HE CHINA MAIL, JULY 17, 1987.
Members Of House May Have To Pay More To Eat
The possibility of dearer meals typical night M.P.s were offered the accompanying larger salaries faced choice of table d'hote dinners at M.P.8 as they debated in the 38. 6d. or. 68. 6d. House recently. A loss of £424 18. They could have roast beef and 11d. was made by the refreshment Yorkshire pudding,
artment of the House of Com-bread, butter and the
during 1936.
and chicken pie for
Select Committee on the Kit-tart was 6d. chen and Refreshment Rooms, în a report draws attention to the fact that there has been a loss in every year but one since 1928. The re- port adds:
vegetables, for 1s. 9d., 3d: Cherry
ANTI-AIRCRAFT SHIPS IN ACTION
Haile
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Selassie Bad Libelled
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethio-
pia, was plaintiff in a libel action which was settled before Lord' He- wart, the Lor Chief Justice, in the King's Bene?
The actiona
of an article m the Evening Stan- dard on Sept. 7, 1986 The Even- ing Standard Ltd. admitted that there was no truth in the allega- tron. The Emperor accepted the apology and an indemnity as to costs. Lord Hewart allowed the re- cord in the action to be withdrawn. Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., for the Emperor, read the article of which complaint was made.
who
It referred
to Ras Hailu, was stated have led a revolt be- hind the Abyssinian lines during the Italian invasion, and continued: Rebel's Son"
"The rise in the prices of all commodities and equipment will cer- What promises to be the most tainly make it necessary, if the thrilling spectacle ever staged dur- present conditions must be continuing Navy Week will be a feature ed, for the prices of meals to be of this year's programme both at
Portsmouth and Chatham: raised.”.
air- The abolition of tipping has been A bombing attack by ninė suggested at the House of Com-craft of the Fleet Air Arm is to be mons. The committee estimates made on an anti-aircraft cruiser, that the corresponding: addition to which will open rapid fire with its the wages of the staff would amount entire armament of high-angle to £3,000 a year, "a sum which guns.
This will be the first public cannot possibly be raised from the demonstration of the offensive and stances would the Emperor think imprisoned him, and, to be on the
present resources."
Committee's Opinion
the Treasury to defray the cost of were converted
President Roosevelt, who is re- maining in Washington over the week-end instead of going on his usual yachting trip owing to the crisis in North China.
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He is the son of the old rebel, Ras Hailu, who threatened the se- curity of Haile Selassie's throne till the Emperor rounded him up,
safe
his
Mr. Birkett stated: “The innuen- do which the words bear is that the
Emperor was guilty of grossest cruelty.
side, had his legs broken in of accepting one penny by way of defensive powers of the ships in
several places. the compensation for this publication.” which represent question,
"When Haile Selassie left the Mr. Birkett added that, on re- In conclusion, the committee is of Navy's first answer
air to the
country, ,old Ras Hailu, now a com- ceipt of a-letter from the Emperor's opinion that the time has now come menace. for the restoration:
The ship to be attacked at Ports-solicitors, the defendants recognis-plete cripple, was brought out of
and prison,
released, from of an annual
ed that they had been misled by subvention - which was last grant-mouth is the Coventry, while her ed in 1922 on a sufficient scale to sister vessel, Curlew, will be in the that there was no truth in any
the source of their information, and chains." cover the present difficulties, or for Chatham display. These cruisers the allegations.
into anti-aircraft Mr. Monier Williams, for the de- staff and equipment, as in other ships during the Mediterranean fendants, said: "The story had al- departments of the House.
ready been included in two Mr. R. J. Bradley, manager of the Each vessel had its five 6in. guns Refreshment Department, said that replaced by ten 4in. anti-aircraft that were published about Ethio-ment particularly deeply, because he held the changing habits of MPs guns, besides several heavy and and the Government's majority ac-light machine-guns, and was equip countable for the continued losses.ped with a complete system of He said that members both eat and high-angle fire control. They can drink less at meals, and added: deliver a greater volume of fire There are more teetotalers than against air targets than any other there used to be. This is bound to ships in the Navy. have an effect on receipts. The Air Attack On Warships
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crisis of 1935-36.
size of the Government's majority, At Devonport a large number of too, apparently encourages members Fleet Air Arm machines will sim- to stay away from Westminster ultaneously attack several war- more often. In the past lowships, all of which will open fire majorities have always
meant in-with their anti-aircraft guns. creased attendances..
These displays should far surpass "Last year's losses are partly due in realism anything previously at- to the number of late sittings. On tempted during Navy Week. these nights the staff have to be
The Week" opens at all three paid overtime and the receipts never naval ports on July 31, and, except- cover expenditure. There were 323 ing Sunday, Aug. 1, will continue breakfasts served during the year, to Aug. 7. The well-known and while there were none in 1935." popular programmes of former The main work of the refresh-years, including visits to battle- ment department is the production ships, air-craft carriers, cruisers, each evening of 300 dinners. On a destroyers and submarines, will be
GIRL'S LOVE DRUG MADE MAN INVALID
repeated.
Several new features will be in- troduced. At Chatham, for in- stance, the seamen boys of H.M.S. Wildfire, the newly-opened training establishment at Sheerness, are to Lovelorn Florence Wickramarat-give a display, representing the es- na made a philtre of her own blood cape of a naval detachment ma and a powerful drug to encourage rooned on an island and in danger the young man of her choice, one of overwhelming attack. Perera, to ask her hand in mar- At Devonport the ship's company riage.
of HMS. Revenge will demonstrate Something went wrong, the phil- the day's routine in a battleship. tre made the young man ill.- Now Drake's Golden Hind will cruise he is being treated for heart under-sail, manned by officers and trouble.
men in Tudon costume. Blue-jackets
This story was told by counsel dressed as in Nelson's day will sing for the sick man's brother, Paulis sea shanties. Perera, when Florence accused Railways and road transport con- Paulis at Colombo of wrongfully cerns are providing special facili, confining her fiance.
ties for reaching the three naval
Council for Paulis said that ports during Navy Week. Last while the young man was under year's attendance broke all re- the influence of the philtre he had cords, but it is hoped to do even given notice of marriage, but, now better this year. The profits go to that the drug was wearing off, he Royal Navy and Royal Marine had changed his mind.
[charities.
books
pia. The defendants had no. rea- son at the time to suppose that the information was incorrect.”
"The Emperor felt this mis-state-
he thought it would be regarded with repugnance by people in Eng- land. He felt it incumbent on him to make it plain that there is not a word of truth in this allegation.
The defendants, counsel added, expressed their sincere and deep
Story Already Published regret that the publication should have caused pain to one who had that purpose alone. In no circum- "This action was brought for
been the victim of most overwhelm- ing misfortune,
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