TOURS OF EMPIRE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1910, 19 November 1913, Page 7

TOURS OF EMPIRE.

VALUE OF PARLIAMENTARY VISITS. By Telegraph—Pross Association—Copyright London, November 17. Mr. Hamar Greenwood, M.P., a member of the Empire Parliamentary party, in an interview, said: "Whatever-par-tisaus in England may say, tho Imperial Parliament in the estimation of our oversea kinsmen still stands for all that is highest and best in the Imperial life. An outstanding lesson: of the tour is 'ho desiro of the Dominions to share in the future in peace and war, with tho Motherland." • Ho said he had found throughout Australia and New- Zealand tho general opinion was that the Imperial Government did not appreciate the Far Eastern menace, and that more frequent and'more intimate conferences on naval and foreign affairs were essential. A bid for self-protection was the paramount idea at the Antipodes, and the Admiralty ought to take the. colonial Governments and Oppositions into its confidence and. settle a common line of action. The "Daily Mail" remarks that Mr. Greenwood's account strengthens the arguments in favour of an annual tour. There never was a perfect understanding between tho Motherland and the daughter States, and an understanding is more necessary now when defence was so largely engaging attention. (Rec. November 18, 10.15 p.m.) London, November 18. The members of the British Parliamentary party have arrived at Southampton, thus concluding their tour of the Oversea Dominions.