SPEECH BY LORD LANSDOWNE.
Telegraph. Press Association Co uv right London, December 18. Lord Lansdowne, Foreign Minister, . speaking at the United Service Club dinner in London, referring to the Venezuelan trouble, said these little ebullitions were not without advantage. He was glad to see that the British and German sailors were unitedly enforcing just demands. Italy had given Britain indispensable facilities against the Mullah in Somaliland, Britain must maintain her invincibility on the sea, and the burden of the naval expenditure was borne in a good cause, in which Japan is now a partner. He did not agree that the Imperial Conference had produced small results, aa frank intercourse of ideas paved the way for future agreement for many years on commercial, naval, military and financial questions of *• Vital importance to the Motherland and dependencies. Although it "was untrue that all Anglo-French questions were settled, the wind was blowing in the right direction.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 142, 15 December 1902, Page 2
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