ANZAC DINNER AT PARIS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 177, 22 April 1919, Page 5

ANZAC DINNER AT PARIS

MR. HUGHES REVIEWS THE PEACE OUTLOOK. ■ Paris, April 20. Five hundred' Australians and New Zealanders attended the Anzac dinner at the Palais D'Orsay Hotel.* Mr. W. M. Hughes presided. General Pau received a great ovation. ' . Captain Wise of the 29th Division, proposed "The Commonwealth." / Mr. Hughes, in responding, said that everv Australian gloried in the achievements of the soldiers, who were proud to fight; alongside the Now Zea'lanuers and share the glorious name of Anzac. He did wish to oriticise the Council of Four for not revoalintt the p'ence terms before thev were handed to the Germans, but there was a grave error in fixing the terms within President Wilson's Fourteen Points.. I'ho public was gravely perturbed over the delay. He hoped the peace terms would compel Germany to repair war's ravages aud the cpst. Bolshevism was sweeping over Hungary and Bavaria, and was 1 smouldering in Germany. The. Allies were retreating in Southern Russia, and were menaced with destruction in Archangol find >J[urmansk. It was n hollow mockery to say that 1 the world was .safe for democracy in the face of such facts. Yet no one knew what kind of peace we were to have. Would it be that, to which we we'.'o entitled? Although the great war was over, other ware were everywhere constituting a menace. Germany should bo definitely notified that she must sign the Peace Treaty, and preparations should be made immediately to compel he'r to do so.—Aus.N.Z, Cablo Assn.