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THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, THURSDAY, DECEM BER 6, 1945.

PARLIAMENT HOT AND BOTHERED Hainan's

Mr. Morrison Under Barrage

Mixed Response Of M.P.s

Response wreck Found

LONDON, DEC. &

MR. HERBERT MORRISON, LEADER OF THE HOUSE OF

COMMONS, ANNOUNCING THE SENDING OF A PAR LIAMENTARY. DELEGATION TO INDIA, SAID PHE DELEGATION WOULD BE IN A RATHER SPECIAL CATEGORY."

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ME MORRISON SAID: “AS I CONCEIVE IT ONE OF ITS PURPOSES WORLI BI TO CONVEY THE GOODWILL THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT AND ALSO TO MARK CONTACTS AND GET INFORMATION TO AN SIST THE SITUATION

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Eden Mr. Anthony

Woubl Morrison give Further eva sideration to the point raised fev Bi Maxton? I think this is complete departure I thank at Government book into the matter of other visits they will find they had been made 111 Takjonge to a invitation be 1) tr verned.

"If Government's seasethrour more than

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1 might be wiser to send out a)

8 representative of all par 110x the Hause under the aus pices of Government, rather than stretch the Empire Parliamentary Amocmlion into a new role when it has never had before."

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Mr. Morrison "That

will, I course, not affect the composition. of the delegatum brenuse it proposed stmuld be chosen after consulta Lion with

partia the principal terntary parties. Therefore comes in that sense to the sum thing.

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thanking Mr. Morrison for that may I ask hizo also to bear

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there is also the po-ition in India. to be considered, and u s izn- prtant we should not raise false lopes as to the functions of this delegation in India 3f it groes

Government under

Auspices it could have terms of reference ap proved by the House,"

N.E. CORNER

Mr. Morrison: "I think t would be foreign to the tradition of the House and to the spirit of the whole thing if we were to draw this delegation from the majority party in the House only At any rate we must have some- thing like the principles of pro portionate cypresentation."

Sir Walter Smiles (Cons): "i should like to call the attention of Mr. Morrison to the fact that in any previous missions the north-east corner of India, Aenam and Bengal were not visited, and I hope this delegation will visit that north-east corner this time and especially get in touch with the Moslem leaders of Bengal and Astam."

Mr. Morrison: "Wo have not yet got an itinerary. I will cer tainly undertake that that point will be kept in mind."

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My Marrison "I have under taken to consider proposals per

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whether that would be

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Singapore, Dec. 5.

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Motor launches of the Bri tinh Buat Indica Flect, comb- ing islands between Singapore und the Netherlands Indies for survivpra of

tho eneaped from Malaya 116 1942-46. fornit the wreck of fi river granban! UM S. Grashopper

Sianpep Inland.

Human remains have been found, the report added Reuter.

Hong Kong Serviceman's

Bride Now In England

On India Delegation Future Status

Indians To Decide

Their

Own Future

LONDON, DEC. A.

A BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION IS TO LEAVE FOR INDIA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO MEET LEADING INDIAN POLITICAL PERSONALITIES AND LEARN THEIR OWN VIEWS AT FIRST HAND. ANNOUNCING THIS IN THE HOUSE OF LURDS TO-DAY, THE SECRETARY FOR INDIA, LORD BETHICK LAW. RENCE, SAID: "I DESIRE TO MAKE IT PLAIN THAT HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT REGARD THE SET- TING-UP OF A CONSTITUTION - MAKING BODY, BY WHICH THE INDIANS WILL DECIDE THEIR OWN FUTURE, AS A MATTER OF THE GREATEST - - GENCY."

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Lord Pethick Lawrence, ferring to the libralt transi tion times," stated: "The Gov eriment of India cannot divul itself of the responsibility which rests upon it and upon all · Pre- vincial Governments of preserve ing law and order and af re sisting any attempt to revolyz the constitutional inaue by

realisation of self-govern- alat." he added, "ean unly can by an orderly and peaceful trans- fer of the machinery of state to A purely Indian authority.”

Ford Pethick Lawrence had an nounced that the Parliamentary Delegation would

the be vader auspices of the Empire Parlin

Association but there mentary was suppresing development when the Lord President of the Covi eil, Mr. Herbert Morrison, later

a similar statement in the made House of Commons, writes Praser Wighton, Reuter's Political Cor respondeurt.

force." London, Nov 28 Twenty one years old Maya Barn had been waiting eighteen miths to make the 1,700-mile Journey Tru Parevedenovskaya Lisa, Moscow, to Cherry Or chard Way, Maidstone (Keni) to join the English airman she mar ed to May, Inst. year.

Yesterday, ayn pronounced "Miyah" took her first look at London alone, treuse her hus bant. L.A.C. Frederick Bunn, 10,000 miles away in Hong Kong. Almost at the same time that Maya was told that she was to he one of the fitat Örst dozen Rus- sian brides to get visas to leave the U.S.S.R.. her husband wrot his embarkation orders for the

Far East.

It was the insistence of a con siderable body

that of opinion The proposed all-party depulation Indin should go

out under Government auspices.

MURMURS OF APPROVAL.

Fred Buan met his bride when

of members to "My memory is he went to Moscow with the Bri tot bine leur last 1 should doubt the air missions. She menka Eng ther t woutl Fre A suitable ish through working at the Bri way out

Lish Embaany, and, after a Milan show given by the Amøriern Em- bassy, Fred telephoned her and lu vited her to a party.

LACK OF UNDERSTANDING

Mr Peter Freeman Lub.) usked whether in the Jast there is been failure to appreciate tado this country eid a lack of understanding between the twe countries, and whether Mr. Mor eisigi would inelente what steps he proposed Lo Lake lo remove that misunderstanding.

Mr. Morrison "The answer is Das step."

Wing Commander Millington (Communwenitha asked whelles in view of the impending changes

of Indin. Govern in the status

ment would defer the trial the 100 arrested men of the Indian National Army, so that they might Indian be Lund by a competent

Mi Morrisori "[ gather that Wing Commander Millington's figure is a very great exaggera-

tanze but I do not think it would ine to dual with

be right for that matter 30 A by-product of the statement 1 have just made."

NO THREAT

Mr. William Gallagher (Com

): "Would it not have been better to leave out the threa- lening part of the statement, and is it the case that after the elec tion, the Indian National Congress and the Mohammedan League will

· Consulted in every stage of negotiations?"

Mr. Morrison: "I do not profess

to be as strong a

believer in firm

w! ruthless government as Mr.

NOT AS SHE IMAGINED

They were married month afterwards, because he was leav lag Moscow to come home.

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"We stopped to pick up other Russian briden," said Maya, "and then drove to the airport, where we boarded a British Du kota, manned by a crew of three Englishmen and two Russians."

"Nothing in England is an I im- axined," Maya added. "In Russia whenever we see anyone tall and alim we say: Isn't he typical Englishman? But the English do not sepm any than the Russian and alimmer

Mrs. Bunn is now a citizen of Two countries. She left Rugain with a U.S.S.R. passport, so that she can go back to visit her father.

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Singapore Policy Talks

troops from Java

Darwin Panic

Findings

CANBERRA, DEC. 5. THE REPORT OF MR. JUS- TICE LOWE, OF THE SU PREME COURT OF VICTORIA, Whe

WAS APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE PANIC AT DARWIN AFTER THE FIRST JAPANESE AIR RAIDS OF FEBRUARY. 1942, HAS NOW BEEN PUBLISHED.

The

report attributes the pane of effective leadership. to a lack of which led to

forsignerate offort.

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in which minent, to abandon the town. On the night of February there had been looling of busi neas premises by both elvilians and military personnel, and they had continued sporadically even

that up to the time

Mr. Lowe vintted Darwin. He found it hard to believe that with proper super vision Jooting could have thus continued. By the middle of the afternoon of the 19th people had been seeking to leave the town by every available means. A long string of vehicles had besieged the petrol station, but the sale of petrol had been forbidden. Many people who had obtained petrol had departed for the south and others had left Darwin on foot. Business houses had been closed and the town's civil life prac tically ceased. The Administra-

Mr. Morrison's statement in the House of Commons wa received with murmurs of approval by all parties in the House but it was evident from the questions which followed

from the Opposition Front Bench and other members that the proposal to allow the Empire Parliamentary Associator, Mr. C. L. A. Abbot, bad ar- tion to sponsor the delegation did a generally favour- able impression.

members Many

scomed clearly to be of the opinion that in vlew of its importance, the delegation should have an official status.

not producu

The leader of the House. Mr. Herbert Morrison, was quick w sense the mixed reaction and he at once made it clear that the Government had no bias in the matter and was wiling

to con- sult the wishes of the House as whole before taking the matter further.

He also made it clear, in answers to questions, that he had not anticipated the necessity for a debate upon the Gavecontent's announcement.

NO THREATS

camp for a provost company to

the police in keeping order, but he had not been fully quainted with the conditions that were developing, and his reporte to Canberra had failed to give an adequate idea of those condi- tions.

Mr. Justico Lowo considers that the fallure of the R.A.A.F. to warn A.R.P. headquarters of the imminence of the rald was Inexplicable.

