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UNITED STATES RECOGNISES BRITISH WARSHIP ANSWERS

SOVIET GOVERNMENT

LOWER TAXI FARES

In Hongkong And Kowloon

A reduction in taxi fares.

both in Hongkong and Kow-

loon, has been sanctioned

AGREEMENT SIGNED

OUTSTANDING ISSUES TO

BE DISCUSSED

under a new traffic regula- ROOSEVELT'S

tion, just issued.

in

This provides that Hongkong the fare for a dis- tanco not exceeding ono mila is to be, 40 cents instead of 50, whilst for larga cabs in Kowloon the fare for additional miles aftor the first is reduced from 10 cents to 5 cents.

DOLLAR-POUND TRUCE

ISSUE. AGAIN ON THE TAPIS

A TEA PARTY TALK

MAIN POINTS

Washington, Nov. 17. President Roosevelt an- nounced to-day that the United States had agreed to enter into normal diplomatic [relations with Soviet Russia and to exchange Ambassa- dore.

Mr. William Bullitt, who was a member of the United

·States delegation to the World Economic Conference, will be the first American envoy to the Soviet Government.

It is disclosed that the actual agreement for American recogni- tion of the Soviet was signed at: the White House at 11.50 p.m. Past night, · after a further - long; conversation between M. Litvinof and President Roosevelt,

JOINT STATEMENT.

A joint statement issued by Litvinoff and the American President saya:

Washington, Nov. 17. President Roosevelt has gone! to Warm Springs for a fort-M. night's holiday following the success of the negotiations with M. Litvinoff.

M. Litvinoff, the Sovist assistant | Foreign Commissar, who has scoredi another diplomatic success. `

PRINCETON MYSTERY

THREE TRAGIC DEATHS

WEREWOLF · STORY SPREADS

S.O.S. SIGNALS

EXTRAORDINARY LONDON CASE

FORMER LOCAL WOMAN SUES FATHER

SONS EDUCATION.

A former Hongkong Government official, Mr. G. A. Woodcock, figured as defendant in an extraordinary action heard in the King's Bench Division, London, when he was unsuccessfully sued by his daughter, Mrs. Gwendoling Ashwell-Cobban, for alleged breach of

· contract în failing to pay for the education of her two

sons.

Mrs. Ashwell-Cobban, who is a Fellow of the Poetry Society, a member of the British League of Dramatists, and a member of the LN.C. Society of Authors, Play- wrights and Composers, also sued her step-mother, Mrs. Auda Rose Woodcock, for alleged slander. Complainant formerly resided in Hongkong with her father, having been born in the Colony in 1893.

MR. G. A. WOODCOCK'S VERSION

Mr. Woodcock was for 30 years started being definitely hostile and in the service of the Hongkong wanted to get rid of her by fair Government, having held, the posi- means or foul, and told her he did "In addition to, the agreements

Princeton, N.J. Nov. 17. tions of Secretary of the Sanitary not care what. become of her sD signed, there has taken place an Three mysterious deaths Board, Secretary of the Licensing long as she disappeared, as her exchange of views in regard to

First Board,

Clerk.of... few days have magistracy, and Magistrate. Ho other tenants.

the peculiarities were annoying the It is learned that the Adminis the methods of settling all out within a tration is

considering the standing questions of indebted-given rise to extraordinary retired in 1920 and has been for now establishment of an Exchangeness and claims that permits

that rumours

sinister some years residing at Ryde.

The action was heard on Octo- is stalking ber 3rd before Mr. Justice Bennett, Equalisation. Fund for de facto to hope for the speedy and satie. stabilisation of the dollar and factory solution of these questions were wolf'

of sitting as an additional Judge, and the pound rate and the preven- which both governments.desire to through the campus.

the total damages claimed were tion of violent fluctuations in the Ket out of the way as soon

as Princeton University.

£1.000. dollar:

possible.

us

"M. Litvinoff will remain in Washington for several days for further discusalons."

ASSURANCES OBTAINED.

Officials questioned on the sub-} Ject said Lusy felt it was quite possible that Mr. Roosevelt's tea party at the Woito House yester- day when Mr. Pierpont Morgan and Mr. Myron Taylor, chairman President Roosevelt has also re- of the United States Steel Cor-leased for publication a series of poration, were present was related letters between himself and Br.

to a discussion of a dollar-sterling Litvinoff covering such questiona truce.-Reuter.

