TRAFALGAR DAY SPEECHES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1888, 24 October 1913, Page 7

TRAFALGAR DAY SPEECHES.

■ —«— GREAT BRITAIN AND JAPAN. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Rec. October 23, 7.10 p.m.) ' London, October 22. . At the Trafalgar Dfty Navy Loaic-w banquet at the Hotel Cecil, Earl Brassoy. in proposing tho toast, "The Imperial Forces," said they all know that assiduous efforts were being matte to_ prepare tho Navy for any call which might arise. Tlio Japanese Ambassador*. Baron Kato, referring to the Anglo-Japanoso Alliance, said that -it was gratifying to hear that despite some trouble with China thev had. been .able to maintain peace in; the Far East. Ho hoped that tlio Alliance would over promote pcace. Just as England owed her industrial vitality to tho -unassailable strength of her Navy, so Japan saw tlio necessity of bringing up her Navy to tho standard required not only for the protection of her commerce, but the maintenance of peace in the Far East. At tho dinner of tho Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, responding to tho toast of "Nelson," Vice-Admiral A. M. Farquhar, comparing tlio British with foreign seaman, said that the British waa subject to vejy hard discipline, and; though fond of a "wop drappie," was the man to turn to when thcro was trouble pending.