GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, 26 February 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

GERMANY'S COLONIES. SOCIALIST CONFERENCE. WHAT OF THEIR FUTURE? LONDON, February 24. The .Tnt«-Al!ied 'Socialist iOonfterence decisions included the following clause, regarding colonies. "That the return of colonies to their pre-war possessors, or such exchange and compensations which might be effected, should not impede the making of peace. Those colonies that have been taken by conquest from any belligerent must be made the subject of special consideration at the peace conference, to which representatives of the communities in their neighbourhood will be entitled to take part by a clause in the treaty of peace. They must secure economic equality in such territories for peoples of all nations, and thereby guarantee that none shall be shut out from legitimate access to raw materials, and be prevented from disposing of their own produces, or deprived of their proper share in economic development. PEACE PROBLEMS. LONDON, Feb 24. Mr. Asquith, addressing m Liberal agents as to the necessity for preparing for a general election when the new register, doubling the number of voters, is completed, said the Liberal Party was not going to be obliterated or merge its identity, in a new, embryonic political combination. Its continued independent activity was never more necessary, "as the multiplied and complicated problems of peace reconstruction will soon confront us."