SPIRIT OF KINSHIP

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 57, 5 May 1924, Page 5

SPIRIT OF KINSHIP

EMPIRE AND THE OVERSEAS.

"SNOWDEN'S ICY TOUCH."

Press Association—Copyright. Aus tralian and N.Z. Cable Association,

(Received 10.40 a.m.)

London, May 4

Mr Garvin, writing in the Observer, Hays: "Ther c could be no vital hope for the Empire, and no future but a gradual freezing to extinction, if Mi Snowden's icy touch on the Dominions proved to be the best that Labour could do. No sense of kinship warms him towards them. He gives them the cold stone of the negative pre-war creed". A wonderful companionship in the struggle, and a sacrifice which is a sacred memory evermore to some of us, is notbin.r to him. He neither speaks their language nor understands it when it is spoken. He responds as little to General Smut:- as to Mr Bruce. Ho does rot know what the weakening of the whob idea of the Imperial Conferences signifies, what the feelings of the Dominions are. or bow crave he makes the danger to the whole system of [raperial Conferences on their side." AUSTRALIA HAMPERED. NEW AVENUES OF TRADE. (Received 10.10 a.m.') Sydney, May ~j. Mr Wcaruc, Minister of Lands, stated jJIKt the action of the British Government in turning down preference for Australian products had considerably hampered the carrying] out of the immigration agreement with the Imperial authorities as preference had been one of the vital clauses of the compact. Dr. Earle Page said that new avenues will have to be found for the distribution of surplus products.