IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 99, 20 April 1914, Page 2

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

MUZZLING THE MINISTERS'. ; By Electric telkgrapk —Copyright' Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, April 17. In the House of Commons, Major White, Unionist member tor Southport, asked whether, with a view of securing the absence of political atmosphere in the Army and Navy, Mr Asquith will agree that those Ministers holding the position of First Lord of rLe Admiralty and Secretary of State for War will abstain from partisan speech-making. Mr Asquith: “I hardly think this a practicable suggestion, but 1 don’t mind it myself.” VIVISECTION OF DOCS. By Electric Telegraph—Copyrightl London, April 18. A Bill prohibiting vivi-sectional experiments on dogs was read a second time in the House ol Commons. Sir John Larmor and Mr .1. F. P. Rawlinson (Cambridge University), Sir H. Craik (Glasgow and Aberdeen University), and Hr. W. A. Chappie opposed the Bill in the interests oi science. Mr Ellis Griffith emphatically denied that there was any cruelty in the laboratories, and loresbadowed an amendment in committee permit! mu vivisection of the dog under anaesthetics if a certificate were produced.