EARL OF OXFORD.
ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT.
SINGAPORE BASE DEPLORED.
LONDON. Nov. 7
The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, speaking at Huddersfield, said the Government's most serious contribution to the solution of national troubles was to be found in the speeches of the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin. These speeches, he said, displayed an attractive simplicity and eulogised the sovereign virtues of peace and goodwill. On the other hand, the Government had increased the cost of the fighting forces by £6,000,000 in 1925, and had resumed the grandiose and extravagant scheme of the Singapore base, which when completed would be as obsolete as wooden ships.
"It is a sorry prelude," the earl added, "to the real and fruitful disarmament conference we all desire."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19177, 17 November 1925, Page 9
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