We Have Dealt Elsewhere With The Blockade Debate Which Took
place in the House of Commons on Wednesday, and will only mention here that on the whole the Government made out a very good case, not only as regards their vigilance and the......
The Second Reading Debate On The' Military Service Bill Took
place in the House of Lords on Tuesday. Most of the criticism was directed to showing that the Bill did not go far enough. Lard Weardale made the only speech in opposition to......
In The House Of Commons On Friday Week Mr. Asquith
made an important statement on the dilution of labour. The Govern- ment, he said, " after the most careful consideration," were con- vinced that the employment of more unskilled......
That Speech Was A Worthy Culmination To The Part Which
-Mr. Boner Law has so admirably played in the conduct of the Bill. He overwhelmed all technical and pedantic objections by the broad and simple retort that compulsion was proved......
A German Aeroplane Visited The East Coast Of Kent, According
to a War Office statement, last Sunday at one o'clock in the morning in bright moonlight and dropped bombs. The German wireless announcement says that the point attacked was......
On The Same Day The Commons Took The Second Reading
of the Trading with the Enemy (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill. It removes the anomalies of Company law, as revealed in the Continental Tires case, by giving the Board of Trade......
In The Course Of The Debate Two Excellent Speeches Were
made by Unionist supporters of the Government—one by Mr. Leverton Harris, and the other by Mr. Pollock, the Chairman of the Contra- band Committee. Mr. Leverton Harris laid......
It Is Evident That The Cabinet., While Most Anxious Not
to do anything which is really unfair to neutrals, or which would provoke an outburst of anti-British feeling, are determined not to allow neutral traders—for that is what it......
Lord Derby Asserted That, Much As He Regretted The Need
for compulsion, the whole scheme would have been a failure without Mr. Asquith's pledge. Yet there had also been a notable wave of patriotism. The best proof of this was that......
In The Commons On Monday The Military Service Bill Was
debated on the report stage and the third reading. Mr. Pringle and others seemed to think that though Mr. Asquith had pro- mised that no compulsion should be applied to labour,......
Lord Robert Cecil, Who Wound Up The Debate For The
Govern- ment, expressed himself as grateful for the tone of the speeches. Vehement attacks on the Foreign Office in the Press, he pointed out, did no good. They diverted the......
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