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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

TUNGCHOW

FULL DOMINION STATUS

PIRACY INQUIRY

CONSUL-GENERAL

TO ATTEND

SESSION IN SHANGHAI

Shanghai, Feb. 7. Immediately the B. & S. steamer Tungchow arrives here 'this morning, an inquiry into the recent piracy will be instituted aboard by the British Consul-General, Sir John

Brenan.

The Consul-General will work in collaboration with the British Naval authorition, International Settlement Police and representa- tives of the owners of the vessel. Tho Beventy school-chlidren aboard will take ship for Chefoo on Saturday.-Router.

The Tungchow, it will be re called, was brought to Hongkong after the piracy and the school- children entertained here Saturday. The ship loft for Shanghai the next day.

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The ly fatality In the piracy Was the Russian sergeant of guards who fought so gallantly pirates and was no against the ruthlessly alain.

JOYOUS REUNION

· Shanghai, Feb. 6. Joyful reunions marked the arrival, at 8.25 o'clock this morn Ing, of the pirated steamer Tung- chow. Parents and relatives, who had been singing hymna on the cold and wind-swep dock of the French bund, and stamping their feet to keep warm, surged aboard as soon as the gang-plank was mado fast. There were touching acenes on the deck of the little ship.

Meanwhile, French polles kept

·SAAR TRANSFER

ARRANGED

FRANCO-GERMAN AGREEMENT.

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BRITAIN ADHERES TO PROMISE

DIE-HARDS CHALLENGED ON INDIA REFORM

(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH”) (By Telegraph. Copyright Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, February 7, 8 ́am.j

London, Feb. 6.

The British Government still adheres to the pledge to India that Dominion status will be granted when the politically turbulent country is ready for it.

In the House of Commons to-day Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for India, caused a sensation when he spoke in the debate on the Second Reading of the India Bill.

He reiterated that the Government adhered strictly to the preamble of the India Bill of 1919, as well as the Viceroy's pledge to India that "full Dominion status" was the goal of the Government.

**Thli present Bill in step forward towards statust for India." Samuel.

The statement from the Minister in considered a direct challenge to the Conservative dic-hards who aro opposed to what they believe in a too radical change in the India Constitution. United Press.

ference.

ABANDON PLAN OF BARTER

U.S.-GERMAN DEAL FAILS

"DUMPING" OBSTACLE

Washington, Feb, 6. President Roosevelt announced to-lay that the proposed $30,- 000,000 cotton barter deal with Germany had been abandoned.

The President explained that Gormany had offered 25 per cent. cash and 75 per cent, goods in payment for the American cotton,

The scheme was dropped be

cause it was found that the pay- ment for colton in goods would be a violation of the United States' anti-dumping lawa.-Rexter.

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FEBRUARY

1935.

RADIO BROADCAST

Relay from the Helena May Institute

2.E.K. PROGRAMME From ZB.W. on a wavelength of 355 motres (845 kilocycles).

5-8 p.m. European Programme. G-5.30 p.m. A Reiny of the Dance Orchestra from the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden (by courtesy of the Management),

5.30-6 p.m. A Relay of the Ixt part of the Variety Concert arranged, by Mr. Fasken from the Helena May Institute (by courtesy of the Com mittee).

6-6.30 p.m. Children's Stadio Con- cert.

6.30-7 p.m. A Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Hongkong Hotel

·Roof Garden (by courtesy of the Management).

7 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.

7.08-7.20 p.m.

Pianoforte

pessimistic view of the financial Recital by Wilhelm Backhaus, basis of the scheme.

.

The main problem in connection with the separation of Bruma would be that of her new economic relations.

Referring to the Instruments of

Instruction to the Governor Gen-

eral and Governors, he said it was

circulate proposed to

draft in

WAS

1. Revolutionary Study, Op. 10, No. 12. Study In F. Major (Chopin).

2. Prelude and Study in C. Major. Chromatic Study in A Minor (Chopin).

3. Military March

(Schubert).

in, E. Mat

4. Telana ("Iberla”) (Albeniz). 7.20-7.47 p.m.

Rand Selections from The Yeomen of the Guard. Gilbert and Sullivan. The Gondollers,

7.47-8 p.m. Vocal Numbers. The Little Dutch M

Derickson and Brown. Near and yet so for

Evelyn Layo (Soprano), Goe, Oh Gosh, I'm Grateful What a little Moonlight can do

Sam Browne and Girl Friend.

