AGAINST ARMAMENTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13290, 28 January 1914, Page 4

AGAINST ARMAMENTS.

f . STOCKBROKERS' PROTESTS. LONDON, January 21. ' Some lively scenes av ere witnessed al the ; first : meeting of 'the anti-armament campaign .'now m. progress. • A number of member's of the Londor Stock Exchange greeted. '. Sir . Johr ' Bruririer, one of the principal speakerswith, cries of "Alien" and >: noisily interrupted other well-knoAvri men Avhc ' addressed the meeting. , ' At the outset of the proceedings, $ ' preeminent stockbroker protested againsl ' \th'e object of' the. -meeting. He declared that a supreme • navy Avas a vital need and that the meeting would endangei the cordial relations exsting betweer 1 England and France. -. Resolutions against excessive expend! '• ture on armaments were- declared car ; ried, amid much disorder. The London Chamber of Commerce has called a counter meeting m support of adequate naval preparations. GREAT NAVAL REUNION. The, year will be a> memorable one ir .view, of the great naval reunion, between ' Britain. and France. The third Englisli battle squadron will go to Cheihourg or February 10 m and the first squadron tc Brest on March 17, and. to Cherbourg on March 21. ; The second squadron, alsc will visit Brest- : French squadrons AA"il] make return visits to Portsmouth and Plymouth m the summer.