CANADA AND THE NAVY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1531, 29 August 1912, Page 5

CANADA AND THE NAVY.

MR. BORDEN'S ATTITUDE.

SPEECH BY SIR. \V. LAURIER,

THE GERMAN PERIL

By Teltfraph—Press As6ociatbn-Oupyrlght (Rec. August 28, 1.10 a.m.) ; New York, August 2S. Mr. F. E. Smith, a British member of Parliament, in an interview, faid that English public men were, awaiting the promised statement of Mr. Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, before expressing an opinion on the Canadian Navy question. Mr. Borden's attitude, when in England, touched the British imagination as did Canada's assistance during the South African .war.. Mr. Walter Long, who is also in New York, said he did not doubt that Canada would answer the Motherland's need with ,i mighty shout, saying: "We will see that the Navy is sufficient; for any occasion." Ottawa, August '28. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in a striking speech on tho naval question, stated that in Great Britain people were always thinking of war. In Canada nobody thought of war. Canada had only one neighbour, and with that country she had not been at war for a hundred years. If Germany was only, as she stated, seeking a place in the sun, Britairf did not need to be apprehensive, for tho German peril did not exist. Thank God North America was free from the race for armaments. Would they enter such a race or settle their disputes by arbitration? The latter he hoped would always be Canada's course.