Great Britain has resumed diplomatic relations with Liberia, the negro republic in West Africa, afler a lapse of five, years, After a long and heated debate, the French Senate on Dee. 18 passed, with a number of amendments, the Government's bill on compulsory arbitration of labour conics.
The urgent necessity of finding a satisfactory solution of the colonial problem is stressed by the political and. former Minister, Lord Noel Buxton, in a loiter to "The Times," In which he writes that it would be mistake to presume that the colonial question had been raised by the German Government only for reasons of political prestige The budget, which was described by the former Finance Minister, M. Paul Reynaud, as the largest in the history of France, was passed at on Dee. 18, after an all-night debate the Chamber of Deputies, The vote was 489 to 100, a number of opposition. deputies supporting the government. The budget provides for expenses amounting to Fr.48.200,000,000 and Feceipis of ¥r.4300.000 000, Leaving deficit of Fr4,500,000,000.
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