"A FORM OF MILITARY LUNACY."

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 64, 16 March 1911, Page 5

"A FORM OF MILITARY LUNACY."

(Received MarcE IS, 11.15 p.m.) LONDON, March 15. A number of provincial newspapers made favorable comment on- Sir J. GWard's speech: The Leeds Mercury, » Liberal organ, declares that New Zealand is alwaysl in the forefront with freshening ideas. The time was approaching when it would be necessary to establish an Imperial body to administer the armed forces of the Crown. The Yorkshire Observer, in & critical article, states that Sir J> G. Ward's proposal for an Imperial War Parliament to make a circuit of the capitals of the Empire suggests Macaulay's New Zealauder on the ruins of London Bridge. Nevertheless, Great Britain's population ensures her dominant authority for many years. The Manchester Courier says that New Zealand, with the population and size of Lancashire, made sacrifices for the Empire which weife unmatched throughout the Dominions. The spirit of the Labor Party controlling politics at the Antipodes was very different, from that of the Laborites in the House of Commons, who regard the. defence of their country, as a form of military lunacy.