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DEFEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT.
MAJORITY OF 72 FOR LABOUR AMENDMENT.
HISTORIC PARLIAMENTARY
(Reuter's Service.)
DEBATE.
London, January, 21.
GOVERNMENT'S OIL SHARES.
JANUARY 22.
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MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN'S STATEMENT.
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London. Jaiary: 21.
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MISSING "LAUNCH.
A LOCAL MYSTERY,
Another local mystery has been created by the disappearance, of another steam launch
BRITISH EMPLOYMENT SCHEME.
Londen, January 21. Speaking in the House of Commons, Colonel Amery outlined In the House of Commons. Mr. Neville Chambertin informed Commander Kenworthy that the proposal for the sale of the Clovern special programme for the alleviation of unemployment, namaly, the ment's shares in the Anglo-Persian, Oil Company was first made by construction of five light cruisers annually for ten years. replacing turned, the Tungsheang Steam the Managing Director of the Burma Oil Company, but it was under-obsolete vessels and this year employing 32,000 men at a cost of stood that the Shell and Royal Dutch Companies were also £5,000,000. interested in the project.
AMERICA AND MEXICAN REBELS.
Replying to further questions, Mr. Neville Chamberlainsaid the In the House of Commons, the Government was defeated, the Anglo-Persian Company's Board had not been officially consulted. Labour amendment to the Address being adopted by 328 votes to 256. The Government did not feel sble to take a final decision, as it had In the House of Commons, cries of "Speech" at question time, intended to refer the matter to a Cabinet Committes prior to a de- when ardient members pressed supplementary questions, marked thecision. Two Government Directors of the Anglo-Persian Co. were interfering with American commerce. impatience of members to reach the final stages of the decisive consulted but it would not be in the public interest to disclose exactly debate, which was resumed by Sir Joan Simon.
Sir John described the proceedings as not an execution of the what their advice was, because the question was undecided and desire to have the information given' them. "Asked who conducted Government but as an inquest. Referring to the Labour Party he might be decided by some Government in the future. who would was exhorted by Ministerialists to call them the Socialist Party and the negotiations on behalf of the Government, Mr. Chamberlain said he did so amid loud back-bench Labour cheers. He said he would the proposals were originally submitted to the President of the continue to support Liberal measures and oppose unliberal measures Board of Trade by himself. The First Lord of the Admiralty and as proposed by Labour, declaring that the verdict of the elections the Secretary for War were also consulted. showed that the country was as firmly opposed to Socialism as it was to Protection, but that a vast majority favoured a new spirit in the Government.
Mr. Austen Chamberlain said that Sir John Simon's speech had reminded him of the dog who "to gain his private entis went mad and bit a man."--(Loud laughter. Nobody would be in the Social- ist camp sooner than Sir John Simon when that camp became Mr. Chamberlain predicted that popular.--(Ministerial cheers). Mr. Asquith would be the last Liberal Premier of the country and that the next election would be a vote between Labour and Conser
vative.!
To Relieve Unemployment.
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THE RAILWAY STRIKE, SUBSTANTIAL SERVICE BEING MAINTAINED.
London, January 21. Reports from various parts of the country this afternoon show that the railway stoppage is only partial, substantial services being maintained. The boat trains are running from Victoria and from Waterloo.
Washingtop. January 23.. American cruisers will forcibly prevent Mexican rebely from
THE MEXICAN CIVIL WAR.
THREATS AND DEMANDS AT TAMPICO.
(Reuter's American Service.)
The steam launch Kwongtak left the harbour on Sunday after” noon, and, since she has not re- Launch Company, which owned the vessel, have reported to the police the circumstances under which she made the trip. It appears that in compliance with fan order over the telephone, the Kwongtak was held in readiness at Blake Pier and, at the appoinH ed hour, three men and two wo- man, all Chiness, went aboard her and the launch headed in the direction of Castle Punk. Nothing has since been heard of tho vessel, and the surmise is that foul play is afoot.
|BIG SHANGHAI BLAZE.
M. B. K. BUILDING AFIRE. (Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, January
New York, January 21. Following threats by Huerta to destroy the Mexican Petroleum Company's property as Tampico unless four hundred thousand dollars, advance taxes, be paid to the rebels, the State Department at Washington has advised the company to protect their property by paying the demands, adding, however, that this should not be done!.
