Support for Belgium affirmed

WHAT the Prime Minister hopes to see in the event of another war he told the audience at the civic reception to M. Henri Segaert, ConsulGeneral in Australasia for Belgium (states the Dominion). “If ever war comes again,” he said, “and none of us want to see it — I do hope that France, Britain, and Belgium will stand together for their common defence. I do not say that there should not be other allies. There are others I should like to see with them, but after what has taken place during the last five or six years, the British Empire has become so closely connected with France and Belgium that I hope we shall be able to stand together for all time.”