ENCOURAGING SIGNS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 79, 28 December 1925, Page 7

ENCOURAGING SIGNS

RECOVERY OF BRITISH TRADE

EMPIRE SHOWS PROGRESS EVERYWHERE

ONE WEAK SPOT—MOSUL Encouraging signs ill a definite recovery of British trade ace discerned by Mr. Garvin, who in an article in the “Observer” states that the Empire has shown progress every-w.ie-c during the past year. Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright. (Rcc. December 27, 11.5 p.m.) London, December 26. Writing in ths “Observer,” Mr. Garvin, reviewing 1925, savs_: — “There are encouraging signs of a definite recovery of trade. The Government owes the firmness <>f its position more to the weakness of the Labour and Liberal opposition than to its own virtues and performances. The British Empire as a whole has shown progress everywhere. Preference lias been established here as a principle past reversal. Australia and New Zealand, like Britain the year previously, have voted for stability, and in the Commonwealth violent labour troubles have been overcome in a manner promising more settled conditions.” . .

Mr. Garvin recalls that the position in India and Ireland has improved and states: "The greatest single achievement is the Locarno Pact. But there is one weak spot. Let none supjiose that Mosul will be as easily managed in future as Ministers and their facile majority suppose. We are creating a little Ulster in that region by —• sisting on calling it part of Iraq. The test will come in 1928, when our part was to have been regarded as complete. It looks p.s though one issue in the next general election has ready been decided upon.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ALL WELL WITH IRELAND ON THRESHOLD OF NEW ERA (Rcc. December’27, 11.5 p.m.) Loudon, December 26. President Cosgravc, in a message to the “Sunday Express,” states:—“All goes well with Ireland. The outlook is brighter than ever since the 1921 treaty. The recent agreement with Northern Ireland has finally removed the latent possibilities of further differences, and the forces of good will have now an opportunitv for free play. North and South have'no hesitation in saying that Ireland now stands on the threshold of a new era of material progress.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.