THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
AN ALLIAMCE OF NATIONS, BANQUET IN LONDON. United Press Association. Copyright (Received July 2, 11.42 p.m.) LONDON, July 2. I,orcl Sbrathcona, president of the [Dominion Day banquet, said that any little discontent that might attend tlio Federation of South Africa would give way to a feeling of unity. What had boon done in Canada and Australia was possible in South Africa. Tho Dulco of Argylo described the Quebec tercentenary celebrations as an echo of ententes. What was Canada ttfter all but a Franco-British exhibition of an example of 140 years of successful friendship. . The Earl of Dudloy, responding to the'-toast of “Tho Guests,” said that tho secret of tho British Empire was not in fho"sbarch for power in an , aggrossivo sense, but tho contentment of tho people of the various nations. The ompiro of Canada ropresontod an ' alliance between two great nations with a common end, the uplifting nnd tlie prosperity of the Dominion.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2233, 3 July 1908, Page 3
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