PARLIAMENTARY PARTY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 43, 18 September 1916, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY PARTY.

VISIT NORTH SEA FLEET. CIVIC WELCOME AT THURSO. HON. SIR JAMES CARROL’S SPEECH. Under the heading of “Thurso and Our Colonies,” the “John o’ Groat Journal” of July 28th has an interesting account of the civil welcome tendered to representatives of Dominion Parliaments at the extreme north of Scotland, where they had gone to pay a visit to the Fleet in the North Sea. The names are given in THll of the Parliamentarians, including the Hon. Sir James Carroll, K.C.M.G., Messrs AAA C. F. Carncross, M.L.C., Ernest Page Lee, M.P., and C. J. Parr, C.M.G., M.P. for Eden. The guests were given a civic welcome by Provost Durran in the Thurso Council Chambers. The Provost remarked: “Formerly we looked to our colonies as pioneers and keepers of the Empire’s outposts. Now your connection with the Sbme Country' is so close that you are defending its very heart.” Sir James Carroll, in the course of his reply, said they had been impressed by the solidity of the nation, and the grim determination which was everywhere manifest, of the high resolve formed through which the present conflict would be carried to a victorious and triumphant issue. In France they had witnessed the same spirit. Sir James added that the sight of the Nation’s bulwark, the Navy, was an awe-inspiring spectacle of the grim grey sentinels of the mighty deep, ready any moment to do, as they had already done, in upholding the best traditions of a glorious past.