Prime Minister Reminds Commons There Is A War On
Artillery “TWO JOBS FOR
Duels In Albania
Bad
MEMBERS”
CONTROVERSY
SOME CONTROVERSY WAS AROUSED IN weather is still THE COMMONS YESTERDAY WHEN THE holding up large-scale HOUSE DEBATED THE “TWO JOBS. FOR operations on the Alban-MEMBERS” BILL, OFFICIALLY STYLED THE ian battle-front, states a COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION" (TEMPOR- Greek Press Ministry ARY PROVISIONS) BILL. communique in Athens The Bill was originally introduced to legalise Mr. Malcolm Macdonald's appoint-
yesterday.
Greek artillery, however, con
tinued to pound eneiny positions ment as High Commissioner for Canada while he retained his seat as a Member of Parlia-
ment.
with marked Stress and much damage by shells bursting in Ita lian trenches we registered
At onc point an Italian CO lump received direct hits and suffered heavy losses The Greek Air Force continued to drop bombs on millary targets. store dumps, columns 4121 Th march and moto-transport ron centrations. Reuter.
QUISLING VIOLENCE
A
Government insisted on treat-] He stated the Hill was a war the division as a vole of con- time measure and announced that fidence but eventually the Com- a proposal for the creation of
unan mous Select Committee to consider the mons gave the Bill a heading.
whole subject and reduce the situation to an order suited to mo- dern times would be accepted by Government,
at
TRIPLE
MURDER MYSTERY
The corpses of three young Chinese
with women,
their hands and feet bound with grass rope, were found floating in the harbour off West Point yesterday after-
noon.
The bodies were re- moved to the Public Mortuary by the Water Police.
BURMA PILOTS
The Bill only lasts for one ycar and in the interim a Select Committee will seek to clarify
The first batch of neting pilot the whole position of Members The Prime Minister, irt the
in of Parliament who accept offices course of a speech supporting the officers to complete training of profit.
Bill, said fundamental Con the Burma Volunteer Air Unit It was the first time since he stitutional principles were
course left for India yesterday for formed his administration that stake and that Government must' Mr Churchill had asked the Com- be given unfettered discretion to re advanced training, says mons for a vote of confidence, and select the best men for vital work, He received it without even the 'Any suggestion that Government formality of a division.
would abuse the powers for which it asked must be treated question of confidence in Gov ernment.
There's A War On
M Churchill told the House
A fresh example of! Quislingite violence to- that the debate on the Bill would wards Norwegian school-be treated as a vote of confidence children, was reported yesterday by the Norwe- gian News Agency.
According to the Swedish news- paper "Social Demokraten," a de- tachment of Quishing storm troop-| ers forced their way into a school at Sken and demanded to be tak- en to a class in which were se veral boys whom they alleged had maltreated a member of the Quisl- ing Youth Guard.
The leader of the storm troopers jumped on the teach er's deck and ordered four boys to follow him to an outhouse where the boys were stripped naked and beaten with feather straps.
in the Government.
After stating that the whole
question of appointinent; would be considered by a Select Com
mittee, the Prime Minister added: "Meanwhile let us get on with
Raising Status
Parliament
as #
by
He concluded his speech saying: "It is the policy of this Government to raise and sustain the personal status of Members of in every possible the war because, though one might|licy as Leader of the House
manner. It is my deliberate po- hardly think it. there
of on, in which our lives and liber-always be careful, as I have been is a war Commons to do so and we shall
tes and even wider causes are hanging in the balance."—Reuter.
of the safety and dignity of the House.
History of Principle
I am sure that after this war
is over this institution which we The Attorney-General, moving cherish and serve will have gain- the second reading, reviewed the ed by having in its ranks large history of the principle dating numbers of members who played from the reign of Queen Anne an important part in the great which laid down that a member days through which we shall have hold ng an office of profit under passed and have their share ir} the Crown should submit himself winning the victory, the fruits of The school manages and staff to his constituents for re-election, | which we and other Parliaments have sent a strongly worded pro-and detailed anomalies and con-will then enjoy."-British Wire- test to the Ministry of Church tradict ons which subsequent Acts less. and Education.-Reuter.
of Parliament created.
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ENGLAND
a
communique issued in Rangoon. Another complement of pilot oflicers is under training in Burma.
Reuter.
AIR FORCE SUPPORT OF GREEKS
at-
Highly successful tacks on the Albanian villages of Luzati, south- east of Tepelini, and Fieri, were made on Wednesday during R.A.F. operations supporting
Greek army, says a communi- que issued yesterday by headquarters of the Bri- tish forces in Greece.
the
Direct hits were scored on a concentration of motor vehicles near Luzati and on military camps at Fieri, where several large fires were started,
At Fieri, swooping law, aircraft machine-gunned military head- quarters and other targets.
British 'planes intercepted a convoy of carge ships and a gunboat two miles off Valona and successfully machine-gun- ned them.
all the British 'planes returned safely Reuter.
FRONTIER ACTION
now
After a successful action against North Waziristan malcontents their leader has fled and is Purposes reported to have realised his £2,000,000 error and is contemplating setti- New ling with the Government.-Reu-
The Viceroy's War Fund now tops the mark, says Reuter from Delhi.
ter.
McEwan's
RED LABEL
BE
BRITISH
BUY
CAN WIN BRITISH
Mr. Warren Irvin, for- eign affairs expert of the National Broadcasting Company, said on arrival in New York; yesterday: "There is no doubt that England can win the war. "The morale all over England is excellent all over Germany it is not so good, because only about 20 per cent of the people there are rabidly pro-Nazi."
Mr. Irvin listed as “vitalli, Gore. | man-weaknesses the condition of
Germany's food, clothing, oil, sup- plies and transport services.- Reuter.
INDIA'S LOSSES........... The Government spokesman in the Indian Assembly yesterday stated, that Muslims, killed in dif- ferent battles' In and around Egypt and in other encounters From June, 1939 to December, ||1940,--numbered, 22 and non-Mus-
ims 52-Reuter
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