6 MAY 1926
The Prime Minister, in a message in the British Gazette, asks all good citizens to stand behind the Government, who are doing their part confident that they will co-operate in the measures taken to preserve the liberties and privileges of the people of these islands.
In the House of Lords the Secretary for India, in supporting the continuance of the regulations under the Emergency Powers Act, said that whatever the lengths to which the present quarrel might be carried, it would be ended only with the recognition of the fact that there was one Government and one Government only in this country.
The Government’s new Emergency Regulations were explained in Parliament by the Home Secretary and afterwards debated.
In the House of Commons, Mr McNeill, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, replying to Lieutenant-Commander Kenworthy, said that there was no proposal to close the Stock Exchange during the present emergency.
In the view of the Government, the railway services are improving in a gratifying manner, and a pleasing feature of the situation is the fortitude and good temper shown by the bulk of the population.
The first prosecution at Manchester under the Emergency Regulations, 1926, was that of William Richard Stoker (40), a director of a Manchester company, who was sent to prison for two months in the second division for attempting to do an act calculated to cause disaffection amongst His Majesty’s forces. Stoker’s car, the police stated, was ready to take seditious literature to Glasgow.
Polling took place in the Buckrose (East Yorkshire) Division. The candidates are Major Braithwaite (Unionist), Sir Harry Verney (Liberal), and Mr H. C. Laycock (Socialist). The result is to be declared to-day.
The Polar airship Norge left Trotsky (Gatchina), near Leningrad, for Spitzbergen.