A little later, the driver of the taxi came to the station to report that he had been turned out of.his car on Keswick Road when two men, one holding a small black pistol, forced him to walk towards a straw-hut village off the Municipal road and detained him there for what he guessed to be between 40 and 50 minutes. Before letting him go the men gave him $18 and told him to keep quiet about what had happened.
The car used in the crime was ordered at 443 pin. when four men boarded it and told the driver to drive to Keswick Road. There, one of them took the driver's cap and while his two' captors escorted him to the village, two others boarded the car and made óff.
Subsequent enquiries revealed that at about 5.10 p.m. several Chinese alighted from a Silver taxi with a small boy who was crying on Keswick Road near Tunsin Road. They walked towards a straw-hut village situated some 50 yards off the road and since then nothing has been heard of them. it was not believed last night that the boy's father had received any threatening letter in the past although detectives enquiring into the case were not overlooking this possibility. Up to the time of going to press the boy had not returned to his home and nothing haa been heard of him. together with our united strength, In supporting the resolution, Mr, Lloyd George highly praised Mr, Churchill's intellectual gifts and courage, and said that friends of freedom throughout the world wished him God speed, Their hopes, he added, were concentrated in him, and their prayers would be for him, "I say to the House, as I said to the Ministers who joined the Government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and suffering.
Complete Labour, Liberal Support Mr. H. B. Lees-Smith (Labour), speaking from the position usually occupied by Major Attlee on the position side, said his party immed fely supported the resolution. Today, in this country, he declared, there was unity by discussion, persuasion, goodwill and good sense, but "on the other side unity is by concentration camp, rubber truncheon and the executioner's block."
After referring to the Ministerial crisis last week, Mr. Lees-Smith spoke of the manner in which the new War Cabinet, with new Defence Ministers at their posts, had been appointed all within two days.
Mr. Lloyd George, supporting the motion, said: "As one of the oldest friends of the Prime Minister, I congratulate him on his succession to the Premiership. We know his glittering intellectual gifts, his courage, his profound study of the war, and his experience in base operations, and it will all be needed now.
"I think it fortunate that he should have been put in the position of supreme authority. He is exercising supreme responsibility at a graver moment, and in a time of greater jeopardy, than has ever confronted a British Minister for all time.
"Friends of freedom throughout the world will wish him God speed. Their hopes are concentrated in him. Their prayers will be for him and in my judgment the sacrifices of Britain and her Empire will be at his disposal" (cheers).—Reuter.
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