CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 57, 9 March 1905, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE COMING FISCAL DEBATE. MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S MOTION. [rnnss association. ! (Received March 9, 8.39 a.m.) LONDOxV, Oth March. The Government will move tho previous question lo Mr. Winston Churchill's motion, which expressos tho view that a preferontial system involving the (axaiiou of food will not Hecuro tho permanent union of tho Empire The motion conies up for debate to-day. DEFENCE OF BRITAIN. CONQUEST OF LONDON IMPOSSIBLE. LONDON, Bth March. Replying in the House of Commons to a question by Sir Charles Wei by (Conservativo member for Nottingham, who was an assistant Under- Secretary al. Iho W»r Oflico during tho Boer War, and a member of tho War Ofiico Reorganisation Commit too appointed in 1901), the Piinic Minister (the Right lion. A. J. Halfour) said that in tho opinion of the Committee of Imperial Defonco the invasion of Britain in nuinbors-Kulliciont to mako tho conquest of London, or any eonquist, possible. was< outeido of any considerations that shiHikl bo weighed. Tho governing consideration in fixing tho strength of the kind forces, continued Mr. Balfour, depended not upon queslions concerning the defences of tho Motherland, but upon tho needs- of the colonios, and still iiHH-o upon the needs of India, and tho consequent strain on tho nation's resources. EMPIRE TRADE LEAGUE. APPOINTMENT OF CHAIRMAN. (Rocoivcd March 0, 8.39 a.m.) i LONDON, Bth March. Lord Tennyson, who wim the iirst Acting G-ovemor-Goneral of the Commonwealth, has been appointed Vice-Presi-dent of tho United Empiro Trudo League. THE TIBI-TTAN TREATY. BRITISH CONSULS IN THE CONGO. LONDON, Bth March. Tho Hight lion. W. Brudrick, Secretary for India, announced in tho House of Commons that China had not expressed adhesion to the Anglo- Tibetan treaty which was. signed at Lhaswi lust Scptombcr, as tho result of Colonel Younghusband's expedition. Mr. Brodrick uddod that negotiations were proceeding with China on tho question. Karl Percy, Uuder-Sucrcrury for Foreign Affairs, stated in the House of Commons that the Government was appointing Vice-Contiuls at Leopoldvillo and Stanley Falls, on the Congo River, in Belgian territory. THE SURPLUS. THE NAVAL ESTIMATES. LONDON, Bth March. Thero is an ap|«ircnt British surplus of nearly £7,000,000 The Government's majorities in divisions on details of tho Naval Estimates arc HO/tipfactory. TWO POLICIES. (Received Maruh 0, 7.31 ;> m.) LONDON, Bth March. Lord Hugh Cecil, in reply to a correspondent, declared: "In my opinion, Mr. Balfour's and Mr. Cluimbrrhiin's policies arc quito distinct, nnd in somo reRpects irreconcilable."