EMPIRE PRESS UNION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 249, 15 July 1920, Page 7

EMPIRE PRESS UNION

DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE ENTERTAINED VALUABLE RESULTS OP 1909 GATHERING By Telesra.ph«Pre6B ABsociation.-Oopyrleat (Rec. July 14, 5.5 p.m.<) London, July 13. lard Burnham (President of the Empire Press Union) gave a luncheon at the ( Savoy to prominent British journalists who are delegates to the Empire Press Union Conference in Canada, in order to welcome overseas delegates to 1 the conference. Among them were Messrs. Horton and Sclig, of New Zealand, Lovekin, Langler, Jeffrey, Lansell and Kirjran. Lord Burnham 1 , in welcoming the delegate*, recalled the services the 1909 conference had rendered to the Empire, and trusted that the results of the 1920 conference would bo no less valuable'' Mr. J. W. Kinvan (Western Australia), in responding, said it was due to the 1909 conference that journalista got the full understanding of the Empire which had proved so vitally important during the war. Mr. P : Selig recalled New Zealand's service during the war in raising an army to help fight tho Empire's battles. J. ho visit of New Zealand delegates in 1909 had had an important effect in persuading tho Now Zealand Press to adopt a more Imperial tone. Colonel Amery (Under-Secretary for the Colonies) said that when the storm [ burst in 1914 every village in the Empire biew what the real ifcsue was. i .i.iis was only possible because the Prcsa of the Empire knew why the sacrifice must be made, and what sacrifice must bo made. The Canadian conference would deal with problems of reconstruction, Bucli as the distribution of Imperial man-power. It was significant, in, this new phase, that the conference was meeting iri Canada, as the reconstruction problems mpst largely be settled and worked out in the Dominions. The meeting in Canada would iret us all away from the idea that England was the centre of tho Empire. This was no longer true. All parte of the Empire were now centres for their own purposes. The best basis fw a Iruo RnnerTaT ipsue was a full knowledge and sympathy of every part for tie wiioie.-'*us.-N.Z. Cable Assn.