MR. HUGHES EMPHATIC.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 12 August 1916, Page 3

MR. HUGHES EMPHATIC.

FALSE NEW YORK EEPORT,

FREMANTLE, AUG. 1

Speaking in reference to the interview printed in the New York Sun on June 15, in which he was stated to have doubts as to the efficacy of a trade war, Mr Hughes to-day said:—"There is absolutely no foundation for such a statement. My views are as set out in Great Britain and Australia. I do not think it is not only possible to penalise German trade, but that it is our duty to do so."

(The interview in question was:!London, June 14. —"In the opinion of William Morris Hughes, Australian delegate to the Allies' Economic Conference in Paris, it is impossible for the Allies to wgae an economic war in the modern world after the war. He declared that no combination of nations could boycott Germany, whose industrial development during the past 40 years has been even more rapid than that of America, For a manufacturing nation like Great Britain, which largely depends upon the sale of its products, it would be foolish to bar a customer, he asserted. Mr Hughes said he belived that after the war would come what he described as a new era of nationalism instead of cosmopolitanism in industry. He said that nothing could be said if the British Empire adopted protective tariffs, with preferential tariffs for its own Dominions."