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Imperial Conference Problems.
*** Ten years ago there was ono defence, force and one farsign policy for the Empire Now there are as many as there are Dominions within it.' Such an Agreement
na the Canadian-American Trinty is the
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outward and visible sign of a new em in $1 per inchi 3 insertions. The great Imperial Conference, which is Imperial politics, and one which obviously $ .. now assembled in London, will not, says demands the closest attention of the grost Public Opinin, be a Colonial Conference--Imperial gathering which is to assemble it will be the meeting of Four Nations with † next month. the Mother Nation in family conclave DOMINIONS AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS.- gathering of the Fire Nations.
The-Governments of the Deannonse What are Canada, Austlin, New Zeave never in their history been confronted land, nad South Africa to discuss with the with the full realities of international United Kingdon Certainly questions of politics," adds the Times They have perist defence will be discussed-but puver been called upon to decide between defence is affected by foreign policy, and peace and war with a foreign nation. Dur Me Earcourt, the Colonial Secretary, informed the Commons last week that the ing the stage of their adolescence they Dominion Ministers will be admitted into have necessarily been dependent for pretee the Mother Country's werets of defence tion on the strength of the Mother Country, and foreign policy.
and as a natural corollary, they bare left o the statesmen of the Mother Country the decision of their foreign policy. They their ownpart, in those problems of internal have been almost entirely absorbed, for
development, the solution of which was in the first instance their best contribution to the common strength of the Empire. That state of affairs is plainly coming tol an end in these days, coming to an end more rapidly than the most fa-seeing of
predict a few years back. The Dominions political prophets would have ventured to have already reached the stage at which circumstances compel them to look beyond their borders.
This information is to be given under pledge of secrecy, The Nation suggests that "when a sort of control over for BIB policy in thus conceded to the Colonies, our own Parliament may possibly be piqued into demanding equal rights with New. foundland." This is a point worthy of
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Boogkong May 23, 1911.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above-named Company will be held at the HONG KONG HOTEL, at 12 NOON, on TUESDAY, the 30th day of
lutions will be submitted:
consideration.
THE INTERNATIONAL DRAMA.
position of the self-governing Colonice with Mr Lyttelton pointed out the "presan their position twenty or twenty-five years ago, Then the British Navy was perfectly adequate for their protection; but now vast national navies had been added to vast Armies, and it had become doubtful whether With the accomplishment of South this country unassisted would much longer African Union the last of them has definitely be able to give the Dominions the same pro- achieved the status of a nation, and their tion. The Dominionsgere Dow inde self-respect as nations is leading them, in Pendent, nwing allegianco ocly to the one form or another, to undertake a gro Grown, and they were no longer out of the
in
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ing of Hongkon be appointed be at war, would the Dominions be hisa ut Liquidators with power for any one war? What foreign policy would they of thera to exercise any of the powers support1" of such Liquidators.
The above Resolutions if passed will required confirmation at a subsequent Extraordinary Generd Meeting.
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The Day Chromée believes that the issue of the fasperinl Conference will be dudem we misread all the signs of the times, a reorganisation of the British Empire, a far as the Dominious in relation to the Mother Country are concerned on the basis of The Five Nations,”
DISSATISFACTION OF THE DOMINIONS,
That the Dominĵous do not like the
they are acquiring commercial and indus-
trial interests which are not identical, and insome cases actually conflict, with those of these Islands; they are being driven ata dozen points into practical world-politics on their own seg unt. Wo many recognisio gladly that, in their dealings with these new external questions, the leafing states. men of the Dominions showing every year keener sense of their responsibilities to the Empire.
FOREIGN POLICS A SKÁLED BOOK... Sach a speech as General Stouts, des
the TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL present Colonial fos danger the livered the other day at Cape Town on the ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of notorious," adds the Chronicle; and the hubject of Asintic immigration presents & the Company (since its registration) will be
held at the BONGBONG HOTEL, Hongkong, feeling finds expression in the subjects host remarkable contrast to the kelish on FRIDAY, the 2nd day of June, 1011, which have been suggested for discussion attitude commonly ascribed to South At-11.30 the Report of the repose of receiving at the Conference. The New Zealand African politicians, and suggests the hope of the General Manager, Government have propised an elaborate that we are at last in sight of a settlement together with a Biatament of Accounts to scheme both for the reconstitution of the of one of the most difficult of the many the 31st December, 1910.
The REGISTER of SHARES will be Colonial Ofice, and for the better or problems of population with which the CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 30th inst,ganisation of Imperial affairs generally. Empire is faced in every quarter. But the to SATURDAY, the 3rd June, both days The Government of the Union of South broad fact remains that there is no real inclusive, during which period no transfer Africs propose: "That itris desirable dhat security that any Imperial problem, wether of Shares can be registered.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
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Hongkong, May 25, 1911.
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all mastters relating to self-governing of population or defence or commerce, can Dominions as well permanent Secre- be handled safely and satisfactorily so long trint of the Imperial Conference be placed as there is no matual understanding of the directly under the Prime Minister of the obligations of the fire British nations to United Kingdom, Such proposals are one another and to the Empire as a whole." logical development from what has gone It has become impossible under modera before.
conditions to contiene a system, or want off
sealed book to all but one of the Eve |system, in which foreign policy remains a partners. In this matter the Dominions, which have taken the lead in a many developments of the Imperial body, cannat move of their own accord, for the simple reason that their history has kept then in iguorance of the issues involved. The Imperial Government alone possesses ther
The National sentiment in the Dominions is as streng na thunt of loyalty And the loyalty is not so mach towards the United Kingdom as towards the commisu Empire, which has its link in the Crown. This sentiment of Colonia) nationalism has found oxpression in political facts, Canada makes her own treaties. She is to hava her own navy, and Australia bars. All this means a new crs in the history of the British Empire, and it is time that the traditions and knowledge requisite to elicit organisation et head-quarters should be a complete discussion of all the conditions overhauled and brought into closer relation which rule our relations with ono with the facts. A Colonial Office conduct and with the world outside.
another!
| ing negotiations with Canada and adjusting..
What is needed in this connection is, tilul dispute on the Gold Coast; í he two affairs were of a like kind, is a first and foremost, a freak understanding much out of dates This Dosad of Trade by the Imperial Conference of British and Plantations" or "The Socretaryship for foreign policy as it stands at the present War and Colonies."!
moment, and as it is likely to be affected by such coming events na can be fores and, secondly, some arrangement by which this understanding can be maintaineit
"¦ XLW KHA" IN IMPERIAL POLITICS.–
The publication of the draft Agreement MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA. botvou Cannds and the United States as during the period when the Conference
Hongkong, Decealer 17. 1910.
1899 probably done more than any other event not in session.
E. C. WILKS,
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