EMPIRE AND THE WORLD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2496, 21 October 1922, Page 4

EMPIRE AND THE WORLD.

SAVED WITHOUT BLOODSHED. lilt ITLSi I GOVERNMENT'S ACTION. I 'APED IWN. OH. 18. At .loll,ume-burg, replying to die charge bv General Herlzog dial die Bruisli Gov einmeui appealed to liie Dominions over the heads of their own Government, General Sunils said he had no lault to find villi ihe uitiimle of ilie I'.riti-li Govern mein. 'I hey v.cu hound to imnly the Dominions of what was go.ug on and did so in the most civil mid polite way. 1 hey risked the In ion Inn did not invite them to do unvUiing—wltetlie. 1 they wished to associate them-clve- wii'i Britain in case war broke out will Til trey. there was nothing to which excepiiou i.inl.M-e taken. They went liirtlier and -aid die reque-l was really addressed to New Zealand and Australia b/eau-e nt the gnat tradition and said the eomiuunirniion t'o the Union was really pro I'o. msi. I I M r Lloyd George had not done what he did. he 'would have failed in Ids duly; io the Dominions. lie was no: expressing any opinion on the merit- >1 die Near I'.a-i qiie-linu; die P.ritisli Gnvernnieiii knew hi- views OH the -übjef-l abeady. General Smuts -aid lie iboi glii the nri-ti-li Government had acted vviili -real firm ness and saved without o'* oil-lied the I'.m pile and die world In in a very grave tronlile.— Router. ORIENTALS’ DISTRUST. PARIS. Del. 18. Il i- semiofficially staled dull tieGovernment,'while accepting the principle of mi exports’ discussion on tin l modiliea. tion of the Treaty of Sev re-, is ot opinion liial I lie Turkish Nationalist leaders might bo led, by the innate di-iru-l ol Orientals, to imagine an inter-A I Ij'< <I conference was designed to prejudice Ottoman interests. Therefore, the selection of London would import new difficulty into the already; coni-plic-nted .negotiations, lienee the French Government proposes that the meeting should be hold in I’a.ris. wh- re the preliminary work ot the settlement of the Near East problem was undertaken in March last.—A. and N.Z. cable.