LINKS OF EMPIRE.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17609, 11 November 1922, Page 11

LINKS OF EMPIRE.

JB MASSErS VIEWS. DEVELOPMENT OF IMPERIAL COUNCIL. "THE PRESS."' KB!PLYMOUTH, November 10. "lkp»*!urt the war clouds will roll (Hf" ■>* *l* P" me Minister to a nUumrfiwDneits men at New Plyj^jj,gj« # "Hey do not look,bright ttanaat'tttW '°°k a g°°d'.deal imti&Mti** the y did a mouth in. I ml*"rt a' l sanguine about jo, £Juß»cf' iwding trouble altogether in tie XtU%st. I believe that «kn « tire tmile next we will bo tfafc and «r proper course in the gffnjimn it to be firm and strong, too* from experience that wo m ererfe in army quickly uhen it is Mnrtd, bat ve cannot cteate a navy ««jj. We must have the means of tmj defence. The New Zealand Gov* aunt itiuds by the Washington Il feat**, which I believe will keep the ffaea in the Pacific for some time to hjM. Xhow treaties limit i,he nunibei U aattleibjps but they, do not place m limitation on the construction of Krily arnoored tight bruisers, and fee are the vessels that we needed Mm in the last war for tile defence of ,and f v aecide ■wthey are gojng 4J»noe. We know that tfiEe time,ever inei when we as a natiph are unable mjjfead our trade routes fhe x Empire Wit wracked. Lite mpxtif been absolutely right in the IW'tbey hare taken with tegard to Afeedom of the Dardanelles. We jjjjfwtad them in that atarid, and we pf fa called upon to do it again at IBf-aborttttotipe: have sea j a nation. We ' weeks ago. We 1 spoke at some aquation of the 'the Domirii6ne J,been accepted deed of leen completed, red to be done, ggest that an inired. He in- > the view thai rould be a mis;that the creaposition. The troi/tbiir own care to receive liament sitting ona'had providgement' for the anoil could not «se. We must arirjnd, and it gfrrthedeteW Prime Min2 nd Australia ateamships. There BSwlSfrj& d,B <S ° fP ? h « wili e oonvey H^&wST■wanS 18p and that theTthe aS»db™h mon of the Em ' ■H|^fr^ggave conaeqnences. BB|^pshon]d P, 7? * at the