THE EMPIRE TRADE COMMISSION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 66, 18 November 1913, Page 5

THE EMPIRE TRADE COMMISSION.

OUTSTANDING LESSON OF THE TOUR.

"SHAKES IN PEACE AND AVAR.'

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press Association.] (Received 10.10 a.m.) London, November 17.

Mr Greenwood, member of the Dominion Commission, in an interview, said that whatever partisans in England say, the Imperial Parliament in the estimation of Oversea kinsmen,' still stands for all that is highest and best in Imperial life. The outstanding flessbh of the tour is a desire on the part of the Dominions to share the future in peace and war with the Motherland. He found throughout Australia and New Zealand a general opinion that the Imperial Government did not appreciate the far Eastern menace, and that more frequent and intimate conferences on naval and foreign affairs were essential to bid for' self-protection. The paramount idea in the Antipodes is that the Admiralty ought to take the Colonial Governments and Oppositions into their confidence, and settle a common line of action.

' The Daily Mail states that Mr Greenwood's : account .strengthens the argument for an annual tour. There never was a perfect understanding between the- Motherland and the daughter States, and it was more necessary when the question of defence was so largely engaging attention.