IMPERIAL POLITICS

Evening Star, Issue 15066, 24 December 1912, Page 6

IMPERIAL POLITICS

IXDIA AND TARIFF REFORM. Press' Association—By -Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 23. In the course of a letter Lord 1 Crewe refers to Mr Bonar Law's statements on India and Tariff Reform. He save that manufacturers in the Dominion,? would have the power to protect themselves against the Mother Land's manufacturers, whereas Indian manufacturers would lack the power to secure the- Home markets. The Indian manufacturers would defend themselves. If Mr Law began to negotiate ho would find that India was eager for international Freetrade, though she, would -certainly stipulate for the same privileges as were secured by the self-governing" colonies. THOSE FOOD TAXES. LONDON, December 23. The 'Glasgow Herald' (R.) says that if an Imperial Conference expressed a wish that Preference should be granted in some other form than food taxes a Unionist Government should seek another way. Most Unionists would prefer that. The 'lrish Times' (U.) says that Lord Lansuowne and Mr A. Bonar Law have decreed that the next General Election shall be fought on Tariff Reform and not on Home Rule. The leaders have "queered" the electoral outlook, and changed a certainty into a very alarming uncertainty. PARTY DIFFERENCES. CAPABLE OF ADJUSTMENT. LONDON, December. 23. Under the chairmanship of Lord Derby, 300 delegates from the Lancashire Unionists' Asaociation discussed, behind closed doors, the matter of party differences. The conference adjourned till January 11. Lord Derby says that present differences can be adjusted.