In Parliament on Thursday, March 22nd, the House of Commons
took the Report Stage of the Navy Estimates. Members could not refrain from discussing at length the affairs of H.M.S. Royal Oak,' in spite of Mr. Speaker's hint that it was the custom of the House to avoid trench- ing upon matters that were sub judiee. As the result, such matters as the Geneva Conference appeared to have less importance. The First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking of the many points upon which the three Powers represented at that Conference had reached agreement, indirectly (and, we fear, with justice), rebuked Lord Cecil for his last letter to the PresS, which discloied the Cabinet instruction to the British representatives. The next day the Commons rejected a Private Member's Bill supported by the Labour Party and designed to reintroduce the seven hours day in the coal mines.
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