EMPIRE SACRIFICES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 514, 22 May 1909, Page 5

EMPIRE SACRIFICES.

SEEECOY LORD GREY. CAWfIDA ANd AUSTRALASIA. ATTITODE TO-IMPERIAL DEFENCE. , (BiraiEaSApn— prsss association—corTuicnx.) HRco. May 21, 10 p.m.) Ottawa, May 21. Speaking at a,dinner to the Australasian press delegates at Ottawa on - Wednesday— at which Australiati wines wore served—the Gorernor-Ger.oral of Canada, Lord Grey, referred to tho unanimity of both parties :. in Canada in their readiness to make a sdcrifico 'to' maintain Britain's naval supremacy. While the Empire had become a solid unit on tho question, of dcfetico, tho patriotic spirit animating tho groat oontinont of Australia'had attracted much attention, and tho Australian Labour Ministry's actiou in tho matter of, military training proclaimed' to the whole world that tho honour<of tlio Crown, was as safo with tho humblest 6ons of toil as with the proudest nobles .of the land. (Cheers.) Tho 'offer of -gallant Now Zealand, with a population equal to half tint of tho province of Ontario, had caused the blood of ovory Britin in all parts of tho world to pulso moro buoyantly In their veins. (Cheers.) ' ' i Sir Wilfrid Laurior, Mr. Cunningham (editor of tho Melbourne "Argus"), and Mr. ■jcmyicls (editor of tho "Otago Daily Times") also spoke, ' ;