GUARDING THE PACIFIC

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 125, 27 May 1914, Page 5

GUARDING THE PACIFIC

AND THE ANGLO-JAP ALLIANCE AUSTRALIA'S POSITION. BRITAIN'S WAY OF' ; MUDDLING THROUGH. , (Br Cable.—rreii —CopvriS'Jt.) LOKDOX. May 26. At the Empire Day dinner yesterday t-hp chairman. Princp Arthur of <'©nniVUpiit. sjid that whether Imperia.l unity pro<-cc<lc-d on the line= of trade preference o r -on common duties -.iud biliticri, some day the Empire would not only bo i=pla_-,he? of red a.;ros«s thi> ma.p of the world. Inn a real union of hearts, brains, and common interrst.-. intont on solving qu«?tious thr d>*tinio? of th<» Einpiro. Prinro Alexander «f Teck re,-al!(J the rntliueiasnj and loyalty to the Crown shown by the trip uf George, tht-n Duke cvf York, nn the Ophir. Sir .lohji Madden rrepondej to the toa.-t of "The Dominions.' , and iletailed the Australian view o; the I'.u'ifiv problem. Australia \\a> not dinpospd to aivppt tile British liovprnravnt'H dictum tha.r the Pacific was cafe boc:iuHe -lap.m w,.ulil look ufier Lhe Pacific. Australia's trouble »ai that Jap-an liH»k .it'.er the Pacific a jrrent deal too well. "Australia recalls that the man up tho :r.v who is ?:i[c from the Lull, and .-.in iri\.< L'Oo,l advice, but the man in the rivl.l takes another view. Australia i~ anxioiii- that the Pacific .-houM bo fully guarded." r»ir <;. Rei.l proposed the toast of "Tmperial Defence." He ?ji.l that love of pi-.ne had recenth- became ;!ie lliuhest cvidemv of our national rei-|><vtal>;lity. In previous warn Britain had relivd on J'roridftnee whilehhre r oneinit* had licked u> into shape. Next time let Providence have a rest. Australia is n «t ayirre-s-iw. liu-t ha.-- f.ubrnitteil to compulsory se.rwce. and it- spendin" millions on a rcivy. Mr li. Reid. riT-pondini; f'>r the Overseas Dominions at tliv fliviWM < lub dinner, said '-luit if people really wanted to St>'» loyalty at a <rrad<> of the therniometer, ihov h.id to go \o the Dominion*. Mr. Mackenzie declared thut Xew Zralanti was more loyal than Australia, and had always set the latter an cianrplo.