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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1034.
BRITAIN DECIDES TO MAKE NO
NO JUNE
NAVAL TALKS IN YOUTH'S ATTEMPT
LONDON
TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK
TO BE STRICTLY INFORMAL
(Special to "Telegraph"),
thy Teseoraph. Copyright, Telepṛosikie Misa+
Ordinaner,
Berlord du
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TO STEAL
WOULD-BE PICKPOCKET
GAOLED
Detectives were posted In the Įvicinity of the Cenotaph yesterday, prior to the King's Birthday pelebration, to keep
look-out for pickpockets.
special
DEBT PAYMENT
JUNE WAR Important Note Sent to United States
TOKEN NO LONGER PRACTICABLE
Shortly before 10 am.. a Chinese JOHNSON "DEFAULTER”.
Was seen wandering about in
Jackson Road looking and finally he went up, beside a Chinese carry- ing a child. When he began peering into the nini'a pocket he smartly arrested by a detective.
Was
charged before Mr. Macfadyen in
in
'The arrested man, Cheung Washington, June 4. Cheuk-yuen, 21, unemployed, wan The State Department has
the Central Police Court this announced that preliminary morning, and WAR fined $10 or
labour [Fourteen days*__ hard will naval conversations
default, on a charge of attempting start in London on June 15. to steal.
Sergt. Goodwin prosecuted and Mr. Phillips, Assistant Secre-stated that defendant came to tary of State. said that Mr.Hongkong a few days ago to lookį Norman Davis
to for a friend. Being unable to find will proceed London as soon as he has finished him, he was in need of money to his work in Geneva to attend the return to Canton. preliminary negotiations.
The Navy Department is sending. Admiral Richard Leigh and Com
Wilkinson as mander Theodore experts, and the American Ambar- sador in London. Mr. K. W. Bingham, will also cooperate.
SAAR PLEBISCITE
FRANCO-GERMAN
ACCORD PRAISED Mr. Phillips emphasised that the conversations will representi
Lunen. June 4. an informal effort to smooth out
Approval of the report of Baron) Home of the major problema that Alaisi italy on the holding of are likely to arise before 1935. the Saar Plebiscite on January
18th was given to-day by thei League Connell.
Japs. France and italy are) expected to send deletes to participate in the conversations, -United Press.
FRANCE AND ITALY SILENT.
London, June 4.
ACT CITED
NO REPUDIATION
Washington, June 4. Britain does not propose to make any payment to the United States on account of War Debt on June 15. This is made clear in the British Government's reply to the American Account Rendered" Note, which is expect ed to be presonted by Sir Ronald Lindsay in Washington this evening.
WANCHAI ROOF CHASE
are adequate. For example, in THIS DOG Calcatta, a city in which rabies is THREE MEN CHARGED
BUSINESS
GROWING FEELING OF DISTRUST
GOVERNMENT'S
RESPONSIBILITY
endemle, whatever precautions may be taken to limit the scourge, restriction of healthy dogs (in such a way, for instance, as by muzz!- ing) is not attempted, as the authorities realine it would be quité ineffectual.
NO ISOLATION.
TO-DAY
A sequel to the dramatic arrest of armed robbers who were folled by police in their plans to rob the occupants of No. 8) Wood Road, Wanchal, on Bunday afternoon, was the appearance of Lo Hoi- Now In this Colony, no attempt tung, unemployed before Mr. is made at isolation, but vory Hamilton in the Central Police onerous restrictions are rigorously Court this morning. enforced. Are those of any avail The defendant was charged with In consummating the object aimed robbing Lai Hin-man of $1,000,
ROUS:
la
Nathan
Road,
Sir,-1 must apologise for state the obliteration of rables? and, secondly, with the possession I maintain they are completely in- of a tonded revolver, five rounda g in my letter appearing in your effective, for the following ren- of ammunition and two spares." lasue of May 24 that Ordinance
Two other men,
arrested in No, :10 of 1900 was apparently non- existent. True it is that it doen 1. Rabies is endemle in South connection with the robbery were not appear in the official bound China and there is complete free-also charged. They were Wong copies of the Ordinances, but I dem of movement over the Anglo-Taing, unemployed, and Lo Sucn- have since discovered that it was Chinese border, and it must be re-cheung, both of whom were ar renumbered and that this renum-membered that rabid doga, in the prehended
Ordinance was
They repented early stages, cover enormous dia- Kowloon.
were charged bered some twenty years ngo, vide tances.
with the possession of a revolver volume I page 79 of the bound
2. Contacts of known enses are loaded with five rounds of ammuni- not isolated. So far from this be-tion, and also with the possession Ordinances.
no restric-of five spares. Apparently the police also haveing the case, there not yet discovered this-possibly Territory (exclusive of New Kow- D. Fitches, the my were remanded tions whatsoever in the New On the application of Del-Sergi, they have not had the time for the leon) ie. in the area officially re- for 48 hours in police custody. legal knowledge up-to-date-but, garded as infected. however this may be, the boundary stones with their inseriptions, are
necessary reading to bring their
RIDICULOUS.
to be peculiarly subject to rables.
