BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Evening Star, Issue 17923, 20 March 1922, Page 4

BRITISH PARLIAMENT

6ECRETABY FOR INDFA. yisasnusr "£EEL appointed. PresrJsK»chtbn-^y''lJolegT»id>-CopyrigMi LONDON, March 18. Viscount Peol succeeds Me Montagu as Secretary of State for India.—A. and N.Z. Cable. [Viscount Peel is Chancellor of tho Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trans.porfc. Ho was Under-Secretary of State for Wot, 1913-21. He.was chairman of tiro London County Council in 1914. Ho is the oldest eon bf the first Viscount Peel, who was Speaker in tho Homo of Commons, from 1884 to 1895.] LORD DERBY'S POSITION. CONSERVATIVES PREPARTNQ. LONDON, March 18.

Tho Earl of Derby, addressing tho Junior Carlton Club, Gail ho had. declined tho offer of the Secretaryship for India because ho believed ho could be of mere service to his "party and country outsida tho Government than inside. Ho had not the slightest doubt that, he would) bo able to support tho programme which Mr Chamberlain proposed to put before tho Conservatives prior to the nest election. He- intended to givo unswerving loyalty and unstinted energy to the support of the Conservative leaders, whether inside or outride tho Cabinet.

The Bight Hon. ..Stanley Baldwin (Coalition Unionist, Bewdfcy) urged the Conservatives to hold together, bo that when the election came t-hey could fling th< whole weight of their influence into tlv same cede".—A. and N.Z. Cable. INDEPENDENT LIBERALS. LORD GLADSTONE'S STATEMENT, LONDON, March 17. Lord Gladstone, head of the Liberal organisation, in a letter to tha Proa en the reunion'of the Liberal Party, states: "The "positionof tho Independent Liberals ifi that" wo are a party in being, founded on definite principles, which condemn-abso-lutely the policy of the Coalition Government m'iico 1918, and that we offer an alternative Government to the country. The reunion involves cither an acceptanceby Mr Lloyd Georgo and -his Cabinet colleagues of a condemnation of their own policy or the. surrender by the Independent'Liberals of their whole position. Wo have no intention of surrendering that position. Tlio other alternative rests with Mr Lloyd George."—A. and N.Z. Cable. BY-ELECTIONS. LONDON, March 17. A most interesting pending by-election is that of C-hertsey, rendered vacant through the death of Mr Donald M'Master. Coalition-Unionist. The candidates, arc Sir Phillip Richardson, Conservative Unionist, who led the British riflemen to Australia, and General Gough, "Woo Free." Tho latter's cumpagn consists principally of a defence of the Fifth Aimv, owing to charges that he is soaking to enter Parliament chiefly through a personal grudge -against the Government, which recalled him from the western front.—A. and'N.Z. Cable. The Inverness by-election resulted: — Sir Murdoch M action aid (CoalitionUnicnist) 8,340 Livingstone (Independent Liberal) 8,024 -A. and N.Z. Cable,

'J.TJE GENERAL ELECTION. LONDON, March 18. Sir Frederick Young (Coalition Unionisl) announces that bo docs not intend to stwid again for Swindon (Wilts) at tho General 'Election.—A. and N.Z. Cable.