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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7816, 8 June 1909, Page 3

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IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.

.Per Pi<*» As&ociiiciop.j—Copyiight. LONDON, June 7. The Government and Opposition newspapers insist that Lord Rosebery's speech was a tour de force. The Daily Mail says the speech was an inspiration, and hopes that a broader .patriotism will hasten the day when the tax on the knowledge of the Em- ; pires will be reduced,- and the cables, which are the veins and arteries of the Empire will flow free and unfettered. The Radical newspapers comment on the passage wherein Lord Rosebery suggested that the unprecedented warlike preparation might lead Europe back to barbarism, or cause a catastrophe, whereat the working men might cry, "we will have no more of this madness and foolery, which is grinding us to powder." _The delegates lunched at Burnham Hall, where they met Mr Lyttelton Sir George Golde, and Field-Marshal Grenfeld. Afterwards they were the guests of Lord Desborough at Taplow Court, • They then motored back to London. Rain marred the trip. The Times Ottawa correspondent cays that the visit of the -A ustralasaans has accentuated the interest m the Press Conference.