GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 19 November 1915, Page 4

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

LORD HALDANE ON HIS CRITICS,

“I AM NOT AFRAID."

LONDON, Nov. 18

U°rd Haldane, speaking at Hampstead, said he had been criticised for not warning the country and his colleagues about the war. The fact was that he conveyed considerable inf(*fc mation to his colleagues and they i™ mediately began activities which resulted in our command of the sea, but for which Germany would now have been at Paris and Calais. All ho had done had been recorded. He did not fear the result when his actions were revealed at the proper time.

THE EMPIRE QUESTION.

LORD MILNER'S VIEWS

LONDON, Nov. IS,

Lord Milner, speaking at King'sCollege, said he was painfully conscious that the Empire question had' hitherto, not attracted the masses,, while the working classes had even evidenced hostility, but the war had' weakened public opinion that the Empire did not mean militarism. The organic union of the free peoples of theEmpire appealed more to the colonies than to the Motherland. The tremendous heat, strength, and feeling evolved by the war provided the greatest —perhaps the only—opportunity of doing something decisive. We find ourselves, after the war, forced up against the Imperial problem. If we worked the stubborn Empire material’ into a new organic body it would be some compensation for the terriblesufferings of the war.

NATURALISED P.C.’S,

SHOULD THEY RETAIN TITLES?'

LONDON. Nov,

I In the ease before the King's Bench, in which Sir Edgar Speyer and Sir Ernest Cassel are called upon to prove that they are entitled to membership of the Privy Council, Sir Frederick Smith (Attorney-General) and leading barristers have commenced' a vigorous argument as to whether the statute prevented the King making: naturalised subjects members of the Privy Council. Sir Ernest Cassel’s affidavit stated that he was naturalised’ in 1878, and had lived in England since 1871. His business and social interests had been there, and his sympathies always had been with England. AID his male relatives of military ago were serving with the British forces. . He was deeply attached to Britain. (A cable received to-day says that judgment was reserved.)

ANOTHER AMERICAN SENSATION.'

OVERSHADOWING THE WAR,

(Reed 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 18. Questions exciting more interest in the United States than the war have arisen over the action of Doctor Harry Haiselden, who, finding a defective,, abnormal child, born in Chicago, decided to allow; it to die rather than perform an operation which was certain to save its life, but would never make it normal. The mother approved. The medical profession agreed that the only possible course was that followed by the Coroner, who justified Dr. Haiselden on the ground that it was impossible for the child ever to become normal. Churches opinions are divided.