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PUBLIC MEMORIAL.
Tribute to the Late Earl Haig.
COMMONS' RESOLUTION.
Labour Amendment For A Select Committee Defeated.
London, Yesterday.
NO PROGRESS.
Germany and Russian Trade.
UNFAIR METHODS.
Despite Big Credit Business Not Improved.
Berlin, Yesterday.
In the House of Commons, on In spite of the £15,000,000
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INDIAN RESERVE.
Bank Bill Again Discussed.
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New Delhi, Yesterday.
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the motion of Mr. Baldwin, a re-credit guaranteed by the German nerve Bank Bill Sir H. Blackett re- solution was passed in favour of Government with the object peated his previous warnings petitioning the King to direct of stimulating Russo-German against the Assembly trying to that a monument be erected to the trade, the expected improvement force unacceptable amendments public charge in memory of the therein did not materialise last on the Government and said that late Earl Haig with an inscrip- year. Numerous complaints have under no circumstances would the tion paying tribute to his illus. been made by Germans of unfair Government support a Bank trious career and devoted services. Russian business methods and whose directors were selected by A Labour amendment moved by violations of the Russo-German) the Legislature. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in favour commercial treaty. of the appointment of a Select Committee to consider the most fitting form of a national memor- ial to Earl Haig, in view of his known concern for the comfort and welfare of ex-Service men and their widows and depend- ants," was defeated by 220 votes to 103. Reuter.
Subsequently the amendment For the purpose of clearing up to delete the provision for the various points in dispute and giv-ciection of three directors by the ing a fresh impetus to German Legislature, one of whom would trade with Russia a Russian com- represent commerce and industry mercial delegation comprising the was defeated. President of the Russian State Later, however, a division, on Bank, Mr. Scheinmann, the Traffic Clause eight, providing for the Commissioner, Mr. Rudsutek and appointment of 'directorate three trade experts have arrived which Sir H. Blackett moved re- at Berlin to confer with repre-sulted in a tie of 43 votes, but sentatives of the German Govern- before the result was handed to STORMS IN JAPAN.ment and trade and industry. the President it was intimated
DAMAGE TO MANY SHIPS.
FISHERMEN KILLED.
Tokyo, Yesterday. Violent snowstorms in Northern Japan have caused a number of deaths, damage to shipping and general disruption of communica- tions,
The wreck include eight motor boats, which capsized off the Hok- kaldo coast. The bodies of 13 fishermen have been washed ashore and many others are believed to have been drowned.-Reuter.
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PREMIER'S REQUESTS TO COMMITTEE.
London, Yesterday.
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that Mr. Chaudbury, who had refused to vote in the lobby, had changed his mind and wished to vote against the clause.
The President allowed Mr. Chaudbury to vote. This turned the tables against the Govern- ment. Sir H. Blackett said the Government would now con- sider whether the House wanted been given for, say, $100 defendant the P. The House then ad- would retain it and make out a journed.-Reuter. forged debit note in the name of the shipping agents and present It: to his employers, this being for something like $400. He would get THE PRAYER BOOK. $400 from his employers, put a forged receipt on the forged bill, give this to his employers, tear up the genuine bill and pocket the $300 difference..
HOUSE OF LAITY VOTES APPROVAL.
London, Yesterday, The way in which this practise
The House of Laity by 196 was discovered, continued counsel, votes to 80 has generally approv- was that, after defendant bad gone ed the Prayer Book measure. and a new employee collected the Reuter. freight bills, the plaintiffs dis-
Emotional Debate.
The Prime Minister has asked covered that for some reason or Prior to the meeting of the the Committee of Civil Research. other the shipping agents, who House of Laity the three Houses consider the operation and were the same as before, were met at prayer when the Arch- on rubber exports and to consider than they appeared effects of the present restrictions charging about 75 per cent. lesa bishop of Canterbury announced whether the restrictions should be for a number of years. They then left unchanged, modified or remov- interviewed the shipping agents ed; also to submit recommenda- and discovered that for a number tions, regarding the policy to be of years the latter had only been adopted and the steps to give paid 25 per cent. of the amounts
effect thereto.
to have done it was estimated that under 700 churches practised the continuous reservation of the Sacrament.
The Bishop of Canterbury on Monday had intimated that the refusal of general approval by given to defendant by plaintiffs for one House would summarily bring The committee's proceedings and, payment of freights. The receipts the Prayer Book measure to an report will be confidential; in the plaintiff's had received from the de- end; hence the interest attaches menntime the existing scheme will fendant were then discovered to be to yesterday's emotional and un- remain unchanged pending the forged.
finished debate.
consideration of the report.-Router.
Committee's
A Warrant Issued.
The Laity, whose 352 members
A warrant was issued for the de-constitute the largest section of fendant's arrest in September last the Church Assembly, had a but he had fled the Colony and score of speakers, To-day, Lord ATLANTIC SERVICE, there had since been no trace of Selborne, presiding, said, amid cries of disshent, that the major-
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Proceedings, indicated counsel, ity of 30 English members in fa-arrested for a "murder" he himself had invented. had been taken under Foreign At-vour of the measure in the House tachment under which the de- of Commons division voiced the Washington, Yesterday. fendant's property could be sold opinion of the English people and Commander Burney's London and, and the proceeds paid into Court. the opinion English People would New York air service scheme was discussed by the Cabinet, who in- port of his contention that it was exorted the House to put the Counsel then quoted law in sup- prevail in the long run despite the Scots and Irish. Lord Selborne! structed Mr. Hoover to investigate, not always necessary to bring a : my to
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A Reuter telegram, dated Lon-i The manager of the plaintiff firm flon, January 12, stated: Comdr. went into the witness box, giving Burney, M.P., has sailed for New proof of the manner in which the York to discuss with American fin- firm had been defrauded.. anciers the establishment of a tri- weekly Anglo-American air vice.]
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Havana, Yesterday, A "Remarkable Thing."
The Pan-American Conference Asked by His Lordship (Sir. has adopted the project of a Trans- H. C. Gollan) whether it was not Continental highway to stretch the a remarkable thing, that the firm entire length of North, Central and had paid so much more than the South America.--Reuter's Ameri- actual freight for so long a period, can Service. plaintiff replied that at the time of Paris, Feb. 8. The King of the European War freights were Matin" how delighted he was with "Le declared to Afghanistan
his entertainment in France His Lordship pointed out that how deeply impressed he had been train between Guadalajara and the shipments with which they by all he had seen. added that Manzanillo were hard pressed by were concerned were several years he realized that a nation possess attacking revolutionaries, who had after the war.
ing such a rich past ought to be succeeded in dynamiting a passen- Plaintiff stated that the defend- great in the present and the future. ger coach, when Federal aero-ent had also put on his forged-Haves. planes swooped down and bombed debit notes a greater cuble capacity the rebels.
The latter scattered leaving 14 cargo.
than actually taken up by the
Mexico City, Yesterday.
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the trust placed in the defendant by the plaintiff firm. Admittedly. he was an old servant, but it was
VOTE OF CENSURE. NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT Ing $21 a month should have been
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