IMPORTANT SPEECHES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 2 December 1912, Page 5

IMPORTANT SPEECHES

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)

BY WINSTON CHURCHILL,

AND LOR!) HALDANE

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, December 1

At a dinner tendered by the Eighty Club to the Right Hon Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Haldane, Minister of War, who presided, severely criticised th>' recent utterances of Lord Roberts It was one thing, he said, to lead troops into a field, and quite another to be a strategist. Lord Roberta had failed to appreciate the fact that the Navy must be the first line of defence. It would be a profound blunder to forsake compulsory service to the Imperial Navy. It was impossible to lind the money for both Navy I'nd f Army. Lord Haldane strongly pro- I tested against national service. Wc noticed that the Opposition was ah o drifting towards compulsory service. The Right Hon Winston Churchill paid that Britain,' Germany, Italy and Franco desired peace. They only h:-d / to continue the sincere, simple policy / which they had Veen following, and / trust one another in this, their th"e j of trouble. No power could drive j them from this, the path of sanity rnd * honour. He reiterated his person. 1 views concerning the federalism of Britain. He advocated larger and stronger units of local government than any existing, except in London, with the Imperial Parliament as :-. single Assembly, for the Govern me it of the United Kingdom'; but the Irish Parliament should.be a prelim jiarv.