SIR GEORGE REID.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 66, 19 March 1910, Page 5

SIR GEORGE REID.

THE COLONIES AND THE EMPIRE. , Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 18. At the Anglo-Saxons' Club dinner, Sir Gilbert Parker presiding, Sir George Reid, responding to the toast of the "Club's Guests," said that whatever the terms controlling the relations of the Australian Navy, or the navies of the other Dominions to the British Navy, tlieir ships must be ready to find, themselves as near the Empire's future Trafalgar as possible. He knew that was where Australia's ships would be, and he had 110 fear for Britain while the people shoAved their ancestors' attributes. He added it Avas unwise to depend upon a branch of the Anglo-Saxon race, not in tlie Empire or a Home or a friend Avith whom Ave had not an understanding, or Avith Avhoin our understandings were not very good. Such things should be cultivated, but we wanted something behind tliem. He did not know what such an understanding Avould be AVOrth, considering that even a treaty Avas worth little or nothing in an emergency. Struggles betAveen nations in one form or another were inevitable, but there A\-as greater danger to us perhaps in the laboratories of foreign countries than in their dockyards.