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FOUNDED 1861 四拜禮 號三十月二十英港香

No. 14449

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1934.

日七初月一十

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ROOSEVELT TO STOP PROFITS OF ARMS TRADE

GOVERNMENTAL CONTROL INDIA REFORM AUDIENCE FALLS

SCHEME INDICATED

NATIONAL WAR

MACHINERY

DISCREPANCY IN PAY OF TROOPS AND WORKERS

PROBLEMS FOR NEW YEAR'S SESSION

(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")

(Bu Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Reclived, Dee. 13, 8.10 m.).

Washington, Dec. 12.

President Roosevelt to-day called a conference of

President Roosevelt, who has inap- ped out a plan for dealing with muni- tions profits.

Government chiefs and legislators to consider a legisla. GRANT FOR

tive programme designed to take the profit out of manufacturing arms and munitions.

It is considered that this programme will be one of the most important to be presented at the forthcoming. session of Congress.

To the Press, the President said just before the conference:

"The time has come to take the profit out of war." And he added that the Senate Committee of Inquiry, under Senator Nye, had made the nation conscious of the subject.

"I believe the time is opportune for each legislation in view of the fact that no war clouds are on the horizon at present," said Presi dent Roosevelt.

SLANDER

He indicated, too, that the dis- ACTION

cussion of the new programme. would cover a wide range, not", merely with respect to profits of the arms trade but with respect to the whole economic question In which these firms were involved.

DISMISSED

COTTON INDUSTRY?

DISCUSSIONS IN LONDON

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SCRAPPING SPINDLES

(Special to "Telegraph")

fly "Tileprapa" "Copyright; "Telegraphie Mere mpri Delisunce, R. Brerored, December

PROGRESS

LABOUR'S

STUBBORN

STRUGGLE

AMENDMENT DEFEATED

BALDWIN FIRM IN BELIEF

London, Dec. 12. The Labour Amendment, urg: ing the India Bill should be based upon the report of the Labour members of the Select Committee on India Affairs, in order to pro-

JUBILEE STAMPS

Special Issue Announced

(Special to "Telegrapli")

(Hy Telegraph. Copyright, Tvirgraphic Me sagen ÖrdinAMOR, LEPI, Kanelwed, December

13.

Am.)

London.. Dec. 12. Sir Kingsley Wood, Post- master-General, announced in the House of Commons to-day that a special series of postage stamps would be issued to commemorate His Majesty's Silver Jubilee,~~- Reuter Special,

Herman

vide eventual Dominion status AMERICAN

for India, was defeated by 491 to

49 votes in the House of Com-

mon to-day.

The Government's motion

DEMAND

carried by 410 to 127 votes. The TO CHINA

minority in this later división consisted of Labourites and the

Conservative opponents of the re-

port, who numbered 75, and was considerably greater than Ex- pected.

MISSIONARIES CARRIED OFF

(Special to "Telegraph")

The closing stages of the mo- mentous debate were heard by a packed House. All the galleries were filled with enger visitora and

tity Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphio Afes- every seat in the House Wasangan. Ordinance, 1994. Hoerived, Desember | taken.

13. d.m.)

The highest standard of debate was maintained throughout. Brli-

Washington, Dec. 12. State Department has

THROUGH FLOOR

THREE HUNDRED HURT IN LIVERPOOL

FIREMEN CUT WAY TO PILED INJURED

(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH")

(By Telegraph. Comright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, Dec. 19, 8.30 a.m.).

Liverpool, Dec. 12.

Three hundred persons were injured, many of them seriously, in one of the most amazing accidents in Eng- land's history when the entire audience in a concert hall dropped through the floor last night:

There were five hundred persons present for the concert at the Exhibition School Hall. They were applauding one of the first numbers when there came a splintering, rending sound. Accompanied by a shriek that stopped people in the street blocks away, the middle of the concert hall floor suddenly dropped. Five hundred men, women and children and an equal number of chairs were thrown into a struggling, screaming mass, forty feet down, upon the floor below.

Monarch

linn: speeches were delivered by structed Mr. W. U. Park, American Meets Siam

Sir John Simon and Slr Austen Consul at Nanking, to

make

the

Chamberlain for the Government. vigorous representationa Emissaries

and Mr. Winston Churchill against National Government as well as the Government, while the Labour to the Anhwel authorities, to spokesmen, Mr. Cocks and Mr. obinin the release of the Ameri-- Lansbury made statesmanilke enn missionaries, Mr. J. C. Stan, speeches,

his wife and Infant child, cap- tured by Communists on December; 10...

BALDWIN SUMS UP

Mr. Baldwin wound up for the family when they raided the The Communists carried of the Government, declaring that the London, Dec. 12. Mr. Walter Haneiman. Presi- dont of the Board of Trude, 10- day received a deputation, in- cluding representatives of the of Master Cotton Spinners Assorations, to discuss a Government subsidy to the rot. ton industry,

They would keep in mind the les CHEUNG CHAU GIRL'S Federation

sons taught by the World War, he Baid.

