EMPIRE PRESS CONFERENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3529, 16 July 1920, Page 7

EMPIRE PRESS CONFERENCE.

OVERSEAS DELEGATES EXT [CR

TAINED.

LONDON, July .13‘

Lord Burnhrun gave a luncheon at the Savoy to prominent British journalists whr; are delog:lt<.*s to tho.lilnl- - Pmss L'niml C,‘olll’el'mlCe'in Canada, in order to welcome (.>vcl'se:ls ([OIO- -- to the Conference. Among them wore Messrs ‘Horton and Selig, of New Zoaland, and Messrs Loyekin, Langler, .T:~fl’x'(*_\*. Lansoll -and Kil‘\\'llll.

T.m'a Bul'nhn.m, in Welcoming flue Jr-I(\gatoS. roclzfflczd ,"r'ne se=r\‘.ices ‘the 1909 conference had. rendered to the

Elnpirrs, uml Iru.<<te«l t[IL!JX‘L‘,SII“S of the 1921) ‘~m»lll:'e!‘L'll.up would be no l(.r;<.< \':1111:1blc_

Ml‘ Kiruvin, x'ospo'nding, .~‘zl'ld it was »;l'.xb(‘é to t}lo‘lS!U£) CTolifol‘omc that the j(>unlzlli.~tts got‘ :1 full ulldel's'tamliug__»; of the Tlu‘lnpin'. which had pl'o\.'ed sq vir:l}.l_\' illlpoz'tant (luring the \\':.u'. -

;\ll' H«;r]ig roc:l,l‘]od lN<*\\‘ Zezllund's s«-rvicos d.urill<,>; UlO war in raising an ;>.l'm_\f to 1121;") to fight the -lilnpil'e’s }T:;1ttlo;<. The visit‘ of New Zezlland tiulugates in 1.00%) had had an important. efi'o<rt hi persuading the I\'<.~w Zeul:.211(1 In'vs.< in adupt’ :1 1175.113 11h1_)01‘i:11 tone. ..

Colonel .-\nler_y”.<'aid that. when the storm bur.<'l: in 3.3‘:».".. -\"~=.'€:‘_\~ vi‘.}zlg'v in the Enlpiro know what Hit; real issue \v:.x.=.. This xvus only possible Ln-:‘r:111se the p:'oss of the Empire knew why S:l'm'ifi<‘n must be made and what Sno'rifi(>o nmsf he made. The Cimadian Confcronrfv xvouhl deal with prohlelns of 2'econst:'n<*timl, such as <]istl'ibution of I.lnpr~l'i-.l] In:mpm\'el'. It was signi-

ficant that in this new p11:1s0 the con

fel'oll<*e was Inootillg in Cilllildtl, as toconstruréfion pml)lems must.‘ I.{ll‘gCl}-’ be settled and worked out in the Dominions. The nmofing in Canada would get us all aw.a_V fro-111 the idea that England was th(>‘cent'ro of Tilnlpire. This was no longer true. All parts of the Empirg were now centres for their own purposes. The best‘ basis of 3. true Imperial issue was the full‘ Ir,nm_vlv)<l{:e and sympatlxy of even‘ part Far the Whole. A l