BAN ON SERVICE

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1930, Page 3

BAN ON SERVICE

A COMMONS PROTEST [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.,! LONDON, March 2. The “Sunday Graphic” .'says, fbllowing the Government’s decision to ban intercession services, cabled on helrdf. of persecuted Russian Christians, it is understood the Conservatives are moving the adjournment m the Commons to-morrow in order to draw attention to this as a. matter of urgent public importance. Mr A. V. Alexander, interviewed said the Government only came to a decision after consulting a Elect' Chaplain, who fully agreed with Mr MacDonald in complete sympathy with my Commons statement, because there is no'objection to voluntary services if desired. LONDON, March 2. A survey, however, states the revision is actually less drastic than. 1924 and attributes the fact that pessimism is now giving way to optimism, due to Mr Hoover’s business conferences. Experience in this depression bus shown the way towards control. It now remains to extend the work already done and secure further co-operation among business, labour, and other groups and stabilise employment and business activity. Mr Green also issued a warning against activities of the Moscow Internationale in America, Senator Brookhart to-day introduced a. Bill asking for an appropriation of fifty million dollars to releive unemployment, the money to be spent under the direction of Mr Hoover, whom Rrookhart called the greatest administrator of relief ip all the history of the world, and the American Red Cross.