IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 358, 7 March 1902, Page 2

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

'THE BRITISH ARMY. SUPERIOR GUNS BOUGHT IN GERMANY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Mar. 5. ‘■i the House of Commons, Mr Btodrick said in future a soldier would • get a clear shilling a day. If at the end of two years he elected to remain wuh the colors for six years more, serving lout years with the reserves, tie would receive Is (id. It was hoped to attract 50,000 recruits a year. If 1 all were engaged for eight years the A 1 my would he kept at its full suength, and a reserve of 150,000 to i 7 5,000 could be established at an exit.,. cost to the British service of 4i. ISO,OOO, and India of 4756.000. The guns bought in Germany, said the Minister for War, were an immense improvement on the British for rapidity of tire and distance covered. He hoped colonial statesmen would he willing to undertake the responsiliMy oi cioseiy linking the different puts of tiie Empire, rendering the whole forces of the Empire available in a war involving the interests of the v. hole Empire. In regard to the remount question, he said it would have been wonderful if there had been no mistakes, consiilethig the gigantic remounts transactions. He hoped to establish some connection in the colonies for specially breeding army horses.

CONCENTRATION CAMPS. CHAMBERLAIN CONDEMNS PROBOER AGITATION. By Telegraph— Press Association —Copyright LONDON, Mar. 5. In the House of Commons, Mr Humphries Owen, member for Montgomeryshire, moved resolutions condemning the Government’s delay in improving the condition of the concentration camps. Mr Chamberlain, in a brilliant speech in defence, condemned the grave and wicked exaggerations of the proiioers. He eulogised the ceaseless labor, sacrifices, and devotion of the fJm'mistrators of the camps, in rnainta'ning 150,000 persons, at a cost of £'80,(100 a month. The mortality among the children in the camps under 12 years of age had fallen to 78 per 1000.

The motion was negatived by 232 to ill.

Mr Chamberlain is engaging forty teachers in Canada to work tiie conce tration camps in .South Africa.