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No. 14774..

DECEMBER 五拜禮號十二月二十英港香·FRIDAY,

20, 1935.

日五廿月一十

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MOTORISTS.

WHOSE MOTTO IS

Safety

First

ALWAYS FIT

DUNLOP

TYRES

BALDWIN POLICY VINDICATED

HOARE DEFENDS HIS ACTIONS

DESPERATE EFFORT TO AVERT WAR

PARIS FORMULA SIGNED WITHOUT AUTHORITY

London, Dec, 19.

Speaking before an apprehensive House of Commons, Sir Samuel Hoare, who yesterday resigned from his post as Foreign Minister as a result of his part in the framing of the Paris pence formula, defended his policy and his judgment. Later, the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, replied to the Labour motion of censure, which, was defeated by 397 to 165 votes.

"We have no fear whatever as a nation of any Italian threat," Sir Samuel commenced, stirringly enough. "If the Italians ever attacked us we should retaliate, and, judging from our history we should retaliate with full success."

But, he explained, what had worried him during his term of office and since the outbreak of the Italo-Ethiopian war, was the thought that an isolated struggle between Britain and Italy might wreck the League of Nations.

"A great body of opinion in France is interisely nervous ever the breach with Italy," he went on. Anything likely to weaken the French defence had that effect, though France loyally continued the sanctions policy. He had never allowed a day to pass without attempting to find a peaceful settlement, he said.

"We reached a turning point in both fields a fortnight ago, declared Sir Samuel. It seemed clear an oil embargo were imposed it would force the termination of hostilities, The Paris negotiations began in an atmo

in which the majority of the Aphere member states of the League appeared opposed to military action. No state

Britain had taken any military ecutions, but it was fell this did not justify proposing any postpone ment of the of embargo unless it could be shown that peace negotiations hud actually started, much as we din liked some features of the pence) scherne,"

He was thus unable to withhold his provisional consent, he said. He felt the issues were so serious that it was worth making an attempt and it was essential to inaintain Anglo-French Holidarity.

"It was in this spirit alone that we agreed to the suggestion. That alone was the explanation and justification of the Paris communique, declared Sir Samuel.

MORE DANGEROUS PHASE "We are now entering upon a much

HIGHLIGHTS OF SPEECH

i

London, Dec. 19. The highlights of Sir Samuel Hoare's speech in the House of Commons to-day were found on stirring defence of his actions the in formulating the Patis proposals, which won him cheers. the Italo-Ethioplan Continued, he said, the War WAH altuation grew more dangerous. There had been evil reactions in China, Egypt and

Europe. He pointed out that the League Heemed to be preparing an oil embargo to which Italy had hint

it would reply ed

with

a war in Europe. Hence, he sponsored the Anglo-French proposals and was convinced of the correctness of his course. Since he did not receive national support, he had resigned.—United Prean.

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OROKÉRATO giving away half the Ethiopian em- pire in exchange for a corridor for Jcamels,

To give immense coniceasions to a wrongdoer at the expense of the not British justice, he Was

Even

of

more dangerous phase; but except maintained. for Britain, who has a fleet in the Mediterranean and reinforcements in Egypt, Malta and Aden, not a whip, ment's

if there was imminent danger: war, it did not justify the Gover

Government ent's decision. The

or machine or man has been moved should have said that the League had by any other member state.

failed and withdrawn its sanctions.

conquer.

"The peace proposals involved in- instead of suggesting that the aggres- ternational supervision and territorial sor should be rewarded with more exchanges and

for than he had managed to opportunities Italian economic expansion which That was completely betraying the Signor Mussolini refused before the Ethiopian people.

he said. accepted in principle Sclassic had

war, but the

lo denied there was any restriction with regard

to the Assal corridor railway. He building of a

and the

of

to

of Ethiopia might be destroyed.

PAINFUL CRITICISM

be

of

tu

most keenly on the grounds of per- sonul regard and affection.

READY TO BACK OIL SANCTIONS

LEAGUE. MUST BE PREPARED

ATTACK MIGHT BE SUDDEN

London, Dec. 10.

Grent Britain in ready to back an all embargo against Italy if the League approves it, but its defence must be collective, declared Mr. Neville Chamberlain in his reply the Labour attack in the House of Campions to-day. They must be pre- pared for n sudden ant unexpected attack by Italy, he warned,

Mr. Jiugh Dollon, one of the Op- position's "ble guns," wound up the foreign policy debate for Labour, and naked Mr. Chamberlain, who later was to reply for the Government, whether he was able to announce the name of the new Foreign Secretary,

Mr. Chamberlain shook his head. decisively.

