1932-10-21 — Page 19

THE

HONGKONG. TELEGRAPY

FRIDAY,

BLACKMAIL | Y.M.C.A. DEBATES CHURCHES PRESS MOTOR DRIVERS

MR. A. GREENWOOD

AND OTTAWA

FINAL ATTACK

BIG MAJORITY IN DIVISION

London, Oct. 20. A spirited onslaught by Free Traders upon the Ot- tawa

Agreements marked the closing stages of the de- bate upon Britain's ratifica... tion.

Finally, the House of Commony approved the Agreements by 5-11 voles to 81 by the adoption of

Greenwood

the necessary financial resolu- tions.

Mr. Arthur Greenwand, who ecently ro- turned to Parlin-

COMMONS

ABOLITION NOT FAVOURED

LIVELY SPEECHES

"Hongkong badly needs people to get up and say something when occasion demanda; we are a dumb lot in this Colony", naid Mr. P. S. Caraidy in opening the first debate of the winter season held last night

The

which

under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. Literary and Debating Society.

debate,

centred round the motion "That the House of Commons be Abolished", was thoroughly enjoyable, although it was clear that the speakers - proached their subject with some reserve and idence. The pre- posera falled to make good their case and the audience turned the motion down by the clear majority

of 32 to 10.

Dr. E. L. Allen moved the motion and gave a short history of the House of Commons. He showed how serious had been the effect of the Reform Bill, particularly on the landed aristocracy. The old ment as the result nobility had hitherto been in

the of a byelec-

habit of sending their one son to tion, declared

the House, at something like 10/- that the Domi-

Per vote in a rotten borough. Now,

alons nd black-

de-

FOR DISARMAMENT

Scaling Down to Level

of Germany

PREMIER RECEIVES DEPUTATION

London, Oct. 20. An earnest effort in the cause of disarmament was promised by the Prime Minister to-day when he received a large repre- sentative deputation from Bri- tish Churches, headed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and leaders of other Churches.

The deputation which was rc- ceived at the Foreign Oßes urged the speeding up of the Disarma- ment Conference and assured the Government

of the unreserve support in efforts to obtain a sub- stantial measure of diearmament. The possibility that the Prime Minister will shortly accompany Sir John Simon to Genova "to get general better understanding among nations" was mentioned by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald..

G

There were Pot Anv rotten mailed Britain,

more boroughs, and there were When the pate was resumed vote to buy which made the hobby to-day the Foreign Secretary, Sir too expensive for the aristocracy' who led the deputation, stated that John Simon, dealt with the cen. who wisely withdrew from com- tention put forward by Sir Herbert petition, and sent all their sons to Samuel that it was unconstitution, the Church and the Bar.

al for the executive to bind the Commons in negotiating commer- cial treaties involving taxation for more than twelve months.

LAWYERS criticised.

FINED

SPEEDING CHARGES

PROVED

A summons for dangerous driving was taken out by In- spector C. F. Alexander against the driver of a taxi in Connaught Road West, it being alleged that accused travelled at a speed of 30 miles an hour when dodging coolies and motor traffic.

The defendant was alleged to have overtaken 4 private car which was forced to stop to prevent an accident, and then to have driven past the rear of a lorry which was backing from the Prays towards the godowns. If the private car had not stopped just as the defendant was passing, the taxi would have been jammed. between the car and the lorry.

The taxi had been travelling at a speed of about 30 miles an hour and had to lodge number of coolies carrying goods into the godowns.

The defendant was fined $30. Another taxi driver was fined $25 on belug Burhmoned by Sergeant A. R. Britain for travell- ing at a speed of from 30 to 35 milea an hour along Queen's Road East. His Worship marked that 20 miles an hour was the limit for that area.

re-

OCTOBER 21. 1932.

RADIO BROADCAST

AN APPEAL BY SIR HENRY POLLOCK-

Broadcast by XD.W. on a wavelength of

.. (346. K.C.) 5-7 p.m. Chinese recorded pro- ramme.

7-10.30 p.m. European programme, 7 p.m. block quotations, etc. 7.3.7.10 p.m. An Appeal by Sir Henry Pollock.

7.10-7.30 pm. A relay of the Volunteer Band.

7.39-9 p.m. Recorded programme. 8 p.m. Local Time and Weather Report.

