The Toronto Exhibition is one of the great annual events in Canada and it opened last week. Last year the Prince of Wales performed the opening ceremony and this year Sir Auckland Geddes, the ish Ambassador at Washington, did. Later on there may be something to report as to what he said on that occasion. At present a brief reference may be made to a speech which he made at the Canadian! Club at Toronto. He first of all denied the absurd lie being told in the United States for political and anti-British purposes that the British Government had appropriated $87,500 for the purpose of supporting the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. The money he explained was simply for the usual running expenses of the British Embassy; and he pathetic cally added that it was not enough. After referring to the war which he said he had declared in 1913 at Montreal as certain to come "a statement which was received with more criticism than enthusiasm", he passed on to notice the recovery which Great Britain is making after it, and then appealed to Canada and the Empire to help in restoring Europe.
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