FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22355, 28 February 1936, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO

' « THE RIOTS INi BRITAIN DEFENCE OF THE COLONIES The cabled news from London oon« taiued in tne isuw Zf-iu-ANU Meejld 50 years ago has much, that is of mterest to-day. February 2b at that time fell 011 a Sunday and tne Monday morning's paper continues accounts of jfche industrial confusion then existing: Rioting was reported from Birmingham and Socialist leaders in London who fcad been arrested were remanded further. The defence of the colonies was a subject of discussion in the House of lords and there is an interesting item which " In the House of Lords to-day, Earl t Granville, ■ Secretary of State for.tho Colonies, announced that a committee had been appointed to confer irith the Agents-General with regard to a scheme for rendering the Imperial forces available for the defence of the colonies. His Roval Highness the Duke of Cambridge stated that the War Office would grant every facility and encouragement to ensure retired officers finding employment in the colonies." A cablegram the next day continued as follows: —" The ►scheme, alluded to by Lord Granville in the House of Lords yesterday. has for its object the utilising of the services of British naval and military forces in the defence of the colonies, but not the general imperial forces." _ The Monday's issue of the HERALD records the projected visit of Cardiiial Moran, and there is a sketch of tun which, appearing ® ; as it does in the middle pf a news story, was something rare in the newspaper presentation or those days. The Cardinal, it was stated, was to be honoured by a procession, in which there were to be three bands.