ARRIVAL AT OTTAWA

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1932, Page 6

ARRIVAL AT OTTAWA

THE CITY BEFLAGGED

SOME INTERVIEWS.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

Received this day at 1.5 p.m.)

OTTAWA, July 19,

Delegates arriving at Ottawa were greeted •by Messrs Bennett, ttteveOjS and Perley. The city is beflagged. Mr -Bennett, frock coated, warmly shookt-hands with the visitors _who were wearing ordinary, drees, the iifi.wspa.per apprbpi;iajtei^ 0 ed as. forking clothes, jj 7 , ; q

Mr Bfinnett linked arms ’with Messrs Bruce and Coates, and escorted them from the crowded station to their hotel. Messrs Bruce and Coates called upon Lord Bessborough. - The delegations are accommodated •in the- luxurious Chateau Laurier hotel. "’lts six hundred rooms are all occupied. , The 'Canadian Government is extending'lavish hospitality.

Messrs Baldwin and Thomas were interviewed by sixty Empire and American journalists. Mr Baldwin lighted, a great cherry wood pipe and the delegates indulged in friendly exchanges, calling each other Stanley and Jimmie. ■

Mr Baldwin said: “I hope we won’t make speeches! Wo ‘ have come here to work. and' try ■ to get’ something done. It is too early to sayj-,anything about- the 'Conference, except . that there has never been a Conference approaching this in importance, because w 7 e have never previously been in such a position to negotiate as to-day, with a free hand from the electorate.

VISIT TO GOVERNOR-GENERAL OTTAWA,' July 19

The first delegates to pay their respects to Lord Bessborough, were from die Irish Free State, headed by Sean T. O’Kellv: