LATE CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17921, 17 March 1922, Page 8

LATE CABLES

LONDON, March 15.—Lobbyists agree that Lord Derby’s refusal of the offer of tho Secretaryship of State for India destroys the last hope of what some newspapers describe as the last-dying Coalition. Lobbyists anticipate Mr Lloyd George s early resignation.— A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON, March IC.—ln the House of Lords the Irish Bill was read a second time without a division. Lord Carson said that the Conservative Unionist Paity had broken every pledge which had been given to the Unionists in Ireland. It would ‘be useless to throw out the Bill. The mischief had been done. He detailed tho. murder of four of the constabulary in hospital, and demanded Pint the Government should at least make an effort to stop such outrages, which were a travesty of civilisation. Let them say to those to whom Ireland had been abandoned : “Unless this is stopped we will go no further.” Lord Birkenhead said that it was unfair to blame Mr Griffith and Mr Collins for the recent outrages. _ One of tho difficulties was their control of the military instruments, which were incomplete.—A. and N.Z. Cable. . T . . , CAIRO, March 15.—The Sultan has written to the Prune Minister : “ God has graciously permitted tho attainment of Egypt’s independence at our hands. Wo are grateful to God, and hereby announce to the world Egypt's independence and sovereignty. Wo have taken tho title of King in order to ensure the country's dignity and international status. Wo hope to day !o inaugurate an era which will restore Egypt’s grandeur.—A. and N Z Cable ' LONDON, March 16.—Mr Chamberlain, in tho Commons, said that the abolition of the Air Ministry would be a fatal and retrograde step. The Government had decided that tho Air Force, firstly, must be autonomous m the matter of administration and education; secondly, m. tho case of defence against air raids tho,Navy and Army must pin;/ a steomnuy rmc ; thirdly, in the case of military and naval operations the Air Force, must be in. strict subordination to the general and admiral in supxemo comJ!,aJ LONDON, March 16.—Eeece, 12,967; M’Conaohy, 10,885.—A, and N.Z* Cable. ’