EMPIRE TIES WEAKER.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 10 June 1924, Page 7

EMPIRE TIES WEAKER.

Labour’s Policy Criticised.

NEW ZEALANDER SPEAKS OUT.

“The Times.” Received 8.5 p.m., June 9, . LONDON, June 8

A letter published in "The Times” from Hon. Edward Newman, M.L.C., of New Zealand.

“If any party parties in England desired to weaken the links binding the Empire, they could not devise a better method of so doing than the course adopted by the Imperial Government during the last few months; first, by their action in regard to preference, and now in what appears to be the final abandonment of Singapore base. Rightly or wrongly those parts of the Empire bounded by the Pacific, consider the base essential to their protection. This opinion is founded on reports given by the highest naval authorities. It is the custom in this country to laugh at the Yellow Peril. Australia and New Zealand are Inclined to take a different view. These countries are nearer what will probably be the danger zone In the next war, than is England, and know a little more about the subject.” Therefore he ventures to state that the action of the Government In disposing of the plant assembled for the construction of Singapore, will be strongly condemned by many loyal. Australians and New Zealanders.