DUTCH IMPERIALISM.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13809, 25 August 1913, Page 5

DUTCH IMPERIALISM.

"THE EMPIRE FOR US ALL."

(Received Aug 2-5, 0.20 am.)

Capetown, Aug. 24

Speaking at a dinner at Parliament House in honour of the officers of the Australian warships Sir N. F. de Waal, representing the Union Government, presided over tw» hundred guests.

Sir N. F. do Waal proposed the toast of Australia, and in the course of his speech, referring to General Hertzog's recent statement that it wag a. pernicious principle to consult the British Government with regard to the Navy, recalled tho fact 'that Mr. Hofmeyer, at tho London arid' Ottawa conferences, advocated a contribution to tho Imperial Navy by means of a supertax on foreign goods.

Ho addedl that Mr. Hofmeyer ropresented the views of tho whole of the Dutch-ttpeaking population of the Cape, and declared emphatically that the Dutchmen's views had not changed. , South Africa would take up the burden, and they would realise* more and more tiiat although tho cry was Australia for the Australians, Canada for the Canadians, and South Africa for the South Africans, tho Empire ia for ub all.

Admiral Sir George Patey, in responding, said it was right for each overseas Dominion to decide for itself the best way of contributing to tho defence of the Empire. He was sure tho whole of the Dominions, whatever political party was in power, had the good of the Empire at heart.