IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15447, 16 February 1921, Page 6

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(Received February 16, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 15. Mr. Clynes, on behalf of the Labor Partv, louged an amendment to the address, regretting the King's speech did not recognise the right of genuine unemployed to work or adequate maintenance. Following the mover and seconder of the address, Mr. Asquith ex]/Vessed satisfaction that the legislation foreshodowed covered a comparatively small area compared with the speeches in recent years. He welcomed the meeting of Allied Premiers and representatives of Germany and Turkey in London and desired to know the scope and purpose of the conference.—A. and N.Z.C.A. (Received February 16, 2.55 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 15. In the House of Commons, Mr. Thomas raised the question of the Mallow shooting. He detailed the results of inquiries by a trade union delegate, showing that "the Crown forces were highly blameworthy. The recital was punctuated with cries of "Shame!" from Laborites. Mr. Lloyd George, replying to Mr. Asquith, said that the discussion .of new arrangements" under the peace treaty would be very undesirable before the pending conference, which Germany attends. He did not consider the proposals agreed 1.0 were departures from the Versailles treaty. The Government proposed to table Lord Milner's report on the Middle East, but was unprepared to say to -what extent it would adopt the report before discussion with "representatives of the dominions. Sir G. Strickland's report satisfied the Government that there had been acts of indiscipline on the part of uniformed forces, but they were unable to locate these persons. He promised an investigation of the Mallow shooting.—A. and N.Z.C.A.