BRITISH POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2032, 26 March 1913, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

MR ASQUITH'S SPJSECH COM-

MANDED

BY 31.E0T810 "'BLEGaAPH—GOPTBIGHT

PES PBESB ASSOCIATION, (Received March 26, 9.40 a.m.) London, March 25. Newspapers are gratified at Premier Asquith's statement, which, they state, showed Britain's unhampered freedom to range herself, as formerly, beside any threatened Power with a view to maintaining European equilibrium. The Westminster Gazette says Mr Asquith's statement is an. explicit as anything (could be. If war occurred between European Powers, the freedom of the British government and Parliament to decide to participate or otherwise was unimpaired.