London, Dec. 3.
The Premier, in the House of Commons to-day, was asked when ther the Government intended to ive assistance in establishing national Opera in view of the fact that already £100,000 had been collected from 60,000 subscribers to the Imperial League of Opera, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, while expressing the warmest sympathy with the aims of the Opera League, wtted that he could not pro-it a grant from public funds. British Wireless through Reuter.
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