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SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN DUNCAN SANDYS AFFAIR

ARMY COUNCIL SUMMONS IS BREACH OF COMMONS MEMBERS' PRIVILEGES

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Appeal To The Speaker

LONDON, JUNE 30.

EVELOPMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE QUESTION of Parliamentary privilege, raised in the

House of Commons on Monday, had a dramatic sequel yesterday,

At the end of question time, Mr. Duncan Sandys (Unionist Member for Norwood) rose to address the Speaker and announced that in" his capacity as an officer of the Territorial. Army he had received orders to appear this morning in uniform to give evidence before a military court of Inquiry.

MR SANDYS appealed to the Speaker for guidance and said the question how far it was permissible to compel a Member of Par-

JAPANESE FEAR lament to divulge the source of information used by him in dis-

GUERILLAS

Pelping. June 30.

An undisclosed number of troop trains carrying Japanese troops and artillery, arrived at Shanhaikuar from the Tien- tsin area yesterday and today. This movement of troops from North China is causing much speculation, but it is. believed to be connected with the movement of Chinese guerillas from points north- west of Peiping towards Shan- halkoan, with the avowed ob- Ject of severing communica-

between tions

Pelping and Mukden.(Reuter).

Italy Exerting Effort To Stop Bombing Of British Ships

charge of his Parliamentary duties was in process of being consider- ed by the House.....

IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES, he submitted, it was a gross breach of privilege of the House that he should be summoned to give, evi- dence before a military tribunal and asked the Speaker to declare, that he had made out a prima facie case of breach of privilege.

The Speaker ruled, that Mr. Jandys had. made out a prima facie.. case, and the matter was referred to the Committee of Privileges.

CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE ¡the House and Mr. Speaker would Today's debate on the motion see privilege protected and that Mr. establishing a Select Committee to Sandys should not comply with the inquire into dreamstarices of the order. The case presented to the Hotise by Mr

Prime Minister later an- Duncan Bandys has aroused great nounced that the War Secretary interest both in Parliament nd in had agreed to ask the Army Coun

the Press, ang Mr. Sandys' appeal to suspend the summons until to the Speaker and the disclosure the Committee of Privileges had of the fact that he had been sam-reported on the prima facie case moned to give evidence before a breach of privilege which the military tribunal in advance of this | Speaker had ruled had been made debate and of the report of the out. Select Committee caused a marked sensation in the House.

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COMMITTEE, MEETS

The Committer. "of Privileges, Major Clement Attlee and Sir Percy Harris for the Opposition which consists of the Prime Min- called attention to what they re-ster, the Leader of the Opposition, (the Attorney General, Mr. Winston İgard as a curicus circumstance that while the House had taken Churchill, Mr. R. D. Denman (Na- of certain incidents tional, Labour Member for Central cognisance and, on the motion of the Prime Leeds) Sir John Gilmour (Con- servative former Home Sec. & Sec. Minister himself, was to set up a

for Scotland), Mr. Arthur Green- London, June 30. Select Committee to Inquire into It is learned in London that no these matters, the Army Council for Wood, M. George Lambert Leral concession by General Franco was which the War Secretary and the National). Sir Hugh O'Neill (Con communicated to the British Am-whole Government must take res-servative Member for Antrim) and bassador to Rome, Lord Perth, byponsibility.. had set up a tribunal Sir Archibald Sinclair, met last night for over an hour with the the Italian Foreign Secretary, to inquire into cognate questions

Prime Minister in the chair. Count Ciano.

and had summoned a member of; It is understood that during the the House to appear before it in his course of the latest conversations military capacity. between the British Ambassador

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ORDER SUSPENDED

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the Italian Government disclaimed Mr. Winston Churchill and other! any concern in or authority for the Members military

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Mr. Sandys, who was under mill- At the same time, the Italian tary orders. Government expressed itself as be-

Mr. Charchill appealed to the

ing willing to do everything in Its Premier to cancel the order and power to persuade General Franco said that otherwise, he presumed

to take such steps as might-lead to a cessation of bombing attacks on British ships.

Concessions are contained, how- ever, in an inspired article by Vir- ginio Gayda in Glorale d'Italia, In which it is stated that General Franco has instructed his airmen to discriminate in favour of British ships when bombing Spanish ports. Free ports will be determined by General Franco: in these ports legitimate trade by British and other foreign powers will be allow- ed to continue without hindrance.

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London. June 30.

Asked about press reports of remarks by the official Japan- ese spokesman at Shanghai, regarding foreign extraterri- torial rights in China. Mr. R A. Butler, Under-Secretary" for Foreign Affairs, told the House of Commons yesterday that Lord Halifax had instructed His Majesty's Ambassador. at Tokyo to take up the matter with the Japanese Govern- ment (British Wireless).

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Movements Within Discretion Of Commander-in-Chief

London, June 30.

Movements of British warships in the Far East lie within the discretion of the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Percy Noble, and the Foreign Minister, Lord. Halifax, has no wish to limit these move- ments.

This reply was made in the House of Commons yesterday by the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affai~, Mr. R. A. Butler, to questions by Mr. A. E. L. Chorlton, (Conservative).

BRITISH TRADE HURT

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Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, (Con- under International law. the Japanese had no right to interfere servative) drew attention to the the serious fall in the Shanghai dollar, with neutral shipping un Yangtse River, particularly having and asked whether the Chancellor regard to the fact that Japan was of the Exchequer would ask the not technically at war with China. Economie Adviser to the Embassy "Is the Prime Minister prepared in China to pay special attention to give an undertaking that no to the dislocation to British trade British man-o'-war shall be re-caused by the decline. moved from the Yangtse River without

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