OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1928, Page 1

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

[Special to Press Assn, by Radio.]

ALTERNATIVE MEASURE.

NON-CONTBXTIOUS BOOK

RUGBY, Juno 9

A , new and important, development in the I’rayer Bo.qk controversy ..was announced last night by Sir William Joynson-Hielis, Home Secretary. It is the preparation of an alternative’ measure for consideration if the measure passed by the Church Assembly and .embodying the .bishops’ revised proposals should be rejected by Parliament next week. The Home Secretary, who is president of the National Church League and is one of the leaders of the opposition to the bishops’ proposals, 1 stated that a committee of competent’ men, which was already engaged in’ the task, would produce a Book to cover the lion-contentious enrichments, and variations which were found in the “deposited Book,” and which there was reason to believe were generally acceptable. It was only contentious, matter relating to Holy Communion upon which differences existed. The measure would, of' course, have to bo sponsored through the Church Assembly. He believed that, if the Archbishops and Bishops' should agree upon a scheme of thiskind, the matter would go through bygeneral consent and "thus an end would be put to tbc controversy. THE BROKEN PLEDGE. FOREIGN DIPLOMATS PROTEST. RUGBY, June 11. - The Rutcli Minister in Peking, who is doyen of the diplomatic ‘body, with' bis British, United Stales, and Japanese colleagues, on Saturday afternoon drove to the headquarters ’’of General Hau Fii-Chu, who commands the Kuo-111 in-ehun troops of General' Feng Yu-lisiang on the outskirts of Peking to protest against the breach of the Nanking Government’s undertaking in disarming and making prisoners the body of Northern troops who, by agreement, had remained ill the capital to keep order, pending the transference of the control to the Goutil a week ago. The diplomatic, body telegraphed to the Nanking Ministry suggesting that when these Northerners had performed, their task, they should be allowed to withdraw without interference, and. a reply was received last Wednesday stating that arrangements • would be made accordingly. When they left on Friday they were told at Tuiig-shioti, sixteen .miles from Peking, that further guarantees could not lie assured, and they then returned to the eastern suburbs, where they were taken prisoners and disarmed on Saturday. General Han Fu-chti denied having received orders to allow the Northern detachment to pass, and although the. previous day one of his staff officers had assured them of a- .safe conduct, lie declared that no such arrangement, had been sanctioned by liim.

Tlic diplomatic body have addressed a further communication to the Commissioner of 'Foreign Affairs at Nanking, which was delivered on Saturday evening, and prompt attention was promised, HAMBURG EXPLOSION. RUGBY, June 11. Replying to a question, Mr Godrej' Locker-Lampson, Foreign Secretary, said that under the obligations assumed by the German Government under the Treaty of Versailles, the manufacture and storage for import and export of phosgene poison gas for war purposes was forbidden. Its storage for industrial purposes was allowed, hut was confined to three factories, and its production is limited to a maximum of five tons a day. There were no restrictions on the storago of phosgene gas for industrial purposes. There was no ti nth in the report that the German Government had failed to oberve the conditions of the Treaty. No action was deemed necessary by the Britisli '.o\ - eminent, but an official enquiry in connexion with the explosion at Hamburg was pacing conducted by the German authorities.

Replying to a further question, Air Locker-Lampson said that if there was any infringement of Hie Treaty, tho League of Nations would have immediately stepped in and he’d an enquiry.