LORD BERESFORD'S VIEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 304, 28 June 1909, Page 5

LORD BERESFORD 'S VIEWS.

ASSISTANCE OF THE COLONIES jREQUIBJEfft. (Received this day, 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, yesterday. In closing the sitting of the Conference, Lord Beresford dealt with ihe problem lioav help should be given. Lord Beresford added: "Don't let us be in too great a liurry. JJon't let us be too long. Defence should be of the kind that it is instantly able to be turned into ■ attack. Standardisation Avas all important, whereby temporary exchanges of officers, men, and ships should be possible throughout the Empire. The weakest part in the present system is the .defence of the trade routes. The* '"colonies might

undertake overseas requiring stations, which owing to some mad infatuation had been abandoned after largo sums had been spent. Tho colonies must act in war time under a great strategical bureau, which woxtld be at the Admiralty, but which was not there now. The Empire had much leeway to make up owing to deferred liabilities, but it was possible, if the question was regarded from an imperial and National standpoint, to make it free from taint of party, which the peoples of the nation would l&ftthe and detest. If the Empire' was 1 properly prepared, there would be no Avar."