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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1947.:*

HEAVY GOING FOR COMMONS FLY CPA Tories To Fight Nationalisation Programme

Important Bills For New Session

London, Jan. 20. Parliament reconvenes tomorrow after its Christ-

mas vacation and the six-month session ahead - promises to produce much significant legisla- tion accompanied by storms of protest from the vocal Opposition..

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Pledged to a programme of nationalisation for several industries, Prime Minister Attlee's Government is scheduled to submit the trans-. port, electricity, town planning and agricul-

SURPRISE

Jerusalem, Jan. 20.

The Jewish National Coun- cil's decision to fight the terrorista is understood hore to have come as a "pleasant surprise" to General Sir Alan

Canningham, British High

Commissioner for Palestine.

Palestine Government quarters ulso expreaard their antisfaction at the sterancan of the warning issued to the terroristsRenter

ture bills-and each is expected to be greeted BYRNES SIGNS

with furious protests.

Mr. Attlee's Government is the first since 1932 which has not lost a single sent in ite first eighteen months in office and has thus retained its sub- stantial majority.

Mr. Churchill has threatened to call for a vote of censure on both foreign, and domestic policies at an early date.

If the House of Commons up.¦ halds the censure vote-an ex- tremely unlikely occurrence~~~ the Government would fall and would have to call new elec- tions.

Despite the recent attack on Mr. Kevin by "rebel" Labour. ites the split is not wide en- ought to result in a votë against the Party leaders.

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Shadow Cabinet Mr. Churchill has called meeting of his "shadow Cal- inet this week, to determine whether he should tackle

otion of censure.

Mr. Beyin expects in the near future to address Labour MPs in an attempt to obtain a "united front" on foreign policy as well as to inform them of changes in the situation since he last apparei At such 3 meeting.

Last week's transport strike ako will figure in the Parlia-1 mentory discussions and Mr. Attlee is to be asked questions tomorrow by Labour menibera inquiring into the desirability of appointing a Royal Commis sion or Select, Committee to streamline the "outmoded"! fabour dispute machinery.

Press Views London's press took various views on the new session.

The "Daily Telegraph" in an editorial entitled "Rocks Ahead" criticised the Govern- ment for overriding immediate problems such as the budget and tax trimming in favour of "gislation not concerned with Argent needs of the hour but with the Government party's

netrinal prejudices."

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sidered by any Parliament in the_history of the country,

The "Daily Express" suggest- ed Parliament should tell the Cabinet to "put on one side

TREATIES

Nuffield

In Liner Mishap

Sydney, Jan. 21. Attempts to refloat the liner, Wanganella, which ran aground at Barretts Reef at the entrance. to Wellington, N.Z. harbour on Sunday night, have been unsuccessful.

The 9,576 tons vessel is in an extremely exposed and precarious position. with Washington, Jan, 20.1

moderate lo fresh southerly anil Mr. James F. Byrnes winds officially forceast, your vast opaque plans for today signed the World fears are expressed 'regarding | nationalisation as they cannot War II peace

the prospects of anlvage. treaties touch present problems except with

At the time the vessel struck Italy, to make them

Hungary, the reef there were 400 pas- certainty. Get on with your Rumania and Bulgaria.sengers aboard. The night was job so that the workers can get on with theirs."United Press. fore leaving the post of Secretary It was his last official act be-

of State

worse by un-

Marshall's Plane

Grounded

Chicago, Jan. 20. General George Marshall's plane was grounded by bad weather and Gen. Marshall took a train for the last leg of his journey to Washington to be Secretary Marshall posed for photograph

Before boarding the train, Gen.

era but evaded all questions..

of State.

sworn in a

Earlier he had told reporters that he had tried twice to retire from public life-the first time he was interrupted by the war, when he was Chief of Staff, the China which the termed a "very second by his assignment to interesting country, especially to Mrs. Marshall."United Press.

The signing

ceremony lasted little more than ten minutes and Mr. Byrnes made no statement. A crowd of over 200 people, most of them State Department off cials, was present.

Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Tom Contally, who served as Mr. Byrnes' Congressional ad- visers during the long months "ta which the treaties were discussed

ference, sat beside Mr. Byrnes. by the Big Four Ministers, and who took part the Paris con-

sea

dark, but clear, and the had retired for the night, but was smooth. Many passengers

others were about the decks.

all on board, but was not auf- The bump was felt by nearly

Life ficient to cause alarm. jackets were issued but there j was no panic.