Layton and. Johnstanc. Report.

B p.m. Local Time and Weather 8.03-10.30

Studio p.m. Chinese Concert,

9.30 p.m.

Reuter Press Bulletins, London, 1 p.m. Stock and Commodity Quotations.

The 1919 "preamble" referred¡ purpose of interpreting, the constructions in the form of a White to was contained in a Bill intro-stitution. In regard to the two Paper when the Committee stnge duced in that year, based on the other Federal organs proposed, as was reached. Parliamentary sunc- recommendations of the Montagua result of long expert investigation of both Houses

would be Chelmsford Report.

tion he thought the division of sought for their issue. great opinion would be not whether

Nothing had occurred to niter his Dominion there should be a Reserve Bank or view that the majority of Indians said

Sir Railway Board, but on the pro- would work the Bill and that posnis in the Bill to ensure that British Indian relations would, as these two Institutions, In order to

П result, Improve. He fulfil their purpose, be kept as genuinely sorry to read that the independently as possible from Indian Assembly debate on the political management and inter-supplementary trade agreement

showed that no

many

Indians should seem to misunderstand the Government's motives. Ho at- tnched full importance to the criticisms, but he asked the House to note that the main critica were members of the Congress Party, who had always declared they would DALY accept proposals emerging from an

Indian Con. stituent Assembly. In the pro- 8.30-10 p.m. European Recorded hand, there had been very reason-of 640 kes., vineinl Councila, on the other Music from 2.EX. on a frequency able discussions among the

8.30.9 p.m. Orchestral Pro- men upon whom so much of the

very gramme.

The Ave Maria (Meditation) Bach- work

of the future federation would depend.

FOUR-DAY DEBATE

London, Fob. 6.

A four days' debate on the Government of India bill began in the House of Commons before a very large House and crowded public galleries.

onces.

that defence and foreign affairs must be reserved departments.

THE REAL DANGER

10.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Mid-day Press News, Further London Stock and Commodity Quota. tons.

10.35 p.m. Close Down.

Z.E.K. Programme

Gounod). Le Prince Igor, March (Borodin). Symphony Antar-Third Movement

(Rimaky-Korsakov). Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 (Liszt). Woodland Interlude, (Op. 35) (Elgar). Prem Children,

(Elgar 9-9.30

SERIOUS CONTROVERSY In the provisions for provincial autonomy he anticipated the the dock well guarded, not allow

serious issue of controversy would ing the Chinese crew to leave nor

be whether law and order should unauthorised persons to enter.

be transferred to the Provincial Representatives of the China

Minister, but political autonomy Inland Mission found Captain

on any other basis was The Secretary for India, Sirtradiction in terms.

a con- Smart, master of the vessel, in Samuel Hoare, moving the second his cabin, woarled for want of reading, described the main feathe special responsibility of the The proposals connected with sleep, and thanked him for hiatures of the BIU. The Federal Governor General and Governors gallant conduct.-Router.

Government to be set up under the were also likely to cause differ Bill was bound to be more compli-

Almost everyone agreed ested than

Government, a unitary and the case of India the sent plications were greatly increased, as

As for the Princes, they had As to the question of commercial in no way recolled from the 'posl the proposed Federation included

discrimination, the majority of the tion assumed four years ago, unite so different as he provinces of Committee held it necessary that claiming merely that they must British India and the Indian States, the wording should be precise, and see the proposals before giving

Op. 43, No. 2 In the case of the Princes, they were the Bill provided, firstly, recipro- final assent or dissent. dealing with voluntary agents who

p.m. Musical Comedy were not British subjects, and the city of treatment for British and

Gems and, secondly, complication of the Executive and Indian traders,

Dear Little Cafo "Bitter Sweet". Legislature, the relations between Power of intervention in cases The real danger in the India

Peggy Wood and (Special to "Telegraph")

were Indian tariffa

boing was not Congress or Commissions

George Metaxa. misgovernment, but used for political and not for fiscal or

irres-Out of the Bottle-Selection. City Telegraph. Copyright: Tadprophin Men

purposes. Forty clausea of the ponsibility. As long as the-In-Tell-Her- the Truth-Selection.- store Ordinance, 2891. Beceived, February

