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`THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1936
Commons Pass Second
Reading
LABOUR AMENDMENT REJECTED
London, To-day.
The House of Commons yes- terday passed the second read- ing of the Civil List Bill and rejected by 205 votes to 95 a Labour amendment asking for the surrender of the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall in ex- change for a fixed annual sum of money.
Major C. R. Attlee (Lab, Lime house) agreed that the Duchies were administered well and gen- jerously, but they were in no way private estates. Their revenues fluctuated and were likely to in- volve a controversy, which the
The policy of large armaments for America was sharply criticised by Senator Gerald Nye, above, in the Senate yesterday, when he de precated the fact that US. arma- ments annually gave the chance to the military dominance in Japan to point finger at America.
HITLER'S PEACE PROPOSALS
British Memoranduin To Germany
COUCHED IN POLITE TERMS
"CHINA "MAIL" SPECIAL.
Berlin, To-day. The British questions to Ger- many, for the purpose of clear- ing up some points of the Ger man Government's Memoran- dums of March 7, 24 and 31. were handed in by the British Ambassador, Sir Eric Phipps, to the Foreign Minister, Baron von Neurath, yesterday.
not The text of the note has been published and it is under- ******* (stood that its publication is not
intended for the time being. Ac-l
IMPORTS INTO cording to the Berliner Tageblatt
POLAND
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Sovereign should be placed above. Prohibited By Special fer to the occupation of the Raine
Decree
"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Warsaw, To-day-
the questionnaire deals with pro- blems involved in the German peace proposal, but does not re- Mr. Neville Chamberlain. Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, agreed
land or to the transition period that the amendment could hardly
which, according to the Germanį be moved in terms less likely to
suggestions, should pass till the give offence. Any ductuations of
actual opening of negotations for income would be in the nature of
A semi-official news agency re-peace in Europe.
LORD HALIFAX'S MISSION the general movement throughout ports that the Cabinet Council has the country, and it would be an decided to publish a decree pro- Paris: The British Lord Privy: advantage that the Sovereign hibiting the import of any goods Seal, Lord Halifax, it is stated by the into Poland, but adds that this the press here, will, after should personally feel some
prohibition constitutes a purely meeting of the League Council, effects which were present in the
technical measure which does not proceed to Berlin to open direct minds of his subjects-Reuter.
with the German in practice signify that the im-negotiations portation of all foreign goods into Government on peace in Europ
GREYHOUND AND
ITS TAIL
Faster. It went The More It Curled
WOMAN BUYER WINS £40 CLAIM
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Poland is henceforth impossible it is claimed that the Quai The object of the decree is, so d'Orsay has already officially been the agency continues, to create notified of the proposed visit the means of controlling imports. Berlin of Lord Halifax - Trans- Importers who want to import Ocean Service. prohibited goods may obtain im- port licences within the existing scope of the quotas-Trans-Ocean Service.
AMY MOLLISON'S SUCCESS
Record Broken By Over 11 Hours
COMPLICATED DOCUMENT Berlin: A high official of the Wilhelmstrasse told Reuter that the British memorandum on Herz Hitler's peace proposals Was jcouched in polite terms but was a complicated document which) needed thorough study.
Reuter was further informed that the text of the memorandum deals thoroughly with the German proposals to safeguard the peace of Europe without dealing with London, To-day, the question of a transitory per- Mrs. Amy Mollison, who set out fod or the Rhineland problem. from Gravesend
8.05 am. Reuter.
at
The curly tail of King's Folly, a coursing greyhound, was the subject of a £40 claim heard last month at Newcastle- -on-Tyne County Court. I was declared that a tail that |was not outstretched in action was a grave defect in a grey- hound.
Mrs. Clara Gardiner Mitchell, G.M.T. on Monday to break Lieu- lof Winchill, Gloucestershire, tenant Rose's record for a flight who bought King's Folly from to Capetown of 3 days 17 hours 38 TO-MORROW. Mr. J. McKeown, of Newcastle, minutes, reached Capetown yes-
claimed repayment of the terday afternoon money, alleging breach of war-GMT, beating Lt. Rose's time by rantly. She won her case.
Dr. Charlesworth (for Mrs. turing the record for the England 11 hours 12 minutes and recap
Mitchell) cortended that the to the Cape fight, which ste pre- dog was useless owing to its riously held. British Wireless peculiarity of a curly tail. This prevented it from turning when coursing.
