A GREAT LONDON GATHERING.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 2 April 1909, Page 3

A GREAT LONDON GATHERING.

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BR ASSET.' • !:rv^oy-?il::Wi^eH^'CAßiS)ON/: '■■::■ :*££l: JTEE: iJOif:AND;vHis CUBS. -]'■•;■ V^S'/^l?':h ■ LONDON,. Thursday.- --; "vj: .jJ6r^Brassev,:-at-a: meeting of the Empire" Leagueymoyed s. reso- : '^TuiWiC Welcoming colonial co-ojeration : \;i'n"'nayal defence. ■;.-,; -; \'; . ;" ••-?: .^General ■ Hutton seconded .the ■■ mp- - ition, • which, ivas carried -unanimously. : ;y:i iiSir^Andrew-Nobler (the well known ;Vc" a^tfiorify: bn ordnance, and. a member ;Arpf lifcev Tin/ of. Sitf TVi ;G;; Armstrong, •;'":■;N,ewca_'stie'; said vtfi^t,"Elswic}t . had ' . vtiree~: be'rthsiibr J Dieadnpughifs,.'•-". and -;':'; couid -three l- in-;,": thirty .-.,- .months,-and sets of three.;every\fif- - -teetf; months ~subsequently..v':;;;: -.With •. ■';'■; another 'berth :'ijcotddr build Vfotii" '''::V'P^a4?°^S]>te'":'annuallyy2^^9W£ic^ e \: the of one.. '>Iv'!v^-;:.- ■".- -',:>'/The" greatest-;meeting 'in":a;genera--:"tion.:at,:the Guildhall vdeihanded four r;mo.]e;Piead^bughts^imm^iatelyJ;,7lie /-':;-':Lo"rd'-:Mayor:-preaidedi'''i(..-..!-v;'':L'V.'-. '.;?:,- >'tiord .-Brassey,- in- moving Vthoresolu- -."■•- tjon, said'the safety; ' of .the' 'Einpirc V,;was theSrst 'duty~of;:the nation? He .;.^ihet-with;lo.ud:dissent when "he declar-v-.e<i;thajt: there Nyas no cause for attack- ;'■■.-- ing ;thV: Government -because• it" ha' 3 ';{ forr a-time reducediexpenditure. In . -"so; doing; iff had; obeyed an election ■ V: :m'andate/.He* condemned scares,, which ':':. loVfered:...thet'natitfnal; dignity.;'; He .. - ■. sai?'•'fob;, inuijh inoheyvwas devoted to ''. vshjps;tpf;toaxmpureii'"classes;; and. ad- . •'.: -vi^d^inimediate .ae'tio*nvf or - a revision /, : :jp^ihe^J>resent vote without adding lo ■:■'■', the..cbst'ior;tw6 mpre:j)readnoughts. - .;: •;:.MTiß'alfourisaid?tnat the entire. Em'•V v '-pi^vw&.-Ife6piy'.:disqnieted after Sir -, Edward Grfey's warnings. Aj-'recoh-;lV /s^riu'tion of the Navy: was necessary, must lbPk ahead to 1915. v?v*-;;;Mr,-BaHpur'urged .an immediate ini plant>for the output of fu,'ituxe eottstrnetion, and the commence r: frin'e?it'of. building.without delay. Apart .v.;-.V from-: the two-Power standard, Ger--'•i:--_|fflianyVand'-.Anierio.a' wero each spend.■^ing.more in. construction than Eng- , laid. : . If,; besides - four contingent .■Dreadnoughts next April, eight others were fonnd'- to bevnecessary, there ■ would-be a preposterous arrangement of twelve in'one-year. * •' -A- Teference -to/the 'two Dreadnoughts from' Australia provoke 2 many rounds of cheering." . -.:'£ The other speakers 'included Biro¥ Bothschilfl and . the.- Jffon. Herbert Gibbs (pf Antpny;<3ibbsand Spns=) A vote was also passed expressing the citizens' gratitude for the' colonial Dreadnoughts. '• "^Punch's" cartoon pictures Germania watching New Zealand's Dreadnought, and sighing, "Those lion cubs are splendid. I~wish I had eaglets like that!"