BRITISH POLITICS.
[Phess Association.— Copihiohi.J DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE. THE FLEET AND THE ARMY. BELOIUM AND THE CONGO. LONDON, Friday. Mr McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at tho Fishmongers' Hall, made a strong pronouncement of tho Government's determined to fulfill Mr Asquith's pledge to fully maintain the relative superiority of the Fleet to that of Germany. The Government recognised that Belgium's annexation of the Congo as Belgium's purely dodomestic concern. "The Times" regrets tho decision at a moment when Sir Edward Grey is still pressing in a friendly spirit for precise information of the steps Belgium proposes with a view to remedying admitted abuses. Mr Haldane, Secretary for War, in a speech in London, while combating compulsory service as regards regulars, referred contemptuously to the man who amuses himself and does nothing for his country. Ho remarked that not improbably a short and sharp Act of Parliament in war time would compel him to do his duty in home defence in some very inconvenient and unpleasant part of the country.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 30 January 1909, Page 3
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