PASSPORTS FOR STOCKHOLM

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3165, 17 August 1917, Page 5

PASSPORTS FOR STOCKHOLM

REFUSAL MAY BE CHALLENGED

IN PARLIAMENT

VOTE OP CONFIDENCE IN MR. HENDERSON

RUMOURS OP GENERAL

ELECTION

London, August 15. It is expected the Government will forthwith bo challenged in the House of Commons upon its refusal to issue passports to the British Labour delegates to tho Stockholm Conference. The Labour Executive has issued a report that to-day's meeting passed a vote of coniidence in Mr. Henderson, and that it reviewed the entire situation together with a telegram from M. Huysmans and St. Brantiug saying that they still considered it important that the Entente case should bo presented. The executive resolved that it was desirable to attend the Stockholm Conference to prevent the British Labour Part/fi views being misrepresented and misunderstood. It regretted the refusal of passports, and decided to make representations to the Government in the matter. The executive appointed eight delegates, including Mr. Henderson. Tho Labour Executive, including Mr. Hendorson, lias discussed the new situation in regard to the Stockholm Conference, but the position of the party at present is vague. Some Labour people resent Mr. Henderson's exolusion from the Cabinet—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RUMOURED APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY London, 'August 15. It is rumoured that Mr. Lloyd George contemplates holding a general election if the Labour Conference adheres to its decision to send delegates to Stockholm. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE ASSURANCE FKOM STOCKHOLM. London, August 15. The "Daily News" states that the Labour Party executive has received from the Organising Bureau at Stockholm an assurance that the conference will be consultative and not mandatory.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. LABOUR RESOLUTION TO BE REAFFIRMED. (Kec. August 16, 5.20 p.m.) London, August 15. Mr. Henderson intends on Tuesday to ask the Labour Conference to reaffirm the resolution in favour of sending a delegation to the Stockholm Conference.— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. GERMAN PRESS" COMMENT (Uec. August IC, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, August 15. The German newspaper "Vorwaerts" says that Mr. Henderson's resignation is the prelude to the downfall of Mr. Lloyd George's Cabinet. "The French, Eussian, nnd British Governments are shaking dangerously." Nevertheless the "Vorwaerts" warns the Germans against nursing tho hope that an Entente crisis will lead to peace.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable AsEn.