A fire, which for some time unless the rebels actually seize the property or indicate their
Washington, January 21. threatened to prove vary serious, intention to carry out their threat.
The revolutionaries' blockade of the oil port of Tampico has broke out on the fourth floor of Inter-Union Strife The Itter-Union strife in connection with the railway strike is been postponed until the end of January, according to a despatch the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha build- Miss Margaret Bondfield, in a maiden speech, said that the argu- ments of Sir John Simon and Mr. Ansten Chamberlain had little to further exemplined by the fact that the N. U. R. Executive from Rear Admiral Magruder to the Navy Department. Navy ing in the heart of. Shanghai's country declaring that Mr. Bromley's speech last night clearly shows believed, the warning from the United States, emphasised by the of Szechuen and Foochow Roads. Apparently the blaze started do with the paramount question of unemployment. She proceeded has telegraphed to the secretaries, of its branches throughout the officials say this really signifies that the blockade will not be down-town district at the corner The American Consulat Vera Cruz has informed Huarts that from an overheated fireplace. It to attack the Government for failing to deal therewith.
considerable boadway, Colonel Amery dealt with the Government's special programme that efforts are being made to prejudice the position of our organi-presence of American warships, having sufficed. of naval construction with a view to relieving unemployment in the sations of our Union for propaganda purposes and to disintegrate our
States Government will be constrained to adopt appropriate spreading through the greater ship-building centres. It was proposed to lay down immediately organisation. It is therefore imperative that our men should be solid if mining operations are carried out partially or wholly, the United gained
measures for the protection of its commerce.
part of the third and fourth floors to the roof. eight light cruisers of 10,000 tona and armed with eight-inch guns,in loyalty to the organisation. three of which would be built in the Royal Dockyards and the re- mainder submitted to tender. In addition to this special unemploy ment programme, this year's programme included three submarines and one submarine depot ship, two destroyers and one destroyer depot ship. two gunboats för special service in the Persian Gulf, one aircraft carrier and one mine layer, all urgently needed. The whole i programme would employ 32,000 men and involve a special addition of five millions sterling to the navy estimates.
MR. BOK A SUSPECT.
ACCUSED OF PROPAGANDA.
Washington, January 21.
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Mr. Bok, originator of the peace prize scheme, has been called;
BRITISH COMMERCIAL HOSPITALITY. TRIBUTE BY HEAD OF CHINESE Mị,
Loacon, January 21. A: a Government dinner, to the Chinese Industrial. Mission He was confident given at Lancaster House, the High Commissioner, responding to that the present Opposition was not indifferent to the needs of naval the toast of their health, expressed their pleasure at the warm wel before the Senate committee and charged with carrying on pro- security and the urgent situation in the shipbuilding yards but come given to the mission in England, which had done much to bringpaganda designed to influence the tion of Congress and the Gov- would give the proposals its prompt and sympathetic eon-iteration still closer the already friendly Anglo-Chinese relations. He re-ernment's foreign policy. It is stated that the committee's purpose gretted they were unable to remain longer in England or make a is to determine whether any relations exist between the Bok award when Parliament re-assembled.
more extended tour of the provinces, but was confident the in-and the organisations whose purpose is to secure American adber- Spirations of British commercial greatness to be brought back by ence to the League of Nations. the mission would effectively promote a degree of Anglo-Chinese co-operation never known before. He concluded by toasting the renewed expansion of British commerce and the perpetuation of cordial Anglo-Chinese relations.
Mr. Baldwin's Speech.
FRENCH RESTICTIONS QUERIED.
SUGGESTION OF REPRISALS,
RISKS FIREMEN FACE.
FATALITIES AT PITTSBURG.
Pittsburg. January 21
The flames were finally ex- tinguished after a bitter fight.
The loss is unknown as yet.
FOOTBALL COMPETITION.
