Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 99, 2 December 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

THE BONDS OF EMPIRE

MR BONAR LAW'S CHEERY

WORDS.

"UNBREAKABLE BONDS.”

United I’renn Ahsoouxior. (Received 8.30 a.m.) London, December 1

Mr Bonar Law (Secretary of State for-the Colonies), it the St. Andrew’s Day banquet, said: "Though -there might not be gooii news for months, and though we may have bad news yet, I am convinced we arc moving slowly but inexorably to victory. The British in Flanders can give two shells for the enemy’s one, and we have nothing to fear on the West front. The silent Navy’s pressure is telling more on Germany weekly. The relations between different parts of the British Empire will never be the same again. The war will have the result of welding the Empire into unbreakable bonds. NO PEACE NEGOTIATIONS WITH GERMANY. <t.' : ’ - r.i (Received 8.30 a.m.) ■London, December 1. Lord Haldane, speaking at King’s College, said that for the purposes of peace the German Nation did not exist, as peace could not be negotiated with the General Staff, into* whose hands German democracy had let its power go. “JAUNDICED SHEETS.” STRICTURES ON THE TIMES AND THE DAILY MAIL.

United Pkfab .Asbociat.ox. (Receiytd «8.3 Q pum.) ~-u r: ,Lpndon, ..December 1, In the House of Commons, Mr Ronald McNeill, discussing Sir, John Sindh’s stateinfew ®ld they heard ho* allusion to an aijicle. in The Nation saying it would be better to lose the war than) lope ftMuntary service. 1 f -i Mr Hodge said that while he did not think that the Northcliffe press wa,sj(jvic|ke,c|| to* t heiiptle m -the country, it was unfortunate that The Times and the Daily Mail articles had created a very uneasy feeling in France. . The Journalists and the Home Office had singled out the Daily. Mail and The Times, for. unfair treatment, while the Daily Chrongo I .scot free. 1 Sir llobfcrte Cedil said* it was a delusion to imagine-that this was a case worked* 1 tip *hy Hho 1 . connected with another paper in order to injure The Tivm 334i*i^ es such as those referred to would have a discouragiiyp pffecjt *flrt our friends in the Balkans,- tending ”tr> produce ah impression that we were done for, were not in earnest, and; that our workmen were idlers and drunkards. Sir John Simon added: We in England know the true value of these jaundiced sheets, but they are a constant disappointment to our Allies and a distrust to the Neufrals, while the Germans found in them their principal consolation. The Foreign Office had constantly brought these influences under the Home Office’s notice. Several members had taunted the Government with being afraid to suppress The Times and the Daily. Mail because they were owned by wealthy men. Dr. Dillon had; charged the Northcliffe press with trying to embroil Britain and America at the most critical period of the war. If the Daily Mail were shut down for a few weeks it would cool the Northcliffe crowd considerably.

THE NORTHCLIFFES IN DEFENCE* REASONS FOR CRITICISM. THE DAILY NEWS’HITS OUT. [United Press association.] (Received 9.30 a.m.) London December 1. The Times comments on Sir John Simon’s effort as' merely another attempt to renew last week’s attacks, which had failed so egregiously. if Ministers would attack the Geimans with half the energy they devote to The Times, they would he a good deal nearer winning the war. The Daily Mail states that the Northcliffe press was attacked because it criticised the Government’s slackness and blunders in order to obtain a more vigorous prosecution of the war. The Daily News says that the Northcliffe press since the war had held up the country to scorn, causing mischief between the Allied and neutral countries and our forces. The Government should not tiifle faitbei, for the Nations in peril must not longer lie spent by an incendiary journalist.