IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
SPEECH BY SIR EDMUND BARTON.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigb London, July 28.
Sir Edmund Barton, in a speech at Edinburgh, said that none of the colonial Premiers, any more in matters of trade than in matters of warfare, would sit down and wait to be kicked. If in the Homo trade an arrangement could be made calculated to contribute to the Empire’s cohesion and preservation of its integrity, they might call that any game invented by political economists, yet if it was, the same thing might be good. He hoped there would come a better understanding relative to common defence, without too much bargaining, also in regard to trado relations. With free playautonomy was the greatest gift of Briton to Briton, which no Briton possessing it would ever surrender. Melbourne, July 20.
Mr Deakiu, referring to the Imperial Conference, said it was clear that the idea that Australia was gradually building up her own navy had received little sympathy from the British authorities. The Imperial proposal was practically to the effect that they were prepared to place any and every class of warship in Australian waters, if they were prepared to pay for maintenance,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 489, 30 July 1902, Page 4
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