THE NEXT WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3316, 21 October 1919, Page 3

THE NEXT WAR.

....-_—.-c.._. ' MB '.\'L-\SSEY’S PREDICTIONS. ‘ ---—~ " K A NAV.-X]. CON'I‘ES'I‘. 3 \\~‘El.Lll\“G’l‘()l\', Oct. 18. E l The Prime Mini-*tL‘-1"s speech on the‘ question of the govor.-nlnollt of Samoa in I ‘the House" this 'CVol\illg was :1 well—‘ glxxfox-11:m'l one, and seemed to make :1‘ ‘good impl'c.s'sion on both sides Cf the !}fl’ous;\. In his closing words he maxde ‘lit clear that. they wel"e nof taking up gtlm xvhihr nmn’.~‘-blxl‘(]cn in Samoa for J 'llmllc(]iute gain, but that it was 1100.08- . sary, porllaps. I'ol‘ ‘ih(‘.il' own ultimuie pl('sel‘v:‘.f’lon to have such st auigicz post. in the Southern Pa.cific_ The opening of the I’an:nml Canal gave an.:ld(lod imporiancc to such _ [ro;~'.se.~*sicrls in UN? }’il(’~ifi(:. 'l,‘}lml tlfoy‘ had _~\dlni.*'al Jullic.oc’s report in wln'c.h ' i‘C(€Ol)ln](?l)(l2]fi('HLilylflf Il‘l'o‘nlmL_d()lls im- ; pm-.:nlc-0 were made. - “I have :x fee]illg,” he said, ‘‘that.‘ K 1«‘,.~ nl_"~.\"_' war may b) a naval war, and i the storm centre may he in fhe]:’acific. I

“Th(-TIC‘, is fortunately no cloud (ml our hol‘i;'.m'l IlU\_fl but we must‘ be pre-1 pued, and we czuinnt leave our ]).‘f(\p;ll‘;l- - T 0 the last" immiont. We may_ not Ir,» ;I'r>lo :0 do H“ that Admiral Jollicoe I'm:m‘nlnouds~—l «]on’t think we shall—~ but we (rm; do smnething, mid’ should fhaf g,rl'.‘:lt day al‘l'i\'c.l believe we will unit!) as solidly in naval wai'faro as did the :.I.rmios of our Einpiro on the VVe.=.tuni. and other fron‘-is. \\'hnl’9 thr.-y did j}zis:~iice to T]l(‘lllS(‘l\’PS. to their ":Ic:.‘, and to flu‘ <’-'.mntriCs to pwhich they br--longcd.” -