IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 287, 8 June 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.

LORD ROSEBERY'S SPEECH. Press Assn—By telegraph —Copyright., LONDON, Yesterday. The Government and Opposition newspapers insist that Lord Rosebery's presence at tho banquet was a tour-de-force. The Doily Mail says the speech was an inspiration .towards a broader patriotism and would hasten, the day ■when the tax on the knowledge of the Empire would, be reduced and all cables which were the veins of and. arteries of tlie Empire, would flow free and unfettered. The Radical newspapers comment on the passages wherein Lord Rosebery suggested that the unprecedented warlike preparations might lead Europe back to barbarism or cause . a catastrophe. At this the working men would cry, 'We will have no more of this; madness, this foolery, which is grinding iis by its power." The Times' Ottawa correspondent says that the visit of the Australasians has accentuated interest in the. Press Conference. The agitation for a State-owned cable between Britain and Canada is increasing. The telegraph companies are attempting to boycott Marconi messages, and confine their dealings to cable companies with whom they have fixed agreements. . Fifty ladies accompanying the delegates of the Press Conference were: present at His Majesty's Theatre on Saturdoy to witness Beerbohm Tree's production of Sheridan's "School for Scandal." (Reccvrd this day, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, yesterday. Mr Kyffin Thomas has been appointed president of the all-press delegation, in addition to tlie chairmaaiship of the Australian section. ' ' I