IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 23 March 1917, Page 5

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

SITTING IN SECRET. LONDON, March 21. Mr Walter Long (Colonial Secretary) an<J Mr Austen Chamberlain (Secretary for India) welcomed the Imperial Conference delegates at the Colonial Office. Mr Lloyd George was absent owing to pressure of business. Mr Walter Long presided, and the sitting lasted two hours, when it adjourned to Saturday. The report of the proceedings will not be published. It is understood that the conference decided that owing to the most immediate subjects being associated with the military operations it was inadvisable to disclose the proceedings.

' DOMINIONS’ PEACE TERMS. ‘ Received 11.20. LONDON, l\larc.h 21. An aut.lloritative statement has been issued negarCxing the Imperizrl War Council,, which says to-days discussion: dealt purely with preliminaries. There was a general desire to concentrate all energies on the prosecution of the war. An unn=.i.~3tal~:ahle feelillg, 5.116 :1 gnawing one, is that the most satisfactory feature of the Conference is that it at‘fords the Dominions an opportunity of expressing their peace terms. It is felt I more and more that the pant they have i played in the struggle entitles them to t this. b