BRITISH POLITICS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 February 1908, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

(Puss AgsoaAJios.— Comb ittn.) Lu- DON Tuesday. "" In tlie House of Commons, Lord Curzon's motion -relating to the Anglo^Ju»sian agreemont in Persia was withdrawn. * Baron Sanderson emphasised that it would be the first occasion upon which Eussia had reciprocated the desire for a settlement of the group of, Asiatic- questions '^Loii, Landsdowne took a similar inew^ He remarked that he, with some exceptions, viewed- the agree mentis a 'whole with satisfaction He did not think the conventions as regarded by were favourabe to Britain, as, the- neutral zone*- was like ly to be ©f~great advantage to Bus sia. The success of the convention depended on""Bussia's loyal interpre tation of it., Earl Grewe was glad that the. judgment of_she House, as a whole, was *avourablo.- He insisted that the details werer advantageous to both countries; antt would tend to theworlo's peace In the House of Commons -Mr Samuel Herbert's bill to protect *iu vemles and- juvenile offenders, and establish speoialcourts and places of detention fof *M(dren, to protect in fant life and to prevent *" luvemle smoking, Tras*read a fiißt time