24 MARCH 1928, Page 2

On Tuesday and Wednesday the Services Estimates entered . upon the

Report Stage. The Secretary a State for War stated that the British Army on the Rhine wag, now only just over 6,000 strong. The' Secretary of State for Air had to defend the experiments being made, with air-ships and expressed a diffident sympathk with the close co-operation that was advocated betsieen civil and military aviation. On Wednesday in the diSctilsion of private Members' motions, the HouSe discuSsed Socialism and Safeguarding. The House of Lords gave a second reading to the British Guiana Bill.

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