NAVAL PRIZE BILL
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REJECTED BY THE LORDS
A PREPOSTEROUS MEASURE.
Received This Mooning, 12.i0 o'clock LONDON, December 13. Hie Houise of Lords, by 145 votes to 43, rejected the seooand reading of the Naval Pirize Bill'. ) Lord Seibanne, an moving the rejection cf tihe Bill, declared that it was perfectly prepostea'cais that the Eonpiii-e should nave only the some representation. as a Central Ame.rican Republic. Lord Lo.re.burn said the Bill was 'infinitely superior to fclie present) Haw. Since a conference was convened ata Brl'taiin's request', thie rejection of the Biu would place tlie Government in a difficult position in tine eyes of Europe.
Lord Lansdowne was not opposed 1 to an International! Prize Court; bait the present contributed a wrong principle. Britain was. quite inadequately represented. No humiliafciom to the Government was implied itn> securing time for further conisddieratian.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10502, 14 December 1911, Page 5
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147NAVAL PRIZE BILL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10502, 14 December 1911, Page 5
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