UNITING THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 4 July 1907, Page 3

UNITING THE EMPIRE.

B.LL-HED STEAMERS SUPPORTED BY CANADIAN PREMIER. Z London, July 2. Speaking at the Canadian dinner at the Hotel Cecil, Sir Wilfrid Laiirier I warmly advocated an all-red line of stumers encircling the earth, as a liuly ' Imperial scheme. • He declared that ' Canada, New Zetland, aid Au-e • ;.i ' »t'K ready lo support it if the ErilMi ' people and Parliament were willing to ' accept the heavy responsibility. They could keep a ; ine of steamers rannio) between Liverpool and Xew York, ami surely what the United Kingdom had done for the foreigner it might lie willing to do for people living under the British flag. - The Times express, the nope that the British will be ua.ly to help ;\k.l and manv other -.lvut, to bind the m. tion together. Received 3rd, 9.20 p.m. London, July 3. The Westminster Gazette ex|>r.'->r*( the hope that the Government will regard the All Red Line proposal favorably if experts report that it would 1* able to fulfil Imperial objects, and e-*-pecially if it accelerates and improves tlie mail service between Canada and New Zealand.