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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1988:

MR.

CHAMBERLAIN'S

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CABINET RE-SHUFFLED Mr. Malcolm Macdonald At Colonial Office

Sir Kingsley Wood Goes To The Air Ministry

London, To-day.

PREMIER- MEXICO BREAK

SUFFERING FROM GOUT

London, To-day.

Mr. Neville Chamberlain is suf- fering from B mild attack of gout.

The Prime Minister consequent- ly has postponed his visit to Dun- dee, where he was to have receiv- ed the Freedom of the City,—Reu-

ter.

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Considerable re-shuffling of the National Govern- ment, necessitated by the resignations of Lord Harlech (formerly Mr. William Ormsby-Gore), Secretary of Colonies, and Lord Swinton, Air Minister, was announced in London yesterday.tered the House of Commons as a Lord. Stanley, formerly Under-Secretary for India three.

and Burma, becomes Dominions Secretary, Mr. Malcolm Macdonald, formerly Secretary of Dominions, becomes Secretary of State for the Colonies,

Conservative when only twenty- From 1931 to 1985 he held

COL. COLVILLE

WITH BRITAIN SHOCKS

LONDON, TO-DAY.

THE SURPRISE AND REGRET OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERN- MENT AT THE DECISION OF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT CLOSING THE LEGATION IN LONDON WAS EXPRESSED BY

THE UNDER-SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN A COM- MONS ANSWER.

the post of Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty and since 1985 he

Mr. Butler said he could not Parliamentary Un-forecast any further action which has acted as

might be taken but the Govern- der-Secretary for Dominions.

ment would naturally continue to use their best endeavours to pro- the tect the substantial British com- House in 1929 as Conservative mem-mercial interests in Mexico. ber for Midlothian, and since 1937 has been Financial Secretary to the Treasury.

Sir Kingsley Wood, formerly Minister of Health, Lt-Colonel Colville entered

goes to the Air Ministry.

LORD WINTERTON

Com-

In his answer, Mr. Butler ex- plained the terms of the British Note of May 11th and the reasons which prompted the references therein to the general state of Mexican indebtedness, both in- ternal and external.

Lt. Col. D. J. Colville, formerly Financial Secretary to the Trea-

Captain Harold Balfour, the new Scot- Lord Harlech resigned on suc- sury, becomes Secretary for

Parliamentary Under-Secretary for ceeding to the Peerage. The new

Born in Air, is also a young man. land,

Mr. Walter Elliot, formerly Se-Air Minister being in the

the year 1897, he has represented cretary for Scotland, takes the place mons, the post of Deputy Secretary the Conservative constituency of of Sir Kingsley Wood at the Minis- for Air created about two months Thanet, since 1929, having been re- These reasons he reiterated in a ago to which Lord Winterton was turned unopposed at the last elec-reply to a supplementary from the try of Health, and

tion. Trans-Ocean.

Opposition benches suggesting Captain Euan Wallace, formerly appointed with a seat in the Cabinet Lord Winterton, however, to the lapses. parliamentary secretary

breach that there had been a Board of Trade, is appointed Fin-

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-

ed before Mr. R. Edwards at the to answer a number of other sup- ancial Secretary to the Treasury.

caster.

Central Magistracy this morning plementary questions by a Labour The Duke of Devonshire, form-with unlawful possession of pre-Member except to express the hope erly Lord Hartington, remains Par pared opium, and with keeping an that any efforts of His Majesty's liamentary Undersecretary for the

opium divan. Defendant was fined] Government to secure a settlement Dominions-British Wireless.

$60 or six weeks' hard labour on with Mexico would be supported in the first charge and $100 or two all quarters of the House.--British months' hard labour on the second. Wireless.

ANOTHER AIR MINISTRY CHANGE

Changes in Under-Secretaryships

are:

of

will remain in the Cabinet 06 Yu Yuk, of Victoria, was charg-diplomatic decorum but he declined

INFLUX OF YOUTH

The effect of the changes, Trans-Ocean is to restore

says.

Lt. Col. A. J. Muirhead, Under- Secretary for Air, is appointed Under-Secretary for India and Burma,_in_place of Lord Stanley. balance between the Lords

Captain H. H. Balfour becomes Commons in the Cabinet andto

the and

A SPECIALISED SERVICE

Under-Secretary for Air, in place bring a number of younger politi-A

of Lt.-Muirhead, and

cians into the Cabinet,

Mr. R. H. Cross becomes parlia- Lord Stanley, and Lt.-Col Colville mentary secretary to the Board of are comparatively young men. In- Trade, in place of Capt. Euan Wal-cidentally they were both born in lace. Reuter.

the year 1894. Lord Stanley en-

Mr. R.A. Butler Has Again "Been Informed”

London, To-day.

Mr. A. C. Moreing (Conservative, Preston) asked in the House of Commons yesterday whether the recent appointment of a Superintendent of Customs at Shanghai by Nanking was confirm- ed by Sir Frederick Maze, the Inspector- General, and whether the appointee will be sub- ordinate to and under the control of the In- spector-General.

Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary | for Foreign Affairs, replied in the negative...

did

SAME PRINCIPLES Mr. Moreing asked as we not recognise the "puppet adminis tration at Nanking," we should re- fuse to recognise the appointment, He explained that Superinten- which may have most dangerous | dents were normally appointed by results to our trade in Shanghal, the Ministry of Finance and were Mr. Butler answered: "I am in- not under the control of the Inspec-formed that the same principle that tor-General although subordinated prevailed before, prevails now"..

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