IMPERIAL PRESS CONGRESS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 117, 16 June 1909, Page 2

IMPERIAL PRESS CONGRESS

SEEINti THE COUNTRY. London, June 14. A party nnmbcriiig' 1(H) visited Coventry. The city was decorated anil Uie thoroughfares crowded. Tin- d"lcgaics inspected the Daimler works, tnen motored to Warwick and hud luiKlieon at the castle. The weather was lirillianl i'nr motoring. From Warwick they went to Stratford, linllburv, and then to Ox.fold, travelling on new Daimler cars with tlie Knight silent engines.

GERMAN CRITICISM. Berlin, June 14. Very incomplete sports of the speeches arc published in the l!erlin newspapers, lint the unofficial newspapers are vacillating between tlie views cabled on the lltli inst. allegi-ig panic and the opinion tlmt the conference is a prelude to sober business-like actions. A semi-official telegram from Berlh to the Cologne Gazette states: "Britain is a grown-up nation and knows what naval armaments are good for it. The German people may ol)ject to wllnt underlies these armaments, namely, a substratum of unjustified mistrust of Germany, but there is not the slightest disposition to interfere with armaments. So far as we are concerned, England can build us many Dreadnoughts as siie likes without our feeling any patriotic uneasinesa of the consequence." DELEGATES IMPRESSED, WHAT TIIK FUTURE DEPENDS ITON. Received 15, 10 p.m. London, June 15. Mr. Haldane (Minister for War), peaking at the Borderers' banquet in London, said the impression made upon the Imperial Press delegates ,was one of relief to the extent which Anny problems had .been solved. The Fleet stood first in the order of necessity and the Ai|my organisation was essential in order to malic the Fleet 'effective, the dominions now recognising the future depended upon the Empire's defence as a whole.

A DELEtiATIi INTERVIEWED. lieeeived 15, 11.45 p.m. London. June 15. Mr. Hudson llerkelev (a New South WaliN delegates to the Pre>s Conference), interviewed, stilted Hint he w"Js t-07)viii<»cil the Australians were right in deciding to first provide for the defeii'-e of their own shores. He added: "We are going to stick to the Old Country as long as we have a shillimr at our posal.'* The Labor Party was as fully alive to these matters as' any class.