REBUKE AND REPLY.

Wairarapa Age, 9 February 1927, Page 5

REBUKE AND REPLY.

MR. BRUCE AND HIS CANADIAN SPEECHES. A FLAT DENIAL. MELBOURNE, February 8. Referring to the rebuke offered him by the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr S. M. Bruce said: i ‘l never at any time made any suggestion regarding what Canada ought to do in the matter of national defence.”—(P.A.). (Addressing University students at Toronto on Saturday, the Premier, Mr. Mackenzie King, referring to the Canadian speeches of Mr. Bruce, dealing with the Dominions’ contributions to defence, said: “I say, as Prime Minister of Canada, that he has made my task a much more difficult one than it would otherwise have been. I think the Canadian people can much more easily and satisfactorily decide their own matters without the advice of visitors from other countries.” Addressing the Canadian Club at Toronto on January 4, according to a cable message received and published here next day, Mr. Bruce said that every selfgoverning British Dominion must undertake its full quota of the cost of defence to its utmost ability or else accept a position of inferiority in the Empire. He read a table -giving Australia’s per capita expenditure for this purpose at 64 cents compared with Canada’s 22 cents.)