Bill were devoted to these services. dian Legislatures had little or no Sunny Side Up-Vocal Gems. Basle, Feb. 6,

The main issue would probably responsibility, so long would they The Love Parade Vocal Gems, Franco-German experts have

be whether or not recruiting was he centres of agitation and nega-Daly's Theatre Waltz Memories. Taken together, these complica- to continue on the present lines. tive obstruction,

9.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, completed the agreement for the tions made a formidable list of The Committee very wisely took

London 1 p.m. Stock and Commodity Concluding, Sir Samuel Hoare economic settlement

of arrange difficulties, but probably ninety- the view that if the now Constitu- eald there WIB

Quotations. no need for a ments for the transfer of the Saar nine out of every hundred mem- tion was to have a fair chance of preamble to the Bill, as no new to German control.

The agreement schedules the tion as their objective, whether it was essential to refrain from tion was required.

bers regarded an All-India Federa- starting in favourable conditions, pronouncement of polley or inten-Minstrela (Debussy), Поч currency system which immediate or ultimate, and these disturbing the services upon whose switches from francs to marks as difculties were inherent in an co-operation they would be greatly n basis, as well as new customs All-India Federation, whether arrangements at the frontiers. came now or in twenty years time. depend in the difficult years These new regulations will be

transition. come effective on February 18,

The Saar mines, heretofore operated by France, will be hunded over to Germany on March

7. 4,10 mm.)

1,

The draft of the agreement has been forwarded to Baron Alots, chairman of the League Com mittee in charge of Saar transi tion, who le expected to sign at ance-United Press.

Rumours Now Spiked

MISLEADING TALES CONTRADICTED

REASSURING STATEMENT

Landon, Feb. 6. .-

the two Chambers, the list of Federal subjects, and indeed, almost all the proposals dealing with the Federation.

COMMON OBJECTIVE

were

It

of

DOMINION STATUS

The Government stood firmly by the pledge contained in the preamble to the 1919 Act and by the interpretation put by the Viceroy In 1929 on the authority of the Government of the day on that preamble "the natural issue of Indian progress, as there son- at templated, is the attainment of

Therefore, whether the Federa- tion should come into being in

FINANCE QUESTION the

samo Bill na autonomy

provincial The question of finance was waa 1 question of fundamental to the whole scheme. method, not of principle. So was The actual cost of the new Federal the question whether the kind of machinery was estimated federal machinery proposed was £500,000 annually, and the new Dominion Status." the best in the circumstances. On provincial machinery a similar

Rightly understood the 1919

the purpose of the British people,

the latter point, the Committee amount. The rest of the burden preamble, which would stand un- had weighed the arguments and thrown on the Federal Budget, repealed, was a clear satement of concluded that an Indian election £4,000,000, was not new expendi was a wisor plan any other, being ture, but merely a transference of In the nature of an experiment. the burden to the centre. He did

In the Federal system there not think they need take muat bo a Federal Court for the (Continued on Next Columns„J

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

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and the present Bill was a definite

step, indeed, a great stride, to- wards the achievement of that purpose.

"It is clear we can only reach the end we have plainly set be- fore ourselves when India has succeeded in establishing the con-

TO LIVE 18 NOT TO LIVE FOR ONE'S A concert is being arranged by ditions upon which self-govern- OTHER-Menander SELF ALONE; LET US HELP ONE AN- Mrs. Bowes-Smith at the Cheero Club ment rests. Nor will this attain- on Tuesday, February 12, at 8.30 p.ment be delayed by any reluctance

The Italian Consul-General, Com. A.

on our part to recognise condi-

9.35-9,46 p.m. A Violin Recital by Maxter Yehudi Menuhin.

Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky-

Kore-akov). Danao

Falla Kreisler).

(De Espagnolo Campanella, Op.7 (Paganini).

8.46-10 p.m. The J. H. Squire Celeste Octet.

Putting the Clock Back (arr. Squire). My Sweetheart When a Boy (Morgen,

arr. Willoughby). Silver Threads Among

(Danks, arr. Willoughby). 10 p.m. Clone Down..

1

the

Gold

Still Shy Of Soviet

NO DIPLOMATIC INTIMACY

U.S. WITHDRAW EMBASSY

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FAR EAST MOTORS

Licut. F. R. M. Wirden by Mr. E. W. Empress of Canada from an inspec- problem India has to solve is her A fine of $3 was imposed upon Bianconi, returned yesterday by the tions when they actually exist.