•

WAGE DISCREPANCY

The Government would consider

CLAIM FAILS

the personnel phase of the arma- CHARACTER NOT

ments business and the result of

workers

the unequal mobilisation of in- dustrial which had contributed to the pre-|

and troups,

DEFAMED

It is understand that the matter of a Government grant, instend

tion.

subsidy, was under considera-

STOP PRESS

Government had received assur-China Inland Mission at Tsingteh. ances from the Government of Anhwel-Renter. India and the provincial govern- ments that the Select Committee's

workable report was

and that there would be people to work it. Ife concluded by commending the Government motion with all sin- cerity and with full conscious- ness of the risks entailed and of the gravity of the decision.

MAY RECONSIDER ABDICATION

DISCUSSIONS

IN SURREY

(Special 10 "Telegraph")

23, 8.54 m.)

Those underneath were in danger

of suffocation and every effort was made to free them as quickly as

nasible.

A fire alarm WILS turned in, though there was no fire, fortunato- ly. Firemen were useful, however; Inasmuch as they were able to cut a way into the pile of Injured and thus expedite the work of rescue.

CARS COMMANDEERED Motors cars, street cars, vans, | anything which could carry the in-

jured, were commandeered and des- patched with the 300 victims to iwar-by-hospitals.—

It is admitted that the fact that no-one was killed is miraculous. For. besides falling forty feet to the floor below, those in the middle of the room had a pile of several tons of humanity on top of them. Yet not one case of suffocation is

My Trieuresh, Copyright. Telegraphic reported. Most of the Injuries are amper Ordinonen, 1984. Received, Pesember | broken legs and arms, bruises and strains. There are a few shock London, Dec. 12.

cases, none of which are very seri- No conclusion was reach-us-Reuter Special. It is reported from London that led at the first interview be-

Washington, Dec. 12.

not

on

sur-

MANY CHILDREN HURT

Liverpool, Dec. 12. "I believe it is the right thing the naval talks will end

This mesange was tween the King of Siam and It is now learned that 180 ure As for the Cost of scrapping to do, and there is nothing more December 15. 10.000.000 spindles, and thus give but to go forward with courage received by the State Department

the collapse of the delegation from Bang-actually in hospital following the floor during 4 the remainder of the mills a ren-

and to weld the Report into the to-day, Ocials are best instrument for the well-prised. The final outcome of the kok, when the spokesmen of school concert last night, many of them being children. Three of being of India that we can talks is awaited before the decl-

sion is taken to accelerate the the Siamese Government the Injured are in a dangerous The Government majority of American building programme, it met their monarch at his condition.---Reuter, 412 against the Labour Amend-) indicated. Mr. Swanson, Secre- ment is the biggest majority in tary of the Navy, says there are comfortable new residence

sent honus aituation in the United The honour of both parties to ble hope of profitable opera States. Veterans of the War re- the Cheung Chau slander action tion, it is estimated that such a membered, he said, that they were was vindicated in the judgment move would cost £2,000,000.-Ren-devise," paid a dollar a day for fighting given

ter Special. on the issue when the in the trenches while munition Puisne

Mr. Justice Jacks,

ing, dismissed the claim of Liu

factory werkers got sight or ten at the Supreme Court this morn: SILVER TRADING

or more dollars a day.

President Roosevelt emphasised Kwan, 18-year-old Chinese girl,

that it was not danger of interns for $1,000 damages from K PLAN EXAMINED tional strife which prompted his Yip, Village Elder, for alleged move to reform the arms indus-defamation of character.

try. The plan was to consider:

the broad problem of how the!

In his judgment, His Lordship

United States would run a war if said there was nothing to throw

it got into it.

NOTED ADVISERS

SURPRISE CAUSED

suspicion on the girl's chastity and

THE JUDGMENT

+

Mr. Justice Jacks said:-The plain-

the history of the present Farlin-enough ships on the next two in Cranleigh, Surrey to-day. KIDNAPPING

ment. The previous beat was in years' programme to bring the 1933, on R motion to Navy up to Treaty strength by the (Continued on Pago 7.)

end of 1939.--Ructer.

arch,

FRANCO-ITALIAN FRIENDSHIP PACT

TO COLLABORATE IN

AFRICA AND EUROPE

came

to

The delegates, who endeavour to persuade the King to withdraw his recent abdication, sak after the interview that His

received Majesty had

them cordially,

There will be further dis- cussions, they stute, and they believe they have reason to be more hopeful that the King may reconsider his decision. The people of Siam do not want their King to abdicate, the emissarles declare-Reuter Special.

