Empire Day

A German girl child was born in London 115 years ago last week to become Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and later Empress of India. Thus did Britain become an Empire. Last week on Victoria's birthday Britain and her Commonwealth of Nations celebrated Empire Day. P: In Ottawa, Canada's Premier Bennett raised his voice to tell a Canadian Chamber of Commerce luncheon in London by wireless telephone: "All our ideas of Empire have changed except that of devoted allegiance to the Crown.'' P: In Cape Town, General Jan Christiaan Smuts declared: ''Secession from the Empire is as dead as a dodo." P: In Britain, George and Mary visited a round of airports, luckily missing one air pageant in which two aviators were killed. P: In Western Canada, picnicking citizens complained about the drought. P: In Aix-les-Bains, the Viceroy of India, Lord Willingdon, away from his post on leave, laid a wreath on a French cenotaph.

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