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TRAFFIC IN ARMS
Royal Commission Appointed
SIR ELDON BANKES CHAIRMAN.
London, To-day.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, announced yesterday in the House of Commons' that Sir John Eldon Bankes, formerly Lord Justice of Appeal, would be Chairman of the Royal, Commission on the traffic in arms. The other members would be Sir Thomas Allen, Dane Miss Rachel Crowdy, Sir Philip Gibbs, Professor Gutteridge, Sir Kenneth Lee, and Mr. J. A. Spender...
The terms of refernce are "To consider and report upon the prac- ticability and desirablility, both from the national and interna-p tional point of view of adoption (1) by the United Kingdom alone, and (2) by the United Kingdom, in con- juction with other countries of the world, of the prohibition of the private manufacturo or trade in urme and munitions of war, and the institution of a state monopoly of such manufacture and trade,
"To. consider and report whether there are any stops which can
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James B. Holohan, warden of the Quentin prison, California, whost skull was fractured with ono blow an desperate convicts seized mem. bers of the state prison board an the, Holohan home and made un ansuccessful break,
GREAT MORAL EFFECT
[Continued From Page 1),
"The practical consequences
DAM PROJECT FOR RIVER THAMES
Two Schemes To Cost Nearly £4,000,000
|MANY - ADVANTAGES CLAIMED
Two schemes for daraming the the River Thames, one at Woolwich costing about £3,000,000 and the other at London Bridge costing ap proximately £800,000, have beon submitted to the Port of London Authorities, whose decision will be announced later.
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It is stated that the London!
Bridge scheme would give 19 miles) of still water between London Bridge and Teddington. The width of the river available for navigation
would be increased and a portion of the Increased fairway would bo Futilised for an 'air port.
Additional advantages of the Woolwich scheme would be that al- must all craft now using older docks and wharves could enter the river inte at low tide.
FRANCE'S LATEST GIANT LINER
The Normandie
The liner Normandie is to make
usefully be taken to remove or may not be far-reaching, but the minimise the kinds of objections to moral effect will be great. which private manufacture is Court has done much to free her maiden voyage to New York on stated in Article VIII of the Americans from the sense of May 29. The French Line have de- Covenant of the League of Nations chagrin and shame which they cided to use Southampton intend of to be open.
had when they first learned that Plymouth as the vensel's port of "To examine the present arrange- their Government had deliberate-call on the west-bound trip, but she ments in force in the United King- ly tried to repudiate its solemn will call at Plymouth on her return dom, relative to the control of ex-'obligation. This act has now voyage.
An official of the line states that port trade in arms and munitions, been declared to be immoral and
of war, and to report whether these illegal by the highest court in the wárk of fitting out the Norman-: arrangements require revision, and, the land.”—Reuter,
if so in what directions."
The Royal Commission will be appointed under the usual form of |warrant, giving powers to call per-i sons before them to give evidence, to call for information in writing. and to call for and exumine docu- mente-British Wireless Service.
CONTROL OF ARMS TRADE
Britain Welcomes U.S.
Proposals
London, To-day.
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FOREIGN POWER ALLEGED BEHIND RECENT PIRACIES
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die was proceeding amoothly and would be completed according to schedule. Reports that her electric cables had been damaged were en- tirely false.
The French claim that the Nor- mandie, with her 79,000 tons, will be 6,000 tons larger than the White Star-Cunarder Queen Mary. But it According to the same dispatch.is by no means certain that the lat the Amoy authorities have made ter, when ready for sea 14 months known the plot and have asked that hence, will not prove to be larger all concerned should watch out for than the Normandle. the pirates and the foreign adven- turers. The latter are said to be sent to the pirates' hide-outs at the orders of their naval authorities, according to the report.
FITTER'S HAND AMPUTATED
Yeung Chan, a' fitter at the Tal-
As far as Kwangtung is concern koo Sugar Refinery, was badly in- Sir John Simon stated in the od, the Third Army has sent troops Jured yesterday when he accidental- House of Commons yesterday that to patrol Blas Bay in addition to ly slipped and had his left hand, the British Government had wel the marines. Fan Ah-shul, the from the wrist downwards, ampu nomed the United States proposals pirate who took part in the looting tated by a cog-wheel. He was rush- for-the regulation and control of of the British steamer Tungchow, ed to the Government Civil Hospi- the manufacture of, and trade in, is being examined here, and it is ta! where he now Hes in a serious arme, and had accepted them as a expected that he will disclose the condition.
The British whereabouts and identity of the basis of discussion". Government would have certain other pirates who seized the Tung- modifications of, and additions to chow.
the American draft, to be put for British and
Chinese
.
Convicted on a charge of stealing|
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some clothing from No. 868 Lockhart
naval Road yesterday, Chan Kam-sui, un co-employed, was this morning sentenced
ward during the deliberations at authorities are at present Geneva of the Committee which operating in combing the pirate to one month's hard labour by Mr. held its first meeting last Thurs lairs in the neighbourhood, of day-British Wireless Service. Bay and Swabue.
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