THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 13,
1937.
Attack on Late Lord Joicey
£1,519,000 FROM COAL-NOT A
PENNY FOR CHARITY
A
A "Disgrace," Says M.P.
LABOUR Private Member's Bill to nationalise the mines was rejected in the House of Commons last month by 182-125,
It was sponsored by two mining members, Mr. J. Batey (Spennymoor), formerly a checkweighman, and Mr. J. J. Tinker (Leigh), who began work at the pithead at the age of ten.
The Bill provided for the taking over and working of all mines and minerals in the country by a Coal Corporation. Compen- sation to the owners was to be paid out of the industry, but com. pensation to the royalty owners by the State.
Mr. Baley said the Bill pro- | nationalisation so much as Fasclem, proposed to convert the present because gave tremendous powers 970 separate undertakings into to the Corporation, which would bo
•
free from Parliamentary control or
one unit. The Corporation (nancial check. would, establish a coal marketing Board, which would regulate selling and prices and might dela- gate powers to local authorities to sell coal. A Fuel Consumera' Council would
sumers.
COALOWNER
protect
WHO LEFT £1,519,717
There was no indication, he mid, that the industry would be expect- ed to pay its way-nothing so old- fashioned as that, The bill at
Bill followed the report of the Sankey Commission, but the Samuel which cat later, reported Commission, con-
an exactly opposite direction. The recommendations of the Samuel Com- mission were more in keeping with present-day condtions,
He recalled that Lord Joleey, a Dur- ham coalowner, died last November and left £1,510,717.
In
Under the present Bill the Corpora- tion would be a gigantle Trust largely
The above picture was taken yesterday at the tomb of Robert M. Short, the young American aviator, who lost his life in his aeroplane while fighting two Japanese aviators over Soochow during the 1932 hostilities in Shanghai. More than 100 represen- tatives from the Chinese Government and public bodies attended a memorial service held at the tomb yesterday afternoon. Above Is Mr. F. V. Wagner, the newly arrived manager of the Railway and Aviation Department of the Chiba Irsport and Export Com- pany, who spoke at the ceremony on behalf of the mother of the deccosed-International News Photo.
MUMMIES OF EGYPT'S
PHARAOHS
KING GEORGE VI. | Reburial
COINS
manned by workers in the industry. LIMITED ISSUE AFTER
EASTER
Lieutenant-Colonel Colville, Finan-
"I my," he added, "that it is a
[Lord Jolery, to whose will Mr. disgrace for any man to leave so Batey referred, died aged 90. He be- much money made out of the coal queathed
£20,000 to his private Industry. Worse than that, he did secretary. Miss
ss Vera Mary
Berlic, not leave a single penny to charity.
"10 whose care I owe so much of my "I knew him well all his life, or wealth and happiness." and C600 10 cial Secretary to the Treasury, has at least for 50 years, and I never Miss Della Whyte, his nurse. Hair stated in a written Parliamentary re- knew him
mgive
penny to charity the residue was wilted to his son, the ply to Mr. Wells (Conservative, Bed- ore "I is a disgrace for any man to present Lord Juicey, for life, and half ford) that, subject to the issue of the Icave so much money white thousands on trust for his son, Hugh Edward necessary Proclamation, the Royal and thousands of miners with their Jolcey, for life, with remainder to Mint will begin to strike some at least wives and families were suffering their children. Death duty of £640,- of the denominations of the new from poverty and starvation." (Op-440 has been paid.] position cheers).
After Mr. Tinker had seconded, Mr. Oswald Lewts (Con., Colchester) moved the rejection of the Bill mainly on the ground that i would enable the Miners' Federation to squeeze the State for the benefit of its members. There was no real protection for the consumer or the taxpayer. SCHEME WITH
NO FINANCIAL CHECK For the Government, Capt. Crook shank (Secretary for Mines) opposed the Bill on the ground that it was not
cainage immediately after Easter.
IN
To
Take Place
DESECRATION
OF
THEIR TOMBS
a letter to the Editor of the
Sunday Express, Mr. H. do Vere Stacpoole, the famous
Million "Lose Their Sins" novelist, writes:
Allahabad, Mar., 1.
MORE than 1,000,000 Hindus, in pouring rain and bitter cold, to-day bathed at the point where the sacred Ganges and Jamana rivers meet, and so carried out the annual ritual of washing away their sins. So good were the Government's arrangements that not a single accident occurred..
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"I heard recently that the Egyptian Government were going to re-bury
the Pharaohs. It was a scandal even desecrating their tombs, and
think
it brought bad luck on the world.
"Anyhow, if they are going to make some sort of amends now, they ought to do the thior properly.
""The funeral of the Pharaohs ought to be a ceremony never to be forgotten, and science ought to able to produce for them д tomb which will be unbreakable.”
A SCORE OF KINGS
be
At the Egyptian Embassy in London the Sunday Express was informed that the Government of Egypt are now actually considering re-burying the Pharaohs.
The bodies of the kings of Egypt have had strange adventures already. They are more than a score in num- ber. Once they were "on show" in the museum at Cairo, but later they were moved to a mausoleum by the Government,
The mausoleum had not been bullt expressly for them. It had in fact, been built as a tomb for Zaghloul Pasha, the national hero of Egypt, who died nine years ago.
Last year the Government moved Zaghloul Pasha from the tomb in which he had been burled and re- buried him in his own mausoleum,. moving the Pharaohs back to the Calro museum in order to make room for him.
The mummies, however, were no longer put on view to the public.
Ever since they went back to the museum there have been discussions 'o find a more. flting resting place for them.
The Sunday Express understands that the proposal now being consider- zd by the Egyptian Government is to build a special mausoleum for them elther nt Giza, near the Pyramids, or Heliopolis,
It is believed that they incline to- wards Giza because the drier climate there would keep the mummies in a better slate of reservation. *
The mausoleum would be an under- ground one, similar to those made by the ancient Egyptions, and the kings would be sealed down under the earth never again to be seen by the eye of
man.
Many supporters of the proposal feel that if the kings of Egypt are inid into a place of eternal peace again it should be done with fitting pomp and state, as teāts kings.
MOVING SPECTACLE
In that case the world may see one of the strangest and most moving spectacles in history-the state funeral of a whole race of kings thousands of years after they died, conducted by people whose ways of living the kings could not have con- ceived in their wildest imaginings.
The proposal cloes not offers any mummies outside Egypt. There are believed to be no mummies of
of Egypt- lan klogs in Britain, and there are de finitely.none in the British Museum.
The case of the most famous of all Pharaohs Tutankhamen, le differ ent from the others. His body la not in a museum. It was put back in his tomb at Luxor after the excavations of his tomb-the most famous of all Egyptian tombs-had been completed. "It was wrapped in its criginal wroppings, and will not' again be'dis- turbed.
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