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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
October 21, 1940.
NEW PRESS LAW QUESTIONED IN COMMONS
M. P. Says Anderson
Has "Goebbels' Power
THERE WAS A SHARP FIGHT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS OVER THE DEFENCE REGULATION WHICH GIVES THE HOME SECRETARY POWER TO SUPPRESS ANY NEWSPAPER.
He may do so without any reference to a court or to Parliament if, in his opinion, it has systematically published matter calculated to promote opposition to the war.
Sir John Anderson dug his heels in and declared that so long as he was Home Secretary he would not shrink from these powers which, in ordinary times, he said, he would view with repugnance.
Mr. S. S. Silverman (Lab., † Nelson and Colne) raised - the matter by moving for the an- nulment of Regulation “2`d.”.
One-Man Decision
He asserted that the regulation gave the Home Secretary "complete power over the whole Press of this country, and places him in a posi tlon no whit inferior to that occu-
Forbidden City Sends
Gifts To The Fleet
THREE HUNDRED pounds of special wool are on
pied by Dr. Goebbels in Germany their way from the forbidden city of Lhasa, Tibet, to be
papers."
In the matter of control of news-made into thick socks for British sailors on war patrol in
Commander King Hall (Nat, Lab. the North Sea. Ormskirk) did not see why one man should have the power of decision on what is or is not prejudlelal to the successful prosecution of the wor. Mr. Glenv Hall (Lab., Colne
Valley) declared that suspicions existed in the minds of many people! that liberties of people were being. Improperly handed over to the Home S'eretary.
Sir John Anderson Jumped in 10 counter-attack. He was obviously Inj no defensive mood,
He began by agreeing that "the fullest possible liberty, consistent with vital national interests, should.
Columbla ́ ́ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN' be allowed to the Press."
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But the issue before them, he said,
HUSBANDS
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Wimbledon husbands whose
The wool is the gift of Kusho Ringong, a Tibetan official, who was educated in Rugby.
He gave to Mr. Gould, political ofßelal in Sikkiın, when he left Lhasa two months ago after attending the installation ceremonies of the new Dalai Lama.
Gifts For Viceroy
Mr. Gould is the beurer. of a letter and five cases of gifts from His Holi ness the Dalai Lama to Lord Lin- lithgow Viceroy of India,
The departure of the British re-
was whether freedom of expression wives have been evacuated are resive was attended by a pic-j
of opinion should entail freedom to taking cookery lessons at the assist an enemy by systematic publi-local technical college. rotien af matter calculated to fement" opposition to the successful prosecu- tion of the war.
Nightmare Perils
Tibetan ceremony,
Ao Tibetan regiment provided guard of honour and, at the customary Blace, three miles outside Lham, re- presentatives of the Regent, Prime I went to ste them doing their Minister, Tibelan Cabinet and Lord "home work"-cooking solitary Sun- Chamberlain presented farewell day dinners--and making a good job of it, too.
Home Secretury would dare to take "But I like grilling things best," he
I
scarves.
During his stay in Lhasa, Mr. As for the suggestion that, the Mr. J. Fielding, of Aylward-road. Gould paid official visits to the Dala powers might be used wantonly, no had decided on cheese pudding.
Lame, the Regent Peline Minister and Cabinet, action without the approval of the sold to me. "I grill everything
Hospital Constructed War Cabinet.
can--even eggs. Yes, I put the egg The regulation was admittedly into a patty tin and put the bacon
Gifts to Mr. Gould included several posed to perlis "that most of us have rasher on top.
horses and valuable examples of never imagined even in a nightmare." "The bacon fat drips on to the Tibetan and Chinese art.
But MPs saw no very compelling and makes it taste twice as nice
The Tibetan Government has con- argument in all this, and continued Then I put the bacon on the hot-
structed
In Lhasa, which, hospital M to press for some form of judicial plate and finish off the egg."
