EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14783, 13 October 1921, Page 5

EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

PRINCE OF WALES ADVOCACY. ‘A GREAT UNDERTAKING. (A. and N.Z. Cable). (Received 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, October 12, Tho Prince of Wales had an enthusiastic reception at the Mansion Houso meeting in connection with tho British Empire exhibition. This was his last appearance in the city prior to his depar turo on \tho Eastern tour. Alluding to his previous tours, His Royal Highness said that his overseas’ experiences were very fresh in his memory. He had learned things there from personal interviews. Ho had been greatly struck by tho unanimity with which tho Dominion Prime Ministers had welcomed this great Imperial project. Ho shared tho vein of optimism which ran through the speeches made by Mr. Hughes and others last July, also their undercurrent of anxiety that the people in this country should be fully alive to what Mr. Joseph Chamberlain once called their- vast undeveloped estates.

The Prince added: 41 What we want to do is to teach tho people that the Empire, which was worth dying for, is worth living for, and working for.” Ho referred feelingly to the question of unemployment, and offered a practical suggestion that the work on this exhibition should bccommenced immediately, thus giving immediate employment to thousands who had already served the country well. Tho Prince concluded by appealing to the banking and commercial interests to ‘guarantee £1,000,000. which could be used in itthe constructional work of the exhibition. The Dominions were already doing their part, and it would bo a sorry tiling if 'the people here could not do their sham Nothing would send him on bis way rejoicing more than the knowledge that this problem of a guarantee was being tackled before ho left.