EMPIRE RELATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19957, 26 November 1926, Page 9

EMPIRE RELATIONS.

CANADIAN REVIEW OF REPORT.

BONDS NOT STRENGTHENED. IP* gbs Association—Br Telegraph—Copyright.) OTTAWA, November 24. Received Nov. 25, at 9 p.m.) In the opinion of Mr Hugh Guthrie, the acting Conservative leader, the report of the Imperial Conference “raises questions of the gravest import to Canada and the Empire.” He added: “I fail to see anything in the conclusions that can be viewed in any way as strengthening or consolidating Imperial interests. The tenor is all the other way. As an actual statement of the status quo between the dominions and the Mother Country the report may be of some value, but I fear that the whole tendency of the document is to loosen rather than strengthen the foundations of the Empire without conferring any practical benefit upon the dominions.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE KING’S NEW TITLE. FEARS OF I JESTER ALLAYED. LONDON, November 24. Received Nov. 25, at 6-5 p.m.) Sir W. Joynson-Hicks Home Secretary) in a statement declares that the proposed change in the King’s title does not affect Northern Ireland’s existing constitutional status or its position in relation either to Britain or to the Free State. The title does not define the political units composing Empire. It is merely a geographical definition of the territories of which his Majesty is King. The suggestions that the title will give the Free State, authority to act for - the whole of Ireland are groundless. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

“ DROPPING THE PILOT.”

A SOUTH AFRICAN CARTOON.

CAPETOWN, November 24. (Recived Nov. 26, at 5.5 p.m.) A Government Dutch paper publishes a cartoon entitled “Dropping the pilot,’’ which represents John Bull descending the ladder and General Hertzog in the attitude of the Kaiser in Tenniel’s original. The ship is called “South Africa.” Practically all the Ministers have rushed into print, acclaiming General Hertzog.— A. and N.Z. Cable.