'THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 8, 1939
LORD ZETLAND UNABLE TO AGREE WITH CONGRESS
London, To-day.
AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT on the future of India was made by Lord Zetland, Secretary of State for India, in the House of Lords yesterday. Lord Zefland stated that the Indian Congress had persistently taken the line, and still maintained, that the fact that there were racial and religious minorities in India was of no relevance.
CANADIANS REPORTED KILLED
(Special to "China Mail")
Ottawa. To-day..
Persistent reports of the death of several Canadian missionar- les in the Japanese-occupied rẻ- gions of China, have led to a de- marche by the Rev. E. A. Arm. strong, secretary of the United Church of Canada, to the Cana. dian Premier, -Mr. Mackenzie King, and to the Japanese Min- ister to Canada, Baron Tomil.
The United Church maintains missions in Honan, Hopei, Kiang: su, Kwangtung, "Shantung Szechuen. Havas.
and
DEATH PENALTY IN NAZI ARMY
.
LONDON, TO-DAY.
IN VIEW OF REPORTS OF THE INCREASING USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE GERMAN ARMY, A STATEMENT BY THE SECRE- TARY OF STATE FOR WAR YES- TERDAY IS OF GREAT INTEREST.
Since the last war,
he said, the British Army has abolished the death penalty for desertion, cowardice, and sleeping whilst on duty, and it is now only imposed for murder, mutiny and . offences of a treacherous character.-.
Reuter.
FUNERAL OF GERMAN SAILORS
Representatives of
London, To-day.
all units in the Shorncliffe Garrison, including womeh members of the A.T.S., were present yesterday at the funeral in the garrison cemetery of five Ger-
They had maintained that it had always been the intention of Con- gress to secure from the Constitution to be formed by the Indians them- selves such protection for their rights as might prove acceptable to the minorities.
The British Government found it! impossible to accept this position.
The long-standing British connec- tion with India had left the British Government with obligations towards her which it was impossible for them to shed by disinteresting themselves wholly in shaping her future form of government.
OUTSTANDING RESULT
One outstanding result of the re- cent discussions the Governor-Gen- eral had had with all parties in India had established beyond doubt the fact that a declaration in the sense proposed, with a summary abandonment by the British Govern- ment of their position in India, would be far from acceptable to large sec- tions of the population.
But this did not mean that they had in any sense weakened in their determination to assist India by such means as was in their power to reach without avoidable delay the
position in the British Common- wealth of Nations to which they were pledged. Reuter,
NAZI SHOCK TROOPS ON HOLLAND'S
FRONTIER
Brussels, to-day. Belga, the Belgian news agency, reports that German shock troops who were used in Poland are now concentrated. on the Netherlands frontier.
Reason is, according to Berlin, that there is no more room for them in the Siegfried Line.-Reuter.
SHOP HOURS EXTENDED
London, To-day.
man sailors whose bodies were wash- Shop-closing hours are to be relax- ed ashore, on the Kent coast lasted. week-end,
Full military honours were dered. Both the Nazi and the German flags were placed on coffins--British Wireless
ren-
Whereas at the beginning of the war, closing hours were 8 p.m. on old week-days and 7.30 p.m. on Saturdays, the the new closing hours will be 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. respectively-Reuter.
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2. Stewed Fish, Tomato Sauce
3. Chicken Cutlet, Green Peas
4. Roast Leg of Veal
5. Stewed Peaches
6. Tea or Coffee
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