PRESS OF EMPIRE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 9

PRESS OF EMPIRE

CONFERENCE OPENS

GATHERING AT CAPE TOWN

IMPORTANT BUSINESS

United Press Association—By Electric Tele-

graph—Copyright. (Received February 5, noon.)

CAPE TOWN, February 4,

With the arrival today of the British and Canadian delegates the personnel of the Imperial Press Conference is complete and the first session was held this afternoon when Major Astor was elected chairman and Mr. T. W. Mackenzie, of Bloemfontein, deputy chairman. * ■ ■• .

One British delegate, Mr. F.C. Coleman, editor and proprietor of "Modern Transport" and other publications; was taken seriously ill on the voyage and was carried ashore on a stretcher.

During the proceedings of the conference, which opened in a heat wave, a message of greeting was read from the New Zealand section of the Empire Press Union.

The most important item of the technical agenda is Imperial communications for Press purposes, including cable and wireless charges.

Other subjects for discussion at Cape Town, and later ■• Johannesburg, include Press, and censorship, libel laws, Empire news services, radio broadcasting subsidised competition,. and copyright. . •,.• ■.'■":■

Keen regret is felt by air delegates at the illness of General Smuts,' not only on personal grounds, but because it was arranged that he should address the delegates on the vitally important subject of native policy in Africa, also on world affairs. . .

General Smuts .attended the Union Assembly on Friday,- but it. was evident that he was 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 •: Milner appointed to administer affairs after the Boer War. .