The Note says that Britain finds it necessary not to pay
anything in June, and to suspend all further pay still in position, the public bas 3. No steps of any kind are taken G. Doxa imported into the ments until "it becomes possible to discuss the ulti-anofficially been advised (during to prevent dogs crossing from the Colony under permit have to un mate settlement of inter-governmental war debts the course of a Court case) that infected to the clean area. The dergo no quarantine, and if one
the police are acting on
on the bound-netion of the police in stopplug | understands aright a Magistrate's with a reasonable prospect to agreement."
ary the stones indiente, and no people at the presumed boundary} reported comments, this was the No intention of repudiation exists. Britain is ready for official pronouncement has been on the motor roads only, and only source of the present trouble.
that the authorities are pre-on odd occasions, merely serves to I claim that any intelligent per- further discussion when President Roosevelt be-pared to abastion a demonstrably accentuate this point, and to make son examining the facts, which are lieves that valuable results are likely.
illegal position. The public must, everybody concerned with the re-patent, cannot but form the The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamber-therefore, assume, in the absence sultant cases look ridiculous, pro-opinion that the existing anti- rabies regulations are ineffective, lain will make a full statement on British policy in of an explicit statement to the secutor and prosecuted alike.
contrary, that the Powerg-That- 4 Conditions analogous to those oppressive and unconscionable, the House of Commons to-morrow (Tuesday) after. Be intend to continue to iegard obtaining in villages and farms in and the correspondence which has passed these stones as marking the bound-the New Territory (exclusive of
I submit that the foregoing flus. rest of the New Territory. between the two governments in the last few days between New Kowloon and the New Kowloon) are freely allowed
to persist in the rural areas of trates one phase of a subject of will be published simultaneously in Britain and
New Kowloon itself, and the great importance to the community America.
authorities have taken no power and of special interest to all who to prevent contact between the have at heart the welfare of the urban areas of New Colony. To anyone who has lived Kowloon. This in itself in proof in Hongkong for any length of that they do not expect to exercise time, and who has freely mixed
with his fellow-mon, there can effective supervision.
no doubt that while the large majority
are normally law-abiding
noon,
M. Barthou (France) accepted the
report without reservation, stressing the responsibility of the Council and the foressity that all provisions of the report regarding of vote and guarantee of Press message from Washington to the people of the Saar state that preliminary bilateral should be loyally adhered to. naval converantions will begin in; Mr. Anthony Edon (Great Bri London in the middle of June. |tain) raised the spirit which The discussions will deal with enabled Germany and France in procedure and technical questions reach an agreement on this point. ARRANGEMENT WHEN US. IS READY
preparatory to the naval conference adding that nothing would please to be held next year..
the British Government more hon an extension of this spirit to
PREPARED TO DISCUSS NEW
"SEASON TICKET9."
GROWING CONTEMPT.
be
STRETCHING THE LAW. Now, Sir, there have been, in recent years, quite a few nets by rural and the authorities wherein they have appeared to stretch the existing w somewhat tightly in order to achleve their object, or have acted in a manner suggestive of partial-
*. "Senson Ticket" permits are, subjects, there is, among these The British Note declares that jeate a sharp depreciation in stern one direction or another Japan has also agreed to the other domains. It was now for the British Government, in ing against the dollar, which, the acts which, to put it mildly, have or were until recently, issued to very people, a growing feeling of savoured of lack of candour on individuais, allowing them to bring contempt for, and distrust of, the British proposal that such discus- the Council to study the working formulating its decision, was faced Government understands, is incon- their part, but, I submit, in their their dogs into New Kowloon from laws and regulations of the Colony, Hians should take place, but no of the agreement that by two alternatives, namely, to nistent with the monetary pollection over the boundary question, the reat of the New Territory, as as distinct from Britlab funda- reply has yet reached London, Trom guarantee could be given to all pay the fall sum of $262,000,000 of the United States.
the Government have definitely often as they wished within the mental law, and foremost in en- the French and Italian Govern-Saar inhabitants. whether voter due to the United States, or to With regard to the June 16th been dishonest.
period of the permits. This pre-couraging the growth of this ments. British Wireless
jor non-voter.-British Wirglens. suspend all interest payments instalment, the British Government
place the May I now review the mansures cluded examination of the dogs subversive spirit, pending final revision of the debt is quite prepared to make further takon in connection with rables? on each transfer, to ensure that policy of the Government, and the agreement, a revision which has payments on that date, in acknow-it is common knowledge that with they were uncontaminated-Indeed actions and general attitude of without prejudice to its animal disorders of this and nothing less than complete isola-rome of its principal officers. control of the two governments.
