... with proportional representation . ' Mr BURDETT-COUTTS ( U ., Westminster ) moved that tho Honso should disagree with the Lords' amendment . Ho , and those who were acting with him , wero so strongly opposed to proportional representation that . thoy could ...

... yesterday stated that . Trotsky had signed a decree appointing Citizen Litvinoff-Provisional Plenipotentiary iu London of tho People's Commissariat for Foreign Affaire . All members of the Embassy and of the Military Mission , and generally all tie oScials ...

... Thomas , which gavo no promise of long life . It was remarkable in that , though a drama in four acts , it was played by two people only . In the first act Missi Frances Ivorwas a British mother saying goodbye to her soldier son , Ifr H . Brough Robertson ...

... enclosing draft , rules for tho regulation of : elections in the combined Scottish Universities constitnency under tho Representation ' of the People Bill was remitted to a . committee , with powers to forward any comments or suggestions directly to ; the Secretary ...

... w . quld otherwiso produce inconvouienco and hardship . He did not think it was fair to ask those country people , as distinct from tho . people in tho towns , to save sugar out of thoir small ration . Ho hoped tho Food Controller would bo able to givo ...

... Back at a ouarter-past four o ' clock .- • j : , ' ;• ; KJEFORM BllxL . On the motion to go into Committee on the Representation of the People Bill , : Lord 'WEARDALE ( L . ) moved , that whereas 'it was ^ an established understanding between political parties ...

... REFORM BILL CONSCIENTIOUS . OBJECTORS . The Representation of the People Bill was further considered in Committee . On Clause 8 , which disqualifies conscientious objectors , Lord BOCK-MASTER ( L . ) withdrew his amendment , the discussion of which was ...

... and Mr Lowther had to act as arbitrator . Except in regard to University representation , the points at issue were of merely local interest . According to tho Nationalists their delegates offered to accept proportional representation for Dublin and Belfast ...

... After describing the various education measures preceding the present Bill , he observed that the working of the existing Act had demonstrated the expediency of having only one ultimate . authority for all forms of education within a . givcn enlarged ...

... n with tlio Council of tlio People ' s Commissioners , which wa 3 the Government of Russia , said wo lintl not- recognised tho Administration at Petrogrttd as being rip jacto or dc jure the Government of the Russian people , ' but we carried on necessary ...

... of the leaflet , which contained a gross misrepresentation of the attituda of the British Government towards the Russian people —( cheers)—and incitements calculated to tend to civil etrife and the defeat of our arms is a clear breach of tho regulations ...

... shipbuilding and engineering firm of Messrs D &W . Henderson , Moadowsidc , Pariick . Sinco tho outbreak of tho war ho has acted on'several Government Departmental Committees . Sir Robert Stevenson Horne , K . C ., has been honoured for his war sorviees ...