Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 59, 14 June 1916, Page 5

Great Britain

i THE PARIS CONFERENCE. LlSliibV X'it£'etS AaHOLiATI »W, ' Paris, .J iino 13. Lord llertio of Thame (British Auioa.:sader iu curis;, .velcoiu.cl L.oni ... rewe, Mr Jionar Law, and .«!. iiiigho.s <'■' their arrival. ho Journal des Debats, in discussing tlio economic conference, says that Mr Hughes' presence attracts particular attention, because he holds that it is of primary importance to fight the Gorman economically, by isolating him and making him submit to a long and severe commercial quarani line. Mr Hughes, says the paper, ! preaches as a corollary the closer union of Britain and her colonies, re- ; calling the famous colonial agreement ! which our neighbors abandoned in the. i middle of the 16th century. His ideas ! have rather alarmed French industrial ; and commercial groups, particularly |those having business relations with ! Britain. ! .The paper concludes: Every deleIgate with uncompromising opinions | ivill he. obliged to recognise, in econojinic matters as in many others, the ; policy of solidarity. One interest [ought to demonstrate all extreme and (conclusive ideas." . i ■ I GERMANY, THE VAMPIRE. i MR HUGHES' VIEWS. DOWN WITH GERMAN TYRANNY. (.Received 8.40 a.m.) Paris, June 13. Mr Hughes, in the course of an interview with Le Matin, on being questioned concerning some pessimists' prediction that within a decade German trade would be as flourishing as ever, replied indignantly that those entertaining such a thought were traitors, and he added: "Whatever may bo our business transactions with Germany, they will be those we desiro, not which Germany imposes. Her prewar activity consisted not only of sending us her. products, bu,t especially in greatly disorganising our national industries and large|.y ; seizing control of others '.' /Germany, acted the vampire, and it behoves us to break down her tyranny, for. eveiVj"'... . . ..