EMPIRE STRENGTH.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 2631, 5 August 1908, Page 7

EMPIRE STRENGTH.

IMPERIAL COUNCIL. MR. LONG ON GERMANY'S POLICY. (BT TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COFTRIGHT ) (Rec. August 4, 9.45 p.m.) London, August 4. Speaking at Huntingdon, Mr. W. H. Long, a former Unionist! Minister, insisted that "wo would be ton times as. strong as we aro now if a Council of the Empire sat in London."

.•Ho added, that, without assuming that Germany was. strengthening her military and naval forces in order to injure Britain, it was only natural that, if "other groat nations allowed their possessions to pas's from them, Germany should attempt to tako them. WAR FOR "A LITTLE COLONY." . According to a statement in the Manchester the Kaiser, in conversation with "a diplomatist of European reputation,", recently declared:— "We do notwant'to take anything from England; and England cannot take or even wish to tako anything from us. England and Germany have, therefore, 1 every reason to hold togethor and to help "each other as long as tho vital interests of • the .nations do not force the Governments into controversy. What difficulty could possibly arise between England and Germany which 'would be' incapable of a friendly and amicable settlement? Besides our blood relation to England we have every interest to see England strong and powerful; Wo would .feel ourselves very soon any weakening of England. A German statesman who would go to war with England for the sake of getting porliap's a little colony front Great Britain— and that would bo all we would expect oven after a victorious War—would not deserve his place at the helm of the Empire. ■ "No, no!" repeated His Majesty with great force; "we want nothing of. this sort; all we want is peace, and, hgain peace, to. develop our commerce, our industry, and our .national culture!" - 1 1 ■