850 KEMPEITAI MEN

IN PRISON

Rangoon, Dec. 5. Three...hundred. and fiftymer- bers of the Kempel Tal (the Japanese gestapo) arc now in prison while cases of atrocities

to attributed

them

being investigated.

at a preas

are

Lord Pethick Lawrence; in ans- WOT to a question addressed to him by a former Under-Secretary for India, Lord Munster, delivered the India statement to the Houseginald Dorman-Smith. of Lords, where it was favour of Burma Reuter ably received and the Secretary was thanked by Lord Munster,

Afterwards in Parliament, the

were

appreciative in their comment of the statement as a whole, approving particularly and the point made by Government that it would resist any attempts Constitution to call the future

This was revealed conference held to-day by Sir Re-

members Batavia, Dec. B. Political circles here believe Gallagher Is. Really I did not that the policy of excluding detect in this

any Dutch statement threat. 1 merely said the Govern- Sumatra is likely to bo dis- ment of Indin had the respon- sibilities

of government and it must govern. The fact is that there have been certain indica- tions of threats the other way."

MIXED FEELINGS

cussed at the forthcoming con- forence at Singapore between Ad- mirai Lord Louis Mountbatten, General Christison and Dr. II. Van Mook. Lieutenant-Governor of The Netherlands East Indies.

Military circles say that if the Alles are to restore order in alr. Godfrey Nicholson (Cons.) Java by force. a much greater this proposal for India has been army will be required. In that and case, the Dutch claim to a share Inet with mixed feelings

In the operation is likely to be mixed suggestions in many parts of the House and I hope his pressed, as the Dutch hold they

chiefly concerned. It reconsideration will take the form aro

understood that Dutch troops are of consultations with all nections!

at present in Malaya of opinion in the House. Other-

Dutch circles conalder that the

"Mr. Morrinon will have seen that

go wrong."

lo

wise it is quite possible he may situation throughout Java springs mainly from the reign of terror Mr. Morrison: "I am much by Javanese youth, and they bo obliged for the 'friendly warming. lieve that the moderates will be I did not gather that the state, willing to come to a settlement. mont was challenged but I did They maintain this view, despite rather that there was some dia firm atatoments by the Indonesian agreement about the form of the Prime Minister, Dr. Sharir, that delegation. and I will certainly the Indonesians are unwilling to reconsider that in a friendly accopt, anything less than spirit."

pondence. Reutor.

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EQUALS AND EQUALS

Inde-

of India into being by throats of force and its recognition that one of the great needs in India was to raise the standard of life, education and health of the masses,Reuter.

Boycott Of Palestine

AS FROM

CAIRO, DEC. 4. THE COUNCIL OF THE PAN-ARABIC LEAGUE, IN A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR ACTION AGAINST "THE ZION- URGED THAT EVERY ARAB IBT ECONOMIC DANGER"

PRODUCTS MANUFACTURED COUNTRY. BOYCOTT ALL IN PALESTINE JANUARY 1, 1048.

The resolution called commodi ties of Palestinio origin "undesir able" and that their continued transportation to the Amb coun- tries means ald to the Zionist aims. It called upon. the Arab port licenses to Palestinian goods countries legislatures to deny im

and recommended, creation of a Asked by a Labour member special League Committee to au-

NO RESTRICTION

Major Wyott (Lab.): "Would Mr. Morrison make it quite clear that if the ultimato wish of the Indian people is that they do not wish to remain a partner of the British Commonwealth they may be allowed to make that deel sion, and also that there will not again be any further mention of bear in mind that equals can taikais. There was no reply. Dominion etatun in connection with equals and that some strong with India?"

Evelyn Walken (Lab.): "Hay- ng

regard to the growing strength of the. trade union move ment in India, will the Minister

trado

Judice the issue at this stage.”

A Conservative member asked fact that those who went to Indin Mr. Morrison to bear in mind the should know something about In-

Mr. Morrison: "I do not think be in representatige might about the possibility of a debate, pervise execution of the resolu

in the delegation !"**

'thoro need be any misapprehen

sion about that The

Mr. Morrison:. "Thoro is no offor of reason why those who are.con

Mr. Morrison said that quite tion's terms

apart from the time factor, In The resolution also urged noigh- which they were in considerable bouring countries which 1942 to include the provision, of

are not sulted should not keep that point diloulties, he a little doubt members of the Pan-Arable Les the treaty contemplated between In mind. Perhaps I should not fal whether that would be ad-gue to join in the Arab boycott the new self-governing India and say anything which might pre- vantageops-Iteutor."

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