IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
AFRAID OF MR SEDDON. j SYDNEY, May 27. The Daily Telegraph, dealing with the Imperial Conference, says that it is evident that the Imperialists at any price will make an effort to drag the colonies into a permanent defence service of the Empire, and that some Premiers are quite ready to be so made ! use of is more than probable. Appar- j ently there are no limits to what Mr j Seddon would gladly do in the way of sword drawing and converting the men of New Zealand into conscripts of the Empire. Air Barton may take fire by \ contact and blaze together with him, | but by his own act Mr Barton does not j matter. He deliberately rendered himself not representative of the Commonwealth by refusing to divulge his views on this and other important questions, j
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Otago Witness, Issue 2516, 4 June 1902, Page 15
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140IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. Otago Witness, Issue 2516, 4 June 1902, Page 15
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