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MR.

PERIL: RETREAT CUT OFF

THE VICTOR

OF

WAKEFIELD

LABOUR PARTY JUBILANT

GAIN SEAT FROM TORIES

London, Apr. 21. Labourites are jubliant over the result of the Wake- field bye-election, which took place to-day, the seat being wrested from the Conserva- tive by Mr. Arthur Green- wood, Minister of Health in the last Labour Government.

Mr. George Lansbury, the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, declared that the victory was th: first nail in the Nationni Government's colliu.

The bye-election was necessital- d owing to the death of Dr. G. B. Hillman (Conservatives who gam- ed the seat from Labour at the last General Election.

as follows:

The result, was

Mr. A. Greenwood (Lab.) ... taħrt,

Mr. A. E. Greaves (Nat. Cob.) 19,242,

Labour majority

General Election. At the Hillman polled 16,881 votes

344.

Dr.

nu

Me. Arthur Greenwood, who now returns to the House of Common with (right) Mr: George Lansbury, the only other ex-Cabinet Minister in the House and Mr. Henderson.

Irader of the Labour Party.

EDGAR WALLACE'S WILL

Mr. G. H. Sherwood (Lalmurs 11,-) 774, the Conservative majority Wallace therefore being 4.107.

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BUDGET MYSTERIES REVEALED

INSURGENT A LAWYER'S

RAIDERS CUT LINE

HEAVY FIGHTING IN PROGRESS

in

Harbin, Apr. 22. A large detachment of Japanese troops, are grave peril of isolation and annihilation, according to sensational

from Imienpo.

news

The Renge News Agency has Information thai the recrivent main forer of the Murai Brigade which left yesterday to undertake punitive expedition against the Insurgent forces, have come into collision at Wukimiho, to the west

of Imienpo.

SECRET.

SENSATION IN THE

HOUSE OF LORDS

London Apr. 21. The august members of the House of Lords permitted them- selves to register sensation to- day when the Lord Chancellor revealed that an ingenious lawyer had discovered that no President of the Board of Trade could sit in the House of Com-

mons.

The Lord Chancellor fairly ac curately described it-u a very remarkable situation,

Daily Pentity.

Not only were Presidents of the Board of Trade not entitled tyl sit in the Commons, he sald, but Severe lighting is stated if they did so they were disquali be in progress, heavy casualtiesfied for every day. The past and having already been suffered by present holders of the office hadj both sides,

incurred penalties amounting to millions of pounds, 1 5.

The insurgents are in strong sojzed force and have virtually control of the eastern branch the Chinese Eastern Railway the east of Imienpo.

of

to

They were advancing along the ine when the advance guards of the Japanese Brigade came into contart.

SERIOUS POSITION,

"I think, every President of the Board of Trade has always sat in the Commons for many years past and in these days' of 'financial stringency, it is tempting to think how many million pounds could be collected' In. penalties from those who held this position in the just” he remarked,

Bill to be. Paged.

ENGLAND EXpects that ÉVERY IMPORT SHALL PAY ITS DUTY: The Advisory Tariff Committes sitting at Caxton House, West- minster. The seated figures are Sir Sydney Chapman, Sir George May (Chairman), and Sir Allan Powell; the standing figuras are Sir Alfred Hurst and Mr. Aahlny.

BATTLE-ROYAL IN LIGHT

COALYARD

LOCAL COOLIE

FRACAS

·SEVERAL HURT

NEW

TARIFF

DUTIES

FULL-BLOODED PROTECTION

London, Apr. 21.

The little secret which Mr. Neville Chamberlain had preserved in his Bud- get statement on Tuesday has been disclosed, a tariff scale which will surprise- even Tory members.

As from Monday next, a tariff. of twenty per cent, will be imposed on nearly all manufactured goods imported into Great Britain.

In some cases, there are, varin- dutiable tions. Some goods are only to the extent of from 10 to 15 per cent. there are a number of cent. enses where 25 to 30 per

and demanded--luxury semi-luxury goods-while a thirty- three and a third per cent, duty is imposed on semi-finished steel.

