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I HOME AND FOREIGN. • Bf Electric Telegraph-Copyright 1 f«r press Association. - Received April 11, at 9.35 p.m. ' London, Avrdt 11. 1 'Replying • to. Mr Parker, Mr Harcourt said -no; salaries would be ■ paid the British Trade Commission--1 wb, .but their expenses and subslst- > ence allowance would Ue paid when [ abroad. j Mr Parker gaVo notice to move at I the earliest opportunity calling at- | tentton to the composition of the I Commission. J The Chronicle ' prints j, pago of , opinions from overseas politicians [ and editors in favor of Home flule, ; including Sir J. G. Kndlay. ! Received April 11, at 10.15 p.m. London, April 11, In the House of Commons on the Army Annual Bill Mr Keir Hardie moved an amendment that recruits . should have the right under con- . tract to refuse to asskt the civil Power during a trade dispute, He j stated that many youths were not L enlisting (because they might have to fire on relatives or comrades. Colonel Seely Bald it was cruel and .bad to make soldiers believe they were engaged to eho 0 t strikers. The amendment was rejected by 168 to 23, Mr Ohizza moved a motion demanding the public control of coal mines and the establishment of " a Power commission, but the House was counted out. Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux succeeds Admiral .Sir Arthur Moore at Portsmouth ; Admiral Sir Archibald Milne succeeds Admiral Sir Edward Poe' in the Mediterranean; RearAdmlrai Williams as Adviser to Turkey. Received April 11, at 11.20 p.m. London, April 11. Captain Daws, at Aldershot, wirelessed feeveral mileß from an aero Plane. Marconi is introducing a new apparatus enabling aviators to Bend and receive messages with a radius ni a hundred miles. The Times declares that the British army in Egypt is dangerously low, especially in view" of the posBiMlities of the Turks and Italians at war, and suggests that w£enth 0 troops are withdrawn from South Africa they he sent to Egjpt, Which 1b an incomparable training ground as to health and inexpenslveness. The British and Australasian Trust pays a dividend of 5 per cent, and a bonus of 2, per cent. The Bishop of Oxford states that wages can no longer settle themselves by law, but .by the law ol supply and demand. The propel basis for a reconstruction of so. clety is on the principle that adequate payment to the laborer should be a first charge upon industry. A permanent standard wage will doubtless entail a standard of efficiency. Mr Tom Mann, speaking at Wtdts. bury, said, Parliament must .be des troyed. I am going to; rebel against society. The Daily Mail's Berlin correspondent states that the Trtplice in 191-4 will he arranged, despite Germany's outspoken, sympathy far Turkey, Brusscds, April 11, Manibach, the chief official at AlberWlle, In the Congo, has been sentenced to ten years- servitude fof 1 punisfrtog attacks upon messengers during military operations b'y order i ing the execution of eleven' natives, f including faur women and a cLII-d. P