Schreiber, Ontario, May 23.
Their Majesties received the news lof the accident to Queen Mary in a press bulletin delivered to them when {the Royal Train reached the town of Jackson, a short journey from here.
The King told a member of the reception committee that he was glad be able to say that the injury to Queen Mary. was "slight", and was Jnothing at all to be worried about. It fs not known whether the King {telephoned to London on receipt of news of the accident.
Their Majesties have arrived at Port JArthur. They encountered freezing {temperatures at White River, Ontario, after their first night's sleep on a rain during their" present tour.—Reuter.
King's Speech Winnipeg, May 24, Addressing the Empire by" radio today on the occasion of Empire Day, the King declared that the elvilizations of Burope and Asia were sorely troubled and the old world might look for guidance to the new.
Recalling that the city of Winnipeg, from where he was speaking, was no more than a fort and hamlet upon an Jopen prairie when Queen Victoria began "her rule, His Majesty said {today it was a monument 10 the faith Jand energy which had created and held "up the world-wide Empire of four time, "We often talk," he continued. "of the, old. world and the new. it is Jone'of the greatest services of the British Empire that it serves as a ink to harmonize the two.
"For a long period in history, it was the mind of Burope which ied the march and xed aims. of pro gress in the world, but that tide of inspiration "is no longer running @s it did in times gone "by. Christian civilization in Europe is "now. profoundly troubled and challenged from within, "Weare striving {0 restore its standards," though" the tak is Jong old world in its turn might look for hope and guidance to the achievements of the new world?"
Dangerous Sense of Race sense of race, the King pro-ceded, might be a dangerous, distuptive force, but the English and French had shown in Canada that they could keep their pride and the Gistinetive culture which inspired It and yet combine to establish a Broader freedom and security than either could have "accomplished lone.
Nor, he said, was that the only chapter in North American history that deserved consideration. Canada and the United States had had to ispose of searching differences of firn and interest during the past. Hundred years, but never had one of Dose differences: been resolved by force or threat.
Noman, thank God," the King continued, "will ever again conceive of such arbitrament between the peoples of my Empire and the peoples Of, the United States.
Faith in reason and fair play. which we share with them, is one of the chiot ideals that guides the British Empire in all its ways today.
'It ie not in the power of wealth alone, nor in the dominion of other peoples, that the true of the Empire consists. Those things are but' instruments—they are not the end or the ideal.
"the end fs freedom and justice in equal measure for all, to secure against an attack from without or within. Tt is only by adding to the Spiritual dignity' and material hap= pines of human life in all its myriad homes, that the Empire can claim to be of service to its own peoples ne he world."
His Majesty concluded with a special greeting to young listeners, urging them to remember that the key t0 all true progress lay in faith, hope and love.
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