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In all newspapers, emphasis is laid on the fact that the majority. and minority alike, were voting for A more intense war effort and establishment of the most effective Cabinet machinery which can be devised to meet the changing and urgent needs.
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The Times, while regarding it as unfortunate that the Labour Party decided to press for a division, welcomes the opportunities which the debate offered. "The power of adaptation is the essence of the democratic capacity to wage war. It was no accident that the demo- cracles triumphantly survived the last war and that military monar- chies fell. They showed themselves fully competent to choose the war leaders they needed and no less willing and eager, indeed, to sur render to them all the authority they needed for the single aim of victory...
"It is that power of adaptation which public opinion is now begin ning to invoke with its present call for new manifestations of effec- five leadership in all its war ac- tivities.
PROFIT OUT OF REVERSE. "A tree people can bring profit out of reverse-and this country. unfortunately, is never to be seen at its best. bravest and most skil- ful. until it has encountered one. Its imagination is hardly at work until then, but then, it has the an- swer to misfortune ready to hand in, change of leadership. It wipes the state clean, enda the futile re- eriminations, taps the whole of the new reservoir of determination. and proves to itself, and to the world. that it has begun afresh and more formidably."¿
PREMIER TO...
REMAIN
in
LONDON, Mar 9 (Reuter)— It is understood that Mr. Chamberlain will remain office, despite the harrow majority which the Govern→ ment received `in the con Adence vote tonight, but A reconstruction of the Govern- ment is probable,
41 Government
Supporters Voted For Opposition
LONDON, May 9 (Reuter)-The official division. list published this morning shows that 41 Govern ment supporters voted with the Opposition last night
In addition to those mentioned; the names include Brig.-Gen. E. L. Spears, C, B, C. B. E., M. C. Lord Winterton, former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, also Mr. H. W. Butcher, who resigned the post of Parliamentary Private
Secretary to Mr. R. H. Bernays, who is Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.
PREMIER'S APPEAL
TO FRIENDS
JAPANESE BOARD
H.K. JUNK
Crew Transferred,
Told To Sail
Japanese sailors who boarded "a Hongkong registered trading Junk somewhere midway between Wag- Plan Island and Tam Ken Shan on Sunday decided that the crew should be despatched to Aberdeen. it was revealed yesterday by Ho Tso-yat, trading junk master, b a report he made to the police.
The crew of the Junk were brought to Tam Kon Shan, where they walted until the same traw- ler that had taken their vessel as a prize returned later the same day' with another Junk in tow. crew were placed aboard the second vessel with in-
Ho and his
structions to proceed to Aberdeen. They arrived there on Wednesday. The junk and cargo were left behind at Tam Kon Shan, the to- tal loss to Ho and the owners be- is estimated as $12,000 The Junk was carrying a cargo of 278 bags of rice, 346 tins of kerosene, and bags of flour and sugar
ARMED ROBBERY
ALLEGED
On, a charge of armed robbery at No. 15. Kilung Street, on April 19, when a woman. Ma Chiu- kwan, and other occupants of the LONDON, May 9 Reuter-Mr. flat were robbed of money and A. Duff Cooper said that the Dejewellery to a total value of $3,120, bate had showed that the Govern- three men, Lo Yau, 38, Yan Kwat ment would be insufficiently im-chul, 33, and Sun Kun, 38, were pressed by speeches they had committed by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- fadyen at Kowloon Court yester- heard and information that must have reached them through pri- day to the Criminal Sessions. vate sources to take some drastic 2 reform so urgently The Times, after. condemning steps. for the Government's failure to effect needed. He resented the Prime a real Cabinet reconstruction calls Minister's appeal to the affection attention to Mr. Chamberlain's of his friends and it was with plain invitation, in his speech, to
deepest reluctance that he was Labour to take its share in the obliged to signify the lack of con; Government. "If the Labour Partyfidence he felt in the present ad- falls to answer the clear public call ministration by going into the It leaves the Prime Minister more Lobby against it. free to choose his own means of showing that the setback in South- ern Norway is not merely failure, successfully extenuated, but a new starting point for British energy and valour."
