INTER-PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE.
FRENCH DELEGATES* IN, LONDON. WELCOMED BY KING GEORGE. (Per Press Association.) (Eecd. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 9. King George V. at Buckingham Palace, in welcoming the French delegates to the inter-Parliament-ary Conference, said: * 'I rejoice in being united with France by an intimate alliance and mutual confidence, and 1 trust that the alliance is destined to be perpetual. Your visit will enable you to see the strenuousness of our efforts to provide the requirements of the Army and the Navy. You will learn the depth of niy people 'a sympathy with the suffering which the ferocious invader has caused in France, and also the warmth of our admiration for the. splendid valour and constancy of the whole of our French people. Never has the undaunted spirit and unquenchable hopefulness, whereof French history is full of glorious examples, shone with more brilliant lustre. The Allies are determined to prosecute the war until tine menace and aggression which has ldng dark ened Europe 's sky and threatened the prospects of peaceful progress the world over is finally re moved.'
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Grey River Argus, 12 April 1916, Page 6
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