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HONGKONG
INDIA REFORM
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1934.
TELEGRAPH.
CIVIL AVIATION
SALISBURY AMENDMENT
REJECTED
London, Dec. 18.
By a majority of nearly four to
CHANGES ANNOUNCED BY AIR MINISTER
+
WOMAN HANGED
POISONED HUSBAND WITH
STRYCHNINE.
London, Dec. 39. A woman was hanged to- day for the first time in Eng- land in eight years.
London, Dec. 19," The Secretary of State for Alr cac, the House of Lords fast night (Lord Londonderry) has decided endorsed the Government's, policy to put into operation certain on the future Constitution of In-measures to develop civil aviation, dia. The vote was exceptionally The Director of Civil Aviation aged 42, of Hell, found guilty of large. Lord Salisbury's amend-will be rained to the rank of poisoning her husband with ment, advocating a policy of delay, Director-General, with equal strychnine.
She was Mrs. Ethel Lillie Major,
in
was defeated by 239 votes to 62. statua to other Ministry members | The last woman to be hanged
The result came as a pleasant of the Air Council.
was Mrs. Lonie Culvert, aged 33, surprise to the government sup- The Air Council, will in future who murdered her inudindy,
urters. As last week the Com- confine itself exclusively to the 1926 nons passed the Government Mo-military side of the Air Ministry's Mrs. Major was concei] lo tion by 410 votes to 127, the way work, while civil aviation will be death November 1. Her husband, la now clear for the introduction under the control of the Secretory Arthur Major, a lorry driver, died of the Government's India Bll of State and the Uniler-Secretary, on May 24, Death, it was stated, which will be given a formal Arst The civil aviation estimates will was due to large doses of stry- reading this week.
be determined by the Secretary of chaine.
Or peculiarity of the votes was State personally, on the advice of At the trial of Mr. Major, the that in the Commons, the Labour the Unter Secretary, collabora prosecution alleged that it was a Party were included in the minority ting with the, Director General-crime of jealousy. spite And of 127, whereas in the Lords, the Reuter Special. Labour Peera nbstained voting:
from
hatred. It was claimed that the Majara frequently and violently | quarrelled; "that Mrs. Major hated
Was
The Timer comments: "So con-until Indin could share in world her husband, who was said to be clusive was the debate that it de-, recovery.
having an affair with a noigh- served a conclusive result, it only Lord Lloyd, speaking must boar, Mrs. Rose Kettleborough. because of its natural effect on pub-earnestly, could not help doubting Letters were produced, alleged lie opinion, both in Britain and in whether responsible Government to be written by Mrs. Kettle- Indin. A smaller margin would was likely to be permanently ac-borough, addressed, "To my Dear. have sumeed, but it might have ceptable to any country in the East, eat Sweetheart from your been misunderstood."
On the other hand, Lord Peel loving Sweetheart, Rose," and "To| Regarding the Labour Party was convinced that the aspiration the Dearest Sweetheart in the attitude, The Times remarks there for self-government was becoming | world." Mrs. Kettleborough denied is no reason to suppose they will wider in India and was not con-writing the letters. obstruct the reforms, and recalls fined to a mere cliqué.
The prosecution, however, claim. spreches by Labour members, In- Lord Reading made a deep im-ed that after discovering these luding Major Attlee, who signed prension with his actual experience jetters, Mrs. Major put strychnine the Simon Report and Mr. Cocks, of imposing safeguards in times in her husband's food. who fast week made an eloquent of grave public disattection.
The defence was that Mrs. The general conclusion of the appeal to India to work the scheme.
Major's guilt
not proved: The Liberals, it is pointed out, public appears to be: We must that there was only suspicion that were united In supporting the go forward; the Select Committee she had poisoned him. sumpleton Government, and of the Conserva- offers the best way."--Our Own based on their troubled married tives in the Commons, 334 voted Correspondent,
life, and his alleged love affair. for the polley of the report and
The defence laid emphasis on 177 uninst
London, Dec. 18. the fact that the second of the The conclusion of The Times in The House of Lords debate on two doses of strychnipe Major was that two exhaustive debates, ful-the India reform measures has supposed to have taken. War lowing seven years of hard in excited extraordinary interest.
drink in a ginss of water, vestigation, have invested the gov
Many prers have, during the last that the amount of strychnine ernment polley at last with nil few days, taken their oath and found in his body would have unimpeachable mandate from the their seats in the house for we taken two and a half pints of Imperial Parliament."
first time if the life of the present į water to disguise its extreme bit-; All papers pay tribute to the Parliament.
Lerness. lofty tone of the speeches in both Heises as worthy of a great Im- ¿perial issue.--British Wirelesa.
Wide Experience
London, Dec. 18, Speakers during the ilouse of
Keen Interest
but
With the exception of three One telling point in the case for benches normally, reserved for the the State was that when first ques- Labour Opposition and which are toned by the police, Mrs. Majori never filled, every sent was oceupled | «nid: "I didn't know my husband und all available standing room died of strychnine polsuning." was lined with peers to-day. It The police pointed out that they was the biggest House of seven had not mentioned how he died, † Lords debate included threp former yours.
to which she replied: "I am sorry, Viceroys. three former Secretaries The Labourites did not vole and || must have made a mistake." oľ State for India, Ave the Conservativca, both
the op- When the death sentence, was former provincial Governors ponents and supporters of Lord pronounced, Mrs. Major quite and several Peers who have Salisbury's amendment, soon passed calmly, and in a strong voice, said: intensively studied the ques through the lobby. But, it took" om Innoernt." She collapsed, tion in the process of the Select twenty minuten for the Government however, on her way to the cells. Committee's inquiries,
supporters to vote.
In bringing in their verdict of was noticeable that the Lord Salisbury's amendment ex-guilty, the jury added a strong "diehards" took a studiously ren-pressed unwillingness to pronounce recommendation to mercy. In oned attitude throughout, although in advanco acceptance of far consequence of this, and because
recommendations Lord Ampth||| urged that India's reaching
until women are seldom hanged in this real grievances were economic and there had been an opportunity for country, many believed that the nut political and that Britain's studying the particular Government sentence would be commuted to guiding han
WAR indispensable proposala.-Rewer.
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