In the House of Commons to-day, replying to Mr. Ponsonby (Labour) Mr, Austen Chamberlain said thi the invitations to Mr. Bertrand Russell and Mr. Lowes Dickinson by the late Government the prospective committee on the expenditure of the Boxer Indemnity had been cancelled beau consideration of the matter si that the composition of the committee, which it was important to keep numerically small, was insufficiently representative and did not include a member with practical experience of educational organization in China.
Mr. Ponsonby asserted that both gentlemen were quite qualified, bu: had been excluded because they. were associated with the Labour:
Party (Labour cheers).
The Foreign Secretary said that he was not anxious to discuss their qualifications unless Mr. Ponsonby forced him to do so—Reuter.
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