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FRENCH CHAMBER VOTES WAR DEBT DEFAULT

M. Herriot Overwhelmingly Defeated: Cabinet to Resign

MOB RIOTS IN SHANGHAI

POLICE TURN HOSES

ON CROWD

NORTH STATION SCENES

PROTEST JOURNEY ·

(Special to "Telegraph".)

fly Telegraph.

Copyright.

Telegraphie

Mengre Ordinance, 1883. Received, December 14. 11.14 0.m

Shanghai, Dec. 14.

Two open conflicts be- tween police and an angry mob occurred at the North Station last evening.

The crowd, consisting of aver 800 Pengpu people, mostly women and children, were demand- ing a free ride to Nanking in order to voice their grievances before the third plenary session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuo- tang

The police endeavoured to pre- vent the crowd from passing into the station and two serious clashes Occurred.

The spirit of the Intruders was finally only quelled when the police turned on streams of water from boses, which had an immediate effect in the bitterly cold weather.

TEN HOURS' SIEGE. Although beaten in this matter, however, the crowd continued to besiege the North Station and re- minined, refusing to leave for more than ten hours.

In the end, as the result of discussion between the Chief of Palice and lenders of the Pengpu people thirty representatives “of the crowd left for the capital at ten o'clock last night, after buy- ing tiekels for the journey, and they were necompanied by ten others who were accorded free tickets through the mediation of Mr. Wen Guo-ngan, the Chief of the Bureau of Public Safety.

STATION SCHEME PROTEST. The complaint of the Pengpu

H.M.5, Effingham, flagship of the British East Indies squadron, which is holding itself in readiness for any developments in the Anglo-Persian oil dispute.

GERMAN COMMUNIST

SENSATION

REVOLUTIONARY PLOT DISCLOSED.

Munich, Dec. 14.

The arrest of thirty-one Communists In South Bavaria, members of an armed illegal -organisation, he allegd to have disclosed a widesprend plot to arm Bavarian Communists for a revolution which it was planned to carry through the whole of Geruinny,—Reuter.

DONNANGONANDOGMATERIALES

PERSIA DEFIANT

REPLY TO BRITISH NOTE

REFUSE CHANGE OF DECISION

Teheran, Dec. 14. Persia has declined to ac- cede to the preremptory |British request for the with- drawal of the cancellation of

CORK BEER the Anglo-Persian Oil. Com-

TRAGEDY

CASKS SPILLED INTO CUTTERS

ARMED MEN HOLD

UP STORE

· (Our Own Correspondent).

Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic atcampes Drilinante, 1884. Hereford, December

London, Dec. 14.

5. 9.15 1.34.7

pany's concession.

not

The Persian Government does consider that the Hague Court is competent to deal with or examine the Anglo-Persian oil dispute or that the Optional Clausei is applicable to the present case, declares the Persian Government's Reply to the British Government's

Note

Persia taken up an air of in- Bocence, declaring that the Per- stan Government Is entitled to draw the attention of the Lengue of Nations to the threats of pres

the Ure made against them by British Government, whose action is incompatible with a spirit of uprightness and a desire for pence.

CRUISERS READY.

*people concerns the Inclusion of Barrels of British ales to the thetr homesteads in the new value of over a hundred and fifty scheme for the reconstruction of

The Notedfacluima

any re- the North Station recently an- pounds sterling were spilled into

sponsibility for losaca which may nounced by the Ministry of Rail- the gutters of a Cork street yes-be suffered by the Company. ways-Reuter,

SENTENCED

terday.

A band of armed raiders, sus-

Messages from Karachi hint that British cruisers there arc DAILY WORKER EDITOR pected to be members of the being held in readiness for emer

bitterly anti-British Irish Regency and that Christmas leaves.

have been cancelled. publican Army, rushed into # brewer's store and held up the A Moscow message denies the employces at the point of a ro- Insinuation in certain papers that Libel of the Yorkshirees at the rear of the premises the Persian Government's action, volver, forcing them into the the Soviet Government is behind Constabulary

(Bp

(Our Own Correspondent).

where they were locked in.

The leader of the gang then posted his men at points of `van- tage in the street to prevent inter- while others of his

Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphie ference, Meamges Orilinaner, 1891. Roteived, December: nssociates rolled the numerou4 15, 0.05 mm)

casks of British beer into the Clarence Ernest Masson, the undway and there smashed them editor of the Communist news-"P

London, Dec. 14.

paper, the Daily Worker, was sen-

The Royal Observatory reports thint

--Reuter.

BRITISH STOCKS

FIRMER

APPRECIABLE RISE REPORTED

London,. Dec. 13.

MOMENTOUS 5 A.M. DECISION

DRAMATIC LAST-MINUTE APPEAL FAILS

PARIS, DEC. 14.