again to present a clause of similar descriptions. the only tion for a perlod would prove this. whereas in this Colony, above all His Majesty's Government in
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TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD GIRL
COMMITS SUICIDE
A
been delayed by events beyond the R
US cnt, on the assumption, piective methods of quelling anWhether it is true or not, rumour other places in the Baths, ke
the United Kingdom deeply regret again, that it will receive outbreak #re those invariably
ably has it that these "season tickets" policy of the Government should the circumstances forcing them to the President's declaration that he adopted in England-i.e. complete were given to persons of certain be to try and gain and preserve the take such a decision, but feel that does nut consider them in isolation of the infected animals social or official status and to respect of the community, all they are unuvie To assume the default. However, as a result of and any contacts or suspects, and sportsmen for their dogs, which, sections, of which are highly in- THROWS HERSELF FROM ROOF OF responsibility for adopting a recent legislation, no such de-of the area itself. Where this is more than all others, run the risks telligent:-
course which would revive the claration is possible. Therefore impossible, no restrictive measures of contamination which are known
system pl Inter-govern the procedure adopted in 1933 la mental debt payments.
no longer practicable.
FOUR-STOREY BUILDING
Disappointment with life is be. states also that she was engaged Beved to have caused a 21-year-old to be married, but broke off re-
whole
BRITAIN'S REASONS.
As has already been pointed out,
AMERICA'S REQUEST.
The "Please Remit" Note
re-
girl, Wong Yuen-chi, to take her lations with her flance last year, the resumption of full payments life by throwing herself from the since when she had been sub-would necesslinte a corresponding cently handed to the British Am reof of a four storey building, ajected to occasional fits of de-demand from her own war debtors bassador by the State Department 93 Hollywood Road, at 4 o'clock
pression.
and would provoke a re-creation of declares yesterday afternoon.
that the total of
The daughter of well-to-do Only a few minutes before her the conditions which existed be- $262,000,000 consists of $66,000,- due OR June 15, 1938; parents (her father OWTIM "body was discovered in the street, fore the world crisis and which |000
umber of houses), she was train she was playing with her younger were in a large measure, respon- $110,000,000 due on December 15, 19331 and $86,000.000 due on June ing for the position of a hospital | henther, and the sudden discovery Such a procedure would have 15, 1934-Router. nurse and would have graduated cume as a great shock to the thrown bombshell into thel
in a year or two. Her mother 'family.
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AMERICANS NOT SURPRISED
the
Washington, June 4.
State Department officials are NOT REPUDIATION.
stated to be disappointed but not Declaring that the decision to surprised by Britain's debt note. defer payment until it is possible They expect other nations to discuss the ultimate settlement follow sult and foresce a showdown whole question, with prospect of President Roosevelt breaking the agreement,
ent, the Note says the Bri. deadlerk by inviting Britain to tish Government does not intend enter into a discussion for a lines which-she to repudiate its obligations, and in settlement on prepared to enter into a discussion considers it possible for her to whenever President Roosevelt full-Reuter.
of inter-governmental war delts with a reasonable
feels that a valuable result would
chale.
In the interest of world recovery, demands Britain has suspended all from her debtors for many large lonne, and in paying the United States nearly half the total of her original loan, she has already paid all she has received from other:
CORRESPONDENCE
War Debts
nationa, as well as considerable To the Editor. xuma from her own resources.
BUDGET SURPLUS.
Hongkong Telegraph.
Sir-A short memory is indeed Referring to the British Budget a blessed thing, especially when surplus, the Note, says that after called upon at the Barre on the Afteen years of unparalleled taxa-Lord's Day.
tion in Britain it would be a strong I assume that Mr. Pepys refera act of social Injustice to have the United States of America. denied this relief while suspending Will his friend Mr. Creed kindly Inform me of any bonds on which war debit payments to Britain.
Recapitulatinge the Note of the government of the United December 1, 1982, and emphasising States defaulted in
what
it terms the injustice of the afxties? difference between the
Moreover, British settlement and those accorded other Chancellor
tho mid-
i
am sure that the of the Exchequer
debetors, the Note says that nothing would like to have this informan has occurroil since to change the tion, for presumably defaulted Government's views.
TRANSFER QUESTION.
bonds may be picked up at a large discount. Under the debt funding agreement, Great Britain The Note further states that has the option, of paying in U.S. since payments must be rando in gold coin or in gold billion, or dollars or gold, the attempt to in bunda of the United States. Itransfor such large Bume would l
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