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QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.
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Failure of the City Equitable
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In the House of Commons last month, Colonel Sir J. Norton Grifiths asked the President of the Board of Trade whother, in view of the great prestige of British insurance in general, very special steps would be taken to obtain and publish a more com- ¡plete report of the special causas. stated to have produced the aud den collapse of the City Equitable Fire Insurance Company and its allied companies, and whether he was in a position to state that these causes were entirely foreign to the ordinary risks of insurance business.
replied: Full
Mr. Baldwin investigation is being made by the Official Receiver regarding tha causes which had resulted in the failure of the .company jo questiop, and a report would be made when investigation w43. completed.
EFFECT OF WASHINGTON
DECISIONS.
Mr. Chamberlain informed Bir Harry Brittain that it was estimated that the decisions reached at the Washington Con- ference would result in a saving this year of approximately ten millions in the expenditure of this country, and ultimately at least) 30 millions. The cost of the British Delegation at Washington would not exceed £50,000. NO PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT OF THE CABINET.
Mr Chamberlain, replying to Sir W. Davidson, said that there was no publicity depart- ment of the Cabinet,
Commander Kenworthy-Theni who is responsible for the daily) and almost the hourly publicity scavities of the Cabinet?
Mr. Chamberlain--1 don't know. What I am aware of is that I can hardly go in or out of
my house without observing representatives of the Fress watching all my movements.
REGISTRATION OF BUSINESS SAMES.
Mr. Baldwin in reply to Mr. Godfrey Locker Lampson, said it was not intended to terminate the registration of business names as suggested by the Geddes Com-| mittee. The Government pro-i posed to introduce legislation which would enable the fees to bel acreased so that this service | might be rendered self-support- ing.
NO SLAVES IN LEGATION.
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INDIA AND THE EMPIRE.
Swaraj Defined by National Congress Leader.
the
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mushrooms all over India, great piles of foreign cloth have been burned, and looms and spindles in Lancashire which normally look to India as their market are idle.
Can
slowly declining, still remained very great, and he was (By J. Edmonson, in
The Governor-General in afraid he saw no break on the Manchester Guardian).
Council (Lord Reading) has now wide front. Legislation would be
The movement for Swaraj, or decided that this non-co-opera- necessary to deal with the matter. self-government, is spreading over tive, non-violence End под- Sir A. Mood, answering Mr. India, with the effect of creeping | resistance movement bas Gratton Doyle, said over five paralysis. Three main principles gone beyond all limits of thanaand schemes had been sub- underlie the agitation-non-co-permissible agitation, and a con mitted by local authorities to the operation with the ruling auflict has begun which may decide Unemployment Grants Com-thorities, civil disobedience," and be fate of India-whether by mittee, and schemes had been boycott of forsiga goods. The peaceful understanding or by *pproved involving an expendi-inspirer of this programme is Mr. political convulsion remains to ture of approximately 25 million. Gandhi, the "saintly politician," be seen.
wes estimated that work who is described in a leading
INDIAN LOYALTY, would be directly provided by Bombay paper as "the noblest
en understanding be approved schemes for about a soul that the world has produced reached? Mary keen observers
for many centuries."
hold that it can, and argue that million men a month.
A leading Icdian newspaper in India, as in Ireland, the which describes how, on the problem is one of political re- arrival of Prince of Wales alativity, and that onereally funda- Bombay, at the word of Mahauis mental principle is involved. Gandhi, nearly all India ceaser At a recent meeting of the work. In over 50 large cities and All India National Congress, a towns among them Calcutta, Poo- resolution was passed pointing out Da, Lucknow, Nagpur, Allahabad, the need for some little defini- Amritsar, Delhi, Cawnpore, Ben
ion of Swaraj," Mr. Bhagwan ares, etc. hartals (strikes) were Das, one of the leaders who has proclaimed in his name and work since been arrested, undertook stopped in factory and field and the task. The most extreme Captain Guest informed Mr. countless schools, shops. and demand he puts forward in a Gilbert that dive airships at pres-bazaars were closed.
pamphlet just issued is that all eat in possession of the Air STUDENTS" "BOYCOTT.
legislators and heads of Govern- Ministry, of which one is of
ment departments should be German make. It was not pro.
elected, but be writes: posed to retain any of them for Air Force work.
TION.
Colonel Arthur Murray asked whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce
ill for proportional representa ion or alternative vote at Par
iamentary elections.
Mr. Chamberlain said the Government had not discussed this question.