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Never Uncuried Mrs. Mitchell, giving jevidence, said that Mr. Mc- Keown told her in a letter that the. dog ancurled its tail when running. Her experience was that it never uncurled its tail while running or walking about:
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HIGH COST OF STRIKERS
Denmark Counts The Cost
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Copenhagen-Drastic action is to be taken by the Govern- ment following the failure last ANGLO-ARGENTINE month of negotiations to end
TRADE
Agreement To Be Revised
the great labour stoppage, which had already cost. Den- mark about £2,280,000 since it began a month before. It was decided to introduce, a bill in Parliament, which would
Order the ending of the then lockout; and
Prohibit all strikes and lock-outs.
London, To-day. Mr. Walter Runciman, Pre- The faster it goes the more sident of the Board of Trade, it curls," she added. "If I had announced yesterday that the known this I would never have British and Argentine Gov-
The main object of the bought it."
ernments are exchanging notes second clause was to avert the Mervyn James Hapgood, of whereby they will enable the strike in the slaughter-houses Cirencester, said that when he
existing trade agreement
A to threatened for this month. slipped the dog last November terminate
on July 1. In the stoppage of meat trade workers it followed the hare, but failed meantime discussions are pro-would have a serious effect upon to turn it The dog tried to ceeding for the revision of the Denmark's important export
jagreement. - Reuter's Bulletin business with Britain.
Service.
turn, but was unable to do so because of its tail, which curled over its back like a clock spring."
The tail was the balancing part of a greyhound, and should be stretched straight behind the dog.
"No Good As A Pet” "The dog is no use a8 3 coursing greyhound," Hapgood
MARCH IN GAS
- MASKS
Ambulance Men Give Demonstration
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Lord Glanely Wins Appeal
An appeal of special importance added. "The only thing to do Wearing gas-masks and carry-to breeders of thoroughbred bor- is to put it under the ground. ing stretchers, members of the ses has been decided by the New- It is.ne good as a pet, it would Sheffield corps of the St. John market Assessment Committee. steal everything in the house. Ambulance Brigade last morta] The appellant was Lord Glane- That is the nature of grey-marched through the streets of ly, and the question for decision hounds."
that city. They were holding the was whether the stud buildings on Replying to Mr. J. Harvey first demonstration there to illus his stud farms at Exing, near Robson (for Mr. McKeown), trade precautionary measures dur, Newmarket, were derateable un- Hapgood, said that King's ing air raids.
der the Rating and Valuation (Ap-) Folly's curly tail was a deformi- Specially-trained members of portionment) Act of 1928. To ty, which was probably present the brigade are shortly to start succeed in his appeal it was neces- at birth. He admitted that 30 classes in Sheffield and South sary for Lord Glanely to satisfy years ago greyhounds had Yorkshire, at which the public the committee that the operationa more curl in their tails. Now, will be taught the use of mask carried on at his stud farms were when dogs were bred for speed, and other anti-gas precautions, agricultural operations. The ap- their tails were straighter. Women will be specially urged to peal was decided in his favour.
Michael McKeown, a commis-join the cĺxases.
The decision is the outcome of sion agent, of Albion-street, The local authorities have in-Lord Glanely's income-tax appealį Newcastle, father of the defen- (Continued at foot of next Col.) in 1933, when the House of Lords dent, and until the sale to Mrs.
decided that the profits from Mitchell, the dog's real owner, hounds had curly tails, but stallions' fees were covered by the then gave evidence. He stated were never really good dogs, assessments on his stud farms, a| that the dog straightened his Judge Thesiger, giving judg-decision which conferred great be tail when running. He gave no ment for £40 and costs for Mrs. neft on breeding and horse racing warrantly when selling, because Mitchell, remarked that he was in this country. the dog was only a pup.
quite satisfied, the dog had a
Trainer's Evidence tail which was never stretched [spected 24 buildings in Sheffield Thomas Amos, head trainer in action. No one dealing in which can be turned into first-aid Printed and Published for the Proprietors, The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd,),
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King's Folly galloping with its Mr. McKeown had given in the raids. The classes will be begun tail out-stretched. Some grey-letter.
when these buildings are ready.
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