"

aa propagando, religious freedom, the legal protection of their respective nationals from prosecu-Į tiona for economic, espionage and

RIDING ASTRIDE claims."

NEW MOTOR-CYCLE REGULATION

Melor-cycle pillion-riders in the Colony must in future eit astride.

brings Hongkong into line with

The Soviet agreed to waive all claims against the United States arising from the Siberian tion.

Quca-

In reading over the exchange of correspondence, President Roose- velt particularly emphasised the demand for religious freedom for

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The victims were an

expen- sively dressed six-year-old child, whose body was found ou a dump on November 7; `

The university janitor, whose mangled body was found on the lawn on November 9; and ..

J. F. Towner, a student at the University, who was found dead on November 10. Towner was very prominent in Princeton social circles. His dead body was discovered lying face downwards in irozen grass.

FOUL PLAY.

MRS. COBBAN'S CASE,

PURE VANITY.

"He had no love for us,"

she

AUSTRALIA 'AND M.C.C.

Text of Board's Last Cable

Melbourne, Nov. 18. Following in the text of the Australian Board of Control's latest cable, to the M-C.G:

"We appreciate the terms of your cablegram of October 9 and mesame that much cable is intended to give the assurance we' asked for in our cablegram on Septem- ber 22.

"It is on this understanding that we are sending a team 'In 1934."-Reuter.

INFLATION PLAN DENIED

AMERICAN DOLLAR FIRMS UP

JAPANESE SHIP. IN DISTRESS

HITS ROCK OFF SHANTUNG PT.

URGENT CALL FOR RESCUE

Sranghai, Nov. 13. Another Japanese steamer has met with disaster. The Tsukushi Maru was sending out urgent distress signals in the early hours of this morning.

The nature of the accident rathor suggests that the vessel· may have gone down, although information regarding her fate is, at present, lacking

The first 3.0.8, signals ward sent out at 1:40 a.m.-

Tboy stated, that the Tankuald Maru had run into a rock about two miles of the Shantung Pro- montory and made an urgent ap- peal for rescue --Retitor.

H.M.S. BRIDGEWATER SENT.

MONEY MARKET The distress mesange was pass-

WARNED

14 on to H.M.S. Bridgewater at Welhalwal Boon after it was picked up and at 8.26 mm. she' New York, Nov. 17, was ordered to raise steam and The dollar rallied again to-day proceed to the assistance of the following an official dem:al of a faukushi Maru. A message from report that the Government was the Bridgewater at 8 o'clock pave planning...a moderate, issue of her position at two milles from the "groen-backs.”

NE, promontory light

MR. ARIYOSHI FAILS

Nevertheless, although they A massage to the effect that the have not been officially instructed | Talsuh, Mern was rushing to the that the movement of capital rescue was received locally". abroad muat cease, foreign ex-3.45 a.m. - change brokers have Indicated that they have been warned, un- officially, that every exchange added, "what he did for the boys scrutinised than hitherto and that transaction will be more cloadly being purely out-of-vainglory to only obvious commercial dealings do tito right thing and, na the will be permitted. Chinene nay, to save his face,' 80 that his friends would say what a UNOFFICIAL CONFERENCE.

TOKYO CONFERENCE good grandfather he was. On Mrs. Ashwell-Cobban appeared January 26th, 1952, my father said

The conference of sonators,

ON CHINA. in person and the defendants were that my step-mother thought I wan

Industrialists and economista sum- represented by Mr. N. R. Fox neglecting her and suggested moned by the leaders of the

Shanghai, Nov. 18. Andrewa, Instructed by Messrs. should go and see her. I went to Congress infintionat group, Sen- The China Prass givca, pro- Warren and Warren, agents for Brigstocke-terrace with the two ators Thomas and Smith, was held minence to a report that the four- Mr. R. L. Flux, M.C., of Ryde. boys.

|to-day as planned..

week visit to. Peking of the In opening her case, Mrs. Asirwell-Cobban said

"My step-mother was

A resolution was passed urging Japanese Minister, Mr. 'Arlyosb', sho WAS

that the gold purchase policy be who is due hero on Monday, fall- claiming £1000 damages for breach over the stove cooking and looking pursued until: commodity prices ed to yield any settlement of Sino-

more than usually unpleasant. One of contract and slauder. Against of the boys said "My mother is a

nave reached the 1920 level when, Japanese problems, her father she claimed £420 Indy, and my

they urge, stabilisatión» should bá The paper says that Mr. damages for breach of a contract said "Your mother should be in

step-mother then effected.

