THE PEACE ISSUES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 77, 26 December 1918, Page 5

THE PEACE ISSUES

FUTURE OF THE GERMAN

COLONIES

QUESTION GROWING IN PROMINENCE

THE VOICE OF NATIVE

AFRICA

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyriifht (Rec. December 25, 5.5 p.m.) New York, December 22. Mr. Laureuco Mills, the New York "Sun's" Pans correspondent, says that the question of the disposition of the Carman colonies is becoming prominent. Now that President Wilson is going to England somo sections of British opinion apparently favour a temporary administration by the United States. Another suggestion is that Ilpllntid should administer Danzig and Switzerland Constanti-nople—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

AFRICAN NATIVES ADDRESS THE KING TERRITORIAL AND FRANCHISE QUESTIONS. (Rec. December 25, 5.5 p.m.) Johannesburg, December 23. Tho Native National Congress lias adopted an address to tho King expressing gratitude for tho Allied victory, emphasising the loyally of the natives during the war under difficult circumstances, and requesting that the native protectorates shall remain under the control of the Imperial Government and not handed over to the Union without the consent of the peoples. The resolution also requests the extension of tha franchise to the natives, and urges that tho territories in Sonth-Wcst and East Africa shall not bo disposed of without consulting the inhabitants, and not handed over to the Union until the franchise has been extended to the nntives,

Dealing with the republican jiropaganda, tho address requests that in the event of tho white races agreeing to such form of government it is desirable that tho Imperial Government should not allow it without consulting the native inhabitants of tho Union and the protectorates, and not sanction it unless the majority of tho native population con-sents.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

(Rcc. December 23, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 23. Tho British Government has hot invited Mr. W. M. Hughes to be present at the Peace Conference. The case for the retention of the German colonies and the Australian view of the tariffs, indemnities, and raw materials points affects the third of_President Wilson's pointsUnited Service. TThe President's third point states: — "The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and tlie establishment of an equality of tirade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance." The fifth of the Fourteen Points apolies especially to the colonial iSsuo: "A free, onen-miiuled, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based lipon a strict. observance of the principle that in determining all such ouestions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have enuat weight with the equitable claims of the Government whose title is to be determined."] PETITION FROM GERMAN RESIDENTS COOL ASSURANCE. (Bee. December 20, 1 a.m.) Caffe Town, December 24. German residents in South-tvest Africa have forwarded the Administrator a petition for transmission to President Wilson, claiming permission to erect a republic in union with the republic of Germany. The petitioners claim that tlicy not: only represent a majority of the white inhabitants, hut interpret, the views of tho wishes of the majority of the natives. —Router. TO MAKE.PEACE SECURE (Rec. Decembfii" 2G, 0.45 a.m.) Washington, December 24. President Wilson has issued a' message in which he states that public, opinion j among the Allies strongly sustains the proposals for the close co-operation of self-governing peoples to make peace secure. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PRESIDENT WILSWUND OUR BRITISH roucy (Rec. December 26, 1 a.m.) ' London, December 25. The "Daily Express" correspondent at Paris has.authority for saying that there is iio fear of President Wilson taking any view at variance with tho fundamental principles of British policy on 6ea or land.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable'Assn. j FREEDOM FOR THE GREEKS GRAECO-AMERICAN APPEAL TO THE ALLIES. ' New York, December 23. A representative of the Greek Convention has cabled President Wilson and the Allied leaders, asking them, on behalf of 400,000 Greeks in America, to insist at tho Peace Conference upon freedom for Greeks , everywhere.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

FATE OF THE GERMAN FLEET THE "STNJCTNG" RUMOTJR. (Rcc. December 25, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, December 23. Mr. Lansing (United States Secretary of State), learning of the rumour that the United States desired that the German fleet should be sunk rather than dtvided among the Allies, (lonics that the American Peace Delegation has any such idea,— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.