IMPERIAL DEFENCE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 33, 8 February 1913, Page 5

IMPERIAL DEFENCE

SPEECHES AT NAVY LEAGUE LUNCHEON THE EMPIRE'S ROLL OF HONOUR NO NAME HIGHER THAN SIR JOSEPH WARD'S. By Telegraph.— Pres* Aasooiation.- Copyright. LONDON, 7th February. Among those present at the Navy League luncheon to Sir Joseph Ward were the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, Mr. W. H. Long, M.P., Lady' Ward, and the Hon. T. and Mrs. Mackenzie. Mr. R. A. Yeiburg, M.P., in proposing Sir Joseph Ward's health, said that when the time came for the Dominions to answer the question whether they would side with the Motherland on the sea", New Zealand's response was prompt, firm, and magnificent. There was no name higher than Sir Joseph Ward's on the Empire's roll of honour. Sir Joseph Ward, in reply, said he was anxious to see Empire defenco removed from party politics. Mr. Allen, in responding to the toast "Imperial Defence," said Britain had so long been sale that perhaps danger was not felt. They sometimes wondered whether Britain was quite awake. The gift ship was a visible evidence of what New Zealand was prepared to do. He ventured to say that New Zealand was «yen more patriotic than the Motherland. The Dominion was prepared to make still greater sacrifices, for there must be a permanent and not a spasmodic sacrifice. Australia \vae" making a very great sacrifice, not that she might separate from the Empire, but to consolidate it. Neither could it be supposed that Canada had yet leached a sUgo at which she was satisfied to remain. OFFER TO DELAY THE NEW ZEALAND ANOTHER OF THE MANY DEEDS OF PATRIOTISM. _„ „ LONDON, 7th February. The Daily Mail applauds New Zealand s offer to defer the filing of the New Zealand. It cays this ndda yet another to the many deeds of patriotism which have laid Britaiti under euch a heavy debt, STRONGEST BINDING LINK. . NEXT TO THE CROWN, THE NAVY. (Received February 8, 10.45 a.m.) mv r> it lo^ I ?, o^' 7th February. The Pall Mail Gazette states that the luncheon notably demonstrated that after the Crown the Navy is the strongest link binding the Empire. A united defence movement is uhmistakably developing.