Arfyoshi has been summoned to n contained in 10 letters by which he the dock for murder"," peraunded her to leave her home other very serious allegations ar Lions for broadening the monetary which Mr. Sugimura, the former The Conference appointed a conterenca of Foreign Office chiefs adding committee to submit recommenda for a review of China affairs, to in Leicester and come to live at being the slander she complained base by the use of silver-Reuter.

Under-Secretary-General of the Ryde on the promise that he would of.

League, who is now In South China, has also been summoned."

Router,

bending

educate her two young sons at the Mrs. Ashwell-Cobban then went

SILVER PROPOSALS, His death was first attributed to Ryde Grammar School until they into the witness box and repeated Senator Thomas proposed that trampling crowd at a football were 18 years of age,

hor statements on oath.

the Government 'Initiate a silver match, but since then the theory She was also claiming. £580 for

Mr. Fox Androwe: What was policy similar to the Gold Plan, nas developed that he was

ti slander in respect of statements the advantage accruing to your under which the price of silver similarities between his. and the mother. other two deaths.—Router.

A regulation to this effect, which United States' residents in Soviet victim of ioul play owing to the made about her by her step-father in getting you to come to would be increased to 5 cents an

the practice at Home, has just been insued. It rands as follows:

A driver of a motor cycle, whe ther "solo" or with side car, shall

not carry on his cycle more than .one person in addition to himself, nor shall any person so carried alt otherwise than astride the cycle and on a proper sont securely fixed to the cycle behind the driver's

Aeat.

N.R.A. STEEL CODE · EXTENDED

territory. Reuter.

TEXT OF LETTERS.

The taxt

trade relations.

Later.

at Brigstocke-terrace,

-DISARMAMENT EFFORTS

used as the basis of new allveri certificatea, at the rate of one ounce of silvor to twenty-Avo conta gold.

MILLION MEN ENGAGED ON PUBLIC WORKS

Sonator Pittman told the Con- American E

Ryde, In the presence of her two Ryde with your boys?-The grati-ounce and the purchases would be (Continued on Page 0.) A wore-wolf, according to boys. of the Roosevelt-Lit. medieval superstition is a man Sho said she arrived at Ryde on vinoff correspondenco barely men who voluntarily or involuntarily May 20th, 1929, and lived at a flat tions the future of Americo-Soviet changes into a wolf and in thut in Sidney-crescent. Her father

form practices cannibalism.

for paid the boys' school: fees three years, when he refused to pay any more, although he had undertaken to do so in the case of ono boy until 1939 and in the case | of the other until 1941.

LETTERS STOLEN.

M. Litvinoff, In a letter dated; November 10, states that the Soviet agrees to restrain all persons and organisations under Soviet govern- mental control from Interfaring in U.S. affairs.

Replying to the propaganda pledge, President Roosevelt says that the "United States will also observe it:

M. Litvinoff further assures that:

the Soviet will guarantee liberty in

At the Request of the religious worship.

Industry

Washington, Nov. 17.

NATIVE BANK FAILURES

TALKS AT GENEVA

TO-DAY..

Effort to Be Intensified

Washington, Nov. 17.

ference that the President was considering various plans to ac- complish allver price rehabilita- tion. In the montime, he urged them to give the President a A million men have been trans- chance to try out the truth of the ferred from relief rolls" to the varying advice of his, numerous Federal pay roll through the pro- advisora Router,

gramme of public works, accord London, Nov. 17. She declared that the 10 letters

Ing to Governmental_reports re Special efforts to advance dis- ware stolen from her flat in armament work will be made dur

Dr. Sprague, adviser to the ceived by President Roosevelt.

