THE PARIS CONFERENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 145, 22 June 1916, Page 5

THE PARIS CONFERENCE.

MR. HUGHES INTREVIEWED.

TREMENDOUS POSSIBILITIES.

Received 8-5 p.m., June 21. LONDON June 20

Mr Hughes, commenting on the decisions of the Paris Conference, said: The resolutions unanimously adopted cover the war and the subsequent transition period on the basis of a sound, practicable, economic policy. The potential effects are almost infinite. They indicate a way whereby the great rivers of commerce can be diverted from German channels to provide facilities for developing the great resources of the Allies, also to secure and control raw materials to enable the Allies to meet Germany on at least equal terms in the markets of the world. If the Allied Governments ratify the resolutions they will materially affect or change the relations and economic arrangements of 600,000,000 of the world's inhabitants. The Governments must act immediately. This specially applies to Britain. The Allies look to Britain to lead the way to breathe life into the dry bones of the agreement. Some of the Allies before the war were so completely enmeshed in Germany's toils that they had lost all but the shadow of nationality. Even now they are obsessed by the fear that peace will rind them again in the enemy's economic grip. The Allies must not look to Britain in vain.