ARBITRATION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10191, 18 March 1911, Page 5

ARBITRATION

THE PROPOSED TREATY.

BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.

(Received March 17, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, March 16

The Rev. Robert Horton (Congregational), the Rev. C. Silvester Home (Congregational), the Rev. J. H. Shakespeare, (secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland), and other Free Church leaders, in a letter to The Times, say that they and thousands whom they represent are ready to follow Sir Edward Grey. Mankind was becoming sick and impatient with the ineptitude that was driving a great nation to waste its resources on war armaments, that was threatening an outbreak of war from the mere tension of an intolerable strain.

LORD REAY FAVOURS THE

SUGGESTION

(Received March 17, 0.10 a.m.) LONDON, March 16

.Lord Reay, interviewed, said an arbitration agreement between Great Britain; and>the- United States would be a great advantage in;.the interests of the world's peace, and lead to an important extension of arbitration in international disoutes. He favours Sir Edward Grey's suggestion. Lord' Charles Beresford, also interviewed, said the time had arrived when the English-speaking countries should combine to prevent war. "Peace," he said, "is absolutely essential to us."

DIVERGENT OPINIONS

(Received March 17, 9.17 a.m.)

LONDON, March 16;

Divergent opinions are expressed regarding the passage in the speech made by Sir E. Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) in which he suggested that Mr Taft's proposal for an arbitration treaty would probably lead to a further agreement for mutual help in case one of the signatories had a quarrel with a third who refused to submit the issue to arbitration.

The Washington correspondent of The Times declares that the latter suggestion is academic and a pious wish. Had it been less obviously so it would have prejudiced the trans-atlantic prospects of Mr Taft's original proposals As the matter stands, the speech tended to make the situation brighter.

PRESIDENT TAFT,

WHAT HE MAY PROBABLY DO

(Received March 17, 9.20 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, March 16

President Taft will probably submit, during the session of Congress which will commence in December next, a proposal for an unlimiied arbitration treaty between Great Britain and the United States.

An informal exchange of .views between the two Governments' is now taking place.

LABOUR IfANIFESTO

A PROTEST

(Received March 17, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, March 16

The Parliamentary Labour Party has issued . a.*,■ manifesto protesting agaihst;'the- hege 1 Naval Estimate's/ being a menace to international peace.

BRITISH ■■• s ■•*••„' - f* A PROTRACTED STRUGGLE. > *

(Received March 17, 1 p.m.)

LONDON, March 10

The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr McKenna, in introducing the Navy Estimates in the House of Commons, said that they must ensure that after a protracted struggle, the country would he safe. "We cannot," he added, "afford a fortnight's doubt." The. loan suggested was adoptablei only in the event of exceptional circumstances.