BARGAIN DAY AT GENEVA

Paris, Dec. 12. "Complete settlement of outstanding questions be- tween France and Italy is imminent,' declared M Henry Berenger, President of the Senate Foreign CHINA Affairs Commission which is leaving Rome to-day after having conferred with Signor Mussolini with regard to

the forthcoming visit of M. Laval to Rome.

|

MEMBERSHIP

CHARGE

TWO PORTUGUESE REMANDED

NO EVIDENCE CALLED

The alleged kidnapping of a Portuguese boy had a sequel at the Kowloon Magistracy this afternoon when Frederick Bar- retto and Luiz Antonio da Rocha. were jointly charged.

Defendants were jointly charged. with decoying or enticing away Luiz Jose Ribeiro, a child under fourteen years of age, with intent to deprive Lulz Gonzalo Ribeiro, the father of such child, of the

LONDON AUTHORITIES the fact that she had carried her

INTERESTED claim to the end was probably due

London, Dec. 12. The conferees would include to the instigation of Leung Ping-

kwan, a wireless operator at the It is learned to-day that a sub- General MacArthur, Mr. Henry Cheung Chau Police Station, whose Committee, comprising one director Roosevelt, Mr. Joseph Eastman alleged philanderings had roused and three members of the Metal Professor George Peek, and Mr the Elders to petition for his Exchange, has been formed to Bernard Baruch.

removal.

study the question of silver bullion He believed, said the President,

Mr. M. K. Lo, of Messrs. Lo & dealings. No decision has been that they would be able to work out a programme. so that a special Lo, represented defondant, and Mr. reaehted, but it is understood the has found a message on the subject could be. A. da Silva, of Mesare, Remedios Bub-Committee

wharfinger who is prepared to delivered to Congress ently in the & Silva, appeared for plaintiff,

stare supplies of bullion, New Year-United Press.

One informant states that there In the course of his judgment, is a distinct possibility that dealings will bo Introduced in: February Washington, Dec. 12. President Roosevelt aprang ati in this action claims damages 1985, but the consensus of opinion surprise on the country to-day with to the extent of $1,000 from the seems to be that more thne will be an announcement that he had defendant for slander in respect of required for setting the details.

statements called a conference to map out a certain programme of legislation with alleged the defendant, who is one regard to war pronts. "I believe of the Elders of the Kalfongs of the time has come when legislation the Island of Cheung Chau, made should be onacted to take the proft falsely and maliciously on two Pressure has again decreased Occasions: Firstly, at a meeting of over North China and Manchuria, out of war," he declared.

President Roosevelt pointed to the Elders on March, 36 this but remains highest, and stationary Important maladjustments in the year; and Secondly, at the Ho Tai over the Lower Yangtse. Local fore

Restaurant on April post-war period, including, he said, Sun

3 cast: N.E. winils, moderate; fair. enormous per lust, which have injured her reputa aver-production,

of. M. Laval's visit to Rome has The opinion is expressed here Passengers who arrived to-day by not yet been fixed, but it will that Italy's concillatory attitude at Bonal profits, and complete lack of tion and credit. co-ordination of the economic

ELDER'S DEFENCE

the P. and O. Heer Ranchi from Home probably be early in the New Year, Genova has created a more pro-maining arroare, so that they will Chaksang, Oldenburg, Feng 160, Included Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Butlin, if not cariler.

pitious atmosphere for a Franco- system."

be repayable evor a period of 80 Anhul, Taiyuan, President Glove Mr. and Mrs. D. L. King, Mr. and In reply, the defondant said that Mrs. S. Jarvis, Mr. and Mrs. A. M.

3. Laval prefers not to embark Italian Entente than at any time years Instead of 14.

land, General Løn, Proșident Cirant;. One unit is approximately 10, Michigan, Dante Verde. Hanpur statement made by him on McBride, Mr. W. 3. Waddington, and on a tete-a-tete with Il-Duce until since the advent of Fascism

000 Swiss franca--United Press. President Jefferson, Malaesa Maru, (Continued on Page 4)

Mr. Allan Keith..

|assured that Italian policy in! Router:

He assorted that there was un-| equal mobilisation of human the

(Continued on Page 4):

which

Reuter

she

FAIR WEATHER

M. Berenger added that the settlement would be accompanied by a declaration friendship which would enable the two great Latin nations to collaborate in Europe and Africa.

It is learned in well-informed Europe will be brought in line quarters in Paris that the dato with that of France.

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possession of such child.

Barretto was also charged with forcibly detaining the child No. 29 Fook Wing Street.

at

No evidence was called, and on the application of the police the defendants wore formally romand ed seven days!

IN WIRELESS TOUCH

.

Genova. Dec, 12. The League of Nations Con tributions Committee had decided to reduce China's annual contribu

The following stenmore ara ox- tion from 40 to 42 units, and also pected to be in wirelvan com-

cancel

1981-1934 munidation with Hongkong today t arrears and

consolidate the Amalthus, Tatsuta Maru, Itvorott.

to

China's

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