It is learned that he has Ins August, 1931, by her father, who ing next few days at Geneva, where Treasury, has submitted his re- An echo of the failure of native had a duplicate key. They were important conversations will begin signation to President. Roosevelt, structed the Veterans' Association banks is to be found in notifica-lawyer-like-dry and to the point. to-morrow.

who refused to accept it im to ensure that pay slips are ready. The effect of them was that in The Foreign Secretary, Sir Johnmediately,

The Administration expects to. The Journal of Commeres de- disburse four hundred million

RECEIVING ORDERS

MADE

Resignation Reported:

tions contained in the current few of the boys being his godsons; Simon, accompanied by the Under Tribune.ording to the Herald- for Thanksgiving on Novembar 25.

1. Issue of the Gazette..{

CIVIL RIGHTS. While there will be no interfer

as well as his grandsons ha was Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, and In the case of the Cheong Leong willing to pay for their education officials. left London this afternoon clares that Dr. Sprague urged the dollars to the workers by nicanS ence with the rights of Soviet Bank, of 151, Queen's Road Con- at Ryde Grammar School until they to particinate with representatives President to speed up recovery of civil works projects before citizend, M. Litvinoff says the tral, and Pun Hin-cho, Tae Kwan nounced the continuation of the elvil rights guarantee of Ameri-1 therein. It is notified that a credi,ditions were that it must be attions to-night-British Wireless.

President Roosevelt has an Soviet in prepared to include ayco and Lung Yat-sen, partners attained the age of 18. The con of other Powors in these ronversa- by a gigantic slum clearance February 28 next. It is estimated

Steel Code until May 1 next, fol-

cans in Russia in a treaty to be tor's pitition was filed on the 13th rammar Sc

(Mr. Meisaac's)

lowing the industry's request that! nogòliated, but protection for November, 1988, and that an. In-/Grammar School and that she

it be extended bevond the three months", trial period.

TREASURY BILLS ALLOTMENT

tooth,” and that

CHINA'S FOREIGN

achame and Housing programme. Chat four milljón jobs will be made

Bir. Jesso Jonca is quoted to avaliable. Reuter. day as saying that the United States has bought hardly enough U.S. citizens will become effective teriin Recalving Order was made must come and live nt Ryde. Hor

gold abroad this week to all your Immediately.

thereon on the 18th day of Novem-father also insisted that the boys

domestic pur The Industry, saya the White

Agreement has been reached bor, 1933, and the Omelal Receiver heavy and unnecessary toys, such

chases amounted to only $0,682,-

MINISTER House, has expresseil Koneral for a Consular Convention where was appointed Interim Receiver of as a large rocking-horse, toy

|000, which · prompts the Herald- Batisfaction with the operation of by Amarieans ponsoss all the the estate of the Above named motor-car, and tricycle should be

London, Nov. 17.

Tribune to declare that the entire

Shanghal, Nov. 18.. the code and its effect upon the rights granted to nationals, of bankrupt firm. All the debts left behind.

The amount applied for in affect of the gold plan has so far A report from diplomatie: industry-Reuter.

other States under existing should be paid to the official Re-This last sentence," said Mrs. Treasury Bills during the week been pyschological.

sources staten that Dr. W.-W.Yen treaties with the Sovlot." -

celver, and

Ashwell Cobban, "made me was | £67,400.000. The amount. Speculative Interest; in silver.] Chinese: Ambassador to Moscow, Claims and counter-claims) are A similar notification apocare suspicious that my father wanted allotted in bills at three months has discouraged immediate consi- has, acconted the Nanking Govern- Prostation providing schonia Or There is no waiver In respect of of 180. Queen's Road Central, and stranded there, but I decided to rate per cent was 10/2000, com- political expediency makes it an- Foreign Ansira... Hells reported to proclamation providing that the in- loft for further negotiations in regard to the Shun Leong Bank, to get me to Ryde and leave. - me | was - £45,000,000. The average | doration of that problem, unless mont's offer to become Minister of dinane shall come into operation on the Archangel. expeditions. Pur Hin-cho, Lung Yat-sen and give him the benait of the doubt." pared with 19/002d Tant: work avoidable, says the Journal of Com- he pranared to zetuksen Höme

other partners therein,

In January, 1983, her father | British, Wirelaza, Mont

H. E. the Governor hen inspeda

the 20th fustatist.

| Reuter,