SIR G. REID.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 803, 28 April 1910, Page 7

SIR G. REID.

A LABOUR NO-CONFIDENCE VOm By Tolecrapb—Frees Associfttlon-CoDyrlehL • Sydney, April 27. ' The Amalgamated Society of Engin. eers resolved .that Sir. George Reid, Commonwealth High Commissioner, is not a true representative of the Aub- . tralian people,. and, urged the. Fisher ,> Government to re-call ; him. : [At one' of' the many •■■banquets at which Sir George Reid has been a speaker of late, he said; that the Labour >' party of Australia was "a "body of , honourable men with patriotic" feelings." Sir George Reid wais"a':Fusionist and an appointee'of. the Deakin-' Cook Government.] •

IF THE BRITISH NAVY WERE DESTROYED? NO REBUILDING POSSIBLE. London, April 26.;* The Australian High Commissioner, Sir George Reid, was' entertained at a, banquet at, Birmingham, at which th« Lord Mayor of the city presided. Referring to the manufacture of •rifles for the Australian cadets and the building of Australian destroyers and a Dreadnought, Sir George said these- were proof that whilst statesmen were busy with professions, of peace, tho great nations were practically in,a state of war. One danger of vast armaments was that in a mad moment the whole of the destinies of th« human race might depend upon tha odious arbitrament of brute force. Australia, he said, might make tremendous . preparations for a .danger wliioh might never come.' He abided that, if once the British Navy, were destroyed, Britain's ' enemies would never allow it to be rebuilt.