Foreign News: Off the Carpet

Colonel Sir Albert Lambert Ward is a Conservative M. P., a War hero, an expert rifle shot, and a onetime Parliamentary Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty and to the Secretary of State for War. A careless step of his last week took the House of Commons back hundreds of years.

From the front Government bench soldierly Sir Lambert Ward had hoisted himself up to plead the Government's case on a bill. In excitement he moved farther & farther out toward the centre of the hall. Suddenly came hoots of laughter and great cries of "Order! Order!" Sir...

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