Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 88, 12 July 1918, Page 5

Great Britain

CANADIAN i.-.—“APER MEN. Press Association--Ccpyrlght, Austn* lian and N T #. Cable Association (Received 8.45 a.m.j» London, July 11. A party o)' Canadian editors and proprietors has arrived for the purpose of learning the Homeland conditions at first hand after four years of war. THE PENSIONS POLICY. CLEAN POLITICS ESSENTIAL. Press Association—Copyright, lian a»>d N.JL Cable Association (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, July 2.

in the House of Commons, Air Barlow moved that it was essential that all questions relating to pensions should he kept free from party politics. He said corruption in public life was inevitable if pensions became a matter oh political bargaining. Mr Bonar Law said that if the parties began seeking election on the strength of what they were going to do regarding pensions the most de-i moralising campaign would ensue. The House of Commons ought to carry a resolution showing that they were determined to keep the question outside the arena of ordinary politics. The resolution was accepted.

BELGIAN ROYALTY’S VISIT. HISTORIC HAPPENINGS. OUR REASON FOR WAR. Press Association —Copyright, Anetra* lian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received 1.1.40 a.m.) London, July 11. The Daily Chronicle says: Two seaplanes brought the King and Queen of Belgium on Friday evening. They left Belgium, where King Albert spent the war period, and shared the troops’ fortunes, being unattended by escorts. The seaplanes alighted on tlie water in the vicinity of a Channel ports after an hour’s flight without incident, and the party landed. Their .Majesties the King and Queen of Britain and the King and Queen of Belgium attended a crowded demonstration at Albert Hall, London, in honor of .Belgium, and receiv-. ed a tremendous ovation. Lord Curzon . delivered an oration on the glory of Belgium. He stud, 'that this was summed up in King Albert’s address to his Parliament iiif August, 1914, when he said “The country that defends itself commands respect.’’ Such nation would never perish. King Albert had thus become the symbol of the. world’s freedom. It was for the sake of Belgium we had entered the war. but it? was for Europe, for the world, foil liberty, and for right that we continued in the pursuit of it.

OUR MINISTERS AT HOME.

EMPIRE MATTERS DISCUSSED.

FUTURE OF THE PACIFIC.

Press Association—Copyright, Austra lian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received 8.45 a.m.) . London. July 11. The Hon. W, F. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward luncheoned at the Australian and New Zealand Club. Sir Thomas Mackenzie presided. Mr Massey, replying to the toast of his health, characterised the bombing of the Canadian hospital ship and the sinking of the Llandovery Castle as the work of murderers and fiends. New Zealand also had an account to settle with the (Hermans in the recent mining of a steamship off the New Zealand coast. Submarining was diminishing, but he protested against the pacifist dictating terms of peace, and demanded a continuance of the war until conditions conducive to permanent peace were obtained. He eulogised the Imperial Cabinet Conference. and urged British Ministers to visit the Dominions. In view of the fact that the Dominions were now partners in the Empire. they should be represented in the National flag together with the Foiled Kingdom, and he might take the opportunity of submitting this to the Imperial Conference. Sir Joseph Ward said the war was reconstituting the Empire constitutionally, economically, and socially, ami old class conditions were being destroyed. The foreign dumping of goods in Britain and the Dominions had tended. He urged an unwritten alliance between Britain, the Domm ions, America, and Japan for the protection of the Pacific. If Germany were allowed to return to Samoa and New Guinea, she would inevitably dominate the Pacific. The prolongation of the war for five or ten years would be justified if the British domination of the Pacific were preserved, because be believed the Pacific would become the world’s greatest strategic centre. It mattered not what pressure was exerted, Australasia would protest ( against allowing Samoa and New Guinea being reverted to Germany otherwise the future •of every man, women and child in Australasia would be endangered. It was imperatively important to induce Imperial statesmen to study the Pacific. It surely should he possible after the war that Empire statesmen could take a hand in adjusting any differences between the units of the Empire, and thus remove friction and irritation amongst our selVes.

Sir Joseph Ward’s remarks are regarded in some quarters as referring to the settlement of the Irish question.

REAL WAR MEASURES.

NATIONALISATION OF MINES.

Press Association—-Copyright. Published in ‘‘The Tunes.’* (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, July 10. The Miners’ Federation resolved to recommend the immediate nationalisation of all mines under the joint control of the workers and the State. One delegate pointed out that if the industry was very briefly suspended, the prosecution of the war would be impossible.