IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 87, 16 August 1913, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE WALTHAMSTOW SEAT. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] (.United Press Association.] London, August 15. Sir J. Simon, in a letter to his constituents, announce? that he is .quoting the Walthamstow seat at the general election in order to contest North-West Manchester. He adds that the campaign will he critical for many Liberal causes. Amongst them Free Trade is the most important. ’ THE APPROPRIATION BILL. In the House of Comons the Appropriation Bill .was read a third time. Mr Lloyd George declared that Britain was expending on her Navy a sum exceeding the cost of all tin navies of the world in 1888. This was a striking indication of the alarming growth of armaments. It was a matter that the whole civilised world should consider. The Concert of Europe might very well use that spirit of harmony, good feeling, and common sense which had settled the Balkan trouble to unravel the tangle in connection with armaments. Instead ol a spirit of rivalry in expenditure, they might substitute a spirit of co operation and goodwill. The £400,000,000 the great industrial countries were spending in armaments could be hotter spent in increasing their resources and developing trade. The House of Lords passed the Ap propriation Bill. PARLTAMENT PROROGUED. (Received 9.38 a.m.) London, August 18. Parliament has been prorogued un lil November 3.