9.9.40 p.m. A Pianoforte recital by Mr. J. Levintoff.

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7.10-7.30 p.m.

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Phylla Krauter

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To a Water-Llly (MacDowell-Stock).

A similar fine was imposed on GROWING CONCERN.

the driver of a lorry for speeding B along Shaukiwan Toad, near the The Archbishop of Canterbury, bathing sheds at North Point,

The driver of a Hongkong Hotel he had rarely known any subject Garage lorry was fined $20 by hla which had aroused in the churches Worship for carrying 10 passen- auch unanimity and depth of con-

excess of the number gers, in viction as disarmament. They re-lowed by his permit. cognised fully the practical dif- Following complaints from This meant that the legal pro-iculties with which Ministers were shopkeepers and drivers of care Wild Rose (MacDowell-Stock) fession became overcrowded. The faced, and wished to assure them who use On Lan Street as a car result was the Lawyers Grand of support of a great volume of park, the drivers of two private cars were summoned before his Council held a secret meeting and Christian public opinion which felt

growing concern at the inter-Worship for causing an obstruc-. decided that at each election a number of lawyers should be national situation and the presenttion in Wellington Street, between chosen by lot to enter Parliament position of the Disarmament Con-Wyndham Street and D'Aguilar and make laws so complicated and unintelligible that decent citizena could not possibily avoid breaking that there would be plenty of work for the rest of the profession!

LOBBYIST'S PARADISE. He cited instances to show that there was nothing new in under taking a treaty which hound Parti- ament for a number of years with regard to duties which might be imposed upon particular kinds of goods. If such matters were to be them, so

open to review every alx or twelve months they would be creating a paradise for those who indulged in lobbying of a particular interest.

Sir John Simon stated that it was absolutely untrue that the Ottawa Agreement precluded Bri- tain from bargaining successfully with foreign countries.

in

Since the recent changes tariff policy, the Foreign Office had been visited to "an unusual extent by representatives of dif forent countries desiring to ne gotiate on trade auttera.

Of late the House of Commune had become more a sort of variety entertainment, the most famous performance within its walls being that of a gentleman who put four pence into a hat and took out ninepence. As a result he was known as the Wolsh Wizard.

THE REAL RULERS.

ference,

defendant

PICKPOCKET

Street. Each The Archbishop said they felt fined $6. moral obligation that the promisn given by the Allied Powers after the Great War should be fulfilled, and they thought it would be moral- ly wrong, at this stage in the world's history, to acquiesce in any thing less than wide and general reduction of armaments since arma. ments would bring no security for peace, but, rathor, the constant menace of war.

sort

· RESTRICTION HOPES.

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GETS MAXIMUM TERM The full penalty of two years' imprisonment and two police supervision was passed on

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Chicago Symphony Orchesten) 9-9.40 p.m. From the Studio.

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A planoforte recital by Mr. J. Lavintoff. Prigramme. Bonata Pathetique, part 1. (Deathoven)

2. Largo et Mesto (Beethoven)

3. Etude (mm)

4. Menuette (Paderewsky)

B. Wedding March (firing)

6. Typho (Prokaßeft)

9.40-10.27 p.m.

Variety.

Humorous Bong-Moscow

Cracle Fielda.

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Organ Bolo-A Little Kin Each Morning

Reginald Fourt

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Dong-The Moon la Low

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J. Flore

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Frank Luther (Tenor) Accordion Bolo-Poet and Feasant Overture

Komora Bong-I Owe You

Ile Kane

SZLOY,

Fox Troy-The Wooden Soldier and the Gwina

Doll

Net Shikret & the Victor Orchestra

years Orchestral-Relection of Boosey Ballads

youth, Kwok Fuk, who was charged before Messrs. Grantham and Balfour at the Kowloon Magistracy the morning with picking the pocket of Wu Yeung, a coolle-foreninn. namely,

They hoped there might be a resolute endeavour to restrict and in some cases even to forbid, the use of five categories of obviously aggressvie weapons,

tanks, land guns, submarines, war- ships over 10,000 tons, and mili- tary nireraft.

