AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1923, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FEDERAL VIEW. BRISBANE, Juno 6. Ah- Bruce, Federal Premier, in a speech, dealing with Imperial relationships, said that, though the Dominions had gained separate membership of the League of Nations, they still thought that whilst consultation with the Dominions was attempted, there still was no Empire policy. They certainly had not reached the position where Australia. bad any true voice in the formulaion of an Imperial foreign policy. So long as that position existed he declined to accept any responsibility on liehalf of Australia for any policy which they had not had a voice ill. “Last year." said Air Bruce, there was nearly a tragedy over Air Lloyd George’s cable appealing to the Dominions to allv themselves with Britain in a quarrel with Turkey. The position would ho intolerable if such an incident could occur in the future. It was wrong in every way, and they must find a hotter way to deal with such mat-

ters.” _ . . Reviewing suggestions for giving the Dominions a more effective voice in the Empire’s Foreign policy, Air Bruce advocated relying on the intangible tie binding Britain to tho Dominions and trusting to that. The Imperial Conference would come to some arrangement which would he without any written or defined basis. The Premier stated that ho had received seventeen offers from nations throughout the world desiring to make reciprocal tariffs with Australia. Every one had been effectively rejected, but Australia could not- go on indefinitely dolin' this. Euless they could come to some mutual beneficial arrangement with Britain then they would hate t come to it with somebody else.

SOCCER FOOTBALL. BRISBANE, June C. Tire Alaorilnnd Soecerites. vhose best plavcrs arc resting for Saturday » test match in Brisbane, defeated North Coast at Xambour to-day by two goals to nil. The first spell was scoreless, but in the second, Deere and Ballshot goals. The visitors should have won by a bigger margin, but the gnu - kicking was all astray. l’X EE AIOXtC iXFIUI •! XZ A. MF.I.BOFRXE, June 6. An epidemic of pneumonic influenza has broken out in the city. So tar there have been four deaths reported.