BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 691, 16 December 1909, Page 7

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

UNIONIST AGITATiON ; OF THE NAVAL r)i&i&-M ISSUE, s'} :-;;\;>!'■.■';: V:W ■:-. ■'-;;■'■ vA'V-v- '■'.'"'. ':•>;■ London* :Decomber: 1i..;; ;UArticles \l)y-Mi\;.:Rol)eri;Blatchfprii : (the: So : ;bialist; editor;of ..tho:.''Clnriqn,".'and;'recently, ,a, contributor to: tho "Daily . Mail"), ;urging -the.'vyital :need .of improved defence,- .are. attracting^attention,. ..and -are preventing-.the: naval problem"'ironi ; being, swamped ,'ih; the discussion Budget : land; reform ,'of; the' HoustCof S- ;.; :-.-'•,'..'.;<' .'vThe ;Berliri newspapor. -Tossischo, Zeitung" |r protesib¥against .insano. the;eveVbf: | ririV.elGction,-wMch'. : is v -tp':dfe'cidowhether able;Pree-tfade'.',liberals■•.or/warlike protective ■ tariff. : ' ; Consorvative3■:shall',tnle;v -.-.;'■"■'.-. \i - v.;' j:. : .-:Mr.; Alfred '.lytteltoni Co-' ; i;lbhial;i.Secretary,; speaking .at.Slough/k near' {. 'Windsor, said': if: it were- vwithin;- a decade: Britain's ■ supremacy on', the seas would !;boi greatly, menaced,;'if. not 'actually, attacked; - the.;fact■' should'.strengthen the 'desire : tb..but;' tress our/littleJStato : :withj,the rising; strength; of tholybuig: nations .overseas. ;," ;>-;:-" : vr;--'\i; N AVY:< COMBimTiaN.i ; ; : ;^':(^o; ; :pecemperj : ls^B;fe\p.mo. : .-i;: ; 'i'iiv.^ J, -"Oi.^.'^'A'v' : .London,-': December 15'. ' ' DrV i.T.v J; Mair" .namara, Secretary; to;,the : -Ad-: iniralty,;. explained'.that-the-Prime .Minister,. Hr:Asqu}tb.,- did .'not' mention, tho 'Navyin'iiis reoentipolicyspeech-atLtheAlhertiHair/fbr tlie' simple .reason: that the;Navy;,was-;alllright.;;:. : . i; .Sir ,;Etiward).Grey,. Secretary;, for; Foreign Af-': fMrs, : '.speaking,::at; ; Wooler, v.'deciared : ' ; that itho Navy, should :pe : maintained.;; at: a;'standard equal .to anyjcombination';againstVit.'. ; i'" : :-'?,;':■'■' ! 3-' g;f:iiMAGi^^ ;i:v':.V^;oec.;Decemb^^^^ , : >;-' ; ;' ; * f '.\'--:Vi--''-;"i-"'-- J'-'-'-•''-"■■- : j :London,December-15..-'' : ;:;;Eepresbntative .v Peers;Xcontinue> /addressing meetings ;daily.V.Kf(y^^ ,beenvarrahge'd'(for/Jeers'!■ to address 1 before s ,the issue; of;the;writs -for: : the - election. ; i ; ; -.'.H'^''•■ ; ,;:-

;-' The :buke';pf!;Norfolk Defends ; His ; ;Fejib*;f ■'•i' l£ -':*"f-■"' -i:T(ii---- v ;^: ./,-v:i.\'>!-.'- •-• ■-. ! ','.;.-'-'-- : .;S": ■^Tlie:Duke:of?Norfolk;; speaking: f it^Taiintpn,' : protested; agaiiist" thej^Eadical'vnewspapers^ con;tihually*liarpiiig-; upon' '$&&: immense^ealth'i Credit me/'ih^;i.ailded;: r''yfith;a'-'jColoswlOinijoinie wticH.; exist's , 'only .in! the-writer's.'imagination.' , ;; ,:'.^;;*'. ■-.'.'■;■ '■. '■'&:?. i.■' ■: ■^■'■^ i^^se)bf ; Lords/ said : Dnke/^wereac?iised:; coiistaiitly;; of■ Sejecting..fßills,: but: i-'diiri ing;! ,tiuy3 lA«t: four i' sessiott;- under "ItKeT-Litirai of- these'.■■.■\7ere. , 'yastiy;.^^improved- by•> the House ;bfvLords?3' ; ; ''s*'■?. :' l :: i ..■-': •:;:■!■ '(t., ■- y ;'^?;':?.•:?■: ;

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