London, April 23.
'That the Labour Government] would still be in office and go to Ottawa for the next Imperial Conference was confidently asserted by the Secretary of State for the Dominions, Mr. J. H. Thomas, speaking at a luncheon' given to-day by} the Mond Nickel Company on the occasion of the opening of the extension of its Acton precious metals! refinery.
This extension will enable the refinery, which is the largest in the world, to satisfy three quarters of the world's demand for that _pre-cons metal, platinum, which will be refined from Canadian ore, he rebel armies now are fighting Government troops'within 100 miles the capital. Dra fave being taken in an effort to put down the rebeltion—United Press.
Tegucigalpa, Apr. 21.
As the rebels made sweeping gains in Honduras to-day the Government of President Vicente Mejia Colindres, in collaboration with of-at the American" Legation wranged to exert every effort to safeguard the capital against an attack.
A neutral zone has been charted bout Tegucigalpa and messengers Mr. Thomas declared that the! British Government was working hard with a single-minded desire that, when the Conference reassembled" in Ottawa, they should remember the possibilities and epportunities within the British ~Commonwealth, for these must not be Mr, Thomas ad@éd that one of the greatest factors in the solution of the world's problems must be a sane understanding " between sli English-speaking people, and in this he was certain America would, play a big part—Through Reuter.
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