MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1918, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

MR MASSEY UPHELD. TAUSTRALIAN (& N.Z. CABLE. ASSOCIATION j {Received this day at 1.20 a.m..) OTTAWA February 7. Commenting on Hon. W. F. Massey's \ interview that Germany ought to recover Samoa, the Canadian press endorses the view that the Overseas Dominions . ought to be represented at the Peace Conference. It is pointed out that if Canada conquered any German territory she would vigorously object to relinquish it. JAPAN’S DESIRES. LONDON, Feb. 7. The “Mancester Guardian,” publishing the Russian foreign official , i archives, gives the text of despatches from Krupensky, Ambassaor at Tokio. Krupensky mentions a conversation with Motono, Japanese Foreign Minister, in February, 1917, relatm to China’s proposed intervention in the Motono pointed out that it wanecessary to safeguard Japan’s inter ests at the Peace Conference, and Japanese aspirations in Shantung and the Pacific islands. Motono said that Japan desired, all rights and privileges hitherto possessed by Germany in the Smantong province; also the acquisition of the Pacific islands north of the Equator; then occupied by Japan, and added that recent Japanese and British relations justified the surmise that the London Cabinet did not object. Krupensky’s despatch of March Ist stated that Japan desired the earliest assurance of Russia’s support.

MORE SLAVE DRIVING. Reuter’s Telegrams Received, this day at 8 45 a.m. AMSTERDAM February 8. The “Telegraph states a' German order has been issued on the Flemish coast calling up all males from 13 to 60 years of age, for military labour. A PROPOSED UNION. This Day at 9.50. a.m.) LONDON February 8. 'Hie Convocation of Canterbury passed a resolution recommending that the people of the Etnpire sympathetically consider the formation of a union of free nations, for. the preservation of permanent peace. The Archbishop of Canterbury said the world would escape the horrors of the war only when a change comes in men’s hearts, abandoning the ambitions founded on aggression and greed. KING OF BAVARIA’S VIEW. (Received This Day at 9.15 a.m.) AMSTERDAM February 8. The King of Bavaria, is visiting German headquarters. A semi-official statement attributes it to have a political importance, adding that the King will speak in a conciliatory manner but making it clear that South Germany repudiates the pan-German war aims.