EMPIRE OUTLOOK

Evening Star, Issue 18255, 20 April 1923, Page 8

EMPIRE OUTLOOK

PRINCE OP WALES'S “SPEECH.” Press Associntion—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, April 19. (Received April 20, at 9.55 run.) The Prince of Wales is suffering total loss of voice, duo to laryngitis, by which lie has been affected for a week past. The Prince attended the Association of the Chambers of Commerce dinner. Instead of speaking, he supplied all the guests with a copy of his speech, in which bo said: “The generation which fought the world war has a heavy burden to shoulder, but what, after all, is more striking than the burden itself is the spirit in which all classes arc bearing it. British enterprise is still equal to any task:. It has already left behind a good many difficulties which earlier appeared to be > insuperable. There are definite signs of returning prosperity. Substantial progress has already been made up the laborious incline from the slough of depression to the firm ground of normal prosperity.” Mr Shirley Bonn, addressing the association, said the association looked at the world from the British angle. Thus viewed, the outlook was not very cheering. but might not compensation for the economic chaos in Europe and loss of European markets be found within tho Empire? Europe, scarred and crippled by war and peace, had so far gone to ruin that complete recovery would lake many years. The Empire was young, vigorous, and under-populated. A vast treasurehouse of wealth was only awaiting the men and the capital to unlock it. Comd it be doubted that in the latter and nob the. former direction Britain must look for her recovery?—A. and N.Z. Cable.