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·UNEMPLOYMENT

Labour Censure Motion Defeated 344 To 146

LONDON, Feb. 16.

A LABOUR- unemployment motion of censure,

WHAT HAPPENED with bamboo bo mb racks when Canton caught fire.

debated in the House of Commons to-day, was defeated BAMBOO BOMB RACKS IN

by 344 votes to 146.

The mollen, moved by Dr. where she would always have in good Arthur Greenwood, denuty leader times a standing army of 2,000,000 of the Labour opposition, express-unemployed. Even re-armament was ed regret "at the continued failure not keeping pace with recession of of the Government to produce a irade. definite policy which recognizes that the problem can only be solved Brown,

The Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest replying to the Labour by the application of Socialist attack, said that the next returns would show that unemployed was not 2,000,000. Some 280,000, or 15 per cent, had been unemployed for 12 months or longer; 70 per cent, had been unemployed for less than six weeks.

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Mr. Greenwood said that Britain was getting into the position now

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That showed that the vast majority of the unemployed were not a stand- ing army, and it also showed that 2,000,000 people were not decaying in idleness.

3,000,000 MEN PLACED

Last year, nearly 3,000,000, men were placed through the Inbour. exchanges.

Mr. Ernest Brown declared that the gravest section of the problem was rooted in the international situation, and connected with the three great exporting industries of eval, cotton, and shipping.

There were fewer long-term unem- played than had been registered for years, the number declining from 403,000 in May 1933 to 289,000 now.

RAIDS: COMMONS QUERY

LONDON, Feb. 16.

MR. S. F. MARKHAM to-day drew attention in the House of Commons to the methods used in China against high-explosive bombs, particularly those involving light, additional roofs built above the existing roofs, and asked whether Sir John Anderson proposed to develop, or to introduce any such methods in Eng-

land.

Sir John Anderson replied that he understood that in China the crection of a series of bamboo roots over the roofs of bulldings was found to be of some value in intercepting and detonating moderate sized bombe, but their use had been subsequently prohibßed by the Chinese authorities owing to the added risk of Ore.-Reuter,

Envoys Express Sorrow At

Passing Of Pius

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 16.

THE diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See was received to-day by the college of Cardinals to which, through its doyen, the German Ambassador Herr von Bergen, it presented its condolences on the death of Pope Pius XI.

The German Ambassador, in a fronted the world to-day would find speech delivered in Itallan, described ja peaceful solution, and that the new! Over 100,000 unskilled unemployed

ved the Lateran Treaty concluded be- sovereign Pontiff would be a shining had been trained for various trades,ween the Vatican and the Quirinal example to humanity on the road to jof which 20 per cent. had found the outstanding event of the late peace and progress.

mch

were

work at the Instructional centres, where

prepared fo labouring work, 30 per cent. had found employment. The lower per centage was due to the fact that many men had to be brought back to phy sical fitness.

Pope's reign,

He proceeded to pay tribute to the services His Holiness had rendered in encouraging science and art.

A SHINING EXAMPLE The Ambassador expressed the

PALESTINE TALKS

CLAIM FOR INDEPENDENT NATION

Autonomy Requested By The Arabs

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LONDON, Feb. 16. CLAIM for the establishment of an independent Arab State the Arab delegation met the was formally submitted when British authorities this after-

noon.

Mr. Malcolm MacDonald opened the discussion by enunciating general uggestions of alternatives to an in- dependent Arub State.

Jamal Husseini, replying for the Arabs, gave reasons why such a State need not be considered incompatible

with the existence of a Jewish

minority in Pulestine.

Discussion on the autonomous machinery followed, and embraced past autonomous institutions in Pales- tine within the meaning of Article Two of the Mandate.-Reuter.

DEATH SENTENCE

Jerusalem, Feb. 18. Four Arabs, captured south of Bethlehem a week ago by detach ments of the Worcestershire Regi- ment, were sentenced to death by the Jerusalem military court to-day.

This makes seven death sentences by this court in two days.--Retter.

BOW STREET TRIALS POSTPONED

The venerable doyen of the Sacred College,

Granito Cardinal

London, Feb. 16. Belmonti, after thanking the Am-i Owing to the illness of one of the bassador for his words, expressed to defendunts, all the defendants in the the representatives of the various explosions conspiracy case at Bow governments, the gratitude of the Street were further remanded to-day Holy See for the sentiments express-without new evidence being produced.

-Reuter..

Owing to the political tension, the hope that the problems which con-{ed.~~~Trans-Ocean, drop in prices of primary products had a great effect on stopping the marvellous recovery from 1933 to 1937.-Reuter,

GOVERNMENT POLICY

London, Feb. 15. After a considerable, but not ex- treme trade recession beginning last year, the curve flattened out in the lute summer, and since then it has been either steady, or tended slightly! to rise, declared Mr. Oliver Stanley, inding up the debate on Britain's unemployment in the House of Com-

tons to-day.

He disclosed that the Government gorded shipbuilding as a matter of treat urgency. Formerly the policy un economic grounds had been to scrap old tonnage and build new, but the policy in relation to defence now was to lay up on old ship, and build

u now one.

held

The defence expenditure would have an unediate effect an employ- ment. If the export trade could be

and Increased in the

coming effective Inroads would o

coming

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de on the number of unemployed. Referring to the

German trude talks, Mr. Stanley said that we want to ascertain whether it was possible to reach a modua rivradt with the

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with their own weapons. to the demand for colonies Mr. Oliver Stanley said that

all those countries demands were granted, whatever they derived from them would add less to the prosperity and happiness of their peoples than they could get by the stroke of a pen In helping to remove the tension |which they helped to eruate. Ho belleved there was some 'solld bästa for the recent feeling of a lightening in, the tension. Cartably. It wna. the Government's intention to provide such a basissa M

The inotion: dit tenaitre was rejected: by 344 voles to : 146,mafletter::

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