regime had brought Great Britain’s pres-
tige abroad
to the
lowest
level.
Refer-
ring to France,
he said,
‘While France
was in the Ruhr she lent money
to Ruma-
nia, Czecho-Slovakia
and Jugo-Slavia while
wewere paying our obligations
to America
a situation was created
in Central Europe
which necessitated
.expenditure
in
our
- defence.
France
can
point
to
her
de-
~ vaststed fields, but I'can peint
to the
de-
‘ ‘'vagtad homes'in
Britain and the
misery
“andruin of upemployment”.
Mr. Cham-
“berlain said
heimagined
that the Labour
- Party, wouldfiad it "impossible to enforce
a rigid principle of, abolishing
all
food
“taxes, but woutd have to adopt
itself
to
circumitancea.
He put it up
to the
La-
" bouar Party
that if they
eould be satisfied
that if the British
preference
proposals,
even though
they include
the
Imposition
of ;new
luties
on
certain
articles,
were
expedient
on other
grounds,
they
might
well agree
to depart from their prinecipics
and rearrange
the food duties
to enaable
the preference
to be imposed.
Intwenty,
tairty, or fifty vears
of time some
of the
Dominions .-tnight
-.equal,
or
be
even
greater
than
tke
old country
in popula-
uon
and wealth and the
turn
givean
to
their thoughts
and policies
today
would
persist
all through those years.
When
a
geperation
or
‘two hence
t(hey
were
amo.g
tle greatest
natinng,
the
action
taken
by the
Government
today
might
determine
what value
they
were
going
to
be
to
the
-people
of
Great
[r.tain.
(cheers).
Mr.
Mc Namara,
Minister of
Labour, heartily congratulated
Mr. Clynes
on
his reference
te Empire
Settlemeu?,
as
plucky
beyond
praise.
Before
the
war,
he said,
more
than
sixteen
million
people
in
the
United
[Kingdom
were
classified
as
wage
earners,
today
they
were
seventeen
million.
The
develop-
ment
of homea
resources
wouid
not
settie
tae Labour problem.
Tiey mustdevelop
along the lines suggested
by
Mr. Clynes,
Three hundred
theusand
young
feilows,
he
coneluded,
were walking
the
streets
wanting work.
They should
be given
an
epportunity
te
mak2
zood.
In connec-
tion with Mr. Winston Churchill’s letter
~ publisbed yesterday,
forecasting disaster
if tbe Labour
Party
was
permitted
to
take
office, it is. noteworthy
.that
a Par-
:
hamgptérx_lndust!‘ial
Gryup’is submitting
an amendmet
thaiasao
overwhelming
.- magerity ofthe House of Crmmons
mem-
_bership.. was.returned
defiairely ple.lzed
" against Saciglism,
it would ke
a violation
-of the expressed
will of ithe’electorate
to
_place- in. power
a.
Governmant
= which
" munifestly -cannot, osdits
ow n, dectdred
_
policy, effectively.
carry oo .the-alminis-
. tration. .
--
£
foess |
"
Londop,
_Jan..
19tk —Although.
ta2
leaders
of .the Parliaf:ntary
Lidoar
Party are
keeping ip the
hackground,
_themore radical:
medsures,
which tleir
_pary. from time
to timz has advocated,
|
‘soma .of these .will com:
‘h:fore. the .
House
-ofCommons
soon in _the form
of
_private
bills.. Some.
of .the
Lavoarite
S
LhROLX
AYVLS
members
have
exceptional
luck
in
the
balloting for the privilege of introducing,
and
according
to the
Daily Telegrapbh,
bills for the nationalization of the
mines
and
railways
will
be
presented
before
long. Also Labour
contemplates
initiat-
ing alaw for the
franchisement
of
wo-
men
at the same
dge
as
men
instead
of
at
thirtys years,
as
is
now
the
case.
Another bill for which Labour
will stand
spousor, says.the
rewspaper,
is one
pro-
posing
Home
‘Kule for Seotland.
In
as
much
as private
measures
are
not
sup-
. ported:byithe
Government,
they depend
-for suecess
upon.
the
sspport
their
nro-
-maoters
are able to win {or them
from the
othermemdbers.
;- It'is obvious
that
in the
present
composition
of
the
House
of
Comnrons
the private
members
bills have
little chance
of suceess.
.~ London; Jan:
¥9th—The
famnus Krupp
.
Company ;of. Germany
is
to
take
over
Spain’s -oldest
-engineering
works
La-
Magquinista.
Terristra.Y Maritima
estab-
lished
in 1855,
and also
the
Cardena
Dockyard,
both
in Barcelona,
Spain,
ac-
cording
.to
a
despatch
to
the
"'Daily
~Mail”” from
Barcelona,
The
Germans
_
2re
to supply
the fechnical
staff and
Spanish
banks
will _ubseribe
the
ecapi-
tal
necessarv
for
extensions
of
the
plants,
The Krupps
wili
immediately
place large orders
for work which cannot
be
undertaken
n Germany
under
the
provision®
of the
treaty
of Versailles.
They willouild steamers
for German
and
~ South
American
lines
and
locomotives
for the Spanish
railways.
The despatch
adds that
the
agrcement
has
been
fa-
vorably received
i1 Ba'¢-=lona
where its
inauguration.
will relieve
the
unen:ploy-
ment brought abcut
by the
clesing
cown
of their werk there.
