BRITISH-PARLIAMENT

Evening Star, Issue 19714, 15 November 1927, Page 6

BRITISH-PARLIAMENT

ABOLITION OF DEPARTMENTS STATEMENT BY Mil BALDWIN. Pres# Asuociation— By Telegraph— Copyright LONDON, November 14. (Received November 15, at 11.50 a.m.) In tlio House of Commons Mr Baldwin stated that the final decision would be announced during the present session regarding the proposed abolition of the Departments of Overseas Trade, Mines, and the Ministry of Transport. Sir Charles Dlcdisloo (Rarliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture), in reply to a question, said that the application for an Order in Council requiring the marking of imported oats would be inquired into by a committee before the end of the year. WAR DEBTS AND PAYMENTS. LONDON, November 14. (Received November 15, at 1 p.m.) Mr A. M. Samuel (Financial Secretary) informed a questioner that Britain’s total receipts to November, 12 from Gorman including Belgium war debts, amounted to £45.000,000, and the receipts from war debts from Italy £8,1100,000, from France £7,000,000 ,and other countries £500,000. The total reparation war debt receipts amounted to £60,000,000. Britain’s payments in war debts to the United States totalled £194,000,000. , Sir Austen Chamberlain told an inquirer that the question of the renewal of the Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty of 1908, expiring in 1928, was at present the subject of discussion with the dominions.