ANTI-MILITARISM
OUTBURST BY KEIR HARDIE. A LITTLE ENGLANDER. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 6. Speaking at Glasgow, Mr Keir liavdie, M.P., said that the Unionists were seeking to bind the Empire by means of Preferential Tariffs, and the Liberals were endeavoring to do so by means of military agreements. Much as be hated Protection, he feared and hated militarism a thousandfold more. The talk of the Liberals about an Imperial fleet and a Defence Committee was simply an attempt to weaken the civil authority. Tit accepting gifts of Dreadnoughts Great Britain might be creating a master move, dangerous than any she had faced hitherto. LIBELS REFUTED. COLONIAL OFFICE AYVAKES. LONDON, January 6. Captain Collins, chief of the Australian High Commissioner’s staff, in a- letter to the~ ‘ Daily Mail.’ answers'an article headed ‘Humors of Child Conscription.’ Ho quotes statistics proving the success of the Australian scheme of compulsory training.
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Evening Star, Issue 15076, 7 January 1913, Page 6
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148ANTI-MILITARISM Evening Star, Issue 15076, 7 January 1913, Page 6
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