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BRITISH

POLICY ON MANCHURIA

FULL-DRESS DEBATE IN LORDS

JAPAN'S LYTTON INCONSISTENCY

London, Nov. 29.

The British Government was again urged to throw its weight on the side of those supporting the Lytton Report findings dur ing a debate in the House of Lords on the Sino-Japanese dis- pute to-day.

The issue was raised by Viscount Cecil of Cholwood and Lord Hail sham nasured him that the Govern-

The wild weather round Britain of late is vividly illustrated in this rotuurkable pictura showing the 4. B. St. Ola attempting to enter Aberdeen Harbour in a weiter of foam and spray during a heavy galo. The whole of the Scottish const received a severe battering during the week-end,

MCKENNA MYSTERY FOR PARIS

ment would seek a solution satis- WAS IT HIS DOUBLE WHO GAVE AN

factory to the League and the Powers most interested in the Far East.

Inviting the Goverment to make etutement of polley on Manchu- rin. Lord Cecil quoted, with ap-

REMARANGANDO MURUNEGATIUSTR.

CO-OPERATION WITH UNITED STATES.

London, Nay, 304

Commenting

አዳ yesterday's

Manchurian debate in the House of Lords, the Daily Telegraph emphasises that neither Lord. Hailsham nor any member of the Government han

Elven the slightest encouragement to the view that a verdict has been found against Japan by the Lytton Report.

All that can be said at presen!, the journal adds, in that British collaboration with the other Powers in being steadily and loyally maintained and, above all, "in good faith and friend. ship with the United States,”— Reuter.

proval, the Japanese Government's declaration of support for the

Longue.

JAPAN AND COMMISSION.

44

If Japan Intends to support the League, he said, it will make great difference in the seriousness of the crisis developing as a result of events in the Far East.

The question before the parties, in his opinion, was whether they were prepared to accept the Lytton

Report as a basis of settlement of the dispute and he drew atten- tion to the fact that Japan ac- quiesced in the appointment of

IMPORTANT INTERVIEW?

WAR DEBTS AND A VISIT

TO CONTINENT

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).

[By Telegraph. Copright,-Telegraphic Messages, Ordince, 1594. Recaived, November 30, 2.54 m.)

London, Nov. 30.

MR. REGINALD McKenna, the Chairman of the Midland Bank, or someone so amazingly like him that he deceived a well-known Parisian journalist, has creat- ed a mild sensation.in Paris.

The Paris newspaper world is mystified over the whole business, as some-one who must have been the

Mr. McKenna.

PREMIER GOING TO GENEVA

IMPORTANT MEETING ON FRIDAY

London, Nov. 30, It In understod that Mr.

and Ramsay MacDonald

Bir John Simon will leave London to-morrow for Geneva,

It is now hoped that informal. conversations between Britain, Germany, France, Italy and the United States on disarmament problems will take place at Geneva on Friday-Reutor.

EXCHANGE

BOOMERANG

DAILY MAIL

REPORTS

CABINET AGREEMENT

SECOND NOTE NOT COMPLETED

LONG DOWNING ST. TALKS

London, Nov. 20.``

Although the Cabinet sat,

late for two and a quarter

M. Zinovieff, one of the Stalin in Ruusimi whose death has been reported

hours last night, solely dis-opposition lenders cussing the draft of the Debt but in semi-officially denied in

Reply to the United States, they failed to complete their task.

The matter is expected to come! up for consideration once again early this morning.

The Daily Mail understands, however, that the breach has been healed and that a full agreement was reached to pay the United Stutes in gold If the American Government Insists on payment,

GOLD SHIPMENTS. The Daily Herald declares that |the Government has decided to (ship £30,000,000 in bar gold to the United States and that the first

Moscow.

PARIS PACT CEREMONY

FRENCH TREATY WITH SOVIET

JUNK ADVENTURE DISASTER

CAPT BISSCHOR WRECKED

JAPANESE SHIP TO RESCUE

Shanghai, Nov. 30, A wireless message received in Shanghai announces that dis- aster has overtaken Captain Eric de Bisschop in his adventurous attempt to tour the world in a Chinese junk.

The gally-painted craft, which Captain Bisschop had named "Fou Po" and which flew the French Into Hag, appears to have run

of foul weather off the coast Formosa and to have aunk.

Captain Bisschop had with him four companiona, one French aad three Russian, all of whom were plcked up by a Japanese steamer, Beyond the fact that all the ad- venturere are safe no further details of the mishap are avail abic at the moment.

START FROM HANKOW. The enterprise which has ended so suddenly began at Hankow some four weeks ago. The "Fou Po" sailed down the Yangtze to (Shanghai Zond there went · Into

contemplated.

CONSOLIDATION OF PEACE

Paris, Nov. 29. instalment is leaving to-day, while A Pact of Non-Aggres-dock for a thorough overhaul and the insurers have been informed sion was signed between refitting for the long sea journeys that the sum must be covered for France and Soviet Russia The party left Woosung ol įthe whole of the noxt three weeks.