PRIZE SHARED BY TWO. Out of the large entry for last week's Football Competition, only two competitors succeeded in giving the correct goal scoras of the three matches. These
were:
D. d'AQUINO,
TSE CHUEK YIN,
A fire broke out in the plant of the Atlantic Refining Company 4, Minden Avenue. Kowloon. and seven firemen were killed by falling from a broken ladder into a tunk of burning oil. Several other firemen were injured in falling from the ice-covered tops of the tanks, the mercury being two de- grees below zero.
Mr. Baldwin, un rising, was loudly cheered by Ministerialists: He termed Mr. Asquith an obstetric physician about to bring a child into the world saying "If this child is not such as I fancy, when born. I shall smother it" (Ministerial laughter and cheers. He declared that the Liberal Party only got its numbers at the last lection by telling voters to keep out the Socialist Party. He re- viewed the Government's achievements, like the settlement of thei American Debt, the maintenance of the Entente. the Treaty with Turkey, the practical settlement of the Tangier question and the boot legging differences with the United States, leaving our relations
London, January 21. with the United States better than they had ever been. He said the!
In the House of Commodis, Comd, Kenworthy, referring to the Governouent would leave its successors no outstanding problems Oppositioneries of "Oh!"-except reparations, which was looking more French regie's ordinances prohibiting the import and export of
New York, January 21. hopeful and unemployment. He declared that the responsibility on articles in the Cologne area, asked. if this virtual blockade of the
The World, commenting on the proposed trip of the Shenandoah. the policy with which the party went to the country was his alone. British zone continued, whether any form of reprisals could be fie was not driven intait by someone else, but the decision to go to the jadopted. "Mr. Ronald McNeill admitted that such ordinances had! country was the decision of a united Government. He had a clear been issued, but said he was not prepared at the moment to accept suggests that after the annexation of sufficient icefields it will be conscience. Mr. Macdonald would be able to build up a Socialist Comdr. Kenworthy's description. The Government were enquiring necessary to cover them with long-range guns in order to protect State on the shifting sands of one-fifth of the national vote. The into the matter, and the attention of the French and Belgian Gov-the Pole, Conservatives looked to the future confidently, without apprehen-ernments was being called to the matter. sion, standing of three basic principles, namely the maintenance of the institutions of the Empire. preservation und development of the Hə Empire and improvement of the conditions of our own people. asserted that the future lay between the Labour Party and the Conservatives.
SEPARATIST AGITATION EXPOSED. RESULT OF MR. CLIVE'S INVESTIGATION.
London, January 21.
WRIT SARCASTIC.
COLD WAVE IN AMERICA.
New York, January 21.
Over a dozen deaths from cold have been recorded in New York and roany others in various parts of the country, owing to a cold wave which swept down the Yukon.
SMALL HOPE FOR U .S. CRUISER.
Washington, Jandary 21. Owing to the heavy weather it is feared the strand Tacoma
Referring to his decision to go to the country. Mr. Baldwin said
In the House of Commons, Mr. Ronald McNeill'said that Mr. he had for himself no regrets, but many for those who fell in the fight.
Captain Guestintimated that he would support the Labour amend-Clive, the British Consul General enquiring in the Palatinate, bad ment in order to condemn Protection, but he wanted the other telegraphed that after five days of hearing the views of every class amendments taken in order to give Liberals an opportunity of he had reached the conclusion that the overwhelming mass of the recording, their anti-Socialist views. Otherwise, he would vote population opposed the autonomous government, which could never been battered beyond hope.
hare come into existence without French support. Seventy-five per against the clos
Commander Kenworthy declared that the Conservatives during cent of the Separatists came from outside, and included a large the past five years had disgraced the British name in Ireland, India criminal element and Russia.
Labour Leader's Speech.
The galleries were packed for the concluding state of the debate
those present including the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York.ber. Mr. Baldwin was also rousingly cheered by his supporters as he
Mr. Ramsay Macdonald said the House was going to take a departed.
The following Liberals voted for the Government-Sir Beddoe step which he believed, with all his heart and soul, would be marked
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OTHER POINTS.
(Special News Service.)
THE GOLD DOLLAR PREDOMINATES.
(Reater's Service.)
cjo The Telephone Co.
In accordance with rules, the prize of $50 is shared by these two, and if they will call at this office we shall be pleased to hand them $25 each.
