EMPIRE PRESS CONGRESS.
BRITISH DELEGATES’ IN CANADA. OTTAWA, July 18. The main body of British delegates to tho Empire Press Congress was in Quebec yesterday, headed by Lord Burnham, others being Sir Ehnsley Carr. Sir Frank Newnes and Sir William' Davies. With a number of Canadian newspaper men, the party will sail from Vancouver later in tho month. After a brief stay in Montreal, the Press Congress delegates will entrain for W innipeg. Brief slops will be made at Banff, Lake Louise, Vancouver and Victoria. Lord Burnham, on being interviewed, said England had no intention of being hasty towards France. The United States was actually pressing more than Britain. “We only ask France to be as liberal in her treatment of Britain as she is with the United States.”
Lora Burllhlun was of opinion that questions of coal and electric power had always been a weak link in the chain of British industry. The problem would be solved if Britain had natural resources of hydraulic |K)'.ver as large as those of Canada. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 193, 20 July 1925, Page 7
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176EMPIRE PRESS CONGRESS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 193, 20 July 1925, Page 7
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