CONFIDENCE IN CANADA.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 228, 29 August 1912, Page 5

CONFIDENCE IN CANADA.

New York, Aug. 28. Mr. F. -E. Smith, M.P., interviewed here, said that English public men were awaiting Mr. Borden’s statement before expressing any o pinion on the Canadian navy question. Mr. Borden’s attitude when in England had touched the British imagination equally with Canada’s assistance during the South African war. Mr. Walter Long, M.P., said he did not doubt that Canada would answer the Motherland’s need with a mighty shout, saying, “We will see the navy sufficient for any occasion.” SIR W. LAURIER’S IMPRACTICABLE COUNSEL. Ottawa, Aug. 28. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in a striking speech on the navy question, said that in Great Britain people were always thinking of war. In Canada nobody thought of war. Canada had only one neighbour with whom they had not warred for a hundred years. If Germany was only, as she staked, seeking a place in the sun, they need not be apprehensive that a German peril existed. He thanked God that North America was free of the race for armaments. Should they enter such a race or settle their disputes by arbitration ? The latter, he hoped, would always be Canada’s course.