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BRITAIN DENIES SECRET BARGAIN WITH JAPAN

Premier MacDonald Puts End To Disturbing Rumours

U.S. SUSPICIONS

REMOVED

ATMOSPHERE IN NAVAL PARLEY CLEARED

UNPLEASANT SUGGESTION OF POLITICAL BRIBERY

AMERICA RELIEVED

London, Nov. 12.

An atmosphere of doubt and some tension, caused by the spreading of wild rumours of an Anglo-Japanese rapprochement in naval and commercial affairs, had been noticeable lately at the naval conversations here,

ROYAL COUPLE'S HONEYMOON

Lord Dudley Lends

His Estate

London. Nov, 12.

. Much public interest is being centred in the wed-

CHINA'S BLOW AT

DRUG TRAFFIC

Complete

Control

ding of the Duke of Kent In Sight

and Princess Marina, which is to take place on Novem ber 29.

Part of their honeymoon will be spent at Himley, the Warwickshire seat of Lord Dudley, who has lent it to the Duke for that purpose.

The Duke and his bride will drive from Buckingham Palace to Paddington after the wedding breakfast, and will go to Birmingham by special train. - Britjak Wirelena,

but was removed to-night by a statement made by MOONEY Mr. Ramicy MacDonald, Premier of Great Britain.

The unpleasant suggestion of international bribery MAY CO

at the naval conversations has been removed, and the

American delegates, it seems, are relieved.

Categorical deniul was given by Enter

Mr. MacDonald thia evening to rumoura current in the United States that alongside the naval conversations In London there was "intense, secret economic and political activity" between the British and the Japanese parths.

The Prime Minister sharply denied that the Japanese had made the United Kingdom a secret offer of concessions with regard to the Japanese and Man- chukuo oil markets, and that both sides were considering the ques- tion of Japanese competiton with Britain in the textile market-and- the possibility of a compromise there.

NO SECRECY.

Mr. MacDonald, in an authorized statement, emphasised that the Americas representatives at the! London conversations had been what passed kept informed of between the Japanese and British delegates, The Japanese, ht added, had been similarly in- formed as to what passed between the British and American groups.

H.K. DOLLAR'S

SLIGHT GAIN Despite a rise of 1% pence in silver prices over the holidays, the Hongkong

dollar only advanced 3/8ths this morning to 1s. 778d. Inter-bank business Was done early in the morning at 1s. 8d. The market was quite firm on opening.

Following a farthing rise -on-Saturday-silver-prices "rose 1 penny in London yesterday. making the quotations 25% spot and 25% forward. The London rise was due to small offer. ings and heavy speculative buying. The market closed uncertain.

BIG ODDS

There was no truth in the story FOR POOL

of secret Augio-Japanese economie and political Retivity, said the statement, and the British Govern- ment's representatives had not been asked secretly, or otherwise.) to consider any offer of coffees! sions with regard to Manchukuo and Japanese ell markets,

LONG FORGOTTEN.

cam- Mr.

BACKERS

As to the textile trade petition compromise story. MacDonald declared that textilen negotiations with Japan had been

is abeyance for months, so far as the British Government was con- cerned.

INVESTOR HAS SMALL CHANCE

(Special to "Telegraph")

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London, Nov. 12.

FREE

BOMB OUTRAGE RECALLED

CLANDESTINE TRADE TO BE DISCUSSED

GENEVA FEELS OPTIMISM

Geneva, Nov, 12. The general situation in China as regards æplum and narcotics will be considered at the nineteenth session of the Oplum Advisory Committee of the league of Nations on November 15,

EX-OFFICERS

JOIN SAAR · POLICE FORCE

BRITISH RECRUITS ENLISTED

Loudon, Nov. 12. Asked in the House of Commons whether British ex-olllcera were being recruited as police officers for the Saur, the Prime Minister: and the position was that, acting

under the resolution adopted by the League Council of June 4 lost, the Secretary General of the Lengue recommended members of the League on September 3 to facilitate the task of the Snar Governing Commission in re- cruiting additional personnel out- side the Saar for its police force during the plebiscite period.

In response to the recommenda- tlon, a number of applications for employment, received from ex- officers, were forwarded to the H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester. Saur Governing Commission after | who has concluded his visit to Mel a preliminary enquiry on certain

Shing Mun Wolfram Mine Raid

SEVEN BANDITS SLAY LICENSEE

EMPLOYEE WOUNDED

The Shing Mun Valley district again figures in police crime re- |cords to-day, the latest affair being na armed robbery in which the licenace of a wolfram ore mine was shot dead,

The tragle happening occurred inst night at about B o'clock, when a number of robbers armed with automatics entered premises |ocedpled by Wong Ping, licensed of-the mine, and ransucked the place...

In the course of a meloe' follow- : fing resistance to the intruders, Wong Ping was murderod, being shot with a revolver, `while' Chun- [Mal; an employee of Wong's wan

wounded.

