London, Oct. 7, Heated scenes were witnessed at the Labour Party Conference _at Bournemouth to-day, when the Bxecutive submitted, for endorsement, a report on international policy and defence embodying support of Britain' rearmament programme as adopted at the last Trades Union Despite strong objection advanced by the former Opposition leader, Mr. George Lansbury, to whose por Sonal sincerity in the cause of pacltism the delegates paid a generous tribute of applause, the Conference, by an overwhelming majority, ae: cepted the report. The division showed that 2,169,000 votes were cast for the report and only 262,000 sonny and one or two other speaker' but what proved to be the mind of the party was voiced by Mr, J. Re Clynes, former Home Secretary, 'The report, he said, meant that the next Labour' Government, given the present state of the world, would have to be strongly equipped to defend the country, That was in the interest of the Working classes and the nation asa whole, They could not stand idly by until an actual attack took place. They could not safely conclude there was no risk of a Fascist state attacking democratic Britain, Before voting on the report, the Conference refused, by a similar majority, to instruct the Parliamon tary Party to vote against the Defence estimates.
Prof. Chang Peng-chung, of Nankai University, described the scenes of Aghting in Tientsin, China, he said, was to-day Mghting as a united nation. Her resistance had proved unexpectedly strong and would sure-continue, Mr. George Dallas, Chairman of the National Labour Party Committee on Ageicultural and Rural Problems, was elected Chairman of the Na: tional Executive of the Labour Party ju succession to Mr. Hugh Dalton, Mrs. Barbara Ayrton Gould was elected Vice-Chairman—Reuter,
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