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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 15, 1940

CAXTON HALL OUTRAGE Condemned By Leaders Of All Parties In India

"AN ACT OF INSANITY," SAYS MR. GANDHI

New Delhi, To-day.

THE LEADERS OF ALL PARTIES in India have unani- mously condemned the assassination on Wednesday of Sir Michael O'Dwyer, former Governor of the Punjab, and the wounding of Lord Zetland, Secretary for India, and other members at an Indian Association luncheon by a 37-year-old Indian engineer.

All Government offices in Lahore were closed and flags were flown at half-mast, yesterday over Government build- ings.

In the Council of State, New Delhi, the Opposition leader moved a re- solution

condeming the attack and requesting the Council President to convey the deep sympathy of the House towards Lord Zetland.

Mr. Gandhi called it "an act of insanity." He expressed the hope that It will not affect political Judgment.

the Indian

Leftist

Sundras Bose, leader, said: "I regret the assassina- tion, because the chapter of terrorism is closed in Indian history. This was an isolated, unrepresentative inci- dent."

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In Calcutta, the Premier of Ben- gal said that not only India but the whole civilised world was aghast at the shooting.

The whole. of India will join in condemning this abominable tragedy,"

tend to those wounded wishes for a rapid recovery.

our good

"I understood their injuries - are not grave, and that all are making satisfactory progress."

the

Mr. Chamberlain, recounting facts of the affair, gave the

name of the charged man as Mohan Singh. Reuter.

Lord Zetland at Work

London, To-day. When Mr. Attlee suggested in the Commons yesterday that

"this abominable outrage will be as keenly resented by all people in India as by the British people," Mr. Chamberlain said "I am sure that is so."

In the Lords, Lord Stanhope, said the Secretary for India had had a miraculous escape. He had indeed hoped Lord Zetland would have been in Their Lordships' House that after- The Indian press joins in the gen-noon. He was working at the India eral distress at the murder-Reuter. Office in the morning. British

Wireless.

he said,

Indian Resolution

London, To-day. Indian clubs and associations yester- day passed a resolution expressing horror at the act of violence and sent their deepest condolences to Lady O'Dwyer and family and their sym- pathy to the others who were shot,"

They included the Indian Students Union; the Moslem Society, the Hindu Association, the Parsee Association, the India League, representatives of the Moslem League, etc.-Reuter.

Commons Statement

London, To-day.

In a House of Commons statement yesterday on the Caxton Hall shoot-

Messages from India

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INCREASE IN

BENEFIT FOR WORKLESS

London, To-day. The advance in Unemployment Benefit of one shilling to four shillings a week for each of the first two dependent children is recommended to take effect on April 16 by the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee in a report issued yesterday.

This would cost over £1,000,- 000 a year.

In the House of Commons lat-. er, the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Brown, atated the Gov- ernment had accepted the recom- mendations-Reuter.

FIGHTING ON MANCHURIA BORDER?

SHANGHAI, TO-DAY.

GERMAN BID FOR BALKAN TRADE

A great intensification of German trade with Jugoslavia is revealed in statistics for the last four months of 1939, published here to-day. The most remarkable feature is the increased German export of goods of which the German public are themselves very short, such as cotton, wool, and arti- ficial silk--sales of which have prac- tically doubled-and even coffee and soap.

Germany is compelled to export these materials, despite her own great peed of them, by the more imperative need for foreign currency. A German now pre- delegation is in Belgrade senting a claim for repayment of the the Serbian debt to Germany before war of 1914-18, which was cancelled by the Versailles Treaty.

that

Jugoslav "exporters. believe goods sold to Germany are often re- exported. It is known, for example, that many million” pounds "weight of Balkan tobacco sold to Czecho-Slova- kia have since been transferred to Holland.

LATE LAST NIGHT IT WAS RE- PORTED THAT FIGHTING HAD

JOINT MARKETING PLANS BROKEN OUT BETWEEN SOVIET

Lard bought here for Slovakia is TROOPS AND MANCHUKUOAN FORCES ON THE MANCHUKUOAN immediately resold to Germany. At the same time the Germans are sys- BORDER,

tematically stripping the Slovak for- ests for cellulose, which is sold to the Balkan countries and Switzer- land:

It is added that the Soviet troops penetrated five miles into Manchu- kuoan territory.

While the reports cannot be con- firmed Japanese military officials ad- mitted that the situation on the bor- der is tense owing to recent disagree ments between Soviet and Manchu- kuoan representatives.-Our Own Correspondent.

NANNING

London, To-day. LULL LIKELY

Messages from India have been ar- riving at the India Office throughout the day congratulating the Secretary of State for India on his escape from the outrage at Caxton Hall, Lord Zetland has received telegrams from the Viceroy, Provincial Governors, the Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, Premiers

of Provinces and

many others. British Wireless.

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GERMAN COAL FOR

ITALY

Berlin, To-day.

Jugoslavia, în common with her neighbours, is now reorganising her economic structure to meet this Ger- man drive, and monopolies have now been established to control the sales·· and purchases of minerals, grain, and wool.

Joint marketing plans were discuss- ed at the Balkan Entente Conference last week, and this problem will also be raised in the talks which open to-morrow with the Bulgarian Minis- ter of Commerce, M. Slavtcho Zago- who is coming here with a big Further trade contacta

TO CONTINUE delegation.

is

GERMAN DELEGATION.

--- "" ་་་ between the Balkan countries now in Chungking, To-day. progress show the first practical re- The present lull in the Sino-Japan-sults of the conference. likely to continue, according ese. fighting, in the Nanning area

foreign military observer who has just returned to Chungking from the south Kwangsi front:

to a

BOYCOTTED

The Jugoslav public is clearly un- happy about Germany's economic pre- dominance. There was an outcry re- One of the principal reasons, he

of says, is the rainy season. When he cently about the vast quantities was; north of Kunlunkwan it had butter, coffee, and meat which Ger- man residents in Jugoslavia were been raining for four days in suc regularly posting to the Reich, and Even heavier rainfall was expect-theless, the German minority the oth- this practice is now forbidden. Never-

ing, the Prime Minister said: "The The Berlin radio states that about | cession. House will wish to join with me in|1,500 wagons of German coal will be expressing deep sympathy with Lady sent daily to Italy under the trade ed later and large-scale military O'Dwyer and her family in the tragic protocol signed in Rome on Wednes-operations in that area would be very loss they have suffered and to

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difficult.-Reuter,

TO-MORROW AT QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

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TO-MORROW AT QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

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er day sent' six waggons of fat as a present to the German Army,

Popular sentiment is indicated by the refusal of the towns of Zagreb and Ljubljana to receive a German timber delegation after the Vatican broadcast about German atrocities in Poland, which greatly shocked the Catholic community. The deglation had to transfer its conference to Bled.

Travellers report great German activity in the Rumanian Black Sea ports, where, apparently, supplies from Russia are being stored.

The German Levant Line steamers Larissa, Arcadia, Belof, Lalona, Staka, and Salzburg are carrying manganese and cereals from the Cau- casian port of Pot to Braila, in Rumania.

POLISH AIR SQUADRON READY FOR ACTION

Paris, To-day. General Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister, announced yesterday that the first Polish air squadron would soon join the French air force at the front. Soon afterwards, he said, Po- lish infantry units would- ̈ ̈ follow.---- Reuter.