BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1059, 28 November 1903, Page 2

BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

KINDLY SENTIMENTS.

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Received 10.20 p. 111., .Nov. Jl . PARIS, N<> - 27. Lurd Brassey was the a chief spokesman m French of . the British Parliamentarians visiting Prance, They were accorded a splendid reception at tlie Klysee. Id. Coubet responded sympathetically to the septimeiits of a closer entente in the interests oi peace, civilisation, and humanity. Afterwards he gave a loast to King lid ward. Queen Alexandra, and the whole British nation, remarking : “'I cannot refrain from recalling the work of peace to which ymu _are so sincerely attached. Pcrhaps*.l haVe some right to associate myself with it. within the limits, allowed me by the Constitution, since I had the honor of receiving the inspirers of this great idea, and since the Czar was kind enough to confide in me on the subject from its inception. (Cheers.) The work inaugurated by the Jlague Arbitration Tr - buual is still in its infancy. . Two great nations of Western Kurone should rejoice in having been the first in signing a treaty of arbitration, and giving an example which I hope will he followed by many others The movement will not stop, I am sure. lam responding to your senliilienls, as well as those of my countrymen, in hoping the work wherein we are together engaged wili receive its crown. (Cheers.) Dir Ilouldsworth Avebury responded, expressing the hope that Britain and France, whose interests .were identical, would obviate every pos sibility of mutual war, and thus confer a boon o.n Kurope, besides strengthening their own moral influence.:

INTERESTING SPEECHES. By Telegraph—Frost: Association—Copyright Becoived 11,31 p.m., Nov, g 7

I J aris, Ko"V. 27. All the Ministers and representatives of all parties attended the French Arbitration Group’s dinner to the British Parliamentary party. Mr Avebury, in the courso of a speech, said that owing to military burdens the time would surely eomo when manufacturers, including those in Britain, would find it extremely ditlicult to compete with those of America and Australasia, who were less heavily burdened. M. Combes declared that no work since tho abolition of slavery was more deserving of the support of generous minds than international arbitration. Tho opinion of Britain ratified in udvanco tho recent treaty, breaking with the past and pointing to yet unknown horizons. Time played a great ovolution in treaty, aidod by commercial relations. The treaty was a full germ of treaties to come. Ho hoped the Bcope would bo beneficially extended, and tendered his good wishes in tho matter. Ho did not intend to trespass on M. Deleasse’s initiative, and ho embraced in his provisions of the future tho logitimate interests of other notions. Ho hoped Europo would ho mindful of tho happy chungo of Anglo-Ereoch relations, and yield to tho present peaceful wind. The speaker concluded : “ I toast this hope, and couple with it tho natno of tho Sovereigns to whom the present rapprochement is due, King Edward and Queen Alexandra. (Cheers.)"