PRESS CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3214, 14 June 1909, Page 5

PRESS CONFERENCE.

SPEECHES OF MINISTERS. GERMAN PRESS COMMENTS. "TO FRIGHTEN THE COLONIES." United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. BERLIN, June 11. The "Berliner Tageblatt," commenting on the proceedings at the Imperial Press Conference, says the speeches of Ministers, actual and prospective, were intended to frighten the colonies into making extraordinary sacrifices for the Navy. They must not be taken too tragically. The"Vossische Zietung" laments that the speeches at the Press Conference are addressed to the colonial gallery. When colonial goodwill,had been attained, another song would be sung in London. The "Lokal Anzeiger" says the speeches at the conference, with the preceding events, suggest that England has gradually reached a state of mind permitting the worst to be. feared. MILITARY REVIEW. DELEGATES HONOURED. LONDON, June 11. The delegates to the Imperial Press Conference, at the invitation of the War Office, to-day visited Aldershot, and witnesjed a sham fight and grand military review. On arrival at Brook wood station, shortly after 10 o'clock, of the special train conveying the delegates, the close contact stage of a battle was in full progress in the surrounding country, about twenty thousand men ing engaged. The delegates wer-3 taken by motor car round the battlefield, and watched the operations from different points of vantage, the military situation being explained to them by offi cers told off for the purpose. The display concluded with a grand march past. General Sir J. D. French, Inspsc-tor-General of the Forces, and Mr R. B Haldane, Secretary for War, entertained the delegates at luncheon. Yesterday the Right Hon. Sydney Buxton, Postmaster-Gen:ral, received the delegates to the Imperial Press Conference at the Post Office,, where they were shown the organisation working uf the various branches of the vast establishment. Mr Murray, late nf the New Zealand "Herald/' showed the Murray multiplex. Among other machines exhibited was the Gell keyboard perforator, the invention of a New Zeaiander, once in the telegraph service at Nelson, New Zealand.