ENEMIES OF THE EMPIRE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2328, 9 December 1914, Page 9

ENEMIES OF THE EMPIRE

THE ELECTIONS AND THE WAR.

(By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) ChriatchurGh, December 8. The other day the "Press" urged that thb defeat pf the Government would be hailod by; the enemies of the Empire as an indication thaj the D - minion's heart was not in the war, and. thp.fi Now Zealanclera did, not appro,Ye v of the, (lispatah of the Expeditionary fforpe. The Opposition papers ridiculed' this idea as preposterous, but a striking justification of the "Press's" argument appears in to-night's "Evening News," Th.e following jb what the "News" says/—ln one pf the largqsji anc} most' widely-circulated papers in New York, and no doubt in dozens of other papers throughout the length and breadth of the United States, there appeared on. September 7 cablegrams

from Melbourne and Sydney sent out by the Central News Agency of London, in which the following passages occurred:—"The Government has been defeated at the election. The Labour Party has a substantial lead." "The verdict is an indication of opposition to tho war policy." These cable messages . bore the headings ''Australians Against Government's Policy. Is Blained for Defeat at Polls." And they are followed, by this comment: '.'ln yiow of London reports of Australia's whole-souled support of Great Britain in tho European war. the above dispatches may bo more significant than appears on the surface."