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Europe, buill upon due regard for Great Rritzin’s economie rights and nacesaities. We are paying eur debts. We thught and sacrific-d: Yet wea are suffering more than the countries we defended aod res- cued. The limits have ‘been reached, the price that Graat Britain can a{loed to pay. There are glimmerings of hope from the American participation in there- paration question. Amorican co-operation is not merely welcome, it is essential’. During the spce kb Mr Ciynes gave fur- ther inklings of Labour's intent 01s. Re- ferring to the deminion trade, he said Mr. Rmsay acsona'd. who as head of the Pacliam®niacy Libonr Party is the nros- bective Pritne Minister, had given assur- ances that so far as pledges had bevn made they would be ecarried out, aud the houss would be given fall opportunity to decide on a number of important Issues raised. Mr. Clynes own view was the dominion trode showed substaotiii op- portuniiics and prospects for imvrove- ment. He also emphasizad the necessity ol daveloning the European markeis and of immigratiwn, he said, ‘‘we must seri- ousiy consider the problem es voluatary transference of population on ugreel terms for mutnal benefit. [am satisfied that if these avreed terms can be reach- ed, it wiil be better for labour in this country’’. ‘l'o stimulate the dominion trade without alterinz Great Britain’s fizcal poliey. e declared, offered aven- u-s which ought to be explored by con- ferences nn broader non-party ii:es than had taken place previously. Chrisuania, Jan. 17th.—Airplanes are carrying supplies to fifty ships that e now wedged in the ice in the Caltegat and off the Danish Coagt. The air crest dropped sacks of food and other stores near the imprizoned vessels, London, Jan. 17th. My, Asquith, in sumtoarizing the position of himse!f ai d the Liberal Party, couniended that tie Labourites were the natural inheritors of the power when the Baldwin Govern- iment was defeated, and that 1t was the duty of every patriotic mangor woman (0 do his or her best, without sacrficing principles or honour, to faciiitare La- bour’s task. Ina house constituted like the present Commons, it was wroag so talk of the imminent danzer of a Social- istie regimee. The Labouiies possessod no free license to do as they like. Uhey were nct their own masters, but like Ihe other parties in the House were lLmited * by Parliamentary conditions. Mr. As- guith was emphatic in peinting out that the Liberal Party was deepiy ana sin- cercly pledged to give no countesance to Soeialistie experiments. Sir Wilham Joynson-Hieks, President of rhe Lhinis- try of Health, who followed Mr As- quith, madea most effectivé onsliught agaipst the Liberals for helping the La- bourites into power. He was smphatic in declaring that there had been nc offi- cial overtures frem the Cobnservative Party to the Liberals for any iusion £ OLz % N o axainst Libour. After generaliy de- fending the policy ol the Baldwin Gov- ernm 'not, he proceeded to read from 2o a number of addresses made by promin- ent Liberal cai?idntes in the recent elec- tions, statemelts denouncing the Labour- ‘tes Socialist programme as disastrous for the country. Then pointing to the benches where Mr. Asquith, Mr. Lloyd George and other Liberal leaders sat, he exelaimed. “*What are vou going to do abaur it, are yoa going so put into prwer the very parfy whoi? programmnz vl thus denounced?’’ this evoked hoisterous oleers from tha Gonservauve Heaocizs, Sir William then rapp:ll out ''['m ashamed of tho Sociaiist Party for tak- iteg office oniv by the heip of man hold- ing such views of their prlicy”’. He pre- dicted that while the Liberas wouald do [.abeur no gzood oy their action, thay would effeciual'v prevert the Liberals from taking otlies for anoiher huandred vears. The Consarvatives were so de- lichted with Sir Willianfs performance that as the members troojel oui for the tea interval many of them maie a poiat of stopping to shake his hand and con- gratulate him on hs brilliant eilrt. As the evening progressed, the debate became exc:edingly fively, vir. Mosley, an Indeperdent, whois tae Son-in law ot Viarquis Curzon, and bas been reported as hikely to take office in the Labour Government, made a slashing aitiek on the Goveramen, charzing the Ministers wi h bavinz lavisbed money on wild.at scheme all around the World and with having economiz:d on health, eduecation and soeial reform to nay for rhese adventures of remitting taxuation on the rich and sgaeezing the noov, of pursuing ‘‘'a foreign paiiey of driti, followed by drivel and sanctimon - ous sermons.”’ Viscount Cairzra ( Jan- tain Fraoecis R. Curzoa. toilow~d wi h an equally violent attack on th: La- hour Party, which he Jaccused of shelteriney Communis n. Bowa sp2eh 8 evoked strong execlamations. That not 01l the Liberals are satistied with the prospect of assisting Labouv into office was :een when Major General Seely ar- gued tnat the reai qu=stion was not whether the Socialist Party sheuld ac- cede to power, but whether the pre- sent government, commiited 10 a pro- teesionist policy, retained the couofi- derce of the House, He advocated cailirg a conference of the leaders of (Le three parties together with a high judicial representative to examine and report on the best mcans of se- curing a stable government. It is kndbwn that some few Liberals wili refuse to suppori the C ynes amendment, but the general Leliei is that the amend- ment will be carried bya majority of about 70. Mr Frank llodges >ecretary of the Miners Uuion, devoted himself lin his maiden =peecn solely to an exposi- tion of the Trade Uniona side of labour poil- ey aad better arganization of the pations produetive capacity. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York listened to the debate. Large porticns of Mr. Ch nes ipdicunent pa-sed without a sing: labour cheer, The party gave the firer sign of life when aroused to generdl cheers by Clynes references to the Dom- inions. He emphasized the necessity of not neglecting European wmarkets, but said when the best possible had been done with ureat Britain’s nearer neigh- bours, he agreed that some sense of special duty remained in relation te the Domintons, and he thought there were cubstantial opportunities, The question tor the House was, however, how could Great Britain stimutate dowminion (rade without imposing additional raxes and without upsetting the foundations o! her own fiscal system. Enguiry must be made as te whether there were aay ai- ternatives. He believed there were. They had been told by Premicr Bruce ol Astrabia, if uow by another, that impro- ved trade relations with the Do minions did not necessarily involve departure from Great Britain’s fiscal gystem. We might find that trans- port facilities and Improvements is one line of poliey we could pursue, and perhaps ihere might be great and sub stantial encouragement to our dominion fellow- workers in revealing byinquiry, or other means, the facis as to whbere wont the enormous differcnce betweern what the dominion producer of food got for his labour anl whut the consumer here paid for it. Such avenues of ex ploration ought to rle2eive vdurely non- party and disinterested a'tention.”” My Llovd George expressed delight with Mr. Clyne’s speech about Empire devel- opmwent ard emizcatiean. Tre lmperi- al Conference had made it periecily e ear that whatever schemes of tinan- cial coopera ion were offered o the Dominions, it mig: t. be that the !lai ter coud rot act wwercon unless they saw the way for markets 1n- Great RBritain. Sir Phlip Loyd-Greim, Pre sident of the Board o lraae, asked wiial would be the etlect 0 rejecting the pre- ference propued at the recent confererce or the far greaicr preferences at preser given Great Britain by the Dominions. He poinied vut it at in 1922 the viine of the rebates of duty by the Dominion to Great Britain excecd: d 11,500,000 pounds, General Smuts and Mr. bruce had war ed Great Britain in most proper terms es commercial advances made by other Gov- er.ments, which they hitherto refused. He commended the conierence proposals on the double ground of good business a~d ecommon sentiment. ‘lne debate was weund up by Sir Phillip Lord-Gren, who, alluding to the dangers of the So- cialist programue of the Labouriies, ex- pressed the belief that in the suceceding division an increasing number of Liber- als would refuse to enter acoon under the Red Iflag, or sail under the Jolly Ro- ger of he ! abuur Party.