EMPIRE DAY
Britons Celebrate In America. SIR ESME HOWARD'S SPEECH. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) i\EW YOKK, May 27. Britons from every part of the Empire joined in the celebration of Empire Day here. Sir K.-imo Howard, British Ambassador to America, at a reception tendered in hi* honour, said that never in the history of the world has there been any political entity like the British Empire to-day. "It is composed of a federation of free people, and however much we may have been criticised in the past, wherever the British Empire has been it has made for the progress of civilisation arid the happiness of tho world."*
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 8
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EMPIRE DAY
Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 8
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