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DEATH PENALTY BACK AGAIN: THE

LORDS THROW VITAL CLAUSE OUT Peninsular

OF THE BILL

▼

London, June 2.

The House of Lords tonight throw out from the Criminal Justico Bill the clause suspending the death penalty for a ́ Þial period of five years. As predicted, they sent the Bilf back to the House of Commons, without the clause, by 181 votes to 28,

The House of Lords, yote was also a free one, but with

B

Rubber Estate Strikes

Bingapore, June 2,

Beventy-nine labourers were

•jected today from Among 1,200 strikers at the Klapa Bell and Lima Blai rubber extutan. Four hundred pollos ejected the strikers while 400 troops stood by.

Contrary to expectations, the ejections were out without Incident.

carried

Police escorted 64 Indlan evicteos and 25 Chinese off the estates. They seized soy- oral hundred cutting kalves and other potential weapuna from the remaining strikers. --flauter.

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nows

The Bill now goes back to the House of Commons for recon- sideration and the Government The paradoxical position upholding is dreision it had originally opposed. It has stated it will stand by the decision of the House of Commons.

In that case, il must not ba taken that the exlating arrange. ment would hold good, he said.

No Datorrent

}

Believes Christianity Rebirth

Shanghai, June 2.

An appeal to China to pre- serve her centuries old culture and traditions was made here today by Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, American world famous radio speaker, in an address here before an International gathering.

of

"I always believe that the re- birth of Christianity in the world. will come in China," sald M.

who is member Cardinal Spellman's party, at present visiting this country.

"Europe hos lost faith but not entirely?" he added.

who held his au- M. Sheen, dience spellbound for over one hour condemned Communism in vigorous terms.

The Bill, reforming the British penal system, had been passed by the Commons last April. The death penalty clause had been inserted in the Bill by the Commons on a free (non-party) vote. The Government, although strongly op- posed to abolition because of the post-war crime wave, gave its Members a free choice, because it felt it was not a party matter but onc of conscience.

He was referring to the Home Secretary's announcement-after stances which must receive fresh Sheen,

the death penalty- until the Bill became law convicted murderers would be reprieved. Lord Goddard men- tone

murderers tioned several

who had been reprieved since the do- cision of the House of Commons, including James Camb, "the steward who murdered a

young woman on liner and threw her body into shark-infested sens."

The added that if the clause did It has been--suggested—in-

not become inw, future murder politient

quarters here, Reu-

ers might have a "very legitimato fers Parlamentary correspondent grievance.

11 They might Блу wrote, that crisis between why is the law, to be put into judges who Administer the conference, expressed the plea-

(wo Houses may he force against me if batt

before the Criminal Law are regarded by sure that, from Impressions he avowled by a compromise such law was altered these people most penal reformers as their had gathered during his tour of

were let off capital punishment?"

the city's Catholic worst feature", he said, referring Answering this point, the Lord to the fact that most judges were Chancellor, Viscount Jowiti, said agnina abolition. that when the Home Secretary

"Most Judges were not deeply made his Announcement there versed in the science of penology. was a prospect of a change in It is cicar

from any statistical the law taking place in the near Investigation that the great mas5 future.

these crimes of

are not pro- If however, the Lords rejected meditated. More than half were the

clause that prospect might sexual

cases or cases where disappear. Obviously, that would man murdered his wife or mis- be held new set of circum-tress in passion. Hanging dors not deter a man from that sort of thing."-Reuter.

the

the retention of the death penny for a second murder.

Lord Goddard, Lord Chlef Justice,

strongly opposing abolition, ratsed, a "most im portant constitutional lasue" whether convicted murderera who had been reprieved since the House of Commons' deci. Bian would continue to be

ra. prieved if the clause did not become law.

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Lord Chorley, whose post in the Government is Lord-lu Waiting. winding up the debate from

the Government front bench, surprised the House of

is not anything "Cominunlim Lords by declaring that he wns

new." he declared." "It is the President of the National Society leath of a dying civilisation. It for the Abolition of the Deulis rotted capitalism. It does not Penally He

strongly advocateil mark an era or beginning." abolishing the death penalty.

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:

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GRAND DUCHESS

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Tokyo, June 3.

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The Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, last surviving member of the Russian Royal Family and the younger sister Sixty interpreters are pre- of Tsar Nicholas II, sailed from paring to go into confinement here tonight on the Empress of about mid-June to write judg- Canada as an ordinary cml- ments on Tolo and his 24 co- grant.

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