7 MAY 1927, page 2

As Regards Lock-outs, Sir Douglas Hogg Said That He Was

prepared to include in the Bill a provision against a general lock-out. He did not think this was really necessary, as it would be far simpler for the Government to take over......

Sir John Simon's Speech On Wednesday Was An Intensely...

piece of reasoning. He accepted without demur the purpose of the Bill, but doubted whether its faulty definitions would be of any use. He would have preferred a one-clause Bill......

It Would Be Useless To Force Mr. Chen If He

is •actiEdl■• incapable of making any atonement. To seize al, hold various points or to retake Hankow would be a break with the British policy of waiting to revise the Treaties......

Mr. Clynes Described The I3i11.as Purely Class...

repeated the threat of Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald, that the next Labour Government would abolish • the Act whatever form it might have assumed. Captain Macmillan made an admirable......

Mr. Churchill Has Done Well To Make A Full Reply

to Mr. Mellon's misstatements in regard to the British debt to America. If an official reply to what was said in a domestic controversy is irregular the irregularity is......

The Shanghai Correspondent Of The Times Says That Reports...

Hankow indicate - a _change of front by the Communists, who now exhibit almost servile eagerness to conciliate foreigners. Anti-foreign posters are being torn down and their......

Mr. Arthur Greenwood Argued Very Ably For This Realistic...

Mr. Wheatley and Mr. A. J. Cook made bitter attacks on the Labour members of the Committee. Miss - Bondfield, fortunately, was fully capable .. Of defending herself. She showed......

In Peking The Soviet Documents Continue To Be Sorted, And

reveal much that is enlightening nr enter- taining about the subsidizing and controlling of Chinese Communism by Moscow. On Thursday, April 28th, twenty of the Communists who......

It Is A Pleasure To Turn From The Proceedings In

the House of Commons to the national Conference of Labour and trade union organizations which considered the Blanesburgh Report on Thursday, April 28th. This Report, which deals......