OTTAWA ISSUES

Northern Advocate, 17 August 1932, Page 5

OTTAWA ISSUES

CLAIMS OF CANADA accord anticipated meat question unsolved. MUTUAL ENDEAVOURS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received D-n.m.) OTTAWA, August Id. Tlie Canadian Cabinet sat yesterday until midnight. Subsequently Mr Bennett said he believed their proposals would now accord with the British delegation’s desires. The general impression is that only the two main questions remain unsettled. The first is meat, which especially concerns New Zealand and Australia, and which may be adjusted in a mutually satisfactory fashion today. The second is the limitation of Russian dumping of lumber and wheat, on which Britain is delaying her decision. Assuming that Britain yields to the determined stand of New Zealand and Australia on meat, Air Bennett, feels that he may be placed in the unenviable, isolated position of the last contestant, hampering a harmonious agreement. It is hoped that.today’s discussions -will bring the parties to rapproaehment which would allow' the conference to end on a note of triumph. The moat discussion still hangs solely on the question of the quota. A British authority this evening said it was not a deadlock, and a way. out would- bo found, PROBABLE OUTCOME. PROVISIONAL 'AGREEMENTS. NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT. (Times Cable.) (Received 0 a.m.) LONDON, August Uh The "Times” says the broad results of the Ottawa Conference arc already plain. In all circumstances they represent a very remarkable achievement. ■ln the nature of things the results could not be spectacular. They consist of a series of provisional agreements, some bilateral, so mo multilateral, for the extension of various lines ol trade between the countries of the Empire. There is nothing to suggest that they involve any sacrifice, either on the part of Britain or the dominions, comparable with their advantage. The British Empire, says the paper, has definitely chosen the better road. The supreme merit of this conference is that it has steadily refused to be diverted from grappling with facts.

EMPIRE IDEALS. . , SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL. •TRIBUTE TO AIR BENNETT. (Received 0 a.m.) OTTAWA, August id. : In closing his- address to the Canadian Club, Air Stanley Baldwin said the beginnings of- Canada’s development were missions and trading camps. It was still true today that they must divide their attention between spiritual and material life. “We must not think because wo have assembled here to deal .with business that the Empire exists solely for the purpose of enabling its people to .earn larger incomes,’’ said Mr Baldwin. Tie hoped the conference would approve the idea of keeping broadcasting a way from private control. He paid a tribute to Air R. B. Bennett’s strength of personality and statesmanship and urged Canadians to support him whatever was the result of the conference.