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Canberra, Apr. 28. 43,000,000 on defence works in LY the next three years and to marshal the whole man-power of Australia to see that these defence works are put through, were announced in the Australian Federal Parliament here last night. The Federal Treasurer, Mr. R. G. Casey, first introduced a Bill authorizing defence loans to the amount of £10,000,000.
He said that £4,000,000 of this would be raised immediately.
The Government, he went on, in" tended to place orders for defence capital works amounting to £5,250, 00, during the current year "and £7,750,000" next year. The total amount of money io be spent on defence works in the next three years would amount to £43.000,000.
'The Prime Minister, Mr. Joseph A. Lyons, then announced that he pro-Posed' to establish a committee re-Presenting the Army, Navy, Air Force, Employers and' Trade-Unions marshal the man-power and link up every national activity through out Australia.
The Government, he added, would closely check costs in the private manufacture of munitions and control profits.—Reuter, Philippine Dominion Status Endorsed Washington, Apr. 27.
Sr. Manuel Roxas, Filipino member of the Joint Committee Investigating Philippine Independence, today gave outright endorsement to the proposal for re-examination of the entire problem of Philippine independence and approved dominion status for the islands, "If it were possible," he said, "to govern ourselves within the framework of United States Famous R.A. Resigns Secu, 10 mae "e203
London, Apr, 25.
The famous Academician," Mr. Augustus E. John, resigned his! mem= bership of the Royal Academy today in consequence of its rejection portrait by Mr. Wyndham Lewis of the poet, T. S. Eliot, from this year's exhibition, "I think it an inept act on the part of the Academy," Mr. John said. "A picture by a person of Mr, Lewis's eminence should unquestionably be exhibited: nothing he paints negligible or to be' condemned Nightly."
Apparently the selection committee of the Academy took exception 10 the unconventional introduction behind the sitter of a light green screen with scrolls and figures, which ad intended to be symbolic of the fact that the sitter was a poet.
Mr, Wyndham Lewis said that, un~ ike some of his pictures, the portrait was a perfectly straightforward and conventional work.
The situation created by Mr, John's resignation, he added, would ead to radical reform in that "sinister Institution, which has been a millstone round the neck of English art for generations."
Mr, John is President of the Royal Cambrian Academy, a member of the New English Art Club and also of the Royal Society of Portrait Paint ers, He has been a Trustee of the} Tate Gallery since 1999, He is 0 years of age—Reuter.
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