BLUES TO will be ROW FOR ENGLAND

.TRAINING FOR OLYMPICS

HEAVILY IN DEBT London. Apr. 22.

(Reuter's Special Service). Those who thought Mr. Edgar

an exceedingly The Japanese troops are bulding

It would beccessory to ages a

London, Apr. 21. wealthy man will get a great shock their own in the battle, but they

A clash between two gangs ofFor the first time in the history the i when the affidavit for provisional are reported to be in a serious Bill to indemnify those who have*

regularise as ruiding party offended and to predicament Heavier Polling.

at the probate of his will is lodged to-day which swept round their flanks has position and the Attorney General coolies occurred in the Butter of rowing at Cambridge, the Boat would to-morrow introduce a Billfield and Swire conlyard at Race crew is afloat in the May The total votes cast

destroyed the railway track

Term, training for, Henley, where General Election were 27.656, whil recording to the Daily Mail.

and pass it through all stages in the Whitfield yesterday afternoon. his personal their It is stated that

rear, thereby cutting at yesterday's bye-election 27.82x voters went to the pull, an increase, estate will be entered as it, his their main line of retreat. Reuter. Commons. of 173. Labour has increased its debts at £81,000 and his assets atļ vote by 1.812, while the Conserva-1 £18,000,

tive shrinkage is 2,630,

Mr. Greenwood shared the fate

His debts are attributed to benvy ¦

ut most of the Labour Ministers acing losses.Reuter.

the General Election, being defeat-

ed in the Nelson and Colne division:

by a majority of 7684. The had WILD NEW YORK'

held the sent since 1922.

Health Minister.

In the Labour Ministry of 1924, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, and when Labour again came into power in 1929 he was given charge of this Ministry. Formi vly a lecturer- on conomics, he acted for a time s Secretary to the Research and u formation Department

RIOT SCENE

WOMEN FIGHT

POLICE

SOVIET'S SERIOUS

ALLEGATIONS

PROVOCATIONS GOING UNHAMPERED.

in

off

Moscow, Ajm.. 21 Serious allegation of "White

· Guurd provocation" which goes on unchecked by the completely Chinose, on the Soviet section of the Chinese Eastern, Railway, are made by the Tass Agency.

that The Agency declares New York, April 21.

order his been issued to the Harbin Wild scenes marked a demons-police that they are unt to accepi citizens for tration of several thousands of requests by Soveit

21/1

mons and Renter

AN ALL-EMPIRE CURRENCY

LITTLE GOVERNMENT

ENCOURAGEMENT

Long Hostility.

presentatives of Britain at the Olympic Games.

The steel duty is to last for at least three months, until a lins permanent scheme

more

been established.

The proposals are outlined in a White Paper issued this evening and embody the recommendations of the Import Duties Advisory Com- mitten, of which Sir George May is the chairman.

The fifteen per cent, list in- clades plate and sheet glass. cordage, ropes, twine, pulp and paper-board, agricultural ma- chinery, tools, metal doors and window-frames, dressed leather.

TOT, ORDERS REVOKED The three Board of Trade Orders ********tations under the Abnormal.

and In all approximately 100 work they will represent the Leander Act will be revoked o

cents the goods liable to, A similar course would be taken men were involved in the fight Club.

The reason the crew is now under that Act willow be sub- in the Lords on Monday, thus ex-which ensued after members of! abling the President of the Board one gang had set um the fore- afloat is that they will possibly jeet to the ten per cent ad valorem,

of the other. Pick axes, represent Britain at the Olympie of Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman to man

majority of cases. participate in next week's Com- bamboo poles and other impleGames, but in order to do that the duty, plus additional e. Fes in the

by the frew must compete for the Grand

The twenty per cent. duty cute- debates.-British Wireless ments were freely used

combatants. Some of the men Challenge Cup.