Mr. Dalton asked if the Government intended to continue with the oll sanctions.

He described Mr. Stanley Baldwin's' speech as very unconvincing and said the Labourites intended to press their motion of censure.

Mr. Chamberlain, replying, said that a tragedy had deprived the Govern- ment of Sir Samuel Hearo's services.

The only consolation was that Sir Samuel, would have an opportunity of restoring his broken health.

Mr. Chamberlain hoped that at ng long distance of time, Sir Samuel would resume his political career. (There were loud ministerial cheers at this).

The Government, he went on, took the responsibility for what it had donej and for what it now believed was a mistake.

IN CASE OF ATTACK

Replying to the question n to whether all powers had been consulted with regard to their attitudes if Bri- tain were attacked by Italy, he said if

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MONGOLS KILLED BY JAPANESE

Outpost Attacked By Machine-Gunners

Moscow, Dec. 19. One Mongolian officer and two soldiers are stated to have been killed in clash with a Japanese mili- tary force on the Mongoliari frontier, according to 2 report from Ulanbator.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, whose defence of the Govern ment's policy sons yesterday vindicated when the House of Common rejected the Labour motion of censure.

STUDENTS

PARADE IN

PROGRESS AT NAVAL

SHANGHAI CONFERENCE

PROTEST AGAINST MR. NORMAN DAVIS AUTONOMY MOVE

OPTIMISTIC

NO DANGEROUS FACE COMPLEX

INCIDENTS

consequent riots,

PROBLEMS

Shanghai, Dec. 20,

London, Dec. 19. Over 6,000 students of Shanghai, universities to-day paraded to

A hopeful view of the Naval Con- theference prospects was taken by Mr. Civic Centre to present a petition for Norman Davis, American delegate, the release of the students arrested in the Juring the Peiping parades and the Pilgrims Society dinner in London course of a speech at the this evening. They demanded, too, the suppress- on of the Northern Autonomiste, period of our deliberations, we had Mr. Davis said, "During the firet Mayor Wu Tel-eisen, addressed the all come to appreciate student body, and sympathetically determination and the value of air- the practical promised to take-up with the Govern cero-collaboration that had "bden ment the matters the studenta pressed. evident in our negotiations.

The students dispersed peacefully While not under-estimating the

and without incident,--United Press,complexity

MARCHERS ARRESTED

Tientsin, Dec. 20. The last of the students who were

marching to Nanking have been arrested.

of the problem we ars attempting to solve,” said Mr. Davis, "we have been facing the fundament at inaues in friendly and frank way. "Despite difficulties, and despite

MUSSOLINI NOT BLUFFING

BUT BRITAIN URGED TO BACK SANCTIONS

DESPITE SERIOUS RISK OF WAR WITH ITALY

London, Dec. 19, Pecresses mustered in strength in their special gallery in the House of Lords to-day to listen to the foreign affairs debate which proceeded concurrently with that in the House of Commons.

The discussion was initiated by the former Liberal M.P., Lord Davies, who invited the House to register inacceptability of the peace proposals and not to assent to any settlement inconsistent with the principles of equity and fair dealing and with Britain's League obligations.

Lord Davies urged the Government to resume the policy outlined by Sir Samuel Hoare at. Geneva in Soptember. He declared that public opinion in Europe, America and the Dominions was profoundly shocked by the proposals, which would have left an indelible atain on Britain's honour and reputation. He added that the Government had stemmed the rising tide of American co-operation with the League..

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Lord Halifax, for the Government, said it was not the task of the Lengue to stop the war in Africa by starting one Europe, the extension of which it was humanly impossible to foresee,

SILVER TENSION RELAXES

BETTER SENTIMENT

IN MARKET

FORWARD

the fact that we have not yet found OFFERS TO BUY a solution of the question at issue, Public Safety Bureau men rounded progress has been made; so when we up the last fifty, herded them aboard reassemble in the New Year we motor trucks and brought them back are most hopeful that we may be able: to Tientsin at 8.a., to-day-United]

A fair and to rench

constructive Prean

agreement."—Renter.

London, Dec, 19, The Naval Conference has agreed to go into recess on Saturday" and to re-convene on January 0.---United Pren.