November 22, making direct for: The Herald adds that the ship at the Quai D'Orsay to-day Manila. The next visit would The signatories wero M. Herriot have been to Australia, then to England will not affect the note on behalf of the French Govern-America and then circulation in Britain, but pro-mont, and M. Dovgalevsky, the Atlantic to Europe. bably, as a precautionary measure, Russian Ambassador, on behalf of legislation will be passed increas- the Soviet Government. Ing the @duciary issue by another Afteen millions sterling-Reuter.

ATTACK ON POUND ment of gold from the Bank of

HITS BACK

WHEAT PRICES

INDICATION

Argentine whent nt 24/-,

despit the

The Times points out that the

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across the

A MASTERPIECE. After signing, M. Herriot sald ho salutod the peoples of Soviet the junk, which was of about fifty The main object of the tour in Russia, with whom Franco desired tons burden, was to have been the increasingly confident relatione. charting of overal islands in the

The Treaty, he said, completed South Seas.

BRITISH STEEL

NORTHANTS MINE

The junk was a masterpiece of nautical compactness, being fitted with everything in the way of Instruments and equipment rang- auxiliary engine.

OIL CONCESSION BOMBSHELL

PREMIER London, Nov. 29. The fact that American wheat

TO PALACE double of Mr. Reginald McKenna, and

was yesterday priced at 288, 9d, a

the system of Non-Aggression Captain de Bisschop had on Pacts and ought to contribute to board enough water for Ave who held himself out to be Mr. McKen-quarter la cited by the Times as

London, Nov. 29.

the consolidation of peace. months and provisions for two indicating the effect on United na gave an interview to the French States produce of exchange move-

The Premier and his prin-| M. Dovgalovaky replied that the months. Additional supplies were journalist referred to on the war debts ments making the dollar dear in cipal Ministers were in close Soviet attached front political to have been taken on at Manila. and moral value to the Pact which as the trip was expected to Inat question and financial matters general- relation to sterling.

contact most of to-day and confirmed French and Russian elghteen months. ly and then vanished into thin air. The Australian at 25/6 and Canadian to-night when practically all pacific aspirations.—Renter. natural outcome of "Mr. McKenna's" at 20/- wore all considerably the members of the Cabinet surprise visit to Paris was the circula- che fact that, the United met for further consideration NEW HOPE FOR ing from a radio set to an tion of rumours that he was in Paris states is only 3,000 miles distant of the war debts question. for the purpose. of seeing M. Herriot, compared with Argentina 6,000 The Prime Minister was the French Premier, on the war debts miles and Australia 11,000 miles.ceived in audience by the King question.

influence of exchange must also be at Buckingham Palace later in shown in the prices of all other the evening. commodities in which the United It is not yet possible to state DEVELOPMENT States competes with various pro- when the new Note to Washington

London, Nov. 30. ducing countries,

will be despatched, although the final examination of the draft is A new life is opening for the POUND STILL FALLING.

expected to be completed within British steel industry.

This is the interpretation Sterling on New York to-day re- the next day or two. covered at the opening to 3.101⁄2,

There have, says an official state-placed on an announcement that revealed but fell later to 8.14%, closing at ment, obviously been many aspects the Bankers' Industrial Develop 3.15%. Despite the pound's weak- of the debt situation requiring the ment Company la ready to finance the story of Mr. McKenna's that he had not registered at any news, British, funds finished the fullest and most careful considera- the ironmasters, Messra. Stewarts persiste in unilateral denuncia- and Lloyde, up to £3,250,000 to tion of the Anglo-Persian oil con- day strongly, under the lead of tion.

mine the fron ore doposito INCONTROVERTIBLE. Opposition in the House of Lords, presence in Paris by revelations hotel.

-in cession, the British Government War Loan Assented, which rose

Northamptonshire estimated at may give the matter serious con- over one point to 97% British Although it is expected that the five hundred million tons.

alderation. note will be confined to setting out

The schemo may cut out foreign The cancellation is considered to the reason for the proposal briefly material entirely as Stewarts and be ultra vires in official circles. It made in the original British com- Lloyds believe that even Besse is hoped, however, that the dis- mer steel, which la mostly im-cunalons between the Company mental dobts should be re. ported, can bo produced from and the Persian Government will examined and the payment dus on Northamptonshiro Router. end amicably-Router,

the League Commission on Man churia, in the terms of reference and in the choice of its member ship.

He urged the British Gov- ernment to use ita utmost in- fluence in support of the Lytton Commission.

Lord Ponsonby, Lender of the

It was generally supposed that Mr. McKenna was acting as the unofficial.envoy of the British Government seeking French views on the war debt policy to be adopted, especially in relation to Lausanne, Mr. McKen- na, besides being a prominent banker, having been at one time a Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer. Additional colour was lent to, enquiries all over Paris

said he did not expect the Govern- that the banker was seen leaving| mont to say anything about the Victoria Station In London for the Sino-Japanese dispute at this] stage.

Continent on Sunday,

WENT TO BRUSSELS.

