Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 72, 1 March 1916, Page 6

Great Britain

POL 7-WAR COMMERCE. United Press Assooiatiok (Received 1.50 p.m.) London, March 1. Mr .McKenna, addressing the Chamber of Commei-ce C'onl’erenee, said: “We have seen Germany during peaci planning and preparing and finally provoking war. We were dependent upon her for many trade essentials, but never again.” A resolution was passed asking the Government to counsel the' Dominion Governments and obtain their views on post-war trade problems, reciprocal trading relations with enemy countries, the control of enemy businesses within the Empire; also asking the Government to establish preferential and reciprocal trading within the Empire, reciprocal trading between the Empire and the Allies, and the favorable treatment of neutrals, with tariff restrictions on our enemies, making pre-war conditions, impossible; and urging the stimulation of Home industries and the increased employment lor Native labor. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. (Received 12.30 p.m.) London, February 29. Lord French took his seat in the House of Lords. In the House of Commons, 51 r Asquith announced that ReaivAdmiral Do Chair be Flag Officer, advising the Foreign Office on the blockade question. Sir John Simon, in the House ol Commons, said he believed that headquarters said nobody would lie exempted from the service. Such action was wasteful and uneconomic. If the War Office wanted to imitate Germany they should imitate efficiency, not brutality. The Right Hon. Lough said the tribunals were more like the old press gangs than anything else. At the inquest on tlie Maloja victims. the chief officer gave it as his opinion that the liner was torpedoed.