BRITISH AFFAIRS

Southland Times, Issue 18847, 12 June 1920, Page 6

BRITISH AFFAIRS

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM. OPENED AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Reuter’s Telegrams.) LONDON, June 9. After six years’ utilisation for war purposes, the Crystal Palace is being reconsecrated to public use, when the King and Queen opened the Imperial War Museum housed in the Palace. In the course of a speech His Majesty urged none to forget that Britain owed her success in the war, under God, not to armed forces alone, but to the labours and sacrifices of soldiers and civilians, men and women alike. It was a democratic victory, the work of a nation in arms organised as never before for a great national struggle. THE MONEY MARKET. A VICTORIAN LOAN. LONDON, June 10. Commenting on a Melbourne Press telegram expressing astonishment at Sir Thomas Robinson’s inability to convert the Victorian loan, ami contrasting London financiers’ cool reception when the money market was approached, with the enthusiasm they displayed over the Gommonwcullli’s efforts (luring the war, Sir Thomas Robinson says that on the contrary he received every consideration front financial circles. The fact is that Victoria can borrow us cheaply as, but not more cheaply, than the British Government. CASE OF FATHER O’DONNELL. A COMPENSATION PAYMENT. LONDON, June 10. Father O’Donnell will return to Australia in July. The Army Council paid him £BSO expenses in connection with his recent arrest anti cour-mai rial.