Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-04-24
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NOWAT WASHINGTON
TRY TO PREVENT THE MISTAKES
FOR WHICH ALLIES PAID
SUCH HEAVY TOLL.
GIVEN EVERY ATTENTION
Each Mile of Railroad Over Which
Visitors Ride Is Doubly Guarded
Foreign Minister Balfour APP
preciates Our Ideals.

Washington.-Foreign Minister Bal
four and other members of the COM
mission sent TO America by the gov
ernment of Great Britain arrived in
Washington Sunday afternoon on a
special train.
Welcome is Appreciated.
Secretary Lansing received this tel
egram from Mr.. Balfour sent in reply
to letter of greeting:
ALLOW me to thank you most cor
daily for the warm expressions of
welcome from the government and
people of the United States conveyed
in the letter handed me by the Amer
lean consul at (name of place detet-
ed. Please convey to the president
my deep appreciation of the friendly
sentiments and tell with what great
pleasure | accepted on behalf of my
self and my mission the generous Of
fer of hospitality made by the presi-
dent on behalf of the nation.
May add an expression of the pho
found satisfaction with which | find
myself on American soil at this crisis
in the history of the world"
Greeting to Be Simple.
There was little ceremonial in the
greeting of the visitors at the railroad
station. Secretary Lansing was on the
platform to receive Mr. Balfour. Two
troops of the Second cavalry escorted
Mr.. Balfour and his immediate party.
accompanied by Mr.. Lansing, to the
residence prepared for them.
Those who will be entertained with
the foreign minister at the residence
are Sir Eric Drummond, Ian Malcolm,
member of parliament; c. F. ]. Dor
mer, Godfrey Butler, Rear Admiral
Sir Dudley, R. S. DeChair, fleet pay
master general; Vincent A. Lawford,
Major General G.. T. M. Bridger. Cap
tain H. H. Spender-Clay, member of
parliament, and Lord Cunliffe of Head
ley, governor of the Bank of England
Remarks of BaIfour.
Great Britain's high commissioners
to the international war council are
ready to begin in Washington this
week.
Arthur James Balfour, secretary of
state for foreign affairs of the empire.
formerly premier and often called the
dean of the worlds elder statesmen.
was the central figure of a party that
included some of Great Britain's most
prominent men. With a genial smile
playing over his features he consented
to brief interview, warmly express
ing his appreciation of all the United
States has done as a neutral in char.
liable and relief work in Belgium and
IN German prison camps, his gratifi-
cation that England and the United
states were now allied for a common
purpose and his conviction that this
country in its war efforts would as
found the world, particularly Ger
many.
Make Cooperation Easy.
The object of the commission. Mr..
Balfour said, was ito make coopera-
ton easy and effective between those
who are striving with all their power
10 bring about "a lasting pease by the
only means that can secure it-name-
ly, successful war"
England's statesmen, having safely
eyaded the German submarines and
mines which sent Lord Kitchener to
his death, were received with the
highest honors as guests of the Amer
lean people.
A delegation of state, war and navy
department officials welcomed them
IN the name of the government, and set
out with them to the capital. for what
is admitted the most vital conference
in American history.
The commission was received with
the utmost simplicity and cordialitv
and with every recognition of the fact
that Great Britain had given of her
very best. 1t Isl said, indeed. that no
foreign minister has left England for
the length of time that Mr. Ralfour
VIII be away since tha oonc- .