IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 290, 11 June 1909, Page 2

IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.

1 Press Assn — By telegraph — Copyright. LONDON, yesterday. Mr Balfour, presiding over a sitting of tlie Conference, delivered a remarkable speech, in which he endowed Lord Rosebery's views, adding that if an Armageddon occurred it would not be in the remote parts of the Empire, but the battle would be j fought in European waters. . Mr Haldane agreed with Mr Balfour 'and Lord Rosebury, and advocated his scheme for a general staff in touch with the staffs of the colonies. Mr G. Fenwick,_of the Otago Daily Times, Mr E. S. Cunningham, of the Melbourne Argus, and Lord Roberts also spoke. The Hon. Theodore Fink, of Melbourne, proposed a resolution urging universal training. • _ ■ j Mr Mark Cohen, of the Dunedin Star, urged thai Lord Roberts h& ( sent as a missionary throughout the ( Empire. The Conference disapproved of adopting any resolution, and the motion was therefore withdrawn.