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the Turks ; it had sometimes fought with them but whichever side it 

 fought it had always had a good cause and it had fought well. It was 

 perfectly true that Bulgaria did not fight for her liberation from the 

 Turks, but during the war the Serbians came in and they did a good deal 

 in obtaining that liberty for Serbians, the return for which they all knew. 

 He was ver}' sorry that the Bulgarians were of the same origin as his 

 friends the Turks but, of; course, the Serbians were of a very different 

 stock. It was a very good thing for them to see something of the mind 

 of an inhabitant of the Balkans and to understand how the people of one 

 race there differed from the people of another. As a matter of form he 

 now asked them to signify their thanks to the lecturer. 



The audience applauded loudly, Captain Dimitrijevich responding with 

 a bow. 



The following resolutions were then moved by Professor Harrison : — 



Resolved — That this meeting of the Boyal Agricultural & Com- 

 mercial Society of British Guiana and of the Royal Colonial Institute 

 (British Guiana branch) regards with pride the victorious strategic defen- 

 sive of Sir Douglas Haig's and the other Allied Armies in Belgium, 

 France and Italy since March 21st and looks with confidence (when the 

 hour for the strategic offensive arrives at its appointed time) for final 

 victory under the supreme command of General Foch, the hero of Nancy, 

 of the Marne, of Ypres and of Champagne. 



2. That inasmuch as any peace without the destruction of the 

 military power and ambitions of Prussia would be only a respite which 

 would enable her despotic .rulers and unbalanced people to prepare for a 

 still more destructive and unscrupulous war in the hope of enslaving the 

 world, we pledge ourselves to support any measures which the Imperial 

 Government may decide to be necessary or advisable for the increase and 

 consolidation of the military and economic resources of the British Empire 

 with a view to the utmost prosecution of this righteous war, for human 

 liberty and British honour. 



3. That we adhere to our resolution of Empire Day 1917 as to the 

 necessity of taking early and practical moasures to prepare the Empire 

 and its tropical colonies for the economic conditions which will inevitably 

 arise at the close of the war, and we consider that any other policy may 

 find us as unprepared for peace as we admittedly were for war. 



4. That we regard the restitution of the liberty of Serbia and 

 Montenegro as an essential part of the Allied aims and we have a pro- 

 found sympathy with the desire of the Serbian race of all religions for re- 

 union with their brothers of the Kingdom. We realise the debt of the 

 Allies to the heroic nation which won the first victories of the war on the 

 18th August, 1914, at Shabats and on the Jadar and which is still fight- 

 ing on its own soil against the common foe. 



5. That copies of these resolutions be sent to the Secretary of Stat* 

 or the Colonies. 