DEFENDING AMERICAN

It is stated that Japanese NEUTRALITY

troops in

motor lorries,

to

armed with machine-guns, arrived at a Mongolian frontier

the outpost south-west of Lake Burnor and fired on. Mongolian troops, who retreated under orders, to avoid provocation, but the Japanese continued to fire. The Assistant Com- mander of the outpost and two soldiers were killed.- Rinter

not of the other members of

MUST AVOID RISK OF SANCTIONS

PRESIDENT'S DISCRETION

Washington, Dec. 19. New neutrality legislation was in- perative, and should be discretionary. rather than mandatory, declared Mr. McReynolds, Chairman of the fuse of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, speaking to the Press to-

Peace Plan Abandoned

Lord Halifax disclosel that when Sir Samuel Hoare left for Paris on route to Switzerland he was'not 'In- structed to discuss peace or concilia- tion terms with M. Laval, but other kindred matters. He was in- voluntarily drawn into the discussion. The Government

ament found it had to tako decision, when the terms reached them, in the vi a

a dilemma, as they had already been

д

ed in the French Pretty fully publish... when the Government road the terms. "I make no secret of the fact that

they did not like them," said Lord Halifax. He pointed out the difficulty of condemning a trusted colleague in his abaenco. Ho fully admitted that the Government made a mistake, not appreciating what the public opinion of the terms would be. He thought ¡the greatest serviço Sir Samuel Hoare had rendered by his resignation may have bean to strengthen afresh

recent

London, Doc. 10. As a result of recent dificulties, Britain's moral leadership before the London brokers have decided that the world! which it attained, in ailver market shall be closed on months. Saturdays until further notice,

ARCHBISHOP'S VIEW' Silver market tension in London

to have

relaxed somewhat to-

The Archbishop of Canterbury: ex- appears day, mainly owing to the fact that pressed concern at the Government's America purchased som

some four

million

connection with "these rost ounces in the Bombay market, of unhappy Paris proposals." He hoped gent. hand previous the sanctions policy would continuo

which

Dr.

some 25 per ly been offered in

action in

strain was consen ondon, where the and that the Government would refuse

The

reports.

not be-

reljoved. Offerings in London to-day were to subscribe to any settlement which estimated to be in the region of sixteen peared, even in semblance, to con-

done the acts of an aggressor. and a half million ounces, of which

speech was made by absorbed America

six

per cent.

Lord Lothian, who said

he did better sentiment prevalling Heve that Mussolini was bluffing. He apoculators WIS reflected in had never bluffed yet, but he would among

that tentative

offers to

buy prefer to go down fighting France and silver for January delivery at 20d. were forthcoming, while the execution and perhaps ourselves of most pressing selling offers First policy of

of last September; we em cannot retrieve our position emanating from particularly STUDYbarrassed quarters resulted in a League or nationally unless we are definite tendency by sellers to place ready to support any sanctions which will make Mussolini cepse hostilities: limits to their orders-Reuter.

LEAGUE COUNCIL'S FINAL BLOW

FURTHER

OF SANCTIONS

alone.

back to the Safety

in

the

-MUST-GO-FORWARD

participate in the League sanctions meeting this evening: first, thanks He added that he had bought sliver course is to

at least as part of the for the Anglo-French efforts to find a every day this week. programme,

Lord

PRINCE OF WALES LISTENS

Above, the galleries were crowded, and there was an enger straining of hud approved the telegram asking cars there and on the flour of the

Ethiopia,

House, when Mr. Stanley Baldwin, u favour-

little pale, a little grim, rose to rejly. abiyer the peace plan because

The

"S. STILL BUTS- he was terrified that Ethiopin would The Prince of Wales was winong be led to think that the League could spectators of this eventful debate.

"I am driven to the conclusion," Mr. Baldwin spoke with emotion.

(Special to "Telagraph”)

Washington, Dec. 19, do much moro; for that

me terrible.

First he paid a

Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary said Lord Lothian, "that despite the tribute leading to the

Sir there was any danger of an attack it

reiterated ¦ risks' of war, in the Mediterranean.or that

of the Treasury, to-day Geneva, Dec. 19,- on must be in the Mediterranean. The disillusionment when the independence Samuel Hoare. He added

2 buying the gravest developments in Central this ono occasion he was still can important thing to know, therefore,

There are three clauses in a resolu- that the Treasury was McReynolds expressed opin- "It was essential that if collective wines that what he was doing was was the attitude of the Mediterranean Athey nonite plates ought not tion passed by the League Council silver, but he refused to any where. Europe and the Far East, the right

go forward." of the League. powers,

Viscount Ceell, in the course of a defence he real, we should go beyond within the framewo "He has done s01 the period of general protestations

something for which the League who might be remote from to

solution for the Italo-Ethioplan dia- "There are many places-you would speech, shared Lord Ponsonby's doubt and have actual proof by action by the has been condemned, and his ser- the scene of aution.

vices are lost," and the Prime Minis Ha unid the Government had asked Lengua." states of the League," he declared.

ter. The loss of his services at the for the other powers' attitude, but the cotton should be labelled implemente on the proposals which wore

With regard to whether oil and nute; second, a declaration of the be surprised," said Mr. Morgenthau. that Sir Samuel Hoare was authdenly an He declined to say whether the confronted with the proposals in Paris: Council's inability to express

wure from private: If so, he asked, what had all the talks Present time was not only grave to altitude of France was far the most of war, that should be, nt tho. Pre-provisional; third, leaving to the Com-Individuals or Governments. He also in Paris previously been about T

Government, one they important.

sident's discretion.

