London, July 3.
With only half-a-dozen of the delegates voting against it, the Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire has passed and agreed to the resolution moved by Sir. Edward Davison, Vice-Chairman of the British Imperial Council of Commerce, regretting the decision of Parliament not to ratify the preferential resolutions of the Imperial Economic Conference and urging the option of a liberal and generous inter-Imperial preference as very desirable for furthering Imperial development and attaining the ideal of eventual freedom of trade within the Empire—Reuter.
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