NOTICE OF INTENTION TO STRIKE.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12753, 27 March 1914, Page 3

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO STRIKE.

LONDON, yesterday. Mr J. H. Thomas, Labour member fpr Derby, announced that 40,000 men had notified the railway companies that they are ceasing work in November unless the conditions were bettered. If they followed the Opposition policy he would advise those men to provide themselves with arms and ammunition LEAGUE FOOTBALL. LONDON, yesterday. At League football West Bromwich defeated Manchester City by 3 to 2. PACIFIC CABLE. LONDON, yesterday. At a meeting of the Pacific Cable Board Mr Nathan moved the rejection of the concession in New Zealand rates. The discussion was deferred at Mr Babington Smith's instance. ATLANTIC WIRELESS. LONDON, yesterday. Poulsen's wireless is expected to operate across the Atlantic commercially in a- few weeks.

CABLE NEWS

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PACIFIC DEFENCE.

WHITE AUSTRALIAN" POLICY. NEW ZEALAND'S POSITION. MELBOURNE, to-day. Mr Joseph Cook, Federal Premier, at a banquet at Wangaratta, referring to reliance upon the Japanese treaty for peace in the Pacific, said they were under treaty obligations frith a nation | whose people might not admit to j their shores. They must at all cost | defend the White Australia policy. He believed the time was ripe for development of naval defence. He would like to see Canada and South Africa at a round conference table as well as Aus-I tralia and New Zealand. The latter ! so far had kept to the idea of contri- j buting to the strength of the Imperial Navy. On the other hand Australia had begun to develop her own navy. He hoped Mr Massey's latest speech was indicative of the feeling of New Zealand, and that soon they would be able to welcome the Dominion in the compact.