BRITISH POLITICS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 17 December 1926, Page 6

BRITISH POLITICS.

(Per Press Association —Copyright) LONDON. December 15. Mr F. H. Rose. M.P., has issued an ultimatum to the Labour Party Executive demanding the expulsion of the Communist members of the Aberdeen Trades and Labour Council. He says: “You must expel either them or me,*’ and requests a definite answer before January 1. LONDON, December 15. Amazing; scenes were enacted at the Theatre Royal, in Smethwick, when Mr Owen Mosley and his wife Lady Cynthia, addressed an audience of three thousand Labour women, - in furtherance of Mr Mosley’s campaign in the Smethwick bye-election. The “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent says that six journalists were seated in a box taking notes, when suddenly someone shouted : “Throw that sneering pig out of the box.” Pandemonium instantly prevailed, the whole audience standing, yelling, and gesticulating. A number oi women left the circle and hammered on the box door, smashing the glass. Ihe situation was threatening when the “Daily Herald’s” representative stepped forward and temporarily pacified the angry females. Mr Mosley from the stage said the journalists were only carrying out the instructions of the Tory Press Jords in London. The speeches continued to be interrupted by cries to the journalists to “nut that down.” 'i t -• ’ LONDON, December 15. !l° s Speech at the prorogation or Parliament o ened by expressing pleasure in acceding to the wishes oi his Ministers in the Commonwealth of Australia that his son and daughter-in-law should visit Australia for the inauguration of the new Federal capital at Canberra. • They will extend the visit to New Zealand at the invitation of my Minisin that Dominion, and in the course of their journeys will b e able to see s'everc.l Colonies. The occasion of thus personally renewing the ties of affection uniting my family with the peoples . i/ d,fferen t parts> of the Empire will. 1 know, be as welcome to the Duke and Duchess of York to-day as it was to the Queen and myself over 25 years ago. “I rejoiced at the opportunitv of the recent meeting of the Imperial" Conference to welcome in London so many of my Ministers from the Dominions and the rephesentatives of the Empire oi report of the proceedings ot the Conference bears eloquent testimony to the spirit of goodwill and mutual understanding which marked the deliberations, and I am confident that its work will prove of lasting va ’” e , to . aII P?rts of my Empire. Ihe situation in China is being watched by my Government with the closest attention. Our country is animated by strong sympathy with the vast ma jority of the Chinese, who aspire for settled conditions and a new era ot prosperity and friendly relations with the Powers.”

The King alluded to the most protracted and most ruinous industrial conflict in the nation’s history, stating that his hope, expressed in the last bpeech. that the report of the Royal Commission would pave the way to a peaceful solution had not teen fulfilled tie said. . “It remains for us to unite in effacing bitter memories, and set our eyes steadfastly on the future, inspired hy a common impulse towards genuine fellowship. and a sustained endeavour, on which alone the prosperity and happines* m - v c an firmlv he based.” Speech mentions the continuance of the improvement of housing accommodation, a larger number of new houses having been completed than in any previous year. It a’ludes +o the passage cf the Electricity Rill a= an important step in the provision of. electrical energy throughout the country, and states that assent has been given to the measure to provide for the markin" of imported agricultural produce and manufactured goods, indicating tlm origin, to enable the purchasing rcihmnnity tn give preference to goods produced in this eountre -,nd other parts of the Fmnire. Mr Baldwin --aid that when Imrislat'on was introduced next session to effect a change in the King’s title. Parliament’s title would also be charged V ent of the United Kingdom of Great- Britain and Northern Ire. Jana. Asked if the same title would apply to the King as to Parliament. Mr Baldwin su'd be would not like to answer w-thont notice. A note of the tmi>er’d Conference recommended that the King .> tit'e should be changed to - b T srace of God of Great Britain Troland and the British Jyimimons beyond the seas. King IndFa’”' r ° f thO nn,;| Em P eror of