IMPERIAL QUESTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1917, Page 3

IMPERIAL QUESTIONS

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[rEUTEK’S SERVICE,—COPYRIGHT.] London, Feb 2 Lord Selbourne at the Constitutional Club, said the Imperial Conference would inevitably have to deal with Empire problems and reconstruclion, including the more equal distribution of wealth, and a better understanding between the classg-t. Tbe Dominions were as equally concerned therein a 9 the Mother Country. The tariff reform question would have to be approached from a perfectly new standpoint. He believed the only tru3 solution for drawing the Empire units closer, was to grant autonomous control over their own international affairs. bir Joseph Ward s u'd there must

be an Empire Parliament and an Empire Navy. Mr J. Hodge, Minister of Labour, said after the war, he for one, was not going to shake Germany’s bloody hand. Ha would never again parnc 1 - pate with in labour conferences. (Cheers,) Bulgarian Losses. - London, Feb 2 The Bulgarian Minister at Vienna declared that the newspapers were unreasonable to expect Balgaria to further reinforoa the Allies, as they hafl reached their maximum. They had mobilised 435,000 and had lost 168.000.

UuU IUWb a'/OjuCv/* Kaiser Urged to Abdicate. (Australia & N.Z. Cable Association) London, Jan 30 The Times correjpondent at Rome reports that Swiss socialists have published a copy of a pamphlet whiob, it is stated, baß been widely circulated in Germany, especially in Bavaria. The author is Herr Steinrich Seger. and the pamphlet was originally published by the Association of the Men of South Germany. The writer declares that victory is impossible, and that the extinction of Germany is certain unless the Hohenzollerns are removed. He calls on the Kaiser to ftbdioata and save the country as Napoleon saved France. He urges that steps be taken to incorporate the Austrians and Germans into one empire when Austria’s deatbrattle shall have ended,