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COMMITTEE STAGE OF INDIA

"BILL COMPLETED

London, To-day. Parliament created a record by the comple tion last night in 30 Parliamentary days of the Committee stage of the huge India Bill, original- ly consisting of 450 clauses and 15 schedules, and now even bulkier. Some 1,500,000 words were spoken in over 2,000 speeches, and the members spent 18 hours tramping, the division lobbies.

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Communist Drive On

Sikang Reported -

NANKING PROMISES SPEEDY ELIMINATION OF REDS

From Our Own Correspondenti

Canton, To-day.

Four districts in Western Tunnaa dclose to Siang province have been occupied by the Reds under Chu Teh, whose headquarters are at Huilee in South-western Szechnen.

An average of 10 speeches were Hailee was bombed by Nanking

made daily. Mr. R. A. Butler planes on May 13, over 150 Reds

the. Under-Secretary for India.

leads with 200: Sir Samuel being killed.

Hoare. Secretary of State for Having failed once

again

to

Britain's Proposals For India before his absence owing penetrate farther into Southern to illness. contributed 166; Sir Szechuen, the Communists are Henry Page Croft, one ofjattempting to seize Sikang. the leading Conservative on which is their second choice. ponents of the BIL over 150: Nanking official reports state. The Colonial Secretary, Sir and Sir Thomas Inskip and Mr.however, that the Reds are being

jenveloped by the Government. Philip Cunliffe-Lister. answering Winston Churchill, over 100..

London. Today,

a Parliamentary question yester- Moreover the voluntary ar-forces and will soon be eliminat- day, that the said proposal to de-rangements agreed to by all sec-ed. This statement may be true) monetise the gold dollar of the tions of the House for the alloca-this time. although similar un- United States as legal tender intion of time, worked very smooth-fulfilled reports have been issued the West Indies and British ly and in a businesslike manner.in the past.

At the same time, the Reds Guiana had not yet been put into They satisfied all the parties and effect, as doubt had arisen as to avoided the use of the guillo commanded by Hsu Hsiang-chien

in Northern Szechuén are the effect of such action in those tine. parts of British Guiana where Six days are still to be devoted fleeing westward: having aban- the coin still remained in circula-to the Report stage of the third doned their designs on Chengtn tion. Action would be taken as reading before the Bill goes to It appears that the Communists soon as it was decided whether the House of Lords-Reuter. Jin Northern Szechuen British Guiana should be includ- ed.

British Honduras was in a spe- cial position. and it was not at present proposed to demonetise the gold dollar there. British Wireless Service.

JAPANESE ALLEGED TO

WANT MACAO

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also

and Northern Yunnan.are making an attempt to invade Silang.

There are about 30 divisions of Nanking and provincial troops in Yunnan and Szechuen who are sufficient to annihilate the Com- munists, strictly from the mili - The same dispatch recalled tary aspect. that certain Japanese merchants! DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS ON attempted to secure a monopoly

CHINA COAST

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SALARIES $200 LESS

of wine, spirits. and drugs in LOCAL TENNIS STARS INVITED Macao, but did not succeed.

Another cabled report to the same official paper from Tokyoj declared that Japan is contem-

British officers and engineers plating the extension of an air

TO GO NORTH

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who applied for the positions were route to South China, to link up quarter-finalist and Mrs. W. "H offered salaries which were.$200 with the Euro-Asiatic air lines.Wilson, one of the Kowloon Cricket less than the British Arbitration

Award rates. A deadlock has re sulted the owners refusing to pay

the stipulated salaries while the

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Case Against 6 Coolies To Be Heard Next Tuesday

The election rumour is natural, because, with the passage of the India Bill by the beginning of l August virtually assured, the only

The six "coolies who were in- definite obstacle to an early election volved in the free-for-all fight on is removed and, with other legisla-the Holt's Wharf on Monday tion completed, the Government may were again brought before Mr. prorogue the session in August in-EL Wynne Jones at the Kow- stead of adjourning it, thus enabling loon Magistracy this morning on the holding of an election during charges of disorderly conduct, the recess if desired.

and the case was fixed for bear- Many Government supporters being on Tuesday, May 21, at 230 lieve that an election in October p.m.

would be more favourable to the Mr. F. Kwok appeared on be- Government than in the Spring or half of Chan Tung, foreman, later in 1936. Undoubtedly the Wong Wong, foreman, and Chan Government's stock is at present] Wo, coolie very high, as evidenced by the West Edinburgh election

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