London, Mar. 31.
The Government was defeated in the House of Commons this afternoon, when a motion by the Premier, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, for the suspension of the eleven o'clock (night) rule was. defeated by 183 votes to 179.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Conservative member for Edgbaston, thereupon moved the adjournment: lof the House, but the motion was defeated by 185 votes to 175.
The Government defeat was not important. It was on a question of procedure only and not on a vital matter.
The only effect of the defeat is farther to delay Government business, which is already behindhand. The Government had desired spose of a number of matters to-night, but the House cannot now, sit after eleven o'clock.—Renter.
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