BRITISH POLITICS.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 27. In the House of Commons, Mr Wedgwood Benn (Secretary for India), replying to questions, said that, excluding the incidents occurring in direct connection with the rebellion in Burma, some disturbances involving loss of life and damage to property had occurred in British India during June and July. There were 19 fatal casualties reported. The situation in Burma, on the whole, showed signs of an improvement. - The Dacoities had decreased in the Thayethiyo district. The surrenders in the Prome district now amounted to 1332, and there had also been 40 in the Tharrawaddv. Some leading Pongyis of Rangoon had gone out on a peace mission to the Tharrawaddy, and Insein districts under terms of an i amnesty. A rising in Shan States appeared to have been suppressed. The communal situation 'had improved, and hardly any attacks on Indians had been reported. The sincere sympathy of the House of Commons was expressed by Mr WedgWood Benn with the relatives of Sesr ; sions Judge Garlick, who a.b Alipore to-day was shot dead in court by an assassin. Judge Garlick had seen 30 years’ service in India. RUSSIAN DEBT. WILL SOVIET MAKE 1 AN OFFER? RUGBY, July 27. Jji the House of Commons, questioned as to the result of the representations made to the . Soviet Ambassador (M. Sokolnikoff) regarding the present position of the Anglo-Soviet Debts Committee, Dr Hugh Dalton {Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs) said the Foreign 'Secretary (Rt. Hon. A. Henderson) last week had two conversations with the Soviet Ambassador. The Foreign Secretary had represented to the Ambassador that the state of the debt negotiations was most unsatisfactory, and had urged the necessity of a concrete offer on the part of the Soviet Government. M. Sokolnikoff undertook to report these conversations to his Government, and to ask for further instructions. The Foreign Secretary hoped, after his return from Bcriiiv to have; a ; further conversation (with the Ambassador,
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1931, Page 6
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