INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 268, 22 March 1911, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ASPECT. "THE GERMAN BOGEY." By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. London, March 20. • Mr. G. N. Barnes, M.P., in a speech at Walworth, said that he hoped Sir Edward Grey would not overdo the Anglo-American aspect. An American alliance might well bring new troubles, hut the German bogey had got to be buried. Dr. Clifford, at Westbourne Park Church, said that the pronouncements of Mr. Taft and Sir E. Grey introduced a new factor into the international situation. Hitherto the ideal had been never to fight unless previously there had been arbitration. Now the ideal was to arbitrate and never to fight. After Dr. Horton's address at Lyndkurst Road Congregational Church, Hampstead, the congregation rose to their feet to signify assent, and then ißank on their knees while prayer was offered for the success of Sir Edward Grey's proposals. Mr. Gibson Bowles, speaking at Bath, said lie feared the world would regard the treaty as an offensive and defensive alliance of Anglo-Saxons in order to dominate the world, and thus it would lead not to peace but to war. The Venerable W. Danks, Vice-Dean of Canterbury, in a sermon, said it was well to hold sane views of war, and •while welcoming a league of peace that should not be a reason for encouraging unpreparedness and lack of discipline or public spirit. CANADA'S PREMIER PROPHESIES. Received 21, 11.25 p.m. Ottawa, March 21. Sir Wilfrid Laurier warmly supports the Anglo-American arbitration proposals, and eulogises Sir Edward Grey's speech. He looks to the future for the realisation of a peace union of Englishspeaking peoples.