The Archive · 1911

Speech by the Chancellor

London, Nor. 28

Mr. Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has addressed a deputation of servants on the insurance tax as proposed in the Tnsurance Bill. He dwelt on the benefits and the various forms which they might take, and pointed out that all parties in the House of Commons supported the inclusion of servants in the Bill. Bat if there was a desire on the part of the vast majority of servants to be excluded, the House of Commons would listen to it.—Renter.

London, Nov. 30.

'Telegrams from Lisbon state that the trial of numerous Monarchist conspirators against the Republic has begun. Jouquin Almeida has been sentenced to six years' solitary confinement to ibe followed by ten years' deportation—Reuter.

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