BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18340, 2 September 1921, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 1. (Received Sept. 1, at 8.5 p.m.) The Morning Rost’s Alexandria correspondent reports that the native press states that Great' Britain is demanding £25,000,000 as Egypt’s share of the v7ar expenses. An Egyptian delegation admitted the claim in principle.—A. and N.Z. Cable. • The King, replying to an address from the Convocation of Canterbury, said : “I welcome the recent settlements in the industrial affairs of this country. Without thenr could not advance in the rebuilding of our commercial prosperity which is a paramount duty upon which depends the very life of the country. It is a duty to which in the spirit of sacrifice every citizen and worker of every rank and class must willingly contribute his or her portion, even as they did so nobly during the war.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. A CAPETOWN, August 31. (Received Sept. 1, at 8.45 p.m.) General Smuts, in the course of an address at a civic welcome accorded him on his arrival in South Africa, appreciatively reviewed the work accomplished at the Imperial Conference. —A. and N.Z. Cable.