HOUSE OF COMMONS

Evening Star, Issue 19804, 1 March 1928, Page 6

HOUSE OF COMMONS

ABOLITION OF THE SUBMARINE BRITAIN’S ATTITUDE UNCHANGED. (British Official News.) Press Association—By Wireless-Copyright. RUGBY, February 29. (Received March 1, at noon.) Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Sir Austen Chamberlain sffid that the British Government had for some time been making representations to the Portugnest Government on the subject of flag discrimination. He understood that a decree would shortly be issued abolishing _ all such discrimination of any kind in Portugal and tho Portuguese dominions. In regard to the' question of tho loan which Portugal was seeking through the League of Nations, this would bo dealt with on its merits Mr W. C. Bridgcman (First Lord of the Admiralty) said that the attitude of the Government on the question of abolishing the submarine remained the same as originally initiated*hy Lord Lee, of Fareham, at the Washington Conference in 1921, when he urged the abolition of the submarine. That attitude was reaffirmed by himself at the recent naval conference in Geneva. The Prime Minister, in response to a request by Mr Ramsay MacDonald, undertook to find at least half a day for discussion of the Board of Inquiry report on tho so-called “ Francs case,” with special reference to Zinovieff. THE FILMS AND BRITISH PRESTIGE. LONDON, February 29. (Received March 1, at 11.5 a.m.) Sir Austen Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, said that he find written at least on half a dozen occasions to the British representatives, and had approached the authorities of foreign countries seeking the excision or modifications in portions of cinema films which appeared derogatory to British prestige. Mr Baldwin told a questioner that until the Wireless and Gables Conference made recommendations to their respective Governments he could not make a statement on the subject.— A. and N.Z. and ‘ Sun ’ Cable.