NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4815, 26 July 1939, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

In the House of Commons, the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Haore, moving the second reading of the Prevention of Violence Bill, said that all I.R.A. outrages since January were based on the "H" plan found by the police. This showed that the I.R.A. had (surveyed munition dumps and aerodromes and had been engaged in a plan to blow up Parliament. The campaign was being stimulated by foreign organisations.

The president of the Australian Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League, Mr. L. A. Robb, stated that a contingent of at least 500 returned soldiers would visit New Zealand next year for the special Anzac Day observance during the New Zealand Centenary celebrations.

Mr. E. S. Spooner, who resigned his portfolio of Minister of Labour and Local Government, addressing the United Australia party electoral conference at Rdye, said that the leader of the Country party in New South Wales, Mr. M. F. Bruxner, deputyPremier, had deliberately created the situation which had made his (Mr. Spooner's) position in the Ministry untenable.

The Parliamentary Secretary for Overseas Trade, Mr. R. S. Hudson, told the Daily Telegraph that he was the Minister who presented last Saturday the "peace loan plan" to Herr Wohltat, of the Reich Ministry of Economics, believing it might lead to the avoidance of a European war, but no figure was ever mentioned. He pointed out that he saw Herr Wohltat at the latter's request, but emphasised that the discussions were quite unofficial.

Though the press outline of Japan's demands at the conference with British representatives relates specifically to Tientsin, there are indications of a move to widen -the scope of negotiations. The "Asahi Shimbum" hints at an extension of co-operation between Britain and Japan in the whole of China, involving British recognition of the new Central Chinese Pftppet Government, which will shortly be created.