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ALLEGED TORTURE OF GERMAN
PREMIER'S GOLDEN RULE FOR INDIA
London, To-day.
GERMAN PRESS
“General” Brecco DEMANDS ACTION
Killed
Paris, To-day.
"Le Soir" reports that the Hungarian terrorist, Paul Brec- co, who held the rank of gen-, eral in the International Bri- gade, was killed during the re- cent, fighting near Madrid.
The remains were brought to... Valencia for burial. -Trans- Ocean.
One of the longest questions ever addressed to a Cabinet Minister was answered by Mr. Neville Chamberlain in the House of Commons yesterday when he replied to Mr. Winston Churchill's mamm searching and detailed en-
quiries, tabled earlier this week, Increased Earning close definition of the limits Power Of British
with the object of obtaining a
in Workers
within which Parliamentary questions relating to events India will be answered in fu- ture.
BY GOVERNMENT
Berlin, To-day.
The alleged torture of a German by the Prague police is believed likely to lead to a diplomatic inci- dent between Germany and Czecho-Slovakia.
The affair, according to a German news agency, started with the arrest of a German named Bruno Weigel in Prague last November.
Weigel was released a few weeks ago and now has told his story.
IT IS ALLEGED HE WAS CROSS-EXAMINED BY THE PO- |LICE CONCERNING NAZI ACTIVITIES IN CZECHO-SLOVAKIA. HE WAS STRIPPED AND FORCED TO KNEEL ON CHAINS, AND WAS THEN BEATEN BY FOUR POLICEMEN.
The German press is demand- ing strong protests be made, The Prime Minister's statement, Changes in wage rates reported "Der Angriff" stating that "this like the question was of unusual
to the Ministry of Labour in the crime must not go unatoned.”. length.
first five months of the year are Reuter.
London, Tɔ-day.
estimated to have resulted in a net
rates of over
BAD FEELING
Berlin, To-day.. A great deal of bad feeling has been aroused here by the publica- 2,900,000 workers compared with an increase of £487,050 weekly in the tion in German newspapers of
affidavit sworn by Bruno
Mr. Chamberlain began by mak- ing it clear that until Part Two of increase of about £367,000 weekly the Government of India Act re- in the fulltime lating to Federation comes into force, no change in the practice of question and answer at Westmin- ster is called for in relation to the operations of the Central Govern- ment.
an
SNOW IN JUNE IN JAPAN
Asahikawa, The Hokkaido, June 12-For the first time in 39 years,
whole of last year!
Weigel the temperature here to-day fell Assuming fulltime employment, concerning brutal treatment meted below freezing point.
At 4.20 o'clock this morning, the the increases in the past five out to him by the Prague police. months have, added · £18,000,000 to
Weigel, who was arrested last thermometer registered 0.5 de Apart from the well-known and the annual earnings of the work-
November, says that after being grees Centigrade, approximately 31 well established convention against ers, affected. British Wireless.
abused and threatened the was degrees Fahrenheit. The last time interference in the fiscal policy of
brought before eight officials for such a temperature was recorded interrogation.
the Indian Government, the Central was in possession of powers appli- Government remained legally sub-cable to the case which, in fact he ject în respect of all its operations failed to exercise. to the direction and control of His Majesty's Government in the Unit- ed Kingdom.
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NO CRITICISM
DISCRETION AND RESTRAINT
BEATEN ON FEET If his answers failed to give satisfaction he was struck on the soles of his feet with a truncheon.
at this time of the year was on June 14, 1898, when the mercury fell to -1,2 degrees Centigrade, or appro- ximately 30 degrees Fahrenheit.
Crops have been ruined in large areas, while snow. patches : min- But I also suggest to the House He was further tortured he al-gling with the green forests pre- even this right as so defined ought leges, by having an electric charge sents an unusual spectacle in the to be used with discretion and re-passed through his swollen feet.
nearby mountains. Dealing with the Provincial si-straint and that His Majesty's Gov- This was repeated the following tuation, he said it was not the ernment must themselves exercise day and the police finished up by same, although there were certain careful discretion as to the extent kicking him until two of his powers reserved to the Governor to which it is expedient, in any ribs were broken. for certain specific purposes and given case, to supply information All this occurred, he says, before the effect of the Act was to leave about facts and events in an Indian he was brought up for trial. the Governor free in the last re-Province.
work believe
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"VILELY ABUSED".
RUSSO-LATVIAN CONVERSATIONS
Moscow, To-day.
were .a
An official communique issued be- here concerning conversations He was later transferred to an-tween the Soviet Foreign Commis- other prison and was released on sar, M. Maxim Litvinoff, and the May 20.
Latvian Foreign Minister, M. Mun- Judging from comments in theters, says that the talks
friendly and frank exchange of German newspapers, the incident
views. is likely to result in a demand for this
expiation. new
"Der Angriff" asks what the Czech Government intends to do in the way of atonement for allowing a prisoner to be "so vilely abused.”
The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" demands immediate satisfaction, adding that a mere diplomatic apology will not settle the matter.
AUTONOMY IN OPERATION The Prime Minister having laid
en-
"Special attention was devoted to Ithe problem of safeguarding peace in Eastern Europe," says the com- munique.-Trans-Ocean.
German Boer War Veteran Dies
Berlin, To-day.
sort to decide these matters as he I hope I am justified in assuming himself thought was required for that in every quarter of the House the due discharge of his responsi-there is a desire the provincial self- bility to the Imperial Parliament government in India should even if the advice of his Ministers and work well. I cannot would have led to another decision. this is possible unless we in The Prime Minister drew the House frankly recognise the conclusion "that insofar as the distribution of responsibilities." Ministers are responsible to a Pro- vincial Legislature for the Govern- ment of a Province, it would be down the guiding principle declined entirely inappropriate if this House ed to define in detail his attitude were to call in question or to criti-to the various categories of cise by question and answer their quiries listed in Mr. Churchill's long activities. On the other hand, the question except to declare emphati-
An 82-year-old German veteran Act specifically provides that to cally that provincial autonomy must
of the Boer War, Adolf Thiede, died the extent to which the Governor's be deemed to be in operation with still more outspoken and says that carried on as a mason.
The "Berliner Lokalinzeiger" is yesterday at Lueneburg, where he special powers are involved and to the corresponding restriction of in the event of the Czech Govern the extent, accordingly, to which questions at Westminster, even if ment refusing satisfaction, Germany and was captured by the British. he acts, either without consulting the Ministry in power did not, for will seriously consider giving the He was made an honorary citizen or otherwise than on the ad-the time being, possess the confid- Czech police a lesson in the correct of the Transvaal Republic by the vice of his Ministers, he is sub- ence of the majority of legislature. behaviour Ject to the direction, and
in international inter-Boer Government in recognition of con- -British Wireless.net bl trol in the first instance by
course-Trans-Ocean.
This services-Trans-Ocean. the Governor-General and through hìm, by the Secretary of State' in other words that he is answerable in the last resort to this Parlia- ment.
GUIDING PRINCIPLE
I suggest that the broad general guiding principle which ought to bẻ adopted as to the admissibility" "of questions on Indian Provincial affairs is that suc 'questions "ought idea not now to be regarded as in order unless it can be shown, either that the action at issue was taken by the Governor without consulting his Ministers or against their advice, or alternatively, that the Governor
Swimmers at the Chung Shing Benevolent Bathing Club. West Point, nual. Dragon Boat festival, race..
Thiede fought on the Boer side
keen spectators of the
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