EMPIRE AFFAIRS

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 319, 21 July 1925, Page 6

EMPIRE AFFAIRS

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BRITISH INDUSTRY’S WE A K EiNK. NO IIYDOiI-ELECTRIC POWER

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Viscount Rnrulnun, one ol llio delegates to the' -Empire Press Congress, interviewed, said England had no intention oi being hasty towards Franco, ■The United States was actually'! pressing more than Britain. “WVonly ask France to he as liberal in her treatment of Britain as she is with the United States,” he said.

Viscount Burnham was ol the opinion that the question ol coal and electric power had always been the weak link in the chain ol Biitisli industry. The problem would be solved if Britain had natural resources of hydraulic power as largo as Canada.