BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEM

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1922, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEM

, .lIIUIAV AM) K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION A LUNCHEON. LONDON, May 20. _vl. Paul Gambon and Count St. Aulaire, past and present French Ambassadors to London were entertained at a luncheon at the House of Commons. Count St Aulaire ha ß just replaced M. Gambon. Mr Chamberlain toasted the guests, md said they had assembled to reaffirm friendship between the two countries, which hud made common sacrifices and which left sears on all hearts which would be remembered for generations. ‘•We must have our differences of opinion,” he said, “as our interests differ. Let aiiyone haflng influence in either country resolve to seek to see through the surface difficulties to <JUr profriutid underlying unity. I.ot us Use out in* Hueiice to remove misunderstandings and determine to find a friendly solution of all ouf differences. I am riot sure that M. Cnmbon and I do not belong to a generation that is pfcssifig away. I have a suspicion that M.- Cam* bon’still likes the old diplomacy, with its reticence, silence and careful avoid* a nee of the limelight of the Press. So do I. I wish it were given us still to uve in a world where those quiet ways satisfied the needs of the times. Whatever place there might he in the future for the new method, there will always be room for the older diplomacy.”

ENGLISH NEWS. LONDON, May 20

i,nines is impressing the critics, Marlow is stationed at Barlow' Rowing Chin’s headquarters, with Towns. Baines rows twice daily over a course the same length as at Henley, and similar in many respects, doing long paddles, interspersed with short periods at the racing stroke. Henley regatta, opens on July oth. Baines’s most for. midable opponent is J. Beresford of the Thames Club, who was the diamond sculls winner of 1920, and Gollan, of the hoarder Club, and also the representatives of America and Switzerland. Baines looks t-lie picture of health, and is highly popular on the Thames side.