In reply to a letter from the Secretary of the
Empire League the Postmaster-General has made a decidedly reassuring statement with regard to newspaper postal rates to Canada. It will be remembered that in the Times of November 21st a cable from Ottawa stated that the Canadian Postmaster-General, Mr. Lemieux, had held out hopes that the existing rates, which practically exclude British magazines, periodicals, and newspapers from Canada, would be modified. Mr. Sydney Buxton has already made proposals to the Dominion Government to remove those disabilities, and, without disclosing details, goes so far as to say that his proposals have been Met in so friendly a spirit that he hopes a satisfactory arrangement will be arrived at. As readers of the Spectator are aware, we have long insisted on' the importance to the Imperial connexion of lowering
the postal rates with Canada. Hitherto the preference given to American periodicals has had the result that Canada has viewed European and British politics almost exclusively thrbugh the medium of the American Press.'
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