A debate of five days' duration in the House of Comfnons terminated to-day by the rejection by 123 votes to 120 of a vote of non-confidence moved by Mr, Meighen, leader of the Opposition.
Loud cheers marked relief from the tension existing owing to the uncertainty of the result. coupled with the fact that an adverse vote would have immeasurably upset the political situation, Tu a last-moment speech a Mi ter, Mr. Boivin, declared that the Government did not regard the defeat of the amendment asa general approval of the Government's record of four years. He promised that the Government would resign if any future legislation was disapproved. Meanwhile only the practical course was to ay a new
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