The Archive · 1940

Allied Forces Bill Has Second Reading Extra-Territorial Rights For Allied Governments

London, Aug. 14.

The Allied Forces Bill. giving full extra-territorial status to services, courts and authorities of forces hi longing to Allied Governments in Great Britain, was read for the se end time in the House of Lords yes terday.

Sir Henry Page-Croft, Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State to the War Office, said provisions of the Bill were in many respects similar to those concerned with Dominion forces, which were being organised ady, providing for a very great addition to the strength of the British cause.

The House then adjourned.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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