EMPIRE PRESS UNION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19999, 15 July 1920, Page 4

EMPIRE PRESS UNION.

Br Telegraph—Frees - Association—Copyright, Australian end N.2. Cable AiiocUtWe. LONDON. July 13. Lord Burnham gave a luncheon at the Savoy to prdminent British journalists who are delegates to the Empire Press Union conference in Canada, in order to welcome overseas delegates to tlie conference. Among them were Messrs Horton and Selig, of New Zealand. Lord Burnham, in welcoming the delegates, recalled the services the 1909 conference had rendered to the Empire, and trusted that the results of the 1920 conference would be no less valuable. Mr Kirwan, responding, said that it was due to the 1909 conference that journalists got the full understanding of the Empire, which had proved so vitally important during the war. Mr Selig recalled New Zealand’s service during the war in raising an army to help to light, the Empire’s battles. The visit of the New Zealand delegates in 1909 had had an important effect m persuading the New Zeaand Iress to adopt a more Imperial tone Colonel Amery said that when e storm burst m 1914 every village in i!.: Ln .? ,ro knew U hat toe real issue p lh *Vff °£ y P ossible because the Iress of the Empire Renew why % saenhee must be made and what sacrifice must be made. The, Canadian com ieience would deal with problems of re™f[ udjon ' mich as distribution of ImS ,Hrif' Ver ’ , U Was significant Wat m th ls new phase the conference wus meeting in Canada., as rocousWtion problems must largely bo -ml workad rn in eeting i u Canada would get us a ]l away from the idea that Endand was onger n w 'Yu Tkis was no longer true. Al parts of Win were now centres po.et. The best basis of a, ‘j muuitbv % Vras the M] Ld sympathy of every part for the wbSe