Great Britain.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 68, 19 November 1915, Page 8

Great Britain.

ANGLO-FRENCH WAR COUNCIL, Umited Piiess association. Paris, November 17. The British Ministers were entertained at lunch, at which were present Generals JoffTe and Galffieni, MM. Viviaui, Bibot, and Laczi. The British Ministers will din© with M. Poincare at the Champs Elysees tonight. HALDANE’S DEFENCE. Loudon, November 18. Lord Haldane, speaking at Hampstead, said that he had been criticised for not warning the country and his colleagues about the war. The fact was that he had conveyed considerable information to his colleagues, and they immediately began activities, which resulted in our command of the sea. But for this Germany would now have been at Paris and Calais. All he had done had been recorded, and he did not fear the result when his actions will be revealed, at the proper time. THE EMPIRE QUESTION. London, November 18. Lord Milner, speaking at King’s College, said that ho was painfully conscious that the Empire question had hitherto not attracted the attention of the masses, while the working classes had even given evidence of hostility, but the war had awakened public opinion to the fact that “Empire did not mean militarism, but organic union, free for all the peoples of the Empire. It appealed more to the Colonies than the Motherland. The tremendous heat and strength of feeling evolved by the war provided the greatest, perhaps the only, opportunity of doing something decisive. We may find ourselves after the war forced up against on Imperial problem, but if we worked the stubborn Empire material into a new organic body there would be some compensation for the terrible sufferings of the war.”