TWO SURPRISES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2643, 14 December 1915, Page 5

TWO SURPRISES

I ONE FOR US AND ONE FOR - TBEjaUNS By TeleerapU—Press Association-Copyright London, December 12. Lord Rosebery, in a stirring speech at Edinburgh on the occasion of the opening of a club for colonial soldiers, said lie did not like the words ' 'colonies" and "colonials.". He thought we had expunged them from the languago long ago, substituting the magnificent words "Dominion" and "Commonwealth," expressing iihe grand Empire which sprang from the British Isles. He regretted, find all friends of the Empire regretted, that the words wore creeping in again. In this war there had been two surprises. "Germans had visited us with genial smiles and Judas kisses; their chief cane l with his chief spy, amid tho acclamations of a simple-hearted nation; bland deputations came calling us Teutons .and brothers; crowds of oily burgomasters and silver-tongued professors came preaching amity and brotherhood. Yot Germany all the time, was plotting a war which meant the ruin and devastation of the earth. That was our siurprise. But, Germany's foul idea of conquest, God helping us, would never be realised. "But Germany had had her surprise. Prussia had sent spies and emissaries everywhere—to India, Egypt, Canada, and Australia. With what result? They (India, _ Egypt, Canada, and Australia) le;iped up with a common impulse the'moment war was declared, and rushed to the assistance of the. Mother Country. Come weal, come woe,- tho British Empire is a fact with which tho universe has got to deal. Wo are able to confront any danger while we stick together.;, The valour of the overseas troops at tho Dardanelles will never be forgotten." Lord Eosebery added that a gentleman namjd Ford, who he believed made perambulators, was coming to pour -oil on tho troubled waters. He hoped Mr. Ford would not) get into mischief. * A CLOSER IMPERIAL UNION Rome, December 12. The/'Corriere d'ltalia" publishes an interview with Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster. Tho Cardinal said he had steadfast faith in tho Allies' final victory. Gorman? had succeeded in bringing about a closer union of the British.Empire. England and Ireland had acted like two sisters who had quarrelled together, but when threatened by an outsidor had immediately turned againiit tho latter.