EMBARGO BILL.

Wairarapa Age, 8 April 1933, Page 3

EMBARGO BILL.

SOLE PURPOSE OF MEASURE DEFINED. INTERVENTION ON BEHALF OF SUBJECTS IN PERIL. RUGBY, April 6. The remaining stages of the Government's Bill enabling it to prohibit by proclamation the importation of Russian goods into the United Kingdom were considered in the House of Commons to-day. The Labour Party had tabled a number of amendments, and interest was taken in the attitude which Sir Herbert Samuel and his Liberal followers would adopt in view of their abstention from voting on the second reading yesterday. When an amendment limiting the duration of the measure to one month was proposed, the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Runciman) refused on behalf of the Government to accept it. He proposed, however, a time limit of three months, with a proviso that the measure could be continued by means of Parliamentary resolution before the expiration of that period or until a further resolution praying for it to be revoked was passed by each House. Sir Herbert Samuel said that he was most grateful for Mr. Runciman's statement, and, if it had been made the previous day, the Liberals would have voted for the second reading. In reply to Sir Austen Chamberlain, Mr. Runciman gave an undertaking on behalf of the Goverment that it would] use the powers contained in the ! measure for no other purpose than to enable them to intervene effectively on behalf of the British subjects now in peril in Russia.—(British Official Wireless.