DISTRICT WATCHMAN. ON TRIAL.
THREE SERIOUS CHARGES.
Before the Chief Justice (Sir William Rees-Davies) this MOYD-. jing the case was continued in which 8 District watchman, named Chol Ping, was charged has with demanding $80 in money
London, January 18. Sterling on New York has declined to 4.2014, the lowest for two and heavy importa from America. It closed at 4.214. French francs are at 94 to 95.
IMPERIAL PENNY POST DESIRED.
"London, January 21.
EMPIRE WIRELESS DEADLOCK.
in the history of the country for good. He appealed to the House, Rees, Sir Thomas Robinson. Sir Ellis Griffiths, Messrs, Duckworth, if the amendment were decisively carried. to then adopt the Ad-Hugh Edwards, G. Leng-Sturrock, Hogbin, Jenkins. W.E. Robinson years, and is attributed to nervousness over the polictical situation dress forthwith and let the House meet the new Government-(the and Colonel England. remainder of the sentence' was drowned by Ministerial and some Liberal cries of "No"). The Labour Government might create many fears, but what would be still worse would be action which would
London, January 21. degrade the House, bring it to a deadlock, produce a sort of stale-
He claimed that the During the debate in the House of Commons, Mr. Baldwin mate and show their incapacity to govern.
A postal conference at Birmingham under the auspices of the chief reason why the foreign position was improving was the pros-declared, in regard to attitude of the Conservative Party towards the pect of a change of Government. One of the great Continental expected Labour Government, that they would not indulge in Association of British Chambers of Commerce has unanimously diplomatists said to him: "Since you have had the election in fractious or factious oppossition, but would be as critical as the passed a resolution in favour of the imperial penny post. England, the ice which was getting thicker round about us is be-Opposition should be of the Labour Government's legislation and
administration, ginning to break."
Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, in his speech, stated that, as for tha
London, January 21 Sir Douglas Hogg wound up the debate for the Government, Mr. Macdonald thereupon moved the closure, which was carried fears that prevailed regarding Socialism, as far as they were well
founded his Party would do their best to allay and dissipate then.
In the House of Commons, Sir L. Worthington Erans said no without a division.
Sir Douglas Hogg, in closing the debate, reviewed the Conserva- The House thereupon divided and adopted the Labour amend-
tive Government's record. Referring to foreign affairs, he declared agreement had been reached between the Post Office and Marconis ment by 328 votes to 256.
The House Adjourns-
that when the Government protested against the French havasion as regards Empire wireless. Immediately after the division, which was taken amongst the of the Ruhr, they had the choice of maintaining friendly relations
London, January 21. keenest excitement, Mr. Macdonald claimed the main question, with France, and thereby helping to solve the problem thereafter, or namely, that the Address be put. The Speaker accepted this, which of breaking with France. Having maintained our friendship, the
In the Bonse of Commons, Colonel Amery told Captain Hudson is allowed, thus wiping out the other amendments, amid strong Con-direct result was that we had been able to bring in the co-operation servative protest. The amended Address was then carried by 328 of the United States, and Committees had been set up which at
least marked a definite step forward in the solution of the repara-that the Admiralty did not propose to abandon the Singapore sen. volents 251.
(Continued on Page 7).
On Mr. Baldwin's motion, the House adjourned until to-morrow. tion question, and which he hoped would be the first step of re- There were wild labour cheers as Mr. Macdonald left the chamelorganisation which would enable Germany to balance her budget.
THE SINGAPORE BASE
with menaces; stealing $50; and accepting or obtaining a bribe of $50. The prisoner had pleaded "Not guilty."
The facts of the case, as stated by Mr. Dyer Ball, for the Crown, were that the prisoner was & District watchman, his work being to accompany 'an Inspector of Chinese brothels. On December 5th: he visited a brothel alone and demanded the mistress to produce
a certain girl. When the girl was brought, prisoner said she was Dot registered and threatened to strost her. The woman objected and prisoner then demanded $100, eventually coming down to £50.
prisoner was not supposed to go and accepting that amount The to these houses alone, but only as an interpreter.
Evidence was then taken. Mr. Campbell Frösser- appearing for the defence.
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