HOUSE OF COMMONS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 November 1927, Page 9

HOUSE OF COMMONS

AUTUMN SESSION OPENED. TRADE WITH RUSSIA. SITUATION IN CHINA. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. Received 12.15 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Nov. 8. The autumn sessiou of the House of Commons opened without ceremony. ■Sir 3?. Cunliffe-Lister, in answer to a question, said that Tor the quarter ended September 30, British imports from Russia totalled £7,600,000, compared Avith £6,100,000 for the same quarter of 1926. The exports to Russia over the same periods Avere £1,022,000 and £l,200,000; the re-exports £BOO,OOO and £2,200,000. . „ , Sir Austen Chamberlain informed a questioner that anti-British feeling m China Avas diminishing. British shipping Avas being experimentally used in the upper langtsze, and merchants were returning to Ichang, Ohmgsha, aud Cliiangking. The Government was considering Avliat steps to take to deal with the revival of the anti-British boycott at Canton. . The Rt. Hou. Stanley Baldiviu announced that the Bill enfranchising avomen at the age of 21 would not -be introduced before Christmas. Mr Baldwin told a questioner that the League of Nations’ preparatory commission on disarmament Avould meet on November 20, and the council of the League early in December. The latter would doubtless give effect to the Assembly ’s resolutions. Though the Soviet Avas participating in the disarmament commission he Avas not aware that it had made any statement as to the extent of its armaments Sir L. Worthington Evans said that he understood the Soviet had bought 50,000 tons of nitrate, presumably for munitions, also large quantities of leather, tanning material, lead, copper and tungsten, Avhich could be used for cither civil or military purposes. The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill admitted that the year’ended on October 31 had yielded in betting duty £2,766,000, which was only half of what had been expected.