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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. HE KNOWS HER SECRET
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TRIBUTE TO LORD
PRIVY SEAL.
An Example of Duty Simply Done.
ENERGY AND SYMPATHY.
Rugby, Yesterday.
The House of Commons to-day formally recorded its sorrow at the untimely death of the Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Vernon Hartshorn. The Prime Minister described him as one of the mon of humble origin who in this generation had stepped Into high office and ha done the work with signal devation and
success.
Mr. 3. Baldwin. expressing sympathy on behalf of the Opposi
tion, said that Mr. Hartshorn had set an example of duty plainly and simply done.
LABOUR DEFEAT.
الام
OPPOSITION WIN BY MAJORITY
OF FOUR.
REPRESENTATION BILL.
London, Yesterday.
The Government were defented
CONVENTION FOR ARMS CONTROL.
Better Spirit Among the Nations.
DRASTIC DISARMAMENT.
Mr.
in the House of Commons to-day
Rugby, Yesterday. on clause four of the Representa- tion of the People Bill, abolishing The
Foreign Secretary, University representation, whichi Arthur Henderson, in the House of was rejected. Political conse- Commona to-day said that at the quences are not anticipated.
The voting was as follows:-
For Against
Majority
246
242
4
Warning to Liberals.
Hession of the Cennell of the League
of Nations last May the British Government proposed convening a the Conference of Signatorics to arma' trafic convention to consider the question of bringing it into force ns 4000
This as possible. The fact that eleven Liberals proposal resulted in several fresh (including Sir John Simon) voted ratifications being deposited, but against the Government in last the Council decided to postpone fur- night's debate on the Representa-jther consideration of the question Mr. Lloyd-George said that he tion of the People Bill has incens until the Preparatory Commission he known Mr. Hartshorn for 30ed the Labourites, seeing that the for the Disarmament Conference years and latterly hnd frequently Bill was introduced as
Now that a direct had completed its work. conferred with him on unemploy concession to the Liberals. this condition had been fulfilled he ment problems, which he approach-
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's sub-proposed to raise the question again ed with broadmindedness and exsequent announcement that the at the next meeting of the Council. ccrtional independence of judg-matter would be considered later ment.
Sir John Simon, with whom Mr.is regarded as a warning to the Liberals of the Government's Hartshorn Berved on the Indian
power to withdraw the Bill, ment, expressed the opinion that the Statutory Commission, said he brought to that task energy and though this course is at present markedly improved and was
sympathy, and the fact that the Commition produced a unanimous report was largely due to his in- fence.British Wireless Service.
ARMS FOR CHINA.
OWNERS OF THE TRICOLOUR
MAKE A STATEMENT.
DESTINED FOR NANKING.
Oslo, Yesterday.
The owners of the Tricolour in an official statement declare that the only arme the vessel carried on her last voyage were destined for the Nanking Government, all the neces sary licences having been obtained.
-Reuter.
unlikely.-Reuter.
atill hostility
Was
2
Viscount Cecil, speaking in Lon- don this afternoon on Disarma-
international weather had very
Instead of | improving.
between countries there charged feeling and within the skeleton of the document drawn up at the Preparatory Commission on EIGHT MORE RECORDED THAN Disarmament he firmly believed
U.S. MILLIONAIRES.
IN 1929
UNAFFECTED BY SLUMP.
Washington, Yesterday.
that it was possible to carry out international disarmament ta 1 most drastle degree.
They were anxious that the com- ing Conference should result not merely in the limitation of arma-i mouts. If they could only induce nations tu agree that the result of Five hundred and four persons, their deliberations next year would in the United States have acknow-be to bring down costs of armament | ledged that their incomes exceeded by a definite percentage-he hoped $1,000,000 in 1929, in spite of the by as much as 25 per cent-they stock market crash in that year, should get a really convenient and According to the income tax re- simple test whether they were pro- turns, this compares with 196 gressing towards reduction or only! [A message of January 14 stat-dollar millionaires in 1928. toward limitation.-British Wire- ed-The Norwegian Consulate in Reuter's American Service, less Service. Singapore telegraphed to the Minis- try of Commerce that Consular enquiry found that a cargo of various chemical products engender- ed gases which exploded and de- stroyed the Tricolour. There was no evidence that the Tricolour carried munitions, except a small quantity in the strong room.]
MR. P. SNOWDEN.
BEARS OPERATION VERY
WELL.
MAKING PROGRESS.
London, Yesterday.
It is announced that Mr. Philip Snowden was very successfully operated to-day for drainage of: the bladder. He bore the opera- tion very well-Renter.
WINE RUNNERS.
Fines of $100 each or two months' imprisonment were imposed in the Kowloon Police Court to-day on Kwok Kam-ming and Chau Ma-yau on a charge of having possession of ten gallons of Chinese wine on which duty had not been paid.
The seizure was made yesterday at the Green Island Cement Works at Hunghom by R. O. Humphries, who stated this morning that both accused were seamen on a Portu- guese launch, and on his boarding it they threw the two tins of wine overboard.
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