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Show ptsetie H KINGGEOREE J Audience Granted Interparliamentary Interpar-liamentary Delegates at Buckingham Palace. I lett,. Victory Over Shattered Foe Is Within Reach, Mon-arch Mon-arch Asserts. es I LONDON, Oct. 2. (British wireless V service.) Ivlng George received a large y? deputation of interparliamentary deles' dele-s' gates at Buckingham palace yesterday. jJThe deputation included thirty British ''representatives, twenty-two from France, eight from Italy and one from Belgium. "-More than two years have passed," AYitfrfm the king, "since the first visit of the interparliamentary committee of the French chambers, when you and we were in the throes of a conflict, the issue of which then seemed to many foreign observers ob-servers uncertain, although you and we never doubted that our cause, being the cause of right and humanity, would pre- vatl. Now the armies of France, Italy, L Belgium and the United States, side by side with ours, are driving the enemy s1 before them, his for ces shattered, his people peo-ple clamoring for peace. "Victory is within our reach. And we are all agreed that it must be a complete C victory. I congratulate you senators and deputies of Italy on the prospect which opens before you of recovering the regions guarded by those Alpine snows where your valiant soldiers have won such glory regions inhabited by men of your own race and speech, who have long desired to be united to free Italy. Uj Provinces Loyal. "And I congratulate you senators and deputies of France on 4the approaching restoration of provinces torn from you in forty-seven years ago, which have never lr. ., wavered in their loving attachment to France." II King George recalled that while between be-tween Great Britain and Italy there had always been peace, it was once otherwise g as to Great Britain and France, who had waged many a war in former centuries. "But," he continued, "in those days there was always on both sides a spirit of chivalry which forbade bitterness, and when peace came it was made with a sense of mutual respect. We in England have always continued to admire the brilliant bril-liant gifts of France, gladly owning our intellectual debt to her, as we own also k our debt from even earlier days to the m versatile genius of Italy. "That respect and gratitude have fur- nished a solid foundation for the affection affec-tion which has now grown up between your nation and ours. Consecrated by the memory of the heroes who have fallen fighting side by side in this war, animated ani-mated by the same devotion to their countries and to justice, this affection and this memory are pledges of our future fu-ture concord. Such concord and cooperation co-operation will, we trust, become under the blessing of Providence a security for peace not only to our own peoples, but to all free Europe, which is longing to return to the paths of tranquillity and progress. Concord Assured. "And you, sir, representative of the senators and deputies of Belgium, we rejoice re-joice to see you also upon our soil. Your country, wantonly and wickedly attacked and devastated, has had terrible sufferings suffer-ings to undergo, but the day of your deliverance de-liverance is at hand. The British people, which "has felt for you through those sufferings, suf-ferings, has admired the constancy and loyalty of your people and the devotion of your soldiers and earnestly wishes for you a return of -that prosperity which you enjoyed and which you gallantly sacrificed sacri-ficed at the call of duty." |