ONLY ANXIETY
LORD HALIFAX
Continued from Page 7 for anyone in the Lords or Com- mons to draw any distinction be- tween the Prime Minister, and The Daily Telegraph says, "The, every other member of the War country has from the start been
Cabinet who has been in complete ready to brace itself to whatever "accord with him, and with him effort might be required and its shares the full responsibility for only anxiety is whether the de- what has been done, I cannot mands being made are adequate tò claim, then, that no mistakes were the need. It is undenlable. that made, but I am in no way dispos- this anxiety is giving rise to a ed, on behalf of the Government strong feeling that the present to adopt the apologetic posture of composition of the Government is a. dependant. not as satisfactory as it should be.. "Mr. Chamberlain would be well advised not to ignore what is un- doubtedly sound, and populag in stinct. What the country asks is to be firmly led and to be con- vinced that the greatest war effort, of which the nation is capable, is being marshalled and directed with unfailing effici acy and drive. The Prime Minister can provide that a Cabinet strengthened by
with
Times
says nothing
new blood."
The could be further from the
· minds of those most concerned to promote the highest degree of energy, Speed, competence and unity in the development of the war effort than a search for scapegoats...
The events of the past few weeks were not in themselves irretrievable catastrophes, but have served to mark the culmination of a long and almost impercept ibly rising in the curve of public dissatsfaction.
There is no trace of panic and none of vacillation.
After the disclosures of opinion this week, there can be no question of the strength of the demand for a Ministry more broadly based and therefore, differently con- stituted. The only question is how It can be achieved, and how soon.
MUST BE FORMED
The News-Chronicle, writes that Mr. Chamberlain no longer com- mands the conndence of the coun- try. A new. Government com
prising all Parties, must be formed immediately, which the Manchester Guardian says that the. Labour Party should have held its hand to let the latent hostility to Mr. Chamberlain continúe for a few weeks when it would be strong enough to force a radical change.
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ANSWER TO CRÍTICS "If members of the Government, bringing as they certainly do to problems of Government very dif ferent minds and judgment, are unanimous on a certain course, and if they make conclusions-as they did without, delay and with the assistance of the best techinical advice they can command, it is not an unfair deduction that others-- perhaps the Government critics on the same information would have reached conclusions not dis- similar."
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MORE CHANCE
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TO WIN
PARIS, May 9 (Reuter and Havas)--Prof. Koht, Norwegian Foreign Minister, at a meeting of press representatives, said that henceforth Norway would have a greater chance of defeating Ger- many.
Hitherto Germany had remain- ed within the protection of fron- tiera but now that she had come beyond them, she was able to be defeated.
Prof. Koht confirmed that the Royal Family is still in Norway and a greater part of the dip lomatic corps has been able to follow the Government.
Y.M.C.A. SQUASH
RACQUETS
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(Assistant Secretary of the Y.M.C.A.) as Chairman, Mr. W. Lord Halifax said that he did Lampard, Hon. Secretary. and not minimise the damage that the Messrs. H W. Smits and D. Grant. withdrawal brought on the whole. It was decided to effect certain im- and added that the damage on provements to the squash racquet neutral judgment and thought had į courts.
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LONDON, May 9 (Reuter)Re- plying in the House of Commons Carton to a question regarding the Anglo- Shanghai. LONDON, May... 9 (Reuter- Russian trade negotiations. Mr. R. Royal Air Force awards for the A. Butler, Under-Secretary for For- Norwegian operations include the❘ eign Affaira, said the Government Distinguished Service Order for had considered the communication Squadron Leader" John Wildam received from the Soviet Govern- Donaldson, who was leader of the ment on April 29 and they now squadron which brought down asked the Soviet Government to Shanghai and Parcels only for Tientsin. fourteen German planes in one furnish certain further informa- day during the operationS Aandalsnes, 8q. Leader Donald- son, was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1910. Of the fourteen aircraft, six were shot down and eight others put out of action.
at tion.
This was in order that Britain: might be in a position to judge whether the obligations under taken by the Soviet Government would render it possible for them, at the present, to conclude a trade. agreement with the United King- dom on the lines which the British Government had in mind,
The Scotsman says that the situation. disclosed by Mr. Churchili, Indicates the need for LONDON STOCK, reconstruction of the Government,
EXCHANGE and the Birmingham Post adds that if Mr. Chamberinin streng- LONDON, May 9 (Reuter)-ID thens national unity by making the Stock Exchange Kafirs inan- the Government more vigorous. tained a good disposition through- well held. Industrials, lacked buy- and more representative, the outthe session; Gilt-edged ing interest, especially tobaccos nation, appreciating his past securities, after making further Royal Dutch partially recovered services will be patient. but headway, finished under best but thè early marking down, Wall drastic changes there must be, Indian and colónial issues were Street being narrowly irregular,
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