DEFENCE OF EMPIRE

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1913, Page 2

DEFENCE OF EMPIRE

ARMING OF MERCHANTMEN

[Press Association.]

LONDON, June IS. Mr. Churchill, in the House of Commons, said that in arming merchantmen priority would be given to ships most likely to attract attack.: The Admiralty would not confine its attention to certain lines. He hoped to have a considerable number armed before the end of the year. The National Peace Congress at Leeds carried a resolution protesting against compulsory service in New Zealand.

SYDNEY, June 13. The Herald, in leaders, discussing trade and Empire, said that the Imperial relationship was founded on race and not trade. If founded on trade and common profit, instead oi race and a common ideal, there would be no Empire. Trade interests sometimes coincided with racial interests, and sometimes they cut right across them, but the Empire did not depend on trade for binding principle.