FEELING TN ENGLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 31

FEELING TN ENGLAND.

PRESS OPINIONS. LONDON, August 21. The Chronicle, in commenting upon Admiral Sperry's reception in New Zealand and Australia, says : " This colonial fraternation is very gratifying in Britain, where the maintenance of the most friendly relations with the American people and Government is the object of universal desire and the axiom of our .policy." The Daily Graphic says that the phenomenal festivities in Sydney show how deeply the Englishman in the Pacific feels in regard to the Yellow Peril, which is paramount, there, and in this sense they have grave significance for the statesmen of the Motherland. The Morning Pest discusses the likely '«3istance which the fleet's presence will lend tie Commonwealth's statesmen in promoting Mr Deakin's naval policy, and notes with satisfaction that the Admiralty has latterly shown a greater disposition to meet the needs of the case. It says that no greater dis-eervice could have "been rendered by any State department here to the United Kingdom or Empire than delay^ or prevention of the beginnings of an Imperial naval alliance. The Morning Post continues that if the •English Cabinet Ministers dictate, as they ought, the hypothesis of an Imperial alliance and not colonial dependence, then the problem for the naval experts is not

to secure one navy under one control in peace time, but how to promote the utmost efficiency of the allied navies, taking it for granted that there would be unified control in war time.