IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Ileuter's Telegrams.
LONDON, February 19. ' In the House of Commons Mr Bonar \ Law stated that the subjects of discussion | at the Imperial Conference wouid not be; decided until the oversea representatives' arrived. The Government would not interfere with anything the council desired to discuss. The question of the administration of Iroland was a matter for the Imperial Parliament.
Mr Walter Long stated he was anxiously considering the question of compulsory local military service for Euro-pean-British subjects, and in those Crown colonic wherein compulsion did not exist, but he was not prepared to adopt any further change at present.
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Evening Star, Issue 16353, 20 February 1917, Page 4
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