CONSOLIDATING THE EMPIRE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13092, 4 June 1913, Page 9

CONSOLIDATING THE EMPIRE.

WHAT THE DOMINIONS REALISE. LONDON, May 28. Speaking at the Empire Day demonstration m the Queen's Hall, at which iie presided, Lord Charles Beresford *aid he believed that the oversea dominions realised more than did the people of this count:/ Mve necessity for consolidating the component parts of the Empire into one great whole. They saw more clearly what Imperialism meant, and were always teaching their children the meaning of Imperialism. "We are getting very limp over here." Lord Charles went on to say. "There is a lot of llabby sentimentality that would be better buried. We seem to be fearful of holding the great possession that oitr ancestors won. There is a iot of people running- about with their tails between tlteir legs and apologising.

"The cardinal object of all is pea.ee, for nobody can look at the responsibilities of war without a shudder. We want to see a Counci lof Imperial Defence, and we want to see all the great dominions represented there, so that they can get sound judgment m Imperial affairs based on facts us they are, and not on things as they should be. "I am not pessimistic, but I think we oughf to make our strength obvious to everybody without bluster, swagger, or insult, but with perfect courtesy to every nation, so as to make war impossible. The British nation has done more for civilisation, freedom of religi6n, and for liberty and progress than all the rest of the world."