London, Mar. 80.
The Government last night gave banquet to commemorate great success that attended recently concluded ttalian Art, Exhibition, which was. visited by [over half @ million people.
The Lord President of the Council, Lord Parmor, expressed the deen gratitude of the Government and people of Great Britain primarily the Italian Government and to all others who made the Exhibition Tt had brought together, works of Italian art, both from private and public souvee: chiefly from Italy, but also fro fall parts of the world and from the museums of France, Germany, Hungayy, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, the United States and Canada, which had generously lent of their best. Noles than 15 different countries contributed.
The Italian Ambassador nounced that his King and Government had conferred on Lady Chamberlain, the Chairman of the Exhibition Committee, the Golden Italian Medal.—Witeless through Reuter.
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