TSAJR AND LABOUR.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 578, 5 August 1909, Page 5

TSAJR AND LABOUR.

i: i ■•■■'. : h■ :; :.NW■^ l^•■'^;; ■v' ;: '■■■■ .FORMAL SPEECHES EXCHANGED. : DIPLOMATS CONFER. (By Tetoß»ph.-Ptiia»''AMocliitl6n.-OopTrlBM.I . . • ~ ■ London, August 3. ■The Tsar: of Russia,■ who was invited, by King Edward.to witness a naval review at Spithead, was. warmly, cheered :as the Imperial. yacht passed through the lines °rue British. Fleet. ;■ ■ ••'■_ . ; Sir Edward Grey, Secretary for .Foreign Affair.; and ,Mr,;,M'Konna, First Lord o 'the Admiralty, 'hod long conversations with the Tsar.and M/.lsvolsty,,the Russian Foreign •MiDister.-.' •.;'' :., At a: banquet on board'the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, King Edward cordially greeted Tsar Nicholas, and' referred_to.; the recent', visit of delegates -from the Russian Duma. . The Fleet, His Majesty declared, was a symbol not of war, but of peace. , The Tsar, in, his reply, made a: sympa-. V-hetio reference to the' late .Queen Victoria, and expressed deep ".'appreciation ', of. ; ttie oordiality.of the: welcome accorded, to the Empress 1 ' and 'hjmself. ,' :; SIR E. CREY'S DELICATE POSITION. •'. "' '",' " '■'(* '-____ - ' :: ' ""■ c .\'lpl^ : :F'o!r^''MSSian;lenienoy.- , -; ; . } ":;"'-"' i -^ ; -.'' - London, August 3. ■: ". -An open letter has .been addressed to Sir; ■Edward Grey, Secretary of-State for Foreign. Affairs,:'in regard to political offences in . Russia. r& bears the signatures: of tlw Bishops of-' Birmingham and. Heretora, ,; several.' deans ■ and', pastors, v . . peers, : seventy-three members of the House of l 'Commons, and a number of authors, editors, .) "• and-professors. ~ ".'V '_'• . £ ■ y --The letter, urges that Britain should ex- ■ " orcise: her ifriendly; influence, on humank » ;arian grounds, to secure a relaxation of the .» severity' of. repressive'measures: . .. ; ' Tin. the in the House of Commons on My 23, Sir E' Grey, roused Labour .and Irish .' Nationalist ;dissent;iby: declaring that Russia a « internal condition was alTair of. onrs. j . ,r;,■-":•■' :v\ ': ' : ■ London, August &•■■:■ I !Mr. Keir Bardie, • Labour .member for Merthyr'Tydvil,'-speaking .at. Sutton .Coldfield,'Warwickshire, -said 'the Tsar's, yacht. ] was being 'guarded like a piague-boat., .., . , Precautidns,' l should.,be-.taken; i to. guard . us,",'said : .Mi\;;;Hardie,; "against the con- : .' taminition';of his presence."./ :';:'.'.'yy' " WATCHiNO; YACHT RACES AT COV/ES. ! i: ; ■■ "-GUARDED CHILDRM/ • ; 'v \; '.'. '(Rec.: August,if,,lo. p.fli.) ■■. v London, August 4. ! The Tsar, and .the Tsarina, .and. King .Edward, and ''Queen Alexandra,. cruising in 'the Royal'yacht Britannia, watched • tho opening events of the Oowes week. They saw: ; Mri Myles ;B:. .Kennedy's yacht, White Heather," win '..the King's ~ Cup, beating tne Kaiser's Meteor, and the Prince of Wales's Corisande. .. ... •'' In. tho.evening a State banquet was held aboard" the .Russian Royal yacht, . Standart. ; .The; Tsar's.children landed h at East.Cowes. Seven policemen followed'.,th;ein : during .their drive.-. ; ;;.::::.: '\ .'■'•'_ ■Steam pinnaces'patrol around the''Standart, and- prevent excursion' craft from; com-, ing close.. ■■',:,■■ •.'.■.-•:■!.! ■'-' "'. 'f"The 'groat'hody. of the, English people have a sincere-regard arid admiration, for Nicholas Hi" says "The Times." "They know the great services which, on his own; initiativei nnd ny his own exertions, ho has rendered to the causo of international pence/ They know something, too, of what Nioholas II has done for his-own people. They are well aware that the reforms which ho has carriod out, and/is carrying out, with-the help of his Ministers and of .-the Duma,, must have - involved; no inconsiderable sacrifices of.opinion, and hf sentiment on tho o'art of the monarch who has and Englishmen do. homage to .the enlightened and imsolfish sense of .national, has made them without flinching. .. . In'no waters which the Tsar may .visit, not even in those of Republican France, his ally, will he receive, a more friendlv or a more general greeting than when he and his august Consort, the granddaughter of our late revered Queen, become the guests of Kinfr Edward at Cowee. J ... , •Y\ ."..■ ._— ■