-
London,
Jan
19th~—The
Soviel Deleya-
tion, which is proceeding
to Cava
ia
to be-
gin negotiations
wi b the Ottawa
Govern-
ment,
looking towards
the resumpiion
of
trade relations withgßussia,
reachied
Lon-
don
this merning,
They
wiil sail
next
Friday and
they have
hopes
of signing
contracts
~ for
agricultura]
machinery,
railway equipment
and other industrial
“productions“during
their
visit,
If
the
‘contracts.are
completed
it should
result
in a big
boom
of Canadian
tade, -
Full
guarantege
6f payment
for all such
con-
L iracts has. already been.
arraunged
by
the
Soviet Gayernment.
.
-
"Iripidad, ;Sa'q.
19th.—Tha
following
. Delegates
leaves
here
this
aflterroon
in
U 8 8. "Cergnadq’’ foi Jamaica
to
attend
~the West Indian Agrictuliural Corference.
Sir Francis Watts, K.C. M.
G.
Princi-
. bal of Imperial College
ofTropical
Agri-
_ cultdre.and
Commissioner
of Agriculture
for the W..l , Sir A. K, Shipley,
G.
B. E,
. LL D. F..R. S., Chairman
Imperial Dept.
" of Agricufue.. Moody
Stuart,
Chair-
- man 'Fitj?ce L‘_omx’ui? tee,
H.
A.
Balleu,
. Professor
?f,.E'm'o“mQJpgy. 'S..
S.
Ashby,
f.Profe,ssa&(i'f
Mycolozy, Ur. Hariand,
Pro-
fassor ofBotany, Di. Ne. ve, Assistant
. Director Imperial Buteau
of Entomology,
R.
G,
W. Barnwell,
M. A, British
Em-
pire Sugai
Research.
Committee,
A. I
Aspinal,. M G. B.’A.,
E.
'‘A.
Depnss,
W.
L. Commictee
ete.
ete.
The
**Corc-
nado’’ will ar¥ive at Jamaica
about
the
28th
inst.
and
the
conference
will be
presided
over by
SirKrancis Watts,
-
Washington,
Jan:
20th. —-The_ prime
purpose
of
the
Shenandoah’s
proposed
Polar flght, the Seeretary
of the
Navy,
Mr.
Denbv,
told the House
Naval Com-
mittee
on Saturday,
is exploration’in’the
Artic
regions
with a view ta
gonexing
lend
in that
area
to
the. United
States.
““The
mere fact
that
there
is
an
unen
-
ployed area
of 1,000,000
square
miles
ac-
jacent
to the
United Sta e3,”” said
Seere -
tary Uenby,
'‘constitutes
a constant
cha
-
lenge
to the United
States,
We
caunno:
permit that
vast territoay
to
fall into the
hands
of another
power.
If
we
don':
make
the flight this
Summer,
the
entire
Arciie
region
wili
o~ prhotographed
and
mapp>d
by
another
power
withio
a
year’’,
-Secretary
Denby
said
that
the
expedition
would
cos
approxnnmately
$183.000.
All
members
of the
Shenan-
doan’s
evew,
-he
added,
are
eager
for
the
adventure,
which,
he said,
would
entail
no
particular
hardships.
or dan-
ger.
No structural
or
navigation
veak-
n#ss
was
revedled,
the
committee
was
told
during the
runaway
flicit
of the Shenandoah
on Wednesday
night.
The
Seeretary
:satd - the
big
dirigibie
would
follow,
a zigzag
course
over north
,ern Alaskafio
get data
on
that
region,
but
would
not at‘empt
to passover
the
North
Pole
to
Spitzbergen
unless
Ihe
weather
conditions
are
fov urable.
[
she
reaches
Spitgherren,
he
said,
sh
will visit Great
Britain
oa
her
wayv
buack
to
the
Unitad
Siates,
and
{aeer,
may-
a
tempt
a flizht around
the
world,
Westminster,.
Janv.
2)
h =Tae
cruiser
Omaha
and
a half dozn
destroyers
have
been
ordered
trom.
Panama
waters
(o
Vera Cruz.
Itis assuxed,
that,.in"oi-
derinyg
the ships
to Vera Cruz,
the
Unit-
ed
States
Government
acted
through
a
desire to give
every- protection
. posszible
to United States
citizens
or
their
inter-
ests
where
fighting is
in progress
.
It
was pointed
out
that
the
gathering
of
United States
ships
at Vera
Cruz
would
constitute
a
naval
demonstratioa
. that
might convince
De
la
Huerta’s
leaders
that the United
States
Government
did
not intend
to
permit
interference
with
U.
S.
commercial
shipping
at
Tampico
or other Mexican ports.
S
New.York, Jan.
19th.—No
fresh
busi-
ness
was reported
in the
local
raw sugar
market
on
Saturday.
The
undertone
remained
steady, with
buyers
at
last
paid prites of 6.52, duty
paid
for
Cubas
but holders asking 6.82
:
Athens,
Jan. 19.h. —lt is oficially an-
nounced that _nezotiations
have. been
started for the
arrangem-nt
of a com-
mercial agreemcat
b_tween
Greece
and
Soviet Russia.
oA
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