The Cambridge crew, with L.gory includes most pottery, glass- received nasty though not serions' injuries, and on the, arrival of Luxton of Merton as stroke, is re-, ware und textile manufactures (ex- garded as one of the finest crews cept yarn), paper and the panu- the Police six were arrested,

Sub-Inspector H. Roger charged scen on the river since the war, factures thereof, rubber manufac- the six men before Mr. Schofield establishing a perfect rhythm and lures, rooms, brushes, cutlery, uli maile success machinery, some chemical product, uniformity which

canned vegetables, electrical goods. at the Central Police Court this!

almost certain. moming with disorderly conduct.!

Immediately after th Boat Race, the suggestion was put for-: ward that the erew be kept Logo-. It was explained that Messrther and trained to become worthy Butterfield and Swire 'encast approximately 100 coolies in the London, Apr: 21.

coulyard and that of these rough- of the Communists at the City Hall to visas for their return to Russia, an

Asked whether bankers or other ly half were from the Bay View

affairs District and the other half from! Labour Party and has written due, calminating in ten policemen order which virtually prohibits authorities on monetary

Soviet citizens from leaving Man would attend the Imperial Con the Wanchai District. There has largely on social questions.

being injured,

Four hundred nineunted and foot churia.

ference at Ottawa for a discus-always been hostility between the; Previous to yesterday's "ye-elve-

ision upon and the formulating of parties, and yesterday afternoon, tion, Mr. Lansbury was the only, police charged the crowds with!

OFFICES INVADED.

Imperial monetary whilst the Bay View coolies were, member of the last Labour Cabinet hatous, and terrible scenes were j

Despite the promises the dicy. Major Elliott, Secretary to loading coal from the yard to a He is witnessed. Men and women were:

some of their numbers WELCOME HOME AFTER in the House of Commons.

creaming

cursing, 2012

while Chinese authorities that they will the Treasury, in the Commons to-lighter.

foreman

the of now joined by Mr. Greenwood.

18 YEARS sence of children diced under the assome full responsibility for the day, said he did not know what assaulted the Reuter.

hoofs of horses and rolled into protection of and maintenance of steps, if any, were being taken Wanchai contingeut. About an; the gutter.

the normal work of the C.E.R., by the Dominions but so far shour later, the Wanclni'gang were

H. M. the King sent by wire- number of dismissed White Rus-the United Kingdom was concern-reinforced and attacked the Bay Tooth and Claw

It should be noted that the ad- Most of the police were injured sians besieged the Railway Offices, ed, it was not proposed to issueView coolles. A general melee less a greeting to the First Bat- jensued and a message sent to the talion of the Royal Welch Fusillers, twenty of whom broke into the

Police Station, but on the arrival of which he is Colonel-in-Chief, and ditional duties only apply to goods of police officers the rinters had which arrived at Southampton to- to which the Import Dutles Act day from Egypt after 18 years imposing a ten per cent, ad valorem duty will apply. The exemptions practically dispersed.

service abroad.

The message read:-"Since the from these dutica at present Include His Worship enquired whether Battalion left these shores in 1914. wheat, meat, maize, most impor it was not possible for Messrs. it has seen much active service, and tant raw materials, such as cotton, Butterfield and Swire to engage am proud to think that the regi. wool and other fibres, hides and from solely one district.

ment has won fresh laurels by its skins, rubber, iron ore, crude and

I wish non-ferrous metals. The prosecuting officer replied conduct in war and peace.

their that the firm engaged the foremen, all ranks a happy return to who secured the coolios. It was homes and families". British not possible to obtain sufficient Wireless. numbers from the Bay View Dis- trict.

STORMY AERIAL

TRIP

BELGIAN KING IN A GALE

Lantion. Apr. 21. A Cuire news message sintes that the Imperial. Always seaplane in! which King Albert of Belgium is lying from Alexandria to Athens, en route for Belgium, after his visit to the Belgian Congo, to-day en- countered an extremely violent gale over the Mediterranean.

by women's unils.

t

A most remarkable scrimmage! Premises.

The Tass Agency anys that the was witnessed, the women fighing: more fiercely than the men. police arrived but took no action Another somewhat similar in-despite the demands of the Soviet vident occurrit at Philadelphin Consul-General-Renter. where several were injured when! police intervened to break demonstrations Renter.

