"A TRULY IMPERIAL SCHEME"
AN ALL-RED LINE OF STEAMERS.
SPEECH BY SIR WILFRID LAURIER,
frew Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, July 2.
Speaking at the Canadian dinner at the Hot-el Cecil, Sir Wilfrid Laurier warmly advocated an ,ill-red line of steamers encircling the earth a.s a truly Imperial scheme* He declared that Canada, Xew Zealand, and Australia, were ready to support it. If the British people and Parliament were willing to accept the heavy responsibility of keeping a line of steamers between Liverpool and New York, surely, he said, what the United Kingdom had done for-the foreigner it might bo willing to do for the people living under tlio British (lag. The Times expresses the,hope that the British are ready to help that and many other wntats to bind the nation together. LONDON, July 3.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13946, 4 July 1907, Page 7
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