HOUSE OP COMMONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1923, Page 2

HOUSE OP COMMONS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON. July IS. hi the Commons Air Ronald McXeill re] lying to Air Snowden said lie had no reason to doubt the accuracy of the statements of executions and persecutions of' Georgian people by the Bolsheviks Government. Deeply as the the British Government deplored the outrages, the Soviet had unfortunately established effective control of Georgian territory and the Government was only too well aware of the uselessness of attempting to influence the Soviet Government, diplomatically, when unaccompanied liv pressure which they had no moans of exercising. t BRITISH POLITICS. *> ’LONDON, July 18. In the House of Commons. Sir E. Stockton asked whether it had been suggested, on behalf of the Dominions, that for general convenience and for the stimulation of good feeling, occasional meetings of the Imperial Conference might be bold in one or other of the Dominion capitals. Air Baldwin (Premier) said there was no definite arrangement under which the meetings should invariably be held in London. The meeting place was determined by its convenience to everybody. Tho forthcoming meeting could decide, whore the next conference should be held. A Cabinet meeting for the approval of tho draft of the British reply to Germany has been postponed until tomorrow. Replying, in the House of Commons, to criticisms of the Government's policy regarding the dye industry, Sir I’.. Llovd Graeme said the manufacturers were now using 80 per cent. British dyes, compared with 20 per cent, before the war, and this without reducing the quality. It was not until the British lsegan to make dyes that the prices of German dyes fell. Lord Sclhourne, in the House of Lords, asked whether, in view of t.he development of submarine and aerial warfare, the Government would refer the question of tho bearing of national defence on fond production in Britain to tho Committee of Imperial Defence. Lord Salisbury said that one subject discussed by the Imperial Conference was tho Navy, whereupon in the long run, they must most rely for their food supply in that country. They could never be wholly self-supporting in the matter of fund, and whatever their fiscal system, they must in war time be dependent on tbc licet. Viscount Long appealed for broadminded consideration of tho problem of the Empire's food supply, at the coming Imperial Conference. They had an Empire capable of producing everything necessary, and yet they were no nearer finding means of realising this great ambition. The Dominions were more than ready to meet England halfway. There were mature statesmen in the Dominions, of very great ability, who were daily considering the question. When they came to England, he hoped they would not be content merely to discuss the question, but that they would raise it themselves.