IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13653, 23 July 1908, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

ARMY EXPENDH'URE.

Press Associatiori-By Talegrapli-CopvTight LONDON, July* 21.

- The Earl of Crewe, speaking in the House of Lords, staled that no further reductions in the Army were contemplated. The Government wore making an enojiiry into the general' expenditure, bub it thus not confined to any one department. THE LICENSING BILL. TUMULT IN THE HOUSE. LONDON, July;2l.. The. House of Commons -spent"'' an allnight sitting over the first clause of the Licensing Bill, providing for.the'statutory limitation of licenses,- without making progress. There was much heated! discussion, and a sharp passage at arms between Mr Asquith and Mr Austen Chamberlain, the latber declaring that, the Premier was discourteous in suggesting'.-that he had not read the Bill.

Lord Hugh Cecil and others, intervened, and the chairman Anally stopped the" fcii: mult, narrowly -.averting' a scene. GRAVE CRISIS ENDED. ' Received 9.36 p.m., July 22nd. . LONDON,'JuIy 22. Tha " Daily Express " states that the Cabinet crisis which threatened -the resignations of four members, with-'perhaps the entire Army Council, has ended in the defeat of the section which was, desirous of reducing the Army-to the,barest "pi-oporf--ions. . Mr Haldane's supporters gained a narrow victory;•• < --<- ; - '