A “SPICED ” REPORT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8738, 21 May 1914, Page 6

A “SPICED ” REPORT

GENERAL HAMILTON AND JAPAi NESE PRESS IRRITATION. Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 20. In a speech hero this morning General Sir lan Hamilton referred to the recent cable message from Tokio concerning his reported remarks at Auckland that the Pacific would ho a possible battleground between Asiatics and Europeans. He said he had _ been unfortunate in incurring the displeasure of certain organs among the press of an allied Power, but the report on which the displeasure was based must have been spiced in crossing the tropics. He had merely put a hypothetical case that seemed sound in theory, to the effect that as the nations grew bigger warn would bo less frequent but more terrible. He could imagine a period when empires would comprise the great continents, and such a continental empire! might have to face a contest of arms or economics. Ho had said that New Zealand would do well to bo and, that she was preparing for the millennium or an Armegeddon. In an interview with a “Daily News” reporter the General said he had given no foundation for the rumour that he would condemn the territorial system, as was stated in the Napier press. No report would escape him till he had his foot on the gangway of the boat winch took him from New Zealand.