BRITISH POLITICS

Grey River Argus, 20 July 1923, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. QUESTION OF MEETING PLACE. (Aus. and N Z. Cable Assn.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received July 19, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 18. Tn rhe House of Commons, Sir E. Stockton asked whether it had been suggested, on behalf of the Dominions, that for general convenience and for the stimulation of good feeling, occasional meetings of the Imperial Conference might be held in one or other of the Dominion capitals. Mr Baldwin (Premier) said there was no definite arrangement under ■which the meetings should invariably be held in London. The meeting place was determined by its convenience to everybody. The forthcoming meeting could decide, where the. next conference should be held. NOTE TO GERMANY. A Cabinet meeting for the approval of the draft of the British reply to Germany has been postponed until tomorrow. DYE INDUSTRY. Replying, in the Hous.? of Commons, to .criticisms of the Government’s policy regarding the dye industry, Sir P. Lloyd Graeme said the manufacturers were now using 80 per cent. British dyes, compared with 20 per cent, before the war, and this without reducing the quality. H was not until the British began to make dyes that the prices of German dyes fell. FOOD SUPPLY AND DEFENCE. Lord Seibourne, in the House of Lords, asked whether, in view of the development of submarine and-aerial warfare, the Government would refer the question of the bearing of national defence on food production in Britain to the Committee of Imperial Defence. Lord Salisbury said that one subject , discussed by the Imperial Conference was the Navy, whereupon in the long run, Niey must most rely for their food supplv in that country. They could never be wholly self-supporting in the matter of food, and whatever their fiscal system, they nflist in war time be dependent on the fleet. •A Viscount Long appealed for broadminded consideration of the problem of the Empire’s food supply, at the coming Imperial Conference. They had an Empire capable of producing everything necessary, and yet they wore no nearer finding means of realising this great ambition. The Dominions were more than ready to meet England halfway. There were mature statesmen in the Dominions, of very great ability, who were daily considering the question. When they came to England, he hoped they would not be content merolv to discuss the question, but that they would raise it themselves.