Mr. McKenna is, in fact, in Len-Wirelesa. don at the moment. He did not ge IMPORTANCE OF FINDINGS. It was this information which led to Paris at all. The presumption The Earl of Reading paid a warm to a to watch being kept for him in that he was going to Paris war tribute to the work of the Lytton Paris and to the subsequent "inter-anticipatory, but it was wrong. Mr. Commission and stressed the In-view".

McKenna says he was actually going portance of its findings. Its im- partiality and the manner in

Whon, however, other journalists to Brussels in connexion with one

MASSACRE AT HAILAR

which the Commission had dis- sought him out, high and low, he of the companies of which he is a FATE

charged its duties warranted warm was nowhere to be found, and later Director.

congratulation.

He said that the Commission's |

Andings were generally approved.

This did not, of course, menn that MODERN WAR IN MANCHURIA

Lall should bo nocepted; but it did

mean that none could bo dis.

regarded excopt in the face of

very powerful arguments and BIG BATTLE NEAR FULIARDI: JAPANESE

facts,

Lord Lothian suggested that the Powers collectively should help to create a modern and efficient government in China.

FACED WITH SEVERE TASK

OF AERODROMD GARRISON

TO-

munication-that inter-Govern.

December 15th in the meanwhile

suspended-it is necessary that

·U. 5, TARIFF BAR.

It is, however, the economic con- sequences of the Inter-Gov- ornmental dobta which recoive most attention' fu

British press.

The

BRITISH GOVT. MAY TAKE A HAND

London, Nov. 30.

It is understood that if Porsin

PARTY RIFT

EGYPT

WAFDIST GROUPS AT LOGGERHEADS

(Our Own Correspondent).

Telegraph." Copyright. Tdajrabklo

news- Magee Ordinanes, 1874, Taccined" "Nas.

popors gener, #63 596). ally take the

London, Nov. 80.

these reasons should be, stated into her was more than the amount some detail and supported by facta due from her to the United States. of Incontrovertiblo accuracy.

According to the London nows. papers, the examination of the altuation boing undertaken by (Special to "Talsgraph"),"- Cabinet Ministers includes also the (Tetrareph. Copyright. Telegraph 284088mont of the offects of every Mesenger Ordinance, 1893 Ractived, Nov. method of payment, whether by 30, 12:40 6.M.)

gold, in sterling, or in dollars, and Harbin, Nov. 30, upon these and a hundred other According to Japanese informa-qucationa, a mass of technical data

has been produced, tion, forty-eight Japanese

CAN WE PAY? get aldents who managed to

Among many other considera- Harbin, Nov. 30. guards and the anti-Manchukuo through to Matzievskaya from

Hallar on November 27, tell a fons which have to be borne In terrible story of the mutinous out-mind is the likely effect upon the Lausanne agreements, in other The main forces are possibly break on September 27.

They relate that every member words, some doubt is felt whether clashing to-day.

of the Japanese and Manchukuo Britain's payments could concolv Chronicle by Sir Walter Layton, portant The Japanese objective is said forces stationed at Hailar aero-ably be continued without re-open-who, after pointing out the effect group.

Eight of the moderate members, to be Chalantun, but a bitter drome on the day that Su Pinging the questions on which a settle of the American tariff, one

wen rebelled against the Man-ment was then reached and who the highest in the world upon headed by Nogerib Gharabli Pasha- Volunteers are evidently directed hand, being overwhelmed by United States without receiving "There is no device known to the accusing the ex-Premier, Nahia anything from those, countries science of economies or to the art Pasha, the President of tha of a solution of the Sino-Japanese have gone in favour of the Japan by a milltary export. They are superior forces.

of finance which will enable a Wafdists, of autocracy, dispute satisfactory to the League cae, though up to the present only strongly entrenched in the

They estimated the strength of which owo her money.

Britain has already paid £200,-oreditor to go on collecting debtsThe secedors declare that Nahas the Volunteer forces from Tur- and to the Powers most closely skirmishes have occurred and those hills, with forward guppits and chida to Manchull: at fourteen 000,000 more to the United States due to it, if it will not receive Pasha and his followers place Interested in the problems of the,

than she has received from her the goods and the services of its their own personal position above Far East-Router.

"Jonly between the Japanese van-cavalry on both flanka-Reuter, thousand.--Router.

debtors, although the amount dua debtors."-British Wireless. overything.

GOVERNMENT REPLY.

A big battle on modern lines Volunteer outposts.

is imminent to the west of Lord Hailsham, roplying for the| Government, said it was impos- Fuliardi. By the time this ap

sible for the Government to make pears in print it will possibly be any statement at this time, be-

yond emphasising that all the in progress.

Layton.

view express- It is learned from Cairo 'that a to-day in split has occurred in the Executive.

od

the News of the Wafdlst Party, thò im- Nationalist

of

Egyptian

would be directed to the finding! The initial stages of the battle campaign is ahead of them. The chukuo were slaughtered; ont of thor Britain could go on paying the the flow of goods, declares:-have tondered their resignations,"

offorts of the British Government

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