THE CHINÀ MAIL, MARCH 23, 1937.
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£10,000 A YEAR FOR PREMIER
NEW BILL FOR THE COMMONS
London, To-day.
The salary of the Prime Minister will be doubled at $10,000 under a Bill which has now been drafted and will be introduced in the House of Commons this week.
Special Stamp For Coronation
London, To-day. The Postmaster-General, Ma- jor G. C. Tryon, announced in the House of Commons yester day that a special: three-half- penny, stamp will be issued in commemoration of the Corona-
tion
The stamp will be the same size as the Jubilee stamp and will bear the portraits of the King and Queen Reuter,
All the other members of the Cabinet will receive £5,000, ex- cept the Lord Chancellor, who at present takes £10,000, including|maimunuz?£££2599£¦Ð¥Ð££2862288888ZIELGUTTELLEX:PRITUALI $4,000 in respect of Speakership of the House of Lords.
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The Bill will also provide for pensions for former Premiers
the neighbourhood of £2,000.
Mr. Stanley Baldwin will move
after the Coronation
ADDIS ABABA.
MASSACRES
London, To-day.
the second reading of the Bill after In reply to a question in the the Easter recess and will intimate House of Commons, Mr. Eden said that he himself does not intend to that a copy of the note sent by the accept a pension when he retires Emperor of Ethiopia to the Secre
tary-General of the League, asking The Bill will not only remove for League investigators to be sent substantial anomalies but will fato Addis Ababa to report on the cilitate re-shuffling mistries. recent massacres, was yesterday -Reater.
morning received at the Foreign Office and is at present under 'ex-; amination-British Wireless.
H.K.A.A. ANNUAL:
MEETING
Prominent Persons
Killed
The elimination of road patrols]
London, To-day. to meet the need for economy and The Abyssinian Legation yester the "evasive" reply of the LCP. day issued a statement claiming to the suggestion that bicycles that a son of the Abyssinian should be licenced, were mention Foreign Minister and two sons ed at yesterday's annual meeting another
Minister were killed of the Hong Kong Automobile during the reprisals which followed Association
the unsuccessful attempt on the The following Officers were life of the Viceroy, Marshal elected for the coming year: Pre Graziani, sident, Mr. P. M. Hodgson, Vice-Trans-Ocean. President, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy; Committee:-Messrs. J. K. Bous- field, W. R. Mansfield, J. D. Danby,
in Addis Ababa
Doctor Injured
A. Nissima, A. Stevenson, W. N. T. In attempting to jump to the Tam, EL G. Williams, T. B. Wilson, wharf from the ss. Kut Sang, while
TEXAS SCHOOL
DISASTER
SUPERINTENDENTS ADMISSION
New London (Texas) To-day.
Frail and weary with grief, Mr. V. C. Shaw, superintendent of the Tyler school in which over 600 children and teachers met their death in the ex- plosion last week, broke down in the course of his evidence yesterday before the military court which is enquiring into the disaster.
"SCRAP METAL
THEET
He was the "party responsible," he stated, for the school using a certain gas line for the heating sys- tem without "specific permission” from the gasoline company.
The field foreman of the Parade Hawker-Purchaser Sent Gas Company had previously given
evidence that no person had per- To Prison. mission to connect the school gas Tsoi Yuk, a marine hawker, was line with the company's residue sentenced to six months' hard labour line.
by Mr. W. Schofield this morning The gas line concerned is being for studied among the numerous other Mantz Metal belonging to the Taikoo 50 pounds of factors in the search for cause of Dockyard On another charge, of the disaster.
having no licence, he was fined $100 Mr. Shaw, who lost a son in the or two months. explosion, was so weak that he had
Inspector O'Connor said the met- to retire to a couch from the wit-lal had been identified as part of a ness stand-Reuter.
life boat's air tanks. There had been-thefts of this kind of metal previously. Defendant should have made enquiries before he bought it as it bore the Company's mark.
WORKMEN FEED IN EMBASSY
IL DUCE REVIEWS
FLEET
Returning Earlier
Than Expected
Rome, To-day. Signor Mussolini is returning to Rome from his Libyan tour a day earlier than was expected.
Yesterday morning the entire Italian fleet steamed past the Duce, who stood on board the bridge
of the cruiser "Pola," and took the salute.
Immediately after the review,
More than 100 English workmen and the same number of Germans were the guests of the German Em- bassy in London when a "Richtfest" was given in honour of the struction of the Embassy buildings in Carlton House-terrace.
recon-
It was the fulfilment of an old German custom. When the con-
Rev. E G. S. Upsdell, Major C. Mshe was at the Kowloon Wharf, Dr. which had been held in mountainous struction of a house has reached a Manners; Secretaries and Trea-Poon Ma was badly hurt and was surers, Messrs Linstead & Davis. admitted to the G. C. H
Ras Seyoum received at Korre
seas, the "Pola" got under way for Gaeta Trans-Ocean.
certain stage the owner gives “Richtfest" to the workmen.
Tables were laid in the half-fin- ished rooms, the plaster walls of which were hung with Union Jacks and Swastika flags. From the ceil- ing of the main room hung the tra- ditional "building-garland."
During the Fest the menu, which included knuckle of pork, potato salad, doughnuts, lager beer, and other traditional German dishes, speeches, were made by the German Ambassador, Herr von Ribbentrop, who presided, and by one English and one German workman.
Herr von Ribbentropy who spoke in both English and German, stress- ed the good feeling existing between the English and German workmen. Amusing situations had occurred Owing to the language problem, but a warm comradeship had sprung up between the representatives of the two nations.
The British and German National Anthems and the Horst... Wessel Song were sung and the English workmen drank Herr von Ribben- trog's health and sang For he's jolly good fellow."
Car Owner Fined ME. J. R. Bergne-Coupland, of Messrs. Reiss, Bradley, was this morning fined $5 at the Central
agistracy
guilty to tion by leaving ider Street Bird of
cauti
a similar offence.