The passengers included Lord Nuffield, Archbishop Panico, Apostolic delegate to Australia, and Admiral of the Fleet Lord Tovey.

► measures

Rescue

were brought smoothly into

action and with the aid of small vès- sels from Wellington, paasen-

When he had signed the last copy of the last document Mr. Byrnes walked from the desk and gers were taken off in relays. remarked to the crowd as he ges- They were brought safely to tured at the batteries of anused the quayside-Associated Press. wish to make a speech you may microphones, "If any of you take my place and do so."-Reu-

ier.

Privy Council Rejects Petition

: London, Jan. 21.

Leave to appeal against the decision of a court martial in India was refused after a hearing by five law lords comprising the judicial com- mittee of the Privy Council in London yester- day.

The jurisdiction of the Privy Council to hear such

an appeal was challenged.

Kuomintang Get-Together

The

Nanking, Jan. 21. Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee will hold its third plenary session on March 15, according to an announcement by the Standing Committee.

It has not yet been officially announced what are the main sub- jects of deliberation but it is be lieved that the Chen Brother: will, be asked to decide the Kuo- mintang policy as demanded by the changed situation arising out of the breakdown in Communist negotiations.

Observers, recalling the stormy second plenary session held in Chungking last March in which Mr. D. N. Pritt, K.C., coun-, the opinion that the Indian reactionaries strongly attacked sel for the Crown, argued that Army Act intended the findings the Government for signing the there was no trace anywhere of of a court martial, as cónfirm-all-party Political. Consultative any law, statute or customed by the proper confirming Council agreements, expecia re which would permit an appeal officer, to be final.-Associated surgence of reactionaries and die- The News Chronicle" snid from a court martial to be Press. Government could look forward | brought.

to "onerous daya", fortified by The argument arose out of a the fact that it enjoyed-the petition for leave to appeal as me backing from the country an act of grace, presented by that it did at the General Mohammad Yakub Khan, an Election.

officer in the Indian Army, who was sentenced to six years' im prisonment, and ordered to be cashiered by a Calcutta court- martia) in 1943.

The Daily Herald" described the legislative programme as the most important to be con-

Argentine Sale Rumour

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MUTINY

R.I.N. FINDING

An

the

hards in the next plenary session which may require Chiang Kai- shek exercising-the "big stick" once again. United Press.

GERMAN OUTPUT

London, Jan. 20.

and

In spite of the coal shortage New Delhi, Jan. 21.

in Germany there have been official report by an appreciable production increases He had been charged with last night declared that

inquiry commission released in consumer goods. misappropriation of stores, em-

Footwear has been almost bezzlement and insubordination. mutiny in the Royal Indian doubled, said Mr. John Hynd, For the petitioner, Mr. K. G. Navy last February might the Minister responsible for Pullen, referred to a report of ever be happened Admiral the Administration of the Bri: a court martial in 1743 as u Flag Officer,

Vice tish zones, of Germany precedent for saying that this J.H. Godfrey and his officers, Austria, who added that there London, Jan. 20.

was a case to which His Majes,

not falled to take im- had been an overall average A spokesman for the Argenty's prerogative extended.

mediate steps to reassert their increase, including textiles, of line Railways today categorically Lord Thankerton said that authority with firmness and about

60 per

cent between denied news agency report that the 1743 court martial hud at the some time to take March and September. stockholders of the railways had clearly exceeded its jurisdiction sympathetic steps to alleviate met and agreed to sell the lines hy the sentence. By virtue of the

However, he said there way outright to Argentina for 2,000, this, such jurisdiction was sub Press.

complaints."-Associated stili a serious gap to be made 000,000 pesos.

up between the urgent ncedr] ject to revision not only by the Privy Council but also by

and the available supplies.--. the ordinary courts,

Reuter.

"No agreement has been reach ed for the sale of the railways and no stockholders" meeting was held recently," he said.

The Financial Times" said to-

day that the results of the Anglo- Argentina talks on the dispos!-

Mr. Pullen contended that there was nothing in the statute

under which the Privy Council was formed to suggest that the

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The earliest possible date for decision is February 3, when the Court will next hand down opinions. However, a decision in Jate February or early March is considered much more likely- United Press.

COLONIAL_POLICY AND THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT (Continued from Page 4)

Wo are engaged upon a great opportunity for service that should not be dissipated, but tackled in such a way that the colonial peoples will bless the contribution of British. Labous: and Sociallam to their happi ness and progress.".

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