Altogether, it is believed that soven men took part in the raid on the premises, and all got away, taking some money with them.

It is gathered that the Chinese Government has communicated to the League a series of regulatious particular points-British Wirebourne in connection with the ***The police now have the matter which have recently been adopted, | iess,

virtually establishing un opium | ala monopoly in the provinces of Hupeh, Honan., Ashwel, Kinngai,

| Hunan, Fukion, Cheking. Shensi

and Kiangau.

The new regulations will provide for the suppression of the trade in

AGED MOTHER'Sum within six years and mark

PLEA

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By Telepresh, Corriakt. Telegraphic Me | angen Ordinance, rari. Received, Novembre

Washington, Nov. 12.

fan evident desire on the part of Chins to suppress opium smoking, the clandestine manufacture of narcoties and the Mielt traffe In high power drugs.

The Committee will also discuss the clandestine narcotic trallit out j

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tenary eslabrations,

LEAVES

MELBOURNE

ROUSING SEND-OFF

TASMANIA

of Manchukuo into North China SUSSEX LEAVES FOR and the closing down of secret drug The Supreme Court here to-day factories in China, as well as con- ordered the Chief Warden of San cessions in foreign settlements and Quentin Penitentiary to show Jeased territorion-Reuter. |cause in forty days why the noted prisoner, Tom Mooney, should not be allowed to ask for a writ of habeas corpus in an effort to secure his freedom.

Mooney, it will be recalled, was sentenced to

life imprisonment some years ago following a bomb- outrage during a parade in San Francisco when Communists were | alleged to have organised au at-; tack. Several persons killed.

Who Will Command

CROWDS CHEER ON FOUR MILE ROUTE

(Special to "Telagraph")

NEW AIR WEAPONS

CRUISER WITH. FLYING DECK

in hand,

STORY OF ATTACK.

A more detailed report of the affair, supplied to the police by Au Kit, accountant of the Hin Li Mining Co. of Needle Hill; Shing Mun, states that at about 8 o'clock last night he was writing accounts when throu men entered the office, which was also used as living quarters. All three were masked with towels over their faces:

Two of the intrudera euch fred ahot. Wung Ping, the owner of the mine, was lying in bed in the office at the rear of the building at the time.

Au Kit was taken by the robbers to a cubicle, and here he was covered up with a grasa mat. Whilst he was lying there, he hoard Wong Ping shout "Save Life!!

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were RECOMMENDATIONS

CONFLICT

Mooney, together with two others, was sentenced to prison, but later one of those accused with him made statements which, il WAS -belleved exonerated Mooney. The authorities, how- ever, refused to give him his freedom or a chance to fight his ense again.

It was a plank in the platform

VARIOUS CABINET SELECTIONS

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Washington, Nov. 12. Proposals for the building of two giant airships to replace the

There was une foki in the main at Akron and Los Angeles, an aircraft carrier of 15,000 tons, room asleep, three others in the and a completely new type of cockloft, and Chan Mul, who was cruiser with a flying deck," were wounded, as well as another em made before the Aviation Comployee were in the cubicle where mission to-day by Congressman Au Kit was imprisoned..

The four other robbers kopt a supporter of “big navy" guard at the office door, and programmes.

Intruders were on the premises for Melbourne, Nov. 12.

It is understood that the pro- about a quarter of an hour. In all, Glowing valedictory posal, which has created great they atole $120 in money.

All the robbers speke Punti with tributes were paid to H.R.H. interest, has the approval of the

Navy.

a Hakka accent, and had the the Duke of Gloucester on

appearance of shop coolies. The Commission will shortly his departure from this city report to President Roosevelt upon

stops necessary to secure a unified NORTH CHINA to-day.

vidilon policy-stenter,.

The farewell to the Prince brought to an official close

the centenary celebrations JAPAN AND SOVIET for which His Royal High-

"If a man subscribed, sixpence of Mr. Upton Sinclair, who con- every week for eight months in the tested the California governorship, apse Ordinance. 1871. Received, Neusmerness had come to Melbourne. The British Prime Minister's year, ho might win once in 68 that Mooney should be given a statement is regarded in American year" was the Liberal argument in the House of Commons to-day

prove to

new trial.

STILL QUARRELLING

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DEVELOPMENT

NANKING TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY

Peking, Nov. 12.