Stanhope, winding up the l Bleanwhile, the United States Highmittee of Thiricon the task of examin-saw no particular significance in New Commissioner in the Philippines, Mr findings on the principles of the

ing the whole situation, hasing its York fixing the price in the absence debate, said it was true that British of London bids, declaring that there and french experts had been dis- Frank Murphy, has cabled to the State

ALS: Covenant.

was nothing else for New York to do, cussing peace torms for weeks, but Department asking the United States The resolution was certain of inasmuch as there was no market in there seemed no possibility of an fiovernment's attitude towards he adoption from the first, but there was London,

There appeared ample the only course possible in the cir- Samuel went to Paris to consult with Mr. Chamberlain declared that if shipment of chrome are from the long discussion at a secret meeting Mr. Mergenthau revealed that the time for the British Cabinet to discuss Philippines to Italy. The question cumstances. When he realised that! M. Pierro Laval, the French Prime the League decided on the applica has been raised by a company having over a point or two, and it was de- United States Government took all matters after Sir Samuel Hoare, and had not the general approval of Minister, there has been an absence' tion of ofl sanctions, and if the Gov-reenived a large order from Italy-sence of reples from the two parties," in the past year, the total being about would have been well but for the the words "in the nb-Mexico's output of newly-mined silver the experts returned to London. All tendured his of Inison during Sunday, and they ernment were satisiled that all mem

were unaware until they heard it was her nations, or in event those

it was held that the Council in 72,000,000 ounces, at Now York prices. leakage in the French Press, which because

.could

made A llu concluded amid cheering that accomplished that an agreement had who mattered, were prepared to par-

proceed further with Router.

Government decision neces been reached.

tleinate in meeting an attack which for collective security by collective the proposals.

Lord Davies' motion was agreed. He had received a letter from Sir might be sudilon and unexpected, action.

The Russian representativa definito.

SPECULATORS' LOSSES

without a division-cuter. Samuel on Monday morning urging then Britain, too, was prepared to "It must be realised that the ulti-ly stated that his Government would the Cabinet to endorse what had been play her part and would agree to the mato sanction behind the League must not vote for the proposals, as they

London, Dec. 19. Moving the Labour vote of censure, done and before the Cabinet, bad had imposition of all sanctions.

always be force, and unless the mem- conflicted with the League Covenant. Brokers hore kay that to-day only Major Clement Attico expressed time to study the document, a In concluded that the attitude of bers of the League are prepared to The Committee of Eighteen has in-per cont, of the offerings were sympathy with Sir Samuel Hoare and leakage had occurred. They had to the Government to the Longue had not equip themselves so as to be able to structed its experts to continue. Its bought. Speculators losses on paper added that if it were right for Sir consider whether to endorse the action changed in any way, but that they meet any threat by an aggressor and work on the operation of this existing are so for estimated at $6,000,000, Samuel to resign it was right for the of a colleague or repudiato him. must seize every opportunity

It is rumoured that the United to nro prepared to use that equipment it sanctions. Government to resign.

None of them liked the proposals, negotiato en acceptable peace. But necessary, they cannot expect completo

Both the meetings were very briof States have been purchasing 1.500,000! "Ho" described" the porce terms as (Continued on Page 7.)--- failing that, they must stand as before (success,” he concluded.--Reiter, Router Special

(Continued on Pago 7.)

Ho was painfully aware, said; Sir Samuel, that a great body of opinion was intensely critical of the COUTRO he hud adopted. But he could not honestly recant. He sincerely be lieved that the course he took was

ho

his

countrymon, he resignation.

insted for a full two minutes.

VOTE OF CENSURE

AGREEMENT A SURPRISE

Mr. Baldwin said that when Sir

He contradicted the suggestion that they ind not received affirmative as yurancea from some powers.

PREPARED FOR EMBARGO

those Beuter..

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agreement.

sory.

NEW CARDINALS

Rome, Doe, 19. At a brilliant ceremony to-day, His foliness the Pope placed red hats on sixteen new cardinals United Press.