EMPIRE PRESS CONGRESS
VISCOUNT BURNHAM INTERVIEWED (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Beuter’a Telegrams.) OTTAWA. July IS. The main body of the British delegates to the Empire Press Congress arrived in Quebec yesterday, headed by Lord Burnham, others being Sir Elmsley Carr, Sir Frank Nownes and Sir William Davies. With a number of the Canadian newspaper men, the party will sail from Vancouver later in tlie month. After a brief stay in Montreal the Press Congress delegates entrained for Winnipeg. Brief stops will he made at Badlf, Lake Louise, Vancouver ami Victoria. Viscount Burnham, interviewed, said that England had no intention of being hasty towards France. 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.” Viscount Burnham was of the opinion that questions of coal and electric power had always been a "weak link in tlie chain of British industry. The problem would he solved if Britain had natural resources of hydraulic power as large as Canada.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 July 1925, Page 5
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