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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. 9. S. Silverman (Lab., Nelson and Colne) raised the malter by moving for the an- nulment of Regulation “2 d."
One-Man Decision
He asserted that the regulation gave the flame Secretory "complete power over the whole Press of this country, and places him in a posi- tion no whit interior to that occu-
pied by r. Guebbels in Germany
in the matter of control of news- papers."
Commander King Hall (Nat, Lab.,
Forbidden City Sends
Gifts To The Fleet
THREE HUNDRED pounds of special wool are on their way from the forbidden city of Lhasa, Tibet, to be made into thick socks for British sailors on war patrol in
Ormskirk) did not see why one man the North Sea.
should have the power of decision om what is or is not prejudicial to) the successful prosecution of the war. Mr. Glenvil In (Lab., Colne Valley declared that
xisted in the minds of many proplet Quit liberties of people were being] improperly handed over to the Home Secretary,
Sir John Anderson jumped in to! equnter-attuck. He was obviously in
na defensive mood,
He began by agreeing that "the fullest possible liberty, consistent with vital national interests, should
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The wool is the gift of Küsho Ringong, a Tibetan official, who was educated in Rugby.
He gave it to Mr. Gould, political official in Sikkim, when he left Lhasa two months ago after attending the installation ceremonies of the new Dalai Lamu.
Gifts For Viceroy
Wives Have Left thus Virciny of India.
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Mr. Goul! Is the bearer of a letter and five cases of gifts from His Holi ness the Dalal Lana to Lord Lin-
The departure of the British re- presentative was attended by a pic- turesque Tibetan ceremony.
During his stay in Lhasa, Mr. Gould pald official visits to the Dala Lama, the Regent Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Wimbledon husbands whose was whether freedom of expression wives have been evacuated
Ao Tibetan regment provided of opinion should entail freedom to taking cookery lessons at guard of honour and, at the customary
of nests an enemy by systematie publi-
place, tree miles outside Lbusa, re- sat on of matter calculated to foment local technical college.
presentatives of the Regent, Prime apposition to the sucessful prosecu-
Them I went to sco
doing their Minister, Tibetan Cabinet and Lord presented farewell tion of the war.
"home work-cooking solkary Sun-Chamberlain day dinners-and making a good job searves. lof it, too. As for the suggestion that the Mr. J. Fielding, of Aylward-road. Home Secretary would dare to take But I like grilling things best," he action without the approval of the said to me. "I grill everything f War Cabinet.
can even eggs. Yes, I put the egg The regulation WIN admittedly Into a patty in and put the bacou
Gifts to Mr. Gould included several posed to perils "that most of us have rasher on top.
horses and valuable examples of ever imagined even in a nightmare.” "The bacon fat drips on to the CS8 Tibetan and Chinese art,
But M.P.s 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 a hospital in Lhasa, which, to press for some form of judicial plate and finish off the egg."
Miss Florence E. Morkum 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
| several cataract cases. said that again and again in past college, and she says they learn more felently far advanced to accommodate months the flome Secretary had quickly than women.
"I'm teaching them not only how come to the House and described a
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set of terrible clrcumstances which to cook," she said. "but the rimt
kind of food to choose and how fol might occur.
buy it."
I spoke to another husband who is
But the powers he sought went far beyond the emergency he described.
a kein member of the class. He s Finally Sir John Anderson repeated Mr. Jack Smith of Coombe-lanc. hls procedure of the Emergency Mr. Smith's wife is not evacuated. Powers Bill, and called on Sir Donald But he joined the class because he Somervell, the Attorney-General, to has always Red cooking and wanted help bin.
to know more about it.
"I've This time the Attorney-General "You set." he explained. -dic-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 Field.
thers. It's always useful to know Mr. E. Shinwell, in a powerful how to dish up a good meal.". speech, said that in a panie silua- don he would much prefer to leave matters to s court rather than to a
House of Commoris, In which he thought they were all influenced by partisan considerations.
He pleaded with the Home Seere- tory and the Attorney-Centrul not to be stubborn and obstinate,
Both of them, however, remained stubborn and obstinate,
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 Mr. Silverman's "prayer" was re-cains in respect of the Government's fused by 98 to 60, a majority of only commodity insurance, it is said that seme have been made and met by the empanies dealing with the matter.
The amount claimed to for a com- Earlier in the evening, during disparatively very small having regard eusslen en the Budget resolutions, the sum in the fund which now Mr. G. Isaacs, Labour M. P. for exceeds £30,000,000. Southwark, Ba fought against a
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different kind of danger to the Press.
The Purchase Tax was being pscribed the newspaper tax as reac- plied to printed matter, he said, "allonary.
a
time when the printing industry I was a lax upon knowledge, be- was going through an unprecedented case the newspapers did convey a state of unemployment.
great deal of knowledge to the com-
Yet newspapers were essential, and|munity. periodicals had been a blessing in the The retail trade, he supposed. blackout, and they would be again.
additional
an would have to add
Mr. D. Adams (Lab., Conselt) de-halfpenny.
Hospital Constructed
LATE NEWS
Americans Leave Hankow
HANKOW, Oct. 21 (Reuter)-A party of American evacuees left fur Shanghai this morning. Their de- parture had been delayed for several days by military operations launeked by the Japanese.
Four women and child members of families of the Standard Oil Com pany had booked a passage to Shang- hat on a transport last week, but the salling was cancelled minute as the vessel tramperi troops,
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INDUSTRY REPLACES FLANDERS LOSSES
MORE GUNS & TANKS THAN WE HAD BEFORE
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. By going without holidays machines through the period of, will be arranged on a roln system. British workers have built up ancute emergency will have their Only a proportion of the workers in any factory will be off duty at any ilme.. great reserve of guns, other reward. weapons, transport vehicles, and
Thus there will be no "wakes" everything necessary for carry.
weeks in the north this year; ing on the war on a grand senle. And now comes a breathing spačo. The Minister of Labour will announce
Industries,
theresumption of holidays in all
With Pay But after that those who, worked ut their benches
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Some employers, not on war work, have taken advantage of tho
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cancel holidays where there has been no Itgal obligation to give them.
The Oghting forces have plenty of Now the Ministry of Labour will war material now more than before for the resumption of both paid the Battle of France and must of it and unpaid holidays, in the interests is in Britain.
Production must be kept going and of the workers' health and efficiency.
inve To avoid the closing down of tac- an even greater reserve must be
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The War Office have announced' that arrangements have been made Abberville aerodrome and started a with the railway companies for free Are he was on his way home when
hnd dropped washing invatory and left luggage he found that only his incendiary accommodation for all members of bombs the Forces and corresponding wo-jewitches were pressed and his higli men's services at ten main line explosive bombs were still in their second stations in the provinces where there, racks. He, thereupon flew back to teen recognised by the War Omee. is a Hallway Traffe Office or a can- Abberville and bombed
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