GERMANY AND THE PACIFIC

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 230, 17 June 1918, Page 6

GERMANY AND THE PACIFIC

j ' MUST BE KEPT OUT K ; ::' y v ! . COLONIAL STATESMEN'S j;.- ' N YOWS - j' ' (Rec. Juno 19, 5.5 p.in.) ;■ . •( London, J.une 11. 1 : _Mr. W. F. Massey (I'rime Minister of New Zealand), interviewed regarding •Mr..Hughes's and' Mr. AV.jtts's statej ' indents on Germany" in the Pacific, points !• . out that. the matter wasj considered at j ' the Imperial Conference of 19IT. "Japan j.. is safeguarding'the; North Pacific, while [ , Britain guarantees Australia and the |,: South Pacific, therefore intervention by a j . friendly Power is not' necessary." |, - . The "Evening News,"-under the lieadf. injj "Bask Up Hughes" urges that the i voice of the overseas delegates will be I; dead against the return of'the colonies to the Hum on any terms whatever. "The idea-in .Government circles seems to be h that the loss said the better. Wo believe ; . that commercial Germany should be | made to understand that her colonial ! , Empire has gone for good and all. That j ■ ' • will help the Htiris to realise that the I. 'attack on the civilised world is not I paying. The. longer she holds out the i • more complete will bo the ruin, of her i trade. We know what would happen to ! : our possessions if Germany won the war. '<... ,Mr. Hughes will havo pbpular opinion j in Britain behind liim in this matter."— I / Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.