The Archive · 1910

The Rejection of the Budget

AN ESTIMATE OF THE Loss

London vii Be, March 9.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd-George, stated in the House of Commons that the estimated loss owing to the rejection of the Budget was £28,500,000. It was impossible to say how much of this was recoverable.—Reuter.

London vid, March.8.

An amendment introduced by Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Labour Member- for Leicester, insisting upon a fair waged clause in army contracts caused a flatter of excite-

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