TROUBLE AT COLOMBO

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 82, Issue 288, 6 December 1938, Page 7

TROUBLE AT COLOMBO

Received Dec. 5, 4.5 p.m. COLOMBO, Dec. 4. The State Council, the European minority dissenting, rejected by 34 votes to 14 the Bracegirdle report. A cable from Colombo on October 31 reported that the recommendations of the commission of inquiry into the origins ot the issue and subsequent annulment of the deportation order against Mark Bracegirdle, the young Englishman who, on the grounds that he was a Communist agitator, was ordered by the then Governor, Sir Reginald Stubbs, to be deported, had been issued. The commission exonerated and reinstated the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. P. N. Banks, who applied for the order of deportation, and adversely commented on the evidence of the Minister for Home Affairs, Sir Baron Jayatilaka. The Supreme Court last year quashed the deportation order, after which Sir Baron Jayatilaka accused Mr. Banks of misrepresentation. The Board of Ministers recommended the dismissal of Mr. Banks. It was thought that Sir Baron Jayatilaka might resign, though the Congress Party elected him. Certain State Councillors advocated an appeal to the country, while others favoured a vote of confidence in him.