MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1917, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

A RESIGNATION*. Received Aug. 10 5.20 p.m. London. Aug. 9. The Birmingham Daily Post states that Mr. Neville Chamberlain is resigning, owing to the transfer of recruiting to the National Service Department hi a wanner contrary to : s .suggestion. ENTIRE DEPARTMENT RESIGNS. Received Aug. 11, 1.30 a.m. London. Aug. 10. Mr. Chamberlain's resignation is con firmed. Tlie Daily Chronicle adds that tiic entire agricultural section of the National K.rvice Department ba« resigned, on the ground that the Army Council lias depr.vcd it of effective power by transferring the control t,l military labor to the Board of Agriculture. ROYAL CORRESPONDENCE QUESTIONED. London. Antrnf-t C In the House of Commons Lord Robert Cecii, in \e}\\ to Mr. Lynch, said lber-» had been ho \iolations of the constitutional practice whereby the Foreign Secretary dealt with all lettem and telegrams with relation to international jioiicy. Mr. Lynch inquired whether any record had beer, preserved of the correspondence of the Kins with the Kaiser or Prince Hfiirv of Prussia.

Ix.rd Rnl.ert Cecil referred Mr. Lynch to the command p.'.per iMued on this maltci*.

.Mr. I.vncii: llu-s the King made a study of foreign policy, and, if so. has he c*er pcr-utd it wi.hout reffcicuee tc tlie Foreign Ofliee!

Tlie Speaker: That raises a different question. Mr. Bonar Law, in reference to the Vi ir', ifli-'jrim t.) President Wilson, ssid there had been no change in the ton.utulioiial practice that the Sovereign take? no independent action in tor. itn affairs.

M>\ Bonar Lav/ said the Government m considering the question of denouncing the mo:t favored nation clauses in commercial treaties, but it was one or considerable complexity. THE FUTURE OF THE EMPIRE. Received Aug, -0, 5.5 p.m. London, Aug. 0. Mr. V/alter Long (Secretary for the Ccv.nies), speaking at the West Indian Club, said our distant Dominion; and dependencies had played a part in the war, winuuiy i'.T them eternal honor. Tusy had left tbc'r nrirlr upon the con-' duct of the war, rendering it absolutely «r;;.iii tbit the Krnptre of the future couid not be anything like the immediate past ; VV» liad been thinking overmuch of England and overiiule of the Empire, but he we yet follow Mr. Jo-epli CliainlK'rluin'ri adviee to wake up and think imperially. also to accept the lung's adviee'to "\V«kr up, Esjund, and plaee the Empire on a mow practical commercial and common-cenEe basis than in psst yearn,"

A MEETING PROHIBITED. Received Aug. 8 p.ni, London, Aug, 10. T'.iq Press &ireau states that the Workers' and .Soldiers - ' Council meeting at Gkagow on Saturday will be prohibited unior the Ik ftao; of ili<? Realm Act, at the instance of the Glasgow magistrates.

GREECE.

A DICTATORSHIP POSSIBLE, Received Aug. 11, 12 45 a.m. Athens. Aug. 10. Speaking in the Chamutr, M. Vtmizeloa said it might be necessary t.> have recourse to a dictatorship in order to combat hampering activities.