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LABOUR DONCASTER
INCREASES
MAJORITY
Two By-Election Results Reveal Trend
No Changes But Government Losing Ground
London, To-day.
Indicative of the state of mind of the electorate, the Government, after retaining Walsall in Wed- nesday's by-election with a reduced majority, sustained a smashing defeat in the by-election at Doncaster yesterday.
Traditionally Labour, the Yorkshire electors voted in convincing fashion to return the Labour candidate with an increased majority of 4,000.
SIR HORACE WILSON: WHO IS THIS MAN?
London, To-day.
In the Commons yesterday, the Prime Minister was questioned on the position of Sir Horace Wilson- the civil servant who accompanied him, together with Foreign Office officials, on his visits to Germany in September.
Successive Conservative candid- ates having failed, a National Libéral stood yesterday as Govern- ment candidate, and was defeated by over 11,000 votes.
Results of the polling at Walsall and Doncaster are significant, and political quarters are canvassing the possibility of Mr. Chamberlain being forced to appeal to the coun- try for approval of his foreign policy.
Yesterday's polling, at Doncaster resulted:
Mr. John Morgan (Lab.)
CAROL-
VISITS R.A.F.
London, To-day.
King Carol of Rumanía. and Crown Prince Michael visited an R.A.F. aerodrome near Aldershot yesterday morning.
They were accompanied by the Secretary for Air and the Chief of Air Staff-Reuter.
Mr.
SOVIET AIR BASE IN CHINA RAIDED
Shanghai, To-day. Lanchow in Kansu Province was raided by Japanese planes yester- day, this being the second raid in this district.
It is stated that Lanchow was used as a air base with nearly all planes of Soviet manufacture and manned by Soviet personnel.— Trans-Qcean.
A motor car belonging to Pilgrim, of No. 283 Prince Edward Chan 'Ho, married woman, was Road, was stolen yesterday, while admitted to the Kowloon Hospital parked near the Gascoigne Road. yesterday after being bitten by a The car is valued at $1,000. dog at Po Kwong Village Road.
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PROSPECTS OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO BRITISH COLONIES
London, To-day.
31,735 The possibility of settlement of refugees from Ger- many has been taken up with a number of co- lonial governors, including the Governor of Tanganyika, declared the Prime Minister in the House of Commons yesterday.
Mr. Alexander Monteith (Nat.
Lib.) 20,027 Labour majority
11,708 The figures at the General Elec- tion were: Labour
Cons.
Labour majority
29,963 22,011 7,952
He said that since 1935, Sir In the Walsall by-election, the Mr. Horace Wilson had been seconded Labour vote increased by 2,000, to the Treasury for service to the while the Liberal National candid- Prime Minister and First Lord ofate polled 200 over the vote at the the Treasury and he went on to re- General Election.
call the constitutional tradition of
anonymity in the performance of
The figures were:
their duty by Crown servants, add-Sir George Schuster (Lib. Nat.) 28,720 .21,562 ing that it would be contrary to the Mr. G. Jeger (Lab.)
Polling at the General Election public interest if the practice grew
resulted: up of seeking to identify individual Civil servants with particular ac-Lib. Nat. tions or particular developments of Labour policy. British Wireless.
JUNK PIRACY
Chong Kam, 27, oyster breeder,
has reported an attack on his junk yesterday, when carrying a crew of six and a cargo of 36 piculs of ginger, 20 piculs of yams, and 20 piculs of taroes.
He was anchored off Chek Wan yesterday, at about 3. a.m., when seven men armed with revolvers boarded. All aboard were all tied) up, and the junk was sailed away by...three men, whilst he and his crew were put ashore at Chek Wan. Later, he hailed a passing fishing boat and was taken with his crew to British territory.
Chamberlain was replying to a question by Mr. R. A. Cary, Conservative member for Eccles, who asked if Mr. Chamberlain, in view of the restriction of Jewish emigration to Palestine, would consider the advisability of giving Jews special facilities for settling in Tanganyika.
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Mr. Chamberlain added that the into the 'Dominions that matter had been treated as urgent, matter for the Dóminión Govern- and he hope to make a statement ments concerned, British Wire- 28,563 19,594 in this connexion at the beginning less.
8,969 of next week.
Government majority
-Reuter.
Mr. Cary also asked if Mr. Cham- berlain would approach the South African and French Governments with a view to similar privileges
NOBEL PEACE being extended to include South-
PRIZE
Oslo, To-day.
The Nobel Peace Prize for 1938 has been awarded to the Nansen Office for Refugees at Geneva. Reuter.
Oslo, To-day.
The Nobel Peace Prize for 1988 was not awarded to an individual by the Storting, but to the Geneva Nansen Committee for Fugitives.
On three previous occasions the Peace Prize has been awarded to corporations, namely in 1904 to the
CZECHS IN BRITAIN Institute for International Law, in
London, To-day. Between October 1 and Novem ber 20, British immigration au- thorities have permitted 1,103 for eigners with Czech passports to enter England, it was revealed by the Home Secretary in the House of Commons. Trans-Ocean.
West Africa and the Cameroons.
COMMITTEE'S DUTY
TALKING WHEN DRIVING
Z. Vilichinsky, of the Jockey Club, was fined $20 when he plead- ed guilty to driving without due care and caution in Gap Road,
the problem of emigration from Mr. Chamberlain pointed out that
It was stated that defendant was Germany was before the inter-gov- talking to a friend and did not ernmental committee established at pay attention to the traffic. Evian.
The R.M.S "Empress of Asia” The question of approach to these is leaving Hong Kong for Manila governments was a matter for con at 8.00 p.m. to-day, instead of 5.00 sideration by that committee the first instance-Reuter.
in P.m.
FURTHER PROPOSALS ARMY DRIVERS
SPEEDING
Answering another question, the
1910 to the International Peace Under Secretary for Foreign Bureau and in 1917 to the Inter-Affairs said that the Government Privates Moore and Kirby, of national Red Cross. —Trans-Ocean. were urgently considering what the R.A.S.C., were each fined $8 further proposals they might be in [for speeding by Mr. R. A: D. For- Wong Wing-tak, residing at No. a position to make regarding the rest at the Central. Magistracy 189 Connaught. Road Central, has problem of involuntary emigration this morning. Pte. Palmer, of the reported to the police that at 9 from Germany and would at once Royal Corps of Signals, was fined a.m. on Tuesday, some person en- inform the intef-Governmental $20 for driving at 40 miles an hour tered the house and stole $92 in committee of their conclusions. in Island Road near Stanley on
As to the admission of refugees November 4.
money.