LORD SALISBURY'S GUILDHALL SPEECH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 220, 12 November 1900, Page 2

LORD SALISBURY'S GUILDHALL SPEECH.

A PROPOSAL AND A FOHKOAST. (PBR PBEBS ABSOCUtIOX.) Received IX, 4.15 p.m. Lorooir, Noromber 10. Lord Salisbury, speaking at the Guildhall, said that sending 250,000 troops to South Africa in a limited time with the perfection of equipment, was an achievement wherefore the] main, if not the entire credit, wa* doe to the war office. Ho deprecated * hasty nebulous attack on the Department. Their utmost effort* would be devoted to improving defioi«oie» and getting all wants attended to.

Reviewing the year, he said it was most important one. Our gains were proving before the) world the- hearty sympathy which was existing brtyosn the coloniM and thu Motherland. That result, which was of enormous value, had been fully achieved. , Dwelling on the ft'iondly relations with other Power*, he chime i that Great Britain was entitled to rejoice over the American elestion* because it was triumph for that commercial honour which was at the root) of all prosperity. It was satisfactory that tho Powers hid assented to the Anglo-German agreement, namely, the integrity of the open doar policy, implying the maintenance of he practioe of free trade treaty ports. Nevertheless, the action of the Government was liable to be saperseiod by violest ignorance, an instance of which wu lirugor's attitude. The Dowager's defiance was plunging them into war. "We must," said Lwd Salisbuiy, "be fer a period oil our guard, somtinise our defences, and make certain, as far ■is we humicly could, that we should not be exposed to a sudden intsrruptien of peace."