OVERSEAS FINANCE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 August 1915, Page 3

OVERSEAS FINANCE.

Iho iiuu. ii. .Ueiveuua nus conferred with the High ■Loinaikibiouci'jj and Ag-t'Hus-Ui'Uorul of Australia, Canada and Ooutii AliiCil, ami with ine representative cil Sie luuian Uovernnient, 111 regard to oversea** nnancial necessities lor ijio-10'. Ms JleJvenna was sympathetic, and pledged tno liritiaii Uovoruinont".-> cordial co-operation in variou(i proposals submitted. These worediscussed by tho cuntorence, which now in adjourned lor three weeks to enable the representatives to iurther eonsuit their respective governments. AaWNEXAIIOa. Londou, Aug. rJ. As u counter-blast to the recent annexation manifesto, eighty-two politicians and intellectuals, including Jtlerr Dornbmrg, and Protocol's Doibruck, Harnack and Prince Von Halzfeidt, petitioned Prince Voji Holiweg expressing their conviction that annexation would be u serious political error which would iatally weaken Germany. The signatories declare thonisefves upholders ol the principle that annexation oi people politically autonomous, or accustomed to autonomy, is to be eonUeiuned; Germany could only assimilate foreign elements slowly and incompletely, and tho process would be Uβstnictivo oi German national homogenity. Obviously territories which weshall have to evacuate must not be- J come a rampart lor enemies; fcuich. • danger can bo prevented without re- ; sorting to annexation, • '» ___ jj COTTOS TO Bli CO.NTirAJiAM). The Brititsh Amba&sador at Washington announces that cotton will bo declared contraband of war—on a- dab© not fixed yet.