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MR. BALDWIN TAKES OVER

A Reshuffling Of The

Government

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London, Jume„AŠ

Air. MacDonald resigned the office of Prime Minster and First Lord of the Treasury and air, Batawan accepted the King's invitation to ful the guestion. The names of the new CAD.net were announced later in the evening. Mr. MacDonald remains in the Cabinet as Lord President of the Couneki.

Sir John Simon becomes Home Secretary, and Sir Samuel › Hoare Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Lord Hailsham is Lord Chancellor, Lord Hallfax Secretary of State for War, and "Lord Zetland Secretary of State for India. Mr. J. H. Thoma's

continues at the Dominions Office.

Lord Sankey, Sir John Gilmour, and Sir Hulton Young, whe has been created a Feer, retire from the Cabinet. The new Cabinet Ministers are Lord Zetland, Lord Eustace Percy, Mr. Major Eden, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, and Mr. Ernest BrowIL Tryon has been appointed Postmaster-General but without a seat in the Cabinet.

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It is doubtful whether the pro- cess of reconstructing а British Cabinet has ever been carried out with greater expedition than was the present case. It was not until 3.45 in the afternoon that Mr. MacDonald, who had spoken in the House of Commons" earlier in the day, on the question of defence against attack from the air, drove to Buckingham Palace; yet it was possible at 8 o'clock to hold' & meeting of the Privy Council at which Ministers kissed hands on their appointment

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 1935

FATE PLAYS A GAME

With Firemen

ALLOWED BY EXCEPTION

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London, June 14...

A Good deal of amused surprise Shanghai, June 25.. was caused at the party Rubber-booted firemen at Bub- Claridge's which Muss Grace Moore bling Well Station did not mind:| Claridge's which Miss Grace Moure yesterday's floods in their neigbuttended after bar first appearance bourhood, at first. They are used at Covent Garden,

This was when the band started to water, anyway, and except that in this case it was in the wrong playing some of the music of place and that it seemed a pity"Anything Goon," which will be that they had no fire to put it produced at the Palace Theatre

'next Friday,

on, it didn't matter much."

Mr. Cochran has recently obtain- After the foods had been there ad injunctions against theatres and for a Nttle time, however, passing cabarete performing any of the motor-cars began to experience music to this production Ignition troubles, due to water Yet Mr. Cochran was among the being thrown up on to the wiring." guests at Claridge's and 13 no way Then a few cars stopped right input out at this apparent negizet front of the `station. which of his embargo

OLD TITLE REVIVED

Master Of The

Armouries

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London, June 14.

I Am glad to learn that the ani

Master of the cient title of Armouries is to be restored to the Tower of London, writes a corres pondent in 'a London daily.

Mr. Charles Foulkes, our leading living authority on armour, haa heen in charge of the Tower collec, tions since 1913 as "Curator."

Lord Dillon before him filled the office, with which the forbears of both were linked far back,

Une or Lord Dillon's ancestors,

wouldn't do at all: they were in The reason was that Mr. Geoffrey the way of the fire angines should Toye, who acted as host had pre-menry Lee, was Master of the

True, it viously asked Mr Cochran to make they have to turn out. they a special exception for this party

did not seem Ukely that would have any fire to which to go, everything being extremely damp everywhere in Shanghai, but one never knew. So fremen lent a hand in moving broken down cara well clear of the station.

Then, at 7 p.m.. "the pells went down," and two machinės answer-

ed the call somewhere up Yu

1929, but the other four Ministers enter the Cabinet for the first time. Lord Zetland's able work at the India Round-Table Conference and on the Joint Select Committee will be of the greatest value to the Government now that treuen Road. India Bill has reached the Upper House. His appointment as Secre- tary of State for India also pre- serves the balance of Secretaries of State between the two Houses He will have the co-operation of Lord Halifax, whose acceptance of the invitation to remain in the Ministry until the end of the present Parliament is greatly ap preciated.

All was

Mr. Cochran' did so.

