BRITISH POLITICS.
[tJmiBD Psess Association ; IHS IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. LONDON, Thursday.' .In the House of Commons, during the discussion on the crmy estimates MrH-Fownes-Luttrell (Liberal) moved -to reduce the regular army personnef of 185,000 by. .10,000, but the closure was carried by 185 to 41, and the army "vote was agreed to. In reference to_ the Kaiser's ■ lettar the Trade Unionists . Commoners have protested against the' malicious attempt of 'a section of the press and other mis■- • *chievions busybodies, to create illfeeling between the people of Germany and Britain, and have rendered their fellow-workmen in Germany an assur-" ance of the most fraternal goodwill. to their nation. . v In the House of Commons, Me Birrell_, Chief Secretary for .Ireland, in replying to Mr-vWilliam Redmond, protested against; a.', particularly cruel and offensive statement, published in a London newspaper, regarding the Dublin Crown jewels robbery. He added that no grave "criminal scandal had been discovered, and nobedy had been sheltered- from prosecution.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, 13 March 1908, Page 3
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