CINFFERENCE.

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CINFFERENCE.

Junction.

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H< wieir eha r \ /ABLE SCREECHES TO PREf DELEGATES. i • 'OVNT ESHER AND LOl CHARLES BERESFORD. Received June 28, 12.20 a.m.) LONDON, June 27, ; * Press Conference day.y Lord Esher, presiding " 'osing session, said that than due jo Joseph Chamberlain, C •eo’y. (present Under-Secretary f denies), Lord Rosebery, and Ce 5 -for|blie fact that the conceptii pire f: to-day was wholly differe: ihat in the seventies. Diffici •gan when they passed from beli •ion. ;At . -first it was necessa. ■e slowly and prudently towan serial navy. This nieaut tin officers and sailors all over tl would be not only • -willing 1 it trained to fight, side by sit' ! same fleet. The delegates woul they limited -consideration t would be practicable withi Thus there would be cles a able statesmen to achiev arcs. Tiie Dominion fence themselves. • Thei -• not the Admiralty officers,a who learne, own fleet. ' The militar; .1 be summed up in tbrei General Staff/.’ wherein .d material for war conic i.sed throughout the Empire mt not only a navy and.ai: wganisation in peace of ah <s, financial and other, for " of the people. \ He Iffipe- - -me when .rward to the -y—.. /,. f j© of Imperial Defence e« , a member) would he •cl by the addition of overmtatives. lARLES BERESFORD’S VIEW. FOR GRAVE ANXIETY. ceive'd Jnue 28, 1.5 a.m.) Charles Bereslord said: “The ,nt note of all statesmen addresse conference lia/f been grave f- ha/ not been exd -without i-ec!sOn. In my opinion •ason is. that they know we are: repared. The colonial offers to ,a Dreadnoughts are the severest idemnation possible of Britain’s Initial defence policyw ; The overseas it ions have recognised what Britain ~'dit to have recognised earlier, that Britain' has arrived at. a time when it * imposvibie to maintain the twoPower standard without the overseas dominions helping. .