DOMINION PREMIERS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 31 December 1926, Page 6

DOMINION PREMIERS.

ACTIVITIES ABROAD. (Per Press .Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, Dec. 29. Mr Bruce spent a strenuous day, banning with a luncheon, attended by the most prominent financiers and industrialists. He attended the Eng-lish-speaking Union reception, at which he made a lengthy address concerning the necessity for a continuance of Anglo-American friendship for the peace of the world. The Federal Prime Minister concluded the day with dinner, given ly the Pilgrims’ Society, at which he also spoke in a similar tenor. The bankers’ luncheon was private, but it is understood that in Mr Bruce’s address there was substantially concerning the same subject as the address before the bankers in England, and contained a correction of the erroneous statement sent by an American journalist to a financia. journal in New York, intimating tha; the English financiers were hesitating to lend money to the Australian Labour Government. The guests at the luncheon included Mi Otto Kuhn, of Kuhn, Loeb Company, Mr Thomas Lammok, of J. P. Morgan Company, and Mr Elbert Gary, United States Steel Corporation. NEW YORK, December 29. In his first public utterance in the United States, Mr Bruce chose as the keynote the urgent necessity for the closest co-operation between the United States and the British Empire. Addressing an afternoon gathering of

the English-Speaking fnioa, fc, “If Britain and Amelia. < together there i s hope f'.’"’ If they do not, nothing devise will possibly sucea><] Reviewing the after w ar ' Europe’, he painted a gloon.'S and told the audience that * sacrifices of the war h 0 fgi?* 8 great ideals for which thev f so far shown little sign nf There wasi, however, , sjiL?? l * the dark clouds overhansh tion, and that was th c iL/” ® l standing between the Ennlit ’ races and the United 8 St urged Americans to rid their ■ the conception! of England r encrusted Empire, founded’!?' quest and opjfession and J 1 to democratic progress, and <G a picture of a CommonwMlti 1 ? nations, animated by the saw" ■ was permeating the UnitedW He proceeded to detail tl efforts made by Britain in I years to secure improved reti s ®' the United States. Brits’. first to accept the invitation V? armament conference, and erea accepted the abolition of the limit Tn this spirit of <o.o W i2 Wor'd’s two greatest nation, a work together to restore the J the rest of the world. b