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Premier Questioned On Its Coming
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London, July 4. Further questions were addressed in the House of Commons yester- day" to the Prime Minister with reference to the date when the Anglo-Italian Agreement is to be brought into force.
London, July 14,'
The hours of labour, and wages of Chinese workers in Hong Kong, and the Colony's infant and adult mortality rates, were the subjects of questions in the House of Commons yesterday.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, was asked by the Rev. R. 'W. Sorensen, (Labour) whether he would Institute a special inquiry into the social and industrial conditions of native workers in Hong Kong with a view to securing reliable in- formation concerning the hours of labour, wages, and also the infant and adult mortality
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Mr. MacDonald pointed out that, As regards infantile and adult When asked whether if date had the Governor of Hong Kong. Sir mortality, reliable information re- "not been determined before the Geoffry Northcote," had recently garding deaths was already record- House rose for the Summer Recess decided to appoint a full-time ed in Hong Kong, but information the Agreement would not he labour official to the Secretarlat on "mortality rates was admittedly brought into operation until after for Chinese Affairs. Among this unreliable. the House reassembles and has officer's functions would be in- This was partly on account "of) discussed the matter, the Prime vestigations into the cost of living. incomplete compliance with the Minister said he could not give rates of wages and local Industrial law for the registration of births such assurance in the hypothetical conditions, to which the Rev. Mr. (which was being remedied by ad- circumstances contemplated in the Sorensen had referred.
ministrative action) and partly question."
due to the fact that a considerable section of the Chinese population of Hong Kong had no fixed habita- tion in the Colony.
There would, he added, be the opportunity for further discussion by the House after
a date had Consul's
been determined. He could give
no assurances of any earlier de- Brother's
bate.
Further questioned, he added that he did not exclude the pos- elbility of calling the House to- gether during the Recess in order to discuss it.--(British Wireless).
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London, July 14
Mr. George Moss, British Consulį General in Hankpw, rave 'evidence
at the Paddington Police Court
In the circumstances, Mr. Mac- Donald said he did not think a special inquiry would be helpful.- (Reuter),
EXTRALITY STATEMENT
yesterday during the inquest into MISUNDERSTOOD,
the death of his brother, Mr. Wil-
liam Stanley Moss, who died from SAYS JAPAN
the effect of aspirin poisoning.
Mr. and Mrs. George Moss ar-
· London, July, 14. Attention was railed in the only a few days ago. They travell-House of Commons yesterday to i London, July 14.
declaration ed down from Eankow to Hong
by the Japanese The Prime Minister Informed Kong by a train which was invaly spokesman in Shanghai that the the House of Commons yesterday ed in an air raid outside Canton, abolish extraterritorial rights in Japanese Government intended to that it had been found Impossible necessitating the British Consul
those portions of China which are
DIFFICULTY rived in England from Hong Kong
an
to arrange for the formation of General and his wife taking re-in Japanese occupation.
International Commission to fuge away from the railway line proceed to the scene of any acrial while the raid was on.
Mr. RA Butler, Under-Secretary bombardment in Spain and to re- In evidence, Mr. Moss said that Japanese Government had inform- for Foreign Affairs, replied that the port the facts at the reguest of his brother was an export mer ed His Majesty's Ambassador in' |
ed.
The Spanish authorities concern- chant dealing with Japan. He Tokyo that it had investigated the had been worried about business facts and ascertained that the since the Sino-Japanese hostill-istatement, of the Japanese spokes- ties, for his business had been man was misunderstood. ruined.
The Japanese Government had The Coroner recorded an open no intention of' using the present verdict on the ground that there situation in China at present for was, insuficient evidence to show denying extraterritorial rights en- whether the overdose, of aspirin joyed by Great Britain and other had been taken accidentally or Powere vis-a-vis China-(British suicidally. (Reuter),
Wirless)
The British Government, there- fore, proposed to dispatch a Com- mission, consisting of two British nationals, for the purpose in view at the earliest possible date. The Commission would only proceed on the initiative of one or the other of the Spanish parties
Reuter),
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