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PRIMARY INTERESTS. COLONIES WOULD WORK OUT THEIR OWN DESTINY.* (ni TELfiGKArU —rRESS ASSOCIATION—COI'I'HI 3 iIT.) (Rec. August 17, 10.15 p.m.) London, August 17. Mr. Churchill, President of tho Board of Trade, speaking, at Swansea, strongly deprecated ail attempt wliiell was being made by somo pcoplo in Britain to spread tho belief tlint war between Britain and Germany was inevitable. It was all nonsense. Britain, ho said, was an island, and no Government which was likely to bo in power would depart in any degreo from tho naval policy of securing the British Isles effectively from outside invasion. Secondly, there was no collision of primary interests between Britain and Germany in any quarter of the globe. Germany was among our very best customers. Regarding. tho apprehension that somo British colonies were seizable, nothing would alter the destiny of great communities like Canada, Australia, South Africa, India. The colonies' wore pursuing their own path and their own destiny, which would not be altered in tho future as the result of any strugglo in Europe. After ridiculing tho idea of two great countries fighting for what remained— namely, tropical, plantations and small, scattered coaling stations—tho Minister concluded by urging Homo Rulo for Ireland as a great act of State-craft. ■

MR. LLOYD-CEORCE. . UPHOLDS THE TWO-POWER , . STANDARD, BUT— (Rec. August 17, 11.2 p.m.) • London, August 17. Euriher details aro to hand of the interview with the Chancellor of tho Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd-George) at Karlsbad, "in which he is stated to have advocated an AngloGerman entente. The later details show that Mr. LloydGeorge uphold tho two-Power standard in the interest of Britain's defence, liut pointed to tho formidable difficulties which had been settled in our relations with France and Russia as suggesting the possibility of an understanding, with Germany in tho /direction of" limiting tho future building of new ships and arranging tho proportion of ships for each country.