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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18877, 1 June 1923, Page 7

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THE BILL. COMPENSATION FOR DEPORTEES. DEBATE IN THE COMMONS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Uopyrign. LONDON, May 30. The House of Commons sat till 6 o'clock in the morning debating/the Indemnity Bill. ,* Mv Stanley Baldwin and hio Ministers remained till the early morning. The fight centred around the Government's clause providing for compensation to deported persons. Despite Sir Douglas Hogg's emphatic undertaking that those deported would receive the full compensation to which the law courts declared them entitled, the Oppositionists moved a succession of amendments. Mr Ramsay MacDonald moved to report progress, declaring that the Bill was in a state of hopeless confusion. When a general debate on this motion seemed imminent a group of Government members left the Chamber. Lord Robert Cecil moved the closure amid cries of "Gag!" and "Return of the Wanderers!" The closure was carried by 197 votes to 103, and Mr MacDonald'e motion was defeated by 196 votes to 105. The Labourites pressed an amendment demanding compensation for "moral and intellectual damage'" and for the deportees' dependents. Lord Robert Cecil again moved the closure, at which Mr Neil M'Lean (Labour) rose from the front Opposition bench and violently thumped the table. During later divisions a number of Labourites assembled in the corridors and sang "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah," and "Hang Bob Cecil on a Sour Apple Tree." The Government maintained a majority of between 80 and 90, and passed | the Bijl through committee. It was agreed to postpone the report" and third reading stages till Friday.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BANK ROBBERS EXECUTED. LONDON, May 30. Two men named Rourke and Murphy were executed at Tuam '(County Galway) in connection with a bank robbery at Athenry.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ART O'ER JEW CASE. HEARING RESUMED. '''..-■- - LONDON, May 30. (Received May 31, at 5.5 p.m.) . The hearing of 'the charge against Art O'Brien has" been resumed. Since the last hearing five >. others—Fly'hn, Mularkey, ] Joyce, Patrick "Fleming, and Dennis Fleming—have been \ charged similarly, to O'Brien, M'Gra'th, and Mahoney. An official-• of the Westminster Bank gave evidence! to the effect that the bank had several accounts in O'Brien's name. In February there, was a credit represented by 25,-000 dollars in American notes.. Mc6t of this money had been sent by draft by different-persons in Dublin. The police gave evidence regarding the damaging documents; found .in the possess sion of soiJie of the prisoners.—A. and N.Z.- Cable:' ' / -,, .