IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21391, 6 February 1935, Page 11

IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE

Opening in Cape Town IMPORTANT SUBJECTS TO BE DISCUSSED (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—HI ELECTHIO TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received February 5, 10.50 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, February 4. With the if rival to-day of the British and Canadian delegates, the personnel of the Imperial Press Conference was complete, and the first session was held this afternoon, wlren Major the Hon. John Astor was elected chairman, and Mr T. W. Mackenzie, of Bloemfontein, deputychairman. One of the British delegates. Mr F. C. Coleman, editor and proprietor of "Modern Transport" and other publications, became seriously il during the voyage and was carried ashore on a stretcher. During the conference, winch was opened in a heat wave, a message <>l greeting was 'read from the NewZealand section of the Empire Press Union. The most important item, on the technical agenda is Imperial communications for press purposes, including cable and wireless charges. Other subjects for discussion in Cape Town and later in Johannesburg include the press and censorship, libel laws, Empire news services, radio broadcasting, subsidised competition, and copyright. Keen regret is felt by all delegates at the illness of General Smuts, not only on personal grounds but because he had arranged to address the delegates on the vitally important subject of native policy in Africa, and also of world affairs. General Smuts attended the Assembly on Friday but was evidently unwell. Among the British delegates is Mr Lionel Curtis, founder of the "Round Table," and one of the famous group of young men known as "Milner's Kindergarten," whom Lord Milncr appointed to administer affairs after the Boer War.