and savour of our public life." the corollary that if there was tuled, as Herr von Pagen is adamant Ho added!--"When these great be no default, the engagements that all States must obey the order

Taken which had proved incapable Parliamentary eures are

offrom the Central Government. from as, one does not look back so fullment must be revised by much on the externals of the man agreement. but to his influence. In Donald Maclean I see a soul ns' clean na the west wind that blown over Tiree, where he WAB born". British Wireless.

SHENGKING OFF

NOW BEING TOWED TO WEIHAIWEI

F1 ix thus inferred

The next step' in the situation rests with Herr von Papen and his decision will be vital to the future Mr. Macdonald added: "I be of Germany. Ite may elect to en- lieve that a great opportunity deavour to establish a Junker now presents itself for us to Dictatorship as the only means of unite in checking the active in-holding together the States of the fluence now making for general Reich, the Republic now being economic deterioration. If wo threatened with a disruption into do this, Europe cannot act component States.-Reuter, alone. We must welcome the assurance that after the present phase is over, the United States

will encourage us to believe that THE MANCHURIA

will co-operate in

An

examination at any rate, of the wider problems and Join with us in devising a policy for the maintenance of civilisation

WAR

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other.

ELM

After trade and the related matters, there was the issue of Empire monetary and financial questions, which must include) whole question of currency,

Overseas by the

CHANCE OF LIFETIME.

"The chance of a lifetime is before us, if it is thrown away. It may never return," declared the speaker.

A ransom of $7,000,000 Twelve aeroplanes, and A large quantity of machine-

guns and ammunition. During one of the "exhibitions", the Rev. Ferguson was made stand on a platform for all atare at, but he made the best of the occasion by preaching.

OFFICIAL SHOT.

to to

His measures to combat thei situation, however wise and profound' they may be, have failed to catch the popular imagination. Faith in them re-

Regarding currency, the most quires immediate results, or an

valuable preliminary would be the; abiding faith in Hoover's in-Į

He thought that changing successful outcome of the Lausanne fallibility, the latter being cer-world conditions and the changed Conference, but they could have a It will be recalled that Mr. tainly lacking.

relationship in the British Com- profitable discussion that might Graham, an official of the British monwealth all justified the hope lend to nonlething further. Although hero-worship remains and belief that there might emerge

Consulate, who was sont to make (Continued on Page 7.)

from the Conference some body representing all the Dominions that would be able to be in daily contact.

and looted Chengkaotsu, a station on the Chinese Eastern Railway about thirteen miles to the east of

Harbin.

&

Mr. Baldwin said we definitely 4n effort to secure the release of wanted a rise in wholesale Mr. Ferguson, was shot by soldiers prices, without a substantial riso or Reda from the banks when In retell prices, but Britain had travelling down the Iwai River.

Mr. Ferguson was directing no intention of returning to gold The policy of the Government so long as gold behaved itself an markod man as the result of the

famine relief and had been was to go to Ottawa absolutely!

nt present.

large sums of money he had been According to Japanese reports, free and unfettered, with an open

Concluding his speech. Mr. Bald-distributing. The Impression got General Mo Char-shan is now mind, prepared to examine every marching south from the Palchuna question on its merits, prepared in suid he hoped before the present about that he was a wealthy man District, at the head of a large to approach the problems not un-Government laid down office they instead of a veteran, member of

and, consequently, the mindful of their own responsiblli- would lay for a generation the foun-the China Inland Mission- "Puppet" Governor of Hellung- tien and obligations, but at all dation of a system which would bind Reuter, klong, General Cheng Chih-yuan, timea kouping in mind a wider the British peoples closer together ·· tus ordered the Manchukuo forces view of the situation.

and recreate prosperity.-Reiter, Mr. Eugene Chai, who has been Harbin, June 10. In the Wankuoj District to check

If they could, by common agree-

mentioned, as a possiblilty ofther as Two Chinese were killed and his advance.

The Royal Observatory reports that China's next Foreign Minister, or ke ment, reconcile the it would be a great example to the cart:Bouth winde moderate; fair Pad O Inor Nalders. He is interests and satisfy each other, shallow depressions are sectores Ambassador to Moscow, arrived in the

Japan and Tangking, Locai

Colony from the North to-day by the

Shanghai, June 17. The Butterfield and Swiro 8.3. Shengking, which went ashore on

The Conference, after the open- Chiming Island on Sunday night.ing sitting, adjourned until to- has been pulled off the rocka and morrow, the interval being spent is now being towed to Walhalwel-Both to-morrow's meetings will be were wounded when a body of two Japanese troops occupied Tungpol in arranging the work programme, ten others, including two Russians. It has just boen learned that held in private.

hundred Irregular troopa raided on Tuesday, evening-Router.

which shall be based on the MA CHAN SHAN ON army, prosperity of all nations."

THE MARCH

---Reuter.

world.—Britiah Wireless.

Ito showery,

bound for Maraeillés.