COLONIAL CONFERENCE.
DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE’S OPINION.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 8. The Duke of Devonshire, presiding at a meeting of the Empire League, said the Colonial Conference, dealing with three inseparable questions, would be governed mainly by tne question of Imperial defence. This could not wait. They must consider whether the present Colonial iorce was not of the utmost value in case of a great war. If the colonies assume the greater burden of Imperial defence, they should be entitled to a larger participation in the direction of the policy of the Empire’s commercial and ultimate political relations. The colonies had no reason to think that economic laws were an impediment to alternate free trade, or the nearest approach thereto, within every portion of the Empire.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 468, 9 July 1902, Page 2
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