"Walking down Keswick Road,"
Wilkinson said, "I stepped asi on the railway side where there is nọ barbed wire, in order to look at the tre "I may or may not have put my foot on the railway em ankment—of that I am not quite sure as I wes looking through my field-glasses the trees, I then crossed Keswi Road to the east side and walked behind a small house in order to look at a creek where certain small water birds are often found. It w intention to walk down Keswick Road to the Hungjao Road cro: ing and then turn into the latter road.
"While I was walking into the country 6n the east side I he eral shouts but never imagined they were meant for me as there were many Chinese moving in the neighbourhood. While I was looking at the creek, two or three Japanese ntries proached, shouting at me. I turned tower them and asked, in Japanese, what the: lat explaining tha lk. One of the sent net and toid me to come along!
I walked along the road very quietly ith two of the sentries, talking to them in Japanese, and was still not sure of their intentions When we reached F.C.
Millington's house, I them, "Please wait a minute," and walked Government's moment pi were bitterly criticized by both he Labour and Liberal Oppo: tion in the House of Commons yesterday in a debate on the Air Estimate:
After hearing a spirited defence put up by Lord Winterton, appointed Deputy in the House of Common: to Lord Swinton, Secretar: of State for Air, the House rejected, by 299 votes to 131, an Oppos ion Liberal motion for a reduction of the Estimat Several new motions, however, were immediately tabled, the chief being the decision of the Opposition Labour Party decided to ask the Government for an early debate on its motion palling for a complet searching, independent and speedy enquiry eat Britain's air defences and the administra-tien departments concerned.
The Liberals tabled a motion call-the appointment absence of blind-flying instruments. and inter-departmental trouble. he declared that changes were needed at t defence and ai the top.
Churchill, supported motion welcoming the apindependent com-
Britain's defences.
The debate on the Labour piation
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