BRITISH AFFAIRS

Southland Times, Issue 18849, 15 June 1920, Page 5

BRITISH AFFAIRS

QUEEN ALEXANDRA’S HEALTH. ALARMIST RUMOURS DENIED. (By Telegraph.— Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable .Association.) LONDON, June 14. Alarmist rumours regarding the hra'tuof Queen Alexandra are -imu-oihciady denied, but ’he recovery oi her impaired vision is IMPERIAL DEFENCE. PROPOSED CHANGE* IN ORGANISATION. LONDON, June 12. The Parliamentary .Army Committee is mem Jialising the Premier and .dr Bonar Law, suggesting import mt changes in the Emp ; re’s tit-fence organisation. the scheme involves the representation of the tnree services on a body charged with the responsibility of co-onl;nai n-n of expenuit ure, with commitment m the foreign policy adcp ted by the Government ot the day. In the House of Commons, replying to Major-General Seely. Mr Lloyd stated that the Committee of Imperial Defence was constituted so as to enable it. to deal with co ordinal ion ot the sea., land and air defet.ee of the Empire by experts from the three services attending meetings of the committee as required. He hoped the meeting* would be hj: Id shortly. ENTOMOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. IMPERIAL BUREAL' ESTABLISHED. LONDON, June 12. The final meeting of the Imperial Entomological Conference, Mr Hareourt presiding passed a resolution in favour of holding a similar conference in London every five years. It. established an Imperial bureau of Entomology on a permanent basis, recommending that the contnoutory Governments should guarantee contribution? towards the provision of the total income of £3OOO.