READY! AYE, READY!

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 34, 3 August 1911, Page 5

READY! AYE, READY!

NAVAL PAGEANT WITH A HIDDEN FIST. CORONATION REVIEW ON A WAR FOOTING. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, July 27. j Facts are earning to light disclosing that the glamor of the memorable naval j pageant held in connection with the Coronation concealed a Hidden Fist of tremendous power. The whole demonstration was in reality nothing less than a mobilisation of the entire British fleet on a war footing. Every vessel taking part had its coal bunkers'fufl, and its ammunition stores replenished to war capacity. The immense significance of this warlike demonstration can be beat realised when it is remembered that a naval mobilisation is always regarded amongst the nations as an ultimatum. In the light of the disclosures in this connection, other incidents that might otherwise have passed without comment become pregnant with interest. Mr. Lloyd-George addressed a gathering of tho London bankers. Though one of the finest impromptu speakers in the British Isles, the Chancellor of the Exchequer for once departed from his custom, and read a carefully-prepared address. This address differed as widely from Mr. Lloyd-George's utterances at the time of the Boer War as the Mr. Burns, M.P., of to-day differs from the Mr. Burns, M.P., of Trafalgar Square notori- j eiy. In tlio course of his remarks to the bankers the Chancellor said that the domestic situation in Great Britain was attracting so much attention at the moment that foreign affairs were apt to become overshadowed. Nevertheless, it was evident from the guarded nature of his remarks that the Government is fully awake to its respon- : sibilities abroad.' He declared that the | Government favored peace, but not peace at the price of sacrificing the great place and prestige occupied amongst the nations by Britain, and which had been won by centuries of heroism. The ad-, dress made a great sensation. !