TREATY WITH SPAIN. Mr. Harmsworth informed Mjor Christopher Lowther that negotiatious are being carried on
Sir William Davison asked employment insurance began to for the purpose of concluding a whether the British Government be exhausted had received his commercial treaty with Spain. bad informed the Provisional special and anxious consideration Government that the British of the Government The volume Lord H. Cavendish Bentinck Government held itself responsi- of unemployment, while steadily asked the Under Secretary for ble for the burning of Cork and Foreign Affairs whether bis would provide the necessary attention had been drawn to the money for its rebuilding up to two published statement that slaves milion pounds. Are employed In the British Mr. Churchill said no such Legation in Abyssinia, and what understanding had even been action he proposed to take in the given, amid Opposition cheers and ironical comments, one Mr. Harmsworth said no slaves Labour member calling out to the are employed by the Legation, Government" Notice to quit." but some of the Abyssinian ser- vants at the Legation possess
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. slaves. He was making inquiries
Maj. Christopher Lowther ask. into the matter.
ed leave to introduce a Bill to abolish capital punishment in Mr. Short answering Col. Great Britain. Asheton Pownall, said it was Sir F. Banbury apposed. estimated that a saving of a quar-
On a division to introduce leave ter of a million would be effected was refused by 234 votes to 86. by having one electoral register TEACHERS' SALARIES.
The! per annum instead of two.
Sir R. Horne said that recom- matter was under consideration. mendations of the Geddes Com
Sir A. Mond agreed with Mr.mittee with respect to reducing Trevelyan Thomson that the teachers' salaries and lowering existing system of rating and the school age could not be put in valuation was in need of reform.operation.
He could not at present, say
In the House of Commons to whether it would be practicable day, a new writ was ordered to be to introduce legislation on this issued for an election in the subject during the present session. Exchange Division of Liverpool, Sir A. Mood informed Mr. consequent on the acceptance by Hord that he was in consultation Mr. Leslie Scott of the office of with the Minister of Agriculture Solicitor-General.
For soms days following with a view to the introduction THE NEWS DEPARTMENT OF THE
the most active members of the of legislation for easuring the cleanliness and purity of
Indian Swaraj may be within community were the National Mr. Godfrey Locker Lampson
Volunteers, whose all duty itan Indo-British, federation of milk supply.
Asked whether it is proposed to
was to picket the shops to Commonwealth, wherein the head Mr. Churchill assured Viscount terminate the News Department
see that no foreign cloth was of the executive may be mam- Curzon that no stores of any kind of the Foreign Office as proposed The death, at Dairen on March sold, and that no children went to her of the British Royal Family in Ireland are being handed over by the Geddes Committee. 30, is reported of Prince Su, who school In Bengal alone over or such other person as the King to persons who did not acknow- Mr. Harmsworth said in view as Minister of Civil Affairs under 50,000 students boycotted their may nominate. ledge the authority of the Provi- of the importance of the work of the Manchu regime was largely colleges, many of which are now It is, moreover, very significant sional Government.
the News Department, it bad responsible for the great improve. closed.
that in quarters where the Replying to Sir
William been decided that it ought, in the meats in the city of Peking made The India Government has non-co-operaters' movement ía Davison, he said ammunition and public interest, to be maintained. during the decade following the now proclaimed the volunteer most strongly supported, the stores recently raided at Clonmel Considerable economies were Boxer oprising. The iron-capped corps unlawful associations, thou-Nationalist papers are insisting wore stolen in open defiance of being effected in its administra-Prince left Peking bastily in the sands of arrests have been made, upon loyalty by the people of the Provisional Government.
last days of the struggle that led but the empty places in the ranks Indis to the Royal House of Viscount Curzon asked if the GERMAN OFFICERS IN RUSSIAN to the downfall of the Ching have been immediately filled, England. What India demands, Colonial Secretary would under.
Housa, when the fate" of the Mr. Gaodhi remaion at large, these authorities say, is political take that no further stores or Sir Robert Sanders, answering Manchu was still in doubt. He however, preaching his gospel of and economic freedom: gir a ammunition should be handed Sir Harry Britain, said it was went first to Mukden and then to no resistance and no violence, that, there is no question of over to the Provisional Govern- estimated there were approxi-Dairen, where he resided until and the rumblings of the earth-separation from the British Com- ment until those which had been mately 500 German ex-officers bis death. Prince Bn was very quake became louder every monwealth of Nations. stolen bad been returned.
now serving, with the Russian popular in foreign circles, owing day. His edicts aré abey- Mr. Churchill said that on the "Red Army."
principally to his progressive ed by millions.. The whole contrary he was continuing to UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM, ideas and frank disposition. His educational system in India is equip the forces of the Provision- Dr. Macnamara, replying to departure from Peking severed paralysed, orderly zovemment i al Government in order to enable Mr. Trevelyan Thomson, said the the strongest link between the being made impossible, and while them to exercise their authority situation which would arise when Chinese of Paking and the schools far, teaching hand loom land maintain order.
the present extension of on-Į Manchus.
Woking to springing up like
the
tion.
F REION OFFICE.
ARMY.
AIRSHIPS.
DEATH OF PRINCE SU.
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