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CHINA MAD

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1946.

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SOLDIER'S RIGHT OF APPEAL Committee To Be Set Up By War Hanging

Office To Consider CAIRO ARRESTS

Unfavourable Earlier Reports

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Cairo, Oct 15 Arresta" were made and, some people were injured here to might after the police had clash- ed with student demonstrators,

Not To Be Filmed

London, Oct. 15. That the hanging of

who urged workers to strike Goering and others con- tomorrow in protest against the demned at Nuernberg departures of Ismail Sidky would be filmed was Pasha, the Egyptian Prime described as inaccurate Minister, for talks in London..

About three hundred students by Mr. Attlee, in the marched through the streets, House of Commons to- shouting slogans against the day, Premier and distributing leaflets, urging workers to He said that the Allied Con strike

trol Council, on which the Several lorries, full of police, British Government was repre- dashed to the scene and after serited, decided last week that a brief clash, in which the no film or photograph should police used whips and bamboo be taken of the execution. canes, the demonstrators were awayTEA dispersed Reuter.

the administration of justice question is one, which the com- under naval, law would be amittee had better consider. matter for the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. George Hail),"

London, Oct. 15. The appointment of a committee to consider whether under the Military Code there should be the right of appeal to a court of appeal was- announced in the House of Commons today by the War Minister, Mr. Frederick Bellenger. Answering a number of questions arising from the recent quashing of convictions by court martial against British paratroopers in Mala- ya, Mr. Bellenger said that the exact composi- tion and terms of reference of the committee would need consideration. An announcement would be made as soon as possible. Mr. Bellenger said:" "The suggestion that under the Military Code there should be the right of appeal to a court of appeal in the ordinarily un- derstood sense of that term is Mr. Hector Hughes, Labour: not new. Two Important com- In setting up that committee, mittees, whose reports were laid will be in conjunction with the before this House,-have already appropriate authorities take considered the question. steps to inquire into the advis- "The first was the committee ability of amending the Army presided over by the late Jus-Act and other acts relative to tice Darling which sat in 1919 | the armed forces, so as to make and deliberated in the light of them more consonant with the experience, of the Great War needs and conditions of the The second was the committee present time.. presided over by Mr. Roland Oliver, King's Counsel. (now Justict Oliver), which reported in 1988, Both these, commit- tees reported against the setting up of service appeal. courts and gave weighty reasons for their views, which are fully set out in their reports.

"I will not attempt to recapi- tulate those reasons here but would, point out that the Dar ling committee considered that the existing system of automa- tic-review of court martial pro ceedings by the Judge Ad

vocate General and a further review on petition furnishes the soldier convicted by court martial with fuller safeguards against error at his trial than are available to a civilian coù-i victed in a civil 'court.

"Habeas Corpus" Mr. Barnet Janner, Labour:

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Will he answer that portion ofed, the question put by myself in relation to the right of a soldier There had been no decision to appeal against his conviction of the Allied Council on the and penalty to a court con- question of the publication of stituted of at least one civilian these photographs. judge. Will he consider giving the right to apply to a court to be freed from detention,

Mr.Bellenger: I think that will be one of the matters to come under the review of the Mr. Bellenger: I think that committee-Reuter

Last Paris

Session Of Conference

Paris, Oct. 15,

The Falace of Luxembourg was crowded to capa- city for the last session of the Paris Confer- ence this afternoon.

All

the Big Four Foreign Ministers Mr. Bevin, M. Bidault; Mr. Byrnes and Mr. Molotov-were present as the session opened.

For my part, I should be strongly opposed to their pub lication," Mr. Attlee declared. atle was replying to Mr. An- thony Eden, Conservative, who had asked if the British Gov. ernment was taking every action in its power to prevent a public exhibition of any such film or photograph-Reuter.

eral Secretariat and interpre ters for their work and the other thanking M.Georges Bidault and the French Govern- ment for their hospitality. The resolutions were loudly plauded,

Democratic Peace

Mr. Molotov, the next speaker, supported Mr. Byrnes's The chairmann was Dr. Quo tives of smaller nations have solutions. "Now when we afe Tai-chi (China),

worked at this conference," I

labouring to establish peace," Announcing the conclusion realise how distressed the peo-considers it to be ita duty to he continued, "the Soviet Union of the conference, Dr. Quo ples of these countries would continue the fight to achieve Later On

anid: This conference, after have been had they been denied the objectives which we strove "However, as the former Se two and a half months, has the opportunity to express their to achieve in war. The Soviet cretary of State for War (Mr. finished its work History views," he said. "The confer Union will continue to do all Jack Lawson) indicated on De-alone will judge what has been ence had disclosed that these in the power with full vigour cember 4 last, it was always achieved. But of one thing I nations that participated in

and consistency. that it con- contemplated that an investiga am certain the world in which fighting the war are not only siders is essential for the es- tion should be undertaken in we live today is a single and vitally interested in the peace, tablishment of a democratic the light of recent war experi- indivisible world. It is time but can make a valuable con peace.” ence and he suggested that it that justice, decency, reason, tribution to the drafting of the Mr. Bevin, adding his sup- would be desirable to appoint aand humanity be firmly re-treaties committee for this purpose a established in the world. This "It is now the duty of the said: "I will not enter into the Hport to Mr. Byrnes's resolutions, little later on when the Judge can only be achieved by the Council of Foreign Ministers dificulties of the conference, Advocate General and other constant efforts of all nations to try to reconcile our differen- except to say this che last word. staffs intimately concerned were and their statesmen to co ces. Such reconciliation neces- It has been said the seeds of less heavily pressed with cur- operate with each other in con- sarily means disappointment every great war has been sown fidence, good faith and unity for some and probably, for all, in the settlement of the pre- "I agree with that View and "That is why I say any at- but we must exercise self-vious war. But it is equally after consulting the Secretary tempt artificially to divide the restraint to maintain our com- true that the seeds of per- for Air (Mr. Philip Noel world into blocs or groups is mon unity and bring peace to manent peace can be sown at Baker) I now propose that a not only calculated to delay de a war weary world the end of a great war. Every committee of similar standing cisions for world peace, but. to the Darling and Oliver com will surely lend to disaster. Before we adjourn I want decision I have to take, and I to assure you that as a mem-hope every decision that others mitices should be set up forth- People's Peace ber of the Council of Foreign have to take, will be in recog with for this purpose. The James Byrnes answered Ministers I will, sympathetical-nition that if we take a wrong. exact.composition and terms of critics of the work of the con-ly examine every recommenda decision, or push our own point reference of the committee will Kerence and pleaded for a peo- tion which had been adopted by of view too far. It is not this need consideration and I will "ple's peace."

this conference." Met generation that has to pay for Mr. Byrnes moved two reso- it, is is generations yet un-

rent business.

make an announcement, as soon "Whenever I think of the as 1 can. - Questions relating to way in which the representa-lutions, one thanking the Gen- " born."--Reuter.

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