THE GOVERNMENT'S BILL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13979, 8 January 1916, Page 5

THE GOVERNMENT'S BILL.

FIRST READING CARRIED

HOSTILE MINORITY OF 105.

RESIGNATION OF LABOUR

MINISTERS

London, Jan. 6. The Compulsion Bill has been read a first time by 403 to 105.

Messrs. Henderson, president of the Board of Education, -G. H. Roberts, Junior Lord of the Treasury, and W. Brace, Under-Secretary for the Home Office, have resigned from the Cabinet.