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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

500-MILES OIL PIPE-

LINE.

MOTOR-CAR SURVEY OF ARABIAN DESERT.

Jaffa, May 24:

SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1928.

¿POLITICS ON THE WIRELESS.

WHY THE CONFERENCE

BROKE DOWN.

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An official denial la given to the

DR. STRICKLAND TO START CAMPAIGN.

EVERY DOCTOR MAY BE

ham.

· CIRCULARISED.

An intensive campaign, includ- A large survey party has left statement that the negotiationsing the circularisation of doctors, Amman, Transjordania, with between the three political parties may be soon started on behalf of eleven specially equipped motor and the B.B.C. on the subject of Dr. H. F. Strickland, of Becken- care to conduct a preliminary sur-controversial broadcasting have

Dr. Strickland was struck off vey for the laying of an oil pipe-broken down because the Conser-1

by the General he from the Mesopotamian oil-vatives insisted on having two the Register

on the other Medical Council, on account, it field across the Great Arabian speakers to one

that is, the anti-Government side. will be recalled of his alleged un- Desert to the Mediterranean.

The expedition is financed by The story came from Liberal professional conduct with Mrs.

Dora Hurst. the Turkish Petroleum Company, sources.

He says he has received scores It was the B.B.C. which sug- It is stated that the Mediter-gested, as the result of a public of letters supporting hin. They ranean terminus of the line will be discussion on the merits or other had come from friends, patients, Haifa, in the Bay of Aère... wise of broadcasting "controver-and several clergymen. One was The Turkish Petroleum Co., sial" speeches, that a conference from Sir A. Conan Doyle. Dr.

Strickland said: Ltd., In October 1912 acquired a should be held, and that the pro-

"I have had here several doctor concession granted to the Deuts-ceedings threat should be

friends from London, Croyden and che Bank by the Turkish Govern-Adential. The B.B.C. also

there were two Sydenham, and they are all ram ment to work oil deposits over gested that as

tho Government pant about the case and anxious 90,000 square miles in the Mosul Oppositions, and

Baghdad provinces, Irak. should have the right of reply to arising the whole of the medical)

to start a real campaign, eircu- Thirteen years later, in 1925, a each.

Limited,

con-

sug.

profession.

convention was signed by the The Socialists, it is understood,, "Soon they hope to start a aub Irak Government granting the were not averse to this proposal; seription list with that end in company a concession for 75 but the Liberals objected, and view. years A period of three years tried to convince the representa

·

"The great question is: "What

was allowed for survey and the tives of the official Opposition doctor is safe?" selection of 24 plots of eight that the arrangement gave the "It has been said that I went to square miles each.

Government an unfair advantage.the house of a medical mun and

Drilling operations, began in They did not succeed In this en was received in that capacity by !

deavour; but they refused to come into the scheme. That is why the conference broke down.

1926 at Palkhana, 125 miles north of Baghdad, and if this spot were linked with Daifa the pipe-line would be more than 500 miles long..

The Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd., holds 17 per cent, interest in the company and the Royal Dutch Shell combine 22% per cent.

the husband.

That is absolutely wrong. I went to the house not as a medical man but as an ordinary layman in close personal contact with the parties. That is what I want to

.

Travesty of the Facts. Mr. J. C. C. Davidson, M.P. (Chairman of the Conservative fight." Party Organisation), and Com- "I shall not go away for some. mander "Eyres-Monsell, M.P. (the weeks. Then I may go abroad Chief Whip), represented the Gov-for a shori holiday, but I want to ernment at the conference. Mr. come back and prosecute the cam- Arthur Henderson, M.P. (Seere-pain in the interests of the tary of the Labour Party), and medical profession as a whole." Mr. T. Kennedy (Chief Whip) the Mr. Norman King, Registrar to ENGLISHMEN'S FIGHT WITH Socialists, and Sir Herbert Samuel the General Medical Connell, sald Chairman of the Liberal Or that Dr. Strickland could not go ganization) and Sir Robert, Blut- to law unless he could show that Phison issued a statement on the there had been something wrong subject. After emphasising in-procedure at the bearing of his the confidential nature of the pro- case.

KILLED BY A TIGER.

SHOT BEAST.

Mr. A. Buff, the collector at Vizagopalam, on the Bay of Bengal, has been killed by a tiger.

readin, he said the nttempt by "All he can do now," he said, Mr. Pritchard, the assistant col-The Biberals to prejudice the posi-is to apply to have his name res. lector, was mauled by the tiger, ion did not surprise' him. The tored, and he can do that at any and is now in hospital.

innuendo that the breakdown was November sussion of the General

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know," he added, "there has been no-breach of confidence."

which they failed to kill, they The B.B.C. submitted to the pursued the wounded beast in the three parties certain proposals.

Polities not Wanted. jungle, when it turned on them. These the Conversative Party un-

The breakdown does not seem to and mauled them both. The other reservedly accepted, but, at the members of the expedition rushed Conference, it became clear that be much regretted by members. of the if one could take a poll of the to help, and beat the tiger off the wing to the objections wounded men.

Liberal Party, a gonera accep- House it would be found, one Im- was imagines, that the overwhelming Before he died Mr. Daff was Lance of the proposals able to dictate his will to the possible. If there was a break opinion would be that listeners- magistrate at Gudem. His wife down, he added, it was due to thein do not want political disquisi- is in England.

obstinate refusal of the Liberal tions on the wireless at regular Mr. Archibald C. Dust was ap-Party to accept the proposals intervals, and that the majority pointed officiating collector and which the B.B.C... put forward on of them would switch off as 3000 as the talk started. At times of districi magistrate in Madras in their own initiative. 1922, after having served as pri-i Sir Robert Hutchison, the national crisis-such as the Gen- vate secretary to the Governor of Liberal Chief Whip, asked about eral Strike--statements on the Presidency from 1919 to 1921. Mr. Davidson's statement, replied position from the nation's leaders Je Was educated at Bedford that he would bring it to the notice would, it is agreed, he welcomed, Grammar School and New College, of Mr. Lloyd George, but refused but weekly political lectures are

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