REICHSTAG CALLING CHANCELLORS AND OTHER MINISTERS TO ACCOUNT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 30, 30 October 1918, Page 5

REICHSTAG CALLING CHANCELLORS AND OTHER MINISTERS TO ACCOUNT

(Rec. October 29, 7.30 p.m.) London, October 28. Thfl ■RmMishp has <nroointed a Commission to consider the responsibility and Foreign Ministers, nnd War M&ere during the war.—"The Times." PRESIDENT WILSON CRITICISED IN THE SENATE ACCUSED OF MAKING PEACE ON HIS OWN TERMS. Washington, October 28. Senator Knox speaking in the Senate, attacked President Wilson because he is seeking to make peace on his own terms, and not on terms representative of American public opinion. The Sonate, he said, ought to take into its own hands the consideration of the peace treaty. The Prudent was guilty of political partisanship. Senator Knox referred io the President s ideas for peace being scattered through various addresses. Whether right or wrong, they ought not to be tho President's ideas alone, but also those of the American people.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE TRADE PLANK IN PRESIDENT'S PEACE PLATFORM Washington, October 28. President Wilson, answering the Republican arguments, states that the third of the fourteen points peoce platform did not mean Free Trade, but only that whatever tariff, high or low, any nation might deem necessary should apply equally to all foreign nations.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable -Assn[The clause referred to m this message is as follows:— The removal so far as possible of all economic barriers, and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions all the nations consenting to the pcaAe and ossociiiting themselves for its ( maintenance.] AN INDEMNITY FOR AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL DEMANDS £400,000,000. Melbourne, October 29. The City Council has passed a motion demanding that Germany shall pay to Australia an indemnity of ,£400,000,000.-Pr6ss Assn,