Miss Florence E. Morkam has 11though less than two months since the appeal.
class at the plans were approved, is already suf- Sir Richard Acland (L., Barnstaple) men in her cookery said that again and again in past college, and she says they learn more ficiently far advanced to accommodate
several cataract uses. months the Home Secretary had quickly than women.
"I'm teaching them not only how come to the House ond described a set of terrible circumstances which to cook," she said. "but the right
kind of food to choose and how tol might occur.
buy it."
But the powers he sought went far I spoke to another husband who is beyond the emergency he described. a keen member of the class. He la
Finally Sir John Anderson repented Mr Jack Smith of Coombe-tune. his procedure of the Emergency Mr. Smith's wife is not evacuated. Powers Bill, and called on Sir Donald But he joined the class because be Somervell, the Attorney-General, to has always liked cooking and wanted help him
to know more about it.
This time the Attorney-General "You sec, he explained. I've did not announce surrender, but sup- lived most of my life in Australia, ported the Home Secretary's refusal and I had to do my own cooking out yield.
there. It's always useful to know Mr. E. Shinwell, in a powerful how to dish up a good men)." speech, said that in a panic silua- tion he would much prefer to leave matters to a court rather than to a House of Cominons, In which thought they were all influenced by partisan considerations.
he
He pleaded with the Home Secre- tary and the Attorney-General not to be stubborn and obstinate,
Both of them, however, remained stubborn and obstinate,
Mr. Silverman's "prayer" was re- fused by 08 to 60, a majority of only
38.
War Damage Claims Not Disclosed
London, Aug. 26. According to the Daily Telegraph while it is not possible for the Authorities to disclose the number of claims in respect of the Government's commodity insurance, it is sald that sonic have been made and met by the compantes dealing with the matter.
The amount claimed so far is com- Earlier in the evening, during dis- cussion on the Budget resolutions, paratively very snall having regard 3ir. G. Isaacs, Labour M. P. for to the sum in the fund which now
exceeds £30,000,000. Southwark, had fought against a different kind of danger to the Press.
The
'Reactionary' Tax
Purchase Tax was being ap- scribed the newspaper tax as renc- plied to printed matter, he said, at tionary.
time when the printing Industry It was a tax upon knowledge, be- was going through an unprecedented cause the newspapers did convey a state of unemployment.
great deal of knowledge to the com
Yet newspapers were essential, and munity.
perlodicals had been a blessing in the The retail trade, he supposed,
富康 would have to add additional
blackout, and they would be again.
Mr. D. Adams (Lub, Consett) de-halfpenny.
LATE NEWS
INDUSTRY REPLACES FLANDERS LOSSES
MORE GUNS & TANKS THAN WE HAD BEEORE
WORKING day and night British factories have more than replaced war equipment which the B.E.F. had to leave behind in the evacuation of
Flanders and France.
More than 1,000 guns and great quantities of other materials were lost there.
of, will be arranged, on a roin system. | · By going without holidays; machines through the period
British workers have built up a acute emergency will have their Only a proportion of the workers in any factory will be off duty at any great reserve of guns, other reward. weapons, transport vehicles, and
Thus there will be no "wake" weeks in the north this year.
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xilusion the
to cancel holidays where there has been no legal obligation to give them.
Some employers, not on war everything necessary for carry-work, have taken advantage of ing on the war on a grand scale. And now comes a 'breathing space. The Minister of Labour will announce the resumption of holidays in all
Industries,
time.
The fighting forces have plenty of Now the Ministry of Labour will war material now more than before ask for the resumption of both paid the Battle of France and most of it and unpaid holidays, in the interests is in Britain.
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London, Aug. 28.. After an RA:F. Pilot had attacked The War Ofce have announced that arrangements have been made Abberville aerodrome and started a with the fallway companies for free Are he was on hi way home when washing lavatory and left luggage he found that only his incendiary had dropped when the accommodation for all members of bombs the Forces and corresponding wo-switches were pressed and his high man's services at ten main line explosive" bombs were all in their stations in the provinces where there racks. He thereupon flew back to
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