The bill provides imprisonment for any person maliciously or advisedly endeavouring to seduce any member lof His Malesty's forces from his duty for allegiance." Police will be auth-Jortzed to enter and search private Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary of State for the Colonies, declared that handing back the' land to the Federated Malay States would be an economic and sound act.
The Federated Malay States, Sir Philip said, bad been more than generous in loyal contributions to Imperial defence to which had been made almost unparalleled financial Mr, Ramsay MacDonald had sent to a pacifist serving a term of imprisonment during the Great War.
The Prime Minister pointed out the executive during the Great War was given ten thnes more power than that contemplated in the Bill, end denounced comparison of the measure with the circumstances in which the letter was written. homes and other premises with a warrant that could be issued on suspicion.
The Attorney-General, Sir Thomas Inskip, who is sponsor of the measure, insisted that ils purpose was The Dindings are a group of islands constituting an area of approximately 163 square miles, situated of the west coast of the Malay peninsula.
"T stand by the Bill with a full recollection of everything that happened then," he said. "The Bill is Gesigned tO protect the country's pulled.
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