EMPIRE SOLDIERS MEET

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1931, Page 3

EMPIRE SOLDIERS MEET

CONFERENCE IN CANADA LORD JELLICOE WELCOMED WARMLY. Press Association— By Electro Telegraph.—Copyrigat.) QUEBEC, August 23. Admiral of til Fleet, Earl Jellicoe, Grand President of the British Empire Service League, arrived on, Saturday from London, en route to Toronto,- to preside at the fifth; biennial convention of the League, which opens; on September 3. A salute of nineteen guns fvas fired and he wa s : given a warm welcome by a distinguished gathering of military men, veterans and officers.

On August 28, Lord Jellicoe will officially open the Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto, and will review the great Warriors’Day Parade, organised by the Canadian Legion of the 8.E.5.L., in that city on the following day. On August 31, Admiral Jellicoe and the delegates will travel to Niagara Falls, where they will be the guests of liertfeir at the opening of the Fourth E'( Vn.Vnion Convention of the Toronto Fifth Biennal, Conference of the B.E.S.L. The conference will conclude on September 7, after which it is heped that it may be possible for the delegates "to visit other Canadian centres’; and, if time permits, to travel to Detroit to-be present at the National Convention of the American Legirn, which will be held there at the erd of September. The agenda had not been completed in latest advices, as all the resolutions and opinions from various member-organisations throughout the Empire had not been received. It was however, stated that in -addition to consideration of the problem s of Em-' pire unity and development, Empire trade, Empire migration' and employment among the probable matters for .discussion will be a suggested extension of membership, for sons of ex-service men-the, position of ex-imperial men overseas and preference for. British films. No- delegate has been appointed by the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association.