FAREWELL WORDS FROM MR. HUGHES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2806, 26 June 1916, Page 5

FAREWELL WORDS FROM MR. HUGHES

LESSONS OF THE PARIS CONFERENCE IMPERIAL TARIFF REFORM By Telegraph-Press Assacia,tionr-C()i)jrJf!li.t (Hcc. June 25, 5.5 'p.ih.)~ "'' " London, June 21. Mr. Bonar Law (Secretary-of Slate for the Colonies), speaking at a farewell banquet to Mr. W. M.. Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia), .said:: "Th 6 resolutions of the Paris Conference may be taken a* representing the settled opinion of the British Government." Other speakers suggested the possibility of Mr. Hughes's curly return to Britain to continuo his propaganda in favour of an inter-Imperial economic and political alliance. Mr. Hughes made tho political relations of Britain and her Dominions after the war tho chief topic of his last speech. He insisted that our Empire was no Empire, because it was not bound by any logical or legal tie. "These relations were well enough when the Dominions were in swaddling clothes, but there must be a change, and a radical change, now.. I think tho first thing is to find if we can come to a general agreement regarding Imperial trade policy. ..-Hi is noteworthy that Mr. Runclman himself drafted the resolutions which were carried at the Paris Conference, whereby thero would bo a period after the war when the Allies would not resume trading relations with Germany. This shows that tho Coalition Government.'.is. .not neglecting the subject, and we may hav« tho whole question of tariff reform examined free of party feeling." A CONFERENCE AT DOWNING ST. (Roc. June 25, 5.5 .p.m.)- • - London, June 24. Mr. Asqiiith (the Prim© Minister) presided at a conference which was held at Downing Street to discuss the Paris resolutions. Mr. I3ouar Law, the Marquis, of Crewe, Mr. W. M. Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia), Mr. Georgo Fos- | ter (Canadian Minister of Trade), Mr. Lewis Hareourt", Mr. Austen Chamberlain, and Mr. Herbert Samuel were presont. WHAT THE ENEMY'S PRESS THINKS . ABOUT IT ?*WE WILL ALSO HAVE A SAT."(Kec. June 25, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, June 24. The German newspaper, "Frankfurter Zeitung," commenting on the results of the Economic Conference, says: "When, tho new regulation for the world's economy is to be decided, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey will also have a .say iii it. No peace will bo concluded that does not leave our economic strength room for the fullest expansion, which we previously had. Any other peace will only lead in the shortest time to a repetition of to-day's world's disaster."