"A SECOND DECLARATION OF EMANCIPATION"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 92, 11 January 1918, Page 5

"A SECOND DECLARATION OF EMANCIPATION"

THE AIMS OF A HUNDRED MILLION-PEOPLE. New York, January 9. Tho "New York Tribune" commends the President's Message as beyond nriise It is a second Declaration of Emancipation. It represents the aims of a hundred million people. To-day, as never before, the entire nation nai with the Present. The "New York World" says the Message ,? an invitation to the Reichstag to assert its powers. It voices the Allies i wr conference by means of cable. President Wilson wisely refuses; to ab ~ don the Russian people to German intrigue. The "New \ork Herald sa.,s £ Russian people nuist understand the Message. It wldl tes,«» siiwerity of Trotsky and Lenin, and gives a unique opportunity td the Gorman Socialists to deal with the Junkers—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. RECEPTION OF THE MESSAGE IN "LONDON "OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE AT THE PRESENT DELICATE MOMENT." (Rec. January 10, 8.10 p.m.) London, January 9. President's Wilson's speech reached London after midnight. When its momentous nature was apparent members of tho political clubs watched the tape machines for two hours, discussing tho successive points. It is admitted Kfrank and comprehensive, and of the first importance at the presen delicate moment. The newspapers are withholding more than the briefest comment pending the'arrival of the full text. It is already noted that President Wilson, unfike Mr. Lloyd George, expressed sympathy, with Russia, demanding tl o evacuation of her occupied territory. Other points of the speech, notabv those referring to the freedom of the seas and equality of trade after rhowar "re recrarded as the explanation of the sudden slump in Wall. Street. So ''Daily Cluonicle" says: "President Wilson has once more exercised his unique authority, both moral and political, as tho spokesman of the >demoCrat t f isW a A manifestosupportin g . President Wilson's ™mm£ which it says is essentially similar to the British Labour proS °nS ol eving that if it reaches the peep eof the Central Empires it w>ll invigorate the popular movement for peace.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.