31 MARCH 1917, Page 3

In the afternoon of Thursday, the 22nd, but too late

for any report to be included in our issue of last week, the Strength of Britain Movement held a public meeting in the Queen's Hall. Sir Alfred Booth, President of the Movement, was in the chair, and made a speech which was very impressive both from its matter and from the quietness and unsensationalism of its style. Coming from one of the greatest shipping authorities in the country, and also from a person intimately connected with the conduct and manage. ment of the great port of Liverpool, it could not but carry weight. The other speeches were full of vigour and good sense, but unfor- tunately space will not allow us to deal with them.