24 DECEMBER 1927, Page 2

The House of Commons on Wednesday passed the third reading

of the Indian Church Bill. Lord Winterton explained on December 16th that the Bill was a necessary pendant to the independence already granted to the Anglican Church in India. No doctrine was involved as the proposed self-government would reside in the constitutional as distinct from the spiritual sphere. The status of the Church in India would be brought into line with the status of the Anglican Church in the Dominions.