THE HERRIOT GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN DEFEATED AFTER A WAR DEBTS DEBATE LASTING TWO DAYS, WHICH TERMINATED AT FIVE O'CLOCK THIS MORNING. M. HERRIOT HAS DECIDED TO RESIGN.

M. Herriot's proposal to pay the December war debt instalment to the United States, notification of which had already been sent to Washington, with certain servations, was overwhelmingly defeated by 402 votes to 187.

re-

The fate of the Government was practically scaled at midnight when the Socialists indicated that they could not depart from their decision to vote in favour of default.

M. Herriot, in a dramatic last minute appeal, declared that the Chamber, for the sake of 418 million francs, was about to break the

Anglo-French brotherhood.

SHANGHAI SHIP'S FATE

TAKEN BY PIRATES FROM SMALL BOAT

NEAR WOOSUNG

ENGINESS WRECKED TO STOP SHIP

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Shanghai, Dec. 14. An extraordinary story of piracy, carried out somewhat on the lines of the old-time buccaneers, has just been re- ceived.

It is the first case of piracy in the vicinity of Shanghai for sev- eral months. It occurred on Mon- day night outside Woosung and a

Mr. J. M. Bailey and Miss Diana Churchill, who were mar. ried in London yesterday. Mr. Bailey is the, eldest son of Sir Abe Bailey, of South Africa, and Mi Churchill is the.

eldest, daughter of Mr. Winston Chur..

chiti.

remarkable feature lles in the fact WAR DEBTS

that the pirates did not board the steamer an passengers in the usual manner of the China Coast, but boarded the vessel at sea from a #nil boat,

The steamar concerned was the s.s. Hungta, belonging to the Tal- tung Steamship Company, and ac-

RIOT IN PARIS

The fall of the Herriot Government was known to be imminent when earlier the Finance and Foreign Com-

cording to a telegram recolved at DEMONSTRATION NEAR mittees of the Chamber of Deputies decided to reject

the offices of the Company in resolution for payment of the December debt Shanghai inst night, the pirates instalment by twenty-four votes to nine. The Com-attacked the steamer, successfully boarded her and overpowered the mittees decided against payment under any conditions.

villeers.

a

HERDED TOGETHER. Command of the ship was seçur- ed within a few minutes of the

The Chamber's overwhelming vote in favour of France's default on the debt payment must mean that France will not pay to-morrow. It is impossible for the Herriot Government to defy the vote of the Chamber.boarding. The officers and crow, Reuter.

BELGIUM REFUSES TO PAY

Brussels, Dec. 13. Following America's. Reply to the latest Belgian Note, elaborating the explanations in the first Note re- questing a suspension of the war debt instalment due on December, the Belgian Government has decided to refuse to make the payment to the United States.

MR. CHURCHILL'S REQUEST REFUSED

LONDON, DEC. 13. AS INDICATED BY THE CHANCELLOR AT BIRMINGHAM, BRITAIN HAS TEMPORARILY WITHDRAWN THE "CAPITAL PAYMENT" STIPULATION ATTACHED TO THE PAYMENT OF THE DECEMBER WAR DEBT TO THE

UNITED STATES.

A statement regarding war debt war debt as part of all-round payments and their relation to the cancellation, but, in the actual Lausanne Agreement was made circumstances, they could not

in the House of Commons to-day enter into any definite commit

by the Chancellor of Exchequer, |ments_modifying the existing war

Mr. Chamberlain was asked by debt funding agreement. Mr. Winston

I Churchill for an jagsurance that the Government would in no cir- ¡cumstances con- sent to mra-

When the Stock Exchange clos- ferential discri

tenced to six months imprison- the antleyclone remains centred to the ment in the second division, on it north of the Yangtse Valley and the ed to-day the leading feature was mination by charge of publishing criminal depression to the north cast of Hok- defamatory libel regarding the aide. Fresh monsoon will prevail the firm basis of British funds, France and Yorkshire Constabulary.

along the const and fresh to strong which generally rose to %, with Italy in favour monsoon over the China Sen. Loen War Loan 31 per cent. at 984-of thoir forecast:-N.E. winds, fresh; fuo, British Wireless.

PREMIER AND DUKE

OF YORK.

BOTH SUFFERING FROM COLDS

SHIPPING PACT PROPOSED

WORLD DRIFTING INTO IMPOSSIBLE

SITUATION

wa...

debt paymente

Churchill

to the United States, A against thoir payments of similar debts due to Britain, and whether ho would domand equality,

and simultaneity of treatment for

Britain from these two countries in order to prevent all payments by all countries to the United States on December 15th being Lord Essendon is the well-made at the sole expense of Great | known shipping magnate and he Britain. stages Ordinames, Pin (ầy Tilegraph. Copyright. Telegraphie | ploaded for un international agree-

Raceload, Dac. .08 .m.)

