"FLOG REDS"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17175, 27 October 1926, Page 11

"FLOG REDS"

. WOMAN'S PROPOSAL ' BUT MEN~CA'-CANNY October 14. "I can't imagine, why we tolerate if," said Sir William Bull, M.P. for Hammersmith S., who moved a resolution at the Conservative Conference at Scarborough in favor of terminating the agreement with Russia, closing down the official Soviot agencies in Britain,'and repatriating the Russian representatives. Air. A. J. Cook, who recently returned from Russia, said that Britons there had only one meal a day. The Soviets were international blood-suck-ers, but they must not have , British blood. The resolution was carried unanimously. Brig.-General Sir Henry Page-Croft, M.P. for Bournemouth, who moved in favor of an extension of Imperial preference, contended that the Government was not giving effeet to its pledge to safeguard those industries which were suffering from foreign competition. This resolution was also unanimously agreed to.

The Conference further resolved to ask the Government to undertake all practical migration schemes, to increase the Imperial food supplies, and to improve Empire communications.

, Mrs Hobson tabled a resolution urging 'that strong measures be adopted for t repressing Beds, and that corporal punishment should bo applied in of victimisation and assault. Col. i\ S. Jackson urged the necessity for caution before there could be a general application of flogging, and the reference to punishment, was. deleted'when the resolution was adopted.