THE WAR CLOUD. ENGLAND PREPARING.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 264, 16 May 1888, Page 4

THE WAR CLOUD. ENGLAND PREPARING.

Lom)On, May 12 The Ilead-tjiiaitervS Staff rccom- ! mended that the Second English Army > Corps be immediately placed on a war footing, and tliat the lcgulars be supplied with Magazine Rides.

: STATEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF 1 Loms.

London, May 12. In the House of Lords, Viscount Hardm^c questioned the Ouke of Cambridge as Lo the authorship o\ statements made \>y the " J)aily Telegraph," on the defcetivcne.ss ot the deience.s ot ( ii cat Jjtitam. The Duke, in icply, discredited the statement made by the "Telegiaph" «md said lie belie\ed that the Government iully lecognised the impoitance of the mattei. Lord Sahsbun ussuied the Loids that the (!o\emment woie exeicising ilia utmost vigilance in the delence of A\u country in the present state of iD'aiift in Euiopo. Negligence by the (Jovernment in sneh a matter would be ;) giave dereliction oi duly. At the same time, ir, would not be politic to disclose the nature of die piecautions being take)). The Premier fuither, in his 'emarks, depiecaled any p.tuic, and piotested tliat the stutenicnts tuade b}' liOid W'olsele} at a dinner speech, in which he charged the (iovemment with neglecting the defences of ({real Ihit-iiu, should have been ventilated in I\u h.tniciit.