NO COMMITMENTS. ment to regulate the supply of London, Dec. 14. tonnage to the demand by ship.

(Our Own Correspondent).

They agreed, however, that the annuities due under the agreement should be suspend- ed until the coming into force of the Lausanne Agreement, or until it had been decided not to ratify it.

CHAMBER

ANTI-U.S. SCENE

Paris, Dec. 14. Serious rioting developed from together with some three hundred a big, War Debts demonstration passengers, were herded together outside the Chamber of Deputies in one part of the vessel, while the last night. cargo and luggage was systems- Three of the demonstrators were tically lonted.

seriously injured and were do- Before proceeding with their tained in hospital. About a thou- work of piracy, the gang damag sand were rounded up by the ed the engines considerably in police and taken into custody. order to bring the vessel to, a

While the Deputies were inside full stop.

the Chamber, debating whether or Then, while the craft drifted not France should make the De-

the with the current, they proceeded cember payment to United la rob their victims and loot the States, a huge crowd gathered cargo, which was very full. outside the building, shouting:

SHIP ABANDONED. '

["NOT A CENT FOR AMERICA" "A When their loot had been load- A large force of police were ed into small boata which came rushed to the scene and they threw alongside the captured ship, the out a cordon. The crowd, which anchor was dropped and the consisted largely of Royallate, Hungta was abandoned.

endeavoured to force the cordon, The pirates cacaped to the upon which a free fight occurred south, proceeding towards Gutz-and the crowd went temporarily laff Island in the Yangtsze mouth, wild. some forty miles from Woosung. Router.

AMY STILL GOING STRONG

OVER HALF JOURNEY

COMPLETED

Gao, Dec., 14. 'Mrs. Mollison (Amy Johnson)

TRAMCAR WRECKED.

The demonstrators tore up two troes and put a tramcar out of action before the police succoed-

ed in quelling the disturbances.

All the prisoners were detained at the police station for an hour for two and then allowed to go. Paris, later. A second Royalist rail on the Chamber at midnight was folled by the policu.

A further 250 temporary arrests to-day completed her flight of over were made, including several pro- minent personages. Amongst

Action Francaise, who, however,

The British Government earn-a thousand miles from Duala to estly trusted that the examination Gao, landing safely and in good these was M. Pujol, chief editor of of the whole question of war spirits at 5.16 p.m. yesterday was immediately released.--Reu- lebts in their relation to world evening.

ler.

| recovery, which the United States She plans to take-off again at Government had agreed to, would q.m. (11 a.m. Hongkong time) result in a settlement which would [to-day and will probably attempt anablo the Lausanne Agreement to to fly direct to Oran, on the DOLLAR DROPS A northern coast, a distance of some $1,300 miles.

be ratified.

FARTHING

MARKET ON EASY SIDE

NO DECISION AT PRESENT. With her arrival at Gao, Amy completed over two-thirds of her London, Dec. 13.

In the meantime, the British African journey and half the long The Prime Minister, who caught

Government considered it of the trip from Capetown to England. cold while on the Continent, re-

utmost importance that no deci-If all goes well, she should be back mained Indoora to-day. His

ion should be taken at present to in England to-morrow ovaning. The Hongkong dollar declined n doctors, who paid their regular

the effect that the Lausanne Agroo Reuter, periodical visit this morning,

farthing this morning. The local ¡ment could not be ratified. Conte- Amy cabled from Duals to her market has an easy undertone, and found that otherwise his health

quently assuming that this view husband stating: "Unlucky again, very little business is passing. was good. He presided over this

was concurred in by the other cannot arrive Wednesday". Fog morning's Cabinet mooting and

In London, silver - dropped Governments concerned, the sus-delayed her, but she left later for 8/16the, America sold and Chine Replying, Mr. Chamberlain said pension of reparations and war Gac.-British Wireless, hopon to attend the Hound of The Impossible position into owners laying up a percentage of

bought and sold, the market being Commons to-morrow for the debate which the world's shipping in-thoir tonnage for a certain period. the letter which he addressed to debts would remain in force, but

quiet. After the oficial fixing, At the present moment, hosts of the French Finance Minister at all rights of the British Govern- The Duke of York is suffering dustry is rapidly drifting, was the ships were laid up and many Lausanne in July, 1983, stated that ment under the axisting ARTCO-

Roland, the 6-year-old son of Mr. the market ruled dull, "America from cold, and la confined to his text of an address to the Royal others were running more than the United Kingdom Government ments would be Integrally reserv- Berchur, of Felix Villas, was bitter being inclined to sell. room by doctor's orders-British Empire Society by Lord Essendon half-empty in wasteful competi would have been glad if it had ad.

baen passible to cancel the French

un war debts.

last night.

tion.

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