MUCH MISREPRESENTED

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London, June 14. Contrary to the impression ons usually geta from stage productions of "Hamlet," the osatel of Elsinore is anything but a gloomy place.

Indeed, at answered well, when the writer visited it to a Danish friend's description as a siren in the sun.

To-morrow. afternoon in the

Castle a Scandinavian broadcast demonstration under the suspices of the Oxford Group will minister not to a mind but to a world diseased,

Slowly they left the station, for once, and crawled up the road- there was every reason for a fire engine not to share the fate of the broken-down -motor-cars. Ribald, passers-by asked when the fire-Boats were being brought to Bubbling Weil Station: quiet for a few minutes, with fire- men standing by to go out on extra machines if required. Then

The meeting is to be held in the the awaited message came back.

Listeners to the almost adding injury to insult: "Spiritual, Mobilisation. of "motor-car fire, fire finished.” Europe" may get what local colour The waiting firemen dismissed.they can from the fact that it was A minute or two later the two the scene of the denouement of are-engines floated back to their Shakespeare's tragedy. station,

Knights Hall CONSERVATIVES LEAD

There will be 15 Conservative, four Liberal. National, and three Nationa: Labour Ministers in the Cabinet. In August, 1931, the Cabinet consisted of four Conser

The outgoing Prime Minister remained for some time with the King after he had informed him of his desire to be relieved of the ;- burden of his office. He did not return to 10, Downing Street until 4.45. Mr. Baldwin had been sum moned to the Palace in the inter- val, and he left 11, Downing Street at about the time Mr. MacDonald was returning. Mr. Baldwin acvatives, four National Labour, and cepted his Majesty's Invitation to All the office of Prime Minister and First. Lord of the Treasury, and on his return to Downing Street just before 516 he went into No. 10, where there was a meeting of Ministers, who, in accordance with the usual custom, the new placed their ofices at

The Prime Minister's disposal,

three Ministers who were leaving

office Lord Bankey, Sir John Gilmour, and Sir Hilton Young proceeded from this meeting to Buckingham Palace, where, they gave tip their seals of office and took leave

The of the King. names of the new Cabinet were submitted to his Majesty, and at 6 o'clock there was a meeting of the Privy Council at which -Me.. Malcolm MacDonald and "Mr." Ernest Brown, were sworn in. The whole process of reconstruction therefore was completed in ample time for the Lord President of the Council to leave for Lassiemouth at 7.30 and for the Prime Minister and the Minister of Labour to set out at 7.40 for Himley Hall, near Dudley.

THE NEW APPOINTMENT Most of the appointinents to the new Cabinet are in accordancs withi general anticipation, but there were a few which the poli- tical prophets had overlooked. 11 had been taken for granted that Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Runciman, Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, MI. Walter Ellot, and Bir Godfrey Collins would remain at their former posts. Sir, Kingsley Wood

two Liberals, After the General Mection the position was:-Con- servatives 11, Nations Labour four, Liberals three, and Liberal National two. After Sir Donald Maclean's death Lord Halifax en- tered the Cabinet, and the post- tion then was:-Conservatives 12, National Labour four, Liberals two, and Libera National two. Lord

CHAMBER CONGRESS

DICUSSIONS

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Parts, June 29

Snowden, Sir Herbert Samuel, and 8th Congress of the International

Ottawa Con-

Bir Archibald Sinclair left the Cabinet after the ference, and thereafter the mem bership of the Cabinet consisted of 13 Conservatives (later increased to 14 by the appointment of Sir Kingsley Wood). three National Labour

(Mr. MacDona'd, Lord Sankey, and Mr. Thomas), and

The last working day of the

Chamber of Commerce was de- voted chiefly to the discussion of traffic problems. and

the final wording of the resolutions which Will be submitted for the ap- Proval of the Congress on Sat- turday morning.

The chief question to ·which' this year's Congress has devoted attention is that of the stablisa- tion of currencies The United States delegates in the course of the proceedings have revised their original attitude in as much as they now

three Liberal National (Sir John Simon, Mr. Runciman, and Sir Godfrey Collins). The four Liberal National members of the new Cabinet are Sir John Simon, Mr. Runciman, Bir Godfrey Collins, and Mr. Ernest Brown, and the three National Labour Mr. Mac-favour of the formula at first re- Donald, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Jected by

and Mr. Thomas.

