THE BRITISH NAVY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 526, 5 June 1909, Page 10

THE BRITISH NAVY.

' ', i IS AND SHAM BE SUPKEME SAYS .... ....:.. MB. ASQUITH. , .;/ , St., Andrew's Hall, which holds almost irre thousand, was paoked in every corner on Sat- ? r °? 5 TV, Apn i- 1 . 7 > when Mr. Aequith appeared m lulnlment of a long-standing engagement to address , the Liberals of, Glasgow. Mr. T. M'Kinnon Wood, M.P., presided. Mr. Asqulth, who had an. enthusiastic' reception, referred at the outsat to the disturbances in Turkey, and said it wonld be a tragedy if the first chapter in the new annals of emtncipated Tnrker were to close in oivil tuittult and fratricidal strife The desire •of this country was to see the Tnrkieh Governent carry out & policy of reform and of good and just admmiGtration, and any Turkish Government which pursued these paths honestly, with- a single eyo' to the publio interest, might ;ceunt npen'the continued-and etrOnß sympatky of His Majesty'e Government \uneere.) ■, ■ Proceedine, the Premier asked what were the most urgent practical problems whichi at this moment confronted the statesmanship of tho ornhsed world, The answer was tSat these proDleme were two-on the one side the problem of arraamonts; on the other side the problem of social reform. Prom tho point of view •f.the promss;of humanity, thero couldhardlv be a more.tronical iuitapoei'tion. (Hear, hear) KIuE "ffft q«wtion of armaments, Mr. Aeqnlth eaid ho had been described as a kind of i'mohbeclc Pnlmorston dazzled with militarism, and that he dreamt in Dreadnoughts. It was true ef himself, as it wae of every one of hu colleagues, that there was not a man among them who did net desire with all hb ;& r . n Jp-? Timo Mi , to Provide every possible safejuard'ftr. peace, to esohew unnecessarv ad. ventures. to f curtaif unprodwtive eipendiW, to consolidate this Empire, not by adding to ■A?ri«"V extending within its blu" 0%1i7 L \l 7 d T ,n l h eonspienoM sue wSi.°-Jv Afnoa-by, extending within, its boundaries tho unifying influences of free and responsible Government. (Cheers.) -' u Naval.supremncj , . l carrying with it the com3if thoß w. watever it might be to other deatT'fffirh B t a a matUl ; of life and of ernment had not gonefar enouth, hfl eaid thisre BriH»t ?J*w d for aa, ;? l . OT <™tude. The iVh>. i^? iv L'\ M A this moraeat. aud must in the immediate future continue to be over. w n h °l win ?'y superior both in material porsenntl, not on y to any single fleet tmfc S tl'^o 1 " brot, atainst it. (Cheersf) U * most%ie« assurance that as soon as the neceesitv arnw [hand *nd oontinued oheersj witfhtVlttftaift^^