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HONGKONG, TRÚHADAY APRIL 12, 1928.

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reuter's Service the China Mail.)

SCUFFLE IN COMMONS.

LABOURITES ON THE WARPATH.

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MANCHESTER TO MOSCOW.

NEW AIRLINE SCHEME.

LONDON, April 11. The Times Berlin correspondent says, agree- LONDON, April 127%),

ment has been reached between the British and Tumultuous scenes followed and as a result the German Governments whereby an airline from Speaker finally suspended the sitting for an hour. Manchester to London, Amsterdam, Bremen or The cause of the disorder was the Labourites resent-Hamburg, Berlin, Koenigsberg and Moscow will be ment at Mr. Baldwin's moving the closure despite paned for traffic on May 1. As only daylight fly- ng is contemplated the question of å through flight the Labourites' demand for a Government assurance that they would reconsider their policy in regard to from Manchester to Moscow does not arise at pre- sent. It is anticipated that the journey, with stops, ex-service men. The Labourites did not participate will take three days under favourable conditions but in the division on the motion but remained in their

this will depend on experiments in the summer. soats and continuously chanted " Adjourn !" forten minutes. They then broke in with loud singing of "The Red Flag." The Speaker, despite the non- participation of the Labourites, declared the motion carried and this led to still more furious protests by the Labourites.

GERMANY'S ECONOMIC POSITION.

AMERICAN DELEGATION INQUIRING.

BERLIN, April 11. ·

When sitting was suspended a Scottish

Ten members of the American delegation to Labourite crossed the floor and angrily addressed the the recent International Chamber of Commerce- Hort. Mr. Ormsby Gore, finally striking him with an Congress in Rome have arrived and are seeking order paper. Major Ormsby Gore warded off the information in financial and industrial circles blow and gripped the Labourite's amis. Members regarding Germany's economic position. closed round the pair and the Labourites then

Washington, April 11. pulled back their colleague. Several angry The annual meeting of the United States labourites then endeavoured to rush behind the Chamber of Commerce in New York next month Speaker's chair with a view to attacking one of the will discuss a recommendation from the Rome Ministerialists but other Labourites restrained them congress to hold an international conference for the after a brief scuffie.

purpose of working out a solution of the reparations and other European economic problems.

SPEAKER ADJOURNS HOUSE.

:. LATER. Owing to the uproar as result of the Labourites'- demanding that the Government reconsider its policy towards ex-service men as a result of yester day evening's vote the Speaker was compelled to adjourn the House of Commons for an hour.

morrow.

HOME GOVERNMENT DEFEAT.

LATER.

LIAM LYNCH'S DEATH.

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IRISH PEACE PROSPECTS.

LONDON, April 11,

Liam Lynch's death is regarded as a final stroke completing the milltary rout of the Irregulars AR When the House resumed the Speaker anthongh nominally Chief of Staff Lynch was actually. nounced that in view of the grave disorders be due Commander in Chief exempt from civil control and ercised the right of adjourning the House until to the mainstay of the Irregular resistance. It was his vote that defeated Deputy Chief of Steff Barry's TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY OVERCOME.motion deprecating further resistance. Lynch was associated with Rory O'Connor in the Republican resistance at the Dublin Four Courts. His death brightens the prospects of peace in regard to which De Valera and his executive have recently been less adamant. 76

LONDON, April 11.

The Government has overcome the technical difficulty created by its defeat by deciding that the motion whereon it was defeated should be recon- sidered to-morrow. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in moving a resolution authorising such reconsideration said the Government was caught napping but the divi- sion was in nowise proof that the Government lost the confidence of the House (loud Ministerial cheers and opposition protests.)

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald declared that, the Government, after a series of unexampled defeats at byelections, now faced an unexampled defeat in the House due to a number of the Government's supporters refusing to support it because the policy announced by Major Boyd Carpenter, secretary to the Treasury, conflicted with their pledges to con- stiluent. The Government should take their defeat as an instruction by the House to reconsider the question of conditions for ex-soldiers entering the civil service,

GERMAN SHIPPING PROFITS.

N. O. L. AND HAMBURG AMERIKA.

BERLIN, April. 11, i The annual report of the Norddeutscher Lloyd of Bremen shows net profit of $14,000,000 million marks. A dividend of thirty per cent is recon mended and an increase of capital is projected. BERLIN, April 11.

SIX MEN EXECUTED.

LONDON, April 11, Six men captured in possession of arms were- executed at Tuam.

INTERNATIONAL CRICKET.

AUSTRALIA

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SYDNEY, April 11,

In view of the fact that the Englishmen are, not duc in Australia until the end of 1924 Mr. Iredale, Secretary of the New South Wales Cricket Associa tion has suggested that a South African team should make a brief tour of Australia next summer. He suggests that the tests be limited to three.

HOME PRINTERS STRIKE.

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS DELAYED. ·

LONDON, April 11.

The London Gazette was not published for the first time for at least a hundred years and the issue of the Board of Trade Journal and other Government The annual report of the "Hamburg Amerika publication wasdelayed owing to a strike on the Line shows a net profit of 95,000,000 marks A subject of trade union recognition which started with dividend of ten per cent plus a bonus of twenty per the firm of De La Rue and spread to other printing cent owing to the depreciation of the mark is firms doing Government work. announced.

AMERICAN MINIMUM WAGE ACT.

CONGRESS MEASURE HELD.

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WASHINGTON, April 11 The Supreme Court has decided that the Act of Congress whereunder the minimum wage of wo men and girls in the district of Columbia is fixed is unconstitutional; Three out of eight judges, includ- ing Chief Justice Taft, discented from the decision which is certain to be vehemently debated. The majority of the Court takes its stand on the freedom of contract believed to be guaranteed by the fifth amendment of the constitution.

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LONDON, April 11.

A conference of Manchester textile manu facturers rejected the operatives proposal that a scheme against under-employment in the cotton trade should be adopted jointly, the employers con•~~ tributing seventy five per.bent, and the operatives twenty five per cent.

INTERNATIONAL RUGBY,

NEW ZEALANDERS INVITED HOME.

WELLINGTON (NZ), April 11

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