IN BRITAIN TO-DAY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 11 August 1921, Page 5

IN BRITAIN TO-DAY.

OPPOSITION LEADER REBUKED. Per Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, August 9. Lord Robert Cecil, in the House of Commons, questioned the satisfactoriness of the British delegates to the League of Nations, belonging to the purely official class. He declared that the Government’s action showed profound contempt for the League. The Speaker condemned Lord Robert Cecil’s remarks. A LABOUR MEASURE. LONDON, August 10.

Tho Labour members of tho House of Commons have introduced the Illegitimacy Bill, proposing drastic amendments to the law, including the provisions that affiliation applications may be made before a child’s birth, a maximum weekly maintenance of £2, the father may be ordered to contribute towards apprenticeship and special education, maintenance may be ordered beyond the age of 16 if the child is physically or mentally deformed. In tho alternative the Court may order the payment of a lump sum, the child to be legitimatised by the subsequent marriage of the parents.

MAGNA CHARTA FIELD. London, yesterday

After a vigorous press campaign against the Government decision to auction Runnymeade Meadows on which King John and the barons camped prior to the signature of the Magna Charta, Lord Boscawen, re-

plying to a question in the House of Commons, announced he was taking action to prevent the sale.