London, Feb. 27.
The agenda of the House of Commons was increased by several imtportant motions today.
The Labour Member for East Edinburgh, Mr, F. W. Pethick Lawrence, and the Liberal leader, Sir Archbald Sinclair, tabled a motion advocating ibe dispatch to France, in case of war, of a British Expeditionary Corps and suggesting that plans to that end should be prepared beforehand.
On behalf of the Government, Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, moved for the second reading of the Defence Loans Bill, providing an increase in borrowing powers, Mr. Pethick Lawrence tabled a motion, sponsored by his Party, which admits the necessity of an unprecedented rearmament but re-grots that no preliminary efforts in that direction have been previously made.—Havas.
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