They would also give enthusias. tie support to the maintenance of as close co-operation as possible

natural link between

Dr. Allen claimed that the country was not ruled by the House of Commons but by the Chairman of the Bank of England,

It was alleged by Sub-Inspector INTERNATIONAL TARIFF.

the Chairman of the T.U.C., and

Byne that the complainant was He recalled the unavailing efforts the President of the Federation of

standing in a crowd in Cedar of the late Mr. William Graham to British Industries. If they took

Street yesterday when the de. promote an International tariff away the covering provided by the

fendant, who was standing next top and said they failed because Bri. Commons, they would find the fate

him, put his hand into his pocket tain then had nothing with which of the country in the hands of with the United States. Britain and stole pursc containing to negotiate. As a result of the - these men.

70. cente.. A district watchman was the Ottawa agreements, Britain now, Did they want to be governed? | Europe and America, and if in the caught the defondant in the act. had an opportunity such as she asked the speaker. He did not be-anxious times ahead such Co- Sub-Inspector Hyne, asked for never before of making bargians eve they did. He therefore operation could be maintained. It the full penalty In this case as with other countries.

an enormous effect | defendant had a very bad record, the country bewould have suggested that Mr. Arthur Greenwood, who was turned into one huge constituency, upon world opinion.

having been convicted four times. Minister of Health in the

They belleved Just and that each man and woman

the British previously, Labour Government, asserted that answer the following questionaire: Government, by reason of armam Britain had allowed herself to be, -1, which will you have as Pre- ment reductions which Britain had blackmailed by the Dominions.

aldent for the next year of the already effected, by its known three gentlemen above-named? 2 sympathy to France, and by its de- If you don't like them taken aingly,clared desire to be fair and just suggest any possible combination to Germany, was in a position to of two? 3. Do you prefer not to be governed at all?

Other Labour leaders de- nounced the abrogation of he Russian Trade Agreement at the very moment when tho Soviet Government was ne- gotiating orders valued at half a million pounds sterling for heavy engineering goods at Leeds.

THE WOODRUFF MURDER

(Continued from Page. 1.) give a really effective lend on dis-ty of gross dereliction of duty. armament, and that the best elements in Europe would welcome sach a lead in the present per- plexity and confusion.

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CHINESE CLUB

THEFT

FORMER SERVANT

SENTENCED

An act repeated once too often brought about the arrest of a young Chinese on A charge of stealing two typewriters from the Chinese Club in the Bank of Can- ton building,

for

pre-

It was stated at the Central It was shown that the evidence Police Court this morning that the proved that several Chinese police prisoner was formerly employed THE OPPOSITION.

were in the vicinity when the as a servant at the Club but was hold-up and murder occurred near į dismissed Mr. D. J. S. Crozier, lender of

misconduct Inst the opposition, also sketched the PRESSURE WELCOMED.. the Woodruff home as Mrs. Wood-June. history of the House of Commons

ruff was taking her children to On a subsequent date he return- Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in reply in support of his arguments, and

After other members of the school in a motor-car, and thated secretly to the scene of his indicated that negotiations would pointed out how the Commons had deputation had spoken, the they made off helter-skelter and former employment and stole a shortly begin for a new Anglo- time and again saved. England from Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, hid in near-by garages and shops, typewriter. Having disposed of Russian Trade Treaty with a view

CROSS COWARDICE.

the machine for $80 to a to securing a better proportion of the machinations of despotle Kings expressed appreciation of the

and rulers. The Commons always visit and welcomed all pressure The final paragraph of the sumably unsuspecting schoolboy, orders from Russia than had pre-tood for the liberty of the sub-they could bring to strengthen findings reads: "We trust that he repented his visit to the Chin- viously been olkainable--Renter

the their handa. Regarding the recent the Chief of Police will giveese Club and for the second time ject, and had provided for and British Wircices.

freedom of the Press, Catholic British Note to Germany, he said serious attention to the fact that committed a theft, stealing the Emancipation, the abolition of it was not written to urge a legal at no Ume, from the beginning of | very typewriter that had been slavery and the legality of strikes, proposition, but was designed to the outrage to its oulmination it purchased to replace the one he

The House of Commona was put aside technical and legal the murder of Mrs, Woodruff, did previously purloined. To do never static and was continually arguments ns not being the real the police make any attempt this, he had to break through a changing itself to suit the require- ground to explore in order to whatever to apprehend the bandits verandah window and draw back ments of the day. It had several insist that the real claim for or rescue the victims."