OIL CONCESSION IN IRAK

up

The machine thereupon returned to Alexandria, and the light will be resumed to-morrow if conditions SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS permit-British Wireless,

THE BANK RATE

HALVED IN NINE WEEKS

CONTRACT

(Rautor's Special Service).

London, Apr. 21.

SILVER RATHER

FIRMER

DOLLAR RISES A FARTHING

common

ich invitations.

Their delegates, he added, would be well acquainted with the views of bankers and economists on the subject.--British Wireless.

KOWLOON CITY TRAGEDY

GIRL DROWNED IN POOL

Tab Few in Districi.

ROYAL WELCH

FUSILIERS

London. Apr. 21.

A sad tragedy, resulting in the All defendants were ordered to THRILLING · BOUT

Kowloon future behaviour. girl, is reported from drowning of a little four-year-old sign personal bonds for their City.

AWARDED TO SIR OLIVER LODGE

SOUTH AFRICAN WINS ON POINTS

The twenty-five per cent. list includes fruit pulp, leather trunks, leather bags, unexposed and sitised photographic paper.

'Bell-

Thirty per cent, dutles are imposed on toilet preparations. toilet requisites of all kinds artificial Nowers, heads, bead trimmings, caviare, jewellery, goldsmith's and silversmith's wares, articles of apparel and fur articles,

COMMITTEE'S PLANS.

While the Advisory Committee will consider all requests, they do not propose, save in exceptional cases, to recommend n reduction of twelve the duties for at least months.

They are ready to propose higher duties in appropriate cases.~Reu- iter.

In consequence of a firmer ten- Hongkong dollar rose n farthing deney in the silver market, the this morning to la. 248.

It appears that the child, named Silver rose 1/18th in London, spot and forward. China was a Mow Ying, was playing with an-

London, Apr. 21. small buyer, with the market other child in Sung Yae Street FARADAY MEDAL

At the Albert Hall to-night be

CREDIT EXTENSION quietly steady, After the official when she accidentally fell into a

fore a large croyd, the South fixing, the market ruled steady, pool of water. Before assistance could be obtained the little girl

African heavyweight champion, with Americn inclined to buy.

Don McCorkindlale defeated Hein TWELVE MONTHS' RESPITE A contract for a new oil con-

York reports a rise of was drowned, her body being later

FOR GERMANY New

recovered. cession in Irak

Muller (Germany) on points: formally WAB

The bout wan scheduled for

Berlin, Apr. 21. signed in Bagdad yesterday be- 1/8th, on a steady market.

Locally, the market is quite

London, Apr. 21.

An agreement has, been signed (weon Nuri Pasha, the Primej

THE ROYAL FAMILY,

The long and distinguished sur-twelve rounds and it provided a London, Apr. 21.

Trees of Sir Oliver Lodge, the thrilling Aght.

The South African was the extending from November 10, 1982 The reduction of the bank rate Minister of Irak, and a representa-steady, but there is not much

London, Apr. 21. to-day from 31% to 8 per cent. thus tive of the British Of Develop-business doing.

The King and Queen this after-eminent acientist, In the field of

electrical engineering, wore re-better fighter. He got in many to November 101988, the credit halving it in nine wecka, was wel- ment Company.

but Italian, the zone covering two hundred noon paid a visit to the Kingcognised this Not only British,

evening by the damaging blows, but the German of one hundred and twenty-five

atm by the boxor's ringcraft saved him from million dollars granted comed in the City and had a stl

Edward VII Hospital at Windsor, presentation to mulating effect. British funds, French and Gorman Interests are square miles:

The Company obtains the right afterwards returning to the Institution of Electrical Engineers Borious punishment and neither many by a group of British, after a Orm opening, were again concerned in this Company.

to attend Princess It is stated that the torms of of full exploitation of the marked up after the announcement, leaving off with a general rise of the 'contract involve the whole of concerned for n period of seventy- | Elizabeth's birthday tea parte of the Faraday Moda).-British man was knocked off his feet. American, Swedish and Dutch

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