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(Received February 28, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, February V\ In the House of Commons, Mr Winfrey said that he did not propose to give tho Mmistec of Agriculture power to .declare agriculturists indispensable. Mr Hope said that a general exchange of all Avar prisoners was impracticable, a* Gei-mahy would get many times more than Britain. v " * \
Mr Bonar Law (said that owing to the unfairness of calling up British subjects m localities where there were large alien populatiions, Britain and .Russna had mutually agreed that subjects be given the option of enlisting locally or returning to their own country. , Mr Dillon protested, urging that political i*efugees ought to be allo-Wed to emigrate elsewhere. Lord Selborne, speaking at the Middlesex Guildhall, said it was preposterous that Sir C. Mathews' efforts should be thwarted 3 "by the Army Council Food Controller., 9-nd Director of National Service. It was a most dangerous policy that these departments should interfere with matters affecting food- production until the War Cabinet had leached a decision.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14234, 28 February 1917, Page 6
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