Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 82, 13 March 1916, Page 5

Great Britain

"BULL AND SONS !" HUCHES; A CHARACTER SKETCH, REPRESENTATIVE OF GREATER BRITAIN. "THE FOAL AND ITS DAM!" NEW FIRM OF "BULL AND SONS." COMMON IMPERIAL POLICY. THE KAISER'S AIMS DEFEATED United Pbess Association (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, March 12. Mr Gardiner, editor of the Daily News, in the course of a character sketch of Mr Hughes, says ; "Mr Hughes is not here as a (picturesque figure, but as a representative statesman of Greater Britain, who has been called in to advise in the biggest work of Imperial reconstruction the world has ever seen. Australia, which is a lonely and thinly-populated Continent far away in the Pacific, saw Japan awaking to a new Power with ambitions equal to the United States under Roosevelt's adventurous lead, and looking over the waters with dreams of Empire. It is not a good world to lie alone .in, and the old attachment of a foal to' its dam has begun to bargain into a new relationship. Australasia lias arrived at manhood and desires to be taken into the firm. The great War has applied the touchstone of tremendous peril in a moment. Seen behind the externals of Empire, there was the vital and indestructible solidarity of an idea and motive interest. The Dominions themselves were astonished at the passion with which they rose to such height in a great urgency. The British Empire is n-vetU-d as if founded on a rock. Free institutions are fighting for British ideals against Prussian, and the reconstruction of the Empire is a task reconciling the liberty of its parts with the soldiarity of the whole for a common end. The idea of separa-

tiou on the fundamental matter of defence is no longer tenabie. "John Hull" must become "Bull and Sous" through the Imperial Parliament all sister nations will be organised lor the common Imperial policy. TinKaiser, who set out to destroy the Empire, has only rebuilt it on deeper and surer foundations." MAJOR WINSTON CHURCHILL. (Received 8.20 a.m.) London, March 12.

Major Winston Churchill had an interview with the Premier (Mr Asquith) yesterday. He has decided to return to the front to-day. PRESS COMMENT. LORD FISHER'S POWEFJS. (Received 8.20 a.m.) London, March 12. The Observer says: "If Lord Fisbet does not returned to his old post, he ought to have absolute control in construction. He possesses incommunicable and irreplaceable, power for getting big things done in .the shorty est time. We must meet the. meal-; culable. He is pre-eminent in anticipatory vision, audacity, and imagination of contrivances. Docs Mr Balfour suppose that any sailor is so well fitted to divine what is happening behind the impenetrable veil surrounding the new German construction?" THE MARRIED DERBYITES. (Received 8.20 a.m.) London, March 12. The Government promised Lord Derby that Asquith's pledge re the married Derbyites would be faithfully observed. The marrieds have been holding protest meetings. A new non-combat-ants corps has been formed who wear their own badge, and are non-trained in the squad drill and field engineering. . They will not bear arms, and the officers will be regulars. unfit for. gen-, era! ..service, j