"The first and most conspicuous Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magistracy tion tour in Manila. this morning, for allowing his dog brand in Chatham Rand on January

cleavages of race, caste and re- 18, without a muzzle. The dog had a pair of unfinished trousers worth $2 safely assume, in much

Convicted on a charge of stealing ligton. Again, until India can Inrger been inoculated against rabies.

Fun Kuen, 33, an unemployed tailor. degree, responsibility for her own The Chamber of Deputies, by a The next lecture of the Italian W. M., Thomson at the Central)

was fined $16, or three weeks, by Mr. effective defence, no Indian Gov-vote of 87 to 73, rejected the pro

posal for the resumption of In view of the wild rumours at culture centre will be held by the Magistracy this morning. The com- orament can be, in the full senso present circulating regarding the Association of Dante Alighieri on plainant was Lo Sam-ming, tailor, of of the word, autonomous.

diplomatic relations with the pepper market dificultles, an au- Thursday, February 14, at 5.80 p.m. No. 63 Wellington Street, with, whom

"Our policy, as will be seen in Soviet to-day United Press, thoritative statement was issued when the Rev. 0. D. R. Sargent, Hoad the defendant was living.

thia Bill and the instructions that

U.S. ACTION to-day, as follows:

Master of the Diocesan Boys' School,

will "The Committee of Trade is will give a talk on "Verdi" in the

I accompany it as to the manner Sontenco of two month hard in which Its provisions are, to bo

Washington, Feb. 0. still negotiating and investigating Jacobean Room of the Hongkong labour was passed by Mr. E. I applied, to do all, we

a result of the failure of we conị by steps which can be taken to help Hotel.

Wynne-Jones, at the Central sympathetle help and co-operation negotiations for the payment of the towards the carrying through of

Magistracy this morning, on to enable india to overcome these Soviet debt to America, the Ameri all commitments."

Chan Kui, unemployed, charged be- Yu Chu-ming, unemployed, who ad-iculties and ultimately take her can embassy staff at Moscow will. Some days ago the uneasiness in. fore Mr. B. 1. Wynne-forces at the mitted a charge of theft of three wil the pepper market was affecting Central Magistracy this morning, with of clothing and a long cost from No place among the fully self-govern be drastically reduced. The Con- shollac, and kindred commodities, the theft of a leather purse containing 93 Third Street, ground floor, the pro ing members of the British Comsulate at Moscow will be abolished.

If there

The Naval Attache, Mr. Nimmer, $2.00 from No. 23 First Street, property of Lam Bik, tailor. Sergeant monwealth of Nations. but the tension was cased when porty of Chan Ram, married woman, Kinnear said defendant was clans are still those who impugn our the Assistant Military Attache, it was announced that the heavy was sentenced to six weeks hard man of the complainant'e, and for the motives, who doubt our word, wo Mr. White, and others, will bo contracting firm had been backed labour. Sergeant Kinnear said de- past month had been living with the are ready to be judged by our withdrawn

from

Moncow, it is by additional capital and there fendant visited complainant on Febru- complainant, getting his food and do- actions, of which this Bill is the | learned. was no likelihood of a break Inary 4, and after he had left, the coming odd jobs. In the shop. On Febru visible algna Bill that holds the Both President Roosevelt and plainant missed the purso. Yesterday ary 6, complainant missed the defen balance fairly and honourably be Mr. Cordell Hall, Secretary of *. afternoon, the complainant's husband | dant and also the clothing. The same The statement Issued to-day, saw defendant, the Ko Bhing evening he saw dufondant in Yeumati, tween conflicting Interests and State, avoid any comment on the and here. quoted, was given to Theatre and taxed him about it? He and had him arrested (A pawn ticket competing parties, that comes in report from Moscow that America, Reuter with the comment that all said he had spent the money in gamble for the coat was found on him, and the the line of direct, succession to promised the Soviet a loan during: It le ro other reports were misleading and ing, and had thrown the purse into the rest of the clothing was recovered at great Imperial measures of the M. Látvinott's recent visit, to erroneous-Reuter.

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MAY DICTATE TERMS OF STABILISATION

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