Dr. H. H. Kung, Finance Minia-·

the leadors of tho Peking

Huang Fu, Chairman of the Tientsin, Nov. 13, Peking Political Council, and

for four miles as the Duke of C.E.R. Employees Want ter, has been in conference with Cash Compensation Administration, including Generat

Tens of thousands of en- Washington, Nov. 12.

thusiastic people lined the atroete naval delegation circles as most where supporters of the Betting 86-year-old mother of the prisoner, Last year Mrs. Mary Mooney,

High army circles are discon Gloucester, accompanied by digni helpful and as having cleared the Latterles Bill were attempting to way received by President Itoose certed at the delay in naming a taries of the State, drove to the air-Reuter

the man-in-the-street vell. She said: "I wish you'd a new Chief of Staff or the an-dock where H.M.S. Sussex lay. He TEXT OF STATEMENT. that whore football betting pools your utmost to help my boy, Ila'snouncement of the reappointment was choored all along the route,

were concerned the book-maker in Innocent." President Roosevelt London, Nov. 12.

A roport from Tokyo states that General Yu Hsueh-chung, Gov- a cortainty, and the rake off in replied: "I feel sure that because of General Douglas MacArthur, and as he went aboard the cruiser

of Hopol Province, a dispute as to the proper way, in fernor The

Prime Minister,

Menough to land the chief aponzora no my el pe test in whose term expires on November the send-off reached the silmax of

its enthusiasm. · Ramsay MacDonald, whose at of the pools in the House of nocent there must be some reason 20.

which compensation payment of concerning financial and adminis tention has been called to current | Lords,

ILM.S. Sussex, Railed for Yeni 30,000,000 should be made by trativo problema in North Chine. if they have social for believing in his innocence.” press statements published in the ambitions,

Several high army commande Tasraania almost immediately, and Manchukuo to ftusala, has arison. It is learned that one of the Since then agitation has con- United States with regard to the Ono speaker calculated

that tinued

Washington are due for a change, but no after a vialt there will return to The money is compensation for decisions taken is that the Central and the London naval conversations, hus 15,000,000 people contributed £260- Supreme Court's ruling is

the transfers are possible until the New South Wales where the Prince those Soviet employees of the authorised the following state-000 every week to ment: "I would like to have it which amounted to £9,000,000 in a year fight for freedom United entity is settled.

these pools, latest chapter of Mooney's, ton question of the Chief of Staff's will make the closer acquaintance C.E.R.. likely to be discharged after Government will tako full respon the transfer of the Railway. The ability in financing the construc thoroughly understood that the season. Of this huge sum the Press,

friction is developing in the course in North China.

tion programme to be carried out American representatives have promoters of the pools pucketed

of the negotiations between M. been kept luformed of what passed nearly one third for expenses and

Yureneif, the Soviet Ambassador, NO CUSTOMS Hirota, Japanese Foreign with Madame Chiang Kai-shek between the Japanese represent-profits. Reuter Special. atives and ourselves during these conversations, just as the Japan- ese have been similarly informed of what has panned between the Amorleans and ourselves. There la no truth in the story that there la intense secret activity between the British and Japanese on the economic and political fronts.

"As regards the Manchukuo. and Federation of British Industrias unfavourable, weather prevailing Mr. Henry Stimson, former Scare A spokesman of the Finance

SHANGHAI-BOUND

PLANE DELAYED

offer of concessions, So far the Governments are concerned, negotiations regarding the textile

Shanghai, Nov. 13. siluation have been in abeyance According to a wireless report for some months. For industrial and commercial

the from Wonchow, a Shanghai-bound de-passenger plane from Canton was putation recently in Japan the delayed there last evening due to

of that State-Reuter Special.

.

The Secretary for War, Mr. George H. Dern, has recommended the reappointment of General Mac-| Arthur, but the Postmaster Generni, Mr. James A. Farley, ie STATION IN H.K.

reported to have been urging the consideration of others for the post, including. Major-General' Dennis E. Nolan, Major-General Hugh A. Drum, and Major-General Malin Craig..

It

reported, furthermore, that

NANKING DENIES REPORT

Nanking, Nov. 13..

Minister,

The Finance Minister together

will leave for the South: to- morrow, via Nontain-Central

The Soviet demand that Yon 30, News, 000,000 bo paid in whole at once häs been turned down by the Japanes side, The discharged Soviet om- ployees will probably be paid. In fiduciary bonds Central Newe

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IN WIRELESS TOUCH,

The following ships are expected. to... be in wireless communication

Japancio oll situations, which in solely responsible, and its mem-around Hangchow Bay. She will tary of State, recently recommend-) Ministry dented to-day that the grams had been renaived: from With Hongkong: to-day Fongice, commercial bodies in Cantón, pro- Takada, "Malaya, Ginyo? Moru, have been fully discussed in the bors have thetnselvos stated that resume her fight to Shanghai ased to President Roosevelt the ap- Government contemplated esta tasting against the reported move; hunan; Hozan Mari, Asaka Márú. press, we have been asked, neither it kos no other

status soon as the weather Improves pointment of Major-General Frank blishment of a customs station at and that the fears of the South Taming, Nako Maru, Wiegand, secretly not otherwise, to consider British Wireless

Central Newar

R. McCoy,--United Press,

Hongkong Ho added that telewest were unfounded.--Reuter, Ramses, Hydrangeali