DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE
COMMENTS ON SIR JOSEPH WARD'S SPEECH. By Cable —Press Ass»clatioo—Copyright, Received 15, 11.10 p.m. London, March 15. A number of the provincial newspapers make favorable comment on Sir Joseph Ward's speech. The Leeds Mercury, a Liberal organ, declares that New Zealand is always in the forefront with freshening ideas, and aays the time is approaching when it will be necessary to establish an Imperial body to administer the armed forces of the Crown. The Yorkshire Observer, in a critical article, states that Sir Joseph Ward's proposal for an Imperial War Parliament to make a circuit of the capitals of the Empire, suggests Macauly's New Zealander on the ruins of London Bridge. Nevertheless Britain's population ensures her dominant authority for many years. The Manchester Courier says that New Zealand, with a population the size of Lancashire, has made sacrifices for the Empire that are unmatched throughout the Dominions. The spirit of the Labor party controlling politics in the Antipodes is'very different from that of the Laborites in the Commons, who regard the defence of the country as a form of militarism and lunacy.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 16 March 1911, Page 5
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186DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 16 March 1911, Page 5
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