London, Nov. 3.
'A message from Canberra states that at a Parliamentary. dinner) there Inst night Mr. 8. M, Bruce, the Federal' Premier, welcomed Mr.
8, Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies. He said that no pire statesman had done more to! bring about the recent remarkable achievement of a modern Empire! Government or laboured more: un-[ccasingly to enforce its realization Mr, Bruce referred to Sir Alfred Mond's speech in London suggesting] the Empire as an economic unit and said that until recently we had applied to the economic relationship fof the Empire those haphazard. and unsympathetic methods which characterized our political relationship before the loss of our American colonies, As a result we were mistress of the seas, owning the bulk of the world's shipping and fertile lands in every portion of the globe and producing man's every necessity, but, owing to lack of ¢o-operation, we were challenged in the race for economic supremacy. 'The British markets within the Empire itself had been wasted but the time was not yet too late. Australia wanted to develop—the entry with British stock, to buy' Empire goods and to sell Australian exports in Empire markets.
Mr. Amery advised all to work! together for the advancement the Empire, cultivating 2 wider imperial outlook and higher ideals. British Wireless through Reuter.
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