SPEECH BY LORD LANSDOWNE.
ADVANTAGE OF LITTLE EBULLITIONS. HOPEFUL SIGNS FOR FUTURE. By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright, LONDON, December BO Lord Lansdownc, .speaking at tiic United .Service Club dinner in London, referring to the Venezuelan trouble, said that such little ebullitions were not without advantage. He was glad to sec British and German sailors unitedly enforcing just demands. Italy bad given Great Britain indispensable facilities against the Mullah in .Somaliland. Great Britain, lie said, must maintain her invincibility on the sea. The burden of bearing, naval expenditure was borne in a good cause, and Japan was now a partner. He did not agree that the Imperial Conference had produced small results. Frank interchange of ideas had paved the way for a future agreement for many years on commercial, naval, military, and financial questinns of vital importance to tlie Motherland a’nd her dependencies. Although ‘it was untrue that all An-glo-French questions were settled, the wind was blowing in the right direction;,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 695, 15 December 1902, Page 2
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