"HANG HIM!,"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 61, 6 December 1918, Page 4

"HANG HIM!,"

PARLIAMENT AND THE KAISER. ''Will (ho members of this House be given mi opportunity to express an opinion as to whether the Kaiser, the 'greatest criminal unhung, should be brought lu jueticer'" asked Mr, G. V. Pearce tl'atea) in the House of Representatives. Mr. Pearce added "that he wished to see Parliament strengthen the hands of the peace delegates by expressing an opinion on this subject, and also with reference to the question of an indemnity. Parliament should Eay also what should 1)6 done with the many aliens interned in Mew Zealand. His own opinion was that they should bo sent back U> Germany. The Prime Minister said he did not know if it would be possible to get a resolution of Parliament on the subjects, owing to the shortness of the time available. He had thought of asking Parliament, to agree to a resolution with reference to the Pacific Islands. The Australian Parliament had already done so. All were, agreed that the Kaiser should be punished. The man was a criminal and he ought to be punished. A member: Hang him! Hon. T. 51. Wilford: Hand lim over to (ho mothers of the men who have been killed; The Prime Minister added that if an indemnity was obtainable he presumed New Zealand would get a shave.. The indemnity was a question for the War Cabinet. He would probably make a. statement regarding the internees before the end of tho session. That matter was before Cabinet now.