NOT PLAYED OUT!

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3528, 20 May 1912, Page 5

NOT PLAYED OUT!

THE SPIRIT OF OLD BRITAIN STIRRING SREECH BY EARL GREY AT THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE. MOTHER LION AND HER CROWING CUBS. BURDEN OF EAIPIRE TO BE: PROPERLY SHARED. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT! (Received Alay 19, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 18. Ati the Colonial Institute Empire Day dinner Earl Grey, ex-Governor-General of Canada, presided, and there were 300 guests, including Sir William Hall-Jones (N-Z. High Commissioner) and the Australian AgentsGeneral. Dr. G. R. Parkin, in proposing “The Overseas Dominions” said that he believed that tlie people on the outskirts of the Empire would respond to Air Churchill’s -appeal and would patrol the distant seas. Earl Grey said that besides desiring to teach the Motherland the resources of th© oversea dominions, the Institute might teach the oversea dominions the greatness of the motherland and prove that the spirit of Britain was not played -out. He knew thousands in -Canada who envied the Alotherland the privilege of bearing the burden of Empire, and who were counting the day when they would be able to claim a share.

Sir A. Lawler (Governor of Aladras) replying to the overseas toast, asked were the people of Britain to bear the whole burden of the Navy or were they to share it with their overseas brethren.? On the happy solution of this problem depended the future welfare and existence of the Empire.

A SCIENTIST’S SUGGESTION. BRITAIN’S NITRE SUPPLY. CANNOT IT BE OBTAINED FROAI THE AIR? (Received Alay 19, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Alay 18. Professor Ramsay, before the British Science Guild, urged in the interests of National defence the manufacturing of nitre from the atmosphere instead of relying on Chilian and Peruvian supplies, which an enemy would probably capture.

CANADA’S DESTINY. “THE HEART OF THE EMPIRE.” A PROUD AND PATRIOTIC CLAIM OTTAWA, Alay 18. Air White (Alinister for Finance), speaking at Toronto, said it was necessary for the five nations of the Empire to get together for the purposes of Defence Act agreement. Federation _of the Empire at the present time did not present any difficultv.

. Canada was destined, he said, to be the Empire’s heart in the future.

ENGLAND’S WORLD MONOPOLY. GERMAN FEARS EXPRESSED. MB CHURCHILL’S APPEAL MISUNDERSTOOD. (Received Alav 19, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, Alay 18. The Kreuz Zeitung says that Air Churchill proposes., with the help of the strong navies of the dominions, to control the trade and naval movements of all the Powers on the face of the earth. It is his aim, the paper says, to secure England’s world monopoly.