BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1927, Page 3

BRITISH PARLIAMENT

[Australian it N.Z. Cahlo Association.] BRITAIN'S WAR BAYMENTS. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, .May 22. In the Commons, Jl<m W. Churchill, replying to a question, said iir the calendar year, 1 ( J28. Britain should receive (welve and three-quarter millions Iran Germany and nine and a half millions in respect ot Allied war debts, a total of twenty-two and a quarter millions. In the satire period she would pay America thirty-three millions. During lf'2s L, :taiii would receive sixteen nnd tlir -.barter millions repartitions and la ■ - four and a half millions war deb;-. . total of twenty-eight and a quar: millions, and again pav America thirty-three millions. From U2J onwards, the receipts would he' sufficient, on the assumption that if was found impossible to transfer the full Dawes annuity, to cover the current payments to America, which would rise by UNIT t i nearly thirty-eight millions. LONDON. March 22. -Mr ( hiirehiii' added that even if the lull Dawes’ payment was receive.» yearly for sixty years. England’s reeoip!, from reparations and war debts, would lie insufficient on the basis of present values to cover the payments to America, including those made from debtors

-Mr liurg asked would the Chancellor sl -' < ‘ that these- lacts were eenmiaiiieatcd to aI i’ nations in order to overtake misleading .statements made hv Mr Mellon.

Mi Churchill said he did not want I” assume that: Mr .Mellon's statements were, misleading until he. had received the actual report. When he did so he would make a statement to show exactly where any divergen t' occurred.

-Mr Mitchell Thompson, replying to Mr Kenworthy, said certain details had yet to lie adjusted, hence he was unable to say when the beam wireless to Australia would be open to the public.

COMMONS’ DEBATE. LONDON. March 22. Ihe Commons resumed the debate on the films Bill. Mr Snowden, .supporting Mr .MacDonald’s amendment, said the Board of Trade appeared simply a tool in the hands of the federation of British Industries. Sir (Tiulifl’e Lister denied this and said the bii'l was founded on the recommendations of the Imperial Conference. -Mr Snowden said that the bill did nothing to carry out the con fore lice’s recommendations. Mr Wedgwood said that British films were no? as humorous as American, while there was too much sentiment shown. An attempt to rope up the eiyema industry bv such means was as useful as starting a banana industry in England. Mr Inskip in reply for the Government said it was agreed that Britain was as capable a- America of producing films. The existing system of blind hooking gave the industry no chance. The Government was determined not to ston half wav. but t >

give the industry necessary encouragement by a" quota of provisions. The bid was read a second time by 213 tn