the catch. times reformed, itself and to-day consideration of the rest of the The Japanese Military Command,

In the course of investigations was still re-orwanising itself. It Powers was a claim in the moral Interviewed by Reuter, issued after the incident was reported to was a happy balance between the and not in the legal sphere. What statement to the effect that the the police, a lift boy declared that other two factors of government, could be done in the future was police had been advised that re he saw a mun leave early that the Crown and the Lords. It was not to be restricted by dwelling organisation for a more efficient morning with something bulky

kafeguard against individualism simply upon what Britain had mediately, and that the activities the prisoner was traced and ad-.

completed im-wrapped up in a parcel. Finally, and against the syndicalists, and achieved since the war In the as such the House of Commons name of disarmament. On the of kidnappers must cease-Reuter. |mitted to both thefts.

MRS. PAWLEY TO GO INTO HOSPITAL

(Continued from Page 1.)

tions with the elusive bandits who kidnapped Mrs. Pawley and Mr. Corkron on Newciwang Racecourse on September 7 last.-Renter.

RELATIVES AT HOME OVERJOYED

K

"GREAT RELIEF IT IS ALL OVER”

London, Oct. 20. "We are delighted to hear the nows," wald the father-in-law of Men, Pawley, in an Interview with

·Reuter at his realdenee, Gerrards Crox. Buckinghamshire.

"It is a verat relief now it in all m nver. We only hoan that Mrs. Pawley will not safer any 11- effects"

The relatives of Mr. Charlen Corkran in England are also over. joyed at the news of the release of the enutives, particularly with the aurances that they have both borne up fairly well in health deunite the steals and anxiety,— Reuter and British Wireless.

was invaluable.

The Commens always had, and still does, truly reflect the national tempo. It stands for something from which we cannot dissociate ourselves.

Mr. S. A. Gray seconded the re- solution and claimed that the Honse

other hand to forget what we had done would be a great injustice to Britain, and would actually hinder acceptance by their own people of the desire to end war.

BRITAIN'S RECORD.

Force must be

ali

On the two charges, the prisoner·

receivar a total of seven months"

Mr. H. K. Lee, who represented sider moral issues, but also all the Chinese Club, and was in The Government wished to do then serious view of the case. There poselbilities of the situation, Court, asked His Worship to take big thing, and, since February, are 20 "boys" in the Club,

he had hung on tenaciously to a said, "anyone of whom is able to desire to create not merely some follow in his footsteps," Britain WAB the only great state of disarmament, but a more world that had dimcult thing, namely, a state of of Commons to-day was dominated country in the by party politics and. party made any reductions in armament. the will to peace. machinery. Honesty of purpose That fact, combined with her

PREMIER'S DESIRE. and soarelentiousness were ruinert oxisting responsibility for police Government which not merely He wished to be the hond of a

Fung Han, the cakgwaln. Đi thị by the party whip system, which and protective action in all portsigned a document about reduction

mater boat Fine Hing, was fined $10 denied a member of Parliament of the world, must be borna in of armaments, but which left

or two weeks' imprisonment by the the right of the Froe Vote..

Hon Comdr. Hole, at the Marine mind. The real complication, anid Mr. J. J. Ferguson was suppor-Sir John Simon, arose in fitting peace in Europe and in the world. Court this morning, for having failed They had done a great work to stop when called unen to do an by tor for the ponosition and in a

the moral purpose which they all with America and something like colourful pereration described the wished to pursue into the exces- a moral catastrophe would be re-way on October 18.

police officer in the Southern Fair. desolation which would result from the abolition of the House of alve complications of the practical quired to separate Britain from the

purpose.

United States in the matter of an understanding regarding disarma- They were alus -k-tuing to in establish similar relations. Euripo-British Wireless.

Commons.

Thore was quite an animated The Prime Minister, while also discussion from the body of the welcoming pressure on

maralmant hall and tho voto subsequently, napoots of disarmament, said the taken.

pesco-minker had not only to con-

hard labour.

A

yanam warnan, Chen' Cheung- chan, aged 20, was injured gravely a fem from an upper floor at 20, Bunk Yes Etreat, yesterday, bolige afterwards. taken to the Kwong Wah. Hospital.

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