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SINGLE CONTROL OF DEFENCE
INTERESTING DEBATE IN. LORDS
TO MUCH FOR ONE MAN
London, Mar. 15. Lord Londonderry, the Secre tary for Air, replying for the Government in a House of Lords' debate on a proposal for co-OF« | dinating the three fighting ser vices under a Ministry of De- fence, said that the plan of con trol by a single Secretary of State do- of two Departments with a puty in one was recognised as A failure' and was dropped in 1921. A single Minister la peace would then have such multifarious
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1931.
CASE OF MR. LENNOX
FRENCH
SIMPSON |ARMAMENT
Foreign Office Study NOTE
of Claims
London, Mar. 14. Dealing with the events leading, up to the transfer of Mr. Lennox Simpson from Harbin, to Dairen. Sir John Simon, in the House of Commons, 'said, that in response to Mr. Simpson's -request, the Government was examining his claims in .consultation with the Legation.
Intricate questions of law the were Involved but examination was now almost, complete-Router,
NOT EXPECTED NOW. TILL NEXT WEEK
Paris, Mar. 14.
It is authoritatively stated that the French Reply to the British Disarmament Me- morandum is not likely to be forwarded until the end of next week.
It will be so drafted as not to close the door to a settlement.
It is understood that it will confirm the general conditions cainid down in M, Barthou's letter
to Mr.. Arthur Henderson
Inst
duties and responsibilities that it AMATEUR BILLIARDS week, indicating that Franco Is
would be quite impossible for one man to deal with all the activities Involved.
There was a definite mit to wise rationalisation and that
CHAMPIONSHIP
sincerely anxious to secure that the disarmament discussions do not ond abortively,
It is hoped by the Quai D'Orsay
timit would, in his judgment, be Lee Retains Title For that the Note will really facilitate
passed by any attempt to set up a single Ministry of Defence.
In time of war, effective control of the three services would at a very early stage pass beyond the capacity of any single Minister.
The appointment of a Minister super-imposed on the existing organisation would weaken the authority of Ministers at the head of each service department.
After outlining the present or- ganisation and co-ordination work
Fourth Year
London, Mar. 14.
an ultimate agreement, although Fronch oficial circles are of the opinion that everything depends on British comprehension of France's minimum needs, namely, Rocurity and effective armament control.-
At Thurston Hall to-night. In the amateur billiards champion-Renter. ship final, Sidney Lee (holder) of London, searing 3,020 points beat Frank
Edward (Birmingham), whose score was 3,509,
This in Lee's fourth successive win. equalling the record of 11. C.
of the committee of Imperial De-Virr. who won the title from 1911 fonce, Lord Londonderry said that to 1914 inclusive.-Reuter. the present system was well suited
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Lieutenant Philip Roger Merrick Wisden, of the 2nd. Ba. East Lancashire Regiment, and Miles Madeleine, Valerie Honigs berg, residing at the Peninsula Hotel.
An inmate at the Wong Kin board-
to the British constitution and achieving one of the essential puring house at 32, Woosung Street, ensured that the whole situa-i posen of any defensive system. Tong Kit, aged 21, was admitted to tion was continuously under re- namely, proper co-ordination of the Kowloon Hspital, yesterday, view.
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KNEW TOO MUCH
REASON FOR MURDER OF M. PRINCE.
Specialists and revealed that he was under the influence of a powerful anaesthetic but was not dead when the wheels of the train passed over him.
The theory of
Was
suicide w Paris, Mar. 14. scouted by the Public Prosecutor, The theory that Bl. Prince; Ins-¡ M. Dijon, last weeks. He contended pector of the Surete General in that M. Princo had been murdered charge of the Stavisky fraud caac, because he knew too much. committed suicide, has now been It is generally believed that 24, definitely ruled out.
Prince had sufficient evidence to The mutilated body of the famous bring about the arrest of men, criminal investigator was found on whose detention would have caused a railway line, some distance from a world wide sensation. “M. Frince Paris
was decoyal from Paris by a bogus post-mortem oz. M. tole ram, Kading that his mother- Prince was conducted by Board of i was seriousl" [11---Raudér,.-