The only Ministerial appoint- ment announced officially outside the Cabinet is that of Major Tryon to be. Postmaster-General. Promotion has been long overdue, for Major Tryon has held the

office of Minister of Pensions in the Conservative Administrations since 1922 and from the formation of the first National Government.

PROTECTION OF PLANTS

AND ANIMALS

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Presa” (Copyright).)

declare themselves in

the British, namely that stabilisation should be on gold basis.

A number of delegates from their position on the same quen- other countries likewise modified

tton taken up when Congress opened. The motion will be laid before the Plenary Session on Saturday, déclaring that the stablisation of currencies can only be effected by the festoration of "the International Gold Stan- dard

The project of convening the Conference to discuss currency matters was abordoned because it was considered sufficient for the Congress to recommend the var-

lous Governments to prepare to carry out stablisation by institut- ing mutual deliberations on the subject

has done such admirable 'work at the General Post Office that his promotion was assured, and with his departure to the Ministry of Health the office of Postmaster- General again loses its Cabinet

Berlin, June 29. status. The rumours that Mr.

Very cogent reasons for the pro- | Tranicean Huo Hin, Thomas might leave the Domi- rions Office have not been sub ulgation of laws for the protec

tion of animals and plants in their stantiated, and this may be one natural state in the Reich were reason why it has not been possi, advanced by the General Forestry ble to give promotion to Br Ormsby-Gure after four years Master, Herr von Kendell, in ad- dressing pressmen to-day. The excellent service at the Omice of German landscape, he said, had Works. Lord Hailsham's return to The Woolsack in place of Lord been frequently devastated in past Sankey was expected, as was the centuries through rapid industria appointment of Bir John Simon to sation and also many unwise

the Home Office and of Sir Samuel agriculture. A great part of the measures affecting forestry and to the Foreign Once. The German forests had been convert staction at these appointmentsed into desarta, he said, and a new I be tinged with regret at danger has arisen at the present Vestminster at the disappearance moment through the work under-

Sir John Gilmour, « who, has

taken in the campaign for the un- dgner yeoman work as Home

employed land drainage, road Secretary, and who was largely

building, etc. responsible:" for the smooth work- ing of the Silver Jubilee arrange"

Regula for the

IN HIS FATHER'S

FOOTSTEPS

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London June 14, Lord Stanley's victory in the ins classic race. Indeed, he has Oaks brings him his first honour only owned two or three horses and has hitherto won no race of im- portance

While Lord Derby will natura be delighted at ... this that his son is following in his Potatepa, his pleasure must-have Len a little tempered

Qusahed started at long odda. Lord Darby's. Coronal was second Quibed w

Lord Stanley has a

Members of the Oxford Group are often twitted with choosing beauty spots for their spiritual conferences...

Certainly Elsinore, at this time of year is as pleasant a place as any in Europe..

NOW

ON SALE

· that doughty Fillabethan, Bir Armouries from 1578 to 1811. Mr. Foulkes's ancestor, Capt. Fowke, was it the same period "Keeper of the Queen's handguns in the Tower."

According to Welsh pedigrees, Capt. Fowke was also. "Warden of the White Tower-the great keep. So the wheel of history turns full

VORACIOUS

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London, June 14. It is in keeping with Mr. Ernest Brown's usual strenuousness that he will spend part of his first day as a Cabinet Minister in address ing the National Government de monstration at Himley Hall,⠀⠀

Mr. Brown believes in hustla, He is one of the fastest and quite the loudest speaker in the House,

While he expounds his views with moral earnestness, he always bases. them on a secure foundation of facts and figures,

Among his fellow Cabinet Minis ters not even Bir Samuel Hoare has a more rapacious appetite for official papers. He reads Hansard at breakfast,

He should prove a valuable second to Mr. Baldwin..

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