GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 July 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

©- —— CANADIAN PRESSMEN ARRIVE. Received 8.50 a.m, LONDON, July 11. ,A, party of, Canadian editors and proprietors has, arrived for the purpose of learning Homeland conditions at first-hand after four years of war.

PENSIONS AND PARTY POLITICS. THEIR SEPARATION DESIRABLE. Qa ; Received 8.55 a.m. • ' V LONDON, July 11. 0 ■' in the House of Commons Mr. Barlow moved that it is essential that all questions relating to pensions should be kept free from party oplitics. He said corruption in public life was inevitable if pensions became a matter for political bargaining. Mr. Bouar Law said if the parties began seeking .election on the strength of what they were going to do regarding pensions a most' demoralising campaign would ensue. The House of Commons ought to carry a resolution showing that they were determined to keep the question outside of ordinary politics. The resolution was accepted. THE ROYAL SILVER WEDDING. KING AND QUEEN OP BELGIUM IN LONDON. . LONDON, July 10. The King and Queen of the Belgians are visiting London in connection with the silver wedding. It is revealed that they arrived on Saturday, by aeroplane. They are the first monarchs to descend on Britain from the skies. DEMONSTRATION AT ALBERT HALL. ORATION BY LORD CURZON. Received 11.40 a.m. LONDON, July 11. The • “Daily Chronicle” says two seaplanes brought the King and Queen of Belgium to England, On Tuesday evening they left Belgium, where King Albert has spent the war period, and shared the fortunes of tn© troops. The ’planes were unattended by cscirts and alighted in the vicinity of a Channel port, and their Majesties landed after a flight without incident. The Kings and Queens of Britain and Belgium attended a crowded demonstration at Altiert Hall in houour if Belgium, and received a tremendous ovation. Lord Curzon delivered an oration on the" “Glory of Belgium. 5 ’ He said this was summed up in King Albert’s am dress to his Parliament, and by Mr. Asquith in 1914, when he said the 1 country that defends itself command’s respect, and that such a nation would never perish. King Albert had thus become the symbol of the world’s fretk dom. It was for the sake of Belgium that we entered the Avar, but it Avas Europe, for the world, for liberty, and for right the': wo continued to pursue it.