IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 123, 17 July 1911, Page 5

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

OFFICIAL REPORT PUBLISHED. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United i ress Association. London, July 15. The Imperial Conference proceedings, covering 400 pages, have been published, but do not include a record of the Defence Committee. The Conference’s daily precis ’ furnished reasonably good reports. Sir Joseph Ward was vigorously heckled over his Imperial Council scheme, especially in regard to whether he wanted a Council of State for a Defence Parliament. Ho -is also heckled for the vagueness of the scheme, his speeches going beyond what his more resolution led the Conference to expect. Sir Wilfrid Lauricr, discussing the Declaration of Loudon, stand that Canada did not think it could take part in every war, and as her rlecl might not bp called on to participate it was better to leave the chief partner to negotiate the Declaration. In reply to Mr Batchelor as to whether there was any probability of an agreement in regard to the conversion of merchantmen, Sir E. Grey pointed out that Germany was the chief opponent, and England was in a small minority on the point.