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Show uu BURMESE PEOPLE WANT HOME RULE LONDON. July 24. Home rule for Burma has been taken up bv the house of commons. The subject was expounded by Earl Wlnterton. who t-ald that the proposed Burmese constitution con-stitution provided a council of state and a legislative assembly, and went evt n further than was ontempiated in India. In India no woman had a vote, the speaker said, but In Burma under the proposed constitution there would be no sex disqualification the reason helm,' he-lm,' that Burmese women were far more advanced than their Indian sisters. sis-ters. All the heads of Burmese! households would b virtually eu-j frunchlsed The total electorate. Ur-' ban and rural would be 3 000 000 of whom 200.000 would be women. The principle that there should be no tax-J atlon without representation the principle for which the American colonies col-onies f(, ught and won their independ-enci independ-enci would be conceded to Burma without u struggle. |