HOUSE OF COMMONS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 December 1927, Page 5

HOUSE OF COMMONS

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS. * ESTIMATES FOR SINGAPORE BASE. ißy Cable — Assn. — Copyright.] (Received l t 31.30 a.m.) ' London. Nov. 30. In the House of Commons, Sir Austen Chamborlain. in answer to a question, said he had received no information that the Soviet delegates at Geneva intended to raise tho question of resumption of relations between Britain and Russia in view of Mr Baldwin’s recent speech. Commander C. Bellairs (Conserv., Maidstone) asked, “If th£ question arises will you seek a repudiation of tho Soviet Prime Minister’s declaration in the Red Parliament on October 21 that the workers’ only chance was the adoption nf measures of revolution.” There was no answer. Sir Austen Chamberlain stated that no communications were passing, between the British and Russian Governments through the Norwegian or any other friaadly Government concerning the Poland-Lithuanian situation. There was nothing to prevent the League communicating with Russia on the subject. The Hon W. C. Bridgman, in an swer to a question, said that the sum of £7,750,000 in the Admiralty Estimates of Singapore represented the cost of developing a naval base at the old Strait. It did not include the cost of military air defences—(A. and N.Z.)