MR. CHAMBERLAIN
CARRIES
THE
HOUSE
Substantial Majorities On Vital Votes
THE TYPHOON
VEERS WEST: NOW DUE SOUTH
After heading as direct as an arrow for the coast in the vici- more nity of Hong Kong for
than a thousand miles after its presence was detected in the Paci- fic, the typhoon veered west in the course of yesterday after-
noon
I. L. P. SUPPORT GOVERNMENT!
London, To-day. Unsparing praise for the Prime Minister's peace efforts were forthcoming towards the end of the debate on the crisis in the House of Com- mons yesterday from Mr. J. McGovern, Inde- pendent Labour Member for the Shettleston division of Glasgow, and usually a determined opponent of Government policy.
and is not now likely to cause any serious disturbance in Mr. the Hong Kong area unless like its predecessor it suddenly re- curves north.
This morning the position of the typhoon was given as approxim-:
Colony moving west.
McGovern, who recently was cycling from Prague to Vienna and Berlin, said he was stag- gered by the immensity of preparation for a modern war.
ately 300 miles due south of the He shuddered at the prospects for humanity if the machine was let loose, and thanked God when he was in Vienna and heard that Mr. Chamber- lain was going to Germany to discuss matters! with Hitler.
It is anticipated at the Royal Observatory that, provided there is no change in the course of the typhoon, that this morning's wea- ther will continue for the better part of the day and will then clear up.
WATER RELIEF
Mr. McGovern did not, subscribe to the system or policy of the Gov-1
at the ernment, but if the man head of affairs averts
and war
CZECHS WANT FOUR YEAR PLAN
:
GERMANY GETS HER WAY
Berlin, To-day.
The Commission of Ambas- sadors which is supervising the occupation of Sudetenland, yesterday, agreed to the Ger- man demand that the "area predominantly German" and to be occupied in Czecho- Slovakia by October 10, should be that in which the German majority is 51 per cent.
Previously a hitch had arisen over a difference of opinion on this question, some, members considering that 70
to 75 per cent. should have
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been the necessary condition.
-Reuter.
Prague, To-day.. Several Czech papers ask for Hopes that the typhoon would gives a breathing space for reason come sufficiently close to end com-to operate, we may say generously,
prolonged model. pletely remove Hong Kong's water "Well done, thou good and faithful Four Year Plan after the German
The "Telegraph" writes yesterday difficulties like changes in the road railway system. The plan problem are, therefore, disappointed servant" (Loud and
of night that such a plan is nowhere and It is, however, officially intimated that no real problem now exists. "I disagree with the policy The reservoirs, thanks to the rain war, and if it had come, we of the so necessary in Czechoslovakia. The would also lessen unemployment. earlier this morning, are now near Independent Labour Party would State is confronted by enormous" Trans-Ocean.
ly two-thirds full.
COLONIAL TALKS
Conservative cheers).
not support it, but we are not goad- ing the Government into war and then running away afterwards.”—-- Reuter.
WITH GERMANY TWO VICTORIES FOR
PARIS, TO-DAY.
ACCORDING TO POLITICAL
QUARTERS HERE, DEFINITE
ARRANGEMENTS FOR CONSUL-
PREMIER
London, To-day.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain scored
TATIONS WITH GERMANY ON two clear-cut victories in the House THE COLONIAL QUESTION ARE of Commons yesterday when UNDER DISCUSSION.
These quarters state, however, that no official discussions are like ly before December.
the House defeated the Labour amend- ment to the motion of confidence and by an later carried the motion overwhelming majority.
The amendment to the Govern- They also declare that Herr Hit- ler has made disarmament and the ment's motion was defeated by 869 banning of the use of poison gas votes to 150, while the vote of con- contingent upon receiving satisfac-fidence was carried by 366 votes tion of his colonial claims.-Trans- to 144. Approximately one hundred
members did not vote. Reuter. Ocean.
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M. Flandin's Relations With Herr Hitler
Paris, To-day.
A telegram from Hitler to M. Pierre-Etienne Flandin, the Right Wing leader, sent on De tober 2, caused something of a sensation when read to the Foreign Affairs Committee of ‘de- the Chamber by a Socialist puty yesterday.
The message, which was in reply to one M. Flandinhad sent to Hitler, read;
“Tiaincaraly" thank you for the friendly cong you have sent me, and
you assurances of my grateful sentiments for the energetic efforts you are making in fav `our of an entente and complete collaboration betwem France and Germany.
with
"I have followed tha sincere.interest, and tast they may have wider results."
-M. Flandin - stated that he